Chapter 1012: Shut Up

That figure stepped upon the scorched earth.

Click, click, click.

With every step He took, the white flames retreated to both sides like submissive servants.

Hiss, hiss.

Upon the charred, cracked earth grew writhing, indescribable dark red tentacles.

"Brother..."

Chen Yu murmured in a daze; that was her brother's original appearance.

But now.

It seemed as if something had completely departed from her.

Those eyes were still gazing upon the human world.

Yet they no longer held their original luster.

They were two chaotic vortices, churning with countless tiny eyeballs.

Each eyeball reflected the desperate living beings of the three continents of the human world, and reflected the indifference of those giant-eyed planets above the firmament.

Oppression.

An extremely powerful sense of oppression.

People had not truly seen Him, yet they could feel His arrival.

Suffocation.

The entire human world seemed to have fallen into a state of rigidity.

Boom!

Streaks of light flew out suddenly.

It was Chen Yu, Lu Jianxia, Ke Qingxuan, Shen Yiwei, and others.

A massive sense of fear suppressed all their minds, yet it could not stop their footsteps.

They refused to believe it.

That was clearly the Great Xia Heavenly General who could lead them out of the Five Clans' struggle.

Even if the Mother God was powerful, even if the malice was boundless.

Yet the Heavenly General was also a god, the only supreme being to appear among the human race in ten thousand years.

Upon the earth.

Countless living beings turned deathly pale.

They had seen Chen Yan create the Dao and establish the Dao.

They had seen Chen Yan debate the Dao with the Chen Master, and seen Chen Yan scheme against the world alone, suppressing all the strongest in the human world.

They had all already believed Chen Yan was invincible in the world.

But reality had given them such a sense of tearing.

The human race's only god had long since been defeated.

Long since devoured by the Mother God.

The human race had long since been defeated.

Boom!

Li Zhiyi waved one hand, and a peerless force struck out from his palm, sending Chen Yu and the others flying.

"You need not join the battle."

Zhang Huizhi turned around and looked at the crowd:

"In the entire world, the only one who can defeat me is myself."

He turned back around, facing the approaching Chen Yan with Li Zhiyi.

One original body and two clones stood in a state of confrontation.

The human world seemed to have fallen into eternity.

Lu Jianxia parted her red lips, wanting to say something.

But she was powerless to refute.

All the high-level members of the human race were speechless at this moment.

They naturally understood Zhang Huizhi's words.

But Chen Yan was the original body, while Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi were merely two clones.

How could clones defeat the original body?

"I have only one question..."

A cold voice rang out.

Ke Qingxuan, dressed in black, spoke with a trembling voice:

"Is he still alive?"

Her question was strange.

Zhang Huizhi and Li Zhiyi were both clones of Chen Yan, possessing the same consciousness as Chen Yan.

Even if the original body Chen Yan were dead, if the clones were still alive, then Chen Yan was still alive.

But at this moment.

Ke Qingxuan had asked exactly that.

Everyone looked at Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi, wanting to get an answer.

"The original body's divine soul is dead, its will is extinguished; only the physical shell remains."

Li Zhiyi's voice was calm.

His voice fell.

Lu Jianxia's eyes instantly lost their focus.

Chen Yu's body stiffened as she looked at Li Zhiyi:

"You are Brother's avatar, you can call back Brother's consciousness, right?"

She was murmuring, terrified, sorrowful.

Tap, tap...

Ke Qingxuan stumbled and fell to her knees.

It was as if she had lost all her strength; her fingertips dug into the scorched earth, and her usually icy brows and eyes grew moist.

Tap, tap, tap.

Tears fell one by one onto the back of her hand, burning with a bone-chilling heat; suppressed sobs spilled from her throat, and her whole body was trembling.

He had once been a spy for Ji Province, suffering because of his identity, yet he was saved by Chen Yan.

That day, she felt as if she had been reborn.

She had always been icy, like a soldier who only knew how to carry out orders.

Whatever Chen Yan said, she would do.

She remained expressionless, always believing that Chen Yan could accomplish things that no one else could.

Yet, deep within her heart, there was endless pity.

Pity for Chen Yan.

A person should not have to endure such hardship as Chen Yan, should not have to encounter so many difficulties as Chen Yan.

Chen Yan was a person, not a god.

Why must the human world always leave everything to Chen Yan alone?

Why?

Could it be that there truly is a heaven-ordained pillar of the human world, destined to shoulder all great disasters and the future?

That person had clearly never known true joy, never known true ease.

Yet she had never said anything.

She respected Chen Yan's choices, silently doing everything she could.

She believed.

That one day in the future, she would surely see the world at peace.

See that person reveal a truly heartfelt smile.

But...

At this very moment.

Ke Qingxuan's world shattered.

All her hope, all her future, was completely pulverized after that one sentence from Li Zhiyi.

Even if Chen Yan's intent remained, and Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi remained.

But what about Chen Yan himself?

He had achieved the limit of everything he could achieve.

He had strived to the limit of everything he could strive for.

Yet, he failed.

This was not his fault.

It was the world's fault.

"Heh, heh, heh..."

Tears and saliva flowed out; it was a pain beyond words.

The instinct of her physical body wanted her to breathe, wanted her to stand up; the instinct of her internal organs wanted to continue functioning.

Yet her soul could not bear the current agony and wanted to depart completely.

Her aura was constantly fading, her internal organs rapidly shattering.

Ke Qingxuan collapsed on the ground, her entire heart dying.

She was saying something silently.

But she would never have the chance to express it again.

People looked at Ke Qingxuan, not knowing that the icy woman could be so fragile at this moment.

Suddenly, she was just like that, shattered.

This moment.

Countless people were overcome with grief.

In the distant land of Tie Province.

Tap, tap, tap...

"Chen Yan" walked calmly.

His steps were not fast, but with every step, he could traverse ten thousand miles.

He appeared relaxed and at ease.

"This is the human world, this is the human race..."

He looked at the entire human world with a hint of mockery.

Now, the one in control of this physical body was no longer Chen Yan.

Rather, it is a new soul created by Jilie.

"You have already died, and all your creations, all your true essence of martial arts, have been seized by Mother Goddess.

You are very pitiful..."

It said, revealing a smile.

It looked faintly toward Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi, who were stationed at the very forefront of the human world.

"Mother Goddess does not even need to act; I alone am enough to personally destroy your remaining two clones."

The playful smile at the corners of its mouth grew more intense:

"By then, all traces of you will have vanished."

Now, the entire human world was watching It.

This caused a certain emotion within It to reach its peak.

It was not Mother Goddess, but a simple and young soul.

Even if It knew its future fate, it did not matter.

What It wanted was simply to enjoy the present.

Some things, as long as they exist, are enough to bring self-amusement.

The next step.

He arrived at the border of Yun Province.

He looked from afar at Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi.

Six eyes stared at each other just like that.

The wind of the entire human world seemed to have frozen completely.

The smile in its eyes grew increasingly thick.

Like an emperor who could decide the fate of the human world at will.

Today, It would kill Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi in front of the human world, and then leave.

Then, It would create a new Ancient Divine Beast Kingdom.

Ten thousand years ago, the scene where the human race was devoured and suppressed by ancient divine beasts would appear once more.

Until one day, a woman named Chen Yu would rise completely and lead the human race to suppress It.

A new cycle would begin again.

Actually, there was one problem with this.

That was that this physical body of Chen Yan was too strong, and the true essence of martial arts contained within it had already far surpassed the current human race.

Even if Chen Yu were given ten thousand years, perhaps she would truly be unable to defeat It.

What should be done in that case?

Perform a play?

That's right.

It could only perform a play.

For the sake of Mother Goddess's plan, let these foolish humans fall into a false carnival, to welcome one desperate cycle after another.

However.

It did not understand one thing.

That was why Mother Goddess had to kill Chen Yan.

Even if Chen Yan's true self was already dead, why must It immediately go and kill Chen Yan's two clones?

Could it be that Mother Goddess was worried about Chen Yan?

How could that be possible?

In front of Mother Goddess.

This Chen Yan today, that Li Yan tomorrow, were all nothing more than swine fit only to be toyed with.

They would let out the most desperate wails before they died.

Thinking of this, a look of pity appeared in its eyes.

Truly a group of pitiful swine.

It took a step out.

The next moment.

Hum!

It appeared right across from Li Zhiyi just like that.

It looked at Li Zhiyi with a smile.

It admired the rapidly changing expression in the depths of Li Zhiyi's eyes at this moment.

It seemed to be astonishment, anger, and a trace of excitement?

Why would there be excitement?

It did not understand.

It only saw.

Li Zhiyi had already thrown a punch toward It.

This punch was fast to the extreme, carrying endless martial arts mysteries, triggering tremors in time and space, and inciting thousands of rules.

Its physical body began to be affected by the martial arts rules, losing its vitality in an instant, time and space flowing backward in an instant, appearing with countless wounds in an instant, and appearing far beyond the starry sky in an instant.

…………

"Ugh..."

Deep within the endless starry sky.

An infant wrapped in oversized white robes let out a cry.

But the next moment.

A smile appeared at the corners of the infant's mouth.

Within His two pairs of eyes, countless crowded eyes were all mocking.

The means Li Zhiyi had employed against Him in that instant actually surprised Him for a fraction.

In an instant, He reversed time and space within His body, turned into an infant, and appeared within the universe.

But...

Everything that Li Zhiyi had mastered, the true form of Chen Yan had mastered as well.

The infant just like that stretched out a tender finger and tapped it lightly upon the void.

Plop...

Ripples emerged from His fingertip, and countless Martial Dao rules intertwined and operated at this very moment.

Explode!

The next moment.

Crack, crack, crack...

He appeared before Li Zhiyi, restored to the appearance of Chen Yan, His slender index finger already piercing into Li Zhiyi's brain.

Under the terrified gazes of the people.

His index finger began to stir, the hole in Li Zhiyi's skull growing larger and larger, blood flowing steadily.

Under Chen Yu's incredulous gaze, Li Zhiyi's body withered instantly, turning into countless streams of light that were swallowed into His mouth.

Just like that...

Defeated.

He slowly turned His head and looked at Zhang Huizhi to the side.

Zhang Huizhi's eyes were extremely calm.

A calm gaze.

The smile in the depths of His eyes gradually vanished.

It was this gaze that made Him feel loathing.

That Chen Yan also had such a gaze.

Even though the consciousness of Chen Yan's true form was being eaten away bit by bit by the Mother God, extinguished bit by bit.

That person's gaze was always extremely calm.

That person did not let out a single wail until death, nor did he pay any heed to any of His mocking taunts.

Why did this gaze make Him feel such loathing?

He truly, really loathed it!

Thus, He stood calmly, waiting for Zhang Huizhi to make a move.

With a boom.

Zhang Huizhi threw a punch, smashing His head completely to pieces.

The next moment.

Boom, boom, boom!

Ten thousand fist imprints assaulted, and His physical body was beaten into ten thousand fragments by Zhang Huizhi.

This scene shocked the human world.

But before the people could even be excited, it was only the very next instant.

He appeared once again, simply opening His mouth.

Crack!

Zhang Huizhi's fist disappeared, and a stream of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Crack!

Another bite, and half of Zhang Huizhi's head disappeared.

"Ah..."

Someone opened their mouth wide, watching this scene in disbelief.

"What are you doing, what are you doing?"

An angry voice rang out.

Boom!

"He is the heaven-gifted talent I brought out!"

Shen Yiwei was furious, rushing toward Him like a moth to a flame.

He waved one hand.

With a slap.

A mist of blood exploded in the void.

"Brother!"

That voice of extreme grief rang out.

Chen Yu, Lu Jianxia, Chen Min, and others rushed toward Him like moths to a flame.

He chewed the flesh and blood in His mouth, the smile at the corners of His mouth becoming even more sinister.

Chen Yu cannot be killed, what a pity.

He pointed a single finger.

Pop, pop, pop!

Chen Yu, Chen Min, Lu Jianxia, and everyone else instantly turned into two-dimensional images, slowly drifting down from high in the sky.

Crack!

He took another bite.

Zhang Huizhi's entire head simply vanished, and the headless corpse fell from the void.

Crunch, crunch, crunch...

He did not let Zhang Huizhi go.

He gnawed on him, bite by bite.

At this moment, in the human world.

Every sound had vanished.

Only the sound of his chewing remained.

Living beings stood frozen, sobs choked in their throats, unable to even cry out.

Despair surged like a tide, flooding the scorched earth of the three provinces, crushing the final shred of hope.

People just stared at him blankly, watching him completely erase the last traces of Chen Yan's existence in the human world.

*Hiccup*...

He let out a hiccup.

Feeling somewhat satisfied.

He then turned around, intending to go establish his own Ancient Divine Beast Dynasty.

Boring.

Too boring.

He had originally thought Chen Yan's avatar would bring him a shred of amusement.

Who would have thought, just this?

Behind him, countless sounds of wailing rose up.

He felt bored as well.

From this point on, the human race entered a new era.

And he, too, would face the destined ending set for him by the Mother Goddess.

He walked slowly, the earth beneath his feet splitting open, wisps of malice beginning to grow.

He slowly spread his arms, enjoying the sounds of people weeping in pain at this moment.

"Run quickly..."

A voice rang out beside his ear.

He furrowed his brows and looked ahead.

Only to see.

Two men and women wearing hoods.

The man stood quietly with his back to him.

And the woman, her face deathly pale, was begging the man to leave.

The next moment, the woman saw him.

She locked eyes with him.

"It's over..."

Ji Ling uttered in despair, her body completely losing all strength.

As for Zhao Zhugui, he stood with his hands behind his back, his head tilted up, looking toward the firmament.

He raised an eyebrow slightly.

Originally, he couldn't be bothered to exterminate two ordinary human beings.

However.

There was actually someone ignoring him.

Interesting.

How interesting.

He walked slowly to the side of the gray-robed man and looked toward the firmament together with Zhao Zhugui.

He gazed for a long time, his vision piercing through the eyeballs covering the vault of heaven to see the starry sky filling the heavens.

With a thud.

Ji Ling had collapsed to the ground in terror, unable to say a single word.

Where Cloud Province was located.

Chen Yu and the others recovered from their two-dimensional state.

They glanced at one another, all seeing the resolve to die in each other's eyes.

The next moment, they charged toward him.

But he did not care at this moment.

He was very curious.

Curious as to why the gray-robed man beside him was not afraid of him, and why he was gazing into the void at this moment.

"You..."

He spoke for the first time:

"What are you looking at?"

Zhao Zhugui's gaze was calm:

"Shut up."

"Hm?"

It was somewhat dazed, thinking it had misheard, and the next moment it looked toward Zhao Zhugui.

Ji Ling was already scared silly and could not react at all to what Zhao Zhugui had just said.

Behind.

Streaks of flowing light flew toward it.

Chen Yan was already dead, and the world was about to perish.

All the supreme experts of the human race were to meet their deaths at this moment.

People saw Zhao Zhugui, yet they ignored Zhao Zhugui.

In their eyes was hatred, a supreme hatred for it.

But at this moment.

It froze:

"You told me to shut up?"

"Yes."

Zhao Zhugui nodded:

"You are being noisy."

It narrowed its eyes, and the next moment it returned to calmness.

So it was just a fool.

A fool who wanted to provoke other emotions in it.

A bug that harbored the delusion of attracting the attention of a god.

"How truly pitiful."

It sighed aloud:

"I will not fall for your trick."

"I told you to shut up," Zhao Zhugui said flatly.

An evil smile appeared at the corners of its mouth, its gaze flickered slightly, and streaks of Martial Dao rules surged toward Zhao Zhugui.

Yet in the next moment.

With a *snap*.

A hand suddenly grabbed its head.

It was somewhat stunned.

Ji Ling's eyes widened.

Behind, Chen Yu and the crowd of human supreme experts who had come to die opened their mouths wide, stunned to the extreme.

"You..."

It uttered in a daze, not understanding why its Martial Dao rules had not annihilated the person beside it.

Yet in the next moment.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

It erupted into endless screams.

Intense pain!

An indescribable, intense pain suddenly struck.

Its soul was being forcibly pulled out by Zhao Zhugui; this was an intense pain carved into the marrow.

It was in so much pain that it had no time to ponder why.

It only felt.

Chen Yan's already dead soul was awakening; Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi, whom it had swallowed into its body, seemed to be two keys, opening Chen Yan's already dead will.

"Ahhhhhh!!!"

That shrill scream resounded throughout the human world.

It was as if it could make everyone in the world feel the pain it was currently facing.

The next instant.

It appeared in Zhao Zhugui's hand.

To be precise.

A pitch-black divine soul was being gripped in Zhao Zhugui's palm.

"Chen Yan!"

"Chen Yan!"

"Chen Yan, Chen Yan, Chen Yan, Chen Yan, Chen Yan, Chen Yan!!!"

It shrieked shrilly.

Zhao Zhugui, however, used one hand to knead it as if crushing a withered leaf.

It was being rapidly destroyed.

Under the incredulous gazes of countless people.

It was just like that, forcibly kneaded into ten thousand fragments, and dissipated into the wind.

This scene.

It was as if it were an illusion.

Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi dying so hastily was precisely to transform into the Domain of Will and merge into one with Chen Yan.

Only by obtaining the Domain of Will would Chen Yan truly usher in immortality.

Under the incredulous gazes of the people.

The true body of Chen Yan, dressed in white, slowly opened his eyes at this moment.

Under Ji Ling's dazed stare.

Zhao Zhugui transformed into a stream of golden-red light and rushed into Chen Yan's body.

Chen Yan slowly raised his head.

"Finally..."

A smile appeared at the corners of his mouth, as if it were sweet rain after a long drought, or like plunging into a clear pool during the sweltering summer heat.

Refreshing.

What a refreshing feeling!

"Finally..."

Even though he was someone who did not show his emotions, he revealed a look of comfort at this moment.

The world was quiet.

Above that vast sky, countless eyeballs rolled and locked onto Chen Yan in unison.

Behind, the human powerhouses who had flown over were completely dazed.

The human world, which had still been wailing, instantly fell silent.

Under the gaze of countless people.

Crack, crack, crack...

Chen Yan twisted his neck, emitting a series of crisp bone-cracking sounds.

"Finally unified."

He revealed a smile.

Unity!

Everything within his body was returning to one!

The vanished Domain of Will acted like glue, completely bonding all the Martial Dao Rules he had mastered together.

All the Martial Dao Rules were merging.

Merging rapidly.

Transforming into the final, supreme One!

Everything about him was moving toward perfection at this moment.

Moving toward completion!

This was a power that transcended the Martial Dao.

It was a power that transcended the realm!

It was a true evolution.

He stood right there.

The Martial Dao Rules merged and unified like the tide, transforming into a clear and flawless halo.

The chaotic vortex faded from his eyes, leaving only pure celestial light flowing, as if containing the birth and destruction of the universe.

Whoosh, whoosh...

The entire human world.

Above the scorched earth, the dark red tentacles were brushed away by an invisible force and began to disappear, and the burning white flames began to extinguish.

Above the firmament, those eyeballs began to tremble crazily.

His aura was void yet covered the heavens and earth; every breath triggered a resonance of time and space, his physical body and the rules reaching perfection.

At this moment, a true breaking of limits!

Transcending all Martial Dao shackles, the supreme powerhouse of the human race!

People could only feel, could only experience.

All malice seemed to have completely vanished.

Right in the midst of this endless shock.

A white-clad figure walked toward him just like that.

Jilie appeared.

With a cold smile in his eyes.

He appeared behind him just like that, and that hand, white as jade, slowly reached out to grab him.

Yet at this very moment.

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!

Across the entire land of the human world, countless talisman lights flickered.

People looked at the ground beneath their feet in astonishment; an extremely profound array was flickering.

Chen Yu stood there blankly, looking at her older brother.

Watching as one array after another rose from the earth, connecting together to form a cage that surrounded Chen Yan and Jilie.

"Zhao Zhugui..."

Ji Ling spoke in a daze, yet her body appeared outside the array cage.

Chen Yan turned his body, looking toward the human world, looking at one familiar face after another.

"I am leaving."

He revealed a smile, ignoring Jilie's cold gaze.

"You all wait here, do not move about."

The next moment.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Array after array began to condense, transforming into pitch-black cages that carried Chen Yan and Jilie away from the mortal realm.

PS: The finale is tomorrow, probably just one chapter.

Actually, the story should have ended here.

Tomorrow's story will probably just be some supplementary plot points.