Chapter 313: Enemies Before and After, Ultimate Gain

He shook his head and gave a faint smile.

He You-tong was likely already dead at the hands of Chen Yan.

Poor He You-tong.

Jiang Yuan narrowed his eyes and flew before the stone hall; although the blood here had already been cleaned up by Chen Yan, he still caught a whiff of a bloody scent.

"To be able to kill He You-tong.

It seems he hasn't been controlled by Chen Xiyuan, which is not bad."

Jiang Yuan spoke indifferently, and looking at the small line of text on the stone door—【Only a Qi-Blood martial artist may enter】—he began to laugh.

Poor Chen Yan, he practices hard-body cultivation but not Qi-Blood.

There is simply no way for him to obtain the true 【Youlan】.

He walked into the stone hall, his gaze sweeping over the few lines of poetry on the ground; with a wave of his hand, his Qi-Blood transformed into blades, shattering the floor, and the entire surface was shaved away by a layer.

This poem was destroyed by him forever.

"Youlan is inside the stone wall..."

Jiang Yuan murmured; he had only taken one look before discovering the oddity of this poem.

He kept feeling along the wall with one hand, and soon found the cowhide book from a gap.

"Youlan, ah..."

Jiang Yuan shook his head, never expecting that the one to finally obtain 【Youlan】 would be him.

It was also at this moment.

Jiang Yuan sensed a vibration, raised his hand, and a communication formation disk appeared in his palm.

"Jiang Yuan, where are you?" Yu Changsheng's incomparably indifferent voice rang out from the disk.

"Me? I'm in Dream Abyss, just about to go find you; I just contacted Bai Danshan," Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

"What are you looking for me for?" Yu Changsheng spoke coldly.

"You're the boss, after all," Jiang Yuan laughed.

"Trash!" Yu Changsheng barked:

"I told you to go find Youlan, what use is there in you coming to Dream Abyss to find me?"

"Youlan..." Jiang Yuan's voice trembled:

"Youlan is with Chen Yan. That brat is clever and has repeatedly used the Xue Qi to harm me. I'm injured; I'm truly so miserable..."

"Trash!" Yu Changsheng barked:

"I am about to arrive at Slaughter Forest, what use is it for you to be in Dream Abyss!"

Jiang Yuan's eyes constricted:

"Then I'll come find you."

No more sound came from the communication formation disk; it was clear that Yu Changsheng had already cut the connection.

"Old Yu..." Jiang Yuan smiled, flew out of the stone hall, and his smile gradually turned cold:

"You died too pitifully. Back then, I poured my heart out telling you not to take Chen Changyuan as your master, but you wouldn't listen.

Look, now that you're dead, your corpse is going to be toyed with by your master, sigh..."

…………

Slaughter Village.

Inside the various wooden huts, the many examinees were numb.

The first day, Chen Yan was chased by the Xue Qi; the second day, Chen Yan was chased by the Xue Qi; the third day...

It was here again.

Roar!

A low and frenzied beast roar resounded; Chen Yan's body erupted with golden light as he constantly dodged the Xue Qi's lethal strikes, narrowly rushing into a wooden hut.

The owner of the hut, a woman with a plain appearance wearing extremely ragged clothes, looked at Chen Yan and said, tongue-tied:

"How about this, Examinee-sir, you should just leave Slaughter Forest tomorrow."

Chen Yan sat on a chair, and the woman muttered tremblingly:

"The examination is already over, why are you still lingering here?"

The other examinees were all speechless, feeling as though they had been scolded too.

They hadn't left Slaughter Forest, and now that they had finally passed three stages, they just wanted to honestly kill ancient beasts to earn points.

As for the Sun-Seeking Pagoda and Dream Abyss, they didn't want to go anymore.

Chen Yan glanced at the woman and said:

"May I borrow your cellar for a moment?"

The woman frowned, but still said:

"Please."

Chen Yan walked into the cellar; if he wanted to find a stone wall, the wooden huts on the flat ground were all made of wood and certainly wouldn't have stone walls.

But Chen Yan had long since discovered that the cellars of these wooden huts were all built of gray stone.

He stroked every stone wall, sensing carefully, then shook his head and left the cellar.

Soon, to the astonishment of everyone, Chen Yan actually walked straight out of the wooden hut.

Roar!

Outside the hut, the Xue Qi let out a low growl and instantly lunged at Chen Yan to kill him.

Chen Yan erupted with golden light and, by the narrowest of margins, entered another wooden hut.

He continued his search.

Chen Yan had searched no fewer than ten wooden houses, yet he had not discovered anything unusual in any of their cellars.

The examinees inside the wooden houses were suspicious and uncertain, not knowing what Chen Yan was doing.

Inside one wooden house, Chen Yan walked out from the cellar and was about to leave the house.

Suddenly, the owner of the wooden house, an extremely elderly man with murky eyes, called out to Chen Yan:

"This powerful examinee lord, may I request a favor of you?"

Chen Yan looked at the old man and nodded.

The old man's expression brightened:

"Examinee lord, your strength is incomparably powerful; you can maneuver against the Cod Wife."

"I wish to represent Slaughter Village and ask you to go out and maneuver against the Cod Wife; we want to send a few villagers out to search for Head Fruit."

"That is our food; by day we are killed by Ancient Beasts, and by night we are hunted by the Cod Wife."

"The village's food reserves are already running low."

The old man lowered his head and wiped away tears.

Chen Yan frowned; Head Fruit was indeed the villagers' food.

However, he did not speak.

The old man's gaze was dim, and he then took out a glass bottle containing a rich amount of Slashing Dao Points.

"This is fifty million worth of Slashing Dao Points; we are willing to use these Slashing Dao Points in exchange for your intervention."

Inside the wooden house, the examinees looked at Chen Yan with envy.

That was fifty million points!

Chen Yan's brows lifted slightly; he had not expected the villagers to have hidden Slashing Dao Points.

Chen Yan nodded and spoke:

"I can, but I have one more question I would like to ask you."

"Please speak," the old man said.

"What exactly is the black powder on your wooden doors?" Chen Yan asked.

The old man's expression stiffened, a trace of obvious disgust and hatred flashing in his eyes, and he immediately shook his head:

"You may ask any other question, but this one absolutely cannot be told."

Chen Yan frowned; he scrutinized the old man carefully, then nodded:

"Then I will ask another question: who is the village chief of Slaughter Village?"

The old man paused, then bowed slightly and smiled:

"That would be me."

Chen Yan's expression instantly turned stern, but he quickly returned to calm and nodded:

"I can intervene and hold off the Cod Wife."

"Good," the village chief nodded hurriedly:

"Please allow me to hold onto these fifty million Slashing Dao Points for now; I will give them to you when it is daytime."

Chen Yan nodded.

His strength had grown quite a bit now; he could not defeat the Cod Wife, but he could truly maneuver against her for a long time.

Moreover, he also wanted to see what this village chief was actually planning to do.

Soon, Chen Yan flew out of the wooden house to maneuver against the Cod Wife.

Once Chen Yan had lured the Cod Wife very far away from the wooden house, the village chief led several villagers out of the house.

Inside the various wooden houses, the examinees watched, somewhat dazed.

Chen Yan's strength was progressing too quickly.

One had to know that two days ago, Chen Yan had been in a half-dead state under the Cod Wife's pursuit.

Tonight, he actually dared to fly directly out of the wooden house to maneuver against the Cod Wife.

Many examinees felt awe.

Time passed slowly.

Whenever Chen Yan was about to reach his limit, he would dash into a wooden house, and when the Cod Wife was about to leave, he would fly out of the house again to attract her.

It was unknown how much time had passed.

The night remained deep, but the village chief and his group had already returned.

After Chen Yan discovered that the village chief and the others had returned, he stopped attracting the Cod Wife and entered the wooden house where the village chief was located.

Unlike before,

this time inside the wooden house, several villagers were standing there, and one villager was draped in a cloak, their face completely obscured by it.

The several villagers were all looking at Chen Yan, their breathing extremely rapid.

The village chief's gaze was dark, occasionally revealing a sinister laugh, and he then looked at the remaining examinees:

"Examinee lords, could I ask you to go to the cellar first? We have matters to discuss with this examinee lord named Chen Yan."

The other examinees frowned, but when the village chief's dark gaze swept over them, they still headed to the cellar one by one.

The village chief sat down and stared at Chen Yan, remaining silent for a long while.

The other villagers' breathing grew rapid, their eyes seeming to glow as they looked at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan, however, spoke calmly:

"You have been to the Stone Palace?"

The village chief was somewhat surprised, but he still nodded.

Chen Yan pointed at the villager wearing the cloak:

"Can he go in?"

The Village Chief did not speak again.

Chen Yan, however, flicked a single hand, sending out a gust of wind that blew open the cloak on the villager's body.

It was a figure about one meter seven tall, with the head of an eight-year-old child, a dark right arm, a fair left arm, and skin all over the body that looked as if it had been stitched together from patches of fabric of different colors.

At this moment, Chen Yan understood completely.

The villagers of Slaughter Village had no Qi and blood within their own bodies; they could not enter the Stone Hall to find the 【Youlan】, and even if they found it, they could not cultivate the 【Youlan】.

The village could once do so, but now no one could cultivate the path of Qi and blood.

They had caused the death of Xue Qi, and now they regretted it.

Therefore, they thought of a method.

That was to use the rules of the college entrance examination to create three checkpoints.

The first checkpoint: the losers offer their skin; the second checkpoint: the losers offer their limbs; the third checkpoint: the losers offer their internal organs.

So much skin, internal organs, and limbs were enough for the villagers to choose from.

Thus, an artificially made body capable of cultivating the path of Qi and blood appeared.

Then, they stitched on the head of a little boy from the village to make it obedient.

It would enter the Stone Hall to retrieve the 【Youlan】, then cultivate diligently, and one day it would be able to quell the disaster of the Ancient Beasts.

Just now, Chen Yan had distracted Xue Qi, which was when the Village Chief took the boy to the Stone Hall.

As a result, they found nothing.

Chen Yan estimated that the fake 【Youlan】 inside the breach in the wall had already been taken away by Jiang Yuan.

These villagers had been busy for so long, only to end up with nothing.

Inside the wooden house, the boy's head on the stitched-together body revealed a look of terror; he tremblingly picked up the robe to put it back on, huddled in a corner, and dared not make a sound.

The villagers were panting, and soon, fierce looks appeared in the eyes they cast toward Chen Yan.

It was as if, in the next moment, they would pounce on Chen Yan like wild wolves.

The Village Chief, however, waved his hand and spoke:

"Examinee, have you already been to the Stone Hall?"

Chen Yan's expression was calm, and he nodded.

The villagers' breathing grew rapid, and the Village Chief's eyes also suddenly became incomparably sharp, like an eagle watching a wolf, as if he wanted to see right through Chen Yan.

He smiled, took out the glass bottle containing fifty million Slaughter Dao Points, and looked at Chen Yan:

"You must have already obtained the Youlan; please hand the Youlan to me, and these fifty million Slaughter Dao Points will be yours."

Chen Yan shook his head:

"These fifty million points are what I deserve for distracting Xue Qi."

In an instant, the Village Chief narrowed his eyes, and the villagers behind him turned sinister in expression.

"Fine." The Village Chief gave a faint smile and handed the glass bottle to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan immediately smashed the glass bottle and summoned a Slaughter Dao Seed to begin absorbing it.

The fifty million points were credited.

A hint of a smile appeared at the corner of Chen Yan's mouth, and with a thought, the still-growing Slaughter Dao Bamboo hid itself.

The Village Chief took out another glass bottle containing Slaughter Dao Points and spoke:

"Now, please hand over the Youlan, and I will give you another fifty million Slaughter Dao Points."

Chen Yan raised an eyebrow and shook his head:

"I don't want Slaughter Dao Points; I only want you to answer one question for me."

The Village Chief's eyes turned dark:

"Please speak."

"What is the black powder on the wooden door?"

In an instant, the atmosphere inside the wooden house became incomparably heavy.

The villagers looked at Chen Yan with extreme malice, and the Village Chief also narrowed his eyes; that pair of already gloomy eyes seemed to contain boundless ill intent.

"Examinee, you are incredibly intelligent; I fear you already know that the pitch-black giant hand during the assessment was manifested by me."

The Village Chief spoke, carrying a chill.

Chen Yan did not speak.

The Village Chief continued:

"I just couldn't beat Xue Qi, but dealing with you is truly simple."

Black mist swirled around his body, and his aura became terrifying.

"I am different from Xue Qi; he is already dead and finds it difficult to erupt with powerful combat strength in an instant.

But I can; I am confident I can kill you within ten seconds."

The Village Chief stared at Chen Yan, and the villagers behind him surrounded Chen Yan, each of them erupting with powerful combat strength.

These villagers had never appeared before, but they had appeared now.

Their bodies were overflowing with mental energy; they were all Mentalists.

Including the Village Chief, he was also a Mentalist.

These were the rabbits from the first story of the rabbit and the white bear, the ones who had learned to control mental energy.

Chen Yan's expression was calm, as if he were not affected by the perilous situation at the moment, and he said:

"You are all very powerful; why don't you go deal with the Ancient Beasts?"

"Deal with the Ancient Beasts?" The Village Chief sneered:

"Has the story not made it clear? A rabbit that has cultivated Thought Power is no match for a polar bear."

"A rabbit that has eaten honey still cannot resist a polar bear."

An expression of endless pain and resentment surfaced in the Village Chief's eyes:

"But cultivating Profound Ripple is, in any case, stronger than cultivating Thought Power; Profound Ripple is a powerful technique that can bring us greater hope."

Chen Yan spoke up:

"Since that is the case, why did you kill Cod Wife?"

As Chen Yan's voice fell, the aura of the Village Chief and the others changed instantly, and waves of Thought Power suppressed Chen Yan.

"Examinee, you ask too much!"

Chen Yan watched the Village Chief quietly, his ebony-like eyes appearing like deep pools; surrounded by villagers, he showed no signs of weakness.

He waved one hand, and a ball of light appeared in his palm.

It was incomparably azure and filled with divinity, with a Black Tortoise quietly swimming within it.

In an instant, the villagers' eyes widened.

"Hand over the payment, receive the goods."

Chen Yan spoke indifferently.

The Village Chief opened his mouth, revealing an extremely ugly smile.

And it was at this very moment.

Roar!

Outside the house, a roar rang out.

With a bang.

The wooden door was pushed open, and a beam of white light surged in, instantly enveloping the ball of blue light and flying away.

Yu Changsheng.

"Chen Yan..." Yu Changsheng's eyes were indifferent, carrying killing intent, but he did not attack; instead, the moment he grabbed the blue light, he fled toward the outside of the wooden house.

At the same time.

"Bastard!!!" The Village Chief and the others roared, attacking Yu Changsheng.

Boom!

A massive roar erupted inside the wooden house.

The white light was blazing; Yu Changsheng flew out of the wooden house at extreme speed.

"Chen Yan, you are quite good."

A cold, mocking laugh resounded outside the house.

Yu Changsheng punched the Cod Wife who was attacking him; in an instant, Cod Wife's body shuddered and was sent flying thousands of meters away.

Yu Changsheng is incomparably powerful!

The Village Chief and the others were furious, turning into streaks of light as they flew out to hunt down Yu Changsheng.

Inside the wooden house, Chen Yan pursed his lips and silently collected the glass bottle on the wooden table containing fifty million Dao-Severing Points, then took out a Dao-Severing Seed to begin absorbing it again.

Just now, everything happened too quickly; the Village Chief simply could not attend to this.

He looked out the window.

The Village Chief, Cod Wife, Yu Changsheng, and the others had already flown far away.

Chen Yan shrugged.

He hadn't even taken out the fake 【Profound Ripple】 from inside the Stone Palace.

The blue light from just now was something he had faked using 【Great Transformation Creation Art】.

Old Chi, you are still playing a role.