The Eighteen Roc Forms, the Dragon-Slaying Technique, and the Roc Movement Technique were all truly first-rate, supreme divine ability secret arts, their profundities limitless.
These were the supreme divine abilities of the demon race.
Especially when executed by the Golden-Winged Roc, these abilities could be unleashed to their absolute peak potential.
The Golden-Winged Roc was only thirty feet in size, yet its entire body was covered in golden divine feathers, standing on end, imprinted with intricate Dao patterns, resembling one golden divine sword after another, clanging and ringing, radiating dazzling golden brilliance.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Thirty-six thousand swords slashed out, severing the vast sky, reaching everywhere without distinction, attacking indiscriminately.
The Eighteen Roc Forms, the ancient Divine Roc's killing great technique, created by the ancestor of the Golden-Winged Roc, possessed boundless might. It had left a formidable reputation across two universes, having slain countless gods and demons.
The Roc Dragon-Slaying Technique was an even mightier secret art created by the First Generation Saint Spirit Golden-Winged Roc to contend with the Ancestor True Dragon, forged specifically for slaying dragons. Legend said it had truly slaughtered a True Dragon in the Mythical Era, making it renowned far and wide.
With all the strongest divine abilities of the Roc race fully displayed, the Golden-Winged Roc was simply invincible between heaven and earth.
Even Ye Chen was forced to stop suppressing himself. The tenfold divine nature halo manifested completely, a layer of indestructible light enveloping his body, making him imperishable and indestructible, resisting all attacks.
Moreover, faith power augmented his Primordial Spirit, elevating his perception to the limit. On one hand, he used the Battle Saint Technique as his main method, supplemented by the Eighteen Roc Forms and Dragon-Slaying Technique, engaging in a life-and-death confrontation with the Golden-Winged Roc. On the other hand, he was also secretly learning its techniques.
Only by facing a Golden-Winged Roc employing the purest Roc race divine abilities could one, through confrontation, comprehensively comprehend the various fearsome divine abilities of the Roc race, continuously perfecting and refining one's own grasp of them.
Furthermore, his comprehension was exceptionally high. During the battle, he also continuously displayed divine abilities, constantly correcting and perfecting them.
This battle was unexpectedly prolonged, lasting a full seven days and eight nights before it finally ended, with Ye Chen passing the trial.
However, the final outcome was not Ye Chen defeating the Golden-Winged Roc. The Pass Guardian of the tenth level, the Golden-Winged Roc, was completely a Tenth Heaven young generation's supreme Saint Spirit from the Mythical Era level—terrifyingly powerful, excessively strong, fundamentally invincible.
Although Ye Chen possessed the invincible Battle Sacred Body, aided by Dragon Source, Nine Tribulation Gold, and Chaos Blood, in the final analysis, he was still in the initial stages. The help could not be too significant.
Moreover, he seriously suspected whether the Golden-Winged Roc on the Human Sovereign Pagoda was the combat imprint left behind by the very first Golden-Winged Roc from the Mythical Era. It was extremely powerful and peerless, simply terrifyingly boundless.
Not only were its combat skills utterly terrifying, but it also possessed the most dreadful combat awareness, giving him the feeling that he was confronting that First Generation Saint Spirit who had roamed freely across two universes in the Mythical Era, nearly impossible to resist.
That he could ultimately pass the trial was partly due to him being sufficiently powerful. As the first Tenth Heaven Supreme One genius after the Mythical Era, and also a Battle Sacred Body, the strength of his golden treasure body was nearly unparalleled among his peers. In a battle of the same realm, he feared nothing.
The other reason was that the Pass Guardians within the Human Sovereign Pagoda would automatically disappear after a certain period; otherwise, this battle would have been even longer.
Even a Supreme One genius as powerful as Ye Chen had no certainty of victory, because from the very beginning, he had gone all out without hiding the slightest bit of his strength.
Naturally, external forces like World Power and faith power didn't count, as Ye Chen wanted to better temper himself and hadn't used them.
Unfortunately, even so, throughout the entire battle, he had been completely pulverized over seven times. If not for the existence of the two supreme saint techniques—the God King Rebirth Technique and the Saint Body Regeneration Technique—he would have long been reduced to ashes.
After the battle, Ye Chen's essence, energy, and spirit were utterly exhausted, depleted to the extreme. The light of his Primordial Spirit had dimmed immeasurably compared to before the fight, like a flickering firefly compared to the bright moon—not worth mentioning.
Fortunately, the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the tenth level was exceptionally abundant and incredibly dense, flowing continuously.
But even so, Ye Chen spent a full month adjusting before recovering to his peak, because the depletion had been truly immense.
Naturally, confronting a Mythical Saint Spirit was immensely beneficial, especially being able to experience many combat sensations from the previous epoch. He gained a whole new level of insight and understanding regarding the combat techniques of the Mythical Epoch, worth slowly contemplating.
Simultaneously, later on, Ye Chen truly came to understand that his speculation had come true. The Golden-Winged Roc he had confronted was indeed the combat imprint left by the First Generation Saint Spirit from the Mythical Era.
This was verified after he found a stele inscribed with ancient script from the Mythical Era within the thousand-mile-wide space and deduced its meaning.
This stele was a Roc Race Sacred Stele left behind by the First Generation Golden-Winged Roc from the Mythical Epoch. Upon it was left a combat imprint of the First Generation Saint Spirit, equivalent to its combat incarnation, containing all its combat techniques and experience, truly invincible within the same realm.
Originally, this was a sacred object specifically left for the Golden-Winged Roc race, preserved to train outstanding descendants. Unfortunately, after the Great Mythical Destruction, the few pure-blooded Saint Spirits of the Golden-Winged Roc race at that time all perished. The other impure-blooded Roc races were almost completely wiped out. The race's sacred land was destroyed, leading to the loss of this Roc Race Sacred Stele.
After the Mythical destruction, the Myriad Domains rose. It was later obtained by a generation's Ancient Human Sovereign, but he neither returned it to the Roc race nor announced it to the world. Instead, he sealed it into the Human Sovereign Pagoda, serving both as a Pass Guardian for one level and as a means to temper the Human Sovereign trial-takers.
Naturally, this combat imprint was equivalent to the First Generation Saint Spirit personally taking action. It would battle challengers at the same realm and was also invincible within that realm.
After all, the First Generation Saint Spirit ancestor of the Golden-Winged Roc was an existence that shook the nine heavens and ten earths even within the Mythical Era. Moreover, in that epoch, the Tenth Heaven had not yet vanished; it was undoubtedly a Tenth Heaven young generation's supreme existence.
Furthermore, as a Saint Spirit born of heaven and earth, how could it be weak?
Although Ye Chen did not achieve victory, being able to persist to this extent was already sufficient to demonstrate his immense strength.
The Golden-Winged Roc was a Saint Spirit invincible within the same realm, let alone a Tenth Heaven First Generation Saint Spirit. Probably even the young Emperors and Sovereigns of the Mythical Era were merely like this.
"What an impressive Ancient Human Sovereign," Ye Chen sighed softly, stroking the sacred stele left by the First Generation Saint Spirit Golden-Winged Roc. Upon it was only a single divine trace, shaped like a Golden-Winged Roc, imprinted on the sacred stele. "The Human Sovereign Trial he created is truly born for the future Human Sovereign. Just the tenth level already features the combat imprint of the First Generation Golden-Winged Roc. I'm afraid the later levels will be no weaker than the Golden-Winged Roc at the very least, and there might even be combat imprints of Mythical Emperors and Sovereigns."