The Giants returned one by one, dedicating their full efforts to rebuilding the Pangu Universe.
Especially the Heavenly Emperor, whose influence was unsurpassable—even at the peak of Ye Chen's power, he remained an unreachable pinnacle. He personally preached the Dao, imparting knowledge to the All Heavens.
The Six Paths Great Emperor, severely wounded, was invited by the Human Sovereign to recuperate within the Human Sovereign's Palace.
Giants like Tai Sheng Huang, the Battle Saint Ancestor, the Heaven-Defying War Lord, and the Flame Emperor also took turns preaching.
Even though they had returned and the Pangu Universe had grown stronger, they did not grow complacent. The danger was not merely the Blood-Stained Epoch, nor was it just the Alien Ancient Universe; it was the blood-stained future itself.
With the Giants' return, they aimed to make the Pangu Universe grow increasingly powerful, even surpassing the most prosperous and glorious days of the Mythical Epoch.
Day after day, year after year.
Time flowed on, relentless, something even the mightiest beings in the world could not hinder.
In the 1,120,000th year of the Blood-Stained Epoch, which was also 700,000 years after the return of the Heavenly Emperor and the other Pangu Giants, the Golden Crow Great Emperor ascended to become a colossus from antiquity.
He had always held great hope of becoming a colossus from antiquity, but his final transformation had failed prematurely due to the early emergence of the Chaos Burial Ground. He had thought all hope of becoming a colossus from antiquity was lost in this lifetime.
However, with the Heavenly Emperor's return, and the subsequent return of Giants like the Time-Space Great Emperor, the Golden Crow Great Emperor had spent many years seeking their guidance. Ultimately, he repaired his flaws, took that final step, and became a Giant who would dominate the Ten Thousand Ancient Times.
Around the 1,200,000th year of the Blood-Stained Epoch, the Pangu Universe shook once more. A figure stood firm within the Chaos Sea, enduring endless bolts of lightning as it underwent tribulation and sublimation.
The War Sovereign, an extreme-level Quasi-Giant, had also broken through, becoming an existence at the level of a Primordial Giant.
Soon, another several hundred thousand years passed. By now, it was the one millionth year since Ye Chen's fall.
During this period, the Heavenly Emperor's return had placed the Pangu Universe in a state of absolute stability, far more secure than even when Ye Chen had presided over it.
It seemed as if the Blood-Stained Epoch had passed, and everything had returned to its original peace.
At the very least, while the Chaos Sea might be chaotic, the Pangu Universe enjoyed unprecedented peace.
Naturally, after hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, the Pangu Universe had also given birth to many Emperors, experiencing a massive, explosive surge in their numbers over this one million years.
Within the Chaos Heavenly Mansion, after a million years of nurturing and the support of faith power, Ye Chen's divine soul grew increasingly solid and powerful.
On this day, pill radiance illuminated the All Heavens, even bursting forth from the Pangu Universe to shake the Chaos Sea, its majesty resonating through past, present, and future.
All sides turned their attention to the Pangu Universe.
They saw a cauldron vast enough to blot out the heavens, rising and falling. From its mouth, boundless pill radiance erupted, and the fragrance of pills permeated the air, filling infinite star domains with vitality. The myriad domains of the heavens directly revived, brimming with life, and the Great Dao boiled—truly an incredible sight.
The Pangu Universe had invited the Alchemy Emperor, the Number One Alchemist of All Time, to refine an Eleventh-tier Heaven-Defying Emperor Pill.
Thanks to materials Ye Chen had collected earlier, the Heavenly Emperor's personal intervention, and the willingness of the Immortal Kings of the Primordial Immortal World to assist, all the ingredients for the Heaven-Defying Emperor Pill had been gathered over the past hundred thousand years. With the Alchemy Emperor personally taking action, the refinement was successful.
Visible to the naked eye, the Alchemy Emperor's Cauldron erupted with pill radiance that crowned the Chaos Sea. The pill fragrance wafted in all directions, stirring even the hearts of Giants from various factions.
The Eleventh-tier Heaven-Defying Emperor Pill possessed the heaven-defying effect of resurrecting even Great Emperors from death—this was no joke. As long as a trace of true spirit remained, it could restore them to their peak.
This applied even to Quasi-Giants and colossi from antiquity, though they could not return directly to their absolute peak state like Emperors could; they could, however, avoid death.
However, with the Pangu Universe now hosting numerous standing Giants and the Heavenly Emperor, that peerless overlord, personally presiding, not even the Alien Ancient Universe or the Chaos Burial Ground dared to act lightly, let alone anyone else.
Boom—
On this day, the Chaos Heavenly Mansion shook violently. The medicinal power of the Eleventh-tier Heaven-Defying Emperor Pill completely dissolved into Ye Chen's divine soul, causing it to surge instantly. Furthermore, vast streams of soul light rushed over from the Chaos Sea, merging one by one into the divine soul.
Ye Chen's divine soul grew strong to a shocking, awe-inspiring degree, already not much inferior to his former self.
Vast and boundless Soul Power spread out, nearly annihilating the myriad domains of the heavens. It was only through the intervention of the Giants, who applied seals, that disaster was averted.
Yet, Ye Chen still showed no signs of awakening. Even though his Soul Power was not much weaker than before, his eyes remained closed. Otherwise, the scene of his Soul Power overflowing and collapsing space-time would not have occurred.
"Why, at this stage, does Father still show no signs of awakening? Could his true spirit still be drifting out there?"
Ye Junlin stood before Ye Chen's divine soul, able to sense the immense strength of his father's Soul Power. Even though he himself was now an existence at the Primordial Giant level, the gap was still enormous.
Tai Sheng Huang said, "The true spirit is still absent. He cannot fully awaken."
The Human Sovereign sighed lightly. "Now, we can only rely on himself."
Ye Junlin and the other family members prayed silently, believing Ye Chen would surely be resurrected.
...
Just as the Eleventh-tier Heaven-Defying Emperor Pill was refined and absorbed into Ye Chen's divine soul, summoning and reuniting his scattered divine soul from across the All Heavens...
On the unpredictable River of Time, stained red with blood, blood mist perpetually drifted, representing the ferocious battles of the past.
Suddenly, within the blood mist, a flicker of spiritual light appeared. It was not very strong, having drifted here for a million years, maintaining only a dim,muddled and confused consciousness.
This dim consciousness manipulated the spiritual light. In the beginning, due to its weakness, it dared not approach the blood mist, for the mist contained the taboo power of supreme Giants. The slightest misstep could cause the spiritual light to scatter into nothingness.
The spiritual light always cautiously devoured the scattered, special fragments of divine soul drifting within the gaps of the blood mist, as well as other, even weaker and moremuddled and confused spiritual lights within.
It was by devouring these weaker spiritual lights that this particular light continuously strengthened itself, growing more powerful.
Finally, after who knows how many years, having devoured enough spiritual lights, it grew strong to a certain degree, gaining true self-awareness and the ability to cultivate autonomously.
Through cultivation, it devoured the scattered divine soul fragments within the blood mist, gradually growing stronger, forming a human-shaped divine soul that grew even more powerful, no longer fearing the blood mist.
Simultaneously, within the vast stretches of blood mist scattered across the River of Time, the human-shaped divine soul found some scattered flesh, blood, and bones. Among them were parts that emitted a special chaotic light, naturally highly compatible with it, as if they were fragments it had scattered long ago.
The human-shaped divine soul gathered all the chaotic flesh, blood, and bones, barely wrapping them around itself to form a vague silhouette.
At this point, it began consciously devouring all the blood mist and other flesh and bones, refining them into the purest essence that merged into the chaotic flesh and bones. This actually stimulated the growth of flesh and blood, gradually forming a human shape.
In the end, the human-shaped divine soul cultivated into a person, possessing a perfect human body. He appeared to be in his early twenties—young, heroic, with black hair cascading over his shoulders and a robust physique.