As Amaterasu spoke, the orb of light behind her suddenly enlarged, and a sunfire barrier rose around them, once again isolating the Dragon Division base from the outside world.
"This is endless…" Ye Ling sighed slightly as he watched the barrier rise.
He hadn't expected that a boy of unknown identity would attract the attack of a main god of a divine kingdom.
Unlike Izanagi, Amaterasu was the current main god of Takamagahara, representing its highest ruler. If Amaterasu were killed, Takamagahara would completely collapse, and the balance of the Three Realms might be broken.
The Earth still needed stability, and Ye Ling did not particularly want to fight Amaterasu.
However, he was unwilling to give up on the boy of unknown identity.
Three colossal orbs of light hovered above the Dragon Division base, casting down scorching rays. The extreme temperature actually turned the ground into lava!
The unimaginable heat evaporated the air within the sunfire barrier!
Lava churned, and the heat within the sunfire barrier was unbearable!
Amaterasu stood in the sky, staring at Ye Ling, and said coldly, "Ye Ling, I do not wish to be your enemy. As long as you hand over that boy, I can pretend none of this ever happened."
"Have you considered carefully? Takamagahara is not without other saints. Do you truly wish to wage war with Takamagahara?"
The boy, enveloped by Ye Ling's demonic energy, looked at Amaterasu in the sky, fear welling up in his eyes. He said in a hoarse voice, "I… I don't want to go with you!"
Hearing the boy's words, Ye Ling also said to Amaterasu, "I think you've heard him. He doesn't want to go with you, so you should just go back. If you insist on taking him, don't blame me for being impolite."
Amaterasu snorted, "That's what I wanted to say! I'd like to see what abilities you, the Emperor renowned throughout the Three Realms, possess!"
With that, the three orbs above Amaterasu split into numerous spears wreathed in sunfire, pointing directly at Ye Ling.
The sunfire caused the surrounding air to distort, even showing signs of collapse!
Its temperature had surpassed that of the actual sun!
Seeing that Amaterasu was getting serious, Ye Ling sighed slightly, "Why must you court disaster?"
With that, Ye Ling vanished from his spot, instantly appearing before Amaterasu. He grabbed her fair neck with one hand, and a large amount of demonic energy erupted from his body, engulfing her!
The sunfire around Amaterasu was instantly covered by demonic energy, and the myriad spears in the sky all collapsed.
"This!!!"
Amaterasu looked at Ye Ling in horror, never imagining that Ye Ling could so easily break through her defenses and appear before her!
"You're still far from it," Ye Ling said, looking at the astonished Amaterasu. He tightened his grip, making Amaterasu's neck crackle.
"Damn… damn it…" Feeling her neck about to break, Amaterasu refused to give up. She condensed a spear in her hand and fiercely thrust it at Ye Ling.
*Crack!*
The spear shattered the moment it touched Ye Ling, not even piercing his clothes.
Seeing this, Amaterasu's pupils contracted, and her heart was filled with immense shock.
That spear was her Saint-tier divine artifact!
What kind of monster was this Ye Ling?
Seeing Amaterasu still resisting, Ye Ling sighed again, "It seems you still haven't realized the gap between us."
Ye Ling, still holding Amaterasu's neck, swung her in a half-circle in the air and hurled her fiercely away.
Amaterasu became like a meteor, smashing heavily into the lava below.
*Boom!*
Amaterasu crashed into the lava, stirring up monstrous waves!
Ye Ling calmly looked down at the churning lava below, then plummeted downwards himself, crashing into the lava and stomping on Amaterasu's abdomen.
*Bang! Bang! Bang!*
The ground shattered, and Amaterasu was repeatedly smashed through earth and rock, almost being stomped to the core of the planet by Ye Ling!
She coughed up blood incessantly, her breath chaotic, and even the sunfire barrier she had set up around the Dragon Division base began to collapse.
With just one blow, Ye Ling had made it so that Amaterasu could barely maintain her most basic barrier!
However, the moment Amaterasu's sunfire barrier disappeared, Ye Ling's demonic energy barrier rose again, isolating the Dragon Division base from the outside world.
Now that the ground of the Dragon Division base had melted into lava, without a barrier to isolate the energy, not to mention Ye Ling's previous attack, the three small suns Amaterasu had conjured in the sky were enough to melt the entire East Capital!
Deep underground, a large amount of lava poured down from above, forming a waterfall of lava.
Ye Ling, standing on Amaterasu underground, said calmly, "Now, do you understand?"
Amaterasu lay on the ground, looking at Ye Ling in terror. The intense pain rendered her immobile.
Ye Ling's previous strike had shattered all the bones within her, including her internal organs!
If Ye Ling had been a little more ruthless, that single blow might have completely annihilated her soul and even pierced the entire Earth!
"Who exactly are you?" Amaterasu asked, her voice trembling with fear.
Her face was filled with dread, and she no longer dared to fight Ye Ling.
From their brief exchange, she had realized the immense gap between herself and Ye Ling!
Seeing Amaterasu concede, Ye Ling's smile returned. He removed his foot from Amaterasu's abdomen and said, "Don't you already know? The Lord of the Demonic Palace, Ye Ling."
Amaterasu, while healing her injuries, said to Ye Ling, "Impossible… with such immense power, how could you be willing to be the lord of a mortal force?"
"In the immortal realm, you must have another title!"
"Believe it or not." Ye Ling did not dwell on the matter of his identity with Amaterasu. After allowing her to recover slightly, he bound her again with demonic energy and pulled her to the surface.
Then, Ye Ling used the law of time to restore the Dragon Division base to its state before the battle.
Seeing Ye Ling so casually manipulate the law of time, Amaterasu's shock intensified, her brain almost turning into a pulp!
What kind of monster was this Ye Ling?
Amaterasu wished she could slap herself for even considering using the entire nation's strength to confront Ye Ling.
If Takamagahara had truly clashed with Ye Ling, the entire divine kingdom would likely have been shattered by him.
After once again repairing the Dragon Division, Ye Ling asked Amaterasu, "Will you tell me yourself, or should I search your soul?"
Amaterasu glanced at the demonic energy swirling in Ye Ling's palm, swallowed, and said, "I… I'd better tell you myself."
Now that she was his prisoner, she dared not harbor any further schemes. "Actually, that boy is related to a most secret secret of the Three Realms."
"Currently, in the Three Realms, there are probably no more than ten people who know this secret."
Ye Ling immediately became serious and asked, "What secret?"
Amaterasu looked at the boy wrapped in demonic energy, sighed deeply, and then said, "Actually, that boy is a descendant of the ancient Chaos God, Chuyuan."
Ye Ling: "Chuyuan?"
Amaterasu continued, "Chuyuan, also known as the ancient evil god who, according to legend, created the Heaven Annihilation Evil Array."
"Legend has it that an ancient evil god, for some reason, created the Heaven Annihilation Evil Array to destroy the Three Realms. In reality, it was because the gods coveted the power of the Chaos God and murdered his wife, seizing the divine fetus within her womb."
"Chuyuan, due to his wife's death and the theft of his divine fetus, went completely mad and created the Heaven Annihilation Evil Array, intending to take revenge on the Three Realms…"
Hearing Amaterasu's words, Ye Ling looked at the boy and murmured, "So… that boy is the divine fetus that was taken back then?"