After an unknown stretch of time, another speck of golden radiance leaped out, burning quietly like a candle flame. As the distance closed, the golden flame split into two, then four, then eight, becoming blossoms of supreme yang true fire that filled his vision, crimson-gold and radiant as the sun.
Encircled by those blossoms of true fire was a three-legged strange bird, its black feathers tinged with dark gold. Majestic in appearance, it radiated scorching heat that melted space and disrupted time. Its vitality had long since departed, leaving only deathly stillness and the ravages of ages.
"The first Three-Legged Golden Crow after heaven and earth separated in this epoch?" Ji Hao watched the enormous, statue-like bird with his hands behind his back, already forming a guess.
"Solar fire essence took form and awakened its own intelligence, becoming this epoch's first Three-Legged Golden Crow. In the earliest years of antiquity, it wielded solar authority encompassing light, vitality, fire, time, and incineration. It was one of the mightiest deities. This god has a karmic connection with me."
"Quite a miserable end. I wonder whether it has anything to do with Lu Ya?"
"He was the Heavenly Emperor's son in the previous epoch. What connection does he have to this epoch's Crow?"
The great sun and cold moon of the Real Realm were not stars in the ordinary sense. They had arisen in different heavens of the Immortal Realm and projected themselves into the myriad worlds, embodying their corresponding authorities and possessing naturally formed illusory Great Daos. Thus, in the histories of intelligent beings across many universes, the symbolic sun god was initially regarded as the Heavenly Emperor.
Ji Hao strolled along leisurely, as though walking through a tea room, treating the surrounding darkness, the malicious scrutiny, and the overwhelmingly palpable Primordial