Chapter 438: Bing Yi, oh Bing Yi, to think you have misled me to such an extent!

"Chen Yan..."

Shen Yiwei murmured, his expression complex, filled with emotion, unable to put his current state of mind into words.

He still felt somewhat dazed, a very dreamlike sensation.

Recalling the scene when he first met Chen Yan, it was still vivid in his mind.

He never expected that so little time had passed.

"Compared to him..."

Shen Yiwei spoke in a low voice; he had been busy day and night in Yunmeng City, tireless, constantly wandering.

A tiny Gong family had blocked his path, and he had even found it difficult to take action.

But Chen Yan, the moment his strength was sufficient, went straight to annihilate them.

"Stronger than me, a hundred times, ten thousand times stronger than me!"

Above the sky, clusters of blood mist were still exploding, terrifying to the extreme.

All of this was being done for Chen Yan's sake!

Shen Yiwei watched, his gaze shifting.

Shen Yiwei spoke solemnly, looking at Luo Puxin:

"Old Luo, what are your plans for the future?"

"Me? Hehe." Luo Puxin laughed:

"The Minister said, let me serve as Deputy Minister for now."

Luo Puxin laughed heartily, feeling satisfied.

He was a meritorious official.

He was the meritorious official who had unearthed a Divine General; if he didn't serve as this Deputy Minister, who would?

Shen Yiwei nodded:

"I am going to Ji Province."

"Hm?" Luo Puxin was slightly taken aback.

"I am going to Ji Province to kill the enemy and raise my name!" Shen Yiwei said heavily.

He was also a heaven-gifted talent; he had once been invincible at the same cultivation realm, but after losing to Chen Changyuan, he had completely changed.

Rather than saying he lost to Chen Changyuan, he had lost to himself, having destroyed his own martial path.

Today, he had picked it back up!

"You!" Luo Puxin was shocked:

"You want to go to the Ji Province battlefield? You are Lu Xunyang's disciple; many people are dying for you to die."

"Then I will go anyway; I cannot let Chen Yan look down on me." Shen Yiwei said:

"I cannot let Chen Yan look down on me; I feel that Chen Yan looks down on me."

He clenched his fists, a fighting spirit emerging in the depths of his eyes.

Because of Chen Yan's ordeal in the college entrance examination secret realm, he had completely doubted himself and completely recognized himself for who he was.

He wanted to walk a path that belonged to him.

"Many thanks, Chen Yan."

He murmured, filled with emotion, his aura changing.

Hum!

Sword light flickered beside him, water droplets appearing, layer upon layer, tier upon tier.

But unlike before, these water droplets contained a scarlet hue.

"This!" Luo Puxin was greatly alarmed.

"From now on, there is no more Droplet Sword Realm, only..." Shen Yiwei's eyes were cold and sharp, and a fierce sword realm spread from the earth.

"Blood Sword Realm!"

The next moment, countless blood beads inverted and rose from the ground upward.

The Nine-Layer Sword Realm appeared in the world!

Xiaoyang trembled.

Almost in an instant, a Fifth-Rank peak expert who was still being hunted by the Extreme Martial was wounded by this sword realm, their entire body suddenly pierced with countless blood holes.

"Shen Yiwei, you!"

Some were shocked, some roared, some were in despair.

The blood droplets filling the sky continuously attacked in all directions, the momentum terrifying to the extreme, sharp to the extreme.

"You dare attack the heaven-gifted talent under my command? You all deserve to die!"

Shen Yiwei shouted lowly, waving one hand, the sword realm suppressing and killing, blood mist dissipating.

His aura had completely changed; Zhang Ting was shocked, the Extreme Martial were stunned, and every single Star General looked on in horror.

What an overbearing sword realm, what an intense killing intent!

At this moment, Shen Yiwei was no longer as he had been before, but a naked God of Slaughter!

Zong Heng was stunned, and the next moment, he understood.

Shen Yiwei had gone into seclusion carrying guilt toward Chen Yan, as well as killing intent toward the Aristocratic Family Alliance and Chen Changyuan.

There was killing intent intense to the extreme, along with self-loathing and anger.

And so, little Shen had changed.

Shen Yiwei smiled.

He had once said, if the great sun can do it, I can do it too!

He spent his whole life trying to learn from Lu Xunyang, but he never learned it, couldn't achieve it, and even lost himself in the process.

"I am not someone else, I don't learn from others, I am just Shen Yiwei!"

He laughed, his killing intent rising higher and higher, as if he were a madman.

…………

Inside the Lightning Tribulation world.

Chen Yan sighed softly; he was actually a bit worried that Old Shen would leave seclusion early.

After all, Shen Yiwei had long since lost the motivation to become stronger.

He had even lost his killer instinct.

Shen Yiwei was a True Dragon, but how could a True Dragon be stopped by a mere Gong Family?

Fortunately, Shen Yiwei still had fighting spirit now and was still willing to become stronger.

That was good.

Chen Yan stopped watching Shen Yiwei and continued to absorb the Tier 7 Malice Crystal.

He had to leave.

Leave this place.

He was still undergoing the tribulation, and because his strength was insufficient, the current Chen Yan did not have the combat power of a Divine General at all.

A Divine General was too powerful.

"But that's fine too."

Chen Yan murmured; he still had resources, channels to become stronger, and there was no crisis right now, so he could cultivate with peace of mind.

At the same time.

In front of Chen Yan, the light and flames shifted, and the figure of a man wearing battle armor emerged.

"I am the Guardian General; defeat me, and you may leave seclusion."

The man spoke.

Chen Yan ignored him and continued to absorb the malice.

The Guardian General was one of the rules of this Lightning Tribulation world, not a living being.

The moment he defeated the Guardian General, the entire Lightning Tribulation world would also collapse.

Time passed slowly.

One day.

Two days.

……

Ten days.

Ten days later, Chen Yan had completely exhausted the malice on his body.

His eyes were clear, and a faint, pure light slowly flowed around his body.

His will had become even stronger.

After all, it was a Tier 7 Malice Crystal, and it had indeed benefited Chen Yan greatly.

"It's a pity there is no Time Seed."

Chen Yan murmured; time was passing too quickly.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.

To Chen Yan's pleasant surprise, two more martial artists had entered the Will Martial Dao in these ten days.

This was related to Chen Yan promoting the Will Martial Dao.

Military Guards across the Great Xia had all established Will Martial Dao research classes.

Zhuang Ang, the first to enter the Will Martial Dao, was currently brought to Xiaoyang and began to spread his feelings from when he first awakened the Will Martial Dao to others.

These two new Will martial artists were students from the Xiaoyang Will Martial Dao research class, both from impoverished backgrounds.

By constantly pushing their own limits, they entered the Will Martial Dao.

These two people would be prioritized to be taken to Tui Province and Yun Province to help the Will Martial Dao research classes there.

Just as Xue Qi said, the Martial Dao was like a spark that would continue to spread.

Precisely because two more tips of the veins had been added to the Martial Dao network, Chen Yan's grasp of external information had become even more comprehensive.

And at the next moment, a strange feeling emerged.

The Blood Sword Saint had entered the Will Martial Dao.

The Blood Sword Saint had entered the Will Martial Dao on his own, which was quite good.

However, the Blood Sword Saint was Tier 8, and his figure within the tip of the vein was extremely blurry, making it impossible for Chen Yan to discern any information.

Of course, outside of Great Xia, no Will martial artists had emerged.

This was due to the constraints of the laws of heaven and earth.

Chen Yan still wanted the people of the Five Clans to enter the Will Martial Dao as well.

If they were not enemies, then he could increase the spread of the Will Martial Dao.

If they were enemies, then it would allow Chen Yan to grasp information in advance.

This was the true way to know oneself and know the enemy.

It was time to leave Great Xia and go see the overseas world.

Chen Yan thought to himself.

Subsequently, he took out several precious medicines from his Origin Space.

A large quantity of precious medicines; these were all resources Chen Yan and Jiang Yuan had swept up from the Luo Family last time.

Of course, there were also the corpses of the Luo family experts; within these corpses were also some resources.

There were also those of Lu Fusang and Lu Menghan.

Chen Yan took out the two corpses.

He sensed the scent of the Kun Secret Flowing Thunder.

The Kun Secret Flowing Thunder within Lu Fusang's body was of Morning Star-grade, First Class; this was the Lu clan's bloodline talent, and also a Divine Seed.

It ranked nineteenth on the Heaven and Earth Spirit Item Ranking.

Of course, the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder was seventeenth.

Divine Seeds can all be upgraded, moving toward the Divine-grade, and they carry powerful attributes.

Lu Fusang's corpse was a massive resource.

Chen Yan had not absorbed it before simply because he had no time.

Very quickly, Chen Yan began to open the origin spaces of the several corpses one after another.

Sure enough, there were quite a few precious medicines.

The only pity was that Lu Menghan's head had been smashed by him, and the origin space of the Qi and blood path within her head had vanished along with it.

But the origin space of the hard-tempering path was at the dantian, so Chen Yan still managed to rummage out some things.

"What is this?"

Chen Yan looked at two pitch-black lamps among a pile of treasures.

These were found by Chen Yan from the origin spaces of Lu Fusang and Lu Menghan, respectively.

The lamp bodies were a deep, dark black, and the material seemed to be crafted from some unknown, mysterious metal.

The surface was covered in strange patterns, and faint black smoke drifted above the patterns.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; he looked at the patterns on the two lamps, and a faint golden light emerged within his Saint-Breaking Realm.

This is a Qi and blood martial technique!

Chen Yan's gaze trembled.

No!

This is the opening movement of a Qi and blood martial technique, but it is very profound!

Profound to the extreme!

Chen Yan stared at it again, and the golden light representing skill energy within his Saint-Breaking Realm suddenly surged!

Chen Yan's gaze paused abruptly.

It was not that he had never come into contact with Sun-grade techniques; for example, the 【Illusionary Slaughter Dragon-Stripping Style】 was a Sun-grade, Third Class hard-tempering external martial art.

But if it were merely an opening movement, the 【Illusionary Slaughter Dragon-Stripping Style】 would not be this profound and complex.

Chen Yan's breathing hitched.

This is the opening movement of a Divine Technique!

It is just an opening movement; one cannot learn anything from it at all.

It is just like that bronze statue of Lu Xunyang at Green Mountain High School.

What could one possibly learn from just the starting movement of the 【Extreme Tempering Eight Styles】?

Even if one wanted to deduce it, it would depend on whether it could be deduced at all.

After all, the path following an opening movement could be ten thousand possibilities, or it could be one hundred million.

And the correct path would only be that one in one hundred million.

You have no way of knowing which one is correct.

But it was precisely from that starting movement that Chen Yan realized the force-exerting methods and killing techniques of the 【Extreme Tempering Eight Styles】.

Because he had the Saint-Breaking Tree.

He judged whether his deduction was correct by determining the amount of golden light representing skill energy within his Saint-Breaking Realm.

Of course, this was also very difficult.

But if deducing martial arts could truly allow Chen Yan to learn something, then it was worth it.

Right now, it seemed the thing he lacked the least was time.

It was also at this moment.

Sss, sss, sss!

From the two lamps, a streak of pitch-black mist simultaneously spilled out toward Chen Yan.

It seemed to want to establish some kind of connection with Chen Yan.

"What is this?" Chen Yan looked toward the Lightning Tribulation Guardian not far away.

The Lightning Tribulation Guardian did not speak, but its gaze flickered.

Chen Yan frowned and did not establish a connection with the two lamps.

The next moment, Chen Yan rose directly and struck toward the Lightning Tribulation Guardian.

With a boom.

Chen Yan was sent flying.

The outcome did not need to be guessed; this guardian already possessed the strength of the Seventh Rank.

Chen Yan simply could not beat it.

The gap in strength between the two could be called the difference between clouds and mud.

"What is this lamp?" Chen Yan asked again.

The Lightning Tribulation Guardian still did not speak.

"I am a Divine General; defeating you is only a matter of time, why must you hide these things from me?"

Chen Yan spoke, saying that although this Lightning Tribulation Guardian was not a living being, it seemed to possess a sliver of its own consciousness.

That made sense; the Lightning Tribulation originated from Zhou Ming, so this Lightning Tribulation Guardian should also carry a bit of Zhou Ming's memories.

"Calamity Corpse Divine Lamp, the third-ranked divine artifact in the world," the Lightning Tribulation Guardian spoke.

Chen Yan frowned.

Are you kidding me?

If Lu Fusang and Lu Menghan both possessed a third-ranked divine artifact in the world, why not just kill him, Chen Yan, directly?

Chen Yan condensed a communication formation disk and began to contact Jiang Yuan.

This time, the communication did not go through.

Chen Yan frowned.

This Lightning Tribulation world had fallen into the Lightning Extremity Treasure Land, and it now appeared to be continuously falling toward the center of the earth.

Moreover, with the lightning blocking the way, the signal with Jiang Yuan was getting worse and worse; now, a connection could not be established at all.

Chen Yan shook his head and performed internal observation of his Saint-Breaking Realm.

【Saint-Breaking Tree (Level 8): 97/200

Force: 75/100

Blood: 23/100

Technique: 23/100

Body: 21/100

Formation: 37/100

Origin: 76/100

Will: 65/100

Break: 134/100】

Chen Yan was slightly pleased; he still had one "Break" character Saint-Breaking Fruit that he had not consumed.

Chen Yan did not intend to use it now; he needed to use the "Break" character Saint-Breaking Fruit for the most difficult point.

Immediately following this, Chen Yan began his seclusion.

Time passed slowly.

Five days later.

Chen Yan opened his eyes and looked at the two lamps before him.

He knew what these two lamps were.

Because Jiang Yuan had already been met by the Ji Clan and had gone overseas.

After killing a Five-Clan prodigy, he had obtained an identical lamp.

Through the conversation between Jiang Yuan and that Ji clansman, Chen Yan learned the origin of this lamp.

The Calamity Corpse Divine Lamp was indeed the third-ranked divine artifact in the world.

But these two were only child lamps; the true divine artifact was the parent lamp.

One could bind the child lamps, but Jiang Yuan could not, because Jiang Yuan was not a member of the Five Clans.

Only members of the Five Clans could bind them.

This was the only information Chen Yan could know, because Jiang Yuan and that Ji clansman had only said this much.

It seemed that binding them would bring benefits.

Should he bind it?

Chen Yan frowned and looked at one of the child lamps.

At the same time.

In Chen Prefecture, inside the Research Institute.

"The system has successfully simulated the difficulty of Chen Yan's General-Bestowing Lightning Tribulation; it judges that it will take Chen Yan ten years, three months, and five days to reach the Divine General rank."

A researcher looked at the dense numbers on the screen and spoke with pleasant surprise.

The next moment, a burst of laughter erupted throughout the research lab.

Is Chen Yan terrifying?

Terrifying!

He simply placed an inexplicable pressure on all members of the Five Clans invisibly.

But the system judged that it would take Chen Yan a full ten years to walk out of the Lightning Extremity Treasure Land.

Ten years!

Many things could happen in ten years; with the world in chaos today, perhaps by the time Chen Yan finished his seclusion, Qin Prefecture would already be occupied.

Everyone laughed and let out a sigh of relief, yet some sighed.

A Fourth-Tier—no, a Fifth-Tier—being able to give them such pressure, it could only be Chen Yan.

After ten years, the opponent would be a genuine Divine General.

A Divine General!

Many of those who were laughing stopped laughing.

"Great Elder!" Someone stood up; Chen Qi appeared at the laboratory entrance.

"Mm, I heard it." Chen Qi nodded, his eyes devoid of laughter:

"How many unknown elements are in the data judged by the system?"

"There are fifteen unknown elements; the two with the most influence are, one of which is the Will Path; the system cannot judge the developmental potential of the Will Path."

A laboratory staff member spoke up.

Chen Qi frowned:

"Has no Will Martial Artist appeared in our Chen Prefecture yet?

I heard that two have appeared in the Great Xia's Will Martial Dao research class."

"None," a researcher sighed:

"After all, Great Xia has a Zhuang Ang preaching the Dao, while we are researching from scratch."

Chen Qi felt uncomfortable hearing this.

The one with the most authority on the path of Will in the world today is Chen Yan.

That is the genius of his Chen Clan.

It is all his fault!

"Besides the Will Martial Dao, what is the other key element?" Chen Qi asked again.

"It is..." the researcher stammered:

"Whether Chen Yan is Ice Intent."

Chen Qi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"If we set the coefficients of all of Chen Yan's unknown elements to the maximum, how long does the system judge it will take for Chen Yan to leave the Lightning Strike Treasure Land?" Chen Qi said, his eyes staring fixedly at the researcher.

The next moment, all the personnel in the laboratory began to work.

A flurry of clattering sounds.

Finally.

A researcher spoke in a difficult tone:

"Five... five years and four months..."

Silence.

The entire laboratory was quiet to the extreme.

Chen Qi's expression turned ugly.

Five years!

After five years, Chen Yan will be a Divine General.

This?

Is this a joke?

Even Lu Xunyang was not this outrageous.

This is the genius of his Chen Clan!

Yet now, he has become an enemy.

"Judge... judge the probability that Chen Yan is Ice Intent..." Chen Qi spoke again, turning around.

"Eighty... eight... three percent..." a researcher spoke:

"The system judges that there is an eighty-three percent probability that Chen Yan is Ice Intent!"

Boom.

A sound of Qi-blood exploding rang out.

Chen Qi's expression was ugly to the extreme.

The system's error rate is very small.

Eighty-three percent, that almost confirms that Chen Yan is indeed Ice Intent.

This...

He is actually a dual cultivator of Qi-blood and tempering!

"Ice Intent, Ice Intent, you have actually ruined me to this extent!" Chen Qi roared.