Chapter 927: Return to One, the Ancient God Status

Chen Yan rubbed his brow.

The next moment, pitch-black malice outlined itself like mucus upon his gaunt frame, transforming into profound runes that wrapped around his entire body.

A God-tier Grade A protective pattern.

It possessed five major functions: extreme speed, concealment, strength, defense, and energy.

Thanks to the amplification of one hundred Emperor Fruits, Chen Yan had reached the end of the road in the path of arrays.

Following that, it was the path of True Martial.

Chen Yan looked within his body; the universe of his True Martial path had already become ten times its previous size.

Chen Yan's True Martial status was also ten times what it once was.

The life-and-death auras of the True Martial path condensed within it already numbered thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three.

Chen Yan had a feeling that there was only one final threshold left to ascend to the ninth rank of the True Martial path.

But this threshold would not be as simple as just killing one supreme Ancient God Beast.

"Why not... wipe out all the Ancient God Beasts in the world?"

Chen Yan murmured aloud.

He could feel that the Ancient God Beasts throughout the entire Sea of Malice were continuously wandering toward his location.

They had been summoned by the will of the Ancient Gods.

But what they did not know was that this Ancient God intended to kill them.

Immediately after.

Chen Yan's fingertips erupted with the horizontally-thrusting Fist Soul and the Extreme Pierce Gun Soul.

Both True Souls had already ascended to the ninth grade of Gun Soul.

This was already the limit of the path of True Intent.

Chen Yan could choose to cultivate other True Souls, such as a Blade Soul or a Sword Soul.

But that was no longer important.

The greatest amplification of the True Soul path for Chen Yan had already arrived.

And at this moment, within the Gray Fog World, Chen Yan's figure was already seated in the seventh seat of the human race's supreme powerhouses.

Seventh!

The first two were Bai E and Fanni.

There were only four people left who were stronger than Chen Yan.

Chen Yan calculated in his heart.

The Master of Xia, the Master of Blood Qi, the Master of Chen, and the Master of Arrays.

These were likely the four.

As for who was stronger, Chen Yan guessed that the Master of Xia should be third.

Fourth should be the Master of Chen or Xia Zhiyang.

The Master of Chen...

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; the Master of Chen was too mysterious.

As for the Turbid Core Wumeng, that opponent was a ninth-rank Ancient God Beast.

It should be at a similar ranking later on, just like Lu Xunyang and Xuan Yi.

One broken Emperor Fruit and one "Break" character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

That was what had brought Chen Yan to his current standing.

Chen Yan walked down from the throne, stood by the armrest, and paced within the great hall.

Turbid malice rose from his body, transforming into a billowing robe of mist.

"Now, there is still one Emperor Fruit left."

Chen Yan murmured; beneath his lowered eyelids, those chaotic eyes were like a shattered abyss.

The Emperor Fruit that Chen Yan had previously consumed was only a broken Emperor Fruit.

The energy contained within it was no more than one-tenth of the original.

The one possessed by the Master of Arrays was the true great opportunity that Chen Yan needed.

If it were to receive a hundredfold bonus from the "Break" character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

It was hard to imagine what level Chen Yan could grow to.

Immediately after.

Chen Yan recalled the most critical question.

【Return to One】.

What exactly is 【Return to One】?

This was a question that Chen Yan had previously found difficult to see through, but after the Emperor Fruit infinitely amplified Chen Yan's wisdom.

Chen Yan thought of the most crucial point.

That was the devouring nature of malice and the origin of each martial path.

All the secrets of the human race actually came from the most ancient prophecy.

The Mother God ascended, and the Ancient God Bai E sought to devour the Ancient God Fanni.

The Master of Xia and the five clans bathed together in the blood of the Ancient Gods.

This was the origin of the current Great Xia and the five clans.

It was also something Chen Yan had known since he entered the path.

Later, every step Chen Yan took was gradually verifying this prophecy.

Yet beneath this prophecy, there is another story.

The story of the white bear and the rabbit.

This story corresponds to the human race's journey of creating martial arts.

Because they discovered the Mother God had ascended, the human race created the path of Mind Power.

However, the path of Mind Power became even more delicious food for the Ancient Gods.

Afterwards, the path of Qi and Blood made the human race stronger, yet made them feel even more delicious to the Ancient Gods.

Until later, the human race created the Horizontal Refining martial arts.

Within the fable, the white bear ate the rabbit wearing armor, chewing incessantly.

The white bear felt the rabbit was exceptionally delicious, yet its own mouth was also cut by the armor, bleeding out.

The three great physical martial arts finally had an existence capable of wounding the Ancient Gods.

Horizontal Refining!

But this story has a chilling fact.

That is, even though the Horizontal Refining martial arts wounded the Ancient Gods.

The Ancient God that ate the rabbit still became stronger.

"Perhaps..."

Chen Yan murmured, occasionally crystal fragments broke off from the tips of his hair, and the moment they hit the ground, they exploded into thousands of twisted ravings.

"Perhaps..."

Chen Yan slowly shook his head.

Let us speak of the three auxiliary martial arts.

True Intent, Elements, and Formations.

These three auxiliary martial arts appear to have been created by the human race.

In reality, they were imitated by the human race.

Because there are three types of Ancient God Beasts.

Formation-Condensing Ancient God Beasts, Elemental Ancient God Beasts, and Pure Evil Ancient God Beasts.

The three auxiliary martial arts all originated from the human race imitating these three types of Ancient God Beasts.

But in the memories of Bai E.

Chen Yan saw it very clearly.

In the era of Bai E, there were no such three types of Ancient God Beasts.

That is to say, the appearance of the three types of Ancient God Beasts should have been after the Ancient Gods were suppressed.

But who could create these three types of Ancient God Beasts?

"I have thought of a possibility, but I am unwilling to believe it."

As Chen Yan spoke, when scarlet light occasionally flashed in the depths of his pupils, the entire great hall trembled accordingly.

"But, the answer to everything has actually been told to me already, hasn't it?"

Chen Yan's voice was even trembling a little.

He thought of a more critical question.

That is, in the depths of his mind, there were once two positions, one red and one blue.

These two positions were both brought about by Chen Yan devouring Realm Fruits.

They represented the Qi and Blood position and the Horizontal Refining position.

But after the Ancient God position grew stronger, those two positions were both devoured by the Ancient God position.

Realm Fruits originate from the Saint-Breaking Tree.

The Saint-Breaking Tree of the Evil Realm most likely also comes from Bai E.

Then, there is no need to say who those two Qi and Blood and Horizontal Refining positions originated from.

Chen Yan's aura changed, and asphalt-like viscous substances dripped continuously from his hem, corroding the void with a sizzling sound.

The answer seems to be ready to emerge.

Why, when Fanni said the two words "Return to One," she gifted Chen Yan an Ancient God position.

Chen Yan had always been guessing the meaning of Fanni.

Then is it possible.

Fanni's idea was simply to tell Chen Yan in the most simple and direct way.

"Return to One is the Ancient God position!"

Chen Yan spoke in a low voice:

"Why can the Ancient God position devour the Qi and Blood and Horizontal Refining positions?

Because the Ancient God position can inherently devour all laws, causing all laws to return to one!"

His voice was hoarse and low, as if it came from an ancient abyss.

"The Ancient God position can devour all martial arts under heaven!

Therefore, to the Ancient Gods, martial artists of every path are its food.

No matter how anyone struggles or how they cultivate, they will eventually be devoured by the Ancient God and become the Ancient God's nourishment!"

"My True Martial path position was not devoured, my Will path position was not devoured,

because these two positions are brand new positions, but as long as the Ancient God position gradually becomes familiar with Will and True Martial.

The Ancient God position will eventually devour them!

The Ancient God position is the Return to One, it is the final destination."

A massive amount of information bombarded him.

Rumble!

The tide of malice within the Royal Court surged suddenly, wrapping Chen Yan's gaunt frame into a distorted silhouette.

"To the Ancient Gods, what is the human race, and what is the mortal world?"

"What is the entire ten-thousand-year history of human martial arts?"

A petri dish?

A pigsty?

Everything is under Their calculations, everything is food They are happy to devour!"

Chen Yan gradually calmed down.

The black robe of malice hung down like the wings of a dying crow.

The answer had arrived.

Yet it appeared somewhat despairing.

But Chen Yan would not despair.

Everyone else would feel a chill of terror, but Chen Yan would not.

Since his three self-inquiries, the firmness of Chen Yan's Dao Heart had long been beyond description.

He gradually calmed down.

"If Fanni had already despaired, he would not have struggled for ten thousand years to maintain that last shred of rationality just to tell me the answer."

"If Bai E had already resigned himself to fate, he would not have gifted me the Saint-Breaking Tree."

"They are waiting for me, waiting for me to think of a way."

"Yet, I have clearly already thought of a way."

That is the aura of the Ancient Gods; he, Chen Yan, can devour it.

As for the status of an Ancient God, can he, Chen Yan, do that as well?

"The status of an Ancient God is Oneness."

"And I shall create a stronger Oneness that can transcend the status of the Ancient Gods!"

PS: Posted early today, wrote a little less; I have things to do this afternoon, so I wrote it now to avoid missing an update.