"What!?"
Ye Chen stared at the Time-Space Great Emperor in shock. Wasn't that just a trial within the Boundary Tower? How could it be real, from the long-destroyed Mythical Era?
The Time-Space Great Emperor spoke slowly, "I reversed time and space, sending you back. You personally experienced that battle. I rescued you at the moment of your death and revived you."
Ye Chen couldn't believe it. He had actually been sent back to the Mythical Era, an epoch from the previous era. How was that possible?
Moreover, the River of Time had been severed. How could he have been successfully sent back? It seemed like a fantasy. Even a Great Emperor shouldn't be able to do such a thing, because altering established facts would generate immense causality, potentially causing the collapse of all space-time.
"Because I am the Time-Space Great Emperor!"
A simple statement, yet Ye Chen could clearly sense the immense confidence underlying the Time-Space Great Emperor's words.
Indeed, because he was the Time-Space Great Emperor, a peerless Emperor who had achieved the Dao through time and space. No one could surpass him in this aspect. He stood alongside the Heavenly Emperor, the Battle Saint Ancestor, and the Tai Sheng Sovereign as one of the strongest Emperors, possessing boundless power.
Although reversing time and space to send someone to a past era required bearing great causality—something even other peerless Emperors would find difficult—the Time-Space Great Emperor truly had the capability to achieve this step.
Furthermore, no matter how powerful Ye Chen was, he was only a Heavenly King. Even if he participated in the Mythical Great Destruction battle, so what? An Emperor could not change the fact of the Great Destruction, let alone Ye Chen. He fundamentally could not alter the predetermined outcome of the Mythical Great Destruction. For the Time-Space Great Emperor, even with immense causality imposed upon him, it was impossible for such a strongest Emperor to fall.
But what was the Time-Space Great Emperor's purpose in this? It couldn't be as simple as bearing great causality just to send him back to the Mythical Epoch to participate in the final Great Destruction battle.
Every action of an Emperor was never without purpose; there was profound meaning behind it.
The Time-Space Great Emperor asked, "Having participated in the Mythical Great Destruction battle, what are your thoughts?"
Ye Chen recalled the scenes from before: young Supremes fighting side by side falling, immortal maidens blooming tragically like flowers before their end, Emperor's sons resolutely marching to their deaths, Emperors falling as heaven wept and earth mourned...
Those were real scenes that Ye Chen had personally experienced, unforgettable. Each time he remembered, his heart ached, and his mood grew immensely heavy. He said, "Brutal, desolate, helpless, powerless. The alien race is too powerful, difficult to resist!"
He had witnessed it all firsthand, slain many alien race experts, witnessed the heaven-weeping, earth-mourning fall of Emperors, felt the helplessness and powerlessness of the Sealed Boundary Universe, and also thought of this era.
In the past, the Sealed Boundary Universe was so incredibly powerful, with numerous Emperors coexisting and prodigies emerging in abundance—how glorious and mighty it was. Yet, it still could not change the fact of the Mythical Great Destruction. How would this era bear it?
The blood-stained future was unbearably heavy, seemingly difficult to change, weighing down Ye Chen's heart immensely.
But the Time-Space Great Emperor shook his head. "You misunderstand. The alien race is indeed powerful, even more so than you imagine. But could just one alien race truly be capable of the Sealed Boundary Universe of the Mythical Epoch?"
Ye Chen's eyes widened suddenly. Could it be that there was more to the Mythical Great Destruction, or that participants in the Mythical Great Destruction weren't limited to just the Alien Race Universe?
"Some people are very deep, having schemed for countless years, lurking in the deepest shadows, always watching from behind. Although they basically never showed themselves, they all participated in the Great Destruction battle, acting either directly or indirectly."
The Time-Space Great Emperor spoke slowly, his eyes so profound they reflected the myriad heavens, emanating the weight of endless time, capable of penetrating all things.
Ye Chen could vaguely glimpse terrifying scenes: the Tenfold Emperor's Pass, the Chaos Sea, the Immortal Heavenly Pass, the River of Time, the infinite starry sky, the boundless continent, the Silent Extinction Emperor Realm...
Those were all battlefields of the Mythical Great Destruction, far more than the single battlefield Ye Chen had participated in. But there were supreme Emperors launching attacks on every battlefield, reigning over the Sealed Boundary Universe, with terrifying armies charging behind them, recording the dreadful scenes the Sealed Boundary Universe faced during the Mythical Great Destruction battle.
The true Mythical Great Destruction was far more terrifying than they had imagined.
"Do they truly think we wouldn't notice some people acting in the shadows? Hah!"
The Time-Space Great Emperor laughed, but there was a coldness to it. However, his Emperor's aura remained perfectly restrained; otherwise, Ye Chen would not have been able to withstand it.
Even so, although the Time-Space Great Emperor did not fully elaborate, Ye Chen clearly sensed that during the Mythical Great Destruction, it wasn't just the Alien Race Universe; others had acted as well, likely true supreme existences, perhaps Emperors from other Ancient Universes.
Suddenly, he recalled the most terrifying Emperor battle in history that the Battle Saint Ancestor had experienced. Among the five Emperor-realm Supremes who appeared, one was precisely a supreme immortal from the Primordial Immortal Realm.
Could it be that the Primordial Immortal Realm also participated in the Mythical Great Destruction battle?
The more Ye Chen thought about it, the more his scalp tingled with fear, because it involved far too many terrifying existences.
The Mythical Great Destruction battle, the fall of the Sealed Boundary Universe, was definitely not as simple as just the Alien Race Universe acting. The true truth behind the scenes was even more shocking and terrifying than imagined.
The Time-Space Great Emperor sighed softly. "Sending you back was to make you understand that the Mythical Great Destruction was indeed brutal, but it ultimately did not lead to complete extinction. Some races still exist, some people are still preparing on the path of battle. However, the future is even more terrifying than the Mythical Great Destruction."
Ye Chen's heart trembled as he stared at the Time-Space Great Emperor in shock.
"The blood-stained future is enough to make one despair!"
The Time-Space Great Emperor spoke these words directly, making Ye Chen feel a terrifying pressure heavier than all the stars in the heavens.
For such a strongest Emperor to speak like this, just how terrifying was the blood-stained future?
Ye Chen couldn't help but think of that future where he was invincible yet had all the world as his enemy, where those around him had fallen, where Yaya had withered, where everything was nearly extinguished, leaving only himself dominating the world alone. He couldn't help but feel his heart grow heavy.
The blood-stained future was far more terrifying than imagined.
"The Mythical Great Destruction ultimately still had a thread of hope, but in the future, I'm afraid Emperors will be utterly extinguished, especially in the Sealed Boundary Universe, which will be one of the main battlefields."
"Because the future involves not just the Sealed Boundary Universe and the Alien Race Universe, but also the Primordial Immortal Realm and other Ancient Universes. It involves the Chaos Sea. Those hidden deepest will emerge. The final battle will be terrifying beyond anyone's imagination."
The Time-Space Great Emperor's words seemed to gently lift a corner of the most terrifying blood-stained future.