Nearly twenty Supreme Beings slumbered in the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings. They could not all awaken at once. Agreements existed both within the mine and between the Forbidden Zones: every few tens of thousands of years, one or two Supreme Beings would take over the watch.
During that period, whether the Supreme Beings on duty chose to unleash dark turmoil and draw upon the life essence of all living beings to replenish their vitality, or simply pass the time in peace, the Forbidden Zones would rarely interfere.
Of course, the Supreme Beings had a tacit understanding. They took turns emerging, lest too many of them hunt at once and cut off the very roots of life in the Great Universe, leaving nothing to eat in the future.
But this lifetime was different. The Immortal Ascension Road was about to open. If the Supreme Beings could become immortals, they need not concern themselves with anything else. If they could not, then once they were dead, who cared if the floods swallowed the world? They would no longer hold back.
Coupled with the Azure Emperor's successive moves, this had startled awake every lightly sleeping Supreme Being in the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings.
Thus, in this Forbidden Zone alone, the auras of several Supreme Beings rose and fell, flickering in and out of perception as wisps of their divine senses awakened.
"No."
"I dispatched no envoy."
The divine senses of several Supreme Beings collided and exchanged information, reaching the same conclusion.
"Then who is he?"
Immortal mist spread from the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings, curling upward in an eerie haze. The Supreme Beings' voices rang like those of gods in the nine heavens, shaking heaven and earth with their thunderous rumble and making all living beings tremble.
The Supreme Beings