Is It a Minor Detail or the Greater Trend?

Generals with mediocre moral standards would usually motivate their troops before battle by dangling "three days of slaughtering a city," "seven days of looting," or "ten days of ravaging" before them like carrots before donkeys. Thus came the three-stage saying: "Bandits comb, soldiers rake, officials shave."

Without self-slashing, and having survived five generations against the odds, Emperor Venerate was simply too powerful.

Powerful enough to make the Supremes from the "Life Forbidden Zone" tremble in fear.

On one hand, Undying Emperor feared Emperor Venerate. On the other, he longed to become the new "Emperor Venerate" of the Covering the Sky Universe. Thus, he had no choice but to promise that after killing Emperor Venerate, he would leave the "Life Forbidden Zone" alone and allow its Forbidden Zone Supremes to venture out and feed, turning all the foundations accumulated by the "Heavenly Court Era" over more than a hundred thousand years into food for the Forbidden Zone Supremes.

"Every man for himself, and the heavens will destroy him." Undying Emperor had never had much in the way of principles to begin with.

Emperor Venerate fell, the Heavenly Court collapsed, the Supremes emerged, and the turmoil began.

Once the Forbidden Zone Supremes had eaten their fill, leaving behind a few seedlings before returning to the "Life Forbidden Zone" to continue hiding, Undying Emperor would seize the opportunity to boast that he had driven away the Forbidden Zone Supremes. He would gain both the appearance and the substance of victory.

By seizing the foundations accumulated during the "Heavenly Court Era," the "Life Forbidden Zone" would gain at least another hundred thousand years of peace.

History was written by the victors.

This would let all living beings understand the terror of the Dark Turmoil, erase the "Heavenly Court" established by Emperor Venerate from the