Logically speaking, under such circumstances, Ye Chen should have been dead without a doubt.
Although the Eternal Great Tribulation had reached its final step, he was still not one hundred percent truly Eternal, lacking that final thread. With two Eternal Heavenly Venerates making their move, death was certain.
Yet, why was he not dead?
Ye Chen did not understand.
In that extreme situation, he had actually managed to survive.
Soon, he understood.
It wasn't that the two Eternal Heavenly Venerates had failed to kill him completely, but that at the very last moment, he had fully stepped into the Eternal Realm.
Moreover, once one ascends to Eternity, even an Eternal Heavenly Venerate cannot completely extinguish them.
At that time, the two Eternal Heavenly Venerates had only shattered ninety-nine percent of his divine soul and True Spirit. They had not utterly annihilated them; instead, those fragments of divine soul and True Spirit had been pulverized into dust-like particles, so minuscule as to be nearly negligible, and were driven into every single corner of this body.
If, at that time, the two Eternal Heavenly Venerates had been able to completely annihilate his physical body, he would have truly been dead without a doubt.
"I am not dead, but what difference is there from being dead?"
A bitter smile tugged at the corner of Ye Chen's mouth.
Because in this state, he was essentially completely crippled. Even though he had once been a true Eternal Supreme Heavenly Venerate, it was useless now. Wanting to reclaim his heavenly position was simply unrealistic.
After all, that ninety-nine percent of Eternal Heavenly Soul and True Spirit fundamentally could not be reassembled; it was as good as non-existent.
The only bit of luck was that this seemingly crippled body of his still possessed a heaven-defying amount of power.
Ye Chen estimated that he should still have combat power at the level of a colossus from antiquity.
That was not bad either.
However, his life had essentially reached its end like this.
It was basically impossible for this crippled body to recover.
Because his body was filled with the Eternal Heavenly Rules of the two Eternal Heavenly Venerates, difficult to erase, preventing his ninety-nine percent of divine soul and True Spirit from coalescing again.
It was precisely because he had stepped into Eternity at the final moment that he could endure it. If it were anyone else, even an Overlord of the Supreme Realm, a body containing so many Eternal Heavenly Rules would undoubtedly perish, utterly unable to withstand it.
And it was precisely these infinite Eternal Heavenly Rules that obstructed the return of his ninety-nine percent of Eternal Heavenly Soul and True Spirit, resulting in him being crippled as he was now.
"Forget it. A living dog is better than a dead lion. Being able to survive is lucky enough; I cannot hope for too much." Ye Chen sighed and stood up.
His body was tattered and torn. He violently devoured the Great Dao power of the Origin Land, which was filled with endless Eternal power and Great Dao rules, covering hundreds of millions of miles and directly pouring into his body.
Gradually, Ye Chen's body recovered.
But it was only the most superficial healing; in reality, the injuries remained.
Yet for the current Ye Chen, being able to achieve this step was already remarkable.
He appeared young and majestic, standing where the collapsed demon mountain had originally been. Though unintentional, his body still emanated a terrifying blood qi that crowned the heavens, carrying an unparalleled bloodline pressure.
This made the various supreme powerhouses observing this place shudder.
It seemed the powerhouse who had slain the Demon Emperor was no simple figure. Judging by his blood qi, he was likely at least a Giant-level existence.
"Although crippled, the only fortunate thing is that I have still entered the Origin Land and can see my wives and children again."
Ye Chen still felt some satisfaction. Having cultivated for an epoch in the Deficient Primordial Realm, even successfully charging towards the Eternal Heavenly Venerate realm, even though he was now crippled, what was the ultimate goal if not to reunite with his family?
Now, wasn't there such an opportunity?
He just didn't know where his wives and children were.
But having waited for an epoch, a little more time didn't matter. He would slowly find out in the Origin Land.
Boom—
Ye Chen soared into the sky. Even though the power within his body was now sealed by the Supreme Heavenly Rules of the two Eternal Heavenly Venerates, his physical body was still powerful, and soaring was not a problem.
Soon, his figure vanished.
Relying on his formidable cultivation, Ye Chen traveled through this Origin Land.
As powerful as he was, he could naturally easily learn all sorts of information.
The Origin Land was boundlessly vast.
At its core, located at the very center of the Origin Land, were the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.
This division was similar to the former Eternal Heavenly Realm.
The division of the Thirty-Three Tian Domains had existed since ancient times.
Even after the great battle of the Twilight of the Heavens in the past, it had not changed.
Of course, several Tian Domains no longer had corresponding masters now.
Currently, only twenty-seven of the Tian Domains still had the Eternal Heavenly Clan present.
The six Eternal Heavenly Clans, even though they had inherited the legacy of Eternal Heavenly Venerates, had perished from the world over the endless ages.
Although the Thirty-Three Tian Domains were vast and boundless, they were only the core territory. The lands outside the Thirty-Three Tian Domains were even more boundlessly vast, far more expansive than the Deficient Primordial Realm.
It was hard to imagine that this was truly a single land, terrifyingly vast to such an extent.
Although the Thirty-Three Tian Domains were the true core, and the majority of the super-powerful beings in the Origin Land were within them, it did not mean there were no true powerhouses outside the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.
On the contrary, outside the Thirty-Three Tian Domains, there were also countless powerhouses, far more numerous and powerful than in the Deficient Primordial Realm.
At the very least, Supreme Ones, scarce in the Deficient Primordial Realm, were not exactly common in the Origin Land, but they could be seen from time to time.
Even Quasi-Giants and colossi from antiquity were not few in number.
Along the way, Ye Chen encountered quite a few top-tier powerhouses of these levels.
Of course, compared to the rough distinctions in the Deficient Primordial Realm, the Origin Land had more detailed classifications.
Supreme One (Heaven-Touching), Quasi-Giant (Heaven-Mending), Colossus from Antiquity (Heaven-Piercing), Primordial Giant (Supreme Void), Half-Step Overlord (Supreme Truth), Overlord (Supreme).
This was because, upon reaching the Supreme One level, one began to touch the true Heavenly Dao and started to grasp Heavenly Dao power.
For example, in the Deficient Primordial Realm, a Supreme One was an existence of the Heavenly Dao.
Therefore, in the Origin Land, Supreme Ones were also called the Heaven-Touching Realm.
Of course, in the Origin Land, only Eternal Heavenly Venerates were the true Heavenly Dao, self-contained Eternal Heavenly Daos, great existences on equal footing with the Origin Land itself.
The current Ye Chen, in his crippled state, still possessed power at the Heaven-Piercing level or above, perhaps even stronger.
He was now located in the borderlands of the Origin Land, an immeasurable distance from the core Thirty-Three Tian Domains, even farther than the distance from the borderlands of the Deficient Primordial Realm to core places like the Pangu Universe.
Moreover, the spatial stability of the Origin Land was even more solid than the absolute space of the Chaos Sea in the Deficient Primordial Realm.
Therefore, even a Heaven-Piercing level Giant could not hope to reach the core Thirty-Three Tian Domains in a short time.
This was somewhat troublesome. If he truly wanted to go to the Thirty-Three Tian Domains, he probably could not hope to truly arrive in a short time.
This was precisely what troubled Ye Chen.
However, he also felt quite helpless.
Ye Chen traversed the Origin Land, relying on his sufficiently powerful physical body and his special sensitivity to the world, tearing open the absolute space and soaring through it time and again.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally arrived at a Ten Thousand Ancient Metropolis named Heaven-Mending City, located at the edge of the Thirty-Three Tian Domains.