Invincible Dad-Chapter 690 Thief Emperor_1
Steal them? Xu Lai, of course, wouldn’t stoop to that.
As the august Lord of the Heavenly Court and master of the Four Immortal Domains, how could he possibly rob the Heavenly Dao of its meager treasures?
How would that look if word got out?
It would be a disgrace!
"Just kill him, and you can snatch them without anyone being the wiser," Taotie’s words dripped with murderous intent.
"I don’t want them anymore!" The Heavenly Dao cried even louder. "I don’t want any of these treasures! The Supreme Emperor, spare my life! Divine General Taotie, spare my life! Waaah!"
"..."
Xu Lai was speechless.
What use did he have for these broken things, anyway?
There were forty-five Great Emperor Relics in total, and only a few shared the same aura. Xu Lai’s gaze swept over them; thirty were damaged weapon fragments or ritually-refined rare Exotic Stones. There were also four memoirs written on Jade Slips, five pieces of mortal remains like limbs and hair, and, most unsettling of all, an eyeball.
These items faintly possessed a spiritual consciousness, hovering in the void with hostile intent. None were willing to submit to another. If not for the Heavenly Dao using a special technique to suppress them, these Great Emperor Relics might have caused a great disaster.
For example, a severed finger that belonged to the Blood Demon Emperor carried the most potent Emperor Realm pressure. Within the finger, there was even a drop of golden blood. That single drop of blood was enough to destroy billions of star systems.
Then there was the eyeball, which seemed to be alive. It rotated continuously, and its gaze caused the void to collapse in an instant.
Yet, once they were separated from the Heavenly Dao’s body, their hostility towards each other ceased. Instead, they found a new common enemy.
That enemy was none other than Xu Lai.
They could sense who the most dangerous being present was.
"Hmph."
Xu Lai let out a cold snort.
The fifty-four Great Emperor Relics emitted a dazzling light as the surrounding Spiritual Energy rapidly converged to form an Emperor’s Presence. But in the end, they all lost their luster and fell silent, seething with unwillingness.
Xu Lai fell quiet for a moment.
No matter how peerless and magnificent they were in life, their posthumous relics, however extraordinary, were still easily suppressed by a later-comer like him.
An inexplicable melancholy washed over Xu Lai.
When he grew old, would his Emperor Artifact, the Qingfeng Sword, also be suppressed by the Emperors of future generations? Would his Emperor Scriptures be sealed away on a Jade Slip, never to see the light of day again? And would his remains be collected by other Cultivators, preventing him from having a complete corpse, let alone returning to the earth from whence he came?
"The Supreme Emperor, what’s wrong?" Taotie asked cautiously.
"It’s nothing." Xu Lai smiled freely, the emotions in his eyes returning to a state of calm.
Life is incredibly short. Even the million-year lifespan of an Emperor Realm being is but a fleeting moment in the river of time.
Why care so much about what happens after death? I, Xu Qingfeng, live only for today!
Xu Lai spoke calmly, "Sikong Jiu, you have more than thirty-one Great Emperor Relics here."
"Those thirty-one came from various strokes of luck—some bought, some found, some traded," the Heavenly Dao said aggrievedly. "The rest I dug out from the tombs of Great Emperors, risking my life to do so. I didn’t dare say anything. I was afraid you would kill me, The Supreme Emperor."
"..."
Taotie was flabbergasted. After a long pause, he managed to utter a single word: "Impressive!"
In all his years of traveling far and wide, Taotie knew that ordinary Cultivators couldn’t even dream of entering a Quasi-Emperor Realm tomb, let alone that of a Great Emperor. Who would have thought that the Heavenly Dao of Earth had plundered so many?
You probably don’t know what it means to find and enter the tombs of over a dozen Great Emperors in just three thousand years. In the Immortal Domain, people like that are described with two words: Thief Emperor!
Back in the day, Great Emperor Tun Tian of the Earthstore Tribe, relying on his race’s innate talent, dug through more than 700,000 tombs across the Immortal Domain in his lifetime. By devouring the corpse of one Emperor Realm being and hundreds of Quasi-Emperor corpses, he began a life that seemed blessed by cheats. As a result, Great Emperor Tun Tian was despised by the Sect Gates, Tao Lineages, and Holy Lands of the Immortal Domain, who called him the Thief Emperor.
No one expected that Sikong Jiu would actually be even more outstanding!
"Well, it’s not that big of a deal." The Heavenly Dao said, almost shyly, "It took me three thousand years to break the seals and restrictions on twelve Great Emperors’ tombs. There are still a dozen or so tombs whose restrictions I haven’t broken."
Taotie was speechless. For Sikong Jiu, whose cultivation hadn’t even reached the Venerable Realm, successfully entering a single Great Emperor’s tomb was already a blessing of immense fortune.
How on earth did he manage to get in, get out alive, and then move on to the next one?
"Maybe it’s just a talent I have," Sikong Jiu said, scratching his head. "Those Emperor Realm Array Patterns, restrictions, and the like aren’t actually that hard. You can get in with just a little bit of research."
He paused, then sighed. "It’s a shame I didn’t dare touch anything valuable inside the tombs. There was so little I could actually take!"
His words were laced with deep regret. It was truly tragic to break into a mountain of gold and silver only to leave with nothing but stones.
"You’re lucky to have made it out alive," Xu Lai commented. He was only interested in the Great Emperors’ Memoirs; as for the weapons, severed limbs, or rare stones, he had no interest in them whatsoever.
"The Supreme Emperor, let’s collaborate! I’ll be in charge of finding the tombs and breaking the Formations, and you can be in charge of taking the treasures. We’ll split it fifty-fifty... no, wait, I’ll take forty percent, you take sixty!" Sikong Jiu proposed, his eyes gleaming.
"You should do less grave robbing. It damages your karmic virtue."
Xu Lai looked off into the distance, toward the direction where Emperor Wanyun’s bronze coffin had departed.
In truth, Xu Lai could have stopped Wan Yun. After all, she wasn’t a living person. Nor was she like Great Emperor Youming, who had lived a second life and cultivated into a Corpse Emperor. She was merely a lingering wisp of Divine Sense. In terms of both strength and cultivation Boundary, she was no match for Xu Lai at his peak.
But that bronze coffin was exceedingly bizarre. Even Xu Lai, striking with his full power, couldn’t break it. So, he simply severed one of her arms and let her leave.
She said the Faceless Demon was very important to Jing Ke, and to her as well.
"I will prepare a generous gift in exchange for this person." Emperor Wanyun’s voice still echoed in his ear.
"I’ll be looking forward to your generous gift," Xu Lai muttered to himself as he left the Dead Realm and returned to the Dragon Vein of Mount Fu.
The Faceless Demon crouched on the ground, shivering. She dared not flee, nor did she dare to move. She was waiting for news.
But what came was not good news.
Because Xu Lai had returned.
Just as she was about to beg for mercy, she found her body being uncontrollably sucked into the Soul Candle and heavily suppressed beneath the Dragon Vein.
"AHHH!"
The sound of her soul being incinerated gradually faded.
Xu Lai turned to look at Qian Xiao and Yun Jin, who was lying on the ground, her eyes now open.
As Little Glutton, she looked around in a daze for a moment. "The Supreme Emperor, how did I get here..."
"Yun Jin!" Qian Xiao cried out anxiously. "Do you still remember me? I just forgot about you a moment ago."
"...?"
Yun Jin looked utterly bewildered. Then, as if recalling something, she said urgently, "That’s right, The Supreme Emperor! I just saw a bronze coffin being pulled by a golden dragon corpse."
"Mm, it’s all been dealt with," Xu Lai said gently. "Come back to Haitang Court with me. Yiyi will be very happy to see you’ve woken up."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Yun Jin grew excited as well. "The Empress Alliance is developing fantastically. I must report this wonderful news to Yiyi!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Xu Lai glanced at Little Glutton but said nothing.
Never mind. As long as my daughter is happy, that’s all that matters. Besides, she does need her own entourage, even if her methods of recruiting them are a bit too flashy... But it’s fine. As long as I, Xu Qingfeng, am still alive, everything is under control.
