Under this sword strike, Yu Hao couldn't muster even the slightest will to resist.
Although he had long understood Lord Chen's terrifying nature, he never imagined that what he had previously learned was merely a drop in the ocean. What was being displayed now was Lord Chen's true strength.
Under this sword, he thought, even a Quasi-Monarch would likely be utterly annihilated upon the slightest contact.
Facing this strike, even Sheng Xu's expression shifted slightly, not daring to be careless. His aura immediately surged once more.
"Battle Saint King, last time it was only because you utilized other external means that I suffered a great loss. It won't be the same this time."
With a flip of his palm, a heavenly stele as tall as the sky materialized out of thin air.
The stele was inscribed with ancient Emperor Dao characters, bearing magnificent imprints of supreme beings engaged in battle. Its majestic aura was world-shaking, shimmering with boundless monarchial heavenly might.
At this moment, Sheng Xu struck like an ancient emperor. The boundless heavenly stele, carrying immeasurable power, heavily met the sword radiance swirling with endless Chaos Qi.
Boom—
It was as if the apocalypse was unfolding. The heavens collapsed and the earth shattered; everything seemed destined for ruin.
A great explosion bloomed, its impact spanning far more than millions of miles.
If not for Yu Hao, the master of this world, personally intervening and using world power to protect it, the entire great world would have been unable to withstand the force, pierced through to create a massive hole.
"This place is not suitable for you to participate in the battle. Leave first."
A surge of world power enveloped Yu Hao, carrying him away.
Otherwise, let alone anything else, just the shockwaves from this great explosion would be enough to annihilate Yu Hao, body and soul.
Ye Chen paid no attention whatsoever to Sheng Xu sending Yu Hao away. His gaze didn't even linger on Yu Hao for an instant.
This utterly dismissive, contemptuous attitude made Yu Hao clench his fists, filled with rage yet utterly helpless.
From within the Chaos Vortex, Ye Chen moved.
Sheng Xu also moved.
The two strongest figures of the younger generation actively charged into the heart of the great explosion, beginning their battle.
As powerful as they were, the great explosion naturally couldn't harm them in the slightest.
They roamed freely within it, employing their strongest methods in combat.
"Sheng Xu, thirty years have passed. I'd like to see how much your capabilities have improved, and whether you've been hiding from me like a coward again," Ye Chen chuckled, his tone full of mockery.
Chaos light flowed between his fingers and palm, as ten thousand Daos boiled, turning heaven and earth upside down. It was as if three thousand great worlds were being destroyed, sweeping forward and shattering everything that stood in its way.
That single palm strike contained infinite power, enough to pierce through a monarch's great world.
"Battle Saint King, if not for the strange ability of that Sealing Gate back then, do you truly believe you could have been my match relying on your own strength?" Sheng Xu replied coldly and emotionlessly, throwing a punch that also contained vast power.
Fist and palm collided, creating an unimaginable, world-ending force that could reduce ordinary Ancient Monarchs to dust.
Yet both figures remained unmoving as mountains, exchanging blows there. Every single move possessed the destructive power to tear apart the heavens and earth of a great world, beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Yu Hao, sent to an extremely distant location by the world power, could still clearly witness the battling duo with his God King abilities. Seeing that Lord Chen could clash head-on with his Ancient Monarch-level master without falling behind in the slightest filled his heart with an indescribable shock and disbelief.
This was utterly unexpected.
Lord Chen was actually this powerful!
In the blink of an eye, the two had exchanged dozens of moves, still evenly matched.
"You've grown so much stronger?"
Sheng Xu's expression changed. Back then, the Battle Saint King had only been able to truly fight him by relying on the peculiar nature of the Sealing Gate. But now, he had reached this level without external aids, simply defying all reason.
Even an Eternal Quasi-Monarch shouldn't be this heaven-defying.
But how could he know that Ye Chen could devour world heavens and earths, elevate his origin universe, and receive continuous nourishment and enhancement from the origin universe's feedback, which was why he had grown so powerful.
"Sheng Xu, today I shall execute you!"
Ye Chen had never truly underestimated Sheng Xu. Without another word, ten Sealing Gates materialized between heaven and earth, each as tall as the sky, radiating a sealing majesty capable of suppressing all things in the world.
Such power could truly suppress the mortal realm.
At this moment, ten Monarch Puppets appeared, unleashing terrifying monarchial heavenly might that fully descended upon Sheng Xu.
"Scram!"
With a great roar, Sheng Xu displayed the overwhelming might of a supreme emperor's son. His left hand formed a seal that transformed into an indescribably ferocious ancient beast, propping up the heavens and standing upon the earth, seemingly capable of easily opening up a great world. Its maw could swallow boundless heavens and earth, utterly terrifying.
Once this ferocious ancient beast appeared, it sprouted numerous grotesque limbs that danced wildly, yet also contained absolute Great Dao divine charm, striking out violently to sweep across all heavens.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom—
The indescribably ferocious ancient beast let out a roar, engaging in a world-shaking collision with the ten Monarch Puppets.
"This should be your true form!"
Ye Chen observed the ferocious beast. It was very peculiar, unlike anything he had seen before, with ten pairs of limbs, all exceptionally long. Each hair stood up like a barb, dancing wildly and shooting out like a rain of arrows, blotting out the sky and earth, drowning everything.
These hair-needles struck the ten Monarch Puppets, producing clanging metallic sounds.
It was only because the ten Monarch Puppets had undergone special refinement, fused with numerous supreme metallic divine materials, making their bodies incredibly resilient. Otherwise, how could an ordinary monarch's body withstand these hair-needles?
"But just this won't be enough to stop me."
Ye Chen smiled. The ten Sealing Gates suddenly erupted with unparalleled sealing power, coupled with the effect of an inviolable domain. With this dual approach, they directly suppressed the ferocious ancient beast, causing its aura to plummet.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom—
The ten Monarch Puppets moved in unison, swift as lightning, striking out like thunder, causing the ferocious ancient beast to bleed and emit a mournful cry.
Simultaneously, Ye Chen also moved.
The Battle Saint Art moved with his will as he closed in to attack Sheng Xu.
The fruits of thirty years erupted completely.
His own power directly reached the level of forty thousand monarch rules, surpassing imagination, forcefully blasting towards Sheng Xu.
Boom—
Suppressed by the Sealing Gates and the Monarch Puppets, Sheng Xu was utterly unable to resist. This punch directly pierced through him, blowing apart his right shoulder in a mist of blood, accompanied by dripping flesh and white bone, gruesomely visible.
However, at the critical moment, Sheng Xu still dodged the fatal blow. Had this strike landed on his head, even with his immense strength, his soul would have surely been destroyed, leading to his demise.
"You've improved this much!"
Sheng Xu's face paled. This strike was no less powerful than that of a fourth-layer monarch.
Ye Chen felt neither sorrow nor joy. During the thirty years, he had refined the origin worlds of two alien Emperors. The enhancement was immense, directly placing his entire being in a state of saturation and limit.
If not for the greatest opportunity—the Primordial Divine Realm fragment—still awaiting him within the Sealed Realm Universe, he would have long since found a place during these thirty years to ascend to Ancient Monarch.
Even so, now at the absolute limit of the Quasi-Monarch state, he was at the peak of Eternal Quasi-Monarch, incredibly powerful and utterly immeasurable.