"Perish, Battle Saint King. Your death is fated."
The Fourth Emperor Envoy murmured to himself. The final Imperial Monarch Bone Arrow, nocked upon the Imperial Monarch War Bow, suddenly shot forth. It was far faster than before, and perhaps because it was also forged by the Heaven Soul Great Emperor, it completely ignored the layers upon layers of sonic wave power. It seemed slow yet was actually swift, arriving before Ye Chen's face.
This final Imperial Monarch Bone Arrow was aimed directly at the space between Ye Chen's eyebrows.
Suddenly, just as everyone believed Ye Chen was about to be struck—many even felt a pang of regret—the Ye Chen who had seemed mired and struggling to move even an inch abruptly stirred. The heavy sonic wave power exploded open, utterly incapable of restraining him.
"He was doing it on purpose."
The Fourth Emperor Envoy's expression changed. In the next moment, he witnessed with his own eyes the final Imperial Monarch Bone Arrow being caught by Ye Chen's hand, just like the previous arrow. It was seized with overwhelming force, unable to break free, and gradually came to a stop.
In the end, this final Imperial Monarch Bone Arrow also became completely docile, lying placidly in his palm, motionless.
"Did you really think you could trap me like this?"
Ye Chen smiled, his expression indifferent and calm. Then, under countless gazes, he began to walk, step by step, moving through the heavy sonic waves of the Great Emperor's Horn. Step after step, he actually advanced against this power capable of annihilating Star Sky Overlords, drawing closer to the Third Emperor Envoy.
All the experts of the Soul-Restraining Hall were horrified, their expressions shifting drastically. This Battle Saint King was too powerful! The Third Emperor Envoy blowing the Great Emperor's Horn should have been able to contend with a Monarch, yet it could do little against the Battle Saint King. Was this even human?
Boom—
As he walked, Ye Chen's speed grew faster and faster. Later, he directly shattered all resistance from the sonic wave power. His entire form condensed into a beam of chaotic light, traversing billions of layers of sonic force, finally descending before the Third Emperor Envoy.
Ye Chen stood before the two Emperor Envoys, not concealing himself in the slightest. His Monarch-level imposing might erupted in full, suppressing the vast cosmos of the Star Sky, forcing back the myriad Daos within this expanse of space, preventing them from drawing near.
Within this Star Sky, even Star Sky Overlords felt a sense of suffocation, finding it difficult to breathe. How much more so for the two Emperor Envoys so close by, less than a zhang away? They felt themselves like ants, while their opponent was like a colossal dragon, lofty and supreme, his infinite imposing might enough to crush everything.
The two Emperor Envoys felt their bodies on the verge of splitting apart, so uncomfortable they nearly vomited blood. Their figures staggered back repeatedly, utterly unable to withstand that terrifying Monarch-level imposing might.
"I thought you might have some capability, but it's merely this. I am truly disappointed."
Ye Chen shook his head, the disappointment in his eyes completely unconcealed. This filled the Third Emperor Envoy with raging fury, yet also a profound despair.
The Battle Saint King was too powerful, powerful to an inconceivable degree, fundamentally impossible to oppose. It was despair-inducing!
"It ends now."
After saying this, Ye Chen unleashed the power of his Monarch-level physical body. A palm-blade manifested, like an eternal immortal radiance blooming, sweeping down from above with a thunderous descent.
Boom—
The Third Emperor Envoy mustered all his strength to block, countless divine abilities instantly appearing to clash with it.
But that palm-blade was like a heavenly blade, wielding the power of the Heavenly Dao, cleaving through everything, indestructible and unbreakable.
After five rounds of direct collision, all divine abilities were shattered. The Third Emperor Envoy let out a miserable cry, truly unable to resist. His head was split open, body and head separated.
In the next moment, a Chaos Saint Fist arrived with thunderous force, smashing the Star Sky as it descended powerfully. His head exploded like a watermelon.
His Sovereign Heavenly Soul was also violently torn apart.
The power of a Monarch far surpassed that of an Ancient Monarch. Even an Ancient Monarch at the Tenth Heaven realm could not withstand it, being smashed to smithereens, his soul exploding.
Naturally, the Third Emperor Envoy could not be killed immediately. As a Tenth Heaven Ancient Monarch, his vitality was incredibly powerful, allowing for rapid physical and spiritual reconstitution. Even a Monarch could not instantly slay such a peak Sovereign.
But clearly, Ye Chen would not give him that chance. He grabbed the Sovereign Heavenly Soul, and in an instant, ten thousand layers of Chaos Divine Power erupted, overlapping and crashing down, tearing it apart again and again. When it reached a state of extreme weakness, he suppressed it and tossed it into the Chaos Great Cauldron.
A peak Sovereign of the Tenth Heaven was of great use to him, and the Third Emperor Envoy was also a Great Emperor Envoy who had followed the Heaven Soul Great Emperor.
Ever since learning that the Soul-Restraining Hall had once given birth to an Ancient Great Emperor, Ye Chen had harbored many doubts about that mysterious Heaven Soul Great Emperor.
For such a supreme Great Emperor to suddenly perish violently piqued his curiosity greatly.
Back in the earlyepoch (epoch), why did the Heaven Soul Great Emperor suddenly fall?
It must be noted that the Heaven Soul Great Emperor was within this Primordial Chaos Universe of the Ultimate Ancient Path. External supreme Great Emperors, even Eternal Giants, could not enter.
Such a sudden, violent death clearly held many suspicious points.
He dealt with the Fourth Emperor Envoy in the same manner.
In less than half an hour, the two Emperor Envoys were successively and forcefully suppressed, Ye Chen's power displayed for all to see.
The might of a Monarch-level physical body suppressed the myriad Daos of the Star Sky.
The Imperial Monarch War Bow also fell into his hands. The bow trembled and hummed, wanting to soar away into the sky, but Ye Chen seized it forcefully.
The bow's deity roared. Forged by the Heaven Soul Great Emperor, it was absolutely loyal to the Soul-Restraining Hall, showing no fear even though Ye Chen was a Monarch existence.
"Either submit, or I'll beat you into submission."
Ye Chen looked coldly at the deity within the Imperial Monarch War Bow, offering two choices. But clearly, the Imperial Monarch War Bow was unwilling to submit to anyone other than the Heaven Soul Great Emperor, struggling desperately.
"Since you refuse to submit, then die."
Seeing the Imperial Monarch War Bow's unwillingness, Ye Chen lost his patience. He struck repeatedly, fist after fist, the power of his Monarch-level physical body erupting in full. Even though this bow was forged from the essence of Monarch Dao Bones, it could not withstand thefrenzied / berserk (savage) attacks of a physical body Monarch. On the ninth strike, it was forcibly broken into two pieces. The deity was severely wounded, letting out a miserable cry.
Ye Chen's hand grabbed out, blasting the bow's deity apart several times. Only then, in terror, did the bow deity choose to submit.
He said coldly, "Truly a slave. Won't obey without a beating."
The bow deity was furious, but more than anything, felt helpless.
After successfully refining the bow deity, Ye Chen casually tossed it into the Chaos Small Universe within his body, then turned his gaze to the other battlefields.
Without a doubt, Ye Chen's return and his achievement of physical body Emperorhood allowed Lord Bing Yan and the others, as well as the Ultimate Ancient Path, to breathe a great sigh of relief.
With such an invincible Monarch in the world, vast and boundless, who could contend with him?
The Soul-Restraining Hall side was undoubtedly shaken. The remaining seven Star Sky Overlords and thirty-six Ancient Monarchs were terrified, not daring to fight the Battle Saint King.
Had even the two Emperor Envoys been successively and forcefully suppressed? With no Monarch emerging, who could contend?
But the First Emperor Envoy had been dragged into battle in the deepest reaches of the Star Sky by Cang Xiong and was utterly unable to attend to anything else.
"Retreat!"
Jin Tianjun and the other Soul-Restraining Hall experts dared not stay any longer. Retreat was the best course of action.