There were only two pieces of the eggshell in total. Back when the Heavenly Emperor's body was still around, the Heaven Alliance was even more chaotic. At that time, anyone who could control the Heavenly Emperor's body could enter the ancestral land and take the eggshell.
But none of them wanted the eggshell to fall into someone else's hands. The strongest opposition came from Venerable Vast-Sky, and the other Heavenly Venerables and leaders of the Heaven Alliance also objected for their own reasons.
Later, when the Heaven Alliance finally unified and the elder Venerables like Venerable Ling and Venerable Yue faded from the stage, only the faction of Venerable Vast-Sky and Venerable Vastflood remained. They found that with no more opposition, the Heavenly Emperor's body was gone as well, and they still couldn't take the eggshell.
Everyone coveted the treasures in the Heavenly Emperor's ancestral land, but none of them had the strength to take the eggshell, so they had to give up.
Venerable Vast-Sky tried several times—even going so far as to drive the artifact Supreme Emperor into the ancestral land—but he never managed to get close to the altar.
All along, he considered those two pieces of eggshell to be his for the taking.
After all, the Heavenly Emperor was born from the egg, and the Heavenly Emperor was his father. In his mind, it was only natural that the Emperor's possessions should be inherited by him.
He never expected that, while they were all on guard against each other, someone would sneak into the ancestral land and steal one half of the eggshell!
Venerable Vast-Sky looked around, suppressing his anger, and said in a low voice, "Fellow Daoists, it hasn't been easy for us to get where we are today, nor to reach our current status. As long as you return the treasure, we are still fellow Daoists. But if you don't return it—heh, the Ten Heavenly Venerables may soon become Nine."
The surrounding Heavenly Venerables remained silent.
They all coveted the two halves of the eggshell from which the Heavenly Emperor was born.
The eggshell bore the most complete Dao runes of the Heavenly Emperor, but that wasn't its greatest use. Its true value was in sealing the Ancient-God Emperor!
Even if someone else obtained the Ancient-God Emperor's body, as long as you held the eggshell, you could still seal the Ancient-God Emperor inside it and suppress him!
If it could seal the Ancient-God Emperor's body, then sealing the artifact Supreme Emperor would be no problem at all.
With this treasure, one would hold a huge advantage among the Ten Heavenly Venerables—too bad only half remains now.
Who took the other half? That was what the Ten Heavenly Venerables cared about most.
Venerable Vast-Sky swept his gaze around, then laughed in fury and stormed off, saying, "Looks like the Ten Heavenly Venerables won't just become Nine—they might become Eight!"
He left in a rage, leaving the other seven Heavenly Venerables behind, but they still said nothing.
Suddenly, Consort Cherise broke the silence: "When I arrived, things were already like this. That treasure definitely wasn't taken by me. I did see a fellow Daoist piloting the Heavenly Emperor's body, entering here with Crown Prince Lucan."
Venerable Daybreak said coolly, "After Crown Prince Lucan left here, he hurried out of Heavenly Court and has vanished. He probably knows something—why not capture him and interrogate him thoroughly?"