"Battle Saint Holy Emperor!?"
As these words fell, they rang like thunder beside Ye Chen's ears, causing him to be utterly dumbfounded, completely stunned.
The Battle Saint Holy Emperor, also known as the Battle Saint Ancestor, was the founding patriarch of the Battle Saint lineage.
Regarding the reincarnation of that Great Emperor from the Mythical Era, Ye Chen had considered many possibilities—other ancient Great Emperors from the Chaos Sea. Yet he had never imagined it would turn out to be the founding patriarch of his own lineage.
The Battle Saint Ancestor was actually a Great Emperor's reincarnation, who had defied heaven to live a Second Life and then ascended to the realm of the Strongest Emperor—that peerless emperor through the ages!?
Even now, he still found it somewhat hard to believe.
However, upon careful thought, it wasn't entirely impossible.
How many Strongest Emperors had there been throughout history? Like the Heavenly Emperor, the Battle Saint Ancestor, the Time-Space Great Emperor, the Tai Sheng Emperor, the Primordial Ancestor, the Han Tian Great Emperor, and others. Looking across the entire Chaos Sea, through the ages, across one epoch after another of decline, how many such existences were there in total?
It was no exaggeration to say they could be counted on one hand.
These were existences that surpassed the Emperor realm, the supreme beings most likely to ascend to the Eternal Domain.
Wasn't the Battle Saint Ancestor also a Strongest Emperor? He was within this category as well.
It was just that descriptions of the Battle Saint Ancestor mostly focused on his achievements after becoming a Strongest Emperor—sweeping through past and future, suppressing and slaying alien Emperors, killing supreme Immortals—earth-shattering feats that shook the ages. Even within the Sealed Boundary Universe, there were few descriptions of the Battle Saint Ancestor's earlier days, mostly just sketched in broad strokes.
And those who lived in the same era were all people of the Mythical Epoch. Even many Emperors and Sovereigns had fallen, and those who remained had long since departed to other domains, fighting for a blood-stained future. As for others, they had passed away for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.
This was the Imperial Record—unknown to most. It was only on the Ultimate Ancient Path, which gathered countless geniuses from various ancient universes, that some of these unknown Imperial Records were obtained and documented.
"That's right, it is indeed the Battle Saint Holy Emperor." City Lord Jing Tian spoke up, yet even a peerless great power like him couldn't help but feel a surge of reverence when mentioning this Emperor's title.
Because the Battle Saint Holy Emperor was not only one of the most powerful Emperor-Sovereigns throughout history, but was also hailed as the possessor of the strongest Emperor physique.
During his attainment of the Dao in his Second Life, he discarded all the supreme Emperor techniques of his first life, broke and then rebuilt, creating the supreme holy body technique of the Battle Saint Body.
Without needing an innate treasure body, one could cultivate an unparalleled holy body in the mortal world, standing in defiance of heaven.
The Battle Saint Ancestor cultivated the Battle Saint Body to perfection and completeness, breaking into the realm of the Strongest Emperor, dominating all ages, sweeping across the Chaos Sea, with no one daring to compare themselves to the Battle Saint Ancestor in this domain.
This alone speaks volumes.
Moreover, his chief disciple, the Formless Sovereign, was also a generation's peerless fierce man. During the Mythical Epoch, he slaughtered his way through the glorious and prosperous Ultimate Ancient Path until no one dared utter a sound. To this day, his invincible reputation still circulates along the ancient path.
Later, he attained the position of Strongest Sovereign. Though not an Emperor, he could battle Emperors, displaying his supreme posture.
He even provoked the alien races to spare no expense, dispatching seven peerless Sovereigns and two Emperor Lords—nine supreme experts who laid a trap to surround and kill him. Yet even with their entire force annihilated, they failed to kill him, only managing to inflict near-fatal wounds.
In the end, it took a supreme Great Emperor from the alien races, who disregarded his dignity to personally intervene, to strangle this generation's King of Sovereigns, the Formless, before the threshold of attaining Emperorhood, causing countless people across the Chaos Sea to shake their heads and sigh softly.
Otherwise, the Formless Sovereign would surely have broken through the shackles of the Emperor Dao, and it was not impossible that he might have become another Strongest Emperor following the Battle Saint Ancestor.
And now, this lineage had given birth to a Chaos young supreme like the Battle Saint King, with boundless potential. Perhaps there was even a sliver of a chance to surpass his predecessors, perfect and complete the Chaos Dao, thoroughly break the eternal shackles, and achieve existence in the Eternal Domain.
City Lord Jing Tian had to admit the heaven-defying nature of this lineage, and thus held endless admiration for the founding patriarch, the Battle Saint Ancestor.
Ye Chen also felt a raging fire ignite within his heart. This was the founding ancestor of the Battle Saint lineage, who had defied heaven to live a Second Life from a situation of certain death, and then attained the realm of Strongest Emperor, shaking the ages. He was also Ye Chen's grandmaster.
City Lord Jing Tian said, "Therefore, the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body does indeed exist, and it is highly likely to be on the Birth Emperor Star."
With the precedent of the Battle Saint Ancestor, it was not impossible for there to be a second Great Emperor Reincarnation Body.
Ye Chen nodded and humbly sought City Lord Jing Tian's guidance regarding the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body.
Due to his various glorious achievements, Ye Chen had gained the recognition of the Ultimate Ancient Path. City Lord Jing Tian naturally did not deliberately conceal anything; on the contrary, he proactively informed him, allowing Ye Chen to learn many ancient and unknown secrets that even many of the ancient powers dominating the starry skies of this ancient universe might not know.
According to the obtained Imperial Record, the supreme Great Emperor born on the Birth Emperor Star in the past was not only born on this star, but also passed away on it, shrouding it in a veil of mystery.
Generally speaking, Emperors possessed endless lifespans, eternal and immortal, but that did not mean they could not fall.
This peerless ancient Great Emperor, for some unknown reason back then—perhaps due to sustaining irreparable injuries from experiencing the most terrifying Emperor battles, or perhaps from leaving the most severe Dao wounds while attempting to impact the Eternal Domain, or maybe other reasons—ultimately was powerless to reverse his fate and passed away on this Birth Emperor Star, departing forever.
At the time, it caused an unprecedented uproar. The aura of such a supreme Great Emperor passing away shook the entire great universe, drawing the attention of all living beings in the cosmos. All creatures were startled, and it even affected the River of Time.
But there was also another rumor: although this ancient Great Emperor had passed away, he had not completely perished. Instead, he had always existed within this Birth Emperor Star, preserving a wisp of indestructible true spirit.
For these tens of thousands of years, he had been undergoing a deep-level transformation, seeking to defy heaven and return, live a Second Life, return to the invincible Emperor path, and even break through the eternal shackles, rising in defiance of heaven.
Some unverifiable information mentioned that this ancient Great Emperor might reappear as a newborn, severing all past Emperor Dao foundations, and once again campaign on the Emperor path, cultivating through a brand new path to reach the ultimate peak.
The so-called theory of the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body originated from here.
And more importantly, if the rumors were confirmed, this Great Emperor's reincarnation and rebirth might appear on the Birth Emperor Star in the coming years, emerging by seizing the entire Birth Emperor Star's fortune.
The higher-ups of the Ultimate Ancient Path believed that the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body was likely imitating the Battle Saint Holy Emperor—both on the brink of death, seeking nirvana to live a Second Life, perhaps also intending to tread the Battle Saint Holy Emperor's heaven-defying path and similarly ascend to the realm of the Strongest Emperor.
Ye Chen nodded. Since that peerless Emperor through the ages was about to pass away due to Dao wounds, it was highly likely he would refer to the example of the Battle Saint Holy Emperor, unwilling to simply pass away, and instead undergo nirvana to live a Second Life.
Moreover, City Lord Jing Tian understood that although the outside world did not possess as many Imperial Records as the Ultimate Ancient Path, they had received the same news—the suspected Great Emperor Reincarnation Body would defy heaven and return, emerging on the Birth Emperor Star.
If one could slay this Great Emperor Reincarnation Body, they would obtain his Emperor Dao foundation, and barring accidents, would inevitably become an Emperor or Sovereign in the future.
Although the news had not been confirmed, within just two months, it spread throughout the entire ancient universe at an unimaginably astonishing speed, causing storms to surge from all sides, drawing the attention of the entire ancient universe, and even attracting endless powerful experts to descend upon it.
The great universe was plunged into a boiling frenzy.
For this reason, the Birth Emperor Star was about to host a Myriad Epochs-watched, peerless gathering—the Ten Thousand Ages Assembly—solely to seek out the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body, slay him to obtain the Emperor Dao foundation, and ascend to the Emperor Dao.
Some even received secret information that the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body was most likely within the vanished Fiftieth Trial Pass, undergoing nirvana and transformation there, requiring all parties to join forces to seek him out.
However, the Fiftieth Trial Pass was only rumored to exist; its existence had never been confirmed. Even many of the great powers currently on the Ultimate Ancient Path did not dare confirm whether the Fiftieth Trial Pass truly existed in the world.
"The Fiftieth Trial Pass doesn't exist?" Ye Chen was taken aback. Could it be that even the higher-ups of the Ultimate Ancient Path didn't know?
City Lord Jing Tian shook his head. "The Fiftieth Trial Pass does exist, but its whereabouts are a mystery. Not to mention you, even the Ultimate Ancient Path doesn't know the true whereabouts of the Fiftieth Trial Pass. It vanished into thin air many tens of thousands of years ago, likely related to that Great Emperor."
Some legends claimed the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body was in the Fiftieth Trial Pass not without basis, because the time of the Fiftieth Trial Pass's disappearance coincided precisely with the time when the Great Emperor passed away.
Moreover, the Fiftieth Trial Pass was very different. The Great Dao has forty-nine; the fiftieth is the one that escaped.
Precisely because of this, many believed the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body was within the Fiftieth Trial Pass.
To find traces of the Fiftieth Trial Pass, someone invited a Heavenly Master long renowned across the universe.
So-called Heavenly Masters were naturally those who peered into Heavenly Secrets, practitioners skilled in the Dao of divination. Their cultivation might not be exceptionally strong, but their attainments in the Dao of divination were profound and miraculous, surpassing many great powers.
Even a select few Heavenly Masters, in terms of their Dao attainments in divination, might not necessarily be inferior to some Ancient Sovereigns.
Only one of the Nine Ancient Path Overlords, the Heavenly Secrets Master, could completely surpass these Heavenly Masters.
Naturally, some had also invited the Heavenly Secrets Master to perform divination. Unfortunately, in recent years, because his divination power was too heaven-defying, the Heavenly Secrets Master had been targeted, even hunted, by other Ancient Path Overlords. He was unable to attend to other matters, and no one could find his whereabouts, which was regrettable.
In the end, a full nine Heavenly Masters descended, invited at great cost by various major powers. They jointly divined the Heavenly Dao, seeking the legendary Fiftieth Trial Pass.
It was said that during the divination, the Heavenly Secrets suddenly changed. The entire Birth Emperor Star witnessed shifting winds and clouds, the heavens and earth shook violently, and countless terrifying phenomena appeared.
Such as drifting blood rain, green hairs floating in the air, fierce ghosts emerging from hell, bloody corpses falling one after another, the sun exploding, the moon shattering, ghosts weeping and gods wailing... One chilling phenomenon after another continuously appeared, descending upon the mortal world, causing countless people to panic, suspecting heaven intended to destroy the world.