This battle had been almost unavoidable!
He had been sent here precisely to deal with Ye Xiwen. According to the original decision, he was supposed to hold Ye Xiwen back as much as possible.
According to the intelligence they had obtained, Ye Xiwen's combat strength ranked among the very best even among experts of the Ten Kings. If Ye Xiwen wanted to flee, who could stop him?
Yet the message that great lord had sent from the other side of the seal stated that Ye Xiwen was the target he needed to deal with. As for Hidden Valley, it was merely a target to be erased along the way.
The order of priority could not be confused!
Even if they flattened Hidden Valley but allowed Ye Xiwen to escape, that great lord would certainly not be satisfied in the end.
Then the blame would fall upon them. No one wished to bear a quasi-Emperor's thunderous wrath. Besides, as a relatively major Seal King Faction, Hidden Valley itself was already among the targets the Heavenly Clan intended to erase. It was merely a matter of which came first.
Thus, he could only hold Ye Xiwen back until the quasi-Emperor personally arrived.
At this moment, a trace of apprehension had arisen in his heart. This was unprecedented. Among the younger generation of his lifetime, no one had ever posed such a tremendous threat to him.
The force of the fist tore through everything across the heavens. Before that terrifying power, heaven and earth themselves seemed to have been flattened. This was the power of space woven into a fist technique.
At that moment, the Central Heavenly King roared and charged straight forward. His enormous palm trembled violently, and a palm force that blanketed heaven and earth came crashing down, transforming in midair