Ye Xiwen did not relax after slaying the Devouring Heaven Divine Sovereign. If anything, his brows knitted even tighter.
In truth, he had heard rumors about the Devouring Heaven Divine Sovereign over the years.
The emergence of another Half-Step Chief Sovereign in the Martial Dao Era was far too significant a matter. Though he had been in seclusion, Ye Mo and the others had found ways to relay the news to him. It was impossible for him to be completely ignorant of the outside world.
The reason he had not acted all along was that he had been waiting—for the Chief Sovereign behind the Devouring Heaven Divine Sovereign to make a move.
He had known from the very beginning that there was something wrong with the Devouring Heaven Divine Sovereign. The reason he had not stepped in to nip him in the bud was because he possessed absolute confidence. No matter how the Devouring Heaven Divine Sovereign thrashed about, it would be useless.
Only he himself knew how immense the benefits from leading the Chaos expedition one hundred thousand years ago had been. They had nearly propelled him into the Half-Step Chief Sovereign realm, but he had forcibly suppressed it. Had he directly broken through back then, at most his cultivation would have been equivalent to what it was now, and his combat strength could never have broken into the Chief Sovereign level.
Breaking through to Half-Step Chief Sovereign was clearly far easier than breaking through to Chief Sovereign.
That was why he had restrained himself. Only after accumulating sufficient foundations and digesting the benefits of that expedition could he make his breakthrough.
He had always had his own plans for these matters. What he intended to accomplish was unprecedented and would never be replicated. Without the Heavenly Dao rewards