After Jiang Yun took Gai Jiuyou on a trip through the Source World, Gai Jiuyou's thinking changed dramatically.
Jiang Yun's Source World possessed a complete Heavenly Heart Mark.
The Heavenly Heart Mark of the Shrouding the Heavens World offered Jiang Yun little benefit. It would not bring about a qualitative change.
What he lacked was not the power to bridge the gap between Supreme and Great Emperor, but the means to cross the distance from Heavenly Emperor to an even higher realm.
For Jiang Yun, even if he had not attained the Dao in a world, once he was strong enough, he could forcibly seize its Heavenly Heart Mark and study it.
Even if Gai Jiuyou became a Great Emperor and Jiang Yun sought Dao Attainment afterward, the shackles of the myriad ways of heaven and earth would hardly hinder him.
After that, Gai Jiuyou entered seclusion on the stretch of Immortal Road beneath Yinghuo.
Becoming a Great Emperor had never been simple. He needed time to prepare.
First, he had to bring himself to his peak. Then he would face the trial of heaven and earth and claim the position of Great Emperor, the one and only in ten thousand years.
Jiang Yun also passed the Undying Heavenly Emperor's scriptures to Master Gai.
Gai Jiuyou had faced the Undying Heavenly Emperor for centuries and gained deep insight into the Divine Phoenix's Dao. Receiving his scriptures gave him even greater inspiration.
Some time later, beneath the Yinghuo Burial Grounds, only Gai Jiuyou, secluded within the hundred-zhang stretch of Immortal Road, and Big Black and the Wushi Bell, guarding the void passage, remained.
"The World Tomb in the Yinghuo Burial Grounds can disappear now."
Yinghuo had survived several great battles: Jiang Yun striking the Divine Phoenix into the void, the Wushi