Chapter 668: New Path

His voice resounded throughout the entire school.

Inside the dormitory building.

All the martial artists' expressions shifted; they had naturally heard the shouting of the principal and the teachers.

Every martial artist remained inside their own dormitory, their moods rising and falling.

Lu Jianxia sat on the bed, her hands clenched tight at this moment.

"Chen Yan... Yu Laiwei..."

Lu Jianxia's voice was low.

Her heart was incomparably conflicted.

More and more people believed that the Student Council President was Chen Yan.

She naturally wanted to believe that person was Yu Laiwei, and her own older brother also said that person must be Yu Laiwei.

But she was no fool.

Her own older brother was clearly hoping that she would completely trust her desk-mate.

To let the other party protect her.

Her older brother had already stooped to compromise and cooperate with Chen Changyuan, and he did not wish for any more problems to befall her.

A Yu Laiwei who had emerged from the Yu Clan, which had been in seclusion for many years, should not be trusted so deeply by her older brother.

Only the Heavenly God General, who was feared to the extreme by the people of the Five Clans and admired to the extreme by the people of Great Xia, would be viewed by her older brother in such a way.

It was just, why would the other party help her?

Perhaps this all had to do with the three years of memories she had lost.

"If he can survive, and even cooperate with Lu Shu to kill the Shi Meng Mo from the inside and out.

Then I haven't done anything wrong."

Lu Jianxia murmured aloud.

This had nothing to do with romantic feelings.

In fact, how could she and Chen Yan possibly have any emotional connection now?

Their current interaction was more like that of comrades-in-arms.

You treat me with sincerity, and I treat you with sincerity.

That was all.

Compared to Chen Changyuan's complete malice, Chen Yan had never changed his purpose from the very beginning.

This already surpassed the vast majority of human martial artists.

"The Great World is changing; whether it is the appearance of Chen Yan, the long-standing existence of Lu Shu, or the rise of the Path of Will.

It all seems to be saying that the Five Clans' plan for these past few thousand years is wrong."

She pondered aloud:

"But what right to choose do I have now? Not being able to promote to the Eighth Rank is the problem that truly has me stuck."

She murmured, sitting cross-legged, as wisps of life-and-death aura emerged within her body.

She had no way to directly oppose the rules of the illusion world, so she could only use her own pitifully small amount of life-and-death aura to probe the rules of this place.

Time passed slowly.

The noise from the outside world grew increasingly intense.

Until a certain moment.

Outside the window, screams rang out.

"He is not in the school!!!"

"How is that possible!"

"Go check the restrooms, he must be in the latrine!"

"He must be on the top floor!"

"He's not there, where is he!"

The entire school instantly boiled over like a pot of water.

A hint of a smile appeared on the corner of Lu Jianxia's mouth.

Inside the entire dormitory building.

Xia Long, Shen Yiwei, and the others also revealed smiles.

Chen Yan had indeed left the school.

But soon, the smiles on their faces gradually faded.

Chen Yan leaving the school also meant that Chen Yan no longer had any way to retreat.

What remained for Chen Yan would only be even greater challenges.

At the same time.

Inside the hospital.

Chen Yan carried five bottles of medicinal liquid as he walked to the first floor of the hospital.

His footsteps were extremely heavy.

Don't let the fact that it was only five bottles fool you; the combined weight of the five bottles was enough to make it difficult for Chen Yan to even take a step.

Within these five bottles, there was not only dense Qi-blood energy, but surprisingly, there was also body-tempering energy.

This made even Chen Yan feel astonished.

He had originally thought that the Ancient God Beasts looked down upon the martial arts created by the human race.

Only after getting completely away from the hospital did Chen Yan finally heave a sigh of relief.

The entire hospital gave Chen Yan an incomparably heavy and oppressive feeling.

Chen Yan took out the white paper given by Lu Xunyang, placed it before his eyes, and began to observe the entire small town.

On the surface, this entire town did not look much different from Green Mountain Town, where Chen Yan had lived.

But in reality, it was fraught with danger, with all kinds of bizarre and indescribable existences lying dormant.

He certainly could not go back to the school.

Chen Yan calculated the time in his head; the dormitory inspection teacher should have started the second round of checks by now, and the news of him escaping the school would spread instantly.

He could not stay in this town either.

Before long, all sorts of existences would come to search for Chen Yan.

Chen Yan currently had no time to consume the energy opportunities inside the medicine bottles.

Chen Yan's footsteps were extremely heavy.

His own combat strength was suppressed, and these five bottles of medicine were also extremely heavy.

If not for this exaggerated weight, Chen Yan would never have only brought five bottles.

Gradually, sounds began to rise within the small town.

"Yu Laiwei, I see you!"

The voice was far away, but it had already begun to slowly become noisy.

The teachers inside the school had left the school and begun searching for Chen Yan throughout the entire small town.

An invisible sense of oppression still surged from behind like a tide.

Chen Yan increased his speed.

He walked until he reached the edge of the street, where countryside and dirt roads appeared.

Chen Yan did not stop and walked directly onto the dirt road.

The surroundings became incomparably pitch-black.

It felt as if all kinds of gazes were piercing through the darkness, staring viciously at Chen Yan.

Creepy cold winds were constantly whipping up along the entire country road, seemingly wanting to tear Chen Yan's physical body apart.

This was the rules of the entire world beginning to detect Chen Yan's anomaly.

"I see you!"

The Principal's shrill scream still resounded within the small town:

"Disobedient students are going to have their tongues pulled out!"

Chen Yan's expression was cold as he continued to walk quickly along the country road.

All around, rustling sounds rose continuously, as if something was about to crawl out from the pitch-black fields.

Then.

A person.

In the pitch-black night, that figure pushed aside the thorns in the field, stepped onto the country road, and was walking straight toward Chen Yan.

The other party's expression was calm, but their face was covered in tumors, and they were limping.

Until that person walked completely in front of Chen Yan, they suddenly grinned and said:

"Not going back so late?"

Chen Yan nodded and brushed past the other person's body.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Human race?

That person was actually a member of the human race.

It was just that it was a human who had been eroded by malice for many years.

"Why are you walking so fast? What are you holding?"

The person turned their head to look at Chen Yan, their pair of eyes squeezed by the tumors around their eye sockets until only two slits remained.

Chen Yan did not speak and continued walking.

The person stopped talking as well, waved their hand, and continued on their way.

It was also at this moment.

"I see you!"

The Principal's voice resounded from far away within the small town.

The man with the tumor-covered face had a slight change in expression:

"Hey, you wouldn't happen to be the outsider human who appeared in the school, would you?"

As the man spoke, his eyes gradually widened.

"Lord Ancient Divine Beast, he is here!!!" he suddenly screamed out.

Boom!

A violent punch struck in an instant.

Chen Yan slammed a punch onto the man's head, knocking him to the ground.

Hum!

Wisps of True Martial Power emerged at Chen Yan's fist, while the man who had fallen to the ground was still screaming:

"Lord Ancient Divine Be..."

Boom!

Chen Yan smashed a punch onto the other party's mouth, and in an instant, the person's teeth were knocked out.

"Ancient Divi..."

That person was still screaming.

Chen Yan, however, gave no such opportunity.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

A barrage of punches rained down.

Not until the man's entire head was beaten into a depression did Chen Yan finally loosen his grip.

Chen Yan's expression was cold.

There are actually humans here?

Is this world truly an illusion or not?

Chen Yan had always assumed this place was an illusion.

But that was until Chen Yan could drink the potions of this place to gain power.

Until Chen Yan actually saw an Eighth-Rank Ancient Divine Beast here.

Everything was pointing toward one question.

That is, this place is the real world.

Perhaps, it is right inside the body of the Shi Meng Mo.

Chen Yan and the others were forcibly dragged over, their consciousnesses grafted onto students who were originally still quietly attending class in the school.

This belongs to a type of soul-transmigration.

But ordinary soul-transmigration would not work.

Because what the Shi Meng Mo wanted was for every human martial artist to sign a contract of power transfer.

If they had only soul-transmigrated over, wouldn't the ones signing the contract still be the students of this native world?

Therefore, It had to open a channel between these soul-transmigrated students and the martial artists.

Consequently, Chen Yan and the others could sense their own martial arts strength.

They could unleash it, but the vast majority of it was suppressed.

This allowed the contract to recognize that the one signing it was the martial artist themselves.

The rules created by the aura of life and death are, in a sense, cheating.

It is a total suppression of all martial artists below the Eighth Rank.

"I see you, don't hide anymore."

The chilling voice sounded once again from the distant rear.

Chen Yan dragged the man's corpse into the field on the right side of the country road, then immediately used his foot to wipe away the bloodstains on the ground.

On the country road behind him, the light of a flashlight suddenly flickered.

Soon, two figures passed by this spot.

"It is impossible for him to have escaped this far."

The Fatty Principal's expression was extremely ugly as he shone the flashlight's beam all around.

On the secluded country road, there was nothing, and the light vanished into the dark depths further ahead.

To the side, Chen Changyuan spoke up:

"He must have escaped during the first bed check; it has been two hours now, and at his speed, he surely must have passed this place already."

The Fatty Principal smiled slightly:

"You child, you should hurry back to sleep."

"No need." Chen Changyuan gave a faint smile:

"Since I am the Student Council President, I must find the students who do not follow the rules."

A smile appeared on Chen Changyuan's face, but in his heart, endless coldness emerged.

Is the method Chen Yan thought of just to run away?

Interesting.

Then Chen Yan's failure will also be the moment he is caught by Chen Changyuan.

It's just that, if their fated history of rivalry were to end in such a situation.

That would be too...

"Boring."

Chen Changyuan stopped lingering and continued running forward.

"This child..."

The Fatty Principal nodded in satisfaction and followed closely behind.

Inside the field, Chen Yan was amidst the thorns, with bloody scratches carved into his arms.

Seeing Chen Changyuan and the other leave, Chen Yan once again placed the white paper before his eyes to scan the surroundings.

What surprised Chen Yan was:

The eeriness of this place had actually decreased quite a bit.

These thorns were just thorns from the real world.

Within this world, there are humans living.

Then it is impossible for it to be entirely an eerie zone like the small town.

It is just, why would this world give birth to humans?

Chen Yan's expression turned cold.

But at this moment, he could not think too much.

Carrying the five bottles of potion, he continued walking deeper into the thorns.

Keep walking, keep walking.

The murmurs that kept echoing in Chen Yan's ears also gradually grew fewer.

Chen Yan did not know how far he had walked.

How much time had passed.

Until the moment dawn arrived.

Covered in blood, Chen Yan arrived inside a mountain cave and sat down cross-legged.

Five bottles of medicinal liquid were placed before Chen Yan.

Very quickly, Chen Yan opened one bottle.

In an instant, an extremely intense malice and body-tempering energy spilled out.

Qi and blood energy can be used for nourishment, but body-tempering energy must be borne by the physical body.

However, there was an aura of rules within this medicine bottle, which could actually allow Chen Yan's body-tempering process to be continuously accelerated.

"I hope that after mastering the new power of rules, I can break through a layer of rules and sense the Saint-Breaking Tree."

Chen Yan murmured.

He had not been able to sense the Saint-Breaking Tree for a long time, which made Chen Yan feel a bit unaccustomed.

To tell the truth, he missed it a little.

Once the thought passed, Chen Yan swallowed the entire bottle of full medicinal liquid into his stomach.

Immediately.

Rumble!!!

A violent roar resounded within Chen Yan's body.

The intense body-tempering energy passed through a certain channel and entered directly into the body of Chen Yan's true self, who was still inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Layers of golden light rapidly diffused outward.

Beside Chen Yan, the little girl wrapped in pitch-black battle armor trembled, and tears appeared in her eyes.

"Teacher, Teacher, my brother is tempering his body, hurry, hurry!"

Chen Yu called out in a rush, becoming somewhat frantic.

Array discs were taken out by her one by one.

Layers of formations began to shroud Chen Yan.

These were formations that could accelerate a martial artist's cultivation.

In the past, Lu Jianxia also had such formations in the independent cultivation room she gave to Chen Yan on Ten Thousand Phases Island.

However, these formations were extremely precious.

How could anyone scatter them like Chen Yu, as if they cost nothing?

After each layer of formation was stacked, the efficiency reflected by the new formation would become lower and lower.

By the end, for every layer Chen Yu added, the improvement in cultivation efficiency was not even one percent.

But Chen Yu was still continuously casting and condensing new formations.

If Chen Yan could temper his body, that meant Chen Yan had found some new way out within the illusion world.

This was the only opportunity Chen Yu could grasp.

Staying here, Chen Yu had always been like a headless fly, not knowing what she should do.

Without the aura of life and death, it was just like this.

Even if you cultivated no matter how hard, you simply could not enter that world.

An Eighth-Rank dealing with a Creation Realm is an absolute crushing.

This is a principle that has existed throughout history.

And at this moment, Chen Yan's physical body was also rapidly growing stronger, and the new universe of the Horizontal Tempering path was rapidly condensing.

Deep in Chen Yan's mind, the figure of Xia Weimin appeared above a cyan light sphere.

Xia Weimin wore a cold expression, and endless anger had already surfaced in his heart.

Over these past few days, he had begged the Master of Horizontal Tempering more than once.

But that old man was truly...

Indescribable.

If the other party were not the Master of Martial Dao, Xia Weimin would not have paid him any mind at all.

Who doesn't have a sense of pride?

But for the sake of Chen Yan, Xia Weimin had lowered his head time and time again.

"Ancestor, it has already reached this point, are you still not going to act?"

Xia Weimin spoke, but received no response.

Xia Weimin cursed angrily in his heart.

The next moment.

A voice came through.

"I will pass you a secret technique, and you will execute it."

That was the voice of the Master of Horizontal Tempering.

Xia Weimin's expression trembled slightly, and he hurriedly bowed:

"I beg the Ancestor to bestow the technique!"

Ancient War Palace, inside the room.

The white-haired old man watched, feeling suspicious and uncertain.

Chen Yan actually managed to find a new path inside the belly of the Shi Meng Mo.

This was completely different from what he had envisioned.