Chapter 944: The Only Winning Method

The next moment.

Splash!

It was as if his body had passed through a curtain of water.

Inside the Court of Malice, Chen Yan suddenly woke up.

A golden-red light flickered within his murky eyes.

"So, my Saint-Breaking Tree and the Saint-Breaking Tree of the Evil Realm..."

Chen Yan murmured.

"... both originated from a dream Bai E had in her childhood."

A very childish dream of a young girl.

It was like a joke.

But this was the origin of the Saint-Breaking Tree.

Yet, Bai E made it a reality.

And, as expected, there was indeed another Saint-Breaking Tree.

It was right in the Evil Realm.

It was right on top of Fanni's corpse.

When Chen Yan accepted the Ancient God status, he accepted Bai E's final memories.

And the memory from just now was actually a part of the memories in between that Chen Yan hadn't absorbed yet.

Added to the memories Chen Yan had previously absorbed.

Bai E had indeed created two seeds over the span of ten thousand years.

One was in the Evil Realm, capable of growing two types of fruit: Realm Fruit and Emperor Fruit.

Indeed, just like the dream of Bai E's younger sister.

But the second seed came ten thousand years later.

For some reason, Bai E created a second seed and gave it to Chen Yan.

Why would Bai E create a second seed?

Was there something wrong with the first seed, or rather, the first Saint-Breaking Tree?

Chen Yan furrowed his brows.

The next moment.

A series of faint, seemingly imperceptible connections were captured by Chen Yan.

Right at the far end of the Sea of Malice.

Right there.

There stood a Saint-Breaking Tree.

It was the aura of the seed Bai E had given away in the memories.

It had always been there, but Chen Yan had overlooked it.

If Chen Yan hadn't received the memories, that aura would have been where the Saint-Breaking Tree was located.

His perception spilled out, spilled out, spilling out boundlessly.

Finally, he saw a patch of white mist, a white mist that blocked all perception.

But this white mist, even though it could block everything, allowed Chen Yan's perception to enter.

This was a summons.

A summons that had been maintained for ten thousand years.

A Saint-Breaking Tree standing above the Sea of Malice.

And upon its branches, there was a bright golden Emperor Fruit.

Found it.

It was right...

... in the direction where all the Pure Lands were currently migrating.

No wonder, ever since Chen Yan entered the Sea of Malice, he had discovered that all the Pure Lands were migrating toward one place.

But Chen Yan had never known where these Pure Lands were migrating to.

As it turned out, it was where the Emperor Fruit was.

And now, the Emperor Fruit was about to ripen.

"I can still feel the despair and struggle Bai E felt at that time; that boundless, piercing pain is etched into my bones."

Chen Yan murmured:

"I do not know what kind of will a person must have to be able to choose to submit even when seeing that it is an Ancient God Beast slaughtering them.

I do not know, even though I am the Master of Will."

His voice was distant and long-drawn.

The pain that spanned ten thousand years was perceived by him.

"What do the Ancient Gods actually consider us humans to be?"

"How should this ten-thousand-year-old hatred be settled? Even though my Dao heart is as firm as iron, there is still an endless torrent of hatred."

"It is not my hatred; it is the hatred of the entire human race, the hatred of Bai E and Fanni."

"Everything is because of you."

Chen Yan murmured, even though his voice was calm.

But that bone-chilling cold was constantly spilling outward.

Hiss!

Throughout the entire Sea of Malice, endless cold and madness spread.

All the Ancient Divine Beasts lurking in the Sea of Malice felt their master's mania and demonic madness.

They began to panic.

The world began to tremble.

Within every piece of pure land.

Human beings raised their heads in a daze, as if they had heard a whisper from the other shore.

A certain existence was facing endless evil alone, letting out a faint, long sigh.

He is the vessel of evil, and also the towering figure at the end of the path.

At this moment.

That existence, who cannot be described by words, left his Sea of Malice alone and stepped forward into the depths.

Following that.

Was the transition of time.

With the arrival of the minor tide once again.

The world's tree rings grew a fraction deeper.

Representing the disappearance of ten days in the outside world and one hundred days in the Evil Realm.

Representing that only two hundred days remained until the final appearance of the Thousand-Day Ancient God.

Just at this increasingly critical moment.

Inside the Gray Fog World created by 【Unity】.

On the seat of the fifth strongest human, the figure of that existence began to flicker once again.

The other human powerhouses all looked toward him.

Chen Fazhen sighed:

"The minor tide has arrived again."

He slowly shook his head; the arrival of the tide meant that more Ancient God aura would descend into Chen Yan's body.

It also meant that Chen Yan was getting closer and closer to being a true Ancient God.

At this moment.

The Xia Lord, Xia Zhiyang, the Chen Lord, and others all cast their gazes toward the black-robed figure on the fifth seat.

Tide after tide.

Had already brought Chen Yan to such a degree.

If Chen Yan were to enter the fourth strongest position.

That would make him the strongest human, excluding the Xia Lord.

And this person is an existence with the status of an Ancient God added to his body.

Even the Xia Lord needed to consider how to face Chen Yan.

Yet, just when everyone was prepared for Chen Yan to advance further.

Inside the Gray Fog World.

The figure on the fifth seat flickered and arrived at the sixth seat.

At this moment.

Stunned.

Incomparably stunned.

Within the Ninth Refining.

Xuan Yi even stopped inheriting the legacy of the Three Arrays as One, a trace of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Inside the pitch-black abyss.

The Xia Lord walked out, frowned, looked toward the Evil Malice Wang Ting, and then his pupils constricted slightly.

He had actually failed to capture Chen Yan's aura.

The next moment.

The Xia Lord flew toward the Evil Malice Wang Ting.

And the next moment.

Inside the Black Fog World.

Chen Yan's figure flickered again, arriving at the position of the seventh strongest.

"What happened?"

Within the Yu Continent.

The Yu Lord and the Element Lord found Zhang Huizhi, who was preparing for the recognition of the national destiny.

"Why, the Ancient God's strength is declining, yet you are unhappy instead?"

Zhang Huizhi's expression was calm.

The Yu Lord and the Element Lord looked at each other in dismay.

They did not know what had happened to Chen Yan.

At the same time.

The Evil Realm.

The thick white fog condensed into a cage-like world, the fog layer tinged with a sickly gray-purple, carrying a salty, fishy smell of the sea.

Waves of resistance struck.

Yet it could not stop the figure walking within the white mist.

With visibility less than three feet, Chen Yan's ears were constantly haunted by faint whispers, and distorted black shadows occasionally flashed through the mist, like the tentacles of some ancient god slithering through the white fog.

Tap, tap, tap.

As Chen Yan walked, this resistance grew stronger and stronger.

The white mist was preventing Chen Yan from moving forward; to be precise, it was preventing the Ancient God Status within Chen Yan from moving forward.

Chen Yan's expression remained calm, and he continued to walk slowly.

This expanse of white mist was left behind by the consciousness of Fanni long ago.

At the very center of this white mist world lay the Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree.

And what surprised Chen Yan even more was this.

As Chen Yan continued to step into the white mist, the outside world's perception of him grew weaker and weaker.

This was the reason why.

Even though Chen Yan's strength had not weakened—on the contrary, after experiencing a minor tide, his Ancient God Status had become even more powerful.

Yet within the Gray Mist World created by 【Unity】, Chen Yan's ranking was steadily regressing.

Because 【Unity】's lock on Chen Yan was becoming weaker.

This time.

Chen Yan confirmed one thing completely.

That is, 【Unity】 was not created by Bai E at all.

It was created by the Mother God.

【Unity】 is the eye that gazes upon the strongest of humanity.

This point was mentioned to Chen Yan by the Xia Lord when he arrived.

In Bai E's memories, Chen Yan indeed never saw Bai E create 【Unity】.

Bai E also had no reason to create 【Unity】.

Therefore, what has been circulating among the strongest of the human race.

The so-called 【Unity】 being created by the Lord of Thought-Power, which once obtained would allow one to acquire a powerful method to defeat the ancient gods.

This point is nothing but a conspiracy!

A conspiracy of the Mother God.

On the contrary.

Because of the existence of 【Unity】, the Gray Mist World has always locked onto the fifty strongest existences of the human race.

The Mother God can constantly gaze upon humanity.

Once a human surpasses Bai E, they will be rewarded by Him with 【Unity】.

And 【Unity】 is the Ancient God Status.

The human who becomes number one will not ultimately defeat the ancient gods, but will instead become an ancient god.

Humanity will never be able to escape this trap.

The number one divine technique of the human race has never been 【Unity】.

It is the 【Dao Slash】 created by the Chen Lord.

But the Xia Lord discovered this secret.

Clearly, Fanni also discovered this secret.

This white mist world.

Its true purpose is actually to allow Chen Yan to escape the Mother God's gaze.

If there were no Ancient God Status.

This white mist world would not have appeared before Chen Yan.

It was the Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree that sensed Chen Yan's arrival, and only then did it exhale the white mist world.

One link after another.

First, Fanni sent the Ancient God Status.

Allowing Chen Yan to have the ability to master a method to deal with the Ancient God Status.

Then, Chen Yan, possessing the Ancient God Status, found the Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree.

The Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree then exhaled the white mist, allowing Chen Yan to evade the Mother God's gaze.

Thereby, Chen Yan could proceed to the final step.

Devouring the intact Emperor Fruit!

It can be said that not a single step could be missed.

And this information, Chen Yan cannot tell anyone.

Because the others are still under the gaze of the ancient gods.

This is the human race's ten-thousand-year history.

The last remaining sanity of the already maddened Fanni and Bai E.

The only winning method they created!