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Chapter 83: Countless Years Before and After (End of Prologue)
Chapter 83: Countless Years Before and After (End of Prologue)
High above in the clouds, Lin Yuan faced thirty-five divine soldiers alone.
Compared to the towering and majestic divine soldiers, Lin Yuan appeared minuscule, like a speck of dust.
Yet, despite the terrifying pressure emanating from the divine soldiers, Lin Yuan remained suspended in the air, unyielding and unaffected.
"Who is that?"
"How dare he rush before the divine soldiers?"
"Is he seeking death?!"
On the side of the thirty-five nations, the emperors furrowed their brows as they witnessed this unprecedented scene.
Even when the divine soldiers devoured their soldiers earlier, it only caused them a momentary pang of distress.
After all, in their eyes, the loss of a mere thirty to fifty thousand soldiers was insignificant compared to the prospect of crushing the Reverse God Association.
"It's the master of the Reverse God Association!"
"Is that the Emperor of Great Flame?"
"As expected, the Great Flame Dynasty has a deep connection with the Reverse God Association. Perhaps the person backing the association is the Emperor himself."
"What does the Emperor of Great Flame intend to do? Is he declaring war on the divine soldiers?"
"But have you noticed that the national treasure of the Great Flame Dynasty, their own divine soldier, has not made an appearance?"
Countless beings, both within and outside the Five Peaks battlefield, looked up at the sky in awe. The battle between the thirty-five nations and the Reverse God Association had captured the attention of all existence in this world.
This included secluded cultivators and even fragments of consciousness from some of the divine soldiers.
Eight millennia ago, a battle among the divine soldiers resulted in sixty-four of them being shattered and falling across the land.
Some of these fragments refused to accept their defeat and transformed into evil soldiers, causing chaos and turmoil.
However, other fragments had lost all hope and believed that they stood no chance against the thirty-six national treasure divine soldiers, so they continued to hide.
To most beings, the Reverse God Association represented the losers and failures of that ancient battle, the very same evil soldiers.
But now, the appearance of the Emperor of Great Flame had taken everyone by surprise.
Setting aside the question of whether Lin Yuan could rival the thirty-five divine soldiers, his mere presence and indifference to their oppressive might spoke volumes about his strength, surpassing the limits of what was believed possible for a human in this world.
After all, even these evil soldiers, who had once been part of the divine soldiers, trembled in fear at the transformed thirty-five divine beings before them.
"Master... can our master win?"
Within the battlefield, the evil soldiers that Lin Yuan had refined, including the Splitting Sky Axe, couldn't help but wonder.
They had personally experienced Lin Yuan's power and knew just how formidable he was. To say that he could rival the might of a true divine soldier was not an exaggeration.
However, Lin Yuan was now facing not just one, but thirty-five divine soldiers, each of whom had taken that final, crucial step in their transformation.
Especially the first four among them, whose strength had surpassed the others by a large margin eight millennia ago; one could only imagine their current might.
High in the clouds, beneath the vast sky, the thirty-five divine soldiers paused, seemingly taken aback.
Their immense spiritual fluctuations swept over Lin Yuan, but strangely, as they came within three feet of his body, they were devoured by some unseen force.
It was as if Lin Yuan himself were a 'black hole', capable of absorbing everything that came close to him.
"Interesting?"
"Are you truly human?"
A knife-shaped divine soldier, resembling a true dragon stepping on a sparrow, sent out a spiritual fluctuation, laced with curiosity.
For countless years, in their eyes, humans had always been nothing more than food. Now, the sudden appearance of someone they couldn't understand, much less devour, was indeed a curious development.
"Regardless of whether you are human or not, I can sense the vast and boundless essence within you. Consuming you might just allow me to take another step forward."
Another divine soldier sent out a greedy spiritual fluctuation.
Boom! A power unique to the divine soldiers quietly descended.
Lin Yuan's gaze remained calm as he simply looked at the thirty-five divine soldiers, feeling as though he were observing the very essence of the world itself.
"Now that you're all here..."
"Come on in."
Lin Yuan raised his right hand.
The divine power that had appeared suddenly vanished without a trace.
But then, a terrifying aura exploded forth.
The vast expanse of the Five Peaks battlefield suddenly erupted with streams of energy, forming a massive cage that enveloped the area.
Ten years ago, Lin Yuan, inspired by the ancient gods, had successfully entered the fourth stage during his first year of wandering the world.
By comprehending the fundamental rules of this world, Lin Yuan's understanding of the heavens had deepened.
At the same time, he had also vaguely sensed that the national treasure divine soldiers of the other thirty-five nations were on the brink of their own breakthroughs.
Lin Yuan had tested his fourth-stage strength against the thirty-five divine soldiers, taking them on one by one.
However, these divine soldiers were cautious, and if Lin Yuan had forcefully engaged them, he might have been able to suppress five or six of them quickly, but the rest would undoubtedly have fled.
In order to capture them all in one fell swoop, Lin Yuan had predicted the course of events and secretly manipulated the war between the Reverse God Association and the thirty-five nations, ensuring that their final battle would take place at the Five Peaks battlefield.
Located in the central region of the Thirty-Six Nations of the Central Plains, adjacent to the rivers, the Five Peaks battlefield was a place Lin Yuan had spent eight years preparing. He had walked through every corner of this battlefield, setting up countless nodes.
High above, Lin Yuan unleashed the power he had been cultivating for eight long years, forsaking cultivation and enlightenment to focus solely on his grand scheme for the Five Peaks battlefield. The unleashed power nearly reached the late fourth stage, and its aura caused even the thirty-five divine soldiers to shudder.
"What is this?!"
"Bad! Run!"
The thirty-five divine soldiers, sensing this power, trembled with fear. For countless millennia, aside from that ancient god, nothing had ever struck fear into them, not even the divine soldier war eight millennia ago, from which they had emerged victorious.
But now...
As they sensed the overwhelming aura emanating from the Five Peaks battlefield, all the divine soldiers knew fear.
Buzz! The thirty-five divine soldiers didn't hesitate for a moment; they immediately fled in all directions.
On the ground below, all who witnessed this scene were stupefied.
Before they could even process the shift in aura coming from the Five Peaks battlefield, they saw the once-lofty thirty-five divine soldiers scattering in retreat.
Eyes widened in disbelief, and it took a long moment for everyone to recover from the shock.
Never did they imagine that the revered divine soldiers could ever be driven to flee.
"Impossible!"
"Divine soldiers are invincible!"
"How can they be running away?!"
In the rear of the thirty-five nations, the emperors of the various dynasties were bewildered.
They had been prepared to kneel and welcome the descent of the divine soldiers, and now, the divine soldiers were fleeing?
What were they supposed to do now?
"They want to leave now?"
"It's too late."
A smile spread across Lin Yuan's face.
If this had happened a moment ago, when Lin Yuan had first appeared, the thirty-five divine soldiers might have been able to escape by returning to the heavens before the Five Peaks furnace could completely seal off the heavens.
However, according to Lin Yuan's calculations, the likelihood of that happening was almost zero.
After all, for the divine soldiers, returning to the heavens was akin to being reforged. Their consciousness and memories would be wiped away, which was only marginally better than complete destruction.
These divine soldiers had just taken that pivotal step and undergone their transformation. How could they possibly choose such an extreme path just because they encountered someone they couldn't understand?
Indeed, as Lin Yuan had expected, not a single one of the thirty-five divine soldiers chose to return to the heavens, even when they sensed something amiss.
"Rise!"
With another thought from Lin Yuan, the vast Tai Chi domain rapidly expanded.
Upon breaking through to the fourth stage, Lin Yuan's Tai Chi domain underwent another significant enhancement.
The essence of Tai Chi was not limited to Yin and Yang; it encompassed all the myriad paths of the world, with Yin and Yang as its core.
This was why Lin Yuan was still able to improve by comprehending the fundamental rules within the other evil soldiers.
"Break!"
Among the thirty-five divine soldiers, the tower-shaped one suddenly halted.
A brilliant red light blazed forth, like a sun unleashing all its light and heat in an instant.
The void itself seemed to boil, and the air within a few hundred li of the sky appeared to be simmering, with misty vapors enveloping the entire Five Peaks battlefield.
The temperature rose within a radius of several hundred li, and even for a Blood Refining Martial Sage, the air they breathed felt like scorching coals, an unbearable heat.
A terrifying heat wave exploded, and in an instant, a section of the furnace-like structure within a few li was shattered.
"Water!"
Lin Yuan responded by raising his hand, summoning the waters from the rivers and oceans outside the Five Peaks battlefield.
Large amounts of water were evaporated, quickly countering the intense heat emanating from the tower-shaped divine soldier.
"Not good!"
The tower-shaped divine soldier's thoughts grew heavy as it witnessed this.
At that moment, countless nodes within the Five Peaks battlefield converged, merging their auras, light, and shadows, along with the power of the heavens, to form a Taiji furnace that was black and white in color.
Boom! The thirty-five divine soldiers were all enveloped within the Taiji furnace.
The Taiji furnace hung beneath the firmament, towering a hundred li high, like a colossal beast.
Rumbles emanated from within the furnace, indicating that the thirty-five divine soldiers hadn't given up and were still struggling.
However, as time passed, their struggles grew weaker.
"All thirty-six divine soldiers have fallen into my trap."
Lin Yuan took a step forward and sat atop the furnace.
A spear-shaped divine soldier, adorned with the sun and moon, flew out and entered the furnace of its own accord.
With all thirty-six divine soldiers originating from the same source, Lin Yuan released the Sun-Moon Spear as well to facilitate his comprehension.
"Next is suppression and comprehension."
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, his mind calm and peaceful.
"The divine soldiers have been suppressed?!"
On the ground below, everyone who witnessed this scene, whether they were humans or evil soldiers' consciousnesses, was utterly shaken to their core.
Countless years ago, an ancient god walked the earth, harnessing the power of mountains and rivers and the four seas to forge a hundred divine soldiers. For eons, all beings bowed before their might.
And now, countless years later, a young emperor sat high in the sky, harnessing the power of rivers and refining the Five Peaks to suppress thirty-six divine soldiers, his heavenly might causing all beings to revere him.
(End of Chapter)
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