Chapter 680: Chen Yan, Chen Yan

Boom!

A massive roar resounded.

Countless attacks struck Li Li simultaneously.

"Kree!!!"

A piercing screech echoed through heaven and earth.

Countless severed tentacles flew wildly in all directions.

A rain of tentacles fell from the sky!

In the distance, the tall, fat man watching the battle opened his mouth:

"Mom..."

He panicked.

He was shocked.

He had thought his mother would directly and steadily suppress these humans.

He had not expected his mother to be beaten like this.

This was, after all...

"An Eighth-Rank Ancient God Beast, ahhh!"

The tall, fat man shrieked, and the next moment, he fled toward the distance.

Those Creation Realm natives of the Pure Truth Yang Realm who were standing quietly behind him also revealed looks of terror and fled in a hurry.

What had they seen?

Their worldview had been overturned.

These outsider humans were lunatics!

He fled rapidly, and behind him, those native Creation Realm beings of the Pure Truth Yang Realm followed in a panicked scramble.

"Town... Town Mayor, why are we going back?"

Someone asked.

"First..." The tall, fat man's face showed terror:

"First, let's eat!"

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Behind them.

The sounds of explosions were still ringing out.

Everyone was exhausting everything they had to unleash their strongest techniques.

"Where is Chen Yan?"

Xia Long spoke again, and as he threw a punch, a brilliant, scorching white fist imprint descended.

"He is still in seclusion; he wants us to hold them off first!" Shen Yiwei slashed continuously with the long sword in his hand.

Within his body, the Sword Heart of the Inverse Nine Swords erupted with countless true meanings of the Sword Soul.

The Inverse Nine Swords.

The sixth-ranked divine artifact in the world.

Rumor had it that it was the weapon of the Lord of True Meaning, containing the most powerful true meanings of the Sword Soul within.

It was also the reason why Shen Yiwei's current combat power could rival the peak of the Creation Realm.

"Still in seclusion..." Xia Long's expression was ugly.

Chen Yan should be coming out.

Just at this moment.

The one-armed Shen Yiwei was blasted away by a massive force.

He looked ahead in shock; Zhang Ting, dressed in white, had his chest wide open, and blood sprayed out from a hideous, bloody hole.

Zhang Ting glanced at Shen Yiwei and opened his mouth.

A pitch-black, thin, long tentacle swept across the high sky, and the next instant, it directly severed Zhang Ting's neck.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

In a distant direction, the tall, fat man and the others who had already fled suddenly shrieked.

Their stomachs burst open in an instant, and a sphere covered in pitch-black tentacles crawled out from within each of their bodies.

The tentacles on these tentacle-spheres spread out, instantly devouring the tall, fat man and the others.

"Mom, it hurts!!!"

The tall, fat man screamed, but he did not delay the time it took for his body to be devoured by the tentacle-sphere by even a fraction.

The next instant, more than a dozen pitch-black spheres that had devoured the Creation Realm beings flew toward Li Li's true form and were absorbed by her.

In an instant, Xia Long's eyes widened, and he roared with all his might:

"Run!!!"

In a split second.

"Kree!!!"

An earth-shattering shriek resounded.

Countless pitch-black tentacles spread out from the center of the explosion, blotting out the sky and sun, lashing out wildly at the surroundings.

The bodies of one Creation Realm being after another were struck by the tentacles and shattered.

Zhang Ting's headless body, which was still falling, was whipped into thousands of fragments, while his head could only stare blankly, continuously spitting out blood and Qi to dodge.

Lu Jianxia's face was deathly pale, blood and tears streaming down, as she clapped her palms together, launching pure gold formation disks imbued with the aura of life and death.

"Skree!!!"

The heaven-shaking screech seemed to want to tear everyone's eardrums apart.

Even Lu Jianxia found it difficult to parry, retreating toward the rear.

Her body was reaching its limit.

Within her mind, it seemed as if some voice had sounded.

What was that.

It seemed to be the most precious thing, engraved deep within her own heart.

"Run!!!"

"Not good!"

Panic-stricken voices rang out one after another.

Before the Creation Realm experts could escape, their bodies were whipped to pieces by the tentacles.

Shen Yiwei was still dodging when a tentacle instantly struck, aiming to pierce his brain.

Xia Long threw a punch, shattering the tentacle, and the next moment pulled Shen Yiwei to safety.

High above the heavens.

The monster covered in tentacles whipped its myriad pitch-black tentacles continuously, like infinitely magnified black water weeds.

The void was rudely slashed apart, and everything on the earth was thoroughly whipped into nothingness.

Creation Realm experts fell from the high heavens, their bodies directly severed, blood splashing everywhere.

This was almost a scene of world-ending destruction.

Zhang Ting's head fell into the magma, eyes wide open, growling at a figure:

"You cannot rise, not because I am suppressing you, but simply because you aren't good enough, it is you who aren't good enough!"

He did not know why he said these things, only that his voice carried an undisguised disappointment and anger.

"It is you who aren't good enough, it was Chen Changyuan who shattered your Dao Heart, not me!"

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"Damn it..."

Jiang Yuan, whose head had been cleanly slashed diagonally, fell to the ground; he struggled to crawl up, his body swaying unsteadily.

"How come... you won't even give me a little time to develop..."

With a thud, Jiang Yuan collapsed.

Zhang Chao, Yin Qingshuang, Luo Wuji, and others also had their bodies swept to pieces, standing shakily in the high sky, on the verge of death.

Even for them, at this moment, they felt a thick sense of despair.

They couldn't win.

"Tell Chen Yan... to escape..."

Xia Long looked at Shen Yiwei, his face deathly pale.

"Tell him to escape; I don't know what he is doing, but it is right that he didn't come out."

His eyes were filled with anger, disappointment, and relief—all sorts of expressions.

He wanted to say something more.

But then.

High in the sky, Lu Jianxia stood in the void, and pure golden thunder petals suddenly bloomed around her.

An arcane aura circulated from her body.

Lu Jianxia could see that this Eighth-Rank Ancient God Beast had already been heavily wounded; it could be said it was on the verge of death.

The opponent was like a dying beast, erupting with its strongest power in a final flash of life.

At this time, one must either completely annihilate the opponent or give the opponent a chance to survive.

Within her body, the Kun Secret Gilded Thunder circulated, and Lu Jianxia's body seemed wrapped in gold, extremely sacred.

The next instant.

Thunder formation disks bloomed beneath her feet, wrapped in a pitch-black, arcane aura of life and death.

She pushed the power of rules to the limit, and her thinking began to break through its constraints.

The golden-red radiance of will erupted continuously as she took her first step.

Hum!!!

The next instant, Lu Jianxia had already appeared a hundred meters from the giant tentacle monster, and countless pitch-black tentacles surged toward her.

"Skree!"

A screech, sharp to the extreme, echoed.

Lu Jianxia's eyes were cold as she struck with a palm.

"Kun Secret - Heavens' Palace!"

In an instant, golden formation disks erupted with illusions, and palaces filled with immortal light were born.

Golden thunder flowed, the immortal palaces floated in the blue sky, glazed tiles as roofs, adorned with starlight fragments, white jade as pillars, entwined with gilded auspicious patterns.

It was as if an entire Immortal World had arrived, and countless indescribable sounds of the Great Dao resounded within the palaces.

This was Lu Jianxia's strongest move, and also a move she used with the initial support of the aura of life and death.

In the distance, the surviving Creation Realm experts watched in shock, a glimmer of hope finally appearing in their eyes.

As the vermilion gates of the palaces slowly opened and closed, it was as if immortals were sitting within the palaces, staring at Li Li.

"Slash!"

"Slash!"

"Sever!"

Resplendent sounds resonated from within the palace.

These were the words of an Immortal within the Heavenly Palace, like divine punishment; to say they would sever you meant to annihilate your everything and sever your reincarnation.

In an instant, it was as if all the killing intent of heaven and earth was about to completely obliterate Li Li.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

An invisible force pressed down.

The massive tentacle monster suddenly surged like boiling pitch-black liquid, countless tentacles snapping inch by inch, turning into ash that fell in a rustling shower across the sky.

Lu Jianxia's eyes bled tears of blood, and all the aura of life and death within her body was drained away at this moment.

Her consciousness began to flicker and fade, but before that, there were Li Li's screams, wails, and struggles.

"Ka!!!"

A mournful cry rang out.

Accompanied by the scattering of countless ashes, the countless tentacles vanished completely, purified under the words of divine punishment.

Until the very end, all the tentacles disappeared entirely.

A girl covered in black spots stood in place, wearing a hospital gown, her appearance hideous, looking around blankly.

Lu Jianxia hung her head, blood flowing from her chin, her vitality thin.

At this moment.

"I..."

Li Li spoke in a daze, looking silently at Lu Jianxia.

That strike just now had severed all of her power.

She had not expected this to happen, to the point that an emotion she had long lost bloomed upon her face.

Panic.

Utter panic.

The next moment.

With a squelch.

A fist pierced directly through Li Li's heart; it was Xia Long who had arrived, his eyes still filled with rage.

"Die for me!!!"

"You all..."

Li Li spat out blood, looking around in a daze, her expression beginning to twist, her eyes widening:

"A bunch of animals, ah ah!!!!"

Her voice was shrill to the extreme, containing disbelief, containing extreme rage and panic.

At this moment.

Everyone fell as if they had lost all their strength.

Some had tears streaming from their eyes, some were exhilarated, and some remained angry.

Lu Jianxia slowly opened her eyes.

Just a moment ago.

She finally remembered that sentence buried deep in her heart.

"Speak my fate to heaven and earth, establish my heart with the Tree of Ten Thousand Daos, break the shackles of the Ancient God, and sever the injustice of the world!"

Who... said this?

Lu Jianxia did not know.

But this sentence had long been locked deep within her heart, carrying a certain power that made her believe in something.

This was a sentence she had heard during the three years of memory she had lost.

Even though her memories were gone, this sentence had remained as a treasure, locked tight in the depths of her heart; even if she lost her memory, she was unwilling to lose this sentence.

But, who said this?

Lu Jianxia was exhausted to the extreme, to the point that her vitality began to dissipate and her willpower became unstable.

In her ears, cheers and mournful cries rang out simultaneously.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"We defeated the Eighth-Rank Ancient God Beast..." the Creation Realm expert of the Pure Truth Realm said sorrowfully:

"So, we can also..."

The Great Xia Creation Realm expert could not smile.

Too many people had died.

These voices were all heard by Lu Jianxia.

But at this moment, she seemed to be searching for something in the endless darkness.

In the darkness, walking on and on.

Until a certain moment, she locked eyes with a pair of eyes.

Whose eyes were they?

She perceived them carefully; they were a pair of pure black eyes, looking at her playfully at this moment.

The next moment.

Lu Jianxia suddenly raised her head, only to see Li Li's pair of pure black eyes gazing at her with playful indifference.

Hiss...

Lu Jianxia's beautiful eyes widened, and the next instant she opened her mouth, wanting to scream.

But before her voice could ring out, Li Li's voice rang out first.

"Judgment, Retrogression!"

Hum!!!

A faint humming sound rang out.

Xia Long's body suddenly appeared dozens of miles away.

The blood on Lu Jianxia's body flowed back, and that massive tentacle monster appeared once again.

Boom!!!

A pitch-black tentacle was the first to pierce into Lu Jianxia's heart.

Everything in the world became incomparably dark.

Everyone's bodies stiffened in place.

Ke Qingxuan and Lu Jingqiu's bodies both began to sway, about to lose their footing.

"How..."

A Creation Realm cultivator of Great Xia looked at this scene in despair:

"So powerful..."

Xia Long gasped with difficulty, and the next moment, he locked eyes with Shen Yiwei, turning into two streaks of light as they charged toward the tentacle monster.

Boom boom!!

Two booming sounds rang out; Xia Long and Shen Yiwei's bodies were swept apart, falling from the Vault of Heaven.

At this moment, endless horror shrouded everyone.

An invisible pressure, like a landslide or a tidal wave, suppressed them from above the Vault of Heaven.

Some Creation Realm cultivators had trembling legs and clenched fists, their eyes turning blood-red:

"We can't even get past a single Ascendant..."

He breathed rapidly; they had actually dared to attempt to exterminate the Dream-Eating Tapir before this.

This...

It was simply the height of absurdity.

"There are eleven more Ascendants like this..."

A Creation Realm cultivator from the Pure True Yang Realm cried out miserably:

"Heavens, why do we live in such a world!"

They were in despair.

They had exhausted everything to reach this place, finally catching a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the truth.

"Li Li, you are also... human, you are human..." someone wailed:

"How can you treat your own kind like this?"

The tentacle pierced through Lu Jianxia's heart, and bright red blood dripped down from the Vault of Heaven.

"A bunch of pigs and dogs." A cold, indifferent voice rang out.

"Filthy pigs and dogs!"

Li Li's voice carried a hint of mockery.

"Who is your own kind? Humans are the lowest, most base things I have ever seen!"

"I have long since ascended; I am different from you. I am the most noble!"

Her voice was filled with arrogance and confidence.

In this battle, she had almost died.

Just by a hair's breadth.

Really, just by a hair's breadth.

Shen Yiwei's body was broken, lying on the earth; he breathed rapidly, the anger in his eyes threatening to completely overwhelm his mind.

Li Li's voice was the most grating mockery, seeking to deny everything they were.

"I came to this place precisely to exterminate you ignorant, base races."

Li Li's voice carried mockery:

"Fortunately, you are all very weak—so weak that it makes me want to laugh."

She toyed with Lu Jianxia's body in the void.

"If I hadn't sensed three days ago that an Eighth-Rank had been born among you, I wouldn't have come out of seclusion to feed in person."

"I even thought an Eighth-Rank might make me happy, but the result..."

As Li Li spoke, her voice slowed down.

On the earth.

Some were still angry, some were still in despair.

Lu Jingqiu collapsed to the ground, her body trembling, her tears once again unstoppable.

Someone roared out:

"How is that possible? Lu Jianxia only advanced to the Eighth-Rank a day and a half ago. How could you have sensed her advancement three days ago?"

That person's eyes widened:

"Who exactly advanced to the Eighth-Rank? Who exactly hasn't come out?"

Tears fell continuously from their eyes; that person's consciousness was in chaos, and they began to struggle.

High above in the sky.

Li Li's voice also paused.

"I naturally sensed the birth of an Eighth Rank, which is why I... awakened."

She became stunned:

"Why did I awaken?"

"This human pig-dog indeed only advanced a day and a half ago, so I definitely did not awaken because of her."

"Why on earth did I awaken?"

"Who is it?"

"What is it?"

"No, no, no..."

Li Li's voice grew increasingly impatient and frantic, and her tentacles lashed at the void like a mad demon.

On the ground, Shen Yiwei, Xia Long, and the others glared, unable to understand what Li Li was doing.

The next moment.

"Who is it!!!"

A shriek rang out.

"Who is plotting against me?!"

"Someone is plotting against me!"

"Who is influencing my thoughts?"

Shen Yiwei frowned.

Lu Jianxia, whose heart had been pierced by a tentacle and whose consciousness was fading, also slowly opened her eyes.

For some reason, she seemed to catch a glimpse of someone.

On the ground, Wu Song, who had lost an arm, was panting violently and in despair.

But Lu Jianxia clearly remembered that Wu Song had died from the very beginning.

The other party also seemed not to realize that he had actually been dead from the start.

Lu Jianxia's eyes changed.

She looked in another direction again.

There, a Great Xia Creation Realm expert named Jiang Yuan, whose body had been severed at the waist, was smiling bitterly.

But Lu Jianxia remembered clearly that this Jiang Yuan had already died after his skull was split open directly by a tentacle.

Why was he still alive now?

Moreover, this Jiang Yuan also did not realize the changes in himself.

Lu Jianxia's heart pounded violently.

Someone had influenced everyone's cognition; someone had twisted everyone's perception.

This...

What kind of powerful, great force was this?

Who is it?

Suddenly.

Silence.

Silence.

Silence.

That giant tentacle monster suddenly ceased all movement.

The next moment.

"Chen Yan!!!"

The shriek resounded through heaven and earth.