Invincible Dad

Chapter 819 819: Tomb Sect Founding Ancestor

"Perhaps it was destroyed by those turtles in the Nine Kings' Palace, or perhaps... it's still suppressed within the Nine Kings' Palace."

Sikong Jiu's voice was very soft.

Xu Lai sighed lightly, as if he saw Sikong Jiu barely escaping after one difficult battle after another, but the Emperor Artifact was forcibly left behind.

Artifact.

Once it has a spirit, it is no different from a living being in the Immortal Domain, possessing emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

As long as the owner permits, the Artifact Spirit can completely detach from the 'artifact' and truly live once.

There was once a Quasi-Emperor Realm expert in the Immortal Domain, who was once an Artifact Spirit.

To those in the Emperor Realm, an Emperor Artifact is not merely a magical treasure but also a companion that will never betray and can always be trusted.

After a brief silence, Xu Lai asked, "Can you sense the Emperor Artifact?"

"I can't sense it."

Sikong Jiu shook his head, "The Nine Kings' Palace isolates everything from the outside; it's an independent small barrier. They've been fishing, waiting for me to walk into the net."

"If the day comes when I head to the Nine Kings' Palace, I'll help you find it," Xu Lai said.

"Thank you for your kindness, Supreme Emperor, but I've always told myself that the things I've lost must be retrieved with my own hands."

Sikong Jiu clasped his fists in the air.

Xu Lai paused and then smiled sincerely.

This was one of those rare moments when Sikong Jiu showed his tough side; after all, he still possessed the pride of being a strong Emperor Realm expert.

"That's good."

Xu Lai did not persuade him further.

Sikong Jiu immediately added, "Of course! If the Supreme Emperor can stand behind me then and face the formidable foes together, it would certainly be a magnificent sight."

"Punching the Heavenly Demon kids, kicking the Nine Kings' Palace, from then on in the Immortal Domain, I will be... uh, from then on in the Immortal Domain, Qingfeng will be the supreme!"

Sikong Jiu hurriedly changed his words towards the end.

Xu Lai had never thought about being supreme in the Immortal Domain or anything of the sort, so he naturally didn't care about trivial matters like this. He casually said:

"Depending on my mood."

"Hehehe."

Sikong Jiu chuckled foolishly.

After understanding thus far, Sikong Jiu had more or less grasped the personality of Supreme Emperor Xu Lai; he was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

Though he said it would depend on his mood, Sikong Jiu believed that should he encounter danger, the Supreme Emperor would surely offer his assistance.

As Sikong Jiu contemplated this, he began to look somewhat crestfallen.

Regarding this kind of brother who would go lengths to assist, he once had two, both perished in an unparalleled killing formation a cycle of reincarnation ago.

"Brothers, I will avenge you."

Sikong Jiu quietly wiped away the tears at the corner of his eyes, then looked at the still unconscious Cauldron Daoist Su Daluo.

"Bang!"

A Tribulation Thunder fell.

Su Daluo was directly awakened and upon waking, he saw the inexplicably somber face of the young boy, immediately frightened into crying:

"Master Dao, kill me, don't torture me anymore."

"That won't do."

Sikong Jiu stretched his muscles, "It seems you still don't want to talk, no worries, I have plenty of time, I'll play with you slowly."

Su Daluo sobbed chokingly.

He wanted to speak, but Master Dao, you should at least tell me what you're curious about!

Compelled by Sikong Jiu's intimidation, Su Daluo was forced to recount everything that had happened within his memory, even exposing such shady history as peeping at the junior sister taking a bath.

"Pah, scum, you actually peeked three times, I hold contempt for degenerates like you!"

As the righteous emissary embodying the Heavenly Dao, Sikong Jiu used one Tribulation Thunder after another to aggressively lash Su Daluo.

"Master Dao, stop, I was wrong, I won't talk about that anymore..."

"No, explain in more detail.."

"..."

And just like that.

In the brief span of three days and nights, Su Daluo had no secrets left in front of Sikong Jiu, as if he were nude.

No choice.

Su Daluo was deeply concerned about the Master Dao's soul-searching and worried that if it unearthed contradictory memories, he would undoubtedly perish on the spot.

So he decided to confess everything altogether.

Looking at the somewhat despondent Cauldron Daoist, Sikong Jiu consumed the final piece of candied hawthorn on the bamboo skewer and righteously declared:

"Peeping at the junior sister bathing is one thing, but you even engage in tomb robbing... and you didn't just rob one, doesn't your conscience hurt!"

"I'm sorry, Master Dao, I was wrong, I will never dare again," the Cauldron Daoist cried in remorse.

"What's more, you have been tomb-robbing for a millennium and are still at a petty theft level, yet you managed to steal an Emperor Artifact?"

Sikong Jiu was somewhat indignant, "I robbed dozens of Emperor Realm tombs and didn't get a thing!"

"???"

Su Daluo was stupefied.

What did he hear?

Master Dao actually robbed dozens of Emperor Realm tombs!

Turns out he wasn't the Heavenly Dao elder, but the Heavenly thief elder.

For a moment.

Su Daluo's face was no longer filled with sorrow, but deep admiration and awe.

The Earthstore Tribe of the Immortal Domain had once produced a Great Emperor who self-styled himself as Tun Tian.

A lifetime spent excavating over 700,000 graves in the Immortal Domain, devouring the corpse of one Emperor Realm and hundreds of Quasi-Emperor bodies, Tun Tian thus embarked on a life of cheating.

The various Tao Lineages and Holy Lands of the Immortal Domain were deeply plagued by this, thus bestowing Tun Tian the title of Thief Emperor.

Thief Emperor.

Not exactly a decent title.

The altruistic Great Emperor Tun Tian chose to accept this title gladly and turned the ancestral lands of the ancient legacy that named him upside down, leaving not even a blade of grass behind.

And the thief in front of him.

Possessed the peerless grandeur of the once Thief Emperor!

"Thief Master, if you don't mind, I am willing to follow you to dig up every tomb in the Immortal Domain, helping you become the second Thief Emperor and to carry the name of the Tomb Sect forward!"

"..."

Sikong Jiu's forehead creased.

He enjoyed tomb-robbing, but what that fellow from Tun Tian's tribe did was rather disgusting.

Wait.

How did it become Tomb Sect??

"Holy Master of the Tomb Sect, literary and martial, everlasting legacy, unified..."

Su Daluo was about to shout the latter two words when Sikong Jiu struck him down with a bolt of lightning, "Get out, quickly get out!"

Knowing Su Daluo had no particular means of controlling the Eight Desolate Cauldron, Sikong Jiu completely lost interest in him, assuming that the Eight Desolate Cauldron chose to leave with Su Daluo from the Emperor's tomb and could have picked any random person.

"Thief Master, I will be back to see you in the future."

Su Daluo silently thought in his heart, leaving reluctantly, looking back every few steps.

Sikong Jiu had no idea.

His unintentional actions today would make the Immortal Domain chaotic in the future.

He also didn't know that not far ahead, the Tomb Sect would become one of the three major 'evil forces' in the Immortal Domain.

The other two were Star Origin Sect, which throws formations at anyone, and the Empress Alliance, which joins if it can't win...

And his 'Holy Portrait' in a red loincloth holding candied hawthorn was placed in front of every grave in the Four Immortal Domains.

From the ancestral lands of top Tao Lineages and Holy Lands to the graveyards of common people, without exception.

None other.

Only out of respect for the Founding Ancestor of the Dao Sect would the crazy Tomb Sect refrain from acting.

...

...

Shortly after the Cauldron Daoist left Earth.

In the depths of the Immortal Domain, the eight Emperor Artifacts fighting gradually dispersed because they found one Emperor Artifact missing.

It was the Eight Desolate Cauldron.

"The Eight Desolate Cauldron escaped..."

"A pity, today was supposed to decide the title of the strongest Emperor Artifact."

"Cowardly, the Eight Desolate Cauldron is unworthy of the title First Artifact under heaven, and even more unworthy of Li Shenhuang."

"Damn, shut up!"

An impatient female voice interrupted the discussion among the other Artifact Spirits.