In the Big Dipper, within the Red Dust Forbidden Zone, Di Qilin was slumbering. Di Tianfeng was still refining True Phoenix blood within a rift in space. After refining nine drops of dragon blood, Di Jinglong had entered a state of transformation.
Time flew by. Red Dust returned, and after cultivating to the pinnacle of the Human Dao, she began finding new ways to court death, again and again.
After courting death, she returned time after time. On several occasions, she had nearly become lost forever.
Ten thousand years passed after another. Ye Fan had already attained the Dao and become an emperor, suppressing the Forbidden Zones and establishing the Heavenly Court.
Ye Fan had even lived out his fourth life, his cultivation earth-shattering.
In the six hundred thousandth year of the Heavenly Emperor Calendar, Red Dust had completed her ninth life. She had become an emperor in all nine lives.
Yet she was not satisfied. Under the Heavenly Dao, nine was the limit, while ten was perfection. Twelve was the utmost limit of the Great Dao.
At this time, her three great incarnations—Di Qilin, Di Tianfeng, and Di Jinglong—had also attained the fruit of the Red Dust Immortal. They had attained immortality in a single life, and over several hundred thousand years, they had reached the pinnacle of the Red Dust Immortal realm. They had once intercepted Kings in the River of Time.
She was no longer in a hurry. After all, she had safeguards in place.
"The Human Dao is faint and distant, the Immortal Dao vast and boundless; the Ghost Dao delights, when the gate of life should be. The Immortal Dao treasures life, the Ghost Dao treasures death... The heavens are vast and mighty, my Dao shall flourish evermore."
On the ninth and highest