Get up!
Having refined the Sacred Mountain, Nie Yun also learned that the White-bearded Elder before him was precisely the Sacred Mountain's Artifact Spirit.
The Sacred Mountain was deeply connected to the Boundless Abyss. By controlling it, one could safely borrow its power and travel freely through the Boundless Abyss. That was why the White-bearded Elder knew everything that happened throughout the Boundless Abyss.
"What exactly is this Sacred Mountain? I've already refined it, so you can tell me now, right?"
Nie Yun asked.
"Master, you are the first person in countless years to refine the Sacred Mountain!"
The white-bearded elder said, "This thing was forged jointly by tens of thousands of Great Emperors and contains the painstaking efforts of countless people!"
"Wait... tens of thousands of Great Emperors?"
Nie Yun blinked.
What kind of joke was this?
There were only a few dozen Great Emperors in the God Realm altogether—not even a hundred. Even counting Great Emperor Yan Huang and the others from the past, there probably would not be more than two hundred. What did tens of thousands even mean?
"There were indeed tens of thousands, perhaps even more!"
The white-bearded elder nodded. "This is the total number of all Great Emperors since three thousand Chaos Eras ago!"
"Chaos Eras?"
"A Chaos Era is a special method of reckoning time in Chaos. Put simply, the birth and destruction of the God Realm counts as one unit. There is no fixed duration—some can be as short as a hundred million years, while others may last several billion years. Regardless of length, they are collectively called one era!"
The white-bearded elder said.
"Three thousand Chaos Eras? You mean the God Realm has been born and destroyed three thousand times already?" Nie Yun's mouth fell open.
From his birth until now,