The Tenth Emperor Pass was an Immortal Heavenly Pass?!
Without a doubt, this answer was far too shocking, to the extent that even Ye Chen found it somewhat hard to believe.
After all, every Immortal Heavenly Pass was extraordinary, like the ones he had seen in the Qixia Domain, the Purple Mansion Holy Land, and the River of Time.
'Heaven has nine passes' referred to the nine Immortal Heavenly Passes, but he never imagined that the Tenth Emperor Pass of the Sealed Boundary Universe was actually one of the nine Immortal Heavenly Passes of the world.
"Impossible. Wasn't the Tenth Emperor Pass personally built by the Mythological Emperors?" Ye Chen was astonished. Those Immortal Heavenly Passes were all quite sinister, yet the Tenth Emperor Pass was the most crucial gateway defending the Sealed Boundary Universe.
The City Lord smiled. "Heaven has nine passes, but it doesn't specify the true origins of the Immortal Heavenly Passes. In fact, each Immortal Heavenly Pass was personally established by an Emperor or Sovereign. The Tenth Emperor Pass was naturally also built by a Mythological Emperor."
Ye Chen was shaken. The true origins of the nine Immortal Heavenly Passes in the world were actually that they were all established by Emperors and Sovereigns, which surprised him.
The City Lord shook his head. "Don't think they were all built by Mythological Emperors either. Some were, some weren't. Some Immortal Heavenly Passes even involve Immortals. That is a great secret, something even an Emperor's Child might not know. In this epoch, perhaps only the Human Sovereign and a very few others are aware."
Ye Chen frowned. The origins of the Immortal Heavenly Passes seemed increasingly mysterious and unfathomable.
The City Lord of the First Emperor Pass naturally had the qualification to enter the Tenth Emperor Pass. Moreover, a mysterious jade token appeared in his hand, shining a special beam of light that shot into the Tenth Emperor Pass. Immediately, with a rumbling roar, the gates of the Tenth Emperor Pass swung open, and the two men and two beasts flashed inside.
It could be seen that the interior of the Tenth Emperor Pass was also a world, and it was far more magnificent than the inner world of the First Emperor Pass. Ye Chen even had a feeling it was many times larger than the Ancient Orchid Great World. The only thing comparable was the Ancient Emperor World.
"Do you sense it?" The First City Lord spoke with a smile, gazing into the inner world of the Tenth Emperor Pass. A vast and majestic aura circulated within, lofty and supreme. All the myriad Daos of the heavens were complete, and the Heavenly Dao was flawless.
"An Emperor World!" Ye Chen uttered word by word, shocked, its aura identical to that of the Ancient Emperor World.
Originally, the Tenth Emperor Pass, personally built by several supreme Mythological Emperors, was already impregnable and unbreakable. Now, fused with an Emperor's origin world, who could possibly conquer it?
Probably even the alien Emperors would have a massive headache.
"Correct, it is an Emperor World—a true Emperor's origin inner world, or perhaps it should be called an inner universe," the First City Lord said.
A Monarch could derive their own origin world, complete with Dao laws. However, an Emperor's origin inner world was, to some extent, also a small universe. Although far from comparable to a true ancient universe, it had all myriad Daos complete, a flawless Heavenly Dao, and a real, vast starry ancient land. Everything about it was extraordinary.
"This is the origin Emperor World of an Emperor who fell during the Mythological Era. Several supreme Great Emperors fused it into the Tenth Emperor Pass to strengthen its immortality," the First City Lord explained.
One could clearly see countless living beings within the Emperor World of the Tenth Emperor Pass. As far as the eye could see, there were supreme great powers, numerous inner world small realms, countless experts, and true hidden dragons and crouching tigers. It was stronger than any region in the myriad realms by who knew how many times.
It could absolutely rival, even surpass, the very center of the Myriad Domains.
At the very least, Ye Chen saw some vanished ancient races appear. There were ancient desolate beasts with powerful bloodlines, extinct beasts from the Myriad Domains, great rocs whose wingbeats could shatter the heavens, starry behemoths whose mere movements shook the ancient starry sky, and ten heavenly suns traversing the void...
Everything demonstrated the extraordinary nature of the Tenth Emperor Pass's inner world, powerful beyond belief. Even the number of Heavenly Kings far exceeded that of the outside world; they were definitely not just legendary existences.
During this time, Ye Chen even sensed the auras of certain imperial clans. He suddenly remembered: the Tenth Emperor Pass was of utmost importance. All top experts from the myriad realms would come here.
Furthermore, the imperial clans of the myriad realms were powerful, yet basically every imperial clan had over half their strength stationed in the Tenth Emperor Pass to prevent alien invasion.
Precisely because of all this, the Tenth Emperor Pass housed countless experts, powerful beyond description. Heavenly Kings, legendary in the Myriad Domains, were not exactly commonplace here, but they were certainly far more numerous.
No wonder there were so few powerful experts in the myriad realms; they had all come here.
Especially after the Emperor Passes were in a state of emergency, this was even more the case. Many reclusive Heavenly Kings had rushed here one after another. The winds and clouds surged, and who knew how many supreme figures existed here.
Looking at the Emperor World of the Tenth Emperor Pass, Ye Chen felt a moment of daze.
Back then, when his parents were taken away by the Ye Clan's Emperor's Child, Ye Cangqiong, to the Tenth Emperor Pass, he had even thought of coming here alone to retrieve his parents and clansmen. Only now did he realize how terrifying the Tenth Emperor Pass truly was.
At the very least, the him of back then would have found it extremely difficult to force his way in. A single Heavenly King emerging from here would have been enough to keep him busy.
But now, things were completely different. The current him could almost be called invincible below the Great Power realm.
"Come!"
Led by the City Lord of the First Emperor Pass, Ye Chen followed.
Although both were fast, with peerless speed covering tens of thousands of li or even hundreds of thousands of li in a single step, the inner world of the Emperor Pass was simply too vast and magnificent. They traversed past who knew how many immortal powers, among them supremely powerful imperial clans. Even the mysterious Ancient Heavenly Court and the Yaochi Holy Land had outposts here. One could see vast auras soaring to the heavens. Below the Heavenly King realm, it was difficult to act arrogantly here.
Finally, under the First City Lord's guidance, they arrived at the deepest part of the great world.
There, even more celestial palaces and divine islands floated. Forces were stationed on stars. There was an incredibly magnificent ancient palace, unimaginably grand and massive, floating in the depths of the starry sky, close to the rear where the pitch-black Emperor Pass stood tall.
Whoosh— Whoosh—
The two entered the celestial palace. Although soldiers of considerable cultivation tried to block them, upon seeing it was the City Lord of the First Emperor Pass, they immediately lowered their halberds, looking at him respectfully while warily eyeing Ye Chen and the two small beasts behind him.
Myriad Domains Palace!
Ye Chen saw the words on the plaque of the grand palace and instantly understood everything. This was the celestial palace where the strong of the myriad realms gathered.
"This is the Myriad Domains Palace. Whenever important events occur, the strongest of the Tenth Emperor Pass gather here to discuss major matters," the First City Lord explained. However, Ye Chen noticed that although the Myriad Domains Palace was heavily guarded, not many truly fearsome experts were gathered inside, giving it a somewhat deserted feel.
"The situation is urgent now. Those people are basically all on the ramparts," the City Lord later explained. He also found an ancient teleportation gate within the Myriad Domains Palace; going to the ramparts from here would be faster.
Whoosh—
The two ascended the ancient Tenth Emperor Pass, which almost pierced into the furthest reaches of the starry sky.
There, they discovered a large gathering of experts. There were many Heavenly Kings, and even more ancient Great Sages stood upon the Emperor Pass. Looking over, there were well over thirty, a number unprecedented.
Among them, Ye Chen saw the Heaven's Gate Sect Master, as well as familiar Great Powers like Flame God Venerable, Sacred Feather Venerable, Xia Zhi Di, Myriad Realms Palace Lord, Yaochi Holy Mother, and Nine Void Divine King.
However, at this moment, the expressions of these ancient Great Sages were all extremely grave. None of them looked towards Ye Chen's direction; their gazes were fixed on the other side of the Emperor Pass.
That was a vast, gray, barren land—a desolate expanse so immense that even the unimaginably grand and lofty mountains and peaks lacked even a speck of green, only desolation.
Yet, upon this boundless desolate land, a black, endless mass of living beings gathered. There were demonic creatures with bat-like wings, bizarre alien races covered in red fur, nearly humanoid alien races, and even a considerable portion were human race beings.
There, an endless black army gathered. Below, a terrifying battle was raging. A full several million alien troops were assaulting the Emperor Pass. Boundless divine abilities and laws erupted, splitting heaven and earth as if to annihilate everything.
"The alien army is assembling, preparing to assault the pass!"
The First City Lord spoke, yet his expression was grave.
Although they saw the endless alien army's assaults fail—the Emperor Pass stood eternal, immortal, difficult to conquer—such continuous attacks still imposed an invisible pressure on the experts of the myriad realms, a need to catch their breath, a sense of suppression.
Because of the great destruction of the previous Mythological Epoch, which caused everything, the experts of the myriad realms held a psychological shadow and fear towards the alien race, worried the Emperor Pass might be breached.
Ye Chen also frowned. Although it was clear the alien army's efforts were futile, this was psychological pressure, keeping the experts on the Sealed Boundary Universe side constantly tense.
Boom—
Several immortal ancient weapons blasted out, as if ancient Great Sages were attacking, all landing on the Immortal Heavenly Pass.
Although they exploded with vast, endless destructive power, they could not truly shake the Emperor Pass.
"What are they doing? Since they can't shake the Emperor Pass, why keep assaulting it?" Among them were some exceptionally outstanding young prodigies, brought here by various major powers. Although this place was filled with endless danger, they wanted them to grow through blood and fire.
Only by truly experiencing blood and fire would one become truly strong, truly undergo transformation.
Every supreme expert had walked this path!
These young prodigies clearly didn't understand the alien army's actions. However, on the Emperor Pass, there were no lack of genius prodigies who had grown up within the Tenfold Emperor Passes. They were all cold and silent, not uttering a word, appearing very aloof.
Only in the depths of their eyes was a cold glint, holding contempt and disdain for these young prodigies from the myriad realms.
In their eyes, these young prodigies from the myriad realms were like flowers grown in a greenhouse, so naive.
A Heavenly King kindly spoke up. "The alien race wants to disrupt us, but that doesn't mean they won't truly assault the pass. We must remain fully vigilant at all times."
This was the most terrifying psychological attack. Even though a true assault might not happen, the Sealed Boundary Universe side had no choice but to remain cautious.
Below, among the endless alien army, a strong voice shouted, "Are the cultivators of the Sealed Boundary Universe all so weak? Don't you dare come out and fight?"
"They're all a bunch of cowardly, useless people. Last epoch, our Ancient Universe almost wiped them out. Where would they dare to come out and fight now?"
"Right, they only know how to turtle up in this Immortal Heavenly Pass. If they lost this pass, the Sealed Boundary Universe would have been occupied by the experts of our universe long ago.""They're just a pack of defeated dogs, not worth mentioning!"
Many alien experts sneered. Although they weren't speaking the language of the myriad realms, divine sense fluctuations were universal, and the experts on the myriad realms side understood perfectly.
This caused the expressions of many on the Emperor Pass to change abruptly, especially those young generation prodigies brought from the myriad realms by various major powers. In the heat of their youthful blood, hearing this filled them with rage. Many actively requested permission to go out and fight, hoping to prove the mighty prestige of their universe and slaughter the alien race until not a scrap remained.
Naturally, no one allowed the Emperor Pass to be opened. That would be the most foolish thing. The Immortal Heavenly Pass was the main line of defense against the alien race; how could it be opened?
"Haha, the living beings of the Sealed Boundary Universe are just a bunch of turtles hiding in their shells. As expected, the defeated can only remain defeated, surrendering without a fight—the most pathetic failure," an alien expert sneered coldly, his voice loud, reaching the ears of many on the Emperor Pass, causing many to change expressions.
After all, not everyone was willing to endure this. Many preferred to let their blood boil, to go out and fight, to make the alien race understand the terror of the myriad realms universe, to slaughter them until not a scrap remained.
"Commander, we request the passage be opened so we can go out and fight!" Among them, some experts couldn't hold back and spoke up, addressing the ancient Great Sages overseeing the Emperor Pass, hoping to be allowed to go out and battle.
Being insulted like this right outside their home was far too humiliating.
However, the ancient Great Sages overseeing the pass remained unmoved, steady as mountains. They did not agree. A Heavenly King spoke up, his voice deep. "Don't fall for their trick. The alien race is using a provocation tactic, deliberately trying to stir up our indignation, to make us open the Emperor Pass so they can seize the opportunity to enter and invade our universe."
Naturally, many understood this reasoning. Yet, being despised and looked down upon by the alien race right outside the Emperor Pass felt terrible, making many extremely angry, itching to charge out and fight a great battle, to teach these aliens a lesson about the might of the Sealed Boundary Universe's experts.