Chapter 526: All the Truths, the Future of the World!

Chen Yan lay face up on the cold ground, beads of blood sliding along his fractured collarbone toward his ear canal.

The tentacles on the surrounding walls that had not yet fully died were still twitching.

The scattered pitch-black mist spread like ink stains across his retinas, resembling lingering malice.

Everything belonging to the Ancient God Beast of Dreams was dissipating.

The suppression the opponent had exerted on Chen Yan vanished in an instant, and the physical agony rapidly faded, which made Chen Yan feel much better.

The Immortal Will began to overflow, like a spring flood breaking through a frozen riverbed; in the gaps of his pain, Chen Yan grasped a realization sharper than victory.

Will is always above all else.

This battle.

Even if a martial artist at the peak of the Creation Realm had come, the probability of death would have been extremely high.

Chen Yan originally had no chance of winning at all.

It was only by adding the Ember Memory Spear and those five control formation disks that he gained the opportunity to turn the tables.

What surprised Chen Yan even more was, was that really all the ultimate move condensed by the Ancient God Beast of Dreams amounted to?

Throughout this entire battle, Chen Yan had believed in his own will from beginning to end.

But the Ancient God Beast of Dreams had believed in the malice of man, rather than its own malice.

Moreover, the Ancient God Beast of Dreams appeared omnipotent.

In reality, it had major problems.

Since the opponent possessed the ability for concealment and rapid displacement, why did it not cultivate close-quarters combat?

Chen Yan could transcend the limits of thought; if he focused on the path of formation disks, he would also achieve certain results, and might not even be weak.

But all of Chen Yan's combat styles were designed to serve close-quarters combat.

The Ancient God Beast of Dreams was simply squandering heaven's gifts, wasting its own abilities, and failing to believe in its own power.

Golden-red crimson clouds began to slowly overflow from Chen Yan's body, and Immortal Will began to repair Chen Yan's physical form.

His right hand unconsciously rubbed the raised dragon patterns on the spear handle; the Thunder-Ice Qi and blood were the first to reshape Chen Yan's legs and severed arm, and the Immortal Will began to repair his body following the guidance of the Thunder-Ice.

At this moment, the second-floor room could be called a nightmare zone.

The Ancient God Beast of Dreams was dead, and the crystal of malice within her body began to condense again after shattering.

However, only the crystal of malice could be restored.

Chen Yan caught his Thunder-Ice legs and stood up, walking to the wall; the giant wall of flesh and blood was slowly withering.

Chen Yan pried open a piece of brick debris blocking the wall of flesh, which still had two blue-gray vertical pupils embedded in it.

These two eyes seemed to still carry the emotions of the Ancient God Beast of Dreams, trembling continuously as they saw Chen Yan.

Click, click.

Chen Yan pried these two eyeballs out and took an iron box from his Origin Space.

Inside the iron box lay another blue eyeball.

Chen Yan placed these two eyeballs directly into the iron box; the three eyeballs would eventually fuse together completely one day.

Chen Yan would also gain a, no, a new teacher.

Chen Yan continued to search, tearing open a wall of flesh with the Ember Memory Spear.

Whoosh.

A purple gale rushed out from within the wall of flesh, and was then grabbed by Chen Yan into his hand.

Immortal Will erupted!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

The last bit of malice within the purple gale was devoured and extinguished by Chen Yan, and then Chen Yan obtained a pale purple spherical Wind Spirit.

"This is the Ripple-Dissipating Spirit Wind."

At the stairs on the second floor, Chen Yunyou, whose body had been struck into two halves, was wrapped in Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder, and spoke with difficulty.

He dared not enter; the second floor was too dangerous, and the malice was so thick that it could kill him in an instant.

Chen Yan nodded and stored this Ripple-Dissipating Wind Spirit into his Origin Space; he had no use for a Wind Spirit, but he could trade it for some Ice Spirits and Thunder Spirits.

His Ice and Thunder Qi and blood had not yet advanced to the Sun-Level.

Chen Yan looked at Chen Yunyou again and waved one hand; a surge of Immortal Will appeared and began to repair Chen Yunyou's body.

"You said it yourself, there is a teleportation array upstairs, you can repair it."

Chen Yunyou nodded:

"I can build a teleportation array myself, but I can only build one with a range of a hundred miles; it's not as good as me just crossing over with my physical body.

Now, I can only hope that the teleportation core and coordinate positioning of that array haven't been corroded, otherwise there's nothing I can do."

Chen Yunyou, wrapped in Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder, walked toward the upper floor.

Chen Yan, meanwhile, pried that half-formed crystal of malice from the wall.

This was a seventh-rank peak crystal of malice, and the concentration of malice condensed within it made Chen Yan's heart beat violently.

Even for Chen Yan to devour this crystal of malice, it would require a great deal of time.

Suddenly, Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder flowed out from the stairs, and the pitch-black thunder hand was still clutching a withered seed.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder spat out its thunder tongue, appearing as if it were very excited.

Chen Yan grabbed this seed in his hand, and his expression changed instantly.

The moment he touched the seed, his own thinking seemed to become incomparably rapid.

At the same time, flashes of phantom images appeared in Chen Yan's mind, telling Chen Yan various truths.

Chen Yan's perception of his own physical body became instantly and incomparably clear.

What is this?

Chen Yan keenly sensed that something was wrong; a feeling of déjà vu washed over him.

A Dao-Enlightenment Seed?

No.

This was ten thousand times more terrifying than a Dao-Enlightenment Seed, and merely touching it made Chen Yan's thoughts become incredibly rapid.

"Myriad Aspect Dao-Enlightenment Seed!"

Chen Yunyou's unwilling voice rang out as he flew out from the stairwell, staring fixedly at the withered seed in Chen Yan's hand.

Immediately, as if he had abandoned everything, he flew toward the third floor with the appearance of someone whose Dao heart had shattered.

Chen Yan felt as if he had obtained a true supreme treasure, and subsequently placed this Myriad Aspect Dao-Enlightenment Seed into the origin space of his Qi and blood path.

Even after placing it into the origin space, Chen Yan could still feel his brain's thoughts operating rapidly; everything in the world before his eyes seemed different.

Chen Yan had the thought of starting to cultivate immediately.

If he were to cultivate with the help of such a divine object, Chen Yan's speed of strengthening would be unimaginable.

And nowadays, Chen Yan was not lacking in resources either.

However, Chen Yan still suppressed the excitement in his heart.

He stepped onto the stairs and headed toward the first floor.

Clatter, clatter...

On the first floor, chains hung down from the walls and ceiling, firmly piercing into the body of that pitch-black creature.

The pitch-black creature slowly raised his head; his facial features had long since been distorted, and a pair of broken eyes gazed at Chen Yan:

"Not bad, stronger than me."

Chen Yan looked around, and the pitch-black creature spoke again, saying with endless bitterness:

"Did you find her corpse?"

Chen Yan nodded and took out Chen Yi's headless corpse, in whose arms a long-dead infant corpse was still held.

The two corpses were placed just like that in front of the pitch-black creature.

Clatter, clatter, clatter...

The pitch-black creature leaned forward with all his might, accompanied by the tugging of the chains embedded in his body.

Pitch-black tears began to fall from his eyes, and his silent grief seemed to gather into an ocean that engulfed him.

"If it were you, what would you do?"

He whispered quietly, his head bowed even lower.

Chen Yan watched quietly and said slowly:

"I would live."

The pitch-black creature's body stiffened; he suddenly gave a bitter laugh, then lowered his head and spoke no more.

Yet a pair of eyes were quietly looking at the corpse of Chen Yi before him.

"Death is the only gift that belongs to living beings..."

His body began to tremble.

Chen Yan, meanwhile, slowly flew up and looked at the chains nearby; these pitch-black chains were controlled by array disks embedded in the walls.

And the position where Xia Weimin was located was the eye of all the arrays.

The other party had suppressed the malice here for a thousand years; don't look at how the malice here was exaggeratedly thick, if not for Xia Weimin, it would be even more exaggerated.

"Don't worry about me, you can just leave directly."

Xia Weimin said:

"I am already used to it... used to it for a thousand years; I just want to accompany her well."

He seemed to be crying, but this crying sound was like the trembling of rusted organ reeds, very harsh.

Chen Yan was silent and continued to examine the array disks on each chain.

"It is enough for you to leave; there are a total of one thousand array disks here. If you want to undo them, it will take at least a hundred days. How could you undo these within a hundred days..."

He continued to speak, his spine arched into a desperate curve, and viscous, asphalt-like liquid rolled out from his shattered eye sockets.

"I also don't want to... don't want to go back."

He said in a low voice:

"I have no face... no face to face... the Gr..."

"Okay."

Chen Yan nodded:

"I understand you."

Xia Weimin's body paused, and with his head lowered, he trembled:

"Thank you."

Chen Yan walked toward the second floor, and Xia Weimin's voice was faint:

"Take Jinyi and fulfill the dream I didn't complete for me."

Chen Yan's footsteps paused, and he continued upstairs.

Until Chen Yan's figure was about to disappear around the corner.

"Ka!!!"

A terrifying screeching sound instantly rang out throughout the entire Myriad Aspect Tower.

Rumble!!!

The foundation of the entire Myriad Aspect Tower suddenly emitted a roar like a glacier cracking, and the walls corroded by malice shook abruptly, with broken bricks falling constantly.

"Ka!"

Xia Weimin hissed incessantly, a sound that seemed to resonate from the Earth's core.

It was ear-piercing to the extreme.

His voice was like the sharp screech of fingernails scraping against a bronze coffin, like the gurgling sound of water trapped in the lungs of a drowning man.

The entire Myriad Aspect Tower was shaking.

Outside the Myriad Aspect Tower, Chen He opened his eyes in an instant.

Chen Changyuan, who was still inside the flying warship perfecting the control array for the Ancient Dream Beast, also stood up.

Everyone looked toward the extreme north of the Myriad Aspect Tower, wearing expressions of disbelief.

Inside the Myriad Aspect Tower.

Xia Weimin's body began to twist and struggle; he pulled desperately at the chains embedded into his flesh, his body tearing, his bones wailing.

From every crack in his joints, mists that swallowed light like malicious textures sprayed out.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

He raised his head:

"It hurts so much!!!"

"A thousand years!"

"It hurts so much!!!"

He roared, the intense pain piercing into his body, until he finally collapsed onto the ground.

"Hehehe."

"Ka!"

"Hahahaha..."

He cried one moment and laughed the next, alternating with despair.

The next moment, his body sat bolt upright, looking in the direction of Chen Yan, gnashing his teeth, and emitting a sound like billions of ghosts shrieking at once:

"Why didn't you save me? I waited for you for a thousand years, a thousand years!"

"I passed on the Ember Memory Spear to you, I passed on the Blood Domain World-Reversing Art to you, and you won't save me?!"

Chen Yan said indifferently:

"Didn't you just tell me to abandon you?"

Xia Weimin's body stiffened, and he said with a trembling voice:

"I was joking."

He twisted his head, acting coy like a child who had made a mistake:

"I was just joking."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Yan, only to see Chen Yan's pair of indifferent eyes.

Xia Weimin raised his head and opened his mouth wide; countless pitch-black worms flowed out from his mouth, and his pitch-black tears became unstoppable in an instant.

"You..."

At this moment, he faced true despair.

"When exactly did you find out?"

"I found out from the very beginning," Chen Yan said calmly, the disgust in his eyes no longer able to be concealed.

This one, currently imprisoned within the Myriad Aspect Tower...

"Chen Cheng."

Chen Yan spoke faintly.

Boom!

From the second floor came the sound of an air current explosion.

"Impossible!"

Chen Yunyou, who had been eavesdropping the whole time, roared, flew down, and shouted:

"What nonsense are you spouting!?"

Chen Yunyou was incredulous, unable to accept it, and even felt that Chen Yan's words were utterly ridiculous:

"Chen Cheng is the Chen Lord, the current Chen Lord!"

Chen Yunyou gritted his teeth, clenching his hands, the killing intent in his eyes ready to surge forth.

Chen Cheng was his father.

He was Chen Yi's younger brother.

How could it be this person imprisoned here?

If this person were Chen Cheng, then who would the current Chen Lord be?

Chen Yan ignored Chen Yunyou and just looked quietly at the pitch-black creature.

He saw the other party laughing strangely and lowering his head.

"How did you know?" he asked strangely.

"I said it," Chen Yan said faintly:

"I knew from the very beginning."

When Chen Yan first entered Myriad Aspect Island, he had obtained a memory array disc from the hands of the Black-Marked Old Man.

Inside that memory array disc was imprinted the memory of a Myriad Aspect Island resident named Lin Yi.

In Lin Yi's memory, Xia Weimin slaughtered Myriad Aspect Island, and a fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadows Kill】 fell from Xia Weimin's hand.

This scene perfectly matched Xia Weimin's memory.

Xia Weimin guessed that it was the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 that harmed him, so he struggled to the extreme and threw out a fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

Why throw it out?

Evidence!

This was the evidence Xia Weimin left for the people of the Great Xia of the future.

The people of the Great Xia would examine this fragment and then know the true cause.

This was the evidence Xia Weimin left for his own innocence.

But in the memories after Lin Yi.

Before Lin Yi died, a Xia Weimin filled with pitch-black malice arrived and took away that 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment.

This does not fit the logic.

How could Xia Weimin appear outside the Myriad Image Tower?

More crucially, why would the other party want to snatch away the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment?

Even if the Great Xia generals could no longer enter Myriad Image Island at that time.

This fragment of the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 would still provide help to Lin Yi's descendants.

Yet the other party took it away so ruthlessly.

Then there is only one explanation: this Xia Weimin was a fake.

It was someone from the Chen Clan disguised as him.

The Chen Clan took back that 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment in order to erase the evidence.

From this point, it can be seen.

The person behind the scenes has always been the Chen Clan.

But they underestimated Lin Yi, underestimated that dying man.

Lin Yi was about to die, but for the sake of his descendants, he imprinted the memories of his entire life before his death.

If not for Lin Yi, the group of living beings like the Black-Marked Elder would never have lived until now.

Chen Yan would also not know these things.

This is what the Chen Clan overlooked.

The power that belongs to humans.

Of course, this is only the first problematic point.

The second point actually still concerns the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】.

That is, Xia Weimin was not a fool.

He had sensed this conspiracy from the very beginning.

He also understood that the day he bumped into Chen Cheng killing Chi Canglan, it was a trap Chen Cheng had specifically laid for him.

What did Xia Weimin do?

He split that 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment into four parts.

One part was thrown out, left for the future Great Xia generals to arrive and clear his name.

The other three pieces were still on his person.

Xia Weimin was confident, and he had the capital to be confident.

He could kill eighty percent of the Ancient God Beasts on Myriad Image Island alone, and then suppress the malice of these Ancient God Beasts with his own body.

How could the crystallization of malice contained within one 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment affect him?

What he pursued his whole life was the eradication of malice.

Therefore, in Xia Weimin's eyes, Chen Cheng's conspiracy was a joke.

The threat brought to him by the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 had long since been neutralized by Xia Weimin.

But while Xia Weimin could contend with the malice of the world, he overlooked the malice of humans.

Throughout the entire story, there has always been a true mastermind!

Thus, the third problematic point of the entire incident appeared.

Why was the Chen Master insistent on killing Chen Yunyou?

There was no need.

Chen Yunyou was not a good person; even if he knew his father had once caused the deaths of millions, so what?

Chen Yunyou would not say anything at all.

The reason the Chen Master would kill Chen Yunyou was the fear that Chen Yunyou would speak of the matters inside the Brocade Palace.

And once spoken, the world would truly fall into chaos.

The severity would even exceed the Chen Master having once caused the deaths of millions on Myriad Image Island!

That is, the other mastermind of the Myriad Image Island tragedy back then.

The Chen Master of that time!

It could also be said, the current Chen Master!

The Chen Master of that time was about to transform into a Continent Bright.

Chen Yunyou had also said that every generation of Chen Master holds the position for at most one thousand years, and then must voluntarily transform into a Continent Bright.

This is the rule passed down through the generations.

Otherwise, the Chen Continent would become extremely dangerous in the future.

As it happened, this Chen Master gave birth to Chen Yi.

Chen Yi, though a woman, was a genius the likes of which the Chen Clan had not seen in a thousand years.

She could allow the Chen Clan to reach its peak.

Everyone of the Chen Clan was very satisfied.

And they made her conceal the fact that she was female.

But the Chen Lord was not satisfied.

He did not want to die; he did not want to transform into a Continent Bright.

Even if Chen Continent were to perish, what did that have to do with him?

Yet he had to abdicate.

Everyone was waiting for him to become a Continent Bright, even though he had relied on his own strength to turn Chen Continent from the worst continent into a mediocre one.

As it happened, he discovered two things.

The first thing.

His youngest son, Chen Cheng, was not satisfied with his older sister being the next-generation Chen Lord and wanted to hatch a conspiracy.

The second thing, his eldest daughter, Chen Yi, had actually become a Dao companion with Xia Weimin of the Great Xia, and was pregnant.

And his youngest son intended to use this to plot against his older sister and Xia Weimin.

To cover up the death of Chen Yi with the deaths of ten million people on Myriad Appearance Island.

The Chen Lord chose to wait for the right moment.

But his youngest son, Chen Cheng, was too pathetic.

He could not play against Xia Weimin at all.

A single 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 containing a crystal of malice could not cause anything to happen to Xia Weimin; instead, it delivered a massive opportunity to Xia Weimin.

Stupid!

Brain-dead!

But the Chen Lord, however, had an opportunity.

That crystal of malice had actually already leaked some malice capable of controlling Xia Weimin's consciousness into Xia Weimin's body.

But Xia Weimin was already on guard and would not be fooled again.

So how was he to intervene?

Naturally, by striking at someone Xia Weimin would never suspect.

Which was his daughter, Chen Yi.

And...

The infant in Chen Yi's belly!

The Chen Lord secretly took action against the fetus in Chen Yi's womb.

The moment the fetus was born, the malice within its body would instantly ring out, triggering the controlling malice within Xia Weimin's body that had not yet been completely cleared.

The moment the infant was born.

That would be the day ten million people perished!

Xia Weimin never knew until his death why he had ended up like that.

He had always thought it was still the reason of that 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 fragment.

He thought that because of his own arrogance, he had destroyed everything.

Little did he know.

Someone was even more ruthless!

At that time, Chen Cheng still thought his conspiracy had succeeded and was preparing to implement the subsequent plan.

Little did he know, his father had prepared everything for him.

In fact, Xia Weimin had already died at that time.

The Chen Lord had let his own son, Chen Cheng, replace Xia Weimin to serve as the Continent Bright of Myriad Appearance Island.

And he himself had become Chen Cheng, inheriting his own position as Chen Lord.

As for him, in everyone's eyes, he had long since transformed into the Continent Bright of Chen Continent.

I do not know how the Chen Lord operated, but he did indeed deceive everyone.

But what can be guessed is this.

The truly massive threat today is not the Great Xia.

It is Chen Continent!

The Lord of Horizontal Refining is detestable and despised in many respects.

He shackled his own descendants.

He forced the rulers of the Xia Clan, generation after generation, to become Continent Brights, with no hope.

But in another respect.

This person brought hope to the human world.

And he was indeed far-sighted.

Every generation of rulers had to become a Continent Bright; no one could refuse to do so.

This ensured the stability of the Great Xia for ten thousand years.

The Lord of Horizontal Refining is a complex figure.

But the Five Clans have a massive defect.

If the Chen Lord is unwilling to die, he will bury a massive pit for the world.

The Chen Clan clearly lacks the means of control that the Great Xia has.

Chen Yan stood upon the steps, quietly recounting everything he had guessed.

Pitch-black living being.

No.

Chen Cheng just smiled strangely, his expression unreadable.

As for Chen Yunyou, he was completely stunned, unable to even stand steadily.

If this news were to be spread.

Then the world...

The world is finished.

The Great Xia that imprisons the Ancient God of White Calamity is one great thunderclap, and Chen Prefecture is another, even greater one.

No wonder the Chen Lord had to kill Chen Yunyou.

Because what the Chen Lord is doing is something that will exterminate the entire world!

Chen Yunyou's face turned white with fear, his teeth chattering incessantly.

Suddenly, he clutched his stomach and burst into loud laughter:

"You're lying to me, how could this possibly be true, hahahahaha!!!"

He did not believe it.

He dared not believe it.

Only Chen Cheng, who was still being controlled, kept laughing.

He was also in despair.

He knew that Chen Yan would never let him out, no matter what.

He had played his part well and made all the preparations.

In the end, he himself was just a joke.

Chen Yan stored the corpses of Chen Yi and the infant into his Origin Space.

The world will be in chaos.

If this news is spread, hundreds of millions of living beings will be terrified.

Everything the Five Clans have done will become a joke.

"Chen Yan."

Chen Cheng spoke in a low voice:

"You and I are both of the Chen Clan; you save me, and I will testify for you."

"The Chen Clan?" Chen Yan narrowed his eyes:

"That is truly my greatest stain."

Chen Yunyou was even more shocked.

What did he hear?

Chen Yan?

This is Chen Yan?

He hadn't seen the battle between Chen Yan and the Ancient God Beast of Dreams earlier; he had only appeared at the very end, and as a result, he had been nearly shaken to death by a single "Get lost."

Now.

He heard the two words "Chen Yan."

His brain crashed, and he felt his life was ruined.

For a moment, such a massive amount of information crashing into his brain was truly hard for him to accept.

Chen Yan walked quietly toward Chen Cheng.

With a hum.

A pitch-black long spear appeared in his hand.

With a boom.

It pierced into Chen Cheng's abdomen, and a "crack-crack" sound immediately rang out.

"The people I have met are all spending their entire lives trying to eradicate malice, yet you lot are only thinking about how to deal with the human race itself!"

"Ah!!!"

Chen Cheng screamed.

"You will live." Chen Yan's eyes were indifferent:

"Forever enduring the erosion of malice, forever suffering torment in this place."

"Stop it!!!" Chen Cheng roared, countless worms flowing out from his mouth.

Chen Yan stirred it continuously, his gaze icy cold.

"Seeing you safe and sound, I am not happy."

After Chen Yan finished speaking, he turned and left.

Chen Yunyou was still experiencing a shaken mind, unable to accept it.

He suddenly spoke:

"What about Xia Weimin, Xia Weimin is still here, right?" Chen Yunyou roared.

As long as he could prove that this pitch-black creature was Xia Weimin, then all of Chen Yan's words just now were nothing but gibberish.

"Xia Weimin..."

Chen Yan murmured.

"The real Xia Weimin has always been by my side."

As Chen Yan spoke, he sensed his surroundings, as if he could see the entire Myriad Forms Island.

The real Xia Weimin is one of the wronged souls beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, enduring endless despair together with thousands upon thousands of living beings.

It also stopped the first malicious entity Chen Yan encountered within the trial game.

Chen Yan had always been curious why those malicious entities within the Divine General Temple had never been transformed into Ancient Divine Beasts.

Ancient Divine Beasts and malicious entities are not the same.

Malicious entities still possess a sliver of human consciousness; they are infinitely close to Ancient Divine Beasts, but they are not yet one.

Yet the entire Inner City of Myriad Forms Island consists entirely of malicious entities; not a single one is a true Ancient Divine Beast.

This does not conform to common sense.

Even if there were one person with a strong will among hundreds of millions, they could endure a thousand years of malicious corrosion without completely degenerating into an Ancient Divine Beast, instead becoming a malicious entity.

A malicious entity that contains malice within but has not yet completely turned into an Ancient Divine Beast, and still has hope of being saved.

But everyone on the entire Myriad Forms Island is a malicious entity.

That is purely a fantasy!

There are not that many people with strong wills, especially since many of them are children.

Then there is only one explanation: someone has always been helping them resist the malice.

That person tore apart his own divine soul in order to save the tens of millions of people he had killed.

That half of his divine soul had long since lost its power in order to preserve the divine soul thoughts of those tens of millions.

He even forgot his own identity, suffering a thousand years of pain together with the divine souls of those tens of millions.

Until the very end, when he was dissipated by Chen Yan.

He also left a cyan light orb in Chen Yan's brain that Chen Yan has yet to notice to this day.

But there were still some living people he needed to save.

What was he to do?

He merged his remaining divine soul into the entire Inner City!

Letting himself atone for his own mistakes for generations to come.

His entire life was spent resisting malice.

Xia Weimin was a joke, a joke in the eyes of many.

He wanted to resist malice; this was his dream.

The world would only think, how can malice be resisted?

But he succeeded.

His spear soul remained immortal for a thousand years.

His people, eroded by malice for a thousand years, never became Ancient Divine Beasts.

He succeeded.

"Contemplating the vastness of heaven and earth, I stand alone and shed tears..."

Chen Yan murmured, his gaze meeting the endless darkness.

A wordless wind blew through the entire Inner City of Myriad Forms Island, as if crying, laughing, sighing, and grieving.

Xia Weimin is the entire Inner City of Myriad Forms Island!

He saw Chen Yan's arrival; the divine soul that had struggled for a thousand years saw the final glimmer of hope.

The entire Inner City of Myriad Forms Island is the final trial for Chen Yan to become a true Divine General!

The moment Chen Yan ascended the Brocade Palace and his hands touched the Ember Memory Spear, the trial ended.

The inheritance, ended!

Xia Weimin had long since died.

Xia Weimin lives forever.

"And I..."

Chen Yan said quietly, gilded radiance burning in the depths of his pupils, more intense than ember fire.

"Will become the new rule!"

PS: This is a two-in-one chapter; it is better for a complete reading, so I will not split it into chapters.