"Hmph. I have already become the Saint Emperor, standing above this heaven and earth. Even if this is a powerful killing formation born from chaos, it holds no meaning whatsoever to me. Bang..." The Emperor looked at the grand formation. Though heaven and earth seemed to shift within it, how could it possibly affect him? He simply flicked his sleeve.
With a bang, the surrounding space shuddered, and layer upon layer of illusions vanished. In an instant, the deadly formation around him unleashed its surging power, crushing down upon him, while a colossal cudgel descended from above.
The Golden Cudgel, a Chaos Treasure, came smashing down with the force to destroy everything.
"The leader of the Heaven Defying Seven Great Sages was actually able to refine the Sacred Stele into a Chaos Treasure. Not bad indeed. Relying on your own strength, you escaped after being trapped for tens of thousands of years and still remained no weaker than the Only True Sage. What a pity—you followed the wrong person. Boom..." Facing the terrifying Golden Cudgel that could smash mountains and rivers apart, the Emperor remained utterly composed as he spoke, merely raising a hand in a palm strike.
With a boom, he forcibly sent the Golden Cudgel flying. Monkey was strong enough, and the Golden Cudgel was strong enough as well. But the Emperor had already become a Saint; the power of this blow was much like what Ren Jie had faced back then.
"Puh..." Monkey had not truly struck the Emperor before he was blasted into the formation, injured. The next instant, the formation's other deadly arrays activated and pressed down, blocking the Emperor and preventing him from pursuing Monkey.
"Boss, how are you?"
"Boss, are you alright?"
"Monkey Boss, what happened to you?"
"Ah!"
Inside the grand