Chapter 329: It is Hard to Stand Up, Don't Kneel Down Again in the Future

【Supreme Body-Cleansing Sand】!

Bright Moon-grade, D-tier Blood-Qi treasure medicine.

The exchange information Chen Yan perceived contained the medicinal properties of 【Supreme Body-Cleansing Sand】.

This is the most suitable treasure medicine for a Blood-Qi martial artist to advance to the sixth stage of the Blood-Qi path.

It not only contains Blood-Qi energy but can also wash away one's own impurities, allowing for a high-completion advancement.

It is indeed somewhat extravagant for Chen Yan to use this treasure medicine for his fourth-stage advancement.

But extravagance also means the effects will be excellent.

Chen Yan crushed a Time Seed, opened the glass bottle, and countless fine golden grains of sand slowly drifted out from within.

Immediately following, these golden sands seeped into Chen Yan's body.

There was no abnormality on the surface of Chen Yan's body; it still shimmered with the silver radiance produced while consuming the 【Immortal Life Pill】.

But inside Chen Yan's body, the sound of surging ocean waves suddenly resounded.

It was as if mighty giant waves were crashing against Chen Yan's body, causing the Blood-Qi to vibrate and sending splashes of chill shooting outward.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, red light overflowed, almost completely engulfing that Saint-Breaking Tree.

The momentum was immense!

Chen Yan opened his eyes in an instant, feeling as though his own Blood-Qi was impossible to control.

The unprecedentedly massive amount of Blood-Qi caused air-burst sounds to appear all over the surface of Chen Yan's body.

It seemed as if every pore, every particle of his physical body, and even the tips of his hair were gathering wild winds.

Terrifying beyond compare.

Chen Yan immediately began circulating the 【Illusionary Ripple Abyss Domain】.

Roar!

Screech!

The cries of the True Dragon and the Black Tortoise resounded.

The powerful Bright Moon-grade cultivation technique began to circulate this massive energy within Chen Yan's body.

He closed his eyes.

A strange sensation emerged from within his consciousness, as if a mysteriously appearing space had formed a connection with Chen Yan.

That space had always existed, but for so many years, an invisible membrane had prevented Chen Yan from perceiving that location.

This space existed deep within Chen Yan's brain; it was a folded space that had been hidden for a very long time.

But the moment Chen Yan advanced to the Origin, he perceived it for the first time.

Origin Space!

Blood-Qi surged into his brain, producing a tearing force that began to impact that part of his brain.

It sought to forcefully tear open the membrane between the Origin Space and Chen Yan.

Excruciating pain struck!

Chen Yan's face turned a shade paler.

Sss, sss, sss...

A tearing sound.

It was as if flesh were being pierced open by a great force.

Suddenly!

Deep within Chen Yan's brain, that hidden space appeared within Chen Yan's perception.

This was a spherical world, pitch black.

In the center of this spherical dark world, a human figure radiating a faint white light stood.

Its entire body glowed, its features were blurred, and it was naked.

But from these blurred features, one could vaguely discern that it was Chen Yan's face.

This was the Origin Divine Body!

And it was a complete Origin Divine Body.

Chen Yan had heard Shen Yiwu say that many Origin Realm martial artists still carried space rings precisely because their own Origin Spaces were not large.

Furthermore, their own Origin Divine Bodies could not be fully manifested.

But this one of Chen Yan's had manifested completely.

"It seems my Origin is quite smooth."

A smile appeared at the corners of Chen Yan's mouth.

But just at this moment.

A sudden change occurred.

Waves of twisting pain arose deep within Chen Yan's brain.

A strange power was generated from within Chen Yan's brain, within his body, and within his hundred meridians!

Inside the Origin Space, beside Chen Yan's Origin Divine Body, another Origin body had actually appeared.

Then, to Chen Yan's astonishment.

One after another, new Origin Divine Bodies appeared.

Five!

Ten!

Twenty!

……

Thirty!

Chen Yan was stunned; at this moment, not only was the number of bodies increasing, but his Origin Space was also growing larger.

With each additional one, the volume of the Origin Space would double.

Moreover, it was still increasing!

The fortieth!

…………

The fiftieth!

…………

The sixtieth!

Chen Yan fell silent.

Now, the smile on his face was fading.

These Origin Divine Bodies had not yet been forged.

To advance to the fifth rank, these Origin Divine Bodies all needed to be forged.

Originally, Chen Yan had been somewhat happy.

But now, he could not bring himself to be happy.

"I am already cultivating multiple paths; if every path requires such vast resources,

how am I to reach the highest grade?"

Chen Yan frowned.

Or was it that he didn't need to reach the highest grade at all, and could obliterate the ninth rank while at a low realm?

Did the ninth rank even exist in this world?

Chen Yan had only heard of the eighth rank, but had never heard of a ninth.

The eighth rank should be the limit of the world.

He pondered.

And just as he was lost in thought, the number of Origin Divine Bodies continued to increase.

Finally, ninety-nine Origin Divine Bodies appeared within the Origin Space, like an army.

Ninety-nine!

Chen Yan smiled helplessly; he had walked almost every realm to its limit and achieved perfection.

If this perfection continued, it would bring him to an incomparably terrifying level.

And at the very next moment.

These ninety-nine Origin Divine Bodies began to merge, and the vast Origin Space was illuminated by the white light produced during the fusion.

At the same time, massive Qi and blood entered the Origin Space.

Once these Origin Divine Bodies were completely merged, the forging would begin.

This was an extremely long process.

Chen Yan expended a full four Time Seeds.

That is to say, after two hundred and forty hours, this Origin Divine Body finally merged completely.

And only four hours had passed in the outside world.

Under the effect of the 【Life Immortality Pill】, the wounds on Chen Yan's body gradually healed, and his severed limbs had regenerated by about fifty percent.

Immediately after, Chen Yan crushed another Time Seed and began to forge the Origin Divine Body.

At the same time, he circulated the 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】, compressing his own Qi and blood to raise their grade.

During the process of raising the grade, the forging degree would inevitably decrease.

But it would not affect Chen Yan's strength; instead, it would elevate his strength to a terrifying level.

…………

College Entrance Exam Secret Realm, inside the Xunyang Tower.

The eighty-eighth floor.

An Yunan was trembling all over, blood seeping out, yet he was excited to the extreme.

"Hahaha, good, good, good!!!"

He hissed sharply:

"Lu Xunyang, are you waiting for me?"

The Xunyang Tower was summoning the one who would break the boundary; if it wasn't him, who else could it be?

From the first day he entered the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm, he had been challenging the Xunyang Tower.

Never giving up, his will breaking through limits!

He felt his own power.

"It is mine, it will always be mine; all the geniuses of the world are but my backdrop, hahaha!"

He laughed out loud.

And just at this moment.

A slow sound of footsteps rang out.

An Yunan's eyes widened as he looked at the white-clad figure appearing from the stairs.

The other party walked with extreme lightness, as if they were not under any pressure at all, and simply stepped over his body.

An Yunan gritted his teeth.

Yu Changsheng!

To think he is this powerful!

"Hmph!" An Yuna let out a low scoff, mockery appearing in her eyes.

These so-called geniuses of the older generation were not worth mentioning in front of a limit-breaking prodigy like him.

They might indeed be stronger now, but in the future, he, An Yunan, would suppress everyone.

But just at this moment, Yu Changsheng, who was about to walk toward the eighty-ninth floor, slowly turned around, looking incomparably indifferent:

"Who did you just say was your background prop?"

An Yunan's breathing hitched; the moment he faced Yu Changsheng, his courage seemed to shatter.

Yet in his mind, for some reason, he thought of the words he had heard before.

That was the summons of Lu Xunyang!

An Yunan summoned his courage, spat out blood, and laughed:

"It's you, it's all of you, you are all my background..."

Bang!

A white light slammed into him, shattering An Yunan's shoulder directly, and his entire body was kicked out through the massive window of the eighty-eighth floor.

A cold chill appeared in Yu Changsheng's eyes as he said indifferently:

"Trash."

As he spoke, a curve appeared at the corner of his mouth:

"All trash, everyone is trash!!!"

He became incomparably excited, but in the next moment, his expression turned indifferent again.

"Lu Xunyang, I want to see, can you stop me this time?"

Every time he conquered a floor, he would break a record; this was the reason he acquired points so quickly.

His will was sublimating, evolving, and becoming incomparably powerful.

So-called prodigies were just like insects, unable to defeat him.

…………

Time passed slowly.

Ten hours later.

The second floor of the Dream Abyss.

Chen Yan slowly woke up.

He exhaled slowly, and a chill splashed out from his body.

【Saint-Breaking Tree (Level 7): 208/500】

The Saint-Breaking Tree, which had only recently been promoted, was now nearly halfway through its progress again.

This cultivation session had produced ninety 【Blood】 Saint-Breaking Fruits!

Ninety fruits from a Level 7 Saint-Breaking Tree were equivalent to nine hundred from a Level 6!

The harvest was immense.

Moreover, the effect of the 【Supreme Body-Cleansing Sand】 was not just to store and forge Qi and blood.

Chen Yan's physical body had been cleansed, as if he had been reborn.

His features remained unchanged, but they carried a divine quality; his temperament had shifted, and the baleful aura on his body had vanished, leaving him very clean and clear.

Chen Yan's appearance had been handsome before.

But now, it truly carried an indescribable temperament.

This was not pressure.

It was an extreme sense of affinity that made people involuntarily feel awe.

The greatest effect of the 【Supreme Body-Cleansing Sand】 was actually more like a purification of the body.

Furthermore, the quality of Chen Yan's Qi and blood had reached the Morning Star Grade, D-tier.

Although it was only D-tier, it had crossed a chasm-like gap in levels.

To put it this way, if Bing Yi wanted to wipe out Chen Yan now, perhaps only one shot would be needed.

Chen Yan sensed his own body.

Within the vast origin space.

Above the massive divine body formed by the fusion of ninety-nine origin divine bodies, the right hand revealed a radiance, incomparably brilliant.

The divine body's right hand was fully forged.

This intuitive feeling was also reflected in Chen Yan's own right hand.

Chen Yan's right hand could instantly condense ice and erupt with a massive amount of Qi and blood.

The rest of his physical body was slightly inferior, but still far more powerful than before.

This time, during his cultivation.

Chen Yan had used a total of fourteen Time Seeds, a full eight hundred and forty hours.

In the outside world, this was thirty-five days.

But by using the Time Seeds, Chen Yan had only spent fourteen hours.

Chen Yan stood up, and pitch-black cracks appeared in the surrounding space; this was because his power was not well-controlled.

A sliver of Qi and blood leaking from his body carried the power to obliterate a Third-Order martial artist.

Chen Yan adapted for a while before he could control it freely.

He removed the time barrier.

Outside, there were actually thousands of humans surrounding him, each with bright, shining eyes, as if looking at a god.

They were incomparably overjoyed.

When Chen Yan was shrouded by the time barrier, they could only see a blurry ball of light and did not know where Chen Yan had gone.

At this moment, Chen Yan appeared again, and they could not hide their excitement.

These were all humans who had been kept as livestock; now that the Ancient Divine Beasts were all dead, they had all come out.

At this moment, in their hearts, Chen Yan was the savior.

Incomparably respectful.

"Du!"

The young girl who had been saved first had all her injuries healed; she was currently prostrate on the ground, bowing to Chen Yan, incomparably devout.

"Du!"

The rest of the humans were the same.

In their understanding, this was what it meant to kneel and worship.

"Do not kneel!" Chen Yan spoke.

No one around understood his words.

Chen Yan continued:

"Do not kneel!"

His voice carried the pressure of his will, very gentle; this was a way of communicating that influenced emotions.

The humans were all stunned.

Chen Yan spoke:

"Stand up!"

No one understood; they had never stood, and their entire lives had been spent crawling on the ground like swine.

Chen Yan watched this scene and fell into deep thought.

He now had two choices.

One was to go to the third layer of the Dream Abyss to find San Jin.

One was to go to the first layer, take these people back, and then compete for Dao-Slaughter Points.

He pondered for a long time.

He currently did not even know the method to enter the third layer of the Dream Abyss.

Fei Yi was dead, and Xue Qi had said before she died that she did not know either.

But there was one person who should know.

Jiang Yuan.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; this person hid a great deal and perhaps knew some secrets.

It had taken him five hours to get here; the battle had not taken much time, but healing and cultivating had taken fourteen hours.

There was actually not much time left for Chen Yan.

And there were these people.

Chen Yan intended to have these humans go to Slaughter Village, but he clearly did not have enough time himself.

Chen Yan thought for a moment and prepared to press the distress button after taking these people out of the Dream Abyss.

He would let a few Military Martial examinees come to take these people back to Slaughter Village.

He stepped through the air and walked toward the exit.

At the same time.

Thousands of humans crawled, following him.

He slowly looked back, facing them all:

"Stand up and walk!"

As he spoke, these humans did not understand.

But the little girl he had saved looked at Chen Yan, her eyes sparkling like stars, and she opened her mouth as tears flowed from her eyes.

"Du!"

She stood up with difficulty and walked with a limp.

The tears in her eyes could not be stopped at all.

Some people imitated her, gradually understanding the god's meaning.

"Wuwuwu..."

The mournful sound echoed throughout the entire second layer of the Dream Abyss.

Chen Yan watched quietly and whispered:

"It is hard to stand up, don't kneel down in the future."

He left.

He took the thousands of humans and left the second layer of the Dream Abyss.

The third layer of the Dream Abyss.

Inside the blood-red world.

The girl with twin tails sat cross-legged; she closed her eyes and struggled continuously.

She still could not help but raise her head and look toward the back.

Only that slender back could be seen.

San Jin took out a bunch of grapes, plucked one, and stuffed it into her mouth.

Even while being eroded by endless nightmares, she still revealed an extremely beautiful smile.

"He left... he left, that's... that's great..."

The grapes were extremely fragrant and mellow.

Very delicious.

PS: I might need to take a day off tomorrow; the plot regarding the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm is about to reach a major climax.

The foreshadowing for Slaughter Forest will be revealed.

This is the emotional arc I originally planned for the story: to have it erupt completely at a certain point, followed by a continuous sense of satisfaction.

This writing style is actually one the author has thought about for a long time, and it is the one I find most acceptable.

It has the pacing of a trilogy, but it has not departed from the map.

Changing maps is a key factor in losing readers, so I haven't changed the map from the very beginning.

Because in my eyes, what the map is doesn't matter; what matters is the people.

This is also why I said before that it hasn't deviated from the main storyline.

Because the people who should appear have never disappeared.

This part of the plot seems pretty good now; even though the traffic is getting lower and lower, the follow-up readership is steadily rising.

Up to this point in the book, I don't think it has given everyone a feeling of repetitive nesting, right?

If it has, then I am still quite a failure.