Inscribing the Lawless Domain onto the Sealing Gate sounded simple, but in practice, it was extraordinarily difficult.
The Lawless Domain was a Forbidden Divine Ability of the Lawless Supreme, painstakingly created by him over half a lifetime with boundless effort. Its profundity was immense, and Ye Chen had only grasped a fraction of its mysteries so far.
Fortunately, Ye Chen had obtained the Lawless Supreme's battle memories and his lifetime of cultivation insights. As he digested them, his understanding of the Lawless Domain also deepened significantly, allowing him to know how to better manifest it in a tangible form.
This enabled him to inscribe it. Without the Supreme's insights, Ye Chen would have been utterly incapable of the task.
This was the same reason why, despite mastering several other Forbidden Divine Abilities, he had never inscribed them onto the Chaos Supreme Cauldron.
Of course, Ye Chen could not inscribe the complete Lawless Domain onto the Sealing Gate; he could only etch a portion of its mysteries onto it. Nevertheless, this indirectly endowed the Sealing Gate with some of the Lawless Domain's power.
Before inscribing the Lawless Domain, Ye Chen's first task was to further strengthen the Sealing Gate itself.
The more powerful the Sealing Gate, the greater the power it could unleash once the Lawless Domain was inscribed.
"Since its primary function is sealing, I'll need sealing-attribute materials to refine it," Ye Chen murmured to himself, setting his goal.
Luckily, over the years of roaming the vast world, especially within the Ten Heavens Ancient Domain, he had made the various Emperor Clans and Immortal Clans pay a heavy price, extorting countless gifts from them. These included numerous Supreme Treasures, some even at the Sovereign level.
Even an ordinary Ancient Monarch was far less wealthy than Ye Chen.
Opening one of the vast spaces within his origin universe, a dazzling, multicolored radiance immediately burst forth. Piles of treasures towered like small mountains, and as far as the eye could see, there were only rare and precious artifacts, not a single common one among them.
Even an Ancient Monarch would likely go mad with envy at the sight.
Now, to refine the Sealing Gate anew, Ye Chen took out these many Supreme Treasures for the process.
Half a month later, the Sealing Gate was successfully refined. It now emanated a potent, powerful aura that spread unrestrained, demonstrating its formidable strength.
He had consumed numerous Supreme Treasures, worth the value of two ordinary Sovereign Immortal Weapons, to elevate the Sealing Gate to the second-tier Sovereign level. Ye Chen estimated its power to be comparable to 4,300 Sovereign Rules.
Of course, the more crucial aspect was Ye Chen's inscription of the Lawless Domain.
Using his absolutely powerful Chaos Saint Soul power, Ye Chen began carving the corresponding law runes of the Lawless Domain.
Naturally, those involving Supreme Emperor Rules were beyond Ye Chen's current ability to inscribe.
Alas, they were too profound and difficult to control. The slightest error during the inscription process was unacceptable, as any mistake would render all previous efforts futile. Consequently—
During this inscription process, he failed many times.
In the end, after a full three months and at least a thousand failures, Ye Chen finally succeeded, successfully inscribing the Lawless Domain onto all ten Sealing Gates.
As the Lawless Domain dao patterns were inscribed onto the Sealing Gates, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom! The gates suddenly erupted with majestic light, as if undergoing a degree of transformation. They shimmered with a dark, mysterious, and particularly unique black radiance.
Invisible ripples of power spread out, suppressing the descent of all the myriad daos of the heavens.
Even a second-layer Heavenly Sovereign present would suffer significant suppression of their dao techniques.
A first-layer Heavenly Sovereign would have at least eighty percent of their combat power suppressed.
Those below the Ancient Monarch level would have all their dao techniques completely suppressed.
This was the tyranny of the Lawless Domain.
"Not bad, not bad!" Ye Chen looked at the Sealing Gates with considerable satisfaction.
He estimated that not just a second-layer Heavenly Sovereign, but even a third-layer Heavenly Sovereign, if attacked by the Sealing Gate and caught off guard, would likely be sealed.
"With these enhanced Sealing Gates, my overall strength has improved somewhat," Ye Chen said with a faint smile. Of course, this alone was not enough to satisfy him.
He intended to further enhance his overall combat power.
Swish—
With a flick of his sleeve, six Quasi-Monarch Puppets appeared before Ye Chen.
These six Quasi-Monarch Puppets, when he had just become a Quasi-Monarch and combined with the Six Paths Battle Formation, could unleash power comparable to a Great Perfection Quasi-Monarch.
Unfortunately, as Ye Chen grew rapidly stronger, the usefulness of these six Quasi-Monarch Puppets diminished. By now, they had become almost negligible, even less useful than the Sealing Gate before its enhancement.
"The Quasi-Monarch Puppets have become redundant. It's time to craft more powerful puppets," Ye Chen mused.
With another wave of his hand, multiple Ancient Monarch corpses appeared. There was Yan Shen Sovereign, Fudo Zhan, Mo He Kong, Shi Jun, as well as the three Ancient Monarchs like Defeated Blood Sovereign he had slain outside the Gulan Great World. Additionally, there were the five Ancient Monarchs like Chi Xue Demon Sovereign who had attempted to assassinate him in the Drunken Immortal Pavilion starry sky. The total number of Sovereign corpses had long exceeded ten.
Not to mention, there were also three Emperor Corpses!
Originally, he had planned to store these Ancient Monarch corpses and their extinguished Sovereign Heavenly Souls, feeling they might be of great use in the future when he surpassed the Ancient Monarch realm.
But now, a new thought occurred to him. Combining them with the ten Sealing Gates might yield even greater benefits.
If he could craft ten Ancient Monarch Puppets, each paired with a Sealing Gate, the power of the Sealing Gates would be further enhanced—not just by a step, but by an entire level.
Ye Chen felt that even without the Great Emperor reincarnation body in the future, he would possess a certain degree of self-preservation capability.
Moreover, if he could obtain the Ten Heavens Battle Formation from the Human Race Emperor Sons and Daughters, combining it with the Sealing Gates and Sovereign Puppets would undoubtedly unleash power far surpassing that of the Six Paths Battle Formation.
Ye Chen was never one to hesitate. Deciding on a course of action, he immediately began refining the Sovereign Puppets within the Extinction Emperor World, following the puppet techniques of the Corpse Immortal Clan.
It was worth noting that these Sovereign corpses, lacking their origin worlds, were destined to be somewhat weaker. But that didn't matter; the key was their synergy with the Sealing Gates.
Only through their combined use could their power be maximized.
"To refine Sovereign Puppets, my Chaos Dao Fire and Chaos Origin Fire would suffice, but they would consume some of my origin power. Besides, there's a more powerful dao fire available. Why not use it?"
Ye Chen tapped the Flame Emperor Origin Mark between his eyebrows. Sealed within by the Flame Emperor was a strand of power containing the Chaos Fire Origin, far more potent than his current Chaos Dao Fire.
After all, the Chaos Fire Origin represented the most powerful fire force within the Chaos Sea.