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

From now on, she will only allow this old man to come into contact with the strange fire when she needs him to refine pills.

After completely eliminating the hidden danger of Xiao Fan.

Lu Xueyao, Xu Jingming, Li Qingyue, and the others tacitly withdrew from the Reincarnation Palace and returned to the mine to rest quietly and await the arrival of the seventh day.

If they find a way out of the instance on the last day, they can complete the game perfectly.

Meanwhile, in the Xuan Tian Realm...

Inside the secret chamber of the Primordial Holy Land.

As Lu Li was meditating on the Great Dao of Space with his eyes closed, a system notification sounded in his ear once again.

[Ding, host has successfully protected the path; reward calculation in progress...]

[Reward: Flawless, Greatly Accomplished Ancient Sacred Body. Fusion desired?]

Upon hearing the reward notification, Lu Li opened his eyes and a smile appeared on his lips.

The Great Perfection of the Ancient Sacred Body!

This is a legendary physique that, once mastered, allows one to withstand imperial weapons with their bare body and even dare to directly challenge the current emperor.

Having merged with this perfected holy body, his close combat ability and physical defense will undoubtedly rise to an unimaginable level once again.

Moreover, the system directly rewards the Great Perfection Holy Body, which is obviously the result of perfect rule baptism and is not subject to the shackles of the Great Dao.

"Merge!"

Lu Li did not hesitate at all.

"boom--!"

The next moment, a powerful surge of golden blood energy, seemingly capable of crushing the ancient starry sky, exploded from Lu Li's body!

Under the impact of this extremely powerful and yang energy, the Great Dao roared violently.

The entire sky above the Primordial Holy Land was instantly enveloped by a dazzling golden divine radiance.

Strange phenomena of heaven and earth appeared one after another in the sky!

First, a phantom of a blue lotus, seemingly capable of splitting open the chaos, bursts forth from the golden ocean—it is the Chaos Lotus!

Immediately afterwards, a phantom of a Celestial King wearing a flat crown descended upon the green lotus, a divine manifestation of a Celestial King descending upon the Nine Heavens!

Then, the sky was torn apart, and a black and white Tai Chi diagram containing the cycle of life and death slowly rotated, revealing itself to be the extraordinary Yin-Yang diagram of life and death.

Finally, even in broad daylight, countless dazzling stars appeared in the sky, their starlight reflecting off the blue sky, truly a scene of stars illuminating the blue sky!

The four sacred bodies manifested their extraordinary phenomena simultaneously in the sky!

Inside the Primordial Holy Land, Gu Qingcheng, who had regained her youth and possessed unparalleled beauty, rushed out of the main hall and looked up at the strange phenomenon in the sky.

"This is... a unique phenomenon of the Ancient Sacred Body?"

Gu Qingcheng's clear eyes were filled with astonishment: "Lu Li... wasn't he already in his twilight years, even relying on the Killing Demon Art to forcibly prolong his life? How could he have awakened the Ancient Sacred Body after birth, and even directly achieved mastery?"

Not only Gu Qingcheng, but also others were impacted by this magnificent divine phenomenon.

Countless ancient, reclusive forces throughout the Eastern Wilderness, and even beings in some forbidden zones of life, were shocked and extended their divine senses in an attempt to discern who this extraordinary being was rising against all odds.

However, just as the greedy, prying gazes approached the Primordial Holy Land...

"roll!"

In the secret chamber, Lu Li coldly snorted, and an unparalleled killing aura, unique to the current emperor, swept across the entire Eastern Wilderness!

Those divine senses that attempted to probe were struck as if by a sharp sword by the Emperor's oppressive aura. They all let out a shrill scream and retreated in fear, with no one daring to probe even a little further.

After suppressing the villains from the outside world, Lu Li calmed down with satisfaction and began to carefully comprehend the physical transformation and vast vitality brought to him by this perfected Ancient Sacred Body.

……

After a peaceful night in the Underworld Purgatory instance.

On the seventh day, the dungeon mechanics underwent a major change.

The National Destiny System removed all role-playing restrictions for the Chosen Ones, granting them the freedom to explore.

Their sole mission is to find a hidden escape route within the dangerous instance and make a perfect evacuation.

Of course, if you don't find an evacuation point in the end, as long as you can survive for seven days, you can barely pass the game and still bring out the collected dungeon items. However, you won't get the ranking rewards for passing the game.

For an ordinary chosen one, blindly exploring without any clues would likely lead to a perilous search for a passage in a mysterious, A-level forbidden area, a near certain death.

However, with Emperor Lu Li guiding her, Lu Xueyao was able to explore a wide range of his divine sense and use her double pupils to see through the origins of things.

He had long ago clearly sensed that within an ancient building called the Floating Pagoda of Purgatory in the Yellow Springs Demon Sect, there existed a sudden and mysterious misty domain.

At the center of that eerie realm lies a hidden spatial node, which is also the evacuation passage!

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xueyao, Xu Jingming, Li Qingyue from the Primordial Holy Land, and several Dao-Slaying Realm deacons quickly gathered and, guided by Lu Li, headed straight for the Floating Pagoda Purgatory Tower.

Lu Li was naturally familiar with this Floating Pagoda of Purgatory. Back then, it was a prison used by the Yellow Springs Demon Sect to detain fellow disciples who violated the sect's rules, or serious criminals who had been captured and brought back by the sect.

As expected, when the group stepped into the first floor of the Purgatory Tower, they were immediately blocked by a large number of wandering and strange creatures.

However, the first layer is unusual and ordinary, mostly consisting of C-grade and D-grade defective products.

With four incredibly powerful fighters joining forces, they simply crushed their opponents all the way.

In particular, Xu Jingming's golden ghost pet, Taotie, finally got to eat a sumptuous meal here, and it even had the good fortune to swallow a special B-grade ghost hand whole.

This strange hand possesses extraordinary abilities; it has an absolute suppression capacity, capable of forcibly suppressing the actions of strange entities of the same level.

After perfectly digesting the strange hand, Taotie, combined with Xu Jingming's A-level monster-controlling strength, can now even directly suppress other A-level monsters of the same level.

The exploration of the first few floors was almost effortless, like walking on flat ground.

They continued until they successfully reached the eighth floor, which was the last floor before the passage to the ninth floor.

There were no strange groups of creatures in the eight-story space, but at the entrance of the passage stood a weasel that was as big as an adult and wearing a tattered Taoist robe.

This was none other than a Class A supernatural being—the Wee Ka Kui—who had cultivated to a high level of spiritual power and even strangely mastered the laws of killing!

The moment everyone stepped into the eighth floor, Wong Tai Sin's triangular eyes, glowing with a cold green light, locked onto Xu Jingming, who was walking at the front.

It human-like straightened its tattered Taoist robe, then strangely clasped its two front paws in a fist salute, and surprisingly spoke in a sharp voice.

"Young man..."

Wong Tai Sin grinned menacingly and abruptly demanded an official title from Xu Jingming!

"Do I look like a man, or like a god?"

This is a well-known pattern of murder in folklore!

If the victim answers "like a human" out of fear when faced with this fatal question, it will severely destroy the years of cultivation of this Wong Tai Sin, causing it to instantly transform into a vicious vengeful spirit that will relentlessly haunt and seek revenge.