Supreme Cultivation Master

"Eat my sword! One sword to slay demons, one sword to punish the heavens!" Ye Fan shouted.

The current Yuanhong Sword could no longer be considered a pure manifestation of the Sword Dao, as it now contained the profound meanings of time, Martial Arts, and the vicissitudes of life. Ye Fan had spent many years evolving this sword move, and this was the first time he had used it in combat. It had already transcended the state of the Unity of Man and Sword.

It could be described as the Unity of Heaven and Man—the true Sword Dao, but not the purest form of it.

The Crownless God Monarch felt the power of this sword. He mobilized all his strength to form a shield, attempting to block Ye Fan’s attack. However, the shield he conjured was effortlessly shattered by Ye Fan’s peerless sword!

He was grievously injured and sent flying backward.

The Crownless God Monarch spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. He had never anticipated Ye Fan’s strength to be so terrifying, and now he was on the verge of collapse.

Ye Fan said, "Will you end your own life, or shall I do it for you?"

"Hmph! I will not simply accept my own destruction!" Though his aura was extremely weak, the Crownless God Monarch launched another attack and charged forward.

"Courting death!"

Ye Fan struck, his sword blasting through the Crownless God Monarch’s body. At that moment, however, the God Monarch smiled strangely and laughed wildly. "Your turn will come!"

Before Ye Fan could react, the God Monarch had already grabbed him by the shoulder. He then initiated the Bridal Dress Cultivation Technique.

Ye Fan’s boundless strength began flowing into the God Monarch’s body!

Bridal Dress Cultivation Technique?

"Exactly. This is the Bridal Dress Cultivation Technique," the Crownless God Monarch said coldly. "I paid a great price for this, and now all your strength is mine!"

He accelerated the process, feeling Ye Fan’s boundless strength being rapidly absorbed. At this rate, Ye Fan would undoubtedly die in less than thirty minutes.

But Ye Fan remained unmoved, not even showing a hint of fear. The Crownless God Monarch, being extremely astute, immediately realized something was wrong.

What is this?

He tried to retract his body, only to find that he couldn’t. His power was reversing, flowing into Ye Fan instead.

Why is this happening?

The Crownless God Monarch’s face filled with a fear he had never experienced before. At this moment, even retreating was an extravagant hope. He hadn’t expected that Ye Fan could also absorb his power. Moreover, Ye Fan’s power felt even more advanced than his own.

Ye Fan said coldly, "Your Bridal Dress Cultivation Technique only operates on four circuits, while mine can operate on Twelve Circuits. This is a heartless technique that I have never used. However, you are far more heartless than I. Since this power of yours was gained unjustly, you can leave it for me!"

The Crownless God Monarch pleaded weakly, "No! I worked painstakingly to gain my current power. You can’t take it away!"

His single eye trembled. Unfortunately, under the power of Ye Fan’s Twelve Circuits, a last-ditch struggle was impossible. His endless power surged into Ye Fan’s body.

Ye Fan felt himself reach a critical point, on the verge of a breakthrough at any moment.

Subsequently, the Crownless God Monarch shriveled into a withered corpse. With a casual toss, Ye Fan sent the body flying, where it shattered into pieces.

At this moment, the great tyrant of the Evil Divine Lineage had finally perished. The struggle between the Evil God and the Righteous Gods had come to a definitive end.

Ye Fan sighed in relief. Having resolved the internal threats of the Divine Domain, he could now focus on dealing with the Netherworld Ghost Clan. Although the Netherworld Ghost Clan had not yet arrived, Ye Fan believed that facing such a powerful clan unprepared would result in a complete and utter defeat.

The news of the Evil Divine Lineage’s destruction spread throughout the Divine Domain. This was different from the past; as long as the God Monarch Palace had remained, the Evil Divine Lineage was never considered truly destroyed. This time, the God Monarch Palace had also met its complete and utter annihilation. Everything had turned to illusory nothingness.

In this struggle that had persisted for tens of thousands of years, the Righteous Gods had proven to be like indestructible cockroaches in the River of Time. Every era had its heaven-defying experts; it was merely a matter of unfortunate timing. With the era of the Evil God finally over, the Divine Domain declared this new age The First Year of Taichu.

From then on, the world belonged to the era of the Righteous Gods.

As for Ye Fan, he was roaming the Divine Domain. When he first arrived, he had found the domain to be immensely vast. Only now did he realize that it was ultimately too narrow. Perhaps his standards had become too high. Regardless, he believed the Divine Domain was not the endpoint of his cultivation journey, but merely a temporary stop along the way. His journey, after all, had started in the mortal realm.

Time passed like fleeting clouds. All prosperity was but a momentary flash. In the blink of an eye, two hundred years had gone by.

Ye Fan still had not broken through to the Subancestor Realm. He had been preparing for a long time, harboring a great ambition. His goal was to dominate all Martial Artists of the same level once he reached the Subancestor Realm. He believed he could achieve it; it was all a matter of preparation. By now, he had completely refined the power obtained from the Crownless God Monarch.

As the moment of breakthrough approached, Ye Fan chose not to advance, as he believed the time was not yet ripe.

But over these two hundred years, the development of the Demon Clan and the Righteous Divine Lineage had been breathtakingly rapid. The older generation of Main Gods, Red Sand Main God and He Dahuang Main God, had already broken through the constraints of the Main God realm and successfully advanced to become Divine Monarchs. Although Evil Punishment Main God and Slaughter God had not yet become Divine Monarchs, they were consolidating their power. In a few hundred years, or a thousand at most, they would surely enter the ranks of the Divine Monarchs. After all, they had started much later.

As for the rising talents, they were doing exceptionally well. Mu Chen Dong, Wu Fa, Su Qingxue, Huang Ji, Alice, and Heather had all broken through to the Main God Realm.

It could be said that the Righteous Divine Lineage had grown powerful to a terrifying, unprecedented degree. Yet, that was not the most delightful news. After the extermination of the Evil Gods, Mu Kexin, who had always been adventuring with Hua Ji, also broke through to the Main God Realm. Among this new generation, she was undoubtedly the most powerful at this level, because her Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline had fully awakened.

The Righteous Divine Lineage had reached an unprecedented level of strength. Even during the era of the Ancestor of Tianyuan, the lineage had never been this powerful.

As the Righteous Divine Lineage developed rapidly, the Demon Clan also began to prosper. Moreover, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress was not weak; she had begun to display her strongest innate talents. Like Ye Fan, she could step into the Subancestor Realm at any moment.

Compared to the rapid development of the Demon Clan and the Righteous Gods, the Evil Clan kept a much lower profile. The three Divine Beasts possessed combat power on par with Divine Monarchs, representing the pinnacle of their faction’s strength. However, they all served a single individual: Ye Fan.

With the addition of Evil You Ancestor, who was searching for his lost clansmen, the Evil Clan showed its dominance. After all, they had been a third-rate clan in the Great Thousand World. Being considered a third-rate power in the Great Thousand World was no small feat; the entire Divine Domain wouldn’t even qualify as fifth-rate in its context. To be third-rate signified immense power.

Because of Ye Fan alone, the Divine Domain had undergone earth-shattering changes.

Ye Fan stood at the pinnacle of a mountain range, vaguely reminiscing about the time he entered the Divine Domain alone, bewildered but driven by the ideals in his heart. Looking back now, he could hardly believe that in less than a millennium, he had already reached the summit of the Divine Domain.

Yet this was still not the end.

He knew this place was merely a stopover for him. He had already lingered here for hundreds of years, and he could feel a force within his destiny pulling him forward.

What is the next step? The vast continents of the universe? Perhaps those are the places truly suitable for me.

Ye Fan gazed beyond the vault of the sky, faintly feeling a terrifying power approaching. He knew the real challenge had arrived. As he observed the ever-changing clouds and constellations, he sensed that his fated enemy was coming.