"An imprint left with the most fundamental traces of the Great Dao!"
"This is... a Dao-mark divine art left by the Desolate Heaven Emperor!"
At the sight of the stone stele mottled with the traces of passing ages, Li Qingyue understood almost instantly.
The so-called Emperor Road was, in fact, the sum of all the traces the Desolate Heaven Emperor had left as he traveled through the heavens in search of the Immortal Realm.
Back then, the Desolate Heaven Emperor had traversed the universe and the Eight Desolations, attempting to break open a passage to the Immortal Realm.
He had traveled through almost every star domain in the heavens.
In those places he had passed through, he had left countless methods and arts, along with stone steles warning future generations.
After the Desolate Heaven Emperor entered the Immortal Realm, the Ten Thousand Races of the heavens occupied the sites bearing those traces.
At the time, it had been called the Road to Immortality.
It was the road the Desolate Heaven Emperor had walked to break into the Immortal Realm, and also the Road to Immortality upon which countless later generations pursued his path to immortality.
During the Mythological Era, the progenitor of the Human Sacred Body had studied the traces of the Six Paths Heavenly Art and created the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, nearly attaining Dao.
Naturally, the Ten Thousand Races of the heavens had also reaped tremendous rewards from this Road to Immortality, giving rise to the Primordial Myriad Races that later dominated the heavens.
Eventually, after the eras of Emperor Venerable and Netherworld Venerable, all the Roads to Immortality were connected, becoming the so-called Emperor Road, also known as the Ancient Road of Ten Thousand Races.
It became a road where generation after generation of Heavenly Prodigies