While the outside world was rummaged by chaos.

Chu Kuangren was refining the Ancestral Land Foundation that he had previously acquired. These resources had been immensely useful to him.

In fact, it had even helped him breach the limits of the Sovereigns!

Those below the level of an Emperor could only cultivate nine strands of Emperor qi, and the Dao limit was capped at the Ultimate stage. However, with the help of a pile of Ancestral Land Foundations, Chu Kuangren intended to breach this ancient limit!

On the third day of his closed-door meditation, Chu Kuangren had successfully refined three Ancestral Land Foundations and cultivated the tenth strand of Emperor qi!

It was quickly followed by the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth strand of Emperor qi.

After half a month, Chu Kuangren had finished refining all of the Ancestral Land Foundations that he had acquired.

At that time, his internal Emperor qi had reached a whopping twenty-four strands, which broke the previous nine-strand limit imposed on the Sovereigns!

Under the nourishment of Emperor qi, Chu Kuangren's physical and even soul strength had drastically improved.

Boom, boom, boom…

A sudden tremor ravaged through a mountain range as a cultivator breached through the mountains and levitated into the sky.

An endless source of aura radiated from his body, shocking every cultivator within a one hundred thousand kilometers radius.

As the cultivators looked over in awe, they saw a white-clothed figure standing triumphantly in the air.

"It's him, Chu Kuangren!"

"Has he been in closed-door meditation all this time? What a terrifying aura! I wonder what level he is at now."

"This is nuts. He has managed to accomplish more in a few days than what others couldn't after years of effort. Is he even human?!"

"That aura… Is he an Emperor now?"

The cultivators gulped as they sensed Chu Kuangren's newly birthed aura. It had far surpa.s.sed their understanding of the Dao.

Even the outlawed Sovereigns were incapable of producing such an aura!

As Chu Kuangren stood in the air, his greatly enhanced spiritual thoughts surged like the tides as he cast it all over the realm.

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Soon, his spiritual thoughts had covered more than half of the Emperor Road.

Chu Kuangren possessed the Conjurer's Talent.

He could use his spiritual thoughts as an extension of his five senses to listen to what others were saying far away and even touch others physically.

Hence, Chu Kuangren soon got himself up to speed with the events that had happened over the past few days, including the incident surrounding the Slumbering Emperor Coffin.

"Slumbering Emperor Coffin? How interesting."

Chu Kuangren muttered.

He then concentrated his spiritual thought to search for its location.

It did not take long for him to sense the Slumbering Emperor Coffin's whereabouts. However, he glared coldly ahead when he realized where the coffin was heading towards. "You b*stard. Now, you've crossed a line."

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As the ancient warriors dragged the Slumbering Emperor Coffin to a mountain range, the surrounding critters were turned into crimson-colored energies and absorbed by the ent.i.ty.

The depths of the mountain range were laden with countless seals.

It was where Nangong Huang and the others were meditating.

However, the coffin haulers did not care. All they knew was to mechanistically kill whatever they saw in sight and feed a steady stream of energy to the Slumbering Emperor Coffin.

Boom!

One of the Sovereigns unleashed a fist technique.

The terrifying energy ravaged through all the beasts residing within the forest and turned them into streams of crimson energies that flowed towards the Slumbering Emperor Coffin.

A few thousand kilometers away.

A group of Sovereigns gathered.

Upon noticing that more than half of the Slumbering Emperor Coffin was tainted in blood, a look of fear washed over their faces.

"The Slumbering Emperor Coffin is probably close to absorbing all the energies it needs. The blood has almost covered its entire body."

One of the Sovereigns said.

The rest nodded in agreement.

"It's about time."

"I reckon it just needs to kill off another ten billion creatures before it's done. After that, there's no need to play hide and seek anymore."

"This incident with the Slumbering Emperor Coffin has enraged many of our allies. I doubt we'd be able to have a moment of peace even after this blows over."

"Their deaths are not in vain. They've died to nourish the Slumbering Emperor Coffin and keep us safe from its wrath. For those commoners, it's a lifetime honor."

"Indeed, they should feel honored to be granted such a privilege."

The Sovereigns whispered to one another and began to comfort themselves.

Once the Slumbering Emperor Coffin leaves, they could resume their positions as the archaic orthodoxies that rule over Emperor Road.

Besides, their sky-prides had acquired quite a fortune from the depths of Forbidden Barren Wasteland. These would help them immensely when they would eventually fight for the Emperor's Thrones.

This time, the arrival of the Slumbering Emperor Coffin marked the beginning of a calamity.

However, it was also an opportunity for them.

At the thought of it, the Sovereigns were beginning to feel that the Slumbering Emperor Coffin was not much of an eyesore after all.

They could not care less about the billions of lifeforms that had perished under the wrath of the Slumbering Emperor Coffin.

Meanwhile, the Slumbering Emperor Coffin was still rampaging through the mountain range.

When it came closer to the depths of the mountain range, a strange ripple of energies unfolded in the realm.

Once the ripple settled down, a white-clothed figure walked out of the void and glared coldly at the Slumbering Emperor Coffin.

The coffin haulers did not react to the figure's arrival at all. On the contrary, the Sovereigns, who were observing from afar, were surprised.

"It's him!"

"Chu Kuangren, why's he suddenly here?!"

"What's he doing? Is he trying to stop the Slumbering Emperor Coffin?"

"Who's he kidding? There are up to a hundred ancient warriors guarding the coffin. How's he going to stop them?"

"He's just begging to die at this point. Besides, why's he doing this? Is this some sort of a heroic gesture?"

The Sovereigns looked at each other, not knowing why Chu Kuangren wanted to stop the Slumbering Emperor Coffin. However, they all thought he stood no chance of succeeding.

This made them rather excited to see what was about to come.

"Die!"

One of the ancient warriors stared at Chu Kuangren and discharged a fist technique towards him.

His Emperor qi fused with his spiritual powers to form an enormous fist sign that charged towards Chu Kuangren.

"You're just a puppet."

Chu Kuangren simply retaliated with a fist technique.

An explosion ensued as Chu Kuangren's fist qi penetrated effortlessly through the enormous fist sign and towards the ancient warrior.

It was almost too effortless. Chu Kuangren's fist qi struck the ancient warrior cleanly, and the latter burst into a cloud of blood mist.

The scene horrified the Sovereigns who were observing from afar. They gasped, overwhelmed by their disbelief.

"Why does it seem like he has grown stronger yet again?"

"It was only more than a few days ago when he stormed through the ancestral lands. How has his ability grown again?!"

"Does his power double every day?"

"D*mn it. Could it be that he has refined all of the Ancestral Land Foundations he took? That's impossible! Without decades of meditation, how could he possibly refine that many resources?!"

The Sovereigns could feel a faint buzz ringing through their ears.

Chu Kuangren's otherworldly advancement was incomprehensible to them. Not even the most overpowered of sky-prides could achieve such a huge improvement every time he appeared.

"Let's see what's inside of you."

Chu Kuangren stared at the Slumbering Emperor Coffin with a burning curiosity.