Chapter 617: An Invitation from Yellow Springs (1/2)

That battle marked the final curtain call of everything and the retreat of Yu Wenteng with his great army of Primus heavenly soldiers.

Empress Myrtlestar’s punch was a terrifying demonstration of force, punching a hole in the sky that led to the cosmos outside the realm. Even the nine celestial emperors would’ve had trouble doing that. It required tremendous raw power and an unimaginable mastery over heaven and earth to do something like that.

Soon, Empress Myrtlestar’s identity was revealed and shared throughout the world. That graceful woman who’d dominated Scarlet Ape was Empress Myrtlestar, one of the emperors of four cardinal directions from the Primordial Era! Only the immortal emperor held a higher rank than they!

The news took the world of immortals by storm.

With an era of chaos on the horizon, it was unthinkable that a primordial empress would descend upon the world and... support Dusk Province.

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“Outside of me and Little Yu, very few knew about Empress Myrtlestar’s identity. How did information get out?” Lu Yun and Qing Yu shared a dumbfounded look.

Empress Myrtlestar was an enigma and a secret weapon, her origins not to be speculated upon, but she’d now been casually revealed to the world.

Scarlet Ape was from an era before hers, a senior to Empress Myrtlestar. It couldn’t have known who she was. As for the fur seals, they were wild beasts who had never seen an emperor in the Primordial Era. They wouldn’t recognize her even if she stood right before them.

“No need to guess.” Empress Myrtlestar manifested and handed the Cosmic Eyes back to Qing Yu. “I know how the news got out. Heavyweights from my time have come back to this world. I demonstrated my power to the world of immortals to see if there are any other survivors from my time. It would seem that the answer is in the affirmative.”

Qing Yu fell silent.

“That explains it.” Lu Yun nodded. “The ancient immortal court foresaw the great war fifty thousand years before it broke out and made preparations accordingly to sustain the dynasty. If the court noticed beforehand, then other heavyweights of the world of immortals must have as well.”

He was reminded of what Fengbo had mentioned about signs before the great calamity.

During those ten thousand years, numerous heavyweights around the world of immortals had either gone missing or died. But perhaps they hadn’t died, just simply sealed themselves in some special environment instead, waiting to awaken after the calamity passed.

Not even the immortal court, the greatest faction in the Primordial Era, had been confident in their ability to survive the great calamity. They’d resorted to refining living souls into bone bricks to build the celestial master tomb.

The elites of the time surely would’ve done something as well.

Empress Myrtlestar being known to the world would do much more harm than good to her and Lu Yun. It was very likely that someone from her time had awakened. She was an incomplete soul, able to deploy her power only through the Cosmic Eyes, a primordial connate-grade treasure. This was also her weakness.

If exploited, she might be in grave danger. If the elites from her time could recognize her, they must be able to see through her current condition as well.

As expected, news then spread that Empress Myrtlestar had died in the Primordial Era. The manifestation in Dusk Province was merely her lingering soul fragment.

The world of immortals erupted again.

Scarlet Ape grabbed its iron rod and was about to head to Dusk to stir up trouble, but its silver dao partner swept it to the ground with the whirl of a staff.

A sense of apprehension permeated Dusk Province; the clans worried that the elites of the world would invade again.