"No way!" The Lunar Holy Palace replied.

The three leaders of the Sky Holy Palace were initially taken aback, exchanging glances as they thought it was their ears playing tricks on them.

Recently, Tian Daoqi had repeated countless times, and the Lunar Holy Palace had remained unresponsive, but suddenly it replied.

Counting within a short year, the Lunar Holy Palace responded twice, which was truly unprecedented.

When Emperor EYun conquered the entire Human Kingdom, the Sky Holy Palace had also repeatedly communicated with the Lunar Holy Palace but received no response. After Demon Emperor Lanling took the throne, the Lunar Holy Palace replied twice, indicating that Demon Emperor Lanling was a much greater threat than Emperor EYun.

Tian Daoqi excitedly said, "Yes, no surrender. Then may I ask if the deities of the Lunar Holy Palace have any measures?"

This time, the response from the Lunar Holy Palace was very quick.

"Hold out for three months, someone will be dispatched." The Lunar Holy Palace.

"Yes, as you command!" Tian Daoqi said, "Thank you, Your Majesties of the Sky Holy Palace, but it will be difficult for us to hold out for three months."

The Lunar Holy Palace said, "Let the Dragon Emperor Puppet come to the Cosmic Tower, we will bestow a special energy technique."

The voice from the Lunar Holy Palace was very strange, filled with a mechanical feeling, devoid of emotion, and without any cadence or rhythm.

Tian Daoqi couldn’t help but be astonished, the matter of the Dragon Emperor Puppet was known only to the high officials of the Sky Holy Palace, and they had never informed the Lunar Holy Palace; how did the Lunar Holy Palace know about the Dragon Emperor Puppet?

"Yes, as commanded." Tian Daoqi said.

At that moment, a piercing sound rang out outside the Cosmic Tower as someone activated the alarm energy mechanism.

The three leaders frowned; they had warned everyone not to approach the Cosmic Tower by even a step, yet someone dared to disturb their important affairs.

The three leaders left the Cosmic Tower and went through layers of energy checkpoints to reach the outer space.

"Greetings to Your Majesties." Huai Bingyi knelt down and kowtowed.

Gu Ban said, "What’s the matter? How many times have we said it, we are handling important matters in the Cosmic Tower, no one is allowed to disturb us."

As his own son, Gu Ban naturally had every reason to protect him.

Huai Bingyi said, "Reporting to Your Majesties, Fu Lingxi has rebelled and is leading the Demon Emperor’s son, Fu Zilin, inciting the Tomb Priests to defect."

The three leaders’ expressions changed, they feared exactly what was happening.

Shi Tian sneered, "This Fu Lingxi is truly someone who jumps up and down everywhere, without any sense of shame."

Gu Ban said, "Has she successfully incited them?"

Huai Bingyi said, "When I arrived, she had already incited no fewer than dozens of Tomb Priests, she’s sharp-tongued and very persuasive. Moreover, the Tomb Priests have a great disparity in treatment and are dissatisfied with the Sky Holy Palace, so more may defect at any time."

Gu Ban immediately looked towards Tian Daoqi and Shi Tian.

What should they do next? Should they first activate the Dragon Emperor Puppet and bring it to the Cosmic Tower to receive the special energy technique from the Lunar Holy Palace, or should they first suppress the possible rebellion of the Tomb Priests and capture Fu Lingxi?

After a slight hesitation, the three Sky Priests decided.

They would first activate the Dragon Emperor Puppet, otherwise, in suppressing the Tomb Priest rebellion, they might entrap themselves.

The three leaders immediately wrote an edict, stamped it with the seal, and handed it to Huai Bingyi, "Take this edict to capture Fu Lingxi. Inform all the Tomb Priests that the Lunar Holy Palace has responded, granting powerful energy to the Dragon Emperor Puppet, and Demon Emperor Lanling won’t be rampant for long. Advise the Tomb Priests not to choose the wrong side to avoid future regrets. Furthermore, only Fu Lingxi will be held accountable for this rebellion, the others are blameless."

Huai Bingyi was overjoyed and asked in disbelief, "Really?"

"Of course it’s true." Gu Ban said.

Huai Bingyi was overjoyed and left with the edict from the three Tomb Priests.

Meanwhile, Gu Ban, Tian Daoqi, and Shi Tian hurried to the Sky Laboratory.

...

The highest level of the Sky Laboratory.

Ahead was a void space, surrounded by three layers of energy shields.

The Dragon Emperor Puppet, draped in golden light, floated in the void.

Around him, it seemed as if countless stars circled, and above the body, there was an immensely bright energy light, which was the energy heart of the Dragon Emperor, like a sun.

The countless stars around it were each an energy array.

Each energy array was concentrated within a very small cluster of light, containing immense power, and these energy arrays balanced the energy heart of the Dragon Emperor, maintaining the balance of the Dragon Emperor Puppet’s body.

The energy of the Dragon Emperor’s heart was so strong that it could not be borne without the Void Bloodline, hence these energy arrays were needed to construct the meridians.

The Sky Laboratory was the highest laboratory of the Sky Holy Palace, and it had only one goal, which was to replicate the Void Bloodline. Moreover, it was to create a Void Bloodline that could be claimed as their own.

This world is so unfair that only the master of Yao Xing can possess the Void Bloodline.

The highest goal of the Sky Holy Palace was to develop a possessable Void Bloodline, so the leader of the Sky Holy Palace could also serve as the Dragon Emperor. Just as the Sky Holy Palace wanted to seize Lanling’s Demonic Nihility Bloodline and then have the Demon Star Pavilion Master find a way to inherit it, and even if not inherited, at least indirectly use the soul shadow of the Dragon Emperor to wield the power of Divine Dragon Nihility Bloodline like Shi Tian did.

Yet, after three thousand years, the Sky Holy Palace still hadn’t succeeded.

The Void Bloodline simply couldn’t be replicated, all they developed was a Dragon Emperor Puppet Bloodline.

This bloodline could accommodate power stronger than King-level and reach Sub-emperor level (actually, there is no such level name. But since this power level emerged, a new naming was necessary). However, it couldn’t wield as a Void Bloodline does, and could not govern plane divine power.

The most important essence of the Void Bloodline is not merely housing Emperor-level power but governing plane divine power.

Thus, in the study of the Void Bloodline, the three thousand years of effort by the Dragon Temple yielded only superficial results.

Even this Dragon Emperor Puppet Bloodline was just recently developed, without experiments or verification. It was initially supposed to need several hundred years of experimentation, but there was no time because of Demon Emperor Lanling’s rise, forcing them to unveil this secret weapon ahead of time.

The current body of the Dragon Emperor Puppet couldn’t endure the Sub-emperor level energy or bear the Dragon Emperor Puppet Bloodline. Therefore, countless energy arrays were arranged, replacing the puppet’s acupoints and connecting the energy meridians throughout the body.

Shi Tian and Tian Daoqi exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Alas, the junction of the Dragon Emperor’s energy heart and these energy arrays isn’t finished yet; originally, the Dragon Emperor Puppet was supposed to be mature in a month." Tian Daoqi said, "What a pity."

Shi Tian said, "We have no choice, activate it!"

Then, Tian Daoqi, Shi Tian, and Gu Ban all moved to their respective positions.

Three energy arrays directly enveloped them. Fortunately, only one of the four surrendered; if three had surrendered, they wouldn’t have been able to awaken the Dragon Emperor Puppet.

The three energy arrays scanned their bloodlines and energy hearts, confirming their identities and permissions, which they successfully passed.

"Activate!"

Tian Daoqi gave the order.

Immediately, the three leaders of Sky Holy Palace began their operations simultaneously.

"First step, Dragon Emperor Puppet Bloodline Descent!"

The Sky Laboratory, which was originally a void, suddenly burst out with a terrifying light.

The golden color reached the extreme, almost white, almost transparent!

This was the result of three thousand years of research on the Divine Dragon Nihility Bloodline by the Dragon Temple, the Dragon Emperor Puppet Bloodline, a Sub-emperor level energy bloodline without planar divine authority.

"Aow..."

This Sub-emperor level energy soared in the air, gradually condensing into a dragon, a golden dragon, yet somewhat incomplete. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Whoosh..."

This golden dragon suddenly drilled into the body of the puppet.

Immediately, the unconscious puppet trembled violently.

"Second step, connect the energy array and Dragon Emperor energy meridians."

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

The energy heart of the Dragon Emperor erupted with energy light, linking countless small energy arrays like stars, forming a model of human meridians. Each energy array light was a point of the human energy meridian. The energy heart was at the center, like the sun, surrounded by the stars.

"Energy heart and energy meridians, descend into the body!"

Immediately, the Dragon Emperor energy heart and countless energy arrays constructed meridians slowly descended, immersing bit by bit into the body of the Dragon Emperor Puppet.

One node, two nodes, three nodes...

The human body has more than eight hundred acupoints, so there are more than eight hundred nodes made up of energy arrays, descending one by one—none can be missed, or all efforts would be wasted.

Two hours, four hours, ten hours...

One day, two days, three days...

For three whole days and nights, all the more than eight hundred energy array nodes were implanted into the Dragon Emperor Puppet’s body.

Finally, only one energy heart remained!

"Energy heart, enter!"

The three Sky Priests exerted their power simultaneously!

"Whoosh..." The energy heart, bright as the sun, suddenly drilled into the chest of the Dragon Emperor Puppet.

"Boom..."

The entire Sky Holy Palace trembled violently!

The space with a diameter of a thousand miles shook intensely.

The entire Dragon Demon Planet tore, churned, and swayed severely.

Countless people on the ground were terrified to find that the sun in the sky was shaking violently.

On the ground, countless things rapidly turned to ashes.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A blinding light exploded!

The eyes of the three leaders of Sky Holy Palace were almost blinded.

And the body of the Dragon Emperor Puppet, inch by inch, turned to ash and vaporized, then inch by inch, was restored.

Countless times turning to ash and countless times restoring.

Finally, it completely transformed, reborn in nirvana.

The Sub-emperor level bloodline, the energy array meridians, the Dragon Emperor energy heart, and the body of the Dragon Emperor Puppet, all combined into one, gave birth to the incredibly powerful Dragon Emperor Puppet!

This Sub-emperor level Dragon Emperor Puppet was enveloped in golden light, majestic and imposing as if it were a Celestial Deity.

It slowly stood up, its gaze sweeping over the three leaders of Sky Holy Palace.

"Salutations, Your Majesty!" The three leaders of Sky Holy Palace bowed and saluted.

Though it was just a Dragon Emperor Puppet, not the true Dragon Emperor, they still addressed it as Your Majesty.

Because they needed a banner.

...

Meanwhile, Lanling suddenly sat up in bed.

Shrinking his gaze, he said, "A formidable foe has arrived, how interesting! Are we to have a peak showdown?"

...

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