Hearing Qin Hao's words, True Lord Lianyun, the Flamefire Realm Master, and True Lord Tianyan exchanged glances, then burst out laughing.
"Qin Hao, you haven't been cultivating for long. It's only natural that you don't know much about the Star Sea," the Flamefire Realm Master said with a smile.
"Rumor has it that the Celestial Pivot Daoist belonged to the Human Race. In truth, he came from a small race and had no powerful backing.
"It took the Celestial Pivot Daoist an extraordinarily long time to become a Sovereign," True Lord Lianyun said. "He became a Heaven and Earth Sovereign... several hundred Eras ago, I believe."
"Do you see what I mean?"
At that, Qin Hao's heart tightened slightly.
Several hundred Eras!
A single Era was equivalent to a million years in a Small World.
What did several hundred Eras amount to?
The span was almost impossible to imagine.
Yet several hundred Eras had passed since the Celestial Pivot Daoist became a Heaven and Earth Sovereign.
What Qin Hao did not know was that the higher a Warrior climbed in Cultivation, the harder each step became.
For those in the Creation Realm, it was different.
Though a vast gulf separated Marquis-Rank Creation from King-Sealing Creation, someone who cultivated with all their might and comprehended the Origin Laws might still advance.
Sovereigns were another matter.
Crossing from the Creation Realm into the Sovereign Realm through a Heavenly Tribulation was a tremendous hurdle.
And after becoming a Sovereign... every subsequent tribulation was another tremendous hurdle!
Someone might break through the Creation Realm and become a One-Tribulation Sovereign, but advancing to Two-Tribulation Sovereign required surviving another Heavenly Tribulation.
The Second Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation was far more powerful than the First Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation. No one knew how many First Tribulation Sovereigns had perished