Chapter 575: Five Clans Shocked, Domain War Begins

【With a heart for the world rather than the self, the will shall not perish, and the red heart shall exist forever!】

Purple light rose in the heavens, and at this moment, countless people looked up in awe.

Within a manor filled with blood vines.

A woman in golden attire stared at the night sky, her gaze seemingly piercing through layers of darkness to reach the endless distance.

The purple light danced in her eyes, her lips trembled slightly, and her throat felt as if it were blocked by something.

"How could it be like this?" Lu Wuyi spoke in shock, breathing becoming rapid:

"Five Creation Realm experts surrounding and killing a heavily injured Chen Yan, yet they failed.

Young Master Cunyang is by no means that weak; this should not be the result!"

His eyes were somewhat bloodshot, and his entire face trembled incessantly:

"What heart for the world, what will that does not perish—he is a traitor of the Great Xia, how can you evaluate him like this?!"

He felt somewhat unwilling.

The traitor who killed Lu Cunyang is evaluated this way; could it be that his own Young Master is the traitor?

How is that possible?!

Boom!

A terrifying wave of Qi erupted from Lu Wuyi's body, and increasingly intense rage and hatred surged madly within his eyes.

Until the next moment, he slowly closed his eyes.

"Young Master Cunyang..." the golden-haired Lu Wuyi spoke tremblingly, looking at the sky and bowing deeply:

"I, Lu Wuyi, swear to kill Chen Yan and avenge my Young Master!"

Beside him, Lu Jianxia slowly closed her eyes, endless regret and resentment drowning her like a tide, and the darkness seemed about to swallow her whole.

Has it already reached this point?

"The Young Master is dead..." she murmured with difficulty.

…………

Atop a giant mountain where filthy and evil things grew, black tentacles swayed in the wind like seaweed.

The red-haired number one of the Creation Realm, Chen Mi, gazed at the horizon with an ugly expression.

"Over eight thousand spirits of divinity, but fortunately, he only practices three martial paths—Body Tempering, Formation Arrays, and True Intent—so it will only triple.

Although I am second and only have six thousand spirits of divinity, I cultivate five paths, which can quintuple them."

He whispered, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes:

"This is war. The Great Xia has exhausted everything to send these people into the Five Clans Conflict, intending to start a war with us ahead of schedule.

But how could I, Chen Mi, be a soft persimmon for anyone to pinch at will?"

He opened his eyes, and a terrifying coldness erupted:

"I am invincible in the Creation Realm; I shall suppress all enemies, execute the Chen clan rebels, and reshape the Five Clans!"

He slowly rose into the air, flying all the way to the mountain pass, where at the summit of the mountain wrapped in malice, there was a pitch-black hole about a hundred meters in diameter.

"Another entrance to the Ancient God Forbidden Land, yet it was transformed by the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror into the only Level One Domain.

It is a danger, but also my opportunity to achieve invincibility."

…………

Above the sea of blood.

Chen Changyuan first stared at the two rankings for a long time, but then a smile suddenly appeared.

"You really did come in. If you hadn't, I would have been quite disappointed."

Chen Changyuan stepped quietly upon the sea of blood, his robes fluttering.

"I once pursued true invincibility, but if I have a great enemy I have never defeated, how can I seek the true realm of invincibility?"

Splash, splash...

Wherever he walked, his sword soul slashed down like a sharp blade, carving a massive trench a thousand miles long into the sea of blood below, where countless skeletons soaked for ten thousand years drifted within.

"A person's life is meant for pursuing everything.

And only by cutting you down can I truly obtain everything."

…………

Time passed slowly.

Until five o'clock in the morning.

Darkness as thick as ink swallowed everything in an instant, deathly silence permeated, and the dense malice was suffocating.

Strange wooden trees floated in the darkness like ghosts.

Their trunks were thick and twisted, resembling countless giant pythons entwined with one another, and their pitch-black branches clawed and snatched as if they had come to life.

With a snap.

Ji Chuxi, who was walking within, stared blankly at the sky, the wine bottle in his hand falling to the ground; he opened his mouth wide, his eyes revealing a look of disbelief.

"This... how is this possible?"

His breathing was rapid; that was Lu Cunyang, Chen Yitong, and even that Yu Shi Huan of the Yu Clan who had directly shattered their own bodies to create tens of thousands of explosive formation disks.

Even with that, they didn't defeat Chen Yan?

And that Chen Yan actually slaughtered every single Ancient God Beast within the entire Reverse Fire Castle.

This...

"How is this possible!!!"

He roared, filled with disbelief, yet the purple light in the sky was writing it out with absolute clarity.

And it was at this very moment.

Crack, crack, crack...

On a strange ancient tree not far from Ji Chuxi, the bark split open and the branches stretched out.

The bark on the trunk's midsection parted, revealing a human figure within.

It was a middle-aged man wearing a pitch-black trench coat and gold-rimmed glasses, looking at Ji Chuxi with a gentle smile.

"Chi Xue!" Ji Chuxi was stunned for a moment, then a look of wild joy appeared in his eyes.

Chi Xue, the strongest of the Creation Realm in Chizhou, seventh on the Creation Realm Ranking!

It could be said that he was one of the few people standing at the very pinnacle of the Creation Realm.

"You are very sad, my friend." Chi Xue smiled with narrowed eyes:

"Did you run into Chen Yan?"

Ji Chuxi felt a chill run down his back in an instant.

"Where is this?" Ji Chuxi looked around at the twisted trees floating in the darkness.

"This is the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest," a cold voice rang out.

Just as Ji Chuxi was confused, the trunks of the trees beside him split open, and one after another, figures previously encased by the ancient trees appeared.

"Qi Fan!" Ji Chuxi's pupils constricted as he looked at a middle-aged man wearing a Great Xia military uniform with white hair.

Deputy Minister of the Great Xia Military Guard, disciple of the Longevity King, ninth on the Creation Realm Ranking!

Ji Chuxi looked around; over a dozen people had appeared in an instant.

Among these dozen or so people were Creation Realm experts from Great Xia and the Five Clans; these people were clearly undergoing the trial from the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

"What exactly happened?" Chi Xue asked.

Ji Chuxi glanced at Qi Fan, hesitating to speak.

"It's fine," Chi Xue smiled:

"We're all friends, let's share the intelligence."

Ji Chuxi's body stiffened; he had long heard that Chi Xue's thought process was different from normal people, and seeing it now, it was indeed so.

But how could Ji Chuxi just say it directly?

"Speak!" the white-haired man named Qi Fan said with an indifferent expression:

"If you don't speak, I'll start a war directly in a moment; guess what will happen to both our sides later?"

As Qi Fan's voice fell, terrifying fighting intent erupted in the eyes of the Great Xia Creation Realm experts around them, and some had already prepared to strike.

The combat power between Great Xia and the Five Clans here was considered balanced; once a war started, it was hard to say who would win or lose.

The two sides were in a dangerous atmosphere that could explode at any moment.

Ji Chuxi glanced at Chi Xue, about to transmit his voice.

"Don't transmit your voice, just say it." Chi Xue glanced at Qi Fan and smiled:

"The Great Xia Military has specialized training to discern the content of others' voice transmissions."

Ji Chuxi's eyes trembled slightly, then he spoke and told everything he had encountered.

As he recounted, the expressions of the Five Clans' Creation Realm experts grew worse and worse.

Smiles appeared on the faces of the Great Xia Creation Realm experts one by one.

No one expected that Chen Yan would encounter such a huge crisis just after teleporting over.

This was almost an unsolvable dead end, yet Chen Yan had made it this far.

"Hahahaha!" Qi Fan laughed out loud:

"Chi Xue, you might as well defect to my Great Xia."

Chi Xue smiled:

"Chen Yan is indeed formidable; I'm starting to get scared."

Ji Chuxi scanned his surroundings; the momentum for an imminent war between the Great Xia and Five Clans Creation Realm experts was already there.

The news of Chen Yan had given these Great Xia Creation Realm experts a fighting intent that bordered on madness.

Ji Chuxi looked at Chi Xue, a different glint appearing in the depths of his eyes.

Chi Xue's combat power was higher than Qi Fan's; perhaps they could start the war right now, and even if only Chi Xue survived, he could go directly to kill Chen Yan.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not leaving," Chi Xue smiled:

"If I leave, I lose the opportunity for the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest trial; if Qi Fan advances to the Eighth Rank after I leave, we'll all be finished."

Ji Chuxi's expression stiffened:

"He cannot possibly be at ease accepting the trial here; if you leave, he will leave too!"

"Heh." Chi Xue shook his head slowly, his eyes becoming incomparably cold the next moment, and he placed one hand on his forehead:

"How could I have a group of idiots like you as teammates?"

A look of helplessness appeared in his eyes, and he shook his head slowly.

Beside him, Qi Fan stared intently at Chi Xue, as if he would make a move at any moment.

But Chi Xue continued to speak to himself:

"Have you not noticed the real problem at all?"

Ji Chuxi narrowed his eyes:

"What problem?"

Qi Fan and the other Great Xia Creation Realm experts also looked at Chi Xue at this moment.

"You say..."

A smile appeared on the corner of Chi Xue's mouth; he stepped out from the trunk of the withered tree, and behind him, a twisted vine was still pierced into his spine.

Everyone here was the same, accepting the trial within these ancient trees of the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest; once the vine connecting to their body snapped, it also meant their trial had ended.

The Dark-Devouring Mother Nest is a Level 2 Domain that governs three Level 3 Domains: Reverse Fire Castle, Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, and Thousand-Face Corridor.

The opportunities one can obtain from a trial originating from a Level 2 Domain will only be far greater than those from a Level 3 Domain.

Chi Xue slowly floated in front of Ji Chuxi, tilted his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up, tracing an arc.

The next moment.

Crack!

Chi Xue's hand grabbed directly onto Ji Chuxi's forehead, strands of mysterious yellow color overflowed, and a terrifying pressure bore down on Ji Chuxi's body; in an instant, Ji Chuxi was unable to speak, his expression filled with terror.

"Chi Xue, what are you doing?" Inside an ancient tree, a Creation Realm expert of the Ji Prefecture spoke in a low voice.

"Shut up!" Chi Xue smiled faintly, looked at that person, and two scarlet rays of light flashed within his eyes; in an instant, that person's expression stiffened.

Chi Xue looked at the terror-stricken Ji Chuxi:

"You tell me, why was Chen Yan already disguised as Lu Fukun when he met Chen Yitong?

You tell me again, judging by common sense, Chen Yitong and Chi Xuanxun had just prepared to make a move on Chen Yan, yet Chen Yan was so coincidentally prepared to flee; is there a problem with this?

You tell me, Lu Cunyang and Chen Yitong are both dead, yet you are still alive; is there some hidden story behind this?"

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Bones shattered, long fingers pierced deep into Ji Chuxi's forehead, and streams of blood spurted out from Ji Chuxi's head.

"Why could Chen Yan know all your actions one step in advance?

Such important information, have you never considered it?"

Crack!

Ji Chuxi's skull was directly pried open by Chi Xue, and the blood-stained brain was instantly exposed.

All around, whether it was the Five Clans or the Great Xia Creation Realm experts, everyone watched in shock, not saying a word.

But the things Chi Xue said left everyone feeling incredibly shocked; it seemed as if Chi Xue had truly found the source of the problem all at once.

He didn't say the word "spy" once, but it seemed as if every sentence was saying that Ji Chuxi was Chen Yan's spy.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

From within the distant darkness, a twisted vine slowly floated over, with drops of pitch-black liquid dripping from it.

Everyone looked over, their expressions changing slightly; the bloody scent radiating from Ji Chuxi's body had attracted the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree.

"Ji Chuxi, if you are one of our own, speak up!" Qi Fan shouted in a low voice.

Ji Chuxi's mouth was wide open at this moment, his face filled with terror.

"Get lost!!!" Ji Chuxi roared.

A Great Xia Creation Realm expert named Zhang Chao could no longer watch and sent a voice transmission: "If you are one of our Great Xia people, blink your eyes."

"Ah ah ah ah!!!" Ji Chuxi roared, but he was completely unable to break free.

"Shh!" Chi Xue extended a finger to his lips, then pressed a finger into Ji Chuxi's brain.

"Many people don't know that even if a part of the brain is damaged, a person can actually still survive."

Chi Xue's eyes bloomed with blood-colored light:

"For example, the cerebellum; once cut, it will bring a person unimaginable, intense pain, but it is not fatal."

"Ah ah ah!!!" Ji Chuxi let out a scream.

"For example, the occipital lobe; what illusion formation disks mainly attack is this part, interfering with the operation of the occipital lobe and changing the neural movements of the occipital lobe.

Affecting the parietal lobe will destroy the human body's spatial perception and interfere with one's sense of touch.

And then there is the temporal lobe..."

He spoke quietly, his voice soft, yet it made everyone around feel as if they had cold needles pricking their backs.

Qi Fan squinted at Chi Xue, then sent a voice transmission to someone not far away:

"Zhang Chao, leave directly in a moment, go to Reverse Fire Castle, and persuade Chen Yan to leave!"

The man named Zhang Chao's expression stiffened as he looked at Qi Fan:

"Brother Qi Fan, what about you?"

Qi Fan shook his head:

"I cannot leave. Once I leave, Chi Xue will also leave, and we won't know what will happen then.

I need to stay here and continue to negotiate with him; the intelligence collected previously was correct, this person Chi Xue is extremely dangerous!"

Qi Fan's eyes flashed, and he continued to send a voice transmission:

"I will tell you a secret code; after you see Chen Yan, you must tell this string of secret code to Chen Yan!"

Zhang Chao nodded with a solemn expression.

At the same time.

Illusory light appeared on Chi Xue's fingers, rhyming into the depths of Ji Chuxi's brain:

"Speak, are you a Great Xia spy?"

"Ah ah ah ah!!!" A miserable, inhuman scream resounded.

Ji Chuxi's face was covered in blood as he wailed:

"I am not!!!"

In an instant, the smile on Chi Xue's face stiffened; he frowned, his heart filled with doubts, as his original deduction seemed to have deviated.

"That's impossible!" His entire expression turned solemn in an instant.

Just a moment ago, he had been almost certain that Ji Chuxi was Chen Yan's spy.

He had even been extremely confident.

But at this moment, Ji Chuxi's reaction had completely exceeded his expectations.

Chi Xue stood quietly for a long time; he did not understand where exactly the problem had appeared.

There were no surveillance devices on Ji Chuxi's body either.

Immediately following.

Chi Xue opened his mouth wide, clutching his own throat as if struggling to breathe.

He breathed violently, as if he had gone mad.

But the next moment, Chi Xue returned to normal, grabbed with one hand, snatched the skull of Ji Chuxi that he had tossed aside, and placed it back onto the top of Ji Chuxi's head.

"Apologies, I've made a spectacle of myself for everyone," Chi Xue said to the crowd, full of apology.

"Chi Xue!!!" Ji Chuxi's roaring voice resounded throughout the entire forest.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

The vine that had suddenly appeared from the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree seemed to shrink back into the darkness in disappointment.

"Sorry about that," Chi Xue looked at Ji Chuxi, pointed to his own head, and smiled:

"My brain just... had a little problem, you see."

Ji Chuxi was in so much pain that tears began to burst into his eyes; at this moment, he looked at Chi Xue with extreme malice, just about to roar.

Suddenly.

With a boom.

A purple light suddenly erupted from above the clouds, and lines of large characters were written across the firmament.

【Level 3 Domain War triggered!

Applicant: Thousand-Face Corridor, Chen Yan.

The Domain War betting pool has been opened; excluding Chen Yan, everyone may wager Spirits of Divinity to participate in the betting.

Start time: Three days from now.

Domain War combat duration: One day.

Winner's reward: Ten thousand Spirits of Divinity.

Note: The number of personnel for both Chen Yan and the Thousand-Face Corridor has been finalized and cannot be increased.

Within three days, personnel from both sides are under the protection of the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror; other factions may not attack Chen Yan or the Thousand-Face Corridor, excluding defensive actions.】

Lines of large purple characters were displayed just like that above the clouds.

In an instant, Chi Xue, Qi Fan, and the others all looked at the firmament in utter astonishment.

Domain War, what kind of thing is that?

"What is going on? We are still undergoing trials within the domain, yet Chen Yan has already begun attacking other domains."

A woman's voice rang out; the one speaking was Chi Yuexi.

She was somewhat dazed, feeling as if she had missed something important.

The situation was a bit wrong; Chen Yan's actions were truly too sudden and bold.