False-kings were also known as the fake king stage.

This stage was used in reference to the cultivators who had not gained their dao roots upon getting to the Life Death King Stage.

The dao roots were also known as the roots of the great dao. They were mysterious and converged a cultivator’s foundation of the great dao, and it provided a place for the cultivator’s center of power to reside in.

If a king-level expert didn't have dao roots, then they were destined to be floating duckweed, drifting and fading away. They could only stop at the king-stage and were unable to search for longevity.

Having no dao roots was the difference between a false-king and a real king.

Old Monster Mo Xi was the best example of this. If he had dao roots, then unless his dao roots were destroyed, it’d be impossible to kill him that easily!

……

Old Monster Mo Xi had stepped into the king stage more than ten years ago. Perhaps it was because he was restricted by his own aptitude or perhaps it was because he didn’t have the time to set down dao roots, but regardless, that was why he had died so easily.

However, whenever he thought that he had merely slaughtered a false-king and used up over thirty thousand high grade aeth essences to do so, Lin Xun felt his heart throb with pain.

Crash~

Lin Xun put away the Four Divisions King Array, revealing Mo...