Chapter 581: The Countermove, It Ends!

The surroundings fell silent.

Everyone looked at this scene in disbelief, including Chi Xue.

With a dazed expression, he watched the Divine Armor body plummeting down; his legs trembling, he reached out a hand, his blood-Qi lifting up that set of Divine Armor.

Sizzle!

Within the two thunder chains extending from the Lei Yu Ci Hun, two blood-Qi shadows dissipated.

"Impossible!" Tears streamed from Chi Xue's eyes:

"Impossible!"

He roared as if insane: "How could the Great Xia Heavenly General die so easily? I thought he was my great enemy."

He narrowed his eyes; at this moment, he did not approach the Divine Armor, for regardless of whether Chen Yan was truly dead or not, with the Divine Armor present, outsiders could not sense the aura within it at all.

At the same time.

Deep underground.

The Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder was still devouring the thunder energy within the giant thunder sphere, while Chen Yan had his protective patterns activated, hiding his aura to the utmost.

He had been wary of Chi Xian from the very beginning, so it was impossible for his true self to have entered the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

The one wearing the Heavenly God Armor was, in fact, three blood-Qi shadows compressed together.

Blood-Qi is an energy form; 【Control Decay - Saint Condense Primordial】 can be compressed into a single point, so blood-Qi shadows naturally can be as well.

When the blood-Qi shadows entered the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, they specifically entered a room in advance to release two blood-Qi shadows, and then one wore the Divine Armor to find the Lei Yu Ci Hun.

As it turned out, Chen Yan's worries were indeed correct; Chi Xue's other body, Chi Xian, was inside.

What Chen Yan wanted was to know all of Chi Xue's methods.

Now it seemed that this Chi Xue was indeed difficult to deal with.

If Chen Yan had entered the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison directly, it would have been difficult to kill Chi Xue without activating 【Blood Battle State】.

But once Chen Yan activated 【Blood Battle State】, this Chi Xue would immediately teleport away.

The opponent's teleportation methods were ever-changing, and the speed of execution was extremely fast.

The opponent could simply exhaust the 【Blood Battle State】 before coming back to fight Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's mind raced, beginning to calculate the opponent's combat data.

The shorter the teleportation distance, the shorter the time it took for Chi Xue's teleportation array to generate.

A ten-meter teleportation took as little as one-hundred-thousandth of a breath of time.

This was only one of Chi Xue's clones; Chi Xian was only ranked thirty-something on the Creation Realm Ranking.

But Chi Xue himself was seventh.

If one clone was this powerful, what about the true self?

However, no one is perfect.

Even Chi Xue.

The opponent's teleportation had a pattern.

Throughout the entire battle, the number of times the opponent teleported behind Chen Yan accounted for over fifty percent.

This was the flaw.

Underground, Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

At this moment, Chi Xue clearly did not believe that Chen Yan was already dead; the opponent appeared to be weeping, but in reality, he was casting a sealing grand formation upon the Heavenly God Armor.

Moreover, the opponent clearly still had other methods.

However, Chen Yan did not mind.

The Heavenly God Armor actually had no great use in this battle.

Chi Xue's speed could no longer be simply called speed.

That was teleportation.

No matter how powerful the 【Blood Battle State】 of the Heavenly God Armor was, it had no way to deal with an opponent that was difficult to catch.

Within the Origin Space, the Enlightenment Myriad Phenomena Seed overflowed with divine radiance, and Chen Yan's mind operated at super-speed.

This battle was fraught with crises!

Chen Yan pondered continuously; standing from Chi Xue's perspective, the opponent's goal must be to kill Chen Yan.

But how would the opponent kill him?

How could Chen Yan make the opponent reveal his final trump card?

No.

In this battle, Chi Xue's greatest goal was not to kill Chen Yan, but to extract all the intelligence on Chen Yan.

This body was merely a weak clone of the opponent.

The opponent was not confident in killing Chen Yan just like that.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Until the next instant.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!!

Streaks of golden-red radiance were drawn out from Chen Yan's physical body, and the Will Divine Body appeared beside Chen Yan.

Then, more streaks of golden-red will were injected into the physical body of Chen Yan's true self.

The Will Divine Body and Chen Yan looked at each other.

In this world, perhaps only Lu Jianxia could know that Chen Yan did not have only one life.

Outside of the physical body, Chen Yan's will...

Is immortal.

This is the key point for why Chen Yan can turn death into life within the rules of malice.

At this moment, the divine body of will detaches from the physical body, while another portion of the will resides within the physical body.

Even if the physical body dies and all the will within the physical body dissipates, as long as the divine body of will remains, Chen Yan is still alive.

"Truly not bad." Chen Yan exclaimed, a hint of excitement arising in him that even he could not avoid.

Just as when he defeated Chen Min, Yu Sixian, and others to obtain the true fruit of the Limit-Breaking Struggle.

He hopes the enemy can be truly strong.

If Chen Min were merely a weak and foolish enemy, then what meaning would the Limit-Breaking Struggle have?

Chen Yan sat cross-legged, waiting for the opportunity.

He wants to see what the rest of Chi Xue's methods really are.

After all, Chen Yan has now discarded the Heavenly God Armor, discarding this strongest aid.

That method, is it not going to appear yet?

At the same time.

"I don't believe it!"

Ke Qingxuan opened her mouth wide, roaring with difficulty, her eyes wide open as she looked at the scene before her in disbelief.

Bang, bang, bang!!!

The white-haired old man and the middle-aged man erupted simultaneously at this moment, wanting to shatter the massive thunder barrier shrouding Chi Xue and the Lei Yu Ci Hun.

"Don't waste your effort, you think you can get in just by yourselves?"

The Lei Yu Ci Hun sneered:

"You lot actually dare to come and attack me, hahahaha!!!"

The Lei Yu Ci Hun was excited to the extreme.

The white-haired old man and the middle-aged man had terrible expressions at this moment.

"What do we do, what do we do now?" The white-haired old man spoke with a downcast expression.

"I don't know." The middle-aged man spoke with difficulty, a look of despair appearing in his eyes; even if they retreated, they would be caught again by Chi Xian.

That is an existence capable of defeating Chen Yan.

No one expected that just as Chen Yan was about to win, this event would occur.

"Today, a fight to the death." A will to die appeared in the white-haired old man's eyes: "It can be considered that we have fought side-by-side with the Heavenly God General."

The middle-aged man gave a bitter smile and nodded.

They became calm instead.

An era has ended.

Chen Yan was the last glimmer of hope for Great Xia; now that this glimmer is extinguished, Great Xia may perish in the long river of history.

They calmed down; before death, they did not erupt with overly intense emotions, but instead accepted it calmly.

Only Ke Qingxuan watched intently; she did not believe Chen Yan would die so easily.

That person could even strip away an Eighth-Order Malice Crystal, how could he die?

But at this moment, even she was no longer certain.

And it was at this time.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Above the firmament, mechanical cones suddenly appeared, with blue fire jetting from beneath the cones.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Beams of azure light whistled out from the mechanical cones hovering high in the sky.

The light beams flashed with blue light, instantly constructing a giant cage, heavily surrounding Chi Xue, the Lei Yu Ci Hun, and the Divine Armor.

A figure appeared high in the sky; it was a human wearing a streamlined helmet and black-and-white combat armor.

Rows of micro-cannons were mounted on their shoulders; they were clearly a member of the Yu Clan.

"Assess life value."

The Yu Clan member spoke while walking toward Chi Xue.

"Unable to detect, unable to lock on, this is a God-level combat armor." An electronic female voice sounded.

The Yu Clan member continued to speak:

"Construct an opening plan."

"Constructing, in construction, construction failed, continuing construction, construction failed..."

The Yu Clan member walked to Chi Xue's side, ignoring Ke Qingxuan and the others who were still nearby:

"The Divine Armor created by the Prefecture Administration of the Eighteen Prefectures of Great Xia is indeed extraordinary; even the highest technology of my Yu Clan cannot analyze it."

Chi Xue hung their head, tears still flowing from their eyes:

"I don't want him to die, I still wanted to play with him a little longer..."

The Yu Clan member remained silent for a moment:

"He will undoubtedly die. Before Yu Ren died, he hid so many monitors near the Backfire Castle.

All the monitors recorded every combat record of Yu Ren before he died.

He never expected that as long as we Yu Clan members get close, we can share the information from all the monitors.

Just after he left Backfire Castle, monitors had already captured his location."

The Yu Clan member was named Yu Cang; he had arrived at the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison a step early to meet with Chi Xue and the Lei Yu Ci Hun.

In fact, this surprise attack by Chen Yan had always been a perilous trap carefully laid out through the joint cooperation of the three parties.

With the Lei Yu Ci Hun as the center, fifteen laser turrets ten thousand miles away had long since locked onto Chen Yan.

However, the other party had always been wearing the Divine Armor, and neither Yu Cang nor Chi Xue knew the data of the Divine Armor.

Inside the monitor that tracked Backfire Castle, there was all the surveillance data from before Yu Ren died, but the problem was that until the moment of his death, Chen Yan had never put on the Divine Armor.

Yet he had not expected that Chen Yan would just die like this.

Possessing the Ember Memory Spear, which could erupt with the power of a Seventh-Grade Spear Soul, and the Divine Armor, Chen Yan was still played to death by Chi Xue.

Furthermore, those distant laser turrets hadn't even exerted any effort.

Chi Xue was not the trump card; Yu Cang was.

This was a sure-kill trap aimed at Chen Yan.

"You shouldn't have..."

Yu Cang took a deep breath and growled:

"You shouldn't have killed Yu Ren!"

His face was obscured by his helmet, but at this moment, rolling waves of anger still emanated from him.

He looked at Ke Qingxuan:

"Is this the Divine General of your Great Xia, is this the Chen Yan that all of you revere so much?!"

His voice trembled, his anger growing deeper.

Immediately, he looked at Chi Xue:

"He might not be dead yet; you go kill Ke Qingxuan and those people, I will use my Yu Clan methods to suppress him!"

Chi Xue slowly raised his head, his face already covered in tears:

"You go kill them, I will stay to keep him company."

Beneath his helmet, Yu Cang narrowed his eyes; the fifteen distant laser turrets had already locked onto Chi Xue.

Now, the thing he needed to do most was to kill Chi Xue and enjoy the fruits of the war.

Chi Xue looked at Yu Cang:

"Are you going to make a move on me?"

He wiped away his tears.

"No." Yu Cang lifted his head:

"Right now we don't even know if Chen Yan is dead or alive, let's not have any infighting."

"That's good." Chi Xue sobbed, and transmitted his voice to Yu Cang:

"He isn't dead yet; he never once used his tempering martial arts, and what is inside this Divine Armor is merely a Shadow Clone."

Yu Cang composed his mind, though murderous intent surged within him.

He did not know what kind of battle had occurred between Chen Yan and Chi Xue inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

He could not fully believe what Chi Xue said.

If it were true, then Chen Yan should still be nearby.

If it were false, then it meant Chi Xue was about to make a move on him.

He was more inclined to believe that Chi Xue was lying to him.

Because although this was Chi Xian, it was another clone of Chi Xue.

Who was Chi Xue?

The strongest Creation Realm expert in Chi Province, seventh on the Creation Realm Ranking.

Although Chi Xian did not have Chi Xue's constitution or tempering methods, he possessed Chi Xue's mind, his mastery of formations, and various martial arts techniques.

In the Yu Clan's investigation system, Chi Xue's danger level had always been extremely high.

He was the one in the younger generation second only to Chen Yan and Chen Changyuan.

But unlike Chen Yan and Chen Changyuan, Chi Xue had long since reached the Creation Realm.

And most crucially, in the battle data from before Yu Ren's death.

In that battle at Backfire Castle, Chen Yan had only ever unleashed two Shadow Clones.

In Bing Yi's past battle data, Bing Yi had also only ever unleashed two Shadow Clones!

Everything happening now fit the data perfectly.

Chen Yan's two Shadow Clones had dissipated the moment Chen Yan died.

Chi Xue was lying to him!

Yu Cang narrowed his eyes.

The fact that Chen Yan died so quickly meant that Chi Xue was even more terrifying.

"Chen Yan, hmph!" Yu Cang flew in circles around Chi Xue, beginning to calculate a combat plan against him, while mocking him aloud:

"A tempering, Qi-blood invincible prodigy, yet you are too naive, so naive it makes one want to laugh!

My Yu Clan has one hundred and fifty plans to kill you, yet you have forced me to not even need one..."

As he spoke, the computer integrated into his battle armor had already begun analyzing Chi Xue's data.

In the distance, Ke Qingxuan and the others seemed to have become unimportant decorations, failing to attract any attention from Chi Xue or Yu Cang.

However, as Yu Cang spoke, the murderous intent and panic on Ke Qingxuan's face grew more intense.

She realized that Chen Yan was Bing Yi, and she realized that even though Chen Yan was targeted by so many factions, he could still make it this far.

She was incredibly shocked, but everything was over.

And it was at this moment.

In the distance.

The laser turrets had already aimed at Chi Xue, with light gathering and condensing within their muzzles.

Across Yu Cang's pupils, complex numerical formulas flowed.

As he spoke, he moved closer to Chi Xue.

He cast an extremely covetous glance at the Divine Armor and that long spear, both enveloped by Chi Xue's blood energy.

The next instant.

"Open..." he began to say.

Boom!

Suddenly!

Chi Xue's figure vanished from its original spot; almost at the moment Yu Cang was about to speak the next word, Chi Xue's two fingers were already pressed against Yu Cang's helmet.

And in that very split second, a terrifying Seventh-Grade Spear Realm erupted instantly from the Jinyi Spear, and countless spear souls swirled around Chi Xue and Yu Cang like a vortex.

Beneath the helmet, Yu Cang's pupils contracted violently.

Chen Yan was not dead!

Chen Yan could truly manifest three blood energy clones!

How is this possible!

He, who had made his move the latest, was actually going to be finished off by Chen Yan and Chi Xue first.

"Fire!!!"

Yu Cang roared out.

In an instant!

Within the ten-thousand-mile territory, laser cannons awakened one after another like dormant giant beasts, their muzzles glowing with sudden intensity.

High-energy beams shot out instantly, striking like brilliant meteors.

In a flash.

Chi Xue's eyes turned scarlet, a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth, and ripples of space erupted from the bodies of both him and Yu Cang.

Immediately following, under Yu Cang's incredulous gaze, his and Chi Xue's body positions suddenly swapped.

"No!" Yu Cang bellowed.

Immediately after, the laser beams from fifteen laser towers, Chi Xue's attack, and the spear souls within the Jinyi Spear struck Yu Cang's body simultaneously.

Boom!!!

A violent explosion was born, and clusters of fire swept outward in an instant, shattering the Lei Yu Ci Hun and the protective barrier Yu Cang had set up.

Yu Cang's eyes were swallowed by flames, by destruction.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!!!

The explosion instantly destroyed the Sealing Grand Array that Chi Xue had locked onto the Heavenly God Armor.

But between the components of the Divine Armor, there were chains made of array patterns connecting them; the Divine Armor struggled desperately to break free, but for the moment, it could not break loose.

Yu Cang widened his eyes; at the moment of death, he saw Chen Yan arrive, that man throwing a punch at the blood-covered Chi Xue.

Yet at this moment, Chi Xue did not dodge at all; wearing a ferocious grin, his clothes exploded into shreds, and his entire body was covered in dense, pitch-black array patterns.

Bang!

As Chen Yan slammed a punch into Chi Xue's chest, he formed his five fingers into a claw, unleashing the 【Heaven-Splitting Style】, a light wheel cutting into Chi Xue's chest.

With a squelch.

Chen Yan's arm reached into his chest, gripping Chi Xue's heart.

"Chen Yan!" Chi Xue looked at Chen Yan with calm eyes.

The next moment.

Pfft!

Chen Yan crushed the other's heart.