Great Emperors were the strongest-except, of course, for a certain Old Golden Crow. He had shattered the myth that Great Emperors were invincible. Their terrifying strength was no empty claim: they truly could challenge a great accomplished saint physique and take half the life of a great perfection sacred body.
It was not that he was weak. His luck was simply dreadful, and he had run into a Heavenly Emperor. Across the long ages, there had only been three such cheaters. The game was plainly rigged.
Had he not encountered Ye Fan, the Golden Crow Great Emperor would have lived a second lifetime through his own efforts. If he then took immortal medicine, he would have had at least three lifetimes, setting foot on the red-dust immortal path and touching the threshold of the immortal Dao. He might even have earned the title Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor Jun!
None who became an emperor were ordinary!
After wielding the Heavenly Heart Imprint and cultivating bitterly for tens of thousands of years, perhaps such extreme Dao supreme beings deserved to be called half-step True Immortals.
Great Emperors stood at the human Dao summit, with no further heights in sight. In the Immortal Ancient Era, they could have triggered an ascension tribulation at any moment.
Who were the people capable of crushing Great Emperors? Wu Shi, Ruthless, Ye Fan, Duan De-every one of them ultimately attained their Dao fruit. They became either transcendent beings beyond the sacrificial path or Sacrificial Path Heavenly Emperors. Even the least of them became an Immortal Emperor.
Such Human Dao Heavenly Emperors were hard to find not merely within a single great universe, but throughout the entire Sea of Realms.
But what if those opponents were excluded?
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