481 Steel Seal (1/2)

”Eh?”

Fang Yuan's eyes glistened as he saw a blood-coloured true dragon leap out from within Jade Capital City and charge towards the skies. It then opened up some sort of gigantic and invisible array.

”9 Heavenly Sky Net Array?”

As Fang Yuan thought, his heart was pounding, ”Wow... I previously thought the dream master alliance's act of blood sacrificing numerous powerful beings to activate the 6 Extremes Earth Shattering Array was rare and costly enough, but now, Da Qian Imperial Court is even sacrificing the emperor... This blood-coloured true dragon is no doubt Emperor Zhao Ming!”

Emperor Zhao Ming had ruled for 10 over years. He was adroit and had a strong foundation. He was even the true dragon recognised by the heaven and earth.

Now that he was used as the key to activate the heavenly array, they were definitely after something big!

However, what Fang Yuan was curious about now was not about the backlash Da Qian would face. Instead, he was curious about who was the one who made the decision; who could possibly make the emperor Da Qian become a sacrificial offering?

...

”Kababoom!”

Sudden changes were occurring in the skies!

After the 9 Heavenly Sky Net Array was activated, not only did the heavenly violet lightning stop, even the dark clouds dispersed slowly to reveal a sky full of stars.

Although the dream masters were no longer the threat of heavenly tribulations, all of them felt extremely uneasy as they had a premonition that disaster was impending.

”The emperor is sacrificed? The emperor has dragon energy, there might be changes!”

The 5 Sages also immediately noticed the situation.

”It is indeed the 9 Heavenly Sky Net Array! Why would Sage Changli leave behind this two mutually conflicting arrays in his inheritance?”

”The one who's giving the orders in Imperial Court is Shang Hou?”

The Ancient One noticed something else instead, ”Shang Hou is a distant relative of the royal family, he only entered the echelon of powerful beings through sheer luck and was ordered to manage all the dragon energy in this world. How could he have such prestige and might?”

”Hehe...”

Lord Yin laughed coldly, ”I think this Shang Hou is really familiar looking, he is similar to an acquaintance I know!”

”Indeed, he is really similar to an old acquaintance!”

Evil Divine nodded his head and spat out the words one by one, ”Great Ancestor of Da Qian! I can't believe you aren't dead!”

This powerful being who established the Da Qian dynasty was naturally a hero and an Energy Soul. Unfortunately for him, he did not reign for long.

From the conversation between these few sages, there seemed to be some hidden information withheld about the past events.

”During that time, three of us joined hands and killed the Great Ancestor of Da Qian. By right, his body and soul should have been totally annihilated... For that, we suffered from backlash and could not topple Da Qian in time and thus, we quickly secluded ourselves...”

Li Qingmian recounted rather hesitantly.

”Looks like a tinge of this person's spiritual will was not destroyed. It then absconded and reincarnated before entering the royal family again?”

”What a scourge indeed!”

Numerous spiritual wills had confirmed this Shang Hou's identity already. The old guy Shang Hou did not bother to hide it anymore as he carefreely floated out, ”My old friends, long time no see! I'm so happy I can finally seek vengeance!”

”Sure enough, it's you, Great Ancestor of Da Qian!”

It was the first time Evil Divine lost the calm and indifferent look on his face, ”This reincarnation technique of yours is really not bad! Even your mind and spiritual aura have changed! You are a totally different person now, no wonder we couldn't deduce it!”

”It's all smoke and mirrors!”

The Great Ancestor of Da Qian chortled, ”What's the point of delving in this?”

”Heh... don't make it sound so nice, you think we don't know your ins and outs?”

Lord Yin's spiritual will suddenly spread across as it intended to divulge some secrets to the powerful beings at the Imperial Court's side, ”This Great Ancestor of Da Qian of yours was originally a Prominent Divine dream master too. He is well-versed in enslavement techniques and the 'Spiritual Will Steel Seal' he created can enslave anybody to become his loyal slave!”

The moment Lord Yin divulged it, only a few lower-tiered cultivators appeared shocked. The rest of the powerful beings appeared expressionless as they looked at Lord Yin.

”Impossible!”

Lord Yin's face turned ashen, ”They are all….. Steel Seal Puppets!?”

The other 4 sages were horrified too.

It was reasonable that the Imperial Court gained the liking of the commoners and managed to garner True Divines and True Elementals to their side.

However, it now seemed like these powerful beings were all long controlled by the Spiritual Will Steel Seal! This included all the grand secretaries, generals and priests!

”Spiritual Will Steel Seal?”

Fang Yuan pondered quickly. He then suddenly remembered a recording he saw on a secret text he purchased, ”This seems to be briefly mentioned on a secret text I read before. This Spiritual Will Steel Seal Technique can segment spiritual will and turn one spiritual will into nine, forming nine child seals. The holder of the parent seal can do anything to those inflicted by the child seal. It is the most supreme controlling technique... However, not only is this technique extremely hard to cultivate, it has a limit too. It can only segment nine times and the victim has to be willing. At its peak, It controlled nine powerful beings and led to some blood brawls.”

”But now...”

Fang Yuan looked at the powerful beings at Jade Capital City and felt his head went numb.

”Haha... I must thank you all for it!”

Shang Hou moved back a few steps. Numerous powerful beings defended him closely and fully surrounded him.

”If the three of you did not chase after me and almost annihilated me, how could I have made a breakthrough while I was between life and death and improved and turned my 9 Times Steel Will into 9 Times 9, 81 Times?”

”Superior Wu Zun, Qian Guiyi, Head of Hidden Dragon Guards... does the three of you still want to hold a candle for the devil?”

The Ancient One sneered and was immediately faced with three pairs of eyes filled with enmity and hatred. It was as though The Ancient One fell into an icy pit as he exclaimed, ”Impossible!”