Not only did you find it inconceivable; Mara, who had deduced this possibility, and Witch Emperor Houtu, who had received the news, were even more dumbfounded. Why had so many geniuses fallen one after another? Even before Emperor Donghua attained the Imperial Realm, each hegemon-level faction had possessed only a single Emperor Realm expert. Apart from the poor conditions of the present age, it was because breaking through truly was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Three Immortal Emperors might have sounded like a great many, but once those three were spread out, one could see just how long the intervals between the birth of each Immortal Emperor had been! From the side, one could also see just how difficult it was to break into the Emperor Realm. It truly was walking against the heavens...
Thus, after receiving this news, both of them could not help wondering whether the Dao Source World Tree had broken free from its withered state... Since Lingbao Tianzun had already attained the Emperor Realm, Witch Emperor Houtu became even more determined to protect Mirror's path. She even considered taking treasures from the treasury to raise Mirror's chances of breaking through.
Mirror's secluded cultivation this time could not possibly guarantee complete success either. In his reply to Witch Emperor Houtu, he had only said that his first breakthrough attempt had a twenty percent chance of success. The sole difference was that, after years of calculations, Mirror had pushed the power of his Mirror Image Divine Ability to its utmost limit. He could endure at most three failures, and every failure would serve as accumulated experience. Unlike others, who only had one or two opportunities to break through.
Mirror Image Divine Ability was also one of the reasons Witch Emperor Houtu was willing to help Mirror. For