Chapter 981: The Death of Chen Yuan

Evil Realm.

Beneath the endless sea of malice.

"Urgh..."

A low hiss constantly resounded.

He lay there, submerged and covered by the endless sea of malice.

He was a forgotten ancient god, his consciousness rotting in the darkness, loneliness gnawing at his soul like maggots on bone.

A silent roar shattered the void, yet could not even catch a single echo; only pain, like an eternal night, grew wildly in the dead silence.

Beneath his gaze.

Ancient god-beasts killed each other and roared upon his physical body.

"One day, one day, I will kill them all..."

He roared, yet could not break free.

But, it was soon.

He could feel that the long nails driven in by the ancient god-beasts could no longer bind him.

"Never forgive, never forgive..."

His consciousness rotted into mud in the depths of the profound sea of malice, his madness growing with each passing day.

He had been suppressed for one hundred thousand years.

One hundred thousand years!

This was a long span of time that could not be summarized by hatred alone.

And it was at this moment.

He seemed to have blurred vision, seeing a familiar figure.

It was Jilie.

"Jilie, is it you?"

He spoke with difficulty, like a child fallen into an abyss seeing a bright lamp.

"It is me."

Jilie, beautiful as a fairy, drifted down from the sky, came to his side, and gently stroked his face.

"I missed you so much."

Jilie spoke in a soft voice.

"Jilie..."

He began to tremble, then immediately shook his head:

"Hallucination, it is all a hallucination."

Yet Jilie gazed at him, stroking his withered face:

"You must be very tired."

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Above the Saint-Breaking Tree of the Evil Realm.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged, his body wreathed in endless rule-runes; he slowly opened his eyes, sensing the arrival of a powerful existence.

No.

The Mother God had not yet arrived, but a wisp of evil consciousness had.

Where?

Chen Yan cast his gaze, his sight piercing through the endless void, finally falling into the depths of the sea of malice.

…………

"Jilie, I..."

He opened his mouth, letting out a whimper like a lonely child.

"It has been one hundred thousand years."

"I know." Jilie's eyes were filled with a soft light:

"You are too tired, do not force yourself anymore."

"What should I do?"

He asked, bewildered.

"There is still Xiao Fan." Jilie stared at him:

"You still have Xiao Fan."

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Deep space of the universe.

Chen Yuan looked at Li Zhiyi calmly, a touch of relief and melancholy interwoven in the depths of his eyes.

Li Zhiyi waved one hand, and the stars returned to their positions, streaking across the cosmos with brilliant tails of flame.

"Since that is the case, please."

Li Zhiyi spoke calmly.

In an instant.

In the human world, one supreme being after another looked toward the Lord Chen.

"Hahaha!"

Chen Yuan laughed out loud:

"You, Chen Yan, how much do you look down on me!"

A fierce look appeared in the depths of Chen Yuan's eyes:

"A person, in their life's actions, must have a beginning and an end.

When I arrived, I understood; how could I not understand when I depart!

How could the fall of one's own self be settled by oneself?"

Chen Yuan waved a single hand, his sleeves fluttering:

"Kill me, Chen Yan!

I am right here, right in this place!"

"Kill me!"

His roar resounded through the heavens and earth.

Countless people gazed on, horrified in their hearts.

The Lord of Chen had lost; an era was finally coming to an end on this day.

Li Zhiyi sighed in his heart, waved a single hand, and the power of his will transformed into a long spear that appeared in his hand; the long spear pointed diagonally, the killing intent chilling.

"That's right!"

Chen Yuan laughed out loud:

"This is the ending that I, Chen Yuan, should have!"

"Father!"

Within the Human Realm, Chen Youqing's voice was sorrowful, and tears appeared in her eyes.

Yet Chen Yuan did not care in the slightest; he looked toward the vast Human Realm and laughed out loud:

"I, Chen Yuan, framed my own offspring, caused the tragic death of ten million people on Wanxiang Island, and made Xia Weimin bear a thousand years of infamy!

I caused Chen Province to have no light for a thousand years, and caused the Human Realm to be unable to find peace for a long time!

I, Chen Yuan, framed the Master of True Intent and exterminated the Master of Formations!

I began planning the Five Clans' War against the Great Xia a thousand years ago and seized the lifelines of Chi, Ji, and Lu Provinces.

I, Chen Yuan, repeatedly framed the heaven-gifted talents of the Xia clan, secretly conspired for the split between Chi and Xia, and incited Ji Province to launch a surprise attack on the Great Xia's Tie Province.

I secretly supported the aristocratic alliance within the Great Xia, cultivated ancient divine beasts, traded in lowly living beings, and raised ancient divine beasts!

In the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods, I secretly funded the supreme ancient divine beasts and suppressed Lu Xunyang!

I forced the three provinces to split from the Great Xia.

I united the five clans to invade the Great Xia!"

He laughed, his arms embracing the universe:

"I, Chen Yuan, am the greatest sinner in the Human Realm!"

His voice fell.

The Human Realm was greatly shocked.

Countless people stared at Chen Yuan; some had endless rage appearing in their eyes, and some began to curse his name.

Within the four provinces of Chen, Chi, Lu, and Ji.

Who knows how many living beings had their faith collapse at this moment.

With a few sentences, the Lord of Chen had exhausted the count of his countless sins.

"Damn him, he deserves to die!"

"Kill him!"

"Why, why!"

"So it was him all along!"

"Chen Yuan is the bane of our human race!"

Countless roars resounded.

Who knows how many people wailed in blood; at this moment, they hated Chen Yuan to the bone.

Item by item, case by case, all were monstrous sins; every word wept blood, every sentence pierced the heart.

Yet Chen Yuan spoke with composure and laughed wildly, as if those deep blood feuds were nothing more than playthings at his fingertips.

Even the experts of the five clans who followed him were now all agape, unable to believe it.

Just counting the Masters of Martial Dao, Chen Yuan had secretly harmed two.

This was already a sin that the human race could not forgive.

Chen Youqing's weeping was heart-rending, yet it could not shake Chen Yuan in the slightest.

Li Zhiyi's hand gripping the spear of will tightened slightly, and a trace of complexity flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Chen Yuan raised his eyes, looking straight at Li Zhiyi in the void, his gaze as sharp as a knife, his voice shaking the surroundings:

"Look, for a person's life to be hated by so many living beings is also a kind of strength!"

He spread his arms:

"Hahahahahaha!"

The next instant.

Boom!

Li Zhiyi moved.

The long spear thrust straight, carving a crimson trail through the void, and the void was crudely sliced open.

It was fast to the extreme.

The Lord of Chen watched with a faint smile, the golden-red light of the long spear reflected in the depths of his eyes.

"Yes, that's it!"

Shatter me as a person, shatter the Martial Dao status within my body, shatter every possibility I might ever produce!

Let me, Chen Yuan, disappear completely from within the human realm!"

He did not dodge or evade, his eyes filled with endless admiration:

"Step over me, and continue walking forward, Chen Yan!"

*Puchi! *

The long spear pierced directly through the forehead of Chen Zhu, bringing out a spray of blood.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

"Father!"

"My Lord!"

"It's over!"

Within the human realm, shrill, miserable roars rang out.

Within the Evil Realm.

Dressed in a black dress, Zhuohe Umeng watched from afar, a flicker of reluctance and sorrow flashing in the depths of her eyes.

"This is the ending you wanted, isn't it."

Crystal-clear tears flowed from Zhuohe Umeng's eyes, and she gradually closed them.

Yet, in the very next moment.

Zhuohe Umeng's expression trembled.

"That's not right!"

Then, she saw.

Inside the Evil Realm.

*Whoosh! *

Endless malice surged suddenly, rolling from the side where the Great Xia was located toward the direction of the Five Clans.

Within it, there were also hidden traces of Ancient God auras.

As the black mist flowed, there was not a sound, yet it carried a bone-eroding silence and malice.

Wherever it passed, all light was completely devoured, and even the void dissolved with a sizzling sound, turning into wisps of gray smoke.

This massive malice shocked even Zhuohe Umeng, a Ninth-Rank Ancient God Beast, to the extreme.

Such dense, such pure malice could only come from an Ancient God!

Throughout the entire Evil Realm, countless living beings watched in sheer terror as the terrifying malice drifted over their heads.

They were terrified to the extreme.

"What is that!"

"The end, the end has come!"

"Heavens!"

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The malice blotted out the sky and sun, like a burst dam of floodwater and mudslides, carrying an unrivaled sense of oppression as it flowed into the Sea of Malice.

Zhuohe Umeng choked back a sob.

In an instant, her eyes widened.

This was the Ancient God Bai E giving the malice and Ancient God aura within his own body to Fanni.

Once Bai E became weak, he would relinquish the first position of 【Unity】.

At the same time.

Chen Yuan's eyes widened, his own aura dissipating bit by bit.

Yet at this very moment.

A pair of woman's hands, white as jade, caressed Chen Yuan's face.

Jilie had only arrived as a phantom, yet her eyes were filled with tenderness:

"Although you want to die, I have not allowed you to die."

Jilie's fingertips traced across Chen Yuan's face, leaving behind a glowing, colorful thread.

Li Zhiyi narrowed his eyes.

Jilie's phantom had appeared, and only he and Chen Yuan could see it.

Even the supreme powerhouses of the human realm, such as Xia Zhiyang, were unable to see it.

Mother God had actually come.