Ruthless had buried four Emperor Coffins in the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, representing her first four lives.
Some of the coffins were empty. For example, the Emperor Corpse from her first life had been used to refine the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar, so the coffin was merely symbolic. Others truly contained sleeping Emperor Corpses; when Ye Fan had previously visited the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, he had caught a glimpse of one.
Of course, Master Ye had not seen Ruthless's true appearance or even her gender. He had only glimpsed that iconic Ghost Face Mask.
The state of the Emperor Coffins in the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest showed that Ruthless still cared rather deeply about ceremony.
It could also be inferred that Ruthless Emperor was currently around her fifth life as a Red Dust Immortal. After all, she had already shed the corpse of her fourth life.
She looked not far from truly becoming an immortal amid the mortal world, yet in reality, she still needed a long time.
In the original plot, the few Red Dust Immortals born in the Shrouding Universe since ancient times had all taken different paths, and the time each required varied greatly.
The one who took the longest was naturally Duan De. From the Chaotic Ancient Era to ascending into the Immortal Domain, his journey spanned the ancient history of Shrouding the Heavens.
The fastest was Ye Fan. He had been born a hundred and ten or twenty thousand years after Wushi, yet when the two finally met, both were Red Dust Immortals.
That did not mean Ye Fan's path was superior to Ruthless's or Wushi's. There was no hierarchy among the Dao; it depended only on the person.
Take Emperor Qing, for instance. Was his path of evolving an Immortal Domain and then