Donghua Haoyi was unleashing his most formidable aura, but Ye Chen was no less impressive. The profound mysteries of the Battle God Seal had long been mastered by him in his previous life. At this moment, he pushed the wonders of the Battle God Seal to their absolute peak, elevating his own strength to an ultimate level.
Faintly visible, nine divine halos spread out from Ye Chen's body, followed by the appearance of another divine halo. They encircled each other, interlocking to form a brand new divine halo.
But at this moment, everyone felt the nine minor realms of the Demigod realm tremble, including Donghua Haoyi's ninth heaven. His strength was suppressed, causing his expression to change.
What kind of method had Ye Chen employed to actually suppress even him?
However, this lasted only for an instant. The tenth divine halo then shattered and dissipated, fading away, restoring the nine great divine halos once more.
Ye Chen's eyes flickered rapidly. After deduction, it was indeed as he thought. Unfortunately, to fully restore this method, he would need to break through the limit of the nine heavens once more.
With a whoosh, he took the initiative to attack!
After breaking through to the Martial God realm, the shackles on his True Spirit had also shattered somewhat, allowing his dao techniques to be executed more naturally and with greater power.
With a single sweep of his hand, boundless void force surged forth, directly materializing a massive void halberd that tore through layer after layer of void space, approaching Donghua Haoyi as swift as lightning. His left hand formed one seal after another, various divine techniques were unleashed, divine light surged tumultuously, stirring the heavens and earth.
Donghua Haoyi also erupted with divine might. Wind followed the dragon, clouds accompanied the tiger. A thousand-zhang colossal heavenly dragon soared across the sky, and a mountain-like majestic white tiger descended, its aura overwhelming and terrifying, following him in his assault on Ye Chen.
A long-handled great blade also appeared in his hand. With each swing, vast swathes of eastern light transformed into a sky-spanning river of stars descending, severing the void.
Undoubtedly, this was the most intense clash between the strongest of the younger generation in the five great domains in recent decades. No one else could compare, not even Liu Mingwang back in the day had encountered a rival king of this level within the five domains.
Both were engaged in lightning-fast, ultimate collisions. Every exchange was enough to cause the void to completely collapse, splitting open massive spatial chasms, attracting the attention of all the powerful experts in Huatian City.
Even those lofty Saints extended their divine senses to closely observe.
A peak showdown!
This caused the eyes of numerous members of the younger generation to shine brilliantly. This level of peak combat was something they could never hope to match in their lifetimes.
They might reach their realm, but to unleash such world-shattering, void-crushing supreme combat power at that realm, aside from kings, there were no others.
Donghua Haoyi was indeed peerlessly powerful. Daring to challenge the outstanding talents of the five domains' younger generation to become the number one was no empty boast. He possessed sufficient strength to claim kingship.
A pair of divine wings even appeared behind him, allowing his speed at close range to reach an extreme, capable of matching and contending with Ye Chen's Reverse Void Eight Steps.
Various powerful divine abilities manifested in his hands. Those were the hereditary divine techniques of the Donghua Clan, each one astonishing to the world. Unleashed by this Young King, they erupted with destructive divine might, shattering the void and disturbing the laws of heaven and earth with each strike, aiming for instant kills.
It could be said that such offensive power was sufficient to cross major realms and slay super experts of the Divine Transformation Realm. Among the younger generation of the five domains, perhaps aside from Liu Qinghua, the legendary favored disciple of Liu Mingwang, there was no other match. But now, Ye Chen was completely unafraid.
In the state of the Battle God Seal, he was supremely powerful, his aura skyrocketing to the peak, allowing him to stand upon the seventh or eighth minor heaven of the Demigod realm. Although he hadn't truly ascended to the ninth heaven's minor step, he was not much weaker than Donghua Haoyi.
His realm was indeed somewhat lower, but how could the rich combat experience accumulated in his previous life be useless? It forcefully narrowed the gap between them, directly showcasing a king-level battle of equal standing.
Seven-colored divine light shot into the sky. His flying kick was like a heavenly dragon soaring through the air, his arms were as firm as diamond, endless runes surged from his body, and his eyes even shot out two blade-shaped Primordial Spirit attack forces.
Within the Void Heaven Domain, Ye Chen's display of his own strength was even more perfect and natural. If combined with his peerless holy physique, form and spirit united, he could unleash the might of the invincible young generation's supreme of his past life, sweeping away all enemies in the world.
This was an unprecedented peak showdown, the most intense great battle since Ye Chen's awakening in this life, because Donghua Haoyi was truly terrifying, more fearsome than the five Ancient Talents, a genuine Young King.
Soon, over three hundred exchanges had passed in their collisions. Although it was the Void Heaven Domain, everything felt very real. Both had blood spraying—that was the dissipation of Primordial Spirit power, damaging to the Primordial Spirit, but insignificant in the midst of battle.
Everyone watched, dazzled and shocked beyond measure, because those represented the ultimate power displays in their respective fields, far surpassing every single person present, worthy of being called the strongest.
Boom—!
Finally, the two Young Kings pushed their battle outside Huatian City, plunging into the million mountains beyond. All the spectators in the city followed, flying out, unwilling to fall behind. This was a magnificent, epoch-making great battle, unlikely to be seen a second time in one's life.
An aura of supreme dao permeated the city—that was a Saint-level aura surpassing Divine Transformation, which also followed.
Boom—!
Endless divine light erupted. Under the terrifying battle, the nearby mountains were all flattened, shattered into clouds of dust.
The two entered the million mountains to decide the battle, pushing straight through, forcibly leveling a wide, flat path. Countless mountains were directly swept away, leveled, and turned to ashes.
The crowd followed immediately. The Ancient Talents like Yang Wushuang were even more so, even crushing the mark left by Great Sage Hong Tian to summon the Great Sage, intending to intervene and save Ye Chen if necessary.
Meanwhile, experts of the Donghua Clan appeared, and a Saint-level aura also spread, astonishing the world, causing many to quickly avoid, not daring to block the way.
Clearly, the Donghua Clan attached extreme importance to this battle, fearing Donghua Haoyi might suffer Ye Chen's schemes or an accident during this period—something absolutely intolerable.
Donghua Haoyi's emergence carried too many hopes. He was a young supreme powerhouse aspiring for the Human Sovereign position, aiming to make up for the regret of Donghua Taiyi from the ancient era, to lead the entire Donghua Clan to become an imperial Human Sovereign clan, truly reigning over the Myriad Domains as the number one family.
However, many couldn't keep up because whether it was Ye Chen or Donghua Haoyi, their speeds were too fast. Even while dueling, they traversed dozens or hundreds of li in an instant, far surpassing the crowd, plunging deep into the million mountains. Only major figures of the Divine Transformation Realm could follow.
Saint-level auras also soared across the sky. Such powerful overlords were paying close attention.
Not long after, they appeared above a vast inland sea. Waves rolled, azure ripples shimmered. Within the lake sea, powerful great demons lurked, and terrifying demonic spirits like flood dragons and giant whale kings existed.
But the Saint-level aura intimidated them, and these great demons dared not emerge. The demon saints deep in the sea paid no heed as long as they didn't invade their territory.
Divine energy continuously exploded. The lake sea was forcibly evaporated into a sky-covering mist, blotting out the sun and obscuring the clouds.
Layer upon layer of water waves were blasted thousands of zhang high, stirring up monstrous waves. Ye Chen even operated a divine technique, conjuring a thousandfold giant wave that submerged Donghua Haoyi.
Then, he executed the Sun Seal, condensing it into a Sun Essence Fire the size of a human head, shining brilliantly, radiating terrifying heat capable of incinerating the void.
Then, the Great Dao Treasure Vase appeared, completely swallowing this ultimate Sun True Fire before erupting and spraying it forth, condensing into a dazzling, piercing beam of light that slammed into Donghua Haoyi, blasting him away. The armor inside shattered, and drops of blood scattered as he suffered a fearsome heavy injury.
This strike was so terrifying that even a Divine Transformation expert would be slain. It was the combination of two supreme divine techniques.
Boom—!
A thousandfold spray of waves exploded as Donghua Haoyi flew out from the lake sea, bearing injuries, blood dripping down, astonishing the crowd watching from afar. They hadn't expected Donghua Haoyi to end up wounded by his opponent. This mysterious young king was probably slightly superior to Donghua Haoyi.
Even the Donghua Clan was shocked. They hadn't expected their clan's key young king to truly encounter a setback. The opponent was an extremely powerful Young King. They had said Donghua Haoyi would claim kingship over the five domains as number one, but now he faced significant obstruction.
This was a mysterious, supremely powerful kingly figure.
Donghua Haoyi was injured. The opponent was truly powerful enough to make him feel immense pressure. Strong as he was, he was slightly inferior, injured before his opponent. But it was also evident that the blazing radiance enveloping Ye Chen's body had quietly dimmed.
Enhancement secret techniques ultimately had time limits. The opponent was about to exit that state.
He took a deep breath and said, "You are strong. I have to admit it. You are worthy of my acknowledgment. What is your name?"
"Yue!" Ye Chen touched the Moon Mark between his eyebrows and softly uttered.
Qian was his title from his previous life. Yue would be his title in this life. Together, they formed the name from his previous life—Qian Yue!
"Yue?" Donghua Haoyi murmured it twice, then said, "I think you are also nearing your limit, about to revert to your original realm. Now, I wish to exchange one final strike with you!"
Boom—!
His hair crown shattered. At this moment, his entire head of black hair exploded, and an unprecedented aura of great terror erupted. The entire sky trembled violently, without limit.
Everyone in this region shuddered in fear, sensing an extremely terrifying heavenly might descending, as if the heavens were enraged.
They saw only a hazy sky phantom manifesting behind Donghua Haoyi, pressing down, causing the void to explode and shatter.
"Could that be—"
Everyone paled, thinking of that terrifying supreme divine technique created by the ancient king of the Donghua Clan—
The Heaven-Summoning Art!