The Celestial Rune was seized by the youth and no longer belonged to Ye Chen. However, while forcing the Celestial Rune to fuse, the youth made an unknown mistake, causing the rune to fly away!

Moreover, the Celestial Rune seemed like a sentient being. After escaping the youth's control, it unexpectedly merged with Ye Chen, once again transforming into his Path and Law!

"The Celestial Rune has become stronger. It has acquired a mysterious power, stronger than before by tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold!"

The Celestial Rune hung in the sky, casting down Primordial Light, penetrating into Ye Chen's body. In an instant, Ye Chen felt his mind's sea explode, with countless Divine Skills, Secret Techniques, Dao traces, and insights… appearing in his mind, merging with his consciousness.

"The Path of Reincarnation, the Path of Life and Death, the Path of Destruction, the Path of the True Dragon, the Slaughter Path…" Ye Chen's face showed shock and disbelief.

After merging with the Celestial Rune, it unexpectedly fed back to him innumerable information, the information of three thousand paths!

Moreover, this was not just one path, but three thousand paths, three thousand complete paths!

"How, how is this possible!"

Ye Chen merged with the Celestial Rune, the mysteries of the three thousand paths surfaced and were engraved in his mind, becoming part of him.

However, this situation shocked Ye Chen, to the extent that he couldn't comprehend it!

Because he couldn't understand why this was happening?

The three thousand paths are the foundation of the universe, the initial point of all Cultivation Skills!

However, the three thousand paths are too complex and mysterious, human power is ultimately limited, it is utterly impossible to fully comprehend them all!

Ye Chen's Heavenly Emperor Fist encompasses a myriad, yet only contains a few paths!

Moreover, Ye Chen only had a shallow understanding of those few paths, not fully comprehending them.

Yet, the Celestial Rune, once lost and found, surprisingly carried three thousand Dao traces, engraved in his mind, becoming a part of him… such happenings are too bizarre and terrifying!

"Could it be that the Celestial Rune plundered from the youth, and all three thousand paths were stolen?" Ye Chen speculated.

Throughout history, countless remarkable and powerful figures existed, including formidable Transcendence entities.

But aside from the Heavenly Dao, no one has cultivated the three thousand paths, not even the great Transcendence!

Only the Heavenly Dao controls the three thousand paths, only the Heavenly Dao is that transcendent!

But now, aside from the Heavenly Dao, Ye Chen has also comprehended the three thousand paths!

Meshing them requires a process, but with these precious memories, Ye Chen mastering the three thousand paths is only a matter of time!

Ye Chen felt that he profited greatly, the Celestial Rune was so talented, it surprisingly stole from the Heavenly Dao!

"Haha!" The youth looked at Ye Chen and inexplicably laughed. "I didn't expect it to be like this, to come to this end!"

The youth's laughter was strange, filled with a sense of loss, self-mockery, anger… a very complex laugh.

"I didn't expect to entrap myself, to lose the game, and on top of that, to be tricked by this boy!"

The youth's heart was filled with unwillingness because, in this confrontation, he became the loser!

Just as Ye Chen thought, the three thousand paths he comprehended were exactly the three thousand paths of the Heavenly Dao!

The youth seized the Celestial Rune and used the power of the three thousand paths to refine it, hoping to claim the rune for himself.

However, it was all an illusion, the Celestial Rune was never seized by him from the beginning.

The connection between Ye Chen and the Celestial Rune was never severed, this person and rune tricked him!

The Celestial Rune was refined by the youth, observing the three thousand paths, which was indirectly snatching the master's teachings!

The youth did not obtain the Celestial Rune; on the contrary, he was robbed of the three thousand paths, what a great loss in this deal!

"A crushing defeat!"

The Heavenly Dao youth lowered his head, looking at his abdomen, and the self-mockery on his face intensified.

The youth's abdomen was gone, completely disappeared, a gaping void, as if pierced through by something.

However, though the youth's body was pierced through, no blood flowed out. Moreover, rather than blood, the youth's body was enveloped in brilliant colors! Wisps of starlight drifted from the youth's wound, resembling fireflies.

Nevertheless, perhaps due to the wound, the youth's aura was disrupted, and he weakened!

The Heavenly Dao is surprisingly weakened?!

"It's a pity this is just an avatar, the power wielded is extremely limited, otherwise, I would still want to try again!" The youth's aura weakened further, yet his eyes grew brighter. Moreover, looking at the Celestial Rune, he still harbored the desire to claim it!

"Whose power is it, which destroyed my Dao body? To whom does it belong?" The Heavenly Dao youth looked at the Celestial Rune, his face showing confusion.

The Celestial Rune is Ye Chen's Dao, but the newly formed path poses no threat to him!

The power that pierced through the youth's Dao body does not belong to Ye Chen!

However, such power slumbered within the Celestial Rune, a different kind of karma with Ye Chen!

Earlier, the youth mentioned that Ye Chen bore two types of karma, one belonging to the Heavenly Dao, and another that was not part of the Heavenly Dao, yet was no weaker than the Heavenly Dao!

But, the Heavenly Dao reigns supreme over the universe, revered in the Primordial Light, who could stand shoulder to shoulder with it?

For a moment, the youth was confused, feeling bewildered and unable to comprehend!

"Boom!"

At this moment, the Celestial Rune erupted terrifyingly, radiating with the power of the three thousand paths, causing heaven and earth to boil.

"The Hidden Three Thousand Paths, Celestial Emperor returns!" Ye Chen looked towards the Celestial Rune, his momentum becoming horrifying.

With Ye Chen's great shout, the Celestial Rune trembled, shrinking as it fled towards Ye Chen.

Eventually, the violent torrents in the sky completely dissipated, the Celestial Rune hovered over the heavenly court, seated within Ye Chen's life palace.

Boom!

Boom!

At the instant the Celestial Rune entered his body, Ye Chen's muscles and bones resonated loudly, like the muffled sound of thunder.

At this moment, Ye Chen underwent an astounding transformation, with his bones becoming denser, emitting a golden radiance!

Moreover, his blood became as thick as lava, with runes emerging within it, exuding a regal aura.

As Ye Chen's bones and blood underwent transformation, his flesh was also evolving. Golden runes were born, buried between Ye Chen's flesh, causing his body to change.

Gradually, a golden glow emanated from Ye Chen's skin, among which runes blossomed, appearing very transcendent.

"The young tiger has eaten its fill, grown up, and become a strong tiger!" The boy observed Ye Chen's transformation, feeling a wave of emotion.

The boy was the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, his will radiating across all worlds; what kind of genius had he not seen?

But such a monster like Ye Chen, he was seeing for the first time!

Ye Chen's monstrosity lay not only in his achievements but more in his age!

Ye Chen had been cultivating for only a few decades!

To the strong, decades are but a brief moment!

Yet, in just a few short decades, Ye Chen carved out a new path, becoming an epic existence!

This pace of growth was too fast, even frightening the Heavenly Dao.

"Just now I called him a weak chicken, now he's a Menghu. Next time we meet... won't he be able to fight me?" The boy looked at Ye Chen, unable to keep calm.

Ye Chen's growth was too fast; having just undergone nirvana and sublimation, he could challenge epics, and in the blink of an eye, he became an epic! Things like unstable foundations and difficult bottlenecks were mere jokes in Ye Chen's eyes!

"This child is truly incomprehensible, his understanding, mind, and sense of the Dao are all incomprehensible!" the boy exclaimed.

Ye Chen is an incomprehensible existence, not only to the world but also in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao!

"I've taken one big step forward again!"

At this moment, Ye Chen's eyes shone brightly, illuminating the entire world as if eternal.

"The young tiger has become a Menghu at such a pace!"

Although the boy had anticipated it, seeing Ye Chen's aura, he still couldn't help but be astonished.

At this moment, Ye Chen was no longer a chicken or a frog, but a Menghu, second only to him!

"Why!"

Ye Chen's aura surged, like a demon, like a god, approaching the boy, he asked.

"Why what?" the boy replied nonchalantly, his aura weak, yet still transcendent.

"Why support me?" Ye Chen asked.

The Heavenly Emperor's runes brought three thousand Dao collections, all fed back to him, allowing him to comprehend the cosmos, understand all, gaining unparalleled enhancement!

At this moment, Ye Chen had grown to the limit, fearless even of great evil, becoming a cosmic giant!

But why did the Heavenly Dao support him?

The Heavenly Dao is the will of the universe, governing all under heaven. If it wished to interfere, Ye Chen couldn't have achieved this!

"You think I want to support you?" The boy smiled bitterly.

"Do you not want to?" Ye Chen asked, surprised.

"Want my ass, who the heck wants to support you, I even want to kill you!" The boy's face changed, roaring in anger.

"..." Ye Chen blinked, feeling quite wronged, what was this situation?

"Your growth is too fast, simply unprecedented, the first throughout history!" The boy said. "However, I think you're in trouble, and it's big trouble!"

"What trouble could I be in?" Ye Chen felt a chill in his heart.

"There are two causes and effects on you, one belonging to me, and one to someone else!" the boy said. "The cause and effect belonging to me should be for the main body, I don't know much more! But the other one is terrifying, it doesn't belong to me, but its power is strong, no weaker than mine!"

"Moreover, the power of that cause and effect lies within the Heavenly Emperor's runes, ready to erupt at any time!"

"Earlier, I tried to integrate the runes and suffered a backlash, my Dao body was shattered! That's not your power, but the power of that cause and effect!"

"You're targeted by a great existence!" the boy said very seriously. "Moreover, that existence is likely rearing you, waiting for you to become powerful and invincible, then to plunder all you have!"

"Really?" Ye Chen's mind was a bit dazed.

"Would I lie?" the boy's tone turned cold.

"The Heavenly Dao is the most rigorous existence, naturally it wouldn't lie, but why are you telling me?"

As the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, the boy, being the foremost entity under heaven, naturally wouldn't lie. But the boy harbored animosity towards him, so why tell him so much?

"Simple, to make you afraid!" the boy said.

"And what if I'm afraid?" Ye Chen said.

"The strong have hearts higher than the heavens, controlling themselves, above all!" the boy said. "But, with such enormous cause and effect on you, unable to control your fate, living in constant terror... isn't that tragic?"

"So what?" Ye Chen frowned.

"What can a strong man do if he can't even control himself?" the boy laughed.

"You want to ruin my Dao heart!" Ye Chen said coldly.

"That's right!" the boy did not deny.

"You're admitting it just like that, aren't you afraid I'll kill you?" Ye Chen suddenly looked at the boy, exuding a dominating presence.

"You kill me?" the boy was taken aback.

"Nonsense, of course, I'll kill you. Or would you kill me?" Ye Chen snorted arrogantly.

"I am the Heavenly Dao, can you kill me?" the boy paused and then laughed.

"What about the Heavenly Dao?" Ye Chen said with confidence. "If I want to kill, I can kill!"

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PS: I fell asleep while writing yesterday... This is the first chapter, the second will be in the afternoon.

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