This strike nearly tore the entire heavens and earth apart in an instant. It was an extraordinarily ancient staff technique, not a cultivation art originally found in the Demon Realm. Even the Demonic Ancient Ape manifestation came from a ferocious ape of primordial times. That savage ape had wielded an iron staff, sweeping across heaven and earth, invincible wherever it went, seeking to stand shoulder to shoulder with heaven and earth. Yet even such a monstrous being had birthed inner demons, and thus its cultivation art had spread into the Demon Realm.
Ye Xiwen would originally have found it difficult to avoid such a fate as well. However, the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree had shone upon his Sea of consciousness day and night without rest. Foreign inner demons simply could not enter, much less take his cultivation arts away.
This staff technique was indeed immensely formidable. Ye Xiwen pressed his palms together before his chest, and auspicious signs from all eight directions immediately transformed into countless divine beasts around him, directly blocking that staff strike.
"Die!"
The Demonic Ancient Ape let out a roar. Its body shook, and raging flames unexpectedly ignited across it. They were demonic flames, perfectly complementing the inner demon race, capable of instantly burning everything between heaven and earth to ashes.
Yet when those flames reached Ye Xiwen, they seemed to lose all effect and could not harm him in the slightest.
Ye Xiwen walked amid the demonic flames, completely unharmed.
"You know quite a few divine abilities, but unfortunately, you ultimately cannot integrate them into one whole. Even if you possess power comparable to an Imperial Sovereign, you can never possess cultivation comparable to one. I will show you now what the cultivation of an Imperial Sovereign truly is!"
Ye Xiwen spoke calmly. Around him,