Chapter 524: Fierce!

Outside Myriad Aspect Island.

A flying warship stood silently amidst the clouds and sky.

Inside the cultivation chamber, Chen Changyuan wore a pitch-black windbreaker, with strands of Sword Soul rising from his body.

Accompanied by a strange scent of pine needles, these sword shadows condensed before him, transforming into a silver formation disk.

The sword shadows sliding from Chen Changyuan's sleeves floated like fireflies beneath the formation disk, and the profound mysteries within a hundred-mile radius of the void seemed to be merging into this single disk.

The moment the formation disk finished condensing, it transitioned from pure silver to a pattern of ice-cracked porcelain light.

Subsequently, this formation disk merged into Chen Changyuan's body.

Combining with the Ancient Dream God Beast would indeed allow Chen Changyuan's strength to increase greatly.

But the Ancient Dream God Beast was at the peak of the Seventh Rank, and its strength was far higher than his own.

Even though the Ancient Dream God Beast had never harbored any disloyal intentions toward him, how could Chen Changyuan easily trust an Ancient God Beast?

Therefore, this formation disk about to merge into Chen Changyuan's body was Chen Changyuan's preparation.

It could help him completely smelt the Ancient Dream God Beast.

The Ancient Dream God Beast was indeed dangerous; even Chen Changyuan did not know how powerful the Ancient Dream God Beast's combat strength was at present.

But there was one thing Chen Changyuan knew, which was that even if his plan were exposed, the Ancient Dream God Beast would not kill him.

What the Ancient Dream God Beast had always valued was Chen Changyuan's character.

Of course, the Ancient Dream God Beast also knew of Chen Changyuan's intentions, it just hadn't pointed them out.

When an Ancient God Beast instead looks forward to the emergence of something like trust in a human, that human is extremely successful in a certain aspect, having even reached the peak.

Chen Changyuan closed his eyes, continuing to wait for the return of the Ancient Dream God Beast.

"Enlightenment Myriad Aspect Seed." Chen Changyuan whispered; this was a true supreme treasure that even those of the Eighth Rank would covet, and he had not expected it to fall into his hands.

Especially after he had suffered so many losses at the hands of Bing Yi after entering Myriad Aspect Island.

One Enlightenment Myriad Aspect Seed was worth all the opportunities Chen Changyuan had obtained in his entire life.

Including the Sword Soul.

…………

At the same time.

Above Myriad Aspect Island.

"Elder Chen He, according to time calculations, it will take at least four months for the first Creation Realm initiate to ascend the Brocade Palace."

A member of the Chen Clan's Creation Realm reported to Chen He.

"So long?" Chen He narrowed his eyes:

"Increase the research budget for the Blood Domain World-Defying within the clan."

"It has already been increased to the maximum; any further budget increase will interfere with other projects," that Creation Realm cultivator replied respectfully.

Chen He narrowed his eyes, nodded, and continued:

"That Ancient God Beast has not appeared yet?"

"No," the Chen Clan Creation Realm cultivator spoke:

"The last contact with Chen Changyuan was five hours ago; the other party is about to lift the Myriad Aspect Tower's restriction on the Enlightenment Myriad Aspect Seed.

This is a restriction placed by a peak Eighth Rank of the Great Xia a thousand years ago; if it hadn't been eroded by malice for a thousand years, that Ancient God Beast would never have been able to retrieve the Myriad Aspect Seed."

"Mm." Chen He looked at the other person and smiled:

"You and I are the only ones who know of this matter; do not speak of it carelessly."

This Chen Clan Creation Realm cultivator broke into a cold sweat on his forehead and hurriedly said:

"Please rest assured, Third Elder; even if I were to die, I would never reveal it."

Chen He nodded and let them leave.

This person just now was a monitor for the Chen Clan, who happened to be monitoring the content of the conversation between Chen Changyuan and the Ancient Dream God Beast.

Even though the other party was Chen He's confidant, Chen He had secretly placed a poison formation on them.

Once the other party had the thought of revealing the existence of the Enlightenment Myriad Aspect Seed, the poison formation would directly crush their brain.

The Enlightenment Myriad Aspect Seed was something Chen He absolutely needed.

It was also the hope he saw for ascending to the Ninth Rank.

The Ninth Rank.

That was the true peak of the world.

In Chen He's eyes, the Chen Yan and Bing Yi spoken of by the world were always just juniors.

Not to mention Bing Yi; after four months, the Chen Clan would enter the Brocade Palace and take away their physical body.

The invincible prodigy of the Yu Clan would eventually become a test subject.

The other, Chen Yan, was not even as monstrous as Bing Yi.

Regardless of whether Chen He entered the Ninth Rank or not, they were just insects he could crush with one hand.

If the Five Clans were truly worried about Chen Yan, they would have united long ago and marched their armies onto Great Xia soil.

Everyone knew Chen Yan was a monster, but more people knew that.

The dying Great Xia simply could not give Chen Yan the time to rise.

"I didn't expect there to be such a harvest; this trip to Myriad Aspect Island is truly..."

As Chen He spoke, he was about to laugh out loud.

…………

Drip.

Blood flowed from Chen Yan's severed arm.

Chen Yan sensed his physical body and was slightly astonished; whether it was the flesh he had just torn from his chest or his severed arm, the excruciating pain transmitted at this moment felt like his heart was being wrung.

When battling the Ancient God Beast of Dreams, a human's perception of pain is amplified more than ten thousand times.

An ordinary person, facing such pain, would pass out instantly.

Moreover, Chen Yan discovered that his Immortal Will seemed to be suppressed.

It is not that the Immortal Will cannot be suppressed.

If the level of malice is higher than the Immortal Will, the Immortal Will can also be suppressed.

Chen Yan's current regeneration speed for his severed arm is extremely slow; clearly, it cannot manifest before this battle ends.

This is the first time Chen Yan has battled such a powerful Ancient God Beast.

It feels as if he has returned to the first time he battled Fei Yi.

Only, this time, Xue Qi is not here.

Chen Yan does not even know how one can completely annihilate the Ancient God Beast of Dreams.

If it cannot be suppressed by will alone, one needs to find the opponent's weak point.

Bang!

The tip of the Jinyi Spear flicked up a streak of scarlet cold light, and the humming vibration of the spear shaft was like the first blood-tide of a cracking glacier.

【Blood Domain Reversing the World】!

Empowered by the spear soul of the Jinyi Spear, this move only manifested a river of blood, but it was also terrifying to the extreme.

Placed in a battle of this level, the Ancient God Beast of Dreams would never give Chen Yan the chance to unleash a grand ultimate move.

A pause of even a fleeting second would bring Chen Yan a life-or-death crisis.

At the same time, in front of the Ancient God Beast of Dreams.

The scarlet giant mouth in the center of the purple array disk suddenly opened, and the hurricane it spewed surged with malice as thick as asphalt.

Every wisp of the pitch-black airflow carried billions of pitch-black worms, gnawing at everything in their path.

Boom boom boom!!!

Spear light, malice, thunder, and ice shot in all directions.

Countless pitch-black gales erupted throughout the entire second floor.

Chen Yan cannot be tainted by these gales; once tainted, malicious worms will erode into Chen Yan's physical body.

Boom boom boom boom!!!

The sounds of slaughter rang out incessantly.

Every time Chen Yan closed in, he was forced back by the malicious gale.

Chen Yan's expression was cold; at this moment, he felt the abilities of the Ancient God Beast of Dreams more clearly.

This Ancient God Beast has gathered the abilities of all Ancient God Beasts.

Pure malice, elements, and array formation.

Pure malice creates malicious suppression and manifests illusions.

As for elements, it can wield the elements of heaven and earth; the gale Chen Yan is facing is at least a Sun-Level Grade C wind element carrying malicious worms to launch an attack on him.

As for array formation, it goes without saying.

This one is the ancestor of the Green-Eyed Ancient God Beast and Fei Yi; the arrays it deploys are all Sun-Level Grade C or higher.

Chen Yan even loses his perception of it during the battle.

Perhaps it, like the Green-Eyed Ancient God Beast, possesses the ability of concealment and high-speed displacement.

An all-rounder enemy.

At the same time, behind the purple array, pitch-black mucus dripped from the chest of the Ancient God Beast of Dreams; it raised its sleeves, and countless tentacles inserted into the floor, spreading through the room like tree roots.

These tentacles grew continuously, sprouting wriggling pitch-black blood vessels throughout the room, and the walls were turning into twisted flesh.

They extended all the way to the ceiling, and the mucus dripping from them blurred reality; the malice in the space became even more intense.

This gave Chen Yan a bad feeling in his heart.

The Ancient God Beast of Dreams is charging up a grand ultimate move; once this move successfully charges, Chen Yan might have no room for redemption at all.

The terrifying sense of crisis continued to descend toward the hallway, and Chen Yunyou and Ten Thousand Jade Youting, still waiting on the first floor, felt numb.

Bing Yi, what kind of enemy is he battling?

Chen Yunyou felt that even at the peak of his own strength, facing such an enemy, he would flee at the first opportunity.

Because if he were a moment late, he would die.

The current Chen Yunyou and Bing Yi are undoubtedly in the same boat; if Bing Yi dies, Chen Yunyou will have no path to survival either.

Rumble!!!

Terrifying waves of energy accompanied by thunder and ice vibrated continuously, shattering the void.

Chen Yan cannot continue to be delayed this time.

Chen Yan spun and swept his spear; the spear soul broke through the air like a swimming dragon, and wherever it passed, frost-thunder patterns spread, tearing a crystalline rift through the malicious mist.

At the same time, Chen Yan's arm was tainted by malicious worms, turning purple-red instantly.

A swastika-shaped spear light shot out instantly.

The Ancient God Beast of Dreams paused, and pitch-black tentacles formed a thick wall of tentacles in front of her.

Pfft pfft pfft pfft!

Spear soul suppresses and kills!

The Jinyi Spear played a huge role at this moment, and Chen Yan's origin space vibrated.

A control array disk was thrown out once again.

Click!

The moment this cyan array disk was thrown by Chen Yan, a dark cyan 64-sided polyhedron manifested, instantly expanding to envelop the Ancient Dream Beast.

An eighth-rank control array disk can only control the Ancient Dream Beast for two breaths at most.

But this was Chen Yan's chance.

He leaped up, stepping on the severed tentacles, and tapped his spear tip into the void several times, causing several blood-red Other Shore Flowers to manifest.

Crossing over the wall of tentacles before him, Chen Yan gathered his strength; endless ice and thunder erupted from his body, and he stabbed down in an instant.

Heart-Entry level 【Blood Domain World-Reversal】!

Ice and thunder mixed, strangling, accompanied by the spear soul, transforming into a river of blood that dove downward.

At the same time.

Cracks appeared one after another on the dark cyan 64-sided polyhedron controlling the Ancient Dream Beast.

The moment the river of blood smashed into the Ancient Dream Beast.

"Ka!!!"

The Ancient Dream Beast shrieked instantly, and a pitch-black, twisted, sausage-like object shot out from her mouth.

It was fast to the extreme!

Chen Yan's brain crashed, and illusions invaded the depths of his mind one after another.

He saw the corpses of his father and younger sister; he saw Qingshan fall and the Great Xia perish.

Until a certain moment, the entire Great Xia began to tremble.

The land for hundreds of millions of miles was torn as if by an invisible giant force, suddenly collapsing.

From the deep and indescribable dark core of the earth, a behemoth beyond imagination slowly struggled to rise.

With just a single glance toward the void, it rudely tore apart the sky, which was already permeated with an eerie blood color, as if tearing an old piece of cloth.

Endless chaos and the unknown seemed to pour out from within.

Illusion!

Illusion!

Illusion!

Illusion!

A shrill siren sounded in Chen Yan's heart, his will shaking, pulling him out from the brief illusion.

Ssh!

The pitch-black sausage-like object that had been aimed at Chen Yan's forehead pierced his left eye.

As Chen Yan tilted his head, it destroyed his left eye, pierced past his left temple, and left a trail of blood.

A sharp pain that nearly destroyed his consciousness stabbed into his nerves.

If not for Chen Yan's powerful will, this single attack just now would have been enough to pierce through Chen Yan's brain.

According to his currently suppressed Immortal Will, Chen Yan would have had no chance to repair his body and would have died instantly.

Below, the Ancient Dream Beast was also bombarded by the Heart-Entry level 【Blood Domain World-Reversal】, emitting sounds like watermelons bursting.

The black robe on her body began to be shattered, and pitch-black blood beads sprayed continuously under the strangulation of 【Blood Domain World-Reversal】.

Chen Yan threw out a third control array disk.

Dong!

A low bell toll resounded.

A large bell composed of golden threads, splashing ripples of broken gold, instantly pressed down from above.

"Ka!"

The shrill screech transformed into a rolling sound wave attack, crashing against Chen Yan's physical body.

The wild hunting wind elements formed ferocious wind beasts from bottom to top, blasting Chen Yan toward the ceiling.

Even the speed at which that golden bell descended was weakened by a fraction.

Hum!

Below, the body of the Ancient Dream God turned illusory, appearing on Chen Yan's left side in almost an instant.

The most dangerous situation had arrived; the Ancient Dream Beast indeed possessed the ability for rapid displacement.

That flickering speed was almost equivalent to piercing through the void, with absolutely no time delay.

An eighth-rank control array disk had failed just like that.

Chen Yan didn't even have time to secretly lament.

Before Chen Yan could turn his head, he felt a sense of danger seeping into his heart and thrust out the Jinyi Spear in his hand.

【Swastika Dragon Kill】!

This was a reaction that happened almost at the same time.

It could even be called a prediction.

Even the Ancient Dream Beast had not expected it.

In reality, Chen Yan's perception of the emotions of living beings had always been useless against the Ancient Dream Beast.

Chen Yan had thought it was his own problem.

But just now, the moment he made close contact with the Ancient Dream Beast, Chen Yan had actually felt a trace of the other's emotions.

It was very vague, but it created an opportunity for Chen Yan's prediction.

The next moment.

With a puff!

When the Swastika spear light chiseled into the head under the Ancient Dream Beast's hood, the sound of watermelons bursting rang out through the space once again.

The moment the malicious black blood splashed onto the spear shaft, the pitch-black robe on the Ancient Dream Beast, already in tatters, exploded completely.

A tall female figure appeared amidst the roiling malice, and subsequently, her figure flickered rapidly.

Pitch-black tentacles continuously erupted from her body, swaying in the void like countless strands of seaweed.

At the same time, a series of pitch-black blood beads scattered from the opponent's body.

Fast!

So fast that even Chen Yan's eyes found it difficult to see the opponent's face.

But it could also be seen how much damage Chen Yan's previous direct, face-on spear strike had dealt to the Ancient Dream God-Beast.

Chen Yan just wanted to pursue.

That purple array disc, which the Ancient Dream God-Beast had manifested right at the beginning, appeared before Chen Yan, the scarlet maw at the center of the array disc facing Chen Yan, spitting out malice.

Then.

Roar!!!

A terrifying hurricane of malice struck again, forcing Chen Yan back.

Chen Yan retreated, simultaneously tearing off all the flesh and skin on his right arm to use as a shield for his spear.

"Caw!!!"

The Ancient Dream God-Beast let out a shrill screech, and when she landed on the ground again.

The pitch-black tentacles on her body writhed, forming a robe once more, but her face was exposed.

It was a face so exquisite it was hard to describe, almost comparable to Lu Jianxia.

But on the left side of the opponent's head, there was a pitch-black, deep pit, from which sticky, pitch-black malicious fluid constantly flowed.

Inside the bloody pit, billions of worms churned, and these worms continuously condensed amber-colored eggs, beginning to repair the Ancient Dream God-Beast's head.

She stared fixedly at Chen Yan, her vertical pupils shooting out gray light, and the countless tentacles under her robe reconnected to the floor and walls.

These tentacles continuously burrowed into the floor and walls, growing, and the entire second floor of the Myriad Image Tower began to deform, with densely packed, rotating eyeballs gradually appearing on the tentacles.

A human-like expression of anger appeared on the Ancient Dream God-Beast's face.

She was a peak Seventh-Order Ancient God-Beast, a fusion of the Elemental, Pure Malice, and Array-Condensing Ancient God-Beasts.

She had not expected to be pushed to such a state by a Sixth-Order human.

As an Ancient God-Beast, she possessed an unimaginable lifespan.

And she had never encountered such a freak.

Even with the opponent having the support of Xia Weimin's Ember Memory Spear and an Eighth-Order array disc, he shouldn't have been able to push her to such a state.

Moreover, the opponent's power of will was terrifying!

If it were an ordinary Creation Realm martial artist, they would have no way to fight her fairly at all.

The pure malice on the Ancient Dream God-Beast would have annihilated them within ten minutes.

But the power of will on this Chen Yan gave her a feeling of being as immovable as a mountain.

Did she not want to directly crush Chen Yan?

Did she not want to?

She couldn't do it.

The opponent's will, which was like a scorching sun—as soon as it approached, she felt uncomfortable to the extreme.

Suppressing the Immortal Will on Chen Yan had already consumed sixty percent of the Ancient Dream God-Beast's energy.

This was simply dreamlike.

What on earth was the Path of Will?

The Ancient Dream God-Beast had lived for thousands of years and had never heard of such a thing.

After the Path of Will appeared, all the Ancient God-Beasts were worried.

Ice Intent was Chen Yan.

The opponent's understanding of the Path of Will was perhaps among the clearest of anyone in the world.

The Ancient Dream God-Beast knew that she had to defeat Chen Yan.

At the same time, Chen Yan had no idea what the Ancient Dream God-Beast was thinking.

The opponent was still manifesting a grand ultimate move.