A Saint-level battle erupted in the heavens, with about thirty Saints engaged in an incredibly fierce conflict.
Although the other factions had a few more people in terms of numbers, they were from various forces and far less united than the Heavenly Gate side.
Moreover, not long after the battle began, Saints from the major powers began to fall.
They were slain by Ye Chen.
Though only a Demi-Saint, his strength was immeasurably beyond that realm, terrifying to the extreme, capable of slaughtering Saints beneath the starry sky.
This fact was feared by everyone.
Every Immortal True King could slay enemies across major realms, and the Battle Saint King was a Mythical Ten Heavens Supreme beyond even the Immortal True Kings, coupled with his invincible Battle Sacred Body. This combination destined him for peerless invincibility, allowing him to challenge Saints while in a lower realm.
Indeed, after just slaughtering one Saint, Ye Chen charged towards the next.
That was a Saint from the Azure Nether Sect. Facing this killing star, the Battle Saint King, his face instantly paled. He dared not confront him at all and simply fled.
This scene left countless people dumbfounded, but even more were horrified.
It was precisely because the Battle Saint King was terrifying enough that this Azure Nether Sect Saint dared not face him, knowing confrontation meant certain death. Escape was the best choice.
However—
"Daring to flee before me, you are quite something. Pity that if not for that Demi-Saint from your Azure Nether Sect who berated me, I wouldn't have bothered with your sect's trouble."
Ye Chen smiled faintly. His figure moved like a phantom, employing the Boundary-Traversing Secret Art as if traversing the myriad realms, arriving before that Azure Nether Sect Saint in the blink of an eye.
Who knows how many times that Azure Nether Sect Saint cursed that Demi-Saint's ancestors eighteen generations in his heart. Of all people to provoke, he had to provoke this great killing star—a figure infamous for daring to slay even the masters of immortal forces. Damn it, the Azure Nether Sect Saint really wanted to curse like that.
"Qingming World!"
The Azure Nether Sect Saint roared, directly executing the Azure Nether Sect's world-renowned divine ability—Qingming World!
A vast, hazy azure world phantom manifested, enveloping heaven and earth. Countless wails of ghosts and howls of spirits rang out, thousands upon thousands. Hordes of fierce ghosts and wraiths surged forth, an endless stream, like the eighteen layers of hell.
Moreover, each fierce ghost and wraith possessed real combat power, wielding various weapons, exuding waves of Yin cold as they charged at Ye Chen.
Yet Ye Chen laughed, unafraid, even revealing a trace of mockery. "Daring to employ such Yin-cold divine abilities before me, you truly are a rare specimen."
Boom—
Infinite golden blood energy from his Saint Body exploded forth, directly flooding the entire vast Qingming World. The blood energy burned like fire, scorching the firmament. All the fierce ghosts and wraiths, before they could even reach Ye Chen, were utterly evaporated, turned to ashes.
The Azure Nether Sect Saint's heart ached at this sight. The fierce ghosts and wraiths within this sacred land's Qingming World were collected from true Yin-evil entities between heaven and earth, extremely rare.
Gathering so many had taken an unknown length of time, at least over a thousand years. Yet, in a single encounter, Ye Chen had incinerated them all.
"The Azure Nether Sect actually cultivates such demonic and evil divine abilities. Truly, they cannot be left to exist. They must be slain!"
Ye Chen coldly shouted.
Crack—
Accompanied by the sweep of his Heaven-Shaking Hand, space itself was automatically torn open into an extremely deep, pitch-black spatial rift, slicing down upon that hostile faction Saint.
Without surprise, the Azure Nether Sect Saint's body was easily cleaved in two from the left shoulder to the right waist, blood gushing forth, white bones exposed.
The might of the Battle Saint Art was displayed without reservation, severely wounding a Saint and splitting him in two in an instant.
But the Azure Nether Sect Saint directly ignited his Primordial Spirit. A boundless light erupted from between his eyebrows as his Primordial Spirit infant shot towards the space between Ye Chen's eyebrows, seeking mutual destruction.
Roar—
Ye Chen let out a great roar that shattered heaven and earth, causing the vast sky to crumble inch by inch into pitch-black darkness.
That Saint's Primordial Spirit and his cleaved body simultaneously exploded into a mist of blood, completely ceasing to exist.
The Battle Saint King was overwhelmingly invincible. Powerful as a super expert who had stepped into the Saint Treasury Realm, even an early-stage Saint was sonot worth a single blow / utterly weak, directly exploding in body and spirit, dying utterly shattered.
Such was his peerless, supreme might!
The entire city was shaken!
It was said that the Battle Saint King, having survived a certain-death situation in the past, must have paid the heaviest price. Even if he revived in the Starry Sky Land of the Heavenly Pass, it was only temporary, impossible to last forever.
Yet after twelve years of seclusion, though he had not recovered his past peak cultivation, that price seemed to have vanished. It was as if he had simply reincarnated and cultivated anew, now reaching a terrifying level.
Though still only at the Demi-Saint realm, the sheer strength of his cultivation was such that he could roar a Saint to death, a testament to his power.
Ye Chen, though still a Demi-Saint, had been continuously accumulating divine energy, awaiting a greater leap upon breaking through to the Saint Treasury Realm. His Dao realm, however, remained that of his past life, capable of suppressing Saint Lords.
Coupled with his supreme Battle Sacred Body, he had long since transcended ordinary Saints.
The Saint-level battle in the heavens was fierce, but there would be no unexpected outcome. With two Saints slain in a row by the Battle Saint King, the Heavenly Gate side's morale soared, while the Saints of the other forces' morale plummeted, one rising as the other fell.
In the end, however, the Saints from the major powers were not completely slaughtered. Not long after, other Saintsin succession appeared, even including true Saint Lord figures, who stopped this battle.
After all, the fall of two or three Saints could be explained, but the fall of over a dozen would cause a tremendous uproar.
Ye Chen naturally understood this principle. The Heavenly Gate only needed to be forceful, not overly domineering.
Finally, Wangchen appeared, directly unleashing the most terrifying Heavenly King realm Dao might that swept across the vast sky, shaking the entire Tian Du Continent, causing everyone to tremble.
Only at this moment did the world truly understand the Heavenly Gate's absolute dominance. With a true Heavenly King present, they feared nothing.
Wangchen personally spoke up: from now on, no one was to pursue and kill members of the Slaying the Heavens Alliance, otherwise they would be considered his enemy.
When a Heavenly King spoke, who dared disobey? The major powers all bowed their heads. Even supreme Sacred Lands and Imperial or Royal clans had no objections, silently acquiescing.
The other Heavenly Kings remained silent.
Everything was settled.
The matter of the Slaying the Heavens Alliance was formally concluded.
The strong members of the Slaying the Heavens Alliance no longer needed to hide east and west, living miserable,disarray / wretched statelife on the run days.
Twelve years had passed. It was finally over.
Yet for Ye Chen, the real matters were not yet finished. Because on the King's Ancient Path were his parents, clansmen, friends, and the hope of the Tian Du Continent.