"Forget it. I'll stop at this stage. There's no way around it—this is already my limit."
A contemporary Primordial Unity Golden Immortal looked at the thirteenth stage before him, then finally dropped onto the ground and gave up struggling.
The twelfth stage had nearly taken his life just now. He truly did not have the courage to enter the thirteenth.
Once he entered, death was certain.
The others were the same, each stopping halfway through.
After giving up, they began cultivating.
When they had first broken through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, they had been so proud and high-spirited. Now, they were just as defeated.
This Emperor Road was simply not something a person could challenge.
It was too difficult—far too difficult.
A single Emperor Road had ruthlessly shattered their confidence.
Those stages simply had not been designed for people.
One after another, they went from spirited and vigorous to struggling at death's door, then finally to utter surrender.
A few thousand years had felt like living through an entire lifetime.
Rather than force oneself onward, it was better to spare oneself.
"Oh? They're here again?"
At the end of the Star River Cosmos, the Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable, stationed at the border, slowly opened his eyes.
The barrier before him shattered once more, and a familiar warship entered the Star River Cosmos again.
At the same time, warships appeared in other places as well.
Terrifying power of the Heavenly Dao poured down without restraint, as though it intended to smash those warships to pieces.
Yet no matter how that power of the Heavenly Dao ravaged them, the warships remained incomparably sturdy, showing not the slightest sign of breaking.
"Fellow Daoists, you've come again?"
The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable slowly raised his eyelids, watching one warship after another.