There was now an explanation for everything.0

Why had that curse, which was made from the emperor’s blood, actually not honed in on the emperor, but instead flew to the depths of Planet Ancient Emperor? Why did the godly ascension ceremony feature a pentagonal altar with a coffin and shrine for Dark War? Why did Xu Qing’s action of taking that lamp cause corpse energy to come out of all five coffins and form a hand with five fingers and not four?6

Why had Eleventh Prince’s extremely unfilial and rebellious behavior provoked little more than cold indifference from the emperor? Why had the emperor not launched into an attack? Why had the emperor acted like a parent the whole time? Why had Emperor Heaveneater, who parasitized Tenth Prince but was under the emperor’s control the entire time, had his soulclone killed, all while Tenth Prince’s physical body remained unharmed?7

The answers to all those questions were provided the moment the emperor’s mask came...0