Ye Chen's large hand directly seized the Divine Soul Little Person of Imperial Maiden Gu Lan. The power of the universe manifested on his palm, completely isolating the last sliver of the Emperor Treasure's radiance, preventing it from fully closing.
He was like an ancient Great Emperor who stood above all divine realms, his large hand opening and tightly grasping the tiny Divine Soul Little Person of Imperial Maiden Gu Lan as if holding a small cat or dog, able to crush it at will.
Boom—
A majestic power that could be described as earth-shattering erupted from his palm. Vast swathes of chaotic light exploded, accompanied by the most terrifying Chaos Laws.
That was Ye Chen's full-force strike at his limit combat power, completely overwhelming everything within his palm.
"No—"
Imperial Maiden Gu Lan let out a shrill, miserable scream. The Chaos Fire completely overwhelmed her weakened Divine Soul Little Person. She could feel her Divine Soul Little Person rapidly weakening, even heading towards true annihilation.
She also burned her Divine Soul Little Person, willing to suffer unimaginable soul trauma, even if it meant she might never truly grow in the future, just to survive this calamity. As long as she could survive, any damage could potentially be restored if her father intervened, because her father was the unparalleled ancient Great Emperor, peerless throughout the ages.
Boom—
But the Chaos Dao Fire was even more terrifying. Chaos Laws intertwined, even giving rise to the myriad great Dao laws of metal, wood, water, fire, earth; earth, water, fire, wind; yin and yang; life and death; and then further deriving the most fearsome killing technique, rumbling as it overwhelmed Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's Divine Soul Little Person.
Hum—
The illusory shadow of the Essence Inner World manifested, enveloping the Divine Soul Little Person, attempting to withstand Ye Chen's annihilating strike.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
However, the Essence Inner World was not the true entity fully descending, merely a phantom. Even enveloping Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's Divine Soul Little Person, it could not truly withstand the burning of the Chaos Dao Fire. Boundless flames poured down, rapidly consuming this Essence Inner World power, while endless killing light also struck.
Boom, boom, boom—
Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's Divine Soul Little Person grew increasingly weaker. Even burning her soul, even risking the collapse of her Essence Inner World by manifesting it, she still could not withstand it.
That large hand seemed like the true hand of the God of Death, utterly impossible to resist.
Imperial Maiden Gu Lan could be said to be truly despairing. She had never experienced such despair before, but this time she truly felt the meaning of despair, despairing to the point of believing there was not the slightest hope of truly surviving.
Boom—
A burst of the most blazing chaotic light erupted, a power that would make even Divine Kings feel a sense of crisis accompanying the explosion, completely overwhelming the last vestiges of Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's soul.
"Am I finally going to die too?"
Before her end, Imperial Maiden Gu Lan seemed to see all the glorious moments of her life, scenes flashing rapidly before her eyes, so clear, as if reliving a lifetime.
That was her era of peerless glory. Born at the Saint Vault realm, she could swallow boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth, emerging with powerful imperial talent. In the following years, she grew rapidly, cultivating for one year equivalent to others' decades or centuries. In just two or three hundred years, she had reached the Great Power realm, a realm others needed ten thousand years of bitter cultivation to break through.
Her emergence carried deep expectations. She easily swept through her generation of the younger generation, fighting to the point where her peers of that era fell silent. Among the vast myriad races' talents of the ancient cosmos, almost no one could last more than ten rounds against her.
She was hailed as an Imperial Maiden who could become a future female Emperor, sealed personally by her Emperor Father with unparalleled honor, unsealed in this era solely to contend for the "Supreme" immortal fate left jointly by many Emperors.
But all of this was about to end, because she encountered a Chaos young Supreme One who made many Imperial Sons, Imperial Maidens, and immortal progeny nearly despair—the Battle Saint King!
Boom—
At this moment, a point of dawn light suddenly bloomed from within Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's Divine Soul Little Person. Simultaneously, a terrifying pressure that made this very sky tremble erupted.
Emperor's Might!
Emperor's Might had appeared. From that point of dawn light, infinite radiance bloomed, countless times more dazzling than the sun. An unimaginably majestic figure stood between heaven and earth, possessing boundless pressure that all living beings in the world were utterly unable to resist.
It was as if the master of this mythical relic land had appeared. All living beings had to prostrate in worship, not daring to offend in the slightest.
"Ancient Nether Emperor Ancestor!"
The Ancient Nether Divine King Gu Sang and other talents of the Ancient Nether Emperor Clan all prostrated in worship, filled with fervent admiration and reverence from the depths of their hearts.
In the eyes of all Ancient Nether Emperor Clan members, the Ancient Nether Emperor was the supreme, sole deity, eternal and indestructible.
Within the Life Oasis, whether it was the Emperor Clan, Immortal Clan, and Empire powerhouses engaged in battle, or the rotting divine demons continuously emerging from the earth, all were instantly drawn to gaze, because that phantom was too supremely majestic. That Emperor's shadow radiated boundless pressure that would make even Divine Kings of all realms tremble.
It was as if the supreme, peerless ancient Great Emperor had descended.
"Ancient Nether Emperor Ancestor!"
"It's the Ancient Nether Emperor Ancestor! He actually descended. Could it be that something happened to Imperial Maiden Gu Lan?"
Many powerhouses from different Emperor Clans were shocked. Each Great Emperor's care for their offspring differed. For example, the Dark Heaven Emperor only left the Emperor Treasure's radiance to protect the Dark Heaven Imperial Son, while the Ancient Nether Emperor loved his daughter even more, leaving behind a wisp of Emperor's thought that could protect her at the most critical moment.
The appearance of the Ancient Nether Emperor seemed like the sole supreme existence between heaven and earth. Everyone felt that boundless heavenly might, which even Primordial Monarchs could not compare to, peerlessly majestic. That mist-like existence made even the myriad Daos wail and submit.
When the Emperor's Dao emerges, the myriad Daos submit—it was precisely like this.
"The Emperor's thought of an ancient Great Emperor, manifesting an Emperor's shadow, materializing between heaven and earth!"
Ye Chen also retreated like lightning, even bringing Yu Qing and the others with him, putting as much distance as possible, because even a trace of Emperor's Might from such an ancient Great Emperor's shadow was absolutely not something to be measured by common sense.
Moreover, the ancient Great Emperor's thought left deep within the Imperial Maiden's soul was hardly simple.
Probably even facing a true Primordial Monarch, one would have to be wary.
He could only sigh lightly. He was just one step short, yet could not truly kill Imperial Maiden Gu Lan, disappointing him and missing the best opportunity.
However, he couldn't be blamed for all this. When he killed the Dark Heaven Imperial Son, the Dark Heaven Emperor had not left an Emperor's thought stored deep within the Dark Heaven Imperial Son's Divine Soul Little Person. Who would have thought that deep within Imperial Maiden Gu Lan's Divine Soul Little Person, the Ancient Nether Emperor's Emperor's thought lay dormant?
It was an oversight!
Because of the appearance of the Ancient Nether Emperor's phantom, Hao Gongtian and the other two alien Imperial Sons and Imperial Maidens who had not yet been suppressed escaped calamity, though their bodies were covered in wounds, appearing very disheveled.