"What?"
Demon Hand Emperor, Iron Horn Emperor, and the others were utterly shocked. To slay an elementary peak emperor with a single sword strike was something many high-grade emperors could not accomplish. After all, elementary Emperor-grade Armor was not so easily breached; at least eighty percent of the damage would be blocked, leaving only ten or twenty percent—far from enough to kill an elementary peak emperor.
Demon Hand Emperor finally understood what had been troubling him.
Ye Chen was a hundred, a thousand times stronger than he had imagined—so powerful it beggared belief. He was no longer merely a peerless genius in the usual sense, but a heaven-shaking prodigy unseen through the ages. Only those renowned monstrous talents from history could compare with him. One had to know that he was only at the Life and Death Realm Seventh Heaven, and seemed to have reached it only within the past two years. If he reached the peak of the Life and Death Realm Seventh Heaven, would even high-grade emperors cease to be his match? And if he reached the Life and Death Realm Eighth Heaven, below the Supreme realm, who else could contend with him?
It was not that there had never been people who possessed strength deemed invincible below Supremes upon entering the Life and Death Realm Eighth Heaven; there were simply far too few. The Devil Race's Lich Emperor was one, and the current strongest genius of the Lich lineage counted as one as well. Across the entire starry universe, the known figures of this kind certainly numbered no more than ten—and that was an upper estimate. In truth, there were only around five at present.
But compared to Ye Chen, the Lich lineage could never advance to the Supreme realm, whereas Ye Chen had no such limitations.