Chapter 1224: The First Quasi-Main God Supplicant - Blood Moon Child!

Chapter 1224 - The First Deputy Supreme God: Blood Moon Zi!

In the Imperial Palace of the Sun Empire.

Zhou Zhou sat upon the imperial throne, gazing down at Blood Moon Zi beneath him, a faint smile playing upon his lips.

"Any recent gains?"

Blood Moon Zi shook his head.

"Your Majesty, I have not yet found the opportunity to restore my Supreme God strength."

"But I did unexpectedly encounter several True Gods of the Titan race, and I took them out in turn—this serves as a small repayment for the debt owed by the Titan race."

Zhou Zhou chuckled softly.

A Supreme God whose power had plummeted to the level of a True God would be a formidable threat even to the Titan God Clan.

When Blood Moon Zi one day regained his Supreme God strength, even the Titan God Clan would have to take him seriously as a true adversary.

After all, a master god-tier powerhouse—within the Titan God Clan alone, he ranked among the elite.

No top-bloodline race would dare look down upon such a force!

"Previously, I sent you a message. Have you considered my offer?"

Zhou Zhou, though already guessing the answer, still had to follow protocol and ask.

"Imperial Lord, you have honored the Blood Moon Clan, not shunning the burdens carried by my lineage. I am deeply grateful for your hospitality and would never refuse such a noble gesture."

"Your servant, Blood Moon, bows before the Emperor!"

Blood Moon spoke with solemn respect.

"Think carefully—your current enemy is only the Titan God Clan. But should you join my faction, the Primordial Spirit Clan, the Herd God Clan, the Chaos God Clan, and all other elite bloodline races will regard you as a threat. Then, your troubles will only multiply."

Zhou Zhou smiled gently at Blood Moon.

"Actually, I believe there's little difference between offending one Titan God Clan and offending numerous elite bloodline races."

"Most importantly, I believe Your Majesty’s Blazing Sun Empire is well worth joining, and Your Majesty is a sovereign truly worthy of my allegiance. That is why I desire to enter your service."

"This is by no means a choice forced upon me by circumstance."

"Furthermore, with Your Majesty's grand descent, many races now believe that a new era is dawning—one where the Lords of All Races shall rise. Perhaps, in the days to come, even those supreme bloodline races will be utterly erased by your hand."

"Speaking of which, as Your Majesty is well aware, it was precisely one of those supreme bloodlines, the Titan Pantheon, that struck me down and destroyed me all those years ago."

"Truth be told, I have long grown weary of those exalted bloodlines who carry themselves as the absolute masters of the boundless heavens!"

"Should Your Majesty truly intend to eradicate those supreme races, especially the Titans, I am more than willing to serve you with the fierce loyalty of a hound or a horse, acting as your vanguard at the very front of the battle line!"

Blood Moon Boy spoke with utmost gravity.

His voice carried a staggering amount of resentment.

It was glaringly obvious that he harbored a deep, bone-deep hatred for the Titan Pantheon, who had slaughtered him until nothing remained but a lingering fragment of his will.

"Excellent!"

"I grant your request!"

Zhou Zhou stood up from the imperial throne, smiling warmly at Xue Yue Zi.

After experiencing the events with Yuril and Yuzandah, Zhou Zhou had come to understand that there was no real possibility of reconciliation between himself and the Titan God Clan.

Between them, it was either one's death or his survival.

And so,

Zhou Zhou naturally would not choose to die himself.

Therefore, the only path left was to wait until the Titan God Clan had fully risen, and then let that threat vanish silently into the forest of races.

"From this day forward, you shall be the first provisional chief divine vassal of the Jiaoyang Empire!"

"All your privileges shall be equal to those of a full divine vassal—only with the designation 'provisional' appended."

"When you fully recover your divine power, you may remove that 'provisional' title and become a true chief divine vassal of the Jiaoyang Empire!"

Zhou Zhou spoke.

"Thank you, Emperor!"

Inside Blood Moon's heart, a deep sense of gratitude stirred, and he spoke with great excitement.

He could never have imagined that, before he had even regained his Master God strength, the Emperor of the People, beneath whose banner he stood, would treat him with the honors of a Master God offering.

How deeply trusted he was!

At this moment, Blood Moon felt ashamed of his earlier suspicions—about Zhou Zhou's possibly having summoned him for ulterior motives—before he had come.

"By tradition, if a true god-level offering joins our nation, I shall bestow upon them a True Divine Artifact and lend them five other True Divine Artifacts from different positions."

"You are the first near-Master God offering of our nation. Though currently possessing the strength of a Supreme True God, I still intend to gift you one Master Artifact."

"So that when you eventually regain Master God strength, you may immediately utilize it."

"Take a look."

Zhou Zhou finished speaking, and in a single thought, he saw a world ring materialize out of nowhere before the Blood Moon child.

The Blood Moon child did not immediately reach out to take it. Instead, he stared blankly at Zhou Zhou.

Had he just heard something?

The Emperor was offering himself a primary divine artifact?!

Was the Emperor joking?

That was a primary divine artifact!

The vast majority of primary deities had never possessed one. Even among the top-tier primary deities—such as the Ten Great Primary Deities—each could have at most one or two primary divine artifacts, supplemented by true divine artifacts.

He, even at his peak, was merely a subordinate deity. A primary divine artifact? He had never seen one. To him, it was practically a legendary relic.

And now, the Emperor was saying he was offering it to him?

He stood frozen for a long while, only coming back to himself with trembling hands, grasping the ring, then turning to look inside.

Then He was silenced.

For this world ring—no, this was not merely a world ring, but a world ring of the grandest scale, one capable of containing entire universes!

And within it, clearly arranged, stood seven divine artifacts.

Six of them were true divine artifacts—perfectly forming a set of divine gear—and to His astonishment, these six true artifacts were all of the yin nature, perfectly aligned with His own lunar law. Indeed, should He don this set of true artifacts matching the attributes of his own cosmic principle, his combat power would surge exponentially, soaring beyond a hundredfold, placing him among the very apex of true gods among the upper-tier deities!

That was not the crucial point.

The true significance lay in the single artifact, radiating an overwhelming divine pressure, encased within the six true artifacts—this one, pulsing with a pressure that dwarfed all others, crushing the trembling true artifacts around it.

It appeared as a true Taiyin Star, its form shifting slowly—first from a radiant full moon, then gradually dimming into a new moon, from bright to dim, then back again, forming a perfect cycle.

A vast, chilling, profoundly yin cosmic law emanated from it.

The Blood Moon child, upon seeing this "moon," could not help but hold his breath.

His eyes were filled with astonishment.

"The Master Artifact..."

"Actually, it is truly a Master Artifact..."

"Wouldn't even the Ten Master Gods be utterly obsessed if they saw something like this?"

Xue Yue murmured, barely able to contain his awe.

He did not yet know that, just moments ago, the Celestial Emperor Sovereign before him had gifted several Master Artifacts to three of the Ten Master God-level beings, sending them away richly rewarded.

Compared to the Master Artifacts of the Master God tier that those beings had received, the Master God-level artifact before him—the 'Phantom Moon Sacred Ring'—was merely average.

Yet even this ordinary artifact had caused profound psychological shock within Xue Yue.