Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm experts were the supreme beings of this cosmic starry expanse. What did supreme mean? Naturally, it meant standing above all else—while True Gods did not emerge, none could contend with them.
Yet Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme beings were far too rare. Each race had only a handful. It could be said that every Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme being had once been a peerless genius without equal in their youth. If other geniuses were stars, then these supreme beings had been suns in their youth, their radiance stretching ten thousand fathoms.
Killing a Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme being was harder than ascending to heaven and came at an enormous price. Only when a group of Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme beings besieged one would there be some hope; otherwise, they could only be defeated, never killed. However, every race had a plan. Since they could not kill Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme beings, they would kill those peerless geniuses with the potential to become supreme beings. As time passed and the years flowed by, the opposing races would have fewer and fewer Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme beings, with no new generation to succeed the old. Once the old died and the new had yet to arise, victory would naturally fall into place like water flowing into a channel.
There was no doubt that Ye Chen possessed the potential to become a Nine Heavens of the Life and Death Realm supreme being. Waiting until he reached that step to kill him would be too late. Killing him now would require merely one-thousandth or even one-ten-thousandth of