Chapter 642: If one does not establish the Ten Thousand Daos, how can one suppress the Ten Thousand Ages?

Within the Shi Yue Xue Hai.

A bloated, massive blood moon is embedded in the dome above, countless eyeballs crowding upon it, incomparably terrifying, with layers of mist enveloping the entire blood moon.

Upon the earth, no one can see it.

Unless this blood moon, formed from countless eyeballs, appears before your sight.

Within this massive Tier 2 domain, there is only one trial-taker.

At a certain location within it.

Countless eyeballs like blood-colored agate fall one after another, instantly converging into a scarlet waterfall.

Eerie luster surges, and the sounds of shattering and a fishy stench permeate the air.

Chen Changyuan, dressed in black, sits cross-legged before this waterfall of eyeballs, his eyes tightly shut.

Upon his body, sword Qi surges and malice intertwines.

The sword soul and the malice are merging.

A blood-red sword blade floats before Chen Changyuan, overflowing with blood-red light.

Inverse Nine Sword Marrow.

Within the auction platform, Shen Yiwei bid for and won the Inverse Nine Sword Heart.

But the Inverse Nine Sword Marrow from the Divinity Spirit Shop was bid for and won by Chen Changyuan.

Yet, the current Inverse Nine Sword Marrow is overflowing with malice, as eerie as a fountain of darkness.

At this moment, sweat continuously flows down Chen Changyuan's forehead.

"Have I failed again?"

He opens his eyes.

After the failure at the Upper Ancient War Palace, Chen Changyuan has once again undergone the same, even more eerie trial within the Shi Yue Xue Hai.

His inner self is becoming stronger and more resolute.

He no longer clings to the desire for immortality.

However, at the end of the Dao trial.

Chen Changyuan shattered the existence he once feared most; he shattered the pressure brought upon him by Chen Yan.

But at the very end, Chen Changyuan saw someone he never expected.

Bing Yi.

"Not right." Chen Changyuan narrows his eyes:

"Why would Bing Yi become my obstacle?"

A trace of confusion appears in Chen Changyuan's eyes.

Bing Yi, too distant a name.

Perhaps, experienced enough, but destined to die.

The next instant.

Chen Changyuan's eyes widen.

Suddenly thinking of something, layers of thoughts emerge and flash within his mind.

Until finally, the clues begin to connect.

Why did the Ancient Dream God Beast die?

Was it killed by Zhou Ming of the Ten Thousand Phases Island, or was it killed by Bing Yi who escaped from the Brocade Palace?

Bing Yi!

It was the first existence that nearly annihilated him.

From the beginning, Bing Yi bewitched Lu Mingyuan to execute him; Chen Changyuan was on the verge of life and death, saved by Chen Yunyou.

Later, at the God General Temple.

Bing Yi even attempted to kill him repeatedly, and in the end, nearly dragged him into the God General Temple just as its gates were about to close.

That's right.

Chen Changyuan's father, Chen Sanyuan, died because of Chen Yan; the Luo Chen clan was destroyed because of Chen Yan.

But Chen Changyuan is an extremely selfish person.

He may have cared about his father, but his care for his father was far less than Chen Changyuan's care for himself.

Even the existence of his father is not as important as the Ancient Dream God Beast.

Layers of clues converge in his mind, and layers of memories emerge in Chen Changyuan's mind.

Until the very end.

Boom!

"Bing Yi didn't die, he killed Dream!"

A low roar suddenly resounds.

Chen Changyuan bellows, furious to the extreme.

At this moment, he suddenly understands.

Shen Yiwei, who competed with him for the Inverse Nine Sword inheritance, is unimportant.

Chen Yan, who caused his clan's destruction, became the nightmare of the five clans, and is destined to die, is unimportant.

But Bing Yi, perhaps, did not die.

Perhaps Bing Yi is the very existence that shattered all of Chen Changyuan's plans.

If the Ancient Dream God Beast were still here, he would have already reached the eighth tier.

He could have long since completed all of his plans.

Killing intent accumulated in the depths of Chen Changyuan's heart.

He had always thought Chen Yan would be his ultimate enemy, yet this ultimate enemy did not even have the chance to stand before him.

But Bing Yi was still alive.

"I understand," Chen Changyuan said:

"It is not that they will become my obstacles; it is that I need them."

The malice within his body grew increasingly dense, and his murderous intent grew increasingly intense.

He was about to succeed.

This was the final legacy left to him by the Ancient Dream Beast.

…………

As time slowly passed.

Another day went by.

Throughout the Five Clans Conflict, sounds of shock and suspicion grew more frequent.

Many people furrowed their brows deeply, and some even had the thought of heading to the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest to investigate.

The Level 2 Domain Battle had been ongoing for two full days.

The result had yet to emerge.

Many warriors of the Five Clans were somewhat panicked.

If Chen Yan had evaded the Domain Battle, making it impossible for the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest to find him.

Then what should be done about this battle?

"I bet Chi Xue; if Chen Yan has fled, does this battle end in a draw?"

"That shouldn't be right; there is no such thing as a draw. If Chen Yan chose to avoid the battle, then Chen Yan must have lost."

"Is that so? Although I can win by betting, I cannot rest easy if Chen Yan does not die."

"Look at Chi Xue; Chi Xue shouldn't be such trash."

The shock grew more intense as time fermented.

But no one imagined that the so-called Level 2 Domain Battle had actually ended long ago.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace.

The Master of Tempering and the woman in the immortal dress had watched the entire process of the Domain Battle from the very beginning.

Even they were speechless at this moment.

They had not expected that Chen Yan would actually defeat the Dark-Devouring Mother Nest.

Inside the dark room.

An old man with a full head of white hair saw Chen Yan's location from an infinite distance away.

His brow furrowed deeper and deeper.

Chen Yan had already created his own universe of the Blood Qi Path, and now he was actually destroying that universe.

Although he had lectured on the Dao for Chen Yan for a long time.

There were still too many differences between the Tempering Path and the Blood Qi Path.

Since it was the destruction of his own universe, the danger Chen Yan encountered while destroying the Blood Qi Path's universe might be even greater.

Sure enough.

Under his gaze.

The space of Chen Yan's Blood Qi Path transformed into his own universe, and all his True Essence Dharma Images transformed into galaxies.

And then, just a moment ago.

Chen Yan began to destroy the universe of his Blood Qi Path.

Rumble!

Chen Yan's physical body gradually split open, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading all over.

Deep within the cracks, wild thunder surged and black lightning raged; the power of thunder churned beneath his skin, appearing as if it would completely shatter Chen Yan's physical body and diffuse outward.

With his own universe shattered, it could no longer contain the power of Blood Qi, so the power of Blood Qi naturally needed to overflow.

But how powerful was Chen Yan's physical body?

It was actually able to stop the trend of his physical body collapsing.

At the same time.

A wisp of the aura of life and death, born from the Tempering Path, flowed over Chen Yan's physical body.

It was meant to repair the universe of the Blood Qi Path that had already collapsed.

Whether it was the Blood Qi Path or the Tempering Path, the aura of life and death born from them was actually the same.

The aura of life and death could be viewed as a type of rule that could be utilized.

It governs life and death, and it governs destruction and rebirth.

Those strange rule-based methods of the Dark-Devouring Mother Tree were actually a combination of malice and the aura of life and death.

Wisps of immortal will began to emerge upon Chen Yan's physical body.

Just because Chen Yan let his Will Divine Body deduce the breakthrough did not mean that Chen Yan himself could not generate the power of will again.

Chen Yan himself was the source of everything.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace.

The white-haired old man watched in shock and uncertainty.

Compared to before, Chen Yan's power of will was even more powerful.

Even with his Will Divine Body separated from his body, he could still exert such immense power of will.

It is evident what kind of harvest the Tier 2 Domain battle has brought Chen Yan.

With the Immortal Will, it is difficult for Chen Yan to die even if he wants to.

"That is truly cheating."

The woman in the immortal dress could not help but speak out all of a sudden.

It is too much of a cheat.

Every manifestation of the Immortal Will up until now has been a bit too powerful.

It suppresses the enemy's will and can even destroy their cognition.

It devours malice and can also repair itself.

If a pure physical-refinement martial artist were to face a will-based martial artist.

Perhaps they wouldn't even be able to raise their fists, being directly suppressed by the will, unable to generate a shred of fighting spirit.

In that case.

What is the use of how powerful your cultivation is?

The physical body is a type of power.

Is the will not also one?

The Master of Physical Refinement has the same thought in his heart.

If Chen Yan had been born ten thousand years earlier, would the world today not be the way it is?

One must know that when the Mother God's divine soul left the human realm.

The Ancient God Bai'e sought to devour the Ancient God Fanni.

The two ancient gods fought a great battle, the sky darkened and the earth turned dim, both suffering heavy losses.

The human race only won by employing schemes and calculations from within.

That was because the ancient gods themselves had problems, not because the human race was too powerful.

But that was also the time when the two ancient gods were at their weakest.

If the Master of Will had been born at that time.

Could he have directly annihilated the ancient gods in their weakened state?

The human race would not have had to suffer the torment of malice for these past ten thousand years.

The Master of Physical Refinement could not help but look back on the years again.

How tragic was that battle?

Hundreds of millions of people died.

The earth was no longer the earth, but a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

His wife and brothers all died.

Everything was collapsing.

His heart, too, had long since changed after facing death time and time again.

Battle after battle gave birth to the Master of Physical Refinement and made him what he is today.

Just at this moment.

The white-haired old man was still recalling the past, but the next moment his eyes flashed violently, and he directly roared:

"What are you doing?!"

He was furious.

Just like the day Chen Yan fused the True Essence Dharma Form and the True Dragon Dharma Form.

As angry as he was then.

He was ten times more furious now.

Because Chen Yan was actually attempting to fuse the self-universe of the Blood-Qi path with the self-universe of the Physical-Refinement path while the former was being reborn.

Just look.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

At this moment, Chen Yan's flesh and blood were shattering all over his body, and as his internal force collided with his blood-qi, blood splattered out.

Chen Yan was fusing his self-universes.

It was exactly the same as when he smelted the True Essence Dharma Form and the True Dragon Dharma Form.

Chen Yan began to fuse outside the rules.

The Creation Realm gives birth to a self-universe; this is the rule of the Martial Dao.

But the reshaping of the self-universe after its destruction in the Creation Realm is not governed by the original Martial Dao rules.

And transcending the rules is Chen Yan's domain of dominion.

Chen Yan wanted to make the Blood-Qi path's self-universe fuse into the Physical-Refinement path's self-universe while it was being reborn.

Chen Yan knew his actions were undoubtedly courting death.

But he had already done it before.

He had already succeeded in rebirthing his self-universe during the Creation Realm.

He had also succeeded in fusing blood-qi and internal force.

Since he had done both.

Then why could he not fuse the self-universes of the Blood-Qi and Physical-Refinement paths?

Once fused.

Then within Chen Yan's body, there would no longer be a Physical-Refinement path, nor a Blood-Qi path.

His physical capabilities would be completely integrated together.

Chen Yan and Ice Intent, from this moment on, are forever one.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

At this moment.

The personal universe of the Horizontal Refinement path collided with and accommodated the nascent personal universe of the Blood Qi path.

The instant the personal universes collided, a wisp of pitch-black True Martial power emerged.

That was a wisp of True Martial power born after Chen Yan fused the True Essence Dharma Form and the True Dragon Dharma Form.

True Martial.

Blood Qi is the energy born from operating the physical body.

Horizontal Refinement is also the energy born from operating the physical body.

Why must those two be kept separate?

The combination of Horizontal Refinement and Blood Qi, the true essence of the physical body fused into one, is what constitutes True Martial!

Chen Yan's eyes shattered, blood light splattered, but golden light exploded forth.

He intended to use the already born True Martial power as an adhesive to thoroughly fuse the personal universe of the Horizontal Refinement path with that of the Blood Qi path.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Terrifying explosive sounds rang out from within Chen Yan's body.

Along with this, Chen Yan's aura was constantly exploding.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The explosive sounds of bones turned into ancient thunder.

Chen Yan's flesh, acupoints, and meridians all began to erupt with thunderous light and force.

Waves of destructive aura were born upon Chen Yan's body.

Within the personal universe of the Horizontal Refinement path.

Galaxies collapsed, exploded, and were destroyed one after another.

Everything was being destroyed.

Chen Yan began to utilize the aura of life and death, yet he was still unable to suppress this destructive power.

Hum!!!

The Immortal Will erupted, beginning to repair Chen Yan's physical body and his personal universe.

But the moment it was repaired, it would explode again the next instant.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace, coldness bloomed in the eyes of the white-haired old man, and he said nothing.

What qualification does the Blood Qi path have to fuse with the Horizontal Refinement path?

He had spent so long just to prove that the Blood Qi path was wrong.

He had spent so long just to tell the world that he was the truth.

He had wiped out the Blood Qi path; he had wiped out his own son.

He was right!

Even if he was hated.

Horizontal Refinement was his pride; it was his everything.

Yet Chen Yan was attempting to fuse what he despised most with what he was most proud of.

His gaze was incomparably arrogant as he watched Chen Yan court death in such a way.

Yet, in his ears, he heard the youth's voice, calm yet containing majesty.

"If I do not establish ten thousand paths, how can I suppress the ten thousand ages?!"