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To live a rebellious life for nine generations was something only a few people throughout eternity could ever accomplish; what they lacked was not anything else, but time.
An ordinary Great Emperor lived for only around ten thousand years, and even with the consumption of an Immortal Medicine, their lifespan still did not last as long as Ye Fan's single lifetime.
Subtracting the early stages of cultivation, they had so little time left. How could they possibly research the Longevity Path, let alone struggle across the mortal world and forcefully brew Longevity Substances within their own bodies?
More often than not, they ran out of time and were close to death before they could figure anything out, having not a single clue about how to defy the heavens for another life. In their old age, they either sat and transformed into dao, or severed themselves, or else went to brave that illusory Path to Immortality.
Great Emperors like Xue Yueqing and the Taiyin Human Emperor, unwilling to accept their curtain call, tried to blast open a path leading to the Immortal Domain. Their ends were usually even more miserable than sitting and transforming into dao, and not a single one of them ever succeeded.
Most of the self-severed Great Emperors also held expectations for the deduced Path to Immortality. Unwilling to die, they still pursued immortality.
If they, too, had been like the Saint Body achieving the Dao—gaining an extra lifetime of lifespan out of thin air—then presumably, certain astonishing emperors would have been able to walk a few more steps on the Immortal Path.
They would not have ended up like those in ancient history, where the successful ones were few and far between, resembling mere legends.
Zhang Huan's bloodline had now undergone atavism. Although different from a