The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands were in an uproar.
The news that Desolate had been struck by the Immortal-Breaking Curse and reduced to a cripple swept through the realms like a hurricane, shaking heaven and earth.
"Desolate was really crippled?"
"That's Desolate! He swept through the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. With talent bestowed by heaven, even the older generation couldn't match him."
"How could Desolate become a cripple? He created myths in the history of cultivation and broke record after record. It's impossible."
"Desolate is Emperor Yuan's heir. He's without equal and destined to be invincible through the ages. How could this happen?"
Some found it impossible to believe. A figure like him, unrivaled across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, had reportedly become a cripple.
Desolate had become a symbol of the Current Era.
People saw many things in him.
For instance, just how gifted one person could be, and how powerful a Heavenly Prodigy could become.
In many people's eyes, Desolate was the pinnacle of Heavenly Prodigies, the upper limit of extraordinary talent.
Since his debut, he had never lost.
Descendants of Fierce Beasts, undefeated legends, invincible first-generation prodigies, ancient freaks, members of longevity clans, Heavenly Prodigies of the Foreign Realm, heirs of Imperial Clans...
No matter how prodigious or extraordinary you were, no matter how your fame shook heaven and earth, you could only lose when you faced Desolate.
In the Current Era, or even several eras before it, if one had to name a king of Heavenly Prodigies, a supreme genius, the foremost hero, it could only be Desolate!
Even an Immortal King had acknowledged it. The Forbidden Zone Lord, the First King of the Divine Ancient Era, had readily admitted that he was no match for Shi Hao in his youth.
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