For a time, the entire Birth Emperor Star, already seething with undercurrents, became even more turbulent and unpredictable. At any moment, a Sovereign-level war could erupt, affecting vast areas and causing everyone on Birth Emperor Star to live in fear.
Fortunately, both the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan and the five Sovereigns harbored reservations and did not truly go to war.
Moreover, according to rumors, the two sides had privately reached an unspoken agreement: during this period, Ancient Monarchs could not take action, but actions below the Sovereign level would be ignored.
Yet, it was precisely this agreement that instantly set the entire Birth Emperor Star ablaze.
The Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan, which had initially been somewhat restrained, re-emerged, and with even greater intensity.
It must be known that the entire Birth Emperor Star originally belonged to the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan, the foremost overlord power. It commanded countless powerful clans and ancient nations. Not to mention the other continents and the endless oceans, at the very least, the Central Continent—the strongest of the five continents—was the stronghold of the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan. It was teeming with experts, masters hidden like tigers and dragons, its prosperity far exceeding ordinary imagination.
Under the command of the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan, they began to thoroughly exclude external major clans.
The other four continents echoed this sentiment. Many experts began the exclusion, and various major powers rose up, hunting down experts from the outer realms.
For a time, cultivators from the outer realms lived in constant fear, relentlessly pursued.
However, how many of the major powers that had descended upon Birth Emperor Star were easy to deal with? They were not lacking in truly supreme super experts. Previously, they had only been wary of the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan's Ancient Monarchs, thus hiding within the Great Era without truly acting. Now, with many of those fears gone, they emerged one after another, engaging in battles with the numerous experts of Birth Emperor Star.
The flames of war spread rapidly. In just a few short days, they engulfed the entire Birth Emperor Star. Every moment, numerous experts perished in various places—some from the outer realms, but even more were experts from Birth Emperor Star itself.
After all, those who descended were all true experts from the outer realms.
Not long after, super experts also emerged from the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan, terrifyingly powerful. Especially when Imperial Clan Great Powers appeared, relying on their innate powerful Emperor bloodline power and the clan's supreme battle weapons, they consecutively slew several Great Powers from the outer realms, unleashing a terrifying storm of blood that completely opened the prelude to the great war.
Similarly, peerless experts from the outer realms also appeared, including several super Great Powers who descended with overwhelming force and successively killed seven Great Powers from Birth Emperor Star.
Furthermore, the 49th Pass was also swept into the flames of war. At one point, an Imperial Clan Great Power appeared, leading numerous experts from Birth Emperor Star to demand that the 49th Pass leave Birth Emperor Star.
Naturally, the 49th Pass was completely an innocent victim, as it had remained silent from the start, maintaining a neutral stance and not siding with any faction.
However, the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan was extremely wary, for the Ultimate Ancient Path was also one of the top overlord-level powers in the entire ancient universe, a force they had to treat with gravity.
Among them, an Imperial Clan Great Power even took forceful action against the 49th Pass, intending to level this trial ancient pass and completely expel the experts and Heaven's Pride of the Ultimate Ancient Path from Birth Emperor Star.
Trial ancient passes were always built by the Ultimate Ancient Path with immense resources, difficult to breach. Moreover, the 49th Pass was particularly unique in its immortality and stability. Even an Imperial Clan Great Power, powerful as he was, failed to break through the defenses of the 49th Pass.
However, these successive attacks trapped the experts within the 49th Pass, unable to enter or leave, forced to hide indignantly within the trial ancient pass, filled with anger.
During this time, several Great Powers ventured out to negotiate, hoping for a truce, but were forcefully injured by the Imperial Clan Great Power, no match for him.
Finally, after being besieged for three full days and nights, City Lord Jing Tian, the Guardian Great Power who had remained hidden and inactive, finally appeared.
But City Lord Jing Tian's expression was icy. He coldly faced this Imperial Clan Great Power, ignored all his demands, and without a word, directly attacked.
Boom—
On this day, this peerless Great Power hidden within the 49th Pass truly displayed his own supreme divine might. He swept forward, and the Imperial Clan Great Power was far from his match, severely wounded and defeated, directly blasted out into the outer realms.
The world was shaken!
Then, even more shocking news arrived. Not long after, this Great Power from the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan was slain, his blood staining a vast region. Strange phenomena manifested, ghosts wailed and gods howled, shocking the world and shaking the entire Birth Emperor Star.
The one who struck was none other than City Lord Jing Tian.
Moreover, City Lord Jing Tian stood fearless, towering at the highest point of the heavens, gazing towards the direction of the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan as he calmly declared, "Although our Ultimate Ancient Path is unwilling to act, do not mistake us for cowards hiding in their shells. Otherwise, even if an Emperor Clan comes, we will kill them all the same. He is the best example!"
As soon as this declaration was made, it immediately shook the entire Birth Emperor Star, attracting the attention of all sides and drawing widespread focus.
Many people paled. Was the Ultimate Ancient Path about to go to war with the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan?
However, contrary to everyone's expectations, the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan fell silent.
It was just like when the Emperor Clan's five Heaven's Pride were slain by the Battle Saint King—they maintained their silence.
But many understood in their hearts that it was because the Ultimate Ancient Path was powerful, not the slightest bit weaker than the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan. Moreover, the latter was in the wrong first, having provoked the dignity of the Ultimate Ancient Path.
Most importantly, City Lord Jing Tian was a peerless Great Power, his cultivation so formidable that it was likely difficult to find a match for him below the Ancient Monarchs. At a time when Sovereigns could not act, he was a supreme expert the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan was unwilling to provoke, hence their silence.
But this was only one corner of the conflict. Battles were still raging fiercely in various places.
The entire Birth Emperor Star was plunged into a terrifying state of warfare, with countless casualties.
However, this situation soon came to an end, because Wanyan Seventeen and the five Ancient Monarchs could no longer stand by and had to intervene to deter both sides.
With the sudden intervention of the Ancient Monarchs, the two sides finally eased off, drawing the curtain on the conflict.
Yet by this time, both sides had already suffered heavy casualties. Even the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan had lost two Great Powers in succession, with casualties below the Great Power level being even more severe. It was the first time in tens of thousands of years they had suffered such heavy losses.
However, in an era where Ancient Monarchs presided, all this was nothing. They would recover sooner or later.
As time passed, more and more experts continuously descended upon Birth Emperor Star. Great Powers arrived endlessly, with experts from various major powers appearing one after another.
The 49th Pass was especially so, connected to the Ultimate Ancient Path. A group of Ancient Path Great Powers descended, among them the Nine Phoenix Great Power at the peak realm was notably present.
Among them, even that peerless old monster who had participated in the Alchemy Ceremony and was infinitely close to the Sovereign realm also appeared.
Subsequently, the Alchemy Emperor Clan descended, the Flame Emperor Clan arrived, and various major powers from the cosmic starry skies descended one after another. More and more powers and experts continuously emerged.
Even the undisputed first overlord of Birth Emperor Star, the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan, gradually fell silent in the face of these outer realm experts, beginning to restrain all its actions.
For the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan also understood that with the successive arrival of these truly super experts, even a power as mighty as theirs could not contend. If they acted again and thoroughly enraged these outer realm experts, the consequences would be truly unimaginable. Perhaps the entire Emperor Clan would face annihilation.
Moreover, on the Ultimate Ancient Path, peerless Heaven's Pride who had reached the depths of the Ancient Path began to return, permitted by the higher-ups of the Ancient Path.
There were even rumors that an Overlord of the Ancient Path had already returned and was on Birth Emperor Star. There were also rumors of an Imperial Son appearing.
For a time, Birth Emperor Star became utterly turbulent, gathering an unknown number of Heaven's Pride, an unprecedented grand gathering of geniuses.
The initial intimidation of the Primordial Beginning Imperial Son gradually dissipated with the arrival of more Ancient Path Heaven's Pride, and the atmosphere became bustling and lively once again.
For among them, unfamiliar young supremes also appeared. They had not participated in the battle against the Emperor Clan's five young supremes, nor had they fought the Primordial Beginning Imperial Son, thus they held no fear of the Imperial Son.
Some, even more ambitious, desired to challenge the Primordial Beginning Imperial Son, to see if he was as supremely invincible as the legends said.
Of course, they also wished to defeat the Imperial Son to prove their own invincible bearing.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Chen had already stayed on Birth Emperor Star for a full two months.
These two months were also the period of greatest change on Birth Emperor Star. He witnessed the various storms from the Primordial Beginning Emperor Clan's actions to the descent of the Ancient Monarchs, observing the myriad changes of the Great Era.
However, he remained quite low-key. Since his initial action due to the Emperor Clan's five Heaven's Pride, he had rarely acted during these two months, mostly observing this increasingly turbulent Birth Emperor Star from the shadows.
In his daily life, he would often sit cross-legged in the deep, quiet recesses of a remote mountain, silently watching the Great Era unfold.
Regarding this Ten Thousand Epochs Assembly, Ye Chen had little interest in participating. His most important goal was simply to hope to catch a glimpse of the legendary Great Emperor's reincarnation body.
If given the opportunity, he hoped even more to engage in a same-realm battle with such a Great Emperor's reincarnation body to test its prowess.
Most of his time was spent perfecting his Chaos Small Universe and refining his forbidden divine ability.
The Universe Creation could be said to be an advanced version of the World-Sundering Fist. What it evolved was not merely a great world heaven and earth, but a Chaos Ancient Universe, possessing immeasurable power.
Had he not, back then, relied on this forbidden divine ability, Universe Creation, to break through the star formation blockade of the eighteen Insect Race Mother Queens and escape the seal? Anyone would fear this move.
However, it was not yet fully perfected. The probability of successfully executing it was small, and the consumption of essence, energy, and spirit was far beyond imagination. He dared not use it lightly.
Naturally, this could not be achieved in a single day. It required, at the very least, a long period of time to slowly perfect and continue sublimating.
Additionally, the aura emanating from Abenue during these two months grew increasingly powerful. According to Ye Chen's own estimation, it wouldn't be long—short as two months, long not exceeding five years—before something happened.
Abenue belonged to a variant Insect Race Mother Queen. Once she emerged, the Insect Race warriors she birthed would likely be exceptionally fearsome, not to be compared with ordinary Insect Race warriors.
As long as a fearsome Insect Race army could be assembled, it would be of great help to Ye Chen.
Although true experts fear no human wave tactics, it depends on the strength of the individuals comprising that wave.
The Insect Race warriors birthed by the variant Insect Race Mother Queen Abenue would inevitably be extraordinarily fearsome. The rebuilt Insect Race army also possessed the potential for quantitative change to bring about qualitative change.
Such a fearsome Insect Race army, under Abenue's control, would be sufficient to contend against top-tier experts.
Precisely because of this, Ye Chen placed great importance on it.