"Burning Books and Burying Emperors..." Chu Kuangren murmured, a mocking look appearing on his face as well. "Unknowable Places? If you ask me, they should rename themselves Shameless Places."
Emperors stood at the pinnacle of cultivation. The birth of every Emperor was accompanied by boundless glory. Their deeds should have been passed down through the world, revered by later generations and pointing the way forward for their cultivation.
Yet these so-called Unknowable Places, for a claim of uncertain truth and their own selfish desires, had sealed away all the Emperors' glory beneath the dust, leaving later cultivators aware of Emperors but ignorant of what an Emperor was?
No one could become an Emperor in the Dharma-Ending Age. These were the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.
The Unknowable Places' Burning Books and Burying Emperors had built a cage for later cultivators. Trapped within it, later generations could not see the Emperors' glory, did not know their capabilities, and did not know how they had become Emperors...
"Shameless Places?"
"Haha, that's a fine name."
Tianjizi paused at those words, then burst into laughter. He looked at Chu Kuangren, an unusual gleam in his eyes. "Even in the Great Age of Strife, becoming an Emperor remains incredibly difficult. But the Unknowable Places hold the Emperors' legacies. The first Emperors should have emerged from among them."
"But young friend Chu, you are an exception. I hope to see you slap these Unknowable Places hard across the face and show them that even if they burn books and bury Emperors, keeping all living beings ignorant of Emperors, someone can still break out of the cage, attain the Dao, and become an Emperor!"
Tianjizi was the foremost diviner of the age. He had long since divined this Great Age of Strife. The opportunities to become an