Thus, this brought trouble of staggering proportions, even catastrophe. Countless powerhouses fled back, unleashing unimaginable chaos and clashes fiercer than any before. And so came the great dark turmoil.
This was the truth of the Great Reckoning as the world understood it, but the actual truth was even crueler.
The dark emperors sacrificed the Essence Qi of the Heavens. That was the root of it all. Such things happened at intervals-one epoch if they came quickly, several if they came slowly.
And that future Dark Storm will be unprecedented. At the end of the Sea of Boundaries, along its shores, a storm of Dark Matter surpassing all those before it will rise and wreak havoc throughout the entire sea! Ji Hao pondered.
Hence the claim that the most terrifying great dark turmoil in history would erupt in this lifetime.
Before the great storm began, there were all kinds of portents. Fierce winds howled through the Sea of Boundaries, and its waters churned in upheaval. Drawing on past experience, the Kings had already guessed what was coming!
In the past, some extraordinarily powerful beings could withstand the Dark Storm rising at the end of the Sea of Boundaries, even though it could destroy ordinary Immortal Kings. They lay low in the sea or sheltered on undying islands, never returning.
But the coming storm would be different. Many predicted that it would sweep through an entire epoch and grow ever more savage, until every powerhouse had to flee back.
Thus, some Immortal Kings who considered themselves insufficiently strong were already planning to return an epoch early.
They were, after all, beings at the Immortal King level, standing at the summit of the world. Though the Chaotic Ancient Era was overwhelmingly tangled and filled with far too many inconceivable things, they could still