At the Tenth Emperor's Pass, the Seven Monarchs remained stationed outside the World Tower, motionless as if eternal, guarding Ye Chen as he attempted his breakthrough to Ancient Monarch.
However, two years had passed without the slightest ripple of tribulation manifesting.
This led many within the imperial realm of the Tenth Emperor's Pass to suspect that the Battle Saint King might have failed in his breakthrough attempt. Otherwise, it shouldn't have taken two full years without success.
Yet others believed the Battle Saint King wasn't immediately undergoing the tribulation to break through. Instead, he was adjusting his own state, reaching his absolute peak condition.
This viewpoint also garnered widespread recognition.
Because breaking through to Ancient Monarch was not something one could simply attempt on a whim.
Throughout the ages, countless Quasi-Monarchs had been stuck at this level, forever unable to successfully break through.
It wasn't that they couldn't attempt it, but breaking through to Ancient Monarch required not only sufficient accumulation but, more importantly, a state of absolute peak perfection. Only then could the success rate of the breakthrough be increased.
Especially for the Battle Saint King, the number one Quasi-Monarch of the Chaos Sea. The great tribulation he would face was certain to be utterly terrifying. Naturally, he needed even more to adjust his own state to the most flawless and perfect stage.
The Seven Monarchs remained utterly motionless, guarding him continuously, not daring the slightest negligence.
They understood the importance of the Battle Saint King better than anyone. Even if he failed the breakthrough, no mishap could be allowed.
Especially after learning of the various news coming from the Myriad Domains of the Heavens, they increasingly realized just how heaven-defying the Battle Saint King truly was.
As an Eternal Quasi-Monarch, a figure so rare as to be countable on one hand across countless epochs of antiquity, his combat power was so world-defying that he could slay Ancient Monarchs while still a Quasi-Monarch. He had campaigned across the eight directions on the Origin Ancient Road, killing until the alien race paled in fear, causing even the strongest Emperor's progeny among the Monarch-level to fall, carving out a resounding reputation.
The more this was so, the more importance they placed on him.
They even knew that if not for the Battle Saint King's sudden disappearance into the alien Ancient Universe, the Flame Emperor might not have revived, and so many powerhouses would not have suddenly descended from the Origin Ancient Road into the Pangu Universe, greatly reducing the crisis facing the Myriad Domains of the Heavens.
The Battle Saint King absolutely must not come to harm.
BOOM——
Suddenly, within the Tenth Emperor's Pass, everyone sensed a vast, boundless, and oppressively heavy aura abruptly descend.
In a short time, it even covered the entire imperial realm of the Tenth Emperor's Pass, making everyone feel this fearsome aura pressing down on their hearts.
This feeling was deeply oppressive, as if someone had grabbed their heart, making it hard to breathe.
Hum——
The myriad Daos of the Heavens actually trembled faintly as well.
"What's happening?" A powerhouse within the Emperor's Pass changed expression, looking up at the sky, yet seeing not the slightest sign of calamity. Only that terrifying aura, emanating from the unseen, wantonly pervaded the air.
At this moment, the Seven Monarchs opened their eyes, raising their heads to look at the increasingly oppressive sky above, exchanging glances with one another.
The tribulation was about to begin!
The Battle Saint King was finally about to truly undergo tribulation and break through to Ancient Monarch.
However, the Seven Monarchs soon changed expression, for the fluctuations swirling above their heads were so terrifying that even the foremost among them, a peerless Monarch, slightly altered his expression, feeling a trace of danger emerge.
As for the other Monarchs, they were all horrified, each sensing that this heavenly tribulation was likely to be terrifying beyond imagination.
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Inside the World Tower.
At this moment, Ye Chen formally began his breakthrough to Ancient Monarch.
He relinquished his suppression of his cultivation realm.
Years ago, he had already reached the absolute pinnacle of Eternal Quasi-Monarch, separated from Ancient Monarch by only a hair's breadth.
To avoid suddenly breaking through to Ancient Monarch, all these years he had been suppressing himself, suppressing his realm fiercely, never truly breaking through.
Now, the moment he gave up that suppression, his aura exploded instantaneously.
With a deafening boom, his aura directly surpassed the Quasi-Monarch level, then shattered the shackles, straightaway reaching the Ancient Monarch level.
BOOM BOOM BOOM——
As if a Supreme Being, akin to a Great Emperor!
Vast heavenly might, boundless and peerless, caused the entire dark and desolate Ancient Divine World to tremble, almost on the verge of exploding completely.
His momentum was rising, actually transforming into an invisible yet terrifying storm that violently spread out, plunging a region spanning hundreds of millions of miles into a fearsome upheaval.
The desolate Ancient Divine World, its eternal dead silence was broken. Countless fallen supercontinent fragments exploded, and even the dim, lightless stellar corpses in the starry sky rapidly blew apart, turning into brilliant fireworks that illuminated the Ancient Divine World.
All of this was merely due to the momentum of Ye Chen's breakthrough to Ancient Monarch. Just that alone threw the Ancient Divine World into turmoil.
If an ordinary Ancient Monarch were here, they likely couldn't withstand it and would be blown apart alive.
It seemed exaggerated, but in fact, there was no most exaggerated, only more exaggerated!
The breakthrough of the strongest prodigy in history, comparable to the Heavenly Emperor and the Primordial Ancestor, to Monarch—how earth-shattering, unimaginable!
At the borderlands of the Ancient Divine World, Mixed Mountain Emperor's expression changed repeatedly, ultimately releasing only a long sigh that couldn't conceal the astonishment in his eyes: "Once an Eternal Quasi-Monarch breaks through to Monarch, it's actually this terrifying!"
Yet this still wasn't the end. Ye Chen's aura continued to rise.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM——
After his unparalleled imposing momentum surged to its absolute peak, it was as if a slumbering ancient Great Emperor had awakened, shaking the Heavens.
If not for the World Tower's isolation, the intensity of this momentum would absolutely have broken through the barriers of ordinary world heavens, even a Supreme Great World, and shaken the Tenfold Emperor Passes.
Whoosh——
From his eyes shot forth two beams of dazzling light, brighter than the sun, thoroughly illuminating the entire dark, dead-silent Ancient Divine World.
Terror beyond description continued to rumble through the entire Ancient Divine World.
"Have I finally become a Monarch?"
Ye Chen murmured to himself, feeling a sense of unreal vagueness, but knowing he had essentially succeeded in breaking through to Ancient Monarch, stepping into the domain of these universe overlords.
But it wasn't yet complete, because he still needed to undergo tribulation.
Only after tribulation would he be a complete Ancient Monarch.
However, this was the Ancient Divine World, moreover within the World Tower, containing the Temporal-Spatial Emperor Laws left by the Temporal-Spatial Great Emperor, which disrupted time and space. The Monarch's great tribulation could not descend here.
Even so, the moment Ye Chen felt himself successfully advancing to Ancient Monarch, earth-shattering changes occurred throughout his limbs, bones, and even his divine soul.
BOOM BOOM BOOM——
His limbs and bones trembled, boundless blood radiance flooding immeasurable territories.
Blood energy filled the firmament, capable of shaking the Heavens, terrifyingly astonishing, far surpassing ordinary Monarchs.
Bones and sinews resonated together, the rumbling sounds surpassing thunder.
Almost every moment, his physical body was transforming, advancing a step further.
Even the Chaos Saint Soul infant was the same, about to transform into a stronger Monarch Heavenly Soul!
An indescribably majestic power was filling every corner of his form and spirit, undergoing transformation, undergoing sublimation, constantly achieving new transcendence.
This feeling, Ye Chen couldn't explain.
But he knew his strength was rising madly.
His form and spirit were transforming, evolving towards a higher level!
Like a silkworm emerging from its cocoon as a butterfly—a transcendence of life's hierarchy!