In the depths of the universe, the sea of stars surged and collapsed. Great stars trembled beneath an invisible imperial might, nearly falling from their orbits.
Great Emperor Feathered Ascension's imperial robes were torn to shreds, his black hair hanging loose in disarray, the Dao resonance around him scattering like sand.
The Dao wounds left by old battles had yet to heal. The source of his Imperial Dao was cracked everywhere, and golden imperial blood slowly seeped from countless fine fissures, dripping into the void. Every drop that fell erupted into a tide of destructive light, burning and melting every drifting meteorite nearby.
He had originally been stationed at the ancestral grounds of the Feathered Ascension Divine Dynasty, yet two peerless imperial mights had locked down the entire starry sky, leaving him nowhere to retreat and nowhere to evade.
Grand Emperor stood across one side of the starry sky, his Grand Emperor imperial weapon suspended above his head. Ancient, desolate imperial radiance flowed across the sword, whose blade was inscribed with countless Dao Principles of birth and death. With every pulse, phantoms of time's creation and destruction flickered uncertainly along its edge.
Grand Emperor's gaze was as cold as ten thousand years of frozen iron. The killing aura of his Imperial Dao pierced beyond the domain, and all the stars in the heavens seemed to bow beneath his eyes.
On the other side, Great Emperor Nine Li stood as towering as a mountain. The Nine Li Diagram spread into a Dao Diagram stretching billions of miles, imperial runes rising and sinking within it as they suppressed the Void in every direction and sealed every gap through which one might flee.
The two Great Emperors stood before and behind him, trapping Feathered Ascension in the middle.
"Feathered Ascension, when you betrayed