Chapter 397: Chapter 389: Open Sesame!
Wengg!
A teleportation portal appeared in the massive underground ruins of the Empyrean dynasty's capital.
"Hmm?" Elder Lin was surprised.
This presence? It's him again..
Why is he here? Did I do something wrong..
His memories flashed to when the other party had slapped him continuously back then, and this made him greatly terrified and apprehensive of the latter!
Tap! Tap!
A figure with a set of white robe and long black hair donning a white mask emerged from the teleportation portal. In addition, a haughty looking chicken seemed to be perching on his shoulder, its gaze like that of an overlord!
It was Duan Li along with Wei Shang, Fei Longwei, Cucko, Zhang Liao and Lu Bu!
"Paying respects to your Excellency.." Elder Lin bowed his head a little, and Princess Meixiu as well as the rest of her expedition party also greeted Duan Li, their tone full of respect!
Taking a slight peek, he noticed the air around the Imperial Overseer this time was a bit different when compared to the person that appeared before!
Oh?
This is the real him? I can't sense any overpowering aura flowing from him.. could it be that the original is far weaker than the clone?
"En!" the man in the spotlight nodded. Deep inside him however, he couldn't help but to sigh in helplessness when everyone was being formal with him like this.
Furthermore, he could see that their legs were trembling a little. This was inevitable when one considered that they had witnessed him doing something horrifying before!
Or specifically, it was not him but Utmost Being, his damned showoff clone!
Curse you my damned clone, you added an unneeded reputation to my kind and gentleman image..
"Wei Wang, is what you said true?" Duan Li turned to face Wei Shang's little brother and asked with a serious expression behind his mask.
Wei Wang nodded heavily with a similar expression and Shen Murong pointed to the carvings on the humongous iron door.
Taking a look, Duan Li could see that each of the nine giant monsters were different in shapes and sizes. Among them, he noticed one monster in particular.
Million years old Hermit King, Crastesauros!
Gulp!
How could he forget them?
These were all the mythical creatures in the legends, one that appeared one after another in the future, to bring the ends of time for the entire living things on the Tian continent eight years later!
Then, above the carvings of these nine apocalyptic monsters, stood the apex of all abominations..
The Sun Dragon!
"Sun.. Dragon!" Duan Li clenched his hands into a fist and gritted his teeth. He will never forget the events that would transpire in the near future!
The Jiu Empire destroyed, his friends killed, and his mother's ending was also tragic!
Not only that, all the other empires were decimated as well!
He swore that in his timeline, he will prevent all that, and he would do anything and everything he could to achieve it!
The Elder Lich noticed this subtle expression just from observing Duan Li's hands, and he couldn't help but to wonder what the Imperial Overseer knew about those monsters depicted on the carvings of the iron door!
Even from his tireless research, he wasn't able to found a clue about them at all!
"Inside here is a colossal monster from one of those drawings." He said, to which, Duan Li only nodded to, as if already expecting it.
Then, to his surprise, an overpowering aura started to overflow from the Imperial Overseer. Like a broken dam, this aura quickly caused the spiritual Qi in the surrounding area to seethe out relentlessly, as if a sudden heavy downpour of a torrential tropical storm!
What a powerful Qi cycle!
"At the rate of which he is breathing in Qi.. his Qi cycle should be almost.. no, it's instantaneous! Ah? It's more than that?" Elder Lin said in his head, full of disbelief. If he were to have a pair of eyeballs right now, they would have probably popped out from his eye sockets!
After all, before he was a Lich, he was once a normal human being as well, and also a powerful cultivator at that. He had studied extensively on the human acupoints, pores and seven orifices, and he determined that no matter what kind of powerful breathing cultivation technique that a human practices, they will never be able to replenish a 1:1 ratio of the spiritual Qi they expend!
This was why he chose the path of a Lich, an existence that only requires a cursed soul to live, cutting the inefficiency posed by the human body, absorbing spiritual Qi directly into the soul!
However, this was not to say that this path of his did not have any disadvantages, they do and in fact several, but for him, it was nonetheless many times better.
'How did he do it?'
This was the question playing in his mind right now!
Furthermore, he now knew that his previous conjecture about the real Imperial Overseer was wrong!
'The original is weaker than the clone?' He wanted to slap himself for coming to such an amateur conclusion!
If he saw a slight chance of defeating the clone before, now, not to mention that a ray of light did not even exist, perhaps it would be easier for him to find a needle buried in the middle of a desert, rather than trying to win against the real Imperial Overseer!
This fellow is a true bad news!
Only now did he realize the true meaning of Shen Murong's and Wang Dong's words towards Zeng Jiangshi before. It was not at all a mockery, but pure fact!
The other party had truly bit off more than he could chew.
Hais! Goodbye old friend. It was fortunate that he decided to pledge his allegiance to such an exalted being. Otherwise, his skull would have been made as a wine cup for the other party!
"Open the door." Duan Li commanded, his voice carrying the dominance of an undisputable apex existence, and he conditioned himself to battle, just in case things escalated into something worse!
Nodding, Elder Lin tapped a few sections on the iron door, bringing out a runic formation that seemed archaic and complicated, overlaying on top of one another to form like a star system that could be seen during night time!
"It will take quite a while for me to open this lock as it changes every time, so pardon me.." Elder Lin was about to get to work when he saw that Duan Li had already moved to the center of the runic formation.
"Ah! Please don't do anything! Otherwise, the door will never-" before he could finish his sentence, he saw Duan Li lifting his leg slowly before stomping down on the runic formation with his right foot, and a huge clanking noise could be heard from the door!
CLANK! CLANK!
"Ah?" Elder Lin was stupefied.
The lock opened?
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