City Lord Hongtian chuckled but did not press his advantage. Instead, he returned to the Trial Ancient City and came before Ye Chen, speaking with a tone of satisfied praise: "Truly, the pupil surpasses the master. Young friend, you are truly remarkable. To be able to battle and slay an ancient God-Slayer and fight your way out of their lair—even this old man finds it somewhat hard to believe."
Ye Chen modestly replied, "This junior merely had some luck."
"You are too modest, young friend. Without absolute cultivation, mere luck would never be enough to escape from the God-Slayer clan's lair," City Lord Hongtian shook his head. "It's just a pity we couldn't wipe out this God-Slayer clan. Otherwise, it would have been a great opportunity indeed."
The others were puzzled. If City Lord Hongtian and this peerless Heaven's Pride, whose combat power was enough to fiercely battle an ancient God-Slayer for an hour, these two supreme powerhouses took action, even the God-Slayer clan would likely be swept away under their combined might.
However, Ye Chen understood. The alarm had already been raised. Even if City Lord Hongtian mustered troops to encircle and suppress them, he himself would need to recover first, and this recovery period was not short—at least a month.
This amount of time was enough for the God-Slayer clan to relocate their entire clan and vanish from the world's sight.
Next, Ye Chen harbored some questions and proactively inquired about some doubts with City Lord Hongtian. Because of Ye Chen's outstanding talent as a Heaven's Pride, City Lord Hongtian answered every question.
Through this Q&A process, Ye Chen gradually came to understand why there were so many people in this Trial Ancient City before him.
The Supreme Ancient Path, though not like the Ultimate Ancient Path which gathered countless Heaven's Prides and prodigies from the various ancient universes of the Chaos Sea, was also not as simple as imagined, with only Emperor Sons and Daughters.
This was a Supreme Ancient Path. Emperor Sons and Daughters could set foot on it, and any young generation's supreme who reached the tenth heaven also had the qualification to embark on the path and undergo its trials.
Of course, this was a decision made in recent years by the guardians of the Supreme Ancient Path, because these guardians had also discerned the problem Ye Chen had mentioned earlier in the first Trial Ancient City—perhaps after this era, there would be no more Supreme Path.
The descendants of the various Emperors of the Chaos Sea were all concentrated in this era, descending upon the Supreme Path. The various Emperor traces and supreme treasures left behind by the Emperors of old for the Supreme Trials were destined to be retrieved by their respective descendants. The Supreme Path, which had continued for countless years, would ultimately disappear.
The guardians of the Supreme Ancient Path decided that in this final era, they would let the Supreme Ancient Path bloom its last and most brilliant glory, allowing young generation's supremes from the outside world to also step onto the Supreme Ancient Path for training.
Naturally, it wasn't only young generation's supremes; Heaven's Prides and prodigies with the potential to become young generation's supremes also had the qualification.
Among them were also some young prodigies from certain races within the cosmic starry sky where the Supreme Ancient Path was located, who had the qualification to embark on the path. Furthermore, some of these young prodigies had quite extraordinary origins—they were descendants of Emperor Sons and Daughters.
Some were descendants of Emperor Sons and Daughters who had entered the Supreme Ancient Path in the current era; others were descendants of Emperor Sons and Daughters from past eras.
Their parents, who knew how many years ago, had once battled on the Supreme Ancient Path. Some had regretfully been defeated, never returning to their respective ancient universes. Instead, they remained on the Supreme Ancient Path, spending the rest of their lives with lifelong regrets, leaving behind their offspring, sealed away to emerge in this era, to continue the battle on their behalf, to carve out a bright and just world on the Supreme Ancient Path of this era.
There were also some who were disciples taken in by Emperor Sons and Daughters, each one truly dazzlingly talented, not the slightest bit inferior to the children of Emperor Sons and Daughters, and quite terrifying.
The Trial Ancient City Yanxia Pass before them was a convergence point for the many branch paths of the Supreme Ancient Path and for those entering the Supreme Ancient Path from the outside world, equivalent to the first pass.
Therefore, this Yanxia Pass had so many young prodigies.
Upon learning all this, Ye Chen couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile. He had painstakingly passed through the ancient path at the edge of the universe, endured the attacks of the thirty-six young generation's supreme imprints at the Supreme Ancient Gate, and even spent eighteen years of desolate travel before finally reaching this place. Yet now, it turned out that as long as one reached the level of a young generation's supreme, one had the qualification to smoothly enter the Supreme Ancient Path.
It seemed as if he had wasted too much time on the branch paths.
However, only Ye Chen himself truly understood that during these eighteen years, he had not passed them in vain. On the contrary, he had experienced much, undergone numerous battles. Even those two Supreme Trials had benefited him immensely.
Moreover, it was precisely during these eighteen years that he had obtained harvests of unimaginable richness for ordinary people.
Ye Chen sighed softly. If that was the case, he didn't know if he would have the chance to encounter some old acquaintances, or perhaps all his old friends and comrades had entered that mysterious Eight Desolations Realm.
"Young friend, your strength is very powerful. This old man observes that although you are only at the fifth heaven of the Great Power realm, your overall combat power probably approaches the eighth or ninth heaven. Looking across the trials of the Supreme Ancient Path, basically nothing will pose much obstruction to you. If you have the chance, you can directly proceed to the final Ten Heavens Realm. The strongest individuals are all battling there," City Lord Hongtian suddenly spoke.
"Ten Heavens Realm?" Ye Chen was somewhat taken aback.
"That's right, precisely the Ten Heavens Realm," City Lord Hongtian nodded gravely. "The Ultimate Ancient Path has the Eight Desolations Realm, and our Supreme Ancient Path also has the Ten Heavens Realm. The Ten Heavens Realm is vast and boundless, far larger than the Ten Directions Star Domain, truly expansive and limitless, not inferior to an Emperor Realm, perhaps even larger. It is an ancient great realm that has existed for countless years, a Chaos secret realm that has existed since the Chaos opened and the world was created."
"Basically, all the Emperor Sons and Daughters have already reached the Ten Heavens Realm, where a white-hot fierce battle has begun."
"Moreover, while the Ultimate Ancient Path competes for the final 'Ultimate,' the ultimate goal of those Emperor Sons and Daughters coming to the Supreme Ancient Path is also to compete for the final 'Supreme One'!"
This was a secret. Over the years, the reason for the establishment of the Supreme Ancient Path was not only for the Emperors to temper their respective descendants, allowing them to continuously grow and become stronger, but also, in the end, to leave behind the greatest heaven-defying immortal opportunity—the Supreme One!
Naturally, this 'Supreme One' was not the same as the usual Supreme One, but rather a title for that heaven-defying immortal opportunity, just like the 'Ultimate' on the Ultimate Ancient Path.
It was a heaven-defying immortal opportunity jointly left behind by the Emperors. Rumor had it that even Emperors or supreme immortals would be extremely moved by it.
It was just that over the years, the 'Supreme One' had not appeared, having been hidden and sealed away. The Emperors intentionally preserved it to appear in this era, likely also related to the blood-stained future they were about to face.
Precisely because of this, since this epoch, almost no Emperor Sons or Daughters had appeared on the Supreme Ancient Path. They had all erupted in a concentrated outburst in this era, appearing together.
Naturally, since the Supreme Ancient Path allowed Heaven's Prides and prodigies from the outside world to set foot on it, then these people also had the qualification to compete for the 'Supreme One' in the Ten Heavens Realm.