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Just as the giant sword, imbued with destructive power, was about to touch Emperor Taikang's spiritual energy shield, Lu Chen exerted a slight force, pushing Emperor Taikang aside.

Emperor Taikang was stunned for a moment. He turned to look at Lu Chen, and the next moment he suddenly opened his eyes wide. He found that Lu Chen was radiating a seven-colored power, and the pressure on his body increased countless times in an instant. A pressure similar to that of the Heavenly Emperor was released from Lu Chen.

At this moment, the Lord of Qingyue in the Qingyue Holy Land was still waiting for his formation to kill Lu Chen, but suddenly felt a terrifying pressure descend.

The Lord of Qingyue channeled all his spiritual power in an attempt to resist the oppressive force, but he was still unable to lift his body due to the pressure.

The Lord of Qingyue said unwillingly, "Heavenly Emperor! This is the Heavenly Emperor's oppressive aura!"

"How is this possible? How could Lu Chen possibly be the Heavenly Emperor!"

At this moment, Lu Chen took out the Shattering God Sword and swung it out.

Blood Soul Slash!!!

The next moment, the sword energy, carrying the power of seven colors, instantly slashed at the giant sword that was shooting at him. When the giant sword came into contact with the sword energy of the Shattered God Sword, it instantly dissipated. At this time, the sword energy of the Shattered God Sword was still intact and directly slashed at the great formation of Qingyue Holy Land.

The moment the sword energy of the Shattered God Sword collided with the defensive array of the Qingyue Holy Land, the defensive array of the Qingyue Holy Land shattered and disintegrated like glass.

Seeing that Lu Chen had broken through the Holy Land's defensive array so quickly, Lord Qingyue panicked. He never expected that Lu Chen would possess the power of the Heavenly Emperor.

However, the Lord of Qingyue did not give up so quickly. After all, he was a survivor from the previous era, and he still had quite a few methods.

The Lord of Qingyue once again mobilized the ancient formation beneath the Qingyue Holy Land. Even if the defensive formation was gone, they still had the offensive formation.

The next moment, a huge array pattern appeared below the Qingyue Holy Land, followed by a loud shout from the Lord of Qingyue.

"Heaven and Earth Illumination Array, activate!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen divine souls of emperors emerged from the formation. The emperors of Qingyue Holy Land were stunned when they saw these divine souls of emperors.

In the past, every so often, a great emperor would fall in the Qingyue Holy Land. They had long suspected that the fall of these emperors was related to the Lord of Qingyue, but they did not know what the Lord of Qingyue had done to those emperors.

Now that they saw the souls of those emperors, they finally understood what the Lord of Qingyue had done to them. The Lord of Qingyue had actually refined these emperors into an array!

Emperor Taikang muttered to himself, "I thought there was no way to control an emperor in this world, but I never imagined there were so many ways to control an emperor; we just don't know it yet."

Putting aside Lu Chen's method of controlling the Great Emperor, it's normal for a Heavenly Emperor to have some means of controlling the Great Emperor, since Lu Chen is, after all, a reincarnated Heavenly Emperor.

However, the Lord of Qingyue was only a Great Emperor at the Ninth Level. As a result, the Lord of Qingyue also had a way to control Great Emperors, except that he refined these Great Emperors into part of the formation.

Compared to Lu Chen's methods of control, the Lord of Qingyue's methods of controlling the Emperor were far more cruel.

The Lord of Qingyue looked at Lu Chen outside the Qingyue Holy Land and said, "Even if you are truly the Heavenly Emperor, so what? I do not believe you can withstand my Heaven and Earth Illumination Array!"

As they spoke, the Lord of Qingyue activated the great formation and launched a direct attack on Lu Chen.

Lord Qingyue wasn't stupid either. He had just realized why Lu Chen was able to suddenly possess the power of the Heavenly Emperor. It was obvious that the spirit-gathering array behind Lu Chen had taken effect.

As long as the Heaven and Earth Illumination Array can destroy Lu Chen's Spirit Gathering Array, Lu Chen's Heavenly Emperor Power will naturally disappear.

After the Lord of Qingyue mobilized the power of the great formation, the souls of those emperors rushed towards Lu Chen with wails. Just as they were about to reach Lu Chen, the souls of those emperors suddenly merged into one, with their heads growing from various parts of their bodies, making them look extremely terrifying and twisted.

Lu Chen smiled faintly and said to the Lord of Qingyue, "Your taste is truly unique."

As he spoke, Lu Chen prepared to help these emperors find release. However, at that moment, the divine souls of the emperors that had formed a new whole suddenly emitted a terrifying pressure, which was almost identical to the pressure that Lu Chen was emitting at that moment.

Lu Chen was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't care much. Although their strengths were almost equal, he was holding a celestial sword, while the monster in front of him was just an aggregate of divine souls.

Without further hesitation, Lu Chen mobilized the seven-colored power formed by the convergence of the Great Dao and unleashed a sword strike.

"I will free you from this predicament!"

Lu Chen's sword strike was clearly more terrifying than the previous one; cracks appeared in the space wherever the sword energy passed.

The Lord of Qingyue let out a cold shout, roaring at the monster formed from the divine soul of the Great Emperor, "Tear him to pieces for me!"

As soon as the Lord of Qingyue finished speaking, the monster charged directly at the sword energy. This surprised Lu Chen. Logically, the power of the sword energy should have been enough to kill the monster. Why did the Lord of Qingyue want him to take the initiative to meet it? Shouldn't he have dodged it?

The monster's aura was now almost equal to his own, and his aura could no longer restrict the monster's movements. It wasn't impossible for the monster to dodge the Blood Soul Slash.

Just as Lu Chen was puzzled by the behavior of the Lord of Qingyue, the corners of the Lord of Qingyue's mouth turned up slightly.

Suddenly, another enormous monster appeared within the Heaven and Earth Illumination Array. This monster, like the monsters formed from the combined souls of the Great Emperors, had human heads growing from various parts of its body, making it look extremely terrifying.

Emperor Taikang and the others immediately recognized that those heads were the physical bodies of the divine souls of the previous emperors. Clearly, this monster was formed by the aggregation of the physical bodies of those emperors.

The Lord of Qingyue can not only control the Emperor's soul, but also his physical body!

Just as the emperors of Qingyue Holy Land were furious, the monster formed from the emperor's physical body rushed towards Lu Chen from another direction. Clearly, its target was the spirit-gathering array behind Lu Chen.

Emperor Taikang hurriedly warned, "Your Majesty, be careful! Its target is the Spirit Gathering Array!"

Lu Chen didn't take it to heart. Back in the outer realms, he had experienced others attacking the Spirit Gathering Array, and he knew its importance. So, from the very beginning, he had already diverted his source power to protect the Great Emperor within the Spirit Gathering Array.

At this moment, the monster had arrived in front of a Great Emperor who had constructed a Spirit Gathering Array. Because of the Spirit Gathering Array, the Great Emperor was completely unable to move and could only watch helplessly as the monster punched down.

Just when the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty thought he was doomed, he discovered that the monster's fist did not land on him. He looked up and saw a gray shield above his body. The monster's fist landed on the gray shield and could not go any further.

At this moment, the sword energy that Lu Chen unleashed had already touched the monster formed from the divine soul of the Great Emperor. The monster turned into dust the instant it touched the sword energy.

(End of this chapter)