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Several minutes later.

His Royal Highness the Prince drove back to the palace at breakneck speed.

No sooner had he announced his arrival than the King nodded his assent, allowing him to meet in the resting room of the Colosseum.

"I pay my respects to my father."

Norton knelt on one knee and saluted.

"Rise, my son, let the others withdraw." Shen Ye waved his hand.

The crowd dispersed.

Norton suddenly raised his head, his eyes widening as he scrutinized the King.

Shen Ye did not lift his head as he opened the Vial of Blood Origin Curse Seal; a breath of air emerged from it, circled around his body briefly, and then came to rest.

An aura unique to the Nine Aspects emanated from him.

——The usage was somewhat akin to perfume.

But in honesty, that aura was immense and fierce, yet unnoticeable to the average person; only masters of a certain level could sense it.

At that moment, he was like the Nine Aspects masquerading as the human King.

"Peiqi?"

Norton probed.

"You have the Battle Armor?" Shen Ye asked while spraying "perfume" under his arm. Enjoy new stories from empire

"It really is you!" Norton suddenly stood up.

"It's a long story, but listen, there's a man-eating monster with incomparable strength..."

Shen Ye recounted the whole affair.

Norton sighed and asked, "So my father is no more, is he?"

"I am truly sorry, but honestly, those devoured by that creature have all been transformed into his professions." Shen Ye said.

"How can I kill that creature to avenge my father?" Norton asked through gritted teeth.

"Help me." Shen Ye said.

"You—your strength—"

Before he could finish, Shen Ye released the Level Five energy nodes of a king species.

In an instant.

At Shen Ye's location, the void flashed with black rifts, the ground cracked into long fissures, and the surging force of the hurricane blasted everything around it.

Shen Ye then withdrew his power.

Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.

But Norton was stunned.

He looked at the cracks on the ground and said with a deep voice, "How did you get so strong?"

Shen Ye extended his hand with a beckoning gesture.

The chill of the Frost transformed in his hand into the Lunar Longsword, then into a Frost Axe, and then into a Long Bow, Lance, Spear, Staff, Hammer, and other various weapons.

Norton took a few steps back involuntarily, murmuring distractedly:

"The worn weapons are very strange, able to transform at will... the one called Peiqi..."

"You sealed it yourself, don't you know?" Shen Ye stood tall with his hands on his hips.

The aura of Frost swirled around him, taking shapes of various weapons, emitting strange fluctuations in waves.

This scene was exactly like one from a distant legend.

"That's right... I was going to seal you as Lolly," Norton recalled, "It was you who requested to be Peiqi, you truly are Peiqi!"

Shen Ye shrugged his shoulders.

It was indeed a misunderstanding.

He merely didn't want to be called "Loli."

"Tell me about the Shadow Brotherhood. What heritage do they have, what origins, and why do they possess standard-issue Short Swords like Nightfall?" Shen Ye asked.

Norton stepped back a few paces, hesitated, and said, "When the fire-glowing Frost Moon hangs high in the sky, you will see the towering walls of the city in the heavens—that's the secret passphrase handed down through generations of the Brotherhood; unless you can respond correctly, I cannot easily—"

Before he finished speaking.

A multitude of ethereal shadows unfolded behind Shen Ye, precisely the Frost-enshrouded Jade Palace and the Frostfire Full Moon suspended above his head.

"The legendary Dharma Aspect... it's indeed you..."

Norton said hoarsely.

He wiped the Ring and drew out a long stone box, knelt on one knee, and held it high.

"This is the heritage artifact of the Shadow Brotherhood, passed down from ancient times, and it is said that only the true Peiqi can open it."

"Really? Only the true Peiqi can?"

"Indeed, only if you open it will I recognize you as the true one."

Shen Ye stepped forward and placed his hand on the stone box.

Suddenly, the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic leaped out from him, flipping to the fourth page.

The Precious Tactic's first page was a calendar, the second page a retinue of guards, the third page was a training room, and the fourth was the location of inherited Skills and collection of Sect weapons.

The stone box was instantly collected into the page.

Small characters emerged next to the stone box:

"The Broad Cold Holy Relic can unlock the Seal and open the contents of the heritage within."

——How simple is this?

Shen Ye released a flurry of Vast Cold Frost into the page, attaching it to the stone box.

The stone box slowly opened.

A mass of Frostfly Shot out from the box, piercing through the page, and directly entered the Dharma Aspect behind Shen Ye.

Shen Ye looked back—

He saw the Lunar Palace seemingly bolstered with power, a whirlwind of snow and ice began to swirl above the Frost-enshrouded palace.

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"Taiyin Cold Snow has merged into your Dharma Aspect: Lunar Palace."

"This Sect treasure passed down aligns perfectly with the Compatibility of your Dharma Aspect."

"As a Sect Leader, after unfolding your Dharma Aspect, you shall receive Guidance from the Dharma Realm, to witness the secrets of the true Sect."

Furthermore.

"Your Technique Spirit and Divine Spirit, bolstered by the Dharma Aspect, have acquired the defensive effects of the Taiyin Ice Armor."

Shen Ye looked towards the Underworld Lord Miket Tikaxiwa within his Dharma Aspect.

The Underworld Lord snapped her fingers.

Suddenly, she was clad in a suit of Frost Armor, incessantly radiating tiny frost shards.

"This Battle Armor isn't bad."

Miket Tikaxiwa appraised.

"Really?" Shen Ye asked.

"At least it's cool." Miket Tikaxiwa replied.

"That's not enough, is it truly useless?"

"It's still useful."

"Is it?"

"Better than none—however, if you continue to grow stronger, the Dharma Aspect will enhance, and the Battle Armor's defense will subsequently increase."

——The Dharma Aspect could provide Battle Armor to the Technique Spirit and Divine Spirit!

This was quite unexpected.

From this, one could finally conclude—

In the ancient times, the Chaotic Heaven Gate left behind legacy artifacts in this world.