Chapter 258: But I Wish to Be the Most Brilliant Torch

High above in the sky.

Chen Xiyuan looked at Chen Yan with joy in her eyes, while Deacon Hu beside her had a gloomy expression.

"How exactly did this An Yunan break through the limits of his realm?

By willpower alone?"

Deacon Hu felt that something was wrong with the whole situation.

If An Yunan had broken through the realm limits solely by willpower, but his own courage was lacking,

then even if he entered the main branch of the Chen Clan, he would be nothing more than a bully who only knows how to fight within his own house.

"Though, as for Chen Yan..." Deacon Hu stopped mid-sentence.

He had to admit that today, this collateral branch member Chen Yan had given him one surprise after another.

Outstanding!

Far too outstanding!

"Chen Yan has always been extraordinary!" Chen Xiyuan smiled lightly:

"If it weren't so, I would not have chosen him."

As she spoke, her gaze suddenly flickered.

Because beside Chen Yan, the twenty-fifth mark appeared!

"He's tied with Chen Changyuan!"

"Yes, he has matched the record of the Chen Clan's invincible prodigy, Chen Changyuan!"

"How impressive, this Chen Yan also possesses the ambition to be invincible in this world!"

"Except for his aptitude being slightly inferior, in all other aspects he is no less than Chen Changyuan!"

Sounds of shock rang out one after another.

At this moment, all living beings within the entire Xiaoyang City looked toward the name on that massive ranking board.

Today, the name of Chen Yan resounded throughout Xiaoyang.

…………

Of all this, Yu Changsheng knew nothing.

Within his mind, a door had emerged.

His eyes turned scarlet, his breathing became rapid, and sweat broke out all over his body.

He had actually begun to feel nervous and afraid.

Decades ago, he had not taken this step, which was why he would always be inferior to Lu Xunyang.

Today, borrowing Yu Changsheng's body, he faced this door once again.

He began to hesitate and fear once more.

"Hahahahaha!!!"

A burst of loud laughter rang out.

Outside, although Yu Changsheng still had his eyes closed, his body began to tremble violently.

…………

Chen Yan held his breath and focused, his eyes tightly shut.

Within his mind, the illusion also evolved into a door.

A door that was pitch black.

Rustling sounds arose from behind the door.

Billions of murmurs; even before the door was opened, that inexplicable fear had already struck.

Chen Yan took a deep breath.

He walked slowly, arriving before the door.

Strands and waves of chill emerged from the bottom of his heart; the closer he got, the more terrified he became.

Fear is something everyone possesses.

No matter how strong a person is, they will still have such emotions deep in their heart.

Chen Yan walked up slowly and placed his hands on the door.

Creak.

Open!

What appeared behind the door...

Was a universe!

Infinite darkness, an endless starry sky.

Suddenly!

Ten centimeters from Chen Yan's head, an incomparably massive eyeball covered the entire universe.

This eyeball was boundless, as if a star had suddenly smashed into his face.

In an instant, Chen Yan's breathing faltered.

Because this eyeball was extremely vast, and that giant pupil had not yet noticed Chen Yan.

Crack!

The pupil within the eyeball suddenly split into two halves.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

The newly divided pupils split again, continued to split, and kept splitting...

Upon the giant eye, billions of pupils instantly split out.

Fear, an inexplicable, grand, and indescribable fear, surged forth.

Is this the second trial of the Time Domain Phoenix, the test of courage?

This immense sense of being stared at was incomparably terrifying.

It was precisely at this moment.

One of the billions of split pupils slowly twisted and looked toward Chen Yan.

Immediately following, billions of eyeballs looked over in unison.

Chen Yan clenched his fists tight; as this eyeball, vast as the universe, locked onto him, a bone-chilling cold gradually spread.

"It really is terrifying."

Whoosh...

Chen Yan's breathing became deep and heavy.

"But I am the Master of Will."

He whispered in his heart:

"But I possess a heart containing endless light."

He stared back, meeting the gaze of those countless pupils, meeting the gaze of this eyeball that occupied the entire universe.

This voice escaped into the void, into the heart and lungs, into the end of all things.

Spoken to himself, spoken to the world.

At the instant this sentence dissipated in his heart.

That enormous eye vanished in an instant.

Immediately after!

Hum!!!

Outside.

Streaks of red light converged before Chen Yan, appearing like trickling streams, yet also like flood dragons imbued with life.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Outside the trial space.

Powerful auras emerged; dozens of figures appeared from all directions outside the trial space, looking toward where Chen Yan was inside.

Shen Yiwei and Zong Heng appeared, flying in from outside the city.

Zhang Ting, the Chief of the Qinzhou Martial Suppression Division, along with experts from various departments of the Martial Suppression Division, all appeared together.

Experts from the Military Martial Guard and the Aristocratic Family Alliance appeared!

Pairs of eyes looked toward Chen Yan.

Their faces bore astonishment.

Because of a number.

Twenty-seven.

That was the record once created by Lu Xunyang, the record of Qinzhou, and even the record of the Great Xia.

For so many years.

Today, it seems someone is about to break it!

Inside the hidden space, Chen Xiyuan's delicate body trembled, her eyes watching in shock.

She had not expected it to be like this.

Hum!

The humming sound resonated, and the red light converged.

Before Chen Yan, a brand-new red Dao-Severing Seed...

Appeared!

The twenty-sixth one!

All sounds fell silent.

Even over on the side of Li Guo, who was being hunted, things went quiet.

Zhu Lili stood up, looking toward Chen Yan in disbelief.

Behind Chen Yan, the girl with twin ponytails, San Jin, stared blankly, her red lips slightly parted.

Hum!

The twenty-seventh one!

Silence.

No one spoke.

All were stunned.

The entire world seemed to have only Chen Yan left in it.

Boom!

A sound of roaring blood energy rang out.

Outside the trial space, someone erupted with blood energy.

"What are you doing!" Zong Heng growled:

"Seeking death?"

That person's face instantly turned deathly pale:

"I... I couldn't help it."

The crowd was speechless, but their hearts were incomparably terrified.

Could it be that another Lu Xunyang has been born?

No, that's not right; Lu Xunyang was in the first stage, the aptitude test, and ranked outside the top thousand...

…………

Within Chen Yan's mind and spirit.

The moment after the eyeball dissipated.

Hum!

A stone wall carved with bizarre creatures replaced the position of the eyeball, and the bizarre creatures on the stone wall suddenly began to twist slowly.

Branches of indescribable colors were drawn out from within the stone wall, swaying.

When one of the branches was about to turn toward Chen Yan.

This stone wall, this monster, these branches filled with the unknown and the ominous noticed the tiny living being staring back at Him.

But this living being was right there, looking at Him.

At this moment, fear struck, yet Chen Yan still faced it.

Sss!

The stone wall vanished.

Immediately following.

A pitch-black ocean rolling with dense, ugly insects surged over, and upon a small island within it, there was a bizarre building impossible to describe.

All the staircases, walls, and gardens on this building were presented at strange angles.

Inside a certain dark room, a perverse blood-eye that should not have existed suddenly opened.

Chen Yan's body was trembling; this was not fear from the soul, but fear from the depths of the flesh.

He felt as if he were being annihilated, disappearing.

At one moment, he truly forgot that this was an illusion.

He forgot that he was still undergoing the trial of the Time Domain Phoenix.

All of this was incomparably real.

He was a human, a human who had witnessed all the terror with his own eyes.

He could disappear at any moment.

Yet his heart was still beating.

Chen Yan's body stiffened, gradually turning into flying ash, about to die completely.

In this split second.

"But I struggle here, and have never retreated."

His voice rang out once more.

The ocean waves, the small island, and the blood-eye all vanished together.

Immediately following, changes arose again.

The world before him became manic, illusory, and noisy.

A palace appeared, replacing a human head and standing upside down on a human neck.

Perverse voices and eerie, intangible voids appeared.

A man appeared, wearing white clothes, handsome in appearance, and looking extremely normal.

They appeared, and then dissipated.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Sharp shrieks tore through his eardrums, and twisted singing disturbed Chen Yan.

The world changed incessantly.

It was enough to make one faint.

Under these repeated gazes, an ordinary person would be scared to death instantly.

The rules of the human world seemed too tiny to describe in the face of these bizarre existences.

"But I am willing to be the most brilliant torch."

He said it, looked at it, faced it, and stood tall.

Confronting the world, towering and precipitous like a divine mountain standing in the universe.

Endless courage sought to transcend all fear.

Like the first monkey, countless years ago, that lifted its head to gaze at the starry sky.

Like the first human, in the endless darkness, who stood up holding a sword and looked toward the unknown.

Like the founding sovereign who, with a shattered body, stepped through an endless domain of blood and walked on alone.

It was as if a reflection of time and space.

The courage to press forward sought to tear apart the endless darkness.

Hum, hum, hum!

Outside, red light flooded the area.

A divine miracle manifested!