Chapter 536: I Scatter the Clouds of the Heavens

"Your younger sister must have studied the Dao of Arrays since she was a child!"

Lu Fukun roared with bloodshot eyes, his aura becoming increasingly chaotic.

But upon a second thought, his aura fluctuated even more violently.

Chen Yan's younger sister, it is said, is only fifteen or sixteen years old.

Even if she had been trained in the Dao of Arrays from a young age, her aptitude would still have to surpass that of him, Lu Fukun.

Damn it.

What on earth is going on with the Heavens?

It wasn't just Lu Fukun; many geniuses from Lu Province felt their mental states collapsing.

Chen Yan glanced at Chen Yu behind him; the little girl's small face was flushed red right now.

For Chen Yu, today was the happiest day of her life.

After all, ever since she entered the Martial Dao, she had always wanted to help her older brother.

The only problem was that she had made a mistake earlier and almost harmed her brother; Chen Yu clutched her sleeves, still feeling somewhat nervous.

The surroundings fell into a dead silence, without the slightest sound.

High above in the sky.

Chen Qi tilted his head; he was somewhat dazed, his brows raised, looking just like a puppet.

Geniuses from Chen Province and Chi Province arrived.

"Is it over?" Chi Yuexi asked, still covered in blood, feeling somewhat uncertain.

"I..." a genius from Chen Province stammered.

"We didn't even see the battle between you and Chen Yan just now."

Chi Yuexi's pupils constricted, her gaze gradually becoming vacant as she looked at Chen Yan's back.

Chen Yan, a genius on par with Bing Yi!

And his time since entering the Dao is far less than Bing Yi's.

The other party only entered the Dao last year.

Chi Yuexi's heart was beating violently.

What has happened to the world?

As for the Lu Province side.

Inside the great hall, a genius from Lu Province was first shocked, then gritted his teeth and spoke:

"Then you still cheated!"

He clenched his fists and shouted in a low voice:

"Two against one is cheating; Chen Yan of the Great Xia is nothing more than this!"

He pointed fiercely at Chen Yan:

"You lost!"

Someone frowned, looked at the person, and then revealed a look of helplessness.

That person was clearly acting out of shame and anger, unwilling to accept the fact that Chen Yan had defeated Lu Fukun.

In fact, everyone could see that without Chen Yu, Chen Yan could still have defeated Lu Fukun.

It was just a different method.

"He lost, that's all!" the man laughed out loud:

"A dignified Great Xia Divine General seeking outside help—it's not that I look down on you, you simply aren't worthy!"

Lu Mingyuan frowned and looked at the man; although the man was rebuking Chen Yan, his current behavior looked more like he was mocking Lu Province for not daring to accept defeat.

"Stop talking," Lu Mingyuan looked at the man.

"Why shouldn't I?" the man roared:

"This is Chen Yan; so this is..."

Just at this moment.

Rumble!!!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar shattered the man's shouting.

The wind and clouds between heaven and earth suddenly changed color, and ink-black clouds surged and gathered like waves, as if a seamless death canopy were shrouding everything in the world.

The man opened his mouth wide, only to be met with the gaze of those eyes overflowing with golden light.

At this moment, it felt as if a scorching great sun had smashed down before his eyes, leaving him unable to catch his breath.

"You are right."

Chen Yan stood beneath the black clouds.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning tore through the layers of clouds, and a blinding instant of light fell upon Chen Yan's body.

In the blink of an eye,

Every wisp of air in the surroundings seemed to be frozen; the tense atmosphere was like a fully drawn bow, ready to snap at any moment.

"I was indeed inconsiderate just now, so now, I shall punish myself by undergoing the Lightning Tribulation to defeat my enemy."

As his voice fell, the man felt as if he were suffocating, a look of terror appearing on his face.

Lu Mingyuan's expression changed slightly.

It was only at this moment that his gaze collided with Chen Yan's.

"You insult me!"

Lu Mingyuan roared, about to explode with rage.

Chen Yan choosing to fight him while undergoing his tribulation was simply looking down on him.

"Three seconds, I'll defeat you."

Lightning flickered above Chen Yan's head, and countless bolts of electricity gathered and shot forth within the clouds; the oppressive sensation from heaven and earth descended, causing one to tremble.

Lu Fukun felt as if he had misheard; three seconds to defeat him?

Waves of angry fire surged within Lu Mingyuan's body.

At this moment, he understood completely that Chen Yan did not consider him a person at all.

"I'll give you three seconds!" Lu Mingyuan roared, his eyes staring fixedly at Chen Yan:

"Once three seconds pass, you will kneel and lick my shoes!"

Boom!

Terrifying pure gold lightning erupted from Lu Mingyuan's body, and the endless lightning pressure spread out instantly; Lu Fukun behind him retreated explosively, not daring to stay.

Immediately following, a terrifying vision of a Thunder Sun falling manifested behind Lu Fukun.

The next instant.

He moved!

Boom!

Blinding golden lightning erupted, the entire world flashed for a moment, and Lu Mingyuan threw only one punch.

But as this punch struck out, countless golden Thunder Suns gathered on his fist, expanding rapidly.

Upon them, countless strands of Kun Secret Flowing Thunder twisted and leaped crazily, crackling loudly.

By the time they appeared before Chen Yan, each Thunder Sun had already expanded to a diameter of one kilometer, blotting out the sky and sun, infinitely terrifying.

This momentum was earth-shattering.

Chen Yu behind Chen Yan turned pale in an instant, feeling the pressure from the Creation Realm, and could barely breathe.

Only at this moment did she understand that the previous battle was nothing more than child's play.

This was the battle that belonged to her older brother.

At this moment, Chen Yan's body retreated slightly, his right fist raised, and an irresistible force manifested within his body, forming a sphere of light on his fist.

"Will!"

Chen Yan whispered.

Before the punch was even thrown, a sea of will erupted from his body, golden-red light covering everything and swallowing everything, as if to suppress heaven and earth.

Just like that, it bypassed those golden Thunder Suns and slammed into Lu Mingyuan's body.

The next instant.

As Chen Yan's gaze sharpened to the extreme.

One punch!

Boom!!!

The light sphere exploded, and ten thousand blinding lasers sprayed out, with pitch-black array patterns appearing on the surface of each, carrying terrifying Ninth-Grade Fist Force, pressing down in an instant!

【Void-Breaking - Saint-Condensing】!

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The terrifying explosive sound was deafening, shattering eardrums and blinding eyes.

In the void, the golden light turned into an ocean, blotting out the sky and sun.

One after another, void rifts stretched across the sky.

Behind them, Chi Yuexi and the other prodigies of Chi Province and Chen Province opened their eyes wide, watching in disbelief.

Following that, the golden light gradually extinguished.

With a squelch.

Lu Mingyuan was covered in blood, his body riddled with countless bloody pits, and he swayed unsteadily.

Compared to that tempered martial art of Chen Yan's, the power of will that had surged into his body from the very beginning was even more terrifying.

That golden-red light devoured all his will, making him forget even how to breathe at this moment.

His body swayed unsteadily, and the next moment, having lost all will, he plummeted toward the earth.

With a thud.

A hand suddenly grabbed Lu Mingyuan by the neck.

Lu Mingyuan looked at those eyes; at this moment, his pupils flickered, and he could not speak.

"It seems it hasn't been three seconds yet."

Chen Yan spoke:

"Is the remaining second enough for you to lick my shoes?"

Boom!

Lu Mingyuan was thrown straight down by Chen Yan, smashing into the earth.

At this moment, the people of Lu Province were pale, unable to say a single word.

Chen Yan turned around and came before the slightly dazed Chen Yu.

"The next family?" the young girl asked, looking up at her brother's fair and sharp facial contours.

"Mm," Chen Yan smiled:

"I will take you to see if the last one, Ji Chuxi, is also unable to withstand a single blow."

Chen Yan's expression was calm.

The world only knew that he cultivated tempering.

But they did not know that the path of will has only four realms.

The first realm, the Speech Realm, corresponds to the first realm of other martial paths.

The second realm, the Standing Realm, corresponds to the fourth realm, the Origin Realm.

The third realm corresponds to the seventh realm, the Creation Realm.

In other words, Chen Yan, at the peak of the Standing Realm, can match the peak of the sixth stage of other martial paths in terms of the Will path!

It is just that Chen Yan has yet to condense a technique and has not truly tapped into the potential of the power of Will.

But it is coming soon.

The first martial technique belonging to the Will path is about to be born!

Crack!

Above the vault of heaven, wild thunder descended.

"Scram!"

Chen Yan threw a punch, and the Ninth-Grade Horizontal Push Fist Realm exploded from bottom to top, blasting the tribulation thunder to pieces.

The wild thunder filling the sky was smashed by the fist force, instantly reversing and surging upward, tearing the firmament apart.

Boom!

A hum that transcended the rules suddenly resonated.

The rules of the Horizontal Refining path were being broken!

The resonance of the rules struck the heart at this moment, the instant this sound rang out.

Across the entire world, gazes turned toward him.

…………

Five minutes ago.

"I don't know what Chen Yan is doing, but the War of Heaven's Prides was started by him."

At the base camp of the Ji Province Heaven's Prides.

A Heaven's Pride named Wang Dao stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Shen Yiwei behind him with a cold expression.

Shen Yiwei swept a faint glance at Wang Dao and ignored him.

Li Mushen, however, noticed the conflict between the two and smiled:

"We will eventually clash with the Five Clans; it is a good thing to understand the strength of both sides in advance."

Wang Dao frowned slightly.

Now, everyone knows that the Heaven's Prides of the Great Xia are paying the price for Chen Yan's words back then.

But no one would say anything.

Because, the current Chen Yan is no longer what he used to be.

Heaven's Prides with a military background like Jidao Wu are even more respectful toward Chen Yan and will not tolerate anyone saying a bad word about him.

But Wang Dao is the Acting Chief of Yu Province, so he does not care about these things.

"If there is a mistake, say it. With the overall situation at stake, if you all don't speak up when there is a mistake, it will only lead to a great disaster in the end!"

Wang Dao continued, looking at Princess Shao'an:

"Princess, this matter must be reported to the State Ruler."

Princess Shao'an raised her eyebrows slightly, knowing that Wang Dao had a straightforward personality, and nodded.

At the very front, Zhang Ting looked calm, with no intention of speaking.

The group flew directly above Chuli Pass.

The people of Ji Province below saw them arrive, and some were already cursing loudly.

Whoosh!

A golden divine chain flew out from a luxuriously decorated courtyard; Ji Chuxi stood upon it, a sneer at the corner of his mouth, looking at Zhang Ting and the others:

"Who wants to fight me?"

"Me." Zhang Ting appeared, his body overflowing with the radiance of white jade; his appearance was very ordinary, his frame slender, and he wore white robes, looking quite scholarly.

Ji Chuxi gave a faint smile, having long known that Zhang Ting would fight him.

After all, Zhang Ting is currently the strongest combatant under the age of one hundred in the Great Xia, and he is in the mid-stage of the Creation Realm.

Ji Chuxi is close to the mid-stage, but has not reached it yet, so the probability of defeating Zhang Ting is not high.

"Who would have thought, you, Zhang Ting, have always been lukewarm, and you couldn't even suppress the internal conflicts in Qin Province.

As it turns out, you are actually the number one among the current Heaven's Prides of the Great Xia."

Ji Chuxi wore a phoenix-patterned golden robe and spoke in a mocking tone.

"Just come and fight." Zhang Ting arrived in front of Ji Chuxi:

"You won't necessarily lose to me; I have served as Acting Chief for many years, and I have fallen behind a lot in my cultivation."

Ji Chuxi narrowed his eyes; the moment Zhang Ting arrived, he sensed waves of powerful sealing force.

It was likely that from just a moment ago, the opponent's force had already permeated the void to form a sealing array against him.

You damn bastard, you are Lu Xunyang's disciple; if Lu Xunyang knew you were this insidious, wouldn't he be ashamed?

"I'm not fighting you." Ji Chuxi spoke with a cold expression and took a step back.

Zhang Ting and the others frowned.

"Ji Chuxi, if you are afraid to fight, then kneel before us!" Jidao Wu had a fiery temper and cursed directly.

Below, the angry curses of the Ji Province people surged like a tide.

"I'm not fighting you, someone else will fight you." Ji Chuxi spoke with a cold expression.

Below, a purple light suddenly struck, appearing beside Ji Chuxi.

This person wore purple robes, his pupils were murky and yellow, and when he smiled, one could glimpse several yellowed and uneven teeth.

The moment the man appeared, the expressions of Zhang Ting and the others changed instantly.

"Liu Xuan, what are you doing?!"

Jidao Wu barked out a low shout, filled with disbelief.

"Liu Xuan, explain yourself." Princess Shao'an rested one hand on her sword hilt, the coldness in her eyes nearly murderous.

The man in the purple robe was none other than Liu Xuan, the descendant of the Divine General Cangyu whom the Great Xia side had been waiting for.

Yet at this moment, Liu Xuan had emerged from within Jizhou.

"Greetings, Princess Shao'an." Liu Xuan bowed slightly toward Shao'an, then immediately revealed a cold, sinister smile:

"The Great Era has arrived, and everyone has the right to choose. I, Liu Xuan, do not want to die, so I chose Jizhou.

You may hate me, you may curse me, but I have already made my decision."

Liu Xuan stood with his hands behind his back, head held high.

The expressions of Zhang Ting and the others were terrifyingly grim.

"Liu Xuan, do you want to disgrace Divine General Cangyu completely?" the man named Wang Dao roared, his eyes turning red.

Liu Xuan was a genius.

The kind who could enter the Eighth Rank in the future.

Losing Liu Xuan was undoubtedly a massive loss for Great Xia.

"I, Liu Xuan, do not want to see the world perish!" Liu Xuan shouted in a low voice:

"Do you really think that just because a Chen Yan appeared, Great Xia is saved?

A single Chen Yan is still only at the Fifth Rank; do you really think he can change anything? Wake up, everyone, Great Xia is beyond saving!"

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Ji Chuxi's mouth.

This was the effect he wanted.

Liu Xuan defected to Jizhou, and he, Ji Chuxi, and Lu Mingyuan of Luzhou did not even need to make a move.

Because Great Xia could not gather enough people.

Even if they did, they would be no match for him at all.

This was the most shameful part.

"Brother Liu Xuan understands the Great Era and is a hero, while Zhang Ting..."

Cold light appeared in Ji Chuxi's eyes:

"What are you still pinning your hopes on?"

In an instant, the expressions of Zhang Ting and the others became extremely ugly.

Liu Xuan chuckled; what shame of treason, what lack of loyalty or righteousness.

After Great Xia perished, he, Liu Xuan, would be a meritorious official of the Five Clans!

Looking at Zhang Ting and the others, the disdain in Liu Xuan's eyes reached its peak:

"A bunch of fools, where exactly is your hope? Where is it?"

The more he spoke, the more righteous he felt; the initial trace of shame vanished completely. He had chosen correctly.

He had truly chosen correctly.

History is a novel rewritten at will by the victors.

So what if he, Liu Xuan, helped the Five Clans destroy Great Xia?

He was a meritorious official, a meritorious official of history, a meritorious official of the future dynasty.

As for Shen Yiwei, as for Shao'an, as for Zhang Ting.

They would all just be dead people, stupid to the point of death, and therefore, dead people.

Yet at this very moment.

Boom!

A massive, thunderous roar suddenly erupted from the distant sky.

Everyone's expression shifted slightly as they looked in that direction.

Is someone undergoing a tribulation?

Who is it?

Judging by this formation, is it a Creation Realm tribulation?

And at this very moment.

Boom!!!

On that side of the distant sky, endless golden light flashed, like the explosion of a nuclear bomb, and then the light and flames dissipated.

Someone squinted; a battle of the Creation Realm had broken out over there.

Ji Chuxi's expression was grave; that was within the borders of Jizhou. Who dared to fight a great battle within Jizhou?

Immediately following.

Dong!

That heavy, low, soul-piercing chime of the Rules came crashing over mountains and rivers.

Endless vibrations struck the hearts of everyone present.

Clatter!!

On the ground, the Jizhou army arrived in droves, and the leading general looked at Ji Chuxi and shouted:

"Chen... Chen Yan is coming!"

Ji Chuxi furrowed his brows.

Zhang Ting and the others were even more astonished, one by one, yet Jidao Wu suddenly laughed.

But immediately following, Jidao Wu choked.

If it wasn't Chen Yan who broke the rules, then who else could it be?

What is Chen Yan trying to do?

It wasn't just Jidao Wu; Zhang Ting and the others were thinking the same question.

"Is he crazy, or is it possible that the one who broke the rules isn't Chen Yan?" Ji Chuxi hissed in a low voice to the Black-Armored General.

"It is him!"

The Black-Armored General's expression was strained:

"He has already consecutively defeated Chen Prefecture, Chi Prefecture, and Lu Prefecture, and now he is crossing the tribulation to come and fight you!"

Ji Chuxi's brain couldn't quite process this.

Liu Xuan, however, had a look of terror emerge in his eyes:

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"It's true!" the Black-Armored General spoke up:

"The Empress is about to arrive to watch the battle; Young Master Chuxi must defeat Chen Yan, our Ji Prefecture cannot lose!!!"