Dragon Earl Royal Court
"Surpass Father King?"
Crown Prince Shun Xin murmured in a deep voice, "I do not harbor such lofty ambitions. Yet with my current strength, even if I became the Emperor You, I would still be powerless to alter the state of affairs... Without the Manifest Divinity realm, what difference is there between me and the common folk of this age? Sitting within the palace chambers, I would be like a clay idol or wooden carving in a temple hall, left only to be manipulated by others. If being emperor means being emperor in such a manner, then what meaning is there in it?"
"Oh?"
Grandmaster Hunyuan could not help but laugh upon hearing this.
"That is not wrong. In truth, apart from our Great You Dynasty, every dynasty throughout the ages has had emperors whose cultivation reached the heavens and whose Dharma power ran deep. No... rather, those ancient sovereigns were the true rulers of the world. Take the founding ancestor of the previous Great Offering Dynasty, or the hegemon of Great Sheng, for example."
The imperial noble consort of the present dynasty said with a smile.
"If the river of time is a history book, then every era within its chronicles is an independent biography. In truth, the dynastic rulers who occupied the Five Paths and Eight Wastelands were forever the principal figures in those biographies, radiant beyond measure."
"Once a dynasty had passed through its rise and fall and ultimately perished, the biography turned to the next chapter. Whether it was Great Offering or the imperial clans before it, they themselves were the greatest cultivation powers in the world. Their struggles against the many sacred lands of cultivation ran throughout those chapters."
"Tantai Tanmie, the final crown prince of Great Offering, was, on the