Chapter 418: A Different Path, a Milestone for the World!

This night, many people could not sleep.

The news of Chen Yan defeating Lu Fusang spread almost instantly, from ten to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand.

Great Xia and Lu Province were the first to know, followed immediately by Chi Province, Chen Province, and even Ji Province.

Because this was a matter that defied common sense.

A Fourth-Rank defeating the number one of the Fifth-Rank.

It was not just a defeat; it was practically a crushing.

That battle was too swift; those watching had not even seen it clearly before Lu Fusang fell.

Moreover, the significance of this battle was too extraordinary.

It was not just a battle between the so-called number one of the Fifth-Rank and the Great Xia Top Scholar.

It was also, very likely, the first battle between people of the same path regarding this brand-new martial path: the Path of Will.

People were shocked, incredulous, and even disbelieving.

But the matter had happened just like that.

Within Great Xia, and within the four clans that had already appeared, this news was spreading wildly.

"A powerful Fist Realm, plus a Marvelous-grade Condensing Radiance Style—the Great Xia Top Scholar's talent this year is terrifying to the extreme!"

"His aptitude is not the most terrifying thing; his talent is not very good, absolutely not very good."

"Even if he has a Fist Realm, even if he has a Sun-grade martial art, how could Lu Fusang be killed by him in such a second?"

"Right, it's unbelievable. Lu Fusang isn't that weak. Even if Chen Yan has a Fist Realm, he wouldn't die so easily, and there was a real, tangible realm suppression between the two."

"No, no, Chen Yan is indeed suppressed by Lu Fusang in the two paths of Blood Qi and Hard Tempering, but what about the Path of Will?

Although we are not yet clear on the realm of the Path of Will, Chen Yan's realm in the Path of Will is definitely higher than Lu Fusang's!"

"The Path of Will, is it because of the Path of Will? Do we have any martial artists of the Path of Will here?"

Across the entire world, there was no telling how many people were discussing it.

Once people had recognized this reality, they began to analyze it.

The Path of Will!

Chen Yan's realms in the Hard Tempering and Blood Qi paths were indeed lower than Lu Fusang's.

But the Path of True Intent had surpassed Lu Fusang.

That 【Condensing Radiance Style】 was also terrifying to the extreme.

But people did not believe these two points were the main reason for Lu Fusang's defeat.

If one had to find a reason, it could only be the Path of Will.

At this moment, countless people were suspicious, even excited, and curious to the extreme.

Just how terrifying was that Path of Will?

One must know, if this Path of Will was also a physical martial path.

Then Chen Yan's strength in the Path of Will was, on the contrary, far beyond Lu Fusang's.

In fact, this battle did not involve any cross-realm fighting.

Because these two people had mutually crossed each other's realms!

Many people had an explanation.

That was that Chen Yan's realm suppression in the Path of Will was far greater than Lu Fusang's realm suppression over Chen Yan in the Hard Tempering and Blood Qi paths.

All of a sudden.

The world was horrified.

The Path of Will once again entered everyone's field of vision; countless people were excited, and they also wanted to enter this martial path.

To catch a glimpse of the profound mysteries of this powerful martial path.

Of course, Chen Yan's strength was even more beyond doubt.

No one doubted Chen Yan's strength; regardless of whether it was because of the Path of Will, this was, in the end, a magnificent battle record achieved by Chen Yan alone!

Chen Yan actually knew these things.

Because within the Martial Path Network, Jiang Yuan had already disguised himself as an ordinary person and was chatting about these things with an old man in a park.

Tonight, even an eighty-year-old man probably couldn't sleep.

With such a shocking event having occurred, who could sleep?

Now, it is three o'clock in the morning.

Xiaoyang was brightly lit; many people even set off fireworks and lit bonfires.

Today, that batch of Lu Clan prodigies were angry, King Xiaochen was angry, and the Family Alliance was angry and even afraid.

But the common people were joyful, the Military Martial Guards were cheering softly, and even those thousands of General Stars were laughing loudly.

They felt refreshed.

This was a victory belonging to Great Xia, a victory belonging to the Military Martial, and a victory belonging to the General Star faction.

Many martial artists even erupted their Blood Qi, turning it into fireworks.

No one was sleeping anymore.

Some people shouted Chen Yan's name.

The three words "Chen Yan", "Immortal", and "Fushan" rang out from time to time, resounding everywhere in the streets and alleys.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

The blue light representing the energy of breaking limits was constantly surging.

The faith of the common people reached its peak at this moment.

Almost in an extremely short amount of time.

A single 【Break】 character Saint-Fruit growth reached forty-five percent!

Chen Yan was somewhat startled; if it continued like this.

Then he would have no need to cultivate.

The bonus brought to Chen Yan by a single 【Break】 character Saint-Fruit was terrifying.

It directly caused that one 【Intent】 character Saint-Fruit to surge to one hundred.

Chen Yan's fist intent directly sublimated into fist realm, and not just a first-layer fist realm, but a third-layer fist realm!

Each layer of fist realm is far stronger than the previous one.

Therefore, the increase in Chen Yan's strength was terrifying to the extreme.

Of course, even with all this, it was not enough to kill Lu Fusang.

The improvement in fist realm allowed Chen Yan to suppress, for a short time, that Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder he still could not control.

This is a Bright Moon-grade C-tier Divine Seed!

It allowed Chen Yan to use his fist realm during the battle to pierce and injure Lu Fusang's brain.

That is why Chen Yan killing Lu Fusang was easy to that degree.

"Not enough," Chen Yan sighed softly.

He knew it was not enough.

His current strength had been exerted to a full ninety percent.

The remaining ten percent was naturally the Blood-Qi path.

The strength of the Blood-Qi path was already far lower than the Horizontal Refining path; the fist realm and the Profound-Entry level 【Condensing Radiance Style】 allowed Chen Yan's Horizontal Refining path strength to be raised infinitely.

This display of strength had almost exposed all of Chen Yan's combat power.

From now on, no one would underestimate him.

This was the most terrifying part.

If the enemy valued him enough, then his danger would also greatly increase.

Even without the exposure, Chen Yan's enemies already valued him enough.

For example...

Chen Yan sensed his body.

A pitch-black, fingernail-sized crystal of malice was currently inside his dantian, slowly leaking malice toward his physical body.

This was a very slow process; if Chen Yan were not a Master of Will, he would not have discovered it.

This crystal of malice was even more terrifying than the one Chen Xiyuan had given him that day.

It would not affect Chen Yan's physical body, but would erode Chen Yan's brain.

It would slowly corrode Chen Yan's consciousness, like a frog in warm water, until at some moment Chen Yan was completely poisoned to death.

How vicious.

Coldness bloomed in Chen Yan's eyes.

He would not beg his opponents to go easy on him; he would only make every preparation before the crisis arrived.

He knew this was given to Lu Fusang by Luo Feng, a Seventh-Order powerhouse of the Aristocrat Alliance.

On the martial path network, Luo Feng's appearance was not revealed, only a very blurry shadow.

But he had heard Lu Fusang's words, so he knew this was given to Lu Fusang by Luo Feng.

Chen Yan exerted his will and began to carefully sense the crystal of malice within his body.

A very familiar feeling...

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; there are differences even among malice.

The aura of malice within this crystal of malice was of the same origin as the malicious Blood-Qi Chen Yan used in the Aristocrat Alliance's underground organization.

Will defeating malice would also increase Chen Yan's willpower.

Quite good.

Chen Yan had discovered that Horizontal Refining has Horizontal Refining precious medicines, and Blood-Qi has Blood-Qi precious medicines.

Then, isn't the precious medicine for the Will path just malice?

Luo Feng wasn't harming him at all; he was clearly helping him.

What a great person!

His Will path was all born through exterminating the malice of the Ancient Goat Divine Beast.

Will is born from within malice!

Human malice, world malice, natural malice, technological malice, self-malice—all can give birth to will!

As long as a person does not die, they will give birth to will!

Constantly blasting away malice will indeed cause willpower to become strong.

This is a principle inherent to heaven and earth; Chen Yan understood, and thus he excavated the Will martial path.

"Not enough," Chen Yan murmured.

This crystal of malice was Seventh-Order and was releasing malice slowly.

Chen Yan did not yet have the ability to control this crystal of malice, so he could only wait for it to slowly release the malice.

This speed was too slow, and the increase to Chen Yan's willpower was too small.

It was like a large wine barrel, but the opening was only the size of a needle tip.

No, smaller than a needle tip.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Not enough!

He needed his willpower to be strengthened; he needed it so badly!

It was not that he was forcing himself, but that Chen Yan truly had no other choice.

Compared to the pressure brought by Lu Fusang, Chen Yan's true pressure was the General-Bestowing Ceremony!

Because as of now, Chen Yan was inside the Continent Mirror.

He had used the Lightning-Tribulation Treasure Land.

He had executed the 【Phantom Slaughter Dragon-Culling Style】 to awaken the goodwill of the previous State Overseer, reducing the power of the lightning tribulation.

Even so, Chen Yan still had not withstood the ninth bolt, which was that final bolt of lightning tribulation.

This was not because Chen Yan was too weak; on the contrary, it was because Chen Yan was too powerful.

He had broken through the limits of his cultivation realm too many times—so many that even Chen Yan himself could not count them, and so many that even if he told others, no one would believe him.

Therefore, the lightning tribulation was terrifying to the extreme.

The heavens and earth did not want to let Chen Yan pass his tribulation!

Therefore, Chen Yan pinned his final hope on his own willpower.

As long as his willpower was strong enough, he might be able to pass this tribulation.

That was why Chen Yan was dissatisfied that this crystal of malice was not intense enough.

He desperately hoped for his willpower to become even stronger.

Chen Yan sighed softly and used the Continent Mirror once again.

Inside the Continent Mirror, it was still a desolate world.

The moment Chen Yan appeared, thunder surged above the sky, once again forming a cold, stern human face.

Beneath the human face, nine lightning flames containing terrifying power emerged.

The next moment, the lightning tribulation was about to arrive.

"Adjust time!"

Chen Yan suddenly spoke:

"Adjust the time to ten days later."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, that lightning tribulation suddenly stopped falling and instead froze in the void.

The wind speed in the heavens began to accelerate, and the flow of time began to change.

This was the Continent Mirror.

It could realistically simulate the lightning tribulation that Chen Yan would encounter.

Of course, it could also manifest a Lightning-Tribulation Treasure Land based on Chen Yan's state of mind, and it could even change the timing of the lightning tribulation.

Following that, the Lightning-Tribulation Treasure Land also appeared.

Chen Yan's thoughts stirred, and the lightning tribulation descended.

Boom!

Chen Yan gritted his teeth; the power of this lightning tribulation had indeed grown quite a bit stronger.

Sure enough, Xia Qi was right.

The longer he stayed in the Origin Realm, the more terrifying the lightning tribulation he would face would be.

Boom!

Chen Yan immediately executed the 【Condensing Radiance Style】, beginning to awaken the goodwill of the previous State Overseer.

The previous State Overseer's goodwill was awakened, and the power of the lightning tribulation weakened.

But this time.

Chen Yan did not even withstand the eighth bolt of lightning tribulation before he died.

Inside the cultivation room, Chen Yan opened his eyes.

His eyes flickered with gravity.

He had only delayed the lightning tribulation by ten days, yet the power of the lightning tribulation had become terrifying by more than just a little.

Subsequently, Chen Yan entered the Continent Mirror again.

This time, he delayed the lightning tribulation time by one month.

The power was even greater; Chen Yan did not even withstand the seventh bolt.

Chen Yan gritted his teeth: delay it by one year!

He died after the fourth bolt of lightning tribulation fell.

As he experimented continuously, Chen Yan's heart sank lower and lower.

He discovered that the best choice was actually Xia Qi's arrangement.

The earlier one undergoes the tribulation, the better.

The Lightning-Tribulation Treasure Land was indeed saving Chen Yan's life.

But even Xia Qi had not expected that Chen Yan's lightning tribulation would be terrifying to such a shocking degree.

Could it be that the Lord of Willpower would die to a lightning tribulation while undergoing the tribulation to reach the Law-Extinguishing Realm?

What a joke.

"I do not believe that so-called dead ends exist in this world; all dead ends are merely a matter of one's own state of mind!"

Chen Yan stood up, his expression cold; it was precisely because of this that he had become the Lord of Willpower.

He pondered his strategy, not intending to tell Xia Qi about these matters.

Because Xia Qi's preparations were already the best plan.

The other party had formulated it perfectly; the General-Bestowing ceremony did not need to be postponed.

The world would never know that Chen Yan, who had defeated Lu Fusang, felt not the slightest bit of excitement or joy.

What he was about to do was a major event sufficient to change history!

Future generations of the human race would forever remember the events of tomorrow; this would be a milestone in human history!

Chen Yan pondered for a long, long time.

Right until the end, the corners of his mouth were smiling, and his eyes were smiling.

He did not fear hardship.

Because of the Martial Suppression Class quota, he had learned the Eight Extreme Refining Styles.

Because of the struggle to break limits, he had pioneered the Martial Dao of Will.

He liked it this way.

Life should have excitement.

He tapped on a communication array disk, and after connecting, the person on the other side did not speak for a long time.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yan said:

"Are you short on resources lately?"

…………

The world did not know what Chen Yan was thinking at this moment.

The world only knew that a Killing God who transcended concepts had appeared.

At this moment, even the Eighth Rank, even those standing at the very pinnacle of the world, had taken notice of Chen Yan.

Qin Prefecture, Wushi City.

Chen Changyuan remained dazed for a long time; he furrowed his brows, then immediately relaxed them, but for a while, he could not speak a word.

He was the Invincible Son, a Sixth Rank invincible.

Even regarding Lu Xunyang, he believed that as long as he reached that realm, he would be able to fight him.

Therefore, he was very proud; he was of the invincible generation.

Chen Yan was very formidable, but at most, he was only the best of the Fourth Rank.

He was the best of the Sixth Rank; why should he fear him?

But he was silent now.

Inside the light screen, Luo Feng's expression was also extremely ugly, after the two of them had remained frozen in a daze for a long time.

Instead, it was Luo Feng who spoke first with a ferocious voice:

"That Seventh Rank Malice Crystal has already entered Chen Yan's body!"

Luo Feng's voice was extremely hoarse; for a Seventh Rank to hope for a junior to die from a Malice Crystal was very shameful.

Would Chen Yan die?

He did not know, but he very much hoped for Chen Yan to die.

That was, after all, a Seventh Rank Malice Crystal, and it was given by that person.

"I know," Chen Changyuan said in a deep voice, and he hung up the communication directly.

His expression was ugly, and for a long time, he could not speak.

…………

On this day, many big figures were communicating with other big figures.

Chen Qi was still rushing toward Xiaoyang City when a trace of agitation surfaced in his heart; it was the Chen Master contacting him.

"Chen Master," Chen Qi looked at the blurry figure within the light screen.

"Master Lu has contacted me; he wants Chen Yan to die," the Chen Master said in a deep voice.

Chen Qi was not surprised.

Chen Yan's value was too terrifying; if such a person were to grow up, he would be another Lu Xunyang.

Within the Five Clans, apart from the Chen Clan, absolutely no one was willing to see Chen Yan grow up.

Chen Qi watched the light screen, waiting for the Chen Master's words.

He did not know what had been discussed between the Chen Master and Master Lu.

Placed at this level, they would only think of more.

"Go save Chen Yan; save him as quickly as possible," the Chen Master said:

"Do not let anyone discover that it was you who acted; bring him back to Chen Prefecture and keep him hidden until he grows to the Seventh Rank."