Chapter 458: Blood Slaughter of Ten Million People!

"That martial technique, you mean." The old man with black patterns said:

"The Black Soul Art is the only martial technique we people here can use to resist our own malice."

He reached out a trembling hand, radiance appeared in his palm, and he retrieved a formation disk covered in scratches and grime from his origin space.

"If the Divine Child does not mind."

The old man wiped the grime off the formation disk with his hand and handed it over with some trepidation.

"This is a memory formation disk passed down by my ancestors; it's just... a bit old."

Chen Yan nodded, took the formation disk, probed its patterns, quickly found the formation eye, and channeled his Qi and blood into it.

Immediately after, the formation disk lit up with radiance and began to operate, and a series of images appeared deep in Chen Yan's mind.

This was a beautiful, sunny afternoon.

The sea breeze, carrying the unique salty, damp scent of the ocean, buffeted the entire Ten Thousand Phases Island; the buildings along the shore were arranged in an orderly fashion, and the people walking on the streets all wore relaxed smiles.

This was Ten Thousand Phases Island.

Clearly, it was the scene before Ten Thousand Phases Island was destroyed.

Inside a seaside courtyard.

A fifteen-year-old youth was practicing punches, drenched in sweat.

"Brother, it's time to rest; don't overwork yourself."

A young boy of thirteen or fourteen walked out of the room and said with a smile.

"I'll practice a bit more; I feel like there are signs of my Qi and blood awakening."

The youth wiped his sweat and said:

"Once my Qi and blood awaken, the city will issue a scholarship, and then the family won't have to worry about your tuition, and I can also go out to sea to catch some fish."

The youth's eyes were filled with longing:

"By then, things at home will get better and better."

He glanced at the worn-out pants on his legs and clenched his fists.

"Xiao Yi, time to eat."

A sallow-faced woman walked out of the kitchen, carrying a basin of vegetable soup.

"Okay!" The youth named Lin Yi nodded.

But just at this moment.

A loud, booming sound came from the horizon, and a terrifying wind and wave swept across the entire island in an instant.

The vegetable soup in the woman's hands fell to the ground in an instant, and she herself fell to the ground along with it.

Lin Yi ran over in a panic:

"Mom!"

He was just shouting.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The earth shook, the earth veins shifted, and the entire Ten Thousand Phases Island vibrated violently in an instant.

With a bang.

Before Lin Yi could run to his mother, the sound of a wall collapsing came from behind him.

He turned his head, and his entire face stiffened in an instant.

Under the collapsed wall, the head of his younger brother, who had been full of life just a moment ago, was crushed flat, and blood seeped out.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Run!"

"Heavens!"

Sounds of terrified screams seemed to ring out from all directions.

Under the violent shaking, everything was collapsing.

"Xiao Er, Xiao Er!"

The woman wailed, but Lin Yi gritted his teeth immediately and ran outside while carrying his mother on his back.

On the streets, everyone was fleeing for their lives; the ground behind them was pushed up by a brute force, fracturing, and countless huge fissures in the earth ran from north to south.

Countless living beings were heading toward the end of their lives under this apocalypse.

High above the sky, a majestic figure flew across the firmament, holding a long spear; with one strike, the terrifying spear shadow shattered the earth.

In an instant, thousands upon thousands of people were blasted into fragments.

The destruction of the entire Ten Thousand Phases Island was the work of that one person alone.

Lin Yi ran for his life with all his might, fleeing forward, and when he saw the figure flying past from high above.

He fell into despair.

"How could it be him!"

Clatter!

An iron plate fell from the high sky.

Lin Yi saw it clearly; it had fallen from that figure, and he was just about to bend down to pick it up.

A warmth came from behind him; he turned around, and he did not know when his mother, whom he had been carrying on his back the whole time, had already had her abdomen pierced through, revealing a terrifying bloody hole.

"Xiao Yi, run..."

The woman could not open her eyes, and she shouted with her last bit of strength.

"Mom!"

Lin Yi roared with a heart-rending cry.

In a single day.

The entire Myriad Aspect Island was destroyed!

Everything was annihilated.

The paths paved with colorful bricks were twisted and snapped; the streetlamps were crooked, some flickering a few times before extinguishing completely, dragging this ruin rapidly into endless darkness.

Across the entire land, within crack after crack, there was no telling how many living beings had perished.

The earth was blood-colored, covered in countless fragments of flesh.

Lin Yi watched in despair, hiding in a cave within the mountains.

He saw a massive, blood-colored array disc appear in the high sky above the center of the ruined Myriad Aspect Island.

The figure that had destroyed the entire Myriad Aspect Island stood beneath the array disc, arms embracing the heavens and earth.

Chen Yan, as a third party, quietly observed all of this.

This was the ancestor of the Black-Marked Old Man, and also the memory of this young man named Lin Yi.

Chen Yan also recognized that array.

The Blood-Drawing Array.

But it was countless times more profound and countless times more massive than the one Yu Changsheng had once unleashed.

Chen Yan's body was trembling slightly; he clearly felt the emotions Lin Yi had felt back then.

Anger, resentment, an indescribable hatred.

One person had destroyed an entire island, and every resident on that entire island.

In a single day, a blood slaughter of ten million people!

Evil, extreme evil!

Who was this person!?

Lin Yi clearly knew who that person was, but the name was not spoken within the scenes of his memory.

The memory continued to emerge, and Chen Yan saw that beneath the massive Blood-Drawing Array, there was also a towering tree.

The Myriad Aspect Divine Tree.

Chen Yan had seen that massive canopy before he entered Myriad Aspect Island.

Afterward, that person left.

The entire Myriad Aspect Island began to give birth to terrifying malice, and along the island, barriers of rules were generated all around.

Chen Yan understood the truth behind the birth of the malice on Myriad Aspect Island.

When too many living beings perish in a certain place, a malice terrifying to the extreme will be born there.

This is one of the rules of the heavens and earth.

In the memory, a powerhouse from the Great Xia had once arrived, looking at everything that had happened on Myriad Aspect Island with difficulty to accept.

That person roared a name.

"Xia Weimin!"

"Xia Weimin, how could you dare, how could you dare!"

Chen Yan understood that the person who had acted to slaughter the entire Myriad Aspect Island was named Xia Weimin.

And that Great Xia powerhouse, after perceiving the changes to the current Myriad Aspect Island, had left.

The other party did not discover that in a certain corner of Myriad Aspect Island,

there were still hundreds of survivors, including Lin Yi.

In his despair, Lin Yi began to study that array disc which had fallen from the sky.

Within the world of malice, he eked out a meager existence.

Until his later years, he finally learned the 【Black Soul Art】 from this array disc.

It could create a shadow, a shadow that possessed strength in the blood-Qi path similar to his own, and could also devour the malice within himself.

In his twilight years, Lin Yi found a way for his descendants to survive.

Until the day he lay on his sickbed, about to die, his relatives beside him were still weeping.

Lin Yi's eyes were about to close, and a bitter smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

He had fathered ten children, and only two had successfully survived in the world filled with malice.

His entire life had been spent thinking of revenge, but the endless malice had become a massive obstacle preventing him from taking the next step.

"Your grandfather... told me that our ancestral land is in... a place in the Great Xia called Yunmeng."

Lin Yi's face was full of vicissitudes, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes:

"That is a... city in the clouds..."

He spoke of a dreamlike future for his descendants; he did not wish for his descendants to die in this place as he had.

"To be born in Myriad Aspect and die in Yunmeng would be the greatest fortune."

Lin Yi said.

Suddenly.

A powerful existence whose entire body burned with malice walked over from the distance, stepped over the mountains, and looked at him.

Lin Yi recognized that existence; his relatives were about to scream at the first moment, but were stunned unconscious by the terrifying aura.

Lin Yi opened his eyes wide, his dying body radiating a final burst of strength, roaring:

"You became an Ancient God Beast, you have this day too, you have this day too!"

He roared.

But that person stepped forward, his whole body burning with black malice, and reached out a withered hand to take the array disc engraved with the 【Black Soul Art】 from Lin Yi's hand.

Then, without even paying attention to Lin Yi, he simply left.

"Xia Weimin, Xia Weimin, why, why did you do it!!!"

The aged Lin Yi roared, his anger reaching its peak.

He did not wish to die; a power akin to a final flash of brilliance surged within his body once more.

He sat up; he had to create a memory formation disk.

The formation disk for the 【Black Soul Art】 had been taken away by Xia Weimin, and he could not die yet.

Just like that, at the very end of his life, he crafted a memory formation disk containing the memories of his entire life.

He died in eternal resentment and fury.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged in silence; within the Saint-Breaking Realm, golden light surged.

At the final moment of his life, Lin Yi had created a limit belonging to himself.

Within this memory formation disk, it contained his entire life, as well as his understanding of the 【Black Soul Art】...

No.

It was actually all his understanding of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

The other person's life had been steeped in endless despair and hatred.

But that person had not chosen to die by their own hand.

A true warrior is one who, after knowing all the despair of life, still possesses the courage to go on living.

Chen Yan's emotions were fluctuating, for this was a formation disk containing the life memories of Lin Yi.

That wave of hatred and fury was far too dense.

Chen Yan's aura fluctuated, yet he returned to calm within a very short time.

People live because of anger, or they live because of desire.

But in the process of executing this task, one must be calm.

One must seek the possibility of breaking limits to the extreme while in a state of extreme calmness!

The Path of Will can sense emotions, and that is because those whose will is not firm are the most prone to generating emotions!

Chen Yan is not like that!

His path is still very long, and his goal is still very great!

Thought-limit breaking!

Chen Yan's brain was burning hot; within his cerebral nerves, every single neuron was flashing in all directions!

Word Realm activated, Stand Realm activated!

Chen Yan did not fear injury, only that he was not being extreme enough!

Sss, sss, sss!

His physical body was constantly steaming with water vapor, his momentum becoming increasingly terrifying.

He only had ten days, and he still had to absorb all those opportunities.

He also had to turn all the techniques within this memory formation disk into his own.

Time was not enough!

But what Chen Yan pursued was always for today's self to surpass tomorrow's self.

The imitations of the Chen Clan could never truly simulate Chen Yan's future.

They were always ignoring one most critical thing.

That was Chen Yan's will.

Chen Yan's life was one of constant limit-breaking!

If one followed a fixed formula to simulate, one could never glimpse how the real Chen Yan grew!

Chen Yan recalled the feeling of using the Enlightenment Seed back then.

At that time, Chen Yan's thinking had been infinitely expanded.

This was an external spiritual item, but who said there was no possibility of reaching that state through human practice?

Chen Yan's entire body turned red, and veins bulged on his forehead.

To the side, the old man covered in black patterns watched with his mouth agape, as if he had seen something incredible.

They were beings struggling in desperate straits; how could their will not be strong?

But this Lord God-Child before him could not be viewed in the ordinary way.

One by one, 【Technique】 Saint-Breaking Fruits were born!

Five!

Ten!

Fifteen!

Twenty!

Blood flowed from Chen Yan's nostrils.

Wisps of black smoke emerged from beside him, as if manifesting something.

"God-Child!"

The black-patterned old man felt he had witnessed a miracle; he knelt down again, unable to believe it.

Time passed slowly.

Fifty!

……

Sixty!

The water vapor inside Chen Yan's body was constantly evaporating.

The complete version of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 should be able to condense one thousand dark shadows.

In Lin Yi's memory, only one could be condensed.

Even if it is a divine technique, it can only be one-thousandth of a divine technique!