“World Sovereign, you intrude on my ancestral tomb and covet my ancestor’s treasures. I should break you into a million pieces for the offense and scatter your true spirit, but you once saved me and my kin from Revered Rednote. You safeguarded the bloodline of the emperor of the original Hongmeng. For that, your merits offset your faults.

“You and I no longer share karmic ties from henceforth. I will also spare the three outside.” Di Yin looked solemnly at Lu Yun.

Lu Yun inclined his head in return.

Di Yin was correct. Since he’d obtained the legacy of the original emperor, he’d completely activated the strand of Di bloodline in his body and risen from the most lowly offshoot to the direct heir of the...