After the civil war among the thousand Great Emperors within the Origin Source World, only 432 Great Emperors had actually survived. The hundred thousand Holy King Tier cultivators had grown to more than three million at the time, but only six hundred thousand remained after the war.
Countless Saint-tier cultivators had died or been wounded, too many to count. The surviving Great Emperors could no longer keep up their deception, and so they were slaughtered by the Element Lords after they awakened.
Twelve Flame Souls had been one of the first Great Emperors to die. His death had been utterly humiliating: after suffering severe internal injuries during the Great Emperor war, he had been lured by the Fire Element Lord to the Chaotic Source Realm east of Deadman City.
The moment he arrived, the Fire Element Lord struck and wounded him, extracting half his bloodline to create the Monster Great Emperor. Unwilling to die, Twelve Flame Souls self-destructed his body. Ninety percent of the remaining half of his bloodline escaped, but the Fate God Ice Race lying in ambush here had imprisoned the other ten percent by sacrificing themselves.
"The Fate God Ice Race." Twelve Flame Souls gave Jiu Xu several coordinates. He was still connected to his incarnation and could see what was happening outside the Chaotic Source World.
A flash of light passed, and Jiu Xu teleported Lu Yang into an extraordinarily bizarre world. Vast swathes of nine-colored water continuously fell from the sky.
A frozen continent stretched across the ground, its edges invisible in either direction. Atop the continent stood an ice mountain nearly thirty million kilometers tall.
A drifting cloud crashed into the ice mountain and swiftly transformed into pure white ice. It fell to the ground and rapidly merged into the mountain, as if it