Chapter 136

After the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's pupil fully opened, the void split open three thousand golden avenues, each avenue bearing a blurry phantom—some wielding an axe to cleave Chaos, others forming seals to suppress the Nine Underworlds—each phantom immensely powerful.

This is……the imprint of a powerhouse!

Ye Chen's innermost being suffered a tremendous shock.

At this moment, he exerted all his strength to drive his Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram, solely to resist the power of the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's beast child.

Perhaps because the power of the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's pupil was too overwhelming, Ye Chen's Nine Heavens Chaos Mystic Thunder also automatically burst forth from his body, jointly resisting the pupil's power.

Ye Chen bled from every part of his body, yet despite that, he desperately drove the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram.

He now had no spare power to drive the Nine Heavens Chaos Mystic Thunder; the thunder itself floated out of his body to resist on its own.

Pfft—

Ye Chen ultimately could not withstand it, and a mouthful of fresh blood spurted from his mouth.

The Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram also emitted cracking sounds, its surface covered with fissures, as if it would shatter explosively at any moment.

Ye Chen stared at the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram, fists clenched; at this moment he had no remaining strength.

The power of the Extreme Boundary had been pushed to its limit by him; even a God Transformation stage demon beast would struggle to survive here, let alone him, a Nascent Soul cultivator.

It was not that his Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram possessed the power to encompass all things; he simply could not have resisted this long otherwise.

Ye Chen was struggling to resist, while the power of the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's pupil grew ever stronger.

Wah—

Ye Chen could not hold on, and another mouthful of fresh blood spilled from his mouth.

His aura suddenly slumped to a low point; his life-force flickered, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.

His Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram was also nearing its limit, cracks spreading across it.

Ye Chen still gritted his teeth and persisted; he knew that if he could not endure, he would be worn away by this force.

He could not die yet; he had not finished his revenge, had not fulfilled his heavenly oath, and those he cared for remained in danger.

He cannot die here.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen squeezed out the last bit of strength in his body, and the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram returned to wholeness once more.

Perhaps even Ye Chen himself did not notice; the power that erupted when he was on the brink of death caused his Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram to change.

This time, the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram showed no sign of breaking.

And the power of the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's pupil quickly dissipated.

Ye Chen no longer had any strength to support himself; his body fell freely, drifting in this boundless void.

【The will to survive that erupted before death gave rise to a brand-new power in your body, and this power caused your Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram to change.】

【Now it is no longer called the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram, but rather—the Taiji Creation Diagram.】

The system finished speaking, and its voice fell completely silent.

And Ye Chen's body drifted slowly through this starry expanse.

After this ordeal with the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast, the stars instantly dimmed considerably, but one thing remained unchanged: the imprints of the powerful.

The Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast seemingly lacked the ability to erase those powerhouses' imprints, so those imprints still remain here.

But at this moment, Ye Chen is unaware of any of this, and those powerhouses' imprints also gradually fade from the starry expanse after the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast retracts its pupil's power.

Ye Chen's body just drifted in the starry expanse, not knowing how long it had been adrift.

Although drifting, his body was constantly cultivating, and his Taiji Creation Diagram continually hovered on his surface.

The Taiji Creation Diagram incessantly absorbs the energy surrounding his body, nourishing him in return.

And his cultivation has been steadily increasing, even faster than his own training speed.

Of course, Ye Chen remains unaware of all this.

After an unknown period, Ye Chen's vertical pupil at the brow twitched, then suddenly opened; at the instant his vertical pupil opened, all matter around him was utterly annihilated.

"Where……is this?"

The Chaos Eye was unaware, but in an instant it sensed Ye Chen's unconsciousness.

"Just what did he endure to suffer such grave injury?"

The Chaos Eye rotated at Ye Chen's brow; it left his body, and the moment it departed, it noticed the Taiji Creation Diagram enveloping Ye Chen's body.

"What diagram is this? No, what power could actually block my perception!?"

The Chaos Eye's tone was filled with shock; this seemed to be a power it had never seen before.

"It seems during my slumber, you've gathered quite a bit of fortune."

The Chaos Eye said, feeling genuine joy for Ye Chen from the heart.

And it also sensed Ye Chen's current cultivation level—astonishingly, God Transformation!

"Breaking through while unconscious—how interesting; let me see where exactly this place is."

The Chaos Eye said, then opened its eye that can scrutinize all and comprehend the world's causality.

Not long after, the Chaos Eye knew the full antecedents and consequences of all this.

Upon knowing the full antecedents and consequences, it trembled uncontrollably.

"You little brat, you've got guts—daring to actively enter the belly of the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast."

"However, fortune and misfortune are interdependent; its belly contains many forces it cannot absorb, whereas your strange diagram can absorb them, which has actually benefited you."

The Chaos Eye said, gazing at this starry expanse.

"You're also lucky; since you're inside the Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast's belly, your God Transformation Heavenly Tribulation cannot descend here, and the outer beast bears it all for you."

The Chaos Eye said, a smile flickering in its eyes; for some reason, it felt all this was overly clever and also rather ludicrous.

The Heavenly Swallowing Demon Beast that originally intended to devour Ye Chen instead became nourishment for his growth, even helping to block his Heavenly Tribulation altogether.

Although this will make Ye Chen's Heavenly Tribulation even more perilous, it doesn't matter; Ye Chen possesses that strange diagram, and the Chaos Eye felt its supreme power.

At the very least, having lived so many years, it had never before witnessed such a strange and profound power.

"I'll take you out as soon as you wake up."

Hun Yan said, although Ye Chen didn't know how to leave here, Hun Yan did, and the "enter here to seek a sliver of hope" the system mentioned was Hun Yan.

Because Hun Yan only gradually revived after absorbing the power from the belly of the Swallowing Heaven Demon Beast.

"God Transformation, third tier…"

Hun Yan looked at Ye Chen and stated his current cultivation.

"Then I'll give you a hand, hoping that when you wake up your cultivation will break through to Great Ascension, since if your strength rises, I can also regain my strength."

After Hun Yan finished speaking, he began to marshal the surrounding power; under his urging, the nearby energy turned into the purest spiritual energy, slowly flowing into Ye Chen's body.

These spiritual energies, while raising Ye Chen's cultivation, also heal his injuries.