Chapter 615: The Martial Dao is Mine Alone!

The moment Lu Wuyi's voice fell, the expressions of everyone upon the entire Shang Gu Zhan Tai turned to astonishment.

This Master of the Six Paths is going to charge for the top five?

Someone's eyes widened.

"It seems, it really is possible!"

"He is already at the twenty-ninth step, while the fourth and fifth are currently only at the thirty-first and thirty-second steps respectively!"

"No, has he been playing around this whole time? With this kind of strength, he insists on sprinting only at the very last moment?"

"Although I don't know who he is, I feel like we've all been insulted by him."

"Perhaps this is the elegance and composure of a Creation Realm martial artist from the older generation."

One voice after another rang out.

At this moment, everyone understood.

This Master of the Six Paths had only been climbing slowly at first, but once the Shang Gu Zhan Tai lowered the new rules, only then did he begin to get serious.

He intends to ascend to the thirty-third step with the status of fifth place.

At this moment, above the thirty-third step.

Jiang Yuan and Chen Changyuan also looked in unison toward the position where the Master of the Six Paths was.

Yet they saw that above the twenty-ninth step.

The Master of the Six Paths kicked a figure flying with one foot.

Immediately following, that figure was supported by another, and the six figures attacked in unison; the six paths of fist wind overlapped, unexpectedly erupting with sounds like the roaring of dragons and the howling of tigers.

One must know that on the Shang Gu Zhan Tai, regardless of whether it is a martial artist or the figures manifesting 【Heavenly Dipper Body Defense】, their own physical bodies are no different from those of mortals.

In other words, the tiger howls and dragon roars caused by this fist wind were driven by the most refined operation of the physical body.

Chen Changyuan watched intently; every existence that had ascended to the twenty-ninth step had encountered such a siege.

Including himself and the other two who reached the summit, they had actually all passed by constantly dodging, seeking an opportunity to dash into the thirtieth step.

Chen Changyuan guessed that this Master of the Six Paths would likely be the same as them.

But immediately after, he discovered he was wrong.

When the six figures charged and attacked, the Master of the Six Paths actually advanced instead of retreating, instantly pressing his left shoulder down as a shield to forcefully withstand the hard punches booming in from the front.

"Hmm?" Jiang Yuan frowned; taking such a hit head-on, does he not want his own shoulder anymore?

But the next moment, the Master of the Six Paths was blasted back, his body sliding five meters backward on the water platform, his feet plowing up four curtains of water.

Two phantom images launched a surprise attack from the water curtains; the Master of the Six Paths stomped fiercely on the water surface, using the counter-shock force to dart across the ground, his elbows striking the temples of the two people in succession like battering rams.

It was all done in one go.

Lu Jianxia was also watching at this moment, her heart filled with shock and suspicion.

It looked like a head-on clash, but in reality, it was just borrowing force to retreat.

The opponent's body shifted from a state of head-on collision to a state of borrowing force in an instant.

How was this achieved?

Everyone is fighting with mortal bodies; it is fundamentally impossible to adjust the physical body so perfectly in such a short time.

Unless...

"His control over his own flesh, blood, and bones has reached a level we find difficult to attain."

A Creation Realm martial artist exclaimed:

"What kind of body technique is he actually using?"

The crowd was terrified; when they tried to understand the movements and techniques of this Master of the Six Paths, they suddenly discovered that they were lacking far too much.

Chen Changyuan narrowed his eyes; he had underestimated the heroes of the world after all.

If nothing unexpected happens, this Master of the Six Paths will also be a formidable enemy.

When he looked again, this Master of the Six Paths was sliding across the water platform, two figures parallel to him, both pointing toward his temples.

But in an instant, the Master of the Six Paths stepped on the abdomen of one figure, using the force to tilt his body and collide toward the other figure.

His legs suddenly coiled around that figure's arm, pressing and folding it in the opposite direction.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!!!

Muffled sounds of bone fractures exploded one after another.

Within a short period of time, this Master of the Six Paths had arrived at the thirtieth step under the eyes of everyone, who were filled with immense shock and suspicion.

Beneath the black mist, Chen Yan's expression remained calm.

"The true essence of the physical body—what is the true essence? It is perfection."

He whispered in his heart:

"But there is no perfect martial art in the world; there are only martial arts that are more suited to oneself."

Since Chen Yan entered the Dao, the ones he has used most smoothly have always been the martial arts he created himself.

The 【Void-Breaking】 series, or perhaps 【Governing Decay - Saintly Condensation of the Primordial】.

These were all powerful martial arts developed by Chen Yan based on himself.

At the thirtieth step, the six figures attacked again.

Chen Yan twisted his body, threw punches, and lashed out with whip kicks, executing sets of movements at will.

He appeared to be fighting, but in reality, he was enjoying the fight.

This is an exploration between Chen Yan and himself.

He is digging out as many of his own strengths as possible, and as many of his problems as possible.

His body is like water, like fire, like thunder, and also like wind.

But, when a thing can be described using different things, it means you do not understand it at all.

It is just like how you are certain that a person's success is solely because their courage is great enough.

But immediately after, you suddenly discover that their luck is also quite good, and you again feel that their success is because of luck.

But soon, you discover once more that they are actually very hardworking, and you again feel that they succeeded because of hard work.

This is deceiving oneself, creating vague imagery for oneself.

One has not gone to summarize, has not gone to construct!

Construct what?

Chen Yan is constructing another physical body of his own; he wants to master himself, to thoroughly understand himself.

"Hahahaha!!!"

The Six-Paths All-Talent, who had never spoken, suddenly burst into loud laughter.

This laughter was abrupt; everyone looked over, wanting to know what exactly the other was laughing at.

Yet they saw the Six-Paths All-Talent moving their body, actually striking out afterimages, their punches sounding like cannons, the power immense.

Someone's breathing became incomparably rapid; can a mortal's physical body truly strike out such terrifying moves?

This is power that can only be struck out at the Five Viscera Realm of the Blood-Qi Path, or the Seventy-Two Pattern Extreme Forging Realm of the Hard-Refining Path.

"I am not fire, not wind, not thunder, not water; I am just me!"

The Six-Paths All-Talent's voice was bright and clear, ringing out as if carrying a sense of sudden enlightenment.

"The Martial Dao is mine alone; I am the Martial Dao!"

Their voice fell, stirring up monstrous waves in the depths of everyone's hearts.

The Martial Dao is mine alone?

What arrogant words!

However, in this tense atmosphere at this moment, no one mocked, and no one was enraged.

When everyone heard this sentence, they were inexplicably moved and trembled.

They actually felt that person's near-obsessive love for the Martial Dao.

When, within the Five Clans Conflict, everyone was engaged in deceit and treachery, everyone was locked in a life-and-death struggle.

When the Great Xia Creation Realm wanted to wipe out the Five Clans, and the Five Clans Creation Realm wanted to wipe out Chen Yan.

Everyone's true love for the Martial Dao had long been suppressed, vanished, or even felt ridiculous.

But when this person spoke the sentence "The Martial Dao is mine alone," everyone thought of themselves when they first entered the Martial Dao.

At that time, there was no world in their hearts, no race in their hearts.

They loved the Martial Dao, they revered the Martial Dao.

That was their initial state of mind, their initial longing.

This one sentence from the Six-Paths All-Talent made them feel as if they saw their former selves.

The Martial Dao was their everything.

Someone sighed with emotion, their feelings complex, even speaking tremblingly:

"I finally understand why he could become the Six-Paths All-Talent."

Everyone felt moved in their hearts.

The Six-Paths All-Talent cultivates the six paths and studies the entire Martial Dao.

If this person only cultivated five Martial Daos, or four Martial Daos, they would likely have already become an Eighth-Rank and already reigned supreme over the world.

But they sacrificed more time, throwing themselves into the research of the entire Martial Dao.

Their longing for the Martial Dao surpassed their longing for power.

Power, the Martial Dao—these two points are different.

Does cultivating the six paths in the Creation Realm make one stronger than an Eighth-Rank?

Nonsense, an Eighth-Rank wipes out the Creation Realm with a slap, regardless of how many Martial Daos you have cultivated.

Someone sighed.

At this moment, they also understood why this person could cultivate their own physical body techniques to such a level.

In ordinary times, who would care so much about physical body techniques?

You use physical body techniques against me, and I use an Eighth-Rank array disk to blow you into fragments.

You come to challenge me?

I can heavily injure you with a single blood-qi bomb.

Everyone actually feels there is no need to care about physical body techniques.

Chicken ribs, useless.

But at this moment, this Six-Paths All-Talent makes people sigh with emotion.

"If he were on our side, he would absolutely be qualified for my admiration."

Someone spoke up.

Another person hurriedly added:

"Speaking solely of sincerity and love for the Martial Dao, I already admire this senior immensely."

"The senior is impressive."

"How do you all know he is a senior?"

"Nonsense, do you think such physical body techniques can be achieved without cultivating for a thousand years?"

Voice after voice rang out.

At this moment, the Five Clans and Great Xia actually ignored their nations, ignored the greater cause, and at this moment showed their respect for that Six-Paths All-Talent with the most heartfelt sincerity.

Even if, after leaving the Five Clans Conflict, they would again turn swords against each other in a life-and-death struggle.

But at this moment, it is time that belongs solely to the Martial Dao!

Some sat cross-legged, beginning to perceive their former selves, and there were even traces of hot tears in their eyes.

Some smiled, sighing in constant admiration.

Some wanted to imitate, but suddenly discovered that they could not learn it.

What that master of the Six Paths displayed was a physical technique that belonged solely to them.

Yet some had endless melancholy in their hearts:

"If there were no malice in the world, if the world were at peace, if you and I were not locked in a life-or-death struggle, why would it have to be like this?"

"Our one, he had the heart to save the world; why must you all destroy him?"

"That one of yours, he stood before the era of the world!"

"What is the era of the world? You tell me, what is the era of the world?!"

"He can extinguish malice, he can extinguish malice, can you not see it?!"

Sounds of discussion arose one after another.

Someone mentioned Chen Yan again.

Above the thirty-third step, Lu Jianxia watched and listened quietly.

Chen Yan had not appeared, yet Chen Yan had always been here.

Great Xia believed so firmly that he could change the future.

The Five Clans were just as wary of him.

Beneath the black mist, her eyes trembled, and it was as if she heard that person's cry in her ears once more.

Speak my fate to heaven and earth, establish my heart with the Ten Thousand Dao Tree, break the shackles of the ancient gods, and cut down the injustices of the world!

That deafening voice made her feel lost again, but this feeling of confusion was quickly suppressed by her.

At the same time.

Slap!

On the thirty-second step.

Shen Yiwei was still fighting desperately, while Chen Mi, wrapped in black mist, had finally managed to reach the thirty-second step.

He merely glanced at Shen Yiwei and began to fight the six newly emerged figures beside him.

Chen Mi was incomparably indignant.

He gave it his all.

He did not want to be number five.

He was the number one on the Creation Realm Ranking, how could he be number five?

More importantly, if Chen Mi ascended to the thirty-third step in the position of number five, it would mean that Chen Mi was actually number six.

Because, just before this, an existence with a higher ranking than Chen Mi had directly exited the Shang Gu Zhan Tai.

If Chen Mi ascended to the thirty-third step in the position of number five, it would mean that Chen Mi was being given charity.

If that person had not exited, he, Chen Mi, would have had no qualification to be in the top five at all.

Chen Mi was incomparably proud.

Although both the fourth and fifth could enter the Ancient Battle Palace.

But this time, he must be number four.

Number one of the Creation Realm cannot be insulted!

Crack!

A figure directly shattered Chen Mi's left arm, but Chen Mi did not stop at all; instead, he used his forehead to slam into the opponent's abdomen, blasting the figure away.

Even when another figure came to kill, Chen Mi directly and savagely bit the opponent's neck, tackling them to the ground.

Regardless of dignity, savage to the extreme.

And on the other side.

Shen Yiwei was also incomparably ruthless; one of his legs was broken, but he was still fighting incessantly.

Among the top three, only Jiang Yuan was from Great Xia.

Not to mention for his own sake, even for the dignity of Great Xia, Shen Yiwei could not possibly settle for fifth.

Now that Chen Yan had suffered a heavy blow, and the Five Clans had produced a master of the Six Paths.

The morale of Great Xia was at an unprecedented low.

Even if Shen Yiwei believed Chen Yan would defeat Chi Xue, he would still do what he had to do.

Neither of them paid attention to the master of the Six Paths behind them, and all the discussions were ignored by them.

Now was the most critical moment.

If you focus on the outside world and let yourself be distracted, you are harming yourself.

One for the sake of his own dignity, the other for the dignity of Great Xia, both were competing for fourth place.

Shen Yiwei bombarded and killed continuously, having already forgotten the pain in his body.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

His spine popped and cracked, joint by joint.

At this moment, although everyone was here in consciousness, the intense pain felt during the battle was no different from usual.

"Kill!!!"

Chen Mi suddenly roared, clutching a figure as he fell onto the water platform, his mouth tearing at the figure's flesh, nearly insane.

And not far away, Shen Yiwei had already blasted the last figure away.

Chen Mi's eyes shrank, and his heart was somewhat chaotic.

Bang!

A whip kick from a silhouette slammed into his neck, knocking Chen Mi until he nearly fainted.

The instant Chen Mi's body collapsed onto the water platform, he saw Shen Yiwei had already wobbled his way to the thirty-third step.

"Damn it!"

He let out a furious roar; he had truly become number five.

No, number six.

He cultivated five Martial Dao, was born into a branch family of the Chen Clan in the Great Xia, struggled step by step, brought honor to himself, was valued by the main branch, and entered the main branch to cultivate.

He was of the same generation as Lu Xunyang.

His entire life had been suppressed by that group of people: Lu Xunyang, Xia Hanzhou, Chi Mi, and Chen He.

It had not been easy to reach the present, where he had become the number one of the Creation Realm.

Yet, on the Shang Gu Zhan Tai, he had become number six.