Ye Xiwen slew the Black Tortoise beast, but that was only the beginning. Crimson Purgatory Demon Lord and the others had mobilized their manpower and resources, fanning the flames of rumor until Ye Xiwen became the man standing at the crest of the storm.
That Black Tortoise beast had merely been the first. Over the following days, Ye Xiwen successively encountered other experts who came to pursue and intercept him.
They were all peak powerhouses from their respective eras. Celestial Venerables themselves were the outstanding figures of every era, the cream of the crop, and only those blessed by heaven with immense fortune could become one.
At first, Celestial Venerables of the Third Stage and Fifth Stage came looking for trouble with Ye Xiwen. According to the rumors, Ye Xiwen was merely a junior who had attained the Dao a few tens of thousands of years ago. For such a junior, it would already have been impressive to stabilize his cultivation in a few tens of thousands of years. What more could he possibly achieve?
Even if he had obtained the Supreme Ancestral Talisman, it surely could not have made him that formidable!
Yet all the Celestial Venerables who came with such thoughts met the same end. They died at Ye Xiwen's hands in a single exchange, unable to withstand even a second move.
Their corpses were refined by Ye Xiwen into the purest flesh and blood, which he used to water the World Tree and let it absorb.
If the deaths of one or two people were not enough to put them on guard, then once the number rose to ten, news of Ye Xiwen's terrifying strength had spread throughout the ears of these Celestial Venerables.
This made many people realize that Ye Xiwen was likely no ordinary figure.