The Nine Netherworlds were helpless.
As the chief steward of the ancient royal empire, she has a certain degree of control over Sha Yuan.
This was bestowed upon her by the king she revered when he was of sound mind.
This was so that when the king she revered fell into chaos, she could manage the vast undead empire.
When Su Lan and Serafina appeared in the Abyss of Evil, Jiu You immediately knew that they had broken in.
In the past, it wasn't that no one had ever entered the Abyss of Evil, but they all entered through legitimate channels.
This is the entrance to what outsiders call the Abyss of Evil.
Once these people entered, they almost never returned, dying in the layers of challenges that were set up.
What made Jiuyou feel uneasy was that these two people did not enter through the entrance of Shayuan.
The man and woman in front of them had torn through space and forced their way in through the spatial passage.
An expert can tell the difference the moment they make a move.
Others only see Serafina's skillful use of spatial magic, enabling her to travel long distances using spatial teleportation to get here.
However, Jiuyou knew that this space, after the passage of time, had not become fragile, but rather more stable.
Even beings that are also sub-emperors cannot tear through the ancient king's spatial law imprint and be directly teleported in.
But the woman in front of me did it.
This means that the woman before them either possesses spatial abilities far surpassing their king's, or that she is far more powerful than their king.
These two points are actually just one point.
The woman before him possessed strength and spatial laws that surpassed even his own king.
After learning this, Jiuyou had a feeling—this is bad!
These two humans—let's call them humans for now, since they do look human.
They did nothing after they came in, but Jiuyou immediately suppressed the army of undead in the sky and brought them down.
If she angers those two and they smash through this space, she'll be left speechless with despair.
Then, the ancient king, who had been in a deep sleep recuperating and who was unsure whether he was the king he had once served, suddenly awoke.
The first thing the other party said upon waking up hundreds of years later was to ask him to welcome the two intruders into the king's palace.
She agreed immediately.
Jiuyou originally intended to observe the two after arriving at the first level of the tomb palace, but she was discovered as soon as she arrived.
Although it was just a fleeting glance, when Jiuyouhou met the eyes of the woman who had intruded, she felt for a moment that her soul completely froze and became uncontrollable.
This feeling is fleeting, seemingly an illusion, yet incredibly real.
As a great monarch-level Nine Nether Queen, she never felt her soul disintegrate at the mere sight of a king before.
But now I've encountered it.
She was almost certain that the woman before her was far more powerful than her own king.
Thinking of this, Jiuyouhou felt complicated.
With the king severely wounded and unsure if he is still the king he once served, the arrival of a new emperor in this space is neither good nor bad for them.
After hundreds of years of observation, it was discovered that after Wang was seriously injured, the evil energy that had been suppressed within his body grew stronger and stronger, making his subordinates feel increasingly uneasy and worried.
On several occasions, when the evil energy emanating from their king affected them, they felt as if their own source of power had been taken away.
The power that was taken from the king was automatically returned to his body.
The king seems to intend to devour them.
As the power was consumed, the king's evil nature intensified.
This is not a good sign.
The dead are dead, not evil spirits!
Evil spirits are no good!
As the eight fallen rulers under the ancient king, they were subject to the king and could not disobey him, which meant they could not even resist directly.
Humans are inherently selfish, and the Eight Directions Kings, as demons of the Great Monarch and Supreme Monarch levels, possess the wisdom of human powerhouses.
Even though they've become undead, who wouldn't want to continue living if they could just survive?
Moreover, their current state is a temporary state of immortality.
After observing for over a hundred years, they discovered that the king seemed unable to leave the Blood Throne.
Therefore, the Eight Kings of the Dead secretly arranged for all the spirits, including themselves, to temporarily stay away from the King's palace.
This was done to temporarily delay the accumulation of Wang's evil nature.
In order to survive, they even tried to find external help.
However, even after several hundred years, the information remains scarce.
It wasn't until today, when two unexpected guests arrived, that Wang awoke from his slumber and asked them to bring people over.
At this moment, Jiuyou was struggling with a dilemma.
She didn't know the purpose or character of the two people in front of her, but they were probably the last chance for the fallen emperors of the Eight Directions.
An opportunity to escape from a king filled with evil.
They had just sensed that the awakened king's desire to devour them was growing stronger.
A myriad of thoughts flashed through her mind, but Jiuyou still decided to reveal her innermost thoughts for the time being.
To bring up such a fatal problem so soon after meeting someone is nothing more than pushing yourself from one fire pit into another.
We can only take it one step at a time.
Just as Jiuyou was about to guide Su Lan and Serafina toward the teleportation channel, Su Lan spoke.
"No need for all that trouble, we can just go directly there."
As Su Lan finished speaking, the power of spatial laws surged from Serafina's body, enveloping the two of them and Jiu You before disappearing from the spot.
Completely unable to resist the teleportation power, Jiuyou found himself teleported from the first level of space to the space where the king was in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, they appeared less than ten meters away from the ancient king.
Upon seeing this, Jiuyouhou instinctively knelt on one knee and bowed to the ancient king.
This was a distance she had never been close to before, and she felt fear and unease.
Compared to Jiuyou's complex emotions, Su Lan and Serafina seemed quite relaxed.
Su Lan first looked at the figure sitting on the blood-red throne in front of her.
The "person" on the Blood Throne was dressed in black armor. With his excellent eyesight, he could see no difference between the person at ten meters away and the person up close with a magnifying glass; every detail was clearly visible.
This armor is clearly a product of a long history. Judging from the patterns and engraved characters on the armor, it is a special magical artifact from the Qin Dynasty.
However, at this moment, Su Lan and Serafina sensed a strong aura of death and malevolence emanating from the armor.
It's normal for the aura of death to be so strong, after all, the Ancient King is the ruler of the undead empire.
However, this malevolent aura, comparable to the aura of death, is very abnormal.
This is not a legitimate undead, nor is it the aura that the ancient kings of the Abyss would be tainted by.
It looks like it's been contaminated by something.
Just then, streams of information flowed from Serafina's contract into Su Lan's mind.
In just two breaths, Serafina had completely dissected the armor in front of her.
There was no human body inside the armor; at this moment, the armor itself was the physical form of the ancient king.
A remnant soul resides within the armor, and this remnant soul and the armor are one.
Preliminary conclusions suggest that the truly ancient king could not withstand the ravages of time and had long since died.
This remnant soul is now merely a combination of a portion of the ancient king's remnant soul containing memories and certain special energies.