Chapter 488: Chapter 166: Emperor Realm Great Perfection! Divine artifact! Defeating Jiuyou (Additional chapter!)
[Despite her doubts, Profound Ice Empress Ji Bingyan accepted your request. She felt that discussing Tao with you would be of great help to her as well.]

[Next, you created a Cave Mansion in the Eternal Frozen Land and settled there.]

[In the blink of an eye, nearly a millennium passed. During this time, you diligently cultivated and sought enlightenment. Ultimately, you successfully raised your cultivation to the 7th-Tier Emperor Realm within this millennium and forged your own Emperor Artifact.]

[Unfortunately, although you wanted to create god-tier cultivation skills and divine abilities, without any god-tier cultivation skills and divine abilities to reference, it was impossible for you to create them in a thousand years on your own.]

[However, you were not without gains, as you advanced your cultivation skills and divine abilities to a deeper level. Although your cultivation skills and divine abilities were still at the quasi-immortal level, just like the ones created by Ji Bingyan, your strength far surpassed hers, making her admire you.]

[Now, with nearly a millennium passed, you felt that the time was ripe and that it was approaching the time when the two realms intersected. As a result, you decided to bid farewell to Profound Ice Empress Ji Bingyan and leave on your own.]

[After leaving the Eternal Frozen Land, you intentionally waited for Jiuyou Demon Emperor Chu Xiao to find you. However, after a long wait, there was still no sign of Jiuyou Demon Emperor Chu Xiao. From this, you deduced that he was not able to track you because he had learned a secret skill, but rather that he had used some kind of one-time-use item.]

[With this in mind, you felt slightly relieved and headed for the Ashy Flame Valley. Upon arriving at the Ashy Flame Valley, you could feel its terrifying power. The flames of the Ashy Flame Valley were indeed terrifying—the deeper you went, the more terrifying they became. Even a cultivator at the Emperor Realm Great Perfection could not withstand the scorching flames.]

[You suspected that the reason the flames were so terrifying was that the people of the Chi Clan had set up a heaven-and-earth array here in the past, gathering these terrifying flames to prevent other cultivators from entering.]

[Faced with such a terrifying flame array, even you could not forcefully barge in. While considering whether or not to go to the Heavenly Sword Divine Land to find Ye Chen and see how he had entered and obtained the inheritance of the Ashy Flame Emperor, the Chi Clan jade pendant in your body began to glow, resonating with the Ashy Flame Valley.]

[In the end, the flames around you became gentler. Seeing this, you were astonished, and after marveling at how extraordinary the jade pendant was, you entered the valley.]

[Once you reached the deepest part, you saw many palaces with banners flying above them, each bearing the word ‘Chi’ filled with divine charm. You sensed the spiritual energy within these palace clusters, and found that the fire attribute energy here was extremely dense, far exceeding other regions, making it a cultivation holy land for fire attribute practitioners.]

[Although this place is a paradise for fire attribute cultivators, where cultivating here would definitely yield twice the result with half the effort, ordinary cultivators simply cannot survive here. To withstand the violent fire attribute energy, one must at least possess the cultivation of the Yin Yang Mirror.]

[As a result, you guessed that the Chi Clan of the past, with the curse growing stronger and their cultivation ceiling growing weaker, knew that staying here would inevitably lead to disaster, so they reluctantly chose to leave this secret world. Of course, the premise of this conjecture is that the environment here was arranged by their ancestors, and the later generations cannot change it—more accurately, they no longer have the ability to change it, so they could only reluctantly migrate.]

[In the end, the Chi Clan struggled to survive in the Purple Spirit Realm, gradually declined, and was forced to flee to the Profound Turtle Continent. Even after arriving on the Profound Turtle Continent, they continued to wither and almost faced genocide.]

[You searched for what you wanted in the nearby palaces. Eventually, you found some hidden records that were not much different from what Blood Demon Yuan Feng had said. Afterward, without wasting any time, you searched for more valuable palaces.]

[Speaking of the most valuable places, they were undoubtedly the Treasure Hall, Inheritance Hall, and Elixir Garden.]

[You first arrived at the Treasure Hall, which had restrictions in place. However, thanks to the jade pendant, you easily entered. This made you wonder about the status of the ancestor of that Chi Clan’s branch in Chi Village, thinking it must have been quite high, or else they wouldn’t have had such great authority.]

[After all, when the Chi Clan left this place, they did not put all their eggs in one basket. Instead, they formed more than a dozen ethnic groups and went to different places.]

[Upon entering the Treasure Pavilion, you discovered that it was already empty, with no treasures left behind. Apparently, the Chi Clan had taken away the precious items when they left.]

[However, you soon found a hidden chamber, and with the help of the jade pendant, you entered. Then, you were amazed by the sight before you. Inside this hidden chamber were enormous resources.]

[Top-tier Spirit Liquid was countless. Various heavenly materials and earthly treasures were also not lacking. In addition to that, there were as many as seventy King Artifacts and even three Emperor Artifacts.]