195: Soul Search Shocking Changes, the Truth of the Imperial Formation

"Ah—!!!"

Under Xiao Chen's overbearing and unparalleled Emperor Realm Soul Searching Art, Elder You Yan's soul let out a silent, distorted, and agonizing shriek! His life's memories, cultivation insights, and the core secrets of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, like a bursting dam, madly surged into Xiao Chen's Sea of Consciousness!

Xiao Chen frowned, rapidly filtering through the massive amount of information. The organizational structure of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, hidden strongholds across the continent, their infiltration of various major forces… While this intelligence was valuable, it wasn't what he was most concerned about at the moment! What he wanted was the Pavilion Master Tianji's true plan! He wanted to know their next move after the Ten Million Souls Prostration to Emperor Formation was broken!

"Found it!" Xiao Chen's spirit was invigorated! In the deepest part of You Yan's memory, a core memory sealed by layers of destiny restrictions was forcibly broken open by him using the power of Origin Qi!

The scene unfolded—

It was after the collapse of the Ten Million Souls Prostration to Emperor Formation, the heavily injured Pavilion Master Tianji's true body had fled and was hidden in a highly secret destiny mystic realm within the Chaos Sea. His starlight body was tattered, and his aura was weak, but the madness and calculation in his eyes grew even more intense!

"Xiao Chen… What a Xiao Chen! To actually force this Emissary… to fail at the last step!" The Pavilion Master Tianji's voice was hoarse, filled with deep-seated malice. "The Ten Million Souls Prostration to Emperor Formation… was ultimately just one step short… What a pity… what a pity!"

But then, a strange smile appeared on his face.

"However… it's not… entirely without gain." He raised his hand, and in his palm, a constantly wriggling mass of dark-red energy appeared, emitting an Emperor Realm aura that was of the same origin as Soul Heaven Emperor! It was precisely the partial essence of Soul Heaven Emperor's Emperor Realm origin that he had forcibly plundered from the collapsing array!

"Soul Heaven Emperor… you old ghost, you even gave this Emissary a 'great gift' in your dying moments!" The Pavilion Master Tianji sneered, "Your Emperor Realm origin, though incomplete, contains the laws of death and destruction, which are perfect… for refining that item!"

"The Ten Million Souls Prostration to Emperor Formation… was merely… a facade!" A chilling light, making one's heart palpitate, flashed in the Pavilion Master Tianji's eyes! "This Emissary's true goal was never… to create a pseudo-Emperor Realm body controlled by resentment!"

"What this Emissary wants… is to use this Emperor Realm origin's death qi as the core, fuse it with the laws of destiny this Emissary has cultivated throughout his life, and refine… a forbidden artifact… capable of… slaughtering Emperors!"

"Its name… is—'burial emperor coffin'!"

"Boom—!"

Xiao Chen's soul felt as if it had been struck by thunder! The burial emperor coffin?! An artifact for slaughtering Emperors?! The Pavilion Master Tianji… had he gone mad to such an extent?! He didn't want to become an Emperor Realm, but rather… to kill Emperors?! Who did he want to kill?! Could it be… The scene continued—

"When the burial emperor coffin is refined…" The Pavilion Master Tianji's voice became incredibly ethereal and cold. His gaze seemed to pierce through endless void, looking towards an unknown direction. "That will be the time for this Emissary… to go to 'that place'… and welcome 'the true master'… back!"

"At that time… all Emperor Realms in this world… shall… enter the coffin as sacrifices!"

"What?! The true master?! Welcome back?!" Xiao Chen's mind was greatly shaken! The Pavilion Master Tianji… was not even the ultimate mastermind?! Behind him… stood an even more terrifying existence?! A master who needed to be welcomed with an artifact capable of slaughtering Emperors?!

This information was too shocking! Far beyond Xiao Chen's expectations!

"Puff—!"

Just then, Elder You Yan's soul, finally unable to withstand the overbearing power of the soul searching, let out a faint pop and was completely… annihilated! His body also turned to dust, dissipating into the chaotic currents.

Xiao Chen slowly withdrew his palm, his expression becoming more solemn than ever before. He stood still, digesting this astonishing secret. The currents of the Chaos Sea roared around him, but they could not disperse the chill in his heart.

"The Pavilion Master Tianji… the burial emperor coffin… welcoming the master… slaughtering all Emperor Realms in this world…" Xiao Chen muttered to himself, his eyes glinting with an icy, bone-chilling killing intent. "So… Soul Heaven Emperor… was just a larger chess piece! The true threat is still hidden… behind a deeper darkness!"

He finally understood why the Pavilion Master Tianji acted so secretly and calculated so deeply! His ambition was not as simple as dominating the continent! He wanted to… overturn the entire world's order! To welcome a catastrophe that could destroy everything!

"I must… return to the continent as soon as possible! I must… stop him!" Xiao Chen felt an unprecedented sense of urgency! Although the Pavilion Master Tianji was heavily injured, once he refined that burial emperor coffin, the consequences… would be unimaginable!

He no longer hesitated. His figure flickered, transforming into an extreme chaotic stream of light. Following the memories of the continental coordinates obtained from the soul searching, he pushed his speed to the limit, tearing through layers of chaos, and madly rushed towards the Central Region!

On his way back, Xiao Chen's mind raced, constantly devising countermeasures.

"The Pavilion Master Tianji is heavily injured, and refining the burial emperor coffin will definitely require time and massive resources! He will surely hide and proceed in secret! Currently, the overt threats on the continent are mainly the remnants of the Soul Hall and the Heavenly Secret Pavilion!"

"The most urgent task is to quickly rendezvous with the Anti-Alliance, and with lightning speed, sweep away these minions and stabilize the situation! At the same time, I must find a way to locate the Pavilion Master Tianji's hiding place! Before he achieves great success, he must be… completely eradicated!"

"And that so-called 'true master'… who exactly is he? And what is his connection to the vanished Battle Emperors of this world?" Xiao Chen felt as if he had touched the edge of an astonishing secret, shrouded in ancient mists!

"No matter who you are… if you want to destroy this land that birthed and raised me… you'll have to step over my corpse, Xiao Chen's corpse, first!" The conviction in Xiao Chen's eyes grew even firmer!

His speed, once again, soared! His heart yearned to return!

However, just as Xiao Chen was about to rush out of the Chaos Sea and reach the outer perimeter of the Central Region—

"Buzz—!"

The clan mark on his brow once again sent out a warning! And this time, the sense of crisis was ten times more intense than before! It was as if something extremely terrifying had already… locked onto him!

"Not good!" Xiao Chen's pupils contracted sharply! His figure suddenly paused in the void! His Emperor Realm soul power frantically spread in all directions!

He saw that ahead, where the spatial barrier of the Central Region should have been, it was now, at some unknown point, completely sealed by an incredibly thick, dark-red light screen that exuded a strong smell of blood and desperate death qi!

On the light screen, countless hideous resentful spirit faces constantly appeared and shrieked! An aura even more evil and suffocating than the Ten Million Souls Prostration to Emperor Formation permeated from within!

"This is… another… Emperor Realm array?!" Xiao Chen's expression instantly turned incredibly grim!

The Pavilion Master Tianji… actually… had a backup plan?! And the aura of this array… actually… subtly pointed towards that so-called… burial emperor coffin?!

"Xiao Chen… this Emissary… has been waiting for a long time…" A hoarse and familiar voice, like a demonic sound piercing the ears, slowly emanated from the depths of that dark-red light screen!

The final… interception and killing trap, was actually… here?!