Chapter 678: Arrival, War Begins!

Now that she has ascended to the Eighth Rank, it can be said that she has gained some ability to change the situation.

Hong Mi smiled and sent a voice transmission:

"The aura of life and death that Princess Lu Jianxia inadvertently radiated just now is even more powerful than that of the Great Xia Heavenly Divine General."

Lu Jianxia's expression tightened slightly; she glanced at the other person and did not speak again.

Ascending to the Eighth Rank is a major threshold.

Because of the aura of life and death, Lu Jianxia's strength has undergone a qualitative leap.

Is she stronger now, or is Chen Yan stronger?

Lu Jianxia was also pondering this in her heart.

Many Great Xia Creation Realm experts arrived and began to inquire about some details.

It was clear that many Great Xia Creation Realm experts were also pondering this question.

In fact, many people had secretly suggested to Chen Yan that the Five Tribes Creation Realm experts who followed Chen Yan should sign a Life Seal.

This way, Great Xia would not have to worry about these Five Tribes Creation Realm experts causing chaos from within.

However, this proposal was rejected by Chen Yan.

At the beginning, the Great Xia Creation Realm experts did not pay much attention to it.

But now, with Lu Jianxia ascending to the Eighth Rank, it is different.

Many people have a huge dread of Lu Jianxia.

They are afraid that Lu Jianxia now has the ability to contend with Chen Yan.

Moreover, the Eighth Rank has absolute suppression over the Creation Realm; even if Great Xia far exceeds the Five Tribes in number, it is useless.

Dread is a psychological state that is bound to arise.

Great Xia and the Five Tribes have always been in a state of hostility.

Shen Yiwei arrived at Chen Yan's door and was about to knock, but Chen Yan's voice rang out from inside the room.

"It's fine, Old Shen, go eat." Chen Yan's laughter suddenly rang out.

Shen Yiwei's expression changed slightly; it was Chen Yan who had called him here just a moment ago.

"How is your cultivation going?" Shen Yiwei asked.

"Two days of cultivation have made no difference to me," Chen Yan said in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Shen Yiwei nodded; what Chen Yan said did indeed make some sense.

He had wanted to say something to let Chen Yan rest for a while.

But in the end, he gave up.

He knew Chen Yan's personality too well.

For Chen Yan, constantly exploring the path of martial arts is his greatest joy.

"You don't need to worry about the problems between Great Xia and the Five Tribes; I will handle it. At the very least, there will be no infighting when the battle begins," Shen Yiwei said.

"That will do," Chen Yan smiled.

Shen Yiwei nodded and left.

Inside the room, Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

He had wanted to tell Shen Yiwei about Li Li.

But just a moment ago, Chen Yan discovered that he had been locked onto.

It was not just Chen Yan.

It was that everyone had been locked onto.

It was a very subtle feeling.

It was a lock-on above the level of rules.

Moreover, this lock-on was becoming increasingly solid.

It should be said that from the moment Li Li traced the escape route of Chen Yan and the others, the other party had already locked onto Chen Yan.

It was only now, as the distance between the other party and Chen Yan grew closer,

that Chen Yan perceived it.

Since that was the case,

Chen Yan could not reveal to Shen Yiwei that he already knew the news of Li Li's imminent arrival.

Chen Yan calmed his mind and spirit, circulating his True Martial Power.

Strands of pitch-black True Martial Power slowly condensed beside Chen Yan, transforming into another Chen Yan.

This was a simple True Martial Power clone.

Chen Yan began to circulate his own True Martial Power, transferring the rule-based binding that Li Li had attached to him onto this True Martial Power clone.

This way, Li Li would be unable to truly lock onto Chen Yan, nor would she be able to probe what Chen Yan was currently doing.

Chen Yan closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

His third True Martial Path internal universe had been born, but it had not yet been destroyed, and it had not achieved reincarnation.

Soon, Chen Yan began to urge his third internal universe.

Boom—!

A vibrating aura resounded within his body, and the brilliant internal universe appeared with countless huge rifts spanning the entire universe.

A terrifying aura of destruction appeared on Chen Yan's body.

All along, the aura of life and death born from the reincarnation of each True Martial Path internal universe had been greater than the previous one.

And the third internal universe was born after Chen Yan absorbed eighteen 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits containing the truths of tempering and blood energy.

Compared to the first two, the third internal universe was even more powerful, profound, and mysterious.

After realizing reincarnation, the aura of birth and destruction that is born may perhaps exceed Chen Yan's imagination.

…………

Meanwhile.

At a location extremely far from where Chen Yan is.

A hotel.

Li Li, wearing a patient's gown, sat in a seat, while a maid of about eighteen years old with black spots on her face walked over with measured steps, carrying a tray of dishes steamed from yellow fruit.

"Please enjoy your meal."

The maid looked at Li Li and the tall, fat man sitting opposite Li Li with awe.

As an ordinary maid, it was impossible for her to know that the tall, fat man was the Town Mayor of Blood Town.

He was also one of the two strongest human beings originally in the Pure True Yang Realm.

But neither Li Li nor the tall, fat man had any black spots on their faces; they looked fair and holy.

This alone was enough to make everyone look on with dread.

Li Li held a piece of tableware carved with silver flowers, resembling chopsticks but with sharp spikes at the ends, and popped a yellow fruit into her mouth to chew it carefully.

"How many years has it been? It's still this taste."

Li Li said indifferently; although her appearance was that of a young girl, her eyes revealed a depth that did not belong to that age.

"Humans are lowly, they are beasts, they are pigs and dogs; only by becoming an Ascender can you truly possess a life of your own."

She looked at the tall, fat man sitting opposite her and said indifferently.

"Yes, yes, yes, Mother teaches well." The tall, fat man, who was indeed the Town Mayor of Blood Town, smiled.

Li Li's voice was not loud, but it rang out calmly in every corner of the lobby.

Some humans who were still eating listened, their faces turning increasingly pale.

Sweat beaded on their foreheads; this was the fear naturally inherent in living beings.

Someone wanted to leave the lobby, but they were worried about provoking Li Li's anger.

"Look, the only purpose for these pigs and dogs living in this world is to become my food."

Li Li smiled, her eyes looking into the distance.

It was as if she had already locked onto Chen Yan and the others.

"Eighth Rank?" Li Li raised her eyebrows slightly:

"A little interesting."

She sensed Lu Jianxia, and the smile in the depths of her eyes grew thicker.

The next moment.

With a *snap*.

She threw away the tableware in her hand casually.

"Not tasty, really..."

Li Li sighed, resting one hand on her forehead:

"How could I eat things that only pigs and dogs would eat."

In an instant.

"Spare my life!!!"

The food in the hands of a maid who was still serving dishes dropped instantly.

The maid was extremely panicked and knelt directly on the ground.

Li Li stood up and swept her gaze indifferently over everyone present.

The next instant.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Ahhh!"

Screams of extreme terror rang out throughout the entire hotel.

Blobs of blood burst, bits of flesh exploded, sticking to the windows and splashing onto the hotel entrance.

More than a dozen Creation Realm experts of Blood Town standing outside the hotel stood respectfully, not daring to lift their heads.

Then, surrounding the entire hotel, the living beings on the streets began to scream and run in panic.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

On the earth, countless pitch-black tentacles suddenly expanded wildly with the hotel as the center, spreading out and covering house after house, street after street.

Darkness descended.

The next instant.

*Hum! *

All the pitch-black tentacles disappeared, and the bloodstains vanished.

Within a radius of one hundred kilometers, everything returned to normal.

Only, all the living beings on the streets, inside the houses, and in the fields had all disappeared.

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of people vanished.

It was as if they had been forcibly stripped away, losing all traces of their existence in the human world.

Only.

In that hotel, one maid was still kneeling and crying; in the entire hotel, she was the only one left alive.

Li Li walked over leisurely, lifted the maid's chin with a single finger, and looked into the other's pair of terrified eyes.

Then, she kissed him affectionately.

The maid was almost suffocated, and it was only when she collapsed onto the floor that she saw Li Li walking out of the hotel with the tall, fat man.

Tears streamed from the maid's eyes.

She had worked so hard to get a job at this hotel, and her younger siblings were all waiting for her first paycheck to seek an opportunity to awaken their blood Qi.

Now, her job was gone.

The maid hugged her arms and began to sob, not knowing how she would go back and explain it to her younger siblings.

What she did not know was that, just a moment ago, she was the only one left in her family.

"Not tasty." Li Li stretched, circulated the rules, locked onto Lu Jianxia, and licked her lips.

"Mom, you ate too much; it's hard for me to explain, with only this little bit of food..."

The tall, fat man looked pained; how many people were there in the entire Pure True Yang Realm in total?

Ten million, all added together.

Just now, with one breath from his mother, over fifty thousand people were gone instantly.

"If you want to eat, you must be calculating and make it last; your son is a town mayor, so I can seek benefits for you."

Li Li glanced at the tall, fat man and smiled faintly:

"Are you complaining that I ate your things?"

The tall, fat man shed tears instantly:

"Am I that kind of person? When I encounter good things, isn't you the first person I think of? It's not like I can't call the other ascended seniors, but who told me to be your son?"

Li Li smiled faintly, then walked forward.

"Are we not flying over?" the tall, fat man asked.

"No rush," Li Li smiled:

"That woman just entered the Eighth Rank, and her own aura of life and death is not yet stable; I will give her time to ripen, and then pick her myself."

She licked her lips, then frowned.

Her original intention seemed to be to go directly and kill Chen Yan.

Why did she change her decision?

But waiting for the aura of life and death within Lu Jianxia to become completely stable also seemed quite good.

Li Li smiled faintly.

…………

A banquet soon ended.

Lu Jianxia was in no mood to eat, and the probing from various sides also made her feel quite exhausted.

"If I coveted some kind of power, if I cared about being strong, how could I have reached this step?"

Lu Jianxia walked in the corridor, whispering in her heart, and suddenly sighed.

"I just want a future for the human race that can continue."

As she walked, she saw someone waiting for her in the corridor.

Hong Mi, the mayor of Henggu Town, at the peak of the Creation Realm.

The other party was looking at Lu Jianxia with a smile.

Lu Jianxia nodded slightly, and the two walked into the room.

"Princess Jianxia is now definitely the number one powerhouse of the human race in the Pure True Yang Realm."

Hong Mi bowed gracefully and smiled:

"In the future, I ask for Princess Jianxia's support."

Lu Jianxia narrowed her eyes and looked at Hong Mi:

"Mayor Hong, if you have something to say, just say it directly. I am not the strongest; there is still Chen Yan."

Hong Mi was startled and smiled:

"I once used that wisp of life and death aura to erase the Shi Meng Mo's rule-based restraint on me; I can feel that the life and death aura on you now far exceeds Chen Yan's."

Lu Jianxia frowned:

"Even if I am stronger than Chen Yan now, I will definitely not be Chen Yan's match in the future."

In Lu Jianxia's view, Chen Yan was already the strongest Creation Realm expert in history.

Such a Creation Realm expert advancing to the Eighth Rank might completely change the landscape of martial arts.

"Yes," Hong Mi gave a bitter smile:

"I had a brief conversation with that person outside the door yesterday, and that person..."

A look of difficulty and mockery appeared in Hong Mi's eyes:

"That person actually really wants to go and kill the Shi Meng Mo!"

Her voice was trembling.

What kind of existence was the Shi Meng Mo? It was invincible.

Chen Yan was actually so daring.

Lu Jianxia's gaze turned cold:

"Then what do you want?"

"I..." Hong Mi gritted her teeth:

"Princess Jianxia now possesses so much life and death aura; you can definitely take advantage of the Shi Meng Mo still fighting a strong enemy to break the rule-based restrictions of this place and leave!"

Hong Mi gazed at Lu Jianxia and knelt down directly:

"If Princess Jianxia is willing to take me with you, I, Hong Mi, am willing to do anything for Princess Jianxia!"

Her voice was agitated.

She saw a way out, rather than the dead end that Chen Yan was stubbornly pursuing.

Lu Jianxia looked at Hong Mi, her gaze icy:

"You should just leave; although I am not Chen Yan, I also do not wish to retreat."

Her gaze was complex.

Personally, her older brother was still in the small town.

Professionally, this was truly an opportunity to slay the Shi Meng Mo.

That was one of the five great ancient divine beasts.

"You disappoint me," Lu Jianxia said in a deep voice:

"I am an outsider, yet you are a native of the Pure True Yang Realm; I have never even thought of fleeing, so how can you think this way?"

Hong Mi's expression was unsightly, and she looked at Lu Jianxia with a bitter smile:

"Not to mention the Shi Meng Mo, even those ancient divine beasts that have ascended are invincible.

You may not believe it, but they have been feeding on the Pure True Yang Realm for so long that they are simply not something we can deal with."

Hong Mi's eyes were filled with disappointment, and she then left the room.

Lu Jianxia shook her head slightly.

"Only upon ascending to the eighth rank did I catch a glimpse of the power of the Martial Dao.

Perhaps the ninth rank can destroy the world with a single thought, but due to the constraints of certain rules, it has never happened."

She murmured inwardly.

"Now, I have the power but lack the means to wield it; creating my own rule-based martial techniques in the short term is what matters most."

Lu Jianxia sat down cross-legged.

Faint auras of life and death swirled around her body, and endless rules were controlled and analyzed by her.

As time slowly passed.

The aura on Lu Jianxia's body became increasingly profound.

At a certain moment, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked around.

Apart from the empty room, there was nothing else.

"I always feel like something is circling me; my intuition is absolutely correct. Perhaps it is this world of the Shi Meng Mo that is staring at me."

Her perception was not clear, and the next moment she continued to lower her eyes and sit cross-legged.

As time slowly passed.

One day later, the aura of life and death within Lu Jianxia's body became more solidified, stable, and powerful.

She also gained some mastery over the aura of life and death.

Suddenly.

Lu Jianxia opened her eyes.

"Who is it!"

She let out a cold shout, and streaks of pure gold Kun Secret Flowing Thunder spilled out, escaping into the void and piercing toward a certain direction.

A hundred miles away, a girl wearing a hospital gown waved one hand, sweeping away the incoming Kun Secret Flowing Thunder.

"Was I discovered?"

Li Li chuckled, and behind her, a tall, fat man stood quietly, wearing a gentle smile.

The next instant.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!!

Tens of thousands of brilliant streams of light struck from afar, and dozens of figures crossed the void, killing toward Li Li with cold expressions.

Lu Jianxia was shockingly among them.

Shen Yiwei, Xia Long, Yu Ming, and the others all revealed their fighting spirit.

But then, they saw that Li Li was just standing quietly in the void, her lips moving slightly.

"Judgment, Regression!"

Hum!

In an instant.

The figures of Xia Long and the others vanished from where they were and appeared back inside the rooms they had originally been in.

And in the high sky, only Lu Jianxia remained, still charging forward.

"No!"

Xia Long roared.

He hurriedly flew out.

But looking outside.

Lu Jianxia's body remained suspended above the void.

Before her, Li Li had already arrived.

Everyone's expression became tense.

Powerful!

A powerful eighth-rank ancient divine beast!