Chapter 53: 【Suffer a Little, Azure Emperor; Let the Desolate One Bear the Infamy】

"Master Lin, will the Image-Recording Stone break?"

As time passed bit by bit, even Ye Fan was getting impatient and couldn't help but ask.

"No." Lin Xian shook his head. The Image-Recording Stone was no ordinary object; it was produced by the system.

If it says it's immortal for 100,000 years, it's immortal for 100,000 years. A mere cold pool, and not the Azure Emperor acting in person, how could it destroy the Image-Recording Stone?

The only variable lies in whether the Azure Emperor is dead or asleep, and whether there is any hope of recovery.

"He even sent out the Emperor weapon and left the Emperor heart for his descendants; there's no reason he wouldn't have a shred of spiritual consciousness."

Lin Xian was conflicted, unable to determine the Azure Emperor's state.

According to reason, the Azure Emperor is currently still clear-headed, not muddled or suffering from late-life ominousness.

But, as everyone knows, this Great Emperor Wan Qing has never played by the rules.

An Undying Medicine that transformed into an Emperor, possessing combat power close to a Huang Tiandi, and holding the Immortal weapon Desolate Tower, he could suppress the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone, beating a sublimated Supreme with one hand.

That Immortal Path in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone was born for the Azure Emperor.

Even the Immortal Path on the Flying Immortal Star, no Supreme could snatch it from the Azure Emperor.

At worst, he could temper himself in the red dust. As an Immortal King reincarnation, the Azure Emperor was heaven-defying. Living for three or four lives with his talent would be no problem. By then, he could join forces with the Huang Tiandi Ye Fan to open up a channel between the two worlds and go to the other world to support the Wu Shi Great Emperor, slowing down his pressure.

Benefiting Wu Shi above and Wan Qing below—this is also a path to the heavens.

However, of the three Immortal Paths, the Azure Emperor chose none, drilling into a dead end, determined to evolve an Immortal Domain in the mortal world.

What level is the Green Lotus Immortal King, and what level is the Azure Emperor? A Human Dao Huang Tiandi is stubbornly trying to do it—can he win? He can't evolve it; do you know he doesn't have this ability?

"Could it be that his obsession from his previous life is too heavy, affecting his Dao in this life?"

Lin Xian muttered in his heart, and then asked Duan De to go down and investigate the situation.

"Ah, I dig the Azure Emperor's tomb?"

Duan De shook his head like a rattle-drum, refusing firmly: "No, no, it's too cold, my physical body can't take it."

"Then you recite a piece of Azure prose."

Lin Xian thought for a moment and wrote a poem praising the Demon Emperor with his finger on the ground. Such verses were very common in the Eastern Wasteland.

It's just that Lin Xian changed the two characters "Azure Emperor" to "Wan Qing."

"Could this be the Azure Emperor's true name!" Duan De shivered violently, suddenly realizing something, his face pale: "Azure... Azure Emperor, could it be he's not dead!"

Thinking that he might be reciting the desire to dig up the tomb in front of a Great Emperor, Duan De wanted to die.

"Then, Daoist friend, why don't you mend the fold and flatter him?" Lin Xian said with a smile.

Duan De firmly refused. Reciting the Great Emperor's true name in front of the Great Emperor's tomb carries great risk.

"Supreme, supreme, Great Emperor Wan Qing of supreme virtue and power..."

Lin Xian had no choice but to do it himself, reciting the Azure text while praying silently: Azure Emperor, you must be clear-headed.

If there is the Azure Emperor's help, the future will surely be bright, not to mention the tiny problem of dark turmoil.

Even for big problems like immortality and flying to immortality, the Azure Emperor can help.

Whether it is evolving a small Immortal Domain to protect friends and family to live forever, or repairing the Immortal Domain of the other world in the future, the Azure Emperor is the chosen worker.

【Suffer a Little, Azure Emperor; Let the Desolate One Bear the Infamy】

System 10086 was speechless, complaining: "Suffer Ye Fan, suffer the Azure Emperor, suffer the system—just don't suffer yourself, right."

"Capable of labor and hardship, the realm is quite powerful." Lin Xian's expression remained unchanged, a thought in his heart, as he said candidly: "The capable do more work; I am a good-for-nothing."

He had a very clear positioning of himself: fish when he can, slack off when he can, lie flat all the way to the Immortal Domain, and if that doesn't work, be a support healer and patch things up.

Just like today, sending the Immortal scripture to the Azure Emperor—if it works, great; if not, he has no loss.

As for hot-blooded fighting, don't joke; he is an ordinary cultivator, with combat power at the level of a candidate Holy Son—how many dark Supremes can he fight?

Even if he fed the dark Supremes by sending himself to death, there are still the ten mysterious ancestors waiting behind them. Each step is more bumpy than the last; even the eighty-one tribulations aren't this difficult.

He doesn't have the guts to pacify the darkness and conquer the plateau, but he has the guts to cheer behind the Huang Tiandi, fish in troubled waters, and pick up bargains—and he has a lot of them.

"Thinking of the Azure Emperor, never forgetting."

"Thinking of the Demon Emperor, there must be an echo."

"Reciting the true name, life after life."

"Wan Qing, Wan Qing, Wan Qing..."

"Wan Qing in eternity, the ancient star path!"

"The Demon Emperor in the Eastern Wasteland, the position of Huang Tiandi!"

"The Green Lotus in Chaos, the Undying Divine Medicine!"

"The Immortal Spirit in the Desolate Tower, the Green Lotus Immortal King!"

Lin Xian was muttering, like a wizard sacrificing to a god, shouting: "Resurrect, my Azure Emperor!"

Duan De watched this scene, half-believing. Suddenly, he caught sight of a huge vortex appearing in the black cold pool. He let out a strange cry, retreated dozens of feet, and said in horror: "The Azure Emperor has manifested!!!"

"It's not the Azure Emperor, it's the Black Gold Ape!" Lin Xian's expression changed, and he pulled Ye Fan to retreat behind Duan De.

A ferocious three-headed beast sank and floated in the pool water, appearing in the black water. It was pitch black, as if cast from black gold, emitting an eerie aura.

The monster roared at the heavens and earth, about to wreak havoc, when suddenly, the water in the black deep pool churned, and a team of Yin soldiers wearing black iron armor rushed out, hacking the Black Gold Ape to the ground.

This was not the end, but a beginning. More magnificent Yin soldiers and Yin generals walked out one after another. They wore tungsten iron armor, covering their entire bodies, holding black Yin sabers or black Underworld spears.

It was as if the legendary hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, or ghosts and Asuras from the depths of the Underworld, terrifying to the extreme.

"Are we... going to die here?" Duan De looked at the strong men walking out, suddenly feeling that he had poked a hole in the sky, and trembled: "Azure Emperor... could he have become sentient?"

An Emperor's corpse becoming sentient is the most terrifying legend in the tomb-robbing world. Under the blade of Heaven's Will, a Great Emperor's Primordial Spirit will perish in tens of thousands of years, but an Emperor's corpse can remain immortal for a million years. This gives some Enlightened Ones the possibility of becoming an immortal after death and feathering in the grave.

Since the Mythological Era, some Enlightened Ones, after passing away, chose to bury themselves in special areas, prompting the condensation of a Reincarnation Seal in their bodies, allowing their invincible physical bodies to regain intelligence.

This is a method of becoming an immortal, and also a disaster of longevity.

Who can fight an awakened Great Emperor's corpse? Unless you find another living Great Emperor, it's a dead end.

Therefore, an Emperor's corpse has always been a taboo throughout the ages, and every appearance will set off a bloody storm.

It's just that this sentence coming out of Duan De's mouth is inevitably a bit ridiculous.

Lin Xian rolled his eyes at Duan De upon hearing this. An Emperor's corpse becoming sentient—you are the biggest old mummy in the world, the Underworld Emperor who has reincarnated several times, the master of the Underworld, the true source of ominousness; you have the nerve to say that. ===== CHAPTER 54 =====