Chapter 1645 - A Hundred Years in the Blink of an Eye

Whoosh!

Waves of demonic qi swept violently through the Demon Realm Passageway.

Within this sealed expanse, boundless primordial qi intertwined with thick demonic miasma, saturating the heavens.

For most cultivators, stepping into this place meant first learning how to extract usable primeval qi from the corrupted mixture. Chen Fan, however, faced no such obstacle.

He drew everything into himself in one breath, channeling it through the Heaven and Earth Furnace. That was enough to refine all demonic qi, vengeful qi, or any other impurities, leaving only the purest primeval qi behind.

Chen Fan scanned his surroundings, slightly surprised.

Although this was a passageway connecting two realms, it was astonishingly stable. It felt less like a tunnel and more like a self-contained realm, stabilized by an unfathomable power. Even clashes between Immortal Emperor titans would not be enough to shatter it.

Chen Fan had come prepared. He knew that he was only on the outer fringe of the Demon Realm Passageway battlefield. The true core lay far deeper, at its very center.

To fortify this front, the Featherlight Sect had constructed a massive super-city inside the passageway, supported by ten major cities and over a hundred auxiliary strongholds. Together, they formed a colossal defensive network designed to block the demon race’s advance.

From afar, Chen Fan could see the terrifying aura of slaughter colliding and rising. Primeval qi and demonic qi crashed into one another without pause.

The carnage here never ceased. The closer one drew to the center, the more violent the fighting became. Even from afar, Chen Fan could sense Immortal Emperor-level beings exchanging blows near the central super-city.

Even from the outer area, he could clearly sense intense battles taking place at all times.

Chen Fan immediately headed toward a city of the Featherlight Sect to find a place to settle down. Along the way, he reined in his aura and altered his appearance, transforming into a broad-shouldered, middle-aged man.

Having cultivated to his level, every fiber of his body was under his control. Altering his form was effortless.

The Demon Suppression lineage’s members were actively hunting him. If discovered, they would show no mercy.

However, after changing his appearance and concealing his aura within the Heaven and Earth Furnace, even an Immortal Emperor behemoth would struggle to perceive him clearly.

Chen Fan arrived at an asteroid zone. Such asteroid zones were widespread across this land, all traces left by the clashes between experts.

“

Gege

, another human came to die.” A sinister laugh suddenly echoed.

A large hand reached out for Chen Fan before he could react to it. A towering demon emerged, its form as massive as a mountain.

“It’s a giant demon!”

Chen Fan immediately recognized the demon’s background. He ran into an early-level Immortal King demon as soon as he arrived. Fortune or misfortune, it was hard to say.

This alone revealed how perilous the Demon Realm Passageway truly was. One misstep meant death. The demon’s colossal palm descended, dark clouds rolling and blotting out the sky, threatening to engulf the entire space.

In his eyes, a mere Half-step Immortal King realm human was like a block of tofu, easily crushed in an instant.

“My luck’s not bad. To think I’d encounter you as soon as I came in. Excellent. I’ll be taking your head.” Chen Fan threw out a punch unhurriedly, shattering the giant demon’s attack.

Simultaneously, a streak of sword light swept out in a flash, slicing cleanly across the demon’s neck. The massive head soared upward, only to be seized midair by Chen Fan.

“That’s one.”

Chen Fan smiled faintly.

Killing an early-level Immortal King demon as soon as he entered was an auspicious beginning.

This giant demon was weaker than Crown Prince Jin. Against Chen Fan, it never stood a chance.

Chen Fan didn’t linger around. His figure blurred and disappeared.

Within the Demon Realm, he shuttled through the cities, killing Immortal Kings of the demon race as he tempered himself.

During this time, he witnessed the brutality of the Demon Realm Passageway.

Humans and demons clashed without respite, a war destined to end only when one side was annihilated. Each day, countless lives were lost, draping the land in tragedy.

Chen Fan also learned the origin of the passageway.

It had been left behind during the demon race’s ancient invasion of the Heavenly Realm. Back then, supreme demon figures intervened, forcibly stabilizing the passageway and preventing its collapse. As a result, the Featherlight Sect was compelled to garrison this place permanently, lest the demons pour through and drown the Heavenly Realm in blood.

This gave birth to the Demon Suppression lineage within the Featherlight Sect. They had many experts in their ranks, all seasoned warriors with overwhelming murderous intent.

Battling the demon race’s experts in the Demon Realm did wonders to temper a person’s will and strength.

Over ten years, Chen Fan killed only five early-stage Immortal King demons. Within this battlefield, Immortal Kings were rare, standing at the apex among combatants.

Immortal Emperors, whether human or demon, were supreme existences and rarely intervened directly. Most of the fighting was carried out by cultivators of the Immortal Platform realm.

Even clashes between Immortal Kings were uncommon.

Chen Fan wasn’t in a hurry, however.

The Demon Realm Passageway battlefield was simply too vast. Even after ten years, Chen Fan had only covered a tenth of its area.

Through constant tempering, his strength stabilized and grew steadily, advancing toward the Immortal King realm with a firm foundation and ever-deepening reserves.

His combat strength also grew increasingly stronger. Even the strongest early-level Immortal Kings were no match for him.

In the blink of an eye, fifty years had passed.

Chen Fan had traversed half the battlefield. Twenty early-stage Immortal King demons had fallen at his hand, and his strength had reached the very threshold of that realm.

Not long ago, a mid-level Immortal King demon had ambushed him, leading to a fierce battle. Ultimately, Chen Fan escaped with heavy injuries.

That fight ignited something within him. He could clearly feel himself drawing ever closer to the Immortal King realm.

Time flowed on.

A full century had passed since Chen Fan first entered the Demon Realm Passageway battlefield.

For ordinary people, a hundred years was a lifetime.

But for martial artists, it was only a single closed-door cultivation, as fast as a snap of the fingers, like it was yesterday.

Over these hundred years, Chen Fan slew fifty early-stage Immortal King demons and even accomplished the unthinkable, killing a mid-stage Immortal King at the cost of severe injuries.

A figure sat cross-legged on an asteroid in the asteroid zone: Chen Fan.

“It’s been a hundred years. My cultivation has reached the peak, and my accumulations are sufficient. I can push for the Immortal King realm now.”

Behind him, the faint silhouette of an ancient, towering tree emerged, bathing him in radiant light and ushering him into a profound state of enlightenment.

Chen Fan’s vitality surged, constantly assaulting the Immortal King realm.