Eternal Holy Emperor

Unfortunately, he couldn’t take this trial secret realm with him; otherwise, it would have been a perfect trial secret treasure.

Three months later, Ye Chen left this Trial Ancient City and once again set foot on the journey of the Supreme Ancient Road.

During this time, he directly threw Aben, Mo Haishen, and Luo Guyun into the Supreme Ancient Tower, keeping them inside, making them constantly partake in Supreme Trials while continually providing various pills, secret treasures, scriptures, and more.

He possessed numerous Emperor treasures from the Jiuyan Emperor Clan’s several Emperor’s Hidden Worlds, exuding genuine wealth and prosperity. Now, he was entirely focused on cultivating the three of them with all his strength.

Especially Aben, who was exceedingly loyal and must be made to reach young Supreme level, aiming to break past the nine realms’ shackles of each large realm of the past, to retrain to Great Perfection Realm, striving to catch up with the strongest young supreme.

The group of Heavenly Kings and Great Powers he once enslaved were also beginning their training, allowing the two young Supremes or Aben to guide them during their cultivation, nurturing another force.

These individuals were becoming increasingly powerful within the Supreme Ancient Tower. The Supreme Ancient Tower, being an inferior product of the Human Emperor Tower, was even more extraordinary than some King Immortal Weapons, naturally containing an Inner World, although it did not possess billions of living beings like the Gulan Great World.

Leaving Aben and the numerous strong individuals he had enslaved within the Inner World of the Supreme Ancient Tower to grow ever stronger, Ye Chen was left alone once more, striding through the starry sky.

The cold Ancient Universe, with boundless skies and eternal darkness, saw him tread quietly along Dao, passing through one star domain after another, headed towards one Trial Ancient Pass after another.

The universe is vast, the starry sky expansive, and the Supreme Ancient Road is long. Not every Trial Ancient City contains Supreme Trials left by a Great Emperor. More often than not, these ancient cities are merely stations, guiding Emperor’s sons and daughters who tread the Supreme Ancient Road—a celestial station, nothing more.

Moreover, this was just a minor branch on the Supreme Ancient Road, forgotten for countless years. Many Trial Ancient Cities left in the past had long been deserted, and some had crumbled under the assault of terrifying enemies, forever becoming ruins.

Unconsciously, Ye Chen had already traversed the Supreme Ancient Road for eighteen years.

In those eighteen years, he kept moving forward, having only experienced the Supreme Trials twice: once in the Supreme Ancient Tower and once in the Trial Secret Realm. After that, he became lost on this branch road.

Some ancient cities had become ruins, unable to truly guide the way forward, lacking the corresponding cosmic coordinates. Even Ye Chen was unclear, left to rely on intuition as he continued alone through the stars.

He was unaware of the current state of the Ultimate Ancient Road or how intense the battles were among the Nine Great Dominators in the Eight Desolate Realm, as he had been lost for more than a decade.

This dark starry sky seemed to be filled only with endless darkness and cold, accompanying him.

Ye Chen walked in solitude, his cultivation remained at the Great Power Fifth Layer Heaven during these eighteen years, not at the initial stage anymore but the mid-stage.

Upon reaching the Great Power Realm, even someone like Ye Chen, the strongest young Supreme, could not advance just by wanting to. Yet during these years of traversing the starry sky, his mind was at work, calculating various Daoist Rules and verifying them with the Chaos Dao Technique he had grasped.

Though he did not obtain any profound insights, the accumulation of bits and pieces over time was terrifying, slightly elevating his cultivation level.

After eighteen years of solitude, Ye Chen had become deeply introverted and outwardly unremarkable, yet unfathomable, mastering his cultivation with increased proficiency.

Occasionally, his gaze swept across the cold cosmic starry sky, and wisps of dark aura emerged from his body before quickly being retracted, disappearing in an instant.

During this time, Ye Chen was not entirely solitary, having encountered formidable creatures along the Supreme Ancient Road.

Any creature able to survive on the Supreme Ancient Road, though few in number, were without exception exceedingly powerful.

Ye Chen had faced off against Devouring Beasts hidden within black holes, confronted primeval beings lurking in cosmic secret realms, and battled unparalleled Great Powers slumbering within Chaos Ancient Lands, each fight leaving him splattered with blood, having paid various prices.

Some crises nearly cost Ye Chen dearly, almost leading to his demise. He barely escaped from the depths of the starry sky, camouflaged in terror, his entire body drenched in blood, each step marked by a bloody footprint.

It took three months of rest afterward for him to fully recover.

And countless other unknown battles took place among them.

Of course, during these eighteen years, his gains were undoubtedly enormous, not only in terms of cultivation but also from encounters on the Supreme Ancient Road.

On the Supreme Ancient Road, known as the toughest trial road within Chaos Sea given by the Emperors to their descendants, not only were there Supreme Trials left within some Trial Ancient Cities, alongside each Emperor’s trace treasures, but also other Emperor traces intentionally left in the starry sky, occasionally witnessing the mysterious dawn light emitting through the cosmos.

This light, left by either an Emperor or Supreme Immortal, carried tidbits of comprehension for proving Dao and becoming Emperor, or an Emperor skill imprinted by a trial of divine sense left by a Supreme existence, or a special Emperor Dao divine sense.

In these barren Supreme Ancient Roads over eighteen years, Ye Chen luckily encountered five Supreme Dawn Lights.

However, capturing these Supreme Dawn Lights upon sight was not guaranteed. Ye Chen, even after exhausting countless means, only successfully captured three: two were divine sense imprints depicting Emperor skills, and one was an Emperor Dao’s divine sense trial.

The first two were manageable, as Ye Chen had mastered many divine skills of Emperors and Great Emperors, but the trial of Emperor Dao’s divine sense was particularly precious. The dawn light bore just a wisp of Emperor Dao’s divine sense from the Supreme Emperor. Yet, even that tiny bit nearly shattered Ye Chen’s Chaos Saint Soul, covering it in countless cracks, like fragile porcelain, with an incomparably oppressive feel, on the verge of explosion.

Nevertheless, Ye Chen operated the Chaos Chapter, chanting the three thousand holy scriptures, forcibly enduring.

After half a month, the wisp of Emperor divine sense within the Supreme Dawn Light dissipated, marking the real end of the Emperor Dao’s divine sense trial, leaving Ye Chen’s Chaos Saint Soul considerably weakened. Even a Chaos Young Supreme like him struggled under the weight of an Emperor’s divine suppression.

But with just half a month of the Emperor Dao’s divine sense trial, Ye Chen’s Chaos Saint Soul grew more refined, gleaming with a special Chaos Glazed Glass Dawn Light, significantly more powerful and attained great benefits.

Ahead, he gazed upon a shattered star domain—once a battlefield a hundred years ago—where blood spilled, painting the fragments of shattered stars.

Even a century later, it retained profound Blood Qi waves and terrifying Daoist Rules.

This had been an Emperor-level battlefield, where two Emperor-level supreme beings fought, both shedding blood, leaving behind a fragmented star domain, though neither had perished.

Ye Chen sighed, was it inevitable for Emperor’s sons and daughters to fiercely battle upon meeting, competing for the strongest title?

Ahead, groups of Emperor’s sons and daughters gathered, and Ye Chen genuinely felt immense pressure as he watched the supreme adversaries of various worlds on the Supreme Ancient Road!

Eighteen years later, after reaching countless Trial Ancient Cities, Ye Chen finally sensed a Trial Ancient City abounding with life energy, much to his astonishment and disbelief.

Among them, he sensed several particularly strong auras, some nearly as fearsome as himself resided there.

Ultimately, emboldened by his skills, Ye Chen descended from the sky upon this Trial Ancient City.

However, shortly after descending, his expression drastically changed.

Because within the Trial Ancient City existed indeed countless creatures, yet unlike the diverse species of the Trial Ancient City of the Supreme Ancient Tower, they were of the same notorious species—

Devouring God Clan!