At the Cosmic Frontier, heaven, earth, space, and time had all become empty. Everything had been pulverized to ash. Even the Great Dao had been refined into nothingness by the terrifying lightning tribulation, and the boundless chaos lay shattered.
At this moment, Ning Fei alone stood in the vast Cosmic Frontier, above the heavenly heart and myriad daos. The Heavenly Halberd in his hand blazed with silver light, illuminating every direction, supreme at the pinnacle.
Supreme Extreme Dao imperial might gradually spread from Ning Fei, filling the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and announcing to the world that a new Emperor had ascended the throne and would rule the universe's myriad races for tens of thousands of years to come.
Throughout the Heavens and Myriad Realms, everyone was in an uproar. Ning Fei's Dao attainment had been too sudden and too inconceivable, utterly beyond the imagination of the universe's mighty figures, and even beyond the established logic of Dao attainment.
After all, even if they searched all of ancient history, they could not find another instance like Ning Fei's today, attaining the Dao the very moment the previous Emperor abdicated.
When an old Emperor relinquished his position, the heavenly heart dispersed, the myriad daos closed, and the Dharma-ending age descended. This should have been an iron law governing the universe, one no one could defy.
Yet today, this iron law, observed for countless ages, had been broken outright. It was no longer regarded as absolute truth as it had been in the past.
For this was a "clear path" to attaining the Dao against heaven, one a newly risen Emperor had "proven" to the world with his own blood.
It was easy to imagine that, in the future, Heaven's Prides would constantly attempt to undergo their tribulations after an old