(The backlog was running a little low, so there were only nine thousand words today, not ten thousand.)
Also, there were the dozens of crates of Enchanted Golden Apples Fang Zheng had given him before mysteriously disappearing.
Their resistance boost lasted five minutes and reduced all damage except Void damage by 20%. That precious percentage-based effect had allowed Taiyin and his allies to almost ignore the attacks of the hostile Supremes.
On the Immortal Ascension Road, more than a dozen Supremes who had sought to massacre all living beings were successfully killed.
Fortunately, with the Immortal Ascension Road serving as the battlefield, the universe had not suffered much collateral damage.
However...
Hearing this, Fang Zheng looked at Taiyin and asked curiously, "However what?"
"In the future you foresaw, didn't you kill them all?"
"Why did you call that a tragic future?"
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Taiyin paused his narration. After a moment of silence, he continued:
"However..."
"The battle among the Supremes on the Immortal Ascension Road drew someone here."
"A powerful figure from the Mythic Era who founded the Heavenly Court and created an age where multiple emperors coexisted—Di Zun!"
"Who was Di Zun?" Fang Zheng asked.
Taiyin sighed. "He was an unfortunate fellow."
"A... deeply tragic, yet admirable fellow."
Taiyin's account continued.
After the battle on the Immortal Ascension Road ended and the Immortal Realm Fragment began drifting away, Taiyin and the others returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands universe and finally began to relax. Then, an unexpected visitor arrived.
Across the entire universe, beginning from its desolate edge and extending through those uninhabited starfields, symbols left behind in ancient ages lit up one after another.
Taiyin, the sun, and other Supreme-level beings recognized them. They were runes used for artifact forging.
The runes lit across