There was seemingly only a minor realm's difference between a Peak Immortal King and an Immortal King Giant, but for a Peak Immortal King to become an Immortal King Giant was incomparably difficult.
Countless years passed by, and hundreds of thousands of years could vanish in the blink of an eye.
During that time, if a Peak Immortal King wished to advance further, their Dao heart first had to remain firm. They could not harbor the slightest self-doubt, or no amount of time would allow them to progress.
Beyond that, they needed immense fortuitous opportunities. Of course, those were all external factors. The most crucial thing was having sufficiently powerful talent.
Figures like the Desolate Emperor, born for cultivation and descended to answer calamity, could rise in the shortest possible time, return from death, leap from the peak of the Quasi-Immortal King Realm to become an Immortal King Giant, and settle accounts with three Peak Immortal Kings.
But across the rise and fall of countless epochs, surveying innumerable Evolutionary Civilizations, searching through Heaven and the Weird Clan's Ancestral Land, there had only ever been one person like the Desolate Emperor.
Most were like Black Dragon Immortal King. Even after wasting a million years, he had still been unable to enter the Immortal King Giant Realm. It was precisely because of this that his mentality had warped, and he had grown obsessed with slaughtering young prodigies.
"Since I became a Peak Immortal King, a million years have passed, yet I still have no hope of advancing further. And a youngster like you possesses battle strength comparable to mine, perhaps even greater..."
Black Dragon Immortal King's expression twisted. His enormous True Dragon body blotted out the sun and moon, as though it would tear apart this Great Universe.
"I have already seen