Chapter 1856: Husband and Wife Team Up

Ye Chen stabilized himself and spoke affectionately, his surging golden essence wildly pouring into Ji Ningshuang's body as he said, "I'm not late, am I?"

"Not late," Ji Ningshuang replied with a radiant smile, her eyes filled with tenderness. Her formerly icy form was instantly suffused with warmth.

"Ye Chen!" Tengshe Taizi roared, treading on a sea of blood and unleashing demonic malice, his eyes blood-red and his expression twisted in fury.

"Through one cycle of past and present lives, I wonder if our unspoken understanding still remains," Ye Chen said with a smile, his gaze fixed on Tengshe Taizi, though his words were directed at Ji Ningshuang.

"Through a hundred twists and turns, I never forget until death," Ji Ningshuang responded softly, stepping forward slightly to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ye Chen.

As she spoke, their auras surged to their peaks. He stood like a war god of the eight wastelands, bathed in immortal light; she was like a supreme queen, enveloped in divine radiance. Time seemed to freeze eternally in that moment.

This was a scene worth commemorating amid the passage of years.

Lovers from a past life, now husband and wife in this one, bound by fate and enduring affection—they stood side by side for the first time as Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang after a great cycle of reincarnation.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Tengshe Taizi, who had just regained his senses, flew into a frenzy again at the sight of Ye Chen. Instead of fleeing, he charged forward.

His palm struck like a vast black curtain shrouding the stars, with Dao laws manifesting in its center, as heavy as an eight-thousand-zhang mountain.

Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang moved in unison, advancing without hesitation.

Ji Ningshuang swung her sword, tracing an immortal river that cleaved through the palm strike.

At the same time, Ye Chen soared into the nine heavens, his sword like a divine wind, utterly devastating as it thrust directly toward Tengshe Taizi's brow.

In a single exchange, Tengshe Taizi suffered a severe wound—his brow was pierced, his divine sea ruptured, and even his primordial spirit was nearly split in two. Only his blood successor limit saved him from being slain on the spot.

"Kill!" Tengshe Taizi bellowed, sacrificing his origin and true power to summon the demonic blood sea, engulfing the two in its depths.

Dragon roars and phoenix cries erupted instantly. Ye Chen transformed into a golden divine dragon, while Ji Ningshuang became a crimson phoenix, breaking through the demonic blood sea and bursting forth from within.

"Die!" Tengshe Taizi snarled viciously, pointing a finger at Ye Chen that fused with emperor Dao immortal laws—a strike of absolute destruction.

"Seal!" Ji Ningshuang lightly shouted, forming a hand seal to unleash a binding secret technique. Tengshe Taizi was immobilized on the spot, his impending finger strike delayed by a fraction of a second.

In that brief moment, Ye Chen attacked, his sword soaring to the heavens and slashing through the stars, cleaving Tengshe Taizi's divine body. Fresh blood sprayed out, starkly vivid.

Yet the blood successor limit was overbearing—Tengshe Taizi regenerated in an instant, his expression growing even more maniacal as he burned his primordial spirit power.

Ye Chen pressed forward aggressively, merging nine paths with the eight wastelands into one, blasting through the stars and shattering Tengshe Taizi's newly reformed body. Bones, stained with blood, scattered across the starry sky.

"Ye Chen, you deserve to die!" Tengshe Taizi howled, his hair disheveled like a demon, sweeping out with a palm that forced Ye Chen back.

Ji Ningshuang arrived as well, her ultimate emperor sword inscribed with seal scripts and infused with various secret techniques. Her strike could destroy heavens and earth.

Tengshe Taizi was wounded, staggering from the blow, but he quickly stabilized and countered with a palm that sent Ji Ningshuang reeling.

Ye Chen snorted coldly, unfolding his vision with a vast starry sky above his head and a golden divine sea beneath his feet, fully revealing his emperor Dao killing intent.

Ji Ningshuang donned her battle armor, activating her unparalleled forbidden law, treading upon an immortal river with graceful steps, her divine presence unmatched.

"Ancestors, lend me your power!" Tengshe Taizi's roar shook the heavens, a soul-shaking cry summoning his Tengshe forebears to grant him strength surpassing that of Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang.

He had truly gone mad, activating his emperor weapon without regard for the cost, resonating with the Tengshe emperor weapon and boosting his aura. His combat power climbed another level beyond the blood successor limit.

Witnessing this, Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang both frowned.

Though all three possessed emperor weapons, Tengshe Taizi's compatibility with the Tengshe emperor weapon was clearly far superior, making its power stronger than theirs.

"Heaven Burial, activate!" Ye Chen commanded inwardly, forcibly activating the Great Reincarnation Heaven Burial despite insufficient pupil power, multiplying his combat strength tenfold and surging his vital energy accordingly.

"Immortal Sacrifice, activate!" Ji Ningshuang also channeled her forbidden law, incredibly formidable in its own right—though it didn't reach tenfold like Ye Chen's Heaven Burial, it still granted her fivefold combat power.

"Kill!" Tengshe Taizi charged with a ferocious grin, his might enhanced by the Tengshe emperor weapon, making him terrifyingly formidable.

"Fight!" Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang moved together, their emperor weapons trembling within them to counter the Tengshe emperor weapon.

The great battle erupted, shaking the starry sky and inverting yin and yang.

Tengshe Taizi raged wildly, but Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang were no pushovers.

The three clashed in a grand spectacle, the starry sky collapsing inch by inch with frequent manifestations of silent extinction visions, as if doomsday had arrived.

One with the blood successor limit, one with a tenfold Saint Body, one with a fivefold Immortal Body, and three supreme emperor weapons—they waged an epic war that shattered the heavens and cracked the earth.

Originally, Ye Chen alone could have eliminated Tengshe Taizi, but it would have come at a heavy price and taken considerable time.

He needed an assistant to finish Tengshe Taizi quickly, and no one was more suitable than Ji Ningshuang. Though her power was less than Tengshe Taizi's, she was an absolutely dominant support. With Ye Chen's Heaven Burial granting tenfold strength, they completely suppressed him.

Husband and wife fighting together made for a golden partnership.

Most importantly, their coordination was perfect—they alternated as main attackers and supporters, their assaults overwhelmingly powerful.

This synergy even suppressed Tengshe Taizi in his blood successor limit state, causing his body to explode repeatedly.

Tengshe Taizi was furious to the point of his liver bursting. Despite the blood successor limit, he couldn't withstand their joint assault, and its regenerative ability couldn't keep up with the damage. He nearly met his end several times.

In a two-against-one matchup, he was at an absolute disadvantage, beaten by Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang until he couldn't even lift his head.

After merely a hundred exchanges, he plummeted from the starry sky. As he fell, the immortal light throughout his body neared extinction, and even his emperor Dao laws lost their potency.

He was no longer in the blood successor limit state—he had been forcibly driven out of it by Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang.

"I refuse to believe it!" Tengshe Taizi roared defiantly, recklessly activating a forbidden taboo to freely control the blood successor limit, achieving near-immortality—yet he still lost, defeated by his clan's mortal enemy.

"Have a good journey." Ye Chen raised his hand, swinging his emperor sword downward. "In your next life, don't provoke those you shouldn't."

His words were ice-cold and authoritative, his sword strike overwhelmingly dominant, even cleaving open this vast extradimensional space.

The sword fell, annihilating everything in its path. Tengshe Taizi turned to ash in an instant, his roars and howls still echoing through the starry sky.

As the hope of the Tengshe clan, he ultimately met his end. He could have escaped, but he squandered that chance by insisting on challenging the two peerless prodigies, only to lose his life in the process.

As for the Tengshe emperor weapon, it had fled into the starry sky the moment before Tengshe Taizi's destruction, vanishing without a trace. Even with its protection, it couldn't turn the tide for him.

After all, facing two emperor weapons against one, it had been at a disadvantage from the start.

Ye Chen and Ji Ningshuang did not pursue the fleeing Tengshe emperor weapon—they knew they could never catch it if it wanted to escape.

"It's over." Ye Chen wiped the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, his face pale as he withdrew from the Reincarnation Heaven Burial state. Killing someone in the blood successor limit was extremely difficult; even with Ji Ningshuang's help, they had both sustained injuries.

The good news was that Tengshe Taizi had finally been eliminated.

This battle was a complete victory. They had wiped out the Tengshe clan, established the mighty reputation of Great Chu, and delivered a stern warning to the primordial wilderness.

This war also made the primordial wilderness realize that the heavens were not without capable fighters. Any further violation of the armistice or slaughter of heavenly beings would make the Tengshe clan a bloody example.

"I've seen you activate the blood successor limit before—it's different from Tengshe Taizi's," Ji Ningshuang said as she approached, sword in hand, her own face pale and her aura weakening once more.

"The duration it sustains is clearly very short," Ye Chen pondered. "During our first battle with him, I used my immortal eyes to observe. While in the blood successor limit state, his lifespan was draining away—it must involve sacrificing his longevity."

"Even so, he's monstrous enough to freely control the blood successor limit, setting an unprecedented precedent."

"Let's head back and study it. First, find a place to recover from our injuries."