System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

274: To unite oneself with the Tao and reshape the ancient road”Today... no matter the cost... I will... completely... erase you... from time and space!”

The voice of the Abyssal Lord, Void Abyss, no longer held the slightest bit of indifference or mockery; only the purest, most frenzied will to destroy remained! Those eyes, as crimson as blood moons, burned with a rage sufficient to incinerate all heavens. Wherever their light reached, the Chaotic Sea of Time and Space was no longer simply shattered, but began to evaporate and vanish, turning into the most fundamental particles of nothingness!

It was no longer merely projecting power; its true form—that terrifying existence representing the Universe’s ultimate Laws of ’Extinction’ and ’Void’—was fully awakening from its endless slumber and concealment. It intended to descend its full will and form upon this space-time of the Ancient Path, which it had already mostly corroded!

Boom! Rumble—!!!

The entire Ancient Path let out an overwhelmed wail! The Origin Laws of countless surviving worlds and outposts began to disintegrate, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi flowed backward, mountains and rivers overturned, and stars grew dim! In the direction of the Emerald Forest Realm, the already precarious barrier shattered completely in an instant. The ancient tree of life let out one last sorrowful cry, and an endless emerald radiance erupted like a final flash of life before death, attempting a final resistance, only to quickly wither and wilt under the sky-covering devilish flames!

Qing Lin felt the tragic state of the Forest Realm through her Soul connection and let out a piercing cry of grief, nearly fainting.

Ye Chen stood with his sword at the center of the violent void storm. The dark-gold Chaos Origin radiance surrounding him flickered like a candle in a storm under the full pressure of the Abyssal Lord’s outbreak. His expression was grave to the extreme.

He felt it; the Abyssal Lord now was a completely different concept from its previous combat form! This was the descent of the Law itself, the ultimate collision between ’Dao’ and ’Dao’! Even though his three cores were in place and he had gained a preliminary glimpse of the Chaos Limitlessness realm, he still seemed... tiny before this void Origin that had accumulated for untold billions of years and was nearly as old as the Ancient Path!

In a head-on clash, there was absolutely no chance of victory!

”I must... redefine the Laws of the Ancient Path!” A flash of decisiveness crossed Ye Chen’s eyes. This was the only method left by Senior Yu, and the only path to survival! But how to redefine them? With his current strength, even with the three cores in hand, it was impossible to oppose the entire space-time of the Ancient Path that was being assimilated by the Abyssal Lord!

Unless... a thought, like the last bolt of lightning in the darkness, flashed through his mind.

Unless... he merged his body with the Dao! Using himself as the furnace, the three cores as the Foundation, and Chaos Limitlessness as the guide, he would forcibly fuse his own Dao with the broken Laws of the Ancient Path! Not to oppose them, but to... replace them! To reshape them!

This would be a massive gamble! If he won, he might become the new Heavenly Dao of the Ancient Path, wielding the Laws and expelling the Abyss. If he lost, his consciousness would be crushed and assimilated by the chaotic Laws accumulated over eons and the power of the Abyssal Lord; he would die, his Dao would vanish, and the three cores would be lost!

There was no time to hesitate!

Ye Chen abruptly looked up at the Abyssal Lord’s true body, which was nearly fully solidified from endless darkness and void. All stray thoughts vanished from his eyes, leaving only the purest determination to pursue the Dao!

”Void Abyss!” Ye Chen’s voice pierced through the wailing of the Laws, sounding clearly. ”Do you think... you’ve already won?”

He stopped defending and instead completely released control over his own power! The dark-gold vortex mark on his chest spun frantically at an unprecedented speed. The three source cores of return to silence, order, and creation flew out from his body, hovering above his head in a triangular formation, erupting with a radiance that reached the absolute limit!

”Today, I shall use this body and this Dao to reopen the Universe of this Ancient Path!”

As his words fell, Ye Chen thrust both hands upward as if to prop up the sky that was about to return to silence! The chaos minor world within him, which had already evolved into the prototype of a perfect world, expanded with a boom! It was no longer confined to his body; instead, with his body as the center, it boldly covered and fused toward the broken space-time of the Ancient Path outside!

Buzz—!!!!!

An indescribable storm of Laws swept across the entire Ancient Path with Ye Chen at the center! The light from the three cores above his head connected into a profound formation diagram, frantically extracting the remaining Spiritual Veins, Law fragments, and even the undying Battle Intent left behind by fallen experts. His chaos minor world, like a greedy creator god, forcibly devoured and digested all of this, performing a fundamental recasting using his own Dao of Chaos, return to silence, order, and creation!

This process was fraught with extreme danger!

The chaotic Laws accumulated over eons on the Ancient Path, the resentment of endless living beings, and the filth left by the Abyss’s erosion... like billions of violent torrents, they frantically battered Ye Chen’s consciousness! His Divine Soul felt as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder, the pain far exceeding any previous experience! His body constantly shifted between reality and illusion, at times as solid as divine gold and at times as ethereal as a bubble, as if he might completely dissipate into the world at any moment!

Even more terrifying, the cold and frenzied will of the Abyssal Lord, Void Abyss, also seized this opportunity. Like the most malicious virus, it frantically invaded Ye Chen’s Chaos world through the cracks in the Law Fusion, attempting to pollute its core and drag it into eternal nothingness!

”Roar! Contending with this seat for the authority of the Heavenly Dao? Wishful thinking!” the Abyssal Lord roared. Endless darkness surged like a tide; wherever it passed, the Law chains Ye Chen had just reshaped snapped and were annihilated one after another!

”My Dao is Chaos! It encompasses your void, and it encompasses all living beings of this Ancient Path!” Ye Chen let out a roar from his Dao Heart. Amidst the endless pain and impact, his consciousness deathly guarded that single point of undying spiritual light. He frantically operated the intent of Chaos Limitlessness, guiding the power of the three cores like the most resilient craftsman, rebuilding the Foundation of the Ancient Path’s Laws brick by brick!

This was a silent contest, yet it was billions of times more dangerous than any previous battle! It was a clash of wills, a struggle for the Dao!

Outside, Qing Lin watched this scene in shock. She saw that with Ye Chen as the center, a brand new world of light, emanating the aura of the dawn of Chaos and the recovery of all things, was engaged in a tragic tug-of-war with the Abyssal Lord’s void Domain, which represented ultimate darkness and silence! The boundary between light and darkness shifted constantly. Wherever the light passed, collapsed mountains and rivers began to reshape, exhausted Spiritual Veins began to recover, and fallen stars were relit... but at the same time, large areas that had just regained vitality were once again ruthlessly swallowed by the darkness!

The entire Ancient Path seemed to have turned into a chessboard for the struggle between Ye Chen and the Abyssal Lord, where all things were pieces and the Laws were the stakes!

Time seemed to lose its meaning.

It was unknown how much time had passed; perhaps it was an instant, perhaps it was eons.

Ye Chen’s consciousness had already blurred, supported entirely by an undying obsession. The expansion of his Chaos world grew slower and slower, while the Abyssal Lord’s void Domain still occupied the majority of the territory.

Did it seem... like he was still going to fail?

Just at the moment his will was about to completely sink—

Through the Laws being reshaped, he seemed to hear countless faint prayers and shouts! They came from the surviving Wood Spirit Clan members in the Emerald Forest Realm, from the spark worlds throughout the Ancient Path that were still resisting, and from the unyielding spirits of fallen battle Souls... Their conviction, their hope, and their desire for ’life’ transformed into specks of light. Crossing the void, they flowed into Ye Chen’s Chaos world, which was on the brink of collapse!

This small amount of light of conviction, at this moment, was like the final straw that broke the camel’s back... no, it was the final ray of dawn illuminating the darkness!

”I am... not... fighting alone...”

Within Ye Chen’s nearly annihilated consciousness, a spark of fire was reignited!

He felt it! This Ancient Path was not a dead thing! It had its own will, the desire of billions of living beings for ’existence’! It... yearned to be saved, yearned for... Rebirth!

”Chaos... accepts the Power Of Will of all beings... to open... peace for ten thousand generations!”

Ye Chen let out a final shout that gathered all his will, all his power, and all his attachment to this land!

Boom—!!!!!

The three-core formation diagram above his head suddenly erupted with unprecedented light, completely merging with the Chaos world beneath him and the remaining Laws of the entire Ancient Path!

An indescribable pillar of brand new Law, containing Chaos, return to silence, order, creation, and the Power Of Will of all beings, soared from within Ye Chen’s body. It boldly broke through the Abyssal Lord’s void Domain, pierced through the firmament of the Ancient Path, and illuminated the endless darkness!

Wherever the light pillar passed, Devilish Qi dissolved and the Abyss retreated! Broken stars reorganized, cracked earth healed, and withered plants were reborn! A brand new Heavenly Dao will, majestic and vast, filled with infinite vitality and hope, began to nourish, envelop, and dominate this reborn world like a spring breeze turning into rain!

”No—!!!” The Abyssal Lord let out a desperate and unwilling roar. Its void rules, before this brand new, all-encompassing Chaos Heavenly Dao, were like ice and snow meeting a blazing sun, rapidly disintegrating and collapsing! Under the illumination of that Law pillar, its true form was like a shadow exposed to sunlight, emitting a ’hissing’ sound of dissolution!

It had lost!

It did not lose to Ye Chen’s strength, but to the Dao of Chaos that Ye Chen represented—the Dao that encompasses all things and evolves all beings! It lost to the desire for ’life’ and the conviction of the billions of living beings on this Ancient Path!

”Chaos... Ye Chen... this seat... will remember you...”

Amidst the lingering echoes of venomous resentment and unwillingness, the massive dark body of the Abyssal Lord, Void Abyss, like a sand sculpture blown apart by the wind, rapidly faded and dissipated. Finally, it was completely purified and expelled from this redefined Universe by the light of the Chaos Heavenly Dao sweeping across the Ancient Path!

The darkness receded, and the light remained forever.

Ye Chen’s figure floated quietly at the center of the Ancient Path, his entire body emanating a gentle and vast aura of the Heavenly Dao, like the Dominator of this newborn world.

He had succeeded.

Merging with the Dao, reshaping the Ancient Path.