An Opening Trump Card-Desolate Heaven Emperor?
"Mortal World Immortal?" - [Seventh Hokage]
"What's that? Can you eat it?" - [The Man Who Will Become the Pirate King]
"Gurararara~, is he as strong as the Sage of Six Paths from the last countdown?" - [I'm Whitebeard]
"The Sage of Six Paths' strength was plain for all to see. I reckon this Mortal World Immortal is six of one and half a dozen of the other at best!" - [Do You Want to Dance]
"A true 'immortal' can live forever without aging. After that so-called Ten-Tails was extracted from the Sage of Six Paths you speak of, he aged and died on the spot!" - [Heavenly Deity Academy's First Elder]
"Oh ho ho ho, stop spouting nonsense. What immortal could compare to a single finger of mine?" - [Emperor of the Universe]
"Emperor of the Universe? Such grand words!" - [Great Saint Hun Tuo]
"What? Got a problem with that?" - [Emperor of the Universe]
In the Dragon Ball world, Frieza sat arrogantly on his throne, a contemptuous smile on his lips.
At first, Madara Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Whitebeard, and the others who had also appeared in countdown videos had likewise courted death by provoking him, only for the countdown video featuring the great Lord Frieza to come out a few days ago.
Now, whenever those people saw him appear, they took the initiative to pull their heads into their shells like turtles!
"@[Emperor of the Universe], all you did was destroy a few insignificant stars. With that paltry strength of yours, this old man could wipe you out with a single glance!" - [Great Saint of the Myriad Dragon Nest]
"Stop arguing, everyone. Won't we find out if we just watch the video?" - [Loves Drinking Beast Milk]
Barrage comments popped up one after another.
Some IDs, though he was seeing them for the first time, looked very familiar, making Su Ze raise an eyebrow.
They seemed to be "familiar faces" from various films, shows, and other works.
At that moment, the video changed.
An ancient, boundless breath of the primordial wilderness swept over him...
[op. - Desolate Heaven Emperor]
Desolate Heaven Emperor?
Was this... an opening trump card?
Su Ze's eyes blazed, and he was astonished.
He had never expected the first Mortal World Immortal in this countdown to be the Desolate Heaven Emperor, who had once stood alone above all ages!
For a moment, he couldn't help looking forward to it.
Although he had long known the legendary deeds of the Desolate Heaven Emperor,
he greatly wanted to know what the real Desolate Heaven Emperor's bearing was truly like.
"Desolate Heaven Emperor?" - [King of the Celestial Dragons]
"This humble monk is ignorant and inexperienced. In over twenty years of cultivation, I've only heard of the Jade Emperor Great Emperor. Who is the Desolate Heaven Emperor?" - [Mighty Heavenly Dragon]
"What grand words! How dare he call himself a Heaven Emperor!" - [Jin Taijun]
"Haha, if old Jade Emperor saw this, I'm afraid he'd cough up blood in anger, wouldn't he?" - [Handsome Monkey King of Flower Fruit Mountain]
"Could it be... How is that possible?" - [Yaoguang Holy Lord]
"What? The master of the Desolate Pagoda... the Desolate Heaven Emperor recorded in ancient history?" - [Longevity Heavenly Venerable]
"The legendary Desolate Heaven Emperor, did he truly become an immortal?" - [One Leaf Shrouds the Heavens]
Compared with the beings of other worlds,
the major powers of the myriad domains of the mortal world, and even the Supremes of the forbidden zones, who knew something of the legends of the Desolate Pagoda, could scarcely sit still.
They lost their composure in shock and couldn't help feeling immensely excited.
All this time,
the existence of immortals had been nothing more than speculation and conjecture they had drawn from certain ancient ruins.
But from the Mythological Era to the present,
even the Heavenly Venerables of the Mythological Era, the Ancient Emperors of the Primordial Era, and the Great Emperors of the Desolate Ancient Era...
Those who had attained the Dao, one after another, whose achievements rivaled Fortune, who ruled over the six directions of the wilderness and stood invincible throughout the ages, could barely live ten thousand years in a single lifetime.
One by one, they had fallen before the passage of time.
Though rumors had inevitably circulated that certain people might have opened the ancient Road to Immortality and ascended to become immortals,
they had never been confirmed.
Even for the Desolate Heaven Emperor, the master of the Desolate Pagoda,
only a few traces remained in the legends he had left behind.
But there was not much, nor had any evidence ever confirmed that he had become an immortal.
People could only infer from the divine might of his weapon, the Desolate Pagoda, that he must have been unfathomably powerful.
But now things were different. If the Desolate Heaven Emperor in the video truly was the master of the Desolate Pagoda,
didn't that mean immortals truly existed?
There was still a road ahead of them.
Their concealment and waiting throughout the ages
had not been an illusory, futile effort?
[Desolate Heaven Emperor - born a Supreme, he created the Five Great Secret Realms Cultivation Method with world-shaking talent and became an immortal against the tide in the Age of Dharma's End]
But as this information appeared,
countless cultivators across the myriad domains of the mortal world leaped to their feet in shock.
Neither the Qilin Emperor nor the Supremes of the forbidden zones could sit still.
"What?"
"The Five Great Secret Realms were created by the Desolate Heaven Emperor?"
"Gulp! No wonder someone like that could become an immortal..."
"Born a Supreme? Could that mean he was a Supreme from birth?"
They could hardly help being shocked.
No one had expected that the Five Great Secret Realms Method they still cultivated to this day had been created by the Desolate Heaven Emperor.
Even those extremely conceited Ancient Emperors, Great Emperors, and Forbidden Zone Supremes, who had ruled over an era and believed themselves second to none throughout their lives, were too shocked to speak.
Which of those who had reached their level had not possessed extraordinary talent and stood supreme in an era?
But even if they spent their entire lives pouring their hearts and blood into it, they might at most create a peerless ancient scripture that shook heaven and made ghosts and gods weep. They could never create a cultivation method outside the framework of the Five Great Secret Realms.
The difference was clear at a glance!
Even Su Ze himself was confident he was no weaker than anyone in the past, present, or future.
But he did not dare claim he could clearly surpass the Desolate Heaven Emperor when both were Mortal World Immortals.
What he had always found quite regrettable was that
the Desolate Heaven Emperor had not left the peerless Emperor method he created in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
He had searched the farthest reaches of the universe, but had failed to find the invincible method that man had left behind.
Of course, he had not come away empty-handed. In the course of his search, he had at least found parts of the incomplete Immortal Ancient Method and Chaotic Ancient Method in certain ancient ruins.
Those scriptures expounded the true meaning of the Great Dao from entirely different perspectives and were well worth learning from.
They had moved him deeply, and he had gained much from them.
Over the years, he had already begun trying to forge his own path and create his own invincible method.
It was just that he always felt as though that future supreme Emperor method, the "He Transforms into Freedom Art," which shook the past and shone over the present and could be called heaven-defying, had been dealt a blow by "heaven's will" and weakened imperceptibly.
It no longer possessed its original invincible might.
Otherwise, what strangeness, what ominous forces, what progenitors...
Wouldn't they all have been swept away long ago?