Chapter 634: The Final Battlefield

Will has its limits.

The surging malice and Backfire from the outside world coiled around Chen Yan's Heavenly God Armor like venomous snakes.

The Heavenly God Armor on Chen Yan's chest would be in the midst of recovering, only to be pushed away again by the endless Backfire, leaving Chen Yan's physical body exposed.

For every second Chen Yan's body remained exposed, the suppression from the malice increased by one point.

Will is the natural enemy of malice, but when the malice is too powerful, the power of will can instead be suppressed.

Under the burning of the Backfire, Chen Yan felt the excruciating pain of their soul being torn apart time and again, yet they still stood tall; the golden-red power of will flickered within the flames, like a lonely star crossing the void.

If not for the fact that Chen Yan had chosen to temper their physical body with Backfire from the very beginning, if not for the fact that Chen Yan had been tasting this pain not meant for the mortal world from the very beginning.

Today, Chen Yan would be unable to persist at all.

But the suffering of yesterday is rewarding the Chen Yan of today.

Give thanks.

Give thanks to the self of yesterday.

Give thanks to the Chen Yan of yesterday, who never relaxed even a single bit.

They took a step forward, the void beneath their feet trembling, and the Backfire rolled away to both sides like a tide.

Their combat boots crushed the burning vine fragments, each step accompanied by the cracking of bones and the clanging of armor.

The black-skirted woman's expression grew colder and colder, a streak of blood flowing down from the bloodstain on her forehead.

Behind her, the last disk showing Chen Yan piercing their own chest with a long spear had begun to show signs of withering.

The countdown had begun.

The last two seconds.

For a mortal, two seconds is merely an inadvertent instant.

For her and Chen Yan, however, it is enough time to do many things.

She did not understand how this human could persist to this point.

But now.

As an Eighth-Order Ancient God Beast, she had already retracted all previous feelings of underestimation.

Hum!

She pressed in like a phantom, the long blade in her hand slashing down toward Chen Yan.

Bang!!!

The black blade and the long spear collided, and layer upon layer of terrifying power poured from the long spear into the black blade in the black-skirted woman's hand.

Boom!!!

The collision of layered forces sent the surrounding waves of fire flying.

The battle armor and long spear on that person's body had been burned red-hot by the Backfire, but the movements in their hands did not pause for even a fraction of a second.

A flicker of coldness flashed through the black-skirted woman's heart; could it be that her Backfire was useless?

Hum!

The long spear in Chen Yan's hand changed instantly, shattering and transforming into dozens of conical spikes hovering behind Chen Yan.

This is the second attribute of the Ember Malice Spear.

【Thousand-Form Transformation】: Can change into any object, and below the Ninth Order, no one can destroy it.

Compared to continuing to use the Ember Malice Spear to fight, it would actually be better for Chen Yan to fight with their bare fists.

Swish, swish, swish!!!

Dozens of pitch-black conical spikes stabbed toward the black-skirted woman, and in the void they passed through, Seventh-Grade Spear Souls and countless Malice Void Spores exploded.

The black-skirted woman brandished her black blade to hack and slash.

Bang, bang, bang!!!

The black blade collided with the conical spikes, and one spike after another was knocked away.

But the next instant, the black-skirted woman's brows furrowed slightly; her own consciousness seemed to have experienced a delay.

Hum!

【Malice Void Resonance】!

This is the Ember Malice Spear's most suitable attack for close combat; the Malice Void Spores combined with the power of will to inflict a consciousness attack on the black-skirted woman.

Chen Yan took the opportunity to lash out with a leg; their own universe vibrated, and as the kick was unleashed, the void shattered like jade.

【Meteor Peak Style】 plus 【Shattering Jade Style】!

The black-skirted woman was struck directly in the abdomen, her body arching as she flew backward.

Behind her, the last disk was withering more and more.

The last second.

Chen Yan stepped on the void, all the force in their body venting out from their legs.

With a boom, they charged toward the retreating black-skirted woman, wrapped in Backfire.

The black-skirted woman's pupils constricted; as she retreated, she reached out with one hand, and while there was no change in the void, it seemed as if countless vines were about to entangle Chen Yan.

She gave a ferocious laugh.

Inside the disk, the image displayed was Chen Yan piercing their own heart; now that the Ember Malice Spear had been turned into dozens of conical spikes by Chen Yan, it was clearly impossible for Chen Yan to perform the same action shown in the image.

As long as Chen Yan could not perform the same action, what awaited Chen Yan would be more than just the fate of having their heart pierced.

At the same time.

Chen Yan gripped their hand into a claw, and a white jade light wheel was slashed out from their hand.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The white jade light wheel collided with the invisible vines, exploding into a series of terrifying blasts.

"Heaven-Splitting Style!"

Chen Yan sensed the energy fluctuations in space, and the next instant, his body appeared above the black-skirted woman, punching out directly, blow after blow.

Hum!!!

Streaks of force condensed around Chen Yan, transforming into thousands of Holy-Explosion Light Orbs.

As Chen Yan punched out blow after blow, accompanied by endless fist imprints, the thousands of Holy-Explosion Light Orbs suppressed her in an instant.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The black-skirted woman's expression flickered, and she hurriedly dodged, but it was precisely in this moment of her dodging.

Chen Yan seized the opportunity to close in.

With a *slap*, he grabbed directly onto her wrist.

Crack!!!

Countless wild lightning bolts surged out, firmly binding Chen Yan and the black-skirted woman together.

The two of them were embraced like lovers.

But it was very clear that the black-skirted woman had thought of something and began to struggle violently.

Screech!!!

She let out a desperate shriek, her eyes fixed directly on Chen Yan, erupting with endless killing intent.

But her waist was being firmly gripped by Chen Yan's single hand.

Screech!

The black-skirted woman let out a sharp cry, but suddenly saw Chen Yan's other hand reach out; dozens of pitch-black spikes had arrived before Chen Yan at some unknown time, transforming into the Ash-Evil Spear.

Then.

Chen Yan grabbed the spot forty centimeters from the spearhead and stabbed it down into his own heart.

Boom!!!

The sharp tip of the Ash-Evil Spear first pierced into the black-skirted woman's back, then passed through her body, and finally pierced straight through Chen Yan's heart.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!!

Billions of Evil-Void Spores instantly surged out from the Ash-Evil Spear, combining with Chen Yan's power of will to transform into an endless, inexhaustible assault of will.

The black-skirted woman's head tilted up, and a moment of confusion appeared.

She had not expected Chen Yan to use such a move to break the stalemate.

While severely injuring himself, he had also severely injured her.

The next moment, she regained clarity and her arms suddenly hugged Chen Yan tight.

"Getting close to me, are you courting death?!"

She sneered aloud.

With a boom.

Endless malice erupted from her body, surging into Chen Yan's already broken heart.

Click, click, click!!!

Countless vines burst out from her sleeves, binding her and Chen Yan together.

Suspended upon these vines were individual Counter-Fire Crystals.

The next instant.

Boom!!!

The Counter-Fire burned, transforming into an endless sea of fire.

Immediately following, the two of them plummeted directly into the magma below.

Rumble!!!

The giant magma lake, which was already constantly surging and roaring, suddenly exploded; countless streams of magma crazily blasted out in all directions, leaving trails of black smoke in the high sky.

The black-skirted woman and Chen Yan had already fallen into the depths of the magma, battling deep within the earth's veins.

From the outside, it was impossible to see clearly at all.

Boom!

A giant magma pillar several kilometers in diameter shot into the sky instantly, and the void was burned into distorted ripples.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

One after another, giant magma pillars exploded; along the surroundings of the giant magma lake, the earth began to crack again, and countless stone fragments shot out.

The falling rain of fire and the crumbling earth rocks intertwined and splashed, shrouding the void for hundreds of miles in a boiling purgatory.

It was like the end of the world.

Chi Yuexi opened her mouth wide, and her facial muscles twitched involuntarily.

Were these two trying to destroy the entire earth?

On the side of the cliff.

Yu Ming's expression flickered.

He had not anticipated that Chen Yan would display such terrifying combat power.

Nor had he thought that the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree would still possess such combat power after its strength was less than one-tenth of its peak.

He had underestimated both Chen Yan and the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree.

For a moment, even Yu Ming became dazed.

He even wanted to go over directly to take a look, feeling that the projection he was watching was fake.

As for Yin Qingshuang and the other Great Xia Creation-Realm experts, their eyes were turning red as they watched.

It was as if they themselves were also fighting, experiencing an unprecedentedly intense battle.

…………

Bang.

Chi Xue pulled the trigger on himself, and the next instant, Qi Fan's chest exploded in front of him.

Chi Xue laughed softly:

"Do you see? This is the reversal of cause and effect. If I attack myself, you get hurt; if you attack me, you also hurt yourself."

Qi Fan retreated explosively, his expression grim, as he tore a layer of skin from his abdomen:

"You cast a spatial array on me, so the moment I attack you, our positions swap twice in an instant. This isn't some causal technique at all."

Qi Fan gasped for air, blood flowing from his eyes.

The battlefield was tragic.

On Chi Xue's side, only five of the fourteen Creation Realm puppets remained.

On the Great Xia side, only seven Creation Realm experts were left.

A firestorm spanning ten thousand miles swept over.

Across the earth, there were cracks and fragments of withered vines everywhere.

Lu Jingqiu lay on the ground, gasping her last breaths, blood continuously gushing from her mouth as she leaned against a protruding rock.

Zhang Chao had lost a leg and an arm, yet he was still gritting his teeth and fighting.

Ke Qingxuan was also covered in blood; had Lu Jingqiu not risked her life to save her earlier, she would have died long ago.

The sounds of rumbling, roaring, and explosions intertwined, echoing incessantly across this land.

Chi Xue was a formidable opponent.

Regardless of what the other party said or what his true goal was.

Everyone knew clearly that the only thing left for them was a fight to the death.

If they couldn't even overcome Chi Xue, what future was there to speak of for the Great World?

One of Chi Xue's arms had been severed, and his body stood in the void with a sense of precariousness; covered in blood, he looked at Qi Fan and laughed:

"Qi Fan, I underestimated you.

I thought only Chen Yan could interest me, but I didn't expect you could too."

He revealed a brilliant smile:

"Perhaps, even after a thousand or ten thousand years, I will not forget this battle.

I, Chi Xue, have become more perfect because of this battle."

He opened his arms, the light of the setting sun shining upon his blood-streaked cheeks.

Boom!!!

The explosion from ten thousand miles away became his perfect backdrop.

"If Chen Yan can interest you, then go find him," Qi Fan laughed:

"I guarantee you'll be beaten into a pile of fragments in under a minute."

Chi Xue's expression turned grim.

………………

In the distance.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!!!

A ground fissure running straight through the east suddenly erupted, and within the gap, black smoke surged out accompanied by magma.

The massive fissure continued to spread until, two thousand kilometers away, a mountain range was abruptly sliced apart from below and collapsed.

Boom!!!

Accompanied by an endless surge of magma, a pitch-black figure burning with black smoke darted out from the ruptured earth.

Chen Yan stood in the high sky; his black battle armor had dozens of blood holes, and floating armor scales flew over to cover them.

The next instant.

Screech!!!!

A shocking, world-piercing shriek resounded from the depths of the earth.

With the eruption of ring after ring of sky-shattering sound waves, the mountain range instantly shattered.

Countless flaming vines surged out from the cracked earth.

The liquid fire clinging to the vine fragments writhed like living creatures, transforming into thousands of fire snakes that hissed and swirled as they exploded outward.

Chen Yan threw a punch, and a ball of light condensed on his fist.

As Chen Yan smashed his fist out.

The light ball compressed, and compressed again!

Compressed, compressed, compressed!!!

Boom!

The light ball exploded, and countless rays of light rain shot out from within, like meteors arriving from the primordial universe, bombarding the countless vines below.

【Void-Breaking - Saint Condensation】!

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

The light rain collided with the world of vines, exploding into countless sparks and fragments, and the earth was smashed into countless giant craters.

Within the Ancient War Palace, Chen Yan had received the teachings of the Master of Hard-Body Training, and his understanding of his own strength and the path of hard-body training had far surpassed what it once was.

Every move he executed now was filled with the aura of a grandmaster, its power far exceeding the past.

The woman in the black dress flew out from the center of the countless vines.

Now, half of her face was charred black, and one of her arms had snapped in the middle, with vines growing from the broken end.

An eighth-rank ancient divine beast is not incapable of being injured.

The woman in the black dress fought Chen Yan within the magma, and was beaten into this state by Chen Yan trading injury for injury.

Although the opponent looked incredibly miserable, Chen Yan's injuries were even more severe.

Being injured time and time again caused Chen Yan's immortal will to be suppressed more and more severely.

Up to now, the heavy injuries on Chen Yan's body have not been repaired.

If not for the fact that before Chen Yan used the Ash-Evil Spear to pierce his own heart, Chen Yan had exerted force to squeeze his heart to the right side of his chest, dodging that stab.

Chen Yan's current condition would only be more severe.

The heart is the center of blood supply.

Once the heart is injured, Chen Yan's entire body's force and Qi-blood will drop significantly.

Most crucially.

The 【Blood Battle State】 has only one minute left.

That Chen Yan could contend with the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest to such an extent relied mainly on the augmentation of the 【Blood Battle State】.

The attacks brought to Chen Yan by the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree would be blocked by nine-tenths by the Heavenly God Armor, leaving one-tenth for Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's strength, speed, and Qi-blood were all doubled under the 【Blood Battle State】.

If there were no 【Blood Battle State】, Chen Yan would not be a match for the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree at all.

That is to say, the time left for Chen Yan is only the final minute.

Within one minute, if he does not kill the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree, it is Chen Yan who dies.

And it was at this moment.

Swish!

The vines growing from the severed arm of the woman in the black dress suddenly gathered and grew behind her, vaguely about to form four discs.

But this was clearly different from the previous discs.

A sense of crisis emerged once again.

Having finally endured the rule-based suppression of those four discs, Chen Yan did not want to face this kind of bizarre method again.

With a swish.

Chen Yan pressed down in an instant, turning into an afterimage and flying toward the woman in the black dress.

The woman in the black dress looked at Chen Yan indifferently, reached out one hand, and grabbed across the void.

Boom!!!

In her eyes, the scene of countless vines strangling Chen Yan appeared.

Outside, however, no vines appeared, but the vines' attacks did appear.

As if what she saw was what was about to happen.

Chen Yan's mind stirred, the Ash-Evil Spear appeared again, turning into dozens of pitch-black spikes, surrounding Chen Yan and stabbing outward.

Chirp, chirp, chirp!

Countless Evil-Void Spores bloomed, gnawing and biting at the invisible vines one by one.

Chen Yan sensed the energy in all directions and punched toward the left.

Crack!

The void shattered, and the invisible attack from the left was broken open by Chen Yan.

Chen Yan continued to press down; he could not let those four newborn discs come into being, and he needed even more to kill the woman in the black dress within one minute.

One thousand meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, ten meters; Chen Yan got close to the woman in the black dress, his body maneuvering, and he slammed a kick toward the opponent's head.

The woman in the black dress tilted her body instantly, and a black blade appeared in her hand, slashing toward Chen Yan's thigh.

Rumble!!!

Endless thunderous Qi-blood instantly surged out from Chen Yan's body, and countless wild thunders tore at the arm of the pitch-black woman, causing this blade to slow down.

Chen Yan shifted his figure, clasped his hands together, and smashed them fiercely down toward the neck of the woman in the black dress.

Rip...

A sharp pain came from Chen Yan's abdomen; the woman in the black dress's blade had still pierced into his body.

Chirp!

Terrifying malice surged into Chen Yan's abdomen.

The next instant, Chen Yan's clasped-fist strike also smashed onto the neck of the woman in the black dress.

Boom!!!

Crack!

No matter how hard the physical body of the woman in the black dress was, this strike also cracked the opponent's shoulder blade.

Chen Yan endured the sharp pain in his abdomen, pressed his left hand's two fingers together, and clamped onto a spike transformed from the Ash-Evil Spear.

Rumble!!!

Thunder, Evil-Void Spores, power of will, and Seventh-Grade Spear Soul erupted at almost the same time.

On the spike clamped by Chen Yan's two fingers, rivers of blood suddenly surged, and countless Other Shore Flowers bloomed in the void.

【Blood Domain Reversing the World】!

【Evil-Void Resonance】!

This strike was incredibly terrifying, and he stabbed it straight toward the forehead of the woman in the black dress.