Chapter 671: Addressing Issue

The Void Sovereign was both shocked and enraged. "Jiang Ping'an, that scoundrel, has the audacity to challenge me to a one-on-one fight when he's already an immortal?"

"Go fight your grandmother!"

Yunzhi hadn't been sitting on the Emperor's Chair for long when she saw the Void Realm shatter and the Void Sovereign being beaten beyond recognition by Jiang Ping'an's fists and kicks.

Abilities such as limb regeneration and regeneration from a single drop of blood all became ineffective at this moment. The Void Sovereign's injuries visibly worsened and refused to heal.

Plop.

The Void Sovereign was thrown to the ground. Jiang Ping'an let out a long breath and wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead, as if he had just endured a fierce battle.

"Void," Jiang Ping'an said, "I didn't use any tricks this time. We had a true one-on-one fight, relying on our genuine abilities. You must surely admit defeat wholeheartedly now, right?"

After becoming an immortal, Jiang Ping'an had never found an opportunity to show off to acquaintances. He had waited a hundred thousand years for this chance, and he never imagined it would finally materialize today.

How satisfying.

If the Void Sovereign hadn't been in too much pain to stand, he would have loved to pounce on Jiang Ping'an and bite off his neck.

"This chair is quite nice. Who refined it?" Jiang Ping'an asked, noticing the Emperor's Chair Yunzhi was sitting on. If he hadn't recently advocated for a simple lifestyle, he would have wanted to create such a magnificent Emperor's Chair himself.

"A specialty from the Demon Realm, a gift from my junior brother."

"I recall your junior brother is named Lu Yang?" Jiang Ping'an asked. He rarely paid attention to outside matters and had only heard Yunzhi mention it during their conversations.

"Yes, I have high hopes for him," Yunzhi replied. "He has already given me many surprises. For example, his contribution was vital in capturing the Void Sovereign this time. In the coming great era of conflict, he will certainly have a prominent place."

Jiang Ping'an smiled. "I've never heard you praise anyone so highly, fellow Daoist."

Hearing that Lu Yang had helped capture the Void Sovereign, Jiang Ping'an developed a favorable impression of this young cultivator he had never met.

"There is also another person whose future is destined to be extraordinary."

"Who?"

"A junior brother sent by the Meng family."

Jiang Ping'an clicked his tongue in wonder and listened with envy. "How is it that our Jiang family can't produce such talents?"

Apart from himself, the Old Ancestor, the most talented person in the Jiang family currently was the First Prince Jiang Qun, who had reached the Integration Stage cultivation level before turning a thousand years old. However, he was still far from receiving Yunzhi's "extraordinary" evaluation.

Hearing their conversation, the Void Sovereign suddenly remembered the Meng family descendant he had seen in Spring River City.

Was it him?

What luck Meng Junzi had! Despite his questionable character, he actually had such an outstanding descendant.

At the time, he had only noticed that Meng Jingzhou was a Meng family descendant and hadn't paid attention to anything else. Hearing Yunzhi's evaluation, it was obvious that this Meng family descendant must be a cultivation prodigy, at the very least, a Half-Immortal like himself.

"How do you plan to deal with the Void Sovereign?"

"His heart is corrupt; letting him go would be like releasing a tiger back into the mountains, leading to endless trouble," Yunzhi replied. "I plan to separate his physical body and suppress his soul on Prisoner Peak."

Unlike Half-Immortals like the Immortal Immortal, who had no prior offenses and showed remorse, the Void Sovereign merely submitted to power temporarily and could not be allowed to escape.

Jiang Ping'an nodded. He had no objections to Yunzhi's method of handling it; if it were him, he would have done the same.

The Void Sovereign was entirely opposed to his rule; releasing him into the outside world could easily cause further incidents, disrupting the nation's stability and giving other forces an opportunity to exploit.

"There's one more matter I'd like to hear your opinion on, fellow Daoist Jiang."

"Tell me?" Jiang Ping'an asked, a bit surprised. He noticed Yunzhi's brow furrow imperceptibly when she said this, a sight he had never witnessed before.

"I have a friend named Yun Mengmeng," Yunzhi began. "Recently, she learned that she wasn't born to her parents. Instead, an immortal with the ability to create life crafted an immortal artifact, and Yun Mengmeng's mother then gave birth to her through this artifact. So, how should she address this immortal?"

Jiang Ping'an hissed in surprise. He had lived for a hundred thousand years but had never heard of such a thing.

"I don't know either," Jiang Ping'an replied, pondering for a long time but unable to figure out how she should be addressed.

Their purpose in coming to the Imperial Palace had been achieved, so Yunzhi no longer lingered. Carrying the Void Sovereign, she returned to Dao Seeking Sect's Prisoner Peak, as she still needed to interrogate these two Half-Immortals.

Especially the Nightmare Sovereign, a Half-Immortal from the late Great Qian Dynasty, who must know many unknown secrets. Setting aside other matters, even the situation with the Twin Rivers was something Yunzhi hadn't known before.

Jiang Ping'an waved goodbye. "Take care! I'll visit you in jail if I get the chance!"

When the prisoners saw Yunzhi return to Prisoner Peak, the atmosphere immediately grew tense again.

Yunzhi didn't speak. She pressed her hands onto the foreheads of the Nightmare Sovereign and the Void Sovereign. With a gentle pull, both felt their bodies lighten as their souls separated from their physical forms.

The childlike Ancestor smilingly dragged away the two empty corpses; these were excellent materials for refining magic treasures.

Yunzhi looked at the two coldly. "Now you have two choices: either truthfully tell me all the information you know, or your souls won't be kept intact, and they'll be used to refine magic treasures. Using Half-Immortal souls as materials for refining magic treasures can also be considered a contribution to the artifact refining world."

Having met countless people, they instantly realized Yunzhi wasn't bluffing.

"We'll tell you everything."

Yunzhi nodded, very satisfied with their attitude, and then locked them separately in small isolated rooms for individual interrogation.

She began by interrogating the Nightmare Sovereign.

"Where did you learn about the Twin Rivers?"

"I saw it in an ancient book," the Nightmare Sovereign replied. "It not only recorded the Twin Rivers but also the Mother-Son River. However, I only learned the location of the Twin Rivers; I don't know where the Mother-Son River is."

"Where did you get this ancient book?"

"After I led my army to break into the Great Qian Imperial Palace, I found it in the Imperial Study there," the Nightmare Sovereign said.

Historical records state that the Nightmare Sovereign breached the Great Qian Imperial Palace and declared himself emperor. The world then struggled for supremacy under the pretext of quelling the rebel, and he was ultimately defeated by the rising star, Emperor Yu.

The Great Qian Dynasty was the closest to ancient times. The ancient books in its Imperial Study were likely more numerous than all the ancient books in the world today combined.

"Where is the ancient book now?"

"After I... after I copied it down, I burned it," the Nightmare Sovereign said, very nervously.

"Hmm?" As expected, Yunzhi was not entirely satisfied with this answer.

The Nightmare Sovereign quickly explained, "It's true; my subordinates can attest to it. My thinking at the time was that even if I failed in my bid for supremacy, the knowledge would still be in my head, and my opponents would have to spare my life for that information."

In fact, Emperor Yu and the Imperial Advisor had taken this into consideration, which is why they didn't kill him when fighting the Nightmare Sovereign, giving him a chance to escape.

"What was the cultivation level of the First Emperor Yu and the first Imperial Advisor?"

"When they fought me, both of them were definitely Half-Immortals," he replied, "but whether they became Immortals afterward, I don't know."

"What do you mean?"

"After I survived the great battle, I didn't immediately go into dormancy," the Nightmare Sovereign explained. "Instead, I hid in the shadows, watching how Wu Yao gradually ascended to emperorship."

Wu Yao, the First Emperor Yu.

"Wu Yao presided over the founding ceremony," the Nightmare Sovereign continued. "During the ceremony, the weather shifted, various natural phenomena emerged, thunder roared incessantly, and the heavens and earth were illuminated by lightning. Although historical records state that this was a sign of Wu Yao's brilliance and martial prowess, and that the establishment of the Great Yu Dynasty was in accordance with the will of heaven, I suspect that it was the Immortal Ascension Tribulation recorded in ancient books!"