At those words, All Ages, Heaven, the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands, and even the young lord of the Ancestral Land fell silent.
"How... how is that possible?"
An elderly Dao Ancestor spoke, his voice trembling.
"To become a Dao Ancestor after only three hundred thousand years of cultivation is already something no one through the ages would dare imagine. And on top of that, he has such fighting strength..."
A powerful Dao Ancestor in the Soul River spoke, disbelief thick in his voice.
Since when had Dao Ancestors become as common as cabbages?
No matter how heaven-defying a prodigy was, how could he become a Dao Ancestor in so little time, possess such terrifying strength, and stand at the pinnacle of every Dao Ancestor past and present?
Even the Desolate Emperor, born to cultivate and come forth to meet the calamity, could not have reached such a realm at that age.
The Desolate Emperor had spent hundreds of thousands of years, nearly a million, to reach the Immortal King Realm. The moment he entered it, he possessed the fighting strength of an Immortal King Giant.
That feat had shaken antiquity and the present, becoming an Eternal monument in the world of cultivation.
Every being who attained a Dao Ancestor's true form might have been the undisputed child of destiny in their own world, but all of them paled before the Desolate Emperor.
After that, the Desolate Emperor broke the Immortal Realm's streak of countless eras without anyone reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm since the Footprint Quasi-Immortal Emperor, a feat that defied the heavens.
He then faced four Dao Ancestors alone. Afterward, he climbed another hundred-foot pole, took one step further, and fought a true Dark Immortal Emperor—and won.
Those feats had long since become known far and wide.
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