Chapter 84: Divine Weapons Shattered

The thirty-six divine weapons were not merely divine weapons.

They were also a complete aspect of the essence of rules.

If it were anyone else, even with the strength to suppress the divine weapons, it would be extremely difficult to benefit from them.

After all, even if the rule essence of a world manifested externally, it was difficult for a normal person to comprehend much of it.

Just like an esoteric math problem, even if the entire problem-solving process and train of thought were fully written out, others might not necessarily understand it.

Ten thousand years ago, that Ancient God forcibly separated a hundred divine weapons from the heaven and earth, and then seized the opportunity to comprehend them, reaping immense benefits.

But Lin Yuan was different.

Possessing Heaven-Defying Comprehension, Lin Yuan could not be more adept at things that required this kind of insight.

"This time I've made a huge profit!"

Lin Yuan's mind sank into the Taiji Furnace.

It could be said that Lin Yuan's greatest harvest from this travel was the divine weapons of this world.

As for the rest? They fell far short of fundamental Dao such as the essence of rules.

"It's a pity that these divine weapons originate from this world and cannot be taken away at all."

Lin Yuan felt a trace of regret in his heart.

It wasn't that he coveted the might of the divine weapons; there were many weapons in the Main World whose might far exceeded that of divine weapons.

The divine weapons contained the essence of world rules. If they could be brought back to the Main World and then sold, or handed over to the Goddess of Wisdom…

He could definitely make a killing.

After all, even if other citizens fell far short of Lin Yuan in thoroughly comprehending the divine weapons, as long as they had the slightest epiphany, they would surely spend a huge sum to purchase them.

However, the essence of the divine weapons was the external manifestation of this world's rules. Once they left this world, they would dissipate on their own.

If not for this, Lin Yuan would have given it a try, even at a cost.

Although his consciousness had descended into this world, the Gate of Myriad Realms could bring back items from the traveled world by accumulating 'energy'.

However, Lin Yuan was unsure how much 'energy' would be required.

"Forget it."

"Let's first fully comprehend the rule essence within all the divine weapons."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts and began to carefully comprehend them.

The entire Taiji Furnace was an extension of his five senses. With just a single thought, Lin Yuan could sense any position of the thirty-six divine weapons inside.

Compared to Lin Yuan, who was wholeheartedly comprehending the divine weapons…

The Five Mountains Battlefield on the ground had completely erupted into chaos.

"How can the Emperor of Great Yan be so strong?"

"Those are divine weapons, complete divine weapons!"

"Even the divine weapons have been suppressed by the Emperor of Great Yan. Should we still continue to fight the Reverse God Society?"

On the side of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains, countless people looked up at the firmament, gazing at the hundred-mile furnace spanning between heaven and earth.

This scene was simply too inconceivable. No one could imagine how the Emperor of Great Yan had accomplished such a feat, and their inner shock could be well imagined.

"Actually, submitting to Great Yan is not necessarily a bad thing. At least in the future, there won't be divine weapons devouring our descendants."

Someone suddenly raised this thought in their heart.

In the past, with the divine weapons suppressing the world, even if they had ten or a hundred times the courage…

they would not dare to give rise to such a thought.

But now, the divine weapons hanging over their heads had already been suppressed. In other words, no matter how exploited they were in the future, they wouldn't have to worry about being devoured.

"Impossible."

"I don't believe it."

"This is all an illusion. Everything is an illusion."

The emperors of the thirty-five nations were exceptionally devastated; they had bet everything on the divine weapons.

They had even proactively initiated a decisive battle with the Reverse God Society, just waiting for the divine weapons to make their final move and sweep away everything.

Yet now they were told that the divine weapons had been swept away?

Not only were they swept away, but they were suppressed by the Emperor of Great Yan, with not a single one escaping. This extinguished the very last trace of 'comeback' hope for these emperors.

"Everyone."

At this moment, an older emperor slowly spoke.

"What we need to consider now is how to treat the Reverse God Society and the Great Yan Dynasty?"

This emperor sighed.

As soon as these words were spoken…

all the emperors fell silent.

"How about… let's surrender?"

The emperor of the Great Chu Dynasty tentatively asked.

In fact, this was also the heartfelt wish of most emperors present.

Although the state and altars were passed down by their ancestors and could not be easily abandoned…

But now, facing the Great Yan Dynasty and the Reverse God Society, their thirty-five nations no longer had any trump cards.

Not to mention anything else, just the strength displayed by the Emperor of Great Yan was enough to massacre all thirty-five nations.

No matter how they struggled, it was merely buying time.

Rather than that, it would be better to surrender proactively; perhaps they could exchange it for better treatment.

"Your Majesty."

Sikong Lun looked up at the figure beneath the firmament and above the furnace.

Although tiny, at this moment in Sikong Lun's eyes, that figure was taller than the entire furnace.

"Alright, everyone."

"His Majesty has already resolved the divine weapons for us."

"Next is up to us: sweep through the thirty-five nations and overthrow the rule of the divine weapons."

Looking at the fanatical army, Sikong Lun immediately issued the order to attack.

With Lin Yuan suppressing the furnace in the sky, depriving the thirty-five nations of any courage to resist, the Reverse God Society and the Great Yan Dynasty rapidly took over the entire battlefield.

Aside from three emperors who fled, the rest of the emperors from the thirty-five nations were all captured.

Sikong Lun did not order the execution of these emperors either; when ruling the territories of the thirty-five nations in the future, these emperors could at least still play some role.

"Did you see clearly?"

"Has that Yan Emperor truly reached the Realm of the Father God?"

Outside the Five Mountains Battlefield, seven or eight figures of Evil Weapons with restrained auras gathered.

These Evil Weapons had never emerged into the world before. This time, because of the decisive battle between the thirty-five nations and the Reverse God Society, they had arrived quietly, yet unexpectedly witnessed such a heaven-shaking scene.

"Even if he's inferior to the Father God, it's not far off."

An umbrella-shaped divine weapon emitted a slight mental fluctuation.

Its completeness reached ninety-five percent, its memories were fully preserved, and it had a general impression of the Ancient God.

"Father God…"

The mental fluctuations of the umbrella-shaped divine weapon spread out. The memories from ten thousand years ago had already become blurry; they only remembered that they were forged by the Father God.

For divine weapons like them, the Father God was everything.

And now, another living being comparable to the Father God had emerged.

Originally, the umbrella-shaped divine weapon thought that this living being would be born among those thirty-six divine weapons.

After all, those thirty-six divine weapons had devoured all living beings for eight thousand years. If anyone in the world was most likely to follow in the footsteps of the Father God, it could only be them.

Never had they expected that the Emperor of Great Yan would appear out of nowhere, surpassing the ten-thousand-year accumulation of the thirty-six divine weapons at a speed incomprehensible to all living beings, forcibly stepping onto that level.

Above the firmament,

Lin Yuan sat atop the Taiji Furnace, hanging high in the sky, as if overlooking all living beings.

The most direct consequence of this was that the conquest of the territories of the other thirty-five nations by the Reverse God Society and the Great Yan Dynasty went unprecedentedly smoothly.

According to normal circumstances, wanting to completely conquer a country required paying a heavy price—

time,

policies,

energy, and so on.

After all, even if you breached the opponent's capital and took over all their territory…

as long as the people of the opponent's capital were still alive, various 'restoration' organizations and factions would be born.

But now,

if you were unconvinced…

or wanted to restore the country…

you could look up at the sky.

Look at the thirty-six divine weapons suppressed to death by the Emperor of Great Yan.

Thus, no matter how patriotic a person was, they extinguished the thought of restoring the country.

After all, to restore a country, there had to be hope.

No one felt that under the gaze of that Emperor of Great Yan sitting high in the heavens, any waves could be stirred up.

Just like that,

while the Emperor of Great Yan sat squarely in the firmament overlooking all living beings,

another twenty years passed.

Atop the Taiji Furnace,

Lin Yuan finally opened his eyes.

"Finally… it's finally done!"

A brilliant glow appeared in Lin Yuan's gaze.

After twenty years of quiet sitting, with the help of the power of the Taiji Furnace, he had finally thoroughly comprehended the essence of the thirty-six divine weapons.

Throughout the ages,

perhaps only that Ancient God from ten thousand years ago had accomplished this matter.

Furthermore, the Ancient God had taken a shortcut back then, and the time taken far exceeded Lin Yuan's.

"Foundation."

"Heritage."

Lin Yuan carefully sensed the changes within himself.

After fully incorporating the rule essence of the thirty-six divine weapons and numerous Evil Weapons into Taiji, although Lin Yuan was still at the Fourth Tier, he vaguely caught sight of the path to the Fifth Tier.

In the Main World, the Third Tier was known as the City-Destroying Class, and a full-strength strike could destroy slightly less than half a city.

As for the Fifth Tier, it was the 'Land-Sinking Class'. Evolvers at this stage could sink land with a single strike, earning them the title of the strongest lifeforms on the surface, and a step further would be the Sixth Tier 'Star-Falling Class'.

"No rush, no rush."

Lin Yuan steadied his mind, temporarily putting aside thoughts about the Fifth Tier stage.

He hadn't even finished walking through the Fourth Tier yet, so thinking about the Fifth Tier was completely worrying needlessly.

"Ancient God."

Lin Yuan's expression fell into brief contemplation.

After thoroughly comprehending and refining the thirty-six divine weapons,

Lin Yuan naturally obtained more memories regarding these thirty-six divine weapons.

The sun moon spear did not have many memories of the Ancient God, after all, it was the eighteenth to be born.

But the tower-shaped divine weapon ranked first, as well as other divine weapons ranked near the top, knew a lot of information about the Ancient God.

Especially that tower-shaped divine weapon, which even knew the place where the Ancient God finally disappeared.

"That place."

Lin Yuan sat atop the Taiji Furnace, gazing into the distance toward the north.

According to the memories of that tower-shaped divine weapon, before the Ancient God disappeared, he had mentioned a few things to it.

The general meaning was—

The Ancient God was actually not a living being of this world.

Rather, due to an accident, he had fallen from another world.

Now that his injuries had healed, he intended to return to his mother world.

As for how to return: before falling into this world, the Ancient God had once used his final strength to tear open a gap at the edge of the world.

Following that gap and crossing the spatial turbulence, one could approach the Ancient God's mother world.

By then, the Ancient God would only need to activate a secret technique to summon members of his clan from the mother world to guide him.

"Other worlds."

Lin Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

Worlds could actually communicate and connect with one another.

As early as the previous world, the Dragon-Tiger World, Lin Yuan had already sensed this point.

The Zhenwu Sword from the Celestial Masters Residence came from a higher world, and the Original Demonic Spirit was the same.

"If I can go to the Ancient God's mother world, wouldn't that mean a single travel can be used twice?"

Thoughts churned in Lin Yuan's mind as he suddenly thought of this.

Without a doubt, the layer of the mother world where the Ancient God resided surpassed the current world.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have caused the Ancient God to extract the essence of heaven and earth rules ten thousand years ago.

If Lin Yuan could go over, he would definitely obtain even greater benefits.

In fact, cross-world actions were extremely dangerous matters.

The Ancient God was an example; when he originally fell into this world, he had almost perished directly.

But Lin Yuan's descent this time was purely a consciousness descent, with no risk of death at all. Even if he perished on the spot, he would merely return to the Main World.

Having thoroughly comprehended the thirty-six divine weapons and numerous Evil Weapons, Lin Yuan had already profited enough. Even if the final trip failed, there wouldn't be any loss.

"No rush for now."

"Let's wait until the last twenty years."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

There were thirty years left until Lin Yuan's 160-year stay limit.

For the remaining time, Lin Yuan prepared to handle the matters that needed wrapping up.

"As for you lot?"

Lin Yuan lowered his head and glanced at the furnace beneath his feet.

After twenty years of repeated refining, the consciousness of the thirty-six divine weapons had long been worn away by Lin Yuan.

Wanting to give birth to new consciousness again would probably take hundreds or thousands of years.

"Shatter."

Lin Yuan's mind stirred slightly.

Cracks began to emerge on the surfaces of the thirty-six divine weapons.

The cracks continuously spread, extended, and split.

In the end, all the divine weapons completely turned into a pile of fragments.

Divine weapons were the external manifestations of the essence of heaven and earth rules.

They could not be destroyed, but Lin Yuan could completely smash them to pieces.

In this way, even if a consciousness was born again in the future, its threat would be far smaller than that of complete divine weapons.

The Five Mountains Battlefield.

Ever since that Emperor of Great Yan forcefully suppressed numerous divine weapons twenty years ago,

this place had become the Holy Land of the world.

Especially after the Great Yan Dynasty unified the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains and established an unprecedented unified state,

countless people came here by reputation every day.

After all, other places were at most just ruins.

Whereas at the Five Mountains Battlefield, one could truly and realistically see the legendary Emperor of Great Yan.

As long as that hundred-mile-wide black and white furnace did not disappear, that Emperor of Great Yan would sit squarely at the top.

And on this very day,

under the gaze of countless people,

that black and white furnace slowly dissipated.