Calling Himself the Holy Sovereign? Not a Shred of Courage, a Hidden Crisis!

Lightning dragons churned, supreme pressure filling every corner.

After tens of thousands of years, the Dao vindication lightning tribulation had been triggered once more, leaving everyone in the world feeling suffocated!

A Holy Spirit!

Born of heaven and nurtured by earth, uniquely blessed by nature!

It was a creation of the utmost wonder, nurtured by heaven and earth. Once perfected, it could rival a Great Emperor!

Yet all Holy Spirits were cold-hearted and indifferent to the lives of the masses!

Throughout ancient history, whenever a perfected Holy Spirit emerged, it brought a calamity of bloody winds and rains of gore upon the entire universe!

If a Great Emperor lived in that age, things were manageable; they could suppress it in time.

But if that Holy Spirit was the only invincible being of its age.

Then all races would lament, and living beings would perish!

Precisely for this reason, this Holy Spirit knew that if he emerged early and forcibly vindicated his Dao.

What awaited him would be a thunderous blow from Ye Mingyuan, the Heavenly Emperor!

Compared even to the Supremes.

The killing intent directed at him would be fiercer still!

Thus, he had chosen to lie dormant.

Even though he had long since reached perfection, he had never emerged.

Until today!

The time was ripe!

The moment he emerged, he triggered the Dao attainment tribulation, seeking to make the ultimate leap!

Qi imbued with immortal charm spread, misty and ethereal.

His true form was a lustrous white immortal stone, nothing like an ordinary object.

When the wind passed over it, immortal music would even resound, spreading a profound Dao resonance, unknown yet wondrous.

"Today, I, Sheng Ying, shall vindicate my Dao and become a sovereign!"

"I shall be titled the Holy Sovereign. Of all living beings in this world, any who refuse to obey... shall die!"

His supreme sovereign might was boundless, even though the Dao vindication tribulation had yet to dissipate completely.

Yet below it, that figure, who seemed poised to punch through heaven and earth and pierce the cycle of reincarnation, already displayed the full bearing of an invincible being!

He had yet to enter the ultimate realm.

Yet he already possessed a sovereign's might!

His voice spread throughout the entire universe, leaving the world terrified and at a loss!

It also turned Ye Mingyuan's gaze icy as he pursued the remaining Supremes, overwhelming killing intent churning in his eyes!

Far too brazen!

While he still lived, this being showed not the slightest restraint.

It was easy to imagine, once he passed away.

If this bloodthirsty Holy Spirit sovereign was the only one left in the world, what a miserable fate awaited the masses!

Blood would likely flow deep enough to float shields, and the entire universe would fall into extinction!

He looked back, casting a cold glance at the figure beneath the lightning tribulation.

If he chose to go over and interrupt him now, he could certainly obstruct his Dao Path.

But if he did.

These other gravely wounded Supremes would escape back into the forbidden zones.

Once he passed away, these Supremes would undoubtedly unleash a vast Dark Turmoil to mend their injuries and replenish their vital essence!

When that happened, the situation might be even worse!

This Holy Spirit had calculated precisely this, which was why he had chosen this moment to emerge and immediately vindicate his Dao!

Clearly, though his words were arrogant, his thinking was exceedingly meticulous!

Withdrawing his gaze.

Ye Mingyuan paid no further attention to the commotion of Dao vindication over there.

Joining forces with the Black Emperor's battle intent, he finally slew the last Supreme outside a forbidden zone before the Supreme could escape inside!

With that, all nine Supremes had fallen!

And at that very moment.

A sovereign Dao pressure originating from the Holy Spirit descended over the entire universe!

Everyone knew.

The perfected Holy Spirit named Sheng Ying had succeeded...

Hum-!

The black-faced Emperor Weapon controlled the Black Emperor's battle intent, still seeking to fight again.

But that battle intent had already been exhausted.

Fighting the nine Supremes had pushed it to its limits. How could it possibly fight another Holy Spirit ancient sovereign?

Perhaps the Black Emperor himself could have done so while alive.

But now, this was merely a strand of condensed battle intent.

"That is enough."

"He has already done more than enough."

"Leave what comes next to me, a Heavenly Emperor who still lives."

Ye Mingyuan's gaze was deep as he spoke softly.

He looked toward the fringes of the universe. That presence, which had seemed to stand as an equal to heaven and earth, had already vanished.

After successfully passing the Dao vindication tribulation.

That Holy Spirit had not descended with overwhelming force to slay him, an aged and greatly depleted Heavenly Emperor.

Instead, he had chosen to avoid his edge for now.

He hid in the world, waiting for his injuries to heal and his cultivation realm to stabilize.

Of course, the greater possibility was.

He was unwilling to contend with a Heavenly Emperor destined to pass away before long.

Winning would bring him no benefit whatsoever.

But losing, or suffering severe injuries, could cause him to fall from the sovereign's throne.

"Heh-"

"A Holy Spirit who has vindicated his Dao, yet this is all the courage he has."

Ye Mingyuan shook his head, a trace of disappointment appearing on his face.

Back when he had contended on the imperial road.

He had encountered Holy Spirits many times, and although he had swept through them all.

Those opponents had at least dared to fight and stake their lives.

Unlike this perfected Holy Spirit who had vindicated his Dao.

Clearly at his peak, yet he did not even dare bully a greatly depleted old man like him.

Not a shred of spirit!

How many Supremes had dreamed of his blood, yearning to bathe in that crimson blood and regain their vitality?

As a sovereign of this age, do you not have even a shred of such ambition?

Truly useless!

Ye Mingyuan strode through the universe, openly searching for traces of the sovereign Sheng Ying.

Unfortunately, the Holy Spirit race was inherently proficient in concealment.

And now, that proficiency had risen to greater heights.

Ye Mingyuan's search was destined to prove fruitless!

Nevertheless, with Ye Mingyuan patrolling the universe, the living beings of the world felt considerably more at ease.

Only...

How much longer could the Heavenly Emperor hold on?

A hundred years.

A full hundred years passed.

The Heavenly Emperor remained within the imperial palace at the center of the galaxy, the brilliant light he radiated illuminating the entire universe.

It dispelled all cold and darkness.

Yet that Holy Spirit who had vindicated his Dao never appeared again.

As though he had never existed.

But every living being in the world knew that a pair of cold, indifferent eyes remained somewhere in the universe.

Watching the light of the imperial palace.

Once it went out, he would emerge and bring an era of bloodshed upon the entire universe!