Artificial Ancient God

As the sun rose, morning light spilled across the earth like golden gauze, laying a bright outline over the whole world.

The Great Sun's radiance seemed to drive away all chaos, all foulness and miasma.

Beneath the dappled light and shadow inside a forest, a swarm of ants crawled aimlessly over mounds of dirt and puddles.

"Chen Yan."

A middle-aged man in green robes quietly watched the ants. He stood straight as a pine, his robes stirring gently in the breeze. Nothing about him suggested he had just survived a battle at the Absolute Peak.

Lord Chen glanced at the phantom behind him.

"To ants, our casual footsteps can decide whether their entire colony lives or dies. They're terrified, utterly horrified. They curse us and fear us.

"But they don't know that we're only making a casual movement."

Chen Yan stood silently behind Lord Chen.

He was actually still alive.

His physical body had perished, all his True Martial Power had dissipated, and even his Will Domain had split into three, becoming three newly born bodies.

Lord Chen had struck him down with [Dao Severance]. There was no way Chen Yan could have survived.

Only when Zhang Huizhi, Li Zhiyi, and Zhao Zhugui merged into one would Chen Yan be reborn.

Everything had gone according to Chen Yan's plan.

But he had overlooked the Ancient God aura inside him.

After the Dream Eater died, half of the Ancient God aura vanished into the boundless void, beyond Chen Yan's reach.

But when Chen Yan died, Lord Chen captured the Ancient God aura that should have dissipated. Chen Yan's Divine Soul, which should also have scattered, had taken shelter within that aura and survived.

Still, whether Chen Yan lived or died now no longer mattered.

With Li Zhiyi and the other two,