Clouds Above, Myriad Immortals!
"What is a Celestial Sovereign?" Lin Bai asked curiously.
Xu Li said in a deep voice, "There is an Eternal Tablet inside the Ancestral Temple. You know about it, right?"
"This Eternal Tablet was said to be capable of seeing events that happened before the dawn of history and foreseeing events that were about to happen in the future. It could hear the soul-rending cries from the passage of time, as well as the songs of a glorious future age."
"Many powerful figures had once tried to seize the Eternal Tablet."
"Even the Central Sacred Nation, the Sword God Family, and the Poison God Family had all set their sights on it."
"But to this day, not a single faction had managed to take the Eternal Tablet away from the Ancestral Temple."
"It was said that many years ago, when the Eternal Tablet had first appeared on the lands of the Southern Continent, the emperor of the Central Sacred Nation had personally led an expedition. His vast army had reached the city walls and surrounded the Ancestral Temple. He had been only a step away from taking the Eternal Tablet, but in the end, even that emperor had failed to carry it away."
"Not only that, after returning to the Central Sacred Nation, that emperor had suffered severe injuries and nearly died. It had taken him two whole years to install a new emperor before abdicating and passing away."
"After that, the Central Sacred Nation had no longer dared to come to the Ancestral Temple of the Southern Continent to seize the Eternal Tablet."
"It was said that... a powerful figure had been guarding the Eternal Tablet."
"And even now, the martial artists of the Southern Continent did indeed know that powerful figures were cultivating inside