"Was the battle between your mistress and Xi Emperor evenly matched, or were they barely able to hold him off?"
Chen Fan smiled at Li Ruobai, then asked.
"Uh..."
"With the Star Palace in hand, Mistress joined forces with Red Lotus Empress, who wielded the Southern Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, and they could barely hold off Xi Emperor. Before Red Lotus Empress arrived, Mistress and Shadowless God Emperor joined forces and activated the Star Palace, but they could only preserve their lives under Xi Emperor's hands."
"Xi Emperor is truly far too powerful. He clearly doesn't possess a Chaos Artifact, yet he can contend head-on with one using only his bare hands."
"Moreover, I heard Senior Red Lotus Empress say that although Xi Emperor's Solar God Pagoda isn't a Chaos Artifact, it has already reached the pinnacle of Half-Emperor weapons. In Xi Emperor's hands, the Solar God Pagoda is not much different from a true Chaos Artifact."
Li Ruobai lowered his head somewhat awkwardly and spoke.
"That sounds about right. I thought that after I spent a hundred years in seclusion, Xi Emperor's strength had actually regressed instead of advancing!"
Chen Fan nodded at those words.
Although Zhou Zhao was now a peak Void Shattering Emperor and possessed the Chaos Artifact Star Palace, enough to challenge a supreme God-Emperor.
Xi Emperor, however, was no ordinary supreme God-Emperor. He was a supreme God-Emperor who controlled ninety-nine percent of the Solar Great Dao, an existence capable of ranking among the top hundred supreme God-Emperors across the entire Eternal Continent.
Perhaps he was still somewhat inferior to the few most peak supreme God-Emperors, but he was more than capable of crushing Nine Flames God-Emperor, who did not wield a Chaos Artifact!
It was still extremely difficult to contend with such an existence through