"This is... Huang! He became an Emperor? How is that possible!"
The instant he turned, the Ten-Crown King's pupils contracted. His divine eyes widened, all his earlier composure gone. One moment, his opponent had unleashed a heaven-defying divine ability; the next, sword light had cut through that King's body, erasing every trace of his existence from this stretch of space and time.
He had seen this before. When that Supreme Being of the Nine Heavens had acted, he had likewise erased a giant's existence by sheer force. But now, the one striking was Huang. This shocked him more than facing several giants at once. At least that would not have fazed him-but Huang had become an Emperor, right before his eyes.
The fallen beings near the Dam had no time to react before they melted away. Supreme experts, giants, even supreme giants who had nurtured emperor light-all vanished. In the eyes of someone in the Emperor Realm, there were no distinctions of rank among those beneath it. All were ants.
"Has... the Supreme Being made his move?"
Ancestor Gu finally reacted, his heart shaken beyond measure. To stop the fallen beings, he and the kings had laid formations that warped this sea region. Yet his domain had been engulfed and brutally crushed. Everything shattered, then fell still.
But the instant he turned, he froze again. He knew the young man approaching along the Dam all too well. Huang, the youngest king of this era, younger even than some of his descendants, had now reached the supreme realm.
"It's the Desolate Heaven Emperor! The Desolate Heaven Emperor has struck! Kill them! Hurry, don't let them escape!"
A king of the Boundary Sea cried out. Huang's growth had not struck them quite so directly. Only the Immortal Kings of the Nine Heavens