Boom—
The heavens and earth shook, yet the golden stream of light remained unmoving, not retreating a single step, not even the slightest tremor.
On the contrary, the golden giant in the Golden Giant's hand was sent flying skyward, and the entire figure was blasted backward, crashing into the majestic ancient hall. The entire world rumbled and trembled.
The powerhouses were shocked. Upon closer inspection, it was none other than the invincible Battle Saint King. He stood firm in the sky, like an eternal, indestructible divine mountain, immovable as a mountain.
"Thank you, Saint King, for your intervention!" Heavenly Venerate Hong was extremely grateful as he looked at Ye Chen. If Ye Chen hadn't appeared in time, he would likely have faced only the path of death and destruction.
"It's nothing. Although your strength isn't enough to face the Golden Giant, you can still fight the Silver Giant," Ye Chen said with a smile.
"Understood!" Heavenly Venerate Hong expressed his thanks.
"Let's act now, lest the night grows long and brings more dreams," Ye Chen said, looking at the other powerhouses before taking the initiative to attack.
Although they were under this law of the end of dharma, someone as powerful as him, a Chaos young generation's supreme, was hardly restricted much by such rules. He could still unleash vast amounts of Dao power.
Boom—
A brilliant Chaos light shot into the sky, piercing through heaven and earth like a pillar holding up the heavens. Vast swathes of primordial Chaos Qi engulfed Ye Chen at the center, making him appear as transcendent and eye-catching as an ancient Great Emperor.
He strode forward with the majesty of a dragon and tiger, directly charging at the Golden Giant before him and unleashing the Battle Saint Art.
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
At the same time, Imperial Son Yuanchu, Yaya, War Saint Qian Xun, Great Power Jiuhuang, City Lord Jingtian, Dan Chen, and other top-tier powerhouses took action one after another, attacking these Golden Giants, sparking an intense battle.
But without a doubt, this group of people could be considered among the top powerhouses present. Even now, facing fifteen Golden Giants, they appeared calm and composed, not showing the slightest sign of strain.
Meanwhile, the other powerhouses charged forward to confront the remaining nearly hundred giants, beginning a truly fierce battle.
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
The plaza immediately descended into a chaotic melee, with the powerhouses fighting fiercely and extremely brutally.
Boom—
At the same time, Ye Chen faced off against a Golden Giant. His body circulated primordial Chaos Qi, making him powerful to an extreme degree, his aura vast and overwhelming as he advanced with great strides.
Boom—
The Golden Giant possessed immense strength. Not only was it a hundred zhang tall, but its entire body also had terrifying golden Dao runes flowing across it, greatly amplifying its power. Each sword strike was enough to shatter the divine body of an ordinary Great Power.
Moreover, its golden body was indestructible; ordinary attacks simply couldn't break its defense.
But who was Ye Chen? His Chaos Saint Body was unparalleled in the world. He struck out with his Heaven-Shaking Hand, first sending the opponent's divine sword flying, then directly smashing the Golden Giant's fist, causing thick cracks to spread rapidly across it, enveloping the entire fist. Golden liquid continuously dripped from it, shimmering with a hazy golden radiance, exceptionally sacred.
"Golden Holy Liquid!?"
Ye Chen's eyes narrowed. Clearly, the Golden Giant's origins were extraordinary. It contained pure Golden Holy Liquid within its body—a priceless Supreme Treasure harboring abundant vitality and possessing a special divinity. It could be used for bathing and soaking to cultivate an indestructible golden body.
Even for cultivating the Battle Saint Body, it had excellent effects.
Of course, if this Golden Holy Liquid were used to shape the Dao foundation of descendants before they began cultivation, the effect would undoubtedly be peerless. It could forge a sufficiently solid foundation, and future cultivation would progress a thousand li in a single day, with no fear of an unstable Dao foundation due to overly rapid cultivation.
But generally, this kind of Golden Holy Liquid was a Supreme Treasure born from heaven and earth, extremely rare in the world. Not to mention others, even someone as supremely powerful as Ye Chen was encountering this Golden Holy Liquid for the first time in all these years.
It could be said that this Golden Holy Liquid could be considered priceless in the world. Who would have thought it would be discovered within the Golden Giant's body?
"Could it be that these fifteen Golden Giants are not simple, but originate from Chaos, possibly becoming holy spirits within stone?" Ye Chen was suddenly startled, this thought surfacing in his heart. If this were truly the case, it would be extraordinary.
What were holy spirits? They were beings born from the creation of heaven and earth, beings who could be called 'saints.' The addition of the character 'saint' was enough to explain everything.
Beings like the Kunpeng, the Immortal Phoenix, the True Dragon, and the White Tiger were holy spirits, born from the Chaos creation of heaven and earth.
If the Golden Giants truly originated from Chaos, it would be enough to demonstrate the shocking methods of the one behind the scenes. Once these Golden Giants were fully nurtured in Chaos and grew to maturity, awakening their sentience and emerging, they would surely become revered in Chaos, becoming a generation of invincible existences.
Yet now, they had all been captured and turned into guardians defending the ancient hall.
To successfully reincarnate and be reborn, Great Emperor Yuanchu had truly exhausted all means.
However, generally speaking, it was almost impossible for such holy spirits to be safely nurtured and awakened in Chaos because the time required was too long, often taking millions or even tens of millions of years, or even an entire epoch.
Moreover, too many uncertain factors could arise during the nurturing period. If they awakened prematurely before being fully nurtured, they would mostly be incomplete, making it difficult for them to achieve reverence in the future.
And these fifteen Golden Giants were a classic example. They had encountered accidents before being fully nurtured, their sentience likely stripped away, turning them into puppets guarding the plaza.
However, the Golden Holy Liquid within their bodies was indeed a priceless treasure.
Ye Chen's gaze shifted, then he thought of a startling idea and transmitted a message to Yaya and Qian Xun, telling them not to kill these Golden Giants but to find a way to preserve them. These were all Supreme Treasure divine objects!
Yaya quickly understood. Qian Xun snorted coldly but also ceased attacking so ferociously.
"Seal!"
Ye Chen shouted lightly. He unleashed the Heaven-Suppressing Seal, an offensive divine ability from the Battle Saint Art, yet it was also a sealing divine ability.
'Suppress' represented sealing.
A thirty-three-layered ancient pagoda descended, swelling with the wind, directly suppressing the Golden Giant. No matter how the Golden Giant attacked, striking the pagoda until it rumbled and roared, it couldn't break free in the slightest.
Moreover, the Chaos Great Cauldron flew out, directly swallowing it, applying a double seal before returning to Ye Chen's glabella.
Only, no one knew that after the Chaos Great Cauldron returned to Ye Chen's body, it directly entered the location of his dantian, where his Chaos Small Universe—still incomplete, with Chaos surging turbulently—resided.
The Golden Giant was directly suppressed within the Chaos Small Universe.
At the same time, Yaya unleashed a Space-Time Great Seal, suppressing the Golden Giant before her. Ye Chen controlled the Chaos Great Cauldron to confiscate it again, suppressing it once more within the Chaos Small Universe.
As for War Saint Qian Xun, although he also suppressed one with the Heaven-Suppressing Seal, he intentionally or unintentionally kicked it over, sending the Golden Giant crashing toward Ye Chen.
"You—"
Yaya's bright eyes widened in anger. She was furious that this Qian Xun repeatedly caused trouble for her father, though she still didn't know Qian Xun was Ye Chen's son.
Ye Chen stopped her, and the Chaos Great Cauldron also collected it, suppressing it again within the Chaos Small Universe.
So far, a full three Golden Giants had been captured and suppressed by Ye Chen, representing three stone holy spirits that hadn't fully matured. The Golden Holy Liquid within their bodies was the greatest harvest.
Clearly, others also noticed Ye Chen's intent. People like Imperial Son Yuanchu and Dan Chen all took action, suppressing Golden Giants one after another. They also learned some secrets, with looks of pleasant surprise appearing on their faces.
As for the other hundred Silver and Bronze Giants, they were also suppressed one by one through the joint efforts of the powerhouses. Unfortunately, they didn't contain Supreme Treasures like the Golden Holy Liquid within their bodies.
Of course, they also contained some precious divine liquid within their bodies. Though not comparable to the Golden Holy Liquid, it was still a great Dao Supreme Treasure for body tempering and foundation building.
During this time, Ye Chen captured a full seven Silver Giants and sealed twenty-seven Bronze Giants, all suppressed within the Chaos Small Universe in his body. He operated the Chaos Dao, firmly suppressing them.
Moreover, the World Tree swayed and shone, scattering vast amounts of space-time power, sealing the many giants and preventing any struggle.
Now, the one hundred and eight giants had been defeated, but the powerhouses also suffered heavy casualties. Nearly a hundred powerhouses had fallen, including no fewer than seventeen Great Powers. The number of Heavenly King-level experts who died was countless, their blood thoroughly staining the plaza red.
However, regarding all this, many remained silent. Little Chenxi had long been taken into Ye Chen's body to spare her from witnessing such bloody scenes.
"Let's go. Enter the ancient hall. The Great Emperor's reincarnation body is likely inside."
Someone spoke, and the powerhouses all charged toward the ancient hall.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Ye Chen looked at the blood of the powerhouses on the ground. Every inch of the floor was stained with blood, a tragic sight, with the corpses of many powerhouses lying about, representing the brutality of the previous battle.
But for some reason, Ye Chen always felt an unusual sensation emerging.
However, upon closer inspection, he couldn't find anything unusual.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Yaya asked beside him. Even the other four young generation's supremes gradually approached.
"It's nothing," Ye Chen shook his head, then added, "But be careful about everything later. The inside of the ancient hall is even more terrifying."
After everyone entered, all the blood that had stained the floor began to vanish into the floor at an astonishing, eerie speed, then disappeared.
The entire plaza returned to its clean state. If not for the various battle scars left by the fight, everything was as usual.
Once the powerhouses entered the ancient hall, their expressions immediately changed, because the ancient hall contained a vast Star Sky.
That's right, a Star Sky—magnificent, even excessively large, not much smaller than a Monarch's Great World.
In the Star Sky, stars intersected, shining brilliantly. At the central position, a majestic pyramid-shaped Ancestral Altar stood in the depths of the Star Sky, like a heavenly mountain, a divine peak, extending into the depths of the Star Sky. The myriad heavenly stars seemed tiny yet orbited around it, with vast swathes of starlight continuously scattering out, merging toward the pyramid Ancestral Altar, making it appear sacred and inviolable.
At the very top of the Ancestral Altar, a stone coffin lay horizontally, engraved with countless special patterns, bearing the imprints of the myriad heavens and endless images of birds and beasts.
The Nine-Layered Divine Coffin!