Through endless ages, they had drifted beyond space and time, traveling through one secret realm after another. Whenever they reached an extraordinary secret realm, they would linger to see whether there was any hope. After a long, fruitless wait, they would set out again. So it had been for all eternity.
The Thunder Emperor, one of the ten fiends, had been a heaven-defying being who rose during the final days of Immortal Ancient. Yet he was hailed as the most gifted of the ten fiends. Before he had even entered the king realm, all living beings had already bestowed upon him the name of Emperor.
Rumor held that he came from the thunder spirits. Nurtured and transformed by the divine thunder of heaven and earth, he gained consciousness and assumed human form. He had fought only a few times in the war before the Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm set their sights on him.
Ordinarily, the ten fiends were surrounded and slain in the course of regular battles. But he was an Immortal Dao being whom the Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm had specifically ordered killed. They feared that no one could suppress him once he matured, so they sought to eliminate him early. That alone showed how highly they regarded the Thunder Emperor.
The progenitor of all lightning, the being who had attained the highest achievement in the thunder Dao, he was said to command the heavenly Dao's lightning tribulations, enforcing judgment on heaven's behalf and passing sentence upon myriad living beings. Countless titles could scarcely express his gifts. Even the Immortal Ancient Kings had been astounded by his talent.
Seemingly sensing Lin Yue blocking their path ahead, the thunder spirits instinctively changed course, turning toward another ancient world.
But Lin Yue had already entered the emperor