This land had always been vast and sparsely populated, with remarkably few powerful cultivators.
Great Emperor Luangu was very likely the only Human Great Emperor ever to emerge from the Northern Plains.
It was rumored that Great Emperor Luangu had been one of Ruthless Empress's past lives, but that was not the case.
Unlike Ruthless Empress, whose talent had been peerless enough to slaughter all kings, his rise came late. His life had been fraught with hardship: his lover died, his master was murdered, and his friends vanished.
He suffered repeated defeats and fell into despair, yet unwilling to accept it, he rose again and again, resolute and fearless.
Not until middle age did he first obtain part of Ruthless Empress's cultivation method, then encounter fragments left behind by Void Great Emperor. He used them to forge a furnace from hundreds of scriptures. After a hundred defeats, he broke free from his cocoon and was reborn, giving birth to a demonic embryo that sent him soaring to greatness.
After attaining the Dao and becoming an emperor, he created the supreme heavenly art, the Chaotic Ancient Scripture.
Because he had received the legacies of two emperors in his early years, his cultivation arts and divine abilities vaguely bore traces of Ruthless Empress's demonic arts and the Dao of Void, leaving a far-reaching influence.
The Northern Emperor Wang Teng obtained Great Emperor Luangu's inheritance in his youth and became invincible in the Northern Plains at the age of fifteen.
During a trip to the Eastern Wasteland, he picked up a great secret art of the Dao Sect.
He accidentally entered a forbidden region in the Great Wilderness, encountered an ancient Royal Clan, and gained the allegiance of ancient creatures.
Even the heaven-defying opportunities of ancient Great Emperors amounted to little more than