Chapter 613: Endless Limit-Breaking: Diligence Rewarded by the Heavenly Dao in the Human World

After this hum of the laws resonated, the expressions of every martial artist on the entire Shang Gu Zhan Tai froze.

They could not see Chen Yan and did not know how Chen Yan was currently breaking through his realm.

But just by listening to these continuously resounding hums, it was as if they could feel a powerful will, like a torrent of steel, that would never run dry.

Surging, surging.

No matter who they were, they would feel that irrepressible awe and intense sense of oppression.

"I don't believe he can keep breaking his limits like this."

A Five-Clan Creation Realm expert growled out loud.

But soon, someone looked at him with a sense of disappointment at his lack of resolve:

"Enough. I also want him to die soon, but your words right now only make people think you are afraid.

Why don't you go break your own limits, why don't you go transcend yourself, instead of hoping for his failure?"

That person gritted his teeth.

He was also shocked.

Even though they knew that if Chen Yan started a domain battle with Chi Xue, he would undoubtedly die.

But now, those sounds of breaking through realms still made his heart tremble.

Breaking through a realm—how could it be that simple?

The world thought Lu Xunyang was already the peak of a martial artist's will.

But only a few years had passed, and Chen Yan was born.

Heaven knows what Chen Yan had experienced, and what he had realized.

The voice of this person trailed off.

Inside the entire Shang Gu Zhan Tai.

The gazes of the Five-Clan Creation Realm experts shrank.

From the very beginning, they had indeed not underestimated Chen Yan.

But after learning that Chen Yan was going to fight a decisive battle with Chi Xue, everyone had instead let go of that initial wariness.

But at this moment, Chen Yan's limit-breaking made everyone feel that initial sense of dread once again.

The Great Xia Creation Realm experts were all silent, but the shock in their hearts was even more intense.

Ke Qingxuan looked at the back of that Six-Path All-Rounder, her eyes trembling, and tears even began to gather.

On the scene, only she knew what Chen Yan was actually doing.

She felt pity, and awe.

Bang!

Chen Yan stomped his right foot fiercely onto the water stairs, and the water ripples exploded into a ring-shaped shockwave.

"So, as long as one's own internal force is circulated perfectly enough, one can also unleash shockwaves."

Chen Yan whispered to himself.

Only when all his martial arts strength was sealed and his physical body was like that of a mortal could he pursue the most simple, most fundamental truth of martial arts.

The process of exploring the truth of the physical body was of great help to Chen Yan's integration of martial arts.

At the same time.

Beside Chen Yan, six figures attacked in a surrounding formation.

Chen Yan dodged, his spine undulating like a swimming dragon, his left arm bent at the elbow to block a chopping palm strike from above.

At the same time, Chen Yan whipped his right leg, his right knee slamming into the ribs of one figure like a siege hammer.

Immediately, he twisted his waist to drive a horizontal sweep of his right leg, his right foot slamming into the heads and necks of three figures.

The set of movements was completed in one go.

As a Six-Path All-Rounder, every time Chen Yan climbed a step, he had to face six newly generated, even more powerful phantoms.

The difficulty was naturally higher than for anyone else.

But this was also a kind of reward.

Only the fiercest fire could forge the hardest metal.

As Chen Yan continued to fight, more and more golden light emerged within the Saint-Breaking Realm.

The growth rate of the 【Technique】 Saint-Breaking Fruit even surpassed the speed at which it grew when Chen Yan was inside the Dao-Realization Myriad Image Map.

The attacks of the figures were often more aligned with the origin of the physical body, allowing Chen Yan to find his own most serious and fatal weaknesses.

The progress of the 【Technique】 Saint-Breaking Fruit skyrocketed.

One hundred and thirty percent!

One hundred and thirty-one percent!

…………

One hundred and fifty percent!

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One hundred and sixty percent!

Dong!

The thirty-fourth law resonance slowly resounded, permeating into space and merging into time.

Chen Yan's physical body was also constantly breaking its limits.

Chen Yan climbed the stairs.

The eleventh step.

The twelfth step.

The thirteenth step.

The speed of climbing the steps was becoming slower and slower.

Until Chen Yan climbed to the fourteenth step.

Six human shadows attacked simultaneously; one shadow turned its fist into a claw and lunged for Chen Yan's throat, but Chen Yan leaned back, dodging it by a hair's breadth as the tip of his nose grazed the claw.

At the same time, he turned his body sideways, dodging a leg that had been blasted out from his waist by another shadow.

While turning his body, Chen Yan joined his right index and middle fingers, striking down like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, hitting the numbing point on the third shadow's wrist.

Then, however, Chen Yan's abdomen received a whip kick that had been slashed down from above.

Chen Yan's body fell, his left palm pressed against the ground to support him, and his legs coiled around another shadow's fist, exerting force suddenly to twist it.

In an instant, he twisted that shadow's arm into a pretzel.

At the same time.

【Skill: 200/100】

The second 【Skill】 Saint-Breaking Fruit was born.

Someone noticed this "Six-Path All-Rounder," and a look of astonishment appeared on their face once again.

"He still hasn't been eliminated?"

"Look, he has already reached the fourteenth step."

"He looks like he's trying very hard."

People were discussing it incessantly; many had thought this Six-Path All-Rounder would be unable to hold on when he climbed to the tenth step.

Most people were focusing on Chen Yan's realm-breaking, so there was much less attention on this Six-Path All-Rounder.

But soon, everyone discovered that although this Six-Path All-Rounder's progress was extremely slow, he was climbing the steps steadily.

He had already surpassed thirty percent of the Creation Realm.

It was also at this moment.

Boom!

The thirty-fifth rule hum resonated through the air.

Everyone was moved once again.

The time Chen Yan spent between his thirty-fourth realm-breaking and his thirty-fifth realm-breaking was a bit too long.

At the same time.

On the fourteenth step, Chen Yan sighed softly.

The realm-breaking had ended.

This time, breaking through thirty-five times was actually Chen Yan's most difficult one.

Because it was a dual realm-breaking.

A dual realm-breaking of Horizontal Refining and Qi-Blood.

Not only was it a dual realm-breaking, but Chen Yan also needed to fuse the newly born force with his Qi-Blood.

The fusion was the most important part; the realm-breaking itself was not actually that important.

The True Dragon and True Essence Dharma Image born from the realm-breaking had not yet been written into the rules.

Only at this moment could Chen Yan attempt to fuse the newly born True Dragon and True Essence Dharma Image.

Just as he had thought, realm-breaking was Chen Yan's home field.

Only by fusing the martial path can one be a True Martial.

Chen Yan's heart was surging; he wanted to exit the Shang Gu Zhan Tai immediately to carefully feel that mountain-toppling and sea-draining powerful strength from the Creation Realm.

He also wanted to adapt to the True Martial Power he had created, which fused Qi-Blood and force.

This might be the foundation for him to defeat Chi Xue.

He had entered the Dao for a long time.

Chen Yan had broken his limits countless times and tempered himself countless times.

For Chen Yan, the Creation Realm had been unfathomable and incredibly miraculous from the very beginning.

Later, he gradually came to understand it.

And now, Chen Yan had also become a Creation Realm martial artist.

It would be a lie to say Chen Yan was not happy.

But the next moment, Chen Yan still held it back.

The Shang Gu Zhan Tai was likewise an unimaginably great martial opportunity.

Only by no longer breaking realms and no longer creating True Martial Power could Chen Yan focus wholeheartedly on experiencing this martial opportunity that belonged to him.

At the same time, Chen Yan also noticed the two mature 【Skill】 Saint-Breaking Fruits on the Saint-Breaking Tree.

Chen Yan did not consume them.

As he was now, he had the most errors, and the impurities in his techniques were also the greatest.

He needed to let the shadows on every step find his biggest problems while he was not yet perfectly harmonious.

…………

Time passed slowly.

Gradually, three hours later.

"It should be over now."

"It looks like it's over; what a monster."

"Eighteen years old..."

Voices that were shocked, complex, or excited rang out one after another.

This time, everyone confirmed that Chen Yan's breakthrough had ended.

Chen Changyuan's eyes were calm.

Chen Yan.

An eighteen-year-old Creation Realm.

And a physical-refinement Creation Realm at that.

It was as if he were an evolved version of Lu Xunyang.

In the battle against Chi Xue, will Chen Yan survive?

Chen Changyuan frowned:

"I hope you can reach me."

This was his heartfelt wish, even though he himself felt that even if Chen Yan had ascended to the Creation Realm, he could not win.

But he still wanted Chen Yan to survive.

Chen Yan made his path of Martial Dao perfect.

…………

Chi Xue wiped his forehead, even though there was no sweat on his forehead at this moment.

"This is truly troublesome."

A trace of a smile appeared on the corners of Chi Xue's mouth:

"Qi-blood, physical-refinement?"

He was guessing which of Chen Yan's Martial Dao paths had ascended to the Creation Realm.

What Chi Xue hoped for most was still that Chen Yan had ascended to the Creation Realm via physical-refinement.

After all, Chen Yan could condense qi-blood shadows.

That was the 【Calamity Corpse Thousand Shadow Kill】, where the simulated shadow possessed the exact same strength as the original's qi-blood path.

Chi Xue felt that if Chen Yan had ascended to the Creation Realm via the qi-blood path, he would still be in some trouble.

He had prepared a lot for Chen Yan, even though the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest felt that Chi Xue was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

But Chi Xue did not want to fail because of his own carelessness.

He had already failed more than once in dealing with Chen Yan.

His duel with Chen Yan had begun a long time ago.

Moreover, Chi Xue was convinced that Chen Yan was the person chosen by the Lord of Will, capable of peeking into all the intelligence of Will-path martial artists.

Chi Xue entering the Will-path Martial Dao was not to provide Chen Yan with intelligence.

It was to distort Chen Yan's judgment.

Chi Xue possessed a Memory Gong Dian.

An extremely powerful Memory Gong Dian.

Therefore, before entering the Will-path Martial Dao, he had created a codebook.

For every sentence he said to the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest, the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest needed to re-interpret it according to the codebook.

And this codebook, Chi Xue did not have; it existed within Chi Xue's Memory Gong Dian.

In this way, even if Chen Yan could peek into all of Chi Xue's actions.

He would be unable to know Chi Xue's true purpose based on what Chi Xue said.

Previously, Chi Xue had created a fake Chi Xue to trick Chen Yan into signing a contract.

It appeared that Chi Xue had failed and been provoked by Chen Yan.

In reality, Chi Xue had used his own failure to judge Chen Yan's abilities.

As Chen Yan had said, his methods were full of problems.

Why did Chi Xue suddenly enter the Will-path Martial Dao?

Why did the fake Chi Xue offer a contract that seemed completely unreasonable to Chi Xue?

Even Qi Fan could see the problem, so could Chen Yan not see it?

Therefore, Chi Xue had been aiming for failure from the very beginning.

His true purpose was to determine whether Chen Yan was omniscient and omnipotent regarding Will-path martial artists.

Or if he could only see the environment the Will-path martial artist was in and what they said.

The result was also good.

Chen Yan was not omniscient and omnipotent.

When the fake Chi Xue was playing against Chen Yan, the real Chi Xue had deliberately revealed a slight expression different from that of the fake Chi Xue.

And at that moment, Chi Xue was also observing Chen Yan's expression.

Who said that only Chen Yan could observe others?

He discovered that the moment Chen Yan noticed the difference in expression between the real Chi Xue and the fake Chi Xue, Chen Yan's eyes also changed.

From that moment on.

Chi Xue understood that Chen Yan could only peek into the environment the Will-path martial artist was in and what they said.

And was not omniscient and omnipotent.

Chen Yan was like an existence protected by layers of fog, while Chi Xue was peeling back the fog step by step, gradually about to peek into Chen Yan's ultimate secret.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

Most crucially, did Chi Xue really not care about those captives Chen Yan had captured?

Chi Xue's reputation was not good; he had killed his own sister and did not value other living beings.

He even killed Ji Chuxi right in front of Chen Yan.

All of this was telling Chen Yan that Chi Xue did not care about the people of the other five clans.

Indeed, Chi Xue did not care about Ji Chuxi at all, nor did he care about the Creation Realm experts of the five clans.

But among those few captives, there was the niece whom Chi Xue cherished the most.

Chi Yuexi.

On the water platform, a hint of a smile appeared at the corners of Chi Xue's mouth.

"No time to keep staying here."

The next moment, Chi Xue's body rose up; instead of attacking the figure beside him, he raised his hand:

"Withdraw."

With a hum.

Chi Xue's figure disappeared from the twenty-eighth step.

And there was one other person on the twenty-eighth step with him.

Chen Changyuan.

Someone saw this and exclaimed:

"He was already ranked in the top four, yet he actually gave up just like that; what a pity."

Some were extremely puzzled.

At this moment, nearly seventy percent of the people were struggling between the tenth and twentieth steps.

Those who could climb above the twentieth step were likely all top-tier Creation Realm experts or extraordinary geniuses.

But that person just gave up like that, which made many Creation Realm experts find it inconceivable.

Immediately after, more people looked toward the higher reaches.

"How is it so fast?"

"That person is already at the thirty-first step, looking like they are about to reach the end!"

"Whose side is that person on, anyway?"

Everyone looked toward the very top with immense shock.

Lu Jianxia, enveloped in black mist, was in the midst of a duel against four figures.

Some who knew that Chen Yan possessed Ice Intent had also suspected that it was Chen Yan.

But everyone felt it was impossible.

After all, Chen Yan was breaking through his realm and had never arrived at this place.

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"She is already at the thirty-first step!"

On the twenty-sixth step.

Shen Yiwei looked toward the heights above his head.

Behind him, Xia Long, on the twenty-fifth step, also looked toward that spot in unison.

They had confirmed earlier that the person was most likely Lu Jianxia.

Now Lu Jianxia was in first place, at the thirty-first step.

And the second-place Jiang Yuan was at the twenty-ninth step.

Shen Yiwei and Xia Long were not in a very good mood.

Jiang Yuan was a genius, after all.

Jiang Yuan had a hidden personality named Yu Siyuan.

After Jiang Yuan entered the Will Martial Dao, his personality gradually merged with Yu Siyuan's, and his true monstrous aptitude began to reveal itself.

Everyone knew Jiang Yuan was a monster, but they hadn't expected Lu Jianxia to be able to surpass Jiang Yuan by two steps.

Shen Yiwei slowly shook his head, then continued to climb the steps.

He was currently ranked fifth.

This place did not look at your strength; it only looked at your understanding of the physical body and your talent regarding the physical body.

Here, martial artists who cultivated Hardened Body and Blood Qi had more of an advantage.

Those who cultivated Mental Power or formations were simply not suited for it at all.

Because these two martial paths were fundamentally not the type for close-quarters combat.

Shen Yiwei sighed.

Chen Yan had not come yet.

Chen Yan's younger sister, Chen Yu, had even more monstrous aptitude, but she did not cultivate Hardened Body and was more proficient in formations and Mental Power, making it difficult for her to stand out here.

It was precisely because of this.

That Jiang Yuan and Shen Yiwei could rank so high.

Shen Yiwei calmed his heart and focused his spirit, and the next instant, he dove back into the battle; his body surged forward, pressing down, his shoulder blade slamming into a figure like a heavy hammer, sending it flying.

He was naturally worried about Chen Yan's side, but he also knew that he himself was helpless right now.

All he could do was improve himself and keep becoming stronger.

Every time he thought of the moment Chen Yan arrived when he had originally intended to exterminate the Gong Clan, he felt incredibly miserable.

The Gong Clan should have been exterminated by him, not by Chen Yan.

It should not have been up to Chen Yan to do the things he was supposed to do.

Even if he were to die, he did not want it to be like this anymore.