Chapter 556: Faith is Only Me!

Jizhou, Imperial City.

"Chen Yan should have been heavily wounded, but he is not dead."

"Why is he not dead?"

"Just now, someone named Ke Qingxuan in that cabin used her own Qi and blood to envelop the Malice Crystal before she died, protecting Chen Yan's life."

"Damn it, we were so close!"

Inside the great hall.

Sounds of discussion arose one after another.

Many high-ranking officials of Jizhou were sighing; they were just that close.

Just a little bit more, and Chen Yan would have died.

That was an eighth-rank Malice Crystal, after all.

On the throne, the Empress of Jizhou's mood was at its worst.

"Ke Qingxuan!"

She gritted her teeth, never having imagined it would turn out this way.

Just over ten days ago, she was still calling for Ke Qingxuan to enter Jizhou and become a high-ranking official of Jizhou.

Unexpectedly, it was Ke Qingxuan who had now ruined the grand plan of the Five Clans.

It was also at this moment.

Boom!

An earth-shattering roar resounded through the heavens and earth.

A sword shadow that pierced straight through the continent descended, covering the sky and earth as it struck down toward the army at Chuli Pass.

In an instant, the expressions of all the high-ranking Jizhou officials in the great hall changed drastically.

"Xia Hanzhou!"

"What is he trying to do?"

"He's crazy, isn't Chen Yan still alive?"

The Jizhou Sovereign's expression turned cold; her figure appeared in the sky above Jizhou, and with a wave of her hand, a waterfall of jade light slammed toward Chuli Pass.

Hum!

The sword shadow that spanned the heavens instantly shattered the jade light, and the terrifying great sword crashed down.

Rumble!

A massive chasm with a diameter of tens of thousands of miles was carved into Chuli Pass, the earth was severed, and magma churned within it.

The army base that Jizhou had just finished building was annihilated in an instant.

In a split second, tens of thousands of troops perished!

"Xia Hanzhou, you want to start a war!"

Ji Haiyi also flew into the high heavens with blood-red eyes; seeing the casualties on the ground, he was furious to the extreme.

"Start a war?"

Xia Hanzhou roared, slashing out with his sword:

"Isn't that exactly what I'm doing right now?!"

Boom!!!

The massive sword shadow crashed down instantly; Ji Haiyi let out a terrified shriek, thrusting his palms out as layers of jade gates appeared above his head.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

This sword shadow obliterated everything, instantly shattering the jade gates; as it struck home, Ji Haiyi's body was sliced in two in an instant.

"Xia Hanzhou!!!"

Half of Ji Haiyi's corpse was still fleeing, while the other half had been completely obliterated into dust by the sword shadow.

Boom!

"Xia Hanzhou, you are courting death!"

A giant jade hand appeared in the sky above Chuli Pass in an instant, shielding the remaining half of Ji Haiyi's corpse, and the next moment, a finger pointed toward Xia Hanzhou.

Boom!

Xia Hanzhou slashed with his sword again, and ten thousand miles of the void shattered in an instant.

His figure flashed as he continued to kill toward the other half of Ji Haiyi's corpse.

"Hahahaha!!!"

"Kill!!!"

The Blood Sword Saint appeared, and together with the Longevity King, they turned into two streaks of light and charged toward the depths of Jizhou.

The Jizhou Sovereign's face turned livid as she desperately tried to pull Ji Haiyi back.

But the next moment, the jade hand she had manifested was shattered by a slash from Xia Hanzhou's sword.

Half of Ji Haiyi's corpse was hoisted into Xia Hanzhou's hand.

"Ahhhhh!" Ji Haiyi screamed:

"You are inciting a blood war, you're insane!"

"I'm insane?"

Xia Hanzhou's eyes widened:

"I should have been insane long ago! If I don't slaughter your Jizhou with one man and one sword today, you really think I, Xia Hanzhou, am a pushover!"

"Xia Hanzhou!!!" the Jizhou Sovereign roared from afar.

Ji Haiyi is an eighth-rank.

The fall of an Eighth-Rank has a massive impact on an entire nation.

Hum, hum, hum!!!

The surrounding heavens and earth.

Blinding rays of light erupted from above the horizon.

The figures of Master Chen, Master Lu, and Master Chi all appeared.

"Xia Hanzhou, the struggle of the five clans has not yet begun, do not act recklessly!" Master Chi shouted in a low voice.

"Xia Hanzhou, do you intend to fall into a death battle right now?

Can your Great Xia withstand it?" Master Lu spoke in a cold voice.

Hum!

Brilliant sword light pierced the firmament, and Xia Hanzhou raised the Xia Sovereign Sword high:

"Do you recognize what this is?"

In an instant, heaven-toppling power erupted from the long sword, rapidly obliterating all power of rules within ten thousand miles in every direction.

"No!" Ji Hai also wailed.

"This is your grandfather!

You bunch of base animals!

Daring to strike at my Great Xia Divine General, you are courting death!"

Boom!

One sword strike fell!

Thud!

Like the heartbeat of heaven and earth, the endless mountains and seas all trembled violently at this moment.

The living beings of the world looked up in horror.

Red, red, red!

The blood-red sky occupied everything in their sight.

The Qi and blood of heaven and earth, an Eighth-Rank has fallen!

"Kill!!!"

"Kill!!!"

"Kill!!!"

Roars and howls resounded from within Moshan Pass.

Dense as a tide, the Great Xia military guards charged toward Chuli Pass.

The two great armies collided in an instant.

Cold light shot from Xia Hanzhou's eyes; holding the Xia Sovereign Sword, he took a step, and the void shattered.

"Speak!"

He faced the distant side, locking eyes with Master Ji, whose expression was already completely icy and filled with killing intent.

"For plotting against Chen Yan, how many Eighth-Ranks must your Ji Province die?!"

Boom!

Master Ji flew out in an instant, and as she reached out with one hand, the entire Ji Province reflected countless rays of pitch-white jade light.

But following Xia Hanzhou's sword strike, countless cracks appeared in the sky of the entire Ji Province.

One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, billions of sword shadows stacked layer upon layer.

The sky-filling sword shadows seemed intent on leveling everything; the bodies of the Ji Province experts soaring into the air exploded into blood mists amidst shrill screams.

Pfft!

A bloodstain appeared on Master Ji's chest, directly knocking her back onto her throne.

"Empress!"

The various Ji Province experts cried out in horror.

Boom!

The sound of sword ringing erupted like waves and tides.

Under the gaze of countless Ji Province living beings who were terrified to the extreme.

Ji Province...

The sky was slashed open!

Xia Hanzhou thrust his sword!

Clang!

A sword shadow struck, traversing the void, shooting straight toward Master Ji on the throne.

Master Ji reached out with one hand.

With a pfft sound.

She gripped this sword in her hand, the tip of the blade remaining only one centimeter from her beautiful face.

The entire throne erupted with a violent sound of metal clashing.

"Xia Hanzhou, you have gone too far!"

Master Chen's voice was indifferent; he took a step, and the ten-thousand-mile heaven and earth shook.

At the same time.

Master Chi, Master Lu, and even Master Yu appeared above the ocean.

They all raised their hands in unison, and beams of light shot out from between their fingers.

A golden grand array, wrapping around the entire Five Clans, condensed above the void.

The next instant.

The center of the array disc shifted to the sky above Ji Province.

A pillar of light descended from the center of the golden grand array, and the figures of the lords of each province were summoned by the god-level grand array, appearing in the sky above Ji Province.

They gazed at Xia Hanzhou from across the air, their faces all icy cold.

"Enough!" the Chen Lord shouted in a low voice:

"Does your Great Xia not want to participate in the Five Clans Struggle anymore?"

Xia Hanzhou stood holding his sword, and as he brought the sword down, a sword shadow that sliced diagonally across the heavens and earth struck straight toward the Chen Lord.

The Chen Lord flicked his sleeve, and the sleeve robe was sliced off, his expression turning even uglier.

"Interesting!" Xia Hanzhou sneered:

"While killing my people, you ask if my people want to participate in the Five Clans Struggle, interesting!"

The expressions of the lords of each province shifted slightly.

The Ji Lord appeared with a deathly pale face:

"What evidence do you have to say that it was my Ji Province that sent people?"

"To hell with your evidence!" Xia Hanzhou roared in fury:

"Ji Yanwan, if I want to kill you, I can kill you today, do you believe it?"

The Empress of Ji Province's face turned deathly pale to the extreme, and the cold light within those eyes almost froze Xia Hanzhou.

This person is insane!

"You had better pray, pray that Chen Yan is alright.

If anything happens to him, today, your Ji Province shall be destroyed!"

Xia Hanzhou shouted in a low voice, his voice like thunder, causing the entire Ji Province to tremble.

"Destroy!"

"Destroy!"

"Destroy!"

At Chu Li Pass, a million Great Xia military guards roared, that killing intent almost condensing together to drown the entire Ji Province.

The Chen Lord frowned and swept a glance at the Ji Lord.

He also knew about what had just happened; this was something decided after the lords of each clan consulted.

But he had not expected that Chen Yan would not be dead.

Nor had he expected Xia Hanzhou to be this furious.

It seems Chen Yan is indeed heavily injured.

It was impossible for the Chen Lord to truly believe that Chen Yan was traveling through Great Xia and had truly given up on cultivation.

It was not as if no one could travel while cultivating.

In the world, there are also martial arts that are cultivated by experiencing the world, and quite a few at that.

It is just that looking at Xia Hanzhou's current reaction...

Chen Yan must truly be injured.

…………

At the same time.

Within the Huo Yu, Ke Qingxuan was continuously eroded by malice, her own life force dropping to its lowest point in an instant.

At the moment her consciousness still existed.

She saw Xia Hanzhou's fury, she heard the sword hum of the Xia Lord's sword.

The heavens and earth wept blood.

Has an Eighth Rank fallen?

In the final instant of her lingering consciousness, what she perceived was actually a sense of relief.

The heaviness brought to her by her long-standing identity as a spy seemed to have completely dissolved at this moment.

"The moment a person is born, they are walking toward death, preparing for death..."

Such a sentence surfaced in her mind.

"I am not living to live, but so that my own death has meaning."

"Does it have meaning?"

"That Chen Yan is different; he can see through the human heart, he perhaps knows where the truth lies."

"So, is my death not meaningless?"

"Right?"

Everything about her was collapsing.

Following this, the temperature around her continuously rose.

She heard a woman's weeping.

"Brother, I was scared to death just now, wuwuwu..."

That was Chen Yu's voice.

Is Chen Yan not dead?

In the endless darkness, Ke Qingxuan felt a trace of something unusual.

She had protected that person.

Her death had meaning.

Inside the magma world.

The Director of the Imperial Observatory unleashed their Qi and blood to partition the fire domain.

Before Chen Yan, Ke Qingxuan had already become a mummified corpse, and the Malice Crystal on her chest was slowly writhing, the malice overflowing from within it suffocating.

Chen Yu watched nervously, having been pulled to the side by the Director of the Imperial Observatory.

"Why are you here?" The Director of the Imperial Observatory frowned as they looked at Shen Xin beside them.

"I..." Shen Xin's expression trembled slightly.

Just a moment ago, he had inquired about Chen Yan's strength.

And that young man had not concealed it.

In the path of physical tempering, the other party was simply a monstrous, inhuman talent.

He could be certain that even if the Chen family increased the difficulty to forty times, Chen Yan could still enter the Five Clans Struggle!

Terrifying!

This was the number one genius in history!

Shen Xin's worldview had been refreshed.

He was ecstatic in his heart; it seemed his subordinate would not meet with disaster.

Until the very end, Shen Xin had once again raised that question.

That was...

Did Chen Yan truly have extreme faith in the Lord of Will?

But just as he asked, the Director of the Imperial Observatory arrived.

"I only came to witness the Great Xia Divine General." Shen Xin spoke, pointing at Ke Qingxuan, who no longer looked human:

"There is an eighth-rank Malice Crystal inside her body; it must be suppressed quickly, otherwise she will be converted into an Ancient God Beast in a short time."

Shen Xin's expression was grave.

That was an eighth-rank Malice Crystal.

How could such a thing appear?

It was simply shocking.

"Mm." The Director of the Imperial Observatory nodded.

"Then, why not act yet?" Shen Xin said hurriedly.

"Wait a moment." The Director of the Imperial Observatory shook their head.

Xia Hanzhou had asked them to bring Ke Qingxuan to this place.

They understood, after all, Ke Qingxuan had died for Chen Yan.

It was normal for Chen Yan to perhaps have some feelings for her.

Ke Qingxuan had not died in vain, either.

If not for her, that Malice Crystal would have exploded, and the other Creation Realm experts within the surrounding warships would have met with disaster.

The Malice Crystal had sensed Ke Qingxuan's Qi and blood and merged into her body, which was why it hadn't exploded.

Ke Qingxuan was a heroine.

Especially since this person had once been a spy, the Director of the Imperial Observatory had even thought about killing Ke Qingxuan.

Now, the Director of the Imperial Observatory's feelings were indeed complex.

It was a pity about Ke Qingxuan.

Chen Yan, perhaps like them, wanted to see Ke Qingxuan one last time.

After all, in a moment, the Director of the Imperial Observatory would directly destroy Ke Qingxuan's physical body and suppress that Malice Crystal.

"My Great Xia does not lack heroes, only the era!" The Director of the Imperial Observatory spoke with complex emotions, looked at Shen Xin, and patted the other party's shoulder.

Shen Xin's expression changed slightly, not yet understanding the meaning of the Director of the Imperial Observatory.

"Director Shen."

Suddenly, Chen Yan's voice rang out.

Shen Xin looked at Chen Yan.

"I have never said that I believe in the Lord of Will; I don't know where you heard that news." Chen Yan said calmly, his eyes still locked on the Malice Crystal on Ke Qingxuan's body.

"Kill... kill... me, I beg... I beg..."

Ke Qingxuan, who had turned into a mummified corpse, mumbled with difficulty.

Her physical body was still constantly tightening and dehydrating; it was hard to imagine what kind of pain she was enduring.

Shen Xin, however, was staring fixedly at Chen Yan.

The other party had never believed in the Lord of Will?

Golden-red light slowly overflowed from the body of the young man sitting quietly, his eyes as deep as if they contained the human world.

"If you ask who I truly believe in, there is indeed one."

"Who?" Shen Xin asked in surprise.

Chen Yan slowly extended his right hand, and the eyes of the Director of the Imperial Observatory widened instantly.

Chen Yan spoke calmly.

"Chen Yan, what are you doing!!!" The Director of the Imperial Observatory roared, unable to believe Chen Yan's current action.

They appeared beside Chen Yan and grabbed out in an instant.

The next instant.

Chen Yan's right hand had already made contact with that Malice Crystal.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Countless roars that were filthy, evil, indescribable, shrill, grinning, and chaotic resounded throughout the entire Huo Yu.

Boom!!!

Malice erupted!

Under the gaze of Shen Xin, who was trembling to the extreme.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

That crystal, which seemed to have condensed all the filth of the human world, was gripped in the hand of Chen Yan.

The power of a brilliant will erupted, with billions of red rays floating amidst the Huo Yu, sweeping across the endless filth of the human world.

Chen Yan's right hand began to visibly wither, corrode, and dry up.

But where the right hand disappeared, golden-red light gathered to form another type of right hand, gripping that crystal of malice in its grasp.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!!

Like ice water splashed onto a red-hot iron plate.

In the eyes of the Director of the Directorate of Celestials, which were nearly filled with terror, he clearly saw.

That crystal of malice showed signs of being corroded!

Chen Yan looked at Shen Xin:

"I cannot think of anyone else besides myself who is worthy of being worshipped by me, Chen Yan."