39: Chapter 39 The Great Emperor, the Ancient Great Emperor

Inside the Demon Swallowing Well.

In the dim space, a deep blue bead floated in mid-air, emitting a faint light.

Inside the bead, that Saint remnant soul was struggling frantically, trying to break through the Seal.

However, no matter how hard he exerted himself, that thin layer of deep blue light remained motionless, like an invisible mountain, suppressing him tightly.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

The old man gritted his teeth, his face twisted; where was there any demeanor of a Saint left?

He was a dignified Saint King Realm expert, a Grand Elder of the Xuantian Holy Land in the Central Plains, an existence standing at the Peak of the entire Cangxuan Great World!

Yet now he had fallen to such a state—casually sealed by a Meridian Opening Realm ant and thrown into a broken well!

"When I, this Saint, get out, I will definitely make your Shen Family pay the price!"

The old man hissed and roared, his voice echoing within the Seal, but it could not reach outside at all.

Just at this moment—

A beam of pitch-black light emerged from the darkness, slowly condensing into an illusory figure.

The figure was hunched, the face withered, but a pair of eyes were blood-red, revealing a hint of mockery.

It was precisely Tun Xuan.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk—"

Tun Xuan circled the bead, looking the old man inside up and down, making tsking sounds with his mouth.

"A Saint King Realm remnant soul? Good stuff! A great tonic!"

The old man's pupils constricted, staring fixedly at this old man before him.

The next moment, his expression changed drastically!

"Emperor... Emperor Weapon Spirit?!"

The old man's voice was trembling, his face full of disbelief.

He was a Saint King Realm expert; even if only a wisp of his remnant soul remained, his discernment was still there.

The old man before him was clearly the artifact spirit of an Emperor Weapon!

Emperor Weapon!

That was the supreme weapon forged by a Great Emperor level expert!

In the entire Cangxuan Great World, Emperor Weapons could be counted on one's fingers; each one was a supreme treasure that suppressed Luck, held in the hands of those Imperial Clans and Holy Lands with the deepest foundations.

His Xuantian Holy Land had been established for eight thousand years, yet they only enshrined one damaged Emperor Weapon.

Yet this Shen Family actually possessed a complete Emperor Weapon?!

"Southern Territory... How could there be an Emperor Weapon in the Southern Territory?!"

The old man's voice was trembling, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

He had lived for thousands of years and knew the situation in the Southern Territory all too well.

The Southern Territory was barren, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was thin, and the cultivation of Cultivators was generally not high. The strongest were only at the Saint Realm, there were not even any Great Saint Realm Cultivators, let alone the Saint King Realm above the Great Saint Realm.

In the Southern Territory, let alone an Emperor Weapon, even a complete Saint Weapon would be enough to sweep through everything!

But the scene before him completely overturned his cognition.

Tun Xuan looked at his shocked appearance, grinned, and revealed a mouthful of ghastly white teeth.

"As expected of a Saint King Realm, you have some discernment."

He circled the deep blue bead, his blood-red eyes full of mockery: "It's just that your brain doesn't work well, to actually dare to clash with the Honored One!"

"Hm? Honored One?!" The old man's face was full of horror. What kind of person could be called Honored One by an Emperor Weapon?

Thinking back, when facing their Xuantian Holy Land's damaged Emperor Weapon, they all regarded it as the Holy Land's Old Ancestor.

An Emperor Weapon was an existence that had followed a Great Emperor.

Even a peerless existence at the ninth level of the Saint King Realm could not subdue one.

Could the one called Honored One by this Emperor Weapon before him be... a Great Emperor!

The old man's face turned ghastly pale, staring fixedly at Tun Xuan: "Impossible... This is impossible! How could a Great Emperor exist in a barbaric place like the Southern Territory?!"

Without waiting for Tun Xuan to respond, his tone became a bit firmer, "Right! It is absolutely impossible to be a Great Emperor!"

He was, after all, a Saint King Realm expert, one of the top batch of Cultivators in the world, and he had some perception of the problems of this world.

Since the Yuanlian Great Emperor attained the Great Emperor position ten thousand years ago, no one had ascended to the Emperor position in the ten thousand years since.

The world all rumored that Yuanlian Great Emperor was the last Great Emperor, the Heavenly Dao was flawed, and the Emperor path was severed.

Since Yuanlian Great Emperor, it was no longer possible for a Great Emperor to appear in the world.

Nowadays, even in the Central Plains and Eastern Wasteland where the Dao flourished, there were no Great Emperors, so how could there be a Great Emperor in the mere Southern Territory!

Tun Xuan looked at his terrified appearance and said full of mockery, "Impossible to have a Great Emperor?"

He leaned closer, lowered his voice, and feigned mystery: "Do you know who that person who threw you in just now is?"

The old man's whole body stiffened, and he subconsciously asked: "Who?"

Tun Xuan chuckled, and a trace of awe flashed in his blood-red eyes: "An Ancient Great Emperor! A Great Emperor who has lived out a second life!"

Once these words were spoken, the old man's remnant soul trembled violently!

"Impossible!" He screamed out, "A Great Emperor living out a second life? How is this possible?! Throughout history, I have never heard of any Great Emperor being able to live out a second life!"

"Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Tun Xuan snorted coldly, his eyes full of disdain, "You, a Saint King Realm ant, are you worthy of guessing the means of a Great Emperor?"

The old man opened his mouth, wanting to retort, but found that he couldn't speak at all.

That's right, he was a Saint King Realm, not even counting as an ant in front of a Great Emperor, so what right did he have to conclude that a Great Emperor couldn't do it?

A Great Emperor living out a second life...

Thinking about it carefully, it was actually very possible.

That lazy-looking young man suppressed him with a wave of his hand; this terrifying strength was definitely not that of an ordinary person.

Furthermore, being able to be followed by an Emperor Weapon was even less simple.

Thinking again of the terrifying grand array covering the entire courtyard, the Spiritual Qi that was concentrated to the extreme, and the extremely rare Cangwu Treasure Tree...

Great Emperor, Ancient Great Emperor!

The old man's strength seemed to have been drained, his eyes full of despair.

"I... actually provoked a Great Emperor..."

He muttered to himself, his voice full of self-mockery and remorse.

If he had known that the Shen Family had such a terrifying existence, he wouldn't have dared to target Shen Chong even if it killed him!

No, he wouldn't have come to the Southern Territory at all!

Tun Xuan looked at his listless appearance and felt secretly pleased.

When he originally submitted to the Honored One, it wasn't because he was weak; it was all because the Honored One was too powerful.

Look, wasn't this old guy also scared to death!

"Alright, stop howling." Tun Xuan waved his hand, "The Honored One threw you in here not for you to wail here; hurry up and explain your background clearly, maybe the Honored One can still give you an Opportunity."

The old man suddenly raised his head, a glimmer of hope flashing in his eyes: "Really?"

"Of course!" Tun Xuan said, lying without changing his expression, "What kind of person is the Honored One? A casual pointer from him can allow you to advance further."

The old man nodded repeatedly, "Ask away."

...

Wutong Garden.

Sunlight filtered through the golden Wutong leaves, casting a patch of dappled light and shadow on the ground.

Shen Qingyuan lay lazily on a soft couch, holding a grape in his hand, slowly tossing it into his mouth.

Tun Xuan's voice rang in his ear, reporting everything that happened in the Demon Swallowing Well bit by bit.

"Oh? That guy appeared in the Southern Territory because of a Great Emperors Secret Realm?" Shen Qingyuan's eyes flashed with spiritual light, thoughtful.

Great Emperors Secret Realm, as the name suggests, is related to a Great Emperor.

An Emperor Realm expert can evolve a small world, containing the universe within it; even if the Great Emperor falls, the small world will not disappear but will be hidden in the Void Space.

As the Heaven and Earth energy flows, the small world will at some point break through the Void Space, appear in the Cangxuan Great World, and become a Secret Realm for Cultivators to explore.

This type of Secret Realm is also the rarest; once it appears, even Saint Realm experts will not miss it.