"A tomb!"
At those words, Li Qingyue understood at once.
Back in the Mythical Era, Dao Venerable had already been an unrivaled Heavenly Venerable, at least a million years ago.
By her reckoning, Earth was now in its own Mythological Era.
Like the Heavenly Court, the Feathered Divine Dynasty towered over everything, the supreme power on Earth.
The hundred-odd thousand years from the End of the Ancient Era to the present were known as the Middle Era.
After Ziwei Great Emperor and Tianxuan Great Emperor came Empress Great Emperor Wa, Great Emperor Fuxi, and Amitabha Great Emperor, who had left their legends on Earth.
Empress Great Emperor Wa had likewise been the ancient corpse of a Supreme from the Mythological Era, suspected to be the most ancient ancestor of the Saint Spirit Lineage. She had created the Heaven-Mending Divine Art so revered by the Saint Spirit Race.
Like Great Emperor Fuxi, the creator of Nine Secrets: Qian, her corpse had gained sentience, emerged from Earth, and attained the Emperor Position anew, living another lifetime.
As for Amitabha Great Emperor, there was little need for explanation: he had attained the Dao from Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's thought of perfect goodness.
There was no reason Dao Venerable's corpse should have gained sentience so many years later than theirs.
Even more puzzling was how few traces Dao Venerable had left in this world.
Aside from the Dao Scripture, passed down for a million years, there were only traces of his suppression and slaying of Saint Spirits along the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
Even his supreme Taiji Diagram, hailed as a divine artifact capable of opening heaven, had vanished without a trace.
For a Heavenly Venerable who had dominated an era and ruled everything above and below for tens of thousands of years, so few