Chapter 432: The Name of the General!

Chen Yan was in tattered clothes, blood dripping from the tips of his hair, his body covered in hideous bloody gashes.

Yet at this moment, he had broken through the ninth lightning tribulation and was charging toward the Firmament alone.

Every muscle in his body was wailing and screaming, his bones popping incessantly.

Chen Yan's eyes were cold and sharp.

He knew that a tenth lightning tribulation would still descend.

Chen Yan knew that only that lightning tribulation would be his ultimate adversary; within the Continent Mirror, the tenth lightning tribulation covered the Firmament and suppressed the earth.

It did not give Chen Yan a shred of hope for survival.

This was no longer a Law-Extinguishing Realm lightning tribulation, but a General-Bestowal lightning tribulation.

It was a test, and also an ordeal.

But he did not want to wait.

Who said that people in this world can only suffer encounters without cause, and cannot go against the current?

In this vast Great Xia, is there anyone who can defy and slay the heavens?

The entire Xiaoyang City, and even the entire territory of Great Xia, was in a state of silence and shock.

High above, all the battle circles, large and small, simultaneously ceased their hands and looked up toward the high sky.

Shocked beyond words.

What is he trying to do?

The lightning tribulation has already been passed.

The other party should have already completely reached the Law-Extinguishing Realm; why do they still want to ascend straight into the clouds now!

The world does not understand, all the experts do not understand, and Lord Chen does not understand either.

At this moment.

He only knew that the plan of Lord Ji had failed, having established such a massive Ji Clan secret agent organization within Xiaoyang City.

It was likely waiting for the day Zhang Ting reached the eighth rank to rebel against the Xia Clan and declare himself king.

Qinzhou borders Tiezhou; once Zhang Ting steps into the eighth rank and rebels against Great Xia, then Jizhou could directly attack Tiezhou, working from the inside and outside.

When that time comes, it would be the beginning of the end for Great Xia.

What a fine plan, what a massive investment!

As it turns out, all the secret agents were dispatched, yet they still failed to kill Chen Yan.

The Grand Minister waited until now to strike, and now he is going to uproot the entire spy organization.

Even Zhang Ting has actually appeared at this moment, helping Chen Yan.

This indicates that the matter Lord Ji had plotted for over a decade has completely collapsed today.

Played, played by the Xia Clan, played by Zhang Ting.

That dying Sovereign did not wait for Jizhou to make the first move at all; now he is detaining the experts of Luzhou, having Chen Yan undergo the General-Bestowal, and waiting for the General-Bestowal to uproot the Ji Clan spies.

What a grand scheme.

Gathered in a single day, shocking the world and shaking the five clans!

Lord Chen took a deep breath, and he smiled.

The center of all this is that Xia Qi, who is not yet twenty, and this even younger peerless prodigy of his Chen Clan.

"I admit, I underestimated, I regret it!"

Lord Chen's low roar resounded throughout the entire experimental base.

Within his body, an indescribable power was rising, boundless to the extreme, terrifying to the extreme.

The Empress of Jizhou has succeeded.

The other party also anticipated that the Ji Clan spies would be completely annihilated, and even anticipated that these Ji Clan spies might truly have been played.

The reason for doing so was all to force Lord Chen.

To force Lord Chen to take that step.

Lord Chen slowly opened his eyes, and within those deep eyes flowed endless void and the vast world.

A strange energy fluctuation emerged from Chenzhou, crossing the ocean and crossing the boundless earth.

It spread out between heaven and earth.

Jizhou.

Inside the magnificent palace, the Empress of the Ji Clan, wearing pitch-black battle armor, opened her eyes; a smile appeared in these eyes that were beautiful to the extreme.

"Lord Chen, have you figured it out?"

…………

Jinzhou.

Sovereign's Mansion.

Xia Hanzhou narrowed his eyes: "Sure enough, it really is him, it has always been him!"

He roared in a low voice, boundless killing intent erupting in his eyes.

Before him, Xia Qi's expression shifted slightly:

"Is the Chen Clan about to strike?"

"Yes." Xia Hanzhou nodded, the killing intent in his eyes growing more intense.

"But, General Yan still has one more tribulation, the greatest one."

"He doesn't know; he thinks the lightning tribulation has already passed. He is going to strike; he really will strike."

Xia Hanzhou's voice was icy:

"It seems I must use that one-time immortality."

Xia Qi nodded; the one who brought down the lightning tribulation upon Chen Yan was the Zhou Ming of Jin Continent, so in that case, his essence blood would be useless.

Fortunately, Chen Yan was brilliant enough.

Relying on himself to survive the first nine lightning tribulations, this could also be considered as having passed the Law-Extinguishing Realm lightning tribulation.

As for that final one, it was the General-Bestowing lightning tribulation.

If he couldn't pass it, that was also fine.

It would likely arrive again when Chen Yan ascended to the sixth rank.

If the Chen Lord wanted to harm Chen Yan at this moment, it didn't matter.

In any case, he was going to die once regardless.

Xia Qi looked toward Xia Hanzhou:

"What is the Chen Lord's method?"

"The Tribulation-Killing Array." Xia Hanzhou's voice was terrifyingly low:

"This is a secret art of the Chen Clan, used to harm geniuses while they undergo tribulation, and then collect their resentment!"

As Xia Hanzhou spoke, the aura of the entire State-Governing Mansion fluctuated violently.

"He clearly could have used the Tribulation-Killing Array on Chen Yan again, but he valued Chen Yan too much, so he didn't use the Tribulation-Killing Array this time.

Instead, he released the resentment of the geniuses killed by the Tribulation-Killing Array, letting these resentments plot against Chen Yan's will."

Xia Hanzhou gritted his teeth hard.

The reason he was angry was because he felt the aura of an acquaintance.

That acquaintance was his good friend, a genius of his Xia Clan from back then.

Now that his friend's resentment had appeared, it meant that his friend's death back then was the work of the Chen Clan.

He had suspected it was the Chen Clan's doing, and the previous generation's State Governor had even questioned the Chen Clan about it.

But the Chen Clan denied it, not daring to admit it.

But now, in order to kill Chen Yan, the Chen Clan was no longer pretending.

Xia Qi's gaze shifted slightly:

"The Five Clans' desire to harm my Xia Clan never dies."

The Chen Lord valued Chen Yan too much; it would have been enough to simply use the same Tribulation-Killing Array he had used before on Chen Yan.

But fearing he wouldn't be able to kill Chen Yan, he had to release those murdered geniuses' resentments to destroy Chen Yan's mind.

Xia Qi's voice turned cold, surrounded by a frost-like chill.

"The reason I have remained alive until now is because I am unwilling to die; even though the Great Xia is about to perish and the catastrophe of the human race is imminent, the Five Clans have no intention of helping at all.

Each and every one of them is hoping for the Xia Clan's destruction and for the heavens and earth to be renewed."

Xia Qi sneered.

Is the Xia Clan incompetent?

There are the last words and strict systems left behind by the Founding Lord.

Every generation's State Governor does not resemble the lord of a country at all, but rather a person chosen to work diligently and destined to die.

The Founding Lord was selfless, cold, and devoid of humanity, not viewing his descendants as living beings.

But while he was so strict with his descendants, he ignored the evil of human nature.

The Five Clans who bathed in the blood of the Ancient Gods with him back then have long since become the greatest enemies blocking the Xia Clan.

…………

Boom!

A massive thunderclap!

It almost shattered everyone's mind and spirit.

The void was collapsing, and a terrifying lightning ball, huge to the extreme, was slowly descending.

Countless terrifying lightning rays flickered, as if to grind the heavens and earth to dust.

"What is this, how is there still a tenth lightning tribulation?!"

A cry of shock resounded.

It was a sixth-rank martial artist.

The massive lightning ball had almost submerged the entire world, and at this moment, it was pushing downward.

Some of the various experts still engaged in battle were all terrified.

The Grand Minister and the Blood Sword Saint both had their expressions change wildly.

Zhang Ting also stared fixedly with his eyes.

"Retreat, stop fighting!"

Low roars rang out, and some experts bellowed.

The aura of that massive lightning ball was chilling.

Even for a sixth-rank, there was a feeling that touching it would mean death.

Too terrifying!

What is this?

Why hasn't the lightning tribulation ended yet?!

Far away in Chen Continent, the Chen Lord was also stunned.

He had already activated the array, and the resentments of the geniuses who died during their tribulations were about to arrive.

The purpose was to completely grind Chen Yan down.

But he discovered he was wrong; there was no need for him to do anything at all.

Because this sixth lightning tribulation that descended could take Chen Yan's life.

Clan Master Chen looked complex, emotional, and then shook his head.

He had done something unnecessary.

Heaven and Earth would not let Chen Yan live.

To have such a terrifying lightning tribulation at the Fourth Rank could be called shocking to heaven and earth and making ghosts weep.

Chen Yan's body was still flying toward the high sky; he had long known there was a tenth lightning tribulation.

At this moment, what was there to worry about?

"What do we do, Teacher, what do we do?"

Wearing a mask, Chen Yu stood in the high sky with a tense face, anxiety and worry appearing in her eyes at this moment.

In the world of consciousness, the woman in the red dress also had her vermilion lips parted wide.

She had not expected this either.

What is this?

And at this very instant.

A figure emerged, appearing at the very center between Chen Yan and that lightning sphere.

That was... a remnant corpse.

Half of the body had disappeared, standing in the void, the head slowly drooping to look at Chen Yan.

His eyes were filled with rage, and he roared in an instant:

"Chen Clan, I, Xia Xunyao, will surely exterminate Chen Prefecture!!!"

His voice was like the raging waves of an angry sea, and the fire of fury burned fiercely in his pupils, as if it could incinerate everything in the world!

In an instant, endless resentment and angry roars resounded in Chen Yan's ears!

Above the earth.

Pairs of eyes watched, one by one; some were bewildered, some had their mouths agape, and some almost instantly let out shrill roars.

"Xia Xunyao, the True Dragon prodigy of our Xia Clan from a hundred years ago!!!"

"How could he appear? He died in the lightning tribulation; he is saying the Chen Clan murdered him!"

"It was the Chen Clan who murdered him! If he hadn't died, why would our Great Xia be like this!!!"

Roars filled with anger resounded through heaven and earth.

Above the earth, many people's eyes turned red.

Xia Xunyao!

Born with the omen of a True Dragon, the number one general star of a hundred years ago.

Back then, when the Ancient God Forbidden Land was overrun by ancient god beasts, Xia Xunyao led a great army to attack and kill tens of thousands of ancient god beasts, becoming famous in a single battle.

He was plotted against by a Seventh Rank ancient god beast and entered the Ancient God Forbidden Land, yet he returned alive.

He was conferred the title of Champion King!

The invincible prodigy of the Xia Clan, but he died in the lightning tribulation when he was ascending to the Seventh Rank that year.

The Xia Clan was shaken, and the world was in grief.

Now, Xia Xunyao had appeared.

It was a remnant corpse, a grievance-filled soul, denouncing them.

Someone roared:

"It was the Chen Clan who harmed him!"

With endless resentment and fury, it roared at heaven and earth.

The little nun Zongbo's eyes suddenly narrowed; she understood everything in an instant, and at this moment, killing intent erupted in those beautiful eyes:

"Chen Clan, you murdered Xia Xunyao back then, and today you want to use Xia Xunyao's resentment to murder Chen Yan as well?!"

The little nun Zongbo was thoroughly enraged; every note was like a sharp blade, piercing the silent air.

"Chen Clan, you harmed the future divine general of my Xia Clan; do you want to start a war as well?!"

She spoke in a low shout, and a majestic aura radiated out, like an invisible giant wave, surging and billowing in all directions.

Almost instantly, she looked toward Chen Prefecture and locked eyes with the Clan Master Chen.

At this moment, she was growling, filled with anger.

Above the earth, pairs of eyes watched.

Everyone was tense, and they understood.

Everything was the work of the Chen Clan!

They had killed Xia Xunyao, and now they wanted to use Xia Xunyao's resentment to influence Chen Yan.

What a cruel heart!

Chen Yan, he was still of the Chen Clan; did he deserve to die just because he had the human race in his heart?

And it had to be now, just as that terrifying tenth lightning tribulation was about to fall!

Everyone looked at the high sky; Chen Yan was being influenced.

He was motionless.

He was suppressed by Xia Xunyao's resentment, as if he didn't see the lightning sphere about to crash down.

"Kill!!!"

A roar resounded.

It was Jidao Wu, his eyes were red!

They had waited until now; how much had they sacrificed?

How many General Stars and how many Military Guards died in that battle just now?

Unexpectedly, it is not just Heaven and Earth that want to destroy Chen Yan; the Ji Clan wants to destroy him too.

Does the Chen Clan want to destroy him as well?

Clearly, there were General Stars who were smiling before they died, for they felt that Chen Yan could bring about a new Great Era!

Damn it!

Damn them!

Fury soared to the heavens!

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The roars shook and echoed, as if they were about to charge into Chen Prefecture in an instant!

But Chen Yan did not move; he still did not move.

That resentment of Xia Xunyao was very strong, very formidable; it could grind away a person's will.

But Chen Yan is the master of will.

In this world, who could have a will more powerful than his?

Perhaps there is one, but that would only be Lu Xunyang.

That person is suppressed within the Ancient God Forbidden Land, resisting, and his will has never faltered.

The power of will is hard to describe, hard to capture, and also the easiest to vanish.

Even an old monster who has lived for thousands of years may not necessarily have a stronger will than a ten-year-old child.

And in this world, the one with the strongest will is Chen Yan.

Chen Yan stood motionless, not because he was suppressed by that resentment.

He was feeling it!

Chen Yan stood quietly, feeling the incoming resentment, feeling the changes within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

Blue light surged, churned, and skyrocketed!

This is limit-breaking energy, the power of faith.

So much!

It has reached the extreme!

Pious and profound, it made Chen Yan's heart tremble.

The 【Break】 Saint-Breaking Fruit is growing continuously!

Thirty-five percent!

Forty-five percent!

Fifty-five percent!

It is still skyrocketing!

Is this what a Divine General is?

He seemed to have realized, seemed to have felt the true meaning of a Divine General.

It is not that he needs to be strong for himself, but that the world needs him to be strong, and billions of living beings need him to be strong.

They will cheer because of Chen Yan's victory and worry because of Chen Yan's hardships.

This is a Divine General!

One gives birth to ten thousand things, ten thousand things give birth to one!