Chapter 599: Ashes of Memory, Metamorphosis!

Lu Jianxia left just like that.

Chen Yan stood quietly on the spot, not speaking for a moment.

In different aspects, one event can cause different results and reactions.

For instance, Chen Yan had clearly told Lu Cunyang the whole truth, but on Lu Cunyang's side, they were unwilling to accept it.

Even if they knew it was correct, it was impossible to change their own camp and thoughts.

People are just like this.

Once people identify with something, they will uphold it as truth in choice after choice, reinforcing the barriers of their thinking.

Until the truth overturns it, and the stubborn become hysterical because their inner order collapses.

The surprised become lost because their cognitive map changes abruptly.

The most painful are the yearning ones, whose full expectations fall through, swallowed by endless pain.

Lu Jianxia had a yearning for Chen Yan, and this trace of yearning vanished completely the moment she knew Bing Yi was Chen Yan.

And after being saved by Chen Yan, she became lost, until now, with the Great Xia and the Five Clans in complete opposition.

She will struggle in endless pain.

Perhaps only at the moment she stands completely on the opposite side will she become her true self.

So, how could Lu Jianxia be the only one in pain?

Everyone looked at Chen Yan, sensing that there was clearly something between Chen Yan and that person.

Chen Yan shook his head slightly, then walked toward the Xia Long side.

Chen Yan had long since confirmed the other party's identity.

"Chen Yan," Xia Long said in a low voice, his tone still carrying a smile.

He was naturally pleased; now it could be considered that Chen Yan had won.

The two of them walked very far away.

After all, in this place, everyone's strength was suppressed, they could not transmit sound, and their perception was no different from an ordinary person's.

As long as Chen Yan walked far away to talk with Xia Long, he did not need to worry about being overheard.

Some people wanted to come over, but were quickly stopped by others.

Not until they were far enough away did Chen Yan speak:

"I want to ask, how many Enlightenment Myriad Image Seeds can one Enlightenment Myriad Image Map hold?"

As soon as Chen Yan's voice fell, Xia Long was stunned by it.

"You already have an Enlightenment Myriad Image Seed?"

"Mm, obtained on Myriad Image Island."

Xia Long was somewhat dazed.

This is bad.

If the Five Clans' Creation Realm experts knew this, wouldn't they be angered to death?

No wonder when Chen Yan disguised himself as Lu Wuyi, he went so directly to auction an Enlightenment Myriad Image Map that was useless to him.

Damn?

Xia Long was shocked in his heart, then spoke:

"It's useless; one Enlightenment Myriad Image Map can at most combine with one Enlightenment Myriad Image Seed.

The key is to consume the Spirit of Divinity; the Enlightenment Myriad Image Map is considered a connector that can combine the Spirit of Divinity with the Enlightenment Myriad Image Seed."

Chen Yan nodded:

"I understand."

Since taking another Enlightenment Myriad Image Seed was useless, Chen Yan then wanted the Evil Void Black Tide.

If he chose a divine object useless to himself solely to prevent Chen Mi from advancing to the eighth rank,

that would only make Chen Yan appear cowardly and stupid.

In this world, it is the Five Clans who fear him, not him who fears the Five Clans.

At the same time, the ninth auction item, the Mourning Soul Disk, began to be auctioned.

But Chen Yan no longer cared.

His little sister Chen Yu had already obtained a Soul Disk within the Rotten Sound Ancient House, a third-level domain under the jurisdiction of the second-level domain Kumeng Micheng.

She was currently rushing toward his side.

There was simply no need for Chen Yan to go and bid for another Mourning Soul Disk.

For a Thought Master, the essence of thought power contained within one Soul Disk was enough for them to reach the peak of the Creation Realm.

At the same time, Xia Long looked at Chen Yan and continued:

"Do you need help on your side?"

"No," Chen Yan shook his head slightly:

"I will head toward the Kumeng Micheng direction after I finish dealing with the matters on my side."

Xia Long nodded:

"Shen Yiwei and I are both at Ancient God Mountain, very far from your side, so we can't help much."

He sighed, looked at Chen Yan and said, "The strongest existence on your side is the Dark Devourer Mother Nest.

But as long as you don't provoke it, as a domain of the primal world, it is impossible for it to make a move against you."

Chen Yan did not speak, only nodded.

Time passed slowly, and the tenth auction item, the Purple Sea Spirit Wind, was also auctioned off.

Everyone looked at Chen Yan.

"The Dao-Enlightenment Myriad-Form Seed and the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad-Form Map are both his now."

"Damn it!"

"Fortunately, he doesn't have much Divine Spirit Essence left."

"My Five Clans have been utterly defeated."

Voices, some cold and some helpless, rang out one after another.

Yet, every single Creation Realm expert of the Great Xia had a smile on their face.

It was also at this moment that Chen Yan spoke:

"Use the auction-exemption privilege."

The moment Chen Yan's voice fell, that grand and ethereal voice sounded:

"Please choose the item you wish to be exempt from bidding on."

At this moment, everyone stopped talking and looked at Chen Yan one by one.

"I want the Evil Void Black Tide."

The instant Chen Yan's voice rang out, looks of shock appeared on everyone's faces.

Immediately, someone roared as if they were about to vomit blood: "Damn it, he already had the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad-Form Seed himself; otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a choice!"

"Ahhh, from the very beginning, he never said a single word of truth!"

"You really deserve to die!"

The Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans were all about to be angered to death.

Only now did everyone realize that Chen Yan had been relying on his possession of the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad-Form Seed from the start to bid on the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad-Form Map.

Originally, Chen Yan choosing the Evil Void Black Tide was just a minor matter.

But it gave the Five Clans' Creation Realm experts a feeling of being deceived upon being deceived.

"Why are you all so angry?"

A voice sounded abruptly, laughing indifferently:

"It was clearly everyone who cast their one vote each to give the auction-exemption ticket to him."

The Five Clans' Creation Realm experts glared over one by one.

The one speaking was precisely the person who had almost angered Lu Wuyi to death just a moment ago.

"You deserve to die too!"

"Don't let me know what your name is!"

"Bastard, you are already on my must-kill list!"

Amidst the roaring sounds ringing out, everyone's vision blurred, and then they were all teleported out one by one.

The moment they were teleported out, the grand voice rang out again:

"Five days later, the Divine Spirit Essence shop will open."

Following that.

With a splash.

As if his whole body had been doused with ice water, Chen Yan returned to the forging room.

He was still sitting cross-legged on the floor, and beside him in the Counter-Fire Furnace, the Ember-Memory Spear stood quietly, with tiny specks of golden light overflowing from the spear body.

The entire auction had only lasted a little over two hours.

The Ember-Memory Spear had not yet completely finished its transformation.

Yet, in front of Chen Yan, there were three golden light clusters floating.

Flashes of lightning passed by, and the three light clusters landed, their halos dissipating to reveal the objects within.

On the far left were three hundred Counter-Fire Crystals.

In the middle was a cylindrical glass bottle with a diameter of ten centimeters and a height of about thirty centimeters.

Inside the glass bottle was half a container of pitch-black liquid.

The thick, pitch-black liquid was as dead and silent as an abyss, nearly stagnant, and countless pitch-black spores were suspended within the liquid.

These pitch-black spores were dense and numerous; Chen Yan scanned them, and their quantity was over several million, with extremely fine tentacles growing on their surfaces, swaying slowly.

This was the Evil Void Black Tide.

It had no malicious intent, but it could create Evil Void Spores to launch consciousness attacks on enemies.

It could be refined by martial artists or integrated into weapons.

Chen Yan certainly would not let the Evil Void Black Tide be integrated into his own physical body.

Chen Yan's physical martial path had always been trending toward perfection; even if the Evil Void Black Tide were powerful, integrating it into himself would make Chen Yan's body appear as if it were tainted with impurities.

Chen Yan glanced at the Heavenly God Armor and the Ember-Memory Spear on his body.

Finally, he decided to combine the Evil Void Black Tide with the Ember-Memory Spear to add another layer of performance to the spear.

As it happened, the Ember-Memory Spear was currently transforming toward a divine artifact, and Chen Yan did not mind putting in extra effort.

Immediately, Chen Yan picked up one hundred Counter-Fire Crystals and placed them directly into the Counter-Fire Furnace.

Whoosh!

The orange flames suddenly bloomed vigorously.

The body of the Ember-Memory Spear was instantly burned red, shining brilliantly as if it were concentrated essence of the sun, its aura terrifying.

With a thought from Chen Yan, the glass bottle containing the Evil Void Black Tide was lifted by threads of lightning and brought above the Counter-Fire Furnace.

With a snap, the bottle mouth shattered.

The pitch-black liquid, which also resembled billions of particles of black dust, poured down like a waterfall to be forged by the Counter-Fire.

Then, within the flames, streams of the Evil Void Black Tide clung to the body of the Ember-Memory Spear like long snakes, completely merging with it.

Hum!!!

The crimson flames and black light intertwined, surging instantly, and the entire forging room was occupied by streams of black-red flowing mist.

Chen Yan connected his consciousness with the Ember Memory Spear, and at this moment, he felt the massive changes within the spear's body.

The Ember Memory Spear was undergoing a true transformation, flickering.

It trembled within the scorching Inverse Fire, and following Chen Yan's intent, it actually began to change.

One moment, it turned into a pair of pitch-black gauntlets, the next it transformed into fifteen long spears fanned out, and immediately after, it became a ring.

Ever-changing!

Just like the Heavenly God Armor.

As the Ember Memory Spear and the Evil Void Black Tide continued to fuse, Chen Yan perceived more and more in his heart.

"Then, let you completely complete a true sublimation."

Chen Yan murmured, cutting his palm with a finger, and crimson blood flowed into the Inverse Fire, merging into the Ember Memory Spear.

Immediately, strands of golden-red power of will flowed out from Chen Yan's body, transforming into rays of red mist that poured into the Ember Memory Spear and the Evil Void Black Tide.

The golden-red power of will bloomed, enveloping Chen Yan and the Ember Memory Spear; in an instant, daylight descended upon the entire forging room, and the light and flames surged violently!

The Ember Memory Spear floated and sank within the Inverse Fire Furnace, seemingly giving birth to rules unique to itself.

Rays of brilliance bloomed, ten thousand strands flying and dancing, extremely dazzling.

Outside the main fortress.

Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, and the others had finished the auction, and at this moment, everyone's faces were filled with joy; the trace of excitement and astonishment in their eyes was too intense.

Everything that had happened throughout the auction made them feel as if they had just awakened from a dream.

They never expected that the 'Lu Wuyi' who had made the entire Great Xia Creation Realm feel incredibly troubled from the start was actually Chen Yan himself.

When everyone looked toward the direction of the main fortress, their eyes held sighs.

Inside another fortress.

"What?"

"How is that possible?"

"You were actually so stupid!!!"

Ji Chuxi and Ji Hun roared continuously.

Because they wanted to leak information regarding Chen Yan at the very beginning, they had been eliminated by the auction platform.

Neither Ji Chuxi nor Ji Hun knew what had happened afterward.

They thought their sacrifice could bring huge information resources to the Five Clans.

As a result, after the accounts from Chi Yuexi and the others, everyone had become a clown all at once.

"Otherwise, how could he have played the role of Bing Yi for so long without being discovered by anyone?"

Chi Yuexi gave a bitter smile, feeling an extreme sense of powerlessness.

"We can't beat him, we can't beat him."

A Five Clans Creation Realm cultivator let out a near-tragic sound, hanging their head:

"To think that I, Lu Shuangshuang, enjoyed endless glory in the Five Clans and was admired by ten thousand people; I never imagined that upon arriving here, I wouldn't even have any dignity left."

She was on the verge of tears, looking at Ji Chuxi and Chi Yuexi so miserably.

Everyone was silent.

"And there is Chi Xue!" Ji Chuxi's voice was cold:

"Chi Xue is definitely not simple; the fear he brings me is even greater than Chen Yan!"

Ji Chuxi stared fixedly at Chi Yuexi:

"Chi Xue can slaughter Chen Yan."

Chi Yuexi was speechless for a moment.

Chi Xue was indeed formidable, even terrifying.

But Chen Yan was not simple either.

When these two collide, it is truly unknown who will win and who will lose.

Chen Yan was growing too fast.

Really too fast.

If it were purely due to aptitude, Chi Yuexi would be jealous, but would never be terrified.

The Five Clans would also not be so concerned.

But Chen Yan's growth to this day did not rely on aptitude.

It was will, it was character, it was strategy.

Especially when that indescribable but extremely important will became a materialized Martial Dao.

This was too terrifying.

It is useless to be jealous; you will only be incredibly wary while simultaneously being incredibly admiring.

Because you know that as long as you follow him and do the same, pursuing the limit, you could reach that level.

But you cannot do it; you know you can, yet you still cannot do it.

This simply makes one's mentality collapse.

"I actually admire him quite a bit," Chi Yuexi said with a bitter smile:

"Compared to him, we aren't even considered geniuses anymore. Look at who compares Lu Xunyang to him.

Everyone knows that even Lu Xunyang cannot compare to him."

As Chi Yuexi's voice fell, the entire room fell into silence.

Ji Chuxi lifted her head, a look of confusion appearing in her eyes, but she soon said firmly:

"He is absolutely no match for Chi Xue."

But no one answered.

Ji Hun smiled helplessly.

As for those eighth-rankers in the outside world of the five clans, the heads of each clan might still be guessing.

Guessing when Chen Yan will die, and how miserable the Great Xia will be.

They perhaps cannot imagine at all that even he, Ji Hun, has become a prisoner of Chen Yan.

Outside the main fortress.

Yu Qing leaned against the wall eating roasted meat, the fiery glow caressing her long light-blue hair; Yu Qing kept her head bowed, not saying a word.

"Have you eaten enough?"

Zhang Chao came to Yu Qing's side and spoke:

"Since you have already promised the Divine General, do not intentionally delay the time."

Yu Qing glanced at Zhang Chao, then immediately looked toward the location of the main fortress.

"I refuse to believe no one can deal with him!" she said in a low voice.

In the distance, a white-haired old man looked at Yu Qing:

"There are too many people who think like you; everyone has their own mission.

If the Heavenly Divine General dies in battle, he will also leave a name for eternity!"

The old man's voice had just fallen.

"Shut up!" A cold female voice rang out; high above the sky, Ke Qingxuan looked down at the white-haired old man:

"Watch your words!"

The white-haired old man gave a sheepish laugh:

"Apologies, I wasn't paying attention just now."

Yu Qing stood up, then looked at Zhang Chao:

"Take me to the laser turret side."