The newcomer smiled. A flash of light entered the infant's body, leaving behind a strand of divine sense to dwell in the child's Sea of Consciousness and make teaching easier. Then the mysterious River of Time appeared, ancient, undying, and sacred beyond measure. Several Quasi-Emperors were caught in its wake and instantly lost a thousand years of life.
Some Great Emperors tried to touch it, only for their hair to turn white.
Terrifying!
The newcomer stepped into the River of Time and vanished before everyone's eyes.
"Such... such a terrifying being! Even the River of Time trembled for her!"
"A legendary figure, one of the great emperors of the Primordial Era. To think she's still alive—and has reached such an unimaginable realm."
Duan De's eyes blazed. "Truly terrifying. Truly formidable.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, did you mean that she has a deep connection to that ancient figure in the Tian Xing Forbidden Zone?"
Jiang Tingting said, "If I'm not mistaken, she's my master's daughter."
"Hiss..."
"She roamed the Primordial Era. If that's true, the one in the Forbidden Zone has an even more terrifying origin."
Time flew by, and the wheels of history rolled ever onward.
In the four hundred thousandth year of the Heavenly Emperor Calendar, Ye Fan lived out his eighth life. He severed every trace of his Sacred Body's origin and became an ordinary mortal body, stirring an uproar.
He had severed his Chaotic Blood, then his sacred blood, until nothing but a mortal body remained. Most could not understand it. Only a few marveled that the Heavenly Emperor had returned to simplicity and perhaps glimpsed the source of all power in heaven and earth.
Ancient teachings held that the mortal body was the foundation. People failed to understand because they had not reached that realm. Now