Time slipped quietly by. Five years had passed since the Myriad-Ages Emperors and Emperors returned.
In those five years, Heaven and Earth had changed beyond recognition. The stars had faded, replaced by undying Great Suns!
The Returned Emperors had grown stronger and entered the Immortal Platform Secret Realm. Even those who were only Half-Step Great Powers could now face the strongest figures of the age without fear.
The Fighting Saint Emperor's reincarnation defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son, a top Heavenly Prodigy of the age, in only a few moves. That battle opened an era in which the Returned Emperors vied for supremacy across the Universe.
One youth carried a sword. Alone with his blade, he fought Heaven and Earth and swept aside Heavenly Prodigies in all directions.
Another wore armor and withstood a Saint Weapon with his Great Power body before departing at his leisure.
An Ancient Emperor traveled through Beidou, turning a hundred defeats into a record of no defeats and overturning every old assumption.
The Returned Emperors' edge was simply too sharp. Few of them had weak physiques, and in that respect they were no worse than the Heavenly Prodigies of the age.
It was the only respect in which those Heavenly Prodigies could come close to them.
The bodies Meng Chuan had fashioned for the Returned Emperors could not, of course, be their former Imperial Bodies or Emperor Bodies. Most had the physiques they had possessed in their youth.
Thus, unless the Returned Emperors used special means to strengthen their bodies, there was little difference between their physiques and those of the Heavenly Prodigies of the age.
But when it came to Divine Abilities, Secret Techniques, experience, Dao Hearts, the Great Dao, and everything else—
The Heavenly Prodigies of the age suffered utter defeat. They were crushed