Beneath the faint Emperor Light, the Sun Emperor Lord stood tall, appearing peerless and supreme. Looking at Henggu Monarch, he revealed a faint smile. "Thank you for allowing me to return to my peak state ahead of time."
Upon hearing these words, Henggu Monarch's expression turned as ugly as if he had swallowed countless flies.
"Now, it's my turn to act."
The Sun Emperor Lord smiled, propping up the faint Emperor Light, then extended his hand and simply clenched it in the void.
Boom—
Heaven and earth shook. It was unclear what had happened, but the River of Time enveloping his surroundings trembled violently before shattering apart.
Swoosh—
The Sun Emperor Lord walked out just like that, effortlessly. Then, with a movement of his figure, he descended before Henggu Monarch at a speed that seemed to reverse the River of Time itself.
Henggu Monarch was startled, deeply aware of how powerful the Sun Emperor Lord was at this moment. Not daring to be careless in the slightest, he let out a long roar and soared into the sky, summoning a cascade of Starlight River that descended from above to suppress the Sun Emperor Lord.
At the same time, a rift tore open between his eyebrows, revealing an ancient pagoda. It appeared quite special, its entire body densely inscribed with spacetime dao patterns. This was his Monarch Immortal Weapon—the Eternity Time Pagoda.
As soon as the Eternity Time Pagoda appeared, it was also revived to its utmost limit. Together with the Starlight River, they attacked simultaneously, suppressing the Sun Emperor Lord from both sides.
Henggu Monarch also possessed great courage. He intended to battle a Monarch, to see just how much of a gap existed between himself and a true Monarch.
Moreover, after using the "Eternity Fleeting" technique, he had already lost far too much of his lifespan. With not many years left to live, he was unwilling to continue submitting beneath the Sun Emperor Lord.
Boom—
Henggu Monarch's aged face rapidly grew youthful. His gray hair turned jet-black once more, his somewhat stooped posture straightened, and his entire aura soared continuously, reaching an unprecedented height in his life.
This was because Henggu Monarch had long since activated a secret art, burning his remaining lifespan as a price to forcibly return himself to his peak state.
"Sun Monarch, I shall battle you!" Henggu Monarch roared, once again unleashing the forbidden divine ability, Eternity Fleeting!
"Not a bad attack. To possess two spacetime-level supreme treasures is somewhat beyond my expectations."
The Sun Emperor Lord spoke slowly, offering this evaluation of Henggu Monarch. However, with Emperor Light coiling around his body, all attacks were easily blocked above his head. No matter how the power of time flowed and corroded, it could not harm him in the slightest.
The might of the Emperor's Dao Domain was far too overwhelming. Even if a Monarch could only utilize mere threads of Emperor Might, condensing them into Emperor Light, it was still far beyond what an Ancient Monarch could handle.
Boom—
The Sun Emperor Lord made his move, displaying the world-shaking power of a Monarch.
In an instant, the deepest part of the Starry Sky was like raging waves, and even a powerful Ancient Monarch was merely like a small boat amidst the heavenly might of a Monarch, liable to capsize at any moment.
Unable to recall his two time supreme treasures to block, Henggu Monarch could only let out an angry roar and block with his own body, engaging in a fierce close-quarters battle.
"Henggu, in a long-range battle you might have a sliver of a chance, but in close combat, you have none."
The Sun Emperor Lord said indifferently, his Monarch power shaking the ancient and illuminating the present.
Boom—
Blood light spanning billions of li boiled, illuminating the entire starry sky beyond the domain of the Eighth Heavenly Realm's Ancient Domain, even spreading to other Heavenly Realm Ancient Domains.
In the eyes of the various heavens' Ancient Monarchs, at the very center of the battlefield, there was sunlight spanning billions of li shining, submerging everything. Even Ancient Monarchs found it difficult to clearly see the details within.
After a long while, all the sunlight finally subsided. In the starry sky beyond the domain, the Sun Emperor Lord stood alone, becoming the sole existence.
Henggu Monarch's majestic Monarch body had fallen, staining the Star River with blood. His fate was unknown.
The entire world was shaken!
The Sun Emperor Lord displayed his peerless divine might, defeating Henggu Monarch with a flick of his finger. Across the vast world, few could be found as his match.
Swoosh—
At this moment, the Sun Emperor Lord looked towards the remaining eight Monarchs, including Tai Xuan Monarch. Though it was merely a gaze, it still caused the eight Monarchs—three of whom were already severely wounded—to tremble.
"Today, since I have returned to the Monarch realm, let it all end here."
The Sun Emperor Lord spoke calmly as he made his move, displaying the heaven-defying might of a Monarch that swept overwhelmingly through all the heavens.
Boom—
The vast, deepest part of the Starry Sky trembled violently.
Tai Xuan Monarch led the other seven Ancient Monarchs in resisting with all their might, all erupting with world-shaking levels of power to block.
Yet, none of this worked. The Sun Emperor Lord was like a supreme, peerless Ancient Great Emperor descending upon the mortal world. He extended a single hand, unimaginably massive, covering half of the deepest part of the Starry Sky. Coiled with a layer of faint Emperor Light, it rumbled down with overwhelming force.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!—
Streaks of soaring blood light wantonly bloomed.
Boom—
A tremendous roar accompanied terrifying blood light as supermassive stars exploded one after another. The deepest part of the Starry Sky was filled with the most dreadful, blazing flames of light.
In the Starry Sky, endless strange phenomena manifested: millions of divine and demonic corpses, ghostly wails and divine howls, blood rain appearing, spectral soldiers crossing the border...
All of this made the people of the world tremble.
For these were the phenomena accompanying the fall of Ancient Monarchs.
A full half-day later, from the deepest part of the Starry Sky, a massive figure descended from the sky, trailing rolling blood flames. Along the way, it crashed through and shattered numerous stars alive before plummeting into the Ancient Monarch camp on the Alliance Army's side, where it was caught by other Ancient Monarchs.
"Tai Xuan Monarch!"
The Ancient Monarchs on the Alliance Army's side were greatly alarmed.
The current Tai Xuan Monarch was severely wounded. His chest was pierced through, bearing only a single fist imprint that stubbornly refused to heal. Emperor-level power suppressed the healing and continuously destroyed the vitality within his body. His injuries were far from ordinary in their severity.
Even his entire aura had weakened many times over, now inferior even to that of an ordinary Ancient Monarch.
Yet, this outcome was far better than that of the other eight Ancient Monarchs, for they had all vanished. Their fates were unknown, but the result was likely grim.
Boom—
The blood light was dispelled, replaced by endless solar holy light that became the most dazzling point between heaven and earth.
That was the Sun Emperor Lord!
At this moment, he was like the master of heaven and earth, overlooking all the heavens, peerless and invincible.
He descended from the sky, treading upon void steps, coming down one step at a time.
Swoosh—
It did not take very long for the Sun Emperor Lord to traverse an unknown number of tens of thousands of li, returning from the deepest part of the Starry Sky.
However, the figures of the eight Monarchs had completely vanished.
Facing the Sun Emperor Lord with his terrifying oppressive aura, even though the Alliance Army side still had over sixty Ancient Monarchs, they could not help but feel a sense of despair.
For a Monarch was too powerful. Even alone, he had easily severely wounded the nine Monarchs led by Tai Xuan Monarch.
Moreover, even if they were confident they could deal with the Sun Emperor Lord, it was impossible. For the human side still had over fifty existences at the Ancient Monarch level, watching them covetously, not giving them the slightest opportunity.
Was the Alliance Army about to be defeated?
At this moment, whether it was the Ancient Monarchs of the various heavens' Imperial Clans and Immortal Clans, or the powerful experts of the Alliance Army beneath the Starry Sky, all felt a trace of despair.
A Monarch is invincible!