Chapter 584: Damn It, I Really Should Die

In an instant, the Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans each revealed expressions of disbelief, and even panic.

Meanwhile, the Great Xia Creation Realm experts felt their heartbeats accelerate, their eyes widening as a sense of heroic pride surged within their minds.

But Qi Fan narrowed his eyes as he looked at Chi Xue.

Given Chi Xue's dangerous nature, he could not believe a single word the other party said.

But the next moment, Chi Xue held one hand in the air, and a projection appeared before everyone's eyes.

It was the scene of Chen Yan leading his army to attack the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, extremely realistic!

The other party's army crushed all the unit types of the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, forcing the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison into a desperate situation.

"It's real!" a Great Xia Creation Realm expert roared:

"This is a projection, absolutely not forged!"

His eyes widened, his breathing rapid; even if a Seventh-Order Creation Realm expert wanted to forge a recording using Qi and blood, there would still be flaws.

But the scene depicted by Chi Xue was clearly not forged, but rather recorded in detail and directly imprinted within the mind.

This was a Memory Palace; monstrously talented martial artists could firmly place every scene they had seen within their own memory.

Clearly, Chi Xue was such a monster.

Moreover, the other party had indeed experienced the process of Chen Yan attacking the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

At this moment, even Qi Fan had to believe it, and a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

He knew it, he knew it; Chen Yan was just that monstrous, just that domineering!

But Qi Fan was not overly excited, remaining vigilant against Chi Xue the whole time.

"Stop playing it, Chi Xue, what are you trying to do?"

A Five Clans Creation Realm expert roared, glaring at Chi Xue.

What was Chi Xue trying to do by boosting the morale of the enemy?

"Stop, Chi Xue!"

"Chi Xue, you are faking this, you have betrayed the Five Clans!"

The Five Clans Creation Realm experts could no longer sit still, and they continuously shouted angrily at Chi Xue.

They did not understand Chi Xue's thought process, but Chi Xue was clearly boosting the morale of Great Xia right now.

As for the Great Xia Creation Realm experts, while they were smiling, they also began to grow vigilant.

What exactly was Chi Xue doing?

Soon, everyone saw the battle between Chen Yan and Chi Xian, and saw the appearance of Yu Cang.

Right up until the end.

Chen Yan was attacked by Chi Xian's poison array.

"Chi Xue!!!" A Great Xia Creation Realm expert's eyes turned completely red, and he let out a roar.

"You are courting death!" Someone was angry to the extreme, their eyes filled with killing intent.

Even Qi Fan stared with dazed eyes.

By now, he understood why Chi Xue would say these things.

Within the trial of the Dark Devourer Mother Nest, Qi Fan had gathered all the Great Xia Creation Realm experts to continuously trip Chi Xue up, causing his progress to remain stalled.

All the Great Xia Creation Realm experts shared the same thought as Qi Fan.

As long as they dragged out enough time, Chen Yan could grow strong extremely quickly, and Xia Long's side would also organize a Great Xia Creation Realm army to contend with the Five Clans.

Now, seeing this scene, the hearts of all the Great Xia Creation Realm experts were about to fall into chaos.

"Chi Xue." Qi Fan actually laughed, saying coldly:

"You're not bad, you have many tricks, but your forgery skills are still a bit lacking; I can tell at a glance that it's fake."

Qi Fan naturally knew it was real, but at this moment he absolutely could not admit it; he had to insist that it was fake.

Otherwise, if the people's hearts were in chaos, what else could they do?

He was certainly worried about the situation on Chen Yan's side, but he knew that he could not help Chen Yan right now.

All he could do was stall Chi Xue and stabilize the morale of the people.

Chi Xue, however, looked at Qi Fan with a smile:

"This could be fake too?"

"Hmph." Qi Fan let out a cold snort:

"We have no idea how many powerhouses Great Xia has planted in Chizhou.

Do you think I wouldn't know that you have already developed such a projection array that can pass off the fake as real?"

As Qi Fan's voice fell, the Great Xia Creation Realm experts looked at each other, and the person who had been furious earlier also looked at Qi Fan and smiled:

"Brother Qi Fan truly has a discerning eye; I almost misjudged it just now."

Qi Fan took a deep breath:

"The Five Clans are known for their conspiracies; everyone must be careful and more careful. If it weren't for me, you would have really been fooled."

All the Great Xia Creation Realm experts nodded earnestly.

Those Five Clans Creation Realm experts who were just about to laugh were now uncertain.

Could it be that what Qi Fan said was true?

Chi Xue raised his head, looking at Qi Fan with a smile, then suddenly raised an eyebrow:

"Why don't you just join my Five Clans? I see that you have it pretty tough too."

Qi Fan responded with a faint smile:

"Although you are good at forgery, the fact that Chen Yan possesses the intent of ice is true; he can even overcome the rule of malice.

You need to use your brain; if you're going to fabricate something, make it more reasonable. A mere poison array could kill Chen Yan?"

Qi Fan spoke, and the Creation Realm experts of Great Xia all laughed, one by one beginning to mock Chi Xue and the Five Clans.

A faint smile remained on the corners of Chi Xue's mouth:

"Qi Fan, then let us make a wager."

"Wager on what?"

Chi Xue's eyes flashed with a scarlet hue:

"Let us wager on how much longer you can hold on."

He laughed, observing everyone with keen interest.

He could kill Qi Fan, and he could incite a life-and-death battle between the Five Clans and the Great Xia Creation Realm experts.

But he was unwilling; in a game where he could win steadily, why suffer a thousand losses to kill eight hundred enemies?

He was Chi Xue, after all; he was the person in this world who loved to play the most.

He wanted to play properly with Qi Fan, and with Chen Yan.

He loved the sight of others unable to defeat him despite using everything they had.

He had experienced it too many times, that which made him...

Too excited.

"Hehehehe!" Chi Xue laughed, a laugh of extreme morbidity.

Would Chen Yan die?

Chi Xue guessed that Chen Yan probably would not die.

But his poison formation was not meant to kill Chen Yan, but to exhaust Chen Yan's time and wear down Chen Yan's physical body.

When the Domain War began, what the Thousand-Face Corridor would face would be a Chen Yan who was already on the verge of death, possessing almost no combat power, and who might even be extinguished by a mere gust of wind.

"That is, after all, an eighth-rank Malice Crystal..."

Sss, sss, sss...

The belly of the withered tree wrapping everyone began to be covered by bark, continuing to encase everyone within it.

Qi Fan's legs, waist, abdomen, and neck were covered by the bark one after another, leaving only a pair of eyes filled with coldness to meet Chi Xue's gaze, like ice blades in the cold night.

Chi Xue laughed: "A Sun-Radiance Grade A poison formation, indeed!"

And it was at this very moment.

From the depths of the pitch-black night, the sharp voice of the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree rang out:

"Chi Xue, is what is on that image actually true?"

It had only sent out one Dark-Devouring Ancient Tree to investigate the situation; it only knew that the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison had been destroyed, and had no idea what had actually happened to Chen Yan inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

"Naturally, it is true," Chi Xue laughed.

"That is good!" The Dark-Devouring Mother Tree grinned hideously.

"It is false," Qi Fan spoke coldly.

The Dark-Devouring Mother Tree paused.

The next moment.

"Hahahahahaha!!!" Chi Xue's near-maniacal laughter rang out, continuous and unending.

…………

Time passed slowly.

The morning of the third day.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Inside the forging room, Chen Yan twisted his neck, and streaks of pitch-black lightning flickered across his skin.

As he walked, surging electric light covered the area like a dense web.

Above the ground, countless tiny particles slowly floated up, under the pull of the magnetic thunder, carrying a sense of order and powerful tension, appearing like giant wings spreading outward.

Chen Yan stood at the center of the magnetic pole, sensing the pull of power from all around him in detail.

From the smallest particles to the energy fields extending out to the Reverse Fire Castle, all energy fields within a radius of a thousand miles were sensed by Chen Yan in detail.

Chen Yan had absorbed half of the thunder elements of the Lei Yu Ci Hun, and his own Qi and blood had taken on its powerful attributes.

Which was the control of magnetic fields.

Furthermore, after Chen Yan completely absorbed that half of the energy, the Saint-Breaking Tree bore a 【Origin】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

After consuming the 【Origin】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit, the quality of Chen Yan's own thunder elements surpassed even the Lei Yu Ci Hun, not to mention the Ten Thousand Prison Nether Thunder from which he had drained half of its elemental power.

Within two days.

The grade of his thunder Qi and blood soared from Bright Moon Grade A to Sun-Radiance Grade A.

The improvement in Chen Yan's strength in the path of Qi and blood was unimaginable.

Hum, hum, hum!!!

One after another, True Origin Dharma Images appeared behind Chen Yan.

Three thousand!

Three thousand five hundred!

Four thousand!

Five thousand!

Five thousand three hundred and thirty-one True Origin Dharma Images!

With both quantity and quality improved, Chen Yan now stood like an ancient Thunder God presiding over the Eternal Thunder Court, his eyes appearing to flow with a river of thunder that could devour everything—incomparably terrifying!

"Under the crushing weight of strength, all schemes and intrigues are like a joke, laughable."

Chen Yan spoke indifferently.

With Sun-Grade A-Rank lightning-elemental Qi-blood, there is also this exaggerated ability to control magnetic fields.

Facing Chi Xue again, Chen Yan could sense the changes in the energy field almost instantly, no matter where the opponent's portal appeared.

Heaven knows how many tiny particles are actually floating in the air?

As long as there is mass, there is energy!

This is the benefit of attacking a domain!

What is the point of trembling with fear while breaking through the levels inside, compared to the benefits gained from directly exterminating it?

The greatest specialty of the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison is the Lei Yu Ci Hun itself!

Chen Yan smiled and looked at the Ember Memory Spear.

The pitch-black long spear appeared in Chen Yan's hand; after being forged by Counter-Fire for two hours, the Ember Memory Spear seemed unchanged, but in reality, it had changed greatly.

Because of the trait 【Awakening Ember】.

【Awakening Ember】: Can store four of its master Chen Yan's strongest attacks and be used at will during combat.

【Awakening Ember】 can only be loaded once a day.

The 【Awakening Ember】 trait has been evolved.

Previously, it could only load three martial arts at a time, but now it can load four.

From three to four, this point seems not to have much evolution.

But the real key is the time limit.

Previously, it could only be loaded once a week.

Now it has evolved to being loadable once a day!

Moreover, Chen Yan suddenly thought of something the day before yesterday.

【Awakening Ember】 is used to load offensive means, which are Qi-blood martial arts and hard-body martial arts.

【Imperial Decay - Sacred Condensation Origin】 is a martial art.

Then 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 is also a martial art!

Chen Yan can manifest three 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 shadows, can only manifest them once a day, and each shadow can only be maintained for fifteen minutes.

If a shadow is manifested and then dispersed automatically before fifteen minutes, it can be manifested again after ten breaths, until the fifteen-minute duration is exhausted.

The three Qi-blood shadows each inherit all of Chen Yan's strength in the Qi-blood path.

Now that Chen Yan's strength in the Qi-blood path has greatly increased, 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 has become Chen Yan's strongest means!

Therefore, the day before yesterday, Chen Yan manifested three Qi-blood shadows and loaded them into the Ember Memory Spear.

Then he discovered that because the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】 inside the Ember Memory Spear had never been used, the Qi-blood shadows inside the Ember Memory Spear remained in a sealed state.

And yesterday, Chen Yan loaded another Qi-blood shadow into the Ember Memory Spear.

That is to say.

The current Chen Yan plus the Ember Memory Spear can burst out seven Qi-blood shadows in an instant.

Seven Qi-blood shadows plus Chen Yan's true self, combined with the fact that Chen Yan's current strength in the Qi-blood path is soaring like a warship.

That lethality is simply unimaginable.

Chen Yan felt that he could take down the Thousand-Face Corridor by himself.

In an instant, Chen Yan felt he had no more worries.

When dawn arrives, it will be the day the domain war begins, but Chen Yan is not panicked in the slightest.

The only regrettable point is.

The Ember Memory Spear still has not reached the level of a Divine Artifact.

Chen Yan feels it is close, but there is not enough Counter-Fire Crystal.

Only by becoming a Divine Artifact will the Ember Memory Spear truly transcend and bring Chen Yan a truly powerful boost.

It is just unknown if there is any Counter-Fire Crystal inside the Thousand-Face Corridor.

There should be; Counter-Fire Crystal is the crystallization of the Dark-Devour Brood Mother, bestowed by the Dark-Devour Brood Mother to the third-level domains under its jurisdiction.

Moreover, on that auction list, there is also an auction regarding Counter-Fire Crystal.

Outside the castle.

Lightning light is everywhere, and a huge thunder ball hangs across the sky above the Counter-Fire Castle.

Surrounding the thunder ball, fifty thunder ball creatures float slowly, and besides that, there are three spider-type mechanical bodies.

This is the combat power that Ten Thousand Prisons Nether Thunder has produced in these past few days.

It cannot be called small; it can only be called pitifully small.

But this cannot be blamed on Ten Thousand Prisons Nether Thunder, Ke Qingxuan, and the others.

In fact, including Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, and those thirty-six Counter-Fire Soldier Remains, they have been busy almost day and night these past few days.

But to build a new Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, the most difficult point lies in the Soldier-Breeding Room.

In fact, the new Soldier-Breeding Room was only created close to nine o'clock last night, and there are still many flaws.

To be able to create so much military force in such a short time, Ten Thousand Prisons Nether Thunder has completely burned itself out and is almost about to turn into a sarira.

Inside the Counter-Fire Castle, Zhang Chao looked at Ke Qingxuan with sweat all over his head.

Yet he saw that Ke Qingxuan only cast a disdainful look at him.

Subsequently, Ke Qingxuan looked toward the direction of the castle, a look of worry appearing in her eyes.

After all, Chen Yan must have been seriously injured at that time, but Chen Yan indicated nothing, and after entering the forging room, he had not appeared for these past few days.

To the side.

Zhang Chao felt in an instant that he had lost all face.

Beside him, the white-haired old man looked at Zhang Chao and said:

"It's human nature, don't be too hard on yourself."

Zhang Chao felt ashamed, then spoke up:

"I'm going to the soldier-rearing room to help."

It was right at this moment.

Zhang Chao's body suddenly trembled as he looked at the figure flying out from the main fortress.

"Chen Yan, how is your body?" Ke Qingxuan asked with concern.

The young man wearing black battle armor smiled and said:

"I'm fine."

"Do you want me to take a look? After all, at that time..." Ke Qingxuan remained worried.

"No need." Chen Yan waved his hand.

It was right at this moment that Zhang Chao looked at Chen Yan, feeling extremely guilty, and said:

"I..."

He truly could not bring himself to say it.

After all, at the time, he had told Chen Yan very seriously that he understood machinery.

As a result, when he opened one of the Yu Clan's communicators, he was dumbfounded.

What the hell was that thing?

There were no formation plates, only nano-scale mechanical parts, and he didn't recognize a single symbol floating on the main control panel.

After working all afternoon, Zhang Chao had only figured out how to turn off those communicators and laser turrets.

And that was only a result he stumbled upon after triggering the self-destruct system of a laser turret and causing it to explode.

Thinking about how Chen Yan had just been heavily injured, the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder was not performing well, and half of the Backfire Soldier Husks were lost.

And he himself was so incompetent.

Only one sentence was in Zhang Chao's heart.

I am a fucking disgrace.

To the side, Ke Qingxuan and the others also had stiff expressions; they didn't know how to tell Chen Yan.

Their subordinates were too useless, causing Chen Yan's domain battle tonight to be a failure.

Were they to become the eternal sinners of the Great Xia?

Fine, now it had all become a joke.

"I beg the Divine General for punishment!"

With a bang!

Zhang Chao knelt directly, lowering his head, not daring to speak.

Thump, thump, thump.

To the side, Ke Qingxuan, the white-haired old man, and the middle-aged man all knelt down.

One by one, the Backfire Soldier Husks also flew over and knelt at Chen Yan's feet.

Even the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder inside the giant thunder ball wanted to fly over.

With a slap.

Chen Yan grabbed the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder in his hand.

Chen Yan's expression was calm; he glanced at Zhang Chao's emotions and knew exactly what was going on.

"It is actually my problem; the Yu Clan's technology has long since surpassed the Five Clans and the Great Xia. It is quite normal that it is difficult to overcome with our own existing technology."

Chen Yan pondered.

This was his problem.

How could the Yu Clan's technology be cracked just by knowing a little bit about machinery?

Back then, the Lu Clan had established a laboratory to crack Chen Yan's imitation products, and it had taken them over a month.

For Zhang Chao to crack the Yu Clan's technology alone was simply a fantasy.

Chen Yan needed to capture a Yu Clan member; after all, only the Yu Clan members understood their own technology best.

Having said that, Chen Yan flew out directly.

"Chen Yan, what are you going to do?" Ke Qingxuan asked.

"I'm going to the Thousand-Face Corridor to surrender," Chen Yan joked, the moment his voice carried over.

One by one, the Backfire Soldier Husks hurriedly followed Chen Yan.

Only Zhang Chao's face was ashen at this moment.

"I am a fucking disgrace!"