"Beidou... I'm finally back!"
The moment Ye Fan saw Beidou's outline again, his eyes could not help growing misty.
The trials on the Human Race Ancient Road had been far harsher than Qi Shi Fu had described.
Apart from the Imperial Pass, each of the eighty-one stages tested not only the prodigies' combat abilities, but also their comprehension, strategy, and luck... Sometimes, they even had to join forces with others to break through.
And because Adam had previously plowed through the Human Race Ancient Road from beginning to end, many resources had already been picked clean by him. With too many monks and too little gruel, the competition naturally became even fiercer.
It was also because of Adam that none of the guides or protectors on the Human Race Ancient Road now dared abuse their authority for personal gain. There was even a faint sense that things had overcorrected--
Everyone now had to honestly clear the stages one by one, cutting off the possibility for certain prodigies to use their connections to skip directly to the later stages.
It was under these conditions, with every prodigy standing on the same starting line, that Ye Fan had fought countless prodigies all the way to the Imperial Pass, even undergoing a bloody battle against a Heaven Tyrant Body along the way.
On his way back, Ye Fan had even stumbled into the Mythological Ancient Road. If not for several fortuitous encounters and several breakthroughs in the heat of battle, he would never have made it back to Beidou alive.
After going through all that, Ye Fan felt as though he had been completely reborn, while his horizons had also broadened immensely.
Ye Fan had always harbored grand ambitions. Otherwise, he would not have named the force he founded Heavenly Court—a name belonging