Before they knew it, under Chen Nianzhi's cultivation, the Self-Sacrifice Dao had risen like the sun climbing the heavens.
Beyond Emperor Jiang, Qu Nishang, Chen Xianye, Lu Lu, and the other first-generation Self-Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperors, the Self-Sacrifice Dao had also gained a great number of Chaos Heavenly Emperors.
By now, all ten of Chen Nianzhi's personal disciples had stepped into the Heavenly Emperor realm.
Beyond them, there were another seventy-two Self-Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperors, all of whom had broken through within the last twenty thousand calamity cycles.
These seventy-two Self-Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperors were known to the outside world as the Seventy-Two Great Sages of the Self-Sacrifice Dao.
Their talent and foundations were far inferior to those of Chen Xianye and the others. More than half of them had sacrificed either their Inner Immortal Domains or their nine great Immortal Treasuries.
A small number with stronger foundations had retained both their Inner Immortal Domains and ten great Immortal Treasuries. Yet most had attained the Dao with only nine great Immortal Treasuries, or cultivated a small Primordial Domain. In the future, they would likely be able to go no further than the Supreme realm.
Of course, possessing the potential to become a Supreme was already enough to be called extraordinarily gifted. After all, among the vast chaos, geniuses were as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river, yet those capable of cultivating Supreme potential were exceedingly few.
At this moment, Chen Nianzhi looked around at everyone and, rarely, revealed a faint smile.
Since resources had been spent to cultivate Self-Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperors, there would naturally be a certain degree of preference.
Among these seventy-two great sages of the Self-Sacrifice Dao, aside from the earliest and most outstanding registered disciples, there were also quite a few people Chen Nianzhi knew