Chapter 516: The Final Battle, Calculating Against Each Other!

PS: My brain stalled yesterday.

What Chen Yunyou said to Chen Yan should have been about the uncle's corpse.

The fact that Chen Yi is female is something the outside world should not know.

Including Chen Yunyou.

I was an idiot.

When writing the Ten Thousand Appearances Island arc, I had always been writing from the perspective that Chen Yi was a woman, so when I wrote that sentence yesterday, I didn't realize it either; I only realized it today.

Apologies.

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On the steps of the Brocade Palace.

Chen Yunyou looked toward the massive Brocade Palace and transmitted his voice:

"Father, Bing Yi still hasn't come out. What exactly is inside the Brocade Palace?"

"You only need to bring back your uncle's corpse. As for Bing Yi, she has likely already obtained the Chen Clan's Secret Blood within your uncle's body; you must seize it back!"

Chen Yunyou nodded:

"Since Bing Yi hasn't come out, I fear she is already studying that Secret Blood."

He narrowed his eyes, and murderous intent surfaced in his heart.

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Looking at the infant's corpse in Chen Yi's arms, Chen Yan waved one hand, and the long spear condensed from ice and lightning in his hand shattered; the black and white crystals slowly dissipated into the void.

Chen Yan squatted down and carefully examined Chen Yi, his inner conjecture confirmed once again.

Chen Yan had seen the adjutant's memories; before dying, the other party believed that it was Chen Yi who had secretly harmed Xia Weimin, causing the tragedy on Ten Thousand Appearances Island.

Xia Weimin had also once said that he personally saw the son of the Chen Lord harm Chi Canglan of Chi Province, and then Xia Weimin seized the opportunity to snatch a fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Afterward, Xia Weimin discovered he was being affected by the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, dreaming many times that he had slaughtered Ten Thousand Appearances Island.

When Xia Weimin invited Chen Yi to enter Ten Thousand Appearances Island, Chen Yi was in seclusion on a nearby island.

When Xia Weimin invited Chen Yi to enter Ten Thousand Appearances Island.

The adjutant was also worried: since Chen Yi wanted to harm Xia Weimin, why would Xia Weimin still invite Chen Yi?

Especially since Xia Weimin had long since discovered the problem with the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Why invite him still?

Was Xia Weimin truly foolish to such a degree?

The reality was laid out before his eyes.

The number one prodigy of the Chen Clan from a thousand years ago, Chen Yi.

Was a woman.

Everything Chen Yi displayed to the outside world was male, and the world also knew the other party as a peerlessly handsome man.

But the other party was, in reality, a woman.

And the Xia Clan Divine General Xia Weimin and the Chen Province number one prodigy Chen Yi were actually a pair of secret Daoist partners.

The day Ten Thousand Appearances Island was slaughtered happened to be the day Xia Weimin's child was born.

Chen Yi was invited by Xia Weimin to enter Ten Thousand Appearances Island because the child of Chen Yi and Xia Weimin was about to be born.

In the adjutant's memories.

He only saw Chen Yi controlling Xia Weimin.

He thought it was Chen Yi who completely detonated some hidden danger within Xia Weimin, causing Xia Weimin to go completely insane.

But in reality, Xia Weimin was already insane at that time, and Chen Yi, having just given birth, had weak strength and was merely using all of her power to control Xia Weimin, not letting him explode completely.

The ball of light the other party used everything to protect was not some great opportunity, nor was it evidence of the Chen Clan's evil deeds.

It was the child of herself and Xia Weimin.

And Xia Weimin watched with his own eyes as he killed his own Daoist partner, even crudely smashing her head to pieces.

When Xia Weimin prepared to lay hands on his own child, that almost roaring will caused him to stop his actions.

Therefore, the one who harmed Xia Weimin was never Chen Yi.

In another segment of the adjutant's memories.

Xia Weimin said with his own mouth that he saw the son of the Chen Lord harm Chi Canglan.

But the son of the Chen Lord was not only Chen Yi.

There was also Chen Yi's younger brother, the current Lord of Chen Province, Chen Cheng.

Chen Yi's radiance was too dazzling, blocking Chen Cheng.

The reason the adjutant subconsciously thought Xia Weimin was referring to Chen Yi.

Was because Chen Cheng and Chi Canglan were intimate, inseparable friends.

This point, Chen Yan had seen in Xia Weimin's memories.

A thousand years ago, Xia Weimin burst onto the scene and defeated Chen Yi.

He overshadowed the limelight of all the prodigies.

And on that arena, a few words from Xia Weimin made Chen Yi mistakenly believe that Xia Weimin had seen through her female identity.

As for what happened after, Chen Yan did not know.

But just like that, the two sides who should have been enemies became Daoist partners and secretly produced a child.

At this moment.

The extreme north of the Ten Thousand Appearances Tower, the place where malice was most concentrated.

This was the source of all deathly silence, this was the gathering place of endless malice, the assembly point of all sin.

Inside the tower, one could not see one's own fingers; it was deathly silent, as if time itself had frozen.

Thick chains hung down from the endless, dark heights, like dormant black giant pythons, colliding with one another and piercing into the figure at the very bottom that was exuding malice.

He slowly raised his head, and pitch-black viscous fluid flowed from his withered, dead eyes.

"He saw it."

His voice was low, carrying endless fury and loneliness.

"One thousand years, it has been one thousand years!"

His voice grew increasingly low.

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Chen Yan stood quietly, attempting to open the communication formation disk.

On the other side, Lu Jianxia listened quietly without speaking.

Chen Yan told Lu Jianxia what he had discovered.

On the steps, Lu Jianxia's figure trembled slightly.

She had sensed those two memory formation disks and knew the memories contained within them.

She just had not expected it to be like this.

"What do you intend to do?" Lu Jianxia sent a voice transmission.

But she did not wait for Chen Yan's voice transmission; the other side of the communication formation disk was deathly silent.

Lu Jianxia's chest rose and fell slightly, every inhalation carrying an imperceptible tremor.

Bing Yi...

Chen Yan had removed her from this matter.

Currently, everything was Chen Yan's speculation, but Chen Yan also had evidence; once released, as long as it was connected, everyone would know the truth within.

And this truth would incite the absolute fury of Great Xia and also cause turmoil in Chen Province.

The current Chen Lord, Chen Cheng, in order to plot for the position of Chen Lord, harmed his own elder brother—no, his elder sister, Chen Yi.

And the means the other party used to harm Chen Yi were even more cruel and boundless.

The other party knew that his elder sister had conceived an heir for Xia Weimin, and also knew that Chen Yi had been in seclusion near Myriad Forms Island.

It was so that he could enter Myriad Forms Island on the day of the birth and have Xia Weimin act as a protector.

For this, Chen Cheng used fragments of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 to control Xia Weimin's consciousness, and on the day his own sister gave birth, he made Xia Weimin personally kill his own sister and slaughter Myriad Forms Island.

The death of one person, covered up by the deaths of ten million!

The Myriad Forms Island tragedy erupted, the world cursed Xia Weimin, weeping for those ten million who died, and heaven and earth grieved.

Yet the truth of Chen Yi's death was firmly covered up.

Chen Province was furious, and the world was even more furious.

And the wall that had stood before Chen Cheng was gone.

Everything was just for his own power and desire.

Once the truth erupted, the current Chen Lord would be an illegitimate ruler, and the interior of the Chen Clan would fall into panic.

The enraged Xia Clan might even directly send troops to attack.

The overall situation of the world would be completely changed.

The strongest of the five clans, the Chen Clan, would enter a great war ahead of time, while Ji Province would be able to catch its breath, and the other provinces could act according to the situation.

Lu Jianxia hung her head, fine beads of sweat seeping out on her forehead and slowly sliding down her temples.

This was a heaven-shaking matter!

The death of ten million people, even separated by a thousand years, remained a massive tragedy that was difficult to accept.

And this secret was known only to her and Chen Yan.

All the evidence was with Chen Yan.

The Chen Clan and Bing Yi, who appeared to have reconciled, had absolutely no room for easing tensions.

"Jianxia." Chen Yan's voice sounded once again.

Lu Jianxia's gaze became unfocused.

"I, Chen Yan, have not failed the world, only you.

If you treated me like the Chen Clan does, or like the others do, I would not feel any guilt."

Inside the Brocade Palace, Chen Yan was silent for a long time.

The current Chen Lord was actually a lion about to fall into madness; if Lu Jianxia participated, the other party would also exhaust every means to exterminate Lu Jianxia.

"If I die, swallow this matter into your stomach alone; do not tell anyone."

Lu Jianxia wanted to say something, but her throat felt as if it were blocked, and her slender fingers under her lotus-leaf sleeves clenched until they turned white.

"You come out and reconcile with the Chen Clan." A hint of complexity flashed in her eyes as she sent a voice transmission:

"Then leave Myriad Forms Island and get back to your Great Xia!"

But then she thought, how could the Chen Lord let someone who knew such a secret live?

Perhaps...

Perhaps the Chen Lord also could not imagine that the information Chen Yan grasped had reached such a degree.

Perhaps if Bing Yi came out directly and said everything she knew, and Chi Xun and the others all knew, how could the Chen Clan still operate?

But...

Chen Qi was right outside Myriad Forms Island; the other party would instantly cut off communication between the clans.

Chen Qi certainly would not kill Chi Xun and the others, but would also set a contract, threatening that the news could not be leaked; by then, Chen Yan would have even less of a way out.

Perhaps...

Perhaps...

Perhaps the Xia Clan still has some means to protect him?

Lu Jianxia pursed her red lips, a trace of anger and shame flashing in her silver eyes.

He is a Divine General of the Great Xia; what does that have to do with me?

Why would he say these things to me?

"What I intend to eradicate is the evil of heaven and earth; if I cannot even resolve these, what else could I possibly accomplish?"

Chen Yan's voice rang out, and Lu Jianxia's heart pounded.

"You are just constantly courting death; one day, you will die." Lu Jianxia gritted her silver teeth.

Silence.

A long silence.

"Thank you, Lu Jianxia."

Chen Yan cut the communication.

Lu Jianxia's body stiffened, and she fell into a long silence.

Inside the Brocade Palace.

Sensing the ends of the various meridians, his attention remained fixed on Chen Yunyou's face.

He saw a member of the Chen Clan toss a spatial ring to Chen Yunyou.

And Chen Yunyou naturally lied, claiming that what was inside the spatial ring was Chen Clan data.

Inside this array disk were high-level array disks and some precision instruments.

However, fortunately, the Chen Clan's robots were essentially dismembered human bodies that were still alive.

Therefore, they could not be stored inside a spatial ring.

Ten Thousand Phases Island had also always classified the Chen Clan's robots as living beings.

For these robots to enter the Brocade Palace, they also needed to ascend the steps.

The Chen Clan did not have those robots ascend the steps; instead, they planted them within the Inner City, having made full preparations.

Though it seemed fraught with crisis, in reality, Chen Yan was not in any great danger.

The most critical point was that even without that one instance of immortality, Xia Hanzhou and the others were still waiting at the border of Iron Province.

This was what Chen Yan had seen from the ends of Xia Qi's meridians.

Xia Hanzhou, the Director of the Directorate of Celestials, the Grand Minister of Rites, and the Mountain-Suppressing Divine General.

This lineup was terrifying, and the Grand Minister of Rites had also prepared a god-level grand array, supplemented by the divine artifact, the Star Ruler.

It could be said that for Chen Qi's side on Ten Thousand Phases Island, there was simply no way to play.

The most lethal factor was still Chi Xun.

If this person were to erupt openly, they might directly backstab Chen Qi.

This was Chen Yan's advantage.

Chen Yan was currently worried that Xia Hanzhou's side would lose their patience and erupt directly.

The reason the other side was waiting now was entirely because Chen Yan himself appeared to be in danger here, yet was faring better and better.

Therefore, one of the things Chen Yan had entrusted to Lu Jianxia was this matter.

Lu Jianxia was no fool; upon learning that Ice Intent was Chen Yan, and judging by Chi Xun's previous attitude, she had long since guessed a few things.

As for the second point.

That was regarding Chen Yan's own advantages.

Chen Yan took out a corpse; this was a corpse Lu Jianxia had given to Chen Yan in the cultivation room.

Lu Jianxia did not know the reason, but this corpse was enough to change the entire course of the battle.

How to avoid being plotted against by the Chen Clan?

That was to let the Ice Intent in the public eye be plotted against by the Chen Clan just like that!

This was the first step of the logic.

It was also Chen Yan's greatest advantage.

Chen Yan could not only control his own life and death, but he also possessed a Divine Seed with an independent personality.

Not only that, Chen Yan could also create Dark Souls that possessed the exact same means as him for a short period.

Most crucially, Chen Yan's physical body and Will Divine Body could be separated.

A corpse, plus control over life and death, plus a Dark Soul, plus Ten Thousand Prisons Nether Thunder, equaled another Ice Intent.

In this combination, it was not even certain whether the Will Divine Body needed to be separated from the physical body.

Chen Yan executed 【Thousand Shadow Kill of the Calamity Corpse】; as pitch-black mist surged, another Dark Soul suddenly emerged.

A Dark Soul was, in essence, a Qi-blood clone, and the Qi-blood itself could infiltrate the bodies of others.

Under Chen Yan's control, this dark shadow merged into the corpse.

Immediately following, this male corpse slowly opened its eyes and stood up.

"It works."

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Chen Yan's mouth.

This was just his attempt, and it was exactly as he had envisioned.

With the addition of a mask and clothes, within the fifteen minutes before the Dark Soul dissipated, this corpse was another Ice Intent.

But it could only be maintained for fifteen minutes; this was the fatal flaw of the Dark Soul.

But what no one knew was that there had always been another living being inside Chen Yan's body.

Chen Yan waved one hand, and a mass of pitch-black thunder appeared in his palm.

The Myriad Prison Nether Thunder spat out a tongue of lightning, stroking Chen Yan's body.

This was the Divine Seed showing goodwill toward Chen Yan.

After sensing that Chen Yan had died and been resurrected, this Divine Seed, which had originally remained arrogant, was becoming increasingly anthropomorphic.

At the very beginning, it had viewed Chen Yan as a human brat it could kill in an instant if it caught the chance.

After being imprisoned and having its energy drained by Chen Yan for so long, Chen Yan became an enemy that had to be killed.

Until later, when Chen Yan became a powerful backer.

And now, Chen Yan was its father, despite their different bloodlines and species.

In terms of worldly wisdom, Chen Yan was not even as good as the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.

"Get inside," Chen Yan said.

The Myriad Prison Nether Thunder spat out a tongue of lightning, flowed into that corpse, and gradually began to take control of it.

Chen Yan reached out with one hand, pouring rolling Yin-Stagnation and Xun-Thunder blood energy into the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder, telling it to protect it well.

At the same time, Chen Yan exuded some Immortal Will, infusing it into the corpse's body.

At this moment, the Dark Soul began to compete with the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder for control of this physical body.

"The Dark Soul will be in control for fifteen minutes; after fifteen minutes, it will be you," Chen Yan said.

This was his plan.

Before the Dark Soul disappeared, this corpse could display all the blood-energy-path strength belonging to Bing Yi.

At this time, this corpse was Bing Yi.

After fifteen minutes, when the Dark Soul disappeared, the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder could likewise control this corpse, and could also display Yin-Stagnation and Xun-Thunder.

At this time, no one would still suspect this corpse.

But one point to note was that this corpse had to be injured within fifteen minutes.

In this way, after fifteen minutes, it would be reasonable for this corpse to be unable to display spear techniques and spear intent.

In this series of operations.

The only thing Chen Yan worried about was the compatibility of the Dark Soul with the other corpses.

If the Dark Soul could not enter the other corpses.

Chen Yan had two more plans; the first was to let his own physical body detach from his will and divine soul, with the physical body bearing all of this while preserving his will.

However, that was too desperate.

It was the least advisable.

The third method was much better, but also more cruel.

Chen Yan's physical body was absolutely compatible with the Dark Soul's blood energy.

Chen Yan would sever his own arms and legs, reshape them through Immortal Will, and the severed arms and legs would be connected by the dark shadow to form another Bing Yi.

At the same time, when he was about to be controlled by the Chen Clan, he would use a Detonation Array Disk to self-destruct.

Chen Yan would also enter physical death once again.

With the physical body completely shattered, the Chen Clan would never be able to find the corpse that was impersonating Bing Yi.

This was Chen Yan's preparation.

The Chen Clan was ruthless toward Bing Yi, but Chen Yan was even more ruthless toward himself.

He had walked this path step by step, constantly breaking through his limits and constantly squeezing his own will.

Not everyone could become a Master of Will.

Up until now, the means Chen Yan had mastered were already numerous.