On the spacious plaza of the Martial Arts Divine Hall, powerful figures descended one after another, drawing the attention of all sides.
True King prodigies such as Yuan Yao Divine King, Cang Jitian, Ye Gucheng, and others, as well as the super-powerful experts of the Ancient Divine Continent who had been invited to seclude themselves in the Ancient Divine Palace, and even some old monsters who had been in closed-door cultivation for decades or centuries, were all startled.
For the latter, a Heavenly King-level Imprint had not been challenged for hundreds or even thousands of years. They were eager to know which super-powerful expert was about to make a move.
They quickly entered the martial arts space and rushed towards the Heavenly King-level martial arts Imprint that Ye Chen had touched. They saw that other experts from the Ancient Divine Palace were already waiting there.
The Heavenly King-level martial arts Imprint was unique. When a challenger confronted the battle Imprint, spectators were allowed to watch. The original intention was to allow the people of the Ancient Divine Palace to observe Heavenly King-level battles and gain insights.
"Look! The teleportation gate has appeared! Get in!"
Someone shouted. An ancient Heaven-Earth Gate appeared within the Martial Arts Divine Stone space, engraved with profound and unfathomous dao patterns, and swung open.
Numerous experts charged towards that mysterious ancient gate, disappearing into it one after another.
Yuan Yao Divine King, the Sun God, and other Immortal True Kings successively rushed into the ancient gate.
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After Ye Chen touched that cluster of martial arts Imprint, his entire person was suddenly sucked into a strange space.
Perhaps more accurately, this was a Starry Land. Stars rotated, asteroid belts tens or hundreds of miles thick stretched across the sky for who knows how many miles, and meteor showers streaked across the void, a truly spectacular sight.
"Welcome to the Starry Battlefield!"
Just moments after Ye Chen appeared, a sudden voice rang out.
Ye Chen abruptly looked over. Not far ahead, on a massive meteor with a diameter of over a hundred miles, a blood-red figure had abruptly appeared.
Clad in blood-red robes, with blood-red hair and a blood-red sword, even his eyes were crimson. His entire body exuded a calm aura, as if he were just an ordinary person. Even an overlord present would sense no danger.
But Ye Chen felt as if facing a great enemy!
"It's been a long time since a challenger has come. Today, I've finally waited for one. You seem a bit interesting, a young junior," the blood-robed man on the meteor smiled slightly. He was a handsome middle-aged man, his smile beautiful yet giving off a very eerie feeling.
"Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. You may address me as Blood-Robed Heavenly King."
At the same time, on the other side of the Starry Battlefield, there was a partitioned void space—the spectator area. All spectators were within this viewing area.
"Blood-Robed Heavenly King! It's actually him!"
Upon seeing the handsome man with blood-red robes and hair, almost everyone exclaimed in shock and awe. Even those old monsters' eyes shone brightly.
It was actually the Blood-Robed Heavenly King, a powerful Heavenly King who once shook the world, a Heavenly King with the most fearsome reputation throughout the ages.
All this was because this Blood-Robed Heavenly King was too famous, too notorious. He appeared eerie and handsome, but in the past, he was an incredibly violent and bloody person. He once slaughtered hundreds of millions of living beings of a great Ancient Kingdom in a single night, staining himself with the blood of tens of millions, a generation's bloody Heavenly King who achieved the Dao through madness!
Even now, over a hundred thousand years later, the bloody reputation of the Blood-Robed Heavenly King remained vivid.
"It's you!"
Ye Chen also frowned. Naturally, he had also studied the Heavenly Kings of the Ancient Divine Continent throughout the ages.
Heavenly Kings were exceedingly rare throughout eternity, so they were naturally recorded in the annals of history of the Ancient Divine Continent. Among them, several Heavenly Kings, including the Blood-Robed Heavenly King before him, were the most famous.
In terms of strength, the Blood-Robed Heavenly King might not have been number one in the world, but when it came to slaughter and bloodshed, he was truly first.
The bloody act of slaughtering tens of millions—ordinary Heavenly Kings wouldn't do it, nor dare to do it, because the more living beings one killed, the greater the karmic flames of causality the Heavenly Dao would bring down.
It was rumored that this Blood-Robed Heavenly King's enlightenment and passing away back then were related to that bloody massacre, which caused excessively powerful karmic flames of causality to descend, leading to his demise.
Ye Chen had merely randomly selected a Heavenly King-level great dao Imprint. He hadn't expected the first one he opened to be the Blood-Robed Heavenly King.
This was a figure worthy of reverence from all.
The Blood-Robed Heavenly King suddenly sighed softly, "Pity, I am no longer myself. My true self, by this era, has likely long since fallen. I am but a remnant mark left behind by my true self. However, my supreme techniques are not something just anyone can obtain. Junior, I see your blood and qi are astonishingly vigorous, your treasure body is very powerful, perhaps comparable to us Heavenly Kings. You are a dazzlingly talented junior. But if you wish to obtain my techniques, you must still pass through me."
Boom—
The heavens and earth trembled violently, the starry river shattered. This was the terrifying might of a Heavenly King-level existence.
The Blood-Robed Heavenly King had not yet fully attacked, but that Heavenly King-level ancient dao pressure suppressed the heavens, causing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to tremble, the six directions and eight wildernesses to crack, appearing incomparably terrifying.
This was the powerful manifestation of a Heavenly King-level existence. Without truly attacking, it was already terrifying to this degree. If he truly attacked, one could only imagine how powerful it would be.
Truly worthy of being the Blood-Robed Heavenly King, incredibly powerful, overwhelmingly heaven-shaking!
But wanting to make Ye Chen retreat in the face of difficulty like this? Impossible!
Boom—
The moment his words fell, the Blood-Robed Heavenly King made his move. He simply lightly pointed a finger, and in an instant, blood light shattered the heavens.
Supreme dao laws manifested, affecting all directions, enveloping an area of hundreds of miles. Entire swathes of asteroid belts were completely annihilated. Not far away, a massive meteor with a diameter of over a hundred miles also exploded.
The spectators were each and every one deeply shocked from the bottom of their hearts.
Was this the attack of a Heavenly King expert? With a mere raise of his hand, the might was boundless, far surpassing the Saint Treasury Realm.
Against such a person, forget this mysterious madman, even if several old monsters at the peak of the Saint Treasury Realm attacked together, they would undoubtedly die, unable to resist.
For the madman, challenging him was problematic, let alone resisting.
But when they looked at Ye Chen, they were dumbfounded. They saw that Ye Chen didn't even attempt to block. He simply raised his hand and tore open a massive spatial chasm, spanning dozens of miles, darker than the abyss, which swallowed and absorbed all of the Blood-Robed Heavenly King's blood light attacks, annihilating them completely.
Only those Immortal True Kings had flickering gazes, fixed on the Battle Saint King. They all felt his strength had increased yet another notch.
"Blood-Robed Heavenly King, is this all you've got?"
Ye Chen's calm voice resounded across the sky. "If that's really all, then it's my turn to attack!"
Boom—
At this moment, an awe-inspiring aura erupted from Ye Chen's body, shattering the heavens and earth, inundating the starry sky.