Beyond the Nine Heavens Realm.
Yang Jingmu and the more than eight hundred deities under her command had been locked in fierce battle with the Heavenly Emperor and the ominous filthy water for years.
Yang Jingmu fought the Heavenly Emperor alone. With the divine path scepter in hand, every spell she cast bloomed with hundreds of millions of rays of divine light, nearly illuminating the entire starfield. Each ray was a tangible manifestation of divine path sorcery, showing none of the weakness of a divine path that had only recently merged with the immortal path, yet containing all manner of inconceivable effects and power!
The Heavenly Emperor was no easy foe either. He had been a peak expert of the old era, a ruthless figure who had survived at least one minor epochal calamity. After converting to the immortal path, he had also attained a supreme Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit. His strength was nothing short of terrifying.
When they had clashed before, the Heavenly Emperor's true body had remained in the extraterritorial dojo, unable to exert its full strength. This time, his true body had entered the universe itself and gained no few benefits from the Immortal Court. Even though the destruction of his Solar Dharma Body in the Annihilation Star Disk had cost him much of his cultivation, he still possessed dreadful combat power that ordinary Heavenly Immortals could scarcely match.
Rumble!
Yang Jingmu activated Ghost Gate Pass, freezing time in the spacetime where the Heavenly Emperor stood for a single breath. Catching him off guard, she swung her scepter and smashed it heavily into him.
As divine light erupted, the Heavenly Emperor's soul body collapsed into particles so minute that even Heavenly Immortal mighty figures would struggle to detect the remnants with their five senses or divine consciousness.