Chapter 2760: Submit to This One

In the ethereal void, Ye Chen stood quietly, stared at by the Di Yi Sheng Ti, and said nothing.

His divine sense was divided into three parts: one focused on the Di Yi Sheng Ti, one on the monster, and one on the Hun Dun Ti and Tian Zun.

As he and Ji Ning Shuang had guessed, it was indeed the first lineage of the Sheng Ti causing the chaos. The hidden space in the Po Luo Domain was truly the monster's lair, and the Di Yi Sheng Ti was connected to the monster.

From what he could see, the monster's ability to activate the Xue Ji Xian Jie at specific times was likely granted by the Di Yi Sheng Ti.

Fortunately, Tian Zun and the Hun Dun Ti were still alive, though severely injured, they were not on the verge of death.

Seeing Ye Chen and Ji Ning Shuang, both Tian Zun and the Hun Dun Ti's eyes lit up.

Of course! Their fates were not meant to end here; reinforcements would come. Though just the two of them, their combat power was formidable!

"Stay calm and focus your energy."

Ji Ning Shuang descended from the sky, placing one hand on Tian Zun's shoulder and the other on the Hun Dun Ti's, channeling vast essence to help them dispel the killing intent within their bodies.

Meanwhile, Ye Chen remained suspended in the void, facing the Di Yi Sheng Ti from across the sky.

After three to five years, this was his first encounter with the Di Yi Sheng Ti since leaving the Zang Shen Gu Di. He didn't know how many more of the first lineage Sheng Ti were hidden in the Zhu Tian, but he knew the one before him was extraordinarily powerful—like him, it had fully opened its divine treasures, reached the peak of Quasi-Emperor, and was half a step from great achievement.

As in the past, he was wary of the Di Yi Sheng Ti. His horizons had broadened, yet he still couldn't see through the first lineage Sheng Ti. They shared the same roots and origins, so why were they innately opposed?

Boom! Rumbling!

Even before the two Sheng Ti clashed, the vast sky was already buzzing and trembling, unable to withstand their pressure. The rampaging lightning carried an aura of annihilation, and their silent confrontation had frozen the very universe.

Zing!

A sword's hum suddenly arose as another figure burst into the hidden space.

It was a blood-clothed immortal, her expression emotionless, her beautiful eyes dull, like a puppet. She exuded an ancient and desolate aura, not a living being, but a dead one.

In her hand, she held a seven-colored immortal sword—the Zhu Xian Jian.

Clearly, the blood-clothed immortal's body was under control.

This was something the Zhu Xian Jian often did.

"Another formidable one has arrived."

The Hun Dun Ti glanced over, well aware of the Zhu Xian Jian's terror. He had clashed with it before; that day, without Ye Chen, he likely would have been destroyed, or at the very least, turned into a puppet of the Zhu Xian Jian.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

The Zhu Xian Jian vibrated intensely, as if excited or furious. It seemed to have broken free from some Dao Ancestor seal, but the cracks on its blade could never be mended—the damage from Ye Chen's strike remained, and a small fragment was still sealed in the Hun Dun Great Cauldron.

Ye Chen glanced at the blood-clothed immortal, then scanned the surroundings.

This hidden space was strange, capable of isolating even the Great Wheel of Reincarnation. One could enter, but leaving was impossible unless the hidden array formations were found and destroyed.

However, locating them didn't seem easy.

Neither the Hun Dun Ti nor Tian Zun, whose insights were no less than his, had managed to escape after being trapped for three to five months, proving they hadn't found the arrays.

Ye Chen regretted not bringing more help—at least an imperial weapon. Who could have known the Di Yi Sheng Ti was hidden here, or that this was the monster's lair, or that the Di Yi Sheng Ti and the monster were allies?

Ji Ning Shuang rose steadily, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.

Ye Chen's combat power instantly peaked. His Huang Gu Sheng Ti gleamed like molten gold, entwined with Hun Dun Dao principles. The sounds of the Great Dao echoed, accompanied by Hun Dun visions manifesting as mountains and rivers.

At the same time, Ji Ning Shuang unleashed her full power. Immortal radiance enveloped her, the four volumes of the Wu Zi Tian Shu faintly visible, weaving profound divine principles. The sounds of all things resonated, full of vitality.

"Kill!"

The blood-clothed immortal let out a light shout and struck without hesitation. Her wooden face twisted into a grotesque expression, though it was truly the Zhu Xian Jian's intent reflected on her features.

Boom!

Ji Ning Shuang shattered the void with a single step, confronting the blood-clothed immortal and the Zhu Xian Jian.

As a peak Quasi-Emperor, she was no longer the novice cultivator of the past. Even the bookish one harbored icy killing intent. The world froze over with frost, for she remembered the grudge from when the Zhu Xian Jian had ambushed her years ago.

After several hundred years, new and old grudges would be settled together.

The two charged into the void one after the other, tacitly choosing the highest peak of the ethereal realm as their battlefield.

The blood-clothed immortal was extremely terrifying—or rather, the Zhu Xian Jian was. Her crystalline jade hand covered the sky, inscribed with destructive power, crushing yin and yang.

Ji Ning Shuang manifested Dao laws, outlining an immortal river that split the immortal vault and shattered the sky-covering palm, sending the blood-clothed immortal staggering back. Shock flickered in her eyes—she knew Ji Ning Shuang was strong, but not to this extent, certainly not weaker than the Hun Dun Ti.

In that moment of shock, Ji Ning Shuang closed in instantly, condensing thousands of secret techniques into a single finger.

The Zhu Xian Jian let out a cold shout, transforming into a vortex to counter the fatal strike, launching a furious assault.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Their battle erupted, collapsing swaths of the sky. Fresh blood sprayed into the heavens—some from Ji Ning Shuang, some from the blood-clothed immortal. The piercing sword hums stabbed at the soul.

"Fight!"

The Hun Dun Ti and Tian Zun were not idle, though they wished to be—the monsters surrounded them from all sides, like killing puppets with no fear, charging relentlessly.

The more they fought, the more troublesome it became.

One or two monsters were manageable, but an endless horde was exhausting.

These past days, they had been worn down like this, depleting their magical power, and nearly exhausting their stored pills.

While those two battled, Ye Chen and the Di Yi Sheng Ti continued their standoff across the sky.

"Submit to this venerable one, and you may live."

The Di Yi Sheng Ti spoke mockingly, repeating the words he had once said to the Hun Dun Ti and the others. His demeanor was supremely arrogant, truly overlooking all. The tenth emperor of Da Chu, the supreme war god of the Zhu Tian, was like an ant in his eyes—an insignificant one. As a Huang Gu Sheng Ti of the first lineage, he looked down on the second.

Ye Chen didn't respond with words but with action, striding across the void and unleashing a punch that pierced through the eternal sky. This was his first use of peak combat power since the end of the Hong Huang war.

"Overestimating yourself."

The Di Yi Sheng Ti smirked slightly, manifesting immortal laws in his hand and striking with a palm from across the sky.

Boom!

Their fist and palm collided, sending waves of annihilating light outward, shredding even the lightning to dust.

Blood splattered in the sky—golden from one, dark from the other.

Ye Chen's fist bones shattered, and the Di Yi Sheng Ti's palm was mangled with flesh. Their direct clash ended in a draw.

"You have the qualifications to fight me."

The Di Yi Sheng Ti licked the blood on his palm—not just his own, but also stained with Ye Chen's, savoring its exquisite taste.

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, clearly seeing his own Sheng blood merging into the Di Yi Sheng Ti's body.

In other words, the Di Yi Sheng Ti could absorb his origin essence, but he could not absorb the first lineage's. Besides the Xue Ji Xian Jie, this was another privilege of the first lineage Sheng Ti.

Buzz!

With a hum from the universe, the Di Yi Sheng Ti charged like a ghost, his hand forming a divine blade, fingers etched with dark seal scripts—unknown whether they were Dao principles or divine abilities.

Boom!

The sky exploded as the Di Yi Sheng Ti's palm struck empty air—Ye Chen had used Fei Lei Shen to teleport behind him, countering with a palm from above. To his surprise, the Di Yi Sheng Ti matched the speed of Fei Lei Shen, easily dodging, and his own palm also missed.

Roar! Roar!

Dragon roars followed as both activated the Ba Bu Tian Long in an instant.

Bang! Boom! Bang!

Dragon tails clashed against dragon tails. Ye Chen's golden dragon shattered, and the Di Yi Sheng Ti's black dragon exploded. Neither had landed a hit earlier, but now both were sent flying.

"Interesting, truly interesting."

The Di Yi Sheng Ti's eyes burned with excitement. He steadied himself and shot into the sky, conjuring a thunder war spear in his hand and hurling it downward, infused with mysterious power that locked onto Ye Chen.

"This war spear cannot be dodged."

The Hun Dun Ti, fighting below, called out a warning. It seemed he had suffered from it before—regardless of how mystical one's evasion techniques were, it followed like a shadow until it hit.

Ye Chen needed no reminder; he already knew, charging upward against the heavens. Weaponless, he met it head-on with his fists, their supreme dominance obliterating the thunder war spear.

"Extinguish!"

The Di Yi Sheng Ti uttered coldly, manifesting a black sun in the ethereal void. Every ray of light from it was tainted with demonic power, billions of rays illuminating the world with destructive force.

A sphere—another sphere.

The moment Ye Chen saw the black sun, he drew his bow, forming a divine one from Hun Dun fire and an arrow from heavenly thunder, enhanced with imperial essence. He loosed it toward the vault, piercing the sun in a flash, reducing the destructive star to historical dust.

"Fight!"

Ye Chen soared upward, manifesting a golden immortal sea underfoot, a vast starry sky overhead, and the Hun Dun Great Realm around him. Standing within, he was like a war god, devouring the eight directions.

The Di Yi Sheng Ti sneered with contempt, unfolding his own vision—a boundless Wu Jian Hell, piled with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. Where Ye Chen's Hun Dun Great Realm symbolized the revival of life, his Wu Jian Hell epitomized utter destruction. He stood in it like a demon god, shaking the universe.

Boom!

The two realms collided, shattering the cosmos. Whether the Hun Dun Great Realm or Wu Jian Hell, both crumbled inch by inch. Ye Chen and the Di Yi Sheng Ti, positioned in their realms, engaged in a barrage of secret techniques—fist shadows, palm prints, blade lights, sword glows, and Dao images. Each was an imperial immortal law, every collision weaving scenes of destruction, bathed in apocalyptic light that blanketed the world.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

At the highest peak of the ethereal realm, Ji Ning Shuang and the Zhu Xian Jian continued their fierce battle. Even someone as strong as Dong Shen Yao Chi was stained with blood. Though injured, the blood-clothed immortal fared no better; without the Zhu Xian Jian supporting her, she would likely have been blasted apart by Ji Ning Shuang.

"Shout, I'll make you shout."

Below, Shura Tian Zun raged like a madman, wielding his divine blade and slashing through waves of monsters, his eyes bloodshot. His wounds unhealed, he repeatedly activated forbidden laws, boosting his power at any cost.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The Hun Dun Ti's attacks were equally savage, driving him to frenzy.

Gazing down, the ocean of monsters made them seem like mere specks in the vast sea, tiny and unseen. Back to back, they repelled the monsters' assaults time and again—one treading over corpse mountains, the other wading through blood seas—both transformed into blood-soaked asuras.

This scene was worth commemorating.

The four young emperors of the Zhu Tian were all here, trapped in the hidden space. It was their first time joining forces against a common enemy. Whether they could escape alive remained uncertain.