Chapter 899: Grant Me Five Thousand Years, to Sweep Across the Extremes of the Eight Wildernesses!

The Universe Master watched Zhang Huizhi quietly, then said faintly:

"This is the reason I would find you.

Though the heroes of the universe are many, the only one who matches my heart is you, Chen Yan!"

As the Universe Master spoke, he even laughed himself.

"It is just that the time is not right; you should have appeared earlier, rather than in these final years of the human race."

He shook his head.

Saying that Chen Yan appeared too late.

Yet, was he himself not the same?

In this life, he had seen through the suffering of the world and despised the so-called great righteousness of the human race.

He cared for none of them: not the Chen Master, not Xia Hanzhou, not the Xia Master.

The Universe Race is arrogant.

He, too, is arrogant.

He believed that the path he chose was absolutely without error.

If he had time, he could change the future and, standing at the peak, look down upon the many heroes of the world.

But the Chen Master was unwilling to give him time, and the Ancient Gods were even less likely to do so.

The Universe Master sat there just like that, becoming increasingly lonely and desolate.

He had seen through everything and understood everything.

He had grasped truths that even the Xia Master did not know.

But time would not wait for him!

Suddenly, he spoke in a deep voice:

"How biased is the Heavenly Dao!

I hate that I was not born in the right time!

Grant me five thousand years!

And I shall sweep across the extremes of the eight wildernesses!"

He suddenly laughed out loud, his laughter growing louder and louder, as wisps of ancient aura drifted away.

It shook the vast fairyland within this Myriad Manifestations Enlightenment Map until it appeared withered.

Zhang Huizhi listened in silence.

In his heart, he actually felt a great deal of helplessness.

Perhaps, within this vast human world.

Only the Universe Master was walking the most correct path.

But the path of technology is far harder to walk than the path of will.

Technology is both discovery and invention.

It requires long-term accumulation and trial and error.

The Universe Master had done enough, but it was still not enough.

The Universe Master looked at Zhang Huizhi:

"I may seem pitiful, but are you not the same? I come to help you, just like a dying fish swimming against the current.

Helping another dying fish."

Chen Yan was younger than him and had even less time than he did.

The Universe Master hoped Chen Yan would succeed, but the setbacks Chen Yan would encounter would only be more than his own.

At this moment, he actually felt a sense of mutual sympathy with Chen Yan.

The Universe Master shook his head bitterly and was about to speak, but noticed something.

"Hm?"

He sensed an anomaly within the Gray Mist World.

The next moment, the two red dots beneath the Universe Master's hood flashed wildly.

"I am pouring my heart out to you, what are you doing?!"

The Universe Master exclaimed.

"I am sitting here," Zhang Huizhi said calmly.

"I... I mean what is your true self doing over there?

Why is it suddenly..."

A strange sensation struck, and the Universe Master could not finish his words.

Only within the 【Unity】 Gray Mist World.

That figure had already appeared on the thirty-fourth seat.

What is this doing?

"My true self, my true self is ascending over there."

"Ninth Rank?" The Universe Master was stunned.

"Eighth Rank," Zhang Huizhi said flatly.

The Universe Master fell silent.

Hum!

The sound of mechanical rotation arrived.

A scarlet halo exploded in the Universe Master's chest, and billions of mechanical parts operated simultaneously.

"Leave the Enlightenment Myriad Forms Map first!"

Yu Zhu reacted.

He pulled Zhang Huizhi directly to leave this place, appearing inside a grand cultivation chamber.

Sss— sss— sss—!

Status activation!

Sounds of devouring and annihilation echoed through the space, and the dark, turbid appearance of the Evil Realm slowly emerged.

Yu Zhu wanted to go to the Evil Realm.

It was just that Yu Zhu's movements were extremely slow.

Steam even began to rise from his entire body.

"You are having a hard time getting across?" Zhang Huizhi asked in surprise.

"You think I am a genuine Ninth Rank?" Yu Zhu let out a low shout:

"I only have a simulation core created by a Ninth Rank status."

"You really want to see it?" Zhang Huizhi asked.

Yu Zhu was speechless.

"Who wouldn't want to see the True Martial Dao advance to the Eighth Rank?

Besides, you have only just advanced to the Eighth Rank, why do you already possess this level of strength?"

Zhang Huizhi was indifferent, waving one hand.

An image appeared.

Above the image.

A boundless sea of malice was surging; above the pitch-black sky, stars were inverted, and space-time was kneeling in submission!

This was Zhang Huizhi using Chen Yan's perspective to simulate the situation of the Evil Realm with his Qi and blood.

Yu Zhu looked at Zhang Huizhi and stopped operating the simulation core.

"If you could do this... you should have said so earlier."

There was still a trace of trembling in Yu Zhu's voice.

He felt that his own helplessness just now was like a joke.

He had been there wallowing in sentimentality, while the young man beside him was advancing—advancing with such a massive commotion!

You doing this makes me look like a clown.

At the same time.

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

In the office of Xia Hanzhou at Xiaoyang.

Xia Hanzhou looked at Li Zhiyi with a strange expression.

"I am advancing."

"To the Eighth Rank?" Xia Hanzhou spoke:

"Yes, you aren't Eighth Rank yet—no, wait, why can you have this level of ability at the Eighth Rank?"

Xia Hanzhou's old eyes widened into circles.

Damn it!

"Is it not allowed?" Li Zhiyi looked at Xia Hanzhou with a pair of red eyes.

Xia Hanzhou pursed his lips:

"I didn't say it wasn't allowed."

Li Zhiyi glanced at Xia Hanzhou:

"Right now, am I stronger, or are you stronger?"

Xia Hanzhou stared straight at Li Zhiyi, and only after a long while did he laugh:

"I have now advanced to the first stage of the Will Dao; look at how I can quickly enter the second stage?"

……………

Great Xia, Qi Province.

This place had experienced a great battle, was dilapidated, and smoke from the fighting burned everywhere.

The setting sun dyed the post-war ruins red.

A man and a woman cloaked in capes walked slowly by; their figures merged with the setting sun.

Every step landed on the smoke and scars of the past.

Zhao Zhugui walked to a spot and stopped; here, a skeleton leaned against a broken wall, its eyes still open before death, holding a smile.

It seemed as if it had seen something that brought it comfort.

His death was of no consequence; his death would be quickly forgotten by others.

Zhao Zhugui squatted down and wiped his hands over the other's eyes, causing them to close.

Immediately following, he raised a palm, and as it landed on the earth, pitch-black array patterns overflowed, forming a massive 【Eternal Calamity Reversing Blood】 array disc that sank into the earth.

Hum!

The surrounding world formed a power network that faintly pulled at each other; something was waiting to be revived.

Ji Zhu followed behind Zhao Zhugui, not saying a word.

It was also at this moment.

The communication array disc transmitted an unusual sound.

Ji Zhu waved one hand, and a film of energy light covered her, so she would not be seen by Zhao Zhugui.

The array disk overflowed with radiance, and the figure of Ji Chen appeared.

At this moment, immense shock still flowed through Ji Chen's eyes.

"What is it?" the Ji Lord asked, frowning.

"Did the Chen Lord go to Yu Province?"

"No," Ji Chen took a deep breath and said.

"Chen Yan is still alive!"

"What?!" the Ji Lord exclaimed in shock, endless coldness erupting in her eyes.

"He is still alive?"

"Yes, not only is he alive, but his strength is already extremely great, within another world!"

Ji Chen's throat moved, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.

The killing intent in the Ji Lord's eyes surged continuously, and she clenched her fists tight.

The hatred of a destroyed clan—she would not forget it.

"Are you going to that world?" the Ji Lord asked coldly.

"I am going; Primordial Chaos has promised to take me there," Ji Chen said in a low voice.

"The future where the Ancient God appears must come to pass.

Every thread of karma will affect the future; even if the greatest karma remains unchanged, the changes in thousands of minor karmas will still affect the final outcome."

The Ji Lord nodded and looked at Ji Chen.

"Can you kill Chen Yan?"

Ji Chen looked at the Ji Lord, speechless for a moment.

"What do you mean? Chen Yan destroyed the national destiny of my Ji Province; do you not care?"

Ji Chen shook his head slightly.

"I will not forget the hatred, but I have been thinking about a question."

"What question?" the Ji Lord narrowed her eyes.

"I have said that where there is a cause, there must be an effect. Since the effect of the Ancient God's appearance already exists.

Then what is the cause?" Ji Chen's gaze was extremely profound.

"Don't you have the Retrospective Mirror?"

"That is the problem; the Retrospective Mirror was formed from the eyes of the Xia Lord.

But the eyes of the Xia Lord can only vaguely see the future; they can only clearly see the vague lines of karma, not clearly."

Ji Chen spoke heavily.

"I now suspect that if the Ancient God's appearance is the effect, could this cause be Chen Yan?"

The Ji Lord's eyes flashed wildly.

"How is that possible?

Didn't you say that a Martial Dao Lord would become the Ancient God?"

The Ji Lord was filled with immense shock.

The Retrospective Mirror showed that the one who becomes the Ancient God is a Martial Dao Lord.

The problem is, which Martial Dao Lord is it exactly?

Is it the Array Lord who has never appeared?

Or the True Meaning Lord who died long ago and perhaps has already reincarnated?

The extremely mysterious Will Lord is also possible.

"That is the problem; Chen Yan created the True Martial path, although it was not entirely self-created.

But does he count as a Martial Dao Lord?" Ji Chen's voice sounded.

The Ji Lord's eyes shrank wildly, and she fell into a long silence.

She stood there for a long time, her phoenix brows slightly raised, cold anger and shock surging in the depths of her eyes.

The next moment, she let out a cold laugh.

"If it is him, then him becoming the Ancient God, being slaughtered by the Three Sages, and me devouring everything of his, is the final result!"

The Ji Lord clenched her fists.

"I hope even more that it is him!"

The light membrane dissipated.

Zhao Zhugui stood under the setting sun, looked at the Ji Lord, and chuckled.

"Finished chatting?"

The Ji Lord was startled and nodded somewhat uncomfortably.

"Things here in the Artifact Province are about to end, right?" the Ji Lord asked.

"Not yet, it has only just begun."

Zhao Zhugui raised his head and looked at the firmament.

Evil Realm.

Yun Hai Dao Fu.

Terrifying pressure overflowed crazily with Chen Yan as the center.

Inside the great hall, the air solidified into ink-colored crystals, the earth cracked with spiderweb-like patterns, and even the light was forcibly swallowed.

At this moment, only this overbearing and peerless True Martial power remained between heaven and earth.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged like a sleeping beast awakening, and the profound and terrifying aura made all living things nearby tremble uncontrollably.

This is the crushing pressure of the pinnacle of Martial Dao.

Chen Yan opened his eyes, and pitch-black occupied everything.

His strength, physique, and True Martial power surged at this moment!

The nine-fold internal universe rapidly unified.

The morning light of heaven and earth grew increasingly dense, and the might of the Great Dao grew increasingly profound.

In the darkness, new rules were being rapidly written.

Boom!

A pitch-black pillar of light with a diameter exceeding the Yun Hai Dao Fu pierced from Chen Yan's crown into the Nine Heavens, dyeing the entire firmament in the dark color of True Martial.

Rules!

A new aura of life and death was being born!

Not within Chen Yan's body, but above the Vault of Heaven.

This is the birth of rules brought about by an ascension!

Chen Yan looked toward the firmament, where even more powerful strength awaited him.

Strands of life-and-death aura were born above the firmament, appearing continuously like pitch-black clouds.

Shocking the people of the world!

The pitch-black True Martial power poured down from the pillar of light, flowing into the endless Sea of Malice.

Spreading continuously.

At the same time.

Within each Dao Fu, pairs of eyes looked toward the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

"Mu Yun Hai, it's actually him?"

"He is going to ascend to the Ninth Rank?"

"So, this is how he intends to break the situation!"

"It is not him; when Bai Wuseng died earlier, this person's strength did not skyrocket!"

An ascension in one day, the world is shocked!

Screech!

Countless shrill shrieks resounded within the Sea of Malice.

Ancient Divine Beasts deep within the Sea of Malice were struggling and roaring in anger.

These newly born rules were going to annihilate them.

Screech!

The sharp roar pierced the firmament!

A whale tail like a mountain range protruded from the depths of the Sea of Malice, its pitch-black scales shimmering with an eerie blood-red light, slamming heavily against the sea surface and whipping up ten-thousand-foot waves!

Following the giant whale emerging from the sea.

Within the Sea of Malice for hundreds of thousands of miles around, countless Ancient Divine Beasts burst out from the chaotic Sea of Malice.

Like a world of Ancient Divine Beasts, they lunged toward the Vault of Heaven!

Screech!!!

The terrifying shrieks intertwined and swirled continuously.

At this instant.

Ten thousand, one hundred thousand Ancient Divine Beasts appeared!

Like a kingdom of ten thousand evils!

Rising just like this, heading straight for the Nine Heavens!

This horrifying scene shook the hearts of the world's people.

"The Ancient Divine Beasts are going to extinguish that cluster of life-and-death aura!"

"The malice wants to stop his ascension!"

"This... how terrifying!"

Within each Dao Fu, the various Dao Children all sensed this scene.

One person ascending, causing the world of malice to tremble.

Even the Ancient Divine Beasts want to stop him?

Why?

Because what is radiating from this person ascending is an absolute killing intent toward the Ancient Divine Beasts!

This pressure radiates, accompanied by a strong killing intent of terrifying malice!

It is so sharp that the Sea of Malice is shaking crazily, as if a tide has arrived!

"How could... how could there be so many Ancient Divine Beasts!"

Mu Yanwan's face was deathly pale, staring straight at that dense army of Ancient Divine Beasts!

Shock, fear.

Within the Yun Hai Dao Fu, who knows how many people were terrified to the core, as if seeing the apocalypse arrive!

Boom!

A beam of light abruptly rose from the Dao Child's mansion, forming a Great Dao.

A tall, slender figure stepped onto the Great Dao, their majesty collapsing the surrounding heavens.

Chen Yan's figure sped forward, his dark robes fluttering like clouds hanging from the sky.

"Who dares to stop me from entering the Dao!"

A grand voice resounded, spreading boundlessly!

His figure fell into the sight of the world, carrying a nobility like that of a god.

"Chen Yan?"

Xuanyi saw that figure, his brows furrowing.

He had not expected that the one to ascend to the Ninth Rank would be Chen Yan.

It was actually Chen Yan.

"It is him!"

Green Mist Dao Fu.

Beneath her mask, Ruan Qingwu's eyes flashed with a strange light as she sensed Chen Yan's aura.