Chapter 1409: Chapter 1409

Owen Bertram handed over the Demon Heart, wanted to say something comforting, but felt that he really had no right to say anything, so he nodded and went down the mountain first.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, Owen Bertram felt a great grief that seemed to manifest as a damp, cold black mist, enveloping the entire mountain.

In front of the tomb, the flame on Princess Amelia’s phoenix tail had turned pitch black! She knelt before her mother’s grave without tears, her eyes blank.

Nobody knew what she was thinking. For a moment, her eyes moved again, and she slowly opened a Storage Brocade Pouch, containing a set of cooking utensils: large and small knives, forks, axes, hammers... all readily available.

Princess Amelia selected the utensils carefully and finally found the satisfactory ones. She then began to cut the gigantic Demon Heart. Her movements seemed slow but were incredibly efficient. In no time, the gigantic Demon Heart had been sliced into thin pieces by her. She picked up a fork, sat down, and started eating the Demon Heart sashimi, bite by bite.

When it got dark, Little Princess came down from the mountain, her emotions seemingly unshaken.

"Brother, let’s go," she said to Owen Bertram. "The Ancient Annihilation Domain beneath the Imperial Tomb of that old geezer has a sleeping Tire-9 ancient demon, who was once called the Seven-Hearted Demon Lord, known as the number one Demon Array expert. Perhaps because he was too confident, after setting up his sleeping place in the ancient domain, he used a special Demon Array to forcefully maintain a thread of connection between the ancient domain and the outside world."

"This connection should have allowed him to sense changes in the outside world while he slept, so that he could wake up at the most appropriate time."

"But he underestimated the harm caused by the Heavenly Track Reversal. The rules of the Heavenly Track in the outside world infiltrated through this connection, and over time, they completely suppressed the Seven-Hearted Demon Lord, making it impossible for him to wake up again."

"It was precisely because that old geezer discovered this connection that he was able to deduce the situation in the Ancient Annihilation Domain. He constructed the mausoleum, widened this connection, and extracted the power of the Seven-Hearted Demon Lord. In the deepest part of the mausoleum, where it connects to the Ancient Annihilation Domain, the power solidified into a Monster Core. According to his estimates, this setup could extract up to 80% of the Seven-Hearted Demon Lord’s power."

"However, now that the old geezer is dead and the Demon Emperor apparently has no intention of taking the corpse back from you, this mausoleum might eventually become a cenotaph. We need to act quickly, otherwise, if the Demon Court sends people, they will discover the secret beneath the tomb."

"Brother, I don’t want a Tire-8 Demon Saint to emerge among the demon clan, and I don’t want that Demon Saint to be anyone but me."

"Let’s join forces to open up the Ancient Annihilation Domain. Brother, you take that Tire-8 Monster Core, and I want the Seven-Hearted Demon Lord’s treasure, the Star Tethering Plate."

Owen Bertram looked at her: "Wouldn’t it be better for you to take both the Tire-8 Monster Core and the Star Tethering Plate?"

Little Princess shook her head: "You’re right, Brother. Both that old geezer’s mausoleum and the Ancient Annihilation Domain are extremely dangerous. I’m not confident in getting the items out on my own - you’ll understand once we get to the Imperial Tomb."

"Besides, you can’t use the Monster Core right away. When we become family in the future, won’t your belongings be mine too?"

"In your dreams," Owen Bertram sneered. Princess Amelia gave a strange smile, but didn’t argue back. Owen Bertram always felt that her behavior was strange and couldn’t see through her schemes, so he reminded himself to be careful in secret.

For Owen Bertram, no matter what, he couldn’t let that Tire-8 Monster Core fall into the hands of the demon clan - neither the hands of the Nine Witch Demon Court nor those of Princess Amelia.

During the second half of the night, the two stood in front of the main entrance of the Grand Emperor Palace. It was eerily quiet, and the entire palace was pitch black without any lights in the late night.

Owen Bertram found it strange, but Princess Amelia thought it was only natural: "The old geezer is harsh, ungrateful, and constantly killed palace maids. After his death, the Emperor didn’t dare retrieve his body from you. The Emperor likely wanted to display his ’filial piety’ by having these palace maids buried with the old geezer, so everyone naturally packed up the valuables in the palace and fled beforehand."

"It’s just some items that are considered valuable to ordinary people. As for resources related to cultivation, the old geezer has almost consumed them all."

She waved at Owen Bertram: "Don’t bother looking around, there’s nothing interesting in the palace. Let’s go to the mausoleum." Owen Bertram followed behind her, reaching the Imperial Tomb less than thirty miles away with ease.

Two buildings, one for the living and one for the dead, both equally grand, majestic, and even more solid in terms of materials for the dead.

"The old geezer never allowed me to come here," Little Princess said with a smug expression, "He told me this place was unlucky. Heh, his schemes couldn’t fool me. When I was nine, I secretly took his blueprint for the construction of the Imperial Tomb."

As she spoke, she opened her Jade Hand and waved it in front of her. A faint golden glow automatically formed a 3D architectural structure.

Little Princess pointed to a location in the structure: "We are here. When the old geezer was constructing the imperial tomb, he was still in power and controlled everything. In the tomb, in addition to layers upon layers of Demon Array mechanisms, he also caught various demons, ghosts, and goblins from all over the country to serve as his tomb guards."

Her fingertip lit up with a green starlight, and as her finger drew, a path appeared in the construction blueprint: "Brother, if we follow this path, we will encounter the least obstacles."