Ye Chen's body trembled slightly as he gazed into the deepest part of the passageway, feeling both shock and a trace of bewilderment.
What exactly existed inside that was calling out to him, giving him the impulse to charge straight into the very heart of it?
"This is..." Boom—
At that moment, a terrifying fluctuation erupted, and a blazing passageway appeared. It was a channel opened by several ancient Great Sages working together. They felt the time was about right and were preparing to guide everyone back.
"All of you, return. We are powerless now. If you do not return, you will be forever trapped in this world."
The voice of the ancient Great Sages came through, carrying deep exhaustion.
Clearly, even beings as powerful as these ancient Great Sages were tired, beginning to weaken, finding it difficult to sustain their efforts, and needed to retreat.
The killing intent within the Emperor's Pass channel was too terrifying, far surpassing any of their previous battles, endless and boundless.
If not for the need to bring these people back, they would have withdrawn long ago, not staying in the channel, straining to maintain its stability.
The various overlords were naturally very unwilling. The legendary Primordial Immortal Realm was right before their eyes, almost within reach.
But the price required was also immense, demanding the sacrifice of at least two-thirds of their lives. These people were the true elites of their respective major powers, not ordinary disciples or elders, and were indispensable.
In the end, they could only sigh and withdraw.
The allied army rumbled towards the blazing passageway, preparing to return, to go back to the myriad realms.
The Primordial Female Saint Lord took the initiative to hold Ye Chen's hand, her eyes filled with tender affection. She said softly, "Let's go, little brother. We'll go back together."
"Alright." Ye Chen gave a light smile. But at that very moment, he suddenly trembled slightly. Standing there, he stared fixedly at that spatial channel. At this moment, his spiritual sense was sharpened to its limit, sensing the emergence of a deadly life-threatening crisis.
Within that blazing channel opened by the ancient Great Sages, killing intent was rising. It was not directed at everyone, but solely at him alone.
His expression darkened. He saw one overlord suddenly turn his head to look at him, giving a sinister, sneering smile full of coldness.
Judging by the attire, it was unmistakably an overlord from the Canglan Sacred Land. It was likely he had informed the ancient Great Sages about his revival.
Some among these ancient Great Sages wanted to target him, their killing intent spreading. Once he entered the channel, he would likely find it impossible to escape calamity.
"Little brother, what's wrong?" The Primordial Female Saint Lord asked, puzzled. Ye Chen told her everything.
The Primordial Female Saint Lord's peerlessly beautiful face suddenly turned ice-cold, a sharp killing intent soaring skyward. "I'll kill him."
But Ye Chen stopped her, shaking his head at her. He suddenly revived, not hesitating to expend one of the dozen or so drops of Heavenly King precious blood on his Heavenly King Spear. At this moment, he returned to his peak state, all for the sake of unleashing his most powerful attack.
Boom—
The overlord from the Canglan Sacred Land cried out in terror, "Battle Saint King, you dare to kill—"
Before he could finish his words, a brilliant immortal light, the most extreme in the world, shot into the channel and killed him, his blood splattering the blazing passageway.
Ye Chen returned to his withered, thin appearance, his expression icy. "There is nothing this Battle Saint King dares not do."
The crowd was horrified. The Battle Saint King had gone berserk, directly slaying an overlord to serve as a warning and intimidate the other overlords.
After suppressing the Canglan Sacred Land overlord, Ye Chen did not act further. It was enough to have intimidated the group of overlords. However, after leaving, he would face an even greater crisis.
The Primordial Female Saint Lord tightly grasped Ye Chen's hand, her smile blooming, causing heaven and earth to pale in comparison. She chuckled lightly, "Don't worry. I will be by your side through all dangers."
Ye Chen also firmly held the Primordial Female Saint Lord's delicate hand, revealing a smile. "This time, I will never be separated from you all again. This is a promise for a lifetime."
"Let's go!"
"Alright!"
A man and a woman walked into the blazing channel opened by the ancient Great Sages, leaving this starry land.
Faintly, as if in a trance, an inexplicable sigh seemed to echo from within that mysterious stone tablet passageway.
Ye Chen was suddenly shocked and looked back, but there was nothing there.
Within the Heavenly Pass channel, light blazed brilliantly. Countless phantom figures of deities and demons surged, three thousand deities roared, a hundred thousand great demons howled. Deities and demons resonated together, assaulting the nine heavens, carrying boundless killing intent to attack the ten ancient Great Sages.
The ten ancient Great Sages fought desperately, forgetting life and death. While attacking these deity and demon phantoms, they also jointly opened a channel to guide the powerful figures behind the Heavenly Pass back.
"Hmph!"
An ancient Great Sage suddenly snorted angrily. A fearsome killing intent manifested within the channel, actually directed at Ye Chen.
This made everyone pale. For this was no ordinary killing intent, but one emitted by an ancient Great Sage, terrifying beyond measure, utterly impossible to resist or withstand. Even a Heavenly King present would be annihilated.
No matter how powerful the Battle Saint King was, he could not withstand it.
Ye Chen's face changed. In his left hand appeared the incomplete Heavenly King Spear; in his right appeared the ancient bronze halberd of the Battle Saint lineage—the Primordial Battle Body!
However, another ancient Great Sage intervened, blocking this killing intent and forcing it back.
Another strand of divine sense transmitted into Ye Chen's mind, urging him to leave quickly.
Ye Chen's heart turned cold. As expected, the most troublesome thing had still happened.
In the end, the allied army all retreated smoothly from the Heavenly Pass, and retreated far enough, far away from the Heavenly Pass. Otherwise, the appearance of immeasurable killing intent would have been even more terrifying.
"Everyone, withdraw from the Heavenly Pass. Those who should have seen it have seen it. Close the Heavenly Pass, then seek your respective gains."
An ancient Great Sage spoke. It was the Palace Head of the Myriad Worlds Palace. His words gained the approval of the other ancient Great Sages.
But before the ten ancient Great Sages could retreat smoothly, a terrifying sound erupted from within the Heavenly Pass. Endless demonic mist surged forth, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.
It came from the deepest part of the channel, not from the gate of light the allied army had entered, but from another ancient world that was opening.
A terrifying, sinister aura continuously bloomed from that world, capable of covering the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers, vast and boundless, causing the living beings of this realm to tremble in fear.
What kind of existence was this? Even powerful Heavenly Kings like Solitary Sword Heavenly King, Wild Dye Heavenly King, and Wangchen felt a terrifying sense of dread.
Ye Chen's face changed. This situation was almost identical to what happened decades ago. It was the great evil within the Heavenly Pass appearing, awakened from its slumber, about to emerge into the world.