Chapter 261: Instant Kill

Crack, crack, crack!

The crisp sound of bones breaking continued to echo, as a massive and vast force erupted within the body of Can Changli.

"Argh!!!"

Can Changli clutched his arm, his face flushed red as if he were a powder keg about to explode, his eyes staring in extreme terror at the Fifth-Rank General Star who had attacked him.

All around, everyone was also frozen in place by this sudden scene of a crushing blow.

Trembling, astonishment, confusion, terror.

Chen Yan's moves were extremely fast; the first strike shattered Can Changli's windpipe, followed by severing the nerves in his four limbs, and then a powerful blast to his internal organs.

Can Changli, ranked twenty-first on the College Entrance Examination Heaven's Pride List, was suppressed by this Fifth-Rank General Star as if he were a mere puppet, his combat power completely locked down.

How could a Fifth-Rank General Star emerging from Yunmeng City possess such combat power?

Everyone saw it with absolute clarity: the power Chen Yan erupted with in that instant was definitely at the late stage of the Unity Realm, or perhaps even the peak.

It was this very power, which in everyone's eyes was not considered high, that erupted with terrifying combat effectiveness under the combination of the micro-level 【Heaven Patrol】 and 【Heaven Patrol Extreme Dao】.

【Heaven Patrol】, a Blue Vault-grade Grade A breathing technique.

When 【Heaven Patrol】 and its matching 【Heaven Patrol Extreme Dao】 were combined, it was incomparably terrifying.

Just like now.

Behind, the expressions of all the Military Martial Guard geniuses remained frozen, filled with shock.

"He..."

Zhu Lili's face still retained a deathly pallor; looking at Chen Yan's back, she was somewhat dazed.

She was shocked by Chen Yan's combat power, but also horrified by Chen Yan's choice.

To kill your way to the side of the Aristocratic Family Alliance just like that, and suppress Can Changli under the watchful eyes of everyone in the Aristocratic Family Alliance—isn't this just intensifying the conflict even further?

What is he thinking? How does he dare?

Zhu Lili bit her silver teeth, only then remembering that it was this Chen Yan who had just set the record for the Dao-Severing Seed.

Audacious to the point of madness!

But...

"Chen Yan, come back."

Zhu Lili spoke:

"Come back."

She watched this scene with extreme nervousness, and the other General Stars also reacted, preparing themselves to start a battle at any moment.

Because, on the side of the Aristocratic Family Alliance.

After the initial shock, everyone now looked at Chen Yan with eyes containing even more terrifying rage deep within.

Chen Yan had thoroughly enraged everyone.

"Chen Yan, very good, you are very good!"

A low voice rang out; it was Jiang Yuan looking coldly at Chen Yan.

Jiang Yan cursed wildly in his heart.

Is there not a single normal person in this Military Martial Guard?

With Chen Yan being this wild, isn't he just asking to be killed?

No one dares to kill you?

You are so crazy that even if others don't dare to kill you, they might lose their heads and bury you along with everyone else.

"Go back, go back!" Jiang Yuan transmitted his voice to Chen Yan:

"Do not intensify the conflict any further. Do you only want to be satisfied if you see this place filled with death and injury?"

Even the voice of his transmission was almost a low roar.

But when Jiang Yuan's gaze locked onto Chen Yan, his expression suddenly became dazed, extremely bewildered:

"You..."

"Stop!" Zhu Lili shouted in a low voice, becoming incomparably nervous at this moment.

In everyone's line of sight, the young man wearing the Fifth-Rank General Star uniform already had one hand gripped onto Can Changli's face.

Click, click, click!!!

Can Changli's face was distorted by the giant force erupting from Chen Yan's five fingers, the flesh of his face squeezing out from between Chen Yan's fingers.

"The way you are both afraid and furious surprises me."

Chen Yan's eyes were indifferent, meeting the gaze of terror overflowing from between his fingers.

Boom!

Golden light erupted.

Not far away, Jiang Yuan charged toward Chen Yan.

Behind, Zhu Lili erupted with blood wind, wanting to envelop Chen Yan.

Yet in this very instant, Chen Yan's left hand turned into a blade, stabbing straight toward Can Changli's neck.

Boom!

A pillar of blood splattered as a bloody hand pierced directly through Can Changli's neck.

"Ahhh!!!!"

A scream of terror rang out.

All around, young women clutched their heads and screamed in extreme fear.

The people of the Aristocratic Family Alliance were furious and desperate.

They almost concluded that this battle was ultimately going to break out inevitably.

"No!!!"

In the distance, Zhang Luobai suddenly erupted with blood energy, preparing to charge toward Chen Yan's side.

Boom, boom, boom!

Two figures appeared before Zhang Luobai, blocking him.

Qiu Changji and Shi Ziqin.

"You..."

Zhang Luobai gritted his teeth, almost roaring:

"Why must you do this!!!

He practices Heaven Patrol, he practices Heaven Patrol!"

Zhang Luobai's expression was difficult to the extreme, his teeth clenched.

They were all forcing him, all forcing him.

Chen Yan was going to die...

After so many years, it was hard to come by a genius who could cultivate 【Heaven Patrol】 to the level of subtlety.

As the grand-disciple of Lu Xunyang, he had to protect him.

But now...

A look of pain appeared in Zhang Luobai's eyes.

It was also at this moment.

"Impossible!!!"

A roaring sound resonated.

"Array Disk Puppet!!!"

Zhu Lili's figure stalled in mid-air, looking at Chen Yan in astonishment.

Even the geniuses of the Aristocratic Family Alliance who were preparing to kill Chen Yan stopped in their tracks.

Yet they saw that the corpse of Can Changli, which Chen Yan was holding, had wisps of purple light flickering within its body.

Looking through the shattered flesh of Can Changli's neck, those purple secret scripts were intertwined with Can Changli's flesh and blood, extending into each of Can Changli's nerves.

This Can Changli had long been dead.

Someone had controlled his physical body using an array disk.

Jiang Yuan's hand was almost grabbing Chen Yan's body, but at this moment, he only felt his lips go dry.

The next moment, Chen Yan looked toward him:

"Stupid."

Jiang Yuan was stunned, but at this moment he pursed his lips, his eyes looking extremely troubled.

"Array Disk Puppet?"

He realized it; Can Changli's behavior throughout the entire match had been extremely abnormal.

Originally, it would have been enough for Can Changli to heavily injure Li Gu, but he ended up risking his life to hunt Li Gu down, almost hacking Li Gu to death.

Afterwards, he even killed a General Star in front of everyone.

Can Changli's guts hadn't been this big before.

He gritted his teeth, then looked around:

"Who is it!"

He roared in a low voice.

The assessment space was isolated from the outside world, so the person controlling Can Changli must be within the assessment space.

Moreover, Can Changli must have been alive before entering the assessment space.

The Assessment Scoreboard would not allow a dead person, or even an array puppet, to successfully sign in.

"Who was sitting next to Can Changli before!" Jiang Yuan glared at his surroundings:

"Someone killed Can Changli in secret and cast an array on Can Changli's corpse!"

All around.

Everyone was horrified, looking at each other, feeling immense lingering fear in their hearts.

Can Changli had stirred up the conflict between the Military Martial Guards and the Aristocratic Family Alliance, yet Can Changli had been nothing but a puppet from the start.

Someone was doing this on purpose, making the Aristocratic Family Alliance and the Military Martial Guards slaughter each other.

And outside, the powerhouses of the Qinzhou Aristocratic Family Alliance and the Military Martial Guards would see every scene of this clearly.

The conflict between the heaven-gifted geniuses would extend to the two factions of Qinzhou.

A brutal war would absolutely break out.

Perhaps the entire Qinzhou would fall into chaos.

A small conflict would evolve completely into an uncontrollable, major conflict.

At this moment, sweat beaded on everyone's foreheads; they had all figured out this problem and were terrified to the extreme.

They had almost become sacrificial offerings.

Zhu Lili also figured this out, and her face was now pale to the extreme.

Beside her, the various General Stars also had ugly expressions.

If not for Chen Yan.

"Chen Yan!"

"The Fifth-Rank General Star of Yunmeng City."

"Brother Chen!"

"That was close, so close!"

A series of slightly trembling voices rang out.

Zhu Lili and the other prodigies of the General Star faction all flew to Chen Yan's side.

"Chen Yan..."

Red-haired Zhu Lili looked Chen Yan in the eye for the first time:

"Did you suspect it from the very beginning?"

In the distance, the geniuses of the Martial Suppression Division and the Aristocratic Family Alliance also looked toward Chen Yan's side.

They did not speak.

But everyone understood that if not for Chen Yan, a bloody battle would have absolutely broken out today.

Everyone would have been played for fools.

Chen Yan looked at Zhu Lili:

"I have actually always been quite curious."

Zhu Lili's expression changed slightly:

"About what?"

Chen Yan spoke quietly:

"Prodigies of the Military Martial Guard have all dealt with Ancient Divine Beasts to some extent."

Zhu Lili's expression stiffened, her inner confusion growing even greater at this moment.

But right now, no one interrupted Chen Yan.

Even that Fourth-Rank General Star who had just been disdainful of Zhu Lili was watching Chen Yan quietly, attaching great importance to Chen Yan's judgment.

Yet, as Chen Yan's gaze remained calm, Zhu Lili felt her heart skip a beat.

In the depths of Chen Yan's eyes, a trace of disappointment seemed to flash by.

She pressed her lips together tightly; had she disappointed Chen Yan?

Had we all disappointed Chen Yan?

You are only a Fifth-Rank General Star.

Fine, even if you defeated Can Changli, you are still a Fifth-Rank General Star.

I am a Third-Rank.

You are disappointed in me.

Angry.

But, just as that pair of ink-black eyes looked at Zhu Lili, Zhu Lili's body stiffened slightly.

"Did you all..." Chen Yan's voice rang out, the surroundings falling into silence, no one daring to interrupt him:

"Not realize that you had long since been influenced by malice?"