"Where's Shi Wumian? Hurry up and get him back here!" The Heavenly Emperor's vision went black. This was a matter of life and death.
Could I not know that the cultivation world had spirit stones? Did I not want to go there and mine them?
The maid Cui'er was somewhat bewildered. In her impression, His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor had always been an image of someone who held great power in his hands, with everything under control. How could he ever have such an impatient moment?
"Your Majesty, General Shi's army is a million light-years from here. We can't notify him directly."
The maid's words reminded the Heavenly Emperor that communication between him and Shi Wumian was subject to a delay. By the time the message reached Shi Wumian's hands, the Biluo Heaven Army would have long since set out to conquer the cultivation world... Bah, could that be called conquering? That was called throwing their lives away!
No one knew the horrors of the cultivation world better than the Heavenly Emperor.
There were the former masters of the universe, the Ancient Four Immortals; the Immortal who had pioneered the path of the Dao Fruit, standing above the Ancient Four Immortals; the mysterious Immortal who had assassinated the Immortal and defeated the Ancient Four Immortals; the Central Heavenly Emperor and Siming, who hid in the shadows and whom he had never managed to find; the Great Xia Dynasty, which might possess one Immortal—or two; the gray-fog-shrouded Immortal whom the Qilin Immortal had once made him intercept; and Yun Zhi of the Ask Dao Sect, a rising star whose reputation had yet to spread, but whose cultivation was the greatest under Heaven...
He was unwilling to provoke any one of those factions!
After going through untold hardships and countless schemes, he