The Sun King made his move. As soon as he stepped forward, vast swathes of divine fire blotted out the sky and earth, sweeping over everything. It was the Supreme Yang Divine Fire, capable of burning even a Divine Transformation Realm expert to ashes.
Beneath the divine fire, which spread in all directions, even the floor tiles were scorched and melted. The surrounding crowd swiftly retreated, not daring to touch it for fear of being incinerated into dust.
Although the Qingyang City Lord acted to suppress the spread of the divine fire, the other onlookers in the city still felt a terrifying wave of heat assailing their faces, their hearts trembling. This was the kingly might of the Sun King.
"Not bad flames. I'll meet fire with fire!"
Ye Chen smiled, as calm and composed as ever. He flicked a finger, and a wisp of snow-white flame shot forth, rapidly expanding into a towering inferno.
It was clearly fire, yet what was terrifying was that this flame was not the least bit hot. On the contrary, it was filled with an endless chill, a bone-piercing coldness spreading out, causing even the Qingyang City Lord's expression to change slightly. "What fearsome icy flame!"
Crack—
The Sun King's face changed color because the divine fire he had released was actually being frozen solid, and at an astonishing speed, rapidly spreading towards the area he occupied.
"Break!"
The Sun King let out a long roar. Streams of Sun Essence Fire erupted, releasing an even more terrifying temperature that could melt the ancient city itself.
But Ye Chen merely smiled again. His entire body erupted with dazzling divine radiance, his icy flame peerless, directly freezing everything solid, stopping only just before the Sun King himself.
Otherwise, in an instant, it could have frozen the Sun King.
This scene made everyone's hearts pound with fear. Even the Sun King was horrified, letting out a sigh of defeat as he understood the vast chasm between them. He sighed softly, "This is a true young True King."
The Qingyang City Lord also couldn't help but sigh softly. Hearing about someone was not as good as meeting them in person. Indeed, he was outstanding and heroic, possessing an extraordinary divine bearing. Even the Sun King was far inferior to Ye Chen.
But perhaps it was for the best, letting the Sun King witness what a true Immortal True King was like, to grind down the arrogance in his heart, to have higher pursuits, no longer confined to the ranks of mere kings.
Wang Ming straightforwardly stated his purpose, "This time I've come merely to borrow the Domain Gate to send someone away."
"Since Fellow Daoist Wang Ming has spoken, how could I dare to refuse? May I ask which domain Young Master Yue wishes to go to?" inquired the Qingyang City Lord.
Ye Chen said, "I wish to go to the center of the Myriad Domains."
The center of the Myriad Domains!?
The Qingyang City Lord was slightly surprised but nodded, "Since the young master has this need, this old man will naturally do his utmost to accommodate it."
"Attendants, activate the Domain Gate, set the coordinates for the farthest possible major domain transmission!"
The Qingyang City Lord gave the order, instructing his subordinates to set the spatial coordinates for Huaxiong Domain, three major domains away.
This was the maximum distance the Domain Gate could transmit. Any farther, and the spatial channel would collapse; success would be impossible.
Rumble—
The ancient Domain Gate began to shine with blazing radiance. Vast swathes of void array patterns rapidly interwove. The coordinates were selected, and a spatial wormhole gradually materialized within the gate, leading to a distant, far-off major domain.
Ye Chen strode into the Domain Gate, waving to Wang Ming, "Farewell!"
"Farewell!"
Boom—
The Domain Gate completely closed. Ye Chen had departed!
...
The myriad realms were composed of vast, immense major domains. Each major domain could span hundreds of millions of miles, so vast that ordinary mortals could not traverse even half its breadth in a lifetime. Even powerful cultivators needed decades to cross an entire major domain.
The myriad realms were formed by combining such major domains. One could imagine how vast the assembled myriad realms truly were—truly boundless and limitless.
It was said that even the Emperors and Sovereigns of the Mythical Era might not have been able to completely traverse all ten thousand domains in their lifetimes.
Ancient legends held that the origin of the myriad realms was unfathomable. After the great destruction of the Mythical Era in the previous epoch, the great world's heaven and earth shattered, becoming nearly incomplete. It was later that a supreme, peerless existence intervened, using heaven-defying means to transform the myriad heavenly Daos into this vast land.
Each major domain represented one Great Dao.
The myriad realms were the true embodiment of the myriad heavenly Daos.
Of course, this was just one theory. Whether it was true or not remained unknown. There were many such legends, classified as myths, their authenticity requiring investigation. Perhaps only those supreme existences who could perceive the past, present, and future were qualified to know.
Qingyang Domain was located in the southern region of the myriad realms, very far from the center of the Myriad Domains, separated by at least a hundred major domains.
The distance of this journey was incredibly, unimaginably long, an astronomical figure.
Therefore, Ye Chen traveled continuously, using the Domain Gates in various Domain Lords' Divine Cities to hasten his journey. Each use cost a staggering amount, often requiring over a hundred thousand jin of spirit stones. The severity of this consumption was such that even with the five million jin of spirit stones Wang Ming had given him, he felt the drain was too heavy.
This way, he wouldn't even be halfway to the center of the Myriad Domains before his spirit stones were completely depleted.
It wasn't that Wang Ming was unwilling to give more. As a great bandit, even he couldn't possess infinite spirit stones. Five million jin was also a huge fortune for Wang Ming. Ye Chen was unwilling to take too many spirit stones from Wang Ming, otherwise Wang Ming would have had to borrow from others.
After the tenth time, Ye Chen had no choice but to halt his journey, arriving at a major domain named Qi Domain, at least twenty domains away from Qingyang Domain.
He left the Domain Lord's Divine City directly without lingering, only stopping after traveling over ten thousand li away to a remote mountain range.
With a casual shake of his hand, light flashed, and a divine platform appeared. It was forged entirely from five-colored divine jade, shaped like an altar, with profound and mysterious Xiantian Dao patterns and spatial array patterns inscribed upon it.
This was the Void God Platform.
In truth, the Void God Platform could also traverse the void, performing long-distance travel. However, the distance it could traverse was far less than that of a Domain Gate. Comparatively, it could still cover hundreds of thousands of li in a single jump.
Old Yan's figure drifted out, puzzled. "Little Chen, what do you intend to do? Do you want to use the Void God Platform to cross major domains? Although the consumption is less than a Domain Gate, constantly jumping like that is still not cheap, and it takes much longer."
Ye Chen shook his head. "The Void God Platform is inferior to the Domain Gate only because of its spatial array patterns and transmission coordinates. If we modify them, perhaps the transmission distance can be greatly increased. If a highly skilled formation master were present, they could even transform the Void God Platform into a small-scale Domain Gate."
In fact, the principle of the Domain Gate was similar to that of the Void God Platform. It was just that the array patterns and Dao patterns inscribed on the Domain Gate were far more advanced than those on the Void God Platform, hence its ability to traverse major domains.
Ye Chen had dabbled in many fields in his previous life, including the Dao of formations. He had studied it extensively and could be considered a formation master with high attainments.
Just like back in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range when he entered the core mist array, he had used arrays to break arrays.
Whoosh—
Two beams of substantial, brilliant light shot forth from Ye Chen's eyes, golden, glazed holy flames dancing within them. He was analyzing the structure of the array patterns and Dao patterns within the Void God Platform, constantly researching.
Undoubtedly, the array pattern structure of the Void God Platform was also quite profound, combining void Dao patterns and void-type formations, intricate and complex. Even a Saint Lord might not be able to fully comprehend its mysteries.
Of course, this was also because one not in that position does not discuss its affairs. Without comprehending the Void Dao and the Dao of formations, having profound cultivation was useless.
Finally, after spending a full half day, Ye Chen truly finished his analysis, a trace of weariness inevitably mixed in his expression.
The Dao of formations was a rather mentally taxing path. Without a powerful Primordial Spirit and sufficient talent, it was difficult to understand.
"The formation is not bad. It was set up by at least a Saint Realm supreme expert proficient in the Void Dao. Their attainments were only slightly inferior to mine. Combined with a void formation of the same level, the two together elevate its grade to be comparable to a Saint Lord's, capable of tearing through the void and crossing a million li. The only prerequisite is sufficient energy."
"However, with the five-colored spirit stones—constructed from priceless Five Elements Divine Stones—the five elements combine, capable of evolving Yin-Yang energy and touching upon the Daos of time and space. This can greatly increase the transmission distance and reduce energy output."
"Now the biggest problem is only the distance of directional transmission. Theoretically, even transmitting hundreds of millions of li isn't an issue. As long as we modify the key array pattern structure, we can construct longer-range spatial coordinates. At most, it would only consume several times more energy."
Having finished his analysis, Ye Chen immediately began to act. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—he continuously shot out streams of faint light, each one landing perfectly on the array patterns of the five-colored Void God Platform, constantly modifying them.
This required Primordial Spirit power capable of observing the finest details. Undoubtedly, Ye Chen was qualified to reach this level.
The modifications to the array patterns were only minor, but they required considerable mental effort and could not afford any mistakes. Otherwise, a tiny error could lead to a deviation of a thousand li!
After spending a full three hours, he finally finished modifying both the array patterns and the spatial coordinates. A deep weariness was evident between his brows as he said softly, "This time, it should be able to transmit at least over a hundred million li."
"That far!" Even Old Yan couldn't help but be greatly surprised upon hearing this. Just modifying a little could increase the range by nearly a hundredfold? That couldn't be so exaggerated.
That was nearly half the distance of a small major domain.
Ye Chen nodded, though his expression was grave. "Theoretically, it's possible because of the spatial coordinates. But it also requires a lot of energy, probably around twenty to thirty thousand jin of spirit stones."
After all, the longer the distance crossed, the more energy was consumed. At his current level, Ye Chen couldn't support it himself; otherwise, a single use would basically deplete all his divine power.
He flicked his sleeve, and a small mountain of high-quality spirit stones appeared, falling onto the five-colored Void God Platform, shining brilliantly and flowing with surging spiritual energy.
"Good, now let's see if it can truly transmit hundreds of millions of li."
Boom—
The void trembled. All the spirit stones ignited, transforming into vast amounts of pure spiritual energy that poured into the Void God Platform. The platform immediately began to flow with dazzling five-colored divine radiance. Void array patterns interwove, Dao patterns flashed with light, and immediately a powerful spatial fluctuation manifested, affecting the heaven, earth, and void.
Finally, with a loud boom, it completely pierced through the void and vanished entirely.