Chapter 515: Born Amidst the Advancement

It was as if the words spoken when the other person held her tightly were ringing in her ears once more.

Lu Jianxia's heart pounded violently; the coldness she had felt earlier melted away, only to congeal once again.

She stepped silently upon the river of blood, her skirt hem illuminated by the blood-colored light of the spear.

As the river water churned, fragments of pitch-black lightning threads and ice crystals scattered beside her cheeks.

Carried by the blood river, the two of them did not stop until they reached a step in front of Chen Yunyou.

In a single go, they had crossed two hundred and seventy-six steps!

Chi Yuexi and the other heaven-gifted prodigies were all struck silent by this scene.

With a *slap*, Chi Yuexi tumbled from the high air onto the steps, her expression extremely exaggerated.

Just a moment ago, someone had invited her to enter the Brocade Palace together, and she had ignored them.

But now, if she were given the power to reverse time.

She would fly straight down, hug the other person's thigh, and beg them to take her inside.

The gravity from the steps struck!

Lu Jianxia's expression shifted slightly; Chen Yan unleashed 【Blood Domain Reversing World】, and flowers of the Other Shore appeared one after another, intending to alter the frequency of the gravity here.

"No need, I am not a waste."

Lu Jianxia spoke, beginning to adapt to the gravity of this place, her expression changing again and again.

Chen Yan nodded and ceased unleashing 【Blood Domain Reversing World】.

Lu Jianxia froze, her expression changing once more as she looked at Chen Yan in disbelief.

Chen Yan did not ascend the steps immediately.

On one hand, he had to wait for the arrangements of the Chen Clan.

On the other hand, he needed to carefully sense the gravity of this place.

He needed to bring the 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit to full maturity.

If he did so, his strength would increase significantly.

After entering the Brocade Palace, he would also need to completely refine the surge of blood-Qi energy he had obtained earlier.

Furthermore, there was also a fragment of 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 that he needed to comprehend.

He would maximize his own combat power.

Chen Yunyou stood within the void, his expression calming after a brief change.

He transmitted his voice via the communication array disk:

"Father, what would you have me do now?"

Soon, the communication from the Chen Master arrived.

Chen Yunyou's expression changed repeatedly; he circulated his internal force, and as the Chen Master instructed, he drove the force into his own brain, at the junction of the pons and the cerebellar peduncle.

This was the neural region that controlled facial expressions.

He needed to apply the new type of force-oscillation frequency developed by the Chen Clan's research institute to his own trigeminal nerve.

Henceforth, Chen Yunyou's expressions would be more natural and would not reveal any hostility.

If it were not for the fact that Bing Yi could observe the expressions of others, Chen Yunyou would never have known of this method to control his own micro-expressions.

A sensation of intense pain struck, yet Chen Yunyou remained expressionless.

Knowing the method to deal with Bing Yi now was a good thing for him.

If Chen Yunyou were to know that what Bing Yi could truly perceive was not facial expressions, but the emotions of others.

Then Chen Yunyou would absolutely vomit blood.

At this moment.

Chen Yan was also observing; he knew nothing of the information communicated by the Chen Master, but he could judge what the Chen Clan was preparing through the content of Chen Yunyou's communication.

Chen Yunyou had originally intended to threaten Bing Yi directly, to prevent Bing Yi from entering the Brocade Palace.

But this viewpoint had been rejected by the Chen Master.

The Chen Master was still more decisive; the other party clearly did not want to leave any contingency, but rather intended to overcome everything to deal with Bing Yi.

They were even prepared to kill Lu Jianxia as well.

Even Chen Yunyou was shocked.

The Chen Master was too decisive.

At this moment, over on Chen Qi's side, preparations had already begun.

Roughly a dozen of the Chen Clan's early-stage Creation Realm robots would arrive, along with some lethal array disks.

The Chen Clan had already tested it; even for robots, their combat power could not exceed the early-stage Creation Realm.

This was the rule of the Ten Thousand Appearances Island inner city.

More strictly speaking, the Chen Clan's robots were actually modeled after the physical bodies of living beings.

Chen Yan had discovered earlier that inside that Chen Yan imitation, there were large amounts of flesh tissue and engraved array disks.

It was equivalent to dismembering a person and then controlling them with array disks.

In the eyes of the rules of Ten Thousand Appearances Island, that was still a person.

The Chen Clan's robot manufacturing process must be extremely bloody.

It was also at this moment that Chen Yunyou spoke.

"Brother Bing Yi."

Chen Yan turned to look at Chen Yunyou.

There was still a trace of unwillingness and annoyance in Chen Yunyou's eyes as he sighed and said:

"Let the feud between Bing Yi and the Chen Clan be settled."

He looked at Chen Yan and said quietly:

"How is it?"

"I killed Chen Youyi and Chen Hong," Chen Yan said.

"Bing Yi, I naturally want to kill you, but..." Chen Yunyou closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and said:

"Haven't you already defeated the Malice Rule? Tell me, how is my Chen Clan supposed to target you?!"

A thick chill welled up in Chen Yunyou's heart.

Everything he was doing now was merely to dispel Bing Yi's vigilance.

His trigeminal nerves had all been altered, and his facial expressions were regulated according to vibration frequencies that matched fake emotions.

How could Bing Yi possibly see through his micro-expressions?

"Is that so?"

Chen Yan nodded:

"I can withdraw from the Brocade Palace and not enter again; I know this is a necessary item for your Chen Clan."

Chen Yunyou's expression changed slightly:

"Brother Bing Yi, you..."

He was truly shocked; Bing Yi had actually backed down. He hadn't expected it, and the Chen Master hadn't expected it either.

"I do not wish to be enemies with the Chen Clan; I am merely pursuing the Dao in my heart," Chen Yan said.

"This..." Chen Yunyou was momentarily stunned and contacted the Chen Master directly.

"He is testing us," the Chen Master's voice was low.

Immediately, Chen Yunyou continued to speak:

"My aunt's corpse is inside the Brocade Palace. My father is restless day and night, only wishing for my aunt to return to Chen Prefecture!"

Chen Yan did not speak, and Chen Yunyou continued:

"Brother Bing Yi, if you want to enter, then enter. You have the ability. If you can bring back my aunt's corpse, just return it to my Chen Clan."

He gritted his teeth, feeling somewhat relieved:

"Between you and me, there is no more enmity."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Good."

Chen Yan felt cold inside; Chen Yunyou's answer deepened his suspicions.

It was impossible for the Chen Clan to let him enter the Brocade Palace.

If he entered, the Chen Clan would not let him walk out.

Everything was only a few steps away from Chen Yan.

What kind of secret was the Chen Clan hiding, after all?

What were they trying to do?

The Chen Clan was Chen Yan's main lineage.

It was the existence that Chen Yan once thought would bring him justice.

Up until now, everything had become so ridiculous and unbearable.

The Chen Clan produces monsters.

The true top-tier monsters all come from the Chen Clan.

But he, Chen Yan, had nothing to do with the Chen Clan.

He was the Master of Will.

He was the fire-bearer of the Martial Dao.

The next moment, Chen Yan looked at the pale-faced Lu Jianxia; the other party was clearly unable to hold on any longer.

She had never adapted to the gravity of the steps, so naturally, she would be like this upon arriving suddenly.

"I, Bing Yi..." Chen Yan wrapped his arm around Lu Jianxia's waist, and a long spear appeared in his hand.

Lu Jianxia's body trembled, she bit her red lips, and her face turned even paler.

"Have reconciled with the Chen Clan!"

His voice was resonant, and the next moment, he slashed down with his spear.

Splash!

A river of blood surged, carrying people across.

Above the two hundred and eighty-third step, that fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 floating in mid-air was collected by Chen Yan into his Origin Space.

At the same time.

That 【Skill】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit had completely ripened!

Skill energy roared and surged in the depths of Chen Yan's mind!

"I, Xia Weimin, wish to reverse the world!"

"Blood, what is blood? It is my blood, it is the blood of the heavens!"

"Malice, is it truly impossible to reverse?"

"If I mold the will of my life, can I throw the heavens into chaos?"

"Hahahaha, for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations, for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations, if I cannot be one who reverses the world, I will at least be a mass of flesh and blood crashing against the malice!"

"Future Divine General, can you live another life for me?"

"I will bear the sins of Xia Weimin alone, but my spear should not be defiled!"

One after another, grand, low, sorrowful, and desperate voices resounded.

It flooded the depths of Chen Yan's mind, roaring.

At the two hundred and ninety-ninth step of the Brocade Palace, Chen Yan landed on the steps with Lu Jianxia.

With a wave of his large hand, an independent cultivation room appeared, and Chen Yan wrapped it in a Blood River, entering with Lu Jianxia.

Lu Jianxia shook off Chen Yan's arm and glared fiercely at him.

Chen Yan removed his mask and spoke:

"I am going to have my final battle with the Chen Clan."

Lu Jianxia's expression tightened slightly:

"What are you going to do?"

"The Chen Clan does not want me to enter the Brocade Palace." Chen Yan gave a faint smile:

"If I enter, they will use everything they have to annihilate me."

Lu Jianxia's face changed slightly, and she said in a low voice:

"You are dragging me into this?"

But immediately after, Lu Jianxia's voice paused; if Chen Yan truly wanted to drag her into this, he would not be having a private conversation with her at this moment.

"I need you to help me once." Chen Yan spoke.

Lu Jianxia looked at Chen Yan, remaining silent for a long time.

Half a quarter of an hour later.

Lu Jianxia left the cultivation room, carried by the Blood River, and appeared on the one-hundredth step.

The independent cultivation room vanished.

Everyone looked at the back of Bing Yi.

Chen Yan walked through the air and appeared before the Brocade Palace.

The silhouette of the massive palace was faint in the darkness, like a dormant giant beast.

The great doors were long since rotted and broken, with pitch-black malice churning within.

Chen Yan stepped inside.

Below, Chen Yunyou's expression was calm, but the killing intent in his heart had reached its peak.

Lu Jianxia pressed her red lips together, her pair of silver eyes trembling.

Inside the Brocade Palace.

Chen Yan continued to go deeper; on the ceiling above, the exquisite murals were already blurred, and the malice had formed into tangible, pitch-black slime that dripped incessantly.

Afterward, he stepped onto a mottled, dilapidated metal spiral staircase and arrived at the second floor.

A cold, biting wind struck.

Bypassing several pitch-black, tattered curtains, Chen Yan saw two corpses lying on the floor.

One of the corpses was still wearing a military uniform; it was the adjutant who had left behind the memory formation disk before dying.

As for the other corpse, it had no head and was curled up within the endless malice, clutching something to its chest.

That was the corpse of Chen Yi.

The other party had been the number one genius of Chen Prefecture, but after death, they were no different from any ordinary person.

Even though the physical body was powerful, the corpse had long since been corroded by the malice.

There was no longer any light in the other party's arms; the orb of light that she had been cradling had long since extinguished.

A long spear appeared in Chen Yan's hand, which he pressed beneath Chen Yi and lifted.

Beneath Chen Yi's corpse.

Was the corpse of an infant.

The infant was curled up, its fingers and toes curled, its eye sockets hollow and filled with malice.

Chen Yan pursed his lips.

As expected.

Everything matched up.

Is this the thing the Chen Clan has wanted to destroy for a thousand years?