The Ten Great Ancestors all understood what Desolate meant. One Ancestor sighed softly, thinking it a pity for such a hero to die.
Another Ancestor snorted coldly, finding Desolate utterly ungrateful.
Still another surged with Killing Intent, already prepared to strike.
"Ever since we killed the woman of the Pollen Path, we have not fought again."
"It seems we must send another of the Sacrificial Dao to his death today."
"Years are born and pass away; all things change. Only we can endure forever."
"Let the blood of one of the Sacrificial Dao proclaim our clan's majesty and glory."
Shi Hao stepped in front of Ye Fan and the others. The Desolate Sword hung across the sky, spanning the ages.
He gazed at the Ten Great Ancestors, knowing that even his breakthrough could change nothing.
As the Ancestors had said, only by entering this realm could one understand its vastness and power.
And his enemies numbered ten at the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
He had only just entered the realm, and his condition had been dire even before the breakthrough.
Powerful as he now was, he was still far from his Peak State.
Breaking through from Immortal Emperor to the Sacrificial Dao did not automatically restore all his strength, heal every wound from before the breakthrough, and bring him straight to his Peak State.
This was no game.
Newly entered into the Sacrificial Dao Realm and already depleted—there was no need to spell out how this would end.
As for trading his life to send an Ancestor into eternal silence and take one with him in death, he could forget it. It was impossible.
In the final battle of the Original Sacred Ruins Era, Ruthless had taken an Ancestor with her and killed her utterly just after breaking through.
That was