At the same time, Supreme Cangming and Supreme Yuanchen were also forced into extreme sublimation under Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme's offensive.
Instantly, five invincible Supremes stood in the starry sky, their auras clashing and colliding, causing the entire Great Universe to teeter precariously.
Forbidden Zone Supremes, both those who were paying attention and those who weren't, awakened from their slumber.
"They're insane, truly insane. What do they want to do? Break through the Great Universe?"
"These Four Supreme Daoists won't survive. It's a pity for this junior; the Dou Character Secret he created might have been on par with ours, but now he's probably going to be buried with them."
"Why bother? The Immortal Ascension Road is only ten to twenty thousand years away. It's unwise to fight now."
The Supremes cast their gazes towards the cosmic frontier and began to observe the battle. After all, a battlefield of Five Great Supremes was rare since ancient times; even Enlightenment Provers rarely witnessed one. Even the previous large-scale Corpse Calamity, counting Lingbao Tianzun, involved at most three or four participants in the great battle.
Liang Yu looked at the four sublimated Supremes opposite him and said, "Purple Zenith, you know how they just treated you. Do you really believe they will wholeheartedly join forces with you to kill me?"
Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme raised his head and swallowed a mass of immortal liquid, saying, "No more talk. The four of us have a time limit, but you don't, so you must be the first to die."
Liang Yu then turned to the other three: "What about you? If it weren't for Purple Zenith, you might not have needed to undergo extreme sublimation, and thus wouldn't be in mortal danger. Don't you hate him?"
The other three naturally harbored hatred, but at this moment, they also understood that killing Liang Yu was the top priority. If Liang Yu dragged it out, they would all die.
Seeing that he couldn't sow discord among them, Liang Yu sighed, "Four Supreme joining forces to kill just me—this treatment is truly too high. There's no choice, I'll have to bring out my full strength."
Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme was completely unconvinced: "Full strength? What other trump cards do you have?"
Emperor Yama also said, "Bluffing is useless; you'd better obediently offer your divine blood."
Supreme Cangming and Supreme Yuanchen said nothing, but their auras grew even stronger.
Did Liang Yu hide his strength? Of course, he did.
In the Sheltering Heavens world, there was actually a special rule: the higher the difficulty, the stronger the power.
For example, Ye Fan was able to become Heavenly Emperor in his first life. In his second life, in his later years, when his strength had not significantly increased even with the help of Immortal Elixir, he displayed terrifying combat power that completely crushed sublimated Supremes; even Immortal Artifacts couldn't withstand his Heavenly Emperor Fist.
The reason for this lay in his breaking through two extremely difficult restrictions when he proved his Dao.
One was the restriction inherent in the Sacred Body itself, which had hindered the cultivation of countless Great Accomplishment Sacred Body throughout history, with only a handful reaching the alternative path to enlightenment.
The second was the restriction that others could not prove their Dao due to the Heaven's Heart Seal suppressing them when a Great Emperor was alive. This restriction caused countless heroes throughout history to die with regret. Even the Four Great Divine Beings, personally acknowledged by Ye Fan as destined to become Emperors if they had lived in different eras, could not break through.
Chuan Ying was suppressed by Emperor Zun, Ning Fei was suppressed by Undying Heavenly Emperor, Gai Jiuyou was suppressed by the Azure Emperor, and Di Que, after narrowly losing to Fighting Saint Emperor, could only seal himself and only proved his Dao in later generations. Even they couldn't break through, let alone those who only had the potential of a Great Emperor and hoped to prove their Dao.
But Ye Fan was different. Not only did he break through this restriction, but even before that, he overpowered the Great Emperor of his era, shattering the myth of a Great Emperor's invincibility in a single lifetime.
Because of these achievements, Ye Fan's combat power far exceeded that of ordinary Enlightenment Provers from his first life onwards.
In contrast, Liang Yu, despite being born with only incomplete divine blood, later evolved into a God King Body and further developed the ultimate phenomenon of the God King Body—the Divine Emperor and the Eternal Divine Kingdom—all through his self-created secret techniques.
In addition, even before proving his Dao, he had created the Dou Character Secret, which could rank among the Nine Secrets, almost reaching the highest level in the field of offensive techniques during the Mythological Era.
With the addition of these two major achievements, Liang Yu's combat power naturally surpassed that of ordinary Enlightenment Provers by a significant margin.
In fact, three or four hundred years ago, he could have proved his Dao, but to achieve a stronger Dao fruit, he deliberately accumulated for several hundred more years.
Considering only his first life, perhaps only someone of Ye Fan's caliber could surpass him.
Therefore, for him, these Four Supreme were merely somewhat troublesome. He hid his strength only to lure out a few more Forbidden Land Supremes. When he fought the sublimated Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme just now, he was only evenly matched, hoping that the other three Supremes would intervene. In a chaotic battle, perhaps more Supremes could be drawn out. As it turned out, the flimsy friendship of these few Supremes couldn't withstand the test, leading to the current situation.
Since all Four Supremes had sublimated, it was now impossible to draw out any other Supremes.
In fact, it would be difficult for him to draw out Supremes in the future as well. An opponent whom four sublimated Supremes couldn't kill—which Forbidden Land Supreme would be foolish enough to provoke him?
Liang Yu felt a bit regretful. His aura surged again, actually piercing through the Heavenly Heart. His Dao, which was originally one with the Heaven's Heart Seal, also began to transcend, instead pressing down upon the myriad Daos of heaven and earth.
The Four Supreme suppressed the four directions, surrounding Liang Yu, and each unleashed their divine abilities.
After swallowing the immortal liquid, Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme's condition improved, and his sublimation time was extended significantly. He roared, "Burning Heaven Incinerating Dao Art!"
A purple divine flame appeared, myriad divine lights flowed, and streaks of auspicious energy scattered. A divine being broke free from the divine flame; the heavens bestowed blessings upon him with divine marks, and myriad Daos condensed laws to forge weapons for him. As soon as he emerged, the myriad domains and star rivers trembled because of him, and the entire universe warmed because of him.
From the moment of his emergence, his physical body, laws, forbidden secret techniques, and everything else perfected themselves. It was at this moment after his emergence that he directly triggered the tribulation of proving the Dao and successfully passed it in one go.
The Burning Heaven Incinerating Dao Art was precisely his ultimate secret technique; this divine flame that nurtured him could even burn the myriad Daos of heaven and earth to ashes.
On the other side, Emperor Yama also harbored a belly full of anger. Whether it was Liang Yu or Purple Zenith, his attitude was clearly the most gentle, yet both of them targeted him first. He held a brush in his right hand and drew a line on the Book of Life and Death, then angrily shouted, "Liang Yu, your name is on the Book of Life and Death; your lifespan ends at fifteen hundred years. Why do you not submit?"
Streaks of black chains appeared, countless ghosts and gods wailed, and Liang Yu felt his primordial spirit silently collapsing and dissolving into the Dao. Even in his Sea of Suffering, death energy surged, his Wheel of Life decayed and disintegrated, and his Spring of Life began to dry up. This strike was actually meant to cut off his lifespan.
Supreme Cangming also showed no weakness. Endless seawater surged from his palm, instantly dissolving suns, moons, and stars, forming a torrent that swallowed everything. He said in a deep voice, "Endless Cangming!"
Supreme Yuanchen scattered divine sand, and each grain of sand transformed into countless stars. The stars then transformed into countless Star Lords and divine beings. Among the countless stars and Star Lords, an ethereal figure permeated with immortal energy emerged: "Myriad Stars Immortal Ascension Art!"
Liang Yu stretched his body, manifested a four-faced, eight-armed Dharma Body, and simultaneously met the Four Supreme.
He countered Supreme Cangming with the Taiyang Divine Seal and the Divine Seal of Separating Fire, countered Supreme Yuanchen with the Divine Emperor Seal and the Four Symbols Seal, countered Emperor Yama with the Reincarnation Seal and the Immovable Wisdom King Seal, and countered Purple Zenith Sacred Supreme with the Heaven Sealing Divine Seal and the Opening Heaven Seal.
Liang Yu simultaneously unleashed eight supreme divine abilities with his eight hands, fighting one against four without falling into a disadvantage.
Immeasurable divine light collided and dispersed, engulfing the entire starry sky. Behind the divine light, only a void remained. The uninhabited areas existing in the cosmic frontier became even darker and emptier, with even abandoned Ancient Stars and the shattered corpses and remnants of weapons from the great battle being completely erased.