The Path to Immortality Appears

"Vehicle Killer": Any vehicle you operate will flip, crash, or sink.

After Huangbing was hit, he didn’t sense anything unusual.

He focused for a moment longer, certain there was no change in him.

"Heh, after all that commotion, I thought you had a killing move. Turns out you were just messing with me!!"

Huangbing roared, blood energy surging into the sky, cracks appearing across the Sun and Moon Tower!

The spirit of the Sun and Tower wailed.

"Oh no~ I can’t hold it~ I can’t hold it~"

Chen Yi signaled for the Sun and Moon Tower to let go.

The tower immediately released Huangbing and made a quick escape, slipping out through the gap the Great Demon had opened.

At this point, in the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, aside from the Ancient Wasteland survivors, only Chen Yi and this last Huangbing remained.

Seeing that Chen Yi wouldn’t leave, Huangbing’s face twisted into a mockery.

"Although I don’t know what treasure you carry that leaves me powerless against you, the current situation means we’re evenly matched! You still won’t give up?"

"You’re wrong. I’ve already won."

"Heh, you’ve won in words, have you? By the way, I don’t even know your name."

"Chen Yi. Chen as in arrange, Yi as in game."

"Chen Yi, dragging this out is pointless. No doubt those Blood Moon moles outside are about to strike hard against the various factions. If you don’t want heavy losses among your own and chaos in the human world, you’d best leave now."

Chen Yi smirked.

"I just want to see how you die."

"Big talk."

Huangbing couldn’t do anything to Chen Yi either, so he prepared to go stabilize the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.

But no sooner had he moved than the space around him suddenly shattered!

"What’s going on?"

Huangbing tried to repair it, but whether it was because he used the divine patterns wrong, he only sped up the destruction.

"This, this…"

The more Huangbing tried to fix it, the faster the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm collapsed.

"No! No! Why?! Why?!"

Chen Yi watched, understanding, and said with a calm smile.

"This 'ace pilot,' your plane is about to crash!"

The last Huangbing in history had survived by merging himself with the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, hibernating for ages.

So it could be understood like this: Huangbing was the driver, and the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm was the vehicle.

The "Vehicle Killer" had struck him, so the driver’s vehicle was doomed to crash.

In short, the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm was going to collapse.

Based on the effect of "Vehicle Killer," Chen Yi had deduced that hitting him with the slingshot would produce this result. He was watching a bit longer just to confirm it.

"Farewell. Take your time fixing your plane, haha!"

Chen Yi threw a punch, blasted open the space beside him, tore a path to the outside world, leaped in, grabbed his belongings, and withdrew.

Behind him, he could still hear Huangbing’s panicked voice.

"No, no! I am Huangbing! The Huangbing appointed by the Human Ancestor! I haven’t waited for the Human Ancestor to fetch me! I won’t die! I won’t die! Aaahhhh!!"

Chen Yi emerged outside, flying through the air above a vast sea.

Not far ahead, a twisted space hung like a mirror, projecting scenes from the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.

The Ancient Wasteland survivors were now enduring a terror and agony akin to the apocalypse.

Their world was shrinking—the earth vanishing, the sky pitch black, the space around them compressing their dwindling area of survival.

And it was accelerating.

A few hours later.

The Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm completely shrank and vanished. The survivors and their sins were annihilated together between heaven and earth.

"Any signs of turmoil in the Star Territory or the Mainland?"

Shen Yang and Sword Master reported they had no reports of anomalies yet.

Perhaps the Blood Moon organization’s planted agents hadn’t started their actions.

Now that Huangbing was finished, those bearing divine pattern brands would think he had fallen back into hibernation, and the operations should be called off.

Whether the Blood Moon organization acted or not, once they returned, all sides would carry out a thorough purge, rooting out as many as they could.

The transparent Great Demon flew over to Chen Yi and questioned him.

"What about the Ascension Path?"

"Uh…"

"You didn’t destroy the Ascension Path along with the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, did you!"

"I figured something left by someone as formidable as the Human Ancestor couldn’t be that fragile…"

"What do you mean, ‘shouldn’t’?! Do you never consider the consequences?!"

"The Ancient Wasteland survivors were too stubborn. There was no use reasoning with them. They wouldn’t stop until someone died, and I couldn’t get the Ascension Path out of them without killing them."

"So what now! Don’t you realize I have no time left!"

"Don’t panic. There are still a few fellows around."

Chen Yi took out the Nine Regions Cauldron and dumped out the five of them, including Yi Chengsheng.

They were almost completely shattered, lying like five piles of mud on a small island.

These mighty Martial Gods were now crying like little kids.

Who wouldn’t cry? Their ancestors were gone, the Blood Moon was finished, the Ascension Path was lost, and even their own world was destroyed.

Though they were still alive, they were now no better than meat on someone else’s chopping block.

Everything was over.

"Where is the Ascension Path? This is your last chance."

Yi Chengsheng sobbed and pointed at the sky.

"Isn’t it right there!"

Chen Yi turned to look.

Indeed, where the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm had vanished, a giant five-colored celestial bridge was gradually appearing.

The force that collapsed the small world hadn’t affected this bridge at all. Instead, with Huangbing’s disappearance, the seals he placed on the bridge vanished, revealing it to the world.

A sacred, holy aura swirled around the bridge.

The radiant projection of the endless star sea was scattered across its surface.

But only half was visible; the other half was hidden in the void.

"Is this the Ascension Path?"

Martial artists and others from all over the human world gazed up at this unprecedented marvel.

The Great Demon could no longer hold back.

"The path to ascension is before me! No one in this world will hinder me! Hahaha!!!"

Wrapped in a surge of baleful black energy, the Great Demon was the first to charge toward the Ascension Path.

The Sun and Moon Tower fell out of that mass of energy and was caught by Chen Yi.

The tower’s spirit spoke in its sweet voice again.

"Martial God Chen~ where is the Great Demon going~"

"He’s going to make a push into the Material Realm."

"But without me~ he’ll dissipate soon~"

"The Great Demon has his own methods. At least for now, the forces of the Underworld haven’t shown up."

Hua Wuyan saw the Great Demon charging toward the Ascension Path and immediately warned him.

"Master! Don’t be rash! This road is by no means easy!"

Hua Wuyan was right.

The moment the Great Demon stepped onto it, he felt an immense resistance blocking his way.

Every step he took was incredibly difficult, as if he was using every ounce of strength.

Flight was impossible on the Ascension Path. One had to tread on the bridge, moving step by step.

"No one! Can stop me! From pursuing! Greater power!!"

The Great Demon gritted his teeth, black flames spewing from his body, like a beast trapped in a cage violently battering its prison.

Step by step, the Great Demon advanced, finally covering the half of the Ascension Path on the human side, disappearing at its end.

Could the other half of the road see the Great Demon through?

Even if he managed to get there, could the Great Demon continue to prolong its life in the material realm?

No one knew.

But Chen Yi could find out.

All he had to do was simulate it.

[Simulation task progress: 1/4.]