Chapter 650: A Lesson

Chen Yan was disappointed.

What he wanted was an opponent who could kill him with their life on the line; only such an opponent could allow him to truly feel his own combat power and Martial Dao.

After all, in this world, aside from yourself, the one who wants to understand you most is your enemy.

Yet, Ji Yanbing, ranked eighth on the Creation Realm Board, did not bring Chen Yan even the slightest bit of pressure.

Even though Chen Yan's current life state was fluctuating violently, the opponent remained incredibly weak.

It was as if the True Martial Power was an existence of a different dimension, superior to blood-Qi and tempering.

Coupled with the fact that Chen Yan could perceive a person's emotions.

Not a single move of Ji Yanbing's could bring pressure to Chen Yan.

Thinking back to when he first entered the Five Clans Conflict, Chen Yan's face-off against the encirclement of Lu Cunyang and the others could be called a brush with death.

And now, facing Ji Yanbing, Chen Yan handled it with ease.

It was as if Chen Yan had experienced thousands of years, as if he had experienced the origin and the end of the Martial Dao.

The Five Clans Conflict is a furnace for the strong; this statement is not wrong.

But there are gaps even among the strong.

"Chen Yan!!!"

A shrill, screaming sound rang out, filled with unwillingness and despair.

Ji Yanbing looked at Chen Yan, shamed into anger.

She had already used every means, yet she couldn't hurt Chen Yan in the slightest.

What on earth had Chen Yan experienced?

She gritted her silver teeth, and deep in her heart, she felt as if she were a mayfly trying to shake a tree.

Her heart fell into a momentary state of confusion.

It was as if all the fighting between the Five Clans and the Great Xia had lost its meaning.

She stood in the depths of the void, looking up at the firmament:

"Can you not kill me?"

She spoke blankly, having lost her final will to fight.

However, after she finished this sentence, the disappointment in Chen Yan's eyes grew even more intense.

Whether it was Lu Cunyang, Chi Xue, or even Yu Qing.

None of these Five Clans Creation Realm experts had ever said the word "surrender" to Chen Yan.

Regarding their stubbornness, Chen Yan would have headaches, would be on the verge of life and death.

But Chen Yan acknowledged them.

These people had their own faith in their hearts.

Even Chi Xue had his own faith, firm and unwavering.

They made Chen Yan perfect.

But Ji Yanbing was not like them.

The opponent's surrender made this battle a complete and utter failure.

"Boring."

Chen Yan spoke indifferently and pointed a finger at Ji Yanbing.

Within this finger, it contained True Martial Power, it contained the aura of life and death.

One was a brand-new power that transcended blood-Qi and tempering.

The other was a power of rules that could suppress all Creation Realm experts.

This battle was the ruthless crushing of an ant in a low dimension by a powerful existence of a high dimension.

*Sshhh*—

A pitch-black laser instantly pierced through Ji Yanbing's brain.

Ji Yanbing, dead!

Chen Yan looked at Ke Qingxuan; the latter was startled for a moment, then immediately spoke up:

"Follow me to search all the resources in the Ice Remains Tomb!"

As Ke Qingxuan's voice fell, all the Great Xia Creation Realm experts' bodies stiffened.

Their faces were all incredibly rigid, hesitating slightly.

*Bang! *

The sound of Ji Yanbing hitting the ground rang out, instantly waking these Great Xia Creation Realm experts up.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Some spoke up hurriedly, following behind Ke Qingxuan directly into the Ice Remains Tomb.

Before the giant ball of lightning, Zhang Ting watched in shock.

Before this, he had thought Chen Yan had developed a huge problem in his cultivation and suggested that Yin Qingshuang go ask about it.

He didn't expect that Chen Yan wouldn't act if he didn't have to, but once he did, it would be so...

Astonishing.

He couldn't understand it at all.

This feeling was one he had also felt from his foster father, Lu Xunyang.

He couldn't understand it, only felt it was powerful, only felt immensely proud.

All his life, he had been proud to be Lu Xunyang's foster son.

He was also a heaven-gifted prodigy.

Until one day, his foster father took in a closed-door disciple.

His junior brother was more monstrous than him, more intelligent than him, and his will was even firmer than his.

Zhang Ting was still reminiscing, but a cold and indifferent voice rang out beside his ear.

"Why so weak?"

Zhang Ting was startled; he followed the voice and looked over, only to see that young man standing with his back to him.

"Ji Yanbing is a Creation Realm cultivator after all, why is she so feeble?"

The young man was still questioning, and at this moment, no one spoke.

Ji Yanbing was eighth on the Creation Realm Ranking; to Chen Yan, she was feeble.

Then what did that make them?

No one spoke, and some even turned their heads to look into the distance.

"Does she not cultivate?" Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and slowly turned his head:

"Acting Chief Inspector Zhang."

"Ah?" Zhang Ting was startled and hurriedly looked at Chen Yan.

"You tell me, does she not cultivate, or is she busy worrying about other things every day? Otherwise, why is she so weak?"

Chen Yan smiled.

Zhang Ting's expression stiffened, his lips twitched, and he could not speak.

The other Great Xia Creation Realm cultivators also looked at Zhang Ting, none of them speaking.

Basically, no one liked Zhang Ting.

Especially the Creation Realm cultivators from the Military Guard, who were even more blunt toward Zhang Ting.

After all, Zhang Ting did not act like a decent person.

Now that Chen Yan was directly reprimanding Zhang Ting, although these Military Guard Creation Realm cultivators didn't speak, they were all happy inside.

Zhang Ting felt ashamed and angry; this was not the first time he had been spoken to like this by Chen Yan.

Every time, it was in front of everyone.

Giving him no face.

After all, I am Shen Yiwei's senior brother.

We are both from the Xunyang faction, can't you give me some face?

"I... I will go take a look in the Ice Remains Tomb."

Zhang Ting said, and flew away directly.

The feeling of living under someone else's roof really is not good.

"Hahahaha!"

Someone laughed.

"The Divine General is absolutely right!"

"This man Zhang Ting has ulterior motives; I think we should investigate him thoroughly."

"Qinzhou is managed in such a state; it would be strange if Zhang Ting had no problems."

Someone laughed out loud.

Zhang Ting heard it from afar, his expression ugly.

The prejudice in people's hearts is a great mountain.

Even now, he would still be viewed with prejudice by everyone.

Frustrating!

Too frustrating.

He even wanted to charge directly into the Withered Dream Maze City, exterminate the eighth-rank ancient divine beast, and let these people see the might of him, Zhang Ting.

But this was a fantasy.

Chen Yan looked at Zhang Ting's back indifferently.

This person had suppressed Old Shen for a long time.

Shen Yiwei was defeated by Chen Changyuan and became dispirited; there were Shen Yiwei's own reasons, and there were Chen Changyuan's reasons.

But this senior brother, Zhang Ting, was even more critical.

In the eyes of the other party, for the sake of some great interests, one could always sacrifice some small interests.

This person was too mediocre.

Even more mediocre than Xia Hanzhou.

Xia Hanzhou was at least extremely slick, a rogue politician who could blend in with the world and seek a future for Great Xia.

But Zhang Ting's entire life was spent in compromise, forbearance, and jealousy.

This was different from Shen Yiwei's forbearance and compromise.

Shen Yiwei's forbearance and compromise were for the sake of others.

But Zhang Ting's forbearance and compromise were for the sake of himself.

Shen Yiwei could always fall into anger and remorse because of a lowly soldier who died when they shouldn't have.

He even fell into anger and self-reproach because Chen Yan encountered a crisis, abandoning his own Drip Sword Realm to transform it into a Blood Sword Realm.

But Zhang Ting would never do that.

These two senior and junior brothers were diametrically opposite people.

What Zhang Ting envied most was Shen Yiwei, but he would never in his life obtain what Shen Yiwei could obtain.

Even though Shen Yiwei is lonely, having become the Vice Chief of Yunmeng City, Shen Yiwei remains the core in the hearts of everyone in the Xunyang Faction.

And Zhang Ting, who serves as the Acting Chief of Qinzhou, could not possibly be that.

Zhang Ting was the first to enter the Creation Realm of the Path of Will.

In the beginning, Chen Yan's strength was meager, and Zhang Ting, at the periphery of his meridians, had always been blurry.

But later, as Chen Yan's strength grew increasingly powerful, the secrets belonging to Zhang Ting were no longer blurry to Chen Yan.

If it were not for Chen Yan knowing certain reasons.

Chen Yan's current attitude toward Zhang Ting would only be worse, and he might even secretly move to kill Zhang Ting.

Because in Chen Yan's heart, Zhang Ting has always been one of the culprits behind the Great Families Alliance poisoning Qinzhou.

The deaths of Zhou Lu and Zhou Jiayi will always have a share belonging to Zhang Ting.

Somewhere far away.

Yu Ming, Yu Cheng, and the others had stunned expressions, as if the icy blood energy unleashed by Ji Yanbing had frozen not Chen Yan, but them.

In Yu Qing's eyes, fear surged continuously.

At this moment, the shadow of Chen Yan in her heart had grown even larger.

Chi Yuexi felt even more conflicted.

She was the existence who had fought alongside Chen Yan the earliest back on Wanxiang Island.

Looking at it now.

She would soon be unable to even see Chen Yan's back.

"Chen..." Yu Cheng opened her mouth slightly, but for a moment, she could not speak.

Yet in the next moment, Yu Cheng's gaze trembled, because Chen Yan was looking toward their side.

"Everyone, my body has had some abnormalities that I couldn't suppress, so I didn't come out to meet you earlier. My apologies."

High above the sky, the young man wore a gentle smile; even though bloodstains constantly appeared and vanished all over his body, he did not show a hint of abnormality.

Compared to the powerful and overbearing Heavenly God General from just a moment ago, this instant of Chen Yan gave people an incomparable sense of approachability.

Yu Cheng felt her brain spinning with dizziness.

Chen Yan's temperament and appearance were both to her liking.

But once she thought of how Chen Yan had looked down upon the world just now, she was also incomparably wary.

"Warning, warning, warning..."

The sound of the Yu Clan detector instantly pulled Yu Cheng back to reality; Yu Cheng's face trembled, and she bowed to Chen Yan from afar.

"Yu Cheng of the Yu Clan, greets the Great Xia Heavenly God General!"

Immediately, behind her, the many Creation Realm experts of the Yu Clan also bowed to Chen Yan in unison.

"Greetings to the Great Xia Heavenly God General!"

They bowed, extremely respectful, even though their eyes were still filled with astonishment and disbelief.

The Five Clans had long since lost their reverence for Great Xia.

If it were thousands of years ago, the Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans would still bow to the Great Xia Heavenly God General.

At that time, to the Five Clans, Great Xia was the sovereign state, the superior nation.

The ruler of Great Xia was also the ruler of the world.

The lords of the Five Clans were merely vassals.

But for the past thousand years, Great Xia has continuously fallen into decline, and the Five Clans have always looked down on others with their heads held high.

If you are weak, even if you have vast territory, even if you have a massive population, you will still be looked down upon.

The small prefectures you once helped up have the audacity to call themselves nations.

The retainers within those small prefectures dare to use all sorts of insulting vocabulary to describe you.

They forget that it is because of the Master of Tempering that the Five Clans even exist.

They forget that it is because Great Xia suppressed the most powerful ancient god corpses that it has become increasingly frail.

They only know that you are weak and that you are easy to bully.

Disgusting!

Asking for a beating!

Seeking death!

At that time.

Even if they knew the Great Xia Heavenly God General was terrifyingly powerful, so what?

Beside Chen Yan, Yin Qingshuang's eyes trembled, and within her heart, there was actually a surge of indescribable pride.

Chen Yan is taking back the dignity Great Xia lost, step by step.

Everything is simply because Chen Yan is more powerful, more inconceivable.

He only needs to stand there, and the Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans cannot help but take him seriously.

This battle is a battle to win over people's hearts.

Chen Yan just stood there quietly, smiling gently at Yu Cheng and the others:

"No need for such formalities. In my eyes, you are all seniors. Why not enter the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison again to chat?"

Yu Cheng and the others looked at each other.

"Very well."

Yu Cheng nodded, then led everyone to fly toward Chen Yan.

"Warning!"

"Warning!"

"Warning, please move away rapidly, please move away rapidly!"

"Warning, approaching anomalous data."

"Warning, approaching massive energy entity."