Flowers rained through the void, filling heaven and earth with refreshing fragrance. Radiant colors flowed, and countless auspicious clouds shone.
Heaven and earth underwent a tremendous change, as though traversing the primordial cosmos and condensing the primal essence of creation. The heavens and myriad worlds grew indistinct at that moment. Only the sacred objects filling the sky seemed truly real.
The Heavenly Stele, the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps, the Heaven-Piercing Death Bridge.
One sacred object after another rearranged itself in the void, faint, mysterious connections forming between them.
Within the manifest world—the only world that was real—clouds churned around the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps. Like a stairway to heaven, they stretched far beyond the heavens, leading into an unknown firmament.
"The One True World!"
"The passage is open! It's connected to the One True World!"
"The Heavens' Sacred Objects have gathered! The One True World is about to appear!"
"It's real! It really is real!"
Every cultivator in the Nine Provinces, the experts of countless worlds, and the mighty figures of the Primordial Heaven Realm could barely contain their surging emotions.
Countless billions of years had passed.
Apart from the Little Stone Emperor and the Ancestral Dragon, no Imperial Tier being had emerged in all those worlds. So many astonishingly gifted Stone Man Kings had failed to take that final step.
Now, with the legendary One True World about to appear—the world said to hold the secret to becoming an Emperor—how could they not be excited?
Yet no one dared move.
Even among all those Stone Man Kings, not one dared act first.
For an Imperial Tier expert stood before the steps: Pangu, axe in hand.
Boom!
Just then, the firmament suddenly shattered.
The faintly visible gateway abruptly swung open.
Billions of rays of divine radiance poured down from within, like endless