That day, the entire Universe lay beneath a Quasi-Emperor tribulation. Boundless divine might made the hearts of all living beings tremble as the Heavenly Prodigies charged the Quasi-Emperor threshold together, determined to set foot on the final road of conquest.
Galaxies lay in ruins, and dead stars exploded into fragments. Blood and bone littered the Starry Sky. Under the Dao Calendar, the stronger you were when your cultivation broke through, the stronger the Thunder Tribulation you faced.
There was no punching a Thunder Tribulation apart and charging through the threshold undefeated.
That was impossible at any realm. No matter how invincible or formidable you were, you would encounter unfathomable foes within the Thunder Tribulation. For example, the Dao Realm Emperors!
The Emperors still lived on in the world, so their Dao shadows naturally manifested when Heavenly Prodigies underwent tribulations. Those shadows were fiercely powerful and suppressed countless people.
No matter how strong the Heavenly Prodigies were, the Emperors' Dao shadows were always stronger. Naturally, the Heavenly Prodigies and the Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors did not believe the Emperors had been stronger in their youth than they were now. Anyone who knew what was going on understood the trick.
Notably, apart from Lu Mingfei, Ye Fan, and Su Wanwan, no other Heavenly Prodigies had ever encountered the Dao shadows of the Heavenly Emperor and Ruthless, regardless of what Thunder Tribulation they underwent.
Many ambitious people had hoped to use those Dao shadows to measure themselves against the two, only to find they could not even get past the Emperors.
What the Heavenly Prodigies could not understand was this: it was perfectly normal for the Emperors' Dao-Law shadows to be fierce, but why were the Dao shadows of two dead men, Emperor Zun and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, just as fierce?