Chapter 294: Offering Limbs

Beside his ears, the roaring sounds were still ringing out.

There were certainly more than two people who couldn't answer the question, but the two people skinned alive by Xue Qi were random.

These two examinees who were skinned were miserable.

Chen Yan did not agree with the saying that luck is a part of strength.

He only believed that when strength reaches a certain level, it can completely reverse luck.

The strength of the physical body, the strength of the mind, and the strength of the will all determine whether a person will become a worm swayed by luck.

There was one hour left until the start of the next checkpoint.

Chen Yan took out another Time Seed and crushed it.

He needed to spend time organizing all the clues.

Then, continue to perfect his own martial Dao.

He began to think.

Questions emerged one after another in Chen Yan's mind.

The most important one was what exactly the honey represented in the story of the white bear and the rabbit.

The rabbit in the first story could be understood as the villagers of Zhan Tu Village being eroded by the ancient divine beast Fei Yi, suffering immensely, so they became Thought Masters, wanting their souls to be immortal.

But Fei Yi could devour thought power.

The future of the Zhan Tu Village villagers remained bleak.

As for the second story.

The reason Chen Yan wrote that the rabbit chose to eat the honey.

Was entirely because he treated the honey as something that could make the villagers strong, just like the thought power in the first story.

As long as it was understood this way, the rabbit would never directly offer the honey to the white bear upon obtaining it, but would choose to strengthen itself instead.

But at this moment, Chen Yan still did not understand what that honey actually was.

Moreover, there was a strange phenomenon.

That was why there were no traces of Qi and blood in the bodies of the villagers of Zhan Tu Village?

And when Chen Yan was being hunted by Xue Qi, there was an anomaly in his own Qi and blood.

But inside the wooden house, Xue Qi became the punisher of the assessment checkpoint, yet Chen Yan never felt that anomaly again.

Chen Yan thought quietly, as if he had vaguely grasped something, yet it remained blurry and unclear.

Time passed slowly.

Chen Yan stopped thinking and instead took out that Ninth-Rank Fist Intent Stone to begin visualization.

All the precious medicines had already been digested by Chen Yan, and his ideas regarding martial arts had also stalled at a bottleneck.

At this time, visualizing fist intent was the best choice.

This was a grand gift given to him by Chen Xiyuan.

Chen Xiyuan had originally given Chen Yan a Seventh-Rank Fist Intent Stone, but later took it back and gave Chen Yan a Ninth-Rank Fist Intent Stone.

There were no malice crystals inside this Ninth-Rank Fist Intent Stone.

But that night, Chen Yan had visualized the Seventh-Rank Fist Intent Stone for several hours in front of Chen Xiyuan.

If Chen Yan were not the Master of Will, he would have been unable to erase the malice.

Several hours of being eroded by malice would have brought permanent damage to Chen Yan.

Chen Xiyuan must be killed.

Boom!

Chen Yan's fist intent erupted, and his Fourth-Rank Horizontal Push Fist Intent stirred up rolling waves.

Inside the Ninth-Rank Fist Intent Stone, a Fifth-Rank fist intent instantly erupted to confront Chen Yan.

Compared to Chen Yan's current strength, the Fourth-Rank fist intent was a bit too weak.

To produce a truly powerful boost to Chen Yan's strength, the fist intent needed to reach the Seventh Rank.

The fist intents began to bombard each other, and white light representing true intent energy erupted within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

Word Realm, open!

The growth speed of the 【Intent】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit began to surge.

With the Word Realm, the Saint-Breaking Tree, and the Time Seed, Chen Yan's current cultivation speed was fast to a shocking degree.

Following that, Chen Yan waved one hand.

An Enlightenment Seed appeared, and he crushed it between two fingers.

Crack!

The Enlightenment Seed instantly turned into a streak of green light that flowed in through Chen Yan's ears, nose, and throat, rhyming into his brain.

In an instant, Chen Yan's thinking became fast to an even more shocking degree.

His brain began to heat up, and two lines of nosebleed flowed out again.

Thinking strengthened, comprehension strengthened.

Boom, boom, boom!

Inside the independent time barrier created by the Time Seed, strange fluctuations radiated from Chen Yan's entire body.

"Not enough."

Chen Yan gave a low shout:

"Still not enough!"

Chen Yan threw a punch, and his Horizontal Push Fist Intent exploded out, facing the Fifth-Rank fist intent erupting from within the Fist Intent Stone without a shred of cowardice.

Boom!

The Fist Intent Stone vibrated, and an even more powerful fist intent erupted.

Sixth-grade fist intent!

It seemed intent on completely suppressing Chen Yan.

A look of madness appeared in Chen Yan's eyes; this sixth-grade fist intent already possessed the ability to shake his physical body.

But even if Chen Yan's Horizontal Push Fist Intent were to rise to the sixth grade, it would not provide a significant boost to Chen Yan's combat power.

"My Horizontal Push Fist Intent pushes horizontally across countless enemies, pushes horizontally across the great world."

Brilliant golden light emerged in Chen Yan's eyes:

"This is the intent of my original heart, but as I am now, how can I achieve these things?"

"Horizontal push—is it merely a delusional thought of mine alone?"

"I am clearly already a Third-Rank General Star, clearly already shocked Qinzhou, yet existences like Ma Tianyin still dare to ambush and kill me?"

Boom!

Chen Yan threw punches, his speed becoming faster and faster.

Under the triple amplification of the Word Realm, the Dao Enlightenment Seed, and the Time Seed.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, the 【Intent】 character fruit grew crazily.

One!

Two!

Three!

…………

Seven!

Hiss, hiss, hiss.

Wisps of white mist and steam rose from Chen Yan's head, and his entire brain was burning with heat.

One by one, the 【Intent】 character Saint-Breaking fruits were swallowed by Chen Yan!

"Are they stupid?

It is that I am not yet strong enough!"

He shouted in a low voice.

Boom!

In an instant.

Violent fist intent erupted from Chen Yan's two fists.

The fist intent rose in grade!

Fifth-grade Horizontal Push Fist Intent!

But it was not enough.

The effect of the Dao Enlightenment Seed was still manifesting, and the Word Realm was still open.

Boom!

Inside the Fist Intent Stone, even more powerful fist intent gushed out instantly.

The vast and mighty fist intent, like mountains and seas, sought to completely suppress and kill Chen Yan.

Seventh-grade fist intent!

This Ninth-grade Fist Intent Stone was using seventh-grade fist intent to suppress Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's skin and flesh vibrated, as if rolling gales were slamming against his body.

At this moment, the seventh-grade fist intent erupting from within the Fist Intent Stone brought Chen Yan a suppressive force that was difficult to shake.

"Good, good, good!"

Chen Yan shouted in a low voice:

"If my fist intent can also reach the seventh grade, then in the Origin Realm, I can suppress and kill with one hand.

Against ordinary Law-Truth Realm experts, it is not as if I have no way to blast them to death!"

Fighting across realms!

Chen Yan laughed loudly, feeling the power of the seventh-grade fist intent, his heart beating rapidly.

Such powerful fist intent—if only it were his, how good that would be?

Erupt!

Fight!

Visualize!

Under the seventh-grade fist intent, Chen Yan's physical body vibrated, every particle in his body was being fiercely squeezed, and blood flowed out.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

The growth speed of the 【Intent】 character Saint-Breaking fruit did not slow down at all.

The eighth one!

The ninth one!

……

The twelfth one!

……

The seventeenth one!

Time passed slowly.

Inside the wooden house.

All examinees sat in their original seats, with people looking toward the wall on the left from time to time.

There, two living human skins were nailed to the wall, and blood flowed from the skins every now and then.

Terror flashed in everyone's eyes.

It was as if that bloody scene had happened just a second ago.

Ma Tianyin's breathing was rapid; fortunately, he had answered the question in the end.

Otherwise, he really might have been skinned.

"What exactly is that Chen Yan doing?"

Ma Tianyin spoke gloomily; one of his legs and one of his arms were already gone, and at this moment, half of his combat power had vanished.

"I don't know; this person is quick-witted and difficult to deal with."

Lü Guiwen spoke in a low voice.

Ma Tianyin did not refute him, only biting his teeth tightly.

"Before entering the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm, Lord Invincible Son found me."

His eyes flickered as he transmitted his voice to Lü Guiwen:

"As long as I can dispose of Chen Yan, Lord Invincible Son can give me a Bright Moon-grade precious medicine and can also help me fake my death to escape."

Ma Tianyin's voice was low; this was the reason why he dared to harm Chen Yan so directly.

A Bright Moon-grade precious medicine.

It was enough to help him be reborn.

Killing a Great Xia Third-Rank General Star to secure a future rise.

No one would refuse.

To the side, Lü Guiwen frowned slightly.

"I estimate I can't kill him now; you assist me, and I will split that Bright Moon-grade precious medicine with you!"

Ma Tianyin's voice transmission came again.

Lü Guiwen nodded imperceptibly, though a trace of contempt appeared in his eyes.

It was also at this moment.

A slender figure walked out from the basement, and everyone looked at Chen Yan with astonishment in their eyes.

However, they saw that Chen Yan's face was pale and his aura was withered at this moment.

Although there was no blood on his body, there was a faint smell of blood.

This was clearly the situation after over-cultivating just now, causing the physical body to break and all the blood to be shaken away by force.

The crowd watched, but no one spoke.

But in their hearts, they were all incomparably moved.

Basically, no one would cultivate their own body to this extent.

Cultivating like this would indeed stimulate one's own potential to a great degree, but it was too damaging to one's willpower.

Chen Yan's willpower was too powerful.

Ma Tianyin watched with a sinister sneer in his heart and gave Ma Tianyin a look.

The meaning was very clear.

This fool Chen Yan could even cultivate himself into a serious injury; he was already injured, and now he had added injury to injury.

Isn't this just courting death?

Lü Guiwen's expression was calm, with no movement in his eyes.

Chen Yan sat down; he was neither happy nor sad, his eyes staring straight ahead.

【Saint-Breaking Tree (Level 6): 493/500】

Thirty-one 【Intent】 Saint-Breaking Fruits!

Chen Yan's Horizontal Push Fist Intent had now reached the peak of the Fifth Grade.

It could be considered that he was a sliver away from reaching the Sixth Grade.

Moreover, this was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that the Saint-Breaking Tree was due for an upgrade.

A look of satisfaction appeared in Chen Yan's heart.

His cultivation had always pursued the extreme.

Forcing himself was always much better than others forcing him.

As for the killing intent in the hearts of the two people beside him, Chen Yan's Word Realm perceived it clearly.

It was also at this moment.

The owner of the wooden house, that is, the dirty little boy, spoke:

"Rest time is over; everyone, begin the second round of assessment for tonight."

The crowd's expressions tightened, all of them somewhat nervous.

After all, the first round had already made people clearly feel the difficulty.

It was also at this moment.

The little boy rummaged through his pockets with one hand and quickly took out four light orbs.

"This round is a limb assessment; examinees who fail the game must offer up your limbs."

As the boy spoke, a trace of reluctance appeared in his eyes again, and he displayed the four light orbs in his hand:

"These are gold, silver, white, and gray light orbs; I will pass these four light orbs to the examinee with seat number one.

After the assessment begins, the examinee with number one can pass the light orbs to number two, number two passes to number three, and so on."

The little boy placed the light orbs in front of the first examinee's desk:

"The stage time is three minutes; when it ends,

whoever has a gray light orb on their desk must offer up one of their hands.

Whoever has a white light orb on their desk must offer up one of their feet.

In other words, silver requires offering up one of your arms, and gold requires offering up one of your thighs."

The boy's voice fell.

The examinee with seat number one trembled all over.

Looking at the four light orbs in front of them was like looking at four powder kegs ready to explode at any moment.

The expressions of the crowd also changed in unison.

The first stage's punishment was skin, and the second stage was limbs directly.

This assessment was a bit too bloody.

The boy continued:

"Everyone, pay attention: in front of every examinee, there are two clear dividing lines on your desktops, partitioning your desks into independent areas.

When the stage time ends, whoever's desk area the light orb is in, that light orb belongs to them.

During the course of the stage, you examinees may not snatch the light orbs.

Furthermore, the direction of the light orbs' transmission can only follow the seat numbers in sequence; it cannot be reversed."

The crowd was silent.

The little boy took out an hourglass and bowed to the crowd:

"My apologies, everyone; these are the rules of Xue Qi and the High Examination Secret Realm. As a person of Slaughter Village, I can only watch everyone suffer, yet I cannot help you."

The crowd was silent, but Chen Yan suddenly spoke up:

"What is the reward for this stage?"

The little boy said:

"You may ask me one question, and I will certainly answer it truthfully.

Of course, if I do not know, I cannot answer.

Everyone may ask again."

Chen Yan did not speak further.

The crowd, however, was somewhat disappointed.

Soon, the little boy spoke:

"Since that is the case, begin!"

The first-ranked examinee instantly passed all the light orbs in their hands to the second-ranked examinee.

The second-ranked examinee's eyes flickered, and they passed all four light orbs to the third.

The crowd passed the light orbs at an extremely fast speed, and soon they reached Chen Yan's side.

Chen Yan pondered the texture of the light orbs, then passed the light orbs to Lu Guiwen, who was number forty-eight.

Just like that, in less than half a minute, the light orbs returned once again to the hands of the examinee with seat number one.

The second round began.

The light orbs arrived in Chen Yan's hands once again; Chen Yan's expression remained normal as they took the light orbs from the gloomy-faced Ma Tianyin and passed them to Lu Guiwen again.

The transmission time for the second round was a bit slower.

It took a full forty seconds.

In the third round, the speed was even slower.

It took one minute.

The crowd discovered a principle: although everyone wanted to quickly pass the light orbs in their hands to the next person, the transmission speed was too fast, and the light orbs would still be delivered to their own hands within a very short time.

Therefore, the fourth round began.

Inside the hourglass, the sand in the upper glass bulb had already flowed down about two-thirds.

Soon, the four light orbs arrived in Ma Tianyin's hands.

At this moment, a trace of coldness appeared in Ma Tianyin's eyes; they let these four light orbs stay on the desk in front of them, then looked coldly at Chen Yan.