The atmosphere in Heavenly Pillar Mountain's small world was jubilant. Everyone was beaming with joy, and even the powerful cultivators who bore grudges against one another, along with the great holy lands and clans, were peaceful and harmonious. There was no hint of drawn swords or bitter confrontation.
With several Dark Supremes holding the fort, they would never dare disrupt Overlord Heavenly Venerable's wedding day unless they were ready to tear all pretense aside or go looking for death.
After the wedding ceremony, Xiao Ping'an entered the bridal chamber with the twin sisters, bringing the grand celebration to a perfect close.
As the tenth Heavenly Venerable acknowledged by the world, Xiao Ping'an drew the eyes of all creation on his wedding day. Even people in the mortal world heard that a powerful Heavenly Venerable was getting married.
The grandeur of this wedding was destined to enter the annals of cultivation history and become a cherished tale people would relish recounting.
As the festivities ended, the many guests left the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star. In the Life Source Lands across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, countless cultivators talked about the wedding.
Of course, the excitement soon died down.
This was a world of cultivation, after all. No matter how sensational an event was, people would have all but forgotten it after a while.
Time flowed on, and the days passed one by one.
Thus, the whole world passed through a very peaceful period.
The Dark Supremes also showed Overlord Heavenly Venerable great respect. None of them unleashed a Dark Turmoil while he was alive.
The many Dark Supremes, along with powerhouses like Xiao Ping'an, stood high above and looked down upon the mortal world.
Meanwhile, Xiao Ping'an's Dao companions, Yun'er and Weiwei, continued cultivating diligently. At the same time, they used the sacred blood essence left to them by the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body to purify their bloodlines step by step. Their bloodlines awakened, evolving toward those of Pure-Blooded Sacred Bodies.
Ultimately, they became Pure-Blooded Sacred Bodies capable of standing alongside the First-Generation Sacred Physique.
In the two thousand years after Xiao Ping'an's marriage, apart from a few who became Quasi-Emperors, the many peerless prodigies advanced no further than the Great Saint Realm.
After all, those supreme prodigies with a chance of attaining the Dao had already sealed themselves away.
Thus, nothing major happened in the world.
If anything had to be mentioned, it was that during those two thousand years, Xiao Ping'an and the twin sisters had three sons and a daughter.
Two of the sons had Heavenly Tyrant Bodies, while the other son and the daughter also inherited Xiao Ping'an's bloodline and likewise had Heavenly Tyrant Bodies.
Once they cultivated to the Immortal Platform Second Secret Realm, they were sealed away to await the next golden age.
If they continued cultivating now, there would not be enough powerful opponents on the Starry Sky Ancient Road to temper them, and they really might be ruined.
Xiao Ping'an intended to let them emerge and cultivate once the next great age began.
Xiao Ping'an wanted more than for them to become Great Accomplished Tyrant Bodies. He also hoped that one day they could break through the Heavenly Heart Imprint and defy heaven to attain the Dao, just as he had.
Of course, the best outcome would be for them to embark on the Red Dust Immortal path as he had.
Xiao Ping'an had originally been full of anticipation for the union of the Tyrant Body and Sacred Body bloodlines.
For instance, the Heavenly Tyrant Body and the Innate Dao Embryo had the same color in their Sea of Bitterness secret realms: both were purple.
The Sea of Bitterness secret realm of the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo was purple-gold.
Xiao Ping'an had originally wondered whether, after marrying these two Sacred Bodies, he might have a peerless child with a purple-gold Sea of Bitterness secret realm, a genius with astonishing cultivation aptitude like Great Emperor Wushi.
Yet during those two thousand years, even though he had worked hard and successfully fathered four children, none of his descendants had a purple-gold Bitter Sea.
For someone at Xiao Ping'an's cultivation realm, being able to have children at all was already extremely rare.
Moreover, they were Pure-Blooded Tyrant Bodies with exceptionally pure bloodlines. All in all, Xiao Ping'an was very satisfied.
The birth of four children proved that there was no reproductive barrier between the Heavenly Tyrant Body and sacred blood, and that they could successfully produce offspring.
The twin daughters of the First-Generation Sacred Physique also proved that men were not the only ones who could possess a Sacred Body. Women could have this physique too, though it was extremely rare.
At least, records from later generations contained no mention of a female Great Accomplishment Sacred Body.
As the twin sisters completely devoured and absorbed the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's origin essence blood, and as their cultivation rose step by step, they truly became Pure-Blooded Sacred Bodies.
The four children they raised also became their pride.
With careful nurturing, the children would surely grow into their full potential, becoming Great Accomplished Tyrant Bodies at a conservative estimate.
As for Alternative Dao Attainment, they could also glimpse its possibilities.
Whether they could attain the Dao and become emperors was another matter; it was certainly impossible at present.
After all, Xiao Ping'an's Dao was simply too powerful and terrifying.
Perhaps they could seal themselves away until a later golden age, just as Xiao Ping'an was doing now, and seize the chance to attain the Dao when the Dao of heaven and earth revived.
Without another Dao attainer suppressing them, breaking through the Heavenly Heart Imprint to attain the Dao would still be difficult, but the difficulty would be somewhat reduced.
If they truly found themselves in an age like Ye Fan's, suppressed by a second-life Great Emperor like the Golden Crow, that would be enough to drive them to despair.
Just when everyone thought this golden age had been dimmed by Xiao Ping'an's attainment of the Dao-
Rumble!
From the Cosmic Frontier, within the vast, boundless Supreme Battlefield, came a sudden, earth-shaking roar.
That terrifying fluctuation of the Dao could be felt throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
The supreme laws of the Dao were comparable to a Supreme's.
In this era, ordinary Dao attainers could only be called Supremes. Only those with Heavenly Emperor-level fighting strength like Xiao Ping'an were qualified to be called Heavenly Venerables.
The Supremes of this time were still different from the Supremes of the Perfect Era.
At the Cosmic Frontier, Great Emperor-level laws of the Dao surged mightily, and a terrifying storm of energy seemed ready to tear the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands apart.
Crash! Crash!
Xiao Ping'an personally intervened. The power of space and time flowed over that region of the universe like water, as countless motes of light rained down, forcibly fixing that expanse of heaven and earth in place.
The Supreme Battlefield there was already protected by a supreme formation of the highest and greatest power.
Ordinarily, even when Supremes or Heavenly Venerables came here to fight, the aftermath spread only within this world and could not affect the other living beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Some said that this Supreme Battlefield had once been personally established by a True Immortal of the Immortal Domain. None below the True Immortal realm could damage it.
For that very reason, many powerful cultivators came here to spar, temper themselves, or fight decisive battles.
Now, the energy fluctuations within the Supreme Battlefield had alerted numerous powerhouses.
People sensed that terrifying presence in the unseen, as though two Supremes were engaged in a great battle.
Many Saints felt that dreadful presence and shuddered inwardly.
More people used their heaven-piercing dharma eyes to look toward the source of the terrifying Dao and energy fluctuations, toward the place where the Supreme Battlefield lay.
There, endless chaos surged and churned, while a supreme formation concealed everything within. Even the many powerful cultivators could not see clearly what was happening there.
All they could sense was that terrifying presence, like that of a battle between Supremes.
Although the fluctuations of energy and the laws of the Dao could not harm anyone outside the battlefield, they were still alarming.
Rumble!
One imposing figure after another appeared in the void. Quasi-Emperors had come in person to investigate.
Quasi-Supreme might have been a more fitting name for a Quasi-Emperor.
The Dark Supremes, naturally, could see everything there clearly without coming to investigate. For the other powerhouses, however, seeing clearly was not so easy.
Even though these Quasi-Supremes were already powerful enough, when they reached the edge of the Supreme Battlefield, they were still swept back out by the terrifying storm.
Feeling that dreadful presence, the many Quasi-Supremes recoiled in shock and retreated, no longer daring to enter and investigate.
But they also sensed the laws of the Dao and the storm, and had a rough idea of who was fighting there.
They did not intend to tell others immediately who was fighting there. Instead, they seized the chance to comprehend the Dao's divine charm.
After all, one could comprehend another's Dao and its divine charm in battle, and one could also comprehend it by watching another's battle.
Although they could not see clearly what was happening inside, that did not stop them from gleaning the Dao's divine charm from the aftermath of the battle.
Rumble!
Amid the dazzling light, at the source of this battle, two figures of peerless grace were fighting, clashing fiercely.
Their bodies collided, and supreme golden blood Qi surged and churned, towering over past, present, and future. It truly blotted out the heavens and the sun and threw heaven and earth into turmoil.
It was the twin sisters fighting.
Over the past two thousand years and more, they had each given birth to two children and had also cultivated their way to becoming Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies and Pure-Blooded Sacred Bodies.
Although they had not yet achieved Alternative Dao Attainment, the might they radiated gave the many Dark Supremes a headache.
At its peak, a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body was only at the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, yet it already possessed the strength to outlast an ordinary Dark Supreme to death.
Once it achieved Alternative Dao Attainment, it truly might be able to kill an ordinary Supreme.
A Great Accomplishment Sacred Body that could attain the Dao was even more terrifying. One needed only think of Overlord Heavenly Venerable's might to know how terrifying a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body could be.
A veil of mist dispersed, revealing the twin sisters.
To everyone's surprise, the combatants were two women who looked like beautiful young maidens: Xiao Ping'an's two Dao companions.
Over the past two thousand years and more, not only had they suffered no suppression from Xiao Ping'an's bloodline, they had instead taken to cultivation like fish to water, advancing with unmatched speed.
With no one else to temper them, the two sisters tempered each other.
The twins had transformed into Pure-Blooded Sacred Bodies and reached the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body realm almost simultaneously. Their strength was evenly matched, making them each other's best whetstones.
Moreover, Xiao Ping'an had personally used other kinds of Immortal Divine Medicine to cleanse their meridians and marrow and strengthen their origins. He had also used the essence blood of those Dark Supremes to baptize their bodies and strengthen their origins.
It could be said that everything possible had been done to help them.
The twins had indeed grown into their strength.
With Xiao Ping'an's personal guidance, the fighting strength of these two Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies could not be judged by ordinary standards.
At the very least, Xiao Ping'an felt that, when these two Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies and their father were at the same realm, that Great Accomplishment Sacred Body might not have been able to defeat his two daughters.
After all, Xiao Ping'an had fought the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body all along the way and had a very deep understanding of his strength.
It was precisely at Great Accomplishment Ninth-Level Quasi-Emperor that Xiao Ping'an's strength had truly begun to pull away from the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's.
From then on, Xiao Ping'an had carefully studied Alternative Dao Attainment and breaking through the Heavenly Heart Imprint. He had continued advancing in that realm and, before he knew it, had far surpassed that Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and forged a path of his own.
Thus, after personally examining the twins, Xiao Ping'an could conclude that they had surpassed their father, though they were still inferior to him.
Now, even without achieving Alternative Dao Attainment, the two already possessed fighting strength that made the Dark Supremes look on in dread.
Xiao Ping'an could now sense that, after carefully tempering themselves, the two would surely be able to step into the realm of Alternative Dao Attainment.
As for attaining the Dao, with Xiao Ping'an suppressing the present age, they could forget about it.
In truth, Xiao Ping'an sincerely wanted to suggest that, having cultivated to this point, they could already seal themselves away.
If they broke through to the realm of Alternative Dao Attainment, the seal would not be nearly as effective.
The twin sisters' battle ended without a victor.
The Dark Supremes shuddered at the sight of their battle, but they were, after all, people who had once attained the Dao. They quickly recovered and carefully observed everything there.
Although these two Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies had not merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, the Dao of heaven and earth they wielded with every gesture was already in harmony with the origin Dao of the universe.
Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies less than three thousand years old were indeed astonishing enough.
After all, they had undergone nirvanic transformations many times, and there was also the faint, almost imperceptible suppression of Xiao Ping'an's bloodline.
Thus, becoming Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies in a little over two thousand years, without even putting off having children, made them undeniably brilliant and extraordinary powerhouses.
News of the twins' battle also spread quickly, reaching every corner of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Many people felt their guesses had been right. After all, in the present age, those capable of cultivating to that realm could truly be counted on one's fingers.
What truly shocked everyone was that the two sisters had quietly become Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies, possessing the actual fighting strength to stand alongside Dark Supremes.
At that thought, countless powerful cultivators on the many inhabited stars were shaken.
The great battle in the Supreme Battlefield continued. Fluctuations of Great Emperor and ancient emperor-level laws swept across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, shaking the myriad Daos of the mortal world.
The twin sisters' strength won universal recognition. Even the Dark Supremes acknowledged them.
The two sisters' presences grew ever stronger, and the longer they fought, the stronger they became. It was alarming to behold.
"These twin sisters are truly defying heaven."
"Could they be about to attain the Dao in battle?"
At this time, the term Alternative Dao Attainment had not yet spread, and many people did not know that such a realm existed.
After all, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body of those years had possessed such terrifying fighting strength, yet he had not gone around proclaiming that he had achieved Alternative Dao Attainment.
Xiao Ping'an had been the same back then. After achieving Alternative Dao Attainment, he had not publicized it everywhere, but had quietly sought a glimpse of a higher realm.
In the Life Forbidden Zones, especially among those who bore grudges against the Sacred Body Lineage, people remarked with feeling, "The Sacred Body Lineage truly is powerful. Not one of the children born to that First-Generation Sacred Physique is ordinary."
"If they continue cultivating like this, they really might attain the Dao by sheer force like Xiao Ping'an, treading upon the myriad Daos as they go."
What was more, the two also had Xiao Ping'an's guidance, making a breakthrough even more likely for the twins.
People were full of anticipation for the two sisters' breakthrough.
Rumble!
No one knew how much time had passed when, amid a tremendous roar from the Supreme Battlefield, countless terrifying bolts of lightning descended and became a sea of lightning there.
When the terrifying lightning dispersed, the two figures of peerless grace, towering over the present age, departed in the blink of an eye.
The Supreme Battlefield returned to its former darkness and cold, as though no one had left it.
Soon, reliable news spread through the world: the twin sisters had undergone Ultimate Sublimation during their great battle.
Both had advanced to become powerhouses of Alternative Dao Attainment, truly gaining the strength to slay ordinary Dark Supremes.
For a long time afterward, cultivators discussed the two consorts of Overlord Heavenly Venerable, the strength of their cultivation aptitude, and just how powerful they were.