Chu Tian sat cross-legged at the summit of Imperial Saint Mountain.
Mountain wind poured backward through the rifts of rules at the peak, lifting his bloodstained black hair.
Some of that blood was Shen You's, and some was his own. It had dried in his hair, congealing into dark-gold flakes that scattered with a rustle as soon as the wind brushed them.
Though he had won the battle against Shen You, his injuries were far from light.
Moreover, his realm had reached the peak of God King. What came next was proving the Dao and becoming an Emperor Venerable, a road utterly different from all that had come before.
Blood Condensation, Body Refinement, Spirit Refining, and Body Integration were, in truth, equivalent to tempering oneself.
The four realms of divinity could also be simplified as Ignite Divine Fire, turning the void into reality, and paving the road of rules.
Then from the Emperor Venerable Realm onward, one had to continue from the foundation of the previous path and walk out one's own Dao.
It could be said that across countless epochs, every Emperor Venerable represented an entirely different road, a path belonging to them alone.
This step was incomparably critical. If one failed to walk it well, all previous achievements would be wasted, countless efforts would turn to nothing, and one might even be stuck in this realm for the rest of one's life without advancing an inch.
Across the starry sky of myriad realms and endless years, the Emperor Venerable Realm had always been the most important realm, the bottom-of-the-chest foundation that a race relied on.
And in this epoch, because of the existence of the Imperial Crown Seal, the Emperor Venerable Realm had become even more a power capable of deciding the rise, decline, survival, and extinction of