Road of Emperor

The **Road of Emperor** or **Samsara Road** was Empyrean Primordius and Xuanqing's great tool to resist the world rule and establish their own Reincarnation Heavenly Dao.

After 100,000 years, it was renamed as the Road of Emperor and is primarily used as a smelting trial for battle spirits. If one reaches the end of the road, they would have the power to slay Emperor powerhouses.

The Road of Emperor was an incomparably mysterious land. All peerless geniuses that entered here would leave behind will lights after they died. Under these lights, a carving of their image would be formed.

## Overview

### **Entrance**

On the fourth floor of the 12 Towers, one can find a conspicuous blood red altar. This was the transmission array towards the Road of Emperor.

This altar was carved from a massive chunk of pure Blood Demon Crystal. Not just that, but it was high-grade Blood Demon Crystal. Within a Blood Demon Crystal mine, they were usually found in small blocks and chunks; it was particularly rare to find such a massive hunk of Blood Demon Crystal like this one.

One would need to a drop of blood in order to activate the transmission array. In fact, many martial artists – including Yan Chi and Maha – would immediately faint upon first entering the Road of Emperor, only waking up after a long time.

### **Structure**

The transmission array would lead to a section in the Eternal Demon Abyss, the Road of Emperor.

Above this abyss was a ten foot wide wooden plank road. This road wasn’t supported by anything. Instead, it was firmly suspended in midair. Along this wooden plank path, every 100 feet or so, there would be a group of lights. Underneath these lights were statues carved from obsidian. These statues didn’t have any support either – they were also held up and suspended in the air through some mystical power.

## Emperor Statues

Within the base of these lights were statues of ancient heroes. Every single one of these characters were all either Emperor level powerhouses or peak Emperor level talents of the last tens of thousands of years of the Holy Demon Continent:

* Emperor Grade Talents
	+ Lian Ku
	+ Gu Yu
	+ Xiao Yu
	+ Zhang Jun
* Emperor Powerhouses
	+ Demon Emperor
	+ Netherworld Great Emperor
	+ Gu Xiao

These people all have two things in common. The first is that they are dead, and the second is when they were young, they once stepped into the Road of Emperor.

### **Will of Lights**

The will lights of the Road of Emperor are not crafted by human hands, but naturally formed. Otherwise, across a span of tens of thousands of years, no one would have the ability to carve out a lifelike impression of all these peerless characters, perfectly keeping even their aura and majesty.

Every peerless genius of their era who has entered the Road of Emperor will be remembered by the Road of Emperor. After they die, lights would form here as a symbol to them.

## **Trials**

The first half of the Road of Emperor is a test to bear the Emperor Will. Those lights that one first encountered were all from weaker martial artists that hadn’t even formed a complete Emperor Will. Afterwards, every step you take will be much harder than the last.

The Road of Emperor is paved with the immense will of countless Emperor level powerhouses. How deep you can go will all depend on whether or not you can resist their will.

And the terrifying advantage of treading the Road of Emperor was that it is able to temper your will. If you can withstand it then you can even form your own battle spirit.

### **Two Roads**

After a martial artist reaches 12 days within the first trial, the original single planked Road of Emperor that led towards an infinite jet-black darkness would divide in two.

There were two Road of Emperors:

The first Road of Emperor was the same as before with lights that hovered at both sides. But on the other Road of Emperor, it was instead surrounded by stone tablets.

After facing an Emperor level powerhouse who hadn’t yet been able to create their own battle spirit, the martial artist would have to choose between two diverging roads, the stone tablets being of lower difficulty and the other road of Emperor level powerhouses that have condensed their battle spirits.

Two roads. One road aimed at the world of will and the other road aimed at realistic strength. One would need to choose between the two, but once you do, the other path will vanish. Choose as you will.

## **Emperor Tablets**

This second path is instead surrounded by Emperor tablets. It is specially aimed at increasing your cultivation and strength. The stone tablets had all sorts of strange figures and diagrams engraved upon them.

These stone tablets were not as simple as they seemed. Once anyone touched upon them with their perception, they would have to withstand the terrifying impact force from the stone tablets. Let alone comprehending the mysteries within these stone tablets, touching their perception on these stone tablets could grievously injure them.

Walking all the way down, the pressure would increase with every one. The first 10 stone tablets weren’t anything, a normal genius would have passed them. For the 10 after that, the difficult had risen by a great margin. After the 20th, even master like Duanmu Qun would be stuck.

## **Emperor Will of Lights**

This was the true path towards the Prime Emperor. And even the most basic of opponents here were the so-called Emperor powerhouses.

### **Basic Emperor Lights**

This was not the true will of an Emperor, but rather a similar Emperor Will formed from energy that the Road of Emperor created based on its memories of these ancient Emperors.

These energy forms had their own attack power, but they were naturally inferior to the true will of an Emperor level powerhouse.

However, above these powerhouses are the remnant wills of Emperors that have part of their consciousness placed within the Road of Emperor.

### **True Emperor Lights**

The enemies one faces are of increasing strengths in-terms of battle spirits. The lowest would be a one-star Emperor with a formed bronze battle spirit and the highest would be the 216th will light - Demon Emperor that had ascended to the Divine Realm, a peak gold battle spirit.

Afterwards was likely a character from 100,000 years, a Divine Lord atleast. The will light that had followed the Demon Emperor’s one had stranded a small success silver battle spirit Lin Ming for a full half year. This nameless Supreme Elder had clearly lived over 100,000 years ago. Before he died, his boundary was also much higher than the Demon Emperor’s had been.

The last will would be the damaged peak Blue Soul stage battle spirit of Heavenly Empress Xuanqing that has been dormant for the last 100,000 years.

Then, finally would be the grandmist space.

## Samsara Road

This Samsara Road is in truth a divine relic! However, the refining of this divine relic is not complete.

If it were to be completed, then there really might be a chance of establishing a true road to reincarnation, to have these spirit marks bearing battle spirits serve as the road to samsara!

This was the goal of Samsara Road! However, Empyrean Primordius only managed to accomplish this for martial artists that had comprehended a battle spirit; there was still an immeasurably long road to go. However… in the end, he didn’t manage to defy the heavens!