An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

"Reporting to Senior..." Shen Miaoyin's eyes were red and her voice choked with sobs, "My master... has little time left to live and is about to pass away."

"This junior ventured out on this dangerous journey to find some life-extending elixirs, hoping to allow Master to live a few more days."

"Unexpectedly, while passing through this star field, I was ambushed by two quasi-emperors from the Overlord Body lineage."

They coveted the great sage's essence from their junior and captured me, bringing me to this place.

They intended to cultivate and refine me slowly, like a humanoid medicine, before finally sacrificing me to the Azure Flame Ancestor to prolong his life.

After listening, Lu Li fell silent.

A blurry, stunningly beautiful figure involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

It was Shen Miaoyin's master—Gu Qingcheng. Back then, when he first embarked on the path to becoming an emperor, he made many formidable enemies.

Gu Qingcheng was also one of the most outstanding talents of her generation, with a cold and aloof personality, like a celestial being descended from the heavens.

The two had faced off in several life-or-death battles on the Imperial Road, but ultimately became friends after an adventure in a secret realm.

Even when he later faced the perilous tribulation of becoming an emperor, encountering a formidable enemy, Gu Qingcheng disregarded her own safety and single-handedly plunged into the starry sky to desperately shield him from a fatal external calamity.

However, after he proved his Dao through killing and became the Great Emperor, establishing the Eternal Night Imperial Court, Gu Qingcheng completely withdrew from the world.

Thousands of years have passed, and the two have never met again.

"Is Qingcheng... also destined to pass away?"

Lu Li looked up and let out a long sigh.

This sigh is filled with the relentless vicissitudes of time.

Even the most beautiful and talented people of yesteryear cannot escape the ravages of time.

The faces that once fought side by side on the road to the capital, sharing drinks and laughter, are now fading away one by one.

The path to immortality is too cold; in the end, it seems that only endless loneliness accompanies you.

"Take me to see her." Lu Li's voice was much lower.

He also thought of another old friend. Back then, the three of them had joined forces to venture into the Emperor's Road, killing many talented individuals. This person was none other than Tianjizi, who was known as someone who could calculate everything.

Upon hearing this, a glimmer of hope ignited in Shen Miaoyin's eyes.

She instinctively felt that if this great emperor were willing to intervene, there might really be a way to prolong her master's life.

"Yes! Senior, come with me!" Shen Miaoyin did not refuse. Lu Li turned around and gave orders to the three quasi-emperor generals outside through his divine sense, instructing them to stay and clean up the mess on the Hegemon Ancestral Star and move all valuable resources back to the Ziwei Emperor Star.

He then took Shen Miaoyin aboard the Black Dragon Imperial Chariot and sped off into the depths of the starry sky.

During his journey, Lu Li closed his eyes. After killing the fully sublimated Cang Yan and having the Taiyin Immortal Slaughtering Blade devour the opponent's Emperor Soul, Lu Li clearly sensed that his path of slaughter had once again undergone a qualitative leap.

He decided to go into seclusion in the imperial carriage for a short time. He was confident that he could break through the barrier again in a short period of time and reach the fifth level of the Great Emperor!

Meanwhile, on Blue Star, in the eternal night wasteland.

The crimson blood moon rose into the sky once more. In the black pine forest, a chilling wind howled, and the black mist that had been silent during the day began to churn violently as if it were alive.

Lu Xueyao stood alone in the center of the lord's mansion, her expression extremely vigilant.

She knew very well that by following her brother's advice and building her territory in this desolate place where yin energy gathered, she could attract a large amount of cultivation materials, but it also meant that she would bear pressure far exceeding that of other chosen ones.

Sure enough, not long after nightfall, the stone walls of the lord's manor began to tremble slightly.

"Shhh—"

A chilling scraping sound came from outside the door.

Immediately afterward, under Lu Xueyao's solemn gaze, strands of jet-black hair, exuding a chilling aura, ignored the obsidian stone door's obstruction and seeped in bit by bit through the crack!

This is a Class C Mystery – the Mysterious Hair!

At this moment, the viewers in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream saw this scene, and the barrage of comments instantly split up.

"Holy crap! This hair looks disgusting! It's in!"

"What's there to be afraid of? Lu Xueyao can even instantly kill a D-level pseudo-humanoid monster, so this monster is probably nothing to worry about, right?"

"What do you know! The difference in strength between each level of the supernatural is like heaven and earth! Moreover, the killing rules of the supernatural are extremely difficult to defend against; once it wraps around your neck, you are doomed!"

This is why the obsidian material of the lord's mansion naturally resists most supernatural intrusions.

Otherwise, what would have seeped in at this moment would not have been just a few strands of strange hair, but a black torrent like a waterfall, which would have instantly covered the entire stone house of the lord's mansion!

Seeing the strange hair coiling towards her ankle like a serpent, Lu Xueyao advanced instead of retreating.

She snorted coldly, a thought flashing through her mind.

"out!"

A beam of black light shot out from her dantian, instantly transforming into a banner over two meters long, radiating billowing demonic energy—the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Driven by Lu Xueyao's telepathic connection, the hideous face on the Myriad Souls Banner seemed to come alive, letting out a fierce roar.

A powerful devouring force suddenly erupted!

Just as Guifa was about to launch his attack, he seemed to have met his nemesis in the face of this demonic weapon aimed at Yin spirits, and began to struggle and writhe violently.

But it was no use; they were forcibly swept up by the black energy of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and with a whoosh, they were all absorbed into the banner.

The bizarre, in essence, is also a variant of the soul energy.

Lu Xueyao did not immediately destroy the C-level anomaly. Instead, she used the method of the Myriad Souls Emperor Scripture and the Myriad Souls Banner as a medium to forcibly extract a wisp of anomaly power from its body.

She sat cross-legged, her hands forming a mudra, and the Myriad Souls Emperor Scripture circulated wildly within her body.

The cold, eerie power was crushed by the cultivation technique, all its negative rules were eliminated, and it finally condensed into a faintly glowing illusory soul bead in her sea of ​​consciousness.

Soul Beads are pure soul tonics!

Without hesitation, Lu Xueyao refined and absorbed it. As the soul pearl dissipated, she felt a cool, throbbing pain deep between her eyebrows.

next moment.

"Buzz!"

An invisible wave emanated from her and spread outwards.

This is the power of divine sense!

In a normal cultivation system, only after breaking through the Body Tempering Realm and entering the Mortal Transformation Realm, and undergoing the cleansing of the marrow and tendons, can a cultivator withstand and develop divine consciousness.

Lu Xueyao, relying on the domineering plunder of the Myriad Souls Emperor Scripture, actually mastered the ability to project her divine sense ahead of time after refining the Soul Pearl.

Although due to the limitations of her cultivation level, her divine sense can only be projected to a distance of about 500 meters.

But this means that as long as it's within this range, nothing unusual or dangerous can escape her perception!

Lu Xueyao opened her eyes with joy, but at that moment, her divine sense, which she had just released, suddenly felt a sharp pain!

It felt as if I had been stung hard by something.

"Bang!"

The obsidian door of the lord's manor suddenly cracked under the strain.

A blinding crimson light, like a searchlight, pierced through the solid stone wall without warning and shone directly into the center of the hall.