Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace.
Jiang Ding merged with the Law-Annihilation Great Dao and silently gazed out at the endless starry sky's three thousand Great Daos.
From his perspective, the workings of the Heavenly Dao, the changes of ages, and the movements of countless starfields all lay before his eyes. Rules upon rules, rivers of time upon rivers of time, intertwined and coiled amidst the three thousand Great Daos, faintly forming a hazy, terrifying thing.
That was a crown!
That was the Imperial Mark of this era!
This crown was utterly different from the Yin-Yang Crown that Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir had once attempted to condense. It radiated destruction and Law-Annihilation, its whole body bearing a Dusk hue like gilded gold. Nine strings of pendants hung down, faintly obscuring the face, faintly representing the Supreme Great Sun's nine great sword immortal arts.
This Great Dao crown seemed distant, yet near, as though he could grasp it with a mere stretch of his hand.
And thereby be crowned Emperor of this era!
"Not yet."
"Not yet, not yet..."
"It still lacks something."
Jiang Ding murmured to himself.
From this moment onward, he clearly understood what the Imperial Mark was.
It was the mark a Human Emperor branded into the Great Dao. From then on, when time flowed past the Human Emperor, time itself had to lower its head and slow down, allowing the Human Emperor's lifespan to far exceed that of any living being in the endless starry sky.
It was the pinnacle achievement of Immortal-Dao science over countless hundreds of millions of years, without equal—the ultimate Immortal-Dao creation at the summit of the tower.
It was the ultimate unity formed from rules, matter, Great Dao, and energy.
Every Human Emperor Great Dao crown had to obtain certain things from