"Hmm?"
When Zhang Daoyuan led his army out of the Great Scarlet Heaven, he realized the situation was not quite right.
Because outside the Great Scarlet Heaven, on the road leading to Yu Yu Heaven.
An entire army was already standing in the void, fully armed and waiting.
And they did not originate from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, but from the foreign territory.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were all clad in black armor, gathered there without making a single sound.
The cold armor reflected the radiance.
Leading them was a large battle flag with a bright red "Yu" character on it.
"A descendant of an Immortal King?"
Before coming out, Zhang Daoyuan had already anticipated all of this.
He had made a great show of force while clearing out the Great Scarlet Heaven and had not hidden his actions.
Although most of the cultivators from the foreign territory had been killed by him, there were bound to be a few who slipped through the net.
After escaping the Great Scarlet Heaven, they would inevitably notify other living figures within the foreign territory.
It was already slow enough that they had taken this long to cause trouble here.
Zhang Daoyuan was not afraid.
The tens of thousands of cultivators he had carefully selected behind him were also fully prepared.
Figures from their respective sects had formed a Great Formation.
Zhang Daoyuan stared at that battle flag, slightly lost in thought.
Beneath that battle flag, nine exotic beasts with True Dragon bloodlines were pulling a golden war chariot.
Standing on the war chariot was a figure with golden vital energy flowing throughout his body.
Judging by his appearance and bearing, he even looked somewhat similar to Zhang Daoyuan.
He stood there, looking down from a high position, overlooking Zhang Daoyuan.
When he saw Zhang Daoyuan, his gaze fluctuated for an instant, but it quickly calmed down.
"Do not think that because you were able to defeat Heng Long, you are very strong. He was merely a descendant of an Immortal.
Even within the Royal Clan, he could not be considered a king, let alone before me!"
"Kneel on the ground and declare your allegiance to me, and I may allow you to join my realm, become a member of the Royal Clan of my realm, and stand on equal footing with me."
Although this person was attempting to recruit him, his words were quite impolite, even somewhat cold, with a sense of looking down from above.
However, seeing him, Zhang Daoyuan understood why this person dared to be so arrogant.
Because in his induction of the person's bearing, he had also traveled very far in the Supreme Realm.
If placed in later generations, he could definitely be considered a Great Emperor level person, with a realm not inferior to his own.
Moreover, his physical body and bearing were extremely sturdy and terrifying, a cut above others in the same realm.
This was a characteristic of cultivators from the foreign territory; after being polluted and eroded by strange and inauspicious substances, their physical bodies became even stronger.
Their nascent souls would also be more sturdy, surpassing those of the same realm.
Furthermore, their attacks carried a terrifying corrosive nature.
Fighting them year after year, if one was not careful, one might even have their nascent soul invaded by that kind of strange and inauspicious substance.
Then, a new nascent soul would be born from the original physical body, which was terrifying beyond measure.
Zhang Daoyuan knew the root cause of all these changes.
This was all because of the first person in this heaven and earth to achieve the status of Immortal Emperor.
The Corpse Immortal Emperor.
Just after he achieved the status of Immortal Emperor, before he could traverse between heaven and earth, a drop of black blood falling from the Heavens polluted him.
The strange and inauspicious substance that polluted him also wanted to give birth to a brand-new consciousness and a new nascent soul within his body.
He realized this and did not submit.
He used his own weapon to strike himself, sealing the unpolluted part into a box.
As for the other, polluted part, it lay as a corpse at the end of the Sea of Realms.
That part had not died either; it was still alive.
However, it had fallen into a special state of slumber, constantly breathing in and out.
It wanted to save itself and break free.
Therefore, with every breath, endless polluted, strange, and inauspicious substances flowed out of its body, and pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy entered its body.
In this cycle of exchange, endless strange and inauspicious substances flowed between the celestial bodies.
Being polluted by this kind of strange and inauspicious substance, apart from the negative buff of a new nascent soul being born in the physical body, everything else was positive.
The physical body would become stronger in this process, and the nascent soul would also be different, making it easier to achieve a breakthrough.
Therefore, such figures were very difficult to deal with.
And the foreign Royal Clan member in front of him was clearly even harder to deal with.
Golden vital energy was boiling and flickering on his body.
Zhang Daoyuan had memories of such a situation; it was the Golden Battle Blood originating from An Lan, which could significantly increase combat power.
But this one was carrying the "Yu" banner.
This clearly originated from another Immortal King of the foreign territory, seemingly from Yu Tuo.
But this also revealed more peculiar information.
Because the descendants of foreign Immortal Kings like An Lan and Yu Tuo were basically of the Emperor Clan, not the so-called Royal Clan.
They were more noble than the Royal Clan, and of course, they were also more powerful.
Yet this person possessed features of both An Lan and Yu Tuo, but was only a member of the Royal Clan; thinking about it carefully, it was truly laughable.
Now that he was putting on such a high-and-mighty act and bearing here, he seemed quite extraordinary.
But Zhang Daoyuan felt it was ridiculous and laughable after thinking about it carefully.
However, considering that this person might not be as weak as he guessed, what if it was a trap?
Therefore, Zhang Daoyuan began to respond seriously for the first time.
Above his head, the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda appeared, shedding thousands of strands of Primordial Qi of All Things.
This Mysterious Yellow Pagoda had become increasingly mysterious in Zhang Daoyuan's hands.
During the ten-plus years of metamorphosis, the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda had completed its sublimation within this heaven and earth.
The Root of Myriad Mother Qi had reached a higher level, attaining the level of a True Immortal, or even an embryo of an Immortal King Artifact.
Although a portion of the internal Primordial Qi of All Things had collapsed during this sublimation process, the amount that survived was still quite large.
Not to mention that the Root of Myriad Mother Qi would produce new Primordial Qi of All Things every period of time and years.
With such a treasure in hand, there was no need to worry about a lack of materials for refining an Immortal King Artifact in the future.
Because it would produce it itself!
"Hmm?"
When he saw the Primordial Qi of All Things falling from above Zhang Daoyuan's head.
Zhang Daoyuan saw the eyes of the person in front of him brighten significantly.
"Offer this item to me, and I can spare your life and allow you to take a group of your clansmen to go to my realm with me."
The greed in this person's gaze was undisguised, but Zhang Daoyuan did not say much.
He took a step forward, starting with the Xing Zi Mi, and as he rushed out, he raised his hand to use the Dou Character Secret.
And while communicating with the opponent, he had already silently activated the Jie Character Secret.
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