Chapter 1119: I’m Sorry, I Am!

Chen Fan wasn’t so sure about how powerful that Deity Weapon was. Its Spirit Qi had dissipated and it had turned into scrap metal. It had only a bit of hardness and sharpness left, but Chen Fan was able to feel the Deity Meridians deep inside it; it was still able to release the power of a Deity Weapon.

Meanwhile.

Chen Fan was infusing his Dharma Power into the Deity Weapon as he tried to activate it for the first time.

“Buzz!”

That black iron bar lit up when the mighty Dharma Power went into the Deity Weapon. All the green rust over it was peeled off and beams of light were shot out from the iron bar. It had just become a sharp blade shining brightly. Even the air seemed to be overwhelmed. It wasn’t just a broken iron bar anymore.

“Slash!”

Chen Fan slashed at the terrified Divine Prince of Apollo Palace.

“Bang!”

It sounded as if a thunderbolt had struck. The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace saw a ray of light flashing across the sky—like the peerless Deity Sword of the Deity King—as it slashed his body. It cracked the golden spear easily, as if it were cutting a piece of tofu. His Apollo Armor was shattered and the blade aura slashed and split the Nascent Soul of the Divine Prince in half.

That light ray kept going. After slashing the Divine Prince, it even struck a stone pillar which was full of Deity Patterns. It was something that nobody had been able to move a single bit, in the middle of the hall, creating a one-foot crack on it.

“This…”

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace was astonished.

He reacted and let out an earth-shattering scream after a while, “No, that’s impossible!”

Boom!

A clap of thunder came from the sky.

His Nascent Soul was split in half and blood gushed out. For Nascent Soul Cultivators, their bodies were nothing after forming the Nascent Soul, since it carried ninety percent of their essence. Each drop of golden blood that oozed out represented the loss of power the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace had gained in the past few or even dozens of years; there was no way he could get that back.

“No, no, I won’t die! How would an ant from Earth like you be able to hurt me with just an iron bar?” The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace had no idea what he was talking about anymore. He just kept taking pills and medicines.

He took some superior-grade Heavenly Medicines, Quasi-Divine Medicines and even the root from the broken pieces of a Divine Medicine.

Maybe only a tenth of that Divine Medicine remained, the root being the last part; it was still releasing purple light and sacred energy. It seemed to be a real Divine Medicine, something extremely terrifying.

“Whoosh!”

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace ate half of it and many granules immediately grew on his Nascent Soul. The granules quickly spread and connected to the other half of the Nascent Soul. In almost a blink, the split Nascent Soul became intact again.

“How dare you try to go against God’s will?”

Chen Fan waved his hand and shot out the black iron bar surrounded by an aura, nailing the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace in front of the well. No matter how hard he struggled and how powerful his Divine Medicines were, nothing helped, at all. Beams of light shot out from the iron bar; it was like hot steel in ice water for the Divine Prince’s Nascent Soul, as it created sizzling sounds.

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace yelled, “Argh! What… What’s this? Pull… Pull it out. I can’t stand it anymore!”

He felt as if his Divine Soul would have been nailed to a cannon, being burned with an extremely high temperature. That pain went deep into his soul; it was a pain on par to that of those whose souls were burned by Fiend Fire, or even worse. That invincible Divine Prince of the Apollo Sect was unable to help letting out a cry.

Poof!

Plumes of golden fog rose from his Divine Soul and a giant hole appeared on the Nascent Soul around the black iron bar. No matter how powerful the Divine Medicines were and even if his Nascent Soul and Divine Soul tried to heal, it would be useless. The light of the iron bar was like poison to the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace. He was unable to withstand it.

Chen Fan stepped on the Divine Soul of the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace, looked down and asked him coldly, “Who issued the order to exterminate the North Qiong Sect?”

“It… It was Naran. I… I only asked him to find some cultivation arts on earth, but he… he exterminated all… all the sects on the planet. I had nothing to do with it.” The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace cried and stammered.

“What about Divine General Naran? I heard that he had entered the Origin Divine Palace with you,” Chen Fan asked indifferently.

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace remained silent as his eyes glittered.

However, Chen Fan pushed the black iron bar deeper into the Divine Soul. The Divine Prince was unable to withstand, so he continued talking, “He… He’s returned to the Star Ocean. We’re just the vanguard of the sect. Once we find the Grand Opportunity, we’ll… we’ll notify the main forces and the Grand Divine Prince.”

“He ran away?” Chen Fan frowned, then lowered his head and looked at the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace.” What Grand Opportunity have you found? There’s nothing in the Origin Divine Palace, not any treasure nor opportunity.”

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace was completely speechless.

Chen Fan had even pulled out the black iron bar and stabbed him four times, creating four golden holes in his body. However, no matter how Chen Fan threatened him, he held back as he tried not to make a sound. The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace obviously knew he would have the chance to live if he didn’t mention anything about the Grand Opportunity. If he did, he would have no use for Chen Fan anymore.

“Even if you refuse to talk, I know.”

Chen Fan sneered as he pulled out the black iron bar and walked to the well in the middle of the hall.

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace saw Chen Fan getting closer to the well; he immediately became anxious and said with a trembling voice, “What do you know?” He even raised his hands.

“Haha.” Chen Fan looked at the well with hands behind his back. “Origin Divine Palace. I haven’t seen the word ‘origin’ anywhere in the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion. It must be inside the well.”

“This well looks empty, but it’s actually connected to the entire deity ground and the arrays in the sky. It’s one of the core control points of this world. I guess there isn’t only one temple like this in the whole deity ground; there should be at least ninety-nine, so the entire piece of land can be covered. Whoever takes control of the ninety-nine ‘temples’ will be able to control the deity ground as well. By then, it’ll be easy to get the Grand Opportunity,” Chen Fan said.

“How… How did you know that?”

The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace was completely startled; he looked at Chen Fan as if he were a ghost.

Chen Fan smiled and remained silent.

He even knew what was the so-called Grand Opportunity.

“Origin, origin.”

When Master Cangqin and the others left that word at the entrance of the palace, they had made clear what the nature of the Grand Opportunity was. It wasn’t a Deity Weapon or a Dharma Treasure. It didn’t have to do with books or talismans left by the ancient Deities and it wasn’t anything about Divine or Deity Medicines. It was an unimaginable Fiend Zombie suppressed underneath the deity ground!

The “Deity Fetus” had already appeared.

The arrays above the deity ground formed by countless Celestial Sects weren’t useful anymore. Not even Master Cangqin may return to that planet.

And yet, the super array that turned Fiend Qi into “Deity Qi” they left here was the most valuable thing on Earth!

“Whoever takes control of the ninety-nine ‘Origin Temples’ can take all the Deity Qi. That was the real great opportunity! Even if the Fiend Zombie underneath the deity ground may have just one-thousandth of its energy left after providing its Fiend Qi for millions of years, that one-thousandth would easily help a cultivator become a Grand Cultivator,” Chen Fan whispered.

His eyes glittered and his heart started pounding.

If he was able to control that array…

He was confident that he would be able to reach the Soul Formation Level and even become a top Soul Formation Cultivator within a decade. Then, he would be able to defeat all the Soul Formation Grand Cultivators in the Little South Heavenly Realm, even if they worked together, and he would not be afraid when he returned to the True Martial Celestial Sect.

However, the next second, the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace shattered Chen Fan’s fantasy. “Chen Beixuan, I don’t know where you heard about this huge secret. There are less than five people in the entire Little South Heavenly Realm who know that this used to be the place where Saints and Deities from the Star Ocean formed Deity Qi and Deity Crystals. Those five people are all top cultivators in the Star Ocean.

“You must know that you’ll never be able to occupy the Origin Divine Palace. There used to be a Pseudo-Soul Formation Fiend in this palace. One of our Ancestral Patriarchs sacrificed himself thousands of years ago, with the intent to kill that fiend. He even died here because of this. And yet, the Pseudo-Soul Formation Fiends in the other palaces are still alive, so it’s impossible for you to take control!”

There was a hint of pain in the eyes of the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace.

The death of a Soul Formation Grand Cultivator was an unbearable disaster, even for the powerful Apollo Palace. The Changshen Sect only had three Soul Formation Cultivators, but they already called themselves the strongest sect in the Star Ocean, and the Apollo Sect had just a few more than they did.

“A Pseudo-Soul Formation Fiend?”

Chen Fan frowned.

It was a knotty topic, even for him.

With the two words “Soul Formation,” any monster, life, human or fiend would become totally different. Fiends were dumb; they had no intelligence nor Divine Soul, at all. Chen Fan was able to crush a peak-stage Nascent Soul Fiend with one hand, but he would have to use his trump cards to survive.

That was the power of those at the Soul Formation Level.

The cultivation arts passed down by the Pseudo-Soul Formation Divine Lord Tatian—which he used to sweep the Star Ocean—were already hard for Chen Fan to deal with, let alone having more than one Pseudo-Soul Formation Cultivator. There were ninety-nine temples in total, equivalent to ninety-nine Pseudo-Soul Formation Cultivators!

“No wonder there isn’t any barrier at the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion. I was thinking why Master and the others had not built some arrays and traps to protect the core of their array. Now I know why.” Chen Fan nodded.

“And yet, one temple is enough. I may not be able to take all the Deity Qi in the ninety-nine temples around the deity ground, but getting a 99th to form a Deity Crystal is not a difficult thing. Even if I just take a breather for the Deity Qi, it’ll be beneficial for my power and may even push it further, to reach an unprecedented Golden Core Level,” he thought as he walked to the well and sat down with his legs crossed. He sent his Divine Soul inside, and started muttering and casting a spell with his hands.

As he did…

Some talismans appeared in the air and flew into the well.

“Don’t even think about it. Our Ancestral Patriarch has also been here, he was also unable to open the array in the well. This array is connected to a supreme Deity Array deep in the atmosphere. Either you succeed in controlling all ninety-nine Origin Divine Palaces, or whether you’re a descendant of one of the Celestial Sects that formed this array, you won’t be able to activate it.” The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace lay on the floor and snickered. There were eight golden holes around his body that were still healing.

The Divine Prince saved his strength in secret and grunted before saying, “Even though we don’t know who formed this Deity Array, even our Divine Emperor and Soul Formation Ancestral Patriarchs confirmed that it’s one of the most powerful arrays across the universe. Whoever formed it must be from an ancient sacred ground or a powerful sect, or even one of the nine Celestial Sects. Do you know the nine Celestial Sects? Those are the loftiest sects in the Central Galaxy. Based on your identity and background, I doubt you’ve ever heard of them. Haha,” said the Divine Prince as he burst into laughter.

But the next second, his laughter stopped.

“Boom!”

A beam of light was suddenly shot out of the ten-foot well and flashed through the hall, piercing through the palace and continuing to a place far away in the sky. It contacted the arrays around the world. At that moment, the entire deity ground started shining. When seen from above, there seemed to be stars on the vast deity ground that glimmered through the sky and the dark.

“You…”

The eyes of the Divine Prince popped out. He looked at Chen Fan in shock, as if he had seen a ghost.