Chapter 336: Jiang Yuan Chuckles

"Someone save me!"

"He's here, he's here!"

"Don't come over here, ahhhhh!!!"

"Wuwuwu, is it not enough if I just forfeit?"

Cries and screams echoed across the vast banks of the Dao-Severing Lake.

The Dao-Severing Sacred Fruit, its light growing ever more intense, was currently being ignored by everyone.

Under the onslaught of thousands of Military Martial Guards, the alliance of over ten thousand people from the Martial Suppression Bureau and the aristocratic families was smashed apart like clay chickens and pottery dogs.

Especially that slender figure constantly flickering with golden light, smashing through the crowd; wherever he passed, figures were sent flying in explosions.

Despite a frame that did not appear strong, he gave everyone an indescribable sense of oppression.

Many people couldn't even muster the thought of putting up a fight.

It was too terrifying.

Qiu Changji struggled to crawl out of the crater, his face covered in dirt and blood, looking wretched to the extreme.

When his gaze locked onto that group in the midst of battle, he was completely stunned.

Breathing rapidly, he watched this scene, unable to pull himself away.

Especially when he saw that person's back, his eyes filled with immense panic and bewilderment.

Suddenly, a fourth-rank candidate from the Martial Suppression Bureau who had been sent flying saw Qiu Changji's head and roared as if he had found hope:

"Qiu Changji, Qiu Changji, save us!!!"

His voice rang out, and a sense of indescribable fighting spirit and excitement surged in Qiu Changji's eyes.

Then, he collapsed back down, as if he had never crawled out of the dirt pit at all.

The fourth-rank candidate who was still shouting suddenly went numb.

The next moment, he was kicked away by a Military Martial candidate who rushed over.

Inside the dirt pit, Qiu Changji panted heavily.

He was not afraid; he was simply thinking.

Thinking about whether all of this was actually real.

Being defeated by someone using 【Heaven Patrol】 was something he found hard to accept.

Especially since that person had only entered the Dao a few months ago.

A strange smile appeared on Qiu Changji's face, and with a wave of his hand, a forfeiture token appeared in his palm.

As time slowly passed.

More and more candidates from the Martial Suppression Bureau and the aristocratic family alliance either fled or directly forfeited.

This was a struggle for opportunity.

From the beginning until now, no one had expected such a result.

The moment the aristocratic family alliance and the Martial Suppression Bureau chose to cooperate, this battle was destined to begin.

"Chen Yan, you're impressive!"

A candidate from the aristocratic family alliance, his mouth full of blood, laughed out loud:

"Losing to you is no injustice; I'm just fucking envious of these Military Martial Guards, you guys are too lucky."

As the man spoke, he pressed the forfeiture button, spatial fluctuations appeared, and he left the lakeside.

Many candidates from the aristocratic family alliance and the Martial Suppression Bureau also felt extremely conflicted.

Some who were seriously injured chose to forfeit, full of helplessness and regret.

In the end, only the Military Martial Guard candidates remained on the lakeside.

The Military Martial Guard candidates were incredibly excited.

This was the victory of war.

Chen Yan had single-handedly turned the tide.

While most Military Martial Guard candidates were still excited, the New Dragon Guards from Yunmeng City were quite calm.

Especially Xu Di; he had even started preparing to pull the Dao-Severing Sacred Bamboo.

Shao Hengyang sighed inwardly.

Sometimes, choosing to lie flat is actually not bad.

Constantly comparing oneself to Chen Yan is too tiring.

"Impressive!" Shen Youning said to Chen Yan with a smile; even someone as stern as her was smiling very happily at this moment.

In her memories, when she first met Chen Yan, he was only at the first rank; he had been tricked by Xu Di into the combat zone, and everyone thought Chen Yan wouldn't be able to hold on.

Chen Yan's time since entering the Dao was short, but he had encountered many setbacks along the way.

But to this day, no one had been able to stop Chen Yan.

Instead, this young man named Chen Yan had revealed his own brilliance to the entire world.

The smile on Shen Youning's face slowly faded, looking complex.

In fact, after the Heaven's Pride Trial, she had already understood.

Chen Yan would definitely reach higher heights in this life, and by then, they would only be able to look up at him.

Many were excited, many were filled with emotion and complexity.

But in the end, they still had to pull the Dao-Severing Sacred Bamboo first to obtain the Dao-Severing Sacred Fruit.

Thousands of Military Martial Guards began to take action.

A hint of a smile also appeared in Chen Yan's eyes; if he had known Qiu Changji's strength earlier, he wouldn't have dawdled for so long.

Everything was Jiang Yuan's fault.

Since Jiang Yuan, ranked fifth on the Heaven's Pride List, possessed such formidable strength, Chen Yan had truly assumed Qiu Changji would be even more powerful and elusive.

Moreover, the way the other party looked at everything with such contempt confirmed this.

Chen Yan could feel how confident the other party's emotions were at that time.

As it turned out, was that it?

Chen Yan suddenly realized that the ability of the Word Realm to sense others' emotions also had its drawbacks.

When dealing with clever people, sensing emotions was basically cheating.

But when dealing with fools, this ability to sense emotions would instead leave Chen Yan feeling restricted.

Chen Yan made a mental note of this; he had indeed become too reliant on the Word Realm.

"The Word Realm was created by me; I must not allow myself to become reliant on something I created."

Chen Yan whispered in his heart.

It was right at this moment.

A group of people walked over, whispering to one another.

Instantly, the expressions of the Military Martial Guard examinees here turned ugly, and they looked coldly at that group.

There were a full three hundred people who had come.

They were all Military Martial Guard examinees who had previously joined the Aristocratic Family Alliance and the Martial Suppression Division.

Zhou Tian was shockingly among them.

"Zhou Tian, get the hell out of here!" Shang Yunwu shouted in a low voice, anger appearing in his eyes.

The expressions of these three hundred Military Martial Guard examinees all became even uglier.

They lowered their heads, not daring to look at Shang Yunwu and the others.

A trace of struggle appeared in Zhou Tian's eyes, but he still looked at Chen Yan and gave a respectful military salute, saying:

"General Star of Fushan, please give the order for us to return to the ranks!"

Chen Yan did not speak, looking at Zhou Tian indifferently.

In an instant, cold sweat broke out on Zhou Tian's forehead; the moment he met Chen Yan's gaze, he felt the same sense of oppression that Bai Danshan and the others had felt before.

Chilling, solemn, and impossible to look directly at.

Even Zong Heng had never given him a feeling like this.

But Zhou Tian still puffed out his chest and said:

"General Star of Fushan, you are the one I admire most!"

His voice was clear and resonant:

"Among the young generation of the Military Martial, Zhu Lili simply cannot compare to Fushan.

I know our previous actions disappointed you, but..."

Boom!

A golden light slammed into Zhou Tian, his chest instantly caved in, blood sprayed wildly, and his entire body was sent flying backward.

"Ahhh!!!"

Zhou Tian let out a miserable shriek and passed out immediately.

Those three hundred Military Martial Guards who had rushed over were instantly stifled.

This was not what Zhou Tian had discussed with them beforehand.

In fact, while Zhou Tian was speaking, a girl had already started crying.

This had been planned in advance.

In truth, many Military Martial Guards had defected to the Martial Suppression Division and the Aristocratic Family Alliance simply for the sake of opportunities.

Especially that girl; she had enemies at home and a reason why she had to keep growing stronger.

These things were enough to serve as capital to earn Chen Yan's sympathy.

Zhou Tian had also seen that Chen Yan had the ambition to become the leader of the new generation of the Military Martial.

He intended to praise Chen Yan first, put Chen Yan on a pedestal, and then have Chen Yan forgive them to stabilize the morale of the troops.

They could be berated, they could be criticized by Chen Yan.

But as long as Chen Yan criticized them, he, Zhou Tian, was even willing to kneel down and admit his mistake.

He could be shameless, but he needed those opportunities.

Yet, before Zhou Tian could even finish his sentence, he had been knocked away.

Zhou Tian's scheme had collapsed halfway through.

"Woooo!!!"

The girl who was already crying began to sob even louder, looking at Chen Yan with a pitiful expression as she spoke:

"General Star of Fushan..."

Before her voice had even faded, another golden light roared over.

The girl was sent flying backward, covered in blood, and subsequently passed out.

The three hundred Military Martial Guards who had come all trembled in an instant.

One examinee spoke with a trembling voice:

"Chen..."

Boom!

Following that, that person was also sent flying.

Suddenly, no one else dared to speak.

Chen Yan glanced at the somewhat stunned Shang Yunwu:

"Pull the Dao-Severing Saint Bamboo."

The moment Zhou Tian arrived, Chen Yan knew exactly what the other party was planning.

Moral kidnapping?

You have to have the opportunity to kidnap first.

He, Chen Yan, did not buy into that.

He could distribute the Dao-Severing Points to Shao Hengyang, Shen Youning, Xu Di, Shang Yunwu, and those people.

That way, he wouldn't feel uncomfortable; instead, he would feel at ease.

These were all people who had helped him.

Even those military martial artists in the Dao-Severing Slaughter Forest who, upon seeing Chen Yan confronting Lü Guiwen, had instantly united and stood ready to go to war with the aristocratic family alliance.

Chen Yan kept them all in his heart.

But to distribute them to those existences he looked down upon, that would purely be disgusting himself.

Shang Yunwu woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly organized the manpower.

As for the three hundred people who had come to admit their mistakes, no one paid them any mind.

But this indifference was like a flame, roasting them as if they were on a fire.

Soon, these three hundred Military Martial Guard examinees scattered and left, also taking the unconscious Zhou Tian and that girl with them.

The massive Dao-Severing Saint Bamboo slowly bent down under the pulling of more than three thousand people.

The moment that huge Dao-Severing Saint Fruit left the lake's perimeter, Chen Yan soared into the air and slammed a fist into the enormous Dao-Severing Saint Fruit.

*Puff! *

The Dao-Severing Saint Fruit shattered, and countless red light orbs of various sizes flew out and fell.

Among them, the largest light orb flew toward Chen Yan as if it had locked onto him from the very beginning.

This was the rule of the Dao-Severing Saint Fruit competition.

The person with the greatest strength could obtain the light orb containing 1.5 billion points within the Dao-Severing Saint Fruit.

Chen Yan grabbed the light orb, a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

His Qi-Blood path had already advanced to the Origin level, while his Hard-Refining path was much slower.

These 1.5 billion points were what he needed.

Chen Yan waved a hand, and a Dao-Severing Seed appeared, instantly absorbing all the Dao-Severing Points within that light orb.

On the ground, bursts of laughter rang out; all the military martial examinees were also collecting light orbs.

"Don't hoard them privately. I am watching, and we will divide them later according to how much effort each contributed."

Shang Yunwu shouted loudly:

"There are still one hundred people not here; we must give them a share too!"

The crowd nodded, a scene of joy and harmony.

It was also at this moment.

*Boom! *

An arrow pierced through the air; the moment it struck, a large net erupted from the arrowhead, ensnaring several hundred million points, and then the arrow flew back.

"Audacious!" Shang Yunwu roared.

But Chen Yan had already flown out toward that arrow.

However, just after Chen Yan had flown out over a thousand meters, his pupils constricted.

He thought of something.

The person who shot this arrow could only be Jiang Yuan.

But why would Jiang Yuan lure him into a great battle for just a few tens of thousands of points?

Luring the tiger away from the mountain, is it!

The next moment, Chen Yan's entire body erupted with golden light; ignoring the several hundred million points carried away by the arrow, he flew back toward the lakeshore.

Sure enough, the moment Chen Yan left.

Within the earth over ten thousand meters away from the Military Martial Guards, dirt flew everywhere as Jiang Yuan appeared, his body exploding with white light, flying toward the Military Martial Guards at extreme speed.

A thick smile appeared in Jiang Yuan's eyes.

That light orb containing 1.5 billion was indeed valuable, but the remaining light orbs added together contained far more than 1.5 billion Dao-Severing Points.

Chen Yan still calculated too little.

Chen Yan was likely already far away, having flown after that arrow carrying several hundred million points.

In the end, Chen Yan would discover that it was merely a one-time-use formation.

But success or failure rested only on this moment.

The short time Chen Yan left was the opportunity for him, Jiang Yuan, to sweep everything away.

In an instant, all the Military Martial Guards were startled.

"Engage!" Shang Yunwu shouted loudly.

A smile appeared at the corners of Jiang Yuan's mouth as he stretched out his hands and began to condense a formation.

He had a very wide range of interests, and over these many years, he had accumulated quite a few techniques.

But at this very moment.

Jiang Yuan, who was still casting the formation, pursed his lips; his eyes, which had been filled with playfulness and a smile, became bored, and he stood there in the high sky, speaking in a rather disappointing manner:

"Chen Yan, you make me feel bored, do you know that?"

Yet, it was seen that Chen Yan, who had originally left, had returned once again, not giving Jiang Yuan any chance to strike at all.