Since the late Ancient Era, when the Flame Emperor, the Ice Emperor, the Dream Emperor, and the Tree Emperor ascended as emperors and transformed internal force into true qi, the Four Directions had stood firmly in the southeast, northwest, and center of the Seven Seas World. Through the twilight of the Ancient Era, the entire Primordial Era, and down to the present Seven Seas era spanning countless tens of thousands of years, the Four Directions and the Four Emperors had become a kind of symbol. Even though there were black sheep among the Four Emperors like the Flame Emperor, and schemers akin to the Ice Emperor, Shi Wushuang still believed to this day that the existence of the Four Directions was necessary. They formed the absolute frontline against the Great Cataclysm and served as the most vital defense line to withstand it.
In truth, although the Primordial Era's destruction was a war triggered by humanity itself, since it was dubbed half a Great Cataclysm, the traces of an external Great Cataclysm were naturally woven into it. The Seven Seas World had been spared solely because the Four Directions existed. Shi Wushuang had witnessed that era with his own eyes and personally lived through that half-cataclysm. Therefore, even though he and the Flame Emperor were mortal enemies, defeating the Flame Emperor at most meant driving him out of the White Sea, rather than destroying the Four Directions under his possession. Moreover, he simply lacked the means to destroy them—a…
Chapter 387