But as soon as Ye Chen flew into the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," his mind and spirit instantly shifted dramatically.
Last time, when he exited from the deep sea area of the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," he could still use the Divine Skill "Transform Easily" to fly steadily within the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area." However, this time, as soon as Ye Chen entered the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," he sensed a terrifying power hidden inside, making him feel that plunging deeper would risk his demise at any moment.
This terrifying power was obviously the force brought by the dreadful black energy enveloping the entire "Sha Hai Forbidden Area"!
Even with the "Transform Easily" Divine Skill, Ye Chen felt that he absolutely couldn't let himself get even the slightest bit tainted by that dreadful black energy!
Thus, Ye Chen had just flown tens of thousands of feet into the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area" when he saw the extremely dense and dreadful black energy showing signs of sweeping toward him. He hastily retreated back toward the shore.
The interior of the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area" was now too terrifying, far beyond what his strength could easily explore!
And during Ye Chen's brief advancement and retreat, the number of terrifying massacre creatures surging from the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area" to the shores of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land skyrocketed by dozens of times!
Originally, the Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns had already slaughtered quite a few of the terrifying massacre creatures, but suddenly they were completely overwhelmed!
Seeing this situation, Ye Chen couldn't spare any time for more thoughts.
Although his combat power didn't match the high-ranking sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan on the scene, at this critical moment, Ye Chen certainly had to contribute what he could.
Ye Chen, transformed into a speck of dust, directly used his Divine Sense to sweep toward the multitude of massacre creatures in the sky.
Unable to deal with the massacre creatures above the two-star sovereign level, Ye Chen directly prepared to find and slay those weaker two-star, one-star sovereign level creatures, or those below the Dominion Realm.
After his Divine Sense scanned the surroundings, Ye Chen's figure instantly flickered, appearing in front of a thousand-foot-tall octopus-shaped massacre creature.
This was a one-star sovereign-level ocean massacre creature from the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," originally attacking with other massacre creatures against a six-star sovereign of the Extreme Spirit Clan. In the instant Ye Chen flashed in front of it, transforming into a speck of dust, he surged forth, and the next moment, with the slash of purple-gold Stellar Power, he directly killed the one-star sovereign-level octopus-shaped massacre creature on the spot!
This massacre creature didn't even have time to react!
Instantly, Ye Chen's figure flickered again, transforming back into a speck of dust, flying toward another weaker massacre creature.
Though Ye Chen only slew a one-star sovereign-level massacre creature, his astonishing "Transform Easily" Divine Skill still intimidated the nearby massacre creatures and the six-star sovereign, causing this particular skirmish to pause for several breaths.
It wasn't until Ye Chen disappeared that dozens of massacre creatures once again surged toward the six-star sovereign, who quickly steeled his mind and spirit to re-engage in battle.
Other Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns were not completely winning each blow against the massacre creatures' onslaught, but Ye Chen, using the "Transform Easily" Divine Skill to target and slay, managed to kill a massacre creature each time he appeared.
In just a few dozen breaths, the massacre creatures slain by Ye Chen numbered over a hundred!
Unfortunately, even though Ye Chen killed a hundred massacre creatures, and other Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns together had slain thousands, in comparison to the swarming numbers pouring from the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," it was just a drop in the ocean.
What's more, as more and more massacre creatures continued to surge ashore, the massacre creatures' assault on everyone did not diminish but increased. Several Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns even perished at their hands!
"We can't hold them!"
"We can't hold them!"
At this moment, the outermost land near the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area" in the Extreme Spirit Martial Land had completely collapsed, and the Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns trapped within the hordes of massacre creatures were bathed in blood, their eyes red, filled with panic and fury!
With deafening roars, when another massive wave of over ten thousand terrifying massacre creatures poured ashore from the "Sha Hai Forbidden Area," the Extreme Spirit Clan sovereigns were completely in despair!
At that moment, a long-awaited voice finally reached their ears.
This voice belonged to Sovereign Tianjue, who had gone to the Extreme Spirit Martial Land Secret Ground to activate the defense prohibition!
Sovereign Tianjue transmitted his voice to everyone outside, saying, "Retreat quickly; the defense prohibition has been activated. We will use it to obliterate these massacre creatures!"
From Sovereign Tianjue's words, an inexplicable tremor could be heard.
Clearly, even upon activating the defense prohibition, Sovereign Tianjue also witnessed the massacre situation onshore along with the increasing swarm of terrifying massacre creatures!
Originally struggling bitterly just to win a bit more time for Sovereign Tian Jue and Sovereign Lei Xuan, the Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan no longer dared to resist further upon hearing Sovereign Tian Jue's words. All of them simultaneously shot towards the interior of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land.
Ye Chen, turned into a speck of dust, also retreated with the crowd towards the interior of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land.
The participants in the battle were high-ranking Sovereigns brought by Sovereign Tian Jue. Choosing retreat over combat, their speed was naturally faster. However, the god-like slaughter creatures in the field were no easy foe. In the blink of Ye Chen's eye, a dozen or so Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan perished at the hands of the densely packed slaughter creatures while retreating.
Watching from not far away as a seven-star old Sovereign was torn to pieces by three colossal Fiend Beasts, Ye Chen's eyes turned blood-red.
This is a great catastrophe.
Even facing such a disaster comparable to that of the Extreme Spirit Clan, Ye Chen could deeply empathize!
Ye Chen had no time to react further. In this catastrophe, he couldn't save high-ranking Sovereigns from the hands of the high-ranking slaughter creatures. He could only retreat with the Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan, helplessly watching one Sovereign after another get mauled to death by the pursuing slaughter creatures amidst the retreat.
When Ye Chen and the others retreated to the interior of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land, already over a hundred of the thousands of high-ranking Sovereigns had fallen.
Losing such a number of high-ranking Sovereigns at once definitely ranks among the top catastrophes in the history of the Extreme Spirit Clan!
Fortunately, when the high-ranking Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan reached the interior of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land, somehow, from the position of the defense prohibition, Sovereign Tian Jue activated a mechanism. They saw rings of light appear around the Sovereigns being chased by the countless slaughter creatures. Enveloped by the rings of light, these Sovereigns were captured by a force and disappeared from the field.
Ye Chen, too, with a flash of brilliance in his eyes, vanished at the moment of his appearance, carried away by these mysterious rings of light.
The next moment, Ye Chen and the high-ranking Sovereigns appeared in a massive great hall.
Looking towards this grand hall, not far in front lay a bottomless pit.
In the pit stood circular giant pillars inscribed with mysterious Divine Patterns. Beneath these massive columns, radiant crystals flickered, and now these pillars seemed to be activated by a peculiar force, lighting up with strange brilliance.
At this moment, Sovereign Tian Jue and Sovereign Lei Xuan, the two nine-star elder Sovereigns long waiting at this place, stood at the edge of this pit, each holding an ancient token in their hands.
Seeing Ye Chen and the others return safely, Sovereign Tian Jue had no time for many words. After nodding to Ye Chen and the others, he exchanged a glance with Sovereign Lei Xuan, and both raised their ancient tokens simultaneously.
The next moment, the Divine Light on the ancient tokens flickered, seemingly activated by the tokens. Among the massive columns glowing with strange lights in the pit below, hundreds of them emanated purple-silver lightning-like brilliance that blasted out from within, all converging towards the void above the columns.
The gathered purple-silver brilliance of hundreds of columns formed a sea of thunder and lightning, a sight resembling a tempestuous ocean. Then, with a "buzz," this thunderous sea disappeared from the void above the columns.
Following this, something astonishing happened before Ye Chen's eyes.
The void above the columns revealed the entire situation outside the Extreme Spirit Martial Land.
One could see, after the disappearance of the Extreme Spirit Clan's Sovereigns, the chasing slaughter creatures paused momentarily in astonishment. Then these creatures frantically began to destroy the Extreme Spirit Martial Land, smashing the original elegant buildings into dust within moments with their earth-shattering strikes. The sky and ground of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land turned into utter chaos!
As the countless slaughter creatures from the "Sea of Taboo" swarmed ashore, the entire Extreme Spirit Martial Land transformed into a scene of a purgatory, with black specks of terrifying organisms roaring madly everywhere.
These slaughter creatures, after completely wrecking the Extreme Spirit Martial Land, even aimed to smash through the other side's defense, directly advancing towards the Extreme Spirit Sea.
At this moment, the thunderous sea formed by the hundreds of columns, which had previously disappeared from the great hall where Ye Chen stood, suddenly reappeared in the sky above the Extreme Spirit Martial Land.
When this sea of thunderstorm formed earlier, Ye Chen had not realized its dreadful power, feeling none of it dispersing.
Yet, once this sea appeared over the Extreme Spirit Martial Land, it instantly encompassed the entire territory. The densely packed power within also burst forth entirely, transforming into countless bolts of lightning, spanning hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands of meters in width, wildly rampaging throughout the land!
The whole of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land instantaneously became a world obliterated by a vast, fearsome sea of thunderstorm!
Residing within, possibly more than a hundred thousand mighty slaughter creatures, fell prey to this lighting, being relentlessly slain into dust, leaving Ye Chen utterly stunned!
Even nine-star Sovereign-level slaughter creatures found it difficult to withstand in the maelstrom of this thunderous power!
In merely dozens of breaths, what was a dense occupation of slaughter creatures over the whole of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land was ground to ashes, leaving just the broken ruins of the Extreme Spirit Martial Land behind!