The Heaven's Avatar of the Qing Tian Great Emperor, with greenish-white hair flowing, stood peerless across the cosmos.
He stood upon the Tenth Heaven, his imperial bearing overshadowing the world.
From his body emanated an intense aura of the Heavenly Dao, as if he were the very incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.
"Kill!"
Ye Chen's blood and qi boiled, his unparalleled vital energy flooding the boundless tribulation realm, surpassing that of a Supreme One.
Having cultivated to this day, his Chaos Dao methods had long been perfected step by step. Now, without needing to employ the techniques of others, relying solely on the Chaos methods he himself had created, he could still display an invincible posture.
A single Dao shout pierced through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Ye Chen, manifested upon the Tenth Heaven within the heavenly tribulation, engaged in a peak confrontation with the Heaven's Avatar of the Qing Tian Great Emperor.
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After a day and a night, Ye Chen was covered in blood, nearly shattered to pieces, bathed in imperial blood.
This was the most terrifying battle he had encountered during his Eternal Monarch tribulation.
The Heaven's Avatar of the Qing Tian Great Emperor was not just one entity; it had summoned the other nine Heaven's Avatars, totaling ten, as if ten Supreme Ones were joining forces.
The nine Heaven's Avatars, borrowing the infinite power of the Heavenly Dao, could each rival a Supreme One, engaging him in a peak duel.
If these Heaven's Avatars were already this powerful, needless to say, the Heaven's Avatar of the strongest Tenth Heaven, the Qing Tian Great Emperor, was powerful to the extreme. Although it was not the true body of the Qing Tian Great Emperor who had gone to the alien Ancient Universe, but merely an existence evolved from the Eternal Monarch tribulation, its strength, manifested within the tribulation, was not the slightest bit inferior to Ye Chen's, controlling the Heavenly Dao and suppressing all.
Even though Ye Chen surpassed ordinary Supreme Ones, the battle was still extremely difficult, with all manner of ultimate techniques emerging endlessly.
In the end, he naturally triumphed.
The Heaven's Avatar of the Qing Tian Great Emperor, also covered in blood and on the verge of disintegration, at this moment, a fierce spiritual light suddenly flashed within its originally indifferent and emotionless eyes. It smiled satisfactorily at Ye Chen: "You are quite good. Compared to me, you are more suited to wield this Heavenly Dao. You will become a stronger Heavenly Dao controller."
Ye Chen was stunned. Could a Heaven's Avatar speak?
Could it be that was the true body of the Qing Tian Great Emperor manifesting?
Boom—
The Heaven's Avatar of the Qing Tian Great Emperor exploded, infinite azure light engulfing him.
The other nine Heaven's Avatars also exploded, streams of various vast lights successively merging into his body.
Finally, everything ended.
Ye Chen felt that, in the unseen, he seemed to have mastered the Heavenly Dao of the Pangu Universe, unlike in the past when he could only indirectly control a portion of the Heavenly Dao by borrowing the Heavenly Dao Sun.
This feeling was profound and mysterious.
Was this the Heavenly Dao controller the Qing Tian Great Emperor spoke of?
Ye Chen pondered, also considering what changes would occur if he integrated this Heavenly Dao power into the Heavenly Dao Sun.
At present, it was unclear.
All of this needed to be experienced slowly after the tribulation. More importantly, he needed to enter the thunderbolt light gate.
Rumble—
His flesh, blood, bones, and sinews reformed and healed. His Eternal Monarch-level Chaos Saint Soul did the same, silently adjusting everything to its peak state.
Between Ye Chen's brows, the Chaos Thunder Pearl was shining with radiant light, but now he had mastered the corresponding methods to control it somewhat.
However, the thunderbolt light gate before him was not only very real but also indestructible. Even someone as powerful as him felt it was difficult to shatter.
It was as if the thunderbolt light gate was the creation of an ancient titan, inaccessible to anyone who was not an ancient titan.
Upon it were endless carved patterns and inscriptions, countless and inexhaustible, as if recording all the profound mysteries of the world.
Of course, having reached this step, Ye Chen was qualified to learn enough of the ancient secrets.
"The higher the level, the higher-level secrets can be deduced within the thunderbolt light gate. Now, I have transcended the Ancient Great Emperors. Even if I am not equal to a Quasi-Giant, I am probably not far off. Perhaps I can learn the highest-level ancient secrets."
Ye Chen murmured softly. The thunderbolt light gate revealed everything in reality.
Boom—
He pushed open the thunderbolt light gate and entered.
Countless ancient times, indescribable and unfathomable, infinite battlefields were scattered within the world of the thunderbolt light gate.
There was the River of Time evolving. Although it was transformed from thunderbolts, it was undoubtedly extremely real, identical, containing the power of time and space.
The vast and mighty River of Time stretched across, its source unseen, traversing all epochs since antiquity, connecting to the elusive and immeasurable unknown future.
Countless scenes of time and space appeared before his eyes, like scenes from the past, clearly visible.
However, matters concerning the future were veiled in mist. Even though he surpassed ordinary Supreme Ones and his Heaven's Eye had evolved to its utmost, completely integrated with himself, he could not see through everything one by one.
Because the power of karma transformed into mist, preventing one from completely piercing through all.
Rashly looking would also incur terrifying karma.
If discussing the past and present, what is the most terrifying?
It is karma.
A small "cause" planted today might one day become a terrifying "effect."
It is said that even ancient titans fear it. In the past, the fall of ancient titans was largely related to terrifying instances of karma.
Ye Chen was naturally extremely wary of karma.
Chaos light permeated his entire body. Now, his Chaos Monarch Rules had reached a full thirty million.
As for the Monarch Rules of other Great Daos, there were even more. When all the various Great Daos were combined, they could reach a staggering five hundred million.
In fact, at this stage, the total quantity of five hundred and thirty million Monarch Rules seemed to be only a few times more than the hundred million Monarch Rules mastered by a Monarch.
It shouldn't cause Ye Chen's strength to skyrocket much.
However, once Chaos Monarch Rules break through ten million, a startling transformation occurs.
In the past, after listening to Tai Sheng Huang's personal century-long discourse on the Dao, Ye Chen learned that for any Great Dao cultivated, the number of Monarch Rules one can master is limited.
For each Great Dao, one hundred million Monarch Rules represents the Great Perfection.
Generally speaking, before becoming a Supreme One, few can cultivate the Monarch Rules of a single Great Dao to the Great Perfection realm. More often, after attaining the Dao and becoming a Monarch, the Monarch Rules of this primary cultivation Great Dao directly reach one hundred million, then become a truly perfect Imperial Dao.
However, Chaos attainment of the Dao is the reverse. One needs the total quantity of Chaos Monarch Rules to reach the Great Perfection realm of one hundred million before one can attain the Dao and become a Monarch.
Moreover, as the source of all Daos, once the mastered Chaos Monarch Rules reach ten million, a startling change occurs.
Ten million Chaos Monarch Rules is also called the Minor Achievement of the Chaos Great Dao.
At this stage, each Chaos Monarch Rule is no longer equivalent to just ten Monarch Rules, but has skyrocketed a full tenfold, reaching an astonishing ratio of one being comparable to one hundred Monarch Rules.
In other words, thirty million Chaos Monarch Rules are equivalent to three billion Monarch Rules.
What an astonishing variable this is.
And once it reaches the Great Perfection stage, the amplification is even more terrifying.
Legend has it that attaining the Dao through Chaos to become a Monarch directly allows one to become Eternal. This is not without reason.
Of course, Ye Chen had mastered a full thirty million Chaos Monarch Rules. On the other hand, it could also be said that he had comprehended three thousand ten-thousandths of the Chaos Great Dao.
Before fully advancing to Eternal Monarch, his comprehension of the Chaos Great Dao had already reached over one thousand three hundred ten-thousandths. Now, due to his advancement, it had more than doubled.
It could be said that the Monarch Rule combat power he mastered was approximately three point five billion.
Furthermore, he still had three Imperial Dao light clusters...
This also resulted in Ye Chen's strength far surpassing that of an ordinary Great Perfection Supreme One by who knows how much.
Surrounded by a strong glow of Chaos light, he was more terrifying than an Ancient Emperor or Great Emperor. He stepped onto the River of Time within the thunderbolt world, walking towards the past.
All along, Ye Chen had been unable to truly understand many things.
Now, with the help of this River of Time, perhaps he could unravel all the ancient secrets.
Following the River of Time, step by step, he walked towards the past.
The past had already happened. Everything appeared before his eyes and would not generate karma.
After all, this was not the real River of Time, merely something evolved within the thunderbolt world, but it contained the corresponding characteristics of time and space.
Ye Chen very much wanted to know the final whereabouts of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
In the past, when the Tenfold Imperial Pass still existed, the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord sacrificed himself for righteousness, burning himself. The words he spoke were still remembered in his heart.
Death is not the end; perhaps it is the beginning of everything.
Later, when he underwent tribulation and entered the thunderbolt world in the past, he saw the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord battling the Supreme Immortal. Without a doubt, that was at the level of a Supreme One or Monarch. In the end, he severed a remnant arm of the Supreme Immortal and gave it to Ye Chen.
Later, the relic of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord turned out to be the Origin Heavenly Gate.
All of this undoubtedly proved the extraordinariness of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
He believed that the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord had not fallen, that he still lived in the world. Perhaps, he was within that mysterious Origin Land.
On the other hand, Ye Chen also hoped to find all kinds of truths belonging to the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord within the thunderbolt world.
Reversing the River of Time, walking towards the past, Ye Chen saw scenes about the past.
Soon, he returned to over three thousand years ago.
In both his past and present lives, Ye Chen had only lived for a little over two thousand years. Before him, the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord had already risen, once a hegemon of the Huamo Continent within the Little Divine Realm, ruling it for many years.
To know the identity of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord, one had to start from the most fundamental.
Through the scenes of the past, he saw the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord. Even as a youth, he was heroic and extraordinary, joining the Heavenly Gate, becoming a peerless talent, leading the Heavenly Gate to rise.
But this was not what Ye Chen wanted to see. He continued walking along the River of Time into the past, seeing the birthplace of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
The Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord was not born after ten months of pregnancy. At his birthplace, there was a special ancient gate, only about ten feet tall, which was precisely the Origin Heavenly Gate, but it was completely dull and lusterless.
After who knows how many years, this Origin Heavenly Gate finally, one day, flashed with light. A ball of light rushed out, ultimately transforming into a handsome youth—the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
Accompanying the birth of the young Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord, the Origin Heavenly Gate vanished with a swish into his body.
Sure enough, the Origin Heavenly Gate had a great relationship with the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
It could even be said that the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord was most likely the Origin Heavenly Gate itself, or an existence equivalent to its artifact spirit.
No wonder the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord's cultivation progress was always astonishingly fast,could be called / deemeddefying heaven / heaven-defying.
Going further into the distant past, Ye Chen wanted to know why the Origin Heavenly Gate appeared in the Little Divine Realm.
Moreover, in the past, the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord was clearly a Monarch-level existence comparable to a Supreme One, or even stronger. Why did he ultimately seem to be reborn through reincarnation? What exactly happened in the process?
He circled the place where the Origin Heavenly Gate fell, walking towards an even more distant past.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred thousand years had passed, arriving at a hundred thousand years ago. Yet the Origin Heavenly Gate was still in that place, clearly having appeared in the Little Divine Realm far more than a hundred thousand years ago.
Tracing the past, he went further back.
Time and space rapidly traversed.
This time, he went all the way to the beginning of the epoch, billions of years ago.
Ye Chen saw that at the beginning of the epoch, when the Primordial Divine Realm shattered, numerous fragments fell. One fragment of the Primordial Divine Realm fell to the lower realm, merging with the dimensional world that was the predecessor of the Little Divine Realm. Among them was the Origin Heavenly Gate.
So, the reason the Origin Heavenly Gate appeared in the Little Divine Realm was because of the Primordial Divine Realm fragment. Did this not mean the Origin Heavenly Gate had been held within the Pangu Universe since the Mythological Epoch?
Tracing further back.
He saw the Great Destruction of Mythology.
Regarding the Great Destruction of Mythology, Ye Chen had seen it many times, but in the past, he had only watched from the perspective of a weakling, not qualified to see more of the inside story.
Now, as a supreme Eternal Monarch surpassing Ancient Great Emperors, Ye Chen could see more.
During the Great Destruction of Mythology, the alien race's infinite army broke through the Pangu Universe's defenses and invaded.
The strongest invincible one, the Heavenly Emperor, because the Primordial Ancestor incited supreme existences from all epochs past and present—some coming from the past, some leaping out from the Chaos Sea—gathered many Supreme Ones, not lacking ancient titans, causing even the Heavenly Emperor to be unable to attend to other matters. He alone faced them, severing a portion of the River of Time, forming a tributary, blocking them and preventing their emergence.
Among the alien race, almost all ancient titans were deployed.
On the Pangu Universe's side, it was the same, but the number was fewer than the alien Ancient Universe.
Mythological Great Emperors battled alien Great Emperors, but their numbers were also inferior to the alien race's.
At this time, the terrifying aspects of the alien race were fully displayed. Their experts at all levels surpassed those of the Pangu Universe.
Moreover, most terrifying of all, while the Heavenly Emperor was restrained, the Primordial Ancestor was not.
The Primordial Ancestor alone restrained several Pangu Universe ancient titans, leaving the Pangu Universe unable to attend to other matters.
Within the Chaos Sea, other Supreme Ones, Quasi-Giants, and even ancient titans also took action.
The Pangu Universe was almost attacked by ten thousand enemies, its situation very unfavorable.
Ye Chen saw the Divine Emperor of the Angel Race, that peerlessly beautiful female emperor, besieged by three alien Great Emperors. Though very powerful, she was still killed, powerless to prevent her fall. Her Imperial Dao disintegrated, blood light dyeing the heavens blood-red, shattering part of the Primordial Divine Realm.
He also saw the Quasi-Giant Slaughter Immortal Great Emperor, wielding the Slaughter Immortal Sword Formation, besieged by an alien Quasi-Giant and another Quasi-Giant from the Chaos Sea. The battle situation was unfavorable, with many wounds bleeding.
Watching as the Sun Monarch and the Night Monarch were killed by alien Great Emperors, Tai Sheng Huang could only watch helplessly as his two disciples, like his own sons, were slain. Because before him, an alien ancient titan was attacking him, delaying him, leaving him no time to save them.
That was the tragedy of the Great Destruction of Mythology, the helplessness of the Pangu Universe.
The alien race had prepared for many years. Even though the Pangu Universe was powerful to the extreme during the Mythological Epoch, it was no match for the alien Ancient Universe. Ultimately, the Great Destruction of Mythology occurred.
Even someone as strong as Ye Chen could not change this past that had already happened. He could only watch helplessly, filled with anger and also full of helplessness.
He did not forget his purpose for coming. His gaze swept, searching for the figure of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
Finally, on one battlefield, he discovered the figure of the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord.
Sure enough, the Heavenly Gate's Gate Lord before him was incomparably powerful. His appearance was identical to that in the New Epoch period, but he was more imposing and powerful.
Moreover, his power was not as simple as that of an Ancient Great Emperor. His strength had actually reached the Quasi-Giant level.