The Seventh Divine General's face had darkened to the extreme. He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his palms.
He wanted to argue, but he could not.
Because every word Ice God and Sword Lord had said was true!
In the last Five Realms War, the Celestial Court had withdrawn at the final moment because the First Divine General had yet to master the Emperor Art!
If the Immortal Realm won, the Fortune of the Emperor Path would pour directly into it, giving rise to the possibility of an Emperor.
But back then, the First Divine General had not even mastered the Nascent Emperor Art. He could never have borne the Fortune of the Emperor Path!
The Emperor's Throne would have fallen to someone else!
That was something he could never accept!
So they would rather let the Immortal Realm lose the Five Realms War, rather let its Immortal Spirit Qi and Origin of the Great Dao be weakened, than stop waiting!
After all, the collapse of an Epoch could not threaten a Taboo King!
Once the First Divine General mastered the Emperor Art and the Emperor Path opened again, he would strike in person and ascend to the Emperor's Throne in one fell swoop!
The Celestial Court had hidden this plan for countless Epochs, never revealing a hint of it to outsiders.
Yet now, Ice God and Sword Lord had laid it bare before all the experts of the Five Great Realms!
Fury beyond measure appeared on Ice God's usually cold face.
"Fine! What a fine Celestial Court!"
"For one man's Emperor's Throne, you buried the future of the entire Immortal Realm!"
"Those heroic souls who died on the Primordial Battlefield, those who spilled their blood for the Immortal Realm—if they knew this was the