The dark and boundless space stood quietly in the depths of the endless void.
In the middle of the space, there was a thin figure that stood there unmoving like a pine tree.
The figure did not move at all, as if it was dead.
If one were to sense it carefully, they would discover that within its thin body, there was a power that caused the world to tremble. It was rising at a boundless speed.
However, at the next moment.
The soaring power seemed to have encountered a period of weakness, and it quickly flowed backward, causing the figure's aura to weaken again.
"Why is it that every time I'm about to step through the threshold of the Fusion Stage, the True Origin Energy in my body will flow backward …"
The thin figure suddenly trembled slightly, and then his tightly shut eyes slowly opened at that moment. A hint of sadness flashed in the depths of his eyes.
"I've clearly converted all my immortal energy into True Origin Energy.
But why am I still unable to break through the last door of Heaven Ascension Stage 3? "
Ye Chen frowned slightly. If he remembered correctly, he had been in closed-door cultivation in this space for 20 days and nights.
In these 20 days and nights, he had been absorbing immortal jade to refine immortal energy for the first half of the month.
In the remaining few days, the only thing he did was to convert immortal energy into True Origin Energy and try his best to break through the threshold of the Fusion Stage.
In the past few days, his cultivation base had skyrocketed, rising from early-stage Spirit Severing to peak Spirit Severing. He was only one threshold away from early-stage Spirit Severing.
However, such a seemingly simple process had failed time and time again. It was as if a pair of invisible hands had knocked him back to the Spirit Severing stage.
"Master!"
The Night Demon Armor's voice immediately sounded in his mind, "Could it be that our existences have unintentionally absorbed a portion of the immortal energy?"
They were all immortal weapons, so immortal energy was naturally extremely tempting to them.
"That's possible!"
Ye Chen's eyes flashed and he waved his sleeve. At that moment, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, Night Demon Armor, Emperor Brush, and the rest shot out of his body and floated around him quietly.
"Let me try again!"
Ye Chen closed his eyes again and activated the True Origin Energy in his body with all his might. He attacked the last door of Heaven Ascension Stage 3 with the momentum of a torrent that swept everything away.
Chi, chi, chi …
A sound that sounded like it was deflated was heard.
There was a hint of helplessness on Ye Chen's face.
Once again, he failed.
Thinking of this, he frowned deeply. "No, logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. There must be a problem somewhere."
"Hmm?"
Just when Ye Chen was about to close his eyes, he was stunned all of a sudden. He fixed his eyes on the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, Emperor Brush, and Night Demon Armor before him.
"Thearch, what's wrong?" probed the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber.
"Three …"
"Three, three of the Three Pure Ones …"
"I understand, I understand."
Tens of thousands of gleams suddenly erupted from Ye Chen's eyes. He said as if he had understood something, "Because of the Three Pure Ones, this immortal technique might have been a great help in the past, but it has become my shackles now."
"Their existence is like a kettle with two holes, so no matter how much water is added, the kettle will never be filled."
"And the only way to resolve this is to forcefully sever the connection between the two clones and my main body."
Ye Chen's eyes could not help but turn grim as he thought to this point.
Severing the other two clones was equivalent to severing one's Divine Sense, and anything that was related to Divine Sense was the most important thing for a cultivator.
If he was not careful, his soul would be injured, and if it was serious, he would become an idiot and become a walking corpse.
It could be understood as breaking and building!
Even with Ye Chen's calm temperament, he hesitated.
His gaze changed rapidly. A moment later, it was covered by determination, "Let's do it!"
The path of cultivation was to go against the heavens to begin with. He had to stake everything on one throw. How could he be so indecisive?
After making up his mind, he could not help but say to Emperor Brush and the rest, "I'm going to sever my clone. Before that, in order not to hurt you guys, I'll remove the imprint from you guys in advance."
…
Time passed quickly.
Unknowingly, it was almost a month since Ye Chen went into closed-door cultivation. Meanwhile, the outside world had discovered earth-shattering turmoil in the short half a month.
First, Yin Xu had completely fallen. Then, all the passageways leading to the secular world had been destroyed. Countless demonic energy and demons surged into the secular world.
Just the demonic energy that had invaded had caused the earth's spiritual energy system to weaken abruptly. All the native living beings had been demonized. Whether it was plants or animals, all of them had become demons.
This caused the world to be the first to break out of famine due to the food crisis. Countless ordinary people starved to death in the famine.
The global population was reduced by at least half.
Soon after, the demon army marched in, causing many small countries in the west to be annihilated. Only the few empires of the past barely survived because they were developing cultivation civilization and technology.
This also made the world truly realize that compared to the invasion of the foreign sects more than ten years ago, this demon disaster was even more terrifying and inhumane.
This was because no matter how cruel the people from the foreign sects were, they would not treat humans as food, nor would they have the shocking behavior of slaughtering an entire country.
This was the true global community with a shared future.
In order to deal with this demon disaster, the United States Empire took the lead and joined forces with the French Empire, the British Empire, and other great countries to form an alliance known as the European Alliance.
The outbreak of the demon disaster caused the spiritual energy on Earth to weaken. Compared to ordinary people, the demons valued cultivators more. Therefore, the many foreign sects on Earth became the focus of attention.
Therefore, these foreign sects abandoned their prejudices and formed a second alliance known as the Foreign Alliance.
After that was China.
Compared to the tragedy in Western Europe, China, which was located in the east of the world, was much more relaxed.
This was because the few passageways leading to China in Yin Xu were the last to be opened by the demons.
Even though they were opened, it was because Ye Chen had instructed people to guard the exit before he left.
This delayed the time for the demons to enter China.
When all the passageways were lost, many top powerhouses suddenly broke through Yin Xu and arrived in China. They joined forces to stop many demons.
China also formed an alliance with the surrounding countries, known as the China Alliance!
The three alliances barely stabilized the situation by joining forces. In addition, the demon army did not go all out to fight the three alliances to the death, so both sides maintained a relatively peaceful situation.
Tiannan Lin City, China.
The current Lin City had gone from a small city to a holy land that attracted the attention of the world.
This was because the top powerhouses who had killed the demons that day were now guarding Lin City. It could be said that Lin City was the safest place in the world.
The upper echelons of the three alliances could vaguely guess that all of this was probably related to the world's No. 1, Mad Southern Ye, who had disappeared for a month.
(End of this chapter)
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