Zhang Sanfeng studied the story on the Stone Wall alone.
Though the Heaven-Connecting Land had sent all four of them back to the Emperor's Fall Era at the same time, they had not arrived in the same place. They had been scattered.
They had not even arrived at the same point in time. Some had landed further back in antiquity, while others had arrived a little closer to the present.
Yet each had lived out a remarkable story, one worthy of being written in bold strokes across Ancient History.
Ruthless had descended upon Emperor's Fall. Of the four, she had arrived at the point in time closest to Meng Chuan's.
By then, the young Footprint Emperor had become a supreme Immortal King, but he had yet to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
Legends of Meng Chuan still circulated through the world. Time had not dimmed his deeds, whose brilliance shone through Eternal Ages; it had only made them more legendary.
Ruthless was no longer starting out as a good-for-nothing. This time, she was effectively a powerful cultivator reborn. How could she possibly begin as a good-for-nothing again...
For Ruthless, going through that beginning once more would have served no purpose.
She already shone brightly enough. She no longer needed such trials to temper her.
That favorable start gave her the means to rise faster. She cultivated without pause, wresting Fortune from Heaven and Earth, and reached the Human Dao Pinnacle in the shortest time possible.
All along that path, she had grown up hearing stories of Meng Chuan.
The tables had turned.
When Meng Chuan had first crossed over, he had grown up hearing legends of the Ruthless Great Emperor. Now Ruthless had grown up hearing the legends Meng Chuan had left behind.
Granted, in the original course of events, Ruthless's