Rise of the Legendary Emperor

(Present Day)

A commotion instantly exploded on the originally serene mountain top, as everyone rushed frantically towards the old tomb. However, since there were several magical beasts inside these mountains, occasional screams of terrors were heard from time to time. Yet, overall, most of them managed to rush up to the mountain top within a few minutes.

Unlike most of them, Knight flew on his sword and avoided all the magical beasts on the ground, and safely reached the mountain top.

Once he ascended the mountain, a large stone wall that was hidden within the vegetation surfaced in front of his eyes. Currently, this extremely solid stone wall had already been forcefully smashed into debris. Based on the golden tracers left behind on the stones, it was very likely that this was the work of Richard from Moonwin.

Outside the stone wall, countless people were rushing towards it with crazy eyes. They looked like a pack of hungry wolves who hadn't eaten a thing for many years before finally seeing a mountain of fresh meat in front of their eyes.

"Stay close to me"

The tunnel before him was too narrow to fly and he did not want Lia to become lost inside the tunnel. Nonetheless, this situation was just what he had yearned for. When he finds the life shard, he would be able to bring Don back from the dead and that was the only thing in his mind right now.

"Okay"

As she softly exhaled, she took a step forward and stood really closer to him.

While the two of them were walking further into the tunnel, a formidable pressure immediately surfaced. Even though Soul Strength Cultivator had been dead for many years, his aura still filled this area, messing the Life energy in one's body to make them vulnerable.

"A Soul Strength Cultivator is truly terrifying, he still possesses this level of power even after he died. How powerful he must have been when he was alive?

He felt the invincible pressure around him as his face turned serious.

"Young master?"

Hearing Lia's voice, he lifted his head, only to find a spacious giant hall with dozens of passages leading into the depths of the tomb. Currently, several people were going into different tunnels.

"Let's go into the fifth tunnel from the left!"

After spending many years looting the ruins and facing situations like this in the divine continent, he developed keen senses and instincts to help him in situations like this, so he trusted his gut feeling and chose the fifth tunnel from the left.

Upon hearing his words, Lia was slightly taken aback but without questioning him, she followed him into the tunnel.

Even though there were many tunnels, there were even more people who had ventured in. Therefore, even after the separation due to the tunnels, he still saw some greedy-looking individuals hunting for treasure among the stone rooms along the sides of the tunnel.

After traveling for several minutes at this gloomy pace, a gleam flashed across his eyes while his head turned towards a plain-looking stone room in front of them. Inside it, he could sense an extremely powerful Energy vacillation.

"There must be something good inside!"

His senses were tingling unlike he walked past the previous stone rooms. Immediately, he rushed forward and placed his hand on the stone door. However, when his palm touched the surface, he was forcibly pushed back by a powerful force field.

"Young Master, are you alright?"

Lia also felt the force field as she stepped closer to the door and inspected the door.

"Young Master, there is a force field here, however, it is not too powerful. If my guess is right, there must be a mechanism behind the stone door. We have to find a way to disable the mechanism to open the door"

"Too troublesome, stay back"

Knight shook his head and pulled her back from the stone door as he clenched his fist.

"Young Master wait..."

She quickly guessed what he was planning to do and before she could finish her sentence, he punched the stone wall as hard as he could.

Moments later, the stone door started to tremble violently, and to Lia's surprise, the stone door crumbled into pieces.

When that stone door opened, he immediately stepped in as his eyes moved to stare at the piles of round pills stacked on the ground inside the room.

These pills were the size of a baby's fist. Each and every one of them was shining like glitter balls, indicating that they were of excellent quality. Moreover, an astonishing Life Energy was being emitted from within these pills.

"These are… Pure Life energy pills?"

Lia foolishly stared at these pills which filled the entire room. Moments later, she couldn't help but take a few deep breaths. These things that were casually scattered around like beans were something that a Professional alchemist needed half a month to a month to successfully concoct.

These pills had purer life energy and they could be absorbed more quickly and efficiently compared to life energy stones. In other words, the stones were like raw sugar cane sticks and the pills were like processed sugar cubes.

The number of Pure Life energy pills inside this stone room was at least in the tens of thousands. Lia recalled how her family paid a huge amount of wealth to an Alchemist to concoct Life Energy pills for her cultivation and they were not anywhere near the purity level of these pills.

From this, one could only imagine how shocked she was in the face of such a surprise.

This was akin to a beggar suddenly running into a mountain of gold. Furthermore, he could take as much as he wanted.

This shock only lasted for several minutes, before she regained her senses looking at him waving his hand as the pills started to disappear. Under her shocked gaze, all the pills flew up and continuously flowed into his space ring.

Tens of thousands of Pure Life Energy pills. This gigantic sum was probably enough to keep their treasury and the treasurers Amaryll and Uncle Dior happy for a long time. The thought of encountering such a wonderful gift mere moments after entering the old tomb made him excited, very excited.

"Come on, what are you waiting for? Put them into your space ring too"

He ordered Lia with a shout, she seemed reluctant at first but after standing still uselessly for a moment, she also started to put the pills into her space ring.

As there were simply too many pills inside the stone room, even with both of their efforts, they only managed to collect half of them in several minutes. While the rest of the pills were flying into his space ring, his ears suddenly twitched as he heard soft footsteps.

When he heard the footsteps, Knight's facial expression instantly darkened as he slowly turned around, only to see that outside the stone door, stood four figures. These four people were staring at the Pure Life energy pills that filled the stone room with their mouths half-opened. Moments later, their expressions changed as greed filled their minds. Then, their eyes paused on Knight and Lia, who were rapidly collecting all the pills inside the stone room.

"You two, hand over all the pills!'

The four of them obviously lost their mind looking at all the pills in the room. They walked inside the stone room, sealing off the entrance before they maliciously smiled at Knight and Lia. Under the temptation of these precious pills, even if an elite was present, they would not give up so easily.

People would die for money. This was a true saying indeed. Often, greed would overwhelm one's rationality.

Knight's expression did not change. Ever since the four of them had appeared, the Oracle had revealed that among the four of them, two were at the low Great master level, while the other two were at Mid Great master level. Their combined powers made them a pretty formidable force, however, compared to him, they were weak as babies.

"Well guys, this is a bad day for all of you!" Knight laughed as he said.

After his words escaped his mouth, small cracks of lightning appeared around his fist. Lia quickly moved behind him to hide as she shivered in fear.

Zap!

Meanwhile, the small cracks of lightning grew bigger and bigger and transformed into big bolts of lightning. The ferocious aura of the lightning caused the four's facial expressions to change, as they quickly utilized the Life energy in their caress to welcome it. Evidently, they never expected this youngster to be this formidable.

However, just as one of the Mid-level Greatmastes was preparing to use his Life Energy, an extremely quick light flashed in his eyes. Immediately, he felt a sharp pain in his chest area. As he lowered his head to look, he found that a bloody hole had already appeared and fresh blood continuously gushed out.

As that lighting bolt hit the man, the remaining trio was now deathly alarmed. 

"Peak GR..."

But before their mind could finish processing, another three bolts of lightning struck them in their heads.

The battle was settled just like that as Lia blankly stared at the four unlucky fellows who fell to the ground.

When the last man fell, the final pill inside the stone room flew into his space ring. 

"Did you think they were going to kill me?"

Looking at the pale face of Lia, she smiled and asked her.

"You...how...powerful"

She mumbled and it took several seconds for her to realize that he was a peak Grandmaster.

"Let's go"

He ignored her mumbling and just as he was about to leave with all the Pure Life energy pills, he heard a bunch of footsteps outside.

Several people stood outside the door as they stared at the four lifeless bodies on the ground. Immediately, they shivered as they were staring at Knight terrified.

In response to their stares, he was expressionless as he took Lia and directly walked towards the stone door. When they saw the duo walking out of the room, even though many people knew that the two had very likely taken away all the treasures inside, they still did not want to take the risk and attack this duo. After all, there were four bodies on the floor clearly warning them that the youngster in black armor before them was certainly not a merciful soul. Thus, when they saw Knight approaching, the crowd hurriedly dispersed to allow them through.

Together with Lia, he walked through the crowd at an extremely steady pace. His unhurried appearance shocked the crowds and strengthened their decision not to attack him.

"That was dangerous…"

Just as they turned the corner, Lia's expression instantly relaxed as she deeply heaved a sigh of relief. It was fortunate that they were able to quickly collect all those pills. Else, if these fellows had seen them, they would surely turn crazy and at that time, they would have met some trouble. After all, even though she knew that he is very powerful, one couldn't know for sure when someone more powerful would appear.