The Wrathful World Divine Venerable's eyes lit up. "Although the Chaos Heavenly Emperor pierced through the Thirty-Three Heavenly Passes, he also overexerted himself. Indeed, the Thirty-Three Heavenly Passes are the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor's forbidden divine ability, which even drew out the will imprints of the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerables from the Origin Land. No matter how strong the Chaos Heavenly Emperor is, destroying these would be extremely difficult. His earlier strike didn't just use ultimate power; it condensed the essence of a thousand ordinary moves into one supreme technique to achieve such a devastating breakthrough."
Who was he? He was also a peerless Ancient Ancestor of the Alien Ancient Universe. Throughout the ages, many of the disciples he had taken had ultimately achieved the Dao, with some even becoming Overlords.
His discerning eye was exceptionally sharp; he could naturally see Ye Chen's condition. While he appeared invincible and unstoppable, the situation was far from optimistic.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor should have been using part of his power to suppress his injuries, but in order to quickly deal with the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor, he had overexerted himself, causing his Dao Collapse injuries to resurface abruptly.
It was like a mortal who had been cut, bandaged, and was beginning to heal, only to tear the wound open again by straining too hard.
Ye Chen's condition was roughly like that.
Now, his injuries had reached a point where they could no longer be suppressed.
Seeing this scene, the Wrathful World Divine Venerable and the World-Burying Demon Ancestor, who had initially been watching from the sidelines, hoping the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor would fight to the death and push him to the brink of fatal injury to trigger Dao Collapse, could no longer remain passive observers. They immediately charged forward, attacking the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, aiming to take advantage of the situation to fully trigger his Dao Collapse injuries and cause him to perish from the collapse.
The Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor also revealed a hint of delight, sneering, "I thought you were a tiger, but you're just a sick cat. You had me worried for nothing."
The three Half-Step Overlords coordinated their attacks, forcing Ye Chen to temporarily retreat.
However, the three Half-Step Overlords would not allow Ye Chen to retreat; they pressed their advantage, clearly intending to strike while he was weak and take his life.
Boom—
During this, Ye Chen ultimately could not completely avoid injury. Blood light soared to the heavens as his right chest exploded, revealing a terrifying bloody hole. Vast amounts of Chaos Saint Blood continuously spurted out.
He coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, coldly watching the frenzied attacks of the Wrathful World Divine Venerable and the World-Burying Demon Ancestor. However, the Dao Collapse injuries within his body were erupting, preventing him from continuing to fight at full strength.
He took a deep breath, and a Cosmic Phantom manifested on the surface of his body. Within it, faint illusions of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, the Upper Realm, and others appeared, along with phantoms of the Myriad Daos and Myriad Spirits.
His Origin Universe had reached this point. Although not yet completely perfected and fully formed, it was close, exceeding ninety-nine percent completion.
It wouldn't take many tens of thousands of years to reach absolute perfection.
Now, it displayed extraordinary cosmic might, empowering him and transforming into the most indestructible, universe-level absolute defense.
Invulnerability to all methods was its best manifestation. The vast majority of the three Half-Step Overlords' attacks were blocked by the Cosmic Phantom, showcasing the extreme defensive power of the Origin Universe.
This shocked the three Half-Step Overlords. The Chaos Heavenly Emperor's Origin Universe was actually this terrifying.
It must be known that although a Universe Emperor was said to completely control a Chaos Ancient Universe, their true combat power did not rely on that Chaos Ancient Universe. Rather, it was because they themselves were like the Pangu Axe, a Heavenly Venerate King-level battle weapon, that they reached the level of a Taishang realm Overlord.
However, the power of a Chaos Ancient Universe was indeed beyond expectations.
Within the Cosmic Phantom, the phantom of a World Tree as tall as the heavens manifested, constantly swaying and radiating brilliance, erupting with countless layers of spatial-temporal might that empowered the Cosmic Phantom.
Ye Chen sat cross-legged beneath the World Tree, his entire body glowing as he resonated and communicated with the Pangu Universe Origin. By borrowing the Pangu Universe Origin, he created enormous black holes in the external Chaos Sea, continuously swallowing vast amounts of chaotic energy.
This chaotic energy passed through the black holes, opening channels within his body. Every cell seemed like a world, a black hole, endlessly pouring energy into him.
Visibly, the injuries on Ye Chen's body were effectively contained and began to improve.
"Not good! The Chaos Heavenly Emperor is communicating with the Pangu Universe Origin, swallowing chaotic energy from the Chaos Sea to recover!" The three Half-Step Overlords were, after all, peerless great evils who had dominated countless epochs. How could they not recognize Ye Chen's actions? They were all shocked.
The Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor was the most direct, using the Cosmic Heaven Tower to strike horizontally at the Chaos Great Cauldron.
Boom—
The Chaos Great Cauldron was directly smashed, creating a large area of collapse and nearly being pierced through. From the outside, it was clearly visible, causing all the Venerables to feel their hearts pounding. At the point of impact, terrifying power still leaked through the cauldron's wall, tearing apart endless star domains.
A Pangu Universe Supreme who tried to suppress it was directly blown apart on the spot, a testament to its power.
The Venerables were horrified. Only then, through the slightly breached Sealing Gate, did they realize there was also a Chaos Great Cauldron inside. They knew it must be the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's heaven-defying method, causing all the Venerables from the Chaos Sea to tremble with fear.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor had indeed not perished from Dao Collapse. Moreover, he was engaged in an unprecedented ultimate battle with three Half-Step Overlords.
The Cosmic Heaven Tower collided with the Chaos Great Cauldron, but the Chaos Great Cauldron was even more extraordinary. Over the years, it had followed him in slaying countless supreme powerhouses, including a great number of Overlords and even Half-Step Overlords. Its battle achievements were illustrious.
Having drunk the Dao Blood of countless supreme powerhouses, the Chaos Great Cauldron had long since transformed to a completely new level. Now, it was unimaginably special, far surpassing ordinary Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons.
Although the Cosmic Heaven Tower was extraordinary, compared to the Chaos Great Cauldron, it was still somewhat inferior. It could not truly effectively pierce the Chaos Great Cauldron, and thus could not stop Ye Chen from swallowing chaotic energy to recover.
The Wrathful World Divine Venerable said, "Don't panic. Even if the Chaos Heavenly Emperor can borrow the Pangu Universe Origin to swallow the boundless chaotic energy of the vast Chaos Sea, so what? If he could recover, he would have done so long ago. Now, it only has a minor effect—treating the symptoms, not the root cause. It's better to directly break through his defense. He can only remain in a defensive state now. Attacking him is a perfect opportunity."
"Agreed!"
The other two Half-Step Overlords also found this reasonable and directly attacked Ye Chen.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom—
Half-Step Overlord-level attacks continuously fell, tearing apart everything. In this world, it seemed nothing could withstand them, yet they wereprecisely / just blocked by Ye Chen's Cosmic Phantom defense. In the end, less than half of the attacks landed on him.
Even so, they still caused Ye Chen to cough up blood continuously.
However, since the defense was not completely broken, Ye Chen successfully caught his breath, managed to recover somewhat, and once again suppressed his Dao Collapse injuries.