"Who calls himself invincible? Who dares claim he cannot be defeated? Before the Heavenly Emperor, they are nothing!!"
The mighty heavenly voice reverberated above Ancient Star Big Dipper, every word landing like a sledgehammer upon the hearts of the ten Supreme Beings.
The phantom of the Heavenly Emperor's Killing Intent abruptly opened his eyes.
Chaos mist surged and roiled. Those eyes no longer held hollow killing intent, but a vivid gleam, as though a Heavenly Emperor who had slept through countless ages had truly awakened at this moment.
"That is..."
Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerable's heart pounded in alarm, a chill racing up his spine to the back of his head.
"The Arrogant Heavenly Emperor?!" the Spirit Emperor cried out, his voice breaking.
Hadn't the Arrogant Heavenly Emperor perished in the river of time long ago? How could he appear again now?
Chaos mist surged and roiled. The instant those eyes opened, the entire collapsing Northern Region seemed to freeze.
The earth stopped sinking, the void stopped shattering, and drifting dust hung motionless in midair. Even the howling wind abruptly fell silent.
The scattered motes of light from the three thousand shattered Chaos Divine Rings hung suspended in the void, then gathered from every direction as though time were flowing backward, reforming behind the Heavenly Emperor's Killing Intent.
Not only were the shattered divine rings restored, they swelled to several times their former size, blotting out the sky like immense suns and bathing the entire Northern Region in chaos divine light.
"We're in trouble."
"We really summoned the Arrogant Heavenly Emperor!"
Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerable's hand trembled, nearly dropping the Immortal Tear Green Gold Bottle. He edged backward, instinctively putting the other Supreme Beings between himself and the phantom.
What he had feared most had happened after all.
This sensation, this aura—it was