The world fell into a profound silence.
Everyone looked up at the Battle Saint King who stood high above, gazing down upon them. That invincible Chaos figure, those arrogant words—yet no one felt them to be presumptuous.
Because the Battle Saint King truly possessed the qualifications to be arrogant.
Ancient Path Overlords?
Before a Great Perfection Quasi-Monarch like the Battle Saint King, they were nothing more than that.
On Moon God Mountain, the powerhouses of the Moon Hall all raised their heads to look at the Battle Saint King, who resembled a Heavenly Emperor. In the past, many Moon Hall powerhouses who had never met the Battle Saint King had felt disapproval and even fury—fury that the Battle Saint King alone had won the hearts of several of the Moon Hall's most peerless and talented female masters, fury that these female masters had toiled tirelessly to establish the Moon Hall for him, fury that they had risked the entire Moon Hall's destruction just to deliver the Supreme Divine Crown to the Battle Saint King, fury at the Battle Saint King's hands-off approach.
But at this moment, all the resentment and anger in their hearts instantly dissipated like smoke in the wind.
Even those talents who had envied and hated the Battle Saint King for winning the favor of the Moon Hall's female masters could no longer summon a shred of jealousy.
Only a supreme and invincible Battle Saint King like this was worthy of goddesses like Yi Wu, Chen'er, and the other female masters of the Moon Hall.
Simultaneously, an intense feeling of worship surged within their hearts.
For the Battle Saint King's absolute power.
He alone had turned the tide, withstood the forces of the three Ancient Path Overlord factions, and even arrogantly defeated the three Ancient Path Overlords, displaying a world-shaking cultivation that surpassed all talents on the Ultimate Ancient Path.
They were a simple group of people, with a simple worship for the strong.
Compared to the fiery worship of the Moon Hall, the powerhouses of the three Ancient Path Overlord factions were filled with thick terror.
The appearance of the Battle Saint King, a single person suppressing the three Ancient Path Overlords, turning the tide and standing at the highest point.
Without a doubt, with the defeat of the three Ancient Path Overlords today, the overlord factions behind them, who had participated in the assault on the Moon Hall, would inevitably face the Battle Saint King's terrifying retaliation.
If even the three most powerful Ancient Path Overlords could not resist, how could the others possibly fight back?
The thoughts of the powerhouses from the four Ancient Path Overlord factions were unknown to the three Ancient Path Overlords, but their current situation was truly dire.
The Sin Overlord coughed up blood continuously from the corner of his mouth. A clear fist imprint was visible on his demonic armor, and the force had penetrated the armor to wound his flesh—a result of Ye Chen's glancing blow.
He had no doubt that if that punch had landed squarely, even this Quasi-Monarch-level demonic armor would have been utterly unable to withstand it and would have been pierced through.
Behind the Primordial Overlord, a pair of sword wings manifested, forged from pure Primordial Light. It was said to be a treasure born from the universe's creation, not inferior to the Chaos Nine Immortal Metals—the essence of the Primordial, obtained by the Primordial Overlord and refined into Peerless Sword Wings to protect himself.
Yet even so, the terrifying power contained within the heaven-shaking palm blade had transmitted through the Peerless Sword Wings to his body, causing him slight injury.
If not for the extraordinariness of the Peerless Sword Wings, if not for his own sufficiently powerful cultivation, an ordinary Quasi-Monarch would likely have had his defenses shattered even with the Peerless Sword Wings.
He gazed with immense wariness at the Battle Saint King, who stood as immovable as a mountain. Since becoming an Ancient Path Overlord, this was the first time he had felt such a terrifying sense of crisis from a peer.
On the other side, the figure of the Chaos Hegemon, submerged within ancient Chaos energy, also trembled slightly, unable to stand completely firm. On his faintly visible face, traces of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his aura fluctuated between strong and weak, proving he had suffered losses in the earlier collision.
Clearly, even though they had tried to estimate the Battle Saint King's strength as highly as possible, the three Ancient Path Overlords had still paid a certain price.
However, they had only suffered minor setbacks and had not truly been defeated.
The three exchanged glances and charged forward again, coordinating their attacks against Ye Chen.
"Still want to fight? No matter how you fight, it won't change the fact of your defeat."
Ye Chen sneered coldly, displaying the strength of a Great Perfection Quasi-Monarch. He also became slightly more serious, summoning the Chaos Great Cauldron and standing atop it. Various terrifying divine abilities manifested, combined with the power of a hundred Sovereign rules, as he fiercely battled the three Ancient Path Overlords.
Without a doubt, the three Ancient Path Overlords were extremely powerful, each mastering extraordinary divine abilities and secret techniques, even forbidden divine abilities. They had also received corresponding Supreme inheritances, possessing powerful enhancement secret methods that could greatly boost their strength, allowing them to unleash a significantly greater number of Sovereign rules.
More importantly, they possessed extremely rich combat experience. They were Ancient Path Overlords who had tread the Ultimate Path through mountains of corpses and seas of blood—not a single one was weak.
The strength they could unleash was far greater than what was apparent on the surface.
This was the amplification brought by rich combat experience and terrifying combat awareness.
But unfortunately, if they were facing any other Great Perfection Quasi-Monarch, it might have been different. However, they were now facing Ye Chen. Everything the three Ancient Path Overlords mastered, he also mastered.
Whether in terms of divine abilities, secret techniques, movement techniques, combat experience, or combat awareness, Ye Chen was not the slightest bit inferior—in fact, he was superior.
Moreover, even though the three joined forces, their coordination was not always a simple one-plus-one addition; many factors had to be considered. Thus, after hundreds of rounds of fierce battle, Ye Chen still broke them down one by one, sending their figures flying and blood spraying.
One Ancient Path Overlord had his body pierced through, another had an arm torn off, and yet another was nearly split in two—all severely wounded over the past hundreds of rounds.
Witnessing this scene, everyone had long anticipated it. Facing the far more powerful Battle Saint King, the defeat of even three mighty Ancient Path Overlords was only to be expected. No one was surprised.
After defeating the three Ancient Path Overlords, Ye Chen felt no joy.
This was not the first time he had accomplished such a feat.
He looked at the Chaos Hegemon, who had lost a section of his arm, sensing the surging ancient Chaos energy within that arm. He felt the Chaos Great Dao within his own body tremble and hum, with a greedy impulse to break free and devour the Chaos—this was the first time he had encountered such a feeling.
Ye Chen understood that if he seized the Chaos Hegemon's Chaos Dao Fruit, his strength would undoubtedly advance further, perhaps directly taking that step to become an Ancient Sovereign.
Just as Ye Chen looked at the Chaos Hegemon, how could the Chaos Hegemon be unaware? He had never imagined that the one he once viewed as a gift, intentionally allowed to grow to the level he desired, would ultimately exceed his expectations and even become stronger than himself. It could be said he was reaping what he had sown.
However, he would not die so easily. He sneered, "Battle Saint King, I admit you are stronger than me. But wanting to seize my Chaos Dao Fruit is not that easy."
Then he suddenly turned to look behind him and shouted loudly, "Aren't you coming out now? If you don't come out and we are defeated, don't think you'll get the Supreme Divine Crown either."
"Hehehe—"
A sinister, cold laugh abruptly arose, as if emanating from the Nine Netherworlds.
At that moment, from behind the forces of the three Ancient Path Overlord factions, numerous figures appeared. The leaders all wore identical black robes, with dark chains floating around them. A cold and powerful aura wantonly spread out.
Among them, the seven leaders were all at the Quasi-Monarch level.
The central figure among the seven Quasi-Monarchs emitted an aura no less powerful than Ye Chen's.
A Great Perfection Quasi-Monarch!
The Moon Hall powerhouses all looked at these suddenly appearing black-robed experts with extreme wariness, especially the seven Quasi-Monarchs, who had once again reversed the already-turned situation.
Ye Chen narrowed his eyes, revealing a dangerous glint: "Soul Forbidden Hall!"