449: Chapter 449 The Heavenly Emperor (14)

Above the imperial capital of the Heavenly Martial Sacred Dynasty, the atmosphere was as heavy as iron.

That terrifying pressure originating from the mysterious Quasi-Emperor was like an invisible mountain, pressing down heavily on everyone's hearts.

Under this pressure, space was on the verge of collapsing.

The two Great Saint Elders of the Ye Family, despite being heavily injured, fought to the death and refused to retreat.

They, along with the few remaining Saint Realm experts of the Heavenly Martial Sacred Dynasty, unhesitatingly formed a final human wall, shielding Ye Yun with their lives.

They could die, but nothing must happen to the Imperial Son.

This was their only conviction at this moment; after all, this Imperial Son's status was far too noble.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor shrouded in black robes sneered as he looked at the group of "ants" before him, who were teetering but still fighting to the death.

"A bunch of fools who don't know the meaning of death. You think you can stop a carriage with your spindly arms?"

His gaze bypassed the human wall and landed on the youth protected by everyone, his eyes filled with contempt.

On the surface, Ye Yun remained calm, his gaze cold, but internally he was rapidly analyzing the situation before him.

At the first opportunity, he used his Heart Heavy Pupils to confirm the other party's identity.

That sinister and eerie Origin was identical to the power that had previously eroded the Saintess's Sea of Consciousness.

This person was the mastermind behind the scenes.

"So what if he's a Quasi-Emperor?"

Ye Yun snorted coldly in his heart, without the slightest hint of panic.

"This is the Ye Family's territory. I don't believe the Family would only send two Great Saints to protect my safety."

This confidence did not stem from his own strength, but from his deepest trust in his behemoth of a Family.

He knew that his Heavenly Emperor's potential was worth any price the Ye Family had to pay.

Besides, even if he were truly cornered, since the opponent's information about him was unclear, he could still rely on his 'Immortality and Indestructibility' nature to deceive them.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor seemed to have lost his last bit of patience.

He stopped playing around, and a terrifying killing intent erupted.

He raised his hand, and a surge of Saint Power transformed into a colossal blade that connected heaven and earth, slashing down toward that fragile human wall.

He intended to crush these meddling ants along with Ye Yun behind them.

"Not good!"

The faces of the two Ye Family Great Saints changed drastically; they burned their Origin regardless of the cost, preparing for a final desperate struggle.

Just as the black blade was about to fall and everyone was plunged into despair.

A pressure even more vast, more majestic, and filled with the aura of an Empress descended from the Nine Heavens.

A slender, jade-like hand condensed from endless divine light appeared out of thin air.

It gave a gentle wave.

The black blade, capable of slaying a Saint King and heavily wounding a Great Saint, vanished silently.

Immediately after, a figure of peerless grace tore through the Void Realm and appeared before everyone.

She wore a Phoenix robe, possessed peerless beauty, and was surrounded by immortal divine radiance; she was the Empress.

With one step, she arrived in front of Ye Yun, shielding her son closely behind her, her eyes brimming with killing intent.

"You dare to lay a hand on my Yun'er?"

The Empress's voice resounded through the sky, incomparably domineering.

"No matter where you come from, even if you are from the Heavenly Court, I will grind your bones to ashes today!"

Before her voice finished, the terrifying auras of the two Quasi-Emperors collided violently.

The Empress struck first. A massive phantom of an Ice Phoenix appeared behind her, spreading its wings as endless Lunar Divine Ice instantly froze time and space, sweeping toward the mysterious Quasi-Emperor.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor gave a strange laugh as eerie black mist surged around him, transforming into black Demonic Dragons that tangled with the Ice Phoenix.

The battle between the two Quasi-Emperors instantly turned the sky into a purgatory of Laws.

However, as the battle continued, the Empress's expression gradually grew solemn.

She discovered that the opponent's strength far exceeded her expectations, and that eerie power was extremely difficult to deal with, constantly eroding her Laws and Divine Power.

She was actually gradually falling into a disadvantage.

Just as the Empress was about to be completely suppressed by the eerie black mist and fall into a crisis.

Another Quasi-Emperor aura, older and more unfathomable than both of theirs, silently descended from the Void Realm.

As soon as this aura appeared, it instantly suppressed the entire field.

Whether it was the Empress's Lunar Divine Ice or the mysterious Quasi-Emperor's eerie black mist, both became docile in the face of this aura.

A hunched old man with white hair and beard, leaning on an ordinary wooden staff, walked slowly out of the nothingness.

He looked unremarkable, like a Mortal on the verge of death.

But his appearance caused the once-arrogant mysterious Quasi-Emperor's face to change drastically, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Fifth Brother!"

The Empress was both surprised and delighted.

The newcomer was none other than the Fifth Ancestor, ranked fifth among the Ye Family's Distant Ancestors.

The Fifth Ancestor nodded slightly to the Empress, and then his cloudy eyes fell upon the mysterious Quasi-Emperor.

"A rat hiding its head and tail dares to run wild on my Ye Family's turf?"

His voice was flat as he casually tapped his wooden staff against the Void Realm.

Boom!

A seemingly ordinary ripple spread out.

The eerie black mist surrounding the mysterious Quasi-Emperor, capable of eroding all things, was easily shattered by this ripple.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor let out a scream of shock and anger, channeling all his power into a pitch-black beam of destruction aimed at the Fifth Ancestor.

The Fifth Ancestor didn't even look.

He simply raised his wooden staff again and gave the beam a light tap.

The destructive beam, which could have heavily wounded the Empress, shattered into pieces like fragile glass.

The Fifth Ancestor's strength was far superior to that of the mysterious Quasi-Emperor.

While this was partly due to the opponent's massive consumption from fighting the Empress, the core reason was that the Fifth Ancestor's own Realm had long reached the Peak of Quasi-Emperor, only a step away from the true Great Emperor Realm.

"Little Phoenix, let's attack together. Don't let him escape."

The Fifth Ancestor said to the Empress.

The Empress immediately understood and struck again.

A two-on-one situation was instantly formed.

The Fifth Ancestor suppressed from the front, while the Empress harassed from the flanks.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor was completely driven into a corner, forced back step by step without any power to fight back, his injuries growing heavier.

He finally realized what a fatal mistake he had made.

He hadn't expected the Ye Family to value a rumored "Desolate Ancient Waste Body" to such an extent.

Not only was the Empress, a powerful Quasi-Emperor, personally accompanying him, but even a "living fossil" old monster at the Peak of Quasi-Emperor had been alerted.

He knew his intelligence was wrong and his actions were too reckless; today, he would likely not escape unscathed.

His heart was filled with regret and resentment.

"No! This seat will never die here!"

A flash of madness crossed the mysterious Quasi-Emperor's eyes as he stopped fighting defensively.

He fiercely bit the tip of his tongue, burning his Quasi-Emperor Origin regardless of the cost.

A terrifying power far exceeding his normal state erupted, actually forcing the Fifth Ancestor and the Empress back for a moment.

Seizing this opportunity, he formed hand seals and tore open the Void Realm in front of him, revealing a spatial rift filled with chaos and destruction.

Without looking back, he plunged into the rift, attempting a forced escape.

However, just as half of his body was about to completely vanish into the Void Realm and disappear from this world.

A supreme Great Emperor's Imperial Might that made all Daos submit descended from the Nine Heavens without warning.

The entire Heavenly Martial Sacred Dynasty, along with the surrounding billions of miles of space, instantly froze under the shroud of this Imperial Might.

"Where did this little bug come from, daring to plot against my Ye Family's Imperial Son within our territory?"