Chapter 537: I Tread Upon the Heaven-Chosen

Chen Yan of the Great Xia is about to break through his realm; while ascending to the sixth realm of the Hardened Path, the Solitary Self Realm, he is to fight Ji Chuxi of Ji Province.

This news spread almost simultaneously with the resonance of the laws produced by Chen Yan's breakthrough, sweeping across the entire Ji Province and even the Five Clans like a tidal wave.

Inside Moshan Pass.

The million-strong Great Xia military guards instantly boiled over.

First hearing the sound of the breakthrough, then learning of the battle against the Five Clans.

"Immortal!"

It was unknown who suddenly shouted this word.

Immediately following.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

In an instant, streaks of crimson blood-energy erupted from within Moshan Pass, shattering the clouds and sky.

The vast army assembled, surging like a red tide toward Chuli Pass!

"He... he... has appeared..."

San Jin, clad in white battle armor, had eyes as clear as springs; gazing at the thousands of military shadows sweeping past the pass, starlight flickered in San Jin's eyes, making them exceptionally bright.

Crack.

The door to a cultivation chamber opened.

Jiang Yuan walked out, twisting his neck, which kept popping with 'click-clack' sounds.

"Damn it!"

"If I didn't show up, I was going to be bored to death."

Jiang Yuan muttered in speechlessness.

The Great Xia told him to impersonate Chen Yan, and Jiang Yuan thought he would have to constantly show off in front of people, but as soon as he arrived in Ji Province, he was locked in a cultivation chamber by the Longevity King.

Worried he would give the game away.

Jiang Yuan was truly stifled.

At this moment, looking at the sky and clouds, he actually felt a sense of regained freedom.

But, a feeling of numbness and emptiness followed immediately.

"I, the dignified head of the Second-Rank General Stars, the dignified head of the Second-Rank..."

The corners of Jiang Yuan's mouth drooped slightly:

"I don't believe you can defeat Ji Chuxi without exposing your Blood-Energy Path."

"And you're even undergoing a tribulation..."

Jiang Yuan cursed and swore as he flew into the high sky.

Yet he suddenly saw Yu Sixian flying over from the side:

"Old brother."

Yu Sixian revealed a gentle smile, but that trace of morbidity remained hidden in the depths of his eyes.

On the battlefield, Yu Sixian could best display his talents.

Corpses were free here; just the number of Fifth-Rank puppets Yu Sixian had crafted exceeded three hundred, and there were thousands more at the Origin Realm.

"Old brother, I haven't seen you in a long time; I thought you were dead, which made me happy for quite a while." Yu Sixian chuckled, opening his arms as he flew toward Jiang Yuan.

"Little brother." Jiang Yuan looked at Yu Sixian with a grin, then grabbed with one hand, pressing a telekinetic array disc overflowing with purple lightning onto Yu Sixian.

Boom!

Yu Sixian was driven into the ground by Jiang Yuan.

At this time, on both the Ji Province and Great Xia sides, countless people were flying toward Chuli Pass.

The entire Ji Province was in chaos at this moment.

Even the masons building the Temple of the Lord of Will at the border of Chuli Pass and Moshan Pass put down their tools and ran toward Chuli Pass.

The million-strong army of the Great Xia, gazing at the terrifying lightning tribulation above the clouds, reached the peak of their reverence for Chen Yan.

"Such a terrifying lightning tribulation, he is worthy of being himself, worthy of being Chen Yan."

"He is still breaking his limits, still undergoing the tribulation, yet he wants to challenge Ji Chuxi; only he could do such a thing."

"Hahaha, what Ji Chuxi, what Lu Mingyuan, they are nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs; they must lower their heads when they meet Chen Yan."

"This is a Divine General; he doesn't appear unless he intends to shock the heavens and the earth."

Dong!

The deep and grand resonance of the laws continued to spread like waves.

Rumble!

The ink-black clouds in the vault of heaven boiled like purgatory, and the ten-thousand-foot lightning, scorching the sky and earth, wove into a net that covered the sky within the clouds.

The lightning tribulation was fierce!

The thousand-mile sky turned completely gloomy, and the continuously flashing wild lightning was like the wrath of the Heavenly Lord, pressing down so hard that the living beings on the earth could not catch their breath.

Crack!

A waterfall-like thunderbolt poured down instantly, its sudden brightness seemingly devouring all light between heaven and earth.

On the earth, everyone could only see that twisted, blinding flash.

For tens of thousands of miles around.

Countless experts saw this scene, their gazes locked at this moment, locked onto that figure in green robes standing horizontally in the void, as steady as an abyss and as firm as a mountain.

At the center of the lightning tribulation, Chen Yan's robes billowed incessantly, yet at this moment, he raised both hands to receive the wild thunder.

The wild thunder would only destroy the human body, but Chen Yan possessed an Immortal Will that could repair his flesh.

Destroyed and restored.

This is simply a natural treasure medicine for body tempering.

Crack!

The thunderstorm slammed into Chen Yan, and the surging ocean of thunder wrapped around Chen Yan, transforming into a thunder sphere several miles in diameter; blinding blue light erupted from it, and ten thousand branched lightning bolts bloomed simultaneously, illuminating the heavens and earth in a stark white.

This moment was shocking to the world.

On the earth, weak citizens of Jizhou knelt down directly, and timid children had already collapsed to the ground, crying out loud.

Even the experts from Great Xia and Jizhou watching from afar were astonished.

Chen Yan was actually intending to use the heavenly thunder to temper his body.

High above in the distant void.

A graceful phantom sat upon a throne, resting her head on the back of her hand, watching this scene from afar.

"Empress, Chen Yan is so arrogant, why not..."

An old crone wearing a black robe appeared beside the Empress of Jizhou with a hunched back, a sinister light emerging in her turbid eyes.

The Empress of Jizhou waved her hand, and beneath her high, delicate nose, her thin lips pursed slightly, forming an arc of nearly zero degrees.

"Xia Hanzhou has come; if he hadn't, I truly would have taken action."

The Empress of Jizhou said quietly, her pair of pitch-black eyes seemingly wanting to see right through Chen Yan.

"I want to see just how monstrous this so-called number one genius in the world really is."

Beside her, the old crone's expression turned cold:

"For this brat to undergo his tribulation to fight Ji Chuxi, he is far too rampant."

The Empress of Jizhou narrowed her eyes and did not speak.

At the same time.

In a distant place.

The thunder sphere wrapping around Chen Yan continued to expand, and above the firmament, an endless stream of thunder crashed down, flowing into it.

The firmament suddenly collapsed into a lightning vortex; inside the thunder sphere, the green robes on Chen Yan were instantly destroyed, revealing his sturdy upper body.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Trails of blood appeared on Chen Yan's body.

Letting the thunder plasma pour into his meridians through his seven orifices, Chen Yan unleashed his Immortal Will while simultaneously beginning to repair his own physical body.

This was a process of the physical body being destroyed and then restored.

Within the Origin Space, the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Seed began to overflow with radiance, increasing Chen Yan's comprehension.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, the green light representing physical energy and the orange light representing strength began to emerge.

Body tempering is a process of understanding one's own physical body and rebuilding it.

There has never been a truly perfect thing in this world.

But with the help of the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Seed, the Saint-Breaking Tree, and the path of Will, Chen Yan was approaching perfection infinitely.

The world could not imagine how high the quality of Chen Yan's cultivation was at this moment.

At this moment, Chen Yan was as if undergoing a complete nirvana, summoning a more powerful self beneath the boundless thunder tribulation.

Roar!

A dragon's roar bellowed!

Three hundred and thirty-five True Dragon Dharma Forms manifested!

And in the next moment.

Boom!

The rules belonging to the Law-Extinguishing Realm were broken once again.

The three hundred and thirty-sixth True Dragon Dharma Form manifested behind Chen Yan.

Boom!

The three hundred and thirty-seventh!

Boom!

The three hundred and thirty-eighth!

The three hundred and thirty-ninth!

The three hundred and fortieth!

Such a speed of breaking through realms left the world speechless.

Fast!

Fast to the extreme!

One could see the brilliant thunder sphere constantly traversing the void, with countless thunder snakes shooting out from it.

The world could not see the figure of the person inside the thunder sphere, only hear those sounds of rules shattering that shocked the depths of their hearts.

Some Jizhou living beings watched this scene, their hearts trembling, and as if their legs had lost all strength, they actually knelt down directly.

For the first time, they felt at close range the pressure from the person named Chen Yan, who came from Great Xia, from Qinzhou, and from Qingshan.

If Bing Yi is a god of slaughter.

Then this Chen Yan...

A demon king!

A thorough demon king—overbearing, decisive, and fierce.

This gave everyone a completely different feeling.

Such a feeling.

The geniuses from Chenzhou, Chizhou, and Luzhou following behind Chen Yan felt it even more intensely.

Chi Yuexi felt her scalp tingle:

"Could it be that he specifically waited until he was about to break through his realm to come and fight us?"

Her voice fell, and no one answered; Lu Fukun wanted to laugh, feeling it was absurd.

He knew some people would put pressure on themselves, but he had never seen anyone put pressure on themselves like this.

He was the first one who didn't believe it.

But the reality was just like this.

Chen Yan, was he really going to cross his tribulation while fighting Ji Chuxi?

What kind of nonsense is this?!

Several hundred miles away from the lightning sphere.

Ji Chuxi's expression turned cold.

What was Chen Yan trying to do?

What did Chen Yan take him, Ji Chuxi, for?

Ji Chuxi also had his pride.

Nonsense, he was second on the Five Clans Ranking.

What kind of people were ranked above him?

Chen Yunyou.

Bing Yi.

If he, Ji Chuxi, really fought Chen Yan while he was crossing his tribulation, regardless of whether he won or not, the world would think he was a joke.

"Tell the Empress, I want to wait for him to finish crossing his tribulation!"

Ji Chuxi looked at the man in black armor beside him.

The man in black armor was startled, then immediately contacted the higher-ups, and followed up with a bitter voice:

"The meaning from above is that Young Master Ji Chuxi had best severely injure the opponent while Chen Yan is crossing his tribulation, and take his flesh and blood for the clan to study."

His voice resounded in Ji Chuxi's mind, and Ji Chuxi's expression stiffened instantly.

The higher-ups certainly thought more thoroughly.

But he, Ji Chuxi, was not willing.

Ji Chuxi gritted his teeth, his body unable to stop trembling.

He also knew that now was the best time to strike.

This was also the result of Chen Yan courting death and being arrogant.

But after this matter, the world would also mock him, Ji Chuxi.

He, a Seventh-Order Creation Realm, fighting a Fifth-Order, even if he won, it was already faceless.

To defeat the opponent while they were crossing their tribulation was even more faceless.

Actually, Ji Chuxi had no need to think this way at all.

After all, being able to win against Chen Yan was already quite good; this was the thought of the higher-ups.

But Ji Chuxi, subconsciously, still placed himself on the same level as Chen Yan.

In the days to come, if he became Eighth-Order, Chen Yan would also be Eighth-Order.

The gap between them would not be very large.

Ji Chuxi always felt that he must also be the most top-tier prodigy.

He was second on the Five Clans Ranking, who would say he wasn't a prodigy?

Ji Chuxi still had his arrogance.

But the next moment.

Boom!

A red light erupted instantly from within the Great Xia territory, where Qi Province was located, shooting straight into the clouds.

Including the Ten Thousand Phases Island, the Thirteenth Province appeared!

That red light seemed to carry a shout, carry endless majesty, and carry the supreme glory of a nation, appearing in the human world!

Across the vast ocean, across ten thousand times ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, it looked across the distance at Chen Yan, who was crossing his tribulation within Ji Province.

"Divine General!"

Within the Great Xia territory, women gazed infatuatedly, old men smiled with gratification, and youths cast looks of immense respect.

Dong!

The sound of the Rules rang out!

Jidao Wu, Xi Congyun, Li Muyun, Princess Shao'an, and others flew one by one toward where the lightning sphere was.

Their expressions were nervous and excited, yet at the same time carried a trace of worry.

"Immortal!"

Jidao Wu spoke, bowing his waist.

"Immortal!"

Xi Congyun's expression was complex, and he also bowed; now he only felt that a natural chasm existed between him and Chen Yan.

"Immortal!"

Mu Ziwei, Jiang Miaoxuan, Li Muyun, Yin Youming, and the other remaining General Stars all bowed at this moment.

They stood on both sides, clearing the way for the Great Xia Divine General who was traversing the void.

"Immortal!"

"Immortal!"

"Immortal!"

Over a million Martial Guards formed into square formations, their blood-lust-filled shouts resounding through heaven and earth, threatening to drown out the sound of the lightning tribulation.

The force and blood-Qi erupting from their bodies obscured the mortal world; like an endless army of heavenly soldiers, they parted neatly to both sides.

The vast and mighty military prestige of the Great Xia instantly suppressed Chuli Pass.

They were the army that suppressed Ji Province, the heroic division that suppressed rebellion.

They had waited for the arrival of the Divine General.

Immediately following, earth-shaking shouts of battle erupted.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

A million shouts of battle converged, like a landslide or a tsunami.

The army at Chuli Pass was frightened pale.

They had been at war with the Great Xia army for half a year, yet had never seen the Great Xia Martial Guards possess such might.

Some veteran soldiers of Ji Province trembled in the face.

It was as if they recalled that scene from years ago when Lu Xunyang led the great army.

Shen Yiwei stood in the distance, his eyes full of sighs and deep emotion.

People of the world today would not mention Chen Yan and Lu Xunyang in the same breath.

And he, too, had finally stepped out from the shadow of his master.

Behind Chen Yan.

Chen Yu flew through the high sky, watching the lightning tribulation enveloping her brother.

The young girl's eyes held pride, excitement, and also worry and heartache.

Within the consciousness space.

The red-skirted woman Ji Yannan had completely understood Chen Yan's intentions.

From the very beginning, Chen Yan had wanted to rely on himself to take back the Life Array.

"But this method of yours is truly..."

Ji Yannan's expression trembled, and she was somewhat unable to speak.

Crack!

The heavenly lightning poured down!

The lightning sphere enveloping Chen Yan would at times collapse to the size of a small building, and at others expand like a mountain.

Yet the terrifying power of the lightning tribulation was constantly condensing, becoming increasingly horrific.

Boom, boom, boom!

Sounds of breaking through realms rang out one after another!

Inside the sphere of lightning tribulation.

Chen Yan was bare-chested, and bloodstains overflowing with lightning light condensed and burst open across his body.

Countless bolts of lightning were whipping his physical body.

Yet Chen Yan was reveling in it.

"This is the charm of willpower!"