[Cosmic Genius Battle? More like a battle of whose father was strongest!]
[As everyone knew, whenever a Golden Age began, there was always one group with top-tier strength and talent who could never prove their Dao and become emperors: the descendants of ancient emperors and the children of Great Emperors.]
[According to the latest figures, descendants of ancient emperors and Great Emperors accounted for 16% of cultivators who had cleared the Mythic Hall's first stage, and fully 25% of those who had reached the fifth.]
[At the forefront of the Mythic Hall, among the sixty-seven cultivators who had qualified for the Cosmic Genius Battle, fully twenty prodigies made no secret of their origins. All were children of ancient emperors or Great Emperors.]
[It was foreseeable that, with the Primordial Emperor's plans still newly laid, most places in the Cosmic Genius Battle would go to prodigies with extraordinary backgrounds. What mattered then might not be their talent or aptitude—but the patrons behind them and the imperial blood in their veins.]
[Fifty years made it terribly difficult for someone of ordinary origins to rise high enough to qualify for the Cosmic Genius Battle, even with the Future Dharma Network's support. But if someone truly rose from obscurity, perhaps they really could crush ancient emperors' descendants beneath their fists, trample Great Emperors' children underfoot, and claim a place in the rankings.]
The post appeared on the Future Dharma Network and set the blood of countless cultivators from humble backgrounds ablaze. They wanted to measure themselves against the Emperor Sons.
Fifty years, then!
The Yang God World, Jade Capital City of the Daqian Dynasty.
Crowds surged at the city gates, all craning their necks for the return of a mighty warrior. Yet before the soldiers maintaining order, they kept their lines neat.
Soon, hoofbeats