The territory of a Rank Ten sacred land was already unimaginably vast, while each Great Realm had only two or three realm lord powerhouses.
For ordinary martial artists, the chance of witnessing a realm lord powerhouse even once in their lifetime was pitifully small.
As for Celestial Venerables, although they were scattered throughout the Ten Thousand Great Realms, they were all legendary figures in the vast universe.
From the moment martial artists embarked on the martial path, they looked toward the future and broke through their own limits step by step, achieving ever greater strength!
The divisions between major realms had merely been names established after someone reached each successive stage.
The Five Stages of the Fleshly Body, Xiantian, Illumination, Divine Core, Void Tribulation, Life and Death... then came the Three Transformations to Divinity, culminating in becoming a realm lord!
In theory, realm lords were already the limit martial artists could reach. They had walked the farthest path in the martial way through their own talent and perseverance.
Because beyond that point, perseverance and talent alone could no longer carry one forward. To continue, martial artists needed the Crown of Tianming—in other words, they had to bear Heaven's Mandate before they qualified to be conferred as Celestial Venerables!
There were only 128 Celestial Venerables in the entire vast universe, yet four had already appeared before them...
At this moment, Luo Zheng was somewhat speechless!
He did not even need to think to know that these Celestial Venerables had all come for the Crown of Tianming. It seemed this Crown of Tianming was far more important than Luo Zheng had imagined.
The most troublesome part was that the number of Celestial Venerables was still increasing...
The fifth...
The sixth...
The seventh...
"Buzz, buzz, buzz..."
Just then, a sword spirit continuously condensed