Chapter 985: The Arrival of the Apocalypse

Chen Yuan's remnant soul phantom trembled violently, flickering like a candle in the wind.

His consciousness, which had already been dissipating, suddenly froze the moment he saw the figure before him.

He could feel a type of rule emanating from Chen Yan, one he could not comprehend, one that stood above all things.

"Chen Yan, you..."

Chen Yan opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting countless Martial Dao rules, as if the mysteries of the growth of all things were evolving there at any given moment.

"Master Chen."

Chen Yan stood up:

"We meet again."

Chen Yuan's mouth opened unconsciously, yet he could not emit any sound.

Chen Yan waved one hand, and streams of information rushed into the depths of Chen Yuan's mind.

Within Chen Yuan's remnant soul consciousness, countless fragments of information collided with a roar.

Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi were Chen Yan's clones.

The Array Dao and True Intent Martial Dao had been modified by Chen Yan?

Chen Yan wanted to synthesize all the Martial Dao rules in the world?

The streams of information surged like a flood, leaving Master Chen completely stunned.

He remained dazed for a long time before he gradually came to his senses.

"Very..."

Chen Yuan opened his mouth:

"Very good."

Chen Yan's eyes were calm; at this moment, a terminal rule, one that seemed to transcend all Martial Dao, flowed through his body.

That faint, supreme aura left Chen Yuan shocked to the extreme.

Chen Yuan's eyes trembled for a moment, and his body bowed slightly:

"Greetings..."

Chen Yuan could feel that Chen Yan had reached a level that transcended the Martial Dao.

This could no longer be described by realms.

Even a Ninth-Order expert, facing the current Chen Yan, would be like an insect or ant looking up at a Heavenly Roc.

"There is no need for this."

Chen Yan waved his hand:

"I have merely stepped onto the shoulders of those who came before me and stand a little higher, that is all."

Chen Yuan's lips moved, but for a moment, he could not speak.

A look of admiration appeared in Chen Yan's eyes:

"However, Master Chen, your Technique Dao greatly astonished me; if the Technique Dao were given time to develop,"

"Perhaps it would be the strongest auxiliary Martial Dao."

Correct, the Technique Dao was also an auxiliary Martial Dao.

But the enhancement that techniques provided to the physical Martial Dao far exceeded that of elements, True Intent, or arrays.

It was just that Chen Yuan had been killed by Li Zhiyi just as he created the Technique Dao.

This was also the reason why Chen Yan had summoned Chen Yuan's remnant soul here.

"The Technique Dao..."

A profound look appeared in Chen Yuan's eyes:

"It was created based on my Dao of Severing and Swallowing Brightness; the mysteries within it, however, cannot be compared to the Martial Dao rules you have mastered today."

"But it is of vital importance."

Chen Yan laughed softly and waved a hand; an endless chart of rules appeared naturally, spreading out like a galaxy.

Within it, endless Martial Dao mysteries were manifested, and Chen Yuan was momentarily dumbstruck.

Likewise, he saw Chen Fazheng and Ying within that chart.

Chen Fazheng seemed to sense something; he turned around, and there was a hint of mockery in his eyes as he looked at Chen Yuan.

"Ancestor, are you willing to integrate the ultimate principles of the Technique Dao into this chart?"

Chen Yan spoke calmly.

Chen Yuan stared blankly at the vast, endless interweaving of rules, and he opened his mouth:

"I am willing."

His emotions were incredibly complex:

"The path of the human world will be created by the Xia clan, and a new heaven will be opened by my Chen clan."

The next instant, Chen Yuan's remnant soul flowed into the rule chart.

In Chen Yan's eyes.

Chen Yuan's sins, schemes, and even his death were merely a ripple in the vast rules.

And what he intended to master was the entire ocean.

However, Chen Yan himself was also clear that the Mother God had already noticed him.

Thus, all his schemes and all his preparations had been laid out in the open.

What remained for Chen Yan might be endless darkness.

The Mother God's true self had not arrived; the current wisp of consciousness was not even manifested by the Mother God of this time.

That consciousness should be something preserved within 【Unity】.

【Unity】 is a brand-new Ancient God position.

For these ten thousand years, it has been placed by the Mother God somewhere in the human world.

It is used to monitor the human world.

Because the Mother God's true self noticed Chen Yan and determined that Chen Yan posed a threat.

The Mother God's will within 【Unity】 was then activated.

Resurrecting Chen Yuan and letting Chen Yuan obtain the Ancient God position was merely the Mother God's first step.

Now Chen Yuan is dead, but 【Unity】 and the Mother God's will have not yet vanished.

The other party will only use all their strength to continue influencing the human world.

Why would it be like this?

Because the Mother God needs to, before her true self arrives.

Chen Yan's true self must not have the chance to cultivate in peace; Chen Yan's true self must not continue to grow stronger.

Even Li Zhiyi and Zhang Huizhi will be gazed upon by the Mother God and be unable to advance any further.

But what the Mother God does not know is.

Chen Yan has always had a trump card.

A trump card that no one knows about.

That is Zhao Zhugui, who has never appeared before the people of the world.

When Chen Yan created Zhao Zhugui, he himself had not yet entered the top fifty strongest in the human world.

He himself and Zhao Zhugui had not yet received the gaze of 【Unity】.

And later, among the top fifty strongest in the human world, no one knew of Zhao Zhugui's existence either.

Ji Zhu might have guessed it.

But Ji Zhu is a body undergoing re-cultivation and has only just entered the eighth rank, so she is not yet worthy of receiving the attention of 【Unity】.

As for Ji Chen, Ji Chen has been nothing but an ignored immortal from beginning to end.

The other party's true self is not powerful and is not among the top fifty strongest in the human world.

Ji Chen can be seen as the Retrospective Mirror, or as the human walker of the Xia Lord.

The other party needs to use the Retrospective Mirror to make every future point occur exactly as it should.

Chen Yan looked toward the outside world.

Within the deep space of the universe, that remnant soul of Jilie floated, a pair of eyes seemingly piercing through the endless void to meet Chen Yan's gaze.

The next moment.

The corners of Jilie's lips curled up slowly, a smile spreading to the corners of her eyes, yet it did not reach the depths of her eyes in the slightest.

She stared straight at Chen Yan, and deep within those pupils, countless fine tentacles seemed to be wriggling in the shadows.

It was as if an indescribable existence was quietly seeping into the cracks of reality along with this smile.

At the same time.

Inside the Evil Realm.

Malice and Ancient God aura from Bai E were still being continuously injected into the body of the Ancient God Fanni.

Within the gray fog world created by 【Unity】.

The Ancient God Fanni leaped to surpass the Xia Lord, Li Zhiyi, and then Bai E, becoming the number one in the human world.

The next moment.

In the deep space of the universe, the moment the smile at the corners of Jilie's mouth reached its peak.

Ka!

An Ancient God position wrapped in endless malice slipped into the Sea of Malice.

The next moment.

Rumble!

The ink-colored Sea of Malice suddenly shook, the murky waves churning with a rotten, fishy stench.

Ka!

A muffled roar came from the depths of the seabed, like rusted metal rubbing together, or like the whimpering of countless throats being throttled.

This was the roar of the Ancient God Fanni, which turned into invisible sound waves, causing the light between heaven and earth to begin to twist and collapse.

Chen Yan's eyes were calm.

That Ancient God position originally inherited by the Chen Lord had now been thrown into Fanni by Jilie.

The Ancient God Fanni was about to awaken.

And it would far exceed the Bai E of the past.

In an instant.

Heaven and earth shook.

When the various strongest beings in the outside world were shocked by this turn of events.

First, the Evil Realm.

Boom!

Darkness!

A dark abyss that suddenly erupted from the core of the Sea of Malice appeared!

This abyss of malice was a million miles wide, and the moment it appeared, it directly swallowed the thousands of pure lands drifting above the Sea of Malice.

Millions of living beings were swallowed whole before they could even let out a wail.

Ka!

That malice was darker than the void in the deepest part of the universe, surging upward with a violent evil that devoured everything.

The next moment.

Boom!

The black hole of malice tore directly through the membrane between the outer world and the Evil Realm!

The invisible barrier shattered like thin paper, emitting a groan of unbearable strain.

At the same time.

Ji Province.

Countless living beings were still in shock over the death of the Lord of Chen.

But more of the living beings in Ji Province still had to continue living.

Within the cities, cooking smoke curled upward, children stared blankly up at the firmament, adults had eyes filled with extreme complexity, and the elderly lamented the sins of the Lord of Chen.

Severely wounded retired soldiers lamented the cruelty of war.

Yet, in the next moment.

A powerful tremor resounded from beneath Ji Province.

It was as if hundreds of millions of galloping wild horses were coming from the depths of the earth.

Panic only welled up in the deepest hearts of the living beings of Ji Province for a single second.

People looked blankly downward.

"Oh no!"

Above the firmament, Lu Xunyang, Xia Zhiyang, and others turned into streaks of light and rushed toward Ji Province.

Yet, in the next instant.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The cooking smoke stopped abruptly; the children's cries, the elders' laments, and the soldiers' sighs were all cut off in an instant.

A pitch-black pillar of light covering the entire Ji Province erupted from underground, instantly swallowing the whole of Ji Province and shooting straight into the sky!

Cities, fields, and rivers, along with hundreds of millions of living beings, were swallowed by the abyss without a struggle, not even leaving a trace behind.

Above the firmament, countless experts saw this horrifying and peerless scene.

Endless fear instantly devoured their reason.

"What is happening!"

"Ji Province is gone!"

"Ahhhhh!"

"The Ancient God has awakened!!!"

Even eighth-rank experts felt as if their own flesh and blood were being scraped away the moment they saw this.

The supreme experts turned pale, their entire bodies icy cold.

The pressure of the Ancient God, which transcended all rules of the human world, left them unable to even conceive of the thought of resistance, leaving only a trembling that reached deep into their marrow.

One instant.

One moment.

One breath.

One blink.

Ji Province, vanished from the human world!

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Some surviving experts of Ji Province roared out, unable to believe it.

Screech!

The terrifying screech of the Ancient God was still resounding, and that indifference and evil that shook the heart were still being transmitted continuously.

Whoosh!

The abyss of malice was still expanding, continuously swallowing the nearby seawater.

The suction of the abyss of malice became increasingly violent, and the seawater of the surrounding ocean surged backward like ten thousand galloping horses, forming a water curtain that blotted out the sky and sun.

Countless sea fish, giant whales, and even deep-sea exotic beasts were forcibly dragged by an invisible force and turned into nothingness.

Rumble!

The earth's veins shifted, the seabed collapsed, and the entire world began to tremble crazily.

The fear from the Ancient God spread rapidly.

Malice swept across the entire world like a gale.

In an instant.

Rivers rolled backward, mountains collapsed, and plants rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye, mutating into writhing, fleshy appendages.

Birds and beasts, regardless of species, all went mad, tearing at and devouring each other, and gray-black smoke rose where blood and flesh splattered.

Not only the Five Races, but even within the Great Xia, rapid mutations began to occur.

"It is the end of the human world!"

"The Ancient God has awakened!"

"It's over, everything is over!"

Roars resounded one after another.

Some people collapsed to the ground, losing control of their bowels.

Some people gazed at the sky with hollow eyes.

Some muttered broken prayers or the names of their loved ones unconsciously, their minds near collapse.