An Immortal Phoenix soared across the sky, its wings spreading to blot out the sun and moon, carrying boundless immortal flames that poured down like a deluge, submerging everything.
"An Immortal Phoenix!? No, it's just a dharma manifestation."
The Tengshe Demon God was startled at first, then sneered coldly. In the Mythological Era, this race had been natural enemies with divine birds like the Immortal Phoenix, Golden Crows, and Kunpeng.
"You're merely a dharma manifestation yourself, and just a wisp of remnant soul at that. Do you truly believe you're still at your peak state from back then?"
The Immortal Phoenix transformed by Ye Chen scoffed, mocking the Tengshe Demon God, yet he dared not be truly careless. Even as a remnant soul, it was absolutely terrifying.
The Immortal Phoenix he transformed into shot up into the sky, its flames capable of scorching the heavens and boiling the seas. The entire space within the Mud Pill Palace was filled with endless immortal flames, enough to incinerate everything.
However, within the Mud Pill Palace, there were also law shackles that blocked everything in the boundless space of the Mud Pill Palace, making it difficult to break through.
The surging immortal flames poured down, carrying Ye Chen's comprehension of Dao Fire, each wisp astonishingly powerful.
The Tengshe Demon God's dharma manifestation also expanded to fill the firmament, immensely vast. If placed in the outside world, it would stretch for tens of thousands of li, appearing even larger than stars.
Each of its scales was larger than a lake, shimmering with a cold light as it impacted the ninth heaven.
The Immortal Phoenix transformed by Ye Chen was equally unimaginably colossal.
Boom—
The Immortal Phoenix and the Tengshe clashed in battle. Each collision shook heaven and earth, capable of shattering boundless mountains and rivers. Only within the Mud Pill Palace space, restrained by law shackles, was it not destroyed. Instead, it shimmered with brilliant radiance, blocking everything.
At this point, Ye Chen no longer used the Human Sovereign Pagoda to stabilize the Mud Pill Palace space. Instead, he sought to add the power of their attacks to shatter the Mud Pill Palace, thereby breaking a corner of the law shackles to glimpse the power of the Great Dao laws.
The two clashed fiercely, flames and demonic aura erupting, wreaking havoc upon heaven and earth, destroying everything.
The Tengshe Demon God was powerful indeed, having fought in the Primordial Times of the Gods, its reputation awe-inspiring. Who could contend with it? Even Heavenly Kings had been devoured. But now, it was horrified to discover it could do nothing against this young human.
The opponent was too strong. Though young, both the divine abilities and dao techniques he controlled and his combat experience were unimaginably powerful.
It truly found it hard to believe this was the strength a young junior should possess. It was too formidable.
With a rumble, the Human Sovereign Pagoda was activated. It swept across the sky, emitting dazzling radiance, accompanied by countless strands of ancient Chaos Qi suppressing downwards. Moreover, a wisp of world-destroying imperial might emerged, capable of shattering all obstacles.
Now, at his peak state, Ye Chen could almost rival a true Heavenly King's divine soul, naturally able to unleash a wisp of peerless heavenly might.
Wielding such a peerless imperial weapon was a great disaster for anyone, not to mention an ancient Great Sage, let alone just a wisp of remnant soul.
"You brat, how despicable!" The Tengshe Demon God roared in fury, never expecting Ye Chen not only to control such a Supreme Emperor's weapon but also to awaken a wisp of its imperial might.
It had long retracted its full dharma manifestation, but its form was still larger than the Azure Dragon of old—its true body's immense size, as vast as seen in that otherworldly realm.
"You coveted my Saint Body and entered my body, and now you call me despicable and shameless? How laughable."
Boom! The Human Sovereign Pagoda directly charged over. That wisp of imperial might was restrained. Though hoping to break the law shackles, Ye Chen worried about overdoing it. This wisp of imperial might could even extinguish his own vitality, and then it would be too late for regrets.
"You brat, just you wait! When this deity returns to its true body, it will be your death day!"
The Tengshe Demon God roared, turning to flee, wanting to leave this person's Mud Pill Palace and return to its true body's corpse. With its true body's corpse, its chances would increase greatly.
Now, it dared not confront directly, fearing being struck by that Supreme Dao Pagoda and being utterly annihilated.
But with a hum, the Tengshe Demon God's remnant soul was sent flying back, having collided with a hard barrier. It was actually blocked, unable to break through, trapped here.
"How is this possible!?"
The Tengshe Demon God refused to believe it, raging and unleashing its power, charging against it. But despite its majestic divine might, it was useless. Restrained by the law shackles, it could not flee.
Ye Chen had been coldly observing all along. Only after a good while did he sneer, "Old demon snake, you're too reckless. Didn't you see I've been trying to break the law shackles all along, just to break free? Even I cannot break through, let alone you. Better accept your death obediently."
The Tengshe Demon God's expression changed, only then realizing it had fallen into a trap. It never imagined this young human's Saint Body was actually imprisoned by law shackles. Didn't that mean even it couldn't break through?
Boom—
The two sides engaged in a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering battle. The fight was intense. The Tengshe remnant soul's strength indeed surpassed imagination, but the outcome would not change because he possessed the Human Sovereign Pagoda, was on home ground, and even at the final moment executed the Battle God Seal, undergoing Extreme Sublimation, fully matching a Heavenly King-level divine soul.
In the end, the Human Sovereign Pagoda descended, not to suppress and kill, but only to erase the sentience from the remnant soul.
Looking at the Tengshe Demon God's remnant soul before him, now stripped of all sentience, Ye Chen fell into silence, feeling little joy. Instead, he felt a trace of unease.
Because he felt everything seemed a bit too easy.
The Tengshe Demon God was a Primordial Times Demon God, one of the overlords of the ancient era of gods. Even a wisp of its remnant soul shouldn't be like this, weaker than imagined.
Moreover, hadn't the Peacock King mentioned that this Primordial Times Demon God had established a peerless great sect in the demon domain, gathering Faith Power from across the world?
But why hadn't it used it? Ye Chen hadn't sensed the presence of Faith Power either, which particularly puzzled him.
He vaguely felt a trace of unease.
He directly seized the remnant soul, not refining it, but probed it with his divine sense.
Though its sentience was erased, there remained a segment of memory, blurry and fragmented. He gained something, finally learning a shocking truth.
Ye Chen's Battle Sacred Body had long since recovered under the operation of the Saint Body Regeneration Technique. He stood up tall, opening his eyes to gaze at the massive Primordial Times Demon God Tengshe corpse before him.
From the memory obtained from the remnant soul, he learned this corpse could not be considered a true corpse. More accurately, it was merely a discarded body left behind after the Primordial Times Demon God's metamorphosis.
Similar to how a snake sheds its skin, but the Primordial Times Demon God Tengshe's metamorphosis was more thorough, undergoing a complete transformation from its demonic body to its divine soul.
What remained here was precisely its discarded body from the past, and this so-called remnant soul was also the discarded soul from its past divine soul metamorphosis—a waste soul, hidden within the discarded body, which slowly awakened sentience in later days.
Ye Chen was stern. Ancient demon race texts had long pointed out that this was the place where the Primordial Times Demon God had passed away after the war of the gods. This remains had also been identified as its corpse after passing away.
Everything seemed perfectly reasonable.
Even the successive generations of Heavenly Kings born in the demon race after the era of gods who came here had never discovered anything amiss.
But now everything was overturned, leading to a shocking conclusion—
The Primordial Times Demon God truly had not perished. It was still alive!