Chapter 478: The True Life and Death Tribulation of the General-Bestowing

"Bing Yi, let's cooperate."

In the world of malice, Lu Fukun followed behind Chen Yan like a dog-skin plaster, pursuing him almost relentlessly.

Lu Fukun's eyes shone; he was also incredibly shocked by what had just transpired inside the small house.

He hadn't expected that there would be a way to crack it from the very beginning.

He was not clever, but he could seek out a clever partner.

Clearly, Bing Yi was just such a clever partner.

In the past, Bing Yi's strength was too poor, and he, Lu Fukun, would truly have looked down on them, but now it was completely different.

"I need to cultivate," Chen Yan said with a frown, looking at Lu Fukun behind him.

"I understand," Lu Fukun smiled:

"You possess a powerful treasure and certainly need to cultivate. I can stand guard for you. The Thousand Shadow Kill of the Calamity Remains is a rare treasure after all; do you think people like Chen Yunyou and Ji Chuxi would not come to snatch it?"

Chen Yan was silent; that was indeed true.

"How will you guard me? You are only in the fourth rank, after all."

"Only?" Lu Fukun was silent for a moment:

"I can send you a remote warning. Once someone approaches within a hundred miles of you, you can flee directly."

As Lu Fukun spoke, he took out a communication array disk:

"My Lu clan has already established quite a few signal base stations in the Inner City. They are replaced once a day to ensure communication is error-free.

Moreover, to cultivate in the Inner City, one must pass the screening of the Inner City's Ancient Divine Beasts; once you fail, you must leave."

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.

He actually knew what that was, as he could monitor geniuses like Lu Fukun who had already entered the Martial Dao of Will through his own Martial Dao meridians.

Lu Fukun, however, continued speaking to himself:

"This Inner City of Myriad Forms Island has its own rules. People like us who come here are fine for the first month, but after one month, we must participate in the screening of the Life and Death Gate.

It is very dangerous. I have experienced it once, and there is only about fifteen days left until the next time."

Chen Yan did not speak, but he also knew the rules.

In fact, he had been speculating about the rules of the Life and Death Gate for some time.

The so-called Life and Death Gate is an extremely dangerous rule.

Last time, the physical body of Chen Yunyou, the first rank of the first tier, was blown in half.

If it were a genius of the second tier, it would be a near-death experience.

The level of danger could be imagined.

Moreover, every time the Life and Death Gate opens, the rules are different from the last time; there is simply no pattern to follow.

"Cooperation," Chen Yan nodded.

"Good," Lu Fukun smiled:

"Princess Jianxia entrusted me to give you a new communication array disk. The one given to you before was an old model and cannot be used here."

"Mm," Chen Yan nodded.

He continued walking toward the Inner City.

Crack, crack.

Chen Yan walked quietly, his casual steps crushing the earth that had long since been completely corroded beneath his feet.

All around, there were ruins everywhere.

The concrete walls had long been riddled with holes by the mist, the skyscrapers were crumbling, and the black-yellow wind of malice constantly swept through every part of this place.

Brushing against a person's body, it was incredibly stinging.

Everything was silently burning in the malice, and everywhere there were strange-looking living beings and Ancient Divine Beasts.

In fact, at this moment, even Chen Yan could not distinguish the difference between the Ancient Divine Beasts and the living beings that still possessed their own consciousness.

It was just like that malicious being from earlier.

It still had memories, still had a sliver of will as a human, but it was no longer human.

Living like this was the most painful thing.

Sinking is easier to achieve than resisting.

This is the other side of the world, the real side that has always existed.

Chen Yan walked into an abandoned basement, inside which pools of writhing pitch-black slime were dwelling.

These slimes constantly babbled, demonstrating the difference between themselves and dead objects.

Chen Yan looked at the basement wall, on which hung a photo that had long since turned gray and black.

But Chen Yan's eyesight was excellent, and he judged from the traces of color in the photo that it was the figure of a man holding a gun.

In front of the man with the gun, there was a man in green robes kneeling on one knee on the ground.

At the very bottom of the photo, there was a line of text.

【Divine General Wei Ming reaches the pinnacle as the world's number one!】

Chen Yan understood; back then, Xia Weimin had defeated Chen Yi, the number one genius of the five clans, and became famous throughout the world.

Chen Yi was originally designated as the next Chen Lord, but according to what the malicious being said earlier.

On the day Xia Weimin slaughtered the beings of Myriad Forms Island, Chen Yi was also on Myriad Forms Island, and he died.

The Chen clan was furious and snatched Myriad Forms Island directly from the Great Xia, who had not wanted the island in the first place.

"Chen Yi..."

Chen Yan murmured, and Lu Fukun behind him also noticed the photo and said:

"Chen Yi, a legendary figure from a thousand years ago. If he hadn't died, the current Chen Lord would not be that person."

Chen Yan's expression changed slightly:

"The current Chen Lord is Chen Yi's..."

"Younger brother." Lu Fukun spoke up:

"A thousand years ago, the previous generation's Chen Lord had already internally designated Chen Yi as the next Chen Lord when Chen Yi was young; the current Chen Lord cannot compare to Chen Yi.

If Chen Yi had not died, the current Chen Clan would very likely have already unified the Five Clans."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Between the Five Clans and the Great Xia, which is stronger and which is weaker?"

"Naturally, the Five Clans." Lu Fukun laughed:

"The Great Xia has the Xia Lord Sword, but the person who can truly control the Xia Lord Sword is still lingering on in the Ancient God Forbidden Land."

Chen Yan was silent.

Lu Xunyang was only at the Eighth Rank.

But by augmenting himself with the Xia Lord Sword, he could definitely fight a Ninth Rank.

"Are there Ninth Ranks in the world?" Chen Yan asked again.

"I don't know, but there certainly are." Lu Fukun spoke:

"The lords of the Five Clans have not displayed strength belonging to the Ninth Rank, but no one would treat them as Eighth Ranks.

Moreover..."

Lu Fukun was silent for a moment:

"Lu Prefecture has long since determined that the Ancient Gods are Ninth Ranks, and perhaps even extremely powerful existences among the Ninth Ranks."

"What is the Ninth Rank realm called?" Chen Yan took out the independent cultivation room and asked.

"Do you know what the Eighth Rank is called?" Lu Fukun asked.

Chen Yan did not speak; he was afraid that if he said too much, he would give himself away.

Lu Fukun laughed:

"I don't even know what the realm name of the Eighth Rank is; you and I, at the Origin Realm, can withstand the rule-based punishment for knowing the name of the Creation Realm.

But at the Creation Realm, I find it difficult to withstand the rule-based punishment for knowing the name of the Eighth Rank realm.

I have heard that a Creation Realm expert inadvertently heard the name of the Eighth Rank realm and was attacked by endless gibberish in their heart, dying instantly."

Chen Yan stopped talking.

The Eighth Rank was a truly high-level existence.

When the Xia Morning King died, the heavens and earth wept blood, and the strange phenomena were terrifying.

But when a Creation Realm expert died, there were no strange phenomena at all.

This shows the formidable nature of the Eighth Rank.

Chen Yan's strength was slowly growing stronger, and he was also slowly coming into contact with the true side of this world.

Chen Yan entered the independent cultivation room.

He took a deep breath.

It was as if in the depths of his mind, those ten million wronged souls were still constantly influencing him.

Ten million people.

Ten million people had just died like that.

When human lives became numbers that could only shock the heart for an instant, everything became blurred and indescribable.

It was as if a giant boulder had fallen into the bottom of Chen Yan's heart, pressing down until he could not breathe.

Human life, time, numbers...

Concept after concept rang out in the depths of his mind.

Until a certain moment.

Chen Yan took a deep breath.

"This is..."

His eyes became cold:

"The General-Bestowing Lightning Tribulation that belongs to me."

After a long time.

Chen Yan finally cast aside all chaotic thoughts.

He had previously obtained one Seventh Rank Malice Crystal, one Heart-Devouring Ghost Grass, two Explosive Array Discs, and one 【Calamity Bone Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Both the Malice Crystal and the 【Calamity Bone Thousand Shadow Kill】 were useful for Chen Yan's cultivation.

The Explosive Array Disc was also a consumable with immense offensive power.

Chen Yan needed to properly digest today's gains.

After repeatedly studying the Explosive Array Disc, Chen Yan's expression was slightly joyful.

This Explosive Array Disc could be controlled.

Once thrown at an enemy, it would directly adhere to the enemy's body and explode at any time according to the controller's will.

Immediately after.

Chen Yan circulated his internal energy and spat out the fragments of the 【Calamity Bone Thousand Shadow Kill】 that he had swallowed into his abdomen.

In an instant, dense characters poured into Chen Yan's eyes, flickering continuously.

In Chen Yan's mind, they formed images that were difficult to describe, diagrams of human meridians with Qi and blood circulating.

Boundless Dao essence began to ripple throughout Chen Yan's entire body.

Time itself became incredibly rapid.

A faint light began to emerge from his body, the radiance flickering between bright and dim.

The muscle lines on Chen Yan's body were taut, his blood vessels slightly bulging.

Qi and blood were flowing, dissipating, and condensing.

A shallow shadow clone began to appear.

This was a long process.

Once the second shadow was born, Chen Yan's strength in the path of Qi and blood would be greatly enhanced.

The birth of a shadow did not simply double Chen Yan's strength.

In fact, it was far more than that.

The coordination between the shadows and Chen Yan's true self had allowed Chen Yan to escape from crises many times.

It could be said that without the shadows, there would be no Chen Yan today.

Until one day.

"Bing Yi, stop cultivating. Chen Yunyou, Chen Changyuan, and the other prodigies of Chen Province and Ji Province are heading toward you."

Lu Fukun's voice rang out from the communication array disk.

Chen Yan ended his cultivation and immediately fled.

As expected.

The Chen Master had already stated that the people of the Chen Clan must not kill him.

But the attraction of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 to outsiders was immense.

The Chen Clan also did not want to see him grow stronger.

Chen Changyuan could cooperate with the Chen Clan precisely to seize the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Boom!

The cultivation room where Chen Yan had originally been was blown to smithereens, and firelight erupted within the World of Malice.

"He escaped." Chen Yunyou stood in the high sky, frowning as he spoke.

Chen Changyuan looked toward Lu Fukun in the distance:

"It was Lu Fukun who tipped him off in advance."

The group immediately looked at Lu Fukun, who was standing ten miles away.

Lu Fukun laughed out loud:

"I don't know anything at all."

Chen Yunyou looked at Ji Chuxi:

"You go intercept Lu Fukun; if I seize the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, I will give you a heavy reward from Ji Province."

Ji Chuxi frowned, then nodded, and flew toward Lu Fukun.

Lu Fukun frowned, not expecting Chen Yunyou and the others to go to such great lengths.

"Don't blame me for this, I've already done my best."

Lu Fukun raised both hands, signaling surrender.

"Keep chasing, force him into the deepest part of the inner city; with malice that thick, I don't believe he can continue to cultivate."

Chen Yunyou said in a low voice.

Even if he couldn't seize the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, he didn't want to let Chen Yan cultivate in peace.

Bing Yi must die by the time Chen Yan's fourth imitation arrives.

Bing Yi was a trouble, an increasingly large trouble.

This was the common consensus among the people of the Chen Clan today.

Chen Yan fled for a full five hours.

He was getting closer and closer to the center of the inner city.

The malice here was already so dense that it could be mentioned in the same breath as the River of Malice.

Chen Yan frowned; even he could not cultivate in peace here.

He could maintain it for at most two hours.

Even as a Master of Will, he could not accept such violent malice all at once.

Chen Yan shook his head.

He would continue to cultivate the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 first, then find an opportunity to escape this place later.

He did not believe Chen Yunyou and the others would dare to enter.

Moreover, within this World of Malice, everyone's strength was more or less weakened by a large margin.

Chen Yan was not affected as severely.

He might even be able to defeat those ranked before the seventh position.

Oh.

Bing Yi was currently in the seventh position.

The fifth-ranked Ji Xiaomao was already dead.

Two hours later.

Chen Yan finished his cultivation.

He packed up his independent cultivation room and looked toward the direction of the outer city.

The dense malice made it impossible for Chen Yan to perceive anything clearly.

But it was very likely that someone was waiting over there.

Chen Yan dove into the World of Malice and flew toward the direction outside the city.

The malice in the air gradually thinned, and the discomfort in Chen Yan's body began to subside.

A coquettish laugh suddenly rang out:

"Greetings, Young Master Ice Intent."

A charming woman dressed in pitch-black leather walked out from the malice; the leather clung tightly to her body, outlining her graceful and lithe figure.

The sixth-ranked prodigy of the first tier of the Five Clans Ranking, and a new arrival to the Path of Will from Chi Province, Chi Yuexi.

Chi Yuexi's eyes were hazy, and a sense of allure flowed through her gaze.

"Chen Yunyou and the others are all blocking your path," Chi Yuexi said.

"Then help me hide from them," Chen Yan smiled.

"I can't do that," Chi Yuexi said in a sweet, affected voice:

"Unless you let me observe the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill together with you."

"Fine," Chen Yan nodded.

Chi Yuexi was stunned; she had not expected Ice Intent to agree so quickly.

This was different from what she had previously imagined.

"As expected of the son of the Universe Lord, you are truly magnanimous," Chi Yuexi smiled like a flower:

"Those people like Chen Yunyou are far inferior to you."

"I advocate for all prodigies to grow stronger together; I treat those well who treat me well," Chen Yan said calmly.

"Good!" Chi Yuexi nodded and pointed to a location:

"Let's go over there."

Chen Yan nodded and flew in front, while Chi Yuexi followed quietly behind him.

Her brows were slightly furrowed as she pondered something.

Cultivating with Ice Intent was indeed good, but was Ice Intent truly intending to cultivate the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 with her?

Chi Province and Chen Province were close, whereas Universe Province was rather...

She kept on thinking.

Boom!

A long spear struck out instantly, its aura terrifying to the extreme!

Chi Yuexi's eyes flashed instantly, and her figure dodged.

The next instant, two explosive formation disks suddenly appeared beside her.

"Ice Intent, you!"

Chi Yuexi shrieked; she felt an intense danger from these explosive formation disks.

In an instant.

Flowers of blood-Qi white lotuses bloomed from Chi Yuexi's body, enveloping her torso layer by layer, blooming with endless white radiance within the world of malice.

The next instant.

Rumble!

A violent explosion resounded within the world of malice, and a beam of light shooting into the sky instantly pierced the clouds.

Within a hundred miles, Chen Yunyou and the others instantly saw this terrifying firelight and rushed over.

The earth was scorched and melted, and the air was filled with a pungent burnt smell, mixed with the acrid stench of the thick fog of malice, forming an even more nauseating odor.

Pfft!

Chi Yuexi's body was blasted until only half remained, and she now lay prone in the central magma area, vomiting blood.

Chen Yunyou and the others arrived, saw this scene, and all frowned.

"You almost died, Chi Yuexi," Chen Yunyou said:

"Which direction did Ice Intent go?"

Chi Yuexi was still vomiting blood; she pointed to a location, then took out a precious healing medicine and swallowed it.

Chen Yunyou's expression sank, and he hurriedly chased in the direction Chi Yuexi had just indicated.

Finally, two second-tier prodigies from Chi Province arrived and looked at Chi Yuexi nervously.

"Get lost!" Chi Yuexi growled:

"I want to heal myself!"

The two Chi Province prodigies were stunned; they wanted to say something, but they left nonetheless.

After a while.

Chen Yan flew in from another direction, looking at Chi Yuexi, whose physical body was nearly shattered.

Chi Yuexi glared fiercely at Chen Yan, then gritted her teeth:

"You won!"

Chi Yuexi raised her left arm, which only had half remaining, and there was another explosive formation disk under her armpit.