108: The day when the great emperor returns, the twilight of the gods!

Darkness, like icy seawater, surged from all directions, threatening to completely drown Chen Yuan's last vestiges of consciousness.

Regret, pain, helplessness… all the negative emotions accumulated over a hundred thousand years exploded the moment he witnessed Ye Ningxue become a “formation core.”

His Dao Heart showed signs of collapse in that instant.

“I’m sorry…”

“Ningxue…”

“I’m sorry… everyone…”

These were his final murmurs before sinking into the endless abyss.

However, just as Chen Yuan’s consciousness was about to completely dissipate.

In the Celestial Realm, from the four majestic divine temples belonging to different “New Gods,” a terrifying divine power capable of shaking the stars erupted simultaneously!

“He cannot die here!”

Ye Liuli, Ling Xi, Cang Xuan, Ye Qiong.

These four members of the Joint Squad, through their respective “authorities,” clearly “saw” everything that was happening in the Human Realm!

Their faces simultaneously revealed unprecedented solemnity and towering rage!

“The captain is fully resisting the Lord of the End’s divine personality erosion and cannot be distracted!”

Ling Xi’s voice was cold and urgent.

“We must buy him time!”

“Granting ‘Divine Grace’ as ‘Evil Gods’?”

A mad arc curved at Cang Xuan’s lips.

“Ha, is there any ‘betrayal’ more ‘interesting’ than this?”

“Act!”

Ye Qiong’s voice was always so concise, yet filled with unquestionable killing intent.

The next second!

Four supreme divine powers, containing different laws yet all originating from “Humanity.”

Tore through the boundaries between heaven and earth, traversing endless space.

Precisely descended upon that body, lying in a pool of blood, with vitality on the verge of extinction!

“Give up, Human Emperor.”

The monster transformed from the City Lord walked step by step towards Chen Yuan.

His eight sharp arthropod legs scraped harsh marks on the ground.

“Your era has long since ended. Your unwillingness, your anger, are merely the most powerless wails of this era.”

He raised his arthropod leg high, aiming it at Chen Yuan’s heart.

“Now, let me personally end your pathetic…”

His words stopped abruptly.

Because he saw that the man who should have been dead, his finger actually moved.

Immediately after.

A terrifying aura that made even him feel a tremor began to slowly revive from that “corpse”!

“—Do you see it?”

A cold, hollow voice, devoid of any emotion, like a judgment of fate, exploded in Chen Yuan’s mind!

“—After you die, the soul named ‘Ye Ningxue’ will be completely devoured by the law of ‘decay,’ not even a trace of reincarnation will remain.”

“—After you die, humanity will forever sink into this place, becoming the lowest livestock in the gods’ pasture, without a single spark of resistance.”

“—After you die, everything you cherish will face a ‘despair’ more complete and more tragic than ‘death.’”

“—Stand up and personally rewrite this script of ‘despair.’”

“—Otherwise, take this ‘prophecy,’ more painful than death, and roll into hell!”

Boom—!

These words were not encouragement, nor comfort!

Instead, in the most malicious and cruel way, they graphically displayed a “future scroll” a billion times more terrifying than “death” before Chen Yuan!

The almost extinguished flame of his soul, stimulated by this extreme “despair,” reignited as if doused with a barrel of boiling oil!

—It roared back to life!

“I… cannot… die…”

Chen Yuan’s shattered throat let out a beast-like growl!

Immediately after!

Another voice, filled with fanaticism and destructive desire, echoed deep within his soul!

“—Do you hear it? The wailing of that ‘seal’!”

“—What a wonderful ‘oath’! A ‘promise’ that imprisoned a ‘hero’ for a hundred thousand years!”

“—Such a firm ‘agreement,’ if it were to be torn apart by hand now…”

“—The sound of faith collapsing would surely be the most beautiful symphony!”

Crack—!!!

As if some invisible shackles, deep within Chen Yuan’s soul, shattered in response!

The [Oath of Gods and Devils], laid down jointly by the gods and devils of the heavens a hundred thousand years ago, which bound all his power.

Was forcibly torn open by a crack under this unreasonable law of “shattering”!

Rumble—!

The power suppressed for a hundred thousand years, like a bursting flood, began to madly surge into his already withered limbs and bones!

But this was not over!

The third voice, cold and deadly, like a venomous snake hidden in the shadows, quietly sounded.

“—Power alone is not enough.”

“—Let me bestow upon you ‘shadows.’”

“—Go, transform into the most deadly ‘backstabber,’ hidden beneath the shadow of the ‘decaying’ god.”

“—Then, when he is most triumphant and least guarded, stab out the most fatal and magnificent blow from behind!”

“—I look forward to your ‘performance.’”

As the words fell.

At Chen Yuan’s feet, the “shadow” formed by blood actually began to squirm like a living thing, eventually completely merging into his body!

An extreme sense of “concealment” and “killing intent” quietly awakened within him!

Finally!

The seductive and playful female voice sounded again!

“—Poor little mouse, you still don’t know what you’re really facing, do you?”

“—Let me tell you a ‘truth’ about ‘betrayal.’”

“—Do you think the guy who occupied the City Lord’s body is some unknown ‘ancient god’?”

“—No, you know him.”

“—A hundred thousand years ago, you personally shattered his divine personality.”

“—His divine name is…”

“—God of Life-Stealing and Cowardly Survival!”

“—He is a coward who can even betray ‘death’!”

“—Back then, he faked his death under your sword, but attached a wisp of the most primordial ‘divine essence residue’ to your soul, falling into the mortal realm with you!”

“—For these hundred thousand years, he has been under your nose, like the lowest parasite, stealing the life essence of your disciple ‘Ye Ningxue’ and barely surviving!”

“—Go, go and expose this ‘lie’ that deceived the whole world!”

“—Go and make him pay the price for his ‘betrayal’!”

Boom—!!!

Four “Divine Graces,” four completely different powers, all surged into Chen Yuan’s body at this moment!

And the truth about the God of Life-Stealing and Cowardly Survival.

Was like a key, unlocking his sealed memories from a hundred thousand years ago!

He remembered!

It was him!

The weakest and most cunning lesser god in the War of Heaven’s Punishment!

His authority had no offensive power, only endless “parasitism” and “theft”!

He had clearly shattered his divine personality with one sword back then… So that was it!

It turned out that he had been deceived from the very beginning!

The so-called “shattered divine personality” was merely his method of feigning death to escape!

His true purpose was to use his “fall” to bring his “seed” to this “Human Realm,” where no god could directly interfere!

And Ningxue… Ningxue was the “resurrection incubator” he had prepared for himself for a hundred thousand years!

“Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!”

An unprecedented rage, capable of incinerating the nine heavens, erupted from Chen Yuan’s chest!

Regret!

Anger!

Killing intent!

All emotions, at this moment, transformed into the purest and most terrifying fuel!

His eyes, which had already dimmed, now shone with a brilliance more dazzling than the sun, moon, and stars!

He slowly stood up from the ground!

His body, which had been severely damaged, was recovering at a visible speed under the blessing of the four “Divine Graces”!

The holy sword [Wei], which had been covered in cracks, let out an unprecedented, high-pitched sword cry!

On the sword body, the three-colored lights of sorrow, anger, and joy wildly circulated!

Finally, they merged into a fourth, and most fundamental, color!

That was the chaotic color belonging to “humanity”!

“No… impossible!”

The God of Life-Stealing and Cowardly Survival looked at this unbelievable scene before him.

For the first time, an emotion called “fear” appeared in his inhuman compound eyes!

“You… you were clearly already…”

“I am back.”

Chen Yuan slowly raised his head.

His voice was no longer hoarse, no longer weak.

Instead, it was filled with supreme majesty, enough to make heaven and earth lose their color!

He was no longer the prisoner who had been sealed for a hundred thousand years.

He was the Human Emperor who had once led humanity to ascend to the nine heavens, making all the gods and devils tremble!

—Chen Yuan!