Chapter 512: I want to watch exactly how you are going to die, Divine General of the Xia Clan

Evil and chill, seeping into the marrow, assailed her; Lu Jianxia stood quietly within the pitch-black corridor, stared at by countless eyes embedded in a fleshy mass.

A faint, gilded red glow still circulated around her body, filled with the warmth of will.

Lu Jianxia lowered her eyes:

"I am about to enter the Eighth Rank; facing such malice, it is difficult to act."

She raised her hand, and a faint pressure of will emerged upon her palm, fair as a lotus root.

The next moment, she struck out with one hand, and pure golden Kun Secret Gilded Thunder flowed from within her body, piercing into the corridor walls on both sides along with the pressure of will.

Lu Jianxia formed a seal with one hand, and golden secret scripts emerged from her fingertips, flowing like river waves throughout the entire corridor.

As thunder circulated, array discs appeared one by one, forcibly carving themselves into each of these eyeballs.

These array discs seemed to grow, spreading continuously, appearing both forward and backward.

Immediately, the walls of the entire corridor were filled with array patterns flowing with golden radiance.

When Lu Jianxia had first entered the corridor, her physical body was eroded by malice, and her consciousness was blurred by countless whispers.

After she discovered the corpse of Bing Yi, the malice took advantage of the opening to completely seize control of Lu Jianxia, and Lu Jianxia's desire for life was eroded away.

This was an extremely terrifying and evil method of attack; even Lu Jianxia had fallen for it.

Lu Jianxia did not know how strong a person's heart had to be to completely ignore this terrifying rule of malice.

Not until she awoke once more and saw Bing Yi.

However, at this moment, Lu Jianxia would not repeat the mistakes she had made before; she continuously unleashed her blood energy and array techniques.

No matter how long this corridor was, she would fill this place with array discs, until only the final portion of her blood energy remained for escape.

Immediately, Lu Jianxia looked forward; Bing Yi had gone and not returned, and she did not know how things were now.

The immortal will wrapping Lu Jianxia's body also gradually dissipated.

Lu Jianxia waited, until at one moment her brows furrowed, and she pressed a single finger to her lips:

"Open!"

Crack!

Wild thunder roared, and those golden array discs within the eyeballs ahead exploded with a bang; countless thunder chains as thick as arms spread crazily in all directions, intertwining like an airtight electric net.

Chirp!

A shrill cry rang out.

The array could not devour the malice, but it could shatter it.

Under the explosion of the thunder array discs, the fleshy mass that was nearly crowded together in front was blasted to pieces.

Lu Jianxia took a deep breath, golden thunder circulating around her body, transforming into a shield.

Immediately, she pierced through the shattered fragments of the fleshy mass like a bolt of lightning.

As Lu Jianxia flew, the malice she faced became increasingly intense, until at one moment it completely eroded all the immortal will around Lu Jianxia's body.

A look of pain appeared in Lu Jianxia's eyes; the next moment, she gritted her teeth and continued to fly forward.

When the concentration of malice reached its peak.

Hum!

A humming of will extended from the front of the corridor.

Lu Jianxia pierced through the fragments of the fleshy mass, her eyes flickering, and saw a figure standing amidst the red glow.

Before Chen Yan, that deer-headed monster exuding a strange aura was already like flying ash in the wind.

Under the impact of the powerful force, it slowly dissipated, turning into a sky full of misty black clouds, as if it had never existed.

This was the manifestation of malice.

Its strength was on par with a peak Seventh Rank ancient divine beast; for Chen Yan to defeat it now, the odds of winning were very small.

No, there was almost no chance of winning.

The rule of malice did not play by the rules of martial arts; it gave Chen Yan no possibility of defeating it at all.

Fortunately, there was that one time of not dying.

The figure of the Ancient Sovereign had long since dissipated, and that deer-headed monster had also been beaten into a cloud of malicious mist, unable to condense again for a short time.

The vitality within Chen Yan's body was being completely awakened by the immortal will.

"Jianxia, you've come."

Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lu Jianxia behind him.

Lu Jianxia pursed her red lips, a smile appearing at the corners of her mouth, only to quickly disappear.

"You defeated the rule?" Lu Jianxia said.

"I suppose so," Chen Yan smiled.

"What do you mean 'suppose so'?" Lu Jianxia's brows furrowed slightly, and she turned her head to look around.

Here, all the dead and silent things were slowly dissipating.

"I want you to leave Wanxiang Island; will you go?" Lu Jianxia asked unobtrusively.

Chen Yan's expression changed slightly:

"The fourth machine imitating Chen Yan is about to arrive."

Lu Jianxia chuckled:

"You have already defeated the rule of malice; those guys who supervise the Five Clan Laws cannot possibly be hostile to you anymore."

"I still have other things to do," Chen Yan said again.

At the very least, he had to enter the Jinzhi Palace.

Chen Yi's corpse was there.

The other party had protected the light orb in their hand even in death; it might contain the very thing that caused Xia Weimin to fall into madness.

The massacre on Ten Thousand Phases Island was a conspiracy of the Chen Clan.

Since there are still hidden details regarding the unjust case of the ten million deaths, it needs to be made public.

Furthermore, on the two hundred and eighty-third step of the Brocade Palace, there is still a fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Gaining an extra shadow is extremely significant for the improvement of Chen Yan's strength.

That is a supreme treasure; Chen Yan cannot possibly give it up.

Lu Jianxia stared at Chen Yan, speechless for a moment.

"Jianxia, you know that Ten Thousand Phases Island was originally under the jurisdiction of the Xia Clan; why did it become Chen Prefecture territory after Xia Weimin slaughtered Ten Thousand Phases Island?"

Lu Jianxia's long eyelashes trembled slightly; why would Bing Yi ask her this?

"Naturally, it was because of the death of Chen Yi. Chen Yi was the number one genius of the Chen Clan in a thousand years, and was already considered the future Chen Lord.

The Chen Clan was not yet the leader of the Five Clans back then, but they already showed signs of rising; it could be said that the previous two generations of Chen Lords had already laid the foundation for Chen Yi to unify the Five Clans.

If Chen Yi were still alive, the Five Clans might have already been united today."

Chen Yan nodded:

"So for the Chen Clan, the deaths of ten million people on Ten Thousand Phases Island were not important; they only cared about Chen Yi alone."

"Yes." Lu Jianxia nodded:

"A great war almost broke out back then, the world was in turmoil, and even my Lu Prefecture had assembled a great army.

The Xia Lord at the time was already aged, and the Great Xia government was undergoing a change of leadership.

Malice erupted on Ten Thousand Phases Island again, and it became a place no one wanted.

The Great Xia government held peace talks with the Chen Clan and ceded Ten Thousand Phases Island."

A trace of fatigue gathered in Lu Jianxia's eyes, but her cold gaze held an indescribable complexity:

"In reality, it was still the Chen Clan that suffered a loss; after all, they lost an invincible genius and also took over this mess that was Ten Thousand Phases Island.

After the Chen Clan took over, Ten Thousand Phases Island underwent a mutation, and those at the Eighth Rank could not enter, becoming what it is today."

Chen Yan nodded:

"That is where the problem lies."

"What problem?" Lu Jianxia spoke immediately; she watched Chen Yan quietly, the complexity in her eyes deepening.

"I watched the memory array disk left behind by Xia Weimin's adjutant from back then; it is very likely that Xia Weimin's slaughter of the ten million people on Ten Thousand Phases Island was a conspiracy by the Chen Clan."

Lu Jianxia's expression tightened slightly as Chen Yan handed over two memory array disks.

These two memory array disks were found in the Divine General Temple and inside a building in the inner city, respectively.

Lu Jianxia had seen Chen Yan use one of the memory array disks with her own eyes, and she immediately exerted her Qi and blood to perceive the memories.

Chen Yan, meanwhile, waited quietly for the malice in this place to dissipate while recovering his own vitality.

Lu Jianxia finished viewing the memories within the two memory array disks and frowned:

"Could it be that Chen Yi controlled Xia Weimin, causing Xia Weimin to kill the other party?

Chen Yi killed Chi Canglan, obtained Chi Canglan's Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill fragment, and it happened to be seen by Xia Weimin.

But this was a conspiracy Chen Yi set for Xia Weimin; perhaps there were crystals of malice within that Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill that subtly influenced Xia Weimin's sanity.

Until after Xia Weimin invited Chen Yi into the Brocade Palace, Chen Yi caused the crystals of malice within Xia Weimin to erupt, but was himself killed by the crazed Xia Weimin."

Lu Jianxia judged, yet felt that this analysis was not important at all right now.

In the end, she looked quietly at Chen Yan:

"So, you want to enter the Brocade Palace to see what exactly the light orb that Chen Yi held before his death was?"

"Mm." Chen Yan nodded.

"Even if it is known that it was Chen Yi who plotted against Xia Weimin back then, Chen Yi is already dead." Lu Jianxia said in a deep voice:

"This might bring trouble to the Chen Clan, but the person involved is already dead, and the Chen Clan's reputation is already terrible enough; they won't care about this."

Chen Yan shook his head slightly:

"I have been thinking, Xia Weimin should not have been such an unwise person; since he felt that it might have been the Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill influencing him, why would he still invite Chen Yi to enter Ten Thousand Phases Island?"

Lu Jianxia was silent for a moment and said:

"Xia Weimin's talent back then exceeded even Chen Yi's; he might have been a bit too confident.

Like you."

Lu Jianxia stopped mid-sentence.

Chen Yan shook his head slightly, his internal vitality slowly recovering.

On the Five Clans Ranking, his name should appear once again.

This experience of life and death played a great role in the development of Chen Yan's martial path.

A hem of a cyan dress appeared in front of Chen Yan.

Lu Jianxia looked down at Chen Yan from above:

"Follow me and leave Ten Thousand Phases Island."

She spoke again, her pair of silver eyes staring quietly at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan did not speak.

Lu Jianxia's eyes became cold and sharp, and she just watched like this until a certain moment, when her red lips trembled slightly:

"I... I have never seen your true face."

Chen Yan said quietly:

"If the Princess wishes to see, I shall just remove the mask; if I look ugly, please do not blame me."

"You look ugly?" Lu Jianxia's originally beautiful face froze instantly, her nostrils flared rapidly, and her breathing became heavy.

She just looked at Chen Yan like this, tears gradually appearing in those silver eyes, her clenched knuckles turning white.

"The world says that Chen Yan of the Great Xia is as handsome as an immortal; who would ever say Chen Yan is unsightly?"

She gritted her teeth, tilted her head back, and shouted in a voice filled with frustration at his failure to live up to expectations:

"A dignified Divine General who doesn't even know the Art of Disguise—just how confident are you exactly?!"

"Do you not know how to use Sound Transmission either?"

Two lines of tears flowed continuously from Lu Jianxia's eyes, trembling gently with the rhythm of her sobbing, like a wounded little deer.

"You... at the very least, you should practice the Art of Disguise. You don't even practice it, relying on a mask—do you really take everyone for fools!"

Wrapped in endless malice, Lu Jianxia held Bing Yi's corpse, and as the malice eroded her, her only thought was to see the face beneath that mask.

But the moment she saw that face, Lu Jianxia was met with true despair.

Malice will take advantage of a person when their will is at its weakest.

What truly made Lu Jianxia despair was not the malice, but Bing Yi.

At this moment, her body seemed to go limp, as if she were unable to stand.

All words, all memories, and all choices had become a complete and utter joke.

Sss, sss, sss...

Golden thunder flickered from her nearly perfect cheek, drying her tears.

"I will give you one last chance: leave this place with me, leave this place entirely, and crawl back to your Great Xia.

If we meet again, we shall be mortal enemies."

Chen Yan was silent; he looked around, and cracks appeared in the void of malice.

This place was about to shatter.

He could perceive human emotions, and from just a moment ago, he had sensed the emotional fluctuations of Lu Jianxia.

"You think you have me figured out."

Lu Jianxia let out a faint, almost imperceptible laugh, the laughter laced with annoyance and absurdity.

"Do you really think you have me figured out?!"

Chen Yan's silence made her even more furious.

A golden formation disk condensed in her hand; at this moment, she felt that she had been as stupid as a pig for recklessly rushing into the rules of malice earlier.

The ten million formation disks she had deployed in the corridor earlier also drifted over, surrounding Chen Yan.

She had prepared for this from the very beginning.

Ten million formation disks erupted; even the current Chen Yan could not block them!

Zzzzt...

Golden thunder flowed like water between her slender fingers, until at one moment, the thunder extinguished completely.

Subsequently, she was pulled into an embrace.

Chen Yan whispered something, his voice seemingly swallowed by the malice, dissipating into the final wisp of pure black.

Lu Jianxia's body could not stop trembling; true terror swallowed her like a pitch-black viper.

Within the indescribable, hazy darkness, there was a fatal aura she could not refuse.

Crack!

Terrifying, violent thunder pierced into Chen Yan's body like ten thousand sharp swords, yet it transformed into soft, flowing water.

The shattered, pitch-black gaps in the clouds continued to expand before the eyes of the world. When light that was not so dark shone in from the outside, Lu Jianxia pushed Chen Yan away, wisps of golden thunder spilling from the corners of her eyes, and she returned to her cold, aloof appearance.

"I want to watch you."

She looked at Chen Yan quietly and transmitted her voice coldly:

"I want to watch exactly how you are going to die, Divine General of the Xia Clan."

Lu Jianxia turned around, paused for a brief moment, and then vanished as a bolt of lightning.