An Emperor's Son against an Imperial Daughter-what an evenly matched clash of dragon and tiger!
The Myriad Dragon Imperial Daughter could do it!
"She ought to thank us!"
"Originally, she was going to emerge in a later age, in that clown show of a Golden Age, only for Master Ye to kick her to death like some dog by the roadside..."
Master Ye, with his first-generation Sacred Physique, was far too overpowered. The Myriad Dragon Imperial Daughter could never beat him, even with everything she had. After all, two Human Dao Heavenly Emperors stood behind Master Ye then: a Green Lotus rooted in his Bitter Sea, and the Female Emperor's faintly flickering figure.
The Myriad Dragon Imperial Daughter's defeat was no fault of her fighting prowess. All one could say was that her father hadn't pulled his weight.
No matter.
Feng Jiu would have her emerge in a different era... See that second-generation Sacred Body over there?
Go!
Kick him!
Perfect. She could avoid that clown show of an age, when so many Ancient Emperors miscalculated and lost face.
Many primordial emperors had counted on their fingers and calculated the correct era when the Road to Immortality would open. While severing their own Dao fruits and sealing themselves within Life Forbidden Zones, they had also kept their clans active in the outside world, protecting their offspring and waiting for that era to arrive before sending their Ancient Emperor's Sons out to cultivate.
By the time the Road to Immortality truly opened, most of those Ancient Emperor's Sons should have reached the pinnacle of cultivation. Even if they couldn't become Great Emperors, they ought to have achieved alternative Dao attainment.
Then, if battle broke out on the Road to Immortality, fathers and sons could take the field together. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
And the result...
It seemed they had all miscalculated.
Barely two hundred years after the Ancient Emperor's Sons on the Big Dipper Ancient Star emerged, Beidou's Road to Immortality opened. They were only Great Saints then, not worth a damn.
Another eight hundred years passed, and the Road to Immortality on Flying Immortal opened. Though many Ancient Emperor's Sons were Quasi-Emperors, they remained far from the pinnacle of that realm, let alone alternative Dao attainment. Only one fully realized Sacred Body could take part.
Becoming immortals?
It had absolutely nothing to do with them.
What about becoming Great Emperors?
On that subject, the Golden Crow Great Emperor solemnly declared, "You Ancient Emperor's Sons failed to become Great Emperors in this era. You ought to take a good, hard look at yourselves. Have you been neglecting your cultivation? Look at Ye Fan, that Sacred Body. Even with a reigning emperor, didn't he still rise against the heavens?"
"In short, you can't blame me for your own inadequacy!"
The primordial emperors had prepared for a rainy day and sealed away the children they considered their finest. In the end, all those children were mere bystanders, serving only to highlight the heaven-defying, world-shaking greatness of one Sacred Body Heavenly Emperor.
At this, a certain Single Lotus Through the Eternal Blue Heavens smiled without a word.
He had taken the MVP!
It was him. Of all the times he could have passed away, he had chosen to "pass away" exactly ten thousand years before the Road to Immortality opened, suppressing the myriad Daos and making every Imperial Clan lying dormant on the Big Dipper Ancient Star emerge too late.
Of course, the price was that the humans and the Demon Race of that era were screwed over as well. Immortal Second Realm Mighty Figures could reign supreme, only to suffer a crushing, higher-dimensional assault from the awakened primordial races.
The Azure Emperor's wisdom was simply too astounding. He could be said to have single-handedly ruined certain arrangements made by many Ancient Emperors!
"So, emerging early beats emerging late. The Myriad Dragon Imperial Daughter owes me a kowtow!"
"She can come out and get active in this era, cultivate all the way to the pinnacle of the Quasi-Emperor realm, then seal herself away again until the Road to Immortality opens. Wouldn't it be lovely to turn up the difficulty for our Master Ye?"
"Hmm, she should survive fighting Wushi, right?"
"If not, she can sell out a few teammates... The Golden Cave, the Fire Qilin Cave, Blood Phoenix Mountain... I don't know where those Primordial Imperial Clans' ancestral lands are, but the Myriad Dragon Nest certainly does."
"Then they can all emerge together. Their Ancient Emperor's Sons and Ancient Imperial Daughters can stop sleeping too. Hurry up and fight our Daoist Wushi for three hundred rounds!"
Feng Jiu muttered to himself. His true body was changing now. The heaven-defying fortune Dao transformed his flesh, organs, bones, and bodily shape, turning him into a Dragon Loach.
The Dragon Loach gleamed golden and was a little over a foot long, resembling a True Dragon. If it hadn't been so small, it could almost have passed for the real thing.
He had stewed Dragon Loaches at the Jade Lake Holy Land and helped himself to a little extra on the side for study and observation. Although he couldn't yet reproduce both form and spirit, his transformed appearance was already flawless.
But that wasn't the end.
Feng Jiu's Dragon Loach body quivered and actually began to give off a fragrance-a pure medicinal aroma.
It was the scent of a medicine king!
Feng Jiu could not only turn into a Dragon Loach but also imitate a medicine king. Naturally, this was fake too: the appearance alone, without a medicine king's miraculous properties.
But Feng Jiu had never intended to deliver himself into someone else's mouth anyway.
His belly was brimming with wicked schemes. He wanted to throw the world into chaos!
Did they even understand what it meant to be Shrouding the Heavens folk, or the spirit of Shrouding the Heavens?
If you hadn't stormed forbidden zones to seize divine medicines and fought your way through Great Emperors' tombs, what kind of Shrouding the Heavens person were you?
All the Great Powers and sect masters who had ventured into the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land since ancient times, hoping to seize the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine and prolong their lives, gave that a hearty thumbs-up!
What?
The Myriad Dragon Nest had an Immortal Divine Medicine?
And someone had seen it with their own eyes and smelled its fragrance?
Then this sect master had to consider whether this was the only chance of his lifetime-to restore his battle weapon and prolong his life for another lifetime!
Even if mountains of blades and seas of fire lay ahead, even if it was a Primordial Imperial Clan's ancestral land, it couldn't stop him!
We dared to storm Life Forbidden Zones. Who did a mere Ancient Emperor's clan think it was?
Don't underestimate the courage of us Shrouding the Heavens cultivators!
At that moment, the Dragon Loach exuded medicinal fragrance, vividly lifelike.
Feng Jiu wasn't done yet. After some careful thought, he molded branches, leaves, and a stem, fashioned nine leaves, then crushed some Dragon Marrow and adorned himself with ten thousand streams of dragon aura.
Feng Jiu was hurtling down the road of forgery at breakneck speed.
"Perfect!"
Feng Jiu was very satisfied. "Now all that's left is to reveal this miracle before an audience, then pull off a little flight through the heavens and burrowing through the earth!"
As everyone knew, Immortal Divine Medicines were excellent runners. They could fly through the heavens and burrow through the earth, and ordinary cultivators couldn't catch them.
As luck would have it.
Running away was Feng Jiu's greatest specialty. With Nine Secrets: Xing at hand, he too could fly through the heavens and burrow through the earth!
"I'm just too kind."
He sighed. "To benefit the cultivators of this era, I've gone so far as to enter the game myself..."
"Immortal Divine Medicines belong exclusively to Ancient Great Emperors. Ordinary people aren't even worthy of smelling them... Yet now, they have a sliver of a chance to get their hands on one."
"Who else, above the heavens or below them, has such generosity of spirit?"
"Hmm, next, all Five Regions of Beidou should boil over, right? Every Great Teaching and holy land will come join the fun?"
"Besides, this is a Golden Age too..."
"In the Golden Age of later years, when Lingbao Heavenly Venerate's Killing Formation, the Life Ancient Tree, and the like appeared, many major powers came swarming in. Even Great Saints weren't rare."
"Now there's an Immortal Divine Medicine here, and a Great Emperor's Tomb. If word could spread into the Deep Starry Sky..."
"Although I haven't set foot on the Emperor Road... the Emperor Road can come to me,
"can't it!"
"I see opportunities scattered everywhere across the Big Dipper Ancient Star. I wonder whether the cultivators of the various races in the Deep Starry Sky will like them?"
"Ah, I'm truly too kind... A sage seeks no gain for himself; his concern is to succor the common people!"
"How can that fellow be so petty?"
Within the Jade Lake Holy Land, Wushi's temples throbbed wildly. An inexplicable intuition gave him a bad feeling.
Almost instinctively, he felt that a certain someone was stirring up trouble.
"All I did was prepare an Emperor Formation, an Emperor Weapon, and a Saint, then bait him once!"
"Was that really necessary?!"