Chapter 492: Ancient Memories

The Divine General Temple was incomparably dim, and within the air thick with malicious fog, terrifying phantoms were falling.

However, Chen Yan, whose physical body had transformed into that of an Ancient Divine Beast, actually seemed perfectly suited to this place.

Chen Yan walked into one house after another.

He even collected two unretrieved Mind Power Treasure Pills into his Origin Space.

"As expected."

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; in rooms fifteen, twenty, and twenty-five, there should have been secret techniques.

As it turned out, they were gone now.

These three rooms had not been opened by anyone else.

The only possibility was that they had been plucked away by the Ancient Divine Beast inside Chen Changyuan.

To an Ancient Divine Beast, this place was simply a land of abundance, unconstrained by any rules.

However, that Ancient Divine Beast did not have much time either.

For instance, in the nearby rooms nineteen and twenty-three, there were still two Body Tempering Treasure Pills, yet the other party had not taken them.

The other party had not guessed the true meaning of the Life and Death Gate at all; even with the cheat of an Ancient Divine Beast's physical body, it was useless.

After a round of searching, Chen Yan once again harvested three Qi-Blood Treasure Pills, four Body Tempering Treasure Pills, and two Mind Power Treasure Pills.

These treasure pills were all of the Sun-Level Grade B.

The Mind Power Treasure Pills could be saved for his younger sister.

Chen Yan looked at the Martial Dao network; at the tip of the network belonging to Chen Yu, the face of a little girl carrying stubbornness was revealed.

Currently, Chen Yu was actually in a mountain cave, secretly cultivating a Bright Moon-Level Grade A array disc.

His little sister's talent for arrays was exaggerated; this was something Chen Yan had known from the very beginning.

His sister had always been following in Chen Yan's footsteps, always wanting to alleviate some pressure for her elder brother.

Chen Yan shook his head slightly; he had once wanted his sister to be like him because of his own situation.

But such thoughts had also deprived his sister of the happiness that originally belonged to a child.

Up until now, Chen Yan felt that he was already tired enough, so why must his sister be the same as him?

He was not necessarily always right.

The transformation of his thoughts was a necessary passage on Chen Yan's path of growth.

Chen Yan did not start cultivating directly; instead, he explored the remaining rooms where no treasure pills existed.

These houses had long since rotted; broken tiles were scattered all over the ground, and the roof beams were exposed, riddled with holes from being gnawed by malice, hiding within the malicious fog, with living beings who were once human residing inside.

Chen Yan walked into a room and looked at a malicious little girl sleeping on the ground; her eyes were no longer scarlet, but she kept using her thin, sharp fingernails to write and draw on the floor.

Chen Yan pulled a long-blackened photo album from beneath her.

On the cover of the photo album were written a few lines of dilapidated small characters: 【Wanxiang Girls' School, Grade Three, Class Two】.

Hiss!

On the ground, the malicious little girl who had been drawing earlier stuck out her long tongue and hissed at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan walked into the room next door.

In this room, there were actually two malicious little girls, currently clumsily playing a hand-clapping game, with 'hiss-hiss' sounds ringing out from time to time.

Chen Yan frowned slightly.

This was the difference between Ancient Divine Beasts and malicious living beings.

Chen Yan could not understand why these little girls could still retain a trace of memory belonging to humans while wrapped in such intense malice.

It did not conform to common sense.

Chen Yan was about to leave when his gaze suddenly flashed; he noticed an array disc in the corner of the room.

Chen Yan picked up the array disc; its material was special, likely a rare metal, and under a thousand years of malicious corrosion, it seemed it could still be activated.

Memory Array Disc!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and injected his Qi-Blood into the array disc.

The next moment, images appeared deep in Chen Yan's mind.

A scarlet grand array condensed high above in the sky.

Blood-Drawing Array!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; he was too familiar with this array.

Back then, Yu Changsheng had intended to use this array to exterminate the college entrance examinees, and Xia Weimin had even used this array to refine the flesh and blood of all the living beings on Wanxiang Island.

This was perhaps the most cruel and bloody grand array in the ten thousand years of Martial Dao.

Chen Yan continued to watch; below that grand array was a huge valley, and within the valley, ancient beasts hissed, and an endless sea of blood surged.

Beside the valley.

Several men in military uniforms stood quietly, their auras vigorous.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; within the valley, there were not only ancient beasts but also a great many Ancient Divine Beasts.

The Blood-Drawing Array was acting upon Ancient Divine Beasts?

Was there no worry that the blood pills being refined would contain malice?

Immediately following, the physical bodies of the ancient beasts and Ancient Divine Beasts within the valley began to burst, and pillars of blood surged out from the valley, flowing into the array disc high in the sky.

A crimson blood pill slowly condensed beneath the array disc.

Then, the blood pill flew downward and landed in the hand of a person.

Xia Weimin.

"Congratulations, Divine General; over eighty percent of the Ancient Divine Beasts on Wanxiang Island have been destroyed by the Divine General today." A soldier saluted, his demeanor respectful.

"Mm."

Xia Weimin stored that Blood Pill into his origin space, hands behind his back, an irrepressible dominance flowing in his eyes as he nodded:

"The people of Jin Province are all a bunch of old stubborn fools, viewing the Blood-Drawing Array as a scourge, not knowing that using it to exterminate Ancient Divine Beasts is the best method.

Do not let word of this leak!"

His voice fell.

"Yes!"

The scene ended, and Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Is that so?

The other party had no intention of devouring the Blood Pill at all.

Malice does not disappear; it only dissipates, then condenses once more.

If Xia Weimin had condensed the Ancient Divine Beast, along with its flesh and malice, into a Blood Pill from the very beginning.

It seems...

It seems it really could allow malice to accumulate in one place for a long time.

As long as someone is guarding the Blood Pill in real-time, there is no need to worry about this malice overflowing and causing Ancient Divine Beasts to appear in various places again.

It is just that, if this is the case.

The person guarding the Blood Pill would need to be in constant contact with this Blood Pill that condenses malice, and in the end, they would still be affected by the malice.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Could it be that Xia Weimin slaughtered Ten Thousand Phases Island in the future precisely because he was affected by the malice?

After all, why would a Divine General need to slaughter the millions of islanders under his command?

The other party did not lack fame or fortune, and the Ruler of the State back then even intended to make the other party the next-generation Ruler of the State.

Chen Yan shook his head; the position of Ruler of the State of the Xia Clan is not a very good one.

Once appointed, one must contain the Imperial Calamity within one's own body, and after death, one must become a Continent Bright.

This is a bitter and exhausting job.

It is normal for Xia Weimin to refuse the position of Ruler of the State.

It is just, why did the other party insist on slaughtering the residents of Ten Thousand Phases Island?

It does not conform to common sense.

Chen Yan continued to search.

Finally, he found another memory array disk.

This seems to be someone else's memory.

Inside the memory array disk, the other party was slowly walking into a luxurious palace.

The first thing that came into view was the glass chandelier hanging high from the dome.

Several sandalwood long tables and carved chairs.

On the surrounding walls hung famous calligraphic works.

Gradually, a low hissing sound came through.

Chen Yan's brows lifted slightly; from the scenes transmitted by Lu Fukun, Ji Chuxi, and Chi Yuexi from the ends of the meridians, he could distinguish.

This is the Brocade Palace.

Chen Yunyou would never have guessed that there are currently only four people entering the Brocade Palace, and yet three of them are being monitored by Chen Yan in real-time.

At Chen Yan's current level, the suppression of Chen Yan's realm by the Seventh-Order Creation Realm is already very, very small.

On the Martial Dao meridian, Zhang Ting, whom he could not see clearly before, can now be seen by Chen Yan with perfect clarity.

As his line of sight slowly deepened.

"Chen Yi!!!"

An angry roar sounded instantly.

Inside the great hall, Xia Weimin, wearing a golden sleeping robe, was pierced through the body by sharp blood-red blades; these blades pierced through the roof and floor of the great hall, firmly locking Xia Weimin within.

Seeing this, Chen Yan's brows immediately furrowed.

This is Xia Weimin.

Xia Weimin is the Divine General of Great Xia and the Lord of Ten Thousand Phases Island; how could he be trapped by Chen Yi on Ten Thousand Phases Island?

According to the information previously obtained, Chen Yan knew.

On the day before Ten Thousand Phases Island was completely slaughtered by Xia Weimin, Xia Weimin had invited Chen Yi to enter the Brocade Palace.

Chen Yi, who was almost the designated future Chen Master back then, also died on the day Xia Weimin slaughtered Ten Thousand Phases Island.

Chen Yan's heart trembled; the scene he was seeing at this moment should be what happened before Xia Weimin slaughtered Ten Thousand Phases Island.

In the memory scene, Xia Weimin's expression was furious to the extreme; he struggled continuously, blood constantly spilling from his body, his eyes as angry as a wild beast.

Opposite him, Chen Yi, dressed in green, had an extremely handsome face, his skin as fair as fine jade, like an exiled immortal; at this moment, his brows were also tightly furrowed.

Chen Yi's expression was ugly, rolling aura and spatial cracks surging around his body, his robes fluttering.

One hand was forming a seal, while the other hand held a light orb the size of a washbasin.

The next moment.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Sharp blades overflowing with scarlet brilliance condensed from the high sky of the great hall, falling and piercing into Xia Weimin's body.

"Chen Clan, Chen Clan, how dare you!!!"

Xia Weimin roared, his eyes turning scarlet, and the look in his eyes as he stared at Chen Yi carried endless killing intent.

His body surged with immense strength, and he actually used his physical strength to forcibly shatter several scarlet blades that had pierced into his body.

"Damn it!"

Chen Yi gritted his teeth, his face turning pale, and sweat dripped continuously from his forehead.

He continued to condense the array disk.

It was precisely at this moment.

"Divine General!"

A furious voice rang out; it was the original owner of the memory speaking, his body trembling, his teeth gnashing with a 'clack-clack' sound.

Chen Yi was stunned for an instant and looked at the original owner:

"Adjutant Lu, listen to my explanation!"

"Those who offend my Divine General shall die!!!"

A voice filled with extreme rage rang out; Chen Yan could actually feel the terrifying killing intent of the original owner, who threw a punch, shattering the void into countless spatial fragments.

Chen Yi gritted his teeth, holding the light orb in one hand while instantly forming an array with the other.

A light wheel stood horizontally, and from within it, a terrifying jade finger of blood-Qi thrust out.

Rumble!!!

The original owner's punch collided with this jade finger of blood-Qi, and the entire great hall began to roar.

But Chen Yi was formidable; with a single finger, he directly suppressed the original owner.

"Someone, come here!" the original owner spat blood:

"Seize Chen Yi, he intends to harm the Divine General!!!"

His voice immediately resounded outward.

It was precisely at this moment.

Clack, clack, clack!!!

A series of roars like shattering glass rang out.

"Divine General!"

The original owner exclaimed in surprise; it was Xia Weimin, who had broken free from Chen Yi's restraints and was charging toward him.

"No!" Chen Yi said with difficulty; he looked at Xia Weimin and wanted to form seals again, but the original owner threw a desperate punch, the fist imprint striking Chen Yi and forcing him back a hundred meters.

"Hahaha, Chen Yi, you have no strength left, you cannot trap the Divine General, you are finished, you..."

With a 'pfft' sound!

The original owner's voice paused; he first let out a miserable scream, then stared at the long spear that had pierced through his chest.

It was Xia Weimin's long spear.

"How could..." the original owner cried out in shock, his life force rapidly fading.

He watched as Xia Weimin rushed toward Chen Yi, who was still holding a light orb in his hand.

"Xia Weimin!" Chen Yi's face turned deathly pale, his pupils flickering violently at this moment.

"No..."

With a 'boom', Xia Weimin reached out with one hand, intending to grab the light orb in Chen Yi's hand.

"You're crazy!" Chen Yi roared, a look of despair appearing in his eyes.

Perhaps because he had expended too much blood-Qi earlier, he found it difficult to exert his combat power at this moment.

"Yes, I am crazy!"

Xia Weimin let out a long howl and swept out with his spear.

With a 'boom'.

Chen Yi's head exploded, turning into a mist of blood filling the sky.

Xia Weimin's body stood within the blood mist; he walked slowly toward Chen Yi's corpse and looked at the light orb that Chen Yi had held onto even in death.

He opened his hand, about to take it, but his body began to twitch, twitching violently.

"Hahaha!!!"

"I can't control it, I can't control it anymore!"

A crazed roar suddenly rang out; Xia Weimin lifted his head, his pupils turning scarlet, and he roared with eyes splitting:

"Chen Clan, Chen Clan, you actually dared, you actually dared to do this!!!"

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Killing intent like a sea of blood overflowed; Xia Weimin rushed out of the great hall in an instant, his long spear sweeping horizontally, and endless spear light exploded; in an instant, the earth cracked, buildings collapsed, and countless wails rang out.

The day of the slaughter on Wanxiang Island had arrived!

"How... could it be like this..." the original owner was still lying in a pool of blood, roaring in despair, his life force rapidly ebbing away.

"It's the Chen Clan, it's the Chen Clan..."

He roared with difficulty, but the outside world was in a state of panic, and no one noticed him.

He crawled with difficulty toward Chen Yi's corpse.

"It's Chen Yi, it's Chen Yi who influenced the Divine General, the Chen Clan has harmed my Great Xia, harmed my Wanxiang..."

He roared with his last ounce of strength, crawling forward continuously, wanting to take the light orb from Chen Yi's hand.

"This is the secret of Chen Yi, this is the... wolfish ambition of the Chen Clan!"

However, just as he crawled to within a hundred meters of Chen Yi's corpse, an automatically condensing array barrier suddenly formed from the light orb, and the original owner could not continue to approach.

In the final moment of his life, the original owner took out an array disk and began to engrave it.

"I beg Great Xia, I beg Great Xia to remember this hatred!"

Immediately, he threw the array disk out of the Divine General Temple.

The vision ended here.

Chen Yan let out a long sigh, and immediately after, his brows furrowed.