Shen Zhengwu and White Jade Emperor had dominated for nearly a million years. Their wisdom and judgment stood at the very pinnacle of this world.
Shen Zhengwu might still possess some arrogant, self-important nature, occasionally leaving oversights in his actions. White Jade Emperor, however, had always been cautious and meticulous.
The reason the two ninth-rank powerhouses had failed to anticipate anything happening to Huangquan was simply that the Creation Golden Book had constrained their thinking.
By the time White Jade Emperor sensed that something was wrong, Huangquan had already been scattered in body and soul. Even the entirety of Void Heaven was rapidly collapsing amid the upheaval.
White Jade Emperor looked at Gao Xian in white robes with a sword at his waist. This young cultivator was, in actual age, only 3,928 years old. For a Spirit Transformation cultivator, that still counted as young; for a sixth-rank Pure Yang cultivator, it was practically infantile.
Yet Gao Xian had attained the Dao at the ninth rank in less than four thousand years of cultivation!
One had to know that the other ninth-rank powerhouses had all cultivated for at least several hundred thousand years before attaining the Dao at the ninth rank.
And that was not all. What was even more terrifying was that Gao Xian had overtaken them from behind, slaying Huangquan, one of the Tenfold Ghost Emperors, by his own strength. He had reduced this Ghost Race Dao Ancestor and ninth-rank powerhouse to utter ashes.
Huangquan's million years of cultivation had become a joke before Gao Xian...
Across all the heavens and myriad realms, there were only nine ninth-rank powerhouses in total. With one of the Tenfold Ghost Emperors dead, nine became eight—a change enough to alter the coming balance of power in the human realm.
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