Yet in the cultivation world, the King Realm was a watershed.
In the eyes of many cultivators, only upon becoming a king had one truly entered the inner halls of cultivation and earned the title of a high-level cultivator.
As for the Emperor Realm, in the vast majority of dynasties, those who reached it could already be called supreme powerhouses.
What did it mean to be supreme? To reverse yin and yang, command heaven and earth, tower over the world with unmatched might, and awe all living things—throughout the four seas and eight wildernesses, none dared disobey. That was supremacy!
When no Great Emperor appeared, the Emperor Realm reigned supreme!
Take Great Xia, for example. Its territory was vast, its lands boundless, and it held ten billion people and countless other living beings, yet it had only three Great Emperors!
Apart from those three, Emperor Realm cultivators were invincible!
In truth, upon reaching the Emperor Realm, the vast majority of living beings had already transcended the Mortal World. They lived in seclusion, paid no heed to worldly affairs, and drifted through life like immortals.
Under all heaven, scarcely anything could move a Great Emperor.
By comparison, Emperor Realm cultivators were the peerless powerhouses that beings in the Mortal World could actually encounter.
This held true in every dynasty!
Even the great dynasties and super dynasties had extremely limited numbers of Emperor Realm cultivators. Like divine dragons whose heads appeared but whose tails remained unseen, they were impossible to find unless disaster threatened the dynasty's survival.
"We respectfully obey the Turtle Emperor's decree!" Amid the mountains and ravines, countless demons knelt with their heads bowed and answered reverently.
Although they had never had any dealings with Black Tortoise Mountain and each had their own king, none dared defy a Demon Emperor's