A thousand years later, Jiuzhou had gathered countless powerful experts.
There was the reborn Ancestral Dragon, the Martial Ancestor who had defied fate and returned, the present selves of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the supreme Ancestral Gods of the Heaven-Defying Family, Ge Gan, the tenth son of the Progenitor Dragon and the Human Demon... Over the years, Jiuzhou had grown strong and flourishing.
As the experts of the Heavens gathered, the Ninety-Nine Steps had risen once more. At their end stood an enormous altar, where dozens of worlds were being offered as sacrifices.
The stone gate at the end of the Ninety-Nine Steps had already opened a crack.
Boundless black mist began spreading from the end of the Ninety-Nine Steps, carrying strands of terrifying auras. The experts of the Heavens were no strangers to that dreadful aura, for they had personally experienced the might of the demonic shadow before.
No one wanted the demonic shadow to appear again, just as they had once been unwilling to see the Little Stone Emperor reach the pinnacle.
But Lu Zhan had long made preparations. As the kings of the Heavens gathered, flames blazed fiercely atop the enormous altar, and the stone gate slowly began to open.
An endless and terrifying aura surged forth from the stone gate, sweeping across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
That terrifying aura rivaled the Little Stone Emperor's, shaking the Heavens and Myriad Worlds and filling the kings with terror. Behind the stone gate at the end of the Ninety-Nine Steps, a demonic shadow was condensing.
The kings were horrified and no longer dared take another step forward. From this king, they sensed an aura of utter despair.
They had felt such an aura before—on the Little Stone Emperor.
At the same time, Xiao Chen discovered the