Having become a Red Dust Immortal, Shi Hao was even more unstoppable. The Heavenly Court held sway over the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and none dared defy it.
In the Age of Dharma Decline, cultivators had short lifespans. Shi Village still stood, but Shi Hao had long since sealed his old companions within the Three-Life Bronze Coffin, leaving them to await the future.
The True Dragon had returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to cultivate in seclusion, while Red Dust had returned to Seven Star Academy.
Only then did Shi Hao learn that Red Dust had founded Seven Star Academy. No wonder its foundations were so formidable.
Within the Primordial Gate, Di Tianfeng led the Willow Deity and the Lord of Life and Death deep into a magnificent palace.
The world around them changed completely. Had they not known they were inside a palace, they would have thought they had entered an entirely new universe.
At the center of this world, a corpse burned. It belonged to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor of the Di Luo Era, and its emperor fire had never gone out, from that era to the present.
"Why does the sage who left footprints on the Boundary Sea's embankment seem so familiar?" the Willow Deity murmured.
"Is it him? Was that experience real?"
Di Tianfeng sighed. "Yes, it's him. Sadly, he stood alone, without support, and was slain by four Quasi-Immortal Emperors. Now, only a mass of emperor fire remains.
"I never expected that, when I entered Tongtian Ancient Land back then, each step would carry me across an epoch. I leaped from the Primordial Era into Di Luo, then from Di Luo into the Immortal Ancient Era and the Chaotic Ancient Era.
"At the end of Di Luo and the beginning of