A supreme existence loomed within the starry sky, before which even the myriad celestial stars seemed insignificant. Endless demonic mist blotted out the heavens, submerging entire star domains.
One by one, stars lost their brilliant radiance within the demonic fog, dimming forever as all their stellar power was devoured.
This entity was too terrifying, akin to an eternal Supreme One. The churning demonic mist surrounding it proved its identity—it was a creature of the demonic alien race from beyond the Myriad Domains, and its strength was unimaginable.
In that moment, its gaze seemed capable of piercing through everything. Looking from the consciousness of this mere Demigod-level demonic creature towards Ye Chen, its eyes were deeper than the abyss itself, transforming into a circle of black holes that acted upon the Primordial Spirit of the Demigod-level demonic alien creature.
Boom—
Ye Chen's expression changed drastically, for he felt an immense force of suction acting upon him. Even as nine divine halos manifested around him, and even a faint tenth divine halo began to appear, releasing immortal radiance to shield his body, and even as he unleashed the invincible will of the Battle Saint lineage to resist—it was useless.
This was not a confrontation, but an overwhelming devouring force. Ye Chen's entire body shone with light to no avail. Helpless, he was torn from his original place in the world and pulled into the vast world within the eyes of the demon race's supreme existence.
This was an immeasurably vast and magnificent world, boundless and endless, seemingly even more grand and immense than the myriad realms.
Standing within this world, Ye Chen felt the Great Dao within his body boiling. Layer upon layer of divine halos manifested, overlapping one another. The tenth divine halo fully materialized, no longer faint and ethereal, but appearing solid and real.
He could clearly sense the perfection of the Heavenly Dao. It was no longer just the Nine Heavens; the Tenth Heaven also existed. The human body could transcend its shackles and cultivate to the perfection of the Ten Heavens.
With the ten divine halos gathered upon him, he drew upon the boundless power of heaven and earth, continuously absorbing it into his body, transforming it into vast divine power that condensed within each of his acupoints, as if they were about to transform into stars, evolving his own personal universe.
Ye Chen could feel the divine power within his body surging forth, roaring through his meridians like a flood, deafening in its intensity.
Every movement contained endless Great Dao divine power, surpassing the state of a True King. A mere lift of his hand could shatter the void, supreme and invincible.
This was the state of a young generation's supreme of the Tenth Heaven, powerful and peerless.
With a single leap, Ye Chen traversed over ten li, moving with extreme speed.
A single punch caused several distant mountain ranges to collapse with a thunderous roar, sending dust soaring into the sky.
However, this was not the main point. He discovered that this world was strange. The myriad Daos gushed forth, and the Heavenly Dao was complete, far surpassing the current myriad realms, making cultivation much easier.
Moreover, terrifying auras of the Great Dao rose from the world. Numerous powerful beings stood side by side, and even Saint Lord-level experts soared through the air, their blood energy like great dragons ascending to the heavens.
Heavenly King Invincibles also appeared, traversing heaven and earth, riding on flood dragons. There were also ancient primordial species with pure ancestral blood traveling about, all incredibly powerful.
Lifting his head, he saw the Angel Race with their white wings, both handsome and beautiful. He saw the Centaur Race members with human upper bodies and horse lower bodies.
Turning around, he saw divine dragons with ancestral blood coursing through them soaring through the sky. Though few in number, they roared through the clouds, their dragon might vast, causing all living beings to submit.
Looking back, he saw the Giant Race, massive as small hills, with strength to pull up mountains and rivers, their aura overwhelming the world. They lifted hundred-zhang high mountains with a mere raise of their hands.
The Human Race, Angel Race, Centaur Race, Dragon Race, White Tiger Race, Ape Race, Sky Tiger Race... one powerful race after another coexisted in this world. He also saw the legendary Starry Sky Behemoths, their colossal bodies far larger than mountain ranges, walking among the stars, visible even from the ground.
Massive Sky Cities floated in the heavens, along with vast, continuous heavenly palaces and enormous divine islands suspended in the air, inhabited by beings revered and awed by mortals.
Ye Chen gazed into the distance and saw, at the farthest horizon, a divine tree standing there, immeasurably huge. Its trunk was countless times thicker than any mountain range, towering into the boundless starry sky.
Its canopy spread out, enveloping star domains, with countless stars entangled within its branches and leaves, shining brilliantly.
He could also see one real world after another adhering with this colossal divine tree. Some were already fully formed and immense.
Others were still in their embryonic state, constantly evolving.
The World Tree!
Ye Chen knew that was the true World Tree, grown to its absolute peak, as high as the heavens, its canopy capable of covering star domains, its branches and leaves capable of entangling the myriad stars, capable of giving birth to vast worlds.
No wonder it was said that the World Tree, grown to its peak, could rival Emperors and Sovereigns in battle. Seeing such a massive World Tree that could give birth to worlds, one could understand its power.
It could be said that this was an incomparably powerful world, far stronger than imagined, and even more powerful than the current myriad realms. Ye Chen knew this was the distant, untraceable previous epoch—
The Mythical Era!
Through the eyes of the demon race's supreme existence, he had inadvertently entered this mysterious epoch and witnessed its power, surpassing all before it, unprecedented.
Crack—
Suddenly, from the Nine Heavens above, several sky-covering, black-scaled giant claws reached out. The heavens collapsed and the earth split. Boundless shadows enveloped the land, blocking out the sun, plunging everything into darkness.
Scales as vast as stars covered the giant claws, entwined with endless demonic mist, shaking the Nine Heavens, inspiring boundless terror.
Stars shattered, ten suns fell, and the myriad moons were annihilated. The world was completely plunged into darkness.
A vast, boundless world fell into eternal darkness.
At the highest point of the heavens, endless Supreme One pressure erupted, causing the myriad heavens to crack. Those were the Emperors and Sovereigns of the Mythical Era, accompanied by countless powerful beings, following the Supreme Great Emperor into battle.
At the farthest horizon, heaven and earth shattered, chaos churned, and the most terrifying battle unfolded.
The World Tree swayed, generating vast world power that stabilized heaven and earth. Branch after branch, thicker than mountain ranges, flew out, clashing with the giant claws in the sky, shaking stars loose.
But one giant claw after another appeared in the sky—not just scaled claws, but also claws covered in red fur, and vast hands resembling those of the Human Race, tearing apart heaven and earth.
In the Mythical Era, peerless experts also took action. Though not Emperors and Sovereigns, they were still immensely powerful. One expert after another let out long roars, their entire divine power burning as they charged towards the giant claws like moths to a flame, soaring upwards to attack.
Terrifying alien creatures continuously appeared, incredibly powerful. Endless creatures of the demon race emerged, along with other fearsome races, such as those covered entirely in red fur, and strange races, each one extremely powerful and terrifying, blotting out the heavens and earth, actually overwhelming the myriad races of the Mythical Era.
All living beings cried out in sorrow. Countless powerful beings fell from the heavens, losing their lives.
One bright light after another in the sky completely dimmed—those were powerful existences, falling one after another.
Divine cities shattered; divine islands and heavenly palaces fell from the sky, turning to dust.
Darkness enveloped the land; there was no light.
Blood stained the vast earth, corpses littered the ground, from the Human Race to the Centaur Race, Angel Race, Demon Race, and even the star-sized behemoths—they were everywhere. Throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, endless bloody rain fell, mingled with tears of blood, as heaven and earth wept together.
The colossal divine tree standing at the farthest horizon, towering into the starry sky beyond the domain, also fell. Its unimaginably thick trunk snapped. The canopy that had entangled the myriad stars withered, heading towards extinction. And heaven and earth began to collapse; the eternal sky rapidly shattered.
Finally, this vast, boundless world shattered into pieces, broken, no longer whole.
The outcome of the Supreme Great Emperor's battle against the great enemy at the highest point of the heavens was unknown. All that was known was that endless blood-red light dyed the vast world crimson.
Then, the several terrifying giant claws retreated. Dark, evil blood splattered down, each drop like an ocean, causing continents spanning millions of li to shatter, also corrupting this world, turning it into a dark continent devoid of life.
Only after a long time did living beings appear again—the survivors of the myriad peoples. Their numbers had drastically decreased by who knows how many times, leaving only a small, surviving remnant. They wept in sorrow, shedding tears of blood, kneeling and bowing to heaven and earth.
Finally, everything vanished. The rise and fall of the Mythical Era seemed to have been witnessed.
Ye Chen, standing within it as an observer, quickly witnessed a glorious, peak epoch encountering great destruction. But he did not see everything. He knew this was only a small part, for the fates of those Emperors and Sovereigns were unseen, and many races were not seen.
But he could feel the immense crisis encountered in that era, which shattered the boundless world, even toppling and breaking the World Tree that could prop up the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
World after world shattered, and the endless living beings residing within them perished along with them.
Finally, Ye Chen emerged from that illusory world. The tenth divine halo dimmed, the endless divine power dissipated, and he returned to normal.
He found himself in a mysterious void, beside which flowed a mysterious, vast, and boundless river, with towering waves crashing against the heavens, causing the stars to tremble.
He could see scenes existing within it, like a passage to the Void Heaven Domain, seemingly capable of reflecting the myriad realms, but even more mysterious.
He looked upstream along the river, which reflected events that had already occurred, from the ancient era to the present, with fragments of time and space fluttering about.
Looking at his current position, scenes also appeared. He saw Zhao Tianyi standing there, as if time and space had been frozen.
He also saw the Tai Chu Female Saint Lord, the Ancient Heavenly Court Divine General, the Buddhist Divine Monk, and other super-powerful beings.
All scenes were frozen in place.
And he also saw himself, standing beside Zhao Tianyi.
He understood. This river was not an ordinary river, but the River of Time.