Chapter 583: Chen Yan is the Counter-Fire Intent

This is an extremely generous reward; after all, Chen Yan only obtained eight thousand Divine Spirits after breaking through the Counter-Fire Castle.

Furthermore, because Chen Yan himself possesses six storage rings of Divine Spirits—which are the rings floating within Chen Yan's Origin Space, each representing a Martial Dao—

Chen Yan's harvest has always been multiplied by six.

Such a massive harvest has given Chen Yan at least some confidence for the auction a few days from now.

According to the monitoring of the Martial Dao network, Chen Yan discovered that on Shen Yiwei's side, the person with the highest amount of Divine Spirits, Xia Long, currently only has a little over ten thousand Divine Spirits.

As for the Will Martial Artists, the one with the highest amount of Divine Spirits is Lu Jianxia.

She cooperates with her older brother Lu Wuyi, and Lu Wuyi also deliberately creates some advantages for Lu Jianxia.

Lu Jianxia's current Divine Spirits have impressively reached fifteen thousand.

The Blood Vine Manor where the other party is located is a Level 3 domain that tests slaughter, and the number of Ancient God Beasts within it is simply countless.

Lu Jianxia and Lu Wuyi are themselves in the top three of the Creation Realm Ranking; naturally, the resources they obtain from slaughtering Ancient God Beasts are plentiful.

However, these are still far from Chen Yan's twenty-two thousand Divine Spirits.

Chen Yan began conquering the domain directly, walking a different path from the others from the very beginning.

Sizzle.

Inside the Counter-Fire Furnace, sparks splashed from the Ember-Memory Spear, and countless tiny pitch-black impurities were forged out by the Counter-Fire, scattering and falling under the reflection of the orange firelight.

For Chen Yan now, besides forging the poisons and malice out of his own body, his greatest goal is to upgrade the Ember-Memory Spear to become a Divine Artifact.

The bonus a Divine Artifact provides to combat is terrifying.

The reason why Chi Xue and Yu Cang did not dare to go all-in during the battle Chen Yan previously experienced was precisely because they were unclear about the data of the Heavenly God Armor.

Yu Cang is not stupid, but the moment the other party cooperated with Chi Xue, they actually already lost.

Not to mention, Chen Yan's own information was not fully grasped by Yu Cang.

But this battle with Chi Xue also gave Chen Yan a great lesson.

Even he can make huge mistakes.

That is, ignoring the monitor left behind by the already dead Yu Ren.

Moreover, the Chi Xue who fought Chen Yan was only a clone of Chi Xue.

It was Chi Xian, thirty-third on the Creation Realm Ranking.

If even Chi Xian is this terrifying, then what kind of pressure would the real Chi Xue bring to Chen Yan?

Chen Yan's expression was calm; the pressure he has always placed upon himself is stronger than the pressure the outside world brings to him.

Precisely because of this, even the Five Clans did not stop Chen Yan's development.

But this time, it seems different.

"The ultimate is not something that can be achieved by mere words; in the end, I did not do better!"

Chen Yan took a deep breath and plunged back into the Counter-Fire.

Sshh, sshh, sshh!

Strings of golden secret scripts splashed within the Counter-Fire, lingering around Chen Yan's body, hammering out all the impurities within Chen Yan's body.

Chen Yan discovered that once he became accustomed to the tempering of the Counter-Fire, the intense pain from the Counter-Fire also seemed to be gradually lessening.

It is as if a misshapen stone is just beginning to be polished; that stone would certainly need to have a great deal of waste material shaved off.

But as this stone gradually becomes round and perfect, the waste material that needs to be shaved off becomes less and less.

The intense pain still struck; Chen Yan closed his eyes, clearing all distracting thoughts from his mind.

Until the intense pain almost endangered his life, Chen Yan jumped out from the Counter-Fire.

"This time, how long did I persist?" Chen Yan gasped violently and shook his head slightly; he had not calculated the time just now.

But within his body, the poisons and malice from the poison array were already down to the final twenty percent.

And within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

The three Saint-Breaking Fruits of 【Strength】, 【Physique】, and 【Blood】 suddenly began to grow rapidly at this moment.

【Strength: 36/100

Blood: 13/100

Physique: 7/100】

Chen Yan's eyes bloomed with sharp light; Counter-Fire Crystals can greatly increase his cultivation speed!

This is something Chen Yan knew from the very beginning.

Moreover, the Counter-Fire Crystals Chen Yan has obtained now can fully allow the Counter-Fire Furnace to burn for more than two hours.

Chen Yan took out half a Blood Pill and one True Dragon Flame Marrow.

The Blood Pill was obtained by Chen Yan from Myriad Forms Island; even though Chen Yan constantly gives them away to others, Chen Yan still has ninety-five and a half left.

Each one is a Sun-Level Grade A Qi-Blood treasure medicine.

And the True Dragon Flame Marrow is a tempering treasure medicine given by Xia Hanzhou; Chen Yan still has nine.

Chen Yan is currently not lacking in cultivation resources at all; what he lacks is time.

But the Counter-Fire Furnace can greatly reduce the time Chen Yan needs.

The next instant, Chen Yan swallowed this half Blood Pill and the True Dragon Flame Marrow into his body simultaneously.

With a boom.

Blood light and flames erupted from Chen Yan's body at the same time.

Waves of pure energy rampaged chaotically within Chen Yan's body.

The Enlightenment Myriad Forms Seed overflowed with divine radiance.

【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】 and 【Forging Expansion Vast Firmament】 operated simultaneously.

The next instant.

Chen Yan jumped directly into the Counter-Fire.

The moment Chen Yan jumped into the Counter-Fire, the blazing orange flames instantly coiled and swirled around Chen Yan's entire body.

Strands of golden secret scripts seeped from within the Counter-Fire into Chen Yan's body, resonating and blending with his Qi-blood energy and body-tempering energy; countless truths were born and flowed within every fiber of Chen Yan's flesh and blood.

At this moment, Chen Yan could not be bothered to worry about the growth of the Saint-Breaking Fruit, nor did he care to observe how many seconds he had managed to endure.

He was like a divine artifact about to be born, being forged and reborn by the star-fire from above the firmament.

The next instant.

Boom!

The Ember-Memory Spear struck Chen Yan's body directly, blasting Chen Yan out of the Counter-Fire.

Chen Yan's eyes widened; just a moment ago, he had nearly been pained to death.

After leaving the Counter-Fire, that heart-piercing pain continued to cling to him.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Chen Yan hammered the floor, his eyes turning somewhat bloodshot.

Why did the Lords of the Five Clans not appear on the Rank 8 leaderboard?

Why was the Xia Lord Sword, which was sufficient to annihilate a Rank 9 in the hands of Xia Hanzhou, unable to kill the Ji Lord despite Xia Hanzhou's extreme rage?

Were they not Rank 9?

I do not know.

But if the Lords of the Five Clans were all Rank 9, the Great Xia would have been destroyed long ago.

Among them, perhaps most are Rank 8.

But they are extremely powerful!

Because of the Five Clans Struggle, because they obtained treasures within the Five Clans Struggle that allowed them to transcend.

"The opportunity is right here; what is blocking me from obtaining the opportunity is actually my own physiological instinct!"

Golden light erupted from Chen Yan's eyes; at this moment, he actually had a fleeting thought that even if he were pained to death, he wanted to achieve complete sublimation within the Counter-Fire.

But soon, Chen Yan stopped such a thought.

"An outburst in madness is not willpower; the struggle in calmness is what shows true determination!"

He slowly inhaled and exhaled, observing the Saint-Breaking Tree.

【Strength: 39/100

Blood: 17/100

Physique: 17/100】

Chen Yan shook his head slightly:

"I almost let being powerful go to my head."

He thought he could solve everything with his willpower, but looking at it now, it was clearly too arrogant.

If he cultivated Qi-blood and hard-body tempering at the same time, after the Counter-Fire burned out completely, Chen Yan might not even be able to make the Saint-Breaking Tree bear a single fruit.

After all, he still had to devour the lightning elements on the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.

Chen Yan pondered for a while and circulated 【Forging Expansion Firmament Vault】 to force that incomparably violent body-tempering energy out of his body.

Soon, the True Dragon Flame Marrow, which Chen Yan had absorbed a portion of, appeared in his hand again, and Chen Yan stored it into his Origin Space.

Chen Yan intended to focus on cultivating Qi-blood from now on.

After a while, when the severe pain in his body gradually dissipated, Chen Yan dove into the Counter-Fire again.

Hum hum hum!

Three thousand True Essence Dharma Images condensed behind Chen Yan, becoming increasingly brilliant and magnificent.

Dense Qi-blood surged within Chen Yan's body, almost rushing out, but it was quickly pressed back into Chen Yan's body by strands of golden script firelight, forcibly forged onto Chen Yan's bones and flesh.

The light on Chen Yan's body surged instantly, and new True Essence Dharma Images were born one by one.

After an unknown number of seconds, Chen Yan withdrew again.

The Counter-Fire continued to forge the Ember-Memory Spear.

Chen Yan felt that the malice and toxins in his body had been completely dispelled; his whole body felt light, and that feeling of power made Chen Yan feel invincible.

Chen Yan summoned the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.

This divine seed was still constructing a Soldier-Breeding Chamber according to the memories of the Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul.

Once the Soldier-Breeding Chamber was born, Chen Yan would be able to gradually obtain Thunder-Ball Creatures and spider-type mechanical bodies.

Chen Yan reached one hand into the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder; this time, Chen Yan directly extracted half of the lightning elements from the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.

The Myriad Prison Nether Thunder had just eaten until it was fat, but after being drained by Chen Yan, it became moderately fat.

However, its grade remained stable at the edge of Sun-Grade Grade A.

The Myriad Prison Nether Thunder knew well that only by following Chen Yan could it have soup to drink, and it had long since become accustomed to Chen Yan extracting its lightning elements.

After the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder left, Chen Yan began to absorb the lightning elements.

The quantity of Qi-blood had to be increased, and the quality certainly needed to be improved as well.

Chen Yan's Qi-blood grade had always been Moon-Grade.

Yin-Stagnation was at Moon-Grade Grade B, and Lightning was at Moon-Grade Grade A.

Until it reached Sun-Grade, it would be difficult for Chen Yan's Qi-blood strength to bring absolute suppression to Creation-Realm martial artists.

Chen Yan jumped back into the Counter-Fire Furnace.

Crack!!!

Throughout the entire smithy, countless bolts of lightning burst and exploded; Chen Yan's body, wrapped in thunder elements, appeared as if a thunder sun had reappeared, blazing and scorching.

…………

In the location of the gloomy forest, eerie ancient trees floated within the darkness.

This is the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest, a second-level domain that manages the Backfire Castle, the Thousand-Face Corridor, and the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

At this moment, all the martial artists who had come here were lying in the bellies of the ancient trees, their consciousnesses having entered another world.

And it was at this very moment.

An ancient tree rapidly traversed over from afar, floating into the depths of the dark domain.

Immediately following.

Squawk!!!

A series of incomparably shrill screeches resounded throughout the interior of the entire Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

All the ancient trees were shaken by this screech, rustling as they shed withered, pitch-black leaves.

Sss, sss, sss!!!

The bark on the bellies of nearly twenty ancient trees tore open, revealing the figures of Chi Xue, Qi Fan, and the others.

Qi Fan frowned; just a moment ago, his consciousness was still lingering within the illusion created by the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest, clearing levels, and the harvest had been good.

But the recent screech of the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree had caused the illusion to collapse, forcing him to break free from within it.

This clearly did not conform to the rules of the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror.

Even if the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree, as the master of the domain, were powerful, it had no right to interfere with the martial artists' trial.

Sure enough.

With a crack!

Above the firmament, a golden bolt of lightning suddenly struck down, slashing into the deepest part of the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

Squawk!!!

The Dark-Devouring Mother Tree screeched again:

"I was wrong, I will immediately recreate the illusion!"

It was begging for mercy; even as an eighth-rank ancient divine beast, it had to follow the rules of the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror.

All the martial artists looked at each other in dismay.

"What on earth happened?"

"Is it something that provoked the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree?"

"Is it Chen Yan? Could he have already breached the Thousand-Face Corridor?"

"The timing doesn't match, does it? It's not yet time for the domain war."

…………

Sounds of astonishment rang out one after another.

Qi Fan narrowed his eyes, also deep in thought at this moment.

To be able to make the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree so angry that it inadvertently touched the rules of the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror.

Besides his own third-level domain under jurisdiction being breached, what else could it be?

Over at Chen Yan's side...

Qi Fan was actually very worried.

But he could not leave, because Chi Xue was here.

He still remembered to this day what his master, the Longevity King, had said to him when he left.

The reason the Great Xia still exists is because of Lu Xunyang; the reason the Great Xia will not be destroyed in the future will only be because of Chen Yan.

Qi Fan was definitely not a genius; on the contrary, he was a very ordinary person.

By the time he was sixty, he already had a house full of children and grandchildren, but one day, ancient beasts rioted in the wilderness, and his entire family died.

The moment he saw his most beloved granddaughter die in the mouth of an ancient beast with his own eyes, Qi Fan awakened his Qi and blood.

He became a lone man and joined the Military Martial Guard.

Everyone knew he would eventually die of old age or die in battle.

On the day he turned one hundred and fifty, having retired and with his Qi and blood withered, a seventh-rank ancient divine beast appeared in Tui Province.

Qi Fan and his neighbor charged into the mountain forest, and the moment he watched his neighbor die to protect him, he entered the Hundred Meridians Realm.

He lived like this, always mediocre, yet always living in a non-mediocre way.

Until five hundred years ago, when he met the Longevity King and became his disciple.

"You are too mediocre, as mediocre as your name suggests.

Even if I take you as a disciple, you will not be remembered by others.

But your strength is that you always know what you should be doing.

Just like me; although my title is Longevity, I know deep down that in the face of truth, longevity is not worth mentioning."

That was the Longevity King's assessment of him.

Yet, such a mediocre person was now the ninth on the world's Creation Realm Ranking!

Qi Fan pondered; he knew his greatest duty now was to prevent Chi Xue from advancing to the eighth rank.

His intelligence was not as good as his opponent's, his schemes were not as good as his opponent's, and even his combat power was not as good as his opponent's.

Just like his name, in front of a monster like Chi Xue, he was too mediocre.

Chi Xue was one of the most dangerous people in the Great Xia's most confidential files.

He was also one of the three people judged by Xia Hanzhou to be most likely to cause a huge crisis for Chen Yan.

But Qi Fan knew what he had to do.

That is enough.

Qi Fan looked to the side, only to see Chi Xue looking at him with a beaming smile.

"Your Great Xia is truly remarkable," Chi Xue said with a chuckle:

"Chen Yan is actually Ice Intent, Ice Intent! Another ultimate prodigy in this world is actually Chen Yan himself.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have dared to believe it."

As Chi Xue's voice fell, Qi Fan's expression trembled instantly.

Along with him, the other martial artists all opened their mouths wide, looking at Chi Xue as if they could not believe it.

"Chi... Chi Xue, don't talk nonsense. What do you mean you saw it with your own eyes..."

A martial artist from the Five Clans spoke with a smile, a trace of panic still in his eyes; he surely thought Chi Xue was joking.

"I did see it with my own eyes. Chi Xian is my avatar; I saw with my own eyes how he led the army to break through the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

That scene... it was simply..."

Chi Xue put on an exaggerated expression.

In an instant, Qi Fan stared fixedly at

Chi Xue had directly thrown out three explosive pieces of news.

Chi Xian is his avatar.

Chen Yan broke through the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Chen Yan is Ice Intent.

Each of these messages was more explosive than the last.