Cultivating demonic arts still left a sliver of life; offering up faith meant certain death!

Far Northern Star Region.

This was one of the larger super star regions at the edge of the northern universe. A Northern Emperor had once emerged here, immensely powerful and capable of overshadowing his age. He had also made a tremendous name for himself on the Eternal Continent.

Unfortunately, he had been defeated by the Human Race Celestial Emperor. From then on, he returned to the Far Northern Star Region and never took a single step beyond it until he finally passed away.

The Far Northern Star Region was now utterly desolate. Chen Fan and the others looked out to see that all living beings on the countless Ancient Life Stars within it had their hands pressed together, silently chanting scriptures.

Some had already died, becoming desiccated corpses. Others were barely clinging to life, yet they had never moved even half a step.

The scene on the Far Northern Star Region's core, the Northern Continent, was even more spectacular.

Buddha Emperor Shakya, who had already broken through to become a Cosmic Emperor, wore a purple-gold kasaya and held the Nine-Ringed Staff. The power of the Great Dao of Faith within him radiated outward in every direction.

He sat high atop the central divine mountain of the Northern Continent. The power of faith transformed into one mysterious rune after another and merged into the bodies of all beings, making them sit cross-legged day and night as they recited the Buddhist scriptures created by Buddha Emperor Shakya, continuously providing him with inexhaustible faith power.

Even the divine mountain beneath Buddha Emperor Shakya had been coated in a layer of golden radiance by that endless faith power. He himself looked like a Buddha descended into the mortal world, solemn and majestic.

Beside Buddha Emperor Shakya, apart from Shakya's disciples, stood six Cosmic Emperor-level