Though the immortal emperor was smiling, the meaning behind his words made Lu Yun’s hair stand on end. He didn’t believe in fate or predestined outcomes… any sort of tribulation was man made!

After Emperors Fall, the very title had become inauspicious. Any who dared call themselves an emperor was struck with ill fortune without exception. With the demise of the primordial immortal emperor, the entire primordial world of immortals had fallen apart and even the four cardinal emperors had met grisly deaths.

Empress Myrtlestar and her entire clan had been slaughtered and buried in the Skandha Extinction Tomb as catalysts for a curse. If Lu Yun’s guess was right, the other three cardinal emperors were interred in the other tombs of the mountain range.

The ominous...