The clansmen all thought Old Golden Crow was in seclusion. Only they knew that this Ancestor had disappeared many years ago, with no word from him since. He had most likely died.
They had never expected him to return suddenly a hundred years ago, at a critical juncture in his transformation.
They had sealed off the news, not daring to alert the outside world. Their Ancestor had finally succeeded in his transformation, only for Gai Jiuyou to attempt to attain the Dao outright.
Because of this, their Ancestor had no choice but to contend with him for the Dao, emerging to do battle.
Yet the outcome was this cruel. The Ancestor they had believed invincible had actually lost.
The mighty figures throughout the universe all fell silent. A new Great Emperor of the Human Race was about to emerge, and the balance of the entire universe would undergo a drastic upheaval.
"What a pity for the Golden Crow Clan's Quasi-Emperor. In his first life, he fought bloody battles all the way to the Ninth Heaven, crossing mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He even staked everything to live a second life, yet still couldn't outcompete Gai Jiuyou!"
Many people felt some regret.
Among them, Yin Tiande, Huo Qizi, Divine Venerable, Taichu, Di Huang, and Divine Silkworm Daoist felt the greatest regret.
The Eastern Emperor had pulled ahead of everyone, giving them a sense of urgency. They had all buried themselves in cultivation, silently resolving to rise up and chase him.
They had never imagined that the one to cut off their path forward and their hopes-
Would not be the Eastern Emperor, whose extraordinary talent eclipsed past and present, whose cultivation speed left people dumbstruck, who had shattered all manner of historical records, and who possessed inconceivable battle prowess