When the vast phantom of a celestial palace appeared on Gu Changsheng's fist, the older generation experts exclaimed in shock, recognizing it.
Although the Ancient Divine Palace had always maintained an air of mysterious transcendence, there were still some venerable senior experts on the Ancient Divine Continent who had once entered it.
The projection of the Ancient Divine Palace had actually manifested—so magnificent, so majestic, towering between heaven and earth, sweeping through past and present, reigning supreme over all realms.
This phantom of the Ancient Divine Palace, contained within Gu Changsheng's fist, swept forth with a will capable of crushing all realms, colliding head-on with Ye Chen's Five Elements Five Fingers.
Boom—
The destructive power was even more terrifyingly formidable than before, absolutely worthy of being called a peak-level battle between Saint Lords.
This caused countless people throughout the city to be astounded. These were merely two members of the younger generation, who had cultivated for less than a hundred years, yet they had already reached this level so quickly. They could truly be called monstrous geniuses, dazzling through the ages.
This ultimate clash naturally also exceeded the imagination of countless people.
The Heaven and Earth Battle Stage shook violently. The two were locked in their fiercest contest, shattering the heavens and throwing the earth into chaos. Columns of destructive light shot toward the sky and plunged into the ground.
The innate Five Elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth circulated. Five-colored divine radiance shattered the heavens, crashing against the phantom of the Ancient Divine Palace. They collided fiercely in the void, continuously exploding, with vast swathes of runic Dao marks rapidly eroding and collapsing.
In the end, both the Five Elements and the Ancient Divine Palace phantom crumbled.
It was still a draw.
At this moment, Ye Chen attacked again, unleashing a third strike—a pointed finger.
It was not the Severing Heaven Finger, nor was it the finger he used against the Crown Prince of Tian Xu. It was a brand-new finger technique that, in the blink of an eye, gave birth to boundless sword rays, filling every corner of this heaven and earth.
Billions upon billions of sword rays manifested—from the ground, from the Nine Heavens, from the void, from within living beings... Brilliant sword rays continuously bloomed, some as thick as pillars holding up the sky, immense beyond compare.
This was the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword Finger. At Ye Chen's current level, he had long since refined it to an even more powerful and terrifying degree.
The murderous aura was dense and vast, startling all living beings in the myriad realms into trembling.
The so-called concept of a single blade of grass severing stars, a single grain of sand annihilating heaven and earth—when evolved to the pinnacle, it was nothing more than this.
Gu Changsheng swiftly switched to another divine ability. The Immortal Phoenix Divine Wings of his Xiantian Divine Form behind him suddenly unfurled, blotting out the sky and covering the sun. Immortal flames surged like a sea, divine fire shot through the heavens, rolling forth to inundate the firmament, threatening to burn away all the clouds in the myriad realms.
This was his Xiantian Divine Form, now forced into manifestation.
With a single flap of the Immortal Phoenix Divine Wings, a rumbling sound echoed as endless immortal flames immediately danced into existence, rolling forth to drown the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, clashing horrifically with Ye Chen's myriad layers of sword rays.
Boom—
Endless columns of light erupted, tearing apart the miniature world of the Heaven and Earth Battle Stage and shooting up into the sky above Ancient Divine City, even obscuring the sun in the heavens.
Within the battle stage, Gu Changsheng did not dare be careless. He continuously flapped his Immortal Phoenix Divine Wings. His entire person, like an eternal crimson-glowing undying immortal phoenix, shot toward the heavens, traversing three thousand worlds, shattering all directions, carrying an aura of ancient desolation and infinite immortal flames that scorched and collapsed heaven and earth.
Too terrifying!
He used this method to counter the omnipresent Spirit Rhinoceros sword energy, blocking Ye Chen's peerless assault.
Moreover, his means were not limited to this. The black battle armor he wore was crystalline and emitted a hazy halo, ringing with metallic clarity. Now, it actually manifested a series of fearsome runes that rapidly interwove, finally forming a mysterious ancient character that no one in the world could decipher.
Furthermore, its strokes seemed as if forged from Chaos Immortal Gold, carrying a special aura and a unique Dao Rhyme, as if this single character alone was enough to suppress the myriad realms and domains.
It was an Emperor Character!
A flicker of surprise also flashed within Ye Chen's calm, unperturbed eyes. He had once entered the Human Sovereign Pagoda for trials, had experienced encounters with some Saint Spirits from the Mythical Era, had undergone countless great battles, and had also suffered from the torment of such Emperor Characters.
It could be said that this kind of Emperor Character could only be written by an Emperor or a Sovereign, containing the supreme artistic conception of an Emperor-Sovereign. A single character could encompass the myriad Daos of all realms; it was the immortal script of the myriad Daos.
Ye Chen had heard that in the Mythical Era, several of the Eight Slaying Immortal Forms of the Slaying Immortal Supreme One were derived using such Emperor Characters. Otherwise, how could they dare claim to slay immortal spirits, shatter the barrier between immortal and mortal, and strike at immortals!
He never expected that Gu Changsheng had actually mastered such an Emperor Character. However, it was clearly only that he could write it; the true artistic conception was difficult to fully manifest. Only a trace had appeared, yet it still made the people of the world feel a sense of oppression.
Ye Chen's expression turned slightly solemn. His hand seal changed, and his entire aura suddenly transformed, becoming many times more murderous, as if he had turned into a Battle Immortal.
This was the Immortal-Slaying Form of the Eight Slaying Immortal Forms. He did not understand this Emperor Character and could only rely on the Immortal-Slaying Form to resist it, because the eight forms shared a common origin; the Immortal-Slaying Form also contained a trace of the power of an Emperor Character.
Worthy of being the Battle Saint King. Once he executed the Immortal-Slaying Form, his entire person transformed into a Battle Immortal. He attacked forcefully, directly striking out with an 'Immortal' character that could destroy heaven and earth.
The two collided, setting off a continuous series of terrifying great explosions that shattered vast stretches of vacuum.
After both the Emperor Character and the Immortal-Slaying Form annihilated each other, the two clashed directly, beginning a close-quarters battle.
Naturally, with the methods of these two, the moment they engaged, they displayed an absolute speed that made it difficult for the people of the world to truly see clearly. They exchanged blows in an instant.
Boom—
The vast void was as fragile as paper, easily shattering apart, horrifying everyone. The power of such a collision was far too terrifying.
It was hard to imagine that the number of times they exchanged blows in that single instant numbered in the hundreds, even thousands. Such speed could already be called shockingly fast, to the extent that even Saint Lords had some difficulty following it.
Gu Changsheng continuously displayed various divine abilities to attack. Beams of multicolored divine radiance threw heaven and earth into chaos. His black, crystalline battle armor even managed to block all of his opponent's attacks without being damaged in the slightest—it was a suit of invincible battle armor.
However, his attacks were similarly unable to harm Ye Chen in the slightest, because the Saint Body was peerless. Every inch of his flesh glowed with brilliant golden light. This was a supreme treasure body comparable to the physical body of a Great Power, matchless in the world, number one among his generation.
"Truly worthy of being the successor of the Ancient Divine Palace. He can actually rival the Battle Saint King. One must know that the Battle Saint King is a peerless genius whom even the three great imperial dynasties could do nothing about," the people of the world exclaimed in admiration at Gu Changsheng's strength, which had reached a level where he could battle the Battle Saint King without being defeated.
"No, this is not the Battle Saint King's full strength. At most, this level of power is only slightly stronger than a Saint Lord. How could it reach that step? Now there is only one explanation," the Sovereign of Tian Xu said solemnly.
"What explanation?" Hearing this, the others suddenly felt their hearts jump anxiously, as a certain astonishing thought surfaced in their minds.
This thought was something even they dared not believe.
"It can only mean one thing: the Battle Saint King has not yet gone all out in this battle," the Sovereign of Tian Xu said, word by word.