Chapter 493: Another Group of Destiny's Wage Earners

In that case, was Xia Weimin's massacre of Myriad Aspect Island influenced by Chen Yi?

Can the imprisonment array cast by Chen Yi influence a person's mind?

And what was that orb of light in the other party's hand?

It seemed to hide a tremendous secret.

A secret that Chen Yi would not dare to reveal, even in death?

Chen Yan's gaze flickered.

After the massacre on Myriad Aspect Island, the island erupted with endless malice, the rules changed, and those at the Eighth Rank could no longer enter.

Chen Yan could hear the conversation between Lu Fukun and the others, knowing that for these past thousand years, no one had been able to enter the Brocade Palace.

Does that mean Chen Yi's corpse is still inside the Brocade Palace today?

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

But the more he thought about this matter, the more wrong it felt.

He remembered very clearly that it was Xia Weimin who invited Chen Yi to enter Myriad Aspect Island.

Why would he invite him?

Chen Yan shook his head, suppressing these thoughts.

For now, he should focus on cultivating well.

He had broken his limits too many times before, and Chen Yan's own foundation was not yet solid; now, there were still massive amounts of precious medicinal herbs to absorb.

Chen Yan's Blood Qi path had now advanced to the Sixth Rank, and he could continue to condense his True Essence Dharma Form.

His Tempering path was at the Fifth Rank with one hundred and thirty-three True Dragon Dharma Forms, and he was still far from the limit of the realm.

Chen Yan did not intend to cultivate his Tempering path to the Sixth Rank for the time being.

On one hand, he would break his limits, and on the other, the Tempering path still required undergoing a lightning tribulation, which would cause too much of a stir.

Unless he found a place that no one would notice, where he could also hide the changes in the rules.

For example, the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm was just such a place.

However, before leaving seclusion, Chen Yan's strength in the Blood Qi path must be maximized, and his Tempering path must also reach the peak of the Fifth Rank.

Chen Yan could now take the opportunity to properly strengthen his own foundation.

Chen Yan took out two Body Tempering precious herbs and three Blood Qi precious herbs, and began to cultivate.

At the same time.

In the place where the malice on Myriad Aspect Island was most intense.

Inside a pitch-black giant tower.

Clatter, clatter.

A creature with black smoke leaking from its entire body twisted its frame, pulling at the chains locked onto its physical body.

Beneath a cover of pitch-black long hair, a pair of scarlet eyes stared into the distance.

"That's not right, he..." he murmured:

"He clearly didn't protect his brain and completely became an Ancient God Beast, how is he... how does he not look like an Ancient God Beast?"

His voice trembled, and the sound of clattering chains echoed throughout the entire high tower.

Until a certain moment.

"God General!!!"

He suddenly let out a roar.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Wisps of green smoke emerged from his physical body; it was the chains corroding his flesh.

…………

Time passed slowly.

Twenty days later.

The Brocade Palace.

On the massive staircase.

"The stairs of this Brocade Palace, each step has more pressure than the last, and it is the kind of pressure that matches one's own strength; no matter how strong the realm, it is difficult to step to the very front."

Ji Chuxi stood on the stairs of the Brocade Palace, which towered into the clouds, and spoke in a low voice.

Behind him, Chi Yuexi and Lu Fukun were also slowly climbing the stairs.

At the very front, Chen Yunyou paused and narrowed his eyes:

"To enter the Brocade Palace, one needs a powerful will."

The Brocade Palace had a total of three hundred steps, each two meters high.

Even before Myriad Aspect Island was massacred, it was not a place that ordinary people could enter at all.

Moreover, after Myriad Aspect Island was massacred, the Brocade Palace was clearly shrouded in a strange set of rules, and the gravity on each step was different.

Every time one stepped onto a stair, it required a tremendous amount of will.

It had already been several days, and Chen Yunyou had only stepped onto the two hundred and thirtieth stair.

Ji Chuxi was on the two hundred and fifteenth step.

Chi Yuexi and Lu Fukun were both around the two hundredth step.

Chen Yunyou felt angry in his heart; he had ten thousand True Dragon Dharma Forms and was himself a prodigy who had broken his limits.

Why had he stepped onto more stairs than Ji Chuxi, Chi Yuexi, and Lu Fukun—these three martial artists of the will—yet he had not entered the Martial Dao of Will?

He had clearly entered the Martial Dao of Will before, but the biting sarcasm of Bing Yi had caused him to fall from that realm.

Damn that Bing Yi.

Even though Bing Yi was already dead, Chen Yunyou still felt anger.

"Relying on willpower alone is useless; even Chen Yunyou is still far from the top, and today Chen Yunyou has only climbed five steps in total," Lu Fukun spoke up.

"What if it were Bing Yi's willpower?" Chi Yuexi asked quietly, and for a moment, everyone was speechless.

"Since Bing Yi is already dead, there is no need to care," Ji Chuxi frowned and said:

"If we keep focusing on a dead person, how are we supposed to grow?"

Chi Yuexi nodded:

"That is true, but what I mean is, if we don't rely solely on willpower, how are we to step into the Jin Palace?

Furthermore, no one has entered the Jin Palace in a thousand years; even if the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill might be sealed within that array disk, we cannot obtain it!"

As Chi Yuexi spoke, she looked toward the very front of the steps, where a floating array disk was located.

The few of them looked over, all silent for a moment.

"That array disk of the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill was likely left behind after Bing Yi participated in the rule-based game with Ji Xiaomao previously.

To think it is being used to urge us on at this moment."

Lu Fukun frowned and spoke.

Chen Yunyou clenched his fists; he not only wanted to take that 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, he also wanted to enter the Jin Palace.

"Chen Yunyou, why does your Chen Clan insist on entering the Jin Palace?" Chi Yuexi spoke up:

"We are teammates now; we should share information."

Chen Yunyou merely swept a cold, indifferent glance at Chi Yuexi and then said nothing more.

What kind of teammates?

They were clearly competitors.

…………

Outside Ten Thousand Aspects Island.

Chen Qi was also deep in thought.

Ji Haiyi, who was to the side, spoke up:

"The purpose of the Five Clans Conference is to awaken the Will Martial Dao; now that all four of our clans have prodigies who have awakened, there is no need to continue entering that Jin Palace."

Chen Qi shook his head:

"Chen Yunyou has not entered yet."

Ji Haiyi raised his eyebrows slightly; what did that have to do with him?

"After all, there is still a fragment of the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill on the steps of the Jin Palace; if it can be obtained, the boost to a person's combat power would be terrifying," Chi Xun spoke up:

"There might even be treasures inside the Jin Palace."

Don't joke; anyone else could leave, but he would not.

Chi Xun still hadn't figured out what exactly Chen Yan was doing.

How did it come to this?

"Princess Jianxia, what do you think?" Chi Xun asked.

Lu Jianxia shook her head slightly, her eyes downcast.

Just a moment ago, a communication came from within Lu Province; Lu Province had already cracked the method by which the Chen Clan controlled the Chen Yan imitation and had sent her the decryption key.

But now, it was all too late.

"The Jin Palace must have other methods of being cracked; it requires not only the prodigies of each clan but also for you and me to think," Chen Qi spoke up:

"Since it cannot be entered by relying on one's own willpower, there must be other ways."

Chi Xun nodded:

"The prodigy battle platform at Moshan Pass in Ji Province has already been set up; once this Five Clans Conference ends, we must lead the prodigies of our respective clans into Moshan Pass to battle the Xia Clan's prodigies."

Ji Haiyi sighed softly:

"At that time, we can also see for ourselves just how far that Great Xia Chen Yan has grown."

Chen Qi's expression darkened.

He hadn't expected his first meeting with Chen Yan to be in that manner.

Time passed slowly.

Another ten days later.

Jin Palace.

Chen Yunyou's body was covered in bloodstains, his aura withered, as he lay on the steps panting heavily.

Behind him, Ji Chuxi and the others also looked to be in extreme difficulty.

By now, Chen Yunyou had only climbed to the two hundred and fifty-fifth step.

There were still forty-five steps to the top.

And it was getting slower and slower.

A look of unwillingness showed in Chen Yunyou's eyes.

The fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 was clearly only twenty-eight steps away from him, but he couldn't reach it at all.

Thick, malicious mist enveloped the Jin Palace, and everything in this place was pitch black.

For some reason.

The Jin Palace was the place most heavily enveloped by malice, aside from the Ten Thousand Aspects Tower.

"Chen Yunyou, take a look at which step that Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill fragment is on?"

Ji Chuxi spoke up, something flickering in her eyes.

"The two hundred and eighty-third step, why?" Chen Yunyou frowned and asked.

"How many steps are there in total here?" Ji Chuxi spoke up again.

"Three hundred steps, what exactly are you trying to ask?"

Chen Yunyou let out a low shout.

Ji Chuxi's eyes flashed, and the next instant, he fell directly from the steps.

"Damn it!" Chen Yunyou let out a low shout, and at that moment, he also fell, reaching out toward Ji Chuxi.

"Stop him, he must have discovered something!" Lu Fukun unleashed a blasting array disk.

"Stop!"

Ji Chuxi let out a low shout, catching the sword thrust by Chi Yuexi between his hands, his expression grim:

"I'll tell you!"

Ji Chuxi kept walking down the steps:

"I only just discovered it too; only by standing at a high point can one see more clearly." Ji Chuxi sighed lightly, arriving at the one hundred and twenty-first step.

"Look."

Ji Chuxi waved a hand, and a divine chain overflowing with golden light pierced through the clouds and mist, flying all the way outside the Jinzhi Palace, until it reached the roof of a tall building ten kilometers away.

"This one hundred and twenty-first step is exactly the same height as the roof of that building. I have checked the other structures; they are either higher than this step or lower than it.

Apart from this one, there is simply no other building that can be exactly the same height as this step!"

The expressions of Chen Yunyou and the others tightened slightly. Ji Chuxi continued to jump downward, arriving at the one hundred and tenth step, and pointed again toward another large building in the distance.

"Look, is it not the case that only that one is the same height as this step?"

Chen Yunyou's expression tightened slightly, then he nodded:

"I understand."

"So that's how it is." Chi Yuexi's brows suddenly relaxed.

"How is it exactly?" Lu Fukun frowned and spoke.

"It lies in the number seventeen," Ji Chuxi said:

"I only just realized it too. That fragment of the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill is seventeen steps away from the top of the highest step; this is a hint."

Chi Yuexi smiled:

"And in the second trial of the Life and Death Gate, over four rounds, we know there are seventeen houses with precious medicines.

Each round has five houses, but room number five was repeated three times, and room number ten was repeated twice.

Therefore, there are only seventeen rooms in total with precious medicines and secret arts."

Ji Chuxi nodded:

"The one hundred and twenty-first and one hundred and tenth rooms from just now are actually the two room numbers that contain Qi-Blood precious medicines.

Throughout the entire Wanxiang Island, there is only one building for each that is the same height as these two steps; I think there must be a connection!"

Lu Fukun's eyes trembled; he understood.

He looked around; the entire inner city was enveloped by malice and was being constantly eroded.

These buildings were high and low, not uniform.

But there was only one building each that was the same height as the one hundred and twenty-first and one hundred and tenth steps.

This was absolutely not right!

"I suspect that within the entire inner city, there is one building each that corresponds to the height of these seventeen steps," Ji Chuxi said:

"We are completely unable to enter the Jinzhi Palace, so what is the point of this trial being set up?

I suspect this is the method to break it; there must be secrets within these seventeen buildings!"

As Ji Chuxi spoke, Chen Yunyou narrowed his eyes.

Strange!

Too strange!

If not for that poem, they would be unable to solve the secret of the Life and Death Trial, and thus would be unable to solve the method to break into the Jinzhi Palace.

The problem is.

The Divine General Temple of the past did not have that poem at all!

This is the key.

Without the hint from that poem, the Chen clan would have been unable to enter the Jinzhi Palace for a thousand years.

But this time, why did that poem appear?

He was still thinking.

The next moment.

Chi Yuexi flew out directly.

Clatter, clatter, clatter!!!

Ji Chuxi struck out with one hand, and countless divine chains blocked Chi Yuexi's path.

"Everyone listen to me, this time we need to cooperate!" Ji Chuxi said: "The inner city is too big, and visibility is very low.

I can see the height of those two buildings clearly only because those two buildings are very close to us; as for the other buildings, I cannot find them at all."

Chen Yunyou smiled:

"Since that is the case, the four of us will first find the coordinates of all the buildings together, and then enter fairly!"

Chi Yuexi and Lu Fukun nodded.

That makes sense.

It was also at this moment that Chi Yuexi's brows furrowed slightly, looking at the building Ji Chuxi had just pointed out.

She seemed to have seen a black shadow enter that building.

"What are you looking at?" Ji Chuxi asked.

"Nothing," Chi Yuexi shook her head:

"It might be an illusion, or perhaps there is an Ancient Divine Beast."

"No need to worry; there are many Ancient Divine Beasts in this place, but as long as you don't provoke them, there won't be any trouble," Chen Yunyou said.

"Mm," Chi Yuexi nodded:

"But I feel... it's a bit like Bing Yi."

"Huh?" Ji Chuxi was stunned, then immediately laughed:

"If Bing Yi became an Ancient Divine Beast, Princess Jianxia in Luzhou would surely cry..."

He was laughing, but suddenly looked at Lu Fukun and stopped laughing.

"It's nothing," Lu Fukun slowly shook his head:

"Princess Jianxia has not opened her communication channel right now."

Ji Chuxi was stunned, and then both he and Lu Fukun began to laugh.

Chi Yuexi shook her head slightly, a trace of a smile appearing at the corners of her mouth, and she looked toward that building again, but saw nothing at all.

At the same time.

Inside that building.

Chen Yan also laughed.

Even the process of thinking was saved; this is the benefit of having a Martial Dao lineage.

Another group of Mandate-bearing laborers!

PS: Five hundred chapters now.