The Withered Great Ability's withered, yellow hair fluttered wildly. From the space between his eyebrows flew out an ancient hall, swirling with blazing divine soul fluctuations. From within, numerous divine soul chains surged forth, rapidly charging towards the Ancient Path Trial-Takers and Divine Kingdom Experts on the Ancient Battlefield.
Visible to the naked eye, each of those divine soul chains was substantial. Whenever one pierced through an Ancient Path Trial-Taker or Divine Kingdom Expert, it would pull out a Primordial Spirit or divine soul, directly drawing it into the mysterious ancient hall. The soulless bodies were naturally taken away by other experts from the Soul-Restraining Hall who rushed over.
This scene caused panic among the many Ancient Path Trial-Takers and Divine Kingdom Experts. It wasn't that they didn't want to resist, but it was difficult to oppose such a sinister Withered Great Ability.
"Let us few take action, join forces to resist this Soul-Restraining Hall Great Power."
Among them, the Blood Desolation Eight Riders, the Bloody Robe Tower Master, the Nine Swords King, the Unyielding Ancient King, and several of the strongest Heavenly Kings from the divine kingdom unanimously joined forces, charging forward to attack. Because they were all super-powerful among Heavenly Kings, and although the Withered Great Ability was powerful, he was not as invincible as that ancient Great Sage whose body was surrounded by eighteen divine halos, making them feel more confident in taking action to resist.
Moreover, the divine kingdom had operated in this incomplete great world for many years, collecting some incomplete Great Power-level formations left behind from the ancient divine war. They had even integrated a few corners of Sovereign battle formations that were so incomplete they were barely recognizable. Three Great Power-level formations surged forth, controlled by them, charging towards the Withered Great Ability.
"Hmm?" The Withered Great Ability uttered a sound of surprise. "Great Power-level formations, and among them are a few corners of Sovereign formations."
Controlling these three Great Power-level formations, they truly managed to temporarily block the Withered Great Ability. Although the Withered Great Ability was an ancient Great Sage, his main path was the divine soul path. The divine soul attacks he unleashed were very strange, but due to the three Great Power-level formations, he could not attack effectively.
Meanwhile, within the Emperor's Treasure Secret Realm, Ye Chen sat upon the Sovereign divine throne, receiving the inheritance of the Ancient Monarch.
Perhaps more accurately, he was receiving the Dao and techniques of this Ancient Monarch from the Primordial Times, all kinds of divine abilities and secret arts, as well as some combat experience, various insights into the Great Dao, and so on. Generally, this kind of inheritance would not bring any increase in strength.
However, Ye Chen did not know that the Ancient Monarch had taken out the last remaining bit of his Sovereign origin. This was the key reason that had sustained his remnant soul until now. Now, his figure appeared increasingly illusory, yet he could sense that Ye Chen's aura, after absorbing the Sovereign origin, was continuously growing stronger, constantly rising, breaking through uninterruptedly from the third level of Heavenly King, step by step improving.
Early, middle, late stages of the fourth level of Heavenly King—
Early, middle stages of the fifth level of Heavenly King...
...
Within each of the nine levels, to be more detailed, they are actually divided into early, middle, and late phases, though usually this is simplified.
While receiving the inheritance, Ye Chen's strength was also continuously undergoing one improvement after another. Moreover, the divine spiritual sources obtained from the explosion of those Divine Kingdom Lords within his body automatically dissolved into streams of vast Great Dao divine power, circulating through Ye Chen's limbs and bones, once again enhancing his strength.
All of this happened subtly; even Ye Chen himself was unaware that his strength was constantly rising.
Because at this moment, within his divine soul sea of consciousness, a massive flow of information was continuously pouring in. This was a special inheritance; the Ancient Monarch was instilling many memories from the past into Ye Chen's divine soul, allowing him to better comprehend them.
However, Ye Chen originally possessed the legendary Chaos Saint Soul, related to chaos. For comprehending the Ancient Monarch's inheritance, this provided unimaginable benefits. He quickly began digesting various aspects, continuously acquiring the many inheritances of the Ancient Monarch.
This digestion was truly making all of the Ancient Monarch's inheritance his own. Within, ancient scripture Dao sounds began to recite, one after another special Great Dao talismans flew out, swirling around his body. This was the substantial manifestation of the Sovereign ancient scripture, containing supreme Great Dao mysteries, recording the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
Within the space between Ye Chen's eyebrows, the Chaos Saint Soul miniature figure sat cross-legged, swirling with chaos light, devouring one Great Dao talisman after another, continuously digesting, continuously absorbing. The chaos light upon it grew increasingly blazing, its Dao authority even more profound, further deepening the accumulation of the Chaos Dao.
Although Ye Chen had now achieved the Chaos Saint Body and Chaos Saint Soul, possessing a chaos origin, he was still far from reaching the ultimate on the path of chaos. He could even be considered as having only just stepped onto this path; there was still a very long road ahead for him to walk.
He needed to absorb the mysteries of all heavens, comprehend various Dao principles, then smelt and fuse them into one, becoming nourishment for chaos, continuously deepening the Chaos Dao, perfecting his own Chaos Dao Scripture, in order to walk this path better.
Watching all this, even the Ancient Monarch, an invincible existence who stood proudly among all heavens, felt some admiration at this sight: "What a fine chaos young generation's supreme. Truly intending to nurture a hundred scriptures within the furnace, smelt ten thousand Daos, making all Great Daos become nourishment for chaos. This Sovereign's inheritance is also just a kind of nourishment, to achieve peerless chaos?"
He was not angry; on the contrary, he felt very gratified. Because chaos was peerless, surpassing everything. Once completely perfected, it would surpass all Great Dao mysteries. His Dao could assist this chaos young generation's supreme before him to grow, which made him happy.
Moreover, this young man had promised him that he would not forget the inheritance received. If fate allowed in the future, he would pass on his Great Dao inheritance to other predestined individuals, allowing it to continue.
What more could he say?
Meanwhile, that supreme Great Power from the Soul-Restraining Hall stood upon the Ancient Battlefield, his body enveloped by eighteen divine halos, as if eighteen ancient worlds were added to him, his Great Dao majestic power vast in all directions.
The space between his eyebrows was glowing, with powerful divine soul fluctuations boiling intensely. Within, one could vaguely see a mysterious Great Dao compass floating, upon which countless Great Dao talismans intertwined, accompanied by the special aura of heavenly secrets, connected to this incomplete Sovereign heaven and earth. He was deducing the true location of the Emperor's Treasure Secret Realm.
After sitting cross-legged in the sky for a full half-day, various Great Dao talismans on the Heavenly Secrets Compass continuously intertwined. Finally, everything vanished, transforming into a dazzling bright light that shot towards a certain point in the void.
"So it's here. I understand!"
The Soul-Restraining Hall Great Power spoke. He had finally found the true location of the Emperor's Treasure Secret Realm. The Sun-Destroying Heavenly Halberd in his hand suddenly enlarged, directly striking the point in the void towards which the bright light had rushed.
Boom—
The heaven and earth violently exploded, even affecting the entire Ancient Battlefield spanning nearly a million li. The void collapsed massively, one after another pitch-black spatial cracks continuously spread out, expanding in all directions.
That was a strike from a supreme Great Power!
Within the pitch-black spatial cracks, everyone clearly saw that deep within, there was a massive light sphere floating amidst the spatial turbulence.