Volume One, Chapter Twenty-One
From afar, the place looked as though it were shrouded beneath a layer of gloom. Waves of terrifying auras surged forth like tides, turning the world bitingly cold and filling it with endless killing intent.
Experts from all factions of the other domains arrived at this time as well, and they were somewhat stunned by the sight before them.
"You people of the Spirit Domain are truly interesting. If someone in our domain awakened an Emperor Star, we would be overjoyed. Yet you choose to stop it at any cost."
"The same goes for our domain. Someone who possesses an Emperor Star is equivalent to possessing supreme fortune, and even the fortune of an entire race would be affected by it."
"I heard that the one bound by countless iron chains is the Immortal Bane whom everyone in the Spirit Domain hates. If the Immortal Bane gains an Emperor Star, everyone in the Spirit Domain will suffer disaster. That is why they want to stop the Immortal Bane's awakening at any cost."
"Is that so? I've heard about this Immortal Bane too. I truly never expected so many people to want him dead."
"Alas! This generation's Immortal Bane is a peerless genius, to actually possess the potential to awaken the Spirit Race Imperial Star—it really is astonishing. What a pity that he is an Immortal Bane. If he were not, no matter what faction he joined, the entire sect would pour everything into nurturing him."
"Do you think that, now that he has been bound by the fortune of all the Spirit Domain's factions, he can still awaken the Spirit Race Imperial Star?"
"How could that be possible? Look, even the heavenly phenomena are fading away. This Immortal Bane has no way of awakening an Emperor