Who could have imagined that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor would be so audacious, daring to infiltrate the heart of the Origin Saint Race's secret realm all alone, even impersonating the alien Ancient Universe's Great Hong Saint Venerable to attack Saint Race experts, suppressing the Heavenly Martial Great Emperor, killing the two Chaos Sea giants—Chaos God War Venerable and Divine Elephant Great Venerable—who had once targeted the Profound God Ancestor during his tribulation, sacrificing the Half-Step Overlord Earth Soul Ancestor, severely wounding the Heavenly Dao Ancient Ancestor, and even reclaiming the Heavenly Dao Ancient Ancestor's peerless Dao weapon, the Heavenly Dao Millstone.
All of this made one feel the sheer audacity of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, as well as his heaven-defying nature. He had actually framed the alien race, attempting to provoke relations between the two, and had even succeeded for a time.
They asked themselves, probably only Ye Chen would dare to be so audacious, possessing both the courage and the corresponding strength. Anyone else would never dare to do such a thing.
However, through this battle, Ye Chen had also established an even greater deterrent.
All thirteen of the giants who had besieged the Profound God Ancestor during his tribulation had been killed by Ye Chen, leaving not a single one alive.
Ye Chen was using bloodshed to intimidate the Chaos Sea: dare to invade, and even if you hide within the former overlord-level force that once ruled the Chaos Sea—the Origin Saint Race—he could still drag you out and kill you, deterring all sides.
The only regret was that the Land of Eternal Night had vanished without a trace, its whereabouts impossible to track.
It was likely that the current Profound God Ancestor was in grave danger, if not already dead.
After returning to the Pangu Universe, the Heaven-Defying War Lord expressed regret: "What a pity. I truly wanted to slay a Half-Step Overlord of the Origin Saint Race to settle the hatred from being hunted all those years ago."
In the distant past, during the time when the Heavenly Emperor and the Primordial Generation led the various forces of the Chaos Sea in resisting the Origin Saint Race, the Heaven-Defying War Lord had suffered too many setbacks on his path of growth. He was far from the peerless strength he possessed now as a Half-Step Overlord; he wasn't even a true giant back then. He endured repeated obstructions from the Origin Saint Race, who sought to prevent the rise of peerless geniuses like him.
In fact, his fall in ancient times and subsequent reincarnation as the Battle Saint Ancestor also had reasons involving the Origin Saint Race's covert participation.
If not for the Heavenly Emperor's intervention, he truly wished to charge directly into the Origin Saint Race.
The Battle Saint Ancestor and the Heaven-Defying War Lord were past and present lives of the same being. At this moment, he said, "There will be a battle."
The Space-Time Great Emperor's gaze seemed capable of piercing through past and future, seeing all kinds of scenes to come. He said, "That day will not be long in coming!"
The several Half-Step Overlords fell silent.
The Space-Time Great Emperor, as the highest achiever in the Dao of Space-Time throughout history, could perceive the past and future, witnessing myriad scenes.
Since he spoke like this, it could only mean he had seen the scene of the final battle.
Suddenly, Ye Chen grunted, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, shimmering with brilliant chaos light.
The others looked at him. "You're injured?"
Ye Chen nodded, his complexion somewhat pale.
Despite appearing formidable in the secret realm, directly facing the Saint Race's five Half-Step Overlords and even forcing the Heavenly Dao Ancient Ancestor to cough up blood at a heavy cost, in reality, he had also suffered significant injuries.
Although in that battle he had mainly used the Universe Phantom to isolate everything, truly facing only the Heavenly Dao Ancient Ancestor head-on—while the other four Half-Step Overlords like Thousand Mechanisms Heaven Ancestor and Earth Saint were blocked outside—did anyone really think it was only that?
In truth, the attacks from Thousand Mechanisms Heaven Ancestor, Earth Saint, and the others on the Universe Phantom, those Half-Step Overlord-level Dao powers, could still penetrate the phantom and invisibly affect his body.
He had simply forcibly endured it all at the time.
How could he possibly be completely unscathed?
Within his Universe Chaos Body, his internal organs were shattered, and they couldn't heal immediately. These were terrifying Half-Step Overlord-level injuries; on anyone else, even a Primordial Giant would perish instantly.
For Ye Chen, having reached this level, for his injuries to remain so severe was no ordinary matter. It showed just how perilous his situation had been.
If he hadn't forcibly sacrificed the Earth Soul Ancestor, if he hadn't obtained the Heavenly Dao Millstone, if he hadn't seized a significant amount of Heavenly Dao Ancient Blood from the Heavenly Dao Ancient Ancestor to temporarily strengthen himself, his smooth escape from the secret realm would definitely not have been so simple.
"It's fine. Although injured, it's not fatal. I can suppress and resolve it," Ye Chen said. He used his Chaos Dao to suppress the injuries, with Half-Step Overlord power of the Immortal Dao overflowing from his body in endless immortal radiance, devouring the boundless power of the Chaos Sea to resolve the internal damage.
After parting with the several Half-Step Overlords, he immediately returned to the Chaos Heavenly Mansion to enter seclusion and heal.
It took a full thousand years for Ye Chen to suppress the injuries.
That's right—only suppress them, not recover fully.
These injuries contained the Dao power of five Half-Step Overlords. Even someone as powerful as him couldn't resolve that level of power in a short time; he needed to use absolute strength to gradually grind it away over a long period.
However, these injuries did not affect his ability to exert his full strength.
After emerging from seclusion, he frowned slightly, feeling he had somewhat overestimated himself. Simultaneously facing five Half-Step Overlords would be absolute suicide for any Half-Step Overlord.
He had been able to endure it entirely because his strength was far greater than that of other Half-Step Overlords, but even that had its limits; he was not absolutely invincible.
After a thousand years of healing, Ye Chen finally had time to examine the changes in his Origin Universe. He discovered it had become much more perfected. Overall, it had exceeded ninety percent completion. Endless stars, myriad heavens and worlds, billions of planes, space-time turbulence, and more had appeared. What remained was perfecting the universe's Ten Thousand Daos and waiting for life to be born.
However, precisely these two aspects were the most difficult.
The Ten Thousand Daos of each Chaos Ancient Universe were largely similar but not completely identical.
For example, the Ten Thousand Daos of the Pangu Universe and the alien Ancient Universe: the former's myriad Daos were relatively normal, while the alien Ancient Universe's myriad Daos contained a sinister, evil characteristic.
The myriad Daos of the Primordial Immortal Realm were even more extraordinary, following the Immortal Dao system, imbued with pure, flawless immortal power.
To evolve a universe's Ten Thousand Daos required gradual evolution over a long, long period.
In other words, no one knew how long it would take for the Origin Universe to become completely perfected.
Of course, if Ye Chen personally guided the evolution of the universe's Ten Thousand Daos, it would accelerate the process countless times over.
Moreover, Ye Chen simultaneously possessed Half-Step Overlord power in both the Divine Dao and Immortal Dao. He also controlled two-thirds of Pangu's Eternal Dao through his soul fragment and possessed Pangu's Heart. He himself was the highest achiever in Chaos. This all meant that once he created the Ten Thousand Daos belonging to his own Origin Universe, they would not be ordinary. Once perfected, they would surpass the Ten Thousand Daos of other Chaos Ancient Universes.
For example, take the Sword Dao. In the Pangu Universe, one comprehends its Divine Dao characteristics; in the Primordial Immortal Realm, one comprehends its Immortal Dao characteristics; in the alien Ancient Universe, one comprehends a somewhat sinister version, and so on—each is different. But in Ye Chen's Origin Universe, comprehension would inevitably be all-encompassing, containing both Divine Dao characteristics and Immortal Dao characteristics, and even encompassing the characteristics of other Chaos Ancient Universes.