Seeing this, the Longevity Sword God's expression remained unchanged. He also snorted coldly, the three-foot green blade in his hand flashing with a brilliance that illuminated ten thousand layers of sword light, countless times more dazzling than the sun. Terrifying sword beams surged forth like wings of blades, overlapping and interweaving as they slashed forward, colliding with the pitch-black divine bell.
Boom—
Without a doubt, this was a peak confrontation, a duel between two supreme Great Powers. Every move and gesture contained unimaginable power of the Great Dao, surpassing that of Super Great Powers. Even Yan Cangqiong, an eighth-layer Great Power, deeply felt he was far inferior to the two combatants.
Though separated by only two layers, Yan Cangqiong felt a gap as vast as that between heaven and earth, a dragon and an ant.
Were supreme Great Powers truly this terrifying?
The pitch-black divine bell and the three-foot green blade clashed incessantly. Countless Dao traces manifested in the endless Star Sky, like strands of order divine chains streaking through the void, colliding continuously. The sound of clanging was unceasing, sparks flying and igniting like a prairie fire.
This was a collision of Dao, a clash of the Great Dao between two supreme Great Powers.
The confrontation between the Longevity Sword God and the Mystic Dao Elder was even more intense. With a single move, they could annihilate a star domain, also manifesting peerless Dharma forms, majestic and colossal, with various phenomena constantly appearing.
One could also see a colossal heavenly sword piercing through the nine heavens and a pitch-black divine bell capable of encompassing a great world manifesting, immense and boundless, colliding and causing countless stars in distant star domains to continuously explode.
The longer they fought, the more fearsome they became. However, boundless Dao principles also descended, submerging the star domain in the distant sky and enveloping the figures of both combatants. Outsiders found it difficult to see the battle situation within, including Ye Chen. Yet, with his keen intuition, he could distinctly sense terrifying fluctuations constantly erupting inside, only to vanish swiftly.
From this, one could sense that the power of both was too immense. The universe's Star Sky could not fully withstand it, so they used special means to channel it into the void. Otherwise, the destruction would be unimaginable.
Boom— Boom— Boom—
Visible to the naked eye, in that patch of Star Sky, one terrifying sword light after another continuously flashed. Those were the sword lights of the Longevity Sword God, and each flash was different, yet carried the same brilliant luster that could illuminate the entire star domain, also possessing the might to annihilate star domains.
"The Sword God's Thirteen Slashes—the Ancestor is getting serious!"
Only the Great Powers of the Nine Yan Imperial Family who truly knew the Longevity Sword God understood that these were not the ordinary sword slashes used against Ye Chen, but his renowned Sword God's Thirteen Slashes, famous throughout the universe.
As the name implied, there were thirteen slashes!
Each slash was executed with the Longevity Sword God's full power, embodying the true essence of his sword Dao.
Moreover, the later the slash, the more terrifying it became. Each slash surpassed the previous one in terror, capable of easily slaying even a Super Great Power.
The boundless Star Sky was cleaved open, leaving behind massive spatial chasms stretching tens of thousands of li. Everything in their path, all stars, were devoured and annihilated.
Ye Chen's expression also changed, because even the first slash of the Sword God's Thirteen Slashes was something he felt he could not withstand. He distinctly sensed from those thirteen slashes a kind of immortal might that transcended the Great Power level.
Yet, such immortal might was something he had only ever felt on Ancient Monarchs before—it was Sovereign power.
Clearly, the Longevity Sword God's strength had already touched the realm of Ancient Monarchs, enabling him to invoke Sovereign power, making the might contained within the thirteen slashes far more powerful than imagined.
Simultaneously, Ye Chen finally understood why the Longevity Sword God was so powerful. It was because he was no longer a pure Peak Great Power, but had stepped into a special realm above Great Powers yet below Sovereigns—the Nine Tribulations Realm!
The Nine Tribulations Realm was for those who, after reaching the peak of Great Power, could not yet break through the shackles to truly become an Ancient Monarch.
Ancient Monarchs were existences at the level of Universe Overlords. In an era without Emperors, they were equivalent to universe supreme experts, lofty and supreme, possessing boundless, supreme power far surpassing that of Great Powers.
But becoming such a Universe Overlord was not a simple step. The gap was too vast, whether in terms of physical body or soul—it was a world of difference. One needed to undergo baptism through tribulations, layer by layer, allowing both form and spirit to be continuously tempered and strengthened, ultimately making it easier to take that final step.
And this was the Nine Tribulations Realm!
The Longevity Sword God was clearly a supreme expert of the Nine Tribulations Realm, having undergone the baptism of terrifying great tribulations, making his cultivation far stronger than that of a Peak Great Power, thus mastering Sovereign power.
Ye Chen felt that if he were to face the Sword God's Thirteen Slashes, perhaps only by relying on chaos secret techniques to elevate his cultivation and unleashing the Chaos Three Styles, Universe Creation, and the forbidden divine abilities of various Emperors could he resist somewhat. But he could never fully withstand them. By the third slash, he would likely be slain and perish.
This was the terror of Sovereign power. Once one transcended that level, everything became completely different, ascending to another plane.
No wonder the great universe suppressed such Universe Overlord-level experts, restricting their power to less than one-third—it was not without reason.
Yet supreme Great Powers of the Nine Tribulations Realm were not suppressed, yet they mastered Sovereign power, making them naturally terrifying and peerless.
Therefore, Ye Chen felt some concern for the Mystic Dao Elder. Facing a Longevity Sword God who had entered the Nine Tribulations Realm, no one dared to be careless or underestimate him.
But was the Mystic Dao Elder simple? Similarly, he erupted with strands of Sovereign power, awe-inspiring across ancient and modern times. Clearly, he too was an existence who had stepped into the Nine Tribulations Realm. Having stood at the supreme peak of the Great Power realm for seventy thousand years, never truly setting foot into the Sovereign realm in his lifetime—yet who dared say he was weak?
On the contrary, hailed as the living myth of seventy thousand years, the Mystic Dao Elder was not weak but excessively strong.
The Longevity Sword God unleashed the Sword God's Thirteen Slashes, renowned throughout the universe. But similarly, he too had his own divine abilities. The pitch-black divine bell rose into the air, dark light swirling, yet it was also a kind of black flame leaping and dancing, capable of burning the Great Dao. From within, one black dragon after another surged forth, all truly manifested, each ten thousand li long, clad in black scales, heads held high and majestic, spanning the heavens, unimaginably colossal, capable of collapsing the vast heavens, flowing with Sovereign power.
There were exactly ten, representing the ultimate of nine taken a step further—the perfection of the tenth layer.
The ten black dragons flew out, as if ten pure-blooded true dragons were present here, colliding with the Longevity Sword God's Sword God's Thirteen Slashes. Divine power erupted, and the most terrifying Sovereign power was released.