"Thunder Annihilation!"
With a great roar from Yang Shen, an unparalleled sea of thunder descended from the heavens, blotting out the sky and covering the earth, directly submerging the entire starry sky and enveloping Azure Sun, aiming to annihilate him.
This strike would surely reduce an ordinary Ancient Monarch to dust.
Azure Sun was engulfed by the thunder sea, with endless flashes of lightning. More terrifyingly, those were all Thunder Monarch Rules, each one transforming into a thunder dragon. Tens of thousands of them swarmed to slay the Azure Sun Great Monarch.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Even the mighty Azure Sun Great Monarch was charred black all over, emitting a burnt aroma.
The Azure Sun Great Monarch, with not a shred of the dignity befitting a Star Sky Overlord, couldn't help but jump and curse: "Damn you, Yang Shen! You dare to call down thunder and lightning upon this lord! Don't you know how to respect your elders and cherish the young?"
While jumping and cursing, he hurriedly tried to break out of the thunder sea's range.
But the Eighth Imperial Envoy Yang Shen would not let the Azure Sun Great Monarch have his way. With a cold snort, he willed it, summoning even more powerful thunderous force to continuously bombard the Azure Sun Great Monarch, making him yelp repeatedly.
The Azure Sun Great Monarch spat a few times and bellowed: "Yang Shen, you're forcing my hand! Don't blame me for being ruthless!"
With a thought, the Azure Sun Great Monarch also unleashed an extremely fearsome Monarch Rule power, transforming it into a towering sea of flames that crashed thunderously against the thunder sea. Fire and lightning surged endlessly, threatening to annihilate everything in the world!
Thus, the two Star Sky Overlords engaged in a great duel right at the Soul-Restraining Hall's lair.
However, it was clear that the Eighth Imperial Envoy Yang Shen was stronger by a notch, causing the Azure Sun Great Monarch to bleed from the corner of his mouth and stagger back several steps.
The Judgment Spear further swept up boundless thunderous light that reached the ninth heaven, striking down as if to shatter the thirty-three layers of the firmament before smashing heavily onto the Azure Sun Great Monarch's body, caving in his chest and making him cough up great mouthfuls of blood!
At this moment, the Azure Sun Great Monarch glanced in the direction where Ye Chen and the others were and shouted: "Rising Sun, and you, young immortal clan junior! You've arrived, so why aren't you coming to help immediately? Are you going to just stand by and watch this old man get killed?"
Clearly, he hadn't recognized Ye Chen's identity, thinking he was a young junior from the immortal clan.
The Rising Sun Monarch gave a bitter smile and said to Ye Chen: "Please forgive him, Battle Saint King. Senior Azure Sun has always been like this."
Ye Chen smiled: "It's fine."
The group traversed the vast sky to the front of the Emperor's Great World. The Rising Sun Monarch stepped forward directly, raising his hand to summon over a million Monarch Rules across the sky, transforming them into a river of rules that gave rise to various powerful divine abilities, assisting the Azure Sun Great Monarch.
The Eighth Imperial Envoy Yang Shen sneered coldly: "A mere million Monarch Rules dares to interfere? Scram for this seat!"
He brandished the Judgment Spear, sweeping up endless thunderbolts that stretched for billions of miles, directly shattering layers of divine abilities and crashing towards the Rising Sun Monarch.
Although the Rising Sun Monarch was a 7th Heaven super Monarch who had mastered a million Monarch Rules, Yang Shen had been a Star Sky Overlord since time immemorial, even more terrifying than the Azure Sun Great Monarch, casually wielding three million Monarch Rules, far surpassing the Rising Sun Monarch by an unknown degree.
With such a swing of the Judgment Spear, it was a completely one-sided suppression.
The Azure Sun Great Monarch's eyes widened, wanting to stop it, but Yang Shen split his focus. Raising a hand, he manifested the Thunder Emperor Dharma Form, like a ruler of the heavenly realms descending, summoning a full one hundred and eight massive pillars of thunderous light, each stretching billions of miles, standing tall between heaven and earth, bombarding the Azure Sun Great Monarch.
Without a doubt, faced with such an offensive, even the Azure Sun Great Monarch's expression changed slightly, finding it beyond imagination. Unable to attend to anything else, he hurriedly moved to defend himself.
Whoosh—
Ye Chen moved, fast to the extreme, arriving before the Rising Sun Monarch in less than an instant. His fair, jade-like hand rose to meet the sky—Chaos Heaven-Shaking Hand!
Boom—
The Judgment Spear was blocked, unable to descend any further.
Ye Chen stood like a Nine Heavens Immortal King, with layers of nine-colored immortal light cascading down, supremely divine and sacred.
The Rising Sun Monarch immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Had he tried to block it, he would likely have been severely wounded, or even had his divine body blasted apart.
The gazes of both Star Sky Overlords, the Eighth Imperial Envoy Yang Shen and the Azure Sun Great Monarch, sharpened. A casual strike from the former's Judgment Spear was enough to slay an ordinary Ancient Monarch. Just who was this youngster to be so formidable?
Come to think of it, the two hadn't yet processed the information. They knew of the Battle Saint King but hadn't yet received the news about the Battle Saint King bearing ten wings, because Ye Chen's group had moved too fast, directly crossing the endless void from the battlefield to the 99th Pass.
Neither the Ultimate Ancient Path nor the Soul-Restraining Hall had fully received the relevant information.
"Some skill. Are you also an 8th Heaven Star Sky Overlord?"
Yang Shen narrowed his eyes, shooting out dangerous glints. His aura suddenly soared, its power surpassing that of an ordinary 8th Heaven Monarch.
At the same time, the Judgment Spear erupted with immeasurable thunderous light, with over five million Thunder Monarch Rules visibly manifesting on its surface, pressing down with overwhelming force.
The power of this strike was enough to slay a 7th Heaven super Monarch; it was a major killing move.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
However, the ten Immortal King Feather Swords behind Ye Chen circulated with even more blazing nine-colored immortal light, repelling the boundless thunder.
That Chaos Heaven-Shaking Hand still rose to meet the sky, unmoving. Even someone as powerful as Yang Shen couldn't press it down in the slightest.
"Impossible!"
Yang Shen finally changed color, because the strength of this young, perfect man before him was excessively, even outrageously, powerful. He had already displayed such formidable power, yet he still couldn't suppress him. This shouldn't be possible!
"Flashing thunder power before me?"
Ye Chen sneered. Between his brows, the Chaos Thunder Source hummed. Visibly, the endless thunderous light within this starry sky was being frantically devoured, and even the power of the Thunder Monarch Rules was no exception.
At this stage, Ye Chen could preliminarily utilize the Eight Great Chaos Sources.
This was a supreme treasure that could even devour an Emperor Tribulation, let alone the mere thunder power of an Ancient Monarch, which was hardly worth mentioning.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Visibly, a black hole-like ring formed between Ye Chen's brows, with the Chaos Thunder Source floating within. The millions of Thunder Monarch Rules on the Judgment Spear were being continuously seized, violently devoured by the Chaos Thunder Source.
"No!"
Yang Shen could no longer maintain his composure. If his attack couldn't harm Ye Chen, so be it. But now, the Thunder Monarch Rules he had painstakingly cultivated over countless millennia were being devoured.
Yes, devoured—nakedly devoured!
He could sense that any Thunder Monarch Rule that was devoured completely lost its connection with him, as if utterly stripped away.
This shouldn't be. Every Monarch Rule cultivated established a certain connection with the Ancient Monarch, imprinted with a corresponding mark. Unless willingly given, it shouldn't be possible to be stripped away.
Yet such a thing was happening now.