The Human Realm's prestige grew stronger by the day!
Led by superpowers such as the Blood Moon Immortal Sect, the Golden Clan, and the Purple Clan, a vast super alliance had formed!
Yet the Human Realm's prodigies did not grow smug over such empty fame.
They knew full well that victory in this battle was only the beginning!
The Celestial Court would not let the matter rest, and those enemies lurking in the shadows were eyeing them like tigers watching their prey!
The true storms and towering waves still lay ahead!
If they wished to protect the Human Realm amid these troubled times, protect the companions with whom they could entrust their lives and deaths, and protect the homeland that had raised them, then they had to become stronger!
Far stronger than they were now!
Thus, as soon as the Heaven's Pride Tournament ended, the Human Realm's prodigies began their secluded cultivation, racing against time!
Everyone wanted to shatter their shackles in the shortest possible time, perfect their Emperor Arts, and step into the Epoch Domain!
The hundredth year after the Heaven's Pride Tournament ended.
Deep within the Human Realm, beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree.
A streak of azure light shot into the heavens, dyeing the clouds across billions upon billions of miles a clear jade-green.
That light contained a Dao rhythm that made all myriad Daos resonate, like the first glimmer of life when heaven and earth were first opened—pure and vast.
All the Human Realm's disciples stopped what they were doing and turned in unison toward the source of that azure light.
Beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree, Zhuge Feng sat cross-legged with his eyes shut, an azure pillar of light piercing through heaven and earth around him!
The long staff in his hand stood tall enough to