Chapter 540: I Change the Era, Breaking Limits Without End!

Inside Moshan Pass, Xia Hanzhou narrowed her eyes, watching from afar as she appeared gracefully beside Chen Yan.

She wore pitch-black battle armor, her curvaceous figure appearing even more alluring against the armor's backdrop, yet paired with those icy and noble eyes, it gave one a sense of awe.

"Chen Clan, Chen Yan."

She narrowed her eyes.

"Greetings... greetings, Empress."

Pfft!

Ji Chuxi was covered in blood, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The Empress of Jizhou cast a sidelong glance at Ji Chuxi, then paid her no more mind.

"Whatever the Great Xia gives you, I will give you double; as long as you are willing to join Jizhou, I will give you whatever you want."

The Empress of Jizhou spoke quietly, looking at Chen Yan with indifference.

Chen Yan's physical body was still breaking its limits, and at this moment, he looked toward the Empress of Jizhou, toward that cold and tall silhouette.

"I want the world to be free of malice," Chen Yan said.

The Empress of Jizhou's expression stiffened slightly; she had an innate aversion to men, yet this time, she looked at Chen Yan.

"Naive!" the Empress of Jizhou snapped:

"The Great Xia values you because your talent is exceptional; they do not want to give you up. In their eyes, you are still just a tool.

I do not wish to see a genius like you die on the battlefield in the future; it would be better to choose early."

Chen Yan frowned slightly; as the saying goes, there is no point in talking to those who do not share one's path.

He did not intend to continue speaking.

The Empress of Jizhou also saw Chen Yan's current attitude, and her brows furrowed deeply.

She was a noble Empress who had come in person to see him, yet she received only this attitude? To what extent was this child arrogant?

"Can the world's malice be extinguished?" the Empress of Jizhou asked once more.

"It can."

"By what? By the Path of Will?" A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of the Empress of Jizhou's mouth.

She stepped forward slowly, the lightning tribulation around her appearing as easy to extinguish as a gentle breeze in her eyes.

"Yes," Chen Yan nodded.

"Boy, ignorance brings you absolute arrogance and confidence."

The Empress of Jizhou spoke indifferently:

"Malice has evolved for tens of thousands of years and has never been extinguished. The Path of Will can extinguish it, but you have never truly seen real malice, real terror.

Once the Ancient Gods awaken, the world will face true destruction."

Disgust appeared in her eyes.

If not for the fact that Chen Yan was indeed outstanding, she would not be explaining these things to him as if teaching a kindergarten student.

She looked at Chen Yan, looking at this heaven-defying talent who, if he did not die, would surely be more brilliant than her in the future, wanting to see something in the other's eyes.

Wanting to know what other incredibly naive things this Chen Yan would say.

"Will cannot extinguish malice, but the Lord of Will can," a clear voice rang out.

The Empress of Jizhou was stunned by this sentence for two seconds.

"You can make contact with the Lord of Will?" the Empress of Jizhou's voice deepened.

"I cannot, but I believe he will arrive," Chen Yan's voice fell.

The Empress of Jizhou pursed her red lips and shook her head slightly.

So the Divine General chosen by the Great Xia was actually a believer hoping for someone else's arrival.

This discovery made her find it hard to believe, yet she felt it carried a hint of mystery.

Could it be that having enough faith in the Lord of Will allows one to achieve extraordinary results on the Path of Will?

The Empress of Jizhou pondered, then spoke coldly:

"State your conditions; how can I let Ji Chuxi go?"

"I want the Life Array of one person."

Surprise appeared in the Empress of Jizhou's eyes, and she immediately narrowed them:

"Who?"

"Ji Yannian."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, the coldness in the Empress of Jizhou's eyes became increasingly apparent:

"It is your younger sister; has Ji Yannian been in your sister all this time?"

Chen Yan did not speak, merely sitting calmly.

The Empress of Jizhou lifted her chin slightly:

"This matter is up for further discussion."

"I also want the life of one person," Chen Yan said.

"Who?" the Empress of Jizhou spoke indifferently, the killing intent in her eyes becoming increasingly apparent.

"Liu Xuan."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, the Empress of Jizhou reacted for a few seconds before recalling who Liu Xuan was.

"You are truly insatiable," she narrowed her eyes:

"No."

"Then I only want the Life Array," Chen Yan spoke again.

"For the first time, a youth not yet twenty is actually threatening me. Very well."

The Empress of Jizhou looked at Chen Yan, the cold light in her eyes growing increasingly intense, and then her figure slowly dissipated.

Chen Yan knew deep down that if he had demanded the Life Array from the start, the Empress of Jizhou, out of consideration for her own interests and national dignity, would certainly have haggled repeatedly.

But by adding Liu Xuan's life to the mix, for the Empress of Jizhou, refusing Liu Xuan's life while only giving up a Life Array—

In her weighing of the situation, she would feel this was a relatively acceptable condition.

This was the strategy Chen Yan had devised based on his judgment of the Empress of Jizhou's psychology and the situation; it could achieve his goal without causing the negotiations to collapse entirely.

The matter was settled.

Chen Yan continued to break through his realm.

He was bare-chested, enveloped by golden-red Immortal Will, his physical body recovering repeatedly after being slashed apart.

Behind him, True Dragon Dharma Manifestations radiated an overwhelming, heaven-shaking aura and pressure.

This was a battle in pursuit of the pinnacle of will.

While Chen Yan was forcefully resisting the lightning tribulation, he was also constantly tempering his body.

Coupled with the effect of the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Forms Seed, Chen Yan's body tempering this time was smooth and perfect.

The application of will also requires technique.

The human body is like a treasure vault with countless secret passages; tempering the body is the process of constantly expanding the vault and excavating the true meaning of the flesh.

In the past, every time Chen Yan cultivated, all sorts of errors would occur.

These errors made Chen Yan's cultivation results less than perfect.

But with the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Forms Seed, everything was different.

It was like two children building a snowman.

One relies on brute force to pile up the snow.

The other not only relies on brute force but also seeks out tools.

The reason Chen Yan was breaking his limits so rapidly this time was, on one hand, that his will had become stronger, and on the other, because the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Forms Seed had increased Chen Yan's comprehension.

Chen Yan took out a Sun-Grade Grade-B Body-Tempering Treasure Pill.

This was something Chen Yan had obtained at the Divine General Temple and had not yet used.

This time, Chen Yan swallowed the treasure pill into his stomach in one go; accompanied by the spiritual liquid beginning to temper his body, Chen Yan's physical form radiated an even more brilliant light.

Thump, thump, thump...!

A series of sounds of breaking through realms rang out.

The number of True Dragon Dharma Manifestations behind Chen Yan was also constantly increasing.

"You really are a lunatic."

Ji Chuxi watched from afar, her tone strained.

It was the first time she had seen someone tempering their body while undergoing a lightning tribulation, and even more perversely, this person was also breaking through their realm.

What on earth is wrong with the heavens?

How could it give birth to such a freak?

The three hundred and seventy-fifth True Dragon Dharma Manifestation.

The three hundred and seventy-sixth!

The three hundred and eighty-fifth!

The three hundred and ninetieth!

Having broken through his realm fifty-seven times, Chen Yan's eyes began to bloodshot, and signs of collapse appeared on his body.

Hum!

The Immortal Will erupted crazily, and Chen Yan's physical body began to recover once more.

"The Chen Clan's judgment is that at my Fifth-Order peak, I can reach four hundred and five True Dragon Dharma Manifestations."

Chen Yan whispered in his heart, the battle intent in his eyes still surging:

"If I cannot even shatter the judgments of others, what kind of Master of Will am I?"

On Chen Yan's body, that golden-red light, as vigorous as the great sun, began to erupt.

Thousands of strands of rosy light even pierced through the sphere of lightning tribulation at this moment, spilling their radiance into the outside world.

Above the earth, everyone watched.

All gazes were fixed on that sphere of lightning tribulation.

They did not know what deal Chen Yan had made with the Empress of Jizhou; now, what everyone noticed was that soaring will that was constantly breaking its limits.

As time slowly passed.

Even though it was night.

The entire Chuli Pass was still illuminated by that golden-red sun, incomparably bright.

An Eighth-Order expert of Jizhou arrived, carrying Ji Yannan's Life Array; standing before the sphere of lightning tribulation, their expression was dazed.

"The number of times he has broken through his realm has already surpassed Bing Yi."

"And it is still surpassing it."

"Bing Yi only broke through his realm forty-eight times last time, but he... has already done it sixty-three times!"

Sounds of astonishment rang out across the earth one after another.

Many people compared Chen Yan to Bing Yi.

But at this moment, it felt somewhat dreamlike.

Bing Yi, who hovered between life and death, had only broken through his realm forty-eight times.

But Chen Yan had broken through more than a dozen more times than Bing Yi.

One must know that the willpower required for each additional breakthrough is immeasurable.

The willpower Chen Yan needed to expend from his forty-eighth breakthrough to his sixty-third was greater than what Bing Yi needed to break through forty-eight times.

It is unimaginable.

Chen Yu's small hands were twisted together.

She had also attempted to break through, and she knew that pain well.

It was...

Unimaginable.

For some reason, tears streamed from the young girl's eyes, her face tear-streaked like a pear blossom in the rain.

Feeling her brother's breakthrough from such close proximity made her feel incredibly distressed.

She was different from the others.

The Great Xia Military Guard would be shocked, would be proud, would have faith.

But she would feel heartache.

"If a person can endure extreme pain, it means they have always been in a sea of suffering close to this kind of pain."

The young girl wiped her tears, her petite shoulders trembling slightly; her usually lively eyes were now blurred by tears, and her aggrieved sobs echoed softly.

Lu Jianxia, not far away, looked over.

She knew this was Chen Yan's younger sister.

Was his sister feeling heartache for her brother?

Lu Jianxia murmured in her heart, then turned around the next moment and left directly.

Countless complex thoughts drove her departure.

She did not want to see, did not want to think, and did not want to be someone who could only watch.

The heart-trembling sounds of the breakthroughs were enough to make one freeze.

Even the Rank 8 from Ji Province who had brought the Ji Yannan Life Array began to hesitate.

He had come to exchange for Ji Chuxi with Chen Yan, but he did not know if he should speak now.

It was at this moment.

"Give that thing to my sister."

A faint voice sounded from within the sphere of lightning tribulation.

The Ji Province Rank 8's expression trembled, and his gaze sought out Chen Yu.

He flew before Chen Yu and looked toward the lightning tribulation sphere once more.

Chen Yu was stunned, not knowing what her brother had done.

Only the woman in the red dress, Ji Yannan, within the world of consciousness, fell into an eerie silence at this moment.

Boom!

A mangled body was casually tossed out from the lightning tribulation sphere by Chen Yan; it was the blood-covered Ji Chuxi.

"Brother Chuxi is indeed impressive, to have been able to fight me to such an extent."

Chen Yan's voice rang out, and Ji Chuxi felt like dying.

The Ji Province Rank 8 caught Ji Chuxi's body, then handed an exquisitely carved jade box to Chen Yu and left without looking back.

Too shameful.

Damn it!

Chen Yan, you bastard, you are truly vicious.

It would have been fine if you hadn't said that, but you had to say it.

The world can see that you are trading with Ji Province, using Ji Chuxi to extract benefits.

Ji Province has been threatened!

Damn it!

The Ji Province Rank 8 had lost all face; he hated Chen Yan to death at this moment, and hated Ji Chuxi even more.

But there was no help for it; Ji Chuxi was truly not weak.

Who could have known he would be suppressed by Chen Yan to that extent?

Only Chen Yu stood there blankly; she held the jade box in her hands and then opened it gently.

An array disc floated softly inside the jade box, wrapped in a layer of seemingly tangible crimson light, surging violently, just like a mass of never-extinguishing karmic fire, scorching and overbearing.

The woman in the red dress watched, her heart surging, and said slowly:

"This is Teacher's Life Array; it can help you ascend to become an Array Venerable."

Chen Yu was stunned.

The next moment, countless emotions stirred in her heart.

Time passed slowly.

…………

"Is he not finished yet?"

In Yu Province, the Yu Master roared:

"Xia Hanzhou!!!"

He regretted it to death.

He wanted to kill Xia Hanzhou; if not for Xia Hanzhou, he would not have had to watch Bing Yi become increasingly monstrous.

Now that Chen Yan was not dead, the Yu Master was truly suffering to death.

It is so uncomfortable.

…………

Myriad Aspects Island.

Chen Changyuan's expression was gloomy to the extreme; at this moment, he sat listlessly inside the flying warship, too lazy to even breathe.

The Ancient Dream God Beast has still not appeared.

It is very likely that it fought against the Continent Bright of Myriad Aspects Island and died.

And Chen Yan is becoming stronger and stronger, so strong that it is hard for him to accept.

Hum.

A blurry figure appeared before Chen Changyuan.

"You have come." Chen Changyuan looked at the person who arrived and revealed a miserable smile.

"Seeing you like this, I am very disappointed."

The blurry figure spoke quietly.

"Disappointed?" Endless killing intent erupted in Chen Changyuan's eyes:

"If you can be disappointed, I actually feel much better."

The blurry figure said with a calm expression:

"Have you thought it over?"

Chen Changyuan's expression turned gloomy in an instant.

"My whole life has been a struggle, pursuing invincibility; if I cannot surpass you, how can I be invincible?"

The blurry figure was silent for a long time, then continued:

"But Chen Yan is now a mountain you simply cannot cross."

Chen Changyuan's expression trembled, and he immediately revealed an endless bitter smile.

…………

This night.

Was destined to be sleepless.

But the next two days were even more agonizing for the people of Ji Continent.

When the first light of the third day shone upon the human world.

When the final low hum resounded throughout the world.

The rules of the world were raised to a new peak.

Chen Yan of Great Xia, broke the limit of the Dharma Realm eighty-one times.

True Dragon Dharma Manifestations, 414!

Ascending to the Solitary Self Realm!

Changing the era, endless limit-breaking!