"I give up!"
Zhu Kun said weakly, then lowered his head.
Faced with this young man whose bone age was no more than fifty years old, the ancient dragon emperor Zhukun, who had lived for nearly ten thousand years and had one foot in the Emperor realm, finally lowered his proud head to show his submission.
Let's go!
Xiao Ning waved his sleeve and walked towards the stone gate.
"Master...Master, wait!"
Zhu Kun hesitated for a moment before speaking up to stop him, but the way he addressed him was too embarrassing to say.
Xiao Ning waved his hand: "My name is Xiao Ning, Old Zhu, just call me Young Master! And why are you stopping me?"
"Young Master has come here, presumably for the Emperor-grade embryonic pill left behind by the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe after he shattered the void. This pill can help people advance to the Dou Di realm."
Zhu Kun glanced at Xiao Ning gratefully, then said quietly.
Xiao Ning paused for a moment: "You could say that!"
Zhu Kun sighed deeply, his expression filled with resentment and regret, and said, "It's true that there are Emperor-grade embryonic pills in this cave, and they can indeed help people advance to the Dou Di realm."
"However, the ancient emperor Natsoshe did not shatter the void; it is still inside this cave and has become corrupted."
At this point, Zhu Kun took a deep breath and said in a deep, resentful voice, "The reason why the old dragon became like that before is precisely because of this corrupted Tuoshe Ancient Emperor!"
"The terror of the Dou Di realm is far beyond what a Dou Sheng like me can comprehend. In their presence, we are nothing more than ants, easily killed with a flick of a finger."
At this point, Zhu Kun's eyes revealed intense hatred, but it was unclear whether his hatred was directed at the corrupted Emperor-grade embryonic core or at Xiao Ning.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ning seemed to be deep in thought. Could the evil Dou Di that Old Candle mentioned be the intelligence born from the Emperor-grade embryonic pill?
It should be so. The real Tuoshe Ancient Emperor has already truly ascended to heaven, while that fledgling pill, after transforming into human form, disguised himself as a Dou Di to deceive and swindle people. In the original work, he tricked quite a few people.
He chuckled and said, "You're really unlucky to be scared like this by a mere fake. Old Zhu, you're really unlucky!"
Then, with a wave of his sleeve, he broke through space, revealing a dark cave entrance, which Xiao Ning stepped into first.
Zhu Kun gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and followed.
What appeared before them was a giant floating landmass, like a castle in the air.
With Xiao Ning's sudden appearance, the tranquility that had lasted for millennia was abruptly shattered.
"This place feels so familiar. After a thousand years, I've returned here."
Zhu Kun, who entered next, sighed and scanned the strange space with wary eyes, as if he was wary of something.
Looking around, there is an ancient stone palace in the center of the land.
The stone palace stands silently, an ancient aura wafting through the heavens and earth.
In front of the stone hall, there is a vast plaza.
On both sides of the square stand towering pillars, each thousands of feet tall.
Stepping into the square, Xiao Ning felt an overwhelming and majestic aura rushing towards him.
"Young Master, be careful of that corrupted Ancient Emperor!"
Seeing Xiao Ning walk directly into the square, Zhu Kun followed behind and gave him a reminder.
It wasn't that Zhu Kun was loyal; he was afraid that the corrupted ancient emperor would suddenly appear and capture Xiao Ning, and then he would lose the freedom he had finally regained in the blink of an eye.
"good!"
Hearing Zhu Kun's reminder, Xiao Ning nodded, but continued walking deeper into the square, where a huge stone pillar appeared before him.
At the top of the stone pillar, a ball of deep yellow flame danced and rose.
"This... is the Xuanhuang Flame, ranked twenty-third on the Strange Flame Ranking?"
Although he didn't recognize the strange fire, Xiao Ning, who had read the original novel, quickly identified the name of the flame.
"The Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, ranked twenty-second on the Strange Flame Ranking!"
"The Yin-Yang Twin Flames, ranked twenty-first on the Strange Flame Ranking!"
"The Netherworld Poison Flame, ranked twentieth on the list of extraordinary flames!"
"The Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame, ranked nineteenth on the Strange Flame Ranking!"
...
Xiao Ning's gaze quickly swept over the tops of the other stone pillars, and he saw that each pillar had flames of different colors at its top.
Besides the top three on the Strange Flame Ranking, there are actually twenty other Strange Flames, one on each stone pillar, exactly twenty in total!
Although the aura of these flames was somewhat weak, they were all genuine exotic flames!
"This... is the famous Strange Flame Plaza from Battle Through the Heavens? But it doesn't seem to be of any use to me!"
Xiao Ning muttered something to himself and turned his gaze elsewhere. These strange flames, which were enough to drive alchemists all over the world crazy, were not enough to move Xiao Ning in the slightest.
"Boom boom boom!"
Just then, amidst a deafening roar, a stone statue, ten thousand feet tall, appeared out of thin air above Xiao Ning's head.