Chapter 638: Walking to the End with Everything, Meeting the God

Jet-black ash drifted across the sky.

Upon the throne, Chen Yan's shattered physical body was being eroded by malice, his flesh and blood constantly withering away.

Having lost the Heavenly God Armor and his own power of will, Chen Yan was like a moth flying into a flame.

Never before had he felt the drain of his own life force as clearly as he did in this moment.

He was dying, yet he wanted to open his eyes to take one last look at this world.

Ke Qingxuan gasped violently, exhausting every ounce of her strength to force the Immortal Will out from her own origin space, as strands of golden-red light merged into Chen Yan's body.

Blood tears streamed from her eyes, her red lips parted, and her body trembled; she wanted to say something, but could not utter a single word.

Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes; he felt the malice that had been about to devour his everything being rapidly consumed and extinguished, like an ice cube entering a flame.

His physical body was being cleansed by the power of will.

He looked at Ke Qingxuan and managed a difficult smile.

Then.

The power of will that Ke Qingxuan had injected into his body was completely exhausted.

Chen Yan's body headed toward death once more.

"Chen..." Ke Qingxuan spoke hoarsely, shaking her head.

This was not the scene she wished to see.

The power of will had been drained, but there was still much malice left within Chen Yan's body, continuing to erode his flesh.

The sun had set; had it vanished, had it disappeared?

If one were to chase the sun forever, the sun would remain standing high above in the sky.

The sun, never to be extinguished.

He had always been the Great Sun.

Ke Qingxuan had never stopped, following step by step, always trailing behind the sun.

Yet the sun was still to be extinguished.

And it was at this very moment.

Hum...

A faint glimmer suddenly emerged from Chen Yan's chest.

Weak as a firefly, yet it was the primordial spark.

Hum...

The brilliant radiance of will poured out completely, spreading continuously, birthing itself endlessly.

"Chen Yan!!!"

Chi Xue's roar suddenly resounded, his pair of scarlet eyes looking at this scene in disbelief.

What is this?

The power of will, reborn?

He did not understand.

Chen Yan's current body was like a lake of ice water, even though Ke Qingxuan had placed a flame into that pool of ice water.

Now, the flame had also been extinguished.

Why would the flame be reborn?

Chi Xue's expression was stunned, ignoring even Qi Fan who was charging at him to kill.

"It is the Lord of Will, it is the Lord of Will saving you!"

He growled, then laughed coldly:

"You cheated too, we both cheated, hahaha!!!"

Covered in blood, he laughed wretchedly.

He did not laugh because of his own failure.

He laughed because he suddenly discovered that this game had become fair once again.

It must be the Lord of Will who caused the dying Chen Yan to be reborn.

The Ancient Divine Beast helped him, Chi Xue.

The Lord of Will helped Chen Yan.

In this way, both Chen Yan and he had cheated, and the originally unfair game was now fair.

He spread his arms, revealing a smile of extreme satisfaction:

"This battle is perfectly complete!"

But look.

On the throne in the distance, the charred skin on Chen Yan's body peeled away inch by inch, and his newborn flesh flowed like molten gold.

His body was being reborn, his bones emitting crisp ringing sounds.

He was being reborn.

Thump, thump, thump...

Chen Yan's heartbeat began to recover; it was weak, but stable and continuous.

He began to breathe, and the internal energy within his body began to circulate.

Chen Yan looked at Ke Qingxuan before him and revealed a smile.

Ke Qingxuan's eyes gazed at the Chen Yan of this moment, gazing earnestly.

Wordless, soundless.

But an increasingly bright light was born upon Chen Yan's physical body.

Hum...

A spatial ripple emerged before Chen Yan, and Chi Xue appeared with a bloody hole in his chest and one arm severed.

Blood dripped continuously from his chin, and a satisfied smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

He had no combat strength left.

Even though Chen Yan was still very weak now and unable to activate the Heavenly God Armor.

But Chen Yan still had the Ember Evil Spear.

The Ember Evil Spear was enough to annihilate the now dying Chi Xue.

On the distant earth, Qi Fan, who had already turned into a puppet, was suppressed by a stone tablet cast by Chi Xue, his eyes furious as he continuously bombarded the ground.

This stone tablet could not suppress Qi Fan for long.

Ke Qingxuan looked at Chi Xue, gasping for breath, and stood in front of Chen Yan.

Chi Xue, however, hung his head, stepping through the void, his mouth continuously spitting out blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

"You won," Chi Xue laughed.

Pfft!

He stepped toward Chen Yan in an extremely wretched state.

Chi Xue knew he had lost.

He knew that as long as Chen Yan had a single thought, the Ember Evil Spear that had turned into a throne would erupt with a Seventh-Grade Spear Soul.

A Seventh-Grade Spear Soul was enough to suppress and kill him.

But he did not flee; instead, he continued to step toward Chen Yan.

He was using his last shred of life to complete this battle.

Until this game ended, he would remain the most refined, most perfect player.

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

He kept spitting blood, walking toward Chen Yan.

Until the next moment.

The young man sitting on the throne looked at him:

"Kneel."

Chi Xue narrowed his eyes and smiled.

Chen Yan was insulting him.

Boom!

He erupted in an instant, thrusting a finger toward Chen Yan.

And it was at this very instant.

He met the young man's eyes, and in that very instant, he saw the two blinding rays of light like great suns within the other's eyes.

The next instant.

Hum!!!

A brilliant pillar of light shot up from Chen Yan's body, tearing through all the gloom within the surrounding heaven and earth.

Hum!!!

Like a scorching sun suddenly born, like the most extreme light produced when a star explodes!

The power of endless will erupted completely, pouring out entirely.

Space trembled!

The endless pressure of will slammed into Chi Xue's mind in an instant.

In an instant, Chi Xue widened his eyes, the flesh on his face began to twist, and his eyes seemed to be burning, causing incomparable pain.

But he desperately widened his eyes.

Watching this great miracle in human history.

He used everything he had to walk close to Chen Yan, wanting to experience this incomparably magnificent scene.

"What is this?"

Chi Xue opened his mouth wide, spraying blood:

"Tell me, what is this?!!!"

He roared, he shouted, he struggled.

As if he had seen the most incredible thing in the world.

His will trembled, his brain crashed, and his gaze pierced through the endless blinding light, never again seeing those eyes clearly.

In a trance, he seemed to see a towering figure standing above the long river of time.

That figure stared at him, and within a pair of terrifying pupil lights contained an invincible might that made the great world tremble and the galaxy collapse.

That was the brilliant divine monument of the human race.

Chi Xue smiled, but his legs bent uncontrollably, about to surrender completely to this infinitely terrifying and magnificent pressure.

"With a mortal... body..."

He knelt down and blankly spoke this sentence.

He was too smart.

So smart that the moment he felt the strength of his own path of will begin to dissipate, he understood everything.

His path of will was gone.

Erased by someone!

Rudely and domineeringly wiped out by someone.

It was as if everything you had obtained through all your efforts was negated by that person with just a single glance.

This made it hard for him to accept, made him doubt the human world.

It made him suddenly realize that all his guesses up until now had been both right and wrong.

And when the truth truly appeared before him, he was stunned.

"With a mortal... body..."

He raised both hands and roared:

"Shake... the gods!!!"

Chen Yan slew an Eighth-Rank Ancient God Beast.

Was it a battle to slay gods?

No!

The ones truly slaying gods were Chi Xue and the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree.

When Chi Xue, having exhausted all efforts and calculated every move, arrived before Chen Yan.

He saw...

A god.

At the same time.

Outside.

Endless pressure of will spread out, like ten thousand shouts and roars belonging to the human race.

It stretched for tens of thousands of miles.

The pressure of will caused the heavens and earth to tremble.

Chi Yuexi and Yu Qing watched this scene in astonishment, completely shocked.

Gazing from afar at that golden pillar of light spanning the heavens and earth.

Within the light pillar, a phantom of a sun wheel emerged, illuminating the heavens and earth.

Suddenly, they could no longer bear it and knelt down.

The will was burning.

It extinguished time and again, and was reborn time and again.

It always became even stronger within the endless darkness.

Chen Yan's physical body completely revived.

His Qi and blood path was suppressed, and the Heavenly God Armor was suppressed.

But the path of will was the first to revive.

He looked toward the Vault of Heaven; the pillar of will erupting from his physical body shattered the clouds and became a new great sun.

At this moment, Chen Yan's will was unprecedentedly majestic and unprecedentedly vast.

Countless tiny flames burned and spread around Chen Yan's body.

In the human world, the nascent Martial Dao grew stronger than ever before.

Hum!!!

Ke Qingxuan knelt beside Chen Yan; she lowered her head, on the verge of death, and a smile appeared at the corners of her mouth.

A very warm power of will.

Just like when Chen Yan saved her that day.

This touch of warmth seeped into her heart.

She was going to leave, to leave this human world.

She had saved the person who had saved her.

It was just that she was reluctant.

Tears appeared in her eyes; she still wanted to live, she still wanted to see tomorrow's sun and tomorrow's Chen Yan.

She wanted so much to keep living.

To live until the end of time.

But her life was already perfect enough.

She had been a spy for Ji Province her whole life, bearing endless pressure and torment.

Yet the end of her life was perfect.

She came like green smoke and dispersed like green smoke.

Tears fell slowly.

This was her final attachment to the human world.

The next moment.

Hum...

Strands of the power of will wrapped around her and were reborn within her body.

That faint yet majestic power of the human world was holding her back.

Ke Qingxuan entered the Martial Dao of Will!

At the same time.

On the battlefield.

Lu Jingqiu, whose body was already half-gone, trembled slightly, and a touch of nascent power appeared within her body.

She entered the Martial Dao of Will.

At the same time.

Not far from her, those two Great Xia Creation Realm cultivators were on the verge of death, yet even as they breathed their last, they were still focused on Chen Yan.

Entering, Will Martial Dao.

In an instant.

Zhang Chao, entering Will Martial Dao!

Outside the domain.

Tears fell from her eyes, and Chen Yu, who had been rushing forward, froze as a special power emerged upon her body.

Those were wisps of golden-red radiance of the Immortal Will.

This symbolized that she had already reached the peak of the first realm of the Will Path, the Word Realm, and perhaps she was about to step into the second realm.

Further away.

Yin Qingshuang, Zhang Ting, and the others were rushing toward Chen Yan as if their lives depended on it.

Hum!

Will pressure suddenly emerged from Yin Qingshuang's body.

Her vermilion lips parted, she had entered the Will Path!

In the mortal world, the number of Will martial artists was too small.

This was because the threshold to enter the Will Path was too high.

It was also because the Lord of Will's understanding of martial dao was not high enough.

But, at this instant.

When Chen Yan returned from death, when Chen Yan saw the mortal world once again.

Everything changed.

Outside.

Hum!

Hum!

Hum!

One Will martial artist after another appeared abruptly.

Just like that, appearing suddenly.

They were either the Military Guards retreating to Qinzhou with the Longevity King, or Great Xia living beings still roaring because their nation had fallen.

Or, believers who piously revered the Lord of Will.

At the border between Tiezhou and Qinzhou.

The land was desolate, with flames burning everywhere.

Upon the earth, there was dried blood everywhere, and everywhere there were the corpses of the human race.

On a hilltop, a troop of soldiers watched everything below.

The Five Clans had built combat fortresses stretching for dozens of miles in Tiezhou.

Eight Heaven-Propping Battle Armors belonging exclusively to Chenzhou stood upon the great enemy of Tiezhou, stained with blood.

"Do not forget the national humiliation; today we lose Tiezhou, but in the days to come, the Five Clans will pay it back twofold!"

Within the small squad, Luo Puxin, acting as captain, gave a low shout; behind him, the line of Military Guards all had eyes filled with fury.

Retreating was the general trend.

Now, it was not Jizhou waging war against Great Xia, but the entire Five Clans waging war against Great Xia.

Great Xia had to retreat to gather its main combat strength together.

But, even while retreating, Great Xia had launched hundreds of self-defense counterattacks.

How many people had died, how many had self-detonated amidst roars, how many had fought desperately to risk everything against the Five Clans.

If Great Xia perished, billions of living beings would lose their future.

Great Xia was risking everything, and the Five Clans were also risking everything.

"Report, a Five Clans squad has been detected: three Origin Realm combatants, thirty-five Tier 3 combatants."

Suddenly, Luo Puxin's communication array disk rang.

"How far?"

"Seventy-five kilometers away!"

Luo Puxin's gaze turned sharp:

"Continue scouting, attack and kill these thieves!"

As his voice fell, the expressions of the squad members all changed.

"Captain..."

Someone spoke up.

Luo Puxin looked at them and gave a low shout:

"Do you know where this is?"

"Great Xia!"

"Further north is Yixian City, is Yunmeng City, is Yunzhou!"

"If we kill one more person today, we will have one less person die tomorrow!"

"I am not telling you to go die; I am telling you to go save your families, your friends, and your relatives!"

"How can you say you have no clothes? I share my robes with you!"

He wanted to fight.

He had witnessed the Battle of Moshan Pass, witnessed the Battle of Tiezhou, and seen too many people die.

Tan Yishi is dead, and Xi Congyun is also dead.

These people did not wait for Chen Yan to come out of seclusion.

Luo Puxin understood that he might not be able to wait either.

His good friend, Shen Yiwei, was still inside the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror.

He might not be able to wait.

But this did not mean that Luo Puxin would be afraid of death; he had never been afraid of death.

He was filled with rage, and everyone looking at him also erupted with fighting spirit.

It was precisely at this moment.

Hum!

A wave of will pressure bloomed from Luo Puxin's body, suddenly brilliant.

Luo Puxin was stunned, and the people behind him looked at Luo Puxin as if they had seen a ghost.

"So, I can also enter the path of will."

Luo Puxin revealed a smile:

"Chen Yan, Old Shen, I have also entered the path of will!!!"

Behind him, the squad members were all incomparably excited.

Entering the path of will meant that one's combat power would directly double, so their chances of winning the coming battle had greatly increased!