In the heavens, people become emperors by being bad.

Chapter 537 [Lord Lin is the True Emperor]

"Uncle? You're above the Emperor? Do you even deserve that title?"

The emperor's eyes turned cold. He was the direct disciple of the Emperor, and his status was equivalent to that of the Heavenly Prince. Even the Celestial Venerable of Immortality would not dare to speak to him like that.

The complete version of the immortal artifact deity can be considered his uncle, but the chubby little boy with the incomplete green cauldron is not qualified.

"I'm not worthy, so is he?"

Shenwa pointed at Ye Fan, then raised his middle finger and said with a look of disdain, "You'd even call someone 'Master' just to save your life. Kid, I despise you."

The emperor choked, his face turning ashen, unable to express his bitterness. After a long while, he slowly uttered a sentence: "That's different."

With similar faces and the same aura, even the Emperor himself would be confused for a long time.

"You actually took the immortal gold from Lord Lin!" Ye Fan was somewhat surprised, noticing that the Emperor's rhetoric was exactly the same as Lord Lin's, as if they came from the same holy land. He couldn't help but click his tongue.

"A fellow traveler!" Shenwa's eyes lit up, and he leaned forward, lowering his voice to ask, "How much immortal gold did Holy Lord Lin offer you? Was it more than I asked for? Would you consider joining me..."

The emperor was speechless for a moment, gazing at the green cauldron for a long time before finally speaking, "It seems more like the artifact of the Underworld Emperor."

He had seen the flawless green cauldron that the Emperor had forged back then. Imperial weapons are the continuation of the Emperor's life. The green cauldron's divine appearance was solemn and majestic, exactly the same as the Emperor of the past, and it shook the nine heavens and ten earths.

How could the majestic ancient Heavenly Emperor be so shameless? He is clearly more like the legendary Heavenly Treasure.

"It wouldn't be wrong to say it's the artifact of the Underworld Emperor."

"Wasn't the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains back then the work of the Origin Emperor and the Underworld Emperor?"

After Lin Xian reached an agreement with Tai Chu, he walked over from beyond the realm. He looked at the Emperor and smiled slightly, saying, "The Origin Emperor, the Underworld Emperor, and the Tribulation-Crossing Celestial Venerable are all the same person. As the Emperor's disciple, you should know this secret, even if others don't know it."

"The Underworld Emperor?" The Emperor stared at Lin Xian, a divine light flowing deep within his eyes, as dazzling as a golden heavenly eye. If he had not seen the Underworld Emperor before and knew that his imperial corpse was spiritually connected, he would almost have mistaken Lin Xian for the reincarnation of the Underworld Emperor.

The same style and form, it's practically the awakening of the Underworld Emperor. Paired with Ye Fan, no wonder people say the ancient Heavenly Court is rising again.

It's not just talk; they really are too similar.

Tai Chu was startled and looked at Lin Xian with wariness. If he wasn't the Underworld Emperor, how could he be involved with so many supreme beings in the Tai Chu Ancient Mine?

Only the ruler of the underworld, the inherently evil King of the Underworld, has the right to stand on equal footing with the forbidden zones of life.

"I am not the Underworld Emperor; the Underworld Emperor is someone else."

Lin Xian frankly stated, "I do not have the Reincarnation Seal within me."

“With the Underworld Emperor’s methods, hiding the Reincarnation Seal within his body shouldn’t be difficult.” Tai Chu said with great vigilance, “Just now, the reincarnation of the Emperor denied that he was the Emperor.”

The Underworld Emperor is not the Underworld Emperor, and the Emperor is not the Emperor.

Is this the stubbornness of your ancient Heavenly Court lineage?!

"Hahaha……"

Ye Fan laughed wildly, "Lin Xian Holy Lord, you've finally met your match! The boomerang has hit you instead!"

"What are you laughing at, Your Majesty?" Lin Xian glanced sideways and said sarcastically, "Aren't you going to help me rebuild the Heavenly Court, sir?"

Ye Fan sneered, disdaining to answer Lin Xian's question. He had already transcended such things, abandoning all the past, and no longer needed the blessing of the Emperor.

With his current record and strength, he could easily gather a group of people and build his own primordial heavenly court.

However, Ye Fan had no interest in doing so. He didn't have much desire for power and trusted his fists more, immersing himself in cultivation.

Fist is power!
"The matter of reincarnation is something that exists if you believe in it, and doesn't exist if you don't." The Emperor sighed and said, "Back then, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity used a similar flower to sway the Emperor's heart. Could it be that this is coming true today?"

"Emperor?" Ye Fan's heart stirred slightly as he looked at the divine child on his shoulder, and an extremely bold idea suddenly came to mind.

The Emperor may not actually be dead.

As an emperor, you can die, but you absolutely cannot be dead.

Those who attain enlightenment throughout the ages have all left behind a series of contingency plans, so how could the ancient Heavenly Emperor who once established the Heavenly Court easily disappear?

Furthermore, having witnessed the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor's methods in this life, Ye Fan couldn't help but make bold speculations.

The path of uniting the primordial spirit with the Dao is theoretically feasible.

Logically, it forms a closed loop. The only flaw is where the Emperor's remains went. Did the descendants of the Feathered Divine Dynasty take them away and forge an imperial weapon like the Ruthless Great Emperor, or did the Emperor's remains become sentient?
If all else fails, Ye Fan will think of something else. Earth has a truly remarkable record, from the Moral Celestial Venerable of the mythological era to the Amitabha Buddha Emperor of Buddhism, from the Void Emperor to the Eternal Universe Emperor, and the five-part Chi You, the legendary God of Light.

Compared to the Big Dipper, the Primordial Era is truly the burial star of emperors, home to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and many of them possessed genuine spiritual powers.

"If the Emperor's remains were to become sentient and leave Kunlun Mountain, where would he be after countless ages?"

Ye Fan frowned deeply. Suddenly, he looked at Lord Lin, pondered for a moment, and tentatively asked, "Is it possible that Immortal Lin is the reincarnation of the Emperor?!"

This caused a huge stir. Not only was Lin Xian dumbfounded, but Zhang Bairen, Taichu, the Emperor and others were also stunned. Not to mention the gods of the God Organization, who were even more dumbfounded and could not believe their ears.

"You haven't even become an emperor yet, how can you possess such extraordinary wisdom?" Lin Xian said quietly, "You've probably been beaten senseless."

Ye Fan coughed lightly. His deduction was not without basis. Back then, when the Nine Dragons Pulled the Coffin to Mount Tai, he was not the only one who left the ancient star. Lin Xian was also a person from the ancient star.

Furthermore, it seems that Lord Lin had anticipated the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin event, unlike other mortals.

"The establishment of the Heavenly Court was proposed by Lord Lin, the Supreme Being of the Primordial Ancient Mine was found by Lord Lin, Lord Lin can easily fabricate myths, legends and ancient histories, and he knows the path to immortality like the back of his hand. All of this is too suspicious."

The more Ye Fan thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. His eyes shone brighter and brighter, and he shouted with a powerful voice, "Putting aside all the impossibilities, the only truth is that you, Holy Lord Lin, are the reincarnation of the Emperor!"

"The inherently evil emperor hides behind the scenes, and then uses me as a pawn, turning me into an endless fog to obscure the secrets of heaven and evade pursuit."

"That's right, this is the truth throughout the ages!"

"You are the true Emperor!"

Ye Fan spoke fluently and with great satisfaction, as if he had vented all the resentment he had accumulated over the decades.

Everyone almost wavered. Ye Fan's words made perfect sense. Judging from the various pieces of evidence, Lin Xian was more suspicious.

"Incorrect."

Lin Xian smiled calmly and said confidently, "I am not an Emperor."

"Lord Lin, stop trying to deny it." Ye Fan grinned maliciously. "An explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is the truth!"

"But I have witnesses."

Lin Xian smiled and pointed at Zhang Bairen. "A witness?" Ye Fan also looked at Zhang Bairen and his scalp tingled. Damn it, how could he forget about this living fossil?

“I’m not sure if Lin Xian is an Emperor,” Zhang Bairen said thoughtfully. “He’s more likely to be a Dao Ancestor.”

"The most crucial evidence for the matter of reincarnation is a similar flower; in short, it has to look alike." Lin Xian smiled calmly and pointed at Ye Fan, saying, "Who do you think resembles the Emperor more, me or him?"

The Emperor had personally witnessed the Emperor Venerable, and the Divine Organization had also worshipped the Emperor Venerable's statue throughout the ages. They all agreed that Ye Fan resembled the Emperor Venerable more.

"Appearance is not the only standard."

Ye Fan coughed lightly, picked up the Divine Child, and said eloquently, "If judged by appearance, the Divine Child is the one who most resembles the Emperor."

"Legend has it that in his old age, the Emperor abandoned all divine arts, laws, and even cultivation, and lived a second life, cultivating anew as an infant, absorbing the essence of all things in the universe to prove the Dao a second time."

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun!"

Everyone was slightly taken aback and looked at the divine child. It has to be said that, judging from appearance alone, this is a smaller version of the Emperor. People would believe that he is the Emperor's biological son.

However, deities are a continuation of their master's life and cannot be used as a criterion for judging reincarnation.

But why would a deity be a doll, a child?

"The Taiyin Human Emperor Seal was shattered in the ancient war, but the deity still looks like the Taiyin Human Emperor." Tai Chu frowned slightly and voiced the doubts in everyone's hearts: "But why does the Green Cauldron deity become younger? Could it be a unique feature of the immortal artifact?"

“It could be the Emperor,” the Great Sage of the Divine Organization pondered. “It could also be the Emperor’s own son.”

"The teacher has no children," the emperor denied.
"Who can say for sure about such things?" Zhang Bairen said quietly. "With the Emperor's reputation, he certainly has no shortage of admirers."

For a moment, even the emperor felt a little insecure and fell into deep reminiscence.

"What? I am the Emperor?" The Divine Child was slightly taken aback, then put his hands on his hips and laughed arrogantly: "Hahaha, I am the Emperor. I am the only one in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Why don't you offer up the elixir of immortality? When I return to my position in the future, I will reward you with a gourd of Nine-Turn Immortal Pills."

The scene fell silent. The gods sighed and the saints shook their heads. Anyone could be the Emperor, but this little fat boy was impossible. If word got out, it would be too disgraceful to the Heavenly Court and would make even the Supreme Being laugh to death.

"Emperor, he is the Emperor's son." Longma laughed heartily, "Calling him the Black Prince is more like it."

"The Black Emperor?" Tai Chu looked at his kin and raised an eyebrow, pondering, "Throughout the ages, I have never heard of a Black Emperor. Fellow Daoist Zhang Bairen is a hero of the Chaotic Ancient Era, with extensive knowledge and experience. Have you ever heard of him?"

Zhang Bairen coughed lightly and said, "Longma is joking. There has never been a Black Emperor in the past."

“Perhaps in the future.” Lin Xian smiled knowingly. “Compared to the Black Prince, I am more inclined to believe that he is the Underworld Prince.”

The disciples of the Underworld Emperor are also known as the sons of the Underworld Emperor. In the cultivation world, the master-disciple relationship is sometimes even more important than that between father and son.

Choosing the right father-son relationship is difficult, and often the father is more capable than the son, with each generation being worse than the last. This can be seen in the example of ancient aristocratic families.

The master-apprentice system allows for personal choice, and often the student surpasses the master.

For example, the founder of Tianxuan Holy Land, if he could see the current prosperity of Tianxuan, would probably be filled with wisps of smoke rising from his grave.

"The Prince of the Underworld?"

The crowd's gazes turned strange. Could it be that the Underworld Emperor had tampered with the construction of the Nine-Nine Dragon Mountain? After all, the Green Cauldron was a celestial artifact jointly forged by the Emperor and the Underworld Emperor.

Just as the atmosphere became strange, Lin Xian sent a secret invitation to the Emperor, saying, "Fellow Daoist, would you like to come to my Heavenly Court for a visit? Your ancestor should meet you."

The Emperor is the disciple of the Supreme Emperor, and the Supreme Emperor is also a teacher and friend of the Underworld Emperor. This relationship is too secretive, and even among the Supreme Beings, not many people know about it.

Lin Xian knew a little bit of the truth from the gambling emperor.

"Ancestor!"

The emperor was shaken. Wasn't his ancestor that very one, who played an extremely strange role in the end of the mythological era?

The divine organization said that the Underworld Emperor attacked the Emperor, causing the collapse of the ancient Heavenly Court.

However, as a direct disciple who had met the Underworld Emperor, the Emperor knew his character very well and would not do such a thing.

In fact, that person didn't even care about the path to immortality, and had his own path to follow. So much so that when the Emperor went to visit him, he was met with a cold shoulder and could only study how to conquer the Immortal Realm on his own.

If the Underworld Emperor had been willing to help the Emperor enter the Immortal Realm back then, perhaps the outcome would have been very different.

What exactly happened at the end of the mythological era?

The emperor agreed, wanting to find the truth. The events of that year were too shrouded in mystery, and even someone like him who had personally experienced them could only see a part of the story, not the whole picture.

Ultimately, the three Great Saints at the level of Imperial Princes—Emperor, Zhang Bairen, and Taichu—chose to stay and temporarily reside in the Heavenly Court.

Some came to uncover the truth of eternity, while others came for the Holy Spirit Well.

The immortal wine that the Daoist master refined into a perfected holy spirit is about to be released. Its astonishing medicinal effects have attracted powerful beings from all over the universe to flock to it.

The Great Elixir refined by the Three Mad Taoist could enable Lin Xian to achieve the Great Saint status. The Taoist Venerable's methods could probably even be helpful in becoming a Quasi-Emperor.

The seven ancient wells shone brightly into the sky, their ethereal aura impossible to conceal. Great saints from all races gathered, the imperial prince descended, and wind and rain converged on this star field.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Court's fighting strength is strong enough that no one dares to act rashly unless a true quasi-emperor descends.

"Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three."

Lin Xian, Sanfeng Daoren, and other Daoist disciples led the newly recruited saints of the Heavenly Court to recite the Great Dao scriptures beside the ancient well, strengthening the seal of the former Moral Celestial Venerable and further refining the Great Perfection Holy Spirit.

The resentment of the Great Perfection Holy Spirit soared to the sky, transforming into countless peerless gods and demons, devouring the heavens and the earth, attempting to break through the seal. However, without external intervention or the attack of imperial weapons, all efforts were in vain.

The great saints of all races are waiting quietly; they want the immortal elixir, not the unrefined gods and demons in the well to be born.

To speed up the refining process, the great saints of each race also began chanting scriptures.

Twenty years have passed in a flash!
One day, the ancient well suddenly made a cracking sound, as if it were about to explode.

An old Taoist priest appeared, blurry and indistinct, sitting cross-legged at the mouth of the well, chanting scriptures, possessing an aura of majesty and terror.

"Dao Zun!"

The great saints of all races exclaimed in surprise, revealing the identity of the Taoist priest.

He is the Moral God!

One of the Nine Celestial Venerables in mythology!

(End of this chapter)