Chapter 767
Chapter 767
Having passed through the God's Throat Corridor filled with colorful mist, Su Chen led his mighty demon army onto a vast, sloping plain.
This is the [optic nerve wasteland].
The ground was no longer flesh or bones, but bundles of nerve fibers as thick as white optical cables, each hundreds of feet thick, intertwining into a complex network that eventually converged towards the distant horizon.
At the edge of this world, two "suns" hang, bright enough to dazzle everyone.
The one on the left was a dazzling pure gold, radiating a vitality so intense it was almost suffocating. Wherever its light shone, even the void itself seemed to be sprouting strange flowers and plants.
The one on the right was a deep, pitch-black color, surrounded by a deathly aura of grayness. Wherever its light touched, everything withered and decayed, even the space itself was rotting.
These are the eyes of the ancient gods.
The left eye signifies life, while the right eye signifies death.
"Is this... the legendary Eye of the Ancient God?"
The Demon Lord of Chaos had already transformed back into human form, as his hundred-foot-tall demonic body was simply unable to withstand the pressure of these two diametrically opposed rules. He raised his hand to shield his eyes, peering through his fingers at the strange spectacle in the sky, his entire body trembling.
"This is terrifying... These aren't eyes, they're clearly two complete worlds!"
"On one side is paradise, on the other is hell!"
The skeletal creature on his shoulder shrank into a ball in terror: "Master! Be careful! These two eyes are sentient! They're alive!!"
"When Chen and I arrived here, just one glance from that black eye caused half of Chen's body to wither, and it took three hundred years to recover!"
"Live?"
Su Chen stopped, raised his head, and stared directly at the two enormous "sun and moon".
In his eyes, the azure-gold light of origin flowed, completely unaffected by the light of life and death.
"Of course it's alive."
Su Chen licked his lips, his eyes gleaming with the excitement of a hunter seeing his top prey.
"These two light bulbs are so big, if they were hung in my Immortal Realm, I wouldn't need to turn on the lights at night anymore."
"and……"
Su Chen pointed to the void between the two eyes.
"How are we supposed to steal... no, get what's in the brain if we don't turn off these two searchlights?"
It seemed that they had heard Su Chen's undisguisedly disrespectful remarks.
Om-! ! !
In the sky, the two previously still eyes suddenly turned.
Their previously aimless gazes instantly focused and locked onto Su Chen.
"boom!!!"
A grand, indifferent, and judgmental will descended from the sky.
From the golden eye on the left, a phantom of a woman dressed in white robes, exuding ethereal purity, emerged—the [Saintess of Life].
From the black eye on the right, a phantom of a man clad in black armor and wielding a scythe emerged—[Tyrant of Death].
They are the "Pupil Spirits" born from the pupils of the ancient gods, and they are the masters of this vision!
"Mortal! How dare you look directly at the face of a god!"
The Holy Maiden of Life has a gentle voice, but it hides a murderous intent.
"Since you crave life, then... I grant you eternal life (and death by swelling)!"
"Since you are so ignorant of your own mortality, then... I grant you eternal silence (the withering of your soul)!"
The Tyrant of Death, his voice hoarse, swung his scythe.
In an instant, two beams of light, each ten thousand feet thick, one gold and one black, like two world-destroying meteorites, came crashing down on Su Chen with an aura of annihilation!
Life and death intertwine, the great millstone of yin and yang!
The power of this attack even surpassed that of the Ancient God's Fang from the Golden Wing King!
"My lord! Get out of the way!!"
The demon soldiers at the rear cried out in despair. Faced with this power, they felt as insignificant as dust.
"hide?"
Su Chen stood at the intersection of the beams of light, his robes fluttering in the strong wind.
He did not back down an inch.
Instead, he slowly opened his arms, and the illusory image of the Longevity Tree behind him suddenly appeared, blotting out the sky.
This time, the "withered and flourishing branch," representing the transformation between life and death, burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant light.
"Playing with life and death?"
"I am your ancestor!!"
"Eternal Life, Withering and Flourishing, Reversal of Life and Death!!"
Su Chen let out a loud shout.
He stretched out his left hand, palm facing the sky, and caught the golden beam of light that represented life.
He stretched out his right hand, palm down, and forcefully confronted the black beam of light that represented death.
Rumble! ...
At that moment, heaven and earth seemed to be torn apart.
The scene that everyone had expected—Su Chen being blasted into dust—did not occur.
The man in the green robe stood between the two pillars of light, like an ancient god or demon.
His left hand, which should have been bursting with excess vitality, was now strangely withered and gray—he was reversing "life" into "death"!
His right hand, which should have been corroded into white bones by the death aura, now radiated a jade-like luster and was full of vitality—he was reversing "death" into "life"!
One hand holds life, the other holds death!
Use their own methods against them!
"What?!!!"
The two spirits in the sky simultaneously let out incredulous screams.
"He...he's actually tampering with the rules?!"
"He...reflected our origin back?!"
"A rebound?"
Su Chen raised his head, revealing his signature ferocious smile.
"No, this is called... using someone else's flowers to present to Buddha!"
"Give me...the one!!!"
Su Chen slammed both hands together in the middle.
boom!!!
The two beams of light, whose attributes he reversed, merged in his hand into a terrifying, gray energy ball that contained a chaotic aura.
"Here you go!!"
Su Chen hurled the Chaos Energy Ball in his hand into the sky as if throwing a shot put.
call out--!!!
The energy sphere tore through the void and exploded with a bang before the horrified eyes of the two spirits.
boom!boom!
The Holy Maiden of Life and the Tyrant of Death didn't even have time to utter a sound before they were blasted into countless fragments by this chaotic energy, returning to their original source of eye power.
"Now!"
Su Chen's eyes flashed with a sharp light.
"Law of Heaven and Earth, Divine Demon Star-Picking Hand!!"
Rumbling--
Su Chen's body instantly swelled to a size of ten thousand feet, transforming into a chaotic giant with its head reaching the sky and its feet treading on the wasteland.
He stretched out two enormous hands that blotted out the sky, ignoring the collapse of the surrounding space, and directly probed into the orbits of the two "suns and moons".
Grab the sun with your left hand! Seize the moon with your right!
"Get down here!!"
"Squeak—squeak—"
The teeth-grinding scraping sound echoed throughout the ancient god ruins.
Under the dumbfounded gazes of the demon army and the Skeleton Lord below.
Those two enormous eyeballs, which had hung for billions of years and represented the gaze of the ancient gods, were actually pried off their sockets by Su Chen!
Countless chains of rules connecting to the eyeballs snapped, and golden divine blood cascaded down like a waterfall.
"Too...too brutal..."
The skeletal spirit trembled, whether from fear or excitement, it was unclear.
"To pluck the sun and moon from the sky... Is this the realm of our master?"
"From now on, anyone who dares to glare at the master will have their eyes gouged out and used as a light bulb!"
In the sky.
Su Chen held a huge ball of light in each hand, feeling the surging pupil power within.
"call……"
Su Chen took a deep breath, and the [Eye of Origin] within his body began to operate wildly, its desire reaching its peak.
"Since we've already picked them, let's not waste them."
"Origin, Devouring, Eye of All Things!!"
Su Chen opened his mouth wide, and the two huge eyeballs in his hand rapidly shrank, finally turning into two streams of light that directly entered his eyes.
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Su Chen let out a long howl that was both painful and exhilarating.
Two streams of bloody tears instantly flowed from his eyes, and then his originally bluish-gold pupils began to change drastically.
His left eye turned pure gold, and deep within his pupil, it seemed as if a tree of life was growing.
His right eye turned a deep black, and deep within his pupil it seemed as if a hell was in a cycle of reincarnation.
Origin Divine Eye - Sun and Moon State!
[Devouring the eyes of the ancient god...]
[Gain supernatural power: Perceive the past and future (incomplete version)!]
[Gained the supernatural power: Divine Light of Illusion (sees through all weaknesses)!]
[Gained the supernatural power: The Gaze of Life and Death (one eye for life, one eye for death)!]
Swish!
Su Chen suddenly opened his eyes.
Two tangible gazes shot out, piercing through the previously impenetrable mist ahead, reaching the very edge of the Visual Nerve Wasteland. There, Su Chen saw a massive portal hidden in the darkness.
And beyond the portal... that world filled with an eerie atmosphere.
"I saw it."
Su Chen wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes, a cold smile curving his lips.
"turn out to be……"
"Is this what a brain looks like?"
"Hun Tian, keep up!"
"Let's go see just how much water has gotten into the brain of this ancient god!"
……
With the eyes no longer obstructing the view, the final path to the brain becomes unobstructed.
Su Chen led his army through the Optic Nerve Wasteland and arrived at a huge, fleshy portal shaped like a pine cone.
This is the pineal gland.
In the cultivation world, this place is known as the location of the "Heavenly Eye" and the entrance to the "Mud Pill Palace," where the soul resides.
But at this moment, there was no sense of holiness or solemnity as one might have imagined.
On the contrary, there's a strong smell of disinfectant here?
Yes, it was that strange smell that was a mixture of medicine, decay, and some kind of metallic rust.
"My lord... why does this place feel so eerie?"
The Demon Lord of Chaos gripped the Primordial Divine Pillar tightly, his demonic energy surging, yet he still felt a strange chill. This chill did not come from temperature, but from an instinctive fear of being watched as an "experimental subject."
"gloomy?"
Su Chen stood in front of the pineal gland, his newly evolved Sun and Moon Divine Eyes slightly rotating.
His gaze pierced through the thick flesh walls and saw the scene inside.
Even with his vast experience and knowledge, Su Chen couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at this moment.
"This is not eerie at all."
"This is clearly... a combination of technology and ruthless skill."
"open!"
Too lazy to solve the mystery, Su Chen simply kicked the pineal gland.
Boom! ...
The fleshy door was violently broken open, completely exposing the scene inside to everyone.
"hiss--!!!"
Behind them, tens of thousands of demon soldiers gasped in unison.
The Skeleton Lord screamed in terror, "What...what the hell is this?! Where is the Divine Court?! Where is the palace?! Why are there pipes everywhere?!"
What was presented to everyone was not the magnificent and resplendent "Divine Court" they had imagined.
Instead, it was a gigantic, honeycomb-like underground factory!
Countless thick, translucent tubes crisscrossed and were inserted into the surrounding pinkish-white cerebral cortex. Golden liquid flowed slowly through these tubes—the [Divine Liquid] extracted from the brain of the ancient god.
At the center of these converging pipes is a huge transparent container.
Inside the container, a golden brain core, still faintly pulsating, was submerged.
This is the ancient god's "id consciousness".
But at this moment, it's like a patient with tubes inserted all over it, having its last bit of value slowly drained away.
"A breeding farm..."
Su Chen slowly uttered these three words, his eyes icy cold.
"Is this the truth about the Sixth Realm?"
"The so-called ancient gods are nothing more than... a leek being kept in a corner of the universe?"
Just then.
An aged, mocking, and condescending voice suddenly came from above the huge transparent container.
"Chinese chives?"
"Hehe, young man, your analogy may be crude, but it's quite apt."
hum!
The void above the container distorted, and a figure dressed in a gray robe with a blurred face slowly emerged.
He had no physical form, but was merely a projection, yet the aura he emitted caused the surrounding space to begin to collapse.
Ancestor of Ruins!
The mastermind behind issuing missions and guiding Su Chen to retrieve the Emperor God Token!
"It's you, you old geezer!"
Upon seeing this figure, the Skeleton Lord was immediately reminded of the fear he had felt years ago. "It was this very aura back then! It tricked Chen and me from behind! So it was you who had been controlling the Ancient God Ruins all along!!"
The Ancestor of Ruins ignored the roar of the Skeleton Venerable, who was like an ant.
His cloudy eyes, filled with greed, were fixed on Su Chen.
"Su Chen, you did a great job."
"It's even better than I expected."
The Ancestor of the Void clapped his hands, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.
"You not only opened up your spine and unlocked the divine treasures of your five internal organs, but you also devoured the eyes of the ancient god and evolved the Origin God Eye."
Do you know?
"Although this ancient god's corpse possesses immense energy, it is now a stagnant pool. I have nurtured it for 30,000 years and extracted a considerable amount of divine liquid, but its core essence has remained dormant and cannot be refined."
"It's missing a... medicinal ingredient."
"A top-tier medicinal ingredient possessing an origin destiny, a powerful physique, and brimming with vitality!"
The Void Ancestor pointed at Su Chen, his tone filled with undisguised fervor.
"You are the key ingredient!"
"I originally intended to use the Emperor's Decree to control you and make you obediently walk in. I didn't expect you to actually shatter the decree."
"But it's okay."
"The result is the same."
"Now that you've come this far, then... you and your god, become provisions for my breakthrough to the True God Realm!!"
Rumble—!!!
As the words of the Ancestor of the Ruins faded away.
The entire "factory" came to life instantly.
Countless tubes inserted into the brain tissue were suddenly pulled out, like venomous snakes ready to devour their prey, shooting wildly towards Su Chen and his army!
At the tip of each tube flickered eerie runic light; it was a [Suction Array] specifically designed to target the power of origin!
"Ahhhhh!!"
Several of the demon warriors at the front were pierced by the pipes and instantly drained of their life force, leaving not even their souls behind.
"My lord! This is a trap!!" the Demon Lord of Chaos roared, swinging his divine pillar to smash several pipes, but more pipes came crashing down from all directions.
"trap?"
Faced with this seemingly hopeless situation, Su Chen remained calm.
He stood amidst a rain of flying pipes and suddenly laughed.
The laughter grew louder and wilder, shaking the surrounding pipes.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"A medicinal catalyst?"
"Supplies?"
Su Chen raised his head, and in his bright and dark eyes burned a fury and appetite powerful enough to incinerate the heavens.
"Old man, aren't you mistaken about something?"
"You think you're the farmer?"
"Do you think I'm a chicken that's been put into a cage?"
Su Chen suddenly reached out and grabbed a thick pipe that was piercing his forehead.
Sizzle sizzle—!!!
The absorption array on the pipe was operating wildly, trying to drain Su Chen dry.
But next second.
The smile on the face of the Void Ancestor froze.
Because he saw that the tube not only failed to absorb Su Chen's power, but instead... began to deflate?!
The golden divine liquid inside was flowing back wildly, surging into Su Chen's body along his arm!
"In this world."
Su Chen's arm muscles bulged, and he pulled hard.
Boom! ! !
He ripped the massive pipe that connected to the heart of the factory in half!
Su Chen put the broken piece into his mouth and took a big gulp, like drinking milk tea.
"Gudu!"
"In this world, I am the only diner."
"The others..."
Su Chen wiped the golden divine liquid from the corner of his mouth and looked at the astonished projection of the Void Ancestor in the sky.
"It's all buffet!"
"You want to eat me?"
"Then be prepared... for me to wipe you out completely!!"
"Origin - Gluttony - Reverse Devouring!!"
boom!!!
Behind Su Chen, the Longevity Tree fully manifested, with countless roots penetrating this brain domain.
At this moment, it remains to be seen who the hunter and who the prey are! (End of Chapter)