A Clear Heavenly Mandate, the Rising Tide of the Human Race

Ten thousand years had passed since the Azure Emperor's apparent death. The suppression of the Great Dao was beginning to weaken, and a dazzling Golden Great Era was about to arrive, with prodigies vying for supremacy and heroes rising together.

A hundred and twenty thousand years ago, Great Emperor Wu Shi had attained the Dao. He ruled the mortal world for more than forty thousand years before reaching his twilight years eighty thousand years ago.

The clearest proof was that the Immortal Emperor had come for him. This schemer behind the scenes had spent countless ages ambushing Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors in their declining years, when their vitality had waned, stealing the fruits of their pursuit of immortality and seizing their Longevity Immortal Essence.

He might misjudge other things, but the Immortal Emperor would never misjudge a Great Emperor's declining years. His life as an Immortal Phoenix depended on it. Clashing with a Great Emperor in his prime just to exchange blood would hardly be worth it.

The Immortal Emperor had always lived by one rule: never fight head-on when an ambush would do. That had been his way ever since he profited from ambushing Emperor Zun.

Ambushing Great Emperors and bathing in Imperial Blood was nothing to be ashamed of if it meant attaining immortality.

But the Immortal Emperor had overlooked one thing. Across the ages, there were always exceptional figures who defied all expectations, their fighting strength undiminished even in their twilight years.

The Dao-Attainers at the beginning and end of every era were world-shaping figures. Their strength could not be measured by ordinary standards.

At the beginning and end of the Mythical Era stood Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Venerable and Emperor Zun; at the beginning and end of the Primordial Era, the Immortal Emperor and the Fighting