"..."
"Has the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor... already passed away?"
"By my reckoning, it has been over ten thousand years since she attained the Dao. Even if she possessed the Immortal Divine Medicine taken from the Immortal Mausoleum and could live a second lifetime, her lifespan in her first should have reached its end, shouldn't it?
"After all, back then, she traced back through the ages and seemed to have paid no small price..."
"For seven or eight thousand years, her imperial might has not appeared. Has the suppression of the Myriad Daos in this world, along with the Heavenly Heart imprint and its Emperor Dao Laws, begun to weaken?"
"That person rarely emerged from seclusion. Who could possibly see through the truth?
"The suppression of the Myriad Daos has weakened because she has remained hidden for so long, but it should not have disappeared. After all, even if Ruthless had passed away, the residual suppression would persist for thousands, perhaps even ten thousand years..."
"..."
No one knew when discussions and speculations like these had quietly begun to stir through some of the universe's ancient starfields and powerful lineages.
After all, the life and death of a reigning Great Emperor concerned the entire balance of Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Domains.
It meant that the arrival of a new great era could roughly be calculated. The sealed prodigies of certain great clans and supreme lineages could once again emerge and vie for that Lifetime's Dao Attainment Position.
The right to speak across the heavens would be reshuffled. That was an eternal "trajectory."
And the existence of the current Great Emperor was like an insurmountable mountain, suppressing the present age.
Moreover, her unpredictable temperament had kept ambitious schemers who had laid their pieces across the ages, as well as certain