The Great Calamity Begins, a Clash of Myriad Races, and the Eventual Collapse of the Ancestral World and Scattering of the Heavens

Mahayana practitioners.

In the immortal path, they were called immortal monarchs; in the divine path, they were called emperor lords.

Their radiance bore two crowns, ranking below Pure Yang. They represented the zenith of the Dao and held the highest nobility. Bestowed with purple ribbons by heaven, they were the sovereigns of immortals and deities.

The so-called imperial palaces were the dwelling places of such emperor lords.

Within the Shanhe World, Jiang Sheng had once witnessed the sleeping chambers that had belonged to Donghua Emperor during the epoch of the ancient immortals and deities.

Even after his death, that emperor lord was able to create a realm of reality and illusion in the East Sea that endured for forty thousand years.

The Benevolent and Sacred Heavenly-One Donghua Emperor of Dry Yang, former lord of the eastern blazing sun, was also the lord of the eastern netherworld.

His might was so blazing that even from the mere fragments in ancient texts, Jiang Sheng could glimpse a fraction of it.

And that mighty power of rotating creation, that divine ability to pierce through past and present, filled Jiang Sheng with boundless respect.

It could be said that Jiang Sheng's attainment of immortal deity Taiyi and realization of the true-cave Dao fruit was borne from his karmic cause and effect with Donghua Emperor.

If Donghua Emperor had not left the Day-Night Interstice, that supreme treasure, to Jiang Sheng, how could Jiang Sheng have attained today?

Not to mention that his close friend Lin Fan had inherited nearly the entirety of Donghua Emperor's legacy.

The legacy of a single emperor lord was enough to propel a mortal instantly into the ranks of immortal deities.

As the final stage of the Upper Three Realms and the ninth of the nine immortal-mortal tiers, the Mahayana realm