Chapter 632: Eighth Rank Rule

Chen Yan was burning with brilliant, scorching radiance, intent on tearing apart the pitch-black cocoon that was suppressing him.

Within his body, his personal universe of the Tempering Path began a rapid process of rebirth as it faced destruction.

In a brief span of time, Chen Yan once again witnessed the earth-shattering scene of a cosmic destruction and a Great Reincarnation.

His personal universe corresponded to every part of his physical body; this was not only the rebirth of his personal universe, but also the revival of Chen Yan's physical body.

As someone in the Creation Realm, he had only birthed a single wisp of his own aura of life and death, yet it was this seemingly insignificant wisp of aura that brought Chen Yan true vitality.

Outside, the woman in the black dress was so powerful that she had already completely extinguished the seven shadows erupted by the Ember Evil Spear.

The woman in the black dress stood one hundred meters away from the pitch-black cocoon, and just as she watched with her pitch-black eyes, countless green vines suddenly erupted around the pitch-black cocoon.

The green vines were like snakes, intent on completely crushing this pitch-black cocoon.

Outside, within the sight of the crowd, the green vines did not appear, but the pitch-black cocoon began to crack and cave in continuously, making "crack, crack" sounds.

This felt like a powerful method carved into the very fabric of causality.

What the woman in the black dress saw was exactly what was about to happen in the real world.

This was a rule.

Until the entire cocoon shattered completely, the woman in the black dress looked through the gaps in the constantly eroding and withering cocoon fragments, locking eyes with a pair of pupils overflowing with golden light.

Boom!

Brilliant golden light completely tore the cocoon apart; Chen Yan had already lunged out, his speed so fast that he left a black streak across the void.

With his entire body's strength surging, Chen Yan raised his spear and smashed it toward the woman in the black dress.

But this strike did not land; despite clearly hitting nothing, it encountered waves of incomparably intense resistance.

This resistance struck the shaft of the spear from bottom to top, surging into Chen Yan's body and causing his physical form to tremble uncontrollably.

But the current Chen Yan possessed a control over his physical body that far surpassed his past self.

His body was still retreating rapidly when he suddenly kicked out.

The immense force smashed into the void, shattering it, and layers of leg shadows bombarded the woman in the black dress, but they quietly dissipated just one centimeter away from her.

She looked at Chen Yan with extreme indifference, her scarlet lips parting:

"You think that just because you blew me up like this, you can be my opponent?"

She lifted her head haughtily, her eyes revealing waves of indescribable coldness:

"Bug!"

Chen Yan's expression was icy; although he could not see it, he could guess that where he and the woman in the black dress were, there seemed to be another pair of invisible hands altering the course of the battle.

Eerie.

Was this an ability of the Eighth Rank, or the ability of an Ancient God Beast?

The woman in the black dress watched Chen Yan calmly, and within her eyes, countless vines manifested and lunged toward Chen Yan to kill him.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Where Chen Yan was, no green vines appeared in the outside world at all, yet there were sounds of the void being whipped and shattered.

Sizzle...

Lightning flickered around Chen Yan's body, and he sensed every single energy fluctuation around him.

Although he could not see, he could feel.

This was the ability of the Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul—the ability to control energy; wherever there is matter, there is energy.

Chen Yan thrust his spear, and countless spear shadows bombarded the void.

His personal universe of the Tempering Path trembled, and countless galaxies erupted with scorching light.

Chen Yan unleashed his entire body's blood energy, and countless bolts of lightning surged like a roaring sea.

Layer upon layer of spear shadows left black afterimages in the air, each strike triggering a sonic boom of space collapsing.

His speed was too fast.

All his methods erupted at once!

Viewed from the outside, ordinary Creation Realm experts could not see Chen Yan's figure at all, only black shadows and an endless ocean of thunder.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Inch by inch, space was being crudely torn apart.

Although Chen Yan did not see where the green vines were, he could judge where the attacks originated based on the energy fluctuations in space.

In the distance, Chi Yuexi watched, dumbfounded.

"What is this?"

Even she could not see clearly what was happening.

But that side where Chen Yan was had already turned into a giant void meat grinder.

If a Creation Realm expert like her were to get close, they would likely be shredded to death instantly.

Just what kind of strength had Chen Yan reached?

Chi Yuexi had completely believed the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree when it said Chen Yan's Blood Energy Path had advanced to the Creation Realm.

But looking at it now, Chen Yan could trigger unimaginable energy explosions just with his physical movements.

This... surely wasn't just his Blood Energy Path advancing to the Creation Realm, right?

The woman in the black dress narrowed her eyes:

"Your Tempering Path has also reached the Creation Realm!!!"

Her voice was incredibly sharp, filled with disbelief.

She had clearly heard that Chen Yan had broken through his realm thirty-five times.

Could it be that the opponent had been breaking through two martial paths at the same time back then?

What on earth had happened?

Why could her aura of life and death not kill Chen Yan at all for a moment?

Is it the effect of the battle armor on his body?

She is an Eighth-Order Ancient God Beast who has lived for who knows how long, yet today she was actually bewildered by a Creation Realm cultivator.

Moreover, now that she is heavily injured, she is unable to kill Chen Yan for the time being.

This really cannot be blamed on her being startled and uncertain.

After all, what Chen Yan has done now is too shocking.

Not to mention Chen Yan's power of will, the Heavenly God Armor alone naturally immunizes against all malicious attacks from the Eighth-Order and below.

The Heavenly God Armor can also completely isolate all external perception.

The woman in the black dress cannot perceive the changes occurring in Chen Yan's physical body at all and can only judge Chen Yan's strength based on the power he displays.

The woman in the black dress narrowed her eyes, the pitch-black in her eyes gradually dissipating and turning into pure, incandescent white.

Her spine emitted a teeth-grinding creaking sound, and four pitch-black vines broke out from her body.

The surface of the vines was covered in dense, scarlet blood vessels, growing while twisting like skinned, living snakes.

Immediately, the four vines began to twist and rotate, forming four huge circular discs.

She stood quietly, the light in her eyes becoming increasingly cold and sinister, and she pointed a finger:

"Wheel of Ten Thousand Lives!"

Her voice drifted out, icy and cold.

Hum.

The world seemed to fluctuate at this moment.

Behind the woman in the black dress, light and shadow began to emerge on one of the four circular discs, revealing a scene.

That was Chen Yan, only in that scene, Chen Yan's lower leg exploded, flesh and blood splattered, and the pitch-black battle armor wrapping Chen Yan's lower leg shattered into countless scales.

In the distance, Chen Yan saw this scene and narrowed his eyes.

Just a moment ago, he suddenly felt that he was being controlled by an invisible force.

That was a rule, a rule that bound Chen Yan.

It was as if the scene manifested on the circular disc was bound to happen.

The next moment.

Boom!!!

The woman in the black dress had already arrived to kill, a pitch-black long blade carved from a tree branch appearing in her hand at some unknown time. Accompanied by waves of wild malice, the space above Chen Yan's head was rudely shattered.

At this moment, Chen Yan directly activated 【Blood Battle State】.

Hum!!!

Layers of blood-colored light suddenly erupted from Chen Yan's body, light raining down, layers of blood-colored light climbing and compressing, infinitely terrifying.

At this moment, Chen Yan's voice even began to become illusory, and an irrepressible surge of power crazily spilled out.

【Blood Battle State】, activate!

【Blood Battle State】:

Within five minutes, it can allow Chen Yan to ignore all attacks from the Creation Realm and below, and it can also reduce the damage of attacks from Eighth-Order martial artists against Chen Yan to one-tenth.

And within these five minutes, Chen Yan's speed increases by two times, strength increases by two times, and blood-Qi combat power increases by two times.

Originally, the duration of the Blood Battle State was only three minutes, but after Chen Yan forged it with the final Inverse Fire Crystal.

The duration of 【Blood Battle State】 increased to five minutes.

This instant.

A change occurred suddenly.

Everyone watching the battle became incomparably serious.

This would be their first opportunity to witness the power of the Heavenly God Armor.

And at this very moment.

The woman in the black dress had already arrived to kill.

Chen Yan swung his spear, and a rolling river of blood-red color emerged.

【Blood Domain Reversing the World】!

Thud!!!

The black blade slashed open the blood-red river and collided with the Jin'e Spear in Chen Yan's hand.

Waves of sharp pain pierced into Chen Yan's palm and surged into Chen Yan's arm.

This sharp pain was extremely abrupt, and Chen Yan could not even dispel it.

The next moment.

The woman in the black dress lifted her slender leg and smashed it toward Chen Yan's neck.

Before the leg could hit Chen Yan, countless vines suddenly shot out from Chen Yan's neck, binding Chen Yan and making Chen Yan unable to dodge for a moment.

Chen Yan's expression was grave; layers of force and blood-Qi erupted within his body, shaking off the vines wrapping him, and he punched toward the leg the woman in the black dress was attacking with.

Rumble!

In just an instant, the two of them erupted into hundreds of exchanges.

For a time, countless vine fragments exploded and scattered, and layers of thunder light spread crazily.

"He actually... can really fight against an Eighth-Order Ancient God Beast."

At the cliff, Yu Ming looked at the screen, somewhat stunned.

He naturally understood the technological power of his Yu Clan.

But he also knew that as long as the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree did not die for a moment, it would be difficult for Chen Yan to fight the opponent.

But what was happening now left him dazed.

Suddenly.

Inside the screen, Chen Yan, who was still trading blows with the woman in the black dress, suddenly blasted backward.

Yu Ming, Yin Qingshuang, and the others all frowned as they watched this scene.

What is going on?

At this moment, Chen Yan furrowed his brows, looking coldly at the woman in the black dress.

Layer upon layer of crisis was born in the depths of his heart.

It seemed as if he had been locked onto by the rules.

Meanwhile, the woman in the black dress just stood far away, a hint of playful mockery appearing at the corners of her mouth.

The next instant.

Boom!!!

Chen Yan's right leg suddenly exploded; the Heavenly God Armor wrapping his entire right leg turned into countless scales floating in the air, and blood sprayed wildly.

At the same time.

Behind the woman in the black dress, the one disc that showed Chen Yan's lower leg would explode withered and shattered, leaving only the final three discs.

As the excruciating pain struck, Chen Yan stared calmly at the woman in the black dress.

Clearly, the disc only showed Chen Yan's lower leg exploding, but what happened in reality was that Chen Yan's entire right leg exploded.

Hum!!!

Golden-red light converged, and the Immortal Will began to heal Chen Yan's thigh; the shattered armor fragments began to reassemble.

Chen Yan's heart sank; the Heavenly God Armor was composed of countless armor scales, and when the woman in the black dress attacked from the outside, his own combat power was shielded by the Heavenly God Armor by ninety percent.

Even the terrifying malice of the opponent was directly blocked.

Under the 【Blood Battle State】, Chen Yan was incomparably powerful.

But just as Chen Yan's right leg exploded, the Heavenly God Armor was broken from the inside out, and although these scales could reassemble.

It also left Chen Yan's body exposed.

Immortal Will...

Was suppressed.

Although it was not suppressed too severely, after all, the Heavenly God Armor returned to its original state in an instant.

But Chen Yan's Immortal Will was indeed suppressed by a sliver of malice.

"Tch!"

The woman in the black dress spat lightly; so this is the Immortal Will?

Not only can it resist malice, but it can also repair itself?

Such a severe injury, if it were on an ordinary Creation Realm expert, would result in the loss of more than half of their combat power, yet here, it couldn't even make Chen Yan frown.

Her body bent slightly, her legs coiled with power, and the next instant she struck out like a stream of light.

Chen Yan stood in place, countless strands of force turning into streams of light that swept out, condensing around Chen Yan's body into thousands of light orbs.

【Void-Breaking - Saint Explosion】!

After Chen Yan mastered his own force to a certain degree, he could completely unleash thousands of Saint Explosion light orbs at once.

As Chen Yan threw a punch, thousands of light orbs smashed out like falling stars, causing thousands of terrifying ruptures as they passed through the void.

The woman in the black dress stopped charging forward, her black blade thrusting out, and a ring of black light swept across.

"Dark Devour - Sudden Arrival!"

Boom!

This ring of black light instantly collided with the thousands of Saint Explosion light orbs, setting off dense centers of explosions in the void.

The next instant, the black ring shattered the light orbs and headed toward Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's pupils constricted, and he thrust his spear out; wild thunder accompanied by billions of Malicious Void Spores was completely released.

The third attribute of the Ember Malice Spear, 【Malicious Void Resonance】!

【Malicious Void Resonance】: Every attack can release Malicious Void Spores; the Malicious Void Spores can combine with the power of will to cause intense mental attacks on the enemy.

Billions of Malicious Void Spores bombarded the area, blocking the incoming black ring.

But just as Chen Yan thrust his spear, the woman in the black dress had already appeared on Chen Yan's left side, slashing out with a diagonal cut of her black blade.

Crack!

A black rift spanning the firmament suddenly exploded, swallowing the light within a radius of a thousand meters.

Chen Yan threw a punch.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

The void shattered like jade, and the overwhelming fist light collided with this blade.

【Shattering Jade Style】!

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The two clashed again, exchanging thousands of blows in a single second.

The blade light of the woman in the black dress did not fade; one of the three discs behind her suddenly lit up, reflecting a scene where Chen Yan's neck was slashed open and blood sprayed wildly.

Chen Yan retreated, a phantom of a giant mountain manifesting behind him, and the gravity like a great mountain merged into one with Chen Yan.

【Meteor Mountain Style】!

Chen Yan looked around, feeling that he had once again been locked onto by the rules.

He sensed his surroundings; within his own universe, galaxies shone, erupting with blinding silver radiance.

He wanted to see exactly how he was being severely injured.

In the distance, a trace of a sinister smile appeared at the corner of the black-skirted woman's mouth.

The next moment.

Bang!!!

Intense pain struck.

The left side of Chen Yan's neck was suddenly torn open by an invisible force, blood sprayed out, and at the same time, Chen Yan's entire left arm was completely annihilated.

The Heavenly God Armor protecting Chen Yan was shattered from the inside out; the battle armor wrapping Chen Yan's neck and left arm dispersed, turning into countless scales surrounding Chen Yan.

On Chen Yan's neck, a hideously deep wound had already appeared.

Nearly half of the neck had been shredded.

This scene happened suddenly.