The long years passed, and the God Han Era of old was gone.
Now, Liu Xiu had ushered in the Heavenly Han Flourishing Age with the might of the Red Firmament. The Nine Provinces Earth had returned to orthodoxy, and rites and music had flourished once more.
Yet the foundation of this glorious Heavenly Han rested upon half of a shattered Small Heavenly Realm.
That ancient heavenly domain which had fallen into the Earth Immortal Realm was scarred beyond recognition. It no longer possessed the majesty of the Heavenly Realm of old, leaving behind only broken realm membranes and scattered laws to sustain its outward appearance.
The so-called Heavenly Han Flourishing Age was, in the end, merely the splendor of an ephemeral blossom.
Above the Nine Heavens, Haotian lowered his gaze. His eyes pierced through the Sea of Clouds as he looked down upon that half of the Heavenly Realm which had fallen into the Earth Immortal Realm.
When the Heavenly Realm had shattered in the past, half its domain had sunk into the Eastern Divine Continent, becoming a chessboard upon which human forces contended. And he was the most secretive player moving the pieces upon that board.
Mountains and rivers, the rise and fall of dynasties, the flourishing and decline of gods and demons—all lay within a single thought of his. His grand design encompassing the Earth Immortal Realm had already begun.
So what if there was Huang Tian? His legitimacy had been bestowed by the supreme Heavenly Emperor. Beneath Hunyuan, all were ants! But beneath the Heavenly Emperor... what of Hunyuan?
In the shadows of the Three Realms, undercurrents surged. The upheaval caused by the deaths of two Chaos Demon Gods had yet to fully subside.
Li Fan and Ziguang had slain the Curse Demon God and reclaimed