"Comrades, let us embark on the path to heaven!" Dugu Baitian declared loudly.

"Haha, that's right. We didn't come back from across vast stretches of time just to see you old monsters who never die," an ancient god laughed.

"They're all old fogies, all old monsters, we're all the same." The Ghost Lord smiled with narrowed eyes, still appearing as a tall giant, seemingly always at his peak.

Buzzing~~~

The Gate of Reincarnation, which originally belonged to the Demon Lord, shone with dazzling light. It closed the original Gate of the Starry Sky and opened a new, endlessly deep passage, the destination of which was unknown. It resembled hell or an abyss.

"Farewell, Six Paths!" the gods roared in unison, seemingly filled with boundless longing.

Rumble...

The starry sky dimmed piece by piece, as if the unseen ruler was enraged, accelerating the destruction of the universe. Space was annihilated, forever plunged into darkness, and returned to chaos.

"Repair my sword, slay my way to the heavens, shed my blood, and charge forward without hesitation..."

The war song resounded through the starry sky. After gazing at the six realms, the ancient gods, filled with endless longing, turned back without hesitation and stepped into the incomparably deep passage one after another. Then their figures began to disappear.

Chen Nan flew over, also wanting to follow the ancient god on the path to heaven.

"Come back." The demonic Chen Zhan grabbed Chen Nan and threw him millions of miles away, forbidding him from embarking on the Path to Heaven.

"Father!" Chen Nan cried out urgently.

"Go back," the demonic Chen Zhan said coldly, blocking Chen Nan's path.

Cao Ya had been observing from the sidelines, but he didn't have the idea of ​​directly ascending the Heavenly Road to fight the evil Heavenly Dao. There was no way around it; his strength was still too weak. Cao Ya felt that going there would only be suicide. He wanted to lie low for a while longer and wait until his strength increased before he would have the confidence to ascend the Heavenly Road and step into the Nine Heavens to slaughter the evil Heavenly Dao.

However, listening to the resounding battle song, at this moment, Cao Ya couldn't help but feel an urge to immediately follow them and embark on the path to heaven to fight against the evil Heavenly Dao.

But he managed to control it.

Because he knew very well that this battle to slaughter the heavens was not the most crucial one. The battle to come would be the one that would determine the life and death of the universe. The time in between was perfect for him to cultivate, improve his cultivation, and increase his chances of winning and surviving in the future.

The dozens of ancient gods who returned were all Heavenly Realm experts, including many at the peak of the Heavenly Realm and advanced Heavenly Realm.

Of course, there are also intermediate and beginner levels of the Heavenly Rank.

They once fought to the death, and now they have been resurrected. Their only thought is to continue fighting to the death, risking their lives and shedding their blood, until the very end!

The main reason is that they also feel that their cultivation level has basically reached its limit. Let alone within a few thousand years, even if it takes ten thousand, fifty thousand, or even a hundred thousand years, it will probably be difficult to make significant progress.

In this situation, it would be better to go and slaughter the heavens, contributing their strength to the great cause of conquering the heavens.

Having entered the system space, Cao Ya felt that he had the possibility of continuing to improve his cultivation, and even if he reached the heaven-defying level, it was not without hope.

Therefore, Cao Ya's choice was quite different from theirs.

Having a few hundred more years to cultivate is a good thing; it must be seized and not missed.

We must grasp both winning and survival, and do both well.

Cao Ya wants both!

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However, Chen Nan's thoughts were different from Cao Ya's. He longed to follow the gods now, embark on the path to heaven, and fight against the evil Heavenly Dao.

However, the demonic Chen Zhan firmly disagreed.

"Go back!" Demonic Chen Zhan repeated these two words, without saying anything more, but showing his firm attitude.

"No, I want to fight alongside you!" Chen Nan's attitude was also resolute.

"Go back!" The demonic Chen Zhan only uttered these two words, but he hesitated slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he quickly stopped.

In the distant starry sky, a divine light flashed, and a heroic and imposing young man with a calm and dignified demeanor appeared before the Gate of Reincarnation, arriving in front of Chen Nan in one step.

"Father," Chen Nan said in a hoarse voice, his eyes instantly welling up with tears.

"Child, go back." The young man didn't look very old, but he was incredibly steady. When he saw Chen Nan, his eyes welled up with tears.

This person is the divine Chen Zhan, also the more normal Chen Zhan.

The ruthless and demonic Chen Zhan is clearly not normal.

Cao Ya watched the touching scene of Chen Zhan and his son Chen Nan reunited and sighed inwardly.

On the other side, a group of ancient gods were also ascending the Heavenly Road one after another. Chu Xiangyu and the Ghost Lord entered the passage inside the Gate of Reincarnation immediately, seemingly clearing the way. However, Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord lingered outside for the time being, as if they had some work to do.

Cao Ya noticed that after Dugu Baitian unleashed several beams of divine light that disappeared into the depths of the shattered starry sky, he turned his head and glanced at Chen Nan from afar. A hint of tenderness flashed in his eyes, but it was fleeting.

Then, Dugu Baitian no longer lingered and resolutely embarked on the path to heaven. His back stood tall, seemingly supporting a whole world, but he was not alone, because he had many comrades-in-arms by his side.

Beside him, a woman emerged from the inner world of the divine Chen Zhan. She was beautiful and looked at Chen Nan with a kind expression. Compared to Chen Zhan and his son Chen Nan, Chen's mother couldn't help but shed tears, embracing Chen Nan and saying:

"Xiao Nan, my child, you have suffered for ten thousand years, your mother and your father..."

"Mother." Chen Nan finally couldn't hold back anymore and cried like a child, hugging his mother and his father, sobbing loudly.

Ten thousand years of death, the vast changes of the world seen after the cemetery was revived—all of this filled Chen Nan with a sense of loneliness. He still saw himself as a being from ten thousand years ago, who had somehow been resurrected ten thousand years later.

Cao Ya sighed, walked away, and left the space to the Chen family members who were reunited after a long separation.

It was truly a long-awaited reunion, after all, ten thousand years had passed.

However, Cao Ya sensed that the cultivation level of the Divine Chen Zhan seemed to be much stronger than that of the Demonic Chen Zhan.

If the demonic Chen Zhan is at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Rank, then the divine Chen Zhan is practically a god-defying being.

I was fortunate because, within the system space, these conflicts between different systems of power were weakened, or even completely eliminated...

Cao Ya sighed inwardly. Chen Zhan was a single entity with two separate bodies, each with a completely different temperament: one divine, the other demonic; one righteous, the other evil. Naturally, this would lead to a tremendous conflict when the two bodies were to merge.

Of course, the divine Chen Zhan is more powerful and can generally suppress the demonic Chen Zhan.

Finally, under the persuasion of the divine Chen Zhan and Chen's mother, Chen Nan's idea of ​​ascending to heaven was finally extinguished.

"Child, go back. Even if the Six Paths are shattered, there is still a sliver of hope for survival. But the Path to Heaven is a one-way street. Once you step onto it, there is no turning back!"