Chapter 837: The Lord of Thought-Power

Thus, the battle that mobilized the strength of the entire nation began!

One million three hundred thousand people set out, carrying all the combat facilities from the military.

He and Jilie both knew that this might be the final battle of their lives.

Compared to Jilie, he was much calmer.

Jilie was panicked that his dream might never be realized.

But he, he only wanted to give his all.

However, the great battle he imagined did not occur.

The great army stopped before a massive lake.

He, along with Xiao Fan and Jilie, led one hundred military guards to approach the lakeshore.

"Ahhh!!!"

Xiao Fan screamed out loud, scared out of his wits.

Among the one hundred military guards, some had confusion in their eyes, some were terrified, and some were screaming "Monster."

Jilie shouted with rapid breathing:

"The seed... the seed..."

He discovered that the scene everyone saw was different.

And he was stunned.

There, was a woman.

An incomparably beautiful woman.

The night lake was so quiet that only the chirping of insects remained.

The woman leaned over to touch the lake water, moonlight washing over her shoulders, tracing her silhouette with gentleness and clarity.

Water droplets falling from her hair tips were stained with moonlight; when she raised her eyes, starlight filled their corners, and even the evening breeze seemed to pause for her, fearing to disturb this unique elegance under the moon.

Immediately, the woman slowly looked at him.

Their eyes met.

The woman smiled, revealing the most beautiful smile in the world.

He slowly shed tears, as if he had seen what his younger sister would look like as an adult.

Following that, the woman suddenly let out a moan.

The alluring moan was like the sound of the Great Void, rushing into his soul.

He saw that the woman was actually beginning to give birth.

"Do you need help?" He swallowed his saliva, showing an obsessed expression, his right hand behind his back gripping a small knife.

What of beauty?

What if she is beautiful?

What he had always wanted was to kill all the Ancient God Beasts.

Unwavering until death!

The woman looked at him alluringly, and he slowly walked into the lake water, approaching the woman, the small knife in his hand flashing with cold light.

However, a bizarre thing happened.

No matter how he approached, the woman always maintained a distance from him.

He kept moving forward, yet he could never reach the woman.

Until, the woman gave birth to two...

Two pitch-black, ugly, strange insects!

Two insects, their entire bodies an indelible ink-black.

Their bodies were twisted into irregular arcs, with crooked lumps protruding from their backs like festering sores, and short, thin tentacles flailing about, dripping with black slime.

They seemed like a collection of all the ugliness in the world, filled with endless evil and chaos.

And the woman revealed a loving smile.

He stared blankly, a feeling of nausea surging from his stomach, and in the next moment, he could no longer hold it back.

"Go to hell, you beasts!"

He brandished the small knife in his hand:

"You bunch of damned beasts, I will never forgive you for as long as I live!"

He was fierce to the extreme, erupting with all his strength to kill the woman.

But the next moment, he saw the woman's strange smile.

Suddenly.

The woman opened her mouth wide, her mouth continuously widening, and endless darkness spewed from it, growing until it occupied his entire field of vision.

Screech!

A sharp, piercing shriek.

The woman's body vanished, and endless, twisted evil bloomed in that moment.

The world was occupied by pitch-black, the firmament became a sunken, chaotic mess, the entire world began to invert, and the laws of the human realm began to fall into chaos.

The stars turned into wriggling internal organs, and the entire world sank in that moment.

Screech, screech, screech!

An unimaginable, chaotic sound exploded in his ears.

He widened his eyes, seeing twisted time, seeing a turbid future, and seeing a filthy past.

Amidst the endless blur, he saw the woman's body begin to rot, her bones deforming into twisted symbols.

The collapsing starry sky continuously caved inward, revealing writhing flesh and veins inside, eventually turning into a rugged tunnel leading to an unknown darkness.

Within the woman's rotting physical body, a phantom soul emerged, slowly flying toward the strange tunnel in the sky.

He watched just like that, his facial features twisting from seeing the horrific scene.

Just like that, he watched as that phantom soul vanished above the lake, drilling into the tunnel.

"Ascended... ascended..."

A foolish voice rang out; it was the voice of Jilie.

"Mother God has ascended!!!"

Jilie suddenly screamed, clutching his head tightly, his hands exerting force as he shouted in despair, as if trying to crush his own skull.

One hundred soldiers fell one by one; they saw different scenes, yet all saw scenes similar to an ascension.

They screamed, their mental states collapsing, scared to death alive.

Countless screams rang out from beyond the lakeshore.

The screams of the 1.3 million-strong army blended together, incomparably noisy, gradually fading away at the end.

Xiao Fan and Jilie were both scared into unconsciousness.

The first to wake up was him; he looked around in a daze, looking toward where the million-strong army was.

Corpses, all corpses.

They remained frozen in place in various postures, yet were immersed in the terror of being thoroughly dead.

Some had their eyes widened until their sockets cracked, the horrific residual image of their final glimpse embedded in their pupils.

All dead.

Only he stood there; he stood like a withered blade of grass that could fall at any moment, murmuring:

"Mother God has ascended..."

………………

Splash!

It was like clear water being poured over his head.

Chen Yan's consciousness returned; it felt as if he had just experienced an entire lifetime.

Mother God ascended?

The Realm Fruit contained the memories of that person; that person was actually someone who had witnessed Mother God's ascension with their own eyes.

This time, the quantity of Realm Fruits Chen Yan obtained was so great that the memories Chen Yan gained were also far more than the last time.

A look of surprise appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

Mother God, in a certain sense, was a nightmare looming over the hearts of the human race.

Because She had ascended, rather than died.

The starting point of human martial arts was Mother God's ascension; it was because people witnessed this scene of Mother God's ascension with their own eyes that they created the first physical martial arts.

Thought-Power Martial Arts.

Today, the corpse of Mother God is the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

For a moment, Chen Yan's desire for Realm Fruits became even more urgent.

All this time, Chen Yan had not known who the owner of this memory within the Realm Fruit was.

Now, Chen Yan could be said to have some leads.

Perhaps, this person was the Master of Thought-Power.

Because those who saw Mother God ascend had almost all died.

Yet the owner of this memory was still alive.

The one most likely to have created Thought-Power Martial Arts was this person.

If one could see the creation process of a martial art, this would be a heaven-sent opportunity for Chen Yan.

Moreover, Chen Yan still had three points of doubt.

One was that in the memory, the protagonist's name was deliberately shielded; Chen Yan still did not know what this person was called.

The second was the seed that Jilie spoke of.

In Jilie's dreams, there would be a seed that grew into a tree, bearing two fruits that could change the future.

The owner of the memory did not take these words seriously.

But Chen Yan had the Saint-Breaking Tree.

Saint-Breaking Tree...

Chen Yan's Saint-Breaking Tree was still with Zhang Huizhi.

But Chen Yan had already discovered another Saint-Breaking Tree in the Evil Realm.

Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chen Yan had obtained the Realm Fruits grown from the Saint-Breaking Tree.

These two Saint-Breaking Trees might be related to the seed in Jilie's words.

The third point.

Before Mother God ascended, the protagonist of the memory saw Mother God give birth to two fetuses.

These two fetuses were likely Ancient God Fanni and Ancient God Bai'e.

When the two ancient gods were just born, why did the protagonist of the memory not destroy them directly?

Chen Yan's gaze was calm.

After consuming the Realm Fruits, he seemed to be getting closer and closer to the final truth of the world.

Shaking his head slightly, Chen Yan sensed the depths of his own mind.

After consuming 1,500 Realm Fruits, the two energies—one red and one blue—in Chen Yan's mind were already approaching a crystalline state.

A strange look appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

A Status is a powerful object that only condenses when a martial artist advances to the Ninth Rank.

Yet he, right now, had already begun to obtain Statuses by devouring Realm Fruits.

Furthermore, it was not just one.

They were the two Statuses of Blood Qi and Tempering.

Does this mean that as long as he devours enough Realm Fruits to make the two Statuses completely solid,

he will become a Ninth Rank?

Is it even possible to cultivate like this?

Moreover, after the two Statuses solidified, Chen Yan's understanding of the two martial paths of Blood Qi and Tempering in his mind grew deeper and deeper.

This was even more terrifying than the blessing of the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Seed.

If Chen Yan continued to re-cultivate, his speed would only be faster.

And...

Chen Yan pointed a finger, and pitch-black True Martial power condensed into an Annihilation Grand Array in the void.

The pitch-black grand array took shape, overflowing with a terrifying aura of annihilation.

This time, the Annihilation Grand Array that Chen Yan unleashed was of Morning Star Grade A.

Yet when he went to clear out the settlement of the Law Enforcers, he could only create an Annihilation Grand Array of Morning Star Grade C.

This was also because he had the Blood Qi path Status in his mind.

The Annihilation Grand Array was modeled after the Blood Qi Status.

Since Chen Yan now possessed the Blood Qi Status directly, creating the Annihilation Grand Array would only be simpler.

Chen Yan revealed a look of satisfaction.

This time was a great harvest; once he digested all the gains from this time, his strength would be almost restored to its peak.

By then, he would be able to charge toward the Eighth Rank.

Chen Yan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air; indeed, being powerful makes one feel at ease.

Chen Yan pushed open the room door.

In the courtyard, Bai Ling was sitting on a chair picking vegetables.

"You slept for ten days..." Bai Ling looked at Chen Yan and smiled with pleasant surprise.

"Ten days?" Chen Yan sensed the situation on Li Zhiyi's side.

Outside, indeed, one day had passed.

This time, he had truly slept for ten days.

"Mm, seclusion is like this," Chen Yan chuckled.

"Are you hungry?" Bai Ling asked.

Chen Yan sensed Bai Ling's emotions and replied:

"Indeed, a little hungry."

"Then... then I'll go cook," Bai Ling said hurriedly.

Chen Yan looked at the hurriedly working Bai Ling and asked:

"Has anyone said anything to you about me?"

"Ah?"

Bai Ling paused:

"No... no."

Divine Array Hall.

Jiang Guanxin was quite irritable, frequently looking at Chen Yan's visualization position, gritting his teeth.

Why hasn't he come yet?