At the summit of the Nine Heavens.
High above the countless heavenly realms.
Haotian, the Heavenly Emperor, sat high upon a dragon-carved throne.
He wore an imperial crown and a pale white imperial robe, and profound imperial might radiated from him.
He made no move.
Nor did he speak a threat.
Yet as he sat there and fixed his stern, cold eyes on them, they felt a dominance that held life and death for all things in its grasp. His authority brooked no doubt; his presence commanded awe without a word!!
It made people lower their heads in submission, afraid to meet his gaze!!!
Haotian had once been a Daoist Attendant, born when the Dao Ancestor awakened a Chaos Stubborn Stone.
He had cultivated under the Dao Ancestor for countless Yuan Hui. Then the Witch-Demon Tribulation devastated heaven and earth, shattering the Primordial Wilderness's Earth Veins, bringing misery to all living beings, and leaving the Heavenly Court without a ruler.
The Dao Ancestor saw that, with no one to govern the myriad beings, chaos and disaster kept breaking out.
So he appointed Haotian and Yaochi.
Haotian became the Great Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Wilderness, taking charge of the Heavenly Court to govern all things, uphold the natural order, and regulate immortals. Yaochi became the Head of Female Immortals and assisted him.
In the past,
when Haotian first became Heavenly Emperor, he had been meek and had no one to help him.
He had gone around humbling himself before the Primordial Great Powers, though he was only a Late Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
But who could have known?
After all these years of cultivation,
in less than a single Yuan Hui by the Primordial Wilderness's Old Calendar,
Haotian had reached such a realm. His grasp of his Great Dao and