Boom—
This was a Heavenly King-level fluctuation, shaking the six directions and eight wastelands, causing all the powerful experts to tremble.
The divine thunder annihilated the world. The other ancient continents in the Eighty-First Pass were too close and were also on the verge of collapse. Several massive stars in the starry sky were submerged by the sea of tribulation light and thunder, knocked down and shattered.
It was hard to imagine how immense this heavenly tribulation was. Ye Chen also couldn't understand. It was clearly just an incomplete Saint Vault Great Tribulation, yet its current power was absolutely enough to threaten a Heavenly King.
Later, he understood. The Heavens had sensed his true aura and elevated the tribulation by a level, making it terrifyingly more powerful by an unknown degree.
This was the price. Ye Chen had initially thought to suppress the arrival of the heavenly tribulation, planning to cross it easily and effortlessly at a higher realm, even using it as a calamity to annihilate enemies. But now he realized the heavenly tribulation could be adjusted.
Even if his realm increased, the heavenly tribulation would become correspondingly stronger. This was irreversible.
Boom rumble rumble—
Each bolt of heavenly thunder was as thick as a mountain range. Now, there were far more than just thousands or tens of thousands; the number was simply unimaginable. Moreover, they were so massive and covered such a vast area, it was inconceivable.
It could be said this had surpassed common sense, practically on the verge of annihilating the entire starry sky, making the billions of living beings on the ancient Emperor Continent below feel the aura of world destruction.
Was this really just a Saint Vault Great Tribulation?
Some even suspected that a Heavenly King Tribulation wasn't this terrifying; it might very well be a Great Power Tribulation.
Shen Rong roared, he bellowed, he howled, suppressing his realm to the corresponding level. Wielding the World-Destroying Heavenly Halberd, he displayed awe-inspiring might. Order Divine Chains shot forth, Dao laws surged to the heavens, shattering the void. Before him, the illusory images of great worlds continuously birthed and were continuously destroyed.
He was invincible under the heavens, beneath the Heavenly King level. Even the mightiest experts would only be swept away.
But now, he was already covered in blood. Even someone as powerful as him could only be sent flying through the dazzling sea of tribulation light and thunder. Blood and white bone were flaking off; he had suffered severe injuries, with several wounds piercing clean through his body front and back. His flesh was charred, a shocking sight.
It wasn't that he wasn't strong enough. On the contrary, his strength surpassed imagination. As an Emperor's son, he far surpassed his peers. Not just in this epoch, even in the Mythical Era, how many could contend with him?
But what he faced now were Heaven's Avatars, each comparable to an ancient Great Emperor in their youth, representing the strongest within the same level—they could only be matched, not surpassed. And there were three of them.
No matter how strong he was, he couldn't possibly be their match. He was being absolutely crushed by them, narrowly escaping death, his body shattered to dust several times.
Even employing the peerless killing techniques from his father the Great Emperor's immortal scripture was useless, only resulting in such a wretched state.
No one in the world could confront three Heaven's Avatars at the same level and emerge victorious. Not even a reincarnated ancient Great Emperor could.
"Shen Rong, can you handle it?" Ye Chen said. Even though the situation he faced was not much better than Shen Rong's—in fact, he faced even more Heaven's Avatars—and he too had flesh and bone flying, suffered heavy injuries, and had his body shattered to dust, his energy and spirit remained incredibly vigorous, his Battle Saint Soul shining as brightly as the sun.
Shen Rong snorted coldly. Operating his Emperor techniques, his injuries rapidly healed. And at this moment, he chanted almost like a demon: "Nine Heavens, Ten Earths, the myriad realms, past and future, in my name—Annihilate Immortal, Slaughter Immortal, Assassinate Immortal, Butcher Immortal, Behead Immortal, Bury Immortal, Kill Immortal, Execute Immortal!"
Boom—
As the final word fell, the most terrifying aura erupted. Shen Rong's aura changed drastically in an instant, as if he had become a Great Emperor of Slaughter, his entire body radiating a blood-stained divine brilliance.
Behind him, terrifying scenes manifested: myriad realms collapsing, heavens shattering, all living beings being buried—a horrifying, bloody panorama.
The sun and moon sank, the Great Era changed!
Ye Chen's gaze sharpened. So it was that Great Emperor—the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor!
He had long guessed. Few in the world possessed such a killing aura aside from the offspring of the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor.
It was said that the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor was a supreme Great Emperor in the Mythical Era who proved his Dao through slaughter. His hands were stained with the Emperor blood of other Supreme Ones. He had also entered the Primordial Immortal World to battle against the most powerful immortals. In later ages, he created the Eight Slaying Immortal Forms that shook all eternity.
Ye Chen had been fortunate enough to obtain a move or half a move—precisely the Annihilate Immortal Form. Just one application was so powerful, let alone Shen Rong who possessed the complete Great Dao inheritance of the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor. Needless to say, he was even more terrifying.
Boom—
It felt as if Shen Rong instantly became many times stronger, as if he had transformed into the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor from the Mythical Era. He shot through the air, unleashing the most terrifying aura.
On the other side, Di Wuming. He didn't battle three Heaven's Avatars alone like Shen Rong, but confronted one of them. Yet, a fearsome fierce battle still erupted.
Perhaps he understood more clearly that battling three Heaven's Avatars was foolish; confronting one was enough.
He fought like an immortal, his body wreathed in one hundred and eight divine halos. With every move, immortal energy permeated, brushing against the Thirty-Three Heavens, reversing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, striking horizontally against everything. He engaged in a terrifying great battle with that one Heaven's Avatar.
Ye Chen no longer paid attention to the others' battles. His entire body radiated blazing brilliance; he too was unleashing his might, his whole form shining with the light of the Great Dao.
While confronting the remaining five Heaven's Avatars, he floated and sank within the sea of thunder, striving to break through the pass, to shatter the Great Dao shackles, to smash through the heavens and emerge.
The sea of tribulation light and thunder submerged everything. Ye Chen was like a lone leaf boat, tossed and turned there, in constant danger of capsizing.
He was covered in blood, white bone exposed, his situation far from optimistic. He was simultaneously breaking through the pass and confronting five Heaven's Avatars—equivalent to one peerless, invincible Supreme Emperor after another.
They charged over, carrying the most terrifying thunderstorm impacts. Ye Chen's Dao had been restrained; the time limit had passed. He couldn't remain in a state of Dao recovery forever; he needed to completely break through the law shackles.
Undoubtedly, Ye Chen was in an extremely perilous situation now, many times more dangerous than before. His own combat power had declined, while his opponents' had not, continuing to slaughter him.
During this process, Ye Chen's Saint Body was crippled. White bone splattered, golden Saint blood dyed the starry sky. Once again, his body was shattered to dust.
This was already who-knows-how-many times his body had been shattered to dust. The confrontation was too brutal. He was completely on the defensive, and having lost his Dao laws, he couldn't use the Chaos Cauldron to resist as he had in the past.
A figure killed its way to him—a Heaven's Avatar, the fifth one, a generation's Divine Maiden, peerless in grace and beauty. A demonic jar appeared, unleashing swathes of icy black light that could even freeze the sea of tribulation light and thunder into ice. One could imagine just how powerful it was.
Ye Chen was sent flying once more. His essence, energy, and spirit had sunk into a state of exhaustion, yet he had to muster twelve parts of concentration again, because two more Heaven's Avatars were killing their way over, attacking in concert.
"Come on!"
Ye Chen roared. He no longer evaded, but endured, using the attacks of these Heaven's Avatars to bombard the law shackles within his own body, borrowing their force to break the restraints and break free.
Boom—
Undoubtedly, doing this was brutal. The attacks of the two Heaven's Avatars blasted into his body, causing his Saint Body, which he had painstakingly repaired, to once again teeter on the edge of disintegration. All the bones in his body broke, flesh tore, on the verge of being ripped apart.
But only by doing this could he truly break open the law shackles. Otherwise, with so many law remnants from the Hundred Battles Mountain Range, plus the law power of over a dozen Heavenly Kings interwoven within his body, forming law shackles that imprisoned his Great Dao laws, he would never be able to break free for all eternity.
Boom—
His Saint Body was directly shattered by the Heaven's Avatar with absolute combat power. Golden flesh and Saint Bone shone with dazzling golden radiance, like a beautiful golden river of stars, dazzling to the eyes.
Between each drop of blood, myriad Dao marks flickered, as if a world had exploded.
Each drop of blood seemed to manifest the myriad realms within, accompanied by hazy ancient Chaos energy, continuously manifesting and flowing.
Ye Chen's Battle Saint Soul was also scattered, merging with his flesh and blood.
Clearly on the brink of death, but at this moment, within his flesh and blood, Dao talismans emerged one after another, and ancient scriptures chanted in segments.
It was as if all the gods and Buddhas were chanting Zen, or like a million great demons roaring, yet also like three thousand deities reciting scriptures.
Past, present, future—as if about to traverse ancient times, the present, and the future, cycling through Samsara, deathless.
Boom—
At this moment, all within his flesh and blood erupted with the most brilliant radiance. Vast fluctuations exploded, flooding the entire starry sky. The terrifying force instantly pushed back large swathes of the sea of tribulation light and thunder. The five Heaven's Avatars, caught off guard, were all blasted away.
"Forge my immortality, shatter the shackles!"
A calm voice abruptly rang out.
There was only a single, most brilliant beam of light there, piercing through the Nine Heavens, reaching down to the Nine Netherworlds, connecting the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
At this moment, everyone discovered with horror that a supreme, matchless Great Dao pressure spread from the light pillar. The myriad Daos of the heavens actually seemed to let out a mournful cry.
The people of the world changed color. What exactly had happened?
Within the dazzling golden light pillar, the flesh and blood scattered across the starry sky rapidly reversed and reassembled. A flawless Battle Sacred Body appeared before the eyes of the world.
Boom rumble rumble—
Having reassembled his body, Ye Chen slowly raised his eyes to look at the five Heaven's Avatars. The aura flowing from his body actually shook the entire heaven and earth. The sea of tribulation light and thunder disintegrated because of it; all Great Daos retreated, unable to approach him.
His entire body erupted with supremely powerful and abundant aura, filling the space between heaven and earth, as if a Divine Spirit Supreme One had reincarnated, boundlessly powerful.
Qian Yue slowly moved his joints and bones. The power of the blood within his body was like roaring tidal waves resounding across the sky, shaking the space between heaven and earth.
"Good, I've finally broken the law shackles and revived my Great Dao."
His gaze swept around, shaking all directions. The intensity of that aura surpassed imagination, faintly revealing Heavenly King divine might, infinitely close to this realm.