Chapter 204: One of Countless Fleeting Appearances

Tianjiao Trial, Extreme Cold Northern Lands.

Within the Po Saint Realm.

Chen Yan took a deep breath.

The realization in his heart reached its peak at this moment, and the path ahead suddenly became clear.

Crack!

A sudden sound.

The world instantly became Void.

A wisp of Ice Crystal was carried by the cold Wind Element, hovering in mid-air.

Above the Array in the High Heaven, a golden thread of Lightning appeared, stuttering.

Just at this instant.

At this very moment.

In a fleeting second.

Time froze!

All movement and change ceased.

Buzz!

Rustle!

Rustle!

Rustle!

Within the Po Saint Realm, that towering Ancient Tree was shaking incessantly, telling Chen Yan something.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged inside the Ice Chamber, his body motionless.

He knew what his Will Path truly meant to this world.

The Will Path.

Surpassing all previous Martial Dao!

Swish!

And just at this time.

A light flickering between black and white appeared and condensed on a branch of the Po Saint Tree.

A Chaos-Colored Fruit grew out from a bud; it was still very small, as small as a cherry.

Chaos-Colored Fruit!

Chen Yan let out a long breath, looking at the brand-new Fruit.

Looking at that newly grown Chaos-Colored Fruit, Chen Yan did not know its function.

However, regarding the Will Path, Chen Yan's inner realization grew even deeper.

"I finally know what the first Cultivation Realm is."

He murmured, clenching his fists.

"Speak to Heaven and Earth, speak to the self; let the first Cultivation Realm be named after me!"

He looked at the Po Saint Tree, a Smile appearing at the corners of his mouth:

"Yan Realm!"

As his voice fell, the Martial Arts Meridian that had previously Disappear-ed Appeared once again.

"With Will, suppress Heaven and Earth; my Martial Dao will surely surpass all that came before."

In the land of Darkness, the Martial Arts Meridian began to grow, and new tips Appeared one by one.

Yan Realm!

Chen Yan breathed out his ambition, and the moment he spoke this word, the entire Martial Arts Meridian blossomed with a glimmer of light in an instant.

It seemed that the true Cornerstone had quietly come into being at this moment.

A trace of change was gradually imprinted within this world.

The truth had not changed.

Because a new truth had emerged!

Reality World.

The next moment.

Yan Realm, open!

Inside the Ice Chamber, a layer of faint, transparent flowing light gradually appeared on Chen Yan's body, creating a sense of isolation.

Yan Realm.

Chen Yan carefully sensed his own changes at this moment.

He could clearly feel that after opening the Yan Realm, he had become powerful.

But the strength of this power lay in...

1. The Will Pressure is clearer.

His own Will Pressure was already more powerful than the Imperial Dragon Might, and the strength of his current Will Pressure had reached another level.

2. The increase in combat power.

Feeling his entire body's cells instantly activated after opening the Yan Realm, a Smile appeared at the corners of Chen Yan's mouth.

This strengthening was not only in the Horizontal Refinement path, but also in the SoulRefining path, and even the speed of his Brain thinking had been enhanced.

Looking purely at the increase in combat power, it should be a threefold increase.

And in terms of thought processing and Cultivation Technique comprehension

Three times!

Not weak.

Because the Yan Realm was only just pioneered.

It is still incomplete.

It is equivalent to the Seventy-Two Patterns Extreme Forging Realm of Horizontal Refinement, having only opened the first Grain Mark.

A complete Yan Realm is the entire stage from the Yan Jing Early Stage to the Yan Jing Peak.

Chen Yan clenched his Fist, currently he still has a great deal of resources yet to be digested.

After waiting for them to be digested, his combat power will rise to a sufficiently terrifying level.

Within the Po Saint Realm, except for where the Po Saint Tree is located.

There are also Martial Arts Meridians growing alone within the Darkness space.

The current Martial Arts Meridians, after the initial instant of expansion and growth, began to contract.

They turned into a state of only one Meter in height, and the staggered Martial Dao Mieshao were only scattered about seven or eight in number.

The minute Martial Arts Meridians were thus imprinted within the Darkness space, and the light within the tips flickered incessantly.

Chen Yan's Mu Guang sank slightly, looking at a tip that was gradually extinguishing.

Within that tip, there was originally a woman holding a child and constantly evading the pursuit of a Shen Shi.

After watching with her own eyes as her child was swallowed into the belly of that Shen Shi, all of that woman's hope completely collapsed.

She could no longer support her last shred of will.

Clearly, it was only a final shred away.

If the other party had persisted a little longer, perhaps they could have allowed the Martial Dao Mieshao representing themselves to bloom to its brightest.

Perhaps, the other party could have become the second Zhi Yi Zhe besides Chen Yan.

It is just that the other party became completely desperate.

Subsequently, Chen Yan looked at another Martial Dao Mieshao, within which there were changes in the scene.

Inside a house.

A Xiaonan Hai cowering in a filthy cabinet covered his Mouth, not daring to breathe, his eyes filled with abnormal Scream.

Very quickly.

With a clatter.

The door of the room where the cabinet was located was opened.

A figure wearing Black Clothes and a Mask walked out, randomly opened an iron cage in the room, lifted the person lying in the excrement inside with one hand, and dragged them out of the room.

Clatter.

The room door closed again.

The Xiaonan Hai's heart thumped, and he opened the cabinet door to walk out.

This was a larger room, in which nearly fifty iron cages were displayed, and inside every iron cage, there was a person lying within.

Those people in the iron cages saw the boy appear, as if they were accustomed to it; they were one by one numb in expression, having already become completely desperate.

"Zhuang Ang, here is food for you..."

Inside an iron cage, a Little Girl with disheveled hair and a face full of filth handed out half a steamed bun stained with dirty water.

The Xiaonan Hai named Zhuang Ang walked over quietly, caught the bun, and began to eat it in large mouthfuls.

"Thank you." Zhuang Ang opened his Mouth.

"You must survive." The Little Girl spoke softly; although her face was full of filth, that pair of eyes was extremely clear.

The people in this room, batch after batch.

Basically, very few people could survive for a month.

But this Xiaonan Hai named Zhuang Ang, because he was overlooked by the staff, escaped the iron cage and hid in the cabinet in the corner.

He actually managed to hold on for three months.

"I will, I will take you, take you all out together!"

Zhuang Ang spoke, he used all his strength to chew the bun, and the Anger and some kind of unexplainable thing condensed in his eyes were erupting with intense light.

Even though the rest of the people in the iron cages seemed not to have heard, they completely ignored Zhuang Ang.

Only, that Little Girl revealed a naive Laughter:

"I believe in you."

Zhuang Ang spoke again:

"I will!"

The light upon the tip, after the Xiaonan Hai said the three words 'I will', bloomed with the most dazzling radiance, and immediately after, the light gradually became blurry.

Chen Yan sighed lightly.

He could clearly feel the connection between these Martial Dao Mieshao and himself.

He is the Lord of Will, having pioneered the Will Path, stepping out a brand new road for the living beings of the world.

But whether one can step onto this road, Chen Yan is one aspect, and the living beings of the world are another aspect.

Exit the Po Saint Realm.

Bang bang bang bang!

A series of crisp air explosions sounded upon Chen Yan's body.

The moment he stood up.

An invisible Will Pressure spread out, actually suppressing the entire Extreme Cold Heaven and Earth.

His Mu Guang was clear as he looked at the Heaven and Earth in all directions and spat out a long breath of turbid air.

A single Tianjiao Trial actually brought him the feeling of having lived an entire lifetime.

A sense of comfort washed through his heart.

Just at this moment, a Light Curtain slowly descended before Chen Yan.

"Greetings, Senior."

Chen Yan bowed to the figure within the Light Curtain.

"You need not bow to me," Xia Hanzhou said with some hesitation, but Chen Yan had already finished his salute.

Xia Hanzhou's lips trembled as he looked at Chen Yan:

"You are the most Cai Neng Jue Yan genius I have ever seen; throughout the entire Tianjiao Trial, you have also shown me your ambitions, I..."

He remained in Silence for a moment, then continued:

"I represent Daxia and guarantee you that as long as you are in Daxia, no one will be able to pose the slightest threat to your family."

Chen Yan's expression was startled, a slight stir in his heart; just as he was about to speak, Xia Hanzhou continued:

"But your path is one you must walk yourself; I can only protect your family, I cannot say that I can completely protect you."

A glimmer of light flashed in the depths of Xia Hanzhou's eyes.

The ruler of the nation had already requested One-Time Immortality for Chen Yan, and the Xia Clan would even more vigorously protect Chen Yan from the shadows.

But he could not tell Chen Yan any of this.

Everything Chen Yan had achieved along the way, he had relied on himself for.

He feared that if he told Chen Yan these things, it would instead harm Chen Yan.

Yet, he saw the Youth in Black Clothes smile quite calmly:

"If my family is free from worry, that is already enough."

Xia Hanzhou nodded and looked at Chen Yan once more:

"You said I was walking the wrong path; I originally wanted to question you, but in the blink of an eye, you personally eliminated the Malice."

He trembled slightly; the significance of what Chen Yan had done was extraordinary, and even as he thought about it, he found it hard to restrain himself from asking more.

But he held back.

Chen Yan smiled lightly:

"Senior chose to use the Array Path to eliminate the Malice on Chi Mi because the Array Path is the path that most closely approaches Malice."

Xia Hanzhou nodded slightly.

After all, the vast majority of the Malice within Ancient Divine Beasts had transformed into powerful Array Disks within their Eyeballs.

Thinking of this, Xia Hanzhou said softly:

"The reason I chose the Array Path was not because I was certain it would be effective, but simply because I could only choose this one path."

He looked at Chen Yan and said quietly:

"Chen Yan, I have discovered that you possess extremely strong talent in Qi Blood, Horizontal Refinement, Array Path, True Intent, and even the Element Path.

But you are currently already..."

He stopped mid-sentence, as it was absolutely impossible for him to say those words.

Even if it were only a guess, and he had not even verified it with Chen Yan, he could not say it.

Pursing his lips, Xia Hanzhou continued:

"Would you consider giving up a few paths and focusing instead on..."

Chen Yan shook his head:

"I will not give them up; I know clearly the path I must walk."

He did not state it too explicitly.

But the moment the Po Saint Tree appeared beside him, he knew.

He wanted to become the Limit of all things.

Pioneering the Will Path might be incredibly shocking to others.

But who could know...

Perhaps this pioneering of the Will Path was merely one of countless fleeting flashes in Chen Yan's life?

The true meaning of breaking the limit is the infinity beyond infinity, never to be defined by any one thing, any one time, or any one person.

Chen Yan thought to himself.

Within the Po Saint Realm, wisps of Chaos light, existing between black and white, suddenly flickered.

That Chaos-Colored Fruit, which had only just appeared, was quietly growing.

Silence.

Inside the Light Curtain, Xia Hanzhou was Stun for a moment, then gave a bitter Laughter and said:

"That's right, I am not a genius myself, so why bother giving advice to a genius?"

He understood in an instant, then smiled:

"I will find someone to send Lu Xunyang's notes on Cultivation Technique from Daxia to you, and also..."

He continued:

"The college entrance exam is coming up soon; as a Five-Stage General Star, you do not need to take the exam, nor do you even need to study at an academy—everything depends on your own wishes.

However, a Five-Stage General Star is required to serve as a proctor when the exam is held in their home province."

Xia Hanzhou stroked his few remaining whiskers with one hand and said:

"The college entrance exam for your Qinzhou is being held in Xiaoyang City, and there... if I remember correctly..."

"Right, there is another set of Qi Blood Cultivation Technique from my Daxia Four Blood Techniques there; if you can obtain it, then after that Qi Blood Cultivation Technique is combined with 【Qian Yuan】..."

"It will become an even more powerful Qi Blood Cultivation Technique."