Chapter 434: The Secret of the World, Divine General Chen Yan!

Xue Qi is smiling, but the smile is very unsightly, as if she does not know how to smile at all.

Chen Yan cannot stand up.

Xue Qi sat down cross-legged:

"The Profound Ripple and Hidden Abyss within your body awakened my benevolence; the Four Blood Arts of the Xia Clan were created by me."

An aura of immortality emerged from Chen Yan's body, and his physical form was slowly recovering.

Is that so?

If he hadn't awakened the benevolence of the Jin Province Continent Bright, would he have died?

Could he not even survive this Thunder Tribulation of General Conferment?

Chen Yan felt somewhat disappointed.

This survival was too coincidental.

What if Jin Province Continent Bright had not been Xue Qi, or if he had not cultivated the 【Illusionary Ripple Abyss Domain】?

What about next time?

Would he still die?

Chen Yan pondered; he had encountered a matter that could not be accomplished by will alone.

He survived this time, but what about the next?

He was still not strong enough.

Xue Qi remained silent, just watching Chen Yan.

She was somewhat speechless.

Why must you be like this?

I could even sense the "Once Immortal" opportunity left for you by the Modern Sovereign.

Once Chen Yan encounters a mortal crisis, he will awaken the souls of past Sovereigns.

It is true that Xue Qi was awakened to benevolence by 【Hidden Abyss】 and 【Profound Ripple】.

But the greater reason was that Chen Yan encountered a mortal crisis, and as that "Once Immortal" opportunity was about to be used, Xue Qi's soul was pulled, which is why her benevolence was thoroughly awakened.

As for that "Once Immortal" opportunity, it was not actually used up.

Xue Qi looked at Chen Yan, thinking to herself that perhaps Chen Yan did not know he had one "Once Immortal" opportunity.

He realized suddenly, so that was it?

He did not intend to clarify; a person will only value their life more if they face the pressure of life and death.

"This is the Thunder Tribulation of General Conferment, which should only descend when you are at the sixth stage of tribulation crossing; that you could reach this step is nearly complete.

The only thing missing is combat power."

Xue Qi said softly, with some emotion.

If Chen Yan were truly allowed to become a Divine General at the fourth stage, that would be too terrifying.

Xue Qi sat down cross-legged, quietly watching Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's breathing was still difficult, and he smiled with a slight tremor:

"Should I call you Xue Qi, or..."

"My original name is not Xue Qi; that was just the name of a sliver of my soul within the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm."

Xue Qi spoke in a low voice, a hint of coldness flickering in the depths of her eyes:

"It is fine for you to call me Xue Qi; I can now feel every reincarnation and death of that soul sliver."

Her gaze was deep, and her words seemed to contain unspeakable killing intent and hatred.

This hatred was directed at the Xia Lord, at the Lord of Horizontal Refining, and also at his father.

But she still held back and did not erupt.

"Let me tell you the story of those years," Xue Qi said quietly.

Chen Yan's body was still slowly recovering, while Xue Qi began to speak softly:

"You should still remember the story of the rabbit and the white bear.

Because they saw the white bear mother's soul ascend, the human race created the path of Thought Power; this white bear mother was a Primordial Ancient God, also called the Mother God.

Her soul did indeed ascend; no one knows where she went, and her physical body transformed into the Ancient God Forbidden Land."

Chen Yan's gaze flickered slightly.

The Ancient God Forbidden Land was actually the physical body of an Ancient God.

He had once seen it in the memories of Xia Hanzhou; just an entrance was shockingly large, lying across the earth as if to devour heaven and earth.

Xue Qi continued:

"Later, a rabbit discovered honey, which is to say, I pioneered the Qi-Blood Martial Dao.

But the Qi-Blood Martial Dao was considered a failure by the Xia Lord; that is what he thought, but I do not think so. This is the martial path I created, and even I do not know where the upper limit of this path lies."

Xue Qi's voice deepened, and the killing intent in her eyes could no longer be concealed.

She breathed deeply and gave a bitter smile:

"Let's not talk about that."

"What I want to talk about is the Great Xia and the origin of the Continent Bright."

Chen Yan became more serious.

"After the Mother God's soul ascended, only two Ancient Gods remained in the world: one named Ancient God Bai E, and one named Ancient God Fanni.

I pioneered the Qi-Blood Martial Dao, and the Xia Lord pioneered the Horizontal Refining Martial Dao, but the two martial paths ultimately could not defeat the Ancient Gods.

They viewed the human race as rations; it was an eternal night without light.

Later, a battle broke out between Ancient God Bai E and Ancient God Fanni; the Xia Clan and the Five Clans planned amidst this, and half of the human population died, with billions of living beings becoming extinct."

Xue Qi said, her gaze unchanging:

"Later, those two Ancient Gods were finally destroyed.

But malice is indestructible; these two Ancient Gods will eventually awaken, so the human race migrated, and the Xia Lord led the vast majority of the human race to establish a nation and multiply upon the body of the Ancient God Bai E.

Eighteen Prefectures were established, the Xia clan powerhouses were ordered to become the Prefectural Luminaries of the Eighteen Prefectures, and my soul, which had already died at that time, was placed in Jin Prefecture.

For ten thousand years of descendants, the human race grew upon the Ancient God; except for the Prefectural Luminary of Jin Prefecture who is never replaced, the Prefectural Luminaries of the other seventeen prefectures are all changed to ensure the suppression of the Ancient God Bai E.

But our suppression will only grow weaker and weaker, and the malice emitted from the Ancient God Bai E will only grow more and more.

Therefore, generation after generation of descendants are needed to slay Ancient God Beasts and disperse the crystals of malice."

Chen Yan listened quietly.

He was astonished in his heart.

So the ancestral land of the human race was not in this place; the entire Great Xia was built upon the body of an Ancient God.

The Prefectural Luminaries of the Eighteen Prefectures are more like eighteen iron pillars locking the Ancient God Bai E, preventing it from awakening.

Chen Yan felt a surge of emotion.

The Xia Lord is indeed a person who is both detestable and admirable.

The other party was cold-blooded, but what the other party did was right.

If it were for the peace of the human race at that time, he could have chosen not to migrate the ancestral land, but by now, the Ancient God Bai E might have long since awakened.

What would be left for the human race would be a scene of devastation.

Sacrificing the contemporary to fulfill ten thousand generations.

But nowadays, there are more and more Ancient God Beasts of the Xia clan, which shows that the suppression power of the Xia clan is also growing weaker and weaker.

The Ancient God Bai E may have already reached the verge of awakening.

Chen Yan's heart sank.

The reason for everything is that malice is indestructible; it can only be continuously crushed, then wait for the malice to condense, and then crush it again.

All previous methods could not destroy the malice.

But Will Martial Dao can.

Chen Yan's eyes burst with a bright light.

"Chen Yan, have you noticed that your Will Martial Dao has only spread within Great Xia; within the Five Clans, no one can awaken Will Martial Dao at all?"

Chen Yan nodded; Will Martial Dao indeed has a distance limitation.

But that is not right.

Xia Qi also entered Will Martial Dao, and Xia Qi is in Jin Prefecture.

That is very far away.

Lu Fusang only awakened Will Martial Dao when she had just entered Tie Prefecture from the outer sea.

Chen Yan pondered, feeling that he had thought of something.

"You guessed correctly; the laws of heaven and earth within Great Xia and outside Great Xia are different."

Xue Qi spoke:

"Great Xia is built upon the corpse of the Ancient God Bai E, while the Five Clans are built upon the corpse of the Ancient God Fanni.

The Five Clans of that year divided the corpse of the Ancient God Fanni and suppressed it separately.

It is precisely because of this that the laws of heaven and earth of Great Xia and the Five Clans are somewhat different.

There is even an invisible barrier of laws."

Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

No wonder, no wonder.

Lu Fusang did not awaken Will Martial Dao on the ocean outside Tie Prefecture, even when she was a hundred meters away from Tie Prefecture, she did not awaken.

Instead, she awakened Will Martial Dao the moment she stepped onto the land of Tie Prefecture.

"The inheritance of martial dao is like a single spark; once Will Martial Dao is born within Great Xia.

Then these people who have born Will Martial Dao will slowly influence the people around them.

Therefore, you do not need to worry about the spread of Will Martial Dao within Great Xia; you must go out and experience the laws of heaven and earth of another world.

You cannot be confined to one place."

Xue Qi said, a glimmer of light appearing in his eyes:

"Your martial dao can erase malice; you are the hope; you must surpass me, and you must also surpass the Xia Lord."

His voice became incomparably low:

"The malice of heaven and earth can influence people; the entire Great Xia is no longer the Great Xia of the past.

The malice of the world evolves into the malice of man—ugly, ignorant, and detestable.

The ugliness of the human heart will only be infinitely magnified, influenced, worsened, and even become more like an Ancient God Beast than an Ancient God Beast."

He seemed to be implying something, but by the end, only silence remained.

Regarding the Xia Lord.

He detested him, yet also admired him; he hated him, yet also felt grateful.

He only just discovered that his own soul fragment had encountered so many cycles of reincarnation and hardships within the college entrance examination secret realm.

He was very angry, yet he could no longer feel anger.

Time passed, and when his kindness was awakened once again, looking at the human world once more.

He was left with only disappointment and complexity.

He had never done anything wrong, yet he had failed.

His father—vicious, cold, and noble—had succeeded.

Chen Yan listened quietly; he did not speak.

Once people in this world choose to maintain their pure hearts, it becomes incomparably difficult, or they constantly encounter setbacks and become mere mortals.

Or, they recognize the rules of the world and discard their pure hearts.

The rise of the Aristocratic Family Alliance explains the problem well; harming others is always easier than forcing oneself to become powerful.

"Chen Yan, you can only rely on yourself. The reason the current Xia Imperial Clan values you so much is merely because they are incompetent and desperate themselves, so they choose to rely on you."

Xue Qi said:

"They are the weak, and you are the strong. Do not be swayed by them. What does it matter to be a mere Divine General?

You are the Master of Martial Dao, not a subject of a nation."

He looked at Chen Yan, looking at his fellow traveler.

He was very happy to see such an existence appear.

Chen Yan looked at Xue Qi; the other party was clearly a person of the Xia clan, yet said such things to him.

Very sincere, very earnest.

"Mm." Chen Yan nodded.

"Also, do not believe what the Xia Lord has told you. He is the same as me; both of us are losers.

Having failed to completely defeat the Ancient Gods, we are all losers. What qualification does a loser have to lecture you on his own experience?"

Xue Qi spoke again:

"Creating Martial Dao is a process of experiencing the human world. You have already done so much; don't be too tired. I can feel that you have never stopped to rest.

But you can take a break. Never mind what Divine General; you are Chen Yan. You must first become yourself before you can become the Master of Will.

Don't be too tired; there is no need to take the responsibilities of the entire human world into your own embrace.

The stronger your power, it does not mean you must bear more. You should be a bit more selfish and learn to enjoy yourself.

Your life belongs to yourself."

Chen Yan nodded, but soon frowned:

"But cultivation, breaking through limits, already makes me happy enough."

Silence.

Xue Qi fell silent.

He did not know what to say.

He just watched Chen Yan quietly like this.

He was not surprised, just conflicted.

"You are just used to breaking limits. The world forced you to get used to it, and you forced yourself to get used to it."

He spoke in a low voice, feeling conflicted to the extreme.

Chen Yan was used to breaking limits, used to enduring hardship and fatigue.

But this is anti-human; who would like anti-human things?

Perhaps he also did not know what this young man had actually endured to make him become like this.

He felt conflicted, even somewhat pained.

He saw his own shadow in Chen Yan, a very pitiful shadow.

That is why he told him to be better to himself.

The Great Xia is forcing you, the Five Clans are harming you, and the Aristocratic Family Alliance wants you dead.

Why must you force yourself as well?

Yet this young man told him that he was very happy.

Silence.

Inside the lightning sphere, it remained deathly silent.

Xue Qi was pondering something, not saying a word.

Chen Yan, however, saw his physical body gradually recovering.

Now, he had already passed the Lightning Tribulation of the Dharma-Extinguishing Realm.

The Tempering Divine Body was merging with his physical body.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine True Dragon Phases were slowly merging, becoming a single True Dragon Dharma Form.

With a movement of his mind.

Roar!

Behind him, a True Dragon phantom appeared.

A Dharma Form.

Chen Yan had seen it; Lu Fusang possessed a Golden Body Dharma Form, which was the Dharma-Extinguishing Realm Dharma Form he had constructed himself.

Chen Yan felt that his own True Dragon Dharma Form could also change.

Chen Yan circulated his own internal energy, constructing it in his mind.

Gradually, the True Dragon phantom behind him slowly changed, its patterns being redrawn.

It turned into a cyan-colored human figure the same size as Chen Yan.

It was himself.

He became his own Dharma Form.

Most people would choose to let their Dharma Form become another powerful existence, either a Divine General, a Lord of a Continent, or a Dragon-Elephant and various strange ancient beasts.

But Chen Yan chose to let himself become his own Dharma Form.

It looked small for now, but this Dharma Form could grow larger.

The power, however, would not have any changes.

The power of this Dharma Image is not as good as Lu Fusang's.

After all, Lu Fusang was already at the first rank of the fifth stage at that time.

The reason Chen Yan was able to defeat the opponent was that the bonuses from other aspects were too great.

The Dharma Image of the Dharma-Extinguishing Realm is a manifestation of strength and physique.

Others, including Lu Xunyang, had no way to outline a True Dragon Dharma Image upon just entering the Dharma-Extinguishing Realm.

It could only be a residual shadow, and then use that residual shadow to change into a Dharma Image.

The power is very weak.

But Chen Yan had condensed nine hundred and ninety True Dragon phases while in the Origin Realm.

This is the new limit of the Origin Realm.

Therefore, Chen Yan could outline a complete True Dragon Dharma Image as soon as he entered the Dharma-Extinguishing Realm.

While Chen Yan was still thinking, this Dharma Image changed back into a True Dragon Dharma Image once more, and subsequently vanished.

Xue Qi just watched quietly, a trace of a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

It was as if he were looking at a junior, a junior he greatly admired.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, not knowing how long it had been since he last smiled.

Perhaps he should even thank Chen Yan for letting his own kind thoughts, suppressed for ten thousand years, awaken again so he could look at the human world once more.

The human world is not good, but the people are fine; he was very satisfied.

The next moment, he looked toward the outside world, a pair of cold eyes looking at the heaven and earth of the outside world:

"This is the Divine General Lightning Tribulation; an Immortal General Star is cultivating here.

When he emerges, he shall be a Divine General!"

The voice was grand like the tolling of a bell, every syllable carrying a magnificent momentum, as if it could pierce through layers of clouds and mist, echoing across the vast heaven and earth.

It just like that exploded in the ears of the people of the world.

The next moment.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Beams of light rose up from within the eighteen provinces of the Great Xia, such as Jin Province, Qin Province, Tie Province, Yun Province, and Tui Province.

Wherever the light reached, everything around was illuminated until it shone brilliantly!

A Divine General was born!