Chapter 519: A Grand Play

Fortunately, Chen Yunyou had always kept a backup plan.

This tiny figure crawling out from his brain was that backup.

It was a latent embryo, hidden all along within the origin space of Chen Yunyou's blood-Qi.

Chen Yunyou's physical tempering was exceptionally strong, and many had overlooked that he was also a blood-Qi martial artist.

The moment Chen Yunyou died, this embryo began to develop, absorbing the essence and memories of Chen Yunyou's brain.

Strictly speaking, the real Chen Yunyou was already dead; this one was merely a reduced version that had replicated Chen Yunyou's memories.

The reduced version would continue to grow, slowly becoming stronger according to Chen Yunyou's memories, until one day in the future, it completed its revenge.

But right now, what the reduced version faced was the Chen Clan.

His enemy was the Chen Master.

This time, it was all over.

The replica crawled out from Chen Yunyou's forehead, its feet still stained with red and yellow matter, watching silently as its original physical body was modified by instruments.

It was connected by array disks, becoming a robot that the Chen Clan could control.

Then, the instruments continued to execute the work originally input by the Chen Master, beginning to dress Chen Yunyou in Bing Yi's clothes and place Bing Yi's mask upon him.

Afterwards, they began to extract the blood-Qi energy from the already-controlled Bing Yi's body and inject it into Chen Yunyou's body.

The small version of Chen Yunyou stared blankly at this scene, mouth agape:

"So that's how it is!"

A line of blood-tears flowed from the corner of the small Chen Yunyou's eye.

What the Chen Master truly wanted was Bing Yi!

But he could not obtain Bing Yi directly; whether he killed Bing Yi outright or controlled Bing Yi and brought him back to the clan, the other states would not allow it.

Therefore, the Chen Master controlled Bing Yi and imprisoned him within the Jinzhi Palace.

And the other Bing Yi was someone Chen Yunyou needed to impersonate.

After Chen Yunyou was turned into a robot by the instruments, he would pretend to be Bing Yi and walk out of the Jinzhi Palace.

The world would only know that it was Bing Yi who killed Chen Yunyou.

And the first thing Bing Yi would do after leaving the Jinzhi Palace was to flee.

But the Chen Clan could not act directly.

Chen Yunyou could guess the plot that followed.

During Bing Yi's escape, an Ancient Divine Beast might strike, heavily wounding Bing Yi and taking him to the Wanxiang Tower.

The Wanxiang Tower was in the far north of Wanxiang Island, a place where malice was most concentrated, a place no one could reach.

The world would only know that Bing Yi had been taken to the Wanxiang Tower by an Ancient Divine Beast and could not get out.

Even if Lu Jianxia and the others were anxious, they could not enter the Wanxiang Tower.

And they, too, could not enter the Jinzhi Palace to investigate.

As for the real Bing Yi, he would be taken away one day after another member of the Chen Clan entered the Jinzhi Palace.

The Chen Clan already knew how to enter the Jinzhi Palace.

Chen Yunyou had continuously practiced the 【Blood Domain Reversing the World】, creating a massive amount of experimental data for the Chen Clan.

As long as, on some day in the future, another person performed 【Blood Domain Reversing the World】, entered the Jinzhi Palace, and took away the controlled Bing Yi.

The Chen Master's plan would be completely realized!

And all of this was recorded in its entirety by the Five Clans Ranking.

Chen Yunyou was dead, and Bing Yi had become number one on the Five Clans Ranking.

The world would see it.

Even after Bing Yi was taken to the Wanxiang Tower by the Ancient Divine Beast, he still hadn't died, and Bing Yi's name remained on the Five Clans Ranking.

This was because Bing Yi had overcome the rules of malice before.

The world would only be shocked that Bing Yi could still survive inside the Wanxiang Tower.

This was a chain of schemes.

The Chen Master used the Wanxiang Tower and the Jinzhi Palace—two blind spots that no one else could see—to create a conspiracy of his own!

And the only sacrifice was his own son, Chen Yunyou!

The small version of Chen Yunyou understood everything in an instant.

He laughed for a long time.

He watched his own corpse being continuously modified by the instruments into another Bing Yi.

"A very thorough calculation."

He opened his mouth wide:

"My physical body is being made into Bing Yi, and it has even absorbed the blood-Qi belonging to Bing Yi.

Not only that, but it can also perform the Bing Yi version of the Blood Domain Reversing the World based on the spear technique circuits already formed in my body.

The world will only know that I, Chen Yunyou, was killed by Bing Yi."

Chen Yunyou's expression turned vicious.

But the Chen Master had miscalculated one step: he, Chen Yunyou, had a means of preserving his life.

The small version of Chen Yunyou had survived, carrying the memories of the original Chen Yunyou!

Now, as long as the small Chen Yunyou walked out of the Jinzhi Palace and explained everything to the outside world, the Chen Master's conspiracy would collapse without a fight.

Chen Yunyou's expression shifted constantly.

No, it was too risky.

What if the Chen Master decided to go down with him?

In this set of plans, the thing that puzzled him the most.

Was, why did his own father have to kill him?

Clearly, doing these things did not require Chen Yunyou to be killed.

Was it because he, Chen Yunyou, knew something he shouldn't have known?

The small-version Chen Yunyou looked toward the depths of the great hall.

There, three corpses lay.

Immediately after, his gaze shrank.

His own uncle, Chen Yi, was actually a woman, and she was even holding the corpse of an infant in her arms.

What on earth did this represent?

The small-version Chen Yunyou first flew to the instrument to perform a series of operations, deleting all the monitoring content of the instrument, and then turned off the monitoring.

Immediately after, he walked toward the interior step by step, approaching Chen Yi's corpse.

Was it precisely because he, Chen Yunyou, knew these things that the Chen Master chose to kill him to complete a series of conspiracies?

The small-version Chen Yunyou appeared before Chen Yi's corpse, thinking incessantly.

Finally, at a certain moment, he seemed to have captured something.

"Fortunately..."

Hidden in his eyes was immense resentment:

"Fortunately, I destroyed the signal connection between the instrument and him!"

Chen Yunyou gritted his teeth.

The path of will gave him hope, actually causing him to stubbornly endure the void poison and erupt with one last burst of strength.

He destroyed the communication system inside the instrument.

Otherwise, the Chen Master would definitely have known he was still alive, alive in another way.

"The secret that Chen Yi is a woman might be able to become a stepping stone for my rise again," Chen Yunyou thought, the resentment in his eyes growing more and more intense.

Immediately, he looked at Bing Yi, who was still being controlled by the instrument.

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"However, I still won, didn't I?"

Chen Yunyou narrowed his eyes; between him and Bing Yi, there was no winner.

But judging by the ending, at least he, Chen Yunyou, still had hope.

Therefore, he won.

And it was right at this moment.

"The communication system has been interrupted, huh."

An indifferent voice suddenly sounded.

The small-version Chen Yunyou's expression trembled instantly, and an indescribable fear emerged from the bottom of his heart.

Yet he saw, behind him.

That dried corpse, which had originally been lying on the ground, wearing a military uniform and long dead, slowly sat up.

On that dried corpse, there were countless blood pits, and malice was still continuously overflowing from within them.

At this moment, it suddenly sat straight.

Radiant golden light emerged from the dried corpse's body, and the flesh and blood corroded by the malice recovered visibly to the naked eye.

Divine radiance appeared on that shriveled face, and the handsome contours gradually recovered.

Within Chen Yunyou's gaze, which was terrified to the extreme.

Chen Yan twisted his arms; at the fractured forearm, new flesh began to grow, and bone manifested.

Just like that, completely recovered!

"I originally wanted to just cultivate up there, quietly waiting for you all to finish everything." Chen Yan's shriveled lips gradually became plump.

"But I still wanted to see if I had a chance to take action while taking advantage of the situation."

Chen Yan's eyes flowed with two streams of black and white ice-thunder vapor, quietly watching Chen Yunyou:

"But I didn't expect to be able to see such a wonderful scene."

To impersonate the already withered corpse of the deputy general, Chen Yan had specifically opened a glazed bottle on the top floor that imprisoned an ancient divine beast, extracting malice to corrode his own flesh.

He also broke his own arm, letting his internal organs wither.

He had lowered his own vitality to an extremely low level before he could deceive everyone.

The small-version Chen Yunyou watched in a daze, his teeth tightly clenched, his muscles tensed like a lute string that would snap at any moment.

Immediately after.

Terror.

Endless terror emerged in his heart.

As the initial victim, Bing Yi had actually removed himself from the start and watched everything from the sidelines.

Regardless of him or the Chen Master, they had lost from the very beginning.

The next moment.

Despair appeared in the small-version Chen Yunyou's eyes.

With a slap.

Chen Yan grabbed Chen Yunyou's body with one hand; Chen Yunyou, who was only the size of a ping-pong ball, was simply no match for him.

"It's better to keep you."

Chen Yan spoke indifferently:

"In your brain, there are many things I do not know."

Chen Yan did not want to kill Chen Yunyou; he could crush the current Chen Yunyou with a single finger.

But the knowledge in the other party's mind was a rich resource.

Chen Yunyou gritted his teeth:

"Let's cooperate!"

"Cooperate?"

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows slightly:

"Do you think you are worthy?"

Chen Yan walked up to that tall instrument and spoke:

"How do I enter the control room without being discovered?"

Chen Yunyou spoke:

"Input the secret key."

"Tell me."

Chen Yunyou spoke:

"687..."

With a *snap*.

Chen Yan directly crushed Chen Yunyou's arm.

"Have you forgotten what I do?"

Chen Yunyou's pupils shrank, and he began to circulate his internal strength to control his trigeminal nerve.

"Stop agitating your Chen Clan's trash secret techniques; your facial control method is stupid," Chen Yan spoke again.

Chen Yunyou was completely stunned for a moment.

He was truly in despair.

He had originally intended to tell Bing Yi the wrong secret key, letting Bing Yi be countered by this instrument.

After all, there were still some control array disks inside this instrument.

But he had not expected that Bing Yi had seen through his hostility from the very beginning.

Soon, according to what Chen Yunyou said, Chen Yan turned off the control parameters.

All control array disks were completely disabled.

*Sss! *

Pitch-black wild lightning flowed out from the controlled corpse, continuously emitting black smoke.

The Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder flowed out from the corpse, landing on the floor like a dog that had been electrocuted, sticking out its thunderous tongue.

Clearly, Chen Yunyou's operation just now had caused the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder extreme pain.

"Thank you for your hard work," Chen Yan said quietly, handing over Chen Yunyou:

"Enter his body."

Chen Yunyou's expression changed drastically in an instant:

"The Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder is a Divine Seed, what are you doing?"

Chen Yan did not speak, only watching as the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder continuously seeped into the small version of Chen Yunyou's body.

"From now on, you will control his body," Chen Yan said.

*Zzzzt! *

Lightning overflowed from the small version of Chen Yunyou's body.

The Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder had profited.

Having been kept in the Origin Space by Chen Yan all this time, it had also been lonely.

Although Chen Yan's Origin Space was very large, there were no other living beings.

"Bing Yi!!!"

Chen Yunyou roared, struggling with the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder for control of the body.

With a *crack*.

Pitch-black electric light flickered, and Chen Yunyou instantly fell to the ground, shocked into a sour, numb state.

Chen Yan and the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder left.

The instrument began to continue working.

Chen Yan needed to let the Chen Master's scheme be realized.

This was also good for him.

Time passed slowly.

The fake Bing Yi made from Chen Yunyou's corpse began to be perfected.

Chen Yan quietly sensed the production process of this robot.

It was indeed bloody.

The human body's tissues were all being deconstructed and reorganized.

Every piece of flesh and blood was controlled by array disks and electronic chips, until at a certain moment, this robot produced a heartbeat.

It slowly stood up.

"He has the most basic thinking and can carry out his own tasks according to pre-set programs.

Moreover, there are array disks inside his body that store the Qi and blood from within that fake Bing Yi, as well as already inscribed martial arts array disks.

He can simulate Bing Yi's moves, though there will be slight differences."

Chen Yunyou gritted his teeth and spoke:

"The key is that I have the already-practiced Blood Domain World-Reversing Spear Technique circuit within my body; combined with your Qi and blood, we can unleash a Blood Domain World-Reversing Spear Technique that has not yet reached the micro-level."

Chen Yan listened quietly.

From one perspective, the plan of the Chen Master had a similar effect to Chen Yan's plan.

As expected, they both share the surname Chen.

Very quickly.

The impostor Bing Yi walked out of the Brocade Palace and appeared in the outside world.

"Bing Yi, you killed Chen Yunyou!"

Chi Yuexi spoke with a trembling voice; she had witnessed the birth of the new number one of the Five Clans.

"Bing Yi!"

Below the steps, the arriving Chen clansmen roared:

"You killed Chen Yunyou; I, Chen Prefecture, will not share the same sky as you!"

Lu Jianxia gazed at Chen Yan at the very top of the steps.

At this moment, her heart was conflicted to the extreme.

Sure enough, a battle had broken out between Chen Yan and Chen Prefecture.

In the end, Chen Yan won.

In fact, Chen Yan had told her before that when the explosive formation disk on the second-floor windowsill of the Brocade Palace rang five times, it meant she was safe.

If it rang fewer than five times, Lu Jianxia would need to notify Chi Xun immediately.

Earlier, the explosive formation disk on the second-floor windowsill had indeed rung five times.

But Chen Yan was now in even greater danger.

"You enter the Brocade Palace; for a while, no one from the Chen Clan can get in, Great..."

Lu Jianxia sent a voice transmission, and at this moment, she closed her eyes.

She had helped Chen Yan time and time again; the sunk cost was too great.

But now, she felt as if she had walked into a quagmire from which she could not escape.

"I want to escape."

A voice transmission from Bing Yi arrived from the high steps.

Lu Jianxia's gaze instantly froze, filled with disbelief.

Chen Yan was fundamentally incapable of voice transmission.

Then who was this sending her a voice transmission?

It was also at this moment.

Boom!

Bing Yi, who was above the high steps, flew out instantly.

The moment he flew out of the range covered by the Brocade Palace steps, the Chen Clan robots that had been waiting below all attacked at once.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Bing Yi thrust his spear, ice-lightning overflowed, and spear flowers slashed down.

One after another, the Chen Clan robots were forced back.

Some Chen Clan martial artists were even blasted into fragments.

Chi Yuexi and the other prodigies watched; where was Bing Yi trying to escape to?

But Lu Jianxia watched with narrowed eyes, then immediately locked her gaze onto the Brocade Palace above.

Was the real Chen Yan still inside the Brocade Palace?

At the same time.

Inside the Brocade Palace.

Chen Yan began to tinker with this instrument.

Now that this instrument had lost its connection with the Chen Master, Chen Yan no longer needed to worry about anything.

Very quickly, Chen Yan retrieved five unused control formation disks from this instrument.

These formation disks were all treasures that could control eighth-rank entities.

The Chen Master had gone to great lengths to deal with him.

Yet all of this was as if it had been gifted directly to Chen Yan.

In this match against the Chen Master, Chen Yan had won.