As the Undying Mountain fell silent once more, the endless starry sky also returned to its former calm. Nearly twenty thousand years slipped by unnoticed.
During those years, many things happened throughout the Heavens and Myriad Realms, and Big Dipper, as one of the centers of the present Universe, was no exception.
Among these major events, some were enough to shake the Universe and spread throughout the myriad races of the heavens, while others were merely changes in the shadows, difficult for outsiders to learn of.
The most eye-catching of these was the Spirit Emperor's descent upon Big Dipper: his attempt to seize the Undying Mountain Forbidden Zone had come to nothing. Afterward, the Saint Spirit Lineage suddenly withdrew to the second rank, no longer reigning over the Sea of Stars, and the Universe itself entered an unprecedented period of peace.
In the eyes of the world, this must have been the Spirit Emperor's own decision. For some unknown reason, he had abandoned his plans for the Undying Mountain, leaving the matter of the Saint Spirit Ancestral Court to die without bearing fruit.
After all, the imperial Dao was invincible. The world would not believe that a single Forbidden Zone could withstand the might of a true emperor. Unless they had personally participated in the events of that day, anyone below the Quasi-Emperor level could not possibly have observed the outcome.
Naturally, the few who truly knew what had happened dared not gossip recklessly about a Life Forbidden Zone and the reigning emperor, allowing word of the Spirit Emperor's crushing defeat to spread. They had even less courage to do so when the reigning emperor, though seemingly unscathed, had clearly suffered a major loss.
Moreover, after leaving the Undying Mountain, the Spirit Emperor had chosen to "flee far away" directly