Chapter 611: Suppressing the Ancient, the Source of the Martial Path—That is True Martial!

As force and Qi-blood fused, a dense rain of golden light surged from Chen Yan's palm, rising from bottom to top.

These clusters of newborn power leaped excitedly, as if sensing a trace of agitation from their master.

For ten thousand years of martial arts, different powers could not be fused, nor could they be stacked.

Martial artists cultivate Qi-blood, then cultivate hard-body techniques, yet the bonus to their own combat power remains limited.

After all, two powers that cannot be combined can only ever be unleashed one after the other.

But at this moment, this trace of power, not yet strong enough, condensed and surged in Chen Yan's palm.

Qi-blood drove the circulation of force, and force in turn nourished the birth of Qi-blood.

This seemed to be the most essential and powerful primitive power that human martial artists should possess.

Resonating with heaven and earth, yet not fusing with them; instead, it absorbs the power of heaven and earth to stand uniquely alone.

This seemed to be the true martial path.

"True Martial!"

Chen Yan whispered, and even his face was brimming with an irrepressible smile.

"Suppressing the ancient, the source of the martial path—that is True Martial!"

As he spoke, beams of light rose from his body.

Whoosh!

His entire body was covered by the cascading golden light, brilliant and magnificent.

Time passed slowly as Chen Yan continued to break his limits.

Breaking limits!

The already-born True Essence Dharma Form and True Dragon Dharma Form could not possibly be fused by Chen Yan in an instant.

They had already become one with the deeply rooted rules of the martial path.

Only the newborn True Essence and True Dragon could be fused by Chen Yan before they were incorporated into the rules.

And then form new rules.

Rules rewritten by Chen Yan.

It was as if, upon that vast and boundless wilderness of the martial path.

The long years had deposited the countless remains of ancient martial artists; they piled up layer by layer, actually forming a majestic mountain that blocked humanity's progress.

Yet the newborn master of will was struggling to pry at a heavy, incomparable plow.

Where the plowshare passed, it tore open a brand-new gully.

This was a silent hymn.

A hymn belonging to Chen Yan.

A hymn belonging to the will.

"Hahahaha!!!"

He was laughing loudly, breaking his limits.

"I will always believe in the power of my own will!"

He was mastering, he was breaking limits, he was skillfully creating.

This seemed to be the mission for which he was given life and descended into the human world.

He was a single spark born in the decaying human world.

…………

Rumble!!!

Within the newborn magnetic storm thunder prison hovering above the Reverse Fire Castle, a Great Xia Creation Realm expert was busy moving back and forth, constantly entering and exiting the soldier-nurturing room.

Her expression was not good; it was heavy, oppressive, and filled with immense self-reproach.

Ke Qingxuan came to the corridor and saw this female Creation Realm expert who was still busy:

"The Divinity Spirit Shop has opened, and it is selling tickets to enter the Shang Gu Zhan Tai. Why don't you go take a look? Perhaps you might find some opportunity?

Everyone else has gone."

As her voice fell, the female Creation Realm expert stopped her steps and looked at Ke Qingxuan with a bitter smile:

"No, I'd better do what I can."

The female Creation Realm expert named Lu Jingqiu was exhausted.

She had to admit that she had never truly possessed a heart prepared for death.

When Chen Yan agreed to sign a contract with Chi Xue to allow them to gain a chance at survival.

Lu Jingqiu was excited, happy, and moved.

She knew she didn't have to die.

But that fleeting emotion at the time had now become a factor that almost erased the meaning of her existence.

She was actually happy because of Chen Yan's risk.

That young God General had walked a dangerous path for their sake.

And she had harmed Chen Yan.

She did not know what to do.

Compared to Chen Yan's fearlessness, her own relief was incredibly ugly and disgusting.

Chen Yan's choice made all her thoughts of wanting to live seem like a joke.

She should not have been like this.

That was the Great Xia's Heavenly God General; how could he be plunged into danger because of them?

Lu Jingqiu was about to leave, but she looked at Ke Qingxuan and said:

"Just because a domain battle has started doesn't mean we have to fight, right?"

Her breathing was rapid:

"If Chen Yan hides in a place Chi Xue cannot find, as long as we intercept Chi Xue, he can escape, right?"

Ke Qingxuan looked at Lu Jingqiu, speechless for a moment, before saying after a while:

"He will not escape."

Lu Jingqiu was stunned, her eyes widening:

"Then what should we do?"

Ke Qingxuan shook her head.

Lu Jingqiu stared at her in a daze, then lowered her head the next moment:

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault; I should have just died at the very first moment."

She was in some pain.

It was true that she did not want to die.

But if it was because of her that Chen Yan was forced into a desperate situation,

then every shred of her desire to live was foolish in the extreme.

She deserved to die.

"Then... what should we do?"

Lu Jingqiu knew that Chen Yan had no way to defeat a Level 2 domain.

That was the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

Only those of them who had undergone the trial of the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest knew the terror of the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

It was impossible to win.

Boom!

A resonant hum of rules rang out.

Lu Jingqiu's body trembled.

Chen Yan was breaking his limits.

Such a powerful and extraordinary limit-breaking, yet at this moment, it carried a hint of unwillingness.

She gritted her teeth, actually beginning to loathe herself.

And just at this moment.

A Backfire Soldier-Remnant maid arrived in the corridor and looked at Ke Qingxuan and the other:

"The two of you, are you busy?"

Ke Qingxuan looked at the Backfire Soldier-Remnant and said: "What is the matter?"

The maid looked at Ke Qingxuan and the other with jealousy: "The Master requests your presence."

Ke Qingxuan was stunned:

"Isn't Chen Yan breaking through his realm?"

As her voice fell, the maid completely lost her composure:

"Just stand there obediently when you go over; the Master is breaking through his realm, I really don't understand why you two are needed to serve him.

Clearly, I..."

The next instant, Lu Jingqiu and Ke Qingxuan had vanished from where they stood.

The maid's expression stiffened, and the next moment.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it..."

…………

Inside the forging room.

Chen Yan, dressed in green, walked out from the backfire.

Golden light diffused from his body, incomparably profound and mysterious.

The True Dragon and True Essence Dharma Manifestations did not appear, having been retracted by Chen Yan into himself, but Chen Yan was still breaking his limits at this moment.

Facing Chen Yan directly, Ke Qingxuan and Lu Jingqiu both trembled.

For some reason, they felt an imperceptible, extremely noble aura from Chen Yan.

This aura was something Chen Yan had possessed before, but now it was even more intense.

"Divine General, you... have you finished breaking your limits?" Lu Jingqiu asked hurriedly, somewhat reserved.

"Not quite," Chen Yan said:

"I have summoned you two here, hoping you can use your full strength to kill me."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, Lu Jingqiu and the other were left stunned.

"This is an order," Chen Yan said.

He needed to fight.

Only through fighting could Chen Yan feel how to utilize his physical body and how to exert his power.

Amidst the backfire, Chen Yan could not fight.

Within the Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map, however, Chen Yan could not cultivate his physical body and could only increase his comprehension.

Therefore, fighting became the best method.

When Chen Yan broke through his realm in the past, he fought alone against the top ranks of the Five Races' Creation Realm List; it seemed dangerous, but the boost that fighting gave to Chen Yan's limit-breaking was immense.

The next moment.

With a boom.

It was like a muffled thunderclap.

A rounded, slender leg had already come crashing in from the side of Chen Yan's head; Ke Qingxuan had moved, her entire body flowing with the divine radiance of Qi and blood, her right leg unleashing countless afterimages.

Chen Yan raised his arm to block, and the next instant, he kicked out, aiming straight for Ke Qingxuan's abdomen.

Boom.

Ke Qingxuan was sent flying, crashing into the wall; the moment she fell, she adjusted her posture, bent her legs, and slammed her feet against the wall.

She pressed two fingers to her lips, and deep within her pupils, two hexagonal purple formations manifested.

"Secret Art - Azure Profound!"

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Streaks of distorted azure light erupted instantly from the void, shooting toward Chen Yan from all directions.

Chen Yan met them with his fists, and in an instant, ten thousand fist shadows exploded outward.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The fist shadows and the azure light collided, causing the space to twist and tear.

The next moment, Ke Qingxuan had already appeared in front of Chen Yan, her body slightly hunched, and she struck a punch toward Chen Yan's abdomen.

But Chen Yan had already raised a leg, and in the instant he twisted his body, he brought down a leg-axe strike containing immense power.

Boom!

This leg struck Ke Qingxuan's left shoulder directly; in an instant, her left shoulder shattered, exploding into a mist of blood.

Chen Yan struck out with a palm, and rolling power of will spilled forth, instantly repairing Ke Qingxuan's left shoulder.

Dong!

A resonance of the Laws was born, echoing in all directions.

Behind them, Lu Jingqiu watched, stunned.

Chen Yan was truly breaking through his realm!

During a breakthrough, one's combat power was usually less than ten percent of its peak, yet even so, he could simultaneously crush Ke Qingxuan and heal her.

She watched in a daze as Ke Qingxuan's body was sent flying by Chen Yan, brushing past her ear before crashing into the wall.

Pfft!

Ke Qingxuan spat out a mouthful of blood, her body once again enveloped by the Immortal Will, and then she prepared to strike at Chen Yan again.

The next instant.

Lu Jingqiu moved as well.

Her figure flickered like a golden willow, and her palm, like a sword, thrust toward Chen Yan's eyes.

But just as her palm was about to make contact with Chen Yan's eyes.

A sharp pain appeared instantly.

Boom!

Chen Yan kicked through Lu Jingqiu's abdomen; Lu Jingqiu was sent flying backward instantly, and the moment the sharp pain arose, her abdomen had already been repaired by the Immortal Will.

Afterward.

Inside the forging room, three phantoms flickered and collided.

Chen Yan fought time and time again, repairing the bodies of Ke Qingxuan and the other woman time and time again.

Dong!

Dong!

Within half an hour, three successive sounds of Law resonance rang out.

Until the power erupted by Lu Jingqiu and Ke Qingxuan grew smaller and smaller.

Bang!

Chen Yan kicked Ke Qingxuan away; Ke Qingxuan stood up, swaying, and was about to charge again.

"That's enough," Chen Yan said.

"I... I can still con... tinue," Ke Qingxuan said with a deathly pale face, speaking with extreme difficulty.

She never refused any of Chen Yan's orders.

For every order, she would only think of every possible way to do it to the best of her ability.

Her body was slightly hunched, her right hand was still casting a spell, but her left arm hung limp, clearly ruined.

Soon, the Immortal Will repaired Ke Qingxuan's left arm.

"Forget it, your power is still too weak," Chen Yan shook his head slightly.

His original best candidates were Qi Fan or Zhang Chao, but those two had already gone to the Shang Gu Zhan Tai.

To the side, Lu Jingqiu stood frozen in place, the shock in the depths of her eyes already compounded to an indescribable level.

She had thought that she was, at the very least, ranked one hundred and fiftieth on the Creation Realm List.

No matter how powerful Chen Yan was, Chen Yan during a breakthrough shouldn't have been able to do much to her.

In reality, she was barely any better off than Ke Qingxuan.

Throughout the entire battle, she had been beaten until her body was ruined and repaired by Chen Yan more than ten times.

Even more terrifying was that throughout the entire battle, Chen Yan's body had not left its original spot at all.

Facing the storm-like attacks of the two of them, Chen Yan was like an Immovable Wisdom King, impossible to shake.

This was already...

This had already transcended Lu Jingqiu's imagination.

She had no idea what level Chen Yan had reached now.

He was moving from the sixth rank toward the Creation Realm stage.

Right?

Right?

The Chen Yan of today brought Lu Jingqiu an unimaginable sense of unreality.

In an instant, all her previous worries and despair became extremely ridiculous when facing such a Chen Yan.

A trace of indescribable excitement and awe rose in the bottom of her heart.

Do the Five Clans know they are facing a terrifying existence who treats breaking through realms like drinking water?

It was also at this moment.

"Which of you will go to the Shang Gu Zhan Tai first? I will observe."

Chen Yan's voice fell.

"I'll go." Ke Qingxuan had already spoken.

"Me!" Lu Jingqiu said, already clicking on the Divine Spirit Shop, and a golden ticket appeared in her hand.

Chen Yan nodded and said:

"Circulate your cultivation technique while you enter."

"Okay." Lu Jingqiu nodded, sat cross-legged, and streams of scorching golden light emerged around her body.

Soon, a black hole appeared in front of Lu Jingqiu.

As the black hole closed, Lu Jingqiu remained sitting in her original spot.

At the same time.

Lu Jingqiu's consciousness appeared on the Shang Gu Zhan Tai.

"I wonder what he is going to do?"

Lu Jingqiu murmured, then walked toward the huge lake steps.

Meanwhile.

Above the steps.

More than two hundred martial artists were each fighting against human shadows on the steps.

On the eighteenth step, Shen Yiwei blasted a human shadow in front of him into pieces.

Beside him, another dark shadow walked over.

"It is indeed useful; as long as I keep imitating the fighting style of the human shadows, my understanding of my own physical body becomes deeper."

Shen Yiwei spoke.

Because this time, everyone had confirmed the identities of their teammates from the very beginning.

So Shen Yiwei knew that it was Xia Long.

"Hmm." Xia Long nodded, then looked upward:

"He is also quite good."

The 'he' in Xia Long's mouth naturally referred to Jiang Yuan.

Now, Jiang Yuan had already rushed to the twenty-second step, ranking second.

The Shang Gu Zhan Tai had sealed everyone's martial arts strength.

Now, climbing the steps depended instead on everyone's comprehension and their original degree of understanding of their physical bodies.

As Xia Long spoke, he and Shen Yiwei looked toward the highest point together.

On the twenty-fourth step, a figure wrapped in black mist was dueling with four human shadows.

Xia Long and Shen Yiwei's hearts sank in unison.

They had previously learned about all the existences who cultivated four martial paths and had excellent comprehension.

They could roughly guess that person's identity.

Lu Jianxia, or perhaps Lu Wuyi.

In all likelihood, it was Lu Jianxia.

Because Jiang had already determined that Lu Wuyi was still on the eighteenth step.

One Chen Mi was already a headache.

But now, Lu Jianxia of the Lu Clan also brought them very strong pressure.

This woman, although third on the Creation Realm Ranking, had actually always been very low-key, and outsiders did not know her background.

But within the Five Clans Struggle, Lu Jianxia had shown extraordinary posture time and time again, even surpassing her own brother.

Why is this?

Many Great Xia Creation Realm experts also felt uncomfortable in their hearts.

No one wanted to see the Five Clans produce another outstanding person.

Even more fatal was that Chen Yan was going to engage in a domain battle with Chi Xue.

Now, everyone seemed to be climbing the steps, but they had been calculating Chen Yan's number of breakthroughs in their hearts.

"He was brought out by me; I understand him." Shen Yiwei spoke:

"Do not worry."

Xia Long nodded, but he also understood in his heart that the one most worried was perhaps Shen Yiwei himself.

"All we can do is improve ourselves." Xia Long spoke.