In just an instant, the severe injuries Chen Yan had just sustained had fully recovered.
Then, he floated in midair between Heavenly Summit Palace and Heavenly Summit Mountain.
Although, high above in the sky, the battle between beings at the Above Immortality realm made Chen Yan seem no different from an ant, at this very moment, his cultivation was still at the peak of the Unity Realm.
Floating in midair, Chen Yan extended both his vision and spiritual sense downward toward Heavenly Summit Palace beneath him.
In that single moment when the Seven-Colored Flowing Gold goddess statue, towering thousands of feet in the sky, had clapped its hands together, the thousand-plus disciples of the Five Great Sects originally stationed on Heavenly Summit Mountain had instantly turned to ash, as if erased from the world.
Sure enough, it was exactly the same as the destruction of Heavenly Summit Mountain tens of thousands of years ago.
Chen Yan thought this to himself.
He raised his head, his gaze falling on Mr. You in the sky.
The pitch-black rift continued to expand, and after forcibly enduring a single clap from the goddess statue, countless tiny pitch-black intricate lines had appeared on Mr. You's body.
Except the pitch-black intricate lines on Mr. You's body lasted less than two breaths before completely vanishing.
Although the laws of heaven and earth in this domain had become extremely fragile due to the chaos from countless eons ago.
Mr. You, who had now stepped into the Uncarved Simplicity Realm, seemed to possess some ability to resist the karmic backlash caused by the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth.
But Mr. You also understood clearly that if he remained in Chenping Continent, there was no way he could confront the goddess statue from the spatial rift or the "that existence" behind it.
Because the laws of heaven and earth in this domain could not support a full-power battle from an Uncarved Simplicity Realm cultivator.
Fusheng the Ultimate Sage quickly formulated his plan.
Mr. You stepped on the void and, in an instant, arrived before the forehead of the Seven-Colored Flowing Gold goddess statue that towered thousands of feet high.
Before this mountain-like statue, Mr. You's figure seemed utterly insignificant.
Then, Mr. You raised a palm and struck the goddess statue's forehead.
Countless dao rhymes and Seven-Colored Flowing Gold radiance bloomed before the statue's forehead. The smile on the goddess statue's face, which had been eerie, grew increasingly ferocious.
Even now, Chen Yan still didn't know whether these Seven-Colored Flowing Gold goddess statues possessed their own consciousness or were merely weapons.
Mr. You's daoist robes fluttered. Under this palm strike, the goddess statue began to be pushed backward toward the pitch-black rift.
But at the same time, more pitch-black cracks began to appear on Mr. You's body.
Chen Yan understood Mr. You's intention.
He didn't intend to use Chenping Continent as the battlefield against this goddess statue and the "that existence" behind it.
Instead, he planned to personally enter the spatial rift!
Dao rhymes and radiance continued to bloom before the pitch-black rift, as if Mr. You were locked in a contest of strength with the goddess statue.
It was hard to say whether Mr. You had the upper hand at this moment, but the goddess statue, thousands of feet tall, was indeed slowly being pushed back into the rift in the sky.
Until Mr. You and the goddess statue completely disappeared from sight. Only within the maw-like rift in the sky did some faint, multicolored light still flicker.
Chen Yan remained floating in midair.
He stared at the pitch-black rift in the sky, which continued to expand as if it would swallow the entire Chenping Continent.
This wasn't the first time Chen Yan had witnessed the Seven-Colored Flowing Gold goddess statue firsthand, but before this, that goddess statue had always represented destruction and finality in Chen Yan's mind.
And Mr. You was the only being Chen Yan currently knew who could directly confront it.
After all, Mr. You was now a Sage of the Uncarved Simplicity Realm, a being who could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void, and Zuo He, the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, from countless eons ago.
Chen Yan still remembered the shocking scene when Zuo He, the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, had ridden a pitch-black carriage pulled by eleven ninth-realm great demons, with two dozens-of-feet-tall goddess statues clearing the way.
He had no way out. His only hope was to pray that Mr. You would return from the spatial rift, allowing him to obtain the corresponding information.
Chen Yan waited.
But suddenly, he sensed something was wrong.
Or rather, inside the pitch-black rift in the sky...
Something was staring at him.
Chen Yan abruptly looked up and met the gaze of a withered eyeball that had appeared in the pitch-black rift.
Why?
Clearly, Mr. You had already stepped into the Uncarved Simplicity Realm and had violated the taboo of "that existence." So why wasn't the withered eyeball's attention on Mr. You, but instead here to watch him?
Wait, maybe his thinking had always been wrong.
Namely, no one had told him that this withered eyeball, which had once appeared in the Heavenly Summit Mirror, was the same thing as the "that existence" Mr. You had spoken of.
Realizing this, Chen Yan hastily activated the Hidden Immortal Art and the Emptiness Annihilation Art, trying to erase his traces from the withered eyeball's surveillance.
But it was too late. He had already been completely exposed to the withered eyeball's vision.
In the next instant, countless black cracks extended from the pitch-black rift in the sky toward Chen Yan.
First, they were like tentacles, then they transformed into a surging tide, crazily rushing toward Chen Yan.
Chen Yan's gaze hardened. He remembered what had happened in Heavenly Summit Palace. Although, looking back now, everything that had occurred in Heavenly Summit Palace seemed more like an illusion created by the Heavenly Summit Mirror.
But this time was different.
If he were to be engulfed by that black tide, escaping would likely be extremely difficult.
The reason he had been able to escape from the so-called "illusion" constructed by the Heavenly Summit Mirror was entirely due to the Heavenly Summit Mirror placed in Cangji Hall atop Qingxuan Mountain by the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void.
Fortunately, Chen Yan was currently not trapped in the nearly completely sealed Heavenly Summit Palace.
He had plenty of room to escape.
Chen Yan immediately activated the Xun Wind Step, and in an instant, he appeared over a hundred miles away from his previous position.
But the black tide was even faster.
Chen Yan wasn't surprised. He had only been trying to flee.
Looking at the sky-covering black tide that had completely surrounded him and was constantly closing in, Chen Yan knew he had only two choices left.
Either be devoured by the black tide and enter the spatial rift again.
Or save-scum.
Without much hesitation, Chen Yan chose the latter.
He began to activate the Great Derivation Art. The spiritual energy in his Martial Spring and meridians instantly evaporated. Immortal Qi began to form at his fingertips, and then—
[Reincarnation Ended]
[This Reincarnation Rating: S (Did you truly get close to the truth?)]
[Accumulated Cultivation: Peak of the Unity Realm]
[Reincarnation Reward: Cultivation increased by one major realm, acquired Divine Ability: ■■■■]
[Reincarnation settlement complete, host will return to the previous reincarnation record point, inheriting this reincarnation's accumulated cultivation to restart life]