Chapter 247: Pansy

Meanwhile.

Luo City.

Inside a villa.

Chen Changyuan sat alone on the sofa, watching the screen opposite him, which was flickering with static.

Soon, a man's voice rang out from the phone placed on the coffee table.

"Head... Head of the House, we just sent a signal to Chen Jixuan's side, but we didn't receive... a reply."

The man's voice was trembling.

"I know."

Chen Changyuan spoke calmly; after a flash of killing intent crossed his eyes, he revealed no further emotion.

Click.

Chen Changyuan lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly.

"Head of the House, that Bing Yi..." the man's voice came from the phone again.

"No need," Chen Changyuan said.

"He broke through the realm limit in public, which means he has revealed his own value to the world, and Deacon Hu and Chen Xiyuan have both come forward to extend invitations..."

It is unknown whether Bing Yi has a major power backing him.

But it is a foregone conclusion that the other party will receive invitations from major powers.

After the other party formed a blood feud with the Luo Chen, he turned around and killed Chen Jixuan in the blink of an eye.

It is highly probable that Bing Yi hired a powerhouse to assist him; such actions indicate that the other party is no pushover and does not care about forming a blood feud with him, Chen Changyuan.

Chen Changyuan was very calm, yet the fingers holding the cigarette were trembling slightly.

"Time and time again, the collateral branch, Chen Min, Bing Yi, Chen Xiyuan..."

He is the Invincible Son of the Luo Chen, a Sixth-Order Invincible.

Yet during this period, he has been thwarted time and again, encountering situations he cannot handle.

First, Chen Yan, whom he could have killed with a single thought, was taken in by Chen Xiyuan; Chen Xiyuan was practically telling him outright:

I want to fund your enemy, and I will not allow you to kill them.

Later, Bing Yi broke the limit of the rules and grew in secret; perhaps he already has a massive background and will become a great enemy for him in the future.

"Ha..."

Chen Changyuan chuckled.

"Call Yu Changsheng over."

"Yes."

After a while, a young man dressed in white approached; the youth was handsome, and his white robes were printed with an ink-wash painting of mountains.

"Master."

The youth named Yu Changsheng bowed; he was the second-ranked prodigy in this year's college entrance examination rankings.

Second only to Zhang Luobai.

"Changsheng, come here," Chen Changyuan smiled.

Yu Changsheng's expression tightened slightly, and he bowed again.

"Master, this time your disciple will certainly bring back the Youlan for you, to help Master achieve the Seventh Order."

"You have a good heart, disciple," Chen Changyuan sighed softly.

"Only now do I realize that you are the one who puts me most at ease."

"Master..." Yu Changsheng stepped forward quietly, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Yet the next moment, his pupils constricted as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, and he fled toward the door as if flying.

However, the moment his hand touched the doorknob, his body was frozen in mid-air.

"Changsheng..." Chen Changyuan appeared beside him, one hand resting on Yu Changsheng's forehead.

"It is not that Master does not trust you."

Chen Changyuan sighed softly, and a phantom image identical to him emerged from his body, gradually merging into Yu Changsheng's body.

"It is that Master trusts himself more."

The terror in Yu Changsheng's eyes reached its absolute peak, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets, but he still could not change the outcome of having his body seized by this wisp of Chen Changyuan's soul.

"I cannot wait any longer; I have planned for so long, and everything depends on now. How could I feel at ease letting you go to the college entrance examination alone?"

…………

"Are you sure?"

At the Qinzhou Martial Administration headquarters, Zhang Ting looked abruptly at the secretary on the other side of the desk.

"Confirmed. The Martial Administration Department has already sent people there; the entire Luo Chen party has vanished, the warship was reduced to ruins, and traces of freezing were detected in the combat zone."

Zhang Ting narrowed his eyes.

"You suspect that the one who acted is most likely that Bing Yi?"

"Bing Yi definitely acted; we cannot detect how many other reinforcements helped him."

A hint of shock appeared in Zhang Ting's eyes.

"Chen Qianqian and Chen Jixuan are both at the peak of the Origin Realm; that Bing Yi actually dared to intervene in such a battle?"

The secretary remained silent.

Zhang Ting waved his hand.

"Has Shen Yiwei left the city yet?"

"He has left the city, but he is still outside the city and has not gone far."

Zhang Ting nodded, then suddenly sighed softly:

"My junior brother, when will he ever understand my painstaking efforts?"

The secretary was speechless; Zhang Ting had indeed put in a great deal of effort for Shen Yiwei's miserable situation over these past few years.

"Send a small gift to this Bing Yi. Don't make it too public; just express goodwill."

The secretary was stunned:

"Director-General, aren't you suspicious that Bing Yi is the culprit who let the Ancient Dream God-Beast go?"

Zhang Ting shook his head and suddenly smiled mysteriously:

"Do you know who my greatest enemy is after Master passed away?"

"Chen Changyuan."

"Yes, you know that too." Zhang Ting said indifferently:

"You know it, so why is my junior brother so foolish? My suspicion of Bing Yi was, in the end, out of concern that the other party was on Chen Changyuan's side.

Now that this Bing Yi is clearly not on Chen Changyuan's side, there is no need for suspicion."

The secretary nodded, suddenly enlightened.

The next moment, their gaze suddenly narrowed.

"Director-General, are you saying that the person behind the Ancient Dream God-Beast is Luo Chen?"

Zhang Ting stood up and looked out the window at the vast Xiaoyang City.

"After my foster father passed away, no one understood me anymore."

…………

Chen Yan thought as he returned to the training room of the Heavenly Calyx Boxing Tournament.

Suddenly, he felt a strange vibration coming from his spatial ring.

It was the Martial Achievement Tablet.

Shen Yiwei was asking Chen Yan to meet outside the city tomorrow.

Chen Yan noted this down, walked into the training room, and began to organize the day's gains.

Taking out the corpses one by one, Chen Yan followed what he had learned in the past.

He opened the corpses and spatial rings of these Origin Realm martial artists.

Soon, a small mountain of jade boxes, wooden boxes, and test tubes appeared before Chen Yan.

As for some documents, mechanical parts, and cultivation techniques.

After sorting through them, Chen Yan found nothing useful to himself.

Chen Yan picked through them one by one.

"What is this?"

Chen Yan picked up a wooden box with four characters engraved on it: 【Spring-Gathering Potion】.

Chen Yan frowned and opened it.

A scent that disturbed the mind wafted out from the blue liquid inside the wooden box.

"Useless."

Chen Yan put the potion into his spatial ring.

Among this pile of treasures, most were useless things; there weren't many true precious medicines.

The more Chen Yan searched, the more disappointed he became.

"One hundred and fifty-one vials of Chen Family Secret-Crafted Earth-Vein Grade A Wind Spirit Medicinal Liquid, two vials of Azure Vault Grade D Blood-Qi Precious Medicine, and one vial of Azure Vault Grade A Tempering Precious Medicine."

Chen Yan picked out the useful precious medicines.

Suddenly, he saw an object, and his gaze flashed.

It was a red iron canister similar to a thermos; it took Chen Yan a long time to open it.

Boom!

An extremely scorching heatwave instantly erupted from within the iron canister.

Following that, the entire training room turned fiery red, the temperature continued to rise, and Chen Yan deployed Yin-Zhe to suppress the temperature.

He looked inside through the mouth of the iron canister.

Inside, there was actually a blood-colored walnut floating.

Looking at the shape alone, it was indeed a blood-colored walnut, but the blood-qi energy radiating from within it was terrifyingly immense.

Moreover, Chen Yan clearly felt a trace of malice.

The malice of an Ancient God-Beast.

"Scan what this is."

Chen Yan spoke.

In the training room, a female electronic voice rang out.

"Internal database is searching..."

"Detected: This is a blood-qi precious medicine condensed from the essence of ancient beast flesh and blood; the level of energy contained within is equivalent to a Morning Star Grade C Blood-Qi Precious Medicine.

Malice detected, re-scanning..."

Chen Yan frowned; the female electronic voice had actually begun to pause.

Before long, the female electronic voice sounded again:

"Detected: This blood-qi precious medicine was refined using an array; this array is extremely evil and has infused malice into the precious medicine. Please consume with caution."

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at the blood-colored walnut inside the iron canister again.

No wonder he felt the presence of malice.

So, this blood-colored walnut was crafted using a malicious array.

Luo Chen, why would you create this kind of precious medicine?

It is precisely because it contains malice that this Green Jade-grade blood-energy precious medicine was kept by Chen Jixuan and never consumed.

Chen Jixuan can converse directly with Chen Changyuan, so he should be considered high-level personnel of Luo Chen.

The blood-colored walnut might be related to the secrets of Luo Chen itself.

Chen Yan noted this point and stopped thinking about it.

After all, it is a precious medicine equivalent to Morning Star-grade D-tier, so Chen Yan could not waste it.

He had not yet obtained a Morning Star-grade precious medicine.

And...

A normal person certainly wouldn't consume it, but Chen Yan is different.

Word Realm, open!

Will descended, instantly immersing into this blood-colored walnut.

Sss, sss, sss...

Wisps of black smoke flowed out from within the blood-colored walnut.

Very quickly, the malice within it was completely eradicated by Chen Yan.

Begin cultivation!

Chen Yan sat cross-legged, his blood-energy overflowing.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

Inside the cultivation room, each precious medicine of the blood-energy path was wrapped in Yin-Zhe blood-energy, floating in mid-air.

Chen Yan did not intend to cultivate the horizontal-refining path.

After his own Extreme Satin Pattern reached one hundred and eighty-one, Chen Yan clearly felt an extremely intense difficulty.

To cultivate horizontal-refining, one needs an opportunity.

【Hidden Abyss】, open!

Word Realm, open!

Rolling medicinal liquid mixed together, turning into water currents overflowing with various brilliant lights, flowing toward Chen Yan.

Very quickly, it immersed into Chen Yan's body.

This was the first time Chen Yan had cultivated in such a gulping, unrefined manner.

Cultivating like this is fast, but if the physical body cannot process it in time, the resulting trouble will also become greater and greater.

But under the powerful Word Realm, Chen Yan could fully manage to balance all aspects.

Boom, boom, boom!

Streams of intertwined energy torrents exploded within Chen Yan's body.

Roar!

Ice Dragon appears!

The blood-colored walnut is truly worthy of being a Morning Star-grade D-tier blood-energy precious medicine; the energy contained within it is terrifying to the extreme.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, blood-light surged.

【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits were produced one after another!

The particles all over Chen Yan's body also began to accept the casting of blood-energy.

The casting degree began to increase significantly.

Three percent.

Four percent!

Five percent!

The blood-energy on Chen Yan's body grew increasingly powerful, and waves of cold currents continuously spread out with him as the center, occupying the entire cultivation room.

One after another, galloping ice dragons hissed continuously, turning the entire cultivation room into a dragon domain.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

Red light wrapped around the towering tree, and red fruits were quickly produced one by one.

Five!

Ten!

Twenty!

Chen Yan swallowed them one by one, his blood-energy surging, covered in ice, terrifying to the extreme.

Luo City, outskirts.

The sky had already cleared.

A warship hovered high in the sky.

Inside it, a rest cabin.

Qinzhou Military Martial Guard Minister Zong Heng and a girl with twin tails sat on the sofa.

The girl was very beautiful, wearing a very simple white T-shirt, wearing twin tails, eating grapes in her hand while blinking her eyes, looking toward the direction of the cabin door.

Before long.

A figure walked in.

It was indeed Shen Yiwei.

"Little Shen," Zong Heng said with a smile.

Shen Yiwei nodded, speechless in his heart; he had already arranged for Chen Yan to come over, but Chen Yan had not arrived.

However, he could roughly guess that Chen Yan was cultivating.

Shen Yiwei noticed the young woman beside Zong Heng, feeling a trace of surprise that he was actually unable to see through her.

"You..."

The young woman spoke.

Shen Yiwei nodded, but then froze, looking at the young woman in bewilderment.

"Good," the young woman finally finished the last word.

Only then did Shen Yiwei react and sit down.

"I... I... am... called..." the young woman was saying.

To the side, Zong Heng raised his eyebrows:

"Her name is San Jin, my eldest brother's daughter; she has always been in Jin Prefecture and is going to take the college entrance exam this time.

I called her over to let her understand the situation, and also to let you meet her."

Shen Yiwei was taken aback:

"Brother Zong Huang's daughter?"

"Mm."

The look in Shen Yiwei's eyes as he looked at San Jin softened instantly.

"By the way, didn't you say you also brought a junior? Where is that junior?" Zong Heng asked.

"Oh, they are probably still cultivating; they will be here in a while," Shen Yiwei said.

"Is that so? You are still too soft when treating your subordinates who are geniuses; you must use military orders," Zong Heng said dismissively.

Just at this moment, the young woman named San Jin suddenly stood up:

"I..."

Shen Yiwei and Zong Heng fell silent.

"I am going... outside."

San Jin said as she left.

"Eh?" Zong Heng was surprised.

"I... am going... outside."

San Jin said, looking back.

"San Jin, you are leaving just after meeting your Uncle Shen? Your Uncle Shen and your father are..." Zong Heng hurriedly spoke.

The young woman looked over, eating a grape:

"But I... have never... met... my father."

…………

It is unknown how much time had passed.

The casting degree of Chen Yan's Golden Body reached eleven percent.

Chen Yan opened his eyes, only to suddenly discover that the entire cultivation room had turned into a giant block of ice.

Chen Yan was sealed by the freezing ice; just by opening his eyes, the surrounding ice began to shatter.

Crack, crack, crack, crack...

Chen Yan absorbed the surrounding chill, and the ice melted away.

A powerful feeling.

Chen Yan felt the Qi and blood within his body and let out a long breath.

He was at the fifth crossing of the Golden Body, and his Golden Body's capacity for Qi and blood was thirty-three times that of an ordinary Golden Body realm.

Now, it appeared that his Golden Body was only eleven percent cast.

But his overall volume of Qi and blood was already more than three times that of a peak Golden Body realm that was one hundred percent cast.

Moreover, most Golden Body realms could not achieve one hundred percent casting at all, let alone possess the Azure Vault-grade Grade A Yin-Concealment Qi and blood.

"If I were to go and fight Chen Jixuan again in my current state, perhaps I could kill him within ten moves."

Chen Yan whispered; he had actually encountered some danger in last night's battle.

In the end, he relied on the pressure of the Word Realm to shake Chen Jixuan's mind for an instant before he was able to kill him.

"Cannot be complacent."

Chen Yan said softly:

"Chen Jixuan ultimately reached the peak of the Origin realm by relying on the support of a noble family, but during the college entrance exam, some geniuses are also at the peak of the Origin realm.

Their combat power might be able to crush Chen Jixuan."

Chen Yan recalled when he was at the fifth crossing of the Golden Body, various geniuses from all sides came to watch.

The aura radiating from them was not weak.

"Only when I can crush all geniuses with one finger will I be worthy of the status of the Lord of Will."

Chen Yan whispered, and suddenly his expression changed slightly:

"Did I forget something?"