At the same time, Ye Chen also sorted through his spoils of war.
Whether it was the Cosmic Heaven Tower, the Heaven-Burying Graveyard, or the forty-nine war swords, they were all Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons, each possessing extraordinary functions.
The spoils were also extremely abundant.
Of course, at his current level, Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons only stirred a slight interest within him, because he himself possessed battle weapons like the Chaos Great Cauldron, the Sealing Gate, the Heaven-Binding Chain, and the Heaven-Burying Stele. Any single one of them was at the Half-Step Overlord level, or even the Taishang realm level.
Moreover, his own Universe Chaos Body could rival a Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapon, or even be far stronger.
Therefore, Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons were dispensable to him.
During this period, Ye Chen also had other considerations regarding the improvement of his combat power.
The grade of the Chaos Great Cauldron had also reached the absolute peak of the Half-Step Overlord level. Having drunk the supreme blood of multiple Half-Step Overlords, it had long since transformed to a brand new height.
Besides, at Ye Chen's current stage, he fundamentally did not need multiple Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons. Aside from leaving one to guard the Pangu Universe, Ye Chen planned to completely shatter the other Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons, merging them thoroughly with the Chaos Great Cauldron to cause a qualitative change in the cauldron, directly elevating it to a Taishang realm Dao Weapon.
He wasted no time in putting this plan into action.
The forty-nine war swords of the Wrathful World Divine Venerable were shattered by him, and the Heaven-Burying Graveyard of the World-Burying Demon Ancestor met the same fate. Additionally, the Eternal Night Domain, this Origin Secret Realm, was also devoured by the Chaos Great Cauldron, completely assimilated and merged into one.
The Chaos Great Cauldron flew into Ye Chen's Chaos Origin, enduring the most terrifying tempering by the Chaos Source Fire, dissolving all other supreme materials, and leaping towards a higher level of great ascension and great transformation!
Without a doubt, once the Chaos Great Cauldron was fully tempered, it would absolutely surpass its former self, becoming an unparalleled forbidden ancient weapon that could suppress all ages, powerful enough to suppress Half-Step Overlords.
Of course, completely finishing the tempering process would not be accomplished in a short while; it would require a long period of time.
Naturally, Ye Chen did not lack such time.
While tempering the Chaos Great Cauldron and elevating its grade on one side, on the other side, not all Half-Step Overlord Dao Weapons held zero interest for Ye Chen.
Like a thirty-three-story Great Dao Ancient Tower that seemed to float before his eyes, it flowed with endless radiant light. Each wisp of light could easily collapse stars and crush Venerables, terrifying beyond measure.
Especially its thirty-three stories, which resembled the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Each Heaven had a supreme, forbidden figure residing within it, each capable of easily shattering the myriad ancient worlds, powerful to an unbelievable degree.
This was the Cosmic Heaven Tower of the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor.
At this moment, the Cosmic Heaven Tower was within the range of the projection of Ye Chen's own Origin Universe, naturally unable to affect the outside world.
His gaze, as profound as the Ten Thousand Ancient Times, could pierce through all things past and present, landing upon this Cosmic Heaven Tower.
Regarding the Cosmic Heaven Tower, or rather, the Thirty-Three Heavens within the Cosmic Heaven Tower, Ye Chen felt quite a bit of interest.
These were the Thirty-Three Heavens in the truest sense, capable of summoning a will mark of the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerates from the Origin Land. They were exceptionally powerful, hailed as a supreme divine ability that could suppress those of the same level.
It was only because Ye Chen was sufficiently powerful; otherwise, if it were anyone else, even a Half-Step Overlord, they would have been utterly unable to break free from the suppression of the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor's Thirty-Three Heavens.
After the battle back then, he had recollected all the fragments of the Cosmic Heaven Tower and re-tempered it with his own Chaos Source Fire, along with infinite immortal materials, completely restoring it.
As for the deity of the Cosmic Heaven Tower, it had long been slain and obliterated by Ye Chen.
After all, that deity was nurtured by the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor over endless eons and could not possibly betray him, so it was simply best to shatter it directly.
Even without its deity, the Cosmic Heaven Tower remained incomparably powerful. However, to nurture a new deity would require an unknown number of tens of thousands of years.
Regarding this, Ye Chen did not particularly care. A deity merely allowed a Dao Weapon to function better, especially allowing later generations to infuse divine energy to revive the deity and unleash unimaginable might.
As for him, he could directly cause the Cosmic Heaven Tower to fully awaken.
Naturally, what Ye Chen cared more about was that supreme great method of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
The Cosmic Heaven Tower had thirty-three stories, each representing one Heaven; thirty-three stories represented the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Under the exploration of Ye Chen's Chaos Divine Sense, he could discover that each story contained a supremely powerful figure, all at the Giant level, each possessing the aura of an Eternal Heavenly Venerate.
Evidently, these should be the descendants of the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerates.
Among them was a Giant from the World-Boundary Heavenly Clan.
Their bodies all flowed with the bloodline of Eternal Heavenly Venerates.
The Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor had these thirty-three descendants of Eternal Heavenly Venerates use their bloodline to revive and resonate with the bloodline will marks of the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerates, allowing them to appear within the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Indeed, only Giant-level descendants of Heavenly Venerates could make the bloodline marks of Eternal Heavenly Venerates so powerful.
Of course, this also involved endless Great Dao mysteries; it was not as simple as it appeared.
However, these Giants had already perished in the distant, endless past. What remained were only their Ten Thousand Ancient Times indestructible bodies, their Ten Thousand Ancient Souls, and the never-extinguished bloodline of Eternal Heavenly Venerates within them.
Their true spirits had long been annihilated.
Fortunately, when he shattered the Cosmic Heaven Tower back then, the thirty-three Giants were not also destroyed along with it, allowing them to survive.
These thirty-three Giants were the core for activating the Thirty-Three Heavens.
By reviving through the Eternal Heavenly Venerate bloodline, the thirty-three Giants could transform into the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerates of the past, or rather, become vessels for the will marks imprinted within the bloodline of the Eternal Heavenly Venerates.
What made Ye Chen frown, however, was that although the Cosmic Heaven Tower had been tempered and repaired, it did not possess the corresponding Thirty-Three Heavens Great Method.
In other words, if he wanted to unleash the Thirty-Three Heavens Great Method, he would need other secret methods to activate it.
Ye Chen entered the center of his Origin Universe, where the three Half-Step Overlords were currently suppressed within the Universe Origin.
The Universe Origin was connected to Ye Chen's Chaos Origin, making it extremely powerful.
Moreover, with the suppression of two Taishang realm Dao Weapons—the Heaven-Binding Chain and the Heaven-Burying Stele—and the World-Burying Demon Ancestor being suppressed by ten Sealing Gates, combined with the dual empowerment of the Universe Origin and Chaos Origin, it was utterly impossible for them to break free.
Ye Chen's appearance attracted the gazes of the three Half-Step Overlords, revealing deep hatred!
They struggled desperately, of course, even causing the Universe Origin to tremble.
But it was futile. With a single thought from Ye Chen, the Chaos Origin directly empowered it, and the Universe Origin instantly became boundlessly powerful, greatly enhancing the might of the three Dao Weapons. The shaking rapidly diminished, then vanished entirely.
Ye Chen directly looked at the soul of the Cosmic Heaven God Ancestor, which was entangled and sealed by the Heaven-Binding Chain, and bluntly demanded the Thirty-Three Heavens Great Method.