Jade radiance flowed through your eyes as your gaze crossed layer upon layer of void, looking toward the unknowable.
Ever since you had undergone the tribulation, an aura had faintly emerged. Only at the moment you broke through to Supreme Realm Grandmaster had you finally sensed its existence clearly.
It was merely that your tribulation had passed too quickly, and Devil Lord of All Living, Imperial Homeland, Jiang Chu, and the others had been watching from nearby. That aura had never truly revealed itself.
But you recognized it—
It was the aura of that Ancient Heavenly Emperor within the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury.
Today, the Three Daos had gathered, and countless Supreme Realm Grandmasters had pressed in. Behind such a formation, the presence of that Heavenly Emperor was one reason as well.
To figures such as Purple Bamboo and Danling, killing you was certainly something they could not afford to lose, but killing the Heavenly Emperor—was their true top priority.
Yet strangely enough, from beginning to end, that Ancient Heavenly Emperor had never appeared.
You continued gazing into the distance, watching that aura drift farther and farther away until it vanished completely between heaven and earth.
That Ancient Heavenly Emperor—had left.
Only then—
Did you finally withdraw your aura, standing above Taihua Sect and looking down upon this vast sea tempered by heavenly tribulation.
Four years later.
Taihua Sect had been turned upside down.
Its territory had doubled in size compared to before the tribulation.
The Unorthodox Nine Schools delivered their annual tribute on schedule, and none dared withhold a thing.
From then on, Taihua Sect became the foremost sect of the Outer Dao.
Zhenhai Island was lifted by Supreme Realm divine power and floated a hundred zhang above the air. The Founders' Hall stood majestically upon the island, becoming a