Over the past epoch, the various powerhouses who emerged from the Deficient Primordial Realm had faced targeting from numerous factions and supreme experts within the Origin Land.
The Lingxiao Heavenly Clan before them was one such faction, and a behemoth of an Eternal Heavenly Clan at that.
Throughout the past epoch, many powerhouses from the Deficient Primordial Realm had been slain by the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan.
Ye Junlin himself had nearly been killed by a half-step Overlord from the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan years ago, suffering severe injuries.
Naturally, Ye Junlin had not only inherited Ye Chen's talent but also his temperament—vengeful to the core. He had slain many of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan's supreme experts, both openly and covertly.
Thus, upon encountering each other within the Fallen Heaven Secret Realm, it was a case of enemies meeting with eyes blazing red.
Not long ago, Ye Junlin had been under pursuit by the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan because they had even brought along a Supreme Realm Ancestral existence.
However, due to the direct cause of Ye Chen's advancement to Eternal Heavenly Venerate, the bloodlines within his descendants underwent a mutation, directly transforming into Eternal Bloodlines, their potential awakening and strength increasing directly.
Yet, the situation took a drastic turn. Just as the Eternal Bloodline within Ye Junlin's body was rapidly activating, he suddenly felt as if the boiling, endlessly surging Eternal Bloodline providing boundless power had been doused with cold water.
It rapidly dimmed, as if it had never been activated in the first place.
Ye Junlin was horrified.
Not because a great enemy lay ahead, nor because a Supreme Realm Overlord was watching him covetously.
But because he felt he had lost contact with his father.
The suddenly extinguished Eternal Bloodline seemed to no longer exist.
He witnessed everything that had transpired in the Endless Void Land, utterly terrified, for he saw his father, who had been on the verge of ascending to supreme Eternity, suddenly meet with calamity. He was jointly slain by two Eternal Heavenly Venerates, his Eternal Heavenly Soul annihilated, killed on the final path to success.
Although, in the end, an Eternal Heavenly Venerate had intervened—one he was familiar with—it was already too late.
His father's body no longer housed a soul; only a shattered husk remained, plummeting into the endless darkness of the Void Land.
"Father!"
Ye Junlin roared, his eyes bloodshot, on the verge of turning demonic.
The secret realm world trembled violently as terrifying, boundless energy erupted from his body.
"The Eternal Heavenly Venerate who emerged from the Deficient Primordial Realm has fallen."
The many supreme experts of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan pursuing Ye Junlin were also shocked. They were one of the Origin Heavenly Clans of the Origin Land, spanning infinite ages. In an extremely ancient era, an Eternal Heavenly Venerate had been born among them, leading the clan to become a supreme Eternal Heavenly Clan.
Now, even though that Lingxiao Heavenly Clan Venerate had long since fallen in the great battle of the Twilight of the Heavens, the clan remained an Eternal Heavenly Clan, unchangeable, still standing at the absolute peak of the Origin Land.
Precisely because of this, they understood better than anyone the supreme status of an Eternal Heavenly Venerate. One person's existence defined a clan as a supreme Eternal Heavenly Clan.
Even after falling, they remained an Eternal Heavenly Clan.
Now, a top-tier expert standing at the pinnacle of the pyramid within the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan had personally witnessed a supreme Eternal Heavenly Venerate fall in the Endless Void Land.
Even though among them was a Supreme Realm Overlord, one of the sovereigns of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan, he could not help but tremble with fear.
That was an Eternal Heavenly Venerate. Throughout all of history, there had only ever been thirty-three.
In the present era, only ten remained.
Now, before their eyes, one had been slain, had fallen.
Without a doubt, this was an earth-shattering event.
"A living Heavenly Venerate has fallen!"
The voice of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan's Supreme Realm Overlord carried a tremor.
That scene seemed to return him to his youth, when he had witnessed that great battle separated by infinite ages, a scene he could never forget to this day. He had personally seen his own clan's supreme Heavenly Venerate fall. The phenomena were identical, only now even more intense.
The fall of an Eternal Heavenly Venerate was an immense shock to anyone.
"Ye Junlin's Eternal Bloodline hasn't fully activated yet. Kill him!"
The Supreme Realm Overlord had naturally also witnessed the tragic state of that Eternal Heavenly Venerate from the Deficient Primordial Realm, slain by the true bodies of two Eternal Heavenly Venerates including Tai Yuan Heavenly Venerate. There was no chance of survival; death was certain.
Originally, they had feared offending a living Heavenly Venerate and thus had some reservations. Now, those reservations were gone.
The Supreme Battle Spear returned. The Supreme Realm Overlord's body erupted with billions of layers of dark light, like a peerless demon lord. With each step, ten thousand layers of the heavens seemed on the verge of collapse. Supreme might billowed for billions of miles as he personally charged to kill Ye Junlin.
Ye Junlin went berserk, disregarding everything. Chaos light erupted in billions of layers from his body, and the roar of a Primordial Dragon resounded, shattering the endless heavens and earth. Wielding the Chaos Emperor Sword, he charged at this Supreme Realm Overlord.
However, although Ye Junlin had been in the Origin Land for over an epoch and his cultivation had greatly increased during that time, reaching the half-step Overlord level, the gap compared to a true Supreme Realm Overlord was still vast.
The battle was fierce, but there would be little surprise in the outcome.
Ye Junlin was covered in blood, his body pierced by that fearsome Supreme Battle Spear in who knew how many bloody holes. Chaos blood gushed forth, unable to heal, the wounds interfered with by the terrifying Supreme Realm rules preventing recovery.
Even his form and spirit had been shattered more than once.
The gap was too great!
However, having activated most of his Eternal Bloodline granted Ye Junlin astonishing vitality. Even a powerful Supreme Realm Overlord would find it difficult to kill him in a short time.
Ye Junlin reformed his flesh and soul once more. Though hard to kill, these repeated severe injuries gravely damaged his origin. Now, facing the encirclement of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan, it seemed he would have great difficulty escaping alive.
Boom—
At this moment, the Fallen Heaven Secret Realm was suddenly torn open by a massive rift. A majestic, boundless figure forced its way in.
The great worlds and stars that originally existed within this secret realm exploded one after another, transforming into a sky full of meteors that wildly crashed into the secret realm along with that figure.
Heavens collapsed and earth split; endless areas of the secret realm were being destroyed.
"Who is it?"
The voice of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan's Ancestral Overlord, An Nan Supreme, rose sharply. Beside him, the other numerous powerhouses of the Lingxiao Heavenly Clan focused their attention.
It must be known that those great worlds and stars were not comparable to those of the Deficient Primordial Realm. Especially those born within the secret realms of the Origin Land—they were the original great worlds and stars within the Eternal Great Realms of Eternal Heavenly Venerates, imbued with Eternal Power, extraordinary and possessing immortal divine nature.
Each great world was nearly akin to an Indestructible Great World of Ten Thousand Ancient Epochs, possessing fearsome defenses capable of withstanding a strike from a giant.
Now, however, the numerous great worlds of the secret realm world, along with the myriad stars, transformed into massive fireballs as they crashed in.