Shrouding the Heavens: Empress, I am truly not the Desolate Heavenly Emperor!

Ye Chen looked down at his hands. His hands were as white as jade, seemingly no different from before, but he could clearly feel the terrifying explosive power hidden beneath this skin.

If we say that he was a pieced-together vehicle before...

Now he is a heavy tank equipped with a nuclear-powered engine!

more importantly……

A fragmented memory appeared in Ye Chen's mind.

That was the image of the golden giant throwing a punch under the starry sky.

There is only one move.

There are no frills, only ultimate power and dominance.

"Six Paths...Rinnegan?"

Ye Chen subconsciously adopted a starting stance.

boom!

With just a starting stance, the void behind him trembled, and six blurry black holes vaguely appeared, as if they were about to devour all living beings.

Although it is only a fragment, and only a prototype.

But with this punch, Ye Chen was confident he could smash the previous Yao Guang Holy Son and his cauldron into a pulp!

"call……"

Ye Chen exhaled a long breath, dissipating his imposing aura.

He turned around and looked at the Empress not far away.

The Empress remained seated on the jade couch, fiddling with the bronze mask in her hand, seemingly lost in thought.

"Um..." Ye Chen scratched his head, dropping his arrogant demeanor and giving a fawning smile. "Sis, this soup... is pretty strong."

The Empress raised her eyes and glanced at him indifferently.

"Is it clean?"

"Huh?" Ye Chen was taken aback.

"Dirty." The Empress frowned in disgust. "It smells like death."

Ye Chen: "..."

So you refined the Great Perfection Holy Body just to give me a bath?

This level of obsessive-compulsive disorder is truly something else.

Just as Ye Chen was about to say a few more sarcastic remarks and try to improve his favorability rating,

Om-!

A strange fluctuation suddenly pierced through the mist of the desolate forbidden land and entered.

This is not an attack.

Is this some kind of... summoning?

Ye Chen's expression changed slightly. He felt something in his arms getting hot.

He reached into his robes and pulled out a black token.

That was the spoils they had taken from the corpse of the Holy Son of Yaoguang—the Holy Decree of Yaoguang.

At this moment, the token was flashing a rapid red light, and a line of small, blood-red characters appeared on it:

[The Holy Son has fallen, and the Imperial Weapon is lost. The Holy Lord of Yao Guang has personally arrived and activated the 'Blood Sacrifice Summoning Array.' If the Holy Son is not found within three days, the surrounding area will be massacred, and the forbidden land will be forced to hand over its inhabitants!]

Ye Chen looked at the line of text, his eyes narrowing slightly.

His once gentle face was now cold and menacing.

"A bloodbath stretching for thousands of miles?"

"Forcing the handover of people from the forbidden area?"

Ye Chen tightened his grip on the token slightly.

Click.

The incredibly hard Saint Lord-level token was crushed into powder by him with a single hand.

He raised his head and looked towards the direction beyond the forbidden area, his smile growing wider yet chilling.

"What a magnificent sight!"

"I just learned a new boxing move and I was worried about not having a punching bag to practice on."

"Since you're in such a hurry to die..."

Ye Chen glanced back at the Empress, who seemed to be falling asleep again, and said softly:

"Then I'll collect some interest for my sister."

This moment.

The "little white rabbit" who only hid behind the Empress and cried for help is gone.

Instead.

He was someone who had just been bathed in the sacred blood and was about to leave the forbidden area, causing the entire Eastern Wilderness to tremble—

A charlatan with a treacherous heart.

Within the Peach Blossom Spring, fallen petals were scattered in profusion.

Ye Chen looked down at his palm. His skin was fair and delicate, even with a sickly pallor, showing no signs of having been boiled in the golden divine spring for three whole hours.

But only he himself knew what kind of monstrous beast lurked beneath this seemingly fragile exterior.

"This feeling..." Ye Chen clenched his fist lightly, the air in his palm instantly compressed to its limit, emitting a muffled boom. "Could I kill that Yao Guang Holy Son with a single punch now?"

Although he had no specific realm to refer to, he could feel that the golden holy blood energy within his body was like a volcano that could erupt at any moment. If he didn't find a place to release it, he felt he might explode.

"call……"

Ye Chen let out a long breath and turned to look at the distance.

The Empress remained reclining on the jade couch, her black hair cascading down her back, obscuring half her face. The bronze mask, which appeared to be both crying and laughing, lay beside her pillow, revealing glimpses of her delicate features. Her breathing was light and even, indicating she was in a deep sleep.

Just now, in order to suppress the corpse transformation of the Great Perfection Holy Body, and forcibly help Ye Chen refine his origin, even a Great Emperor felt exhausted with his Dao injuries not yet healed.

"Go to sleep, it's good when you're asleep." Ye Chen gently tucked in a non-existent blanket for her, a complex look flashing in his eyes.

Although it was "fraud" and "acting," the scene of the Empress shattering the Holy Body with a single finger just to make soup for him did indeed give his utilitarian heart, that of a transmigrator, a real jolt.

"Since I'm living off you, then leave the menial work of guarding the house to me."

Ye Chen straightened up, the tenderness on his face instantly vanishing. He turned around and looked into the depths of the mist beyond Peach Blossom Spring.

There, several greedy and powerful auras were rapidly approaching.

……

The desolate and forbidden land, at the boundary between the inner perimeter and the core area.

The earth was trembling.

A colossal creature, ten zhang tall, was taking heavy steps, crushing ancient trees with each step, as it approached the Peach Blossom Spring.

Its entire body is composed of grayish-brown strange stones, with nine orifices on its surface, breathing in and out the essence of heaven and earth. With each breath, it creates a small spiritual energy storm around it.

A nine-aperture stone man!

This is a race of Holy Spirits, born of nature. Although they are not yet at the Great Perfection stage, they already possess terrifying combat power at the level of a great being. In the outside world, they would be enough to become the supreme elders of a holy land, revered by thousands.

But in the forbidden area, it was merely an ant under the Empress's oppressive power.

Normally, even if it had a hundred times the courage, it wouldn't dare to approach Peach Blossom Spring. But today is different.

That surge of golden blood energy that just soared into the sky was incredibly tempting! That was the very essence of the Great Accomplished Sacred Body! For a being like the Stone Man, who yearns for the transformation of flesh and blood, it was practically an opportunity to attain enlightenment!

More importantly, it sensed that the Empress's aura had fallen into a slumber, as if she were asleep. And that aura of the Holy Body's essence was appearing on... a mortal?

"roar……"

The stone man let out a low growl, its greedy gaze piercing through the mist and locking onto the tiny figure at the edge of the peach blossom grove.

A human cultivator who has just broken through to the Divine Bridge Realm.

Although its vitality was strangely vigorous, in its eyes, it was like a walking, humanoid divine herb.

"He...ate...it..."

In the simple mind of the stone man, only this one thought remained.

It accelerated its pace.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The heavy footsteps sounded like war drums, each step challenging Ye Chen's eardrums.

At the edge of Peach Blossom Spring, Ye Chen stood with his hands behind his back.

Instead of retreating to the Empress's domain, he took a step forward and walked out of the peach blossom forest that was impervious to all magic.

"They're here."