Chapter 653: Opening the Path!

Chen Yan pondered slightly and smiled:

"To give an analogy, the Master of Horizontal Refining is the father of the Master of Blood Qi, the founding father.

The path of Horizontal Refining is more perfect and more complete than the path of Blood Qi.

But in fact, the path of Blood Qi is the cornerstone of the path of Horizontal Refining.

Blood Qi... the path..."

As Chen Yan spoke, he stopped mid-sentence; his eyes suddenly widened, and looks of astonishment appeared within them.

Shock, realization, enlightenment!

Crackle...

Bolts of lightning suddenly flickered within Chen Yan's eyes.

Whoosh.

Chen Yan stood straight up.

"Ouch!"

The little girl who was still being held by Chen Yan was accidentally tossed onto the ground by him.

"Brother, what's wrong with you..."

The little girl looked at her elder brother in surprise.

Yet she saw that Chen Yan's face was tense at this moment, but traces of a smile were emerging on his taut face.

"Xue Qi!"

Chen Yan suddenly let out a low roar, his tightly furrowed brows suddenly smoothed out, and his gaze was like a lit cold star, bursting with shocking brilliance in its radiance.

Traces of a smile flickered and bloomed on Chen Yan's face.

"Xue Qi, you failed; the path of Blood Qi you created is a failure.

The path of Blood Qi is honey made for white bears; your path of Blood Qi almost led the human race into a massive chasm, making it impossible for the human race to ever achieve rebirth!"

Chen Yan roared lowly:

"You are a sinner!"

His voice was resonant, carrying a vibration, like a low roar of someone going mad.

His abnormality was heard in an instant by the woman in the fairy dress and the white-haired old man within the Upper Ancient War Palace.

The expression of the woman in the fairy dress turned cold in an instant.

How dare Chen Yan be like this?

How dare Chen Yan disparage the path of Blood Qi?

"Audacious!"

She shouted in a low voice, carrying anger and disappointment.

"Hahahaha!!!"

A series of weathered laughs suddenly rang out.

The white-haired old man sitting alone in the room laughed out loud, his eyes brightening by a fraction, and he gritted his teeth as he looked at Chen Yan from an infinite distance:

"The brat has only just realized it now.

To think he was stupid enough to want to combine the path of Horizontal Refining with trash; does it deserve to?"

The white-haired old man was satisfied.

He had been angry for a long time, always believing that Chen Yan was doing things that insulted the path of Horizontal Refining.

But now, seeing Chen Yan suddenly awaken, he was satisfied.

The Master of Blood Qi is a sinner indeed!

He is indeed a sinner.

The path of Blood Qi really almost led the entire human race into a ditch!

It is a pity that Chen Yan only realized it now.

"Of all the paths in heaven and earth, only my Horizontal Refining is supreme!"

The old man laughed heartily, his eyes erupting with a momentum that looked down upon the world.

He looked at Chen Yan again, only to see that the young Master of Will was also laughing, even more happily than he was.

The old man frowned.

That's too much.

You cannot be happier than me.

Even so, he stroked his chin and nodded in satisfaction.

But the next moment.

"Xue Qi is a sinner.

But he is also a martyr of the path.

He is the hope that rose from the endless suffering of the human race; even if he failed in the end, he never gave up.

His ideal has never perished!

The path of Blood Qi is the cornerstone of the path of Horizontal Refining!"

The corners of Chen Yan's mouth lifted uncontrollably, the smile spreading from the depths of his eyes, and his whole body radiated a transparent and clear aura, as if he had grasped the ultimate truths of heaven and earth in an instant.

"The martyr of the path lays the cornerstone for the pioneer of the path!

The Master of Horizontal Refining is the father of the Master of Blood Qi.

But the path of Blood Qi is the father of the path of Horizontal Refining."

Chen Yan had attained enlightenment.

But the white-haired old man's smile came to an abrupt halt.

He furrowed his brows, his pair of aged eyes staring fixedly at Chen Yan in the distance.

Even his neck tilted slowly, and a cold light gradually emerged within his eyes.

By his ears, the young man's voice was still resounding.

"Why have I always been fixated on combining the Blood Qi Path with the Hard Refinement Path?

The Hard Refinement Path completely rejects the Blood Qi Path in every aspect; even though I have been trying my best to fuse the two martial paths, my inner universe is still exploding.

Why do I..."

Chen Yan stopped mid-sentence:

"Instead of using the Blood Qi Path as the foundation to receive the Hard Refinement Path, and slowly accommodating the Hard Refinement Path?!"

Chen Yan smiled as he looked at Chen Yu, pulled up his sister who was still in a daze, and rubbed her cheeks with both hands, kneading her exquisite face back and forth.

"Bro, what are you doing?" the little girl said indistinctly, but she could feel her brother's mood at this moment.

It had been a long time since she had seen Chen Yan so happy.

"Xiaoyu, if the Blood Qi Path and the Hard Refinement Path are completely fused, you will definitely be the number one contributor!"

Chen Yan laughed loudly and let go of his sister.

Chen Yu was still a bit confused, but she smiled embarrassedly at this moment:

"Don't praise me like that, the second biggest contributor would be..."

Hum!

Electric light flickered throughout the room, and Chen Yu was pushed out by a force.

"Alright..."

By the time Chen Yu finished this sentence, she had already appeared in the corridor.

Inside the room.

Chen Yan's eyes were brilliant; no one could disturb Chen Yan's entry into the Dao at this moment.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged in the center of the room, and at this moment, he had a completely different idea.

His current state appeared powerful, but in reality, once he encountered a true expert, he would fall into a great crisis.

It was impossible for Chen Yan to maintain this state forever.

Whoosh, whoosh...

Inside Chen Yan's body, power and blood qi surged, but in the next moment, they gradually separated.

Chen Yan abandoned his previous idea of crudely fusing the martial paths.

"Compared to the Hard Refinement Path's rejection of everything, the Blood Qi Path is more inclusive. It is not the Blood Qi that is repelling the Hard Refinement, but the Hard Refinement that is repelling the Blood Qi.

What I need to do is let the Blood Qi encompass the Hard Refinement, and slowly change into the environment that the Hard Refinement requires."

Chen Yan whispered.

Under his intent, the two inner universes that were still fusing separated.

Chen Yan's focus shifted to the inner universe of the Hard Refinement Path.

And then, compress!

Sss, sss, sss!!!

In an instant, golden light of power erupted and washed over Chen Yan's body like a waterfall.

Under Chen Yan's pressure, the inner universe of the Hard Refinement Path collapsed visibly to the naked eye.

All the power on Chen Yan's body was also squeezed by an invisible hand at this moment, bursting out with sharp, metallic clashing sounds.

"Condense!"

Chen Yan let out a low shout, and the inner universe of the Hard Refinement Path suddenly trembled; all the power compressed inward and splattered.

The entire inner universe continuously shrank, turning into a scorching golden star.

Hum, hum, hum!!!

Extremely dangerous auras emerged from around Chen Yan's body.

The inner universe condensing into a star was almost a form of forceful suppression.

This star contained the martial essence of the Master of Hard Refinement.

But at this moment, this proud star was forcibly restrained by Chen Yan's will, like taming a furious, ferocious beast.

The next moment.

Chen Yan's intent shifted, and this star began to slowly approach the inner universe of the Blood Qi Path.

In an instant, the golden star erupted with billions of sharp rays.

The moment it touched the inner universe of the Blood Qi Path, the borders of the Blood Qi Path's inner universe began to shatter, and a black hole-like spatial rift exploded at the boundary where the two met.

But this was far less dangerous than when Chen Yan had forcibly fused the two paths before.

Soon, the golden star entered the inner universe of the Blood Qi Path.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The repulsion of the rules occurred once again; the golden star was repelling the entire inner universe of the Blood Qi Path.

Chen Yan circulated his True Martial Power, and strands of pitch-black True Martial Power submerged into the inner universe of the Blood Qi Path.

They turned into chains of rules, wrapping around the star and suppressing it.

Dong, dong, dong!!!

As the golden star continued to roar, bloodstains appeared on Chen Yan's body.

But at this moment, the entire inner universe of the Blood Qi Path, including the True Martial Power that had turned into chains, suppressed the golden star together, making the danger Chen Yan faced much smaller.

Chen Yan kept his eyes tightly shut; he wanted to completely suppress the golden star in one go.

"You shall be the core of the Blood-Qi Path, until one day, you and the Blood-Qi Path become a symbiotic entity!"

Chen Yan murmured.

This was a tug-of-war, but it was already far better than what Chen Yan had experienced before.

He held his breath and focused, continuously sensing this newly born internal universe of his.

Thump, thump, thump!!!

A golden celestial body hovered at the center of the Blood-Qi Path internal universe, like a beating heart, pumping out a torrent of pitch-black energy with every pulse.

It was like a fierce tiger locked in a cage, wanting to break free from this prison.

But.

Rules were merging with rules!

The fierce tiger was gradually getting used to the iron cage, and the iron cage was also beginning to change because of the fierce tiger.

"No matter how much the Lord of Hard-Refining denies it, the Blood-Qi Path remains a pioneer.

In the vast history of the human race, the Blood-Qi Path is a dazzling beacon."

Chen Yan said calmly.

At the same time.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace, the old man's hair and beard stood on end; he stared coldly at Chen Yan at this moment.

He regretted it.

He regretted preaching the Dao to Chen Yan earlier.

He had acknowledged Chen Yan, but the person he acknowledged was now mercilessly trampling on his dignity.

"The Blood-Qi Path is a beacon?"

The old man was almost angered to the point of laughter.

He had believed in it back then, too.

Because he had believed in it, the human race had encountered its greatest hardship.

His eyes were cold to the extreme.

Yet, in the next moment, he heard Chen Yan's voice again.

"The Blood-Qi Path is wrong, and it is also right; its embers ignited the future that belongs to the Hard-Refining Path.

Xue Qi sacrificed herself for the Dao, but she did not destroy the Dao.

The Blood-Qi Path is the pioneer of the Hard-Refining Path, and the Blood-Qi Path and the Hard-Refining Path are both pioneers of the Will Path."

Chen Yan murmured, his voice filled with emotion, as if he had suddenly realized something at this moment:

"It is not I, Chen Yan, who created the Will Path, but the human race that created the Will Path.

The Lord of Will is not a singularity born among the billions of humans, but an inevitability accumulated by the ten thousand years of the human race's struggle.

If the Will Path becomes ashes one day in the future, it will also be the cornerstone of the next newly born martial path.

Because the human race has never been extinguished."

Chen Yan closed his eyes, falling into an unprecedented state of calm at this moment.

He was a grain of sand in the endless history, and also a monument rising on the long river of time.

Hum!

The internal universe trembled.

Endless Blood-Qi power emerged from every corner of the internal universe, beginning to wrap continuously around that golden celestial body which was still trembling.

At this moment, there was no more suppression.

Instead, there was integration.

Change.

What was changing was not the golden celestial body, but the Blood-Qi power.

Hard-Refining is difficult to change because of the Blood-Qi Path, but Blood-Qi can change because of Hard-Refining.

Blood-Qi was yielding.

The mission of the Blood-Qi Path is not to contradict Hard-Refining, but to give birth to Hard-Refining.

The two seemingly completely opposite rules are actually the One giving birth to the Two.

Swish, swish...

Streams of pure black light flames emerged within Chen Yan's body.

More and more True Martial power was being born, surging and rolling.

Change arrived quietly.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace.

The woman in the immortal dress watched quietly, and at this moment, tears actually appeared in the corners of her eyes.

She could feel how powerful that newly born True Martial power was.

It was a stronger power that transcended Hard-Refining and transcended Blood-Qi.

A new martial path was being born.

No.

It was a martial path that should have been born ten thousand years ago, only now being unearthed at this moment.

She could even imagine it.

One day in the future of the human race.

The Blood-Qi Path created by her father would no longer exist in the world.

This left her feeling lost.

Time seemed to flow backward.

It seemed as if she had returned once more to that day, to that moment.

Her father, who had once been the Lord of the Human Race, had completely lost his vitality and his majesty; he looked at her with a bewildered expression, uttering the most difficult words to her.

"Father... am I truly a sinner of the human race?"

That pair of turbid eyes gazed at his own daughter.

"But I never once thought of harming the human race."

"I only ever wanted to change the human race; I wanted to exterminate the Ancient Gods, and I thought I could succeed."

"But I failed."

"But I failed."

"But I failed."

"Will future generations consider me a sinner of the human race?"

He was questioning, having questioned for ten thousand years.

He had clearly done nothing wrong, yet everything had gone wrong.

And the Lord of Hard Refinement, who had clearly done nothing right, had somehow done everything right.

History is like a grotesque discipline, negating everything the Lord of Blood Qi had done.

Until this moment, the Path of Blood Qi was about to vanish.

Inside the room.

The white-haired old man fell silent.

He did not say a word.

Chen Yan's few words could not possibly change the concepts he had accumulated over ten thousand years.

It was just that, at this moment, he no longer spoke.

He simply gazed at Chen Yan like this.

Gazing for a long time.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

The changes in Chen Yan were becoming more and more obvious, more and more intense.

The Path of Blood Qi and the Path of Hard Refinement were disappearing completely.

He wanted to see his own Path of Hard Refinement resist completely, erupt completely, and cause all of Chen Yan's actions to come to nothing.

However, it did not happen.

Until a certain moment, when reversal was no longer possible, the white-haired old man slowly closed his eyes.

He suddenly remembered.

One day.

What his utterly failed son had said to him.

"Father, I think I wasn't wrong; the one that was wrong was this world, right?"

That day, he had been supremely noble, supremely indifferent.

He had only answered his son with indifference.

Was it the world that was wrong?

The strong never complain about their environment.

At that time, he had only thought his son was too weak, too foolish.

At a certain moment.

"Hahaha..."

The white-haired old man suddenly began to laugh.

"Hahahaha!!!"

He could not stop laughing.

It had been a long time since he had experienced the feeling of failure.

Today, he had failed.

He had lost to another Lord of Martial Dao.

He lifted his head, his gaze piercing through the ceiling, looking all the way toward the Vault of Heaven.

And it was at this moment.

Hum!!!

Endless morning light condensed above the Vault of Heaven.