Emperor Qinling was thus able to sweep away the major cultivation sects of the Crimson Abyss Continent in one fell swoop. Those who submitted prospered; those who resisted perished. Aside from the barbaric wilderness in the far north and the miasma-ridden lands in the extreme south, most of the Crimson Abyss Continent had fallen under Qin's dominion. Those unwilling to submit fled into mountain ranges teeming with demonic beasts, crossed the endless seas to the east, or headed south to seek refuge in the miasmic wastelands.
Qin became an unprecedentedly vast cultivation empire on the Crimson Abyss Continent. Emperor Qinling, too, ushered in an unparalleled golden age of the immortal dynasty.
Later, Emperor Qinling vanished without a trace. Some said he had exhausted his lifespan and fallen; others claimed he had shattered the void and reached another cultivation plane of a higher order. Countless legends abounded. After Emperor Qinling disappeared, the immense empire he had forged through an iron hand lasted less than a thousand years before collapsing with a thunderous crash. From then on, the Crimson Abyss Continent split into hundreds of cultivation states of varying sizes and entered an age of wars among nations. After Emperor Qinling, no one possessed such commanding authority again. Some cultivation sects rose from the ashes and established their sects anew, yet these immortal sects could no longer shake the landscape dominated by the great immortal dynasties of the Crimson Abyss Continent.
Hearing of the era Emperor Qinling had founded hundreds of thousands of years ago, an era that had laid the foundation for the cultivation landscape of today's Crimson Abyss Continent, Lu Xiaotian could not help but feel his heart race with yearning. A single person had influenced an entire continent for hundreds of thousands of years—just how formidable must he have