After dying 10,000 times, the phantom's body shrank by half.

It knew that if this continued, it would definitely die.

Although it was only a part of someone's willpower, it still didn't want to die.

After living in the puppet worm for thousands of years, it gained its own independent thoughts and its own personality. It understood that if its progress continued, it would become an entity comparable to that of a human being.

But today, Lin Jiufeng destroyed its thousands of years' worth of progress in just two hours.

This was simply unacceptable to the phantom. It begged for mercy and cried out pitifully.

"Spare me! I failed to see your might! I'm a frog in a well!"

"Just treat me as if I'm a fart. An adult does not blame a child for its mistakes."

"Please! I don't want to die!"

The phantom's pleading didn't make Lin Jiufeng waver.

Lin Jiufeng decisively attacked and destroyed the phantom.

Death after death, and then revival after revival, made the phantom tremble in fear.

With every death, it could feel that it wasn't too far away from true death.

It simply wasn't willing to accept such an outcome.

Yes, it wanted to struggle and continue to live.

However, the phantom didn't expect that there was actually a terrifying existence like Lin Jiufeng in this brand-new world.

Lin Jiufeng hadn't reached King Power yet, but the latter could still kill it so easily.

Holding it with one hand and then killing it endlessly with the other.

Lin Jiufeng's level of strength in this brand-new world was simply unreasonably powerful.

"I can tell you everything about King Xian's plan! Please just spare my life!" After the phantom was killed once again, it begged for mercy and directly chose to betray King Xian.

Lin Jiufeng stopped.

This time, he didn't kill the phantom outright.

The higher-ups of the Yuhua God Dynasty were excited as they watched in anticipation.

"How did you and the puppet worm manage to get close to Emperor De?"

Lin Jiufeng asked coldly.

"It's Emperor De's personal eunuch! We first used the puppet worm to control him. Then, he brought the puppet worm in and approached Emperor De."

The phantom decisively sold out the mole within the imperial court.

Princess Yulin's eyes turned cold as she looked at the trembling old eunuch.

"I have suspected you, but I didn't expect that it would really be you…"

"You served Emperor De for decades. He trusted you so much, but how could you be the one to stab him in the back?" Princess Yulin gnashed her teeth in hatred.

"Princess, I was under control! I had no other choice!"

The old eunuch knelt and begged for mercy while weeping.

Pu!

But Princess Yulin didn't listen to his explanation.

She immediately killed him with a sword move as she spat coldly. "Your explanation does not matter, you still have to die today!"

Lin Jiufeng saw what happened and he soon retracted his gaze.

He looked at the phantom and asked, "How many people from the Ancient Dian Dynasty have already come into being? What's King Xian's plan? Where is he?"

Everyone curiously stared at the phantom.

In order to survive, the phantom became decisive.

"Only a few hundred members of the Ancient Dian Dynasty have come into being so far. They are all small fries that cannot be considered powerful even in the previous era. As for King Xian, he is still in his own tomb. It's impossible for him to revive on his own…"

"Back then, while the world's spiritual energy was already in decline. He died in the hands of an immortal. But he had long prepared everything before his death."

"King Xian brought all of the Ancient Dian Dynasty's powerhouses into his own tomb. He ordered them to accompany him to sleep so that they could protect his tomb. Of course, he also left many puppet worms and many contingency plans for his resurrection."

"I'm one of his contingency plans…"

"I am a portion of King Xian's willpower—or will."

"He placed me into a puppet worm to find the human emperor with the greatest accumulated destiny energy in this brand-new era. My task was to use the puppet worm and control that emperor for King Xian."

"Then afterwards, I have to plant King Xian's source energy into the human emperor's body so that King Xian could use the latter as his vessel for his rebirth."

"I did all of these in secret, I used a few of my own puppet worms to control several people with various security clearances…"

"The last of them was that old eunuch."

"Just like me, he was afraid of death, so he took the initiative to poison Emperor De with one of my puppet worms by letting Emperor De drink tea laced with it."

The phantom was afraid of death. He explained everything in detail.

Hearing this, Princess Yulin was furious.

She directly slashed out and cut the dead old eunuch's body into pieces.

"The defenses of the palace have to be strengthened…" The Cabinet Chief commented weakly.

Lin Jiufeng remained calm. He continued to ask, "Where is King Xian's tomb?"

"It's somewhere in the Northwest Territory. I don't know its exact location, because it's top-secret. In addition—the puppet worms and us—his contingency plans did not come into being close to his tomb," the phantom replied.

Northwest Territory!

The white cat thought to herself.

If not for this matter, they would have gone through the Northern Regions and arrived at the Northwest Territory by now.

"You planted King Xian's source energy in Emperor De's body?" Lin Jiufeng asked.

"No, I didn't have enough time to do it. Those divine physicians sealed his meridians. I couldn't plant it at all. Thus, I could only choose to control Emperor De first. But before I could do that, you arrived and stopped me," the phantom replied rather sincerely.

When the doctors heard this, they heaved sighs of relief and smiled.

Their hard work hadn't been in vain.

"Lord, I'm really telling you the truth! I've told you everything! I don't dare to hide anything at all! I only ask that you spare my life." The phantom begged for mercy.

If he had a physical body, he would've already kneeled in front of Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng watched coldly.

Then, he reached out and tossed the puppet worm to Princess Yulin.

"When Emperor De wakes up, let him see how much trouble this small puppet worm has caused to the entire Yuhua God Dynasty. Leave that thing in the palace and be on guard at all times. Don't let anything similar to this happen again." Lin Jiufeng advised.

Princess Yulin caught the puppet worm and said respectfully, "I understand, Teacher Master."

Under the gazes of everyone, Princess Yulin didn't reveal that she was Lin Jiufeng's grandniece.

Instead, she regarded herself as his disciple.

All of her sword techniques were imparted to her by Lin Jiufeng.

It wasn't a problem for her to address herself as his disciple.

Lin Jiufeng didn't refute her words. He got up and left.

The space around him distorted.

No one could see his face clearly.

They could only see the resplendent light around him disappear into the night.

Once Lin Jiufeng left, everyone looked at Emperor De.

Emperor De—who had been in a coma for a few days—slowly woke up.

"Just now, there was a ball of holy light shining upon me. I felt very comfortable. I don't feel tired at all even though I was so deep in my sleep." Emperor De said weakly.

Princess Yulin walked in and said, "My Teacher Master came."

Emperor De instantly understood that his Big Grand-Uncle returned to save him.

He couldn't help but sweat.

In the end, his Big Grand-Uncle still had to save him.

Just like in the past, whenever the Yuhua God Dynasty encountered a problem that it couldn't solve on its own, it was always Lin Jiufeng who helped them in the end.

"Rest well." Princess Yulin patted Emperor De's palm.

Emperor De nodded and said, "I want you to command the imperial court until next month. Let me take a good rest."

Ever since his ascension to the throne decades ago, Emperor De never truly rested.

But now that his life force was greatly damaged, he wanted to rest for an entire month.

…

After Lin Jiufeng lent his hand to Emperor De, he didn't immediately leave the Imperial Capital.

He returned to the Cold Palace where he lived for the past 80 years.

The dilapidated Cold Palace was greatly in contrast to the bustling Imperial Capital.

Wild grass was already growing at the entrance.

Compared to when Lin Jiufeng came in back then, the Cold Palace had become even older.

Some of the buildings even looked like they were about to collapse.

But a lamp flickered tenaciously in front of the Cold Palace—its light gave warmth to the palace.

The Light of the Homes!