Chapter 1449: Great Enemy Facing the World

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The Six-zhang Bodhi tree swayed, its leaves rustling like pages of ancient scriptures unfolding. In an instant, it seemed to span three millennia, witnessing the Dao and fruition of this life. The chanting of Buddhas and the incantations of Celestial Venerables resonated as if from a thousand past lives, echoing beneath the Bodhi tree, elucidating the genesis of the cosmos and the birth of heaven and earth.Beneath the tree, a single figure sat still, like an unmoving rock, neither rising for the Buddhas nor standing for the Celestial Venerables. At his fingertips, a scripture of his own seemed to unroll, its ancient pages turning one by one, merging into his frontal bone, reflecting on his crystalline Immortal Platform, forging his own Dao.Ye Fan meditated beneath the Bodhi tree, grasping the Dao, stirring the ten directions of heaven and earth with his Dao marks, comprehending countless ancient and modern laws, refining the true essence of his Emperor Fist, and forging eternity.

Everyone else was astonished by the myriad strange phenomena unfolding. As Ye Fan meditated beneath the Bodhi tree, he resonated with the scriptures of the gods and devils of all heavens, experiencing the Dao of the mighty beings from the mythical era. He refined them into a single entity, allowing his fist techniques to undergo Nirvana, transcending all scriptures.At this moment, myriad spirits manifested: different races, different Daos, different techniques, each displaying distinct splendor! These were all beings revered as gods and devils in the mythical era. Though they varied in strength and their laws sometimes clashed, they offered invaluable insight and inspiration to Ye Fan.In that instant, tens of thousands of Dao marks intertwined, and over ten thousand ancient symbols materialized, some radiating overwhelming dominance, others possessing supreme divine might, truly appearing in the world. Gods roared, demons bellowed. Three thousand ancient symbols, representing three thousand Great Daos, occupied the most prominent positions, circulating across the firmament, each exuding a grand aura capable of suppressing the past, present, and future!The mightiest Dao traditions and inheritances flowed as if gods and devils were resurrecting, their true forms descending. Ye Fan remained silently seated beneath the Bodhi tree, unmoving like a mountain. Only his Immortal Platform glowed, crystalline, reaching out to those ancient symbols to temper his fist intent.“Roar…”A stream of golden vital energy surged from the top of Ye Fan's head, coalescing into a figure behind him, identical to himself, which began to re-enact the Heaven and Earth Fist! This was an entity even more terrifying than gods and devils, like an Emperor of Heaven. With every move, lightning flashed and thunder roared, the sky shattered, as if aiming to annihilate all ten directions. His hair was disheveled, his eyes sharp; every action embodied the ultimate Dao, possessing world-shaking divine power capable of destroying eternity and abiding in the world.

While Ye Fan was performing myriad techniques and forging his Dao Fruit, others within the Divine Devil Ridge also roared, comprehending heavenly secrets and realizing their own supreme Daos.This was an underground sea of blood, where the massive body of the Heaven-Devouring Beast floated. For thirty years, it had greedily consumed demonic blood and devoured divine bones, refining the flesh and blood of ancient ancestors into itself. For it, these were potent elixirs, unbreakable essence of blood and bone from ancient times, causing its power to surge! Of course, it also paid a heavy price; consuming the flesh and blood of gods and devils was a trial for anyone, often leading to one's dissolution into the Dao.The Heaven-Devouring Beast underwent a near-Nirvana in this place. Its original body was severely damaged, almost dying, and it took over a decade to recover. Through continuous tempering, it forged the strongest beast body. Over these years, the Heaven-Devouring Beast had consumed an unknown quantity of divine and demonic blood, undergoing a complete metamorphosis to become a new entity with astonishing power. It possessed the confidence that it would be unrivaled among its peers!“After my flower blooms, all others will perish. When I emerge, I will suppress and thoroughly cleanse everything, be it the Human Race's Sacred Body or the Divine Race's Supremacy!” This was its confidence. It was currently undergoing its final transformation, floating in the divine and demonic blood, and soon it would emerge to stir up the world.

Also within the Divine Devil Ridge, in an ancient area shrouded in deathly aura, a demonic monk sat in meditation. For the past thirty years, almost no one had approached this place, enveloped in astonishing blood mist. This was the Earth Corpse. With incredible ability, he had entered a pile of divine and demonic remains, a place even Great Sages found difficult to approach. He refined the supreme skeletons of the mythical era, extracted their corpse essence, and forged his own body.He was a disciple of Amitabha, whose corpse had awakened from oblivion after more than three hundred thousand years. The Buddhist sect's protective Heavenly Merit, the Vajra Indestructible Body, had transformed into a demonic body, completely heading to the opposite extreme. In the past, he could withstand Ye Fan's attacks with his Vajra Indestructible Body, his physical strength astonishing throughout history, rarely seen in the world.Now, his entire body shimmered with dark light, black and translucent. Clearly, his physique had grown even stronger; he had reversed the Vajra Indestructible Body to forge the body of a Demonic Venerable! If he had not awakened in this great era, he would undoubtedly be unrivaled in the world, possibly becoming the most astonishing person in the universe, destined to be recorded in history. He was originally a dead man, with a cycle of reincarnation seal within him, now revived in this generation. He possessed the strength to challenge the ancient road and contend with anyone for victory or defeat.Currently, the Earth Corpse was one of the most terrifying existences, possessing power that shook heaven and earth. He understood Buddhist scriptures and demonic scriptures; with both merged, he was almost unbeatable among his peers! At his place of seclusion, Buddhist scriptures and demonic incantations resounded simultaneously, deafeningly, enveloping his body in two kinds of scriptures, supremely powerful and grand!

In another part of the world, thousands of miles away, also within the Divine Devil Ridge—a place of deathly peril—Sang Gu roared, his body swelling to tens of thousands of feet tall, reaching the heavens and touching the earth. Demonic patterns emerged all over him, terrifying beyond measure. This place was known as the most brutal battlefield of the mythical era, where gods and devils of all heavens had perished, burying countless powerful beings. As a descendant of gods and devils, there was no better place for Sang Gu to cultivate than here.In this location, he was favored by the Great Dao, cultivating diligently. He directly obtained inheritances from various mountain peaks, evolving many ancient techniques long lost to the world. Now, one after another, runes appeared, each representing a god or demon, transforming into sigils and melting onto his body. If it were anyone else, they would surely be suppressed to death, but he was a descendant of gods and devils, with ancestral blood flowing within him. He gained their recognition and directly acquired the ultimate profound mysteries of the Great Dao.Perhaps no one had gained more than him; the burial ground of gods and devils seemed to have appeared just for him, with the inheritances of the mythical era's gods and devils manifesting and favoring him. “My Dao, my techniques, will swallow the universe, sweeping across the primordial chaos! Gods and devils are destined to rule the world, looking down upon all races!” Sang Gu roared, shattering the clouds, standing supreme in the world.

Thirty years had truly brought about countless events; various heroes had risen!A hundred thousand miles away, in a vast wilderness of ancient forests, a great waterfall plunged from a ten-thousand-foot cliff, raising widespread white mist. Before the cliff, Golden Snake Grand Lord spewed divine light from his mouth, roaring with all his might. Behind him lay layer upon layer of shed snake skins, all cast off from his true body! The method of 'snake transforming into a god' required absorbing massive amounts of blood and souls, using countless living beings to achieve a complete metamorphosis and manifest a snake god!Ordinary snakes shed their skin, but the Golden Snake clan underwent 'divine shedding,' which could be called a soul power transformation. This strengthened their primordial spirit, which in turn nourished their physical body, allowing both to advance by leaps and bounds! Theoretically, they had nine opportunities in their lifetime to undergo metamorphosis, reaching the pinnacle of physical and spiritual strength, becoming invincible in the world.However, true transformation was not so simple; even one successful transformation was considered extremely fortunate, as most attempts failed, often resulting in tragic death during the 'god-transformation' process. It was precisely because of this that this cultivation method appeared so formidable, regarded as one of the strongest heavenly merit scriptures in the universe, spoken of with dread by those who understood it.Over the past thirty years, Golden Snake Grand Lord had undergone nine transformations. Although five failed, four successes were enough to make him look down upon his peers, representing an invincible Dao! By his third divine transformation, he had already reached the Ninth Heaven of Saint King, reaching the pinnacle. Unfortunately, even after his fourth successful metamorphosis, he still couldn't break through that barrier, stopping just short of the Great Saint realm. But this was still terrifying; he looked down upon the world. Who among his peers could contend with him?“I am not as good as Eldest Brother; I only succeeded twice, but that's still far superior to our clan members,” said Golden Snake Fourth Lord, his eyes cold and stern. “Eldest Brother's divine power is unparalleled. When he emerges from seclusion this time, he will surely slay the Human Race's Sacred Body and become invincible! I will devour his flesh and blood piece by piece and use his skull to honor Second Brother and Third Brother.”

The young supreme beings, each reigning supreme in their own domain, shared commonalities. For thirty years, they had almost entirely focused on tempering their soul bones, forging their physiques, and strengthening themselves. For those aspiring to the Emperor's Path, this would be an incredibly brutal period, as one terrifyingly powerful enemy after another emerged.The Other Shore was restless; the Great Sages were again plotting to attack the Divine Realm. The ancient coffins had already been moved out, leaving them no time to attend to the perilous Divine Devil Ridge. Yet, this place might become even bloodier than the Divine Realm, for a storm was about to break. Shi Jin Shu, Copper Ant King, Divine Race Celestial Maiden, Di Tian, Great Demon God, Nine-Eyed Green Toad, Ancient Golden Roc... each of them was also rising, and a clash of supreme powerhouses was imminent.

At this moment, deep within the Divine Devil Ridge, beneath the Bodhi tree, Ye Fan remained as serene as ever, his body unmoving like a rock.Divine and demonic figures emerged, transforming into the most primordial ancient symbols. Three thousand great symbols spanned the sky, imprinted in the void, and myriad scriptures resonated! 'Three thousand' was merely a symbolic number; the true number of Dao ancient symbols that materialized was in the tens of thousands. This was the unchanging truth from ancient times to the present, encompassing almost all Daos.“Everything can be illusory; even worlds will perish. Can the Dao endure eternally? Only by strengthening oneself can one transcend,” Ye Fan's true body whispered. Heaven and earth shook violently, as each mountain peak condensed into a rune, suppressing heaven and earth, as if forging immortality and condensing eternity!Ye Fan was not a descendant of the gods, nor had he obtained specific techniques or inheritances. Instead, he simply stirred the boundless Dao, comprehending the general directions of various Daos, using them for transcendence and allowing his own fist techniques to undergo Nirvana. Tens of thousands of techniques and boundless Daos, at this moment, all transformed into flames, burning in the form of ancient symbols. Ye Fan drew them in to temper his fist intent! Through this, he transcended, allowing his fist techniques to be reborn from fire, undergo Nirvana, and achieve the ultimate sublimation of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, realizing the beauty of that single instant.

The vital energy that surged from the top of Ye Fan's head transformed again, stretching its form beneath the Bodhi tree, unleashing the strongest grand techniques, sharpening an invincible blade to protect his own Dao. All the mountains and valleys resonated. Even the golden Source Heaven Patterns and some formation diagrams within the Void Ancient Scripture could not conceal it; divine light boiled in this region. Even from afar, one could clearly see divine and demonic figures roaring across heaven and earth, endless ancient symbols spanning the sky, and myriad scriptures resonating with a rumbling sound, collectively guarding a golden figure throwing punches!

At this moment, the Heaven-Devouring Beast emerged from the sea of blood, standing on a mountaintop, gazing coldly towards this place, emanating overwhelming killing intent. At the same time, the Earth Corpse opened his eyes, looking into the distance, his gaze captivating. This was a demonic Buddha, exuding rolling death aura. He took a single step, officially emerging from seclusion.“The Human Race’s Sacred Body… he is about to appear!” Golden Snake Fourth Lord growled, looking at his elder brother, and then they advanced together towards the Divine Devil Ridge. “I need a whetstone. The burial ground of gods and devils is my place of inheritance. Anyone who contends with me for the Dao Fruit, their fate is sealed!” Sang Gu's body transformed to the height of an ordinary person, and he advanced step by step like a demon lord.While Ye Fan was comprehending the Dao, numerous formidable enemies were drawing near, signaling that a major bloody battle, with immense implications for the current era, was about to erupt. The weeping of gods and the roaring of demons created unrest between heaven and earth, foretelling the imminent arrival of the most terrifying storm.