"The Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor has finally been suppressed. We can finally breathe a sigh of relief!"
A Divine King spoke. The prolonged battle had been taxing even for Divine Kings. After all, the Chaotic Territory was not like the Ninth Immortal Pass, which had complete Myriad Daos and abundant heaven and earth spiritual energy for replenishment. The chaotic energy devoured here required time to refine, and it wasn't much, unable to effectively restore too much power.
Thus, with the situation settled, everyone relaxed somewhat, also feeling weary.
"Don't let your guard down. As long as the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor isn't truly annihilated for a single day, he remains a hidden danger," the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body said, still transformed into the Heaven and Earth Great Cauldron for suppression.
Wushi Monarch also wore a grave expression. Even though he had expended the most in this battle, he showed not the slightest carelessness. While frantically devouring chaotic energy, he held his spiked club at the ready, prepared for any sudden developments.
Thus, half an hour passed without incident.
Boom—
Suddenly, a terrifyingly loud explosion erupted, startling everyone.
However, it did not come from the suppressed Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor, but from outside the shattered, deep ancient path.
Clearly visible there, an enormous shadow had suddenly appeared.
It was a star!
More accurately, it was a skull—the Monarch's skull that had been buried in the Chaotic Territory had suddenly emerged, colossal beyond measure. The countless strands of hair drifting in the sky were each incredibly thick, like black dragons soaring through the chaos.
The skull bore a human face, with a massive bloody hole between its eyebrows. The blood had long since dried, its supreme divine soul within the Mud Ball Palace annihilated by an unparalleled existence.
Yet, its originally lifeless eyes trembled slightly, and those eyes slowly transformed into a pair of silver eyes, carrying an emotionless coldness—exactly the same expression as in the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor's third pair of silver eyes.
Upon witnessing this, everyone felt as if their scalps were exploding. They looked again at the suppressed Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor, who was also staring at them coldly with open silver eyes, uttering with absolute indifference, "Did you think you could suppress This Sovereign so easily?"
That single sentence sent shockwaves through everyone's hearts!
The Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor had actually hidden another move. While undergoing his own transformation, he had also attached an Emperor Soul to the Monarch's skull in the Chaotic Territory. Now, with his main body trapped, he was bringing the Monarch's skull to break free.
Roar—
The Monarch's skull swooped down, its hair filling the sky as it danced. It opened its mouth, as if opening an endless abyss capable of devouring everything, enveloping all below.
Naturally, Wushi Monarch would not allow this to happen. He fiercely raised his head, charging upward on his Heavenly Beast. His stern face showed no fear as he swung his spiked club in attack: "Even if a true Monarch were to revive, This Monarch would not fear it, let alone a mere dead Monarch's skull. What is there to fear? Begone!"
The spiked club suddenly expanded a thousandfold, becoming unimaginably huge, and smashed heavily onto the Monarch's skull.
However, from the Monarch's skull flew out endless strands of hair, each stretching who knows how many tens of thousands of li, also incredibly thick. They intertwined from all directions, sealing the heavens, even entangling the spiked club and ultimately blocking the attack.
As the hair danced, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, it intertwined toward Wushi Monarch's Saint Body Golden Body Dharma Manifestation, seeking to seal it as well.
"Begone!"
Wushi Monarch possessed peerless domineering aura. He was an Ancient Monarch of the Battle Saint lineage, his master being the Monarch of Monarchs, Wuxiang Monarch—that invincible existence who was second only to Emperors in his time. Now, stepping forward, it was as if Wushi Monarch was possessed. His left hand executed Severing Heaven Finger, his right hand Heaven-Shaking Palm. The two great Battle Saint Techniques operated simultaneously, then he fiercely blasted forward.
Boom—
This was a terrifying collision. Countless strands of the sky-filling hair were forcibly torn apart. The Monarch's skull's devouring was withstood, and it was even sent flying back by the force.
It must be known that a Monarch contained boundless might, a peerless existence just a step away from attaining the Dao and becoming an Emperor. Even a single strand of hair falling possessed matchless divine might, capable of slaying a Great Power. Yet now, thousands upon thousands had been severed, demonstrating Wushi Monarch's immense strength and fearsomeness.
He shot up from the restraint of the hair, unstoppable. His Saint Body Golden Body Dharma Manifestation shook the Chaotic Territory, shimmering with brilliant golden light, indestructible and extraordinary, rumbling forward to attack.
However, that earlier strike had merely sent it flying. Much of the attack had been blocked by the myriad strands of hair, and the Monarch's skull was extraordinary to begin with. Now, adhering to the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor's consciousness, it hadn't suffered much damage.
Within the pierced space between its eyebrows, powerful Emperor Soul power shone brilliantly, surging and billowing through the nine heavens, extremely terrifying, not inferior in the slightest to an Ancient Monarch's Monarch Divine Soul power.
The countless severed strands of hair did not fall into the Chaotic Territory below. Instead, controlled by the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor's Emperor Soul, they all shot toward Wushi Monarch. Each strand was incredibly thick, truly transforming into black dragons that roared and hissed as they passed, churning and boiling the chaos.
Boom—
The collision between these two peerless existences was naturally extraordinary. The entire Chaotic Territory trembled, layers of chaotic energy surging upward. The scene of overwhelming, billowing power was no less than that of an apocalyptic doomsday.
Boom—
At the same time, the suppressed Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor fiercely attacked. His six ape arms and eight spider legs shifted from a defensive posture to offense, attacking frantically. The All Heavens experts, who had relaxed somewhat and whose focus was also divided by Wushi Monarch's clash with the Monarch's skull, were caught off guard. The massive Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram suppressing him shook violently, trembling incessantly, a truly fearsome sight.
Moreover, the seemingly heaven-suppressing Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li also shook and trembled, swaying constantly as waves of extreme terror-inducing power continuously surged upward from the very bottom.
The Great Emperor Reincarnation Body's expression changed. The transformed Heaven and Earth Great Cauldron rumbled as it applied suppression, all the previously refined chaotic power now emerging to exert even more terrifying pressure.
The same was true for all the experts on the two Immortal Annihilation Vast Heavens Grand Formations. Loud shouts rang out as numerous powerful divine energies poured into them. Immediately, the trembling stabilized considerably, yet it still persisted.
Because the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor was struggling. Around his body swirled waves of terrifying power, accompanied by a mighty Emperor's aura, constantly impacting the Immortal Annihilation Vast Heavens Grand Formation, preventing them from effectively suppressing him.
Yet at this moment, Wushi Monarch, the main force, was being heavily restrained, unable to immediately turn back to assist.
Boom, boom, boom—
Both areas were locked in a standoff.