On the blood-stained River of Time, a terrifying, world-shaking battle was taking place.
Those were Supreme Heavenly Venerate-level existences, not just one, but a full five of them had appeared.
Without a doubt, this was an unimaginably fearsome lineup.
Each figure was incomparably towering and lofty, rising to the highest reaches of the River of Time, blotting out the sky and sun, blocking the flow of time, and exuding an aura of great terror capable of annihilating all ages.
Even more terrifying was that an unprecedented, world-shaking battle was raging there—a heavenly war!
At this moment, a peerless figure wreathed in endless fragments of time, bearing a great bell whose tolling rippled out, shaking past, present, and future, was locked in fierce combat with those terrifying figures.
"Endless Heavenly Venerate!"
Ye Chen knew that must be the Endless Heavenly Venerate. He just hadn't expected him to be besieged by multiple Celestial Sovereign Level terrors.
No wonder the Endless Heavenly Race had been annihilated. Even one as powerful as him was powerless to attend to other matters.
Clearly, the situation was extremely dire. Even the mighty Endless Heavenly Venerate, who dominated his era and was peerless throughout history, was now stained with blood.
His battle armor was shattered, his great bell more than half broken.
He was covered in blood, the majestic power of the Space-Time Heavenly Dao blooming, shaking the ages, yet unable to transmit beyond.
Everything was blocked by those several Supreme Heavenly Venerate-level terrors.
Otherwise, the other Supreme Heavenly Venerates couldn't possibly be unaware of events on the River of Time. If they sensed this, they might have intervened to rescue him.
Ye Chen opened his Heavenly Eyes, wanting to see who these several Supreme Heavenly Venerate-level existences were.
However, what made Ye Chen's expression turn grave was that these several Supreme Heavenly Venerate-level existences were not familiar Supreme Heavenly Venerates, nor were they among the thirty-three Supreme Heavenly Venerates born in ancient times.
Yet that fluctuation that suppressed all ages left no doubt—they were undoubtedly Celestial Sovereign Level.
"Another has come!"
A sinister voice came from the River of Time. It was one of the Celestial Sovereign Level terrors. He looked at Ye Chen, possessing ten eyes and ten arms, his body wreathed in unparalleled dark aura. His ten eyes emitted an eerie, bloody light, waves of Celestial Sovereign Level power rippling forth.
The other Celestial Sovereign Level terrors besieging the Endless Heavenly Venerate also looked over, their gazes utterly sinister.
"He is not of this era either. He too comes from another time and space, also Celestial Sovereign Level, and very powerful!"
Another Celestial Sovereign Level terror spoke thus. He resembled a True Dragon, a Teng Snake, a Kun Peng, a Phoenix, a Zhu Yan... combining the features of various ancient sacred spirits into one body—a very special Celestial Sovereign Level terror. Black mist shrouded him, his eyes glowing with crimson light.
Just like those peerless powerhouses of past generations driven mad within the Endless Forbidden Zone, like the controlled peerless ones of the Eternal Night Land.
It reminded Ye Chen of a place.
The land beyond the Thirty-three Heavens sealed by generations of Heavenly Venerates.
Could they originate from that place?
Ye Chen's expression was grave. That was a place that even he deeply dreaded, filled with sinister strangeness, but it was sealed. Logically, at this stage, or even earlier stages, it shouldn't be possible to break the seals.
Could they be from the future, a future even farther than his own?
It was said the Endless Heavenly Venerate encountered a great calamity while traversing past, present, and future, causing him to suddenly withdraw. Now, Ye Chen suspected the place the Endless Heavenly Venerate traversed was likely the future—a Blood-Stained Future.
He remembered when he previously glimpsed a corner of the Blood-Stained Future and tried to investigate, he was blocked by a Celestial Sovereign Level terror.
Boom—
Ye Chen's body erupted with endless Chaos light. He strode forward, intending to lend aid to the Endless Heavenly Venerate.
On the River of Time, as they were not from the same temporal space, the restrictions were the same for all. Therefore, he dared to unleash his strongest combat power to fight.
"Fellow Daoist, do not come forward!"
At that moment, a voice rang out—it was the Endless Heavenly Venerate.
He stopped Ye Chen from advancing. At this moment, the Endless Heavenly Venerate had transformed into three Heavenly Venerate bodies, each possessing Celestial Sovereign Level combat power.
These were the Endless Heavenly Venerate's Three World Bodies. Having attained the Eternal Heavenly Dao through Space-Time, the Endless Heavenly Venerate differentiated three true bodies: past, present, and future, each representing one world-body.
As long as his three world-bodies were not slain, the Endless Heavenly Venerate would not die.
This was also among the reasons the Endless Heavenly Venerate was reputed as the hardest Supreme Heavenly Venerate to kill.
Yet now, all three world-bodies had appeared, each covered in blood, scarred by battle, fiercely fighting the Celestial Sovereign Level terrors.
Ye Chen could see how perilous the Endless Heavenly Venerate's situation was. All three world-bodies were present, unleashing their strongest Celestial Sovereign Level combat power, wrathfully battling the five Celestial Sovereign Level terrors.
He also knew that employing the Three World Bodies must come at a great cost for the Endless Heavenly Venerate. Otherwise, an Endless Heavenly Venerate possessing three Celestial Sovereign Level true bodies, if he could use them freely, would undoubtedly rank among the strongest Heavenly Venerates of the Thirty-three Heavenly Venerates, perhaps not inferior to the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerate or the Great God Pangu, and qualified to contend for the title of Heavenly Venerate King.
While fighting fiercely, the Endless Heavenly Venerate said, "Fellow Daoist, I wish to know, how far has my descendant progressed in the future?"
As the Space-Time Heavenly Venerate, he naturally could tell Ye Chen came from the future.
Ye Chen knew who the Endless Heavenly Venerate referred to as his descendant. After a moment of silence, he said, "He is well."
"That is good enough."
The Endless Heavenly Venerate gave a light smile. "My Endless lineage has ultimately left behind a seed. He will inherit from me and will ultimately become even stronger than I!"
Boom—
As his words fell, his aura grew even more powerful. The auras of his three Heavenly Venerate world-bodies rippled. He gazed at the five Celestial Sovereign Level terrors ahead and declared, "Today, I, Endless, traversed past, present, and future, inadvertently encountering the most terrifying obstruction, causing my Heavenly Race to be annihilated because of me. I have failed them. But to let future generations know of this, I also left behind corresponding means. Now that a future person has truly come and witnessed this scene, I, Endless, have no regrets."
That contingency was those fragments of time.
Only a Supreme Heavenly Venerate could trigger them and traverse time and space to arrive.
"Today, even if I, Endless, perish, I will make you all pay a grievous price!"
All three Heavenly Venerate world-bodies simultaneously ignited, their terrifying Heavenly Venerate might rippling across the River of Time as they charged at the five Celestial Sovereign Level terrors.
Ye Chen attempted to intervene and assist several times, but each time the Endless Heavenly Venerate stopped him. For the latter knew he was doomed, while Ye Chen was not. Coming from a distant future and not being a master of the Space-Time Heavenly Dao, intervening would inevitably incur the backlash of temporal causality.
The Endless Heavenly Venerate only wanted Ye Chen to know what had happened here, unwilling to let causality fall upon him.
"Fellow Daoist, you should leave. As long as you let people know what happened here, there will be hope to withstand the Tribulation of Calamity in the future!"
The Endless Heavenly Venerate spoke, then resolutely charged forward, standing alone at the forefront, burning himself to withstand all calamities.
The other Supreme Heavenly Venerates wanted to stop him, but were suppressed by the Endless Heavenly Venerate's power and could not intervene.
A powerful force swept up Ye Chen's avatar, pulling him away from the River of Time, away from this era.