"The First Emperor is Establishing a Path!"
That sight! That presence! Chen Cuo needed no careful investigation to realize what was happening!
He looked east at the black light soaring into the sky. Within it, he could faintly make out a Divine Dragon baring its fangs and claws as it flew at will!
The entire Mortal World seemed to tremble beneath that flying Divine Dragon!
From the far Eastern Sea to the kingdoms of the Western Lands, from the Hundred Thousand Mountains to the desolate northern frontier, across the Four Great Continents and the islands of the Eight Directions, the thoughts of countless living beings were shaken at that moment—
A pitch-black Divine Dragon soared through their hearts. Like a key, it unlocked ancient imprints sealed deep within their blood and will, making them instinctively recall a remote age when neither Transcendence nor Divine Abilities existed in this world, and there was no River of Time spanning past and present and tangling Cause and Effect!
"This is..."
An image of the pitch-black Divine Dragon appeared in Chen Cuo's heart as well. But protected by the power of the Heavenly Dao and the Gray Mist of Dream Marsh, he did not let it truly seep into his mind or seize his will. That was precisely why he could stand apart and observe what these changes meant!
"An age once existed without the River of History or transcendent Divine Abilities?"
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and he instinctively recalled the course of history he had known.
In the textbooks he had studied while growing up, historical events had been driven by nothing more than shifts in circumstance. There had been no Divine Abilities or Transcendence behind them. But...
"Doesn't that mean the River of Time came later? Or is this merely the