Chapter 243: When I first met the Invincible Son, I was a bit nervous

Inside the screen.

Chen Changyuan frowned as he looked at Chen Min, who was restrained by steel needles, then looked toward Chen Jixuan and said:

"That Bing Yi, have you dealt with him?"

The first sentence he spoke was actually inquiring about Bing Yi.

"No." Chen Jixuan's expression was somber, a trace of horror surfacing in the depths of his eyes.

Inside the screen, Chen Changyuan narrowed his eyes and simply spat out two words:

"Reason."

Chen Jixuan pursed his lips and hurriedly said:

"That Bing Yi is extraordinary; he slew Chen Huang..."

Inside the screen, a strange glint flickered in Chen Changyuan's eyes.

"Is this Bing Yi truly the one from the Limit-Breaking Contest?"

Chen Changyuan's voice was calm, but at this moment, it clearly carried a tone of interrogation.

If Bing Yi was indeed that newcomer who had achieved a limit-breaking awakening a few months ago, he should not have reached the combat power to slay Chen Huang within these few months.

Time was the most primary issue.

"It is him!" Chen Jixuan, however, hurriedly spoke.

The strange glint in Chen Changyuan's eyes intensified, while the shock on Chen Jixuan's face resurfaced due to the memory:

"Because while he was fighting, he was perfecting his Golden Body; he had only just ascended to the Golden Body Realm at that time.

And...

He reached the fifth crossing of the Golden Body!"

Chen Jixuan's tone rose, and inside the screen, Chen Changyuan's expression turned solemn for the first time:

"Which crossing did he reach?"

Silence.

Chen Changyuan looked at Chen Jixuan, yet for a long time, Chen Jixuan did not speak, as if he had some unspeakable secret.

"Exactly which crossing?!" Chen Changyuan's expression suddenly turned cold, his tone full of an irresistible command.

"The... fifth crossing!"

Chen Jixuan's facial muscles twitched, and at this moment, he actually lowered his head to speak.

Silence.

A long silence.

At this moment, even Chen Changyuan inside the screen had flickering eyes and did not speak.

This person who had always been the number one in the same realm.

Chen Changyuan, who had looked down upon the entire Qinzhou for several years since Lu Xunyang left.

At this moment, he was actually astonished for the first time.

Silence is the moonlit night of this evening.

Beside Chen Jixuan, Chen Min trembled all over, beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down.

The shock in his eyes was no less than Chen Jixuan's.

But it was not horror.

It was that emotion which was complex to the extreme.

Everything he was encountering now was because of Bing Yi.

It was all because of that one sentence Bing Yi said at the Limit-Breaking Contest.

Live with all your might.

At the time, Chen Min had never imagined that his future life would be spent practicing this very sentence.

It seemed to carry mockery.

But it held even more confusion.

He once had the ambition to die for a grand aspiration, but at this moment, he could no longer see clearly what his grand aspiration actually was.

Until a certain moment.

Chen Jixuan inside the screen finally saw his son, who was still struggling:

"Unlock his mouth." Chen Changyuan's gaze turned extremely indifferent once again.

Chen Jixuan hurriedly pulled out a steel needle that was piercing Chen Min's lips.

Blood flowed out, and Chen Min looked at his father inside the screen.

The latter, however, did not say a word.

It was as if he were waiting for Chen Min to answer.

"Father..."

Chen Min spoke bitterly.

The other party had already stated in public that he did not want this son.

In fact, from birth until now, Chen Min had not seen Chen Changyuan many times in total.

The Invincible Son of the Chen clan had always been elusive.

"Speak," Chen Changyuan said:

"What is it you want to do?"

Cold sweat flowed from Chen Min's forehead.

Immediately following, Chen Min became calm, returning once again to the expression he used to have:

"To seek my own ambition."

"What is your ambition?" Chen Changyuan asked.

"What is it?" Chen Min was speechless; he did not know. He used to know, but now he did not.

Just that.

At this moment, a trace of relief suddenly surfaced in Chen Min:

"Seeking the Dao in my heart is my ambition.

I once believed that the Five Clans annihilating the Xia Clan was the inevitable end toward which the era was heading; before the era, living beings were no longer living beings, but matter waiting to be reformed."

Inside the cabin, Chen Jixuan frowned.

On the screen, Chen Changyuan remained calm; this was the first time he had heard his son describe his ambition.

Yet, Chen Min continued:

"Therefore, I assessed the situation, accumulated my own strength, and waited for the era to arrive, so that with my own strength, I could overturn rivers and seas, drastically change the world, and seek a future for all people!"

He spoke with ironclad certainty, speaking with grandeur.

This was what he had sought for over a dozen years!

This was the grand aspiration he was willing to die for day and night!

Chen Jixuan's eyelids twitched wildly; he looked at Chen Changyuan on the screen and remained silent.

During Chen Min's path of growth, Luo Chen had not disciplined him, merely providing resources and letting him display his talent.

Never had he imagined that this child would think this way in his heart.

"But..." Chen Min said in a low voice, smiling bitterly:

"The current me, however, cannot see clearly."

"Why can you not see clearly?" Chen Changyuan's voice rang out, this time carrying a question.

Chen Min looked at the screen, looked at the Invincible One:

"Father, between the life of a blade of grass and the life of a vast sea of forest, which is more precious?"

Chen Changyuan spoke:

"A forest?"

"Is it?" Chen Min shook his head:

"I do not see it.

A blade of grass struggles desperately to live; it does not bow its head, and perhaps it too can become a forest.

That vast, boundless sea of forest, if looked at from up close, might also just be a single blade of grass."

The present, the future.

Chen Min's eyes were filled with confusion.

Cause and effect do not appear; the true self is unclear.

Confusion, questions, questioning Heaven and Earth.

In the end, who is strong and who is weak.

In the end, who is the straw dog?

This is the path he must seek.

He looked at the giant screen; this Invincible One, revered by the world, was at this moment actually deep in thought as well.

The other party could not see clearly either, could not think it through.

The other party, perhaps, did not understand at all.

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Chen Min's mouth; confusion is not terrifying.

If even the confusion were to disappear, that would be truly beyond saving.

He was still savable.

In his mind, a wisp of nascent will seemed to be growing, gradually becoming clear!

It seemed as if only the final layer of membrane remained between truth and Chen Min.

Chen Min was about to see through it!

"Bring him back."

An indifferent voice suddenly rang out, interrupting Chen Min's train of thought.

"Understood."

Chen Jixuan nodded and pierced that steel needle back into Chen Min's lips:

"And after that?"

Chen Min's eyes widened; his own father on the screen was incomparably cold at this moment.

"Kill him."

Two simple words were spat out; there was never a trace of emotional fluctuation in Chen Changyuan's eyes.

"Kill him..." Chen Jixuan's eyelid twitched:

"Chen Min's will is extremely strong, to kill him..."

"It is precisely because his will is extremely strong that once he determines certain things, he cannot be pulled back at all.

If he continues to develop, it would be normal for him to become an enemy of yours and mine."

Chen Changyuan did not care about Chen Min, who was struggling intensely at this moment.

He continued:

"I returned from Jin Province back then and inadvertently found him in a pile of corpses.

I saw then that his physical talent was extremely strong, so I simply brought him back, had his blood changed, and let him become my son."

"It's just that I didn't expect that after cultivating you all this time, I've only cultivated a piece of trash."

From beginning to end, he never looked at Chen Min again, and continued:

"However, his physical talent is truly not to be wasted; after killing him, I will split a wisp of my divine soul to possess this body."

Chen Jixuan took a deep breath and nodded:

"Good."

He looked at Chen Min, who was trembling incessantly beside him, and his expression turned venomous:

"You disappoint me!

I gave you so many chances, warned you so many times, yet how are you so hopeless!"

Boom, boom, boom!

A series of booming sounds resonated from within Chen Min's body.

Accompanying them was the sound of bones snapping, 'Crack, crack, crack.'

The young man, controlled by the steel needles, began to bleed from his skin and flesh, and his eyes turned blood-red.

"I already told you, these are steel needles that can control the Dharma Truth Realm; it's useless for you to struggle."

Chen Jixuan spoke coldly from the side:

"Don't ruin this intact body."

Chen Min's face was twisted, showing his struggle.

His eyes were wide open, as if they were about to spew fire, yet he truly could not resist these steel needles piercing into his flesh.

He breathed with difficulty, his gaze fixed upon that large screen.

Yet, Chen Changyuan never looked at him again.

"Big Brother, how should we deal with Bing Yi after this?" Chen Jixuan continued to discuss Bing Yi with Chen Changyuan.

"No rush; since we cannot kill her, I will wait until I enter the Creation Realm," Chen Changyuan said calmly.

Chen Jixuan was delighted:

"Is there progress on that side?!"

"They have already returned to find me," Chen Changyuan said, standing with his hands behind his back:

"Ten years of planning, waiting only for today.

If I enter the Creation Realm, Zhang Ting, the Xia Clan, or even the Five Clans will not be able to stop me!"

For the first time, a smile appeared on his face.

Thump.

Inside the cabin, Chen Min could no longer stand and collapsed to the floor.

Blood flowed from his entire body, and the steel needles piercing his flesh trembled constantly; every time he struggled, the needles sank deeper into his flesh, making a 'creak, creak' sound.

Excruciating pain, numbness!

Finally, at a certain moment, Chen Min's eyes gradually dimmed, as if he had lost all hope of living.

Creak, creak!

The sound of the steel needles drilling into his bones rang out continuously.

The last shred of will in his body was still struggling.

"Congratulations, Big Brother!"

Chen Jixuan laughed out loud and bowed to the screen.

"Give him some sedative; don't let him ruin the body," Chen Changyuan said.

"Yes!" Chen Jixuan frowned:

"Even the sedative that can control the Dharma Truth Realm didn't knock him out; this is truly..."

And at this very instant.

Chen Jixuan's gaze met Chen Min's.

And at this very moment.

The expression in the eyes of Chen Changyuan on the screen suddenly changed.

Creak, creak!

The sound of the steel needles piercing the bones was still ringing, and Chen Jixuan was still searching for more sedatives.

On the screen, Chen Changyuan's gaze narrowed abruptly before becoming indifferent:

"You certainly have some nerve."

"Not bad," a cold voice replied.

"Who is speaking!" Chen Jixuan exclaimed in shock, suddenly raising his head.

Immediately after, his eyes widened.

He saw that beside him, a figure wearing black clothes and a white mask had appeared out of nowhere.

Bing Yi!

Chen Jixuan's face turned deathly pale in an instant, his heart leaping into his throat.

In a split second, he even forgot that he was at the Half-Step Dharma Truth Realm; the arrival of this Bing Yi, who had just entered the Third Rank, filled him with indescribable terror.

"Bing...!"

Chen Jixuan screamed.

Crack!

A hand suddenly grabbed his neck.

"Shh."

The youth, who exuded a chill like a ghost, raised an index finger to his mask.

"Quiet, show some consideration."

On the deck, Chen Min widened his eyes, his blood-weeping pupils staring fixedly at this figure.

Inside the screen, Invincible Son Luo narrowed his eyes, extremely dangerous.

Only this uninvited guest was still speaking.

"It is my first time seeing Invincible Son, I am a bit nervous."