In the heavens, people become emperors by being bad.

Chapter 522 [Issuing You the Title of Retired Emperor]

"The cinnabar in the cave corner spews out brocade clouds, and the tortoise-hair and lead-colored auspicious mists are gathered. I will take them into the Eight Trigrams Furnace and refine them until the primordial chaos is not yet divided."

On the primordial planet, the Mad Taoist stroked his unkempt beard, gazed at the purple clouds rising in the void, shrouded in celestial mist, smiled leisurely, and then flicked his finger, saying, "Open!"

In an instant, the alchemical fire extinguished, turning into a mass of dark, star-like embers, sculpted with mythical beasts from mountains and seas. Suddenly, the eight cauldrons of the primordial gods resounded with the roars of dragons and tigers, echoing through the boundless void and shaking the nine heavens.

Immediately afterwards, nine golden pills soared into the sky, as if they had been imbued with supreme wisdom, rushing towards the four seas and eight wastelands. Just as the Daoist Venerable blessed future generations in the past, this batch of great pills was not passed down privately by the Three Mad Daoist, but instead benefited all living beings.

"You must allow me to become a Great Sage first, and then lead all beings to become Sages."

Lin Xian strode with incredible speed, his movements carrying a hint of time itself. With a single grab, he instantly refined a divine pill, instantly achieving perfect balance of essence, energy, and spirit, and becoming flawless in his cultivation, ready to trigger the Great Saint Tribulation at any moment.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xian prepared to snatch the second divine pill, but was intercepted by Ye Fan.

Immediately afterwards, several imperial princes rushed over, and the Holy Prince, Jin Chanzi, Zhang Bairen, and others each received a divine pill.

"Woof! Woof! Woof! My darling, my precious darling."

A large, jet-black dog stood with its hands on its hips in the starry sky, laughing wildly, and somehow managed to stop a divine pill.
"Is this the elixir?"

Ye Tianxuan looked at it curiously, as if listening to the indomitable will within the divine pill. Sensing it carefully, the void rippled, and another divine pill flew in from nowhere, landing in her arms on its own.

Everyone stared in disbelief. Fairy Zixia murmured, "Is it due to the great fortune of the innate sacred body and Dao embryo?"

"it's not true."

With a pure heart, a hint of pity appeared in Komatsu's clear eyes as he whispered, "It's the Holy Spirit's resentment towards the Great Emperor Wushi..."

The Holy Spirit Pill came seeking revenge, but he was no longer the Great Sage of yesteryear; he was merely a pill, like a lamb entering a tiger's den.

Longma stared at the two pills that had vanished into the distance and cursed, "I also have the potential to achieve enlightenment, why didn't you choose me!"

"To obtain seven out of nine pills is already a stroke of good fortune; let the remaining two be bestowed upon all living beings."

The Mad Taoist nodded and smiled, putting away the Eight Trigrams Furnace. His gaze, however, turned to the battlefield at the very center, where a Saint and a Saint King were clashing and fighting, each move and stance terrifying to the extreme.

"You wicked, immortal brat, why don't you quickly convert to the Heavenly Court!"

Ye Fan held the elixir in one hand and unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Fist with the other, defying a major realm to fight against the immortals, as if the heavens themselves were descending to battle the immortals, their divine might unparalleled.

"I am not the Emperor." Lin Xian said subconsciously. His True Dragon Treasure Technique was unparalleled. He walked with the stride of a dragon and the gait of a tiger, as if he were an unparalleled immortal king. One divine halo after another descended from him.

The true dragon struck and clashed with the Supreme Heavenly Emperor. In an instant, all three thousand minor worlds exploded, the void trembled, the starry river swayed, and the sun and moon lost their color.

"The strong do not believe in reincarnation. The Emperor said the same thing back then, and now the Heavenly Court has risen again."

Ye Fan smiled calmly, raised his fist to the sky, and said eloquently, "Back then, the Undying Emperor was the heir of my Heavenly Court. There was no reason for the crown prince to rebel. It was the extraterrestrial forces of the Underworld that corrupted him, causing his physical body to fall into darkness and his primordial spirit of light to be reincarnated, which led to the tragedy that followed."

"Now that the Heavenly Emperor has been reincarnated and returned as a being of light, I hereby appoint you as the First Divine General, to trace back to the source and slay the Dark Heavenly Emperor."

"Go to hell!" Lin Xian almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Ye Fan, how dare you use my moves against me?

The Holy Prince, who had rushed over, looked strange, staring intently at Lin Xian's face, seemingly unsure of something.

Back then, his father encountered the Dark Emperor, and the first god of antiquity had already turned evil. Was he the true reincarnation of light?
This is too much of a coincidence with the drama involving Emperor Ye.

Just then, the Black Emperor, carrying Ye Tianxuan, strode over, muttering, "If that's really the case, then the divine thought of the Central Continent Immortal Mansion is truly questionable." At the time, almost everyone believed that it was the divine thought of the Supreme Emperor, because the Supreme Emperor's remains had been found at the entrance to the Immortal Path.

However, one of the skins of the Undead Emperor seems to be confirming something.

What if the Emperor is dead?
What if the Heavenly Emperor's corpse becomes sentient? The Reincarnation Law is a law from the mythological era, and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor is also a being from the mythological era, so there's no problem for him to be familiar with the Corpse Liberation Law.

Some things are perfectly aboveboard, but people can't stop thinking about them, because the human heart is dark, and the more you think about it, the darker it becomes.

"What is in doubt? That is the thought of the Supreme Emperor."

Lin Xian shouted, his gaze falling on Ye Tianxuan. A slight smile suddenly appeared on his lips. He turned around and looked sharply at Ye Fan, laughing loudly, "Emperor Ye, it's too stingy of you to appoint me as the First Divine General. This Holy Lord hereby appoints you as the Supreme Emperor!"

Before the words were finished, more and more people surged over from not far away, including Emperor Dao Yi, Guan Cheng, the God General of the Southern Heavenly Gate, and various Great Sages.

The Emperor's son, Dao Yi, was holding an imperial seal, but it was missing a corner. Fortunately, Dao Yi skillfully used his own Dao Tribulation Golden Fragment to repair it.

When Emperor Daoyan was carving the armor, he discarded five larger pieces of scrap material, as well as countless smaller pieces.

Furthermore, Emperor Daoyan only had one son, Daoyi, and left almost his entire estate to him.

You could say he was a great man, but you could never say he was poor; he was a powerful and influential figure all by himself.

In addition, a dragon robe was hidden in the cuff of Guan Cheng's sleeve.

Lin Xian took a leisurely step, the void twisting—it was the Ji family's Great Void Technique—and arrived beside Ye Tianxuan, asking with a smile, "Child, do you know which is stronger, the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo or the Undying Golden Body?"

"Of course, it's the innate sacred body and Dao embryo." Ye Tianxuan said subconsciously. This was the generally accepted answer; the Great Emperor Wushi was more powerful than his father.

"Good, very energetic. As expected of someone from Tianxuan, you haven't lost points."

Lin Xian praised him highly and said with great satisfaction, "The Lingxiao Palace is not something that has been passed down for generations; it has been passed down to human kings throughout history. The strong should be respected, and I am the only hero who dares to compete for the top spot."

“Child, I see a brilliant aura emanating from the top of your head. You must be a rare talent in cultivation, one in ten thousand, with the potential to become a Heavenly Emperor.”

"Come, come, since we're meeting for the first time, I don't have much to give you, so I'll give you an imperial throne instead."

With a wave of his hand, Lin Xian summoned the dragon robe that Guan Cheng had hidden away. This robe was crafted under Lin Xian's supervision and had been planned for a long time. He then draped it over Ye Tianxuan's body.

As for the Imperial Seal, in order to protect the Eternal Ancient Star, Emperor Dao Yi had already colluded with Holy Master Lin.

“Grandmaster…” Ye Tianxuan was stunned. He had defied the immortals and attacked countless immortals, but this was the first time he had defied his father. All of this came too suddenly.

He had considered that he might inherit the position of the Heavenly Court's ruler, after all, Ye Tianxuan was the legitimate Crown Prince of the Heavenly Court.

But he never expected that this moment would come so early and so suddenly; it was truly unbelievable.

"It's just nonsense."

A group of people, led by Fairy Zixia, couldn't stand it any longer. How could the Heavenly Court's succession be treated so lightly? What did they take the imperial throne for?

Only the Black Emperor was different. He couldn't help but drool as he looked at Ye Tianxuan's dragon robe. He stretched out his black claws and kept touching it, saying reluctantly, "Baby, baby, my precious imperial robe... how can I keep it for long?"

"If you want it to last, that's easy," Lin Xian said with a smile. "I have a plan."

(End of this chapter)