The realization that a great disaster was coming was enough to petrify even these mighty immortals, who had once boasted endlessly of their strength, into sitting back and rethinking their decisions.
They understood clearly that their prowess and prestige were no longer at their peak, as they had been millennia ago. In this current era and time, the presence of true Immortal Emperors was so negligible it could almost be called nonexistent.
The highest cultivators known were the Ancestral Immortals, and even these few were almost all hermits, secluded entirely from the rest of the world.
This crack in analogy made it so that chasing vainly after these little forces—whether for provocation or retaliation—had become irrelevant in the grander scheme of things.
However, they had to make it a principle to respond fiercely to the great catastrophe that had been prophesied to befall their continent.
