Chapter 409: Supreme Heaven's Restriction Lifted

With this thought in mind, he cast Primal Divine Magic to help the Blood Clan Progenitor recover her memories.

Brilliant holy light shot from the Silver Ring, washing over the Blood Clan Progenitor. Bathed in the radiance, her vacant eyes slowly regained their spark.

"I remember. I remember it all. I am the first Undead King, the founder of the Blood Moon Empire. I rose during the dark ages..."

A bewitching air slowly crept over her aloof face, and her ruby eyes burned ever brighter.

A cold glint flashed in Shangguan Chen's eyes. "Think carefully," he said in a low voice. "The first Undead King died long ago. He and the other first-generation kings sacrificed their lives to forge the Seven Kings Barrier..."

Primal Divine Magic activated silently. The Blood Clan Progenitor was gripped by a sudden, inexplicable panic. "No! I didn't die! I am the first Undead King! I am immortal. How could I possibly die?"

"Stop lying to yourself. Then who was it that died to construct the Seven Kings Barrier?" Shangguan Chen gave a cold smile. "You should have memories of your own death, shouldn't you?"

"It... it was me..."

"Since you have memories of your death, do you have any memories of a resurrection?"

The Blood Clan Progenitor froze. She couldn't find a single memory of resurrection, even though her memories were fully restored.

"How... how was I resurrected? Why can't I remember..."

The Blood Clan Progenitor's lips trembled, and an inexplicable, piercing chill washed over her. A truly terrifying thought seemed to lurk deep in her mind. She had actually known the truth all along; she just hadn't dared to think about it.

"You were never resurrected, because you are not the first Undead King. You are his Royal Power Artifact—the Scarlet Moon!"

Amplified by Primal Divine Magic, Shangguan Chen's words drove into the Blood Clan Progenitor's heart like vicious spikes.

Her pupils contracted sharply. The thought she had buried in her heart for so long finally broke the surface. She began to question her identity, her very existence.

With all her memories restored, the logic of her survival completely fell apart.

Yet her survival instinct made her subconsciously deny it.

"That isn't true! I'm wearing the Scarlet Moon right now. How could I be..."

"Whether it's true or not, you only need to take off the Scarlet Moon to find out. How pathetic that the once-illustrious Undead King is now being impersonated by a fake."

"I..." The Blood Clan Progenitor stared at her pale, trembling hands. Gradually, a ruthless glint flashed in her eyes. "I am the first Undead King! I am real!"

She seized her scarlet dress with both hands and yanked with all her might.

She froze. The scarlet dress wouldn't come off. Tearing at it felt just like tearing her own skin.

"Why... why is this happening!?"

"Because you are the Scarlet Moon! Naturally, you cannot take it off!"

A thunderbolt exploded in the Blood Clan Progenitor's mind!

Her aloof face contorted in utter shock, but that shock slowly faded, settling into a stagnant, deathly calm.

She murmured, "So... I really am dead."

A poignant smile bloomed on her face. The next moment, her pale skin rapidly turned translucent. All the colors on her body were wiped away as she grew increasingly transparent, until she... vanished completely.

A scarlet dress slipped silently to the floor.

The Scarlet Moon had been able to manifest as a living creature because she firmly believed herself to be the first Undead King. She had always lived under that identity; the moment she realized she was not, she reverted back into the Scarlet Moon.

Clink!

Supreme Heaven dropped to the floor with a crisp ring.

"Mingyue, hurry..."

Before Shangguan Chen could finish, King Chi had already slipped Supreme Heaven onto her finger and scooped up the Scarlet Moon.

The Scarlet Moon instantly liquefied into a pool of fresh blood that surged up to cover King Chi.

A moment later, King Chi's dark-gold phoenix robe transformed into a bewitching scarlet dress.

Wielding Supreme Heaven and wearing the Scarlet Moon, King Chi had gathered two Royal Power Artifacts at once, reaching the absolute pinnacle of her life.

"Hahaha..." Shangguan Chen couldn't hold back his laughter at the thought of soon securing two Royal Power Artifacts for himself.

"Truly my good daughter. Now, you just need to do one last thing, and then you can die."

King Chi froze. "Royal Father, you—"

Swish!

Shangguan Chen's soul turned into a wisp of white smoke and instantly shot into King Chi's body.

King Chi's expression changed drastically. "What are you doing!?"

The next moment, King Chi's expression turned savage. "What am I doing? Borrowing your body to make a wish, naturally."

"Don't even think about it!"

"Hahaha... It's useless. I've already been subtly influencing you with divine magic. Until you purge that influence, you won't be able to resist me anytime soon!"

At that moment, King Chi raised her right hand against her will, the Supreme Heaven on her ring finger flashing with dark-gold light.

"I wish..."

As King Chi spoke, spatial ripples spread outward, and a dazzling array of countless treasures suddenly appeared before her. They included King Chi's own prized collection, as well as the treasures Shangguan Chen had plundered from the Nightmare World.

Ordinary treasures were usually kept in treasuries due to the limited space of storage artifacts; only the most precious or frequently used items were carried on one's person.

Though the treasures displayed before her were few in number, their total value far exceeded the collection in the Blood Moon Treasury.

After all, Shangguan Chen had been a Saint Grade Pope in the Nightmare World. The treasures he kept on him were naturally extraordinary.

The most striking among these treasures were a thigh from the Faceless Angel and the massive head of the Nine-Headed Human-Faced Serpent!

After the Faceless Angel and the Nine-Headed Human-Faced Serpent were slain, their corpses had naturally been divided up by the Seven Kings as spoils of war.

From within his cage, Su Mu watched this touching display of a loving father and dutiful daughter with great interest. He had already guessed what Shangguan Chen was about to wish for.

"I wish... to lift the usage restrictions on Supreme Heaven!"

Hum!!

Supreme Heaven let out a bizarre hum. A brilliant dark-gold light erupted, slowly washing over all the treasures before it.

Swish!

The treasures vanished, swallowed by Supreme Heaven. Immediately after, the ethereal sound of shattering shackles rang out from the void.

Supreme Heaven's restriction was lifted!

"Hahaha..." A burst of maniacal laughter suddenly rang through the palace. King Chi made a sweeping wave of her hand, and the Silver Ring on her finger burst with light.

With a ripple of spatial distortion, a stream of light shot out from the Silver Ring, revealing the body of the Primal Pope!

As it turned out, Shangguan Chen wasn't some remnant soul at all. Though he was heavily injured, his Saint Grade body hadn't been destroyed; he had simply been faking it earlier.

"No wonder you wanted to lift Supreme Heaven's restriction," Su Mu said with a faint smile. "You just couldn't bear to part with the Pope's Saint Grade body."