Boom—
The Immortal Clan Divine King Old Antique made his move. His immortal techniques were vast and mighty, containing world-overturning divine might within the lift of his hand and the turn of his palm as he faced the ghost ape carrying a tattered turtle shell.
Roar—
The ghost ape also opened its mouth and roared. Its rotting, bone-white giant claw gripped a half-broken stone staff, smashing it fiercely toward the Immortal Clan Divine King Old Antique. The numbers of the Great Derivation evolved, thousands upon thousands of staff shadows ultimately merging into one, transforming into a single heaven-propping giant staff harboring power capable of slaying ordinary Divine Kings.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two super-powerful beings collided abruptly.
Behind them, the Divine Kings from other imperial clans, Immortal Clans, and Empires naturally wouldn't just stand by and watch this Immortal Clan Divine King Old Antique act alone. They all coveted the Life Essence, and now understood they needed to first resolve the eight rotting living beings to truly get close to it.
Other powerhouses also charged over, intending to exhaust the enemy with sheer numbers.
Roar—
The Knight riding the Rotten Old Horse that had soared across the sky suddenly raised its head and roared at the heavens.
Boom—
Suddenly, mountains shook and the earth quaked.
At the edge of the Life Oasis, a pitch-black mountain peak shattered, and from it walked out a rotting, terrifying figure.
Its body was incomplete, missing an arm and a leg. Its crown was gone, revealing white, pulpy brain matter, exuding a dense aura of death.
Yet, as it strode out, its divine might was intense. Holding a broken war spear, it marched out in great strides, killing toward the numerous powerhouses who had intruded into the Life Oasis.
At the same time, other God Demon graves continuously opened. One by one, God Demons who had been buried and fallen long ago emerged one after another, though none were complete. Some lacked internal organs, others limbs, some even missing their heads. Yet at this moment, they all revived.
Countless God Demons revived, each one terrifying, numbering in the thousands.
Originally, they were mere shells. However, this God Demon burial ground was sinister. The roaring phantom shadows of those God Demons actually merged one after another into these God Demon corpses, as if heroic spirits had returned, resurrecting completely from the underworld, their auras growing many times stronger.
Naturally, not all God Demon corpses were that powerful, but at the very least they were at the Heavenly King level, with many Great Powers. God Demon corpses at the Divine King level also existed. Though not comparable to true Divine Kings, they were still terrifying enough, numbering nearly a hundred. Each wielded broken war weapons, threads of Divine King majesty seeping from their bodies.
Some of the more powerful God Demon corpses were even no weaker than true Divine Kings. They gazed sinisterly at the powerhouses who had trespassed into the forbidden land within the Life Oasis and charged over to kill.
Many powerhouses had descended upon the Mythical Ruins Land, but the decaying living beings guarding the Life Essence were extraordinarily fearsome. Their flesh rotted, yet their combat power shook the world.
Especially the eight rotting creatures that emerged from the stone statues were terrifying beyond measure. Ordinary Divine Kings were no match for them.
According to some veteran Divine Kings, the strength of these eight decaying beings was, at the very least, that of peerless existences who had undergone five Divine King Tribulations or more. Among Divine King figures of their time, they were famous super-powerful beings not to be underestimated.
The Knight creature riding the Rotten Old Horse was particularly powerful.
The eight rotting beings, leading thousands of rotting God Demons, clashed with the numerous imperial clan, Immortal Clan, and Empire powerhouses. It was an extremely shocking great battle.
The cause of it all was the Life Essence. Faced with such a supreme immortal opportunity, no one was willing to give up. Even Divine King figures fought with bloodshot eyes.
That area instantly seemed dyed with blood, the heavens and earth turning a bloody red.
The powerhouses fell continuously, and countless God Demon corpses also plummeted from the sky, their already tattered remains completely shattered to dust.
But these God Demons were dead things to begin with. Even if their bodies were pulverized, some reduced to mere fragments of remains, they could still possess combat power.
In contrast, the powerhouses who had entered from the Mythical Emperor Domain suffered countless casualties. No one knew how many talents and prodigies had fallen.
But everyone fought with bloodshot eyes, advancing wave upon wave, with no thought of stopping.
The Divine Kings battled the most fearsome group of rotting creatures. Beams of terrifying Divine King Great Dao origin manifested and shot out—the ultimate embodiment of Divine King Great Daos, capable of shattering space-time, irresistible. Even striking the rotting creatures from the stone statues inflicted wounds upon them.
Yet these eight rotting beings were indeed powerful. Even with many Divine Kings attacking simultaneously, for a time, they couldn't truly subdue them, couldn't kill them.
Especially the mysterious Knight creature riding the Rotten Old Horse. Its mount seemed rotten and aged, yet when its four hooves moved, they transformed into a gale, traveling against the river of time, soaring across the heavens like lightning. Myriad laws could not touch it. Only its pitch-black, octagonal giant bow could shoot forth arrows one after another with lightning speed.
Each pitch-black bone arrow adhered with extremely terrifying curse-corrosion power and was incredibly fast.
Bone arrows shot through the air, slicing through the void. Where they passed, they also carried terrifying black mist that surged forth, covering heaven and earth, causing the flesh of many nearby imperial clan, Immortal Clan, and Empire powerhouses to rapidly rot, killing many.
Even the Divine Kings frequently bled.
The fierce battle between both sides had already reached a white-hot stage.
Yet no one knew that right at the center of the Life Essence, that emerald-green life sun, the Great Emperor's reincarnation body had already arrived beside the pitch-black burial coffin. Thirty-six thousand tiny pores opened on its body, wantonly devouring the boundless life force, causing the Life Essence to shrink by a noticeable margin.
The countless cracks on its surface had long since healed. Although injuries still remained within its body, as long as it continued devouring the Life Essence's power, complete recovery was no problem at all.
However, before fully repairing itself, Ye Chen remained wary of the pitch-black burial coffin before him. Based on past experiences, a burial coffin placed in such an important location couldn't possibly be simple.
Outside, the struggle for the Life Essence remained white-hot.
Numerous Divine King-level powerhouses fought—an unprecedented Divine King war.
When supreme beings of that level battled, the terror was unimaginable. Myriad laws shook heaven and earth, causing unrest in countless areas and stirring up residual law fragments.
The massive continent fragments floating in the heavens collapsed one after another. Countless destructive forces erupted, tearing apart sky and earth, sweeping through all directions.
An area spanning hundreds of thousands of li fell into absolute destruction. Even many remaining star fragments in the heavens were drawn down.
An extremely terrifying great battle was taking place in this desolate Mythical Ruins Land. The vast forest that had rapidly grown due to the Life Essence's radiance existed for less than half a day before turning to ashes.
The great world was in turmoil, with absolutely devastating consequences.