176: Chapter 176 Imperial-Grade Embryo Pill

After the Battle of the Two Emperors concluded, Hun Feng lingered for a moment on the ruins of Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yan was being helped away by Tang Huo'er, the remnants of the Flame Emperor Alliance were kneeling on the ground led by Yao Chen, and the cheers of the Hun Clan coalition army were deafening.

Everything had settled.

But Hun Feng always felt that something had been left behind.

His Emperor Realm Soul spread out, sweeping across the entire Central Plains, the Ancient World, the Soul Realm, and the Jia Ma Empire—everywhere was quiet as usual.

He frowned slightly and probed his soul perception deeper.

Jia Nan Academy, the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda, the deepest part of the magma world.

The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode.

There was still a faint but exceptionally stubborn aura there—pill fragrance, an extremely faint pill fragrance.

Hun Feng's lips curled into a smile.

He had almost forgotten that besides the inheritance, there was also an emperor pill embryo in the Ancient Emperor Cave.

In the original story, this embryo dissipated after Xiao Yan took the Ancient Emperor's inheritance, but in this life, Xiao Yan did not take away all the opportunities in the cave.

For some reason, that embryo had been preserved, sleeping in the depths of the ruins for so long, only to be captured by his Emperor Realm Soul at this moment.

He raised his hand and slashed gently in front of him, and a spatial crack opened silently.

The next second, he was already standing in front of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode.

That massive gate, hundreds of zhang high, still stood silently at the end of the magma sea, the ancient runes on its surface glowing with a faint fluorescence under the reflection of the magma.

The first layer of the seal had been forcibly broken by Xiao Yan with a six-colored fire lotus, and the second layer of the barrier had been torn open for seven breaths by the self-detonation power of Zhu Kun.

Now, both layers of seals were fragmented and were no different from nothing to him.

Hun Feng did not break the door.

He just stood still in front of the door and released a trace of faint Emperor Might.

That massive door, which had blocked Xiao Yan for several years, boomed open as if welcoming a long-overdue master.

Inside the cave, the lingering effects of the Emperor Qi body tempering and Emperor Soul empowerment remained, and the air was filled with faint golden light spots.

He walked through the ocean of different fires that had been riddled with holes by Xiao Yan's six-colored Emperor Flame, passed the altar that had been smashed to pieces by the Ancient Emperor puppet, and crossed the stone bricks that had once been soaked in Xiao Yan's blood—those bloodstains had not dried even after several years, glowing with a faint fluorescence in the darkness, like some obsession that refused to dissipate.

He walked to the deepest part of the cave, behind the inheritance altar that Xiao Yan had barely managed to activate by exhausting his Emperor Flame, where there was an inconspicuous hidden compartment.

Floating in the hidden compartment was a golden pill the size of a fist.

The emperor pill embryo.

This pill had existed since the fall of the Ancient Emperor.

After ten thousand years, it still hadn't formed into a pill, but it had already given birth to complete spiritual intelligence.

Sensing Hun Feng's approach, it flew out of the hidden compartment and turned into a golden stream of light, fleeing toward the entrance.

Its speed was extremely fast, dragging a brilliant golden tail in the void; that was the speed of a half-step Emperor Realm.

Looking at the entire continent, there were no more than three people who could catch up with it.

Hun Feng reached out and gently clenched his five fingers in the void.

The Law of Space was activated.

The space around the fleeing golden pill suddenly solidified, and it was fixed in mid-air like a firefly trapped in amber.

It struggled desperately, its golden light charging left and right in the solid space, releasing destructive pill energy capable of instantly killing a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, but those pill energies were like mud cows entering the sea in front of the Law of Space, not even causing a ripple.

Hun Feng walked to it and reached out to pick it from the solidified space.

The emperor pill embryo jumped violently in his palm, like a small beast still kicking its legs after being caught.

He looked down at it and transmitted a thought with his Emperor Realm Soul: "Stop struggling and come with me. I can let you form a pill, and I can let you take human form—like you once dreamed of, becoming a true living being. You have waited here for over ten thousand years; isn't this what you were waiting for?"

The emperor pill embryo stopped struggling.

It lay quietly in Hun Feng's palm, its golden light slowly receding, looking like an ordinary pill, with only the extremely complex ancient pill patterns on its surface silently telling of its extraordinary nature.

Hun Feng put it into his storage ring and turned to walk out of the cave.

The spatial crack opened again, and in the next second, he was back in the main hall of the Soul Realm.

Hun Tiandi was still in his usual lazy sitting posture, flipping through the endless ancient scroll in his hands.

Void Swallowing Flame sat at the lower right, the black flames at his fingertips jumping idly.

Hun Qinger leaned in the corner, her icy blue eyes half-closed, seemingly dozing.

As Hun Feng stepped into the hall, the three of them looked up at the same time—they sensed that vast pill energy.

Hun Feng placed the emperor pill embryo on the table in front of Hun Tiandi.

The golden light illuminated the entire hall as if it were daylight.

The spiritual intelligence of the emperor pill embryo seemed to sense something, trembling slightly on the table like a sacrificial offering sent to the altar.

The black flame pupils of Void Swallowing Flame suddenly contracted, and Hun Qinger stood straight up from the corner.

"emperor pill embryo." Hun Feng's voice was calm and determined.

"Found it in the Ancient Emperor Cave. This embryo existed since the Ancient Emperor fell, and after ten thousand years, it has given birth to complete spiritual intelligence. It is only one step away from becoming a true emperor-grade pill. Clan Leader, you have been stuck at the peak of Nine-Star Dou Sheng for too long; this embryo can allow you to step into the Emperor Realm."

Hun Tiandi put down the ancient scroll in his hand and slowly pressed his right hand on top of the embryo.

His Emperor Realm Soul probed into it.

A moment later, he withdrew his palm, and those eyes, as deep as the void, revealed a light that Hun Feng had never seen before—it was desire, excitement, the light of an old man who had been trapped at the peak for a thousand years and finally saw hope after watching his juniors surpass him while he was helpless.

"Feng'er," Hun Tiandi's voice rarely had a slight fluctuation, "You have already stepped into the Dou Di realm. Use this embryo yourself; you might be able to go further."

"I am already in the Emperor Realm, so taking the embryo would just be icing on the cake. But if the Clan Leader enters the Emperor Realm, the Hun Clan will have two Dou Dis."

He raised his hand and pointed to the invisible sky above his head, "I can feel that barrier—the plane barrier. I can open it myself, but the cost is huge, so huge that I might need decades to fully recover. If you and I, two Dou Dis, join forces, this barrier will no longer be an obstacle."

"Break the barrier and channel Source Qi into the Fighting Qi Continent." Hun Tiandi slowly followed up.

Hun Feng nodded.

He had promised the dissipated Hun Feng that he would lead the Hun Clan to invade the Great Thousand World.

He would keep his word.

Hun Tiandi was silent for a moment, then slowly stood up.

He looked at Hun Feng and suddenly smiled.

There was no usual smirk in that smile, only a pure pride and gratification.

He said that when he passed the Void Devouring Flame Sub-flame to him back then, he just wanted him not to be left too far behind by Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan among the younger generation.

He didn't expect that after only a few years, this kid would not only become Emperor Shitian but also want to drag him to become a Dou Di together.

Hun Feng also smiled and just said that this was what he owed him.

Hun Tiandi said no more.

He sat cross-legged in the center of the main hall and put the emperor pill embryo into his mouth.

A vast, indescribable pill energy erupted from his body, and the golden light illuminated the entire Hall of Hun Tiandi as if it were daylight.

The power of the Ancient Emperor's origin contained within the emperor pill embryo surged into Hun Tiandi's limbs and bones like a dam-bursting flood, violently shaking the bottleneck that had trapped him for thousands of years.

Void Swallowing Flame took action at the same time, laying down a devouring barrier around Hun Tiandi, swallowing and converting the excess pill energy that was enough to burst a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and then feeding it back into Hun Tiandi's body in the gentlest way.

The two cooperated seamlessly.

Time passed slowly in the wait.

Hun Feng stood in the hall with his hands behind his back, his Emperor Realm Soul spreading out to sense the changes in Hun Tiandi's body.

The bottleneck that had trapped him for a thousand years began to shatter under the impact of the emperor pill embryo, and the Emperor Status was condensing—Hun Tiandi was about to step into the realm he had dreamed of for a thousand years.

When the first trace of Emperor Might leaked from Hun Tiandi's body, the entire Soul Realm was trembling slightly.

The second Emperor Realm expert was about to be born.