Another ten thousand years of bloody battle passed. The three Emperors were surrounded, and Emperor blood never stopped dripping into the Boundary Sea.
"Everything should end now."
Seeing the three Emperors' Emperor flames grow dim, the ten-thousand-year siege seemed to have reached its curtain call. The Willow Deity, who had remained silent all along, actually spoke softly.
"Indeed. The time has come to put an end to the darkness."
Su Ying spoke. Fighting at the very pinnacle, he had even forgotten that there might be another supreme Emperor. This truly was not his fault. In a battle between Emperors, every shred of concentration had to be focused on the fight; the slightest distraction could sow the seeds of death. Even the dimming of Hong Emperor's Emperor flame and Primordial Spirit light was partly the consequence of the Willow Deity's earlier strike.
In an instant, however, heaven and earth began to tremble. Invisible dark matter spread. In a secret realm somewhere in the Darkness Ancient Land, a storm formed over an infinite, desolate expanse. A terrifying being was awakening, and even the surging river of years could not reflect his entire body.
"Have you finally come? The Nine Netherworlds Demon Emperor-or perhaps, the World-Destroying Elder."
Just as the three Emperors were about to be ground into oblivion, the peerless being behind the scenes, the Nine-Nether Ao Ancestor who had once attempted to attain the Immortal Emperor fruition, finally emerged.
Chapter 323: Ancient History in Chaos
Black energy gathered. Endless dark matter corroded all of space and time, as though the very source of the dark calamity were manifesting in the world.
A mutilated corpse awakened within this withered cosmos. The moment he opened his eyes, time began tracing backward, crossing the Immortal Ancient era, passing the Emperor-Drop Era, and reaching into