Whether they were cultivating in seclusion, traveling to visit friends, or refining pills and artifacts, they all received the message at the same time.
It came directly from the rules of heaven and earth.
Before long, the expressions of many Great Emperors and Heavenly Emperors changed drastically.
The Divine Emperors were not the only ones who wanted to cling to life in the Lower Realm. Many Great Emperors and Heavenly Emperors did too.
Their cultivation might not have reached the same heights as the Divine Emperors', but they feared death and resisted the unknown all the same.
Ancient legends of the Origin World held far too many bloody examples of the Immortal Ascension Tribulation's horrors. The predecessors who had fallen beneath heavenly tribulation, their souls scattered and their Daos extinguished along with their lives—those tragic ends had long since become shadows they could not shake.
For Heavenly Emperors, at least, attempting the tribulation remained an option.
They had each refined at least one Dao to Dao Perfection, giving them the foundation and strength to face it.
The Immortal Ascension Tribulation was still fraught with peril, but it was not certain death.
For Great Emperors, however, matters were much harder.
Many had begun refining their Daos, yet for lack of talent, resources, or sufficiently deep understanding, they had remained stuck in the Great Emperor Realm, making painfully slow progress.
Before, they had felt no urgency. With Longevity Source to extend their lives, they had all the time in the world to work at it.
Now they were in trouble.
If they failed to refine one Dao to Dao Perfection within a hundred thousand years, who knew what would happen when the Immortal Ascension Tribulation came?
Under normal circumstances, only those in the Emperor Realm who had refined one Dao to Dao