Heavenly Emperor fought Heavenly Emperor. The whole world watched this battle, and the myriad races seethed with excitement.
Countless star domains had purchased sky-spanning Dharma eyes produced on the Eternal Ancient Star and installed them in their sacred lands, broadcasting the battle across billions of rivers of stars.
When Heavenly Emperors clashed, even Quasi-Emperors had no right to approach. To watch the battle, one needed at least a Supreme Being's cultivation.
The battle had yet to begin, but nine days before it, Supreme Beings from beyond the domain began arriving one after another. There were so many that even the Heavenly Court's experts dared not neglect them. Ye Tong and Jiang Tingting, the married pair of Supreme Beings, personally came out to welcome them.
The other prodigies of the Heavenly Court had not attained the Dao, not because they lacked talent, but because they were suppressing themselves. They did not intend to take the alternative path to enlightenment, instead seeking an opportunity to become Great Emperors directly.
Supreme Beings gathered in droves, including old allies such as Dao Yi, Zhang Bainin, and Primordial Beginning. Sadly, Emperor Huang was nowhere to be seen. After Emperor Zun had been designated the dark source, he had vanished completely.
There were also unfamiliar Supreme Beings, such as God Venerable of the Divine Race and Yan Chingtian, who claimed to be second beneath the starry sky and hailed from Lingbao Tianzun's Sea of Bitterness.
The curse of five hundred years shackled the world's cultivators and was difficult to break. Great Emperors who attained the Dao at a thousand years old were exceedingly rare throughout the ages. Most Dao-Attainers had truly become Great Emperors at around two or three thousand years old.
Twenty-eight hundred years into this great era, those brilliant enough had already taken the