Chapter 314: All Worlds are Ink, Only I am the Monologue!

The 【Great Transformation Creation Art】 is a Qi-blood martial technique that Old Chi passed down to Chen Yan, specifically for imitating anomalies.

Chen Yan had intended to use this technique to confuse Jiang Yuan, but he hadn't expected that there were already two fake 【Youlan】 inside the stone palace.

He had thought he'd wasted his effort, but he hadn't expected Yu Changsheng to arrive.

He stood up and looked outside the house.

Xue Qi, the Village Chief, and Yu Changsheng had already flown far away.

Outside, the roaring sounds of battle resounded from time to time.

The struggle for 【Youlan】 could not be anything but brutal.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; Yu Changsheng's strength was still too great, as he could remain calm and unhurried even while being hunted by Xue Qi.

Why was he so strong?

Chen Yan pondered in his heart; this time, the college entrance examination secret realm had seen too many unexpected prodigies.

Jiang Yuan, needless to say, certainly had his own secrets; as the fifth on the Prodigy Ranking, he was clearly far more powerful than the sixth, Shi Ziqin.

Yu Changsheng had pulled even further away from the other prodigies, which was very strange.

Being so powerful, why had he been unable to defeat Zhang Luobai in the previous two sessions? Could it be that Zhang Luobai was even stronger than Yu Changsheng?

One must not underestimate the heroes of the world.

Chen Yan said to himself, sometimes blind confidence is what kills people the most.

"However, I don't need to worry too much. According to Old Shen, the source of Zhang Luobai's strength is his own Morning Star-level Qi-blood quality.

If I can obtain Youlan, the two Four-Blood techniques will merge, and my own Qi-blood quality can also be improved."

Chen Yan's Qi-blood quality had reached the Azure Vault-level Grade A a long time ago.

【Submerged Abyss】 could already increase the elemental energy grade of Qi-blood by compressing it.

It wasn't that Chen Yan wasn't working hard, but he could always feel that there was a huge chasm between the Azure Vault level and the Morning Star level.

To cross this chasm, one either needed the accumulation of time or the use of potent medicine.

Devouring high-quality elemental energy.

Or improving the grade of one's own Qi-blood technique.

This was the real reason why Chen Yan wanted to obtain 【Youlan】.

Chen Yan walked out of the wooden house and headed toward the other wooden houses.

He could not pin all his hopes on that fake 【Youlan】 he had forged.

Yu Changsheng and the Village Chief were not fools; they might see through the problem with that 【Youlan】 in a short time.

Therefore, Chen Yan needed to use the current time to search for the stone wall.

"Youlan is inside the stone wall."

Chen Yan murmured, rushing into one wooden house after another that he hadn't visited, entering cellars, and checking all the walls built of stone.

His speed was extremely fast; even though he had already obtained one hundred million Dao-slaying points, he had no mind to absorb them.

"Not right, not right, not right..."

Chen Yan checked one wooden house after another, rubbed one stone-built cellar wall after another, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Although he was calm and showed no anxiety, he was constantly pondering in his heart.

He even interrogated the villagers and found Xue Qi's former house, but he didn't discover any abnormalities in the cellar either.

"Is my understanding wrong?"

Chen Yan murmured.

Beside him, the wooden houses were shrouded in a black curtain, resembling silent and oppressive giant beasts.

The dark purple sky was so deep that it seemed it would condense into blood at any moment.

Inside one window after another, villagers and examinees stared at Chen Yan from time to time.

They didn't know what Chen Yan was doing.

Occasionally, a villager's eyes would turn gloomy, appearing fearful, terrified, or wearing a ferocious grin.

Under the perception of the Speech Realm, these countless emotions whispered and intertwined, surrounding Chen Yan like a noose that could bind consciousness.

It was as if there were shouts and roars hidden on the other side of the real world, quietly resounding.

Chen Yan walked to the door of a wooden house, pinched a bit of black powder off the wooden door with his finger, and sensed it carefully.

The next moment, he suddenly rose into the air like a flying warship flowing with golden luster.

He flew away from Zhan Tu Village and soon arrived before a huge wall of black light.

A wooden house was built under the giant wall; this was the only passage between Zhan Tu Village and the outside world.

Standing before the wooden house, Chen Yan frowned.

Because white light was approaching from afar.

Cold hostility struck, as if all the killing intent in the surroundings was shrouding Chen Yan.

The moment this white light arrived, it condensed into a human figure, looking down at Chen Yan from a high position.

Yu Changsheng.

"Good!" Yu Changsheng narrowed his eyes. He was covered in blood, clearly having experienced a great battle, and he looked at Chen Yan with narrowed eyes:

"You deceived me so cruelly!"

Chen Yan stood quietly, looking at the other party indifferently, just standing there, as if he would unleash all his combat power at any moment.

Yu Changsheng's eyes became incomparably sharp. He sized Chen Yan up and actually discovered that Chen Yan had not the slightest fear of him.

It was as if the moment he made a move, Chen Yan would also make a move.

The two stood in a standoff like this for several seconds.

"Hand the real Youlan over to me," Yu Changsheng said indifferently.

He had contended against the forces of both Xue Qi and the Village Chief, managing with great difficulty to secure the 【Youlan】 in his hands, only to find it was fake.

He did not know where Chen Yan had obtained the fake 【Youlan】, but it had indeed deceived everyone at the very first moment.

At this moment, he felt like killing Chen Yan immediately.

"Why should I give it to you?" Chen Yan said indifferently.

"You don't even cultivate Blood Qi!" Yu Changsheng hissed.

"I can sell it for money."

Yu Changsheng choked; he glared at Chen Yan coldly, as if he would strike at any second.

It was also at this moment.

Roar!

A heaven-shaking low roar resounded.

Several figures flew over, with Xue Qi in hot pursuit.

It was the Village Chief and the others, bringing Xue Qi with them.

Yu Changsheng gritted his teeth, his heart screaming.

"Give it to me!"

Chen Yan's gaze was indifferent, golden light erupting from his entire body as he prepared for battle.

The Village Chief and the others would arrive immediately; it all depended on whether Yu Changsheng had the ability to kill Chen Yan in this short amount of time.

"Chen Yan, give the Youlan to me!"

The Village Chief's low roar rang out from afar.

Behind him, several villagers all erupted with powerful Thought Power, shrouding their bodies.

In an instant, a great battle was about to begin!

Boundless murderous intent erupted in Yu Changsheng's eyes; gritting his teeth, he waved one hand, and a jade box appeared in his palm, his voice almost a scream:

"A Morning Star-grade Grade B healing spirit medicine, it can save your life!"

He was incredibly furious, but in the end, he chose to trade with Chen Yan.

He just gently lifted the lid of the jade box, and a rich aura of life spilled out, incomparably pure.

Chen Yan's eyes flickered; the 【Immortal Life Pill】 that had allowed his severed arm to regrow was only a Morning Star-grade Grade D healing spirit medicine.

This one was Grade B.

"Hurry up!!!" Yu Changsheng roared, incredibly enraged.

Chen Yan waved one hand, and a deep blue ball of light emerged from his palm and was thrown toward Yu Changsheng.

"Chen Yan!!!" In the distance, the Village Chief roared.

Yu Changsheng caught the ball of light and sneered, having no intention of giving Chen Yan the healing spirit medicine at all, and flew toward the distance.

But just as he flew a hundred meters, he froze for an instant, crushed the ball of light in his hand, and roared:

"Chen Yan!"

He became incredibly violent, charging toward Chen Yan with a ferocious expression.

"If you don't give me the spirit medicine, what does it matter if I give you a fake one?!"

Chen Yan said indifferently.

Yu Changsheng's breath hitched; he waved one hand, and the jade box filled with the aura of life was thrown directly out.

At the same time, Chen Yan waved one hand, and another deep blue ball of light, condensing a Black Tortoise phantom, was thrown out.

A savage grin appeared in Yu Changsheng's eyes; a suction force erupted from his hand, pulling both the jade box and the ball of light toward him.

Yet, at this very instant.

Another deep blue ball of light appeared in Chen Yan's hand, likewise condensing a Black Tortoise phantom.

At this moment, it was thrown directly toward the Village Chief's side.

Yu Changsheng was completely stunned; if looks could kill, Chen Yan would have already been killed by him a thousand times over.

Which 【Youlan】 was real, and which was fake?

He could not tell!

With a bang.

Yet at the very moment he suddenly paused, Chen Yan suddenly flew toward him, another deep blue ball of light appearing in his hand, which he threw toward him.

Yu Changsheng felt completely numb.

And that Morning Star-grade Grade B precious medicine, which was about to be sucked into his hand, was snatched into Chen Yan's hand during his moment of numbness.

The next moment, the two deep blue balls of light flying toward Yu Changsheng were gripped into his hands.

Yu Changsheng's eyes widened, and he squeezed with both hands.

Boom!

Both balls of light exploded simultaneously.

Fake!

"Chen Yan, you are courting death!"

Brilliant white light erupted from his body, the power terrifying.

At this moment, obtaining the 【Youlan】 seemed to have become less important.

Making Chen Yan disappear from this world was the most important thing!

Just as Yu Changsheng prepared to kill Chen Yan.

Screech!

Above the ball of light that Chen Yan had thrown toward the Village Chief's side, a Black Tortoise phantom suddenly erupted.

Yu Changsheng's body paused, and he took out a drop of blood.

This was the blood of Invincible Son!

The blood seemed to sense the strangeness of that ball of light.

It changed in an instant; crimson and white light intertwined above the blood drop, brilliant beyond compare, as a Vermilion Bird and a White Tiger coiled and danced, letting out high-pitched cries.

His breathing grew rapid; that ball of light Chen Yan had thrown toward the village chief was the real 【Youlan】!

Watching Chen Yan, who had already fled into the distance, Yu Changsheng roared:

"Chen Yan, I will kill you!"

Having said this, his figure turned into a streak of white light, flying toward the village chief's side.

Several figures once again clashed into a melee.

Of course, this had nothing to do with Chen Yan.

Chen Yan flew until he was very far away before stopping.

He had thrown out three 【Youlan】 he had forged himself in one go; as for the one thrown to the village chief, it was a fake 【Youlan】 he had found inside the stone palace.

The reason Yu Changsheng believed that one was real.

Was because that one was actually the blood of Xue Qi; the blood of a Four-Blood Technique cultivator carries divine strangeness and possesses a peculiar resonance.

Back then, this drop of Xue Qi's blood had also deceived He Youtong in the same way.

However, they were all fake.

Chen Yan looked at the jade box in his hand and slowly opened it.

In an instant, a dense aura of life emerged, overflowing from within the jade box.

Very quickly, this transcendent aura of life dissipated, and a cyan, glaze-like medicinal pill lay inside the jade box.

Chen Yan pursed his lips; that aura of life indeed had the scent of a Morning Star-grade Second-tier item.

But this pill was merely a Blue Vault-grade First-tier healing spirit medicine.

Yu Changsheng was not very stupid either.

From the very beginning, the other party had never intended to use a Morning Star-grade spirit medicine to trade for the 【Youlan】 with Chen Yan.

Chen Yan stored this Blue Vault-grade First-tier spirit medicine into his spatial ring.

Regardless, he hadn't lost anything.

Chen Yan sensed the changes in his surroundings.

Afterward, he arrived in front of the wooden house once again.

Chen Yan walked into the wooden house.

The old man, lying on a dilapidated bed and trembling, opened his eyes instantly, looking at the intruder in panic.

"Candidate Lord..."

A tumor still grew on the old man's head; he was the gatekeeper of Zhan Tu Village.

Chen Yan scanned the wooden house; this wooden house also had a cellar.

This was the last place Chen Yan could think of where a stone wall might exist.

But after a while, Chen Yan walked out of the cellar, a trace of disappointment appearing in his eyes.

Still not found.

He glanced at the old man without speaking.

He had once asked the old man what the black powder on the door was, but the old man had conveyed a strong emotion that he would rather die than answer.

Just as Chen Yan was about to leave, the old man in the wooden house suddenly spoke:

"Candidate Lord, have you heard the story of the white bear and the rabbits?"

Chen Yan turned his head; the old man lit a candle, and the dim, yellow candlelight danced in the old man's turbid eyes.

Chen Yan did not speak, yet the old man revealed a slightly eerie and sorrowful expression as he said:

"I am talking about the story after the village chief killed the rabbit that discovered the honey."

Chen Yan frowned:

"I haven't heard it."

Upon entering Zhan Tu Village, Chen Yan had only heard two stories about rabbits and a white bear.

These two stories completely metaphorized the development history of Zhan Tu Village.

As for the story after that, it simply did not exist.

Because it hadn't happened yet.

But now it seemed there was more.

Yet, seeing the old man hunched over, half-sprawled on the scratched, filth-caked wooden table, he spoke gloomily:

"The rabbit village chief killed the rabbit that discovered the honey.

It knew that even if the rabbits ate the honey and became strong, they could never shake the white bear; instead, it would only make the white bear even stronger.

It hated the rabbit that discovered the honey to the core, but the white bear still existed, and the rabbits would still be eaten by the white bear day after day.

They were in despair, absolute despair.

What was even more desperate was that they discovered they were not like the white bear's opponents, but more like the... that the white bear raised."

The old man's eyes suddenly widened, and he roared in a tone filled with resentment:

"Swine!"

He clutched his head with both hands, wailing in immense pain:

"God, why does such a world exist, why must the rabbits continue to reproduce, letting their descendants become fodder for the white bear?

What on earth did they do wrong?!"

The old man's expression turned manic, and he suddenly let out a hideous laugh:

"The Rabbit Village Chief was going crazy too; it had no choice, and even regretted killing that rabbit that had discovered the honey.

But it wasn't wrong; after the regret, it reaffirmed its conviction once more.

Using the honey that White Bears naturally love to strengthen rabbits—rabbits will never be stronger than White Bears.

Because rabbits and White Bears are two different species by nature; it wasn't wrong!"

The old man chuckled, "Heh heh."

"It wanted to lead the rabbits to resist the White Bears again; it found iron ore and invented armor.

It exhausted everything to make the rabbits wear heavy armor, even though this armor would cut the rabbits' bodies and make the rabbits suffer.

On this day, the White Bear came to the place where the rabbits were again, and it saw the rabbits wearing armor.

Then, it casually grabbed a rabbit and put it into its mouth."

The old man's lips twitched as if he were eating, his teeth chattered, and he laughed coldly:

"The White Bear chewed the rabbit's flesh and blood; blood flowed from the White Bear's mouth corners. That heavy armor cut the White Bear's gums, shattered its teeth, and blood splattered everywhere.

The White Bear looked at the rabbit and grinned hideously..."

Tears shimmered in the old man's eyes, filled with despair and resentment, yet carrying the satisfaction of a great revenge fulfilled, he roared:

"It's still so delicious~"

Chen Yan's pupils trembled slightly, and he spoke no more.

But at this moment, he seemed to hear countless shouts, shaking his heart and soul.

The old man who finished the story chuckled, just watching Chen Yan like this.

The candlelight inside the wooden hut suddenly became incomparably dim, as if it no longer carried warmth, and a bone-chilling cold reached the hearts of living beings.

Time became incomparably tranquil at this moment.

A grain of sand, blown and tumbled by a gentle breeze, stopped its trajectory of motion.

A ray of morning light floating from the east froze at the easternmost edge of the broken clouds on the horizon.

The wrinkles about to form on an old man's face suddenly stalled.

A gaze transcended time, transcended space, transcended the past and present, and looked toward the Master of Will who was deep in thought.

He was about to speak, but golden light flickered, blocking his line of sight and causing him to pause.

"Lu Xunyang!"

That person spoke, carrying indifference, carrying appreciation, carrying disdain and disappointment.

Hum!

Brilliant golden light permeated the heavens and earth, and the examinees before the Xunyang Tower looked over.

That massive golden tower, standing tall upon the earth and towering majestically, flickered with radiance.

It seemed that because of something, it had awakened once again.

"Chief Lu!"

Zhu Lili spoke tremblingly, filled with awe, and lowered her head, actually not daring to look directly at this boundless golden light.

"Grandmaster." Zhang Luobai opened his mouth wide; he had participated in the college entrance exam twice, and this was his third time coming before the Xunyang Tower.

He had never seen such an anomaly in the Xunyang Tower.

Outside the college entrance exam secret realm.

Within Xiaoyang City, eyes looked toward the plaza once again.

That golden, imposing giant tower condensed into a phantom once more, appearing above the human world.

"No, no, why has the Xunyang Tower vibrated again?"

"This year's college entrance exam is too different from the past."

"Even the outside world can perceive the changes in the Xunyang Tower; what on earth happened inside?"

"Is it An Yunuan? He broke the boundary limit of the Extreme Forging Realm; is the change in the Xunyang Tower because of him?"

Sound after sound of shock arose.

At this moment.

The world.

Within the Great Xia, outside the Great Xia.

Powerful figures opened their eyes; they were incomparably astonished, and gazes were cast over.

"It seems I must go to the Great Xia once."

"Is Lu Xunyang not dead yet? The Xunyang Tower is acting strangely; is his true body about to walk out from the Ancient God Forbidden Land?"

"The world is about to undergo a great change; the root of this change is very likely in Qinzhou!"

"It seems I must end my seclusion. He is a bit disobedient; haha, that's right, I am just such a disobedient person myself."

"Xia Hanzhou, I am not looking at you; I am looking at Qinzhou. You told me to get lost? Fine, I'll get lost!"

…………

The powerful were shaken, and the winds and clouds shifted.

The anomaly of the Xunyang Tower once again aroused the astonishment of the world.

Inside the college entrance exam secret realm.

"Come to me, breaker of boundaries."

A voice arose, carrying appreciation, carrying gratification, carrying curiosity.

His voice could not be perceived by others.

At this moment, only Chen Yan heard it.

"It was not easy to find someone like me, very good, very good indeed!!!"

The hearty laughter of a man reached the depths of Chen Yan's mind.

"They cannot teach you; even if they are great, they cannot teach you."

That was the voice of Lu Xunyang, traversing the entire College Entrance Examination Secret Realm and the entire original world.

"To fear malice is to deceive oneself; to ignore sin is to lose one's conscience."

"With the life of my one generation, I shall magnify the brightness of ten thousand generations!"

"Ten thousand generations are all ink-black, only I am white; come find me, I am at the Xunyang Pagoda!"

His voice rang out, and his voice vanished.