Chapter 507: The Start of a War - 507
Over the last hundred quintillion years, three people had slept in these pods, only coming out to defend the world tree once every few quadrillion years.
Sleeping inside were Pangu, Progenitor Ke, and Lu Wei.
Pangu was an ancient being among ancient beings, chosen specifically for his talent and pure battle power.
Progenitor Ke had proven himself to be an extremely powerful cultivator, revealing soul techniques that even Chaos Beasts feared.
Lu Wei was chosen due to his unique talent and connection to the Origin God. These three had been protecting all life in the universe for countless years, giving up any hope of peaceful living. All they knew was sleeping and fighting.
At this moment, they were woken up again.
Somewhere in the World Tree, a gathering of Blood Qi cultivators lived in a city small enough to be called a village.
As a young man was walking on the street, he suddenly clutched his throat and began choking. Blood poured out of his throat.
The cultivators watched in horror as a hand reached out of the young man's throat. A body pulled itself out. A demonic eye clearly signified that Yao Mun had returned.
After doing it once, the next time was far easier. This time, he was even reborn at the true god realm due to his previous cultivation.
Before anyone could react, he disappeared, leaving a destroyed corpse.
Elsewhere, Heaven, who Ying Xiong had failed to get into contact with, finally learned about Zhou Fan's return and immediately left his place of seclusion.
Of all the ancient cultivators, only a lucky few could survive such a long time. An army was gathered up in a day. Only those at the god realm and above were here, but there were truly countless.
Zhou Fan saw more than 200 true gods, not including the ancients from before. The sheer number of gods made them seem ordinary, but their combined power struck fear into anyone and everyone.
Ying Xiong stood at the lead, with Zhou Fan's body and soul near him. Zhu Yi could only watch from afar, less a stray attack instantly kill him.
Chen Jie was near him. As the greatest genius of this era, he was seen as a leader to all.
Others showed up soon. Zhou Fan saw the destruction race form a separate army, yet still standing on the side of the righteous faction.
Countless beast clans joined not long after.
Soon more people joined Ying Xiong at the front. Zhou Fan saw Pangu, Progenitor Ke, and Lu Wei. They also saw him.
They were shocked by his current state, but they needed to focus on the battle ahead. Zhu Yi saw from afar that another person was coming towards them. He soon identified him as Yao Mun.
Ying Xiong spoke with clear disgust on his face. "So you still survived."
Yao Mun answered. "Mere time could never kill me."
He didn't speak further after that.
Zhou Fan soon saw an old man with black and white colored hair join.
"It's good that you are alive, father." Heaven said.
Zhou Fan nodded back. "Hardly alive, but it's good to see you."
This was the main force of the universe. Besides Chen Jie, everyone here would fight against the only True God realm Chaos Beast, an existence named Chaos.
Ying Xiong reached through space and brought out a passed out Bai Wei'er. Qi flowed through Ying Xiong's body and overflowed into Bai Wei'er's.
By any logic, she should have completely fallen apart, but Ying Xiong stabilized her. It was a horrifying sight to see, but it was a necessity for Zhou Fan to recover. Soon, the amount of Qi in her body was equal to that of a god realm cultivator.
"Progenitor Ke." Ying Xiong said.
Progenitor Ke stepped forward and controlled Bai Wei'er's soul. She instantly used her Divine Physique, The Fruit of Self, and as her body collapsed, a blinding fruit appeared.
Ying Xiong cut it like an apple, cutting off a tiny fraction of the fruit. That represented everything about her. The rest signified the Qi in her body that overwhelmed everything else.
Ying Xiong sent it towards Zhou Fan. The river of cultivation appeared around him, and the fruit was absorbed. He instantly felt himself recover through multiple stages. Connected to Zhu Yi even from a distance, Zhou Fan upgraded him.
There would be more where that came from.
With his massive recoveries, Zhou Fan's soul had transformed. He could interact with the physical world with ease, but he needed to reconnect with his body before anything else.
"We'll get you the Chaos Qi soon. Recover as fast as possible." Ying Xiong said.
Zhou Fan nodded. He moved his soul and carried his body along with the army as they moved into the distance. This was where Chaos and the Chaos Beasts stayed.
A commotion was made by Ying Xiong as a giant cosmic palm fell into the area. Space was obliterated and some stray Chaos Beasts died without knowing how. Ying Xiong was at the peak of the True God realm.
Even Chaos could not easily kill him alone, much less him with everyone else. Unfortunately, Chaos had Chaos Qi, along with intelligence and talent comparable to someone like Ying Xiong.
Zhou Fan heard a roar as a gigantic Chaos Beast as big as the World Tree itself appeared. Chaos Qi instantly attacked the entire army. This was when Leaf intervened.
Countless tree roots appeared and decreased the strength of the attack by nearly half. Leaf was only at the inner world realm even after so much time, and likely only because he forcefully matured, but his strength was unimaginably strong.
Still, this was about all he could do. Yet, it was enough. The group with Ying Xiong shot out, while Chen Jie stayed with Zhou Fan and his body.
"I'll be giving you your next meal. Let's start with an intelligent inner world realm Chaos Beast." Chen Jie said.
Taking Zhou Fan with him, he instantly appeared in front of an intelligent inner world realm Chaos Beast. Logically, especially at this level, fighting an inner world realm Chaos Beast at the god realm should take the max strength of anyone.
However, this was Chen Jie, and he was invincible.
Chapter 508: Recovery - 508
The Chaos Beast sensed a presence and looked up. It was currently fighting a God realm cultivator. As soon as it saw Chen Jie, its eyes widened and it ran away. Chen Jie used a single hand and grabbed the spine of the Chaos Beast. He dragged it over to him and Zhou Fan.
The Chaos Beast self-destructed without even fighting back. Chen Jie backed up and let Zhou Fan handle the mist.
Zhou Fan entered, and a minute later the mist was gone. Although the mist was far denser, it was the same size as before.
Zhou Fan instantly recovered multiple levels, but it was not quite enough.
At this time, a god realm Chaos Beast descended on Chen Jie. It was intelligent, making it a fight on the same realm with an intelligent Chaos Beast.
Looking around, it took multiple true gods to fight a single God Realm Chaos beast due to them almost all being at the 1st level of the realm.
However, Chen Jie was not intimidated.
Chen Jie raised his hand and took a step forward. The intelligent God Realm Chaos Beast was sent flying away. Although it wasn't injured, Chen Jie's only goal was to heal Zhou Fan.
He instantly killed a few more inner world realm Chaos beasts and let Zhou Fan start the process of absorbing the mist.
The god realm Chaos Beast soon came back, and Chen Jie began to fight.
Away from Zhou Fan and Chen Jie, Chaos was single handedly fighting against Ying Xiong, Progenitor Ke, Pangu, Lu Wei, and Heaven.
Yao Mun was a new addition, but he was currently at the 1st level of the True God realm due to just being reborn. Although he contributed greatly, he could not direct the flow of the battle.
Heaven and Ying Xiong were the main fighters. Leaf occasionally weakened a powerful attack.
Chaos was annoyed, but that was all. Every step it took rained down Chaos Qi. Chaos Qi was simply too powerful.
"Why start a war so soon after the last one. Are you beginning to get impatient? Perhaps you're covering for something? Since you all even added a new fighter, then something must indeed be up."
While fighting, Chaos began to look around the battlefield. He first noticed Chen Jie. He was worried that when Chen Jie grew up, he may actually end up defeated. Luckily, he had his means to survive. It's not as if he had never lost before.
Not only had he lost in the past, but even the World Tree had lost. Multiple times throughout the years, the World Tree was pushed back. There were even times before the World Tree itself was strong enough to do a thing.
Although Chaos was powerful, he could not fully look at everything while fighting with so many powerful beings.
He had looked over Zhou Fan completely.
"Fine. Whatever you have, I'll see later."
No more talking took place, and all focus was on fighting. Besides Zhou Fan's fight against the Cosmic Dao, this was one of the greatest fights of all time. The full force of the entire universe was against the Chaos Beasts.
Ten minutes after Chen Jie killed ten inner world realm Chaos Beasts, Zhou Fan absorbed all the mist.
He felt a faint connection with his body. He was close.
"Ten more." He said.
In the endless battle with countless sounds, Zhou Fan's was like a flies buzz. Only Chen Jie, who was focusing on him, heard him.
He pushed back the God Realm Chaos Beast and instantly killed ten more inner world realm Chaos Beasts.
Zhou Fan began to absorb them. Ten more minutes quickly passed. In a battle involving gods and true gods, ten minutes was absolutely nothing. Zhou Fan could have taken ten years without anything changing.
However, this was all he needed.
For the first time in a long time, Zhou Fan's soul entered his body. In an instant, a pressure appeared that covered the entire occupied universe, which was the Zhou filament.
All battle's ceased, and Chaos's eyes widened in horror. Although he couldn't move, he finally noticed Zhou Fan from the corner of his eyes. He knew who it was at a glance.
The Origin God had returned.
Suddenly, the pressure lessened a bit. It was still enough to prevent any movement, but it was weaker. Then, it weakened again.
The strongest True Gods, such as Ying Xiong, Heaven, and Chaos could move, but they could feel an overwhelming power that they were helpless against.
Once again, the power lessened. They could move freely, while normal True Gods and Chen Jie could now move as well.
Then, it lessened again. Even Gods could move. Finally, the pressure lessened one more time.
Everybody on the battlefield could move, but everyone was looking at Zhou Fan. Everybody here recognized him.
Zhou Fan spoke, and the overwhelming silence heard him.
"Inner World realm, huh. Lower than expected."
He had recovered and gained his body, but he was only at the Inner World realm.
Chaos let out a huge sigh of relief. "The Origin God returned. I almost died of shock. Luckily, it means nothing now. Even the Origin God can't fight a true god at the Inner World realm. Much less me."
Many in the battlefield felt disappointed, while the Chaos Beasts were relieved. The Origin Gods return was horrible news, the worst possible, but at least they had time.
Chaos let out a roar. "We must destroy the World Tree here and now! Before the Origin God recovers! Fight!"
All Chaos Beasts charged without regard for their life.
Zhou Fan looked at the battle above. There were two options for him.
He could either cultivate for about ten minutes and reach the god realm, or go fight now.
Chaos seemed to look over that Zhou Fan was the most talented person in not only history, but all of cultivation itself. Simply put, talent was how close someone was to being like Zhou Fan. A higher talent meant that a person was more suited for the path of cultivation, a path created by Zhou Fan for Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan did not truly have meridians because meridians were only an attempt to be more suited for cultivation.
Now, although he could almost instantly break through, or perhaps even simply take away Chaos's cultivation, he wanted to fight.
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