System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

249: Chaos and Limitlessness, transforming the body into a swordThe barrier shattered, and the black demonic flames spread rapidly like a plague, devouring the light of life upon which they depended for survival.

The terrifying pressure of the Molten Bone Demon Marshal, like a ten-thousand-foot demonic mountain collapsing, ruthlessly crushed every inch of the Emerald Forest Realm.

Countless Wood Spirit Clan warriors, already wounded, vomited blood under this pressure, collapsing to the ground with only despair remaining in their eyes.

Elder Mu Huan’s hair and beard stood on end as he tried to burn his life force to activate the ancient tree of life’s remaining power, but he was firmly pinned in place by that invisible pressure, unable to move, and could only let out a low, unwilling roar.

Destruction seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

The Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s crystal, burning with black flames, indifferently ”watched” all of this, as if enjoying a predetermined play.

Its gaze finally fell upon Ye Chen, the human who had repeatedly ruined its plans and was shrouded in an aura of Chaos that made it feel both disgusted and faintly threatened.

”Your choice?” Its hoarse voice carried an ultimatum.

However, the response it received was not the expected desperate roar or death throes, but a kind of... ultimate silence.

Ye Chen slowly closed his eyes.

The Soul staff in his hand, repaired by the flow of Chaos, quietly dissipated, transforming into pure Soul Power that merged into his body.

The world-destroying scene outside, the Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s monstrous might, the despair of the Wood Spirit Clan... everything seemed to drift away at this moment.

His consciousness sank completely into the newborn chaos minor world within his body.

Here, it was no longer the chaotic scene of fragmentation and conflicting energies as before.

After devouring the vast Soul Power and Origin of the Soul-Devouring Demon General, this Small World had stabilized.

The gray sky separated into clear and turbid, containing the Dao rhythm of order; the heavy earth bore all things, and the touch of green life in the center had grown into a small, swaying sprout with a luster of Chaos.

But this was not enough.

Facing a formidable enemy like the Molten Bone Demon Marshal, who was at the Peak of the Law Realm and might have one foot already touching a higher level, his current state was far from enough.

”Chaos... encompasses all Laws, derives all things, and this is ’Existence’.”

”Yet above Chaos, there is no beginning and no end, no Yin and no Yang, no light and no darkness, no life and no death... this is ’Limitlessness’.”

An ancient scripture obtained from deep within the Sword Stele of Ten Thousand Worlds, which he had previously been unable to truly understand, flowed through his heart like a clear spring.

That was the exposition of a higher level of Chaos—Chaos Limitlessness!

”What I previously comprehended, whether it be the sharpness of ’Heaven Opening’, the return to silence of ’Return to Ruins’, or the absorption of ’Heaven Swallowing’, all fell into the trap of ’Existence’ and remained within the scope of Chaos’s derivation.”

”Only by jumping out of the fence of ’Existence’ and touching the ’Non-existence’ that gives birth to ’Existence’ can one truly transcend all Laws and glimpse a trace of... the power of the Origin!”

The instant his intent reached clarity, a heaven-shaking change occurred in the chaos minor world within his body!

The clear and turbid sky and the heavy earth began to slowly collapse and shrink inward!

That Chaos sprout, the flowing Chaos, and even the most basic Law particles that made up this Small World... everything was converging toward that single point of Chaos Origin in the very center!

It was not destruction, but a return to the Origin!

It was as if the Universe was going from expansion to a singularity, with all things returning to before the beginning!

Outside, on Ye Chen’s body, that originally surging aura of Chaos was rapidly retracting and disappearing!

It was not exhausted, but like the Abyssal return to silence, concealing all brilliance and fluctuations to the extreme.

He stood there, yet seemed not to exist in this space-time, giving people an extremely eerie sense of nothingness.

”Hmm?” The black flame crystal between the Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s brows jumped violently.

In its emotionless will, for the first time, a clear ripple appeared.

It could no longer feel Ye Chen’s power, and even his ”sense of presence” was rapidly weakening!

This was by no means exhaustion or concealment, but a state... that it could not understand, as if he were about to transcend the rules of this world!

”Playing tricks!” Although surprised, the Molten Bone Demon Marshal was not flustered, firmly believing that in the face of absolute power, all tricks were futile.

It no longer waited, raising that dark red giant claw again.

This time, with five fingers spread, in its palm, a Dark Annihilation Demon Star, concentrated to the extreme and appearing to have countless miniature black holes birthing and dying within it, suddenly formed!

With this strike, it used its true power, enough to completely wipe the entire Emerald Forest Realm from the Ancient Path!

”Be annihilated.”

The Dark Annihilation Demon Star left its palm and flew out silently.

Where it passed, space did not shatter but directly turned into the most basic stream of particles, leaving a trajectory of eternal nothingness, pointing directly at Ye Chen and the ancient tree of life behind him!

And at the very moment this destructive demon star was about to hit him—

Ye Chen opened his eyes.

His eyes no longer had the flow of Chaos swirling, no longer had sword light flashing, and did not even have any luster.

They were eyes... empty to the extreme, as if containing the absolute silence before the birth of the Universe, and also reflecting the eternal nothingness after the end of all things.

Facing the Dark Annihilation Demon Star capable of annihilating stars, he did not make any defensive or evasive movements.

He just slowly raised his right index finger.

At the fingertip, there was no energy fluctuation, no Law runes, as ordinary as a Mortal’s finger.

Then, he tapped lightly toward the roaring Dark Annihilation Demon Star.

”Limitlessness.”

There was no sound, no light, no energy impact.

Under the Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s incredulous ”gaze”, its Dark Annihilation Demon Star, which had condensed terrifying power, dissipated silently like a bubble under the sun the moment it touched Ye Chen’s fingertip.

It was not defeated, not devoured, but all the destruction rules, energy structures, and concepts of existence within it were forcibly returned to zero under that one finger of ”Limitlessness”!

It was as if it had never existed!

”Impossible!!!” The Molten Bone Demon Marshal let out the most uncomposed roar since its birth, its will vibrating violently, and the black flame crystal between its brows jumping wildly!

This completely violated all the Laws it knew!

What kind of power was this?!

Ye Chen’s gaze, that empty and void gaze, finally fell upon the Molten Bone Demon Marshal.

Touched by this gaze, the Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s demonic body, composed of cooled lava, could not help but produce a sense of trembling!

That was suppression at the level of life!

It was the insignificance of an ant facing the firmament!

”You... what exactly are you?!” The Molten Bone Demon Marshal’s voice carried a trace of fear it hadn’t even noticed itself.

Ye Chen did not answer.

He slowly lifted his foot and walked forward.

He walked very slowly, but with every step he took, the burning black demonic flame, the collapsing barrier fragments under his feet, instantly calmed and solidified, as if forcibly frozen by an invisible force at the moment before collapse.

Around him, the terrifying pressure belonging to the Molten Bone Demon Marshal melted and retreated on its own, like ice and snow meeting a scorching sun!

He walked toward the Molten Bone Demon Marshal as if walking in his own kingdom.

”Laws? Rules? In my eyes, they are nothing but dust of ’Existence’.”

Ye Chen finally spoke, his voice calm, yet carrying a kind of indifferent judgment.

”And you are merely a slightly larger grain of dust.”

The moment his words fell, Ye Chen brought his fingers together like a sword and lightly slashed through the air toward the Molten Bone Demon Marshal.

This time, there was no Sword Qi, no brilliance, and no attack of any form.

But the Molten Bone Demon Marshal let out a shrill, miserable howl!

It felt that its connection to the Abyssal Origin, the Demonic Path Laws it had painstakingly cultivated for countless years, its indestructible lava demonic body... the ”Foundation” of its existence was being forcibly erased by an incomprehensible, irresistible force!

”No! My Lord, save...”

Its plea for mercy stopped abruptly.

That massive body of the Demon Marshal, radiating the pressure of the Peak Law Realm, like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser, began to dissipate inch by inch from the edges, turning into the most primitive, attribute-less void energy, and finally completely disappeared from this world.

It left no trace behind.

It was as if the Molten Bone Demon Marshal had never existed.

Ye Chen slowly withdrew his finger, the extreme emptiness in his eyes slowly receding, replaced by a deep exhaustion and a trace of realization.

His figure swayed slightly, and his face turned pale.

Forcibly touching the realm of ”Chaos Limitlessness” was a huge burden on him.

He turned around, looking at the barrier whose collapse process had been frozen, looking at the Wood Spirit Clan members who had survived the disaster and were dumbfounded, and looking at Qing Lin, whose breath was weak within the light cocoon under the ancient tree, and said softly:

”Temporarily... safe.”

However, his gaze pierced through the void, looking toward the depths of the Ancient Path, in the direction of the Thousand Illusions Maze.

He could feel that the fall of the Molten Bone Demon Marshal had already alarmed that sleeping...

Abyssal Lord!