Little Stone Buddha declared this flatly, claiming that barring unforeseen circumstances, every Manifestation God present could very well perish in this battle.
There was no helping it—Venerable Subduing Dragon King was simply that powerful. In this age, the combat strength of Immortal-God-level experts was utterly crushing.
If not for the first-generation Emperor You above them, so overwhelmingly powerful as to defy all reason, these Immortal-God experts would have been the ones controlling the state of the world.
Such figures might never appear either before the stage or behind the scenes, yet with a single will, they could take heaven and earth as their chessboard, all living beings as their pieces, and draw the myriad creatures of the world into their calculations.
But in the era of the Emperor You, even Immortal-God experts dared not show themselves. One after another, they concealed themselves—either entering secluded cultivation and never emerging, dwelling in hidden realms, or fleeing far beyond the domains—lest they anger the Emperor You and provoke the supreme being whose might overshadowed an entire age.
Originally, every expert had been convinced that the Emperor You would perish after the Heaven-Earth Dragon Convergence. Yet reality made everyone's jaws drop: with peerless might, the Emperor You defeated the will of Heaven itself. Even when the consciousness of the future Lord of the Divine Court descended across time and space, the Emperor You forced it back.
After the Heaven-Earth Dragon Convergence, the restless forces beyond the domains and the Immortal-God experts who had harbored ill intentions all had to keep their mouths shut and lower their banners, no longer daring to act rashly.
Even in the present age, not a single Immortal-God expert dared to barge freely into the mortal world. For as long as the Emperor You lived, the authority to govern the