Humanity, Heh!

Humanity, heh! "Didn't Xuan Ming, who once crushed both our generations beneath his feet, also fail his breakthrough and perish?"

At this, the Martial Emperor could not help but sigh. Xuan Ming—the greatest genius humanity had ever known. From the moment he emerged, he had never known defeat. Among his peers, none could rival him. He had been the one most likely to break beyond the Emperor Realm.

Yet he had not even reached the Emperor Realm. To grow stronger faster, after reaching the peak of Martial God, he had actually gone to challenge an Emperor Realm Black Shadow to temper himself. But he had underestimated the gulf between the Emperor Realm and Martial God. After pushing himself to the limit, just as he found an opportunity for a breakthrough, he died at the Black Shadow's hands.

Several tens of thousands of years had passed since the first Heaven-Earth Mutation. Even with the blessings of heaven and earth, there were fewer than a hundred beings above the Emperor Realm.

That might sound like a lot, but what they faced was the endless darkness beyond the world.

"Recently, the number of Black Shadows in heaven and earth has been increasing, and they are growing stronger as well. I fear we do not have much time left. The endless Black Tide recorded in the ancient records will descend upon our world once more."

"I wonder how that lord is doing?"

As soon as the words fell, every Martial Emperor and Demon Emperor present instinctively looked into the depths of space. The power representing devouring still spread there, filling the deep layers of the entire world.

Only, that power had begun to grow extremely unstable. This was also one of the reasons so many Black Shadows had appeared in this world.

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