Chapter 1380: Dialogue with the Ancient Emperor

And while the Soul Heaven Emperor and the Tongling Sect Ancestor were scrambling to advance to Dou Emperor.

At this moment, Lin Feng also succeeded in sealing the Ancient Emperor Plaza and its statue into Tian Mu and entered it himself.

Hovering above the boundless expanse of the massive stone plaza, he gazed at the towering ten‑thousand‑zhang statue before him.

The statue stood in the plaza, perhaps because the Ancient Emperor's inheritance within it had been awakened.

A faint, invisible pressure enveloped the entire plaza.

And this pressure made Lin Feng, who stood nearby, feel a vague, lingering fear.

After staring intently for a long while, Lin Feng suddenly flashed forward and arrived before the colossal Ancient Emperor statue.

Then he bowed to the statue, and his body slowly rose into the air.

Finally, he halted in front of the opening in the statue's chest.

"Xiao Ling, return."

At the mouth of the opening, Lin Feng immediately addressed the black‑skirted girl beside him.

"Yes, master."

Hearing this, Xiao Ling instantly nodded, then her form turned into a black flash that swiftly slipped into his body.

After retrieving Xiao Ling, his gaze immediately turned toward the opening ahead.

There, a water‑wave‑like light veil emitted a faint sheen, completely covering the opening and obscuring its interior.

This veil seemed easy to pierce, but Lin Feng knew otherwise.

Although the veil appeared weak, it had previously forced Zhu Kun and his followers to kneel effortlessly.

Then, with a thought, dense black flames swiftly enveloped his body.

"Thirty‑plus years of dust like illusion, sudden rains of alternating cool and heat."

"Having trod a thousand peaks under the waning morning stars, floating clouds constantly veil the sun, and divergent paths fill the world."

"Tonight the frost wind blows the wine, and the azure cliff still stands before the goblet."

Murmuring, Lin Feng looked toward the opening in the statue's chest, his eyes growing ever more resolute.

"After thirty‑plus years of hardship, whether famed across the continent for ten thousand years or fleeing the Dou Qi continent in disgrace, the decision ends here."

As soon as the words fell, he hesitated no further, took a step, and his form flickered as he plunged straight into the stone cavity.

"Buzz"

Advancing, as Lin Feng passed through the weak light at the opening, he distinctly felt a scan sweep over his body's surface.

Under this scan, everything he concealed became exposed before the invisible detection field!

It felt as if the secrets of his body—from the second vortex to the Books of Life and Death—were laid bare at that moment.

Fortunately, the scan arrived swiftly and vanished even faster.

In the blink of an eye, the light was gone without a trace.

At the same time, Lin Feng only felt something sudden before his eyes.

Immediately afterward, a slight dizziness rose in his mind.

Simultaneously, this dizziness lasted less than a breath.

However, when Lin Feng regained his senses, he suddenly realized that the surroundings had undergone a cataclysmic change!

Boundless, dazzling flames now filled Lin Feng's vision.

Looking around, he discovered that this was a sea of fire.

The colors composing the fire sea were richly varied, piled together so brilliantly that they were breathtaking.

"An exotic fire ocean is rather interesting."

Seeing his surroundings clearly, Lin Feng immediately extended his palm and gently grasped.

Immediately, a vivid crimson flame was captured.

Grasping that strand of flame, a familiar feeling suddenly surged in Lin Feng's heart.

But soon, recognizing the flame, he couldn't help murmuring, "Red Lotus Hellfire. Didn't expect to meet you again here."

While speaking, Lin Feng instantly released the crimson flame, then stepped forward.

Walking through this fire sea formed by various exotic flames, Lin Feng, who commands twenty‑two types of exotic fire on the continent, felt a certain kinship toward them.

Likewise, the flames clustered around him, chattering incessantly as if narrating something.

To an outsider, it might seem the two had been old friends for years.

"It seems you are indeed welcomed by the exotic fires."

As he walked slowly, a hoarse voice tinged with faint amusement suddenly rose unannounced from the fire sea.

The sudden voice caused Lin Feng, whose attention had been on the exotic flames, to instinctively lift his head and gaze toward the fire sea ahead.

Soon, he saw the flames within the sea wildly converging there.

In an instant, the countless flames coalesced into a massive colorful flame bud.

Then the radiant bud slowly unfurled, revealing within a figure clad in dark robes, looking aged.

Seeing this, Lin Feng slightly raised an eyebrow and then looked around.

The suddenly appearing elder, dressed in dark robes, had an ordinary face with nothing remarkable.

However, despite his unremarkable looks, his brilliantly multicolored hair constantly drew attention.

Of course, though the elder's appearance was plain, Lin Feng did not dare treat him lightly; his expression hardened as he stared intently at the colorful‑haired elder.

The reason is that Lin Feng had already seen this figure several times before!

However, the ones he had seen before were either illusory shadows summoned by the Soul Heaven Emperor or imitations of the Imperial Core embryo—namely the statue in the massive stone plaza.

But this time, Lin Feng understood clearly.

The person before him was the true Tuoshe Ancient Emperor!

Although this could only be an image or remnant soul left behind by its true body, but no matter what.

The true identity of this old man is none other than the last Dou Emperor expert on the Dou Qi Continent so far, Tuoshe Gu Di!

However, just when the former's gaze looked over.

The old man sitting cross-legged inside the cocoon, his aged eyes, likewise stared at the former with a hint of a smile.

And his faint smile also made it difficult for Lin Feng to discern the other's emotions for a moment.

However, soon Lin Feng suppressed those chaotic emotions in his heart, and toward the not-so-distant old man sitting cross-legged in the fire cocoon, he performed a respectful salute.

And while bending over, he did not forget to quickly say: "Junior Lin Feng, I pay my respects, Senior."

"Half-Emperor. Not bad, it seems the abode left by his true body back then has been opened!"

Seeing this, Tuoshe Gu Di immediately smiled slightly, waved his hand lightly, and the sea of fire before him rolled.

Finally, before Lin Feng, a similarly colored fire cocoon slowly rose up.

"Please have a seat."

Once the cocoon took shape, the old man smiled faintly and said casually.

Hearing that, Lin Feng was not polite either; after clasping his hands, his figure flashed and instantly appeared on the fire cocoon, after which he sat cross-legged.

However, although he had already made ample mental preparations beforehand, but now, at close range, this Dou Emperor expert who existed only in legends.

Lin Feng's heart still could not help but feel a surge of excitement.

"'Since my time, has there been any new Dou Emperor expert on the Dou Qi Continent?'"

After Lin Feng sat down, Tuoshe Gu Di gazed at him, smiling as he asked.

"Alas, you are the last Dou Emperor expert to have appeared on the Dou Qi Continent up to now. After you, many talented individuals emerged and smoothly reached the peak of the Dou Saint realm, but due to the disappearance of source energy, the ascension passage was closed. As Dou Saints, they could not draw source energy from the upper realm into this world. Thus, until their old age and death, none of them could break through to the Dou Emperor realm."

Hearing that, Lin Feng immediately gave a wry smile and explained.

"'Indeed, that's the case.'"

Regarding this result, Tuoshe Gu Di lightly nodded, and was not too surprised.

After all, after he became an emperor, he collected source energy across the continent, and finally divided what he obtained into one portion refined into an Emperor-grade infant pill, and another portion left here.

Thus, it is also an expected result that those people outside cannot find source energy to advance.

"'However, I never expected you to know about the ascension passage.'"

And afterward, Tuoshe Gu Di's eyes involuntarily flashed with surprise; he then lightly stroked his beard and exclaimed in amazement.

After all, in his era, most people were unaware of this.

But this young man before him can accurately speak of the ascension platform and knows that it can also guide source energy down to the lower realm.

As for Lin Feng knowing about source energy, Tuoshe Gu Di was not surprised.

After all, since the other party could break through the peak of the Dou Saint realm and reach the Half-Emperor realm.

From this point of view, this youngster named Lin Feng had already obtained and used source energy from somewhere else beforehand.

And Lin, facing the former's surprise, also explained: "Junior not long ago, fortunately obtained a legacy left by an ancient Dou Emperor; upon obtaining the second qi vortex and some source energy, he also learned much information. However, it is only because that predecessor existed for too long, his remnant soul, to maintain itself, consumed much source energy."

"Therefore, even though I obtained the Dou Emperor legacy, I ultimately could not break through to Dou Emperor, and thus remained at the realm you see before you, Senior."

Speaking of later, Chen Shuo also gave a wry smile.

If he, at that time, when obtaining the legacy of the Reincarnation Venerable, could have also obtained sufficient source energy together.

Then he now would have likely already been in the process of breaking through to Dou Emperor.

How could he still be dragging his feet until now, only coming to the stone statue of Tuoshe Gu Di to seek the opportunity to break through to Dou Emperor?

"'Hehe, looking at this, I really don't know whether to say your luck is good or bad.'"

After hearing the former's explanation, even Tuoshe Gu Di's remnant soul couldn't help but feel a mix of laughter and tears.

He was aware of the former's possession of a second qi vortex and those two weapons that astonished him.

Therefore, upon hearing that the other party had obtained the Dou Emperor legacy, he also did not find it strange.

After all, with his insight, he could easily see that.

Those things are absolutely not something a Dou Saint cultivator could accomplish.

Even his true body, before departing, could not accomplish this either.

Therefore, this youngster named Lin Feng, if he had not obtained the Dou Emperor's legacy, he would not believe it!

However, he originally thought that the ancient Dou Emperor lived in an age without lack of source energy, so he did not leave that behind.

But who would have thought that the other party did leave it, but due to the consumption of his remnant soul, it was not enough for the inheritor to break through to Dou Emperor.

Thinking of this, Tuoshe Gu Di also felt somewhat amused.

"'Right, since you were able to enter here, that means my Emperor-grade infant pill has already been dealt with by you. Why, then, do I not sense its aura on you?'"

And soon, Tuoshe Gu Di again asked curiously.

After all, as the refiner of it, he is naturally very familiar with the aura of that Emperor-grade infant pill.

Now, since the other party entered, on the body of this youngster named Lin Feng, he has not felt the presence of that infant pill.

Therefore, he only just felt strange.

"'Alas, the jade tablet left by the previous senior was gathered together by Wu Nie Tun Yan and a nine-star peak Dou Saint, and they successfully opened the cave dwelling. And at that time, I had not yet reached Half-Emperor; after fighting with them inside the cave dwelling, I ultimately lost slightly because Wu Nie Tun Yan knew the senior's Pill-Concocting Divine Technique. Thus, the Emperor-grade infant pill has already been taken by that nine-star peak Dou Saint.'"

Having said that, Lin Feng exhaled a sigh and continued helplessly: "Although at that moment I used some means to successfully scatter Wu Nie Tun Yan's spirit and capture him, that person instead used a secret method to fuse with the Emperor-grade infant pill, his strength already reaching Half-Emperor; helplessly, I could only temporarily cease. And after absorbing Wu Nie Tun Yan, I used the hand of the fire spirit to open the legacy left inside the stone statue by the predecessor, and entered here."

"'As for that person, he is now slaughtering several remaining Dou Emperor families, using the methods of the Spirit-Devouring Clan to extract Dou Emperor bloodline, then employing the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation to absorb the flesh and blood energy of the continent's people. In this way, he obtains sufficient energy to make up for the predecessor's infant pill, thereby refining a true Emperor-grade pill, and finally refining it to break through to Dou Emperor!'"

Having said that, Lin Feng also felt utterly helpless.

If it weren't for Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er earlier, when he still lacked the ability to protect himself, they brought a group of people to oppose him.

This caused him at that time to only be able to grudgingly stay in the pill tower's grounds, not daring to move, and his cultivation progress was stalled for a long time.

Thus, later on, he was not so passive.

And thinking of this, Lin Feng felt that he must retaliate no matter what!

Of course, because Xiao Yan is now a shattered soul, the Ancient Clan likewise no longer exists.

So if he wants revenge, he can only, after successfully resolving this crisis, desperately and wildly kick Gu Xun'er.

At that point, he'll simply have her bear a thousand to eight hundred children.

After all, besides that woman, he cannot take revenge himself; the others have long since died beyond death!

(End of chapter)