Two hundred years later.
Boundless Immortal Domain, Human Emperor Hall.
In the Myriad Races Great Slaughter Era, Great General Tianhuang returned.
Storm clouds churned beneath the Human Ancestor. Figures stood in dense ranks—Heavenly Desolation Old Guard who had once returned from the bottom of the Celestial River. In this era, they had marched their armies across the Three Thousand Great Worlds and fought their way into the Ancestral Myriad Manifestations Domain. They were an iron-blooded army of Human Race cultivators.
Their expressions varied, yet every face was solemn as they stood behind Bai Mengli, before the Human Emperor Hall.
Ji Ruonan stood alone outside the great hall, staring at the arriving Great General Tianhuang in disbelief. The shock on his face was impossible to conceal, and for a long while, he said nothing.
"The fluctuations sent by the Heavenly Dao Will were known to our race long ago."
"The Heavenly Dao cannot be defied. Tianhuang, there is nothing our race can do about this."
"Before you came, our race had discussed this matter for many years. It is too difficult—far too difficult."
Several ancient, vast voices emerged from within the Human Emperor Hall, all heavy with sighs. The Five-Elements Dao Ancestor being suppressed by the Myriad Spirits Heavenly Dao was evidently not something the Human Race had wished to see, but they had not caused it, much less guided it toward this outcome.
To put it harshly, he had brought it upon himself.
Inside the Human Emperor Hall.
The gazes of sixteen elderly figures slowly met. They closed their eyes and nodded.
They had actually reached their conclusion long ago. They would use the Five-Elements Dao Ancestor to drain the Heavenly Dao's power. The Boundless Overlord Clans understood this perfectly well; each had silently agreed, and no one would