Swoosh—
The Hand of Heaven descended, like a divine blade cleaving down. The Sea God King was sent flying, a string of blood flowers blooming in his wake.
The Saint Lord-level divine armor on his body shattered completely. A massive wound stretched from his left shoulder to his right waist, nearly splitting his entire body in two. Even his divine bones were easily severed.
With just this one strike, the Sea God King was almost cut in half.
Utterly devastating!
Peerlessly invincible!
This was the invincible power of the Battle Saint King, completely surpassing that of a True King by far. The seven True Kings who had fled to the distant horizon watched with their scalps tingling and hearts pounding.
Far stronger than imagined.
Subsequently, Ye Chen flicked his finger, striking the Sea God King.
Swoosh—
The Sea God King, whose two halves were only connected by a layer of skin, was now completely torn in two. Blood gushed forth unceasingly, splattering into the void—a truly miserable sight.
Was this still the Immortal True King Sea God King, who dominated his generation and was revered with awe throughout the myriad realms?
If word of this spread across the myriad realms, it would surely cause a massive upheaval.
"Ah—"
The Sea God King roared in fury. There was pain, but more than that, it was the helpless frustration that filled him with silent rage, yet he could do nothing about it.
Because the Battle Saint King was far stronger than him. Though they differed by only one minor realm, the gap in power was as vast as heaven and earth.
How was this possible? The Battle Saint King was only at the sixth level of the Saint Realm, merely at the great perfection domain of the tenth level of the Mythical Realm. Could the gap really be this immense?
He too was an invincible Heaven's Pride, a peerless True King who dazzled the current era across the myriad realms, a prodigy from an ancient supreme Sacred Land.
Even if he couldn't win, it shouldn't be such a one-sided defeat, dealing him such a heavy blow. At the very least, there should have been dozens of intense exchanges; that would have been more acceptable.
Swoosh—
Ye Chen charged forward again, causing the Sea God King's expression to change drastically in horror. He hurriedly summoned a Saint Weapon to shield himself.
But under Ye Chen's invincible Saint Body, it was directly shattered. Many fragments even shot back and pierced into the Sea God King's severely wounded body, sending up high sprays of blood.
"Today, I shall slay a True King!"
Ye Chen declared coldly and indifferently, filled with killing intent. He struck out with the Heaven-Shaking Hand, shattering the heavens and earth. His invincible might pressed down upon the firmament, engulfing the heavily wounded Sea God King.
"Ah, Battle Saint King, you forced me into this!"
The Sea God King suddenly roared. In an instant, his two separated halves abruptly merged together. His entire body erupted with surging radiance as he forcefully clashed with Ye Chen.
Although the Sea God King was ultimately sent flying by Ye Chen's palm, and the hand he used to block directly exploded into a mist of blood, he was not killed.
What was going on?
Everyone was stunned, clearly sensing that the Sea God King's aura had undergone a shocking transformation, becoming much stronger.
"Battle Saint King, I didn't want this, but you forced me to do it. Today, even if I die, I will make you pay an unimaginable price!"
The Sea God King roared, his eyes suddenly turning blood-red. The blood within his body rumbled and boiled like raging waves, powerful enough to shatter heaven and earth. He swung his trident in fury, summoning vast swathes of the world's power, causing the very heavens and earth to seem on the verge of collapse.
His aura actually rose rapidly in a short time. A powerful force hidden deep within his blood was awakening, causing his entire being to ascend step by step.
The Sea God King's realm surpassed the sixth level, reaching the Saint Lord-level domain of the seventh level in the blink of an eye.
"Hmm? His blood contains powerful fragments of the Great Dao, awakening with his rage, making the Sea God King stronger. That is—"
Ye Chen did not attack again. Instead, he opened the Eyes of Heaven to thoroughly perceive everything within the Sea God King's body.
In that brief moment of observation, he saw the truth within the Sea God King. He could see that within his blood existed special fragments of the Great Dao, formed from infinitely profound divine Great Dao patterns and runes, born innately.
However, when he clearly saw what these fragments were, even he couldn't help but change his expression slightly: "Fiend God fragments!"
That's right, they were Fiend God fragments—fragments belonging to the Primordial Fiend Gods from the early days of the Myriad Domains Epoch.
Moreover, and more importantly, the Primordial Fiend Gods were a taboo in the myriad realms, almost no less forbidden than the alien race!
Because during the initial period of the Myriad Domains Epoch, the Primordial Fiend Gods plunged the entire myriad realms into a storm of blood and chaos, bringing misery to the people, filling the world with grievances, and staining the myriad domains with blood—a dark age.
This was the truth he learned from the memories of September Great Power, as well as from the Celestial Gate and the Primordial Sacred Land. When the Primordial Fiend Gods were mentioned, no one could remain unchanged in expression.
The other seven True Kings also slightly changed their expressions. Naturally, they too knew of the Primordial Fiend Gods—a bloody period. Any sufficiently ancient power had suffered under the brutal rule of the Primordial Fiend Gods during that era, harboring a deep-seated hatred from the bottom of their hearts.
They just never expected that the esteemed Immortal True King Sea God King would actually be a descendant of the Fiend Gods. If this news spread across the myriad realms, he would surely face a situation where everyone would chase him down like a rat in the streets.
And for such a long time, they had been unaware.
After a moment, the Sea God King finally calmed down, but he had completely transformed into a different appearance. His originally azure-blue hair had turned blood-red. On his handsome face, strange scales and Dao patterns appeared, interweaving across his features, making him look much more ferocious.
He had grown much taller, reaching a full ten feet in height. A pair of massive dragon wings sprouted from his back, and a tail covered in barbs grew out. His entire body was covered in pitch-black scales, appearing savage and terrifying, filled with a violent aura.
He was the very image of a fearsome Fiend God.
The greatly transformed Sea God King swept his gaze over Ye Chen before him and said coldly, "That's right. I am a descendant of the Primordial Fiend Gods, and moreover, a direct descendant of a Primordial Fiend God King."
It must be said, this was a rather astonishing fact. Being a descendant of the Primordial Fiend Gods was one thing, but being a descendant of a Primordial Fiend God King was far more terrifying than anyone could imagine.
If the Sea God King were to transform back into a Primordial Fiend God King in the future, it would be a colossal disaster for the entire myriad realms.
No one could forget the bloody era of Fiend God rule during the initial period of the epoch—it could be called a dark age. Even though an infinite amount of time had passed, too many ancient texts and relics recorded the darkness and bloodshed of that period.
Both Ye Chen and the other seven True Kings had to change their expressions. At this point, their primary enemy was still the Sea God King.
They could not allow a Primordial Fiend God King to grow.
It must be known that during the initial period of this epoch's birth, although it had experienced the Great Destruction of the Mythical Era and everything was in ruins awaiting revival, during that time, in accordance with the supreme principle of the cyclical operation of heaven and earth—where the extreme of life is death, and the extreme of death is life—the myriad realms, having just emerged from darkness, were instead filled with infinite vitality. Everything was in ruins awaiting revival, and it was during this period that the Primordial Fiend Gods were born.
In the early epoch, during the era before the Human Sovereign appeared, the myriad races were just beginning to emerge amidst calamities. In response to the world's fortune, a million Fiend Gods were born—the very embodiment of calamity. They once shook the myriad realms, disturbed the winds and clouds of the world, plunging many races born in the early epoch into the danger of extinction.
That was a calamity no less than the descent of the three great Demon Monarchs in history, perhaps even surpassing it.
They ruled the myriad realms for an entire era, an era also known as the Fiend God Era, or the Dark Blood Era. It wasn't until later, when the first Human Sovereign emerged in response to destiny, leading the various powerful races of the myriad realms to resist, that this Fiend God Era ended, ushering in the later era of coexistence and shared prosperity among the myriad races.
However, at the end of the Fiend God Era, several supremely powerful Primordial Fiend God Kings, leading many Fiend Gods, repeatedly confronted the first Ancient Human Sovereign.
These Primordial Fiend Gods were so powerful that even the first Ancient Human Sovereign, a Supreme One of the myriad realms, spent a full hundred thousand years—from the beginning of his reign as Human Sovereign until just before his abdication—locked in bloody and tearful battles that shook the myriad realms.
Many great domains had their landscapes completely altered, countless blessed lands and paradises were destroyed, and many regions became utterly desolate, their vitality severed. It took endless ages for them to slowly recover.
Especially the few leading Primordial Fiend God Kings, who were excessively powerful. They were true Supreme Ones born from absorbing the greatest fortune of the myriad realms, causing the first Human Sovereign of the Primordial Times to endure bloody and tearful hardships. Several times, he risked certain death, maneuvering beyond the domains, before finally managing to kill them.
After the Fiend God Era ended, the myriad realms, not yet recovered from the Great Destruction of the Mythical Era, once again fell into a state of severe depletion.
Moreover, not all of the million Fiend Gods were exterminated. Many were imprisoned, and it was even rumored that these Primordial Fiend Gods had descendants who went into hiding. Even the first Human Sovereign could not completely track them all down. Furthermore, the Primordial Fiend Gods' fearsome reputation was such that no one dared to oppose them at the time, allowing their bloodlines to be passed down.
Now it was clear: the Sea God King was a descendant of one of those Primordial Fiend God Kings, and his bloodline was extremely powerful and pure, not much inferior to Ye Gucheng's Emperor and Sovereign bloodline, with a tendency to achieve the status of a Primordial Fiend God King.
However, this Primordial Fiend God bloodline was, in a sense, a forbidden bloodline. Because of the terrible disaster the Primordial Fiend Gods once wrought upon the myriad realms, once such a bloodline appeared, people, fearing a repeat of the great calamity of the Primordial Times, would rise up together to attack and directly exterminate it.
But now, to resist the Battle Saint King, the Sea God King had begun to unleash it without regard for the consequences. Even if after this battle he would become an enemy of the myriad realms, he couldn't care less. Otherwise, he felt he would truly be killed by the Battle Saint King right here.
Ye Chen's voice turned many times colder: "I never expected there were still descendants of the Primordial Fiend Gods in existence, and descendants of a Primordial Fiend God King at that. But today, you will surely die!"
"Do you think that after my full eruption, you can still kill me?"
Visible to the naked eye, the blood within the Sea God King's body boiled completely, rumbling and shining with unparalleled, massive roars that resounded through the heavens, dominating the current era. Even terrifying Fiend God phantoms appeared.
There was a skeletal dragon with ten pairs of bat wings, a colossal star-devouring beast of the starry sky, and a fiendishly powerful Fiend God that was but a single eye...
Various Primordial Fiend God phantoms appeared, all incredibly fearsome, radiating boundless, terrifying auras. Even a massive, hazy kingly figure emerged, towering between heaven and earth, roaring at the sky, capable of contending with the great world.
This was the bloodline of a Primordial Fiend God King, fully awakened and even burning. At this moment, the aura it unleashed was not much weaker than Ye Chen's.
That Primordial Fiend God King phantom stood high above the Nine Heavens, wielding a sky-piercing spear that cleaved down, seemingly intent on splitting the entire world in two!
Under this strike, even the True Kings would have to retreat, not daring to face it head-on, especially when confronted with that hazy yet supremely powerful Primordial Fiend God King phantom. It was as if something from the Fiend God Era, the Fiend God King himself, had truly crossed time and space to descend upon the world.
Boom—
At the same time, behind Ye Chen, a tall phantom also appeared, manifested in his own image—the Human King Seal displayed. Clad in golden battle armor, wielding the Primordial Battle Body, and supporting a thirty-three-layer Primordial Chaos Ancient Pagoda, it appeared majestic and awe-inspiring, the common lord of the myriad races.
This was his Saint Phantom, manifested forth, imbued with the invincible will of the Battle Saint lineage. It brandished the Primordial Battle Body Great Halberd and struck out, cleaving through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Boom—
Heaven collapsed and earth cracked, mountains shook. This stretch of heaven and earth was utterly annihilated; even a Saint Lord entering would be instantly obliterated.
It was as if the Saint Ancestor of the Battle Saint lineage was dueling a Primordial Fiend God King, destroying heaven and earth.
The battle was intense but ended quickly, ceasing in an instant.
When everything settled, the True Kings saw only the Battle Saint King standing firm and unmoving like a mountain. The Primordial Battle Body in the Saint Phantom's hand had directly pierced through the chest and abdomen of the Primordial Fiend God King, its head shattered.
And the Human Sovereign Pagoda charged over, directly smashing the Primordial Fiend God King phantom into pieces.
Swoosh—
The Sea God King was sent flying, countless bones and tendons shattered throughout his body, his pitch-black scales broken, blood flowing like a river.
Stunned!
Because everything happened so fast, leaving no time to react, it was utterly shocking.
Was the bloodline of a Primordial Fiend God King only this much?
Ye Chen stood high above, sneering coldly: "What of a Primordial Fiend God King? The Saint Ancestor of my Battle Saint lineage once slew the Emperors and Sovereigns of the alien race in ancient times, with countless alien powerhouses fallen beneath his feet. How dare a mere Primordial Fiend God King contend before my Battle Saint lineage? Ridiculous! A grain of rice dares to shine? Seeking death!"
After this merciless cold shout, the Battle Saint King suddenly attacked, like a War Immortal in motion, dancing through the four poles of the universe. Left Green Dragon, Right White Tiger, Above Vermilion Bird, Below Black Tortoise—the four great holy beasts manifested. The four fundamental powers of earth, water, fire, and wind were displayed, rushing forward and striking directly at the Sea God King.
Thud, thud, thud—
All of the Sea God King's Fiend God King blood exploded. The dragon wings on his back shattered, and his barbed bone tail was torn apart. A fist pierced through his chest bone, directly seizing a still-thumping heart and pulling it out.
The Sea God King was utterly and miserably defeated!