The Li Clan was not within the Imperial Dynasty. After the Imperial Dynasty's Emperor died, the realm's Imperial Fortune belonging to the Imperial Dynasty had no master.
With half the imperial qi, Ji Ting gained half the realm's fortune.
Meanwhile, Su Mo had awakened the Pei Clan's fortune at Floating Life Pass. He should only have gained the power of Imperial Fortune upon Floating Life Pass, but because of the half of the imperial qi the Emperor had sent him, it spread outward, and he gained half the realm's Imperial Fortune.
All because... Su Mo had not gone to the Imperial Dynasty.
That day, everyone beneath heaven learned that the Ji Clan's heavenly prodigy had emerged.
Upon the ninety-nine Incense Divine Steles standing throughout the world, another name appeared... Ji Ting.
That day, everyone beneath heaven also learned that the Ji Clan had joined forces with the four supreme powers to drive the Emperor to his death and seize the realm.
The Ji Clan's heavenly prodigy became the realm's Emperor.
Only, he had just half...
Yet what left people even more bewildered and lost was the heaven-spanning character "Pei" above the whole of Floating Life Pass, like a bank of mist shrouding the entire world.
The Pei Clan had reappeared...
Why had a heaven-ordained imperial clan, whose line had ended countless years ago, reappeared in the world?
A deranged old beggar huddled in a corner, looking up toward Floating Life Pass.
He murmured ceaselessly, "Dead, all dead..."
His tattered long robe dragged along the ground, caked with thick dust.
A trace of clarity seemed to return to the old beggar's expression. He raised his sleeve and wiped his face, then simply lay down on the ground and gazed up at the sky, his thoughts unknown.
"When did the gates of