The following year was the second year of Heng Emperor's third life, and more than eleven thousand years had passed since Tai Chu Emperor began his reign over the cosmos. The Heavenly Heart Imprint suppressed the myriad Daos. The laws of the universe had neither withered nor flourished; it was an ordinary, uneventful year.
Yet in that very year, many powerful cultivators throughout the universe sensed that the Undying Mountain, a Life Forbidden Zone already steeped in solemn majesty, seemed to have grown even more unfathomable. Many saw mysterious figures occasionally flash through those pitch-black mountains, their Imperial Dao might so imposing that it made people's hair stand on end.
Cultivators from many great clans and orthodox lineages were shaken. They believed Heng Emperor was developing some supreme art within the forbidden zone, summoning reflections of Ancient Supremes. After the changes in the universe, the various forbidden zones had almost entirely emptied, making a gathering of Supremes a rare sight indeed.
But they did not know that those shadowy figures were not reflections produced by some ancient technique. They were the Supremes who had once ruled the great Life Forbidden Zones.
They had truly returned!
This was Heng Emperor's second Peach of Immortality Banquet, held within the bounds permitted by the laws.
"How the years change things! I remember when Heng Emperor held his first Peach of Immortality Banquet, we were still desperate souls hovering on the edge of eternal life. Now, everything has changed."
On a silent, deeply dark cliff, the Other Shore Flower Emperor still wore her crimson imperial battle dress. She was tall and graceful, her legs straight and slender, but her long brows resembled demonic blades drawn from their sheaths, their sharpness carrying a faint murderous gleam that filled all living beings with awe.
At that