Chapter 520: The Great Xia Must Perish

In the pitch-black and deep great hall, Chen Yan stood straight in a black robe.

After his Will Dao truly entered the peak of the Establishment Realm, the aura on Chen Yan's body changed quietly.

Now, just by standing there, he brought a sense of supreme nobility to others, as if he were standing at the end of the world, looking down upon everything.

His appearance had not changed back to his true face.

When Chen Yan entered Lu Province, he had learned the art of disguise from Li Honglian, who was lurking beside Yu Yi.

His appearance had always been that of Yu Yi.

Within the Malice Rules, after Lu Jianxia tore off Chen Yan's mask, she directly glimpsed Chen Yan's true face.

A low-level art of disguise, not to mention the Eighth Rank, could be distinguished at a glance even by those in the Creation Realm, seeing through the true face.

That was why Lu Jianxia was so angry.

Naturally, there are high-level arts of disguise in the world, and it is not as if there are no arts of disguise that can shield against Eighth Rank perception.

Lu Jianxia had not expected at all that Chen Yan had not even prepared an art of disguise.

The reason why Chen Qi and the others did not care about the mask on Bing Yi's face was also because of this.

They all thought that even if the mask were removed, it would be useless.

Who doesn't have a high-level art of disguise?

Chen Yan truly did not.

Chen Yunyou was controlled by the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder, wearing a shrunken version of his clothes, floating behind Chen Yan with an ugly expression.

The aura on Bing Yi's body made him unable to see through it, and even made him fearful.

If it were not for the fact that his strength had plummeted and he could not see through Chen Yan's disguise, Chen Yunyou would have been even more terrified.

"My father... the Chen Lord is not easy to deal with. Before long, the people of the Chen Clan will surround the Brocade Palace. You cannot escape."

Chen Yunyou gritted his teeth and spoke.

Crack!

Electric light flickered on his body; the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder directly gave Chen Yunyou a session of electric shock therapy.

Chen Yan's expression was calm.

The Chen Lord held a high position and wielded great power, with a ruthless mind.

The path the other party took toward the pinnacle of the world was stained with blood.

But there was one thing about what the Chen Lord did this time that Chen Yan could not figure out.

That was why the other party was determined to kill Chen Yunyou, and even cruelly turn his own son into a robot?

This was clearly abnormal.

Chen Yunyou was no saint; it was impossible for him, after knowing his father's sins, to stand before the people of the world and criticize his father.

Chen Yan pursed his thin lips, his thoughts breaking through lines, and the air around him seemed to solidify along with his train of thought.

In the tragedy of Ten Thousand Phases Island, there must have been something Chen Yan had overlooked.

What was it?

What made the Chen Lord kill his own son directly, even at the cost of hiding the fact that Chen Yi was a girl?

"Chen Yunyou, after the ruler of the Great Xia passes away, they become a Province Bright to suppress the malice of each province. Is it the same situation for the Five Clans?"

Chen Yan asked.

Behind him, Chen Yunyou was scorched black by electricity all over, on the verge of vomiting blood.

The Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder that controlled his physical body was like a loyal dog.

Because he had just used a slightly cold tone toward Chen Yan, the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder had to give him a round of electric roasting.

You are a God Seed.

Do you not want the face of a God Seed anymore?

"The Five Clans are in the same situation. After the lords of each province die, they also need to transform into a Province Bright to suppress the malice in every corner of each province."

"If the lords of each province do not die, do they still need to become a Province Bright?" Chen Yan asked.

"They must go," Chen Yunyou nodded and said:

"The lords of each province must be replaced every thousand years, otherwise the malice within each province will erupt on some future day.

Every generation of Chen Lords in my Chen Province has volunteered to serve as a Province Bright after their thousand-year term was up."

Chen Yan's expression changed slightly, and he continued to speak:

"Why is there nothing like the Imperial Calamity inside the bodies of the lords of each province?"

"Heh," Chen Yunyou sneered:

"The Imperial Calamity is the privilege of the Great Xia."

"How so?" Chen Yan became interested.

Chen Yunyou narrowed his eyes and said:

"You don't even know this?"

Crack!

"Ahhh!!!" Chen Yunyou roared as he was electrocuted, gritting his teeth as he spoke:

"When the Great Xia was founded, the Xia Lord and the Five Clans bathed together in the blood of the Ancient Gods!

After the Mother God left, only two Ancient Gods remained in heaven and earth.

The White Calamity Ancient God wanted to devour the Fanni Ancient God.

The human race saw the opportunity, helped the Fanni Ancient God defeat the White Calamity Ancient God, and at the same time slaughtered the Fanni Ancient God, who was on the verge of perishing.

Back then, the strength of the White Calamity Ancient God was greater than that of the Fanni Ancient God.

The Xia Clan was powerful and, with the strength of one clan, suppressed the corpse of the White Calamity Ancient God; my Five Clans gathered the strength of the five clans to divide the corpse of the Fanni Ancient God into five parts, each suppressing one."

"The Five Clans and Great Xia bear fundamentally different burdens!"

Chen Yunyou said coldly:

"No matter how powerful Great Xia is, it is only the Xia Clan that suppresses the Ancient God; after ten thousand years of suppression, the Xia Clan is gradually unable to hold on.

Starting three thousand years ago, the Imperial Calamity began to manifest within the bodies of those in the Xia Clan who held the throne, and with each generation inherited, the Imperial Calamity has become increasingly terrifying.

The Xia Clan must be destroyed!"

Chen Yan pondered.

So that was it.

The Xia Clan was bearing too much.

"Since that is the case, why are the Five Clans restless toward Great Xia, wanting to seize power?" Chen Yan asked again.

A trace of disdain appeared on Chen Yunyou's face:

"You need to understand a logical issue."

Chen Yunyou continued:

"Malice has always existed, but under another possibility, malice will surge."

"War," Chen Yan said.

"Yes!" Chen Yunyou sat cross-legged on the ground:

"As long as people die, it will cause the corpse of the Ancient God to produce malice; war only causes the malice to surge suddenly.

The Five Clans seizing power is not to destroy the Xia Clan; once the Xia Clan perishes, who else could suppress the White Calamity Ancient God?"

Chen Yan's expression tightened slightly, looking at Chen Yunyou, he said:

"You want to slowly control the Great Xia population, manipulate the Xia Clan's reproduction, and continue to suppress the White Calamity Ancient God?"

"Yes." Chen Yunyou's brow furrowed even deeper:

"How do you not even know these things?"

He was stunned; sometimes Bing Yi was so stupid it made him feel incredibly surprised.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and said:

"What means do you use to control the Great Xia population?"

Chen Yunyou spoke:

"Short-term war does indeed cause malice to surge, but it is far better than a chronic death.

If the Five Clans could control Great Xia, they would implement the Great Xia Population Castration Plan.

This generation of Great Xia living beings would be thoroughly castrated, and within seventy years, the Great Xia population would be more than ninety-nine percent extinct; by then, Great Xia would be a wasteland, no more humans would be born, and no more humans would die to produce malice.

And the descendants of the Xia Clan would be carefully cultivated by the Five Clans to continue suppressing the White Calamity Ancient God."

Chen Yan was silent.

No wonder the Five Clans would stand on the opposite side of Great Xia from the very beginning.

No wonder Lu Jianxia had no intention of standing with Great Xia through thick and thin.

The people of the world were all worried about the awakening of the White Calamity Ancient God.

Worried about which day the Xia Clan would suddenly explode, bringing about the end of the world.

In the eyes of the vast majority of people.

What the Five Clans were doing was, on the contrary, correct.

And Great Xia was struggling to hold on, until one day it brought disaster to the entire world.

The White Calamity Ancient God.

An existence that felt invincible just by hearing the name.

The entire Great Xia was built upon the corpse of the other party; just how terrifying must the White Calamity Ancient God be?

Therefore, the Five Clans' population reduction plan was, from the start, thinking of the future of humanity.

Sacrificing Great Xia to fulfill the Five Clans.

So, the Xia Clan, having carried the burden for so long, deserved to be captured and kept by the Five Clans?

So, the living beings of the eighteen provinces of Great Xia deserved to be castrated, unable to pursue the Martial Dao, looking at a pitch-black future, and dying in despair?

So, he, Chen Yan, becoming a God General and being honored by Great Xia, was blocking the future of humanity?

So, what Xue Qi was waiting for and what Lu Xunyang was pursuing was a ridiculous future?

"A group of selfish fools who never dare to face the real problem.

Instead, you choose to harm others?

To slaughter millions for the sake of one person's power—is this also considering the future of the human race?"

Chen Yan spoke indifferently, the chill blooming in his eyes growing more intense.

"Stupid!"

Chen Yunyou roared:

"If not for your insistence on executing Chen Youyi, how would my Chen Clan be at odds with you?

No matter how powerful your ambition is, can it defeat an Ancient God?"

Chen Yunyou was furious.

However, immediately after.

Chen Yunyou's expression changed slightly; these words from Bing Yi could not possibly be spoken by someone from the Five Clans.

Also, what did "slaughtering millions for the sake of one person's power" mean?

Crack! Pitch-black wild lightning overflowed from within Chen Yunyou's body, striking Chen Yunyou's own body.

"Ahhh!!!" Chen Yunyou wailed.

"Is there a Continent Bright on Myriad Aspect Island?" Chen Yan asked.

"There is." Chen Yunyou spoke with difficulty, enduring intense pain.

"Where?"

"Myriad Aspect Tower!"

"Xia Weimin?" Chen Yan's voice grew increasingly cold.

"Yes." Chen Yunyou wailed:

"He slaughtered Myriad Aspect Island, he created the tragic state of Myriad Aspect Island; if he doesn't serve as Continent Bright, who will?"

Chen Yan's expression calmed down, he took a deep breath, and walked toward the upper levels.

He continued to ask:

"If we want to leave, what should we do?"

Chen Yunyou began to think; regardless of anything else, he and Bing Yi were now on the same side.

"Myriad Aspect Tower was originally the cultivation holy land of Myriad Aspect Island, and it contains a teleportation array, but it has long been corroded by malice; I can attempt to repair it, but I cannot guarantee it can be fixed."

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded.

At the same time.

Through the images on the Martial Dao meridian, Chen Yan saw.

Outside the Brocade Palace, that Bing Yi created by the Chen Clan, in the process of fleeing, suddenly encountered an Ancient God Beast.

That Ancient God Beast instantly erupted with countless pitch-black tentacles, severely wounding Bing Yi, binding the other, and dragging them toward the northernmost point of Myriad Aspect Island.

And that place was precisely Myriad Aspect Tower.

All of the Chen Master's plans had succeeded.

The one taking Bing Yi away was the Ancient God Beast, it was the malice.

Even if the other clans asked, the Chen Master would push all the reasons onto the Ancient God Beast.

Myriad Aspect Island was an isolated island that even the Chen Clan could not control.

Bing Yi had defeated the rules of malice, but had also angered the Ancient God Beast of Myriad Aspect Island.

The Chen Master was also a victim.

His son had been killed by Bing Yi, yet he could not personally execute Bing Yi.

This was the Chen Master's plan.

And in some future day, a member of the Chen Clan who had learned the 【Blood Domain Reversing World】 would walk into the Brocade Palace to take away the Bing Yi still being suppressed within.

The Chen Master's calculations were too loud.

However, the other party's plan was destined to fail; the real Bing Yi had already escaped from the very beginning.

Chen Yan walked to the fifth floor, with Myriad Prison Nether Thunder controlling Chen Yunyou so he would not enter.

Chen Yan looked into the room at the eighty blood beasts baring fangs and brandishing claws.

These blood beasts contained malice and blood energy that were concentrated to the extreme.

These were the blood pills obtained by Xia Weimin refining the majority of the Ancient God Beasts on the entire Myriad Aspect Island.

Such vast blood energy fortune was something even the Xia Clan could not produce at once.

Chen Yan took out the Ember Memory Spear and released one blood beast from the glazed bottle suppressing it.

Roar!

The blood beast instantly turned into a tide of blood, rushing wildly toward Chen Yan; the blood tide bared its fangs, and in the next instant, it was about to pierce into Chen Yan's body.

With a 'slap' sound.

Chen Yan grabbed out with one hand, his Immortal Will instantly erupting, and the golden-red light illuminated the entire room.

Chen Yan had been able to devour seventh-rank malice crystals when he first became a God General.

These blood beasts had not yet grown into Ancient God Beasts, so how could they resist the corrosion of the Immortal Will?

Screech!!!

The blood beast began to shriek, pitch-black smoke rising from its body, and the other blood beasts imprisoned in the glazed bottles also began to scream.

They had all condensed a sliver of consciousness and were terrified at this moment.

Having lingered on for a thousand years, only to be wiped out the moment they got out.

Even an Ancient God Beast would feel fear.

Chen Yan continuously devoured and extinguished the malice, injecting the endless stream of blood energy into his own Origin Space.

At the same time, his physical body also began to absorb it.

Chen Yan looked at the data panel of the Saint-Breaking Tree.

【Saint-Breaking Tree (Level Ten): 1/1000

Blood: 21/100

Skill: 2/100

Break: 3/100

Store: 2/100】

After the growth difficulty of all Saint-Breaking Fruits increased by one thousand times, the growth speed of all Saint-Breaking Fruits became extremely slow.

In the previous few days, Chen Yan had absorbed the blood energy rewarded for defeating Ji Chuxi and the others.

The energy equivalent to two Sun-Level Grade B blood treasure medicines was entirely absorbed by Chen Yan, yet it only allowed the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit to grow to twenty-one percent.

In the past, this would have been two hundred 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits, but now the progress of the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit had only reached twenty-one percent.

At the same time, the number of Chen Yan's True Essence Dharma Images had reached nine hundred and three.

At this moment, Chen Yan's brain was operating on multiple tracks.

On one hand, he devoured the malice; on the other, he drew the blood-Qi energy within the Blood Pill into his own origin space, while simultaneously circulating the 【Illusionary Ripple Abyss Domain】 to absorb blood-Qi energy.

The Blood Beast roared, continuously transforming into rolling tides of blood, which Chen Yan suppressed, his Immortal Will devouring them like a furnace.

The pitch-black viscous liquid steamed and dissipated, and the surging blood-Qi was absorbed by Chen Yan.

On the Saint-Breaking Tree panel, the progress of the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit ticked slowly: 21%→22%.

Time was tight; Chen Yan needed to leave the Brocade Palace and head to the Myriad Image Tower.

That day, the Ancient Sovereigns arrived in unison and saved Chen Yan.

Both Xia Weimin's father and younger sister had entrusted Chen Yan with finding Xia Weimin.

Furthermore, in another sense, Xia Weimin was also Chen Yan's guide.

No matter what, Chen Yan had to find Xia Weimin.

On the other hand.

With Chen Yan having problems here on Myriad Image Island, it was impossible for Xia Hanzhou's side to do nothing.

Chen Yan's messages could not be sent out either.

After all, the Chen Clan had established monitoring equipment all around Myriad Image Island.

It was also impossible for Chen Yan to send a transmission to Lu Jianxia.

Chen Yan needed to notify Xia Hanzhou in another way.

There was one more point: Lu Jianxia also needed help.

Above the steps of the Brocade Palace.

Lu Jianxia gazed deeply at the Brocade Palace shrouded in pitch-black darkness, her slender hands involuntarily clutching her dress.

She knew that the real Bing Yi was still inside the Brocade Palace; the Bing Yi that had just left was a fake.

Bing Yi, Chen Yan—he would not send a voice transmission.

Lu Jianxia's heart was in turmoil.

The next instant.

She flew away directly, choosing to go and execute the other matter Chen Yan had entrusted to her earlier.

At the same time.

The border of Iron Province.

Xia Hanzhou and the others gathered on the coastline, their expressions turning somber one by one.

"It is time to act," the God General of Suppressing Peaks said, sounding somewhat irritable.

Xia Hanzhou had already told them what had happened inside Myriad Image Island.

Everything had been secretly reported by Chi Xun.