Without a doubt, this was an ambition of immense scale.
For a Monarch to step onto the Eternal Path was already incredibly difficult, let alone for a Sovereign.
However, Ye Chen did not stop him. The lower the cultivation realm when one stepped onto the Eternal Path, the greater their potential.
Moreover, Ruoxi and the Sovereign of Formlessness had both stepped onto the Eternal Path while in the Sovereign realm. Ye Chen himself had done so at the quasi-Sovereign realm, so they could provide experience.
But Qian Xun was suited to walk the path of the Sovereign of Formlessness. The reason the Sovereign of Formlessness had been able to become an Eternal Monarch in the past ultimately came down to having cultivated his physical body to the absolute limit within the Sovereign realm at that time. He could not only withstand a Monarch's attacks but had even, on the battlefield, risked a brush with death to slay a critically wounded and dying Alien Emperor.
In that battle, the Sovereign of Formlessness had narrowly escaped death, nearly perishing. It was the War Saint Ancestor who revived him. Furthermore, the Sovereign of Formlessness refined the form and spirit of that Alien Emperor, forcibly achieving an all-around ultimate sublimation within the Sovereign realm in one fell swoop, stepping onto the Eternal Path and becoming an Eternal Monarch!
Now, Qian Xun was also attempting to walk the path of the Sovereign of Formlessness. First, he would cultivate his Battle Sacred Body to its limit, tempering out more true blood.
Afterwards, he would find a suitable opportunity to refine a Supreme One.
After all, the Alien Emperors and Chaos Burial Ground Ancient Sovereigns suppressed back then had not been completely exhausted.
As for whether he could become an Eternal Monarch, that still depended on fate.
Within the Monarch's great tribulation, even with his powerful Battle Sacred Body, Qian Xun's skin was now torn and his flesh rent. Endless tribulation radiance pierced his nearly indestructible Battle Sacred Body, droplets of golden saint blood splattering.
Yet, crimson true blood circulated mistily within his body, erupting with the most powerful divine nature. Even the Monarch's great tribulation could not break through this true blood.
Endless and vast Monarch tribulation was drawn into his body. Qian Xun endured the excruciating pain, madly seizing the opportunity to temper his flesh, blood, and saint bones.
Droplets of true blood were coalescing, making Qian Xun even more powerful.
After a day and a night, the Monarch's great tribulation ended. The Corpse Devouring Worm Emperor directly swallowed a divine pill to recover from his injuries and let out a sigh. "Finally became a Monarch."
Everyone looked at him with disdain. This guy had completely passively muddled through the tribulation.
Qian Xun remained seated in meditation, drawing upon the remnants of the heavenly tribulation to continue his body tempering.
At this stage, he had already borrowed the Monarch tribulations of others many times to temper his own form and spirit. It could be said his Battle Sacred Body had also nearly reached the Monarch level, extremely powerful, almost not inferior to a true Monarch, enough to contend with one.
But Qian Xun was still not satisfied. He continued tempering, aiming to reach an even stronger level.
At the very least, he could achieve what his father had back then—attaining Monarchhood through the physical body first.
Thus, he drew upon the residual heavenly tribulation power to temper his own body, cleansing his sinews and marrow.
In this manner, three months passed.
On this day, the star region that had already been blasted into dust once again manifested an immeasurable great calamity.
Vast, boundless, and expansive seas of tribulation radiance and thunder descended instantly.
Boom—
Heaven collapsed and earth split. Qian Xun's Monarch great tribulation descended.
But this was not a complete Monarch tribulation. It was the great tribulation for attaining Monarchhood through the physical body, just like Ye Chen back then, who had first proven his Dao through his physique, achieving Monarchhood in advance.
Qian Xun had attained Monarchhood through his physical body! Endless and vast Monarch tribulation descended from the heavens, directly submerging him.
The tribulation was unprecedented, shaking all heavens.
The physical body Monarch tribulation fell madly, instantly annihilating andshatteringing who knew how many stars, terrifying to the extreme.
Qian Xun let out a long roar and charged forth.
The era in which he attained Monarchhood through his physique was three thousand years later than his father Ye Chen, but his accumulation was profoundly deep. Moreover, he had cultivated aiming to step onto the path of the Eternal Monarch, consciously suppressing himself all along. Now, he finally reaped the rewards.
"Among those who attain Monarchhood through their physical body, not one in ten succeeds!"
All sides sighed in amazement. Attaining Monarchhood through the physical body, with the soul realm also able to advance to Monarch—once both became Monarchs, their strength would surpass that of ordinary Monarchs.
Of course, they still could not be compared to an Eternal Monarch.
All sides watched closely. Ye Chen naturally was also watching. After all, this was his own offspring; he could not tolerate any mishap befalling him.
After a day and a night, Qian Xun successfully passed the tribulation. His body was tattered and torn, but he persisted, using the residual heavenly tribulation to continue tempering his physique.
His physical body had reached a brand new height, incomparably powerful.
Even the Sovereign of Formlessness revealed a trace of an appreciative look.
The path Qian Xun walked was even more ruthless than his own back in the day.
After all, he himself back then had not been able to borrow so many Monarch tribulations to temper his body during the same period.
However, Qian Xun was very strong, capable of peak physical body confrontation with a Monarch, yet he still had not stepped onto the Eternal Path. He could not even sense the slightest aura of the Eternal Path.
He did not give up. Time was still early; he was merely a little over five thousand years old.
A Monarch could live for as long as an entire epoch. For the vast span of an epoch, he was still excessively young, with endless time ahead to temper himself bit by bit.
On this day, Qian Xun was in secluded cultivation within a secret hall of the Chaos Heavenly Mansion.
Ye Chen entered the hall to see him.
"Father." Qian Xun was very respectful, also somewhat puzzled as to why his father had suddenly come to find him.
Ye Chen handed him an ordinary jar. "Use these to temper your body. They can allow your Battle Sacred Body to advance another step. If that still doesn't work, father will gift you a Supreme One to refine."
Qian Xun's expression shook. He opened the black jar and saw within it flowing clumps of true blood, each about the size of a fist, containing vast Supreme Emperor aura. It was clearly Supreme True Blood, and there were a full ten clumps! He revealed a look of shock. "Father, these are all Emperor Dao True Blood. Where did you get them?"
Emperor Dao True Blood belonged to a Supreme One, the essence of an Emperor's blood.
Before him were ten clumps, equivalent to the Emperor Dao True Blood of ten ancient Great Emperors.
Although his father was powerful, obtaining these ten clumps of Emperor Dao True Blood likely wasn't simple either.
Ye Chen smiled faintly. "You needn't worry. These were all extracted from the suppressed Alien and Chaos Burial Ground Ancient Sovereigns and Emperors. The final ninth and tenth clumps were obtained by me through exchange with two Supreme Ones."
The Emperor Dao True Blood of the Wanyan Emperor was too potent, at the quasi-giant level. If Qian Xun forcibly refined it now, it would be seeking his own death.
And it wasn't that Ye Chen was unwilling to extract his own Chaos True Blood, but for Qian Xun, at present, it was not suitable.
Because his current Chaos True Blood was very special.
Qian Xun was deeply grateful. He knew that to exchange for those ninth and tenth clumps of Emperor Dao True Blood, even though his father was an existence surpassing ancient Great Emperors, he had likely paid a considerable price.
Of course, since his father didn't speak of it, he wouldn't ask. He silently told himself he must reach the Eternal Monarch level and not disappoint his father's heartfelt intentions.
Thus, Qian Xun took the jar containing ten clumps of Emperor Dao True Blood and entered seclusion.
Ye Chen left. In the supreme main hall opened within the Chaos Heavenly Mansion over the years, he sat upon the Emperor's throne, watching the sunrise and sunset, observing the changing seasons, witnessing the worldly winds and clouds…