There had originally been nothing strange about it. Although that battle had indeed shaken heaven and earth, involving eight Emperors—nine, including Emperor Qin—it had made Ye Xiwen think of something else: the Selection of Emperor Road. Could it have been connected to the Selection of Emperor Road?
Or rather, it had been connected all along. Emperor Qin had later attempted to conquer the Selection of Emperor Road, but ultimately failed. A great battle seemed to have broken out then as well, yet no one knew the result. They only knew that Emperor Qin had abandoned his campaign against the Selection of Emperor Road.
After that, Emperor Qin had fought unknown enemies many times.
Combined with what Ye Xiwen himself had encountered before, many things he had once been unable to understand suddenly became clear.
Those people should have been the Emperors originally cultivated within the Selection of Emperor Road. Including Di Ni, there should have been nine of them.
If that was the case, after Emperor Qin had slain five of them and Ye Xiwen had killed Di Ni, there should have been three left.
From the records of the Martial Sect, Ye Xiwen learned the names of those remaining three: Treasure Emperor, Overlord, and Jade Emperor.
Not even the Martial Sect's upper echelons knew this, because only an Emperor could open that ancient record. After Emperor Qin, no one in the Martial Sect had ever become an Emperor again. Thus, it was not until Ye Xiwen saw and read it that this stretch of history finally saw the light of day and became known once more.
It was precisely because of this that Ye Xiwen felt a sense of crisis. This was not merely his own wild speculation. He had indeed fought that person before. Though the person's true