At the center of the many peaks floating in the air, an enormous plaza drifted in silence, and atop that plaza stood a lone figure.
It was a young man in a white robe, handsome in appearance and majestic in build. Just by standing there, a terrifying aura that seemed to tower above heaven and earth spread through the area.
In the white-robed man's hand was a transparent longsword like crystal. The sword's design was ancient and grand, like a blunt, rough sword embryo, with flecks of cold light glimmering along its unfinished blade.
Hidden within it was a sharpness that could cleave all things, a terrifying power that, once unleashed, would make even a Heavenly Sovereign powerhouse shudder in fear.
Beneath the majestic man's feet was a savage demonic head, pitch-black from end to end, rotten and filthy. The tip of the crystal longsword pierced straight through the demonic head.
"Wuwu~"
A breeze drifted past and dispersed. A figure quietly appeared on the plaza. He looked at the handsome, majestic man before him and murmured with a complicated expression, "Ancient Heavenly Emperor."
The ruler of Tianluo Continent, one of the ten supercontinents of the Great Thousand World; the master of the ancient Heavenly Palace; one of the youngest Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign powerhouses, and so on. This Heavenly Emperor had far too many legends to his name.
As for the Heavenly Demon Emperor who had fought the Heavenly Emperor in that peak duel, his origins were even more extraordinary. His name was Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor, or Nine-Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.
In ancient times, the Extraterritorial Evil Clan once had a major clan called the Heaven-Swallowing Clan. Within the clan were nine Heavenly Demon Emperors comparable to early Saint Grade powerhouses, and because of them, the Heaven-Swallowing Clan ranked near