"Time had passed, seas had turned to mulberry fields. Few people remembered that Emperor now. Only atop this dam could one still vaguely see the footprints he left behind."
"He had no name?"
"Perhaps he did, but I do not know it. You may call him the Footprint Emperor!"
An ancient existence.
A lifeform from ages past.
At first sight of the Void Warship,
he recognized this Emperor Fall Boat.
The Emperor Fall Era.
The sorrow of all living beings.
It was an era people missed beyond measure.
It was also an era filled with immeasurable regret.
The Emperor Fall Era was not at fault.
The Emperor Fall Era had once been glorious beyond compare.
This Emperor Fall Boat had originally been the warship with which that Emperor conquered the All Heavens Myriad Realms.
Yet with that Emperor's fall, it became the epitaph of an era.
As that Emperor faded into obscurity,
the Emperor Fall Boat withdrew from the world as well.
But today,
when Human Emperor Shi Yi piloted the Emperor Fall Boat, this Void Warship, and descended upon the Boundary Sea Dam with a three-billion-strong army,
everyone saw the Human Emperor Banner hanging from the Emperor Fall Boat. The Emperor Fire burning upon it made their hearts clench.
He... had returned!
He... was not dead?
Upon the Boundary Sea Dam, scattered footprints appeared out of thin air on the dam stained with blood and tears.
A figure whose gender could not be distinguished suddenly crossed endless time and space and appeared atop the dam.
"I..."
"In the end..."
"Did I still fail?"
Other than the Willow Deity, no living being could perceive the form of this genderless figure.
Even Shi Yi merely sensed, for no apparent reason, that some unimaginable existence had suddenly descended.
"Teacher?"
Shi Yi would