In this place, far from Heaven and the Heavens and Myriad Realms, two Immortal Emperors had once fallen.
After countless ages of desolation, they awakened again and resumed the battle from the previous epoch.
The Emperor Blade swept across the sky toward the Emperor Sword. Before the Immortal Emperors themselves clashed, their weapons struck first.
Blade and sword appeared together upstream in the River of Ages, each straining to break free of every restraint and reach a time before the other had become an Immortal Emperor Artifact, so it could destroy its foe in advance.
They were only two weapons, yet the powers they displayed were enough to leave a Dao Ancestor stunned beyond imagining.
A Dao Ancestor could also wage war across space and time, but he could not change what had already come to pass.
Yet these Immortal Emperor Artifacts sought to forcibly rewrite cause and effect and erase established fact. Just how terrifying was that?
After all, if even the passage of ages could be changed, what meaning would anything throughout eternity still hold?
All of it would come to nothing.
The Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword collided, but neither gained the upper hand in their battle through the River of Ages.
Clearly, they had fought each other for far too long in the past and knew each other far too well.
Thus, their world-shaking attempt ultimately failed.
The Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword immediately broke free of the River of Ages and returned to the present.
That did not mean the battle was over. It meant an even more brutal battle was about to begin.
For both weapons sought to manifest their Dao Fruits to the fullest.
Their struggle even touched upon an unseen question: which of them deserved the title of supreme weapon?
The sword