Chapter 501: Between Life and Death, Preaching the Dao to the World!

The original owner was stunned:

"Is there something wrong with that Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill?"

"Perhaps!" Xia Weimin stood up:

"Like this, I heard Chen Yi is in seclusion on a nearby island; invite him to come to Ten Thousand Phases Island tomorrow to have a talk with me."

The original owner was slightly surprised:

"Chen Yi once declared he would definitely suppress the Divine General, and now he has set a trap to let the General obtain the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill fragment; inviting him directly might not be good."

Xia Weimin was slightly stunned and waved his hand:

"Just go and invite him."

"Yes!" The original owner saluted, and then the scene ended.

After Chen Yan absorbed this trace of memory, he fell into deep thought.

This segment of memory was the memory of the deputy general who had been killed by Xia Weimin in the Brocade Palace earlier.

The other party had created a total of three memory arrays, all of which had been found by Chen Yan.

In this way, the ultimate culprit that caused Xia Weimin to slaughter Ten Thousand Phases Island was the fragment of the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill.

And there was Chi Canglan; Chen Yan remembered very clearly that he had seen the news from back then, and Chi Canglan's name had suddenly disappeared from the Five Clans Ranking, with the body never found.

Chen Yan combed through the timeline.

Xia Weimin had once dueled with Chen Yi, the son of the Chen Lord, and defeated Chen Yi, causing Chen Yi to harbor hostility toward Xia Weimin.

Afterwards, Xia Weimin entered Golden Province to report on his duties, the Grand Preceptor produced evidence that the other party was practicing the Blood-Drawing Array, and Xia Weimin had a huge argument with the State Ruler in front of all the officials.

When returning from Golden Province, Xia Weimin encountered the son of the Chen Lord killing Chi Canglan, and took the opportunity to threaten the other party to hand over the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment seized from Chi Canglan.

But while practicing the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, Xia Weimin felt he was being affected; the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 had problems.

He invited Chen Yi to enter Ten Thousand Phases Island, wanting to ask him face-to-face.

But it was precisely this move that led Xia Weimin to his final desperate situation.

Chen Yi used a secret technique to control Xia Weimin, causing Xia Weimin to become completely insane, even though Xia Weimin eventually killed Chen Yi.

But Xia Weimin's last bit of reason also completely vanished, and he became a villain who slaughtered millions of living beings with his own hands.

All the clues matched up.

Xia Weimin was a victim, harmed by Chen Yi.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and looked toward the direction of the Brocade Palace.

Now, Chen Yi's corpse was inside the Brocade Palace, and the ball of light the other party held before dying might contain great terror or a great secret.

If not, why would Chen Yi protect that ball of light even while dying?

But...

That's not right!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; this clue was too subjective.

This was the deputy general's memory, but was his memory the truth?

Everything had one biggest problem.

That was Xia Weimin's attitude toward Chen Yi.

Why would Xia Weimin invite the other party to enter Ten Thousand Phases Island?

It's not logical!

And.

There was one more point, a most critical point!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; Chen Yan had known that critical point from the very beginning.

He had known it from Lin Yi's memory.

At the same time.

Chen Yunyou had already flown away from the Inner City; he was actually fleeing for his life. He had to leave the Inner City to receive help from Chen Qi.

Those two malicious beings had almost killed him directly.

And.

Within the entire world.

A massive public outcry erupted.

Bing Yi was actually not dead yet.

Having broken through the realm forty-eight times before death and created a historical divine skill, Bing Yi had become an Ancient Divine Beast.

But the absurd part was that Bing Yi had actually retained his own memories.

Moreover, the other party had awakened a trace of the mystery belonging to the Immortal Will and was going to prove the Immortal Will in front of everyone in the world.

He intended to reverse-transform from the state of an Ancient Divine Beast back into a human.

The first reaction of many people hearing this news was: he's crazy, this must be fake.

How can an Ancient Divine Beast reverse-transform into a living being?

Malice cannot be resolved.

Even for a Creation Realm expert, once they become an Ancient Divine Beast, their consciousness will be eroded until, in the end, they become a different form of life.

But Bing Yi had achieved the first step.

That is, retaining his own consciousness.

And, the other party had awakened a trace of the aura of the Immortal Will.

The Path of Will!

Powerful, mysterious.

But relying on the path of will to reverse-transform into the physical body of an ancient divine beast is a first in this world.

These pieces of news were passed on one by one.

The gaze of the entire world shifted from Chen Yan of the Great Xia, who was about to be appointed as a Divine General, to Bing Yi.

The first to boil over were the five clans of Lu Prefecture, Chi Prefecture, Chen Prefecture, and others.

Immediately following, the Great Xia knew.

The powerhouses of the eighteen prefectures learned of this matter one after another.

First, they were shocked by Bing Yi's unyielding will, and then they were shocked by Bing Yi's choice.

To verify the Dao with one's life, to bear witness to the future for the world!

One passed it to ten, ten passed it to a hundred.

Some sighed with emotion.

"Bing Yi is a dual pride of the world who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Chen Yan!"

"If Bing Yi does not die, that will be a legend!"

"Heavens, he is actually still alive; I can feel the power of his will even through the text!"

This is the name of one person!

The name of Bing Yi once again stirred up monstrous waves across the world.

But arriving at the same time were also questioning and disbelief.

"How can Bing Yi compare to Chen Yan? Even the five clans do not welcome him!"

"Reversing malice—he really dares to think it, and even dares to snatch Chen Yan's reputation."

"He will surely die; he is a miracle, but luck cannot always be heaped upon one person alone!"

…………

Many people believed that Bing Yi was bound to die.

The other party had exhausted everything to preserve their own consciousness, and now could only fight with all their might.

But it was too difficult.

How could it be possible?

Reversing malice?

The path of will indeed has the possibility of obliterating malice, but the matter of reversing malice with a physical body is still a bit too fantastical.

But more people were nervous.

What if Bing Yi really could do it?

The other party is no ordinary person; someone who has broken through the realm forty-eight times, how could they be an ordinary person?

If Bing Yi could truly succeed, then this would change the world!

It would truly be as the other party said, to bear witness to the future for the world!

A magnificent feat!

A heroic act!

A journey of verifying the Dao destined to be recorded in the history books!

Bing Yi, Bing Yi, Bing Yi!

Among the common folk, inside the Great Xia, on the streets, in the countryside.

This name rang out incessantly, constantly uttered from the mouths of one living being after another.

It was almost about to overshadow Chen Yan's influence.

What Bing Yi wanted was to verify the Dao to the world.

It was to use their own flesh and blood to blaze a bloody path for the martial Dao of the world.

Therefore, the other party's process of verifying the Dao, regardless of whether the ending failed or not.

Required the witness of the people of the world.

And so.

Starting from Lu Prefecture, signal base stations were established one after another between it and Ten Thousand Phases Island.

Subsequently, with Lu Prefecture as the center, it spread crazily toward every region.

Such a massive momentum.

Some wanted living beings to see some of the profound meanings belonging to the martial Dao of will, while others wanted to let the people of the world see Bing Yi's death.

What different purposes brought about was the establishment of silver screens one after another!

In the eighteen prefectures of Great Xia, they were being built in every city and every region.

They were also being built in the towns, at a great cost.

This was a lecture belonging to all of humanity.

Perhaps it would end briefly, perhaps it would change the future.

Time passed slowly.

One day, two days, three days…………

Ten days later.

When the villagers of Luoshan County appeared on the county road, carrying chairs, sitting tightly one next to the other.

At their very front was a giant white plastic screen.

Hu Zeyuan and Hu Yuan watched, very excited.

Bing Yi, that is a big shot.

More people, in fact, did not care about the path of will; what they cared about most was still wanting to see how a big shot actually cultivated.

It was precisely at this moment.

Across the entire world, upon countless screens.

Swish, swish, swish.

Snowy white images appeared, the picture gradually becoming clear.

A dark world appeared within everyone's line of sight.

Black fog was dense, and strange phantoms emerged within the black fog.

People found it hard to imagine that anyone could survive in such an environment.

"I, Bing Yi, have always been wondering, what exactly is will?"

A cold voice rang out.

People's gazes fixed; at the very center of the screen appeared a gaunt figure with malicious black smoke overflowing from their entire body.

That was Bing Yi!

Like a devil, not a trace of an aura belonging to a human could be seen.

Every living being who saw this scene was stunned.

Bing Yi had truly become an Ancient Divine Beast.

The other party had chosen a path destined for death under endless crisis.

Everyone had thought the other party was completely dead, yet Bing Yi had fought with their life to survive.

Shock.

Just a view of their back was enough to make people unable to restrain themselves.

On a distant island, Chen Yu was also watching, having specifically stolen the signal transmitted by Lu Zhou to condense the image with an array disk.

After all, the matter of Bing Yi was too momentous.

Originally, Chen Yu had not cared; the strongest in will was only her elder brother.

But at the very next moment.

"The profundity of life can only be glimpsed through will!"

That cold voice rang out, causing the minds of all who watched to tremble; people opened their mouths, savoring this sentence, feeling only that it was incomparably heavy.

And Chen Yu's pupils shrank in an instant; the next moment, her vermilion lips parted, and tears fell from her eyes.

"Brother!"

The little girl could finally confirm at this moment that the one inside the Great Xia Divine Temple was truly not her brother.

If it were her brother, how could he have repeatedly refused to meet with her?

Yet her brother was, at this very moment, surrounded by heavy enemies, in a place at the limit of life, proving the Dao for the people of the world!

Nervousness, sadness, heartache, pain, pride—in an instant, countless emotions threatened to drown Chen Yu.

The next moment.

The youth with malicious black smoke overflowing from his body stepped forward, his body slowly flying upward.

Before him appeared a massive, dilapidated palace shrouded in malice.

Long stairs blocked his path.

In an instant.

Above the stairs, malicious black smoke erupted, transforming into strange phenomena that lunged at him!

Even while watching from an infinite distance across mountains and seas, many people cried out in alarm, "Ah!"

They were frightened.

At the same time, on the higher steps of the stairs, there were several other figures.

Chi Yuexi, Lu Fukun, Ji Chuxi, and Chen Yunyou.

They saw Bing Yi arrive, their gazes varied, but none of them spoke.

It had taken seven days to set up the screens across the world, but they could not wait, so they had ascended the stairs early.

Even though the treasures inside all the buildings had been taken by Bing Yi, were they supposed to just give up on entering the Palace of Brocade?

More crucially, Chi Yuexi, Lu Fukun, and the others also wanted to observe the process of Bing Yi awakening their Immortal Will at close range.

This was something Bing Yi had promised them.

Even if the possibility was slim, they did not want to give up.

At this moment.

Many people of the Five Clans and Great Xia recognized them.

"That is Chi Yuexi, the number one heaven-gifted talent of my Chi Province!"

"That is Lu Fukun!"

"That is Chen Yunyou, number one on the Five Clans Ranking; these people all seem to be waiting for Bing Yi!"

"Bing Yi has emerged into the world, too monstrous; they are actually able to reach the same level as them."

Many people sighed; Bing Yi's progress was too rapid.

They had already reached the first tier of the Five Clans Ranking, becoming a top-tier heaven-gifted talent.

Chen Yan did not walk; each step of the Palace of Brocade was two meters high, making it impossible to climb by foot, requiring flight.

Chi, chi, chi!

Chen Yan began to force the malice out of his physical body.

Corroding malice was something Chen Yan had done before, but this time it was different.

His physical body had indeed become an Ancient Divine Beast.

He had chosen death.

This time, he needed to purge the malice within his body to transition from death to life.

At this moment, the malice on his body was boiling and overflowing.

Within the world, countless people watching this scene were stunned.

"He is actually... actually really erasing the malice!"

Someone's eyes widened in disbelief.

"He is an Ancient Divine Beast; if his own malice disappears, wouldn't he... die?"

One person after another raised such questions.

But no one answered.

That's right.

Ancient Divine Beasts live by relying on malice.

Just as humans live by the circulation of blood.

For Bing Yi to erase malice, isn't that the same as draining his own blood?

Everyone was moved.

From the very beginning, Bing Yi had pulled off a major feat for everyone to see.

This was a path that led to death no matter what.

Become an Ancient Divine Beast, and one day your consciousness will be erased by malice—death.

Reverse the malice, and there is no longer malice within the Ancient Divine Beast—death.

Either way, it is death.

But now, Bing Yi was doing exactly this in front of everyone.

Proving the Dao!

"He is truly proving the Dao!"

Someone shouted:

"Glorious even in death!"

…………

At the same time.

Feeling the gravity coming from the soles of his feet, Chen Yan's Qi and blood erupted, and in the next instant, he flew over four steps.

All the way to the fifth step.

A strange feeling emerged from within Chen Yan's heart, and Chen Yan took out a cyan iron plaque.

The next moment, the cyan iron plaque fell directly from Chen Yan's hand.

Boom—

It smashed onto the step, and immediately after, it sank into the step.

This scene appeared abruptly, and Chi Yuexi and the others instantly looked down.

The next moment, a light shadow suddenly emerged from the fifth step; it was an illusory figure holding a spear.

Xia Weimin.

The next moment, Xia Weimin moved!

His figure was as elusive as a ghost, and the long spear in his hand was like a dragon emerging from the sea.

Spear shadows were layered, either sweeping horizontally, thrusting straight, or flicking and lifting.

Blood-red light bloomed at the spear tip, resembling flowers of the other shore.

In an instant, profound spear techniques appeared deep in Chen Yan's mind.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, countless golden lights representing technical energy emerged!

"It really is a legacy!"

Standing on the fiftieth step, Chi Yuexi exclaimed in shock:

"This is Xia Weimin's signature technique, Blood Domain Reversing the World!"

Ji Chuxi and the others also watched in astonishment.

This cyan iron plaque was found by Bing Yi within the seventeen buildings.

Now, placing the iron plaques found from those buildings onto the corresponding steps could actually reveal Xia Weimin's spear technique legacy.

"This is a Sun-Level Grade A spear technique legacy!" Ji Chuxi's voice was even trembling, and then she gritted her teeth.

Such a good legacy had actually been obtained by Bing Yi.

But the next moment.

Boom—

Chen Yunyou flew down directly from the hundredth step, appeared at the fifth step, and watched the spear technique legacy.

Ji Chuxi and the others also reacted and flew to the fifth step as well.

"Why can I not see it clearly at all?" Chi Yuexi frowned:

"The iron plaque was obtained by Bing Yi; this current legacy can likely only be seen clearly by Bing Yi."

Chi Yuexi felt very uncomfortable; she was like someone who had clearly obtained a big cake, but the cake was protected by a glass shell, so she could only see it but not get it.

Lu Fukun frowned, and he gave up directly.

He was an Array Master; whether he cultivated spear techniques or not was unimportant, especially since he couldn't see it clearly at all right now.

But Chen Yunyou and Ji Chuxi refused to give up.

"Even if it is very blurry, it is better than nothing." Ji Chuxi spoke up.

Chen Yunyou did not speak; if one could learn, why not learn? The only problem was just learning a bit slower.

A Sun-class Grade A spear technique.

It is second only to a divine skill.

"Bing Yi, do you still have the heart to obtain the inheritance now?" Chen Yunyou spoke indifferently, carrying a sense of apathy:

"You are already exhausting all your mental energy to convert the malice; to accept the inheritance on top of that, the pressure you would endure would be unimaginable!"

Chen Yunyou's voice fell.

Everyone reacted.

That's right.

The current Bing Yi is trying to attain the Immortal Will.

How could he have time to accept an inheritance? This inheritance looks incredibly precious, but before the current Bing Yi, it is like poison.

The more Bing Yi cares about it, the lower his chances of attaining the Immortal Will will become.

Chen Yan did not make a sound.

At this moment, inside the Saint-Breaking Tree.

The 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was growing slowly.

The progress was very slow, but no matter how slow, it was still an opportunity Chen Yan had never obtained before.

Because the growth difficulty of the current Saint-Breaking Fruit has increased to one thousand times what it was before.

Now, every one percent growth of the 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit is equivalent to ten Saint-Breaking Fruits of the past!

Chen Yan gazed at the 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit, and his heart began to comprehend the 【Blood Domain Reversing World】, as thoughts began to emerge in his mind one by one.

Until the 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit grew to one percent, the phantom on the steps gradually disappeared.

Sss, sss, sss!

The malice on Chen Yan's body was still burning.

Burning incessantly.

At this moment, he looked like a demon god standing in demonic fire.

Leaving everyone with a view of his back.

Everyone knew that this was a path to enlightenment with almost no chance of survival.

And that young man walking slowly forward had only a life-or-death struggle.

The world watches him, watching him walk toward the extreme, to see if he will reverse himself or the future of the martial Dao.

PS: Happy second day of the Lunar New Year.