Many Supreme Powerhouses sighed inwardly.
It was only to be expected.
Although the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm was powerful, he was ultimately just one man.
Even as a peerless Sovereign, each of the nine Forbidden Zone Rulers was a supreme powerhouse among Sovereigns, and two among them were also of the peerless Sovereign level.
For him to have slain four Forbidden Zone Rulers consecutively in the Ruler War, and even seemingly killed other Forbidden Zone Rulers afterward, was already an extremely remarkable feat. To completely sweep through and kill them all was simply unrealistic.
It was just a pity, for this was a peerless, unparalleled figure of his generation, unique throughout history. With a cultivation time of less than a thousand years, he had challenged the nine Forbidden Zone Rulers of Life and slain more than four of them, which was enough to prove his monstrous talent.
"It's rare for a figure of his generation capable of slaying Forbidden Zone Rulers to emerge. In the end, what is too hard is easily broken. If he could have cultivated for a few more years, perhaps it wouldn't have come to this, and he could have truly swept them all away."
Even an Ancient Monarch couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
To have reached such a state with less than a thousand years of cultivation—if he had cultivated for a few more years, wouldn't he have reached the level of the supreme beings from the previous epoch? By then, completely sweeping through the nine Forbidden Zones of Life would have been effortless.
Alas, there are no 'ifs' in this world!
Suddenly, someone felt something was amiss.
"One, two, three..."
The people of the world carefully counted the number of Forbidden Zone Rulers within the Star Ruins. Abruptly, their pupils contracted sharply, their minds trembled violently, and their scalps went numb—
Seven!
A full seven of them!
How was this possible?
The entire world was shaken!
The Primordial Heaven Realm only had nine Forbidden Zones of Life. Moreover, during the Ruler War, everyone had witnessed four of the Forbidden Zone Rulers being slain one after another by the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm.
Their immeasurable bodies had even fallen beneath the heavens.
During the final collision, it seemed other Forbidden Zone Rulers had also fallen.
Logically, at most, only five should remain.
But why were there still seven?
It was simply horrifying!
No one understood.
Only the seven ancient legacies and the present-day Ancient Monarchs wore grave expressions, gazing into the shattered immeasurable Star Ruins. Among them, two colossal entities had an aura completely different from the other five—exceptionally dark and sinister, as if fundamentally incompatible with the entire world.
The alien race!
It was actually the alien race!
And they were two supreme existences from the alien race, in no way inferior to the Forbidden Zone Rulers.
Silently and without a trace, they had participated in the Ruler War, cooperating with the nine Forbidden Zone Rulers solely to kill Ye Chen.
At this moment, the world understood why the fourth corpse was filled with dark power—it belonged to the alien race!
An Ancient Monarch clenched his fist, secretly burning with anger: "Before the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm killed the first Forbidden Zone Ruler, he was so enraged, his killing intent filling the skies. Could it be because he discovered this reason?"
He instinctively looked toward the Desolate Realm. If there were other peerless figures in the Desolate Realm, would they come to attack?
Unfortunately, the Desolate Realm was destined to remain ignorant of all this, because the hole in the Rule Heavenly Pass had long been repaired by the rules.
At this time, within the endlessly shattered Star Ruins, the five Forbidden Zone Rulers and the two alien Demon Monarchs reconstituted their Form and Spirit. Though their auras were diminished, they remained extremely fearsome. Their divine senses swept across the infinite starry sky, searching relentlessly.
Their goal was to find any trace of the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm.
The result: not a single trace of life aura was discovered.
"Has the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm truly been slain?"
A Forbidden Zone Ruler frowned, unable to resist asking.
The others felt the same.
All because this opponent had been too terrifying, forcing them to use their ultimate trump cards, and even the alien race, hidden in the deepest layers of concealment, had appeared.
They had paid the greatest price!
All just to kill him.
Now, within the Star Ruins, aside from them, only the silent, annihilated starry sky remained.
The Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm was suspected to have fallen!
"He is undoubtedly dead. That Heavenly Kingdom Ruler was indeed strong, but so what? In the end, he was merely a somewhat more powerful peerless Sovereign. Moreover, we even employed that supreme method."
To kill the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler, they had paid an immense, unimaginable price.
But they considered it all worthwhile, because everything the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm had displayed was too terrifying, forcing them to exhaust every means to kill him.
"We must see the person if he lives, see the corpse if he dies. Continue the search. We must find the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler's body, unless his Form and Spirit have been utterly annihilated."
The Ruler of the Kunxu Forbidden Zone spoke, his tone icy.
The seven Ruler-level existences jointly swept through the endless Star Ruins.
For a long, long time, perhaps truly finding not a single trace of remnants, gradually, one Forbidden Zone Ruler after another left.
The two alien Demon Monarchs who had suddenly appeared also vanished without a trace.
The starry sky seemed to return to silence once more.
A long time later, the silence was broken again.
It was an Ancient Monarch, stepping into the shattered Star Ruins, his Heavenly Eye sweeping back and forth across the endless expanse of broken starry space.
Perhaps he was seeking to understand the truth of the Ruler War, or perhaps he was searching to see if any supreme treasures remained after this battle—such as fragments of Forbidden Ancient Weapons, supreme corpses, supreme Great Dao inheritances, a wisp of Soul Light from a Ruler-level supreme powerhouse, and so on...
One after another, several Ancient Monarchs manifested within the Star Ruins, lingered for a long time, and then gradually disappeared.
Subsequently, other Supreme Powerhouses entered the Star Ruins one after another, searching for remnants of the Ruler War.
After all, whether it was the Heavenly Kingdom Ruler of the Desolate Realm or the Rulers of the Forbidden Zones of Life, they were all majestic existences that suppressed the Eight Realms of the Myriad Worlds. Even a single fragment they left behind, as long as its divine nature remained unextinguished, was a supreme treasure.
Some were overjoyed, having obtained Great Dao fragments of the Ruler level.
Some obtained a slightly larger fragment of an ancient weapon, still bearing the imprints of the Great Dao, inscribed with rule runes far beyond their own realm.
Some obtained a wisp of Soul Light, the lingering Soul Light of a Ruler-level existence in the mortal world, precious even to Ancient Monarchs.
Some even obtained a fragment of a Great Dao Heavenly Sun, as large as an ordinary star, stained with Ruler-level blood—and not just from one kind—treating it as a priceless treasure.
Naturally, some were disappointed, finding nothing and nearly perishing instead.
Because the Ruler War had long since turned the endless starry sky into Star Ruins. Even after its conclusion, terrifying rule power still lingered within, undispersed, capable of persisting for endless eons.
The slightest carelessness, encountering such lingering power from the Ruler War, would cause even a Supreme Powerhouse to be shattered.
For someone had already carelessly encountered the residual power left after the Ruler War and was utterly annihilated.
Someone witnessed a supremely powerful Quasi-Sovereign entering a section of the Star Ruins. Upon seeing a massive severed arm of a Ruler-level powerhouse, he felt a surge of joy, only to be struck by a residual force and immediately annihilated in Form and Spirit, dead beyond dead.
In summary, the shattered Star Ruins were filled with both danger and opportunity.
One could say opportunity and peril coexisted.
Few left. On the contrary, more and more people continuously joined the ranks, searching, hoping to obtain heaven-defying opportunities...
No matter how one looked at it, the Ruler War had completely concluded.
On this day, far away in the Desolate Realm, the Great Emperor's reincarnated body suddenly announced he was going into seclusion.
The people of the Little Divine World grew worried.
Had something happened to his true body in the Primordial Heaven Realm?
However, the Rule Heavenly Pass had been repaired; they could not learn of events in the Primordial Heaven Realm.
Moreover, Emperor Hun Yue did not take action, as if he understood something.