Red Flame Heavenly Sovereign followed behind Lin Yuan, also looking down at the many Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns below.
But his gaze was dazed—for he alone had witnessed how the Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign had “crushed” so many top-tier Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns along the way.
That unstoppable, overwhelming momentum had made Red Flame feel like he was dreaming.
Especially those Sovereigns who had activated their ancestral killing artifacts, unleashing terrifying power—only to have it torn through like paper in Lin Yuan’s presence.
The sight sent shivers down Red Flame’s spine.
“Milky Way…”
Red Flame stared at the young man standing before him, his expression dazed. At last, he understood what “crushing” truly meant.
“Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign?”
Before the third colossal core pillar, Fuxu Heavenly Sovereign and all the gathered Sovereigns looked up at Lin Yuan as if they were mere insects staring at the sky.
In just three or four breaths, 103 core pillars had been taken, and the top Sovereigns on the field—at least their main battle bodies—had fallen to Lin Yuan’s hand.
They now understood the despair and helplessness of facing him.
Especially those who had fallen later—they hadn’t been caught off guard like the first wave. They had been extremely cautious, activating their ancestral weapons instantly, and yet they had still been crushed.
“Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign, what is it that you want?”
Fuxu Heavenly Sovereign took a deep breath, steadying his mind as he asked.
Even now, as impossible as everything seemed, he couldn’t show weakness. Otherwise, the morale of his Sovereigns would completely collapse.
“What do I want?”
Lin Yuan looked at Fuxu Heavenly Sovereign and shook his head. “Relinquish all the core pillars.”
Compared to other Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns, Fuxu was trickier to deal with. Lin Yuan was currently locking onto his true body’s location.
Though Fuxu appeared to be standing there, his real body had melded into layered spacetime, hidden with the help of his ancient kingdom’s ancestral artifact. Even for Lin Yuan, it took some effort to locate him.
An ancestral killing artifact forged by an Ancestor was terrifying enough in the hands of a typical Ultimate Heavenly Sovereign—when wielded by a strongest Heavenly Sovereign like Fuxu, its power was on a completely different level.
“Surrender all the core pillars?”
Fuxu’s face darkened. “Impossible.”
Surrendering the pillars meant giving up the entire treasure land—that was something Fuxu could never accept.
“Impossible? Then die.”
Lin Yuan’s tone remained flat.
Before the words had even faded, he extended his right hand and reached toward Fuxu.
Boom—
A vast, invisible wave of spacetime force swept forth.
Fuxu’s expression changed dramatically. He immediately realized that his hidden true body had been locked onto.
“This Milky Way… he actually locked onto me so easily?”
Fuxu couldn’t believe it. Using his ancestral artifact to hide his true body should have made him untouchable, even among the strongest Heavenly Sovereigns. It should’ve placed him in an unassailable position.
The power Lin Yuan had shown clearly surpassed the level of the strongest Heavenly Sovereigns. Fuxu hadn’t planned to confront him head-on, but at the very least, he should have been able to stall.
But it had only been a few breaths, and his hiding place was already discovered?
“Block it!”
Fuxu erupted with power. Countless mysterious auras surged forth—forces from his ancient kingdom’s ancestral artifact—attempting to resist Lin Yuan’s grasp.
But it was futile.
Those barriers shattered instantly under Lin Yuan’s hand.
They bought Fuxu only a brief moment of respite.
As a strongest Heavenly Sovereign, Fuxu was far more resilient than typical Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns. He didn’t fall instantly in Lin Yuan’s grasp.
“If you don’t act now, this treasure land will fall into his hands!”
Fuxu quickly sent a transmission to Suyin, Lingyu, and the other lead Heavenly Sovereigns.
The four kingdoms had already bound themselves together through their earlier deals.
If Grand Ancient Void obtained the treasure land, Xuanyin and Grand Spirit would benefit.
But if Liyang took it, they likely wouldn’t even survive to tell the tale.
“Don’t worry, we’re on our way.”
Lingyu, Suyin, and the other leaders responded in grim voices.
They regretted it now—if they’d known Milky Way was this strong, they never would’ve made such outrageous demands. But what’s done was done.
There was no choice now but to fight alongside Fuxu.
Combining the leaders of the Grand Ancient Void, Xuanyin, Grand Spirit, and Thunder Kingdoms—wielding ancestral killing artifacts—they prepared to face Lin Yuan.
Boom—
In the distance—
Lingyu, Suyin, and the others activated their artifacts, launching attacks toward Lin Yuan. The destructive power tore through vast swathes of spacetime.
None of them held back—they attacked with everything they had.
“Hm?”
Around Lin Yuan, spacetime twisted. All the attacks were like pebbles tossed into the sea. He glanced indifferently at the distant Sovereigns.
“It’s completely useless?”
Lingyu, Suyin, and the others trembled.
Even with Fuxu holding him down, their surprise attacks didn’t even stir him.
It was hopeless.
They had seen Lin Yuan’s destructive might when he killed their battle bodies and took the pillars—none of them could survive a moment against him.
Even ancestral artifacts couldn’t defend them.
And now, they realized Lin Yuan’s defenses were just as terrifying.
Attacks from ancestral artifacts—completely blocked?
Blocked, not dodged. That distinction mattered.
If he’d dodged, they could believe their attacks still posed some threat.
But to be blocked—
It meant he didn’t care about their attacks at all.
“Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign!”
Fuxu also saw this. Gold light swirled in his eyes. Around him, time began to spiral into chaos.
This was his ultimate move—combining two Rank Thirteen-level techniques. While not fully fused, the power exceeded that of any single technique.
He had never used it before—saving it as his final trump card.
“Time!”
As he activated the move, strands of pure temporal energy appeared before him—drawn from the Grand Ancient Void Kingdom’s vaults, personally refined by its Ancestor.
Any time-based technique empowered by these strands would see its power rise dramatically.
“This is my strongest technique.”
Fuxu looked toward Lin Yuan. The chaotic time energy was already spreading toward him.
Those few strands of time essence had cost Fuxu a staggering amount of merit.
If not for this treasure land being so precious—and aligned with his time-based path—he wouldn’t have used them.
“This time energy?”
Lin Yuan felt the swirling time aura.
Any ordinary Ultimate Heavenly Sovereign would instantly fall under its influence—their will lost, unable to perceive the passage of time correctly.
Even a strongest Heavenly Sovereign would be heavily affected—perhaps even lose their physical form if caught off guard.
After all, this attack wasn’t just Fuxu’s power—it contained time essence refined by a Ancestor.
But Lin Yuan—
The swirling time aura washed over him like a torrent slamming into a mountain of solid stone—it couldn’t move him at all.
“You think time can affect me? Maybe if an Ancestor used it.”
Lin Yuan shook his head.
His foundations were so deep and vast that time techniques were effectively countered.
Time was like a river—and a being’s foundation was like their weight in that river. A massive boulder simply couldn’t be moved by the current.
“Still useless?”
Fuxu stared at Lin Yuan, who stood unmoved.
He didn’t hesitate—he turned and fled.
If even this ultimate technique couldn’t affect Lin Yuan, then there was no longer any hope of winning the treasure land.
All he wanted now was to escape safely.
He didn’t want to lose even this battle body.
Shoo shoo shoo—
In the distance, other lead Sovereigns, top-tier Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns, and even ordinary ones all began to flee as well.
“You dared attack me—so you all stay.”
With a thought, Lin Yuan transformed into a blazing sun. A formless, twisted spacetime force rippled outward in all directions.
Fuxu hadn’t gone far before he was immobilized by the twisted spacetime—then obliterated by one of Lin Yuan’s blows.
The rest—lead Sovereigns, top-tier, and ordinary Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns—watched in horror as spacetime twisted around them, cutting off even the ability to teleport.
“Ahhh! Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign, I give up the treasure land!”
“Let us go!”
Many Sovereigns tried to beg. Although the loss of a battle body wasn’t death, creating one was extremely costly.
And those bodies carried countless weapons—and over a thousand years of treasure land harvests.
Boom boom boom—
Lin Yuan showed no mercy. He held no fondness for the Grand Spirit or Xuanyin Kingdoms—he still remembered how they had tried to extort him.
Soon—
The many Ultimate Heavenly Sovereigns began to fall.
Red Flame watched in a daze. Sovereigns equal to him in strength were like dust before Lin Yuan—erased with a flick of the hand.
“What is that?”
Only now did the other Liyang Sovereigns begin to react. They sensed the sudden disappearance of countless auras and were utterly shaken.
Mankun of the Barbarian Ancient Kingdom had been preparing to meet with Lin Yuan to discuss dealing with the Grand Ancient Void Kingdom, but then he saw—
A godlike figure standing alone in the void.
All around him, Sovereigns were falling in droves—even top-tier ones.
Mankun’s mind went blank.
“Is… is that the Milky Way Heavenly Sovereign?”
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