Following this, Ye Chen, Martial God, and the others left the Imperial City and returned to the Boundary Desert to settle matters there.
The Zhenyu Imperial Son personally led the Imperial Palace's powerhouses to the Boundary Desert.
Now that the lineage of the Xumo Great Emperor had been unsealed, there were naturally many affairs to handle. The Zhenyu Imperial Son's arrival was to ensure everything was completed more swiftly.
Before long, he would bring Ye Chen, Martial God, and the others to leave the Zhenyu Imperial Domain and head for the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.
Worldly affairs were numerous.
The Xumo Great Emperor's lineage needed to relocate, but that would require considerable time. Naturally, the imperial clan of the Xumo Great Emperor's lineage would handle it, making everything much more convenient.
On this day, after the Heaven's Pride Assembly concluded, a group of top-tier Heaven's Prides with sufficient talent was selected. In all aspects, they were only slightly inferior to the Divine Son, comparable to the other two Boundary Desert Heaven's Prides besides Martial God.
Their numbers were not small, ultimately reaching over thirty individuals.
This group would head to the Thirty-Three Tian Domains to engage in the most intense competition for the Great Dao.
Before departure, the Zhenyu Imperial Son allowed these Heaven's Prides to further enhance their strength, permitting them to enter some Emperor Trace sites. Among these was a former cultivation site of the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor, which represented a significant opportunity for these top-tier Heaven's Prides.
Because the Great Dao competition in the Thirty-Three Tian Domains far surpassed that of the Zhenyu Imperial Domain by countless degrees, and that contest was for the Supreme Heavenly Positions, lasting for several epochs, a little extra time made no difference.
During this period, Ye Chen and Martial God naturally received the best treatment. The Zhenyu Imperial Son personally led them into an Imperial Palace. Within this palace resided an Ancient Great Emperor, a follower of the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor who had attained the Dao as a Venerable One for an epoch, with profound cultivation. He personally provided guidance on cultivation to Ye Chen and Martial God.
This also illustrated how incredibly advantageous the Zhenyu Imperial Son's cultivation environment was. Aside from receiving occasional personal guidance from the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor himself, he also had another Ancient Great Emperor acting as a teacher to instruct him.
This Ancient Great Emperor was named Changming Sword Emperor, a Sword Dao Emperor who guided the two in their cultivation.
During this time, he was also astonished by their extraordinary physical body talent. Not to mention Martial God, who was a direct descendant of the Xumo Great Emperor, inheriting pure imperial bloodline.
But Ye Chen shocked him even more. Purely cultivating his physical body, yet his body was so formidable that Changming Sword Emperor admitted that even he at the same age in his youth would inevitably have been inferior.
The Suppressing Prison Great Emperor also sent people to deliver relevant body refinement secret manuals for the two to cultivate, and even to explore Ancient Emperor sites for tempering.
Thus, they entered secluded cultivation for a full thirty years.
Upon emerging, all the Heaven's Prides had made substantial progress, their cultivation surpassing their former selves, with many advancing by a whole level.
After thirty years of secluded cultivation, the Zhenyu Imperial Son arrived, announcing they would soon leave the Zhenyu Imperial Domain for the next destination.
Ye Chen, Martial God, and the others followed the Zhenyu Imperial Son. Utilizing the teleportation channel of the Imperial City, they left the Zhenyu Imperial Domain and headed for the Southern Wilderness Boundary City.
The Southern Wilderness Boundary City was the first city of the boundless Southern Wilderness.
Generally, to leave the Southern Wilderness, one either flew through the air or relied on teleportation arrays.
Flying was far too time-consuming, because the Southern Wilderness contained thousands of Imperial Domains, each not much smaller than the Zhenyu Imperial Domain. For individuals like Ye Chen and the others to leave by flight would require tens of thousands of years to barely manage.
Moreover, leaving the Southern Wilderness was one matter; reaching the Thirty-Three Tian Domains was another.
The Origin Land was vast beyond measure. The Southern Wilderness was merely the tip of the iceberg within the Origin Land. To fly to the Thirty-Three Tian Domains, even if they spent their entire lives flying, they would never reach it.
The Southern Wilderness Boundary City, as the first city of the Southern Wilderness, possessed the highest-level Teleportation Gates capable of crossing endless distances.
Even many Great Emperors within the Southern Wilderness relied on the Teleportation Gates of the Southern Wilderness Boundary City to travel to the outside world.
Therefore, the first choice was to use the Teleportation Gate at the Southern Wilderness Boundary City to head for the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.
Soon, Ye Chen, the Zhenyu Imperial Son, Martial God, and a large group of Heaven's Prides from the Zhenyu Imperial Domain emerged from the Teleportation Gate, arriving at the Southern Wilderness Boundary City.
However, upon arriving at the Southern Wilderness Boundary City, they could not activate the Teleportation Gate immediately. Such gates, teleporting across such vast regions, required a long time to accumulate energy, or the intervention of a Great Emperor.
Generally, the Teleportation Gate could only be activated once a month.
When Ye Chen and the others arrived, they were awestruck by the Southern Wilderness Boundary City, for it was far more magnificent than the Zhenyu Imperial City, forming a world of its own.
It was said this city was formed from the fused origin worlds of multiple Supreme Giants who had perished. Furthermore, the Southern Wilderness Boundary City bore the supreme Dao principles inscribed by multiple Giants, and had been reinforced by generations of Great Emperors throughout the ages, rendering it impregnable.
Even if a Supreme Giant came to attack, they would be unable to breach the defenses of this first city of the Southern Wilderness.
As the first city of the Southern Wilderness, it naturally housed countless powerhouses, far surpassing the Zhenyu Imperial City. Major Powers could be seen everywhere, and even Divine Kings, Quasi-Monarchs, and Monarchs were numerous.
From time to time, one could see Imperial Lords appearing, and even Ancient Great Emperors occasionally made an appearance, radiating waves of imperial majesty that made cultivators from all directions bow in reverence.
"Truly worthy of being the first city of the Southern Wilderness. It's incomparably imposing. We've even seen two Ancient Great Emperors in succession. Usually, such Emperors are like dragons—seen the head but not the tail," exclaimed a super Heaven's Pride following the Zhenyu Imperial Son, feeling that the Southern Wilderness Boundary City was truly a place where tigers and dragons lay hidden, teeming with countless powerhouses.
The Zhenyu Imperial Son said, "Naturally. The Southern Wilderness Boundary City is the first city of the Southern Wilderness, a true place where tigers and dragons lie hidden. The number of powerhouses is beyond count. Several Ancient Great Emperors are personally stationed here, and there are even a few Supreme Giants present."
As they spoke, the group proceeded to an Imperial Palace within the Southern Wilderness Boundary City, which belonged to the lineage of the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor.
As a territory of a current Supreme Giant of the Southern Wilderness, the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor also had an Imperial Palace stationed within the Southern Wilderness Boundary City!
Upon entering the Imperial Palace of the Suppressing Prison Great Emperor's lineage, an Imperial Lord appeared—a Divine General under the Great Emperor, dispatched to hold this place. He smiled slightly at the Zhenyu Imperial Son. "Your Highness has finally arrived!"
"Seventh Uncle, thank you for holding the fort. We've just arrived," said the Zhenyu Imperial Son.
The Imperial Lord said, "Your Highness will need to wait a moment. The Teleportation Gate requires three months to open, for the journey to the Boundless Realm!"
"Understood!"
After the Imperial Lord Divine General left, the Zhenyu Imperial Son explained, "In three months, we can use the Southern Wilderness Boundary City's Teleportation Gate to head for the Boundless Realm. The Boundless Realm is a place akin to a relay station between the Southern Wilderness and the Thirty-Three Tian Domains. Because the region crossed in between is too vast, even relying on the Southern Wilderness Boundary City's Teleportation Gate, it's impossible to directly leap such a long distance to the Thirty-Three Tian Domains. Only by using the Teleportation Gate in the Boundless Realm can we proceed further towards the Thirty-Three Tian Domains."
"Coincidentally, the Boundless Realm has a Teleportation Gate leading to the Heaven-Mending Domain."
The Heaven-Mending Domain was the outermost Eternal Tian Domain subordinate to the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.