Time slipped by, the years flowing silently onward.
In Chaos City, more than three hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. Inside an utterly ordinary Cultivation Residence, Yang Zheng sat cross-legged, his mind deeply focused as he poured all his efforts into breaking through to the Universe Master realm.
Meanwhile, far away above the Ancestral God Religion's Suo Dream Continent, the immense curtain of light that had shrouded the entire continent for a thousand years finally faded without a sound, like a receding river of stars.
Rumble-
The moment the curtain of light vanished, a vast surge of energy swept out from deep within the continent, instantly stirring Purple Thorn Island.
Startled by the sudden commotion, the many inheritors on the island looked up, their gazes passing across the Five-Colored Aurora Lake toward the ancient, magnificent Suo Dream Continent deep within, now revealed in its true form.
"It's begun! The inheritance has finally opened!"
"A thousand years... I never imagined a thousand years could feel so long and unbearable."
As the inheritors on the island chattered among themselves, the candidates who had long been waiting eagerly surged into the Suo Dream Continent.
Awaiting them was a towering stairway that rose from the earth and pierced the heavens. Its hundred thousand steps radiated an ancient, imposing aura.
The stairway's rules appeared clearly: whoever overcame all hundred thousand steps and reached the summit within a hundred thousand years would inherit the exalted position of Suo Dream God General. Even those who failed to reach the top would qualify to study the Divine General's ultimate secret technique if they climbed ninety thousand steps.
Among the candidates, someone keenly noticed a missing figure. "Strange. Why is Azure Universe King nowhere to be seen?"
"Do you even need to ask?"
Someone beside him