Chapter 616: Immortality, I Had Already Obtained It

Chen Mi's eyes were practically spitting fire, and a sense of violent rage was breeding in his heart.

The next moment, Chen Mi's movements became even more crazed and violent; with a single punch, he shattered the head of a human figure.

"He has had an epiphany!"

Someone exclaimed in wonder; this Number Five seemed to have changed in an instant.

The combat power he was unleashing had suddenly skyrocketed.

Hum...

Waves of will-pressure were diffusing from Chen Mi's body.

"The Path of Will, he is about to enter the Path of Will!"

Someone exclaimed aloud; no wonder this person's movements had suddenly changed—it turned out he had stimulated his own strongest will.

"Hahahaha!!!"

Chen Mi felt the will-pressure within his body and laughed out loud:

"A blessing in disguise!"

He let out a low roar; entering the Path of Will was a massive stroke of fortune, and he never expected he would actually achieve it!

Beneath the black mist, thick blood-colored light emerged in Chen Mi's eyes, and his aura became increasingly domineering.

Fifth place is fifth place!

He was already first in the Creation Realm, and with the addition of the Path of Will.

His own strength had doubled!

Moreover, he could ascend to the Path of Will.

This was the Master of Will acknowledging his will!

Breaking his limits to enter the Eighth Rank was no dream!

Once Chen Yan died, Chen Mi, who had broken his limits to enter the Eighth Rank, would be the focus of the world's attention!

He had no time to concern himself with Chen Yan, a man who was destined to die.

Everything he did in the Five Clans Struggle was for the sake of ascending to the Eighth Rank!

Chen Mi laughed wildly, his movements becoming increasingly ruthless and domineering.

It was as if he had felt his former self once again.

And it was at this very moment.

Tap, tap...

The sound of footsteps on water suddenly rang out by his ears; Chen Mi frowned slightly, not wanting to pay it any mind, but he still subconsciously glanced over.

Just after he glanced over, Chen Mi froze, looked again, and his pupils constricted.

"How is this possible!!!"

He roared in a low voice, his breathing ragged.

On the black mist covering that person, there were actually six patterns.

A Six-Path All-Rounder?

Hadn't the opponent been in a position far behind?

How did he suddenly end up on the same water platform as him?

Chen Mi's mouth hung open; his brain suffered a momentary system crash, unable to believe it.

The next moment.

Six human figures appeared beside the Six-Path All-Rounder.

Yet, he saw that the Six-Path All-Rounder was using pure waist strength to drive his body, spinning around.

His elbows, knees, and forehead had actually all been turned into weapons for his own offense.

Borrowing force to strike, his power would disperse and then instantly coalesce.

In just one exchange, two human figures were beaten back.

Chen Mi frowned, and the next moment...

"Kill!!!"

He roared; he had suddenly discovered one thing.

That was, he might not even be able to hold onto the position of Number Six.

He erupted, fighting with every method he had.

But in his heart, a few words were flashing.

What is that?

What is that?

What is that?

He fundamentally did not understand why the opponent could operate his own physical body so perfectly.

It made even him, Chen Mi, feel that the opponent was not practicing physical martial arts, but rather crafting a perfect work of art.

It was too perfect.

Perfect power operation, perfect physical control, perfect speed adjustment.

Chen Mi roared; he had no time to focus on that Six-Path All-Rounder, fighting now with his heart and soul.

He himself only had the last two human figures left; as long as he seized the time, the position of Number Six would still be his, Chen Mi's.

At the same time, above and below.

The sounds of discussion had ceased.

When everyone looked at Chen Mi, it was with a trace of emotion.

That person came alone and did not speak a single word to anyone else.

They were a lone wolf.

Therefore, no one could guess the other's identity.

But the other's efforts were seen by everyone.

Yet even so, the other was successively surpassed by others.

The first person withdrew immediately after surpassing them.

The second person stepped onto the thirty-third step just as the other was stepping onto the thirty-second.

Both were somewhat insulting.

But compared to the two martial artists who surpassed this person before, this Six-Dao All-Rounder was even more overbearing and even more ruthless.

At the beginning, the Six-Dao All-Rounder was more than twenty steps behind the other.

At this moment, however, they were going to make the other feel despair at the very instant they were about to reach the top.

In the face of unimaginably powerful strength, all of their efforts became a joke.

You exhaust every method to climb the steps, only to end up as someone else's background prop.

In the human world, there is never a shortage of such background props.

All the Creation Realm powerhouses felt the same, for they were all geniuses.

In the past, they shone brilliantly and were feared by countless people; their paths to rising were all paved with countless mediocre people acting as their background props.

But then came the Five Clans Conflict.

Facing Chen Yan, even the most powerful and famous Creation Realm experts lost their luster.

That person was a Heavenly God General of the final Great Xia.

No matter how powerful or extraordinary a Creation Realm expert was, they could not compare to the three words "Heavenly God General."

Those who endured all hardships to ascend were revered and worshipped by all living beings.

In the end, they became one of the hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers surrounding Sun Wukong.

Boom.

Chen Mi knocked away the last human shadow, panting, his body swaying as he walked toward the thirty-third step.

His consciousness was blurring, and his own will had reached its limit.

Swaying, he forced his body, which was on the verge of fainting, to keep walking forward.

The edge of the water platform on the thirty-third step was getting closer and closer to him.

Ten meters.

Nine meters.

Eight meters.

Three meters.

Tap, tap...

Two sounds of footsteps on water rang in his ears, and a black shadow passed him at a leisurely pace.

Then, within his increasingly darkening vision, that figure wrapped in black mist stepped onto the thirty-third step.

Bang.

Chen Mi could no longer hold on and collapsed onto the water platform.

An ethereal woman's voice rang in his ears.

"The top five have been selected and may enter the Upper Ancient War Palace; the rest are eliminated, and ticket sales for the Shang Gu Zhan Tai have ceased."

"I hope that after you return, you will study the 【Heavenly Dipper Body Defense】 to strengthen the true essence of your physical bodies."

Beneath the black mist, Chen Mi's body trembled, his mouth agape.

It seemed that in every era, what should have belonged to him would disappear.

At the moment his consciousness faded, Chen Mi remembered that year once again.

On the day of the World Five-Step Ranking Competition.

When everyone was excitedly waiting for the name of the first place.

A middle-aged man wearing white clothes and short white hair disregarded the rules and stepped onto the war platform alone.

Chen Mi stood outside the war platform, looking at that person with as much dread as everyone else.

"He is Lu Xunyang."

"An abandoned son of the Lu Clan."

"The Great Xia Ruler evaluated him as having the bearing of a God General."

"Are they crazy? He is a man from Luzhou; how can he be a Great Xia God General?"

"I heard he is a ruthless person."

Chen Mi pondered to himself, wondering whether he or Lu Xunyang was stronger.

But immediately after, he heard Lu Xunyang's incredibly arrogant yet confident words.

"Chen He, Xia Hanzhou, and...

No, all of you come up!"

Chen Mi looked on with stunned eyes.

Only to see, on that war platform.

The white-haired middle-aged man sat cross-legged, his eyes erupting with golden light like two great suns:

"I think that if you all add yourselves together, you should be able to let me loosen my muscles and bones a little!"

At that moment, everyone was furious.

Even Xia Hanzhou sneered incessantly: "Brother Lu, you are too arrogant; at least leave me out of this!"

However, immediately following, one figure after another rushed up. Seeing that ten Creation Realm experts had already been brutally repelled by Lu Xunyang, Chen Mi also rushed up.

At the very first moment, Chen Mi unleashed his strongest ultimate move at the time.

But the next moment.

With a 'slap' sound.

A large hand had already grabbed Chen Mi by the neck.

"You look a bit familiar, what is your name?" That voice, sounding like a devil, rang in Chen Mi's ear.

Chen Mi opened his mouth wide, wanting to roar; Lu Xunyang actually did not know his name.

He, Chen Mi, was also a genius; did he not deserve to have his name known by you, Lu Xunyang?

Damn it.

Yet, the next instant, with a 'bang', Chen Mi was rudely flung onto the battle platform by that person and fainted.

Back then, at the moment of fainting, Chen Mi heard that person's assessment.

"Forget it, it's not important."

At this moment.

For some reason, Chen Mi thought of that day.

The next moment, he could no longer hold on, and his figure disappeared from the water platform.

On the Shang Gu Zhan Tai, one figure after another gradually dissipated.

No one felt anything but complicated emotions.

Especially the people of the Five Clans.

They had first heard that Chen Yan had broken through his realm thirty-five times.

This made some who had once been incomparably wary of Chen Yan feel that wariness once again.

Then, there was this master of all six paths.

They had never heard of a master of all six paths within the Five Clans; even if Great Xia did not admit it, everyone knew that this person was likely some existence from Great Xia.

At this juncture, there was really no need for the Five Clans to hide things from their own people.

If it wasn't there, it wasn't there.

They were each extremely conflicted.

Toward Chen Yan, they felt extreme wariness, but toward this person, they actually felt some admiration.

As for the Creation Realm experts of Great Xia, their feelings were not good either.

On one hand, Chen Yan was currently facing a predicament, and everyone felt uneasy.

On the other hand, they also knew that Great Xia did not have a master of all six paths.

Regarding the master of all six paths, they felt much the same as the Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans.

Xia Long felt it was very necessary to discuss with everyone after returning and change their strategy.

…………

Soon, only the final five people remained on the entire Shang Gu Zhan Tai.

Lu Jianxia, Jiang Yuan, Chen Changyuan, and Chen Yan.

They stood together on the thirty-third step.

From time to time, the other four would size up this master of all six paths.

Everyone knew that perhaps this person was the true number one.

Inside the Cloud-Top Palace, the woman in the fairy dress had a complicated expression.

Chen Yan had actually managed to ascend to the thirty-third step.

The woman in the fairy dress confirmed once again that the Great Era would surely change.

The human race possessed destiny.

Every time it reached the most critical moment, when destiny was in turmoil, extraordinary people would be born.

Ten thousand years ago, the human race was about to perish.

As a result, first the Master of Blood Qi was born, then the Master of Tempering, and within a hundred years, the Master of Elements was born.

Within a hundred years, they achieved a great upheaval of heaven and earth that had not occurred in the previous tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.

It was as if the destiny of the human race was forcibly pulling the human race back from extinction.

This was a symbol of the human race saving itself.

Today is just like the past.

The quality of the geniuses within the Shang Gu Zhan Tai this time was clearly much higher than in the many previous sessions.

Moreover, an existence who had fused paths had appeared.

The woman in the fairy dress inadvertently glanced at the back of the great hall; the old man imprisoned there had not spoken for a long time for some reason.

Perhaps, he was angered.

Angered by whom? Naturally, he was angered by Chen Yan.

The woman in the fairy dress sighed softly and waved one hand.

The next instant, Chen Yan and the other four suddenly appeared inside the Cloud-Top Palace.

"Please, everyone, take a seat."

The woman in the fairy dress gestured with her hand.

Chen Yan and the others took their seats.

Chen Yan looked around; inside this great hall, jade pillars supported the ceiling, and the four walls were carved with many ancient, mystical runes, flowing with a pale golden luster.

The woman sitting in the main seat had a clear and beautiful appearance, her every glance full of charm, and her entire body permeated with a misty luster, as if she were an ancient and powerful existence.

Soon, a maidservant wearing a green dress and carrying a tea set walked in from outside the great hall to pour tea for Chen Yan and the others.

The green-dressed maidservant walked without a sound, her slender fingers holding a white jade tea tray; the tea in the cups was clear and green, and the curling steam rose like silk, entwining amidst the golden light of the runes.

Chen Yan lightly sniffed the tea fragrance and was surprised to feel a wisp of Dao essence of the rules flowing within it.

Lu Jianxia and the others also examined it for a long time, and then Chen Changyuan drank the tea in one gulp.

Chen Yan took a small sip of the tea, and suddenly, it seemed as if a series of grand yet light voices rang out in his mind.

Immediately following, one of the voices gradually became clear to Chen Yan.

"Sever the seven emotions and six desires, and I shall pass on to you the method of longevity, to live forever without dying, and to stand supreme in the human world."

Chen Yan frowned slightly, and he looked toward the main seat once more.

The woman wearing the ten-colored immortal dress was looking at Chen Yan with a smile that was not quite a smile.

As for Lu Jianxia and the others, after drinking the tea, their bodies seemed to have frozen, remaining motionless.

Longevity...

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows slightly and took another sip of tea.

The things before his eyes seemed to have changed completely.

The dome dripped with bead curtains like starlight, reflecting the jade pillar runes, and the ground was wreathed in clouds; Chen Yan felt as if he were in a fairyland.

Everything seemed to have become dreamlike and illusory.

"In the world, there are those who possess longevity; they care not for malice, they care not for the human world; by existing alone in the human world, they have attained longevity."

The grand voice continued to ring out beside Chen Yan's ear.

A series of images appeared in the depths of Chen Yan's mind.

Amidst wispy clouds, a youth in white clothes stepped across mountains and rivers, walking through the square inch of the human world.

In deep mountains and green waters, a woman in green clothes sat cross-legged in a bamboo house, breathing in the radiance of the morning glow.

Image after image emerged.

These were longevity-seekers with endless lifespans.

"How is it?"

The grand voice resounded.

It was asking Chen Yan.

It was as if, once Chen Yan abandoned his own seven emotions and six desires, he could attain eternal longevity just like them.

At the same time, the immortal-dressed woman sat on the main seat, looking with interest at Chen Yan and the others who had already fainted.

She wanted to see exactly how Chen Yan would choose.

Was it longevity, or his own seven emotions and six desires?

But the next moment, the immortal-dressed woman's expression trembled slightly.

Because Chen Yan had already opened his eyes and had walked out of the hallucination.

And at this moment, Lu Jianxia and the others were still undergoing the test.

The immortal-dressed woman frowned; Chen Yan's time to pass the trial was a bit too short.

At this moment, Chen Yan also understood that after drinking the tea, they must have all encountered the same hallucinatory test.

"Longevity is real; this is an absolute Dao opportunity," the immortal-dressed woman said, her gaze toward Chen Yan still carrying curiosity.

Yet she saw the sitting youth suddenly smile:

"Longevity?"

The immortal-dressed woman nodded, saying with a smile:

"Ordinary martial arts have no immortals; theoretically speaking, a martial artist can obtain eternal life upon reaching the eighth rank.

But the world harbors malice; the longer you live, the more malice accumulates within your body, so it is fundamentally impossible to live forever."

She lifted her fair neck and smiled:

"But the reward of the Upper Ancient War Palace is real; it can, in another aspect, prevent you from being corroded by malice and allow you to obtain eternal life.

The only requirement is simply to discard your seven emotions and six desires.

You don't even know what kind of opportunity you have lost."

The immortal-dressed woman's voice still carried a teasing tone, wanting to see a trace of regret on Chen Yan's face.

Yet she saw the youth simply say calmly:

"Senior does not know, immortality—I have already obtained it."