As Li Che's relentless blows rapidly depleted the Red Arc Overlord's divine power, the power of spacetime suddenly surged outside the passage into that vast Cosmic Secret Realm. An enormous dark silhouette emerged, blotting out a great swath of the starry sky.
Looking up, one could see a being nearly ten thousand kilometers tall standing proudly there, his physique extraordinarily imposing, as though he ruled the spacetime spanning tens of millions of light-years around him.
A closer look revealed that the towering being had the appearance of an ordinary human, except that his body was covered in pitch-black scales. A single black horn rose from his head, thrusting toward the heavens like a battle spear.
He was the Yan Emperor, once a Universe Master directly affiliated with the Human Race, and now one of the most revered Universe Masters in the Nine Domains Alliance.
At that moment, this exalted Universe Master carried a domineering war halberd over ten thousand kilometers long, ready to charge straight into the passage to the Cosmic Secret Realm ahead.
Just moments earlier, he had received a message from his loyal follower, the Red Arc Overlord. That Top Universe Overlord was under attack by a Top Overlord of the Human Race and was about to succumb.
Boom!
But just as the Yan Emperor approached the passage, he suddenly felt another force, every bit as powerful as his own, surge outward like a tsunami. A palm formed from divine power struck him, forcing the giant, nearly ten thousand kilometers tall, several steps backward through the vacuum.
His eyes, blazing like raging flames, shifted, and he immediately identified the powerhouse who had attacked him.
It was a human man clad in black-and-gold battle armor. His hair was golden, as were his eyebrows, and he was staring at the