Chapter 591: With me, Chen Yan, here: those who act against the grain, those who disregard the truth, and those who bring chaos to th

The moment Chen Yan's voice fell, Yu Ming's body stiffened, and even the Great Xia Creation Realm expert who was charging toward him, preparing to self-detonate, remained frozen in place.

Looking at Chen Yan within the projected image, Yu Ming felt endless regret in his heart.

He had thought Chen Yan was surely going to die.

He had considered that Chen Yan might survive, but he had never thought Chen Yan would win so irresistibly.

The roles of attacker and defender have reversed.

Indeed, the roles of attacker and defender between him and Chen Yan had completely reversed.

"Speak, what exactly do you want?" Yu Ming looked at Chen Yan and said.

"I can choose not to kill Yu Qing." Chen Yan leaned against the Thunder Throne, one hand lightly stroking his chin.

Yu Ming narrowed his eyes:

"Then what do you want?"

Chen Yan's gaze was calm as he continued:

"I will let Yu Qing stay with me and not kill her; you must not reveal my situation to the outside world, you must not provide any aid to Chi Xue's side, and you must not step one foot into the territory of the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree."

Yu Ming's expression turned cold:

"This isn't something that can be settled just by you saying it; if you want to kill her, isn't that just a flick of your finger away?"

What he worried about most was Chen Yan not keeping his word.

After all, Yu Qing dying was the most important thing to him.

"A contract can be signed."

A cold female voice suddenly rang out; it was Yin Qingshuang speaking:

"We will sign the contract with you on Chen Yan's behalf."

Yu Ming's expression flickered; he glanced at Chen Yan in the projection and saw Chen Yan nod, clearly in agreement.

Yu Ming stood high in the sky, his face divided into light and shadow by the moonlight, and he immediately said:

"I want to add one more condition: Yin Qingshuang and these people also cannot enter the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest territory.

After all, I am on the side of the Five Clans; if they enter the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest territory, there will be no game left for Chi Xue's side to play!"

As soon as his voice fell, Yin Qingshuang immediately retorted in a low shout:

"You're dreaming!"

Yu Ming narrowed his eyes:

"At worst, we'll go down together; Yu Qing is important, but aren't the Five Clans' Creation Realm experts at the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest important too?"

The atmosphere became extremely cold once again.

At this moment, Yin Qingshuang and the others were already prepared for battle.

Everyone looked at the projection.

On the Thunder Throne, Chen Yan's eyes were half-closed, his eyelids drooping slightly; as he raised his gaze, two bolts of cold thunder shot out, his look like a cold blade, sharp and icy.

"Fine." Chen Yan spoke.

He had been observing Yu Ming through the nerve endings of Zhang Ting all along.

To Chen Yan, Yu Ming's hostility toward Great Xia was not that intense.

There was no need to force him into becoming an enemy completely.

If the contract could not be signed, Yu Ming would surely explode, and who knows what kind of situation Chen Yan might not be able to control would arise.

Hearing Chen Yan say this, Yu Ming's demeanor visibly relaxed.

Yin Qingshuang, however, spoke up hurriedly:

"Are you really okay on your end?"

"I'm fine," Chen Yan replied:

"I will handle the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest here myself."

Yin Qingshuang nodded, but she still seemed somewhat hesitant.

Meanwhile, Yu Ming looked at Yin Qingshuang and the others and said:

"Who is coming to sign the contract with me?"

"I'll do it." Zhang Ting spoke in a muffled voice, then flew in front of Yu Ming, and the two began to craft the contract.

A contract is actually a type of array disc; the higher the level of the contract, the stronger the binding force on both parties.

"Woooo!!!"

Beside Chen Yan, the blood-covered Yu Qing was still struggling incessantly.

Clearly, she had no desire to stay with Chen Yan, even slamming her head against the ground several times.

However, she was restrained by Ke Qingxuan every time.

Chi Yuexi and the others looked at Yu Qing with complex feelings, never expecting that the most unyielding one would be the Yu Qing they considered the most childish.

"Woooo!!!"

Yu Qing roared in anger, tears streaming down her face, looking at Chen Yan with a defiant gaze.

Chen Yan scanned the crowd and then said:

"Since you all know I am Ice Intent, I might as well tell you everything about what I experienced on Myriad Forms Island."

As Chen Yan spoke, Yu Ming was still signing the contract with Zhang Ting, but his ears had already pricked up.

Chi Yuexi and the others also looked at Chen Yan coldly; Myriad Forms Island was perhaps their best chance to kill Chen Yan.

But everyone had missed it.

Chen Yan spoke quietly:

"In the past, I entered the Jin Palace in the guise of Ice Intent and saw the corpses of Chen Yi and her child."

Chen Yi was actually a woman; it was only after deep contemplation that I understood the truth of everything back then..."

At this moment, the domineering aura on Chen Yan had vanished, replaced by the demeanor of a sincere storyteller.

All along, it was never Chen Yan's intention to stand against the world.

His original intent in going to the Five Clans had always been to spread the Will Martial Dao.

What he had always wanted was for the path of Will to be passed on, so that thousands upon thousands of Will Martial Artists would be born in the human world.

He would no longer be lonely; he would have countless like-minded companions.

However, the constant deceit and endless power struggles led to the birth of the current Heavenly God Generals.

"Back then, Xia Weimin and Chen Yi were lovers, and they conceived a child.

But it was also at the very moment this infant was born that the true crisis belonging to Myriad Forms Island arrived."

As Chen Yan spoke, Ji Chuxi beside him let out a sudden roar, refusing to believe it at all.

Boom!

Zhang Chao stomped his foot, pinning the opponent's head to the ground.

"Say one more word, and I'll cut out your tongue," Zhang Chao said in a low growl.

As for Yu Ming's side, his expression was constantly changing, but he continued to draft the contract.

"After I realized everything, Chen Yunyou appeared, but it was not I who killed him, but the current Chen Lord..."

Chen Yan continued, revealing everything he had experienced in the Brocade Palace and within the Myriad Forms Tower.

Over by the cliff, the contract being drafted by Yu Ming and Zhang Ting was completed and took effect.

Yet Yu Ming stared fixedly at Chen Yan on the screen, his expression shifting repeatedly.

What Chen Yan spoke of were secrets profound enough to shock the world.

In the end, was it true or false?

"The one currently suppressed in the Myriad Forms Tower is Chen Sheng, not Xia Weimin," Chen Yan said slowly.

Crack!

At the cliff, a blood-colored radiance suddenly erupted from Yu Ming's body; he glared fiercely at Chen Yan in the projection, his entire face contorting:

"What evidence do you have?!"

The eyes of Chi Yuexi, Ji Hun, and the others also widened, looking at Chen Yan in disbelief.

Wasn't everything Chen Yan said implying that the previous Chen Lord, in order to avoid becoming the Continent Bright, had manufactured the tragedy of Myriad Forms Island and had been skulking about ever since?

Wasn't it implying that in the current Chen Continent, there had been no Continent Bright for nearly a thousand years?

This...

Ji Chuxi and the others were absolutely unwilling to believe it.

"You actually use such a joke to deceive us," Chi Yuexi sneered, a cold, eerie light flickering in her eyes.

"Why would I need to deceive you?" Chen Yan said indifferently:

"Why would the Lord of Will choose to descend upon Chen Continent, and why would Chen Continent fear the descent of the Lord of Will?

And why slaughter millions of lives, causing such a tragedy?

Have you never considered these things at all?"

As Chen Yan's voice fell, Chi Yuexi collapsed to the ground as if struck by lightning.

"It's fake; there's no evidence. Why must you deceive yourself?"

A Creation Realm expert of the Five Clans sneered:

"I have to admire your ability to make up stories; you even made it sound so real... Hahaha."

Chen Yan waved one hand, and a bolt of lightning was forcibly torn down from the Firmament, crashing into the man's chest.

Instantly, the man's chest was shattered, and he collapsed, gasping his last breath.

Seeing this, Ji Chuxi, who had been preparing to mock him, instantly shut his mouth.

Chen Yan said with a cold gaze:

"Do not think I am saying this to deceive or bewitch you; do not be too confident.

You are not even worth being fooled by me."

His voice was icy, and in an instant, he seemed to have transformed back into that Demon King burdened by slaughter.

"When I was at the Counter-Fire Castle, I told all of this to Lu Cunyuan, and he believed it.

In the end, he told me that even if the Five Clans truly had problems, as long as my Great Xia was wiped out, the malice of the world would still be resolved.

He told me that as long as the whole world is wrong, then what is wrong will become right."

Killing intent brewed in Chen Yan's eyes as he swept his gaze toward Yu Qing and Yu Ming:

"Everything I just said is to give you a chance, a chance to survive."

He stood up abruptly and took a step toward the Firmament.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

Behind him, Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, and all the Counter-Fire Soldier Husks followed with the captives.

Yu Ming watched fixedly, his breathing heavy.

Zhang Ting, Yin Qingshuang, and others watched in shock; they did not know these things either.

It was simply... horrifying!

Inside the screen, there was only Chen Yan's back, moving further and further away.

And his voice.

"This is the chance I give you, a chance to know the truth of the world. Whether you believe it or not, it matters not to this General.

Whether you are angry or not, it also matters not to this General."

"Talking to you all too much is an insult to this General."

Moonlight poured down as Chen Yan stood alone in the void, tilting his head; his nose bridge cast a heavy shadow in the moonlight, and within his pair of pitch-black eyes, an endless world of thunder seemed to be brewing.

"With me, Chen Yan, here, those who act perversely, those who disregard the truth, and those who ignorantly throw the world into chaos shall all die without a burial place."

As his voice fell, Zhang Chao had already gone to collect those eight satellite turrets that had been planted above the void.

Meanwhile, the great army was rapidly returning toward Backfire Castle.

Ke Qingxuan looked at Chen Yan's back, a strange brilliance flickering in her eyes, which she then deeply concealed.

Yu Qing was covered in blood, but at this moment, she kept her head lowered and no longer threw a tantrum.

Ji Chuxi glanced at his own severed leg and gave a bitter smile.

His eyes were still wide open; he wanted to roar, to explode, to angrily denounce everything Chen Yan had just said as lies, time and time again.

But he could not let out a roar.

Just as Chen Yan had said, why would the Lord of Will choose to descend upon Chen Prefecture?

Why would a disaster erupt in Chen Prefecture, causing a million people to die, to prevent the Lord of Will from descending?

Ji Chuxi could not accept it.

If what Chen Yan said was true, then he had not only failed physically, but his very own faith had also failed.

Everything was a total defeat.

But what made him even more desperate was that he did not even have the chance to argue.

Because that person had said with his own mouth that he did not care whether he believed it or not.

It was too cruel.

Ji Chuxi felt his faith collapsing; he would even rather die than accept this cruel fact.

Chen Yan led the army back to Backfire Castle.

The eight satellite turrets had also been brought back.

Ji Chuxi and the others had their combat power sealed by Zhang Chao using a Sealing Array Disk.

As for the strongest, Ji Hun, not only was his combat power sealed, but two Backfire Soldier Husks—the Castle Master and the Steward—were monitoring him in real-time.

"Chen Yan, if you are thinking of using us to threaten Chi Xue, then you are mistaken."

Chi Yuexi's face was deathly pale as she sat in the corner, her eyes looking at Chen Yan gloomily:

"He is a madman, self-righteous, and doesn't care about anyone else's life or death at all.

Back then, he was obsessed with Explosion Array Disks and accidentally blew up his own sister; the moment the incident happened, he didn't even look at his sister once, but instead announced to us that he had succeeded."

Chi Yuexi gave a bitter laugh:

"Do you think a person like that would care about us?"

Chen Yan frowned; he had indeed captured Chi Yuexi and the others to hold them hostage against Chi Xue.

But when he probed Chi Yuexi's emotions, he discovered that she was not lying.

A trace of terror appeared in Chi Yuexi's eyes as she continued:

"He doesn't care about rules at all, nor does he care about any values recognized by outsiders; things like ethics and morality are all trash to him."

Chi Yuexi raised her head, looked at Chen Yan, and shed tears:

"Bing Yi, we lost, you won; kill me and give me a quick end."

Chen Yan frowned and ignored her.

Afterward.

Chen Yan brought Yu Qing to the forging room and waved one hand, causing golden-red Willpower to overflow and begin restoring Yu Qing's severed leg and tongue.

"You have four Qi-Blood Shadows!" Yu Qing screamed out immediately, directly revealing this intelligence.

But soon, Yu Qing's expression trembled; all the Five-Clan Creation Realm experts here had become Chen Yan's captives, so what was the point even if she leaked this information?

Yu Qing looked at Chen Yan coldly:

"Whatever you ask me to do, I won't do it!"

She once again displayed an arrogant demeanor:

"You aren't the only one with a will; everything you said, regardless of whether it's true or false.

But asking me to go against my teammates is impossible!"

Chen Yan raised an eyebrow; this Yu Qing was a bit too unyielding.

Chen Yan took out a Backfire Crystal and first threw the Ember-Memory Spear into it, not wasting a single second of forging time.

He then looked at Yu Qing:

"Your will is very strong?"

Yu Qing's expression stiffened as she looked at Chen Yan; she knew that perhaps no one in the human world had a will stronger than this person's.

But she would not admit defeat.

After all, Yu Ming had already signed a contract, and Chen Yan could not kill her.

As long as she did nothing, Chen Yan could not obtain anything from her.

To be able to enter the Five-Clan Struggle at such an age, Yu Qing was one in a hundred million.

Her own will could not possibly be weak.

Previously, the Yu Clan had also opened a Will Warrior Research Class and wanted Yu Qing to go.

But Yu Qing refused on the grounds that she had no time.

Yet, at this very moment.

Chen Yan did not pay any attention to Yu Qing at all, but instead reached one hand into the Backfire.

Within the orange flames, golden secret scripts immediately emerged, rising along Chen Yan's arm and rhyming into Chen Yan's body.

The intense pain struck again, but Chen Yan's pain tolerance had clearly improved quite a bit by now.

Ten seconds.

Eleven seconds.

…………

Seventeen seconds.

"Hey, you know that this young lady is not easy to talk to, right?"

To the side, Yu Qing watched Chen Yan ignore her and spoke up:

"You may ignore me, but I need to eat."

Yu Qing stopped herself from speaking, but continued anyway:

"Yu Ming signed the contract, I cannot die, I need to eat!"

The next moment, Yu Qing stopped talking, because Chen Yan was looking at her.

Although Chen Yan's gaze was calm, in Yu Qing's eyes, he seemed like a blood beast ready to erupt at any moment.

Yu Qing's face turned pale instantly, but she still spoke up at this moment:

"I am warning you, starving to death is still death!"

Crackle.

Bolts of lightning instantly connected to Yu Qing's body, pushing her toward the Counter-Fire Furnace.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing?!"

Yu Qing shrieked, but immediately after, her fingers were uncontrollably pushed toward the Counter-Fire.

Yu Qing's eyes widened, and the next moment she gritted her teeth; she had even endured a broken leg, so why would she be afraid of this wisp of flame?