Beneath the vault of heaven.
A small boat carried Su Yi and Ling Moyun as it sped through the void.
Su Yi sat comfortably aboard, drinking wine as he read the letter Heavenly Emperor Ku Xuan had just sent.
According to Heavenly Emperor Ku Xuan, nearly a hundred Heavenly Sovereigns would be participating in this Heaven's Mandate Competition.
These Heavenly Sovereigns all came from the factions of different Heavenly Emperors.
At first, Su Yi found it rather surprising.
But after looking through the list, he understood.
Most of the Heavenly Sovereigns participating in this Heaven's Mandate Contention were "old-timers" who had long remained at the Great Perfection of the Heaven's Mandate Realm!
All of them were just one opportunity away from becoming Heavenly Emperors!
One had to know that a million years had passed since the end of the Era of Dharma Decline and the beginning of the Kaiyuan Era.
Over those long years, who knew how many Heavenly Sovereigns had stalled just before becoming Heavenly Emperors, unable to advance another inch.
Su Yi even saw Heavenly Sovereigns from Jiang Wuchen's era on the list.
For instance, Pei Shi, the Great Elder of the Immeasurable Emperor Palace,
Five Dao Unifications, the Supreme Elder of the Southern Heaven Dao Court,
and Old Ancestor Guangji, junior brother of Wu Xu Tian Di, the founder of the Eternal Thunder Court.
And so on.
Every one of them was a towering magnate with overwhelming authority in an Upper Five Continents Heavenly Emperor-level faction. Their status was exalted, and their strength unfathomable.
Pick any one of them at random, and he could cow an entire region and make the cultivators of the world bow their heads.
Yet now, these great figures, whose seniority, status, authority, and strength all stood at the summit of the world,