On Purple Star Divine Peak, Ning Chen had waited a full seven hundred years, the frost and wind upon him grown too heavy to ever disperse.
His face had remained unchanged for seven hundred years, as youthful as before. Only the vicissitudes in his eyes deepened year by year, each year adding another heavy stroke.
When the eighth century arrived, all of Ning Chen's cultivation had dissipated, and he looked no different from an ordinary mortal.
Yet everyone in the Divine Realm, every Fourth Realm expert, understood that the Purple Star Realm Lord's strength could no longer be measured by cultivation.
This was why, although the demon realm's emperors clearly knew that the Realm Lord had suffered grave injuries during the demon-slaying battle, they still did not dare invade the human race again.
It could be said that so long as the Realm Lord remained standing upon that divine peak, no one in the world dared offend mankind.
In the eighth century, martial arts in the human world developed further. Among the Underworld Yamas who had each taken their separate paths, someone finally became the first to attain the Imperial Dao.
To everyone's surprise, after eight hundred years, the first to attain the Dao was neither Xia Ziyi, the strongest in combat, nor King Qi, whose cultivation was the highest, but Aizen Myōō, the current Buddhist Lord of the Buddhist Kingdom.
On that day, above the Buddhist Kingdom, ten thousand Buddhas chanted as the Myōō attained the Dao.
The heaven-shaking, earth-shattering sight stunned all hearts. The Underworld Yamas scattered across the major starfields turned their gazes toward the All Heavens Buddhist Kingdom, strange expressions on their faces.
No one had expected Aizen Myōō to walk ahead of them all.
"Why hadn't I noticed that girl was so fierce back then?"