Chapter 361: Truly Immortal!

Above the distant glacier.

The old man, frozen by malice for ten thousand years like a piece of sunken wood, began to breathe rapidly.

Beside him, Lu Xunyang was silent.

The young man's words were still echoing in a low tone, yet they shook people's hearts like a heavenly thunderclap.

"I am the one least willing to die, yet I still..."

On his body, the radiance dissipated, like an extinguished lamp, sealed in dust within this boundless, deathly silent Third Layer of the Dream Abyss.

"... walked toward... death."

Time seemed to have stopped.

Above the vast earth, that towering tree, which had struggled to grow from a mere wisp of green silk,

withered away.

He sat cross-legged, his physical body dead, without a sound.

Separated by a barrier of malice, the girl with twin tails, her eyes brimming with tears, shouted something and reached out her hands, wanting to touch Chen Yan.

But she could only ever feel a wisp of motionless breeze passing through her arms.

Tears fell in torrents, tracing across her delicate skin, as poignant and moving as broken strands of pearls.

She had failed after all.

She had misjudged Chen Yan.

That young man was not among the crowd who hurled malicious words at her, nor was he one with cold, indifferent eyes.

The other party, within the endless dark world of malice, had found her, stepping across the endless glacier.

And then, he walked toward death himself.

San Jin was in incomparable pain.

She had failed; she had failed in every single aspect.

In her mind, she recalled the words spoken to her by Xia Qi, who had now become the State Master.

One must find one's own sun.

She seemed to have found it.

But the sun had been extinguished.

How can the sun be extinguished?

How does the sun extinguish?

Within the gray world.

That Divine Body of Will, glowing with golden-red light, slowly approached Chen Yan.

The Divine Body of Will no longer exuded an aura of immortality.

Because, at the moment Chen Yan died, true immortality...

descended!

True immortality is that which is above the soul and within the will, impossible to be perceived.

It is the newborn Dao, the newborn rules!

Truth is his servant!

The Divine Body of Will was wreathed in golden clouds, with surging flames; at this moment, it was incomparably majestic.

At the moment Chen Yan's true self completely acknowledged the will, it walked toward Chen Yan's original body.

Following that, it gradually merged into him.

The Path of Will has no origin space!

There is no brand-new world used to evade the erosion of the Ancient Gods.

The Path of Will is the path of the self; where the Divine Body of Will is contained, that is where the self resides!

High in the sky, Lu Xunyang's incomparably hearty laughter rang out, unrestrained and free.

The old man with the icy expression saw this scene, his expression stunned:

"I have lost."

He said this sentence calmly and lay down at full length upon the mountain of corpses below.

His gaze swept across those faces—some relieved, some angry, some despairing.

He opened his mouth, feeling a constant roaring in his heart, yet unable to clearly articulate what it was.

He became dazed, then turned cold and sharp in the next instant.

Finally, he revealed the same expression as those faces.

The pain and sin accumulated over ten thousand years piled up together, wanting to erupt, yet difficult to put into words.

Today.

Amidst the endless rules, a new truth was born.

The immortality of the will.

Chen Yan was smelting the Divine Body of Will, waiting for the divine body and the physical body to become one.

He would then truly return from immortality and gain a new life.

The old man looked blankly toward the Xunyang Tower.

On that level, the Divine Body of Will and Chen Yan's body were constantly merging.

Even though the physical body had already died, the second realm of the Path of Will had been born.

The wheel of the era, pushed by this one young man, had moved forward by ten thousand miles.

Chi, chi, chi.

Wisps of green smoke began to hiss from Chen Yan's body.

Ripples of space emerged throughout the gray world.

Amidst San Jin's incomparably painful gaze, the youth's already dead body pierced through the Barrier of Malice like a branding iron, appearing from within the third layer of the gray Dream Abyss.

San Jin's body trembled; she looked repeatedly, reaching out toward Chen Yan.

The moment she clearly touched the youth's physical body, she wanted to laugh out loud.

But in the very next instant, that incomparably beautiful face turned deathly pale.

"Chen Yan."

San Jin shook the youth's physical body.

"Chen Yan..."

"Chen Yan..."

………………

"Chen Yan!"

Jin Province, State Administration Office.

Xia Qi sat up abruptly from his chair, his entire complexion becoming incomparably ghastly.

Blood-colored radiance emerged from his body involuntarily.

A faint, barely perceptible dragon shadow appeared.

That was his essence blood humming.

Xia Qi's complexion was incomparably ugly; he just sat there like that, silent for a long time.

With his own essence blood, he had begged for one instance of immortality for Chen Yan.

At this moment, he had a premonition.

Chen Yan was already dead, and that instance of immortality was about to arrive.

Xia Qi lowered his head, a trace of inexplicable irritation appearing in his eyes.

He had not expected it to come so quickly.

He had already secretly learned the entire sequence of events from Jiang Yuan; now that Chen Yan was going to die, he felt no disappointment.

But he sighed nonetheless.

He had thought Chen Yan could do it.

He did not expect that it still wouldn't work.

But in the next instant, Xia Qi's expression trembled, and his face turned strange.

He felt the soul of his forefather about to arrive to save Chen Yan.

But it was not coming.

That instance of immortality, just as it was about to be used, was blocked by a strange power.

"What... is this?"

Xia Qi frowned; he himself could not accurately explain such a thing.

Chen Yan, dead yet not dead?

…………

Such a situation occurred on the Qin Province College Entrance Exam Ranking.

Inside the villa.

"Hahaha!!!"

Chen Xiyuan laughed out loud, a complex look of mixed desolation and wild joy flickering within her eyes.

On the College Entrance Exam Ranking, Chen Yan's name had just disappeared.

Just like that, in an instant.

The heart that Chen Xiyuan had kept hanging finally dropped.

Chen Yan was finally dead.

"Finally dead."

Chen Xiyuan sat on the sofa, a sense of gratification showing in her eyes.

"I know you admire me, and I have feelings for you too, but your existence threatened me, so it is best that you are dead."

She murmured, feeling incomparably refreshed.

And it was at this moment.

Outside, the public, which had been incomparably noisy because of the disappearance of Chen Yan's name, suddenly went quiet for a moment.

Immediately following.

Even more clamorous noise erupted.

Chen Xiyuan frowned, then looked outside and froze on the spot.

【First Place Chen Yan: 11.53 Billion】

His name had appeared once again.

…………

Xiaoyang Border.

Chen Qi was dressed in white, traveling a thousand miles in an instant, his aura like an immortal.

At this moment, the old man's gaze crossed a hundred miles to look at the massive College Entrance Exam Ranking.

"This is interesting."

The white-clad old man spoke indifferently.

Yet it could be seen that Chen Yan's ranking was flickering constantly, appearing one moment and vanishing the next.

This indicated that although Chen Yan had clearly died, a certain force was pulling him back from the brink of death.

"In all these years, this is the first time I have encountered such a scene."

Chen Qi's expression was calm, with not much emotion revealed.

The next moment, he took a step forward.

The mountains and rivers beneath his feet seemed to shrink by half, and in an instant, he arrived within Xiaoyang City.

"If he does not die, this child will surely be extraordinary in the future."

Chen Qi smiled and said.

"And if he is dead?"

A voice rang out from ahead; Chen Qi looked over indifferently as Zhang Ting, dressed in the uniform of the Martial Suppression Division, walked toward him through the air:

"Greetings, Senior."

Chen Qi's white hair brushed against the long wind as he said indifferently:

"The era is like a flood, ten thousand dragons twisting and turning across the great river."

As he spoke, his eyes were incomparably world-weary, as if he had seen the entirety of the era:

"If he is dead, then there is nothing left."

…………

Zhu Lili, covered in blood, broke through to the one hundred and ninetieth floor.

She gasped for air, a trace of unwillingness appearing in her eyes.

"That Immortal Aura has actually disappeared."

The Immortal Aura was too profound; she had comprehended it for a long time but failed to seize the opportunity.

"It is also related to my lack of skill in horizontal tempering; I fear only a heaven-gifted talent like Qiu Changji, who cultivates the 【Heaven-Patrolling Art】, could obtain the true opportunity."

She murmured, walking up the stairs, and trembled instantly.

In a flash, the scent of a Bright Moon-grade healing treasure medicine wafted toward her.

Zhu Lili's expression flickered; the price of healing treasure medicines was higher than cultivation treasure medicines and lower than martial arts of the same grade.

A single Bright Moon-grade healing treasure medicine was worth nearly four billion Dao-Slashing Points.

She had only earned that much in Dao-Slashing Points by climbing to this place.

She quickened her pace and stared intently, only to see San Jin and Chen Yan sitting cross-legged on the ground in the center of the one hundred and ninetieth floor.

Streams of cyan light flames enveloped Chen Yan, and the vibrant vitality of the Bright Moon-grade healing spiritual medicine was being rhymed into Chen Yan's body.

Meanwhile, San Jin was casting a barrier to prevent the spiritual medicine's aura from dissipating.

Although Chen Yan's physical body was dead, it was reviving.

Now that he perceived everything San Jin had done, he felt somewhat moved.

But there was also some complexity.

It was too wasteful.

That was over four billion Dao-Slashing Points.

San Jin had actually exchanged all the points she had obtained for a single healing treasure medicine to save him.

He had already attained the Immortal state, and his physical body was slowly reviving; there was no need to be healed at all.

"Chen Yan..."

Zhu Lili's throat felt dry.

She clearly perceived that Chen Yan had no aura on him at this moment.

Had he already died?!

And San Jin was trying to rescue Chen Yan.

A Bright Moon-grade treasure medicine, just used like that to save someone?

No.

"Chen Yan, what happened...!" Zhu Lili ran over.

At this moment, she confirmed that there was no longer any aura on Chen Yan.

"You..." San Jin raised her head and met Zhu Lili's gaze.

Zhu Lili's body stiffened; this beautiful girl, who ranked first in aptitude, had red, swollen eyes and said to her almost pleadingly:

"Could you... lend me some points? I... I will pay you back."