Chapter 592: Divine Artifact, the Ember-Memory Spear!

"What are you doing?"

Yu Qing shrieked.

Chen Yan looked at Yu Qing and said:

"If you can reach your hand into this wisp of flame and hold it for one second, I will let you leave."

Yu Qing raised her eyebrows and looked at Chen Yan in surprise:

"You aren't lying to me?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Chen Yan's expression was calm.

Yu Qing narrowed her eyes; she clearly sensed that there was something wrong with Chen Yan, and this flame was definitely not simple.

But if it was only for one second...

She had just seen with her own eyes that Chen Yan had kept his hand inside the fire for a long time.

Yu Qing took a deep breath and looked at Chen Yan:

"Remember what you said, otherwise I will look down on you!"

She lifted her head, broke free from the shackles of the thunder, and walked toward the Counter-Fire Furnace.

Then, the very moment Yu Qing's fingers touched the Counter-Fire.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

A miserable, inhuman scream instantly rang out.

An indescribable, excruciating pain, like a sky-covering blade, instantly wiped out all of Yu Qing's consciousness.

The next moment, Yu Qing passed out cold.

Chen Yan checked Yu Qing's breath; she was not dead.

This was the miraculous aspect of the Counter-Fire; it could not corrode you, nor could it extinguish your life force, but it would bring you unimaginable, excruciating pain.

Then.

Yu Qing was jolted awake by the pain.

Having already passed out, Yu Qing's eyes instantly widened, and she shrieked again, as if suffering the most unbearable tragedy in the human world.

"Ahhhh!!!"

The time Yu Qing had spent in contact with the Counter-Fire was not even one ten-thousandth of a second.

But at this moment, her originally rosy face instantly turned as pale as paper, devoid of all color.

No longer touching the Counter-Fire did not mean the pain had vanished.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Yu Qing collapsed on the ground, continuously slapping the floor; the boundless, excruciating pain was about to wipe out all her sanity.

She did not know that the flame Chen Yan ignored was actually this terrifying.

The next moment, Yu Qing bit her tongue to commit suicide.

But immediately after, the Immortal Will restored Yu Qing's injuries.

"Don't!" Yu Qing clutched her own neck:

"It hurts... so much, let me die..."

She struggled for a long time.

Chen Yan could not be bothered to continue torturing the other party.

He could use his Immortal Will to directly suppress all of her resisting will, but doing so would also cause Yu Qing to lose the will to live.

Not to mention helping Chen Yan modify those dozen laser turrets and satellite cannons.

Therefore, Chen Yan did not mind letting this girl, who was incompatible with war yet had participated in it, experience what true terror was.

Chen Yan took out several Counter-Fire Crystals.

From within the Thousand-Face Corridor, Chen Yan had obtained seventy-five Counter-Fire Crystals.

Immediately, Chen Yan first took out two and placed them inside.

His current goal was still to first have the Ember-Memory Spear ascend to a divine artifact.

Of course, Chen Yan himself also needed to cultivate.

Chen Yan took out a Blood Pill, swallowed it, and then walked directly into the Counter-Fire Furnace to begin cultivating.

Time passed slowly; after about eighteen seconds, Chen Yan could not hold on any longer and still retreated from the Counter-Fire Furnace.

This time, Chen Yan did not dump all the Counter-Fire Crystals into the Counter-Fire Furnace at once.

Last time, every time Chen Yan entered the Counter-Fire Furnace, he could only last for a dozen seconds, and then he would have to rest for over half an hour.

This meant that for a lot of the time, Chen Yan was not fully utilizing it; the Counter-Fire Furnace was always forging the Ember-Memory Spear, not Chen Yan.

This time, Chen Yan was going to slowly add the Counter-Fire Crystals according to his own condition.

Perfect utilization.

Meanwhile, Yu Qing was still wailing on the side.

Anyone who has often been roasted by fire knows that after leaving the flames, the lingering, excruciating pain is even more terrifying—stinging and unbearable.

Not to mention being roasted by the Counter-Fire.

Chen Yan rested for twenty minutes, then walked back into the Counter-Fire to begin cultivating.

And Yu Qing was still wailing continuously on the side; in a short period of time, she had attempted suicide a hundred times, but all had been stopped by Chen Yan.

The blue-haired girl could only wail while attempting suicide, all the while glaring viciously at Chen Yan.

But when she saw Chen Yan walk into the Counter-Fire Furnace time and time again, and each time he stayed for longer, she fell into despair.

This time, she once again clearly realized what kind of enemy she was facing.

All of her resistance seemed like a joke.

As time slowly dissipated.

Chen Yan's expression also turned somewhat ugly.

The 【Illusion Ripple Abyss Domain】 operated crazily, and one after another, newly born True Essence Dharma Images were created.

But this time, the speed of cultivation was clearly not as fast as the last time.

The Counter-Fire was like a grinding machine; at the very beginning, Chen Yan was a piece of rough stone, and the grinding machine would crazily grind Chen Yan's physical body.

But gradually, Chen Yan's body became more and more perfect, and in the end, the Counter-Fire would also find it difficult to find problems with Chen Yan.

Of course, this only applied to the strength of Chen Yan's Qi and blood path; when Chen Yan practiced hard-body cultivation, he would still obtain rapid improvement at the beginning.

Even so, the speed of Chen Yan's strength improvement at this moment was still very fast.

Chen Yan did not manifest his True Essence Dharma Images; after all, Yu Qing was still here, and he did not wish to expose his full strength to an enemy.

Inside Chen Yan's body, one after another, True Essence Dharma Images were born.

Five thousand four hundred!

Five thousand five hundred!

Five thousand six hundred!

…………

Six thousand!

Waves of Qi and blood power surged, rolled, and grew within Chen Yan's body!

Chen Yan's aura was also becoming increasingly terrifying.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

Another 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was growing rapidly.

Time passed slowly.

About one day's time.

There was only half a day left until the auction of the Purple Universe World-Fixing Mirror.

When Chen Yan's own True Essence Dharma Images reached six thousand four hundred, a newly born 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was born!

Chen Yan swallowed it.

Whoosh!!!

Qi and blood energy, like a vast ocean, was born within Chen Yan's body; all this power felt as if it were power Chen Yan had possessed all along, completely becoming one with Chen Yan.

The True Essence Dharma Images increased once again!

Seven thousand five hundred and ninety-six!

Chen Yan let out a long breath; the greatest specialty of Counter-Fire Castle was the Counter-Fire Furnace.

It was also the foundation of his rise to fortune during the Five Races Conflict.

The only problem was that the Counter-Fire Furnace could not be taken away, and Chen Yan had to obtain enough Counter-Fire Crystals before he left Counter-Fire Castle.

Counter-Fire Crystals were the crystalline products of the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest, and there must still be many there.

On the auction list, there was also an item of three hundred Counter-Fire Crystals.

Chen Yan pondered that his current Divinity Spirit should be enough to take down both those three hundred Counter-Fire Crystals and the Enlightenment Myriad Images Map.

Chen Yan glanced at the Ember-Memory Spear, which was still being forged, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He walked out of the Counter-Fire Furnace and looked at Yu Qing.

At this moment.

Yu Qing was sitting against the wall with a deathly pale face, sweat still dripping from her face.

Her body could not help but tremble.

That heart-devouring pain lingered for a long time, making her feel as if she had entered an endless nightmare throughout this day.

But seeing Chen Yan, Yu Qing smiled.

Because, although Chen Yan looked calm at this moment, he was actually clenching his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white.

His body was trembling slightly, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, as if he were struggling against an invisible force.

"It hurts, right? It really hurts so much, hahaha!" Yu Qing laughed, her mouth extremely stubborn.

She had only endured that little bit of flame scorching and ended up like this.

Chen Yan had entered the Counter-Fire time and time again right in front of her, enduring that kind of terrifying, excruciating pain.

This was even more shocking than a person constantly tearing open their own newly grown flesh and blood.

But at this moment, Yu Qing had to mock him.

Because she knew that she was not the only one in pain.

That Great Xia Divine General who treated her this way must be ten thousand times, a hundred million times more painful than her.

"Hahaha... hahaha..."

Yu Qing kept laughing, but as she laughed, tears flowed out; she was extremely disheveled, and there was terror in her eyes.

"I want to go home..."

She spoke tremblingly.

What kind of demon was that person?

How could someone treat themselves like this?

He was clearly in so much pain.

We have actually been enemies with such a person all along.

If this person does not die, if he does not die, what should be done?

Questions arose one after another in the depths of Yu Qing's mind.

She was truly terrified.

It was at this very moment.

Crackle, crackle...

Bolts of lightning emerged, wrapping around Yu Qing, intending to push her into the Counter-Fire Furnace.

Having experienced the horror of the Counter-Fire, Yu Qing was thoroughly afraid.

"I won't admit defeat!" Yu Qing roared, tears spraying:

"I absolutely will not admit defeat!"

But when she came into close contact with the Counter-Fire flames, her face turned pale to the extreme:

"I was wrong, I'll help you, I'll help you!"

She screamed in a panic, tears streaming down, her whole person appearing as if she had completely lost her soul, looking at Chen Yan:

"Won't it be enough if I help you?"

Chen Yan looked down at her from above:

"What about your will?"

Yu Qing was speechless, confusion appearing in her eyes:

"I..."

She could not explain.

In her mind, everything from the past seemed to rise like mist, then dissipate.

It was as if she heard her mother's advice once more as she was leaving:

"Xiao Qing, don't listen to their lies; the Five Clans Conflict is still too far away for you."

"Those who can enter the Five Clans Conflict are all cunning experts, you must not go."

She thought of the confident spirit she had when she left home, now looking wretched to the extreme.

"The Clan Master Yu even evaluated me as the most brilliant genius."

"As long as I research a device that can completely resist malice, the Five Clans and Great Xia won't need to go to war, and the world will remember my name."

"There are one hundred and eighteen elements in the world; perhaps the one hundred and nineteenth is the enemy of malice, and perhaps it is within the Five Clans Conflict."

She hung her head; all her past words now seemed incomparably childish.

She looked at Chen Yan, saying with every breath:

"You devil!"

"A devil?" Chen Yan frowned:

"In the past, the Xia Master founded the nation, Great Xia suppressed the White Calamity Ancient God to ensure the continuation of the human race for ten thousand years, yet now the Five Clans want to annihilate Great Xia; are the Five Clans not devils?

I, Chen Yan, have walked this path, and the Chen Master, as a supreme powerhouse, wants to ambush me this time, even joining forces with an Ancient God Beast to destroy me; is he not a devil?

The Five Clans are causing trouble, supporting the Aristocratic Family Alliance; how many living beings in Qinzhou have been used as test subjects by the Aristocratic Family Alliance, how many families have been torn apart; are they not devils?"

His voice was icy:

"I have already told you the truth of the world with my own mouth, yet you are all stupid and unaware, blocking the future of the human race for the sake of a false belief.

Are you not devils?"

Chen Yan's voice rang out; originally, he had no desire to converse with this woman.

But at this moment, he only felt it was incomparably ridiculous.

Yu Qing was dazed, unable to speak for a moment, and as she met those eyes, she saw that person speak coldly:

"You only care about your own tiny plot of land, while I carry the future of the great world!"

In an instant, Yu Qing's body stiffened, her eyes brimming with tears:

"Chenzhou has a problem, right? You didn't lie to us, right?

I am not committing treason; I am working for the future of the human race, is that it?

I don't want to harm my Yuzhou!"

She slumped on the ground, her hair disheveled on her shoulders, a few strands of light blue hair stuck to her paper-pale cheeks by her tears.

She looked fiercely at Chen Yan just like that:

"If you are lying to me, I will... I will..."

Immediately, she broke down in sobs.

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows and turned around.

He lifted the Ember Memory Spear from within the Counter-Fire Furnace, sparks flying.

Hum!

The spear hummed clearly.

The Ember Memory Spear, it had reached the God-tier!

PS: Padding for two chapters.