Higher Stakes, Life and Death

In the Eastern Wasteland, on the Big Dipper, even across the entire Great Universe, Yaoguang Holy Land was one of a kind. The Emperor Weapons of other Extreme Dao Holy Lands had all been handed down by their ancestors.

Yaoguang Holy Land alone was different. Its Emperor Weapon was an anomaly.

Before Desolate Antiquity, Yaoguang had produced no Great Emperor, yet it had produced twenty-eight generations of Sages in succession. Its success rate rivaled that of imperial bloodlines, and the depths of its foundation defied imagination.

Legend held that the twenty-eight Sages had carried on one after another. As an old Sage passed away, a new one took his place. Over fifty thousand long years, they refined the sacred Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron.

The Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron absorbed the essence of sun and moon and the power of the stars. It bore imprints of the Dao's rhythms, and countless Yaoguang disciples worshiped it, lending it tremendous Faith Power.

At last, on a rainy night of lightning and thunder, the sacred cauldron wove together the ultimate truths of heaven and earth. Its Divine Spirit reached completion, and it ascended into a supreme Emperor Weapon.

When people heard this legend, they thought only that Yaoguang Holy Land had worked a miracle and possessed an inconceivable divine Dao Lineage.

The Sages of imperial families knew it was utter nonsense the moment they heard it. The claim that Sages could forge an Emperor Weapon might fool young cultivators, but not thousand-year-old foxes.

A person forged a weapon befitting their own power. That was a fundamental truth of the Human World, and it could not be broken.

Even a Heavenly Emperor had to live through three or four lifetimes and gain strength comparable to a True Immortal before beginning to refine an