Cui Shuo, a top genius of Cui Group and one of the rebel army's spiritual pillars, issued a challenge to the Immortal Emperor.
Several decades ago, Cui Shuo had lost beneath the lightning tribulation.
Yet cultivators across the world did not regard him as a failure because of it.
Because the beings he challenged were almost all figures of legend. An occasional defeat or two was entirely understandable.
Moreover, after that defeat, Cui Shuo's cultivation had advanced another step.
Over several decades of battle, his cultivation had climbed all the way from Immortal King Ninth Grade to Quasi-Emperor Sixth Heaven.
That day, the radiance of the Thunder Sea lit up more than half the void. With his fists, Cui Shuo shattered the Immortal Emperor's Great Dao imprint and rose in one stroke to Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven.
After successfully advancing, the Immortal Emperor appeared as promised.
The two faced one another from a hundred li apart. The Immortal Emperor watched him for a long while before speaking a single sentence.
"Challenging me at Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven—do you truly have confidence?"
Faced with the Immortal Emperor's question, Cui Shuo answered with one sentence as well.
"To fight at the same realm might wound your faith in destiny. Thus, I have come to challenge you in the form of the seventh realm."
The Immortal Emperor did not fly into a rage at that answer. Cui Shuo, meanwhile, drove his fist straight out, shaking the nine heavens.
Everyone knew Cui Shuo would surely lose this battle, but what they truly hoped for was that this genius of the New Era could hold out for a few more moves.
After all, in these past decades, he was the only person capable of shattering the Immortal Emperor's Seventh Heaven imprint.
Yet the final outcome disappointed everyone.