"She used to be one of my innate beasts," Emperor Aurelias said sorrowfully. "Then we revoked our master and servant relationship, and I thought that I would be able to see her again once I got out of this tomb…" His face got darker.
Darryl's mind buzzed as he stared dumbly at Emperor Aurelias. 'What? The Red Sparrow Queen used to be his innate beast? That is incredible!'
He took a deep breath and asked, "Your Majesty, how did you get trapped in here?"
Emperor Aurelias smiled bitterly as if he did not want to bring up his past. Then, he said, "I lost a bet with my junior brother."
Darryl scratched his head. "Junior brother?"
Emperor Aurelias glanced at him and said indifferently, "Yes, my junior brother. We used to have the same master, Ancient Ancestor, and enjoyed a close relationship with each other. He was the one who supported me to become the Godly Region's sovereign when the world was divided into the Godly Region, the Human World, and the Ghost World."
Darryl took a deep breath to conceal his shock. When he was in the Godly Region, he heard that the Ancient Ancestor was the most powerful god after the Heaven and Earth Blast. He could not believe that the Emperor Aurelias before him was the Ancient Ancestor’s disciple.
While Darryl was thinking about that, Emperor Aurelias continued to say, "Later, I became the sovereign of the gods and began to formulate systems, rules, and regulations to restrain the gods. Junior Brother said that I was too arrogant and that the rules and regulations that I had drawn up simply would not work." Emperor Aurelias' eyes flickered with complexity.
Darryl did not know what he was really talking about, so he asked, "Why wouldn't it work?"
Emperor Aurelias smiled, but there was a hint of bitterness in his smile. "As a human, you should know that it is very difficult for humans to enter the Godly Region, and the rule I drafted at the time was that the Godly Region could establish a sect in the Human World. Then, every ten years, we'll choose elites from the Human World to join us. My junior brother was against that. He said that most humans are greedy, and I should not do that. According to him, we should leave humans to live and die on their own. However, we will accept a person if he worked hard to train to a certain cultivation level and had broken through the void to arrive at the Godly Region."
Darryl was overcome with emotions when he heard that. He never knew something like that had happened tens of thousands of years ago. The world of cultivators in the Human World would not be the state it was then if Emperor Aurelias had successfully put his plan into motion.
"What happened to your junior brother?" Darryl asked after some time.
Emperor Aurelias pondered that before he smiled bitterly. "After I lost the bet with him, I gave up my position as the Godly Region's sovereign. When he was in power, he called himself the Nine Heaven Emperor—"
Darryl was shocked. 'Emperor Aurelias' junior brother is the Nine Heaven Emperor!'
He was furious when he thought of the Nine Heaven Emperor. In desperation to leave the Godly Region, he pretended to be the Emperor. However, the Emperor had arrested Ghost Valley Sage to protect his reputation.
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