When they heard Ye Xiwen confirm that the Celestials truly had a Heavenly Lord among them, many Emperor Lords felt as though they had been frightened stiff. Heavenly Lords and Emperor Lords were ultimately two completely different kinds of beings.
Ye Xiwen's astonishing combat strength alone was enough to infer it. Added to what Ye Xiwen had said—that Emperor Lords used laws to their utmost limits, while Heavenly Lords could alter the rules themselves—it was truly terrifying.
Many people could have their strength increase severalfold out of thin air within their own divine kingdoms and Inner Worlds, precisely because they could wield all laws as they pleased. Yet even they could not reach such a level.
If the Celestials had a Heavenly Lord, then it would be dreadful. If Ye Xiwen could not resolve it, it would undoubtedly become a future calamity for the entire Myriad Realms.
No matter how many times they sealed away the other Celestial Emperor Lords, they could not stop the Celestials from emerging again. And without a Heavenly Lord-level expert like Ye Xiwen, how could the Myriad Realms possibly resist them?
Ye Xiwen himself also had deep suspicions about this. The Celestials definitely had Heavenly Lord-level experts. Otherwise, how could a single race possibly produce so many Emperor Lord-level experts? Whether it was the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races that had once dominated heaven and earth, or the Demon Race, Devil Race, and human race that later became overlords of the Myriad Realms, although they had all produced quite a few Emperor Lords, they were still far inferior to the Celestials.
Without a Heavenly Lord to suppress their fate, how could they possibly have achieved such a thing?
After becoming the Eastern Heavenly Lord, Ye Xiwen had become increasingly able to sense the role of