Chapter 1121: The Real Peak
In a hidden area deep inside Earth, an old and extremely vast deity ground enveloped in Deity Light lay between countless dimensional storms. The Deity Light and Fiend Qi within were constantly intertwined like the Tai Chi Diagram.
Many cultivators and fiends from other planets wandered around the deity ground, but they were all like ants. Beams of Deity Light shot out of the deity ground and countless Deity Patterns shone brightly. Plumes of black fog rose from the ground, turning into fiends.
Where did these fiends come from? Many cultivators from other planets had no idea about it. They only thought that it was Fiend Qi released by the fiend suppressed underneath the deity ground. But what fiend was it? What was its name? How long had it been suppressed there? Why was it trapped there? Would it come out again in the future? Nobody had ever had answers for those questions. They even had to invest a herculean effort just to break into an Origin Divine Palace on the outside of the deity ground, having lost a Grand Cultivator in the process. So, it was impossible for them to know those things.
Chen Fan didn’t think too much about it in the past. He had only made guesses in his mind.
And then, he was attracted by the well. His Divine Soul kept going down, following the Fiend Qi of the Fiend Zombie. He passed through many unimaginable dimensions and layers of black fog and arrays, finally seeing the appearance of the fiend being suppressed at the bottom.
“Boom!”
An unimaginable giant Fiend God appeared in front of Chen Fan when the black fog dissipated.
Chen Fan saw that the Fiend God was so long that it went completely beyond his scope of vision. Even if his Immortal Will were to spread for a few thousand miles, he wouldn’t be able to see the end of the Fiend God’s body, which lay underneath the deity ground. It had black scales all over its body, which looked like undulating mountains. He was unable to see its face and general look, at all. Its fingers were dozens of miles long; its eyes seemed to have the size of a planet, and it was enveloped in layers of dense Fiend Qi. Within the Fiend Qi waves, the sun, moon and planets were surrounding that gigantic entity. Countless Dragon Demons a few hundred miles long roared next to it. It lay there quietly, like something that had existed for a long time.
“Clang!”
Chen Fan was also able to notice something.
Many Deity Patterns that came down from the deity ground turned into a sort of glimmering chains, twining around it. Still, those chains were nothing to that enormous Fiend God.
It was like a giant that had been sleeping there, even before the ancient times. It lay in the sky, and it didn’t look like a dead body. The Fiend Qi around it had formed huge tides as it breathed; its chest even moved up and down slightly, as if it were still alive. It may very well be sleeping there or it had already died, but Chen Fan could still feel the fierceness around it, even after billions of years; he could sense this even when he was countless kilometers away right then.
“How long ago did this Fiend God die?
“A hundred thousand years? A million years? Ten million years? Or even a hundred million years?”
Not even Chen Fan was able to tell.
At this moment, even Chen Fan was in awe of its existence and power. A Fiend Zombie that died millions or even billions of years in the past, to have been preserved for this long… That was seriously terrifying. People said the dead bodies of Golden Core and Connate Cultivators wouldn’t decay for ten thousand years, but even those of Soul Formation Grand Cultivators and top Spirit Treasures or Divine Treasures would last for billions of years.
Only those Deities who stood at the top of the universe could preserve their dead bodies for so long.
“Roar!”
The six Fiend God Forms hopped out behind Chen Fan and the six Ancestor Fiends roared as they sucked in the terrifying Fiend Qi of the Fiend God’s dead body. The Fiend Qi on the deity ground had been filtered once after all. However, they had bypassed the deity ground and were having direct contact with the Fiend God’s corpse right then; they were extremely thrilled because of this opportunity.
“Roar, roar!”
The shadows of the six Ancestor Fiends were enlarging at a visible speed.
Their shadows became more and more concrete every time they breathed in a plume of Fiend Qi, as if they had taken some powerful tonic. Many Fiend Patterns with an ancient energy gradually appeared around them. Once those patterns appeared, Chen Fan felt that he was starting to make further progress in the Six Sacred Ancestor Fiend Art, and his power seemed to have broken through to an unpredictable level.
“I can’t believe the ‘Six Sacred Ancestor Fiend Art,’ the most difficult among all my cultivation arts, would be the first to have a chance to break through the bottleneck.” Chen Fan found it hilarious.
The Six Sacred Ancestor Fiend Art was one of the top three cultivation arts in the Fiend World, which was just as powerful as the True Martial Divine Art, one of the nine Divine Arts Chen Fan cultivated. It might be even stronger.
Besides, there weren’t many places in the human worlds across the universe that had Fiend Qi, so he had not placed much hope on cultivating that Fiend Art to the peak.
But then—
The powers of the six Ancestor Fiends were increasing at a terrifying speed, just as they breathed in more Fiend Qi. Chen Fan had already reached the peak of the Golden Core Level before.
And yet, there were signs of a breakthrough right then.
“I’m making further progress!
“Even though I didn’t reach the peak of the Golden Core Level in my previous life, I formed the ‘Flower of Dharma Power’ at the Nascent Soul Level. I heard that some elites from the oldest races and sects can advance a step further after forming three flowers. That step is the real peak in the universe, known as the ‘Grand Golden Core Level,’ ‘Grand Nascent Soul Level’ and ‘Grand Soul Formation Level,'” Chen Fan thought.
The early stages of his cultivation journey in his previous life were quite normal, but he had the chance to rebuild his foundation when he reached the later stages. His power and cultivation speed kept improving as he progressed.
Especially after entering the Tribulation Level.
Chen Fan went very deep in that level, which was completely out of everyone’s imagination.
The Tribulation Level was just a stage before ascension, but Chen Fan chose not to proceed, even though he had gone past the Gate of Heaven several times. He kept exploring that level to develop his own way, a road that nobody had walked before. That was why he had been able to dominate in the universe and be called the “North Mystic Celestial Lord.”
“I was already able to kill Deities from Heaven with my bare hands when I was at the Tribulation Level back then, breaking the myths that Deities can’t be defeated. So, why can’t I reach the Grand Golden Core Level, enter the real peak and cultivate until I reach the top of humanity?” Chen Fan said as his eyes became brighter. He wanted to stop there before. After all, there were too few resources in the Abandoned Planet Region and it wasn’t enough for Chen Fan to cultivate.
But then…
Chen Fan was tempted by the Origin Divine Palace and the unimaginable Fiend Zombie in front of him. The six Ancestor Fiends flew around him as they took in Fiend Qi and cheered at the same time.
Suddenly, a shocking voice came from behind Chen Fan. “Hm? What… What is that?”
Chen Fan turned around and saw the Divine Soul of the Apollo Palace’s Divine Prince.
He had also been attracted and transported by the Origin Well. His Nascent Soul and Divine Soul had already been completely restored due to the effects of the small piece of Divine Medicine he had taken. There were only a few glittering holes that showed that the man had been severely injured. Meanwhile, the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace widened his eyes, since there was something unbelievable in front of him.