"Move out!"
Divine Martial's extraordinary commander urged on the heavenly wolf beneath him and entered the spatial passage first. Over three hundred soldiers followed closely behind him, leaving twenty to bring up the rear.
This was a peculiar ancient road, connected to some unknown Starfield. Everyone felt time falling into disarray, as though a hundred years passed in an instant, as though ten thousand ages hurried by.
Occasionally, the passage walls turned transparent, revealing Starfields being left behind, one after another. They pierced through the universe and arrived somewhere unimaginably distant.
After an unknown length of time, everyone shuddered and burst out of the passage, standing in the boundless universe and silently gazing into the distance.
Starlight shimmered, pure as water. They were already an unknown number of Starfields away from the first city.
Some cried out in alarm. What greeted their eyes was neither a star nor an ancient city, but an enormous island.
It was an island filled with a primordial aura, larger than a continent, floating in the icy universe, enduring since time immemorial.
An ancient presence washed over them, seemingly originating in the age of myths. Countless ages had passed, leaving only scattered legends.
"This island was a battlefield where the Human Race's ancestors fought bloody battles. Who knows how many peerless supreme experts fell here? Once you enter, as long as you can perceive that supreme Dao resonance, unchanged through the ages, you will have earned your ticket to the Emperor Road. If you cannot comprehend anything, there will be no need for you to continue," the commander explained.
Everyone involuntarily turned toward the island that would decide their fate. Its shape was extremely irregular, utterly unlike the celestial bodies in the universe. It should not have existed at all, yet it had never been