Chapter 325: Goodbye, My Fellow Traveler

Chen Yan pondered many things in an instant.

At this moment, the Qi and blood within his body were exhausted, having been entirely drained by Xue Qi to execute that move.

Now, with a flash of thought, Chen Yan first produced a Blue Vault-grade Grade A healing spirit medicine; this was a gift bestowed upon him by Yu Changsheng.

Chen Yan swallowed the bottle of spirit medicine in one gulp; although this spirit medicine could not regrow severed limbs, it could at least improve Chen Yan's current injuries.

Immediately following this, Chen Yan began to circulate the 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】.

Even though it was only at the introductory level at this moment, the instant Chen Yan operated the 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】—

His body, which had not contained a single trace of Qi and blood, was now crazily absorbing the Qi and blood energy from the heavens and the earth.

What a fast speed!

It was over a thousand times faster than 【Dark Ripple】.

Moreover, a strange sensation emerged within Chen Yan's body.

It was the feeling of evolution.

The Qi and blood that had originally been birthed within Chen Yan's body were actually beginning to compress under the effect of the 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】, undergoing a rapid sublimation.

The quality of Chen Yan's Qi and blood was rising!

From Blue Vault-grade Grade A, shifting toward...

Morning Star-grade!

Chen Yan took a deep breath; indeed, a powerful cultivation technique could bring about the sublimation of Qi and blood.

Shen Yiwei had once said that the reason Zhang Luobai was the number one heaven-gifted genius was precisely because of the Morning Star-grade Qi and blood within his own body.

The gap between Blue Vault-grade Qi and blood and Morning Star-grade Qi and blood was immense.

This was also the reason why, even though Chen Yan had been cultivating 【Deep Abyss】 to compress his Qi and blood, he had still been unable to raise the quality of his Qi and blood to the Morning Star-grade.

But now, it was rising; a very rapid and obvious rise!

However, Chen Yan still operated the 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】 without immediately letting the Qi and blood quality upgrade, instead beginning to absorb the Qi and blood between heaven and earth, accumulating it within his body.

There was no reason to celebrate before the match was over.

While recovering his own Qi and blood, he sensed the changes within the giant ball of light.

Xue Qi flew to Chen Yan's side and nodded at him.

Chen Yan's performance just now had surprised him, but since Fei Yi was dead, his own life would also reach its end, so he did not say anything.

Yet, as they waited like this, the expressions of Chen Yan and Xue Qi were also quietly changing.

Boom, boom, boom!

Explosions were occurring every moment inside the giant ball of light.

The strike Chen Yan had unleashed with all his Qi and blood was terrifying, and the earth let out a painful wail.

The light overflowing from the blue ball of light was as dazzling as an exploding sun, and the energy ripples released spread crazily in all directions.

Although it was controlled within a certain explosion range by Xue Qi, it still whipped up rolling winds and waves.

It was just that Xue Qi's expression, amidst its calmness, gradually became ferocious, and after the ferocity, it carried endless sorrow and madness.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes, took out the withdrawal token, and used his remaining ice Qi and blood to condense an arm, pointing it at the withdrawal button.

It seemed that in the next moment, he would press it.

"Hahaha!"

A burst of crazed laughter rang out.

Xue Qi held one hand to his face, as if he were laughing and as if he were weeping:

"So, so I was harmed to death by the people in the village..."

His voice was sorrowful.

"It was deserved, wasn't it."

He could not accept the fact that he had exhausted everything and still could not kill Fei Yi.

He looked up to the sky and laughed, everything becoming absurd.

So, he deserved to die.

So, being killed by his father was the best outcome.

What kind of joke was this?

What had he done wrong!?

Hum!

Endless darkness condensed from within the blue ball of light and overflowed, a pressure intense to the extreme bearing down upon Chen Yan's head.

Chen Yan immediately extended his right hand, transformed from ice, and pointed it at the withdrawal button.

Boom!

A black light slashed down, severing Chen Yan's ice right hand, and that withdrawal token went flying into the high sky.

With a *slap*.

A mangled, bloody hand grabbed this withdrawal token.

Blasted until his entire body was charred black, Fei Yi, whose whole body was as withered as a tree branch, was unrecognizable, and countless pitch-black charred fragments and eyeball fragments spilled from her body.

She had been blasted by this move of Xue Qi's until only her very last breath remained.

However, she was still not dead.

Endless pressure shrouded the entire second layer of the Dream Abyss.

Those surviving humans, those ancient divine beasts that had poked their heads out due to the battle, all looked at the pitch-black figure high above.

Endless malice and fear spread downward from her body.

The entire world became incomparably silent.

Fear brewed within the silence; a vast terror threatened to drown everything!

Fei Yi's head had been blasted until only half remained, and a charred, black intestine protruded from the neck, its eyeball staring at the withdrawal token in hand.

Following that, she pinched it with one hand.

A crack!

Crushed!

"Still want to escape?" Fei Yi whispered, the eyeball extending from within the neck gathering endless killing intent:

"Dream on!"

She turned her head fiercely, looking toward Chen Yan.

The next instant, her expression froze.

She saw that Xue Qi had already turned into mental power and retreated into Chen Yan's body, while Chen Yan had already fled far away into the sky.

Chen Yan was left with only a remnant of his body, but the blood-energy he had accumulated just now had saved his life.

Under the combined effects of blood-energy, force, protective patterns, and the Word Realm.

His speed was extremely fast!

The withdrawal token he had just thrown away belonged to Shi Ziqin.

The moment he knew Fei Yi was still alive, he guessed that Fei Yi would definitely want to kill him.

So he took out the withdrawal token to attract Fei Yi's attention while he fled.

That blow just now was also taken intentionally.

"You should press the withdrawal token."

Within his mind, Xue Qi's voice sounded, filled with sorrow and despair.

Chen Yan only had a final sliver of blood-energy left, not enough for him to continue casting 【Deep Ripple】 a second time.

He no longer had any other means.

What made him most desperate was that something he had been certain would succeed had actually failed.

The conviction to transcend life and death and still annihilate Fei Yi became incomparably ridiculous at this moment.

Chen Yan glanced behind him; the charred Fei Yi was chasing him as a jet-black stream of light.

However, fortunately, Fei Yi had been heavily wounded, unable to exert even twenty percent of her strength, and her speed was much slower than before.

Xue Qi's strike had not been useless; it had truly heavily wounded Fei Yi.

He did not blame Fei Yi, either.

Dwelling on past mistakes was something only the cowardly would do.

Only true powerhouses would exhaust every effort to turn the tide in the face of a turning point.

"In that case, I shall enter the Origin."

Chen Yan whispered, and with a flash of thought, a scarlet Dao-Severing Bamboo appeared behind him.

This Dao-Severing Bamboo had already grown its fifth segment, absorbing nearly thirty million Dao-Severing points.

In all likelihood, it could allow Chen Yan to exchange for a Morning Star-grade C-tier blood-energy treasure medicine.

Chen Yan's current blood-energy accumulation level was ninety-two percent.

A Morning Star-grade C-tier blood-energy treasure medicine was not enough for Chen Yan to fully accumulate.

This was why Chen Yan had never exchanged this Dao-Severing Bamboo for treasure medicine.

If he wanted to accumulate perfectly, he needed at least a Morning Star-grade B-tier blood-energy treasure medicine.

Screech!

From behind came Fei Yi's roar, filled with extreme fury.

Chen Yan sensed that Fei Yi was absorbing the malice in the surroundings, and at this moment, she was actually slowly recovering.

The longer it took, the greater the crisis Chen Yan would face.

"What are you still waiting for?" Xue Qi gave a bitter laugh:

"Great Xia examinee, thank you for everything you have done, but my doom of slaughtering the village is destined to be eternal despair."

He laughed out loud, his mood extremely complex.

Chen Yan ignored Xue Qi; his body plummeted downward, where an ancient divine beast with a sheep's head and a human-like body was standing quietly, overflowing with malice.

Chen Yan flew down instantly, cold ice spilling out to form a pair of ice hands, grabbing the Tier 4 ancient divine beast.

Screech!

This sheep-headed ancient divine beast was still roaring, releasing malice.

"What are you doing..." Xue Qi asked.

The next moment.

Chen Yan opened his mouth and bit directly into the neck of the sheep-headed ancient divine beast.

Jet-black blood splattered out under Chen Yan's chewing; Chen Yan, like a mad demon, slammed a knee strike into the abdomen of the sheep-headed ancient divine beast.

This scene was shocking and world-shattering.

On the ground, the surviving humans watched from afar.

"Woo!"

They let out low moans.

This was a scene that overturned their worldview.

Even Xue Qi fell silent, as if in disbelief.

Screech!!!

The sheep-headed ancient divine beast shrieked in agony, and malice surged forth.

Hum!

A powerful will surged from within Chen Yan, obliterating malice, gnawing away at malice!

Boom!

The body of the Goat-Headed Ancient God Beast exploded into pieces.

A rich stream of Dao-Slashing Points poured into the Dao-Slashing Bamboo.

A full two million.

Chen Yan, his mouth full of black blood, revealed a smile at this moment:

"Do you still not understand?"

Chirp!

Behind him, the Fei Yi crashed through a building, chasing Chen Yan with fierce, malevolent eyes.

Chen Yan laughed loudly:

"Everything here makes me incredibly excited!"

He dove downward; on a wall of broken ruins, a human skin pressed against the wall writhed, constantly splitting open red lips that spat out tongues.

Amidst Xue Qi's stunned emotions, Chen Yan charged straight down, slamming into the Human-Skin Ancient God Beast.

Golden light erupted, and his will soared.

The Human-Skin Ancient God Beast was instantly ground into nothingness, and rolling waves of Dao-Slashing Points poured continuously into the Dao-Slashing Bamboo.

Chen Yan's heart pounded; his entire body was flooded with intense pain, yet a smile bloomed on his face.

He clearly could have pressed the withdrawal button at any next moment to leave this place directly.

But just as he had said, everything in this place made him reluctant to leave.

"Isn't the true charm of the Martial Dao to defeat every enemy that cannot be defeated?"

He descended repeatedly, blasting and killing Ancient God Beasts.

The Dao-Slashing Sacred Bamboo behind him absorbed Dao-Slashing Points continuously.

Like a butcher, slaughtering in the world where the butcher resided.

Xue Qi fell silent, understanding what Chen Yan was going to do, and could not speak.

If Chen Yan could truly ascend to the Origin, then everything would still have a chance.

He was also excited, also waiting, watching all of this quietly.

Behind.

The Fei Yi chased as if fallen into madness, crashing through building after building.

But she had been too severely wounded by Xue Qi; even while absorbing malice to revive her physical body, she found it difficult to catch up to Chen Yan for the moment.

She could only watch as one Ancient God Beast after another was blasted to death by Chen Yan, turning into Chen Yan's points.

Two figures continuously traversed this red world.

Only the hissing of Ancient God Beasts echoed incessantly.

More and more Dao-Slashing Points appeared.

The Dao-Slashing Bamboo behind Chen Yan grew taller and taller.

Forty million points!

Forty-one million points!

…………

Forty-five million points!

…………

Forty-eight million!

Until a certain moment.

The Dao-Slashing Points absorbed by this Dao-Slashing Bamboo reached fifty million.

With a bang, the Dao-Slashing Bamboo turned into fragments and drifted away.

A jade box appeared in Chen Yan's hand, and immediately after, the blue medicinal pill wrapped inside was swallowed by Chen Yan in one gulp.

Rolling energy of Qi and blood poured into Chen Yan's body, causing Chen Yan's body to pause for a moment.

It was precisely this split-second pause.

Chirp!

The charred figure of the Fei Yi appeared above Chen Yan's head, kicked out, and a black beam of light blasted Chen Yan down.

Chen Yan smashed heavily into the earth, sinking deep into it.

At this very moment, a deep blue figure flew out.

Xue Qi, having absorbed the energy of Qi and blood, appeared once more; he spread his arms, embracing the Fei Yi's body at this moment.

Chirp!

The Fei Yi shrieked, constantly blasting out black light, shattering Xue Qi's Qi and blood body.

But Xue Qi held on tightly, unleashing 【Deep Ripples】, and layer upon layer of Qi and blood pressure slammed into the Fei Yi.

Chen Yan fled, continuously moving further away.

"Get lost!!!" the Fei Yi shrieked, but held by Xue Qi, her speed became even slower.

She watched helplessly as Chen Yan fled far away and crushed a Time Seed.

When the Fei Yi caught up, Chen Yan escaped directly out of the Time Barrier, fleeing once again.

Chen Yan was being wasteful, but at this moment, he could not care about so much.

He needed time.

Even if Xue Qi bought him one minute of time, a single Time Seed would turn Chen Yan's one minute into sixty minutes.

Fortunately, he had many Time Seeds.

Just like that, Chen Yan kept fleeing, kept crushing one Time Seed after another.

Chen Yan kept fleeing, concealing his aura.

As long as he confirmed that it would take Fei Yi one minute to catch up to him, he would crush a Time Seed.

One, two, three...

Wasteful!

If other examinees saw this, they would surely curse him for being wasteful.

It went on until the fifth Time Seed Chen Yan used.

Boom!

Fei Yi struck, and even though it was blocked by Xue Qi, it kicked Chen Yan into the ground with one blow.

Roar!

A dragon's roar resounded, and from the deep pit created by Chen Yan's fall, an ice dragon soared into the air.

A Third-Rank General Star, body overflowing with chill, stood atop the ice dragon, eyes cold; in a hand formed of ice, an ice spear pointed at Fei Yi.

Within Chen Yan's body, his Qi and blood roared as he circulated the 【Illusionary Ripple Abyss Domain】.

Gradually, a trace of an aura belonging to the fourth realm of the Qi and Blood Martial Dao began to emerge from Chen Yan.

This aura was not clear.

Chen Yan had indeed reached the half-step Origin realm at this moment.

Entering the Origin realm was not something that could be achieved overnight.

However, it was enough.

"Chen Yan, strike!" Xue Qi laughed loudly, as if he had gained everything; his body coiled around Fei Yi, his left hand raised, and within his palm, a phantom of a Black Tortoise condensed.

"This is the third move; once this move is unleashed, I will also die."

He laughed loudly:

"To destroy the evil of the human world, to destroy the evil of the world, this final move is to destroy the evil of the self!"

Before he had even unleashed the move, endless longing already appeared in his eyes.

He was finally... finally going to be with his wife and daughter forever.

He had clearly tried his best; facing the erosion of the Ancient God Beast, he had never bowed his head.

But he was harmed by his own father and hated by the people in his village.

He had clearly done nothing wrong, but to this world, he was also evil.

He was incomparably pained, the world was incomparably pained.

Until...

At this moment, he had no more attachments.

All the unwillingness and resentment seemed to no longer matter.

His eyes seemed to reflect the figures of his wife and daughter.

"Daddy."

"Xue."

They were incomparably gentle, walking over slowly.

Xue Qi revealed a gentle smile.

"Little Suyuan, Daddy loves you."

Chen Yan stood atop the ice dragon, and from the long spear, rolling Qi and blood surged out.

Countless ice dragons rushed onto the shaft of the spear, condensing at the tip, and an ice crystal orb appeared.

Inside this orb, a Black Tortoise emerged.

Endless pressure radiated from within the orb.

Screech!!!

Fei Yi let out a shrill shriek, truly afraid at this moment:

"Mother, Mother!"

It roared frantically.

Yet in the next instant, it became desperate:

"A dream, this is all a dream!!!"

Opposite it, the long spear had already thrust out.

"Goodbye, my..."

Chen Yan whispered, attacking with the spear.

At the same time, Xue Qi slapped his palm down toward Fei Yi's head.

"Fellow traveler."