The sacrificial rite was over. Ninety-nine percent of the beings within the burial mound had been sacrificed to that existence. The rite’s ultimate goal was to trade their lives for power from the mysterious existence.

Yun Yi first traded her life for the power of sacrifice, then offered up everything within the burial mound. This magnificent rite with an empyrean supreme as the main sacrificial good naturally resulted in greater power being exchanged.

The entire human race had been sacrificed, alongside countless supremes and peak grand supremes. Lu Yun even saw Jiang Chen’s Bag of Corpse Refinement—it’d been sacrificed too. So that bag was also alive!

Jiang Chen, however, remained alive and well. He’d sent only a replica to the burial mound, one made from a peak grand supreme who’d turned into a zombie after death.

It didn’t matter whether he was alive or dead, for Lu Yun saw a chance of life. The paths of fallen great daos within the burial mound—the dao bones—stirred with life. They were about...