Chapter 686: Has Chen Yan Gone Mad?

Immediately following.

The patient whose brow had been pierced by the Sword Soul suddenly opened their eyes, quickly discovering their current transformation, and wanting to let out a roar.

Chen Changyuan's eyes were indifferent as he pressed down with one finger.

Whoosh!

The ink-colored small sword that had been hovering over the other person's mouth instantly stabbed down, piercing through their tongue and the back of their head.

The patient's eyes widened, filled with extreme rage, wanting to erupt.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

The remaining small swords all nailed themselves into the patient's entire body.

"Woo... woo!"

The patient, whose entire body was suppressed, struggled with all their might, but their struggle was of no use at all.

Their power was being directly stripped away by Chen Changyuan in an extremely cruel manner.

Chen Changyuan's body began to swell, and an increasingly terrifying aura seemed as if it would blow him apart.

Yet his eyes remained utterly indifferent, just watching coldly.

Soon, the patient's body collapsed like a leaking leather bag; countless wriggling tumors bulged under the skin, then quickly shriveled up.

They were the twelfth ascender of the Pure True Yang Realm, having thought they had already achieved high-honor evolution, only to have everything they possessed devoured by Chen Changyuan while still in a deep sleep.

Chen Changyuan waved a single hand, and the dried corpse on the hospital bed instantly turned into a flurry of fly ash and dissipated.

He walked slowly out of the ward, his aura somewhat unstable.

"I am still... a bit too impatient."

Chen Changyuan tried his best to suppress the malice and the aura of life and death within his body.

Having guessed that Chen Yan was still alive, and that Chen Yan was about to ascend to the third realm of the Will Path, Chen Changyuan was indeed a bit impatient.

"Even if the Lord of Will values me more, if Chen Yan kills me, he wouldn't care at all."

Chen Changyuan walked downstairs with difficulty and looked at the nurse, saying:

"Make them wake up quickly in these few days; I have a use for them."

The nurse was startled, looked at Chen Changyuan, and pouted:

"Doesn't that mean I have to work overtime..."

Chen Changyuan swept an indifferent glance at her, and only then did the nurse coquettishly say:

"Alright, I know. But I can only make four patients wake up at most.

Once they wake up, I will have them go to the school to find you."

Chen Changyuan said no more and left the school directly.

"Having devoured an eighth-rank Ancient God Beast, I need at least ten days to digest it."

He pondered:

"Then in ten days, I will go and kill Chen Yan."

He did not intend to wait any longer.

After digesting an entire eighth-rank Ancient God Beast, his power would comprehensively surpass that of an ordinary eighth-rank.

Plus, with the four eighth-ranks waking up in the hospital, he already possessed an extremely massive force.

Soon, Chen Changyuan returned to the school, arrived before a dormitory, and spoke:

"Chen Mi, since you have already entered the eighth rank, follow me in ten days to battle Chen Yan."

Inside the room, a low voice sounded:

"Understood. What about after that?"

"Afterward, I will let you return," Chen Changyuan said, his eyes indifferent:

"And Lu Wuyi, why is he delaying his promotion to the eighth rank? He was originally in the middle of ascending."

Inside the room, Chen Mi was silent for a long time:

"I understand. I will force him; if he does not ascend, I will take action and kill him directly."

Chen Changyuan nodded:

"Today, I need you to go and investigate Chen Yan's location; it would be best if you could lie in wait and monitor Chen Yan."

After Chen Mi gave a grunt of acknowledgment, Chen Changyuan left.

After Chen Mi ascended to the eighth rank, his strength was formidable, and Chen Mi possessed the world's fifth divine technique, 【World Instant】.

This was the strongest displacement martial art in human history; as long as Chen Mi wanted to escape, almost no one could kill Chen Mi.

A glint of murderous intent emerged in the depths of his eyes.

After Chen Yan died, he would kill all the eighth-ranks and all the humans in the entire Pure True Yang Realm.

"I hope Lu Xunyang can hold on for a bit longer."

Chen Changyuan whispered in his heart.

…………

At the same time.

Inside the Black Tower, Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes.

"Blood-Drawing Array."

Chen Yan murmured; he had seen it clearly on the ends of Chen Changyuan's meridians.

In the secret technique Chen Changyuan used to devour that ascender, there was a shadow of the Blood-Drawing Array.

This was an evil art.

Refining and devouring the flesh and blood power of others to enhance oneself.

Back then, Chen Changyuan's soul fragment, Yu Changsheng, was the one who deployed the Blood-Drawing Array within the college entrance examination secret realm, intending to devour all the examinees.

However, the one Chen Changyuan was deploying now was clearly more profound and more terrifying.

As expected, Chen Changyuan is still Chen Changyuan.

"Ten days..." Chen Yan murmured.

Ten days is enough time to do many things.

However, for Chen Yan's current team, ten days is still a bit too tight.

He gave Zong Huang and the others the order to directly annihilate Chen Changyuan's true self.

But within the ten-day period, it is simply impossible for Zong Huang and the others to accomplish this.

He can only rely on himself.

Chen Yan pondered, then summoned Shen Yiwei, Lu Jianxia, and Wu Song.

"Old Shen, Princess Jianxia, you two have already entered the second realm of the Path of Will."

Chen Yan looked at Lu Jianxia, only to see that the wariness in her eyes toward him had not diminished.

Chen Yan said calmly:

"I hope the two of you can stage a fake death in the upcoming plan."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, both Lu Jianxia and Shen Yiwei were taken aback.

Chen Yan slowly explained his plan.

Immediately after, he looked at Wu Song and said:

"In the Pure True Yang Realm, is there any holy land that allows one to cultivate with a calm mind?"

Wu Song pondered and said:

"There is, it is called the Heart-Meteor Valley; this place is a holy land for cultivation in the Pure True Yang Realm, and it contains Soul-Cleansing Inscriptions."

Chen Yan nodded, and the group left.

When Lu Jianxia was about to leave, she suddenly turned around and said:

"Heavenly God General."

"Is something the matter?" Chen Yan asked.

"I..." Lu Jianxia was somewhat unaccustomed to being alone with Chen Yan, and she said:

"I once lost three years of memories; it was because my divine soul was severely damaged. Your Immortal Will is extremely powerful; I wonder if you could repair my severely damaged divine soul."

A glimmer of hope appeared in her eyes.

In her mind, that one sentence would always surface.

That blurry figure sealed deep within her heart, with their back to her, sitting cross-legged inside a cave that seemed dark, damp, and humid.

This was the thing she least wanted to see before she lost her memories.

Which resulted in it always being blurry whenever she looked at it now.

Lu Jianxia wanted to know who that was.

She even craved to know.

"Divine soul damaged?" Chen Yan revealed a look of surprise:

"This involves the Path of Thought-Power, and I do not cultivate thought-power."

A flash of disappointment crossed the depths of Lu Jianxia's eyes, but she just nodded calmly; just as she was about to leave, Chen Yan spoke again.

"Princess Jianxia."

"What is it?"

Chen Yan smiled:

"Your older brother Lu Wuyi is still under Chen Changyuan; I know he was forced into it, and now all plans have been arranged.

You can think about how to save Lu Wuyi without delaying the overall plan."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, Lu Jianxia's pupils trembled, and she nodded.

After Lu Jianxia left, Chen Yan sat cross-legged alone in the room.

"Before the grand plan, any minor plans can be temporarily stalled."

He murmured aloud.

Just as he had been during the trial of the Path within the Ancient War Palace.

He could forsake everything and continue his ascetic journey on the endlessly cold glacier until he finally saw the truth of the world.

"This is not a mission the world has given me; it is the direction of my Dao Heart."

Chen Yan closed his eyes, and the third self-universe within his body began to collapse and be destroyed.

Only when all thoughts returned to the cultivation itself did Chen Yan feel at ease.

The reincarnation belonging to the third self-universe began.

This was a long process.

Time passed slowly.

One day later.

Inside the Purple Universe World-Fixing Mirror.

A massive Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, surrounded by tens of thousands of thunder-ball creatures and rows of Universe Clan laser turrets, rampaged across the desolate land.

It stopped only before a massive ancient city filled with distortion and grotesquerie.

Chen Yu, wearing the Heavenly God Armor, stepped out and waved a hand; explosive array disks flew out and landed on the bodies of the thunder-ball creatures.

"Big brother might not have thought of this place, but whatever I can do to help him, I will do it all."

Chen Yu murmured in her heart.

One by one, the thunder-orb creatures advanced toward the core of the Kumeng Micheng.

Rumble!!!

A series of artillery groups, pre-positioned by Yu Laiwei and the others, were triggered; endless gunfire resounded in the high sky, and one thunder-orb creature after another was annihilated.

"Found them."

Zong Huang walked out; these first-deployed thunder-orb creatures were meant to probe the locations of the artillery groups.

Soon, Zong Huang and the others flew out and began to clear away the pre-positioned artillery groups one by one.

Chen Yu nodded, directing those thunder-orb creatures carrying explosive formation disks to enter the Kumeng Micheng.

"Plant thunder-orb creatures and explosive formation disks on those members of the Five Clans who have already defected to Chen Changyuan."

"I will hand the master control formation disk to my brother once he wakes up again."

Chen Yu spoke calmly; this was the method she had conceived to help Chen Yan.

As long as Chen Yan could control the life and death of these people, then when to kill them and how to kill them could all be utilized by Chen Yan.

Chen Yu continued to manipulate, arranging over a thousand thunder-orb creatures and thirty Sun-Radiance Grade B explosive formation disks directly beside Yu Laiwei and Lu Wuyi.

"This Lu Wuyi is about to promote; once he reaches the Eighth Rank, these won't be able to kill him with an explosion."

Zong Huang sensed this and frowned:

"Why don't I just take action and kill him myself."

A murderous intent surfaced in his eyes, yet there was also a trace of hesitation.

Lu Wuyi, son of the Lu Lord, was actually also a relative of Lu Xunyang.

"The Lu Lord is extremely calculating and once secretly plotted against Divine General Xunyang; Divine General Xunyang has long since had no family affection for them."

Struggle flickered in his eyes, but in the end, he made his decision and prepared to kill him directly.

Chen Yu was also deep in thought; she glanced in the direction of Lu Jianxia and said:

"Let's set them up first; as for what happens later, my brother will decide."

"Very well." Zong Huang sighed.

With a wave of his hand, strands of life-and-death aura flowed and settled into the bodies of the thunder-orb creatures surrounding Lu Wuyi.

"This way, even if it doesn't kill him, it will be enough to severely wound him."

Zong Huang said.

"Mm." Chen Yu nodded.

At the same time, she left protective barriers beside the martial artists like Lu Jianxia who had defected to Chen Yan.

Lin Yu remarked with emotion:

"Lady Chen Yu is indeed meticulous."

Chen Yu shook her head slightly; when it came to the depth of thinking, she was absolutely no match for her older brother.

It was at this very moment.

Hum!

Endless morning light spilled down from the vault of heaven.

The Morning Light of Heaven and Earth!

This morning light was brilliant and resplendent, covering the entire world.

Chen Yu was startled; thinking of something, she hurriedly returned inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Indeed.

At this moment, earth-shattering changes were occurring within Chen Yan's body.

Profound and vast life-and-death auras bloomed on Chen Yan's body like pitch-black divine flowers, and endless Dao essence and laws intertwined in the void, exhausting the truths of the world.

"Big brother is amazing!"

Chen Yu exclaimed, her eyes full of joy.

Under such high pressure, Chen Yan still managed to continuously advance on the path of martial arts.

This time, Chen Yan's transformation was even more profound.

The life-and-death auras born were also far more numerous than before, and more mysterious and profound than before.

Pure True Yang Realm, inside the Black Tower.

Chen Yan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

"As expected, truth still lies in one's fists."

Chen Yan revealed a faint smile; after the third internal universe achieved reincarnation, Chen Yan directly gave birth to twenty-three strands of life-and-death aura.

Adding the previous eighteen strands.

Chen Yan had already accumulated forty-one strands of life-and-death aura.

"And I still have four bottles of potion left now," Chen Yan laughed.

That day, what he had taken from the hospital was a full five bottles of potion.

And for his cultivation, he had only used one bottle.

The resources were absolutely sufficient.

The problem still lay in time.

Chen Yan looked at the martial arts network; at the tip of the network belonging exclusively to Chen Mi, Chen Mi had already arrived at a distance of tens of thousands of miles away from Chen Yan.

The other party had arrived early this morning and had set up image-recording formation disks on the ground to spy on the Black Tower.

When Chen Mi ascended the Ancient Battle Platform, he entered the path of will, but in the end, he still lost to Shen Yiwei.

As such.

"The plan can also be implemented." Chen Yan said faintly.

At the same time.

Inside a mountain cave tens of thousands of miles away, Chen Mi sat cross-legged in silence, looking at the formation disk before him.

Within this formation disk, the current scene of the Black Tower was emerging.

"Chen Yan, Chen Changyuan..." Chen Mi narrowed his eyes:

"Are they my opponents?"

Chen Mi was originally ranked first on the Creation Realm List, and having now advanced to the eighth rank, he considered himself an extremely powerful eighth-ranker.

But he did not erupt.

Because Chen Changyuan was too special; he worried that if he were to make a move against Chen Changyuan, the entire Pure True Yang Realm would turn against him.

Furthermore, there was the Life Seal.

As for Chen Yan...

"Chen Yan is also a special case; has he truly advanced to the eighth rank or not?" Chen Mi narrowed his eyes.

His guess would be known in nine days.

On that day, Chen Changyuan would launch an all-out attack on Chen Yan.

And it was at this moment.

Boom!!!

Inside the formation disk, a sudden explosion rang out.

Waves of golden-red light erupted, the entire Black Tower exploded instantly, and countless streaks of fire streaked across the void.

Wu Song and Hong Mi appeared first, scattering the exploding firelight.

Above the earth, a chorus of exclamations arose.

"Chen Yan!"

A cry of shock rang out.

Xia Long flew out of the Black Tower, his eyes filled with an expression of disbelief.

Inside the mountain cave, Chen Mi watched in shock.

What had happened?

And it was at this moment.

With a *pfft* sound.

A golden-red light flashed before Xia Long, instantly piercing through Xia Long's heart.

Chen Mi widened his eyes, unable to believe it.

He saw that it was Chen Yan, who had directly blasted Xia Long's chest apart with a single punch.

"Has Chen Yan gone mad?!"

Inside the mountain cave, Chen Mi slowly opened his mouth.