Compared to the last time they met, Yan Ruyu's strength had improved greatly once again. After her bloodline reverted to its ancestral origin, she had entered a period of rapid advancement.
The Demon Race princess's cultivation had now nearly reached the foremost rank beneath those Ancient Emperor's Children who had attained the Severing Dao Realm. She had a great chance of catching up to those Ancient Emperor's Children who had taken the lead in the future.
The Emperor Qing was simply too authoritative.
In truth, the Golden Age was a very long one. Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, Shaking Light, and their generation were merely the beginning of this lifetime, not its entirety. In the years to come, every ancient star would continue producing heavenly talents who would embark upon the Emperor's Path.
With only a difference of a dozen or several dozen years, later generations could normally catch up from behind. Those born first would not necessarily have the last laugh.
Realms such as Severing the Dao and Sainthood had formidable barriers for ordinary people. In particular, the step from Great Saint to Quasi-Emperor was unimaginably difficult and could waste countless years of a person's life.
In the original storyline, Master Ye had "died in battle" during the Dark Turmoil and remained inactive for around two hundred years before reviving. When he reappeared in the world, he found that his peers were all stuck before the Quasi-Emperor barrier. They had not left him behind; instead, the new generation of heavenly talents had already cultivated to the Great Saint realm.
So, the Beidou cultivators' thoughts of waiting until Qin Sheng became stuck in the Severing Dao Realm or the Saint realm before striving to catch up could not be called wrong. They merely conformed to common sense—
But not to "Qin