Secluded Wind Forest, valley, Chi Yu's Dojo.
Inside the cave dwelling, Chi Yu, having finished Devouring Spirit Breathing, opened his sacred eyes.
Dao Emperor Realm Stage 7. Though he was still several major realms away from the Dao Venerable Realm, within the vast Dao Venerable World, he already stood among the very strongest.
The supreme experts of the Dao Venerable Realm were all hidden away in seclusion, unconcerned with worldly affairs, their minds wholly focused on the Dao Realm.
Unless their sect faced the calamity of annihilation, they would not easily emerge from seclusion.
The strongest experts openly active in the world were those of the Dao Ancestor Realm, most of them Supreme Elders of major powers.
Below the Dao Ancestor Realm was the Dao Emperor Realm. The publicly known sect masters and clan heads of the Dao Venerable World were mostly at this realm.
Below the Dao Emperor Realm came the Dao Emperor Realm, which was also the cultivation level possessed by elders of top-tier forces.
For a small dynasty like Great Yue, its highest combat power was merely Martial Ancestor Stage 9 or Dao Sect Stage 9.
That was why, with a Martial Ancestor Realm dean presiding over the Martial Dao Academy, the people flocked to it, and the entire city was shocked.
It even alarmed Nangong Linning, far away in the Great Yue Royal Capital.
No one knew how much time had passed. Since parting with Little Yu Village, Nangong Linning had traveled south and entered a sect called the Clear River Sect, where she cultivated in secret.
Several years later, she left the sect with several elders and returned to the Great Yue Dynasty, crushing more than a dozen other princes with absolute strength.
She then revealed the late king's imperial edict and, with lightning speed,