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After inspecting the storage ring of the man in the green robe, Li Xun turned his attention to the ring of the other servant.

The results left him quite disappointed.

This servant was even poorer!

The storage ring didn’t even contain 10,000 low-grade spirit stones. As for pills, there was a single bottle, but it only contained ordinary healing pills.

At this point, Li Xun couldn’t help but wonder just how stingy the man in the green robe was with his subordinates.

The man was fabulously wealthy, yet his subordinates were struggling to get by.

It was simply unimaginable.

“Such a pity, no Emperor’s Nation-Stabilizing Fist…”

Li Xun sighed lightly.

He had really been eyeing the Emperor’s Nation-Stabilizing Fist of the Great Chu Dynasty. After all, it was a High-grade Heaven Divine Technique that had been passed down through countless generations of the Great Chu Dynasty.

To some extent, this technique could be considered nearly flawless within the realm of Heaven level divine techniques.

It was just one step away from reaching the Saint level Divine Technique.

If he could obtain this technique, his strength would undoubtedly skyrocket.

Scanning his surroundings and confirming that everyone else had left, Li Xun spoke internally, “System, claim the Mountain River Seal.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a jade slip appeared in his hand.

This technique was a reward he had received earlier for investing in Yao Feng.

At the time, he had chosen not to claim it.

Now, taking advantage of the opportunity, he retrieved it. Infusing his spiritual sense into the jade slip, he carefully studied its contents and memorized them completely.

The Mountain River Seal, being a Mid-grade Earth Divine Technique, was fairly average, comparable to the Six Path Heaven Tyrant Fist.

The only difference was:

The Six Path Heaven Tyrant Fist was a fist technique, while the Mountain River Seal was a magical technique. When mastered, it could condense a mountain with a single gesture.

Using a mountain to smash opponents was something very few could withstand at this stage.

Take the people in the Phoenix Origin Secret Realm, for example—if he condensed a mountain and threw it at them, it would probably crush a large portion of them.

“I still have a Heaven Creation Pill and a drop of Emperor’s Blood,” Li Xun mused to himself.

At the moment, only Qin Xueyi and Yao Feng were still cultivating nearby.

Everyone else had scattered.

Even the disciples of the Profound Sun Sect had begun searching the area for opportunities. After all, there were still more than twenty days left before the Phoenix Origin Secret Realm would close.

They couldn’t just stay here the entire time.

Although these people had left, Li Xun speculated that if he took out either the Heaven Creation Pill or the drop of Emperor’s Blood, the terrifying phenomena they would generate would instantly draw everyone back.

Even if they didn’t fight for it, who could guarantee that the news wouldn’t spread?

Once the information got out, countless people would covet either item.

The Heaven Creation Pill was relatively less concerning, as it was merely a healing pill. For anyone below the Saint King Realm, it could save their lives as long as they were still breathing.

But the Emperor’s Blood was a completely different story.

The earlier appearance of Vermillion Bird’s Blood had already caused phenomena that spread across tens of thousands of miles, witnessed by everyone in the Phoenix Origin Secret Realm.

Now, if he took out the Emperor’s Blood in his possession, the resulting impact would be even more exaggerated. It could potentially shake an area hundreds of thousands of miles wide.

In other words, whether he revealed it in the Phoenix Origin Secret Realm or in the outside world, it would cause a massive uproar.

“System, is there a way to seal the power of the items I take out in the future?” Li Xun asked internally.

Right now, it was just Emperor’s Blood, but in the future, he might acquire even more terrifying items. For the sake of his own safety, Li Xun had to negotiate with the system.

What if, one day, the system gave him an imperial weapon?

If he carelessly claimed an item and was tracked down by countless people due to the imperial weapon’s aura, he’d have no place to cry.

[Understood, Host.]

To Li Xun’s surprise, the system directly responded.

“System,” he spoke again in his mind.

Originally, he wanted to say that all future rewards should materialize in his storage ring, but after thinking it over, he dismissed the idea.

The space in storage rings was fixed. If the system gave him an item that was physically enormous and it ended up bursting the ring, it would be a terrible loss.

“System, claim the Emperor’s Blood.”

Now that he had no more concerns, Li Xun gave the command without hesitation.

With a soft “plop,” a fist-sized black stone appeared from the void, which he caught firmly in his hand.

The stone was translucent and resembled jade. Inside it was a single drop of pitch-black blood, frozen within. Even though it was sealed by the system, Li Xun could still sense the supreme aura it contained.

“An Emperor’s Blood…”

Li Xun muttered to himself.

Holding the stone, he activated his true essence and sent a wisp of spiritual sense into the stone. The moment his spiritual sense touched the Emperor’s Blood, everything around him suddenly changed.

Boom!

The world before him transformed.

Looking around, Li Xun found himself seemingly transported back to ancient times.

He was now high in the sky, surrounded by swirling black clouds and boundless demonic mist. The world was shrouded in darkness.

Amidst the storm, a colossal black figure stood, almost merging with the darkness itself. Its eyes, like two black holes, seemed capable of devouring everything.

The figure was so towering and imposing that its features were indistinguishable. Merely standing there, it radiated a pressure that dominated the nine heavens. The myriad paths beneath its feet whimpered in despair.

Around it, the heavens trembled, chaos surged, and countless blood-soaked corpses lay strewn across the cosmos. Each of these corpses exuded terrifying power.

Among them, Li Xun recognized beings such as true dragons, divine phoenixes, and golden crows—legendary races of immense strength. There were also several powerful human cultivators. As for those he didn’t recognize, they were even more numerous.

These deceased beings all shared one thing in common: unparalleled power. When alive, each of them must have been a towering figure.

But now, they had become nameless corpses on this endless blood-soaked path.

“This Emperor… Could he be destroying the world?”

Li Xun couldn’t help but click his tongue in astonishment.

From the moment he saw the black Emperor’s Blood, he had speculated as much. Now, seeing the corpses beneath the Emperor’s feet, his earlier suspicions were unquestionably confirmed.

Some Emperors lived to protect all living beings, while others sought ultimate destruction.

And the Emperor before him was most likely the latter.

As Li Xun pondered, the massive black figure suddenly moved.

It threw a punch.

There was no warning.

A simple, unremarkable punch shattered the void in an instant. The laws of heaven and earth disintegrated into dust, and an overwhelming aura permeated everything, piercing through past, present, and future.

There were no intricate techniques—just a single punch.

Yet, it was enough to obliterate the vast heavens. The entire universe began to collapse. Looking around, nothing could survive this punch.

It was pure, ultimate destruction.

“Destruction…”

Li Xun stared at the punch, feeling as though his mind had grasped something. But at the same time, it felt as though he had caught nothing at all. The sensation left him deeply frustrated.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Mind-Clarity Bodhi Seed in his dantian emanated a peculiar ripple, instantly calming him.

“Destruction…”

Repeating the word again, Li Xun suddenly entered a strange state of enlightenment.