Chapter 793: The Savage Ancient Ape

Yuan Yi bared his teeth in a savage grin.

"Even an upstart from the Human Race dares to provoke me now?"

His fangs, as crimson as fresh blood, jutted past the corners of his mouth, sending a chill down the spine of any who looked upon him. His monstrous eyes burned like twin bloodred suns, radiating a terrifying, otherworldly light.

Suddenly, his towering, sky-piercing body shuddered after the outburst, and the fierce light in his eyes dimmed. Within his sea of consciousness, he saw a world forcefully emerging, one filled with strange and wondrous marvels.

In that world, the first to appear were eighteen mid-ranking Demon Gods, many of whom Yuan Yi recognized. These eighteen malicious Demon Gods exuded countless threads of demonic thought. Their presence stirred fear, hatred, envy, and grief within anything they could influence, drowning his mind with extreme emotions.

A flood of chaotic thoughts surged in, crashing into Yuan Yi's sea of consciousness like a vast, unstoppable tide. His once-clear sea of consciousness was instantly defiled, filled with filthy, foreign thoughts that did not belong to him. For a moment, his soul teetered on the edge of madness.

His blood-hued sea of consciousness began to turn dim and gray. The connection between his soul and his body grew sluggish, his effortless mastery over his Dao now faltering and awkward.

"Yuan Yi of the Fey Race."

Threads of thought, gray, silver, blue, and black in color, suddenly coalesced into a figure. It was an illusory figure of Pang Jian.

This illusory Pang Jian stood within the gray sea of consciousness, as if he were the master of this strange and twisted realm, his gaze cold as he stared down at Yuan Yi.

"The Black Empyrean Phoenix, whom you served when you were still a nameless, lowly offshoot of the ancient ape lineage, has already awakened in the Abyss. You were forced to offer her a drop of your blood essence, and her path of nirvanic rebirth is well underway.

"I heard that within a powerful race, only one Sovereign can emerge in a single era. Is that true? If she were reborn and regains power, then tell me, Yuan Yi, what hope is left for you?" Pang Jian asked with a cold smile.

These questions were an attack aimed at Yuan Yi's deepest convictions, a precise stab aimed at his inner defenses.

"Rebirth? Impossible! There is no way she can return!" Yuan Yi erupted in a desperate frenzy, his voice turning into a hysterical roar. Clawing and thrashing wildly, he tore gashes into the void, rending the fabric of space with his terrifying force. "Her era is long gone! This era belongs to me, Yuan Yi! I am the one who will lead the Fey Race into a new age! Junior, if you want to provoke me, then I'll grant your wish!"

In the heart of a cracked continent, the towering ape let out a violent, thunderous roar. A blood-red tide surged from his enormous body, flooding outward in all directions.

The blood-colored tide surged into the sky, staining it crimson, while simultaneously seeping into the earth below, severing spiritual veins and disrupting the very foundation of the Nether Abyss's natural order.

The fundamental laws that had existed since the dawn of the Nether Abyss seemed to be falling apart. The sound of the laws shattering tore open spatial rifts in the void, drawing in countless streams of light from distant worlds.

The once-pure spiritual qi of the Nether Abyss grew tainted as the streams of light laced with foreign energies flooded in. Among these bizarre energies, blood essence made up a significant portion.

The savage ancient ape, whose rampage across the bizarre mist had troubled even the four Sovereigns, was now unleashing his full power, forcibly rewriting the fundamental laws of the Nether Abyss.

Under his control, the World God Pendant had transformed into a deep red continent, layered with masses of flesh and blood. The transformed World God Pendant now exerted an overwhelming suppressive force upon all living beings throughout the Nether Abyss.

Across the Nether Abyss, the hearts of all living beings couldn't help but quicken. Whether they were from the Nether Race, Demon Race, Ghost Race, or Fey Race, no one believed they could remain unaffected by the ape's onslaught.

Above the savage ancient ape's head, a strange, ancient world began to take form, suspended between reality and illusion. Within it loomed titanic and ferocious Fey.

Amid blood-red haze, a colossal elephant with a body that gleamed like molten gold stomped across the starry sky.

A majestic qilin with lightning crackling across its gigantic body gazed down with cold and commanding eyes, observing the inhabitants of the Nether Abyss from another world. It seemed to be on the verge of fully manifesting.

There was also a jade-like moose shimmering with flowing ripples of light, resembling a divine being that ruled over countless hidden domains of water.

A massive toad loomed nearby, mouth agape as it swallowed a sun, its face etched with a look of deep satisfaction.

Dozens of ancient Fey Gods, each with a unique form and an aura both primal and fearsome, were beginning to manifest in full behind Yuan Yi, as if they were preparing to descend into the world.

The continent beneath Yuan Yi was incapable of withstanding the devastating force he unleashed and shattered. The largest continent of the Nether Abyss was instantly torn apart, splitting into nine massive fragments that drifted apart within the deep sea.

Suddenly, the ancient ape struck his own forehead with his fur-covered hand. The blow made his skull crack audibly while his palm burst open, spraying blood.

The ancient ape continued to strike at his forehead, each self-inflicted strike thundered like a violent avalanche. Within the depths of his sea of consciousness, those sounds were magnified dozens of times.

In the ancient ape's blood-red sea of consciousness, a mountain of bloodstained bones rose with an earth-shaking roar. The roars continued one after the other until there were a total of forty-nine skeletal peaks.

The forty-nine towering mountains of blood and bone stood tall within his sea of consciousness, emanating a twisted vitality that filled the space with sinister force.

The bloody peaks glowed like gleaming red agates, their interiors crisscrossed with dense webs of blood-colored lightning.

Qilins, colossal elephants, dragons, and bears, serpents, phoenixes, and cranes; terrifying Fey Gods lost to the river of time, began to appear within the bloodstained mountains. There were the forty-nine most powerful high-ranking Fey Gods in the long and storied history of the Fey Race.

No one knew what methods Yuan Yi had used, but he had somehow imprinted the deceased high-ranking Fey Gods into his mountains of gore.

The ancient ape, born in the Fey Abyss, harbored an unshakable ambition and a vision so vast it dwarfed anything the Fey Race had ever dared to dream.

He intended to gather the bloodline mysteries of every high-ranking Fey God within himself so that he could surpass the Black Empyrean Phoenix and become the strongest Sovereign in the history of the Fey Race.

The Nether Abyss would become the new Fey Abyss. He would rule not only as the supreme leader of the Fey Race within the bizarre mist, but also as the exalted Sovereign revered by the Fey Gods of the Ancient Fey World located in the starry skies.

"What the Black Empyrean Phoenix failed to achieve, I, Yuan Yi, will bring to fruition! Becoming a Sovereign is only the beginning!"

Within the forty-nine bloodstained mountains, the figures of the forty-nine high-ranking Fey Gods, shrouded in crimson light, roared in unison, shaking both the bizarre mist and the starry skies.

A single roar shattered and cleared away the demonic wills of the eighteen Demon Gods as well as the countless thoughts and emotions of the members of the Nether Race from Yuan Yi's blood-red sea of consciousness.

Even Pang Jian was shaken and wounded by that soul-piercing roar. Behind him, the starry expanse he had summoned shattered with a deafening boom.

All eighteen Demon Gods were gripped by fear and began pouring out their grievances to Pang Jian.

What a vicious and domineering ape!

Why did you have to provoke him? Besides the four Sovereigns, he is the strongest around. Why would you choose to antagonize him?

He's gathered the blood essence of forty-nine high-ranking Fey Gods, either from the blood essence those Fey Gods left behind or from their direct descendants.

He's even deciphered the bloodline mysteries that once elevated those Fey Gods. His ambitions are even bigger than the Black Empyrean Phoenix!

These Demon Gods, whose names were inscribed onto the demonic cloak, feared that Pang Jian might turn on them and unleash the terrifying lightning from the Thunder Pool. At the same time, they dreaded being manipulated into attacking Yuan Yi again, only to be slaughtered by him in turn.

After unleashing a single strike, Pang Jian hovered in midair within the Nether Abyss.

Although Pang Jian and Yuan Yi were several thousand li apart, both sides knew that such a distance could be crossed in the blink of an eye.

Even after using the demonic cloak and unleashing a powerful technique he had recently comprehended, Pang Jian had failed to seriously injure Yuan Yi. He was rather awed by the ancient ape's overwhelming might.

Pang Jian quickly calmed himself down. He had only just ascended to the Transcendent God Realm and had done so through an unorthodox method. He was still unfamiliar with his new cultivation realm.

No matter how formidable he seemed on the outside, he was still a newly ascended high-ranking god. It was only through the augmentation of the demonic cloak and the many energies he wielded that he surpassed an ordinary high-ranking god.

As for Yuan Yi? He was an ancient Fey God born of the Fey Abyss, one who had roamed the bizarre mist unchallenged for countless years. No one knew how long he had stood at the peak of high-ranking godhood.

His combat prowess stood just beneath the four Sovereigns. Beyond the confines of the Nether Abyss, his combat prowess likely surpassed Long Di's by a significant margin.

Pang Jian fell silent for a few seconds, taking the time to steady himself, then sharply shouted, "Long Di!"