"This is... the Life and Death Realm First Heaven!"
Being inside the Evil God Barrier did not mean Tian Xie knew nothing of what was happening outside. His gaze seemed linked to the blurred phantom above the barrier; whatever the phantom could see, he could see as well. When Ye Chen's aura surged and he cleaved Golden Fiend and the other two apart with a single sword strike, Tian Xie was startled, and even his unsealing movements seemed to falter slightly.
The Life and Death Realm had nine Heavens. With every Heaven one ascended, the purity of one's True Essence rose by an entire grade. This was not merely an increase in combat power, but an elevation in the very level of one's strength, like the difference between water and mercury. As an expert of the Evil Spirit Clan, Tian Xie himself had once been a great master of the Life and Death Realm Sixth Heaven. Yet, suppressed by the True Spirit Continent, he could only exert the strength of the Life and Death Realm Fourth Heaven. His origin had also suffered considerable damage, cracks appearing in his Dao Gate, which was why he had ultimately been sealed away. Only in recent days had he escaped.
Though after countless years, his aura had absorbed the aura of the True Spirit Continent, and he had also seized the body of the Silent Extinction Demon Emperor, so the continent's suppression of him was no longer as severe, only his origin had recovered. His realm was still suppressed by two Heavens. At present, he was merely at the undamaged Life and Death Realm Fourth Heaven, and because he had yet to fully familiarize himself with the Silent Extinction Demon Emperor's body, he could only unleash seventy to eighty percent of his combat power.