What in the world has happened to this world...
Gai Jiuyou, hiding in the shadows, looked at the Azure Emperor's killing intent ahead of him and the Nine-Orifice Spirit Stone that was about to become a Holy Spirit. His face was filled with utter disbelief.
As someone who had achieved an alternative Dao under the suppression of the Azure Emperor's Great Dao, Gai Jiuyou's talent was beyond doubt. In any other era, he would certainly have become an emperor.
Yet now, he constantly found himself wondering whether the thousands of years he had lived before had all been a lie.
Back then, aside from being gravely injured when he tried to forcefully become an emperor, leaving him sickly ever since, there had not been many major twists and turns in his millennia-long life.
However, everything had changed since the last dark turmoil.
How many years had it even been?
First came the dark turmoil, when two supreme beings from the forbidden zones suddenly broke free from their seals.
Under those circumstances, even if he borrowed an imperial weapon and risked his life, he could probably only do his best and leave the rest to fate.
Yet the Void Great Emperor had appeared. He attacked with the might of one reborn, directly suppressing the darkness alongside the others. He had even found the True Dragon Immortal Medicine for Gai Jiuyou, prolonging his life despite his repeated injuries.
Whether it was the damage to his origin from trying to forcefully attain the Dao beneath the Azure Emperor's Great Dao, or the overexertion inflicted by fighting the darkness at its ultimate sublimation, both could be considered fatal. Only the miraculous power of the Immortal Medicine had allowed him to recover this much.
People had to have dreams, after all. Having finally recovered to