#784 - Chapter 784: Beyond the Territory

Numerous Celestial Sovereigns retracted their gazes. One of them inquired, "Your Majesty, what has occurred?"

"A minor matter. There is no need for concern, everyone. Please, continue to enjoy the wine and dance," Mingjue Emperor said with a smile, withdrawing his gaze.

In that brief moment, he had clearly sensed a fleeting aura of time. It was a ripple from the River of Time, indicating someone had broken through to the Celestial Sovereign realm, triggering the emergence of the River of Time to consolidate their timeline and achieve true uniqueness.

However, after scanning the Mingjue Immortal Domain, he found no one who had broken through to the Celestial Sovereign realm. Could it be residual effects from Gu Mo's breakthrough some days ago?

Mingjue Emperor also suspected it might have originated from within the Heavenly Gate, but after his divine sense lingered outside the Heavenly Gate for a while, he ultimately did not enter.

When the Heavenly Gate Forbidden Zone was formed, he was merely a Celestial Sovereign. Now, hundreds of billions of years had passed, and he had cultivated into an Emperor for billions of years. The Heavenly Gate Forbidden Zone had remained stable all this time.

However, after Mingjue Emperor cultivated into an Emperor and took control of the Dao Sky Immortal Domain, he learned a secret about the Heavenly Gate Forbidden Zone.

One hundred and thirty-two billion years ago, the Heavenly Gate Forbidden Zone experienced turmoil. A dark being from within the Heavenly Gate broke through. Although only at the Celestial Sovereign level, its strength was incredibly formidable.

After breaking through the sealing formation, the dark being killed the four Quasi-Celestial Sovereigns guarding the Heavenly Gate and then infiltrated the Mingjue Immortal Domain, intending to slaughter living beings on a large scale.

The Celestial Sovereigns within hundreds of millions of miles around the Heavenly Gate rushed over, but they were unable to subdue it, demonstrating its terrifying combat power.

During the battle, the previous ruler of the Mingjue Immortal Domain, Emperor Xuanming, arrived, suppressed and killed it, erasing all traces of the dark being from the River of Time, making it impossible for it to ever return.

Lower Realm Universe, outside the Immortal Realm.

Emperor Hua's colossal body, billions upon billions of feet tall, had the River of Time emerging beneath his feet. The dense, terrifying aura of time instantly flowed throughout the entire Lower Realm Universe.

At that moment, time in the entire universe stood still. Except for Emperor Hua, all living beings, even Immortal Kings and Half-Step Quasi-Immortal Emperors, were frozen in place, time suspended in that one second.

Before Emperor Hua could think further, his expression changed slightly. He realized that the Upper Realm's River of Time had a significant impact on the living beings of the Lower Realm. The lifespan of the Immortal Kings, originally endless and coexisting with the universe, was rapidly decreasing.

Therefore, Emperor Hua gently shook his right foot, and the River of Time disappeared from this universe, along with Emperor Hua's figure.

After the River of Time and Emperor Hua disappeared, time in the entire universe resumed its flow. The living beings who had been kneeling and kowtowing were surprised to find that the overwhelming, all-encompassing imperial might had vanished.

However, some powerful Immortal Kings had solemn expressions. They had seen the River of Time descend earlier, and it was clearly not the River of Time of their universe. The aura of time was too terrifying, giving them a fatal threat. Now, the River of Time had disappeared along with the Heavenly Emperor.

However, the Immortal Kings were not too worried, as the previous anomalies all pointed to one fact: Heavenly Emperor Hua had finally taken that step.

He had broken through from the peak of Quasi-Immortal Emperor to the Immortal Emperor realm!

Becoming a true Emperor!

Also, he was the second Immortal Emperor in their universe after Mingjue Immortal Emperor.

The Immortal Kings looked towards the outer space, at the original location of the Heavenly Emperor, with longing expressions on their faces.

Thinking that the Heavenly Emperor had broken through to become an Immortal Emperor, they couldn't help but think of themselves. The Heavenly Emperor had once said that they all had hope of breaking through to the Immortal Emperor realm.

In the outer space, a figure radiating a shimmering cyan light appeared. When it fluctuated towards Ye Kong, it was startled.

Then, the cyan light scattered, almost fleeing in panic.

Ye Kong felt a slight coolness near his ear but did not notice anything unusual.

However, his intuition told him:

The Immortal Realm was not just one Immortal Realm.

The River of Time was not just one River of Time.

The green shadow that just passed by, seemingly integrated with the River of Time, actually had extremely strong life element fluctuations inside.

From his perception, the opponent's strength was not weak, not below him.

If the other party really intended to fight him, their combat power would not be below him, and they might even be able to fight him to a draw or even surpass him.

Ye Kong felt a wave of fear when he thought of this.

If the green light had wanted to attack him and Xiaoshan just now, wouldn't it have been easy?

It seemed that the plan to save Xiaoshan had to be expedited.

Now he had alarmed the beings outside the River of Time, causing no small amount of trouble.

Ye Kong thought as he looked in the direction Xiaoshan had left, suddenly feeling irritable and no longer in the mood to stay.

He waved his hand to restore the place he had stayed to its original state and hurriedly returned.

"Huh, he was just here, why is he gone now?"

The dark Quasi-Emperors' spiritual power was affected by the fluctuations, making it difficult for them to see clearly. In addition, Ye Kong had deliberately concealed his whereabouts, so by the time the dark Quasi-Emperors noticed Ye Kong, he had already quietly left.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Gu Mo was holding a celadon ink jade nine-respect flying glazed cup, about to toast with his father to congratulate himself on his promotion to the Emperor realm.

But before he could walk over, he noticed something was wrong with Mingjue Emperor, his father.

His father, who had been radiant and domineering, was now dazed and listless, as if he had been frightened.

But this kind of situation usually only happened to low-grade Immortal Kings, how could it happen to his father?

Gu Mo was extremely worried, but he remained calm on the surface.

He hadn't forgotten that there were many Celestial Sovereigns at the banquet eyeing his father.

If something went wrong at this time, wouldn't it be giving his enemies a handle?

Gu Mo, claiming to be reliable, stepped forward, wanting to put down the cup in his father's hand and shield him from being seen by others.

But before he could get close, he was met with a stern shout from the Emperor: "What are you doing?"