Chapter 137: Ye Chen

Hunyan's behavior is not a case of pulling up seedlings, but Ye Chen's diagram automatically upgrades him; Hunyan simply omits the step where his diagram would assist in purification.

While doing so, Hunyan begins to compute what year it is this evening.

It knows that time flows differently inside the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast's belly, since that interior forms an autonomous space approved by Heaven and Earth.

Within the beast, time speeds up, yet the Heavenly Dao mandates that time still proceeds according to the outside world's timeline.

Therefore, knowing what year it is tonight is extremely important for both Ye Chen and Hunyan.

As Hunyan's inference proceeds, it gradually discerns the external time.

"Inside the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast, we have already endured five hundred years, whereas only fifty years have elapsed outside."

Hunyan, at this point, suddenly recalls something.

It looks at Ye Chen and says to the unconscious Ye Chen, "I didn't expect you've been comatose for so long."

Hunyan naturally knows that within the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast, the dreadful eroding force gives the beast a very high lower bound but an extremely low upper bound.

If the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast existed in an age where one could achieve immortality, its ceiling would be unimaginable; however, in the current era where ascension is impossible, its ceiling has dropped.

At this moment, Hunyan comprehends how Ye Chen's diagram came to be.

It knows Ye Chen's Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram, yet the diagram currently encasing Ye Chen is not the Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram but a far more powerful, profound, and mysterious entity.

"It seems that being put to the brink of death and then revived has caused your body to unleash entirely new power; you have merely grasped this new diagram."

"The power of creation..."

Hunyan sighs, having lived countless ages, fully aware of the terror of creation.

Everything is one's own creation, and one is also the creation of all things; everything is within one's own control.

"You truly manage to surprise me each time."

Hunyan says this as it begins to roam the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast, doing so to channel more of the beast's power to Ye Chen, facilitating his rapid growth.

If this could allow him to breakthrough to the Great Ascension, it would be even better, as the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast outside still shields him from the Heavenly Tribulation.

A Heavenly Tribulation at the Great Ascension stage could cause the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast great injury, yet it would not endanger its life.

Unwittingly, time passes silently; another hundred years go by, and he and Ye Chen have already spent six hundred years inside the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast, while sixty years have passed outside.

In those six hundred years inside the beast, Ye Chen's power surged rapidly and his wounds nearly healed, yet he still remains unawakened.

Inside the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast, there is virtually no energy remaining.

If any remains, it is the imprints of powerful cultivators; however, present Ye Chen cannot yet absorb them, though after further years...

"Perhaps when he reaches the Great Ascension, it will be feasible; by then he should have awakened, and we will also depart."

"If all the strong cultivators' imprints here are fully absorbed and transformed into his own power, then when he walks his own path, I cannot imagine how high his future ceiling will be."

Hunyan says this, his words even carrying a trace of excitement.

Yet all this must await Ye Chen's awakening; if he awakens at the Great Ascension, they can begin absorbing those strong cultivators' imprints.

Over this hundred‑year span, Hunyan also attempted to refine those strong cultivators' imprints, but each imprint belonged to a former pinnacle cultivator, leading to failure.

Not that it cannot refine, but that current Hunyan cannot, and those imprints appear to be awaiting transmission.

These strong cultivators' imprints were merely unintentionally drawn into the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast's belly, yet its capacity to devour so many imprints marks its opportunity as exceedingly destiny‑defying.

However, it lacks the ability to refine; were it able to, its current cultivation would certainly exceed the Nascent Soul stage, at least reaching Great Ascension, or perhaps... Quasi‑Emperor!

Rather than claiming the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast's opportunity is destiny‑defying, it is more accurate to say Ye Chen's opportunity is; after all, the beast cannot refine those imprints, yet if Ye Chen attains Great Ascension, the situation could differ.

Ye Chen possesses his peculiar diagram; he could fully refine, yet his current cultivation level is insufficient to refine those strong cultivators' imprints.

Hunyan continues to roam, fully converting the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast's internal energy into Ye Chen's spiritual power, and Ye Chen's cultivation reaches the ninth stage of God Transformation.

The Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast's internal energy has been entirely absorbed by Ye Chen, thus his realm cannot progress further.

The sole possibility is to absorb those strong cultivators' imprints, yet the risk is too great.

Though Hunyan cannot refine those strong cultivators' imprints, it can carry them all away; this is what it has been doing since it awakened and discovered their existence.

Because it cannot gamble on Ye Chen achieving a breakthrough to Great Ascension after absorbing this energy.

Hence, it adopted a new strategy: if it cannot refine them here, it will simply bundle all those strong cultivators' imprints and take them away.

Once they exit, whenever Ye Chen's cultivation reaches Great Ascension, he can begin absorbing those imprints.

At that point, Ye Chen's combat power will surge at a truly terrifying pace.

From another angle, these imprints are the legacies of those strong cultivators!

Hunyan watches Ye Chen, unaware why he remains unawakened; his injuries have long healed, so logically he should have awakened, yet he does not.

"What reason prevents you from waking up?"

Hunyan looks at Ye Chen and says.

It thus guards beside Ye Chen, unaware when Ye Chen will awaken nor when the Sky‑Swallowing Demon Beast will next feed.

Therefore, it must stay ever‑present guarding Ye Chen, lest any accident occur.

Otherwise, it would have already gone out to survey the outside situation.

"Ye Chen..."

At this moment, deep within Ye Chen's consciousness, ten thousand versions of him converse, cultivate, and blaze new paths.

This is unmistakably his Thus Technique: Thus Technique: Thus Technique: Tahuazizaidafa!

It is not that Ye Chen refuses to awaken; after realizing this is a degenerate era, he begins to consider his own path.

If the road ahead proves unviable, he devises his own route, forging an entirely new path.

This is why Ye Chen has not awakened from his coma.

That day, while his consciousness lay in total slumber, he heard the system's voice.

The system announced that his Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram had transformed into the Taiji Creation Diagram.

Since it is the Taiji Creation Diagram, he could then create everything, so he used his last bit of consciousness to cover his whole body with his own Taiji Creation Diagram.

He himself, however, fell into a deep coma, experimenting with a new method; each experiment was a creation.