With the extinction of the Ten Great Vicious Beasts, a sky-rending cheer erupted from the entire rampart. Everyone was overcome with emotion, tears streaming down their faces; with these powerhouses holding the line, how could humanity possibly lose?

The thought fueled a burning fire in everyone's heart. Those who had moments before resigned themselves to certain death were now alight with intense excitement.

"Little Lian, I swear I will return alive to see you!" "Mom, wait for me!" Everyone looked toward the distance behind the city wall, where their loved ones waited. Amidst the cheers, more monsters surged onto the battlefield ahead—a boundless tide, sweeping across the entire Ancient World, ceaselessly shooting forward like a black torrent.

Towering figures of the Ancient God Clan strode among the monstrous army. The war raged on!

Seventy-two streaks of light wheeled around and flashed onto the rampart. The remaining six thousand Martial God Guards charged into the monsters alongside the human army.

These Martial God Guards shot forth like rockets, tearing sharp gashes into the pitch-black monster torrent, slicing open the dark curtain like thousands of piercing blades. Led by these six thousand Martial God Guards, the human army fought with surging valor, charging toward the monsters, fearlessly engaging them with flesh and blood.

As the great battle continued, suddenly, the monster army on the opposite side abruptly halted. Whether they were advancing or currently engaged in combat, every monster seemed to freeze in place before slowly turning around, gazing uniformly toward the rear of the army.

This bizarre scene astonished everyone watching from the walls. Though confused, the soldiers locked in combat immediately seized the opportunity, unleashing their strongest attacks, striking the monsters with frenzied force.

"Have they finally arrived?" Ye Chen gazed toward the rear of the battlefield, his eyes gleaming. Jin Huan, standing beside him, sensed a faint pressure in the air and asked Ye Chen with unease, "Who is here?

Is it an Ancient God?" "No," Ye Chen shook his head slightly, thinking that if an Ancient God had come, someone of her strength would have instantly collapsed, unable even to stand and talk. "Then could it be…" Jin Huan's pupils dilated.

"The Great Dao has come?" Ye Chen nodded slightly. The Great Dao, mount of the Ancient Gods, was a colossal monster that once required the joint effort of the Nine Great Heavenly Gods to confront.

At this moment, its aura, like that of a primeval savage beast, slowly awakened from behind the monster army. Though immensely distant, Ye Chen felt it with perfect clarity.

Under the gaze of all, a mass of black mist slowly rose behind the monster army. From the mist, a behemoth emerged, its body the size of a mountain.

It possessed a serpentine body, and the hairs on its twelve black wings were soft yet wickedly sharp. Four sharp claws were tucked beneath its belly, and atop its head sat not deer antlers, but a single, pointed black horn.

Along its spine grew fin-like quills, and its obsidian eyes surveyed the entire battlefield. Everyone felt as if the air had been sucked from their lungs.

Although this giant beast was not as massive as the Ancient God race members, the aura it exuded struck a chord of profound dread in everyone. Even many ruthless assassins felt intense terror welling up in their hearts upon sensing it.

"It's so huge; how could it be the mount of an Ancient God?" Jin Huan stared at the distant Dao in disbelief. Ye Chen stated flatly, "What you see now is only its miniature form.

When it enters combat mode, you will understand its true scale. A single scale is as large as an Ancient God clansman!" "What?

A single scale as large as an Ancient God clansman?" Jin Huan’s eyes widened into perfect circles. "Then its entire body length must span thousands of light-years?" What was the concept of thousands of light-years?

On Earth, our entire solar system spanned only 0.003 light-years, meaning this Dao was tens of thousands of times the diameter of our solar system! A single tail swipe would obliterate the entire solar system!

"The world is vast, harboring all manner of creatures, especially those emerging from the Ancient Realm," Ye Chen glanced at her. "The cells and body of the Great Dao constitute a miniature world.

The microorganisms within its cells treat those cells as planets in our understanding, and those microorganisms are the humans living upon its cellular structure." Jin Huan was left speechless, utterly shocked. Heavens!

A single, minuscule cell within it was the size of a planet! Inconceivable!

Ye Chen ignored her further, raising his eyes to the Dao, his brow furrowed. He commanded, "Order everyone to retreat, including the Martial God Guards." Jin Huan reacted instantly and scrambled to carry out the order, but she was still too slow.

The Great Dao, now hovering above the battlefield, spoke with sleepy indifference from its black pupils, "It has taken so long to conquer the human territory; how sluggish." As it spoke, it slightly parted its lips and exhaled gently. This breath transformed into a plume of black flame that engulfed the entire battlefield, instantly incinerating every human caught within it.

Countless lives were annihilated in a single breath! The six thousand Martial God Guards who had not retreated in time were consumed by the black flames, burned to ash without even the chance to resist.

The black fire surged toward the city wall, plunging everyone into panic. Suddenly, a ringing blade sound echoed, and a nearly transparent, natural barrier materialized above the rampart, isolating the black flame.

"Hmm?" The Dao's pupils shifted slightly as it swept toward the dark-robed youth standing above the wall. "That aura… I see.

It has been a long time; the Sword Emperor's bearing remains as formidable as ever." Under the fixed gaze of everyone on the wall, Ye Chen stepped into the void, his figure ascending step by step. As he passed over the battlefield, every living thing caught below instantly fractured, torn apart from within by an inexplicable force.

Everyone’s eyes widened. Ye Chen stopped before the Great Dao, looking up at the mountain-sized figure.

"Do you truly believe you have the certainty of victory against me, alone?" "That is hard to say," the Great Dao's dark eyes revealed arrogance. "After my body was shattered, my shell was captured and tamed by the Ancient War Venerable.

He dismantled my three thousand bones, gifting them as Ancestral Bones to his three thousand disciples, allowing them to propagate their lineage across the continent and establish diverse civilizations." "Now that the Ancient Gods have returned, my Dao Heart has resurfaced, summoning the three thousand Divine Bones back. My strength surpasses that of the past.

Though you, as the Supreme Divine Blade, possess unparalleled physical resilience—a toughness no one but an Ancient God could dismantle—you may not necessarily conquer me." "Is that so?" Ye Chen smiled faintly. "Then I shall experience your transformation firsthand." Whoosh!

His figure flashed, and he darted toward the body of the Great Dao. He thrust out his fingers as blades, an ethereal blade gang enveloping them, striking viciously against one of the Dao's scales.

Clang! Sparks flew as his fingers scraped against the scale, which finally yielded, the fingers cutting deep into the flesh.

"Worthy of the Supreme Divine Blade!" The Great Dao roared, its body twisting and maneuvering. In an instant, its mass swelled by hundreds of millions of times; every scale, every strand of hair, its crown horn, and its eyes grew at a furious pace.

Whoosh! In mere seconds, the Great Dao transformed into its combat form.

It merely exhaled a breath, and everyone on the city wall watched as the battlefield ahead was blown into a deep depression. Those on the rampart could only see half of the Great Dao's eye—a single pupil that was now the size of two or three solar systems!

The Great Dao let out a low bellow and rapidly ascended into the sky. The heavens immediately darkened as its body plowed through the clouds, dissipating the mist to reveal a vaster expanse of sky, and the blood-red moon hanging impossibly far away.

Jin Huan stared upward, stunned. After a long moment, she murmured, "No wonder the Ancient Continent, so vast and immense, was shattered by the battles between the Ancient War Venerable and the Ancient Gods, splitting into the Dark World and the twelve other continents." Seeing the Dao's sheer volume, she knew instantly that a single tail sweep could trigger violent earthquakes across hundreds of light-years, potentially damaging the continental core itself and causing the Ancient Continent to fracture anew!

"This kind of monster is truly a true monster, and only someone like the Sword Emperor can deal with it," Jin Huan sighed, shaking her head. If she had been the one to face it, she would have been swatted dead with one flick of its tail.

Buzz~~ A sharp blade light whistled and shot toward the heavens. This light erupted from Ye Chen's body; his hair and clothes whipped wildly in the wind, and his obsidian eyes flashed with icy light.

"I never witnessed your might in the past; today, I shall learn it well!" Ye Chen roared toward the sky, his body enveloped in a spectral layer of blade light as he hacked furiously toward the Dao's massive form. At Ye Chen's level, his swordsmanship transcended specific forms; it was the purest act of cleaving, yet the power unleashed surpassed any named technique.

The speed far exceeded light speed; every strike was like an embodiment of an intent, a manifestation of the Dao itself! "Hmph!" The Great Dao snorted, unleashing a tide of fierce power.

Its claw swept down toward Ye Chen—a single claw of immense size moving with terrifying speed. Ye Chen did not evade.

Instead, his body twisted, shedding its human form entirely, transforming into a battle saber that streamed with brilliant light. Its cold edge swept out like moonlight, the tip aimed directly at the descending claw as it surged upward violently.

The Great Dao had no choice but to retract its downward-striking claw. Despite its confidence in the hardness of its scales, it dared not meet Ye Chen’s blade head-on.

"Dao Flame!" The Great Dao roared, opening its mouth to spew forth a jet of black flame. As this black fire emerged, everyone on the distant city wall felt as if their bodies were catching fire, the heat intensely agonizing.

Some of their armor began to show signs of melting.