Helian Zhaotu, the fifty-seventh sovereign of the Great Mu Empire, ascended the throne at Cangtu Temple, drew his sword at the Supreme Divine Throne, and launched the Helian clan's final charge.
The manifested spirits of sovereigns past lifted him upward, supporting him as he climbed to the summit and became king.
They saw him through his final journey.
Oh, this snow that filled the sky!
Even the mountain road was white, heaps of broken stone scattered everywhere. After climbing for thousands of years to reach the mountaintop, he would finally roll, tumbling end over end, down the mountain path.
When Helian Zhaotu sent his sword racing ten thousand miles, cleaved through the insurmountable gulf, and at last slew the manifested Venerable God upon the Supreme Divine Throne—
Within that glazed, shattered radiance came a moment of loss of control: the god's majesty roared forth like a mountain collapsing!
Endless divine might and a crumbling Divine Handle, in that instant, all poured down upon Helian Zhaotu.
Those who offend gods must face Heaven's punishment. Those who provoke divine might cannot preserve themselves.
When a Venerable God lost its position, retaliation was inevitable.
This Great Mu Son of Heaven, who had only just reached the summit, did not even get to utter a word before he too became shattered light, mingling with the Cangtu divine image.
Even one as mighty as Xiong Zidu, the present Chu Emperor, who had cultivated his reputation for ten years and received personal instruction from the previous emperor—who had ascended the imperial throne only within Fallen Immortal Forest—could not immediately wield Transcendence-level power by mobilizing his entire nation.
At the moment Helian Zhaotu drew his sword, the nation's fate descended upon him, bolstered by all the sovereigns of Mu Kingdom's past. Only then did he cross that