Chapter 688: The Hidden Mastermind

Chen Changyuan's eyes were indifferent as he looked toward Ye Qingxin on the sports field and said:

"Ye Qingxin."

As his voice fell, Ye Qingxin, who had been acting like a shrew on the sports field just a moment ago, froze instantly; she looked at Chen Changyuan above the dormitory building in fear and confusion.

"Invincible One, I..."

Ye Qingxin's voice was trembling; here, her life and death were entirely at the whim of Chen Changyuan.

And the other party was precisely one of those most indifferent to life.

Chen Changyuan looked at Ye Qingxin as if looking at an ant:

"Since you are so loyal, then I shall give you a chance; I can immediately erase the Life Seal within your body and return your freedom to you.

Are you willing?"

Ye Qingxin's gaze trembled instantly; her vermilion lips parted slightly, and at this moment, countless voices of hunger emerged in her mind.

But in the next instant, countless cries of the desire to survive made her stop the shouting in her heart.

"To be able to follow you is my, Ye Qingxin's, honor; if I do not slay the traitor Chen Yan, what use is there in me living?"

She shouted with almost all her strength, even kneeling on one knee toward Chen Changyuan.

A trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Chen Changyuan's mouth, and with a wave of his hand, the Life Seal within Ye Qingxin's body was instantly undone.

"My Life Seal..."

Ye Qingxin was shocked, and then a look of wild joy appeared on her face.

Her body trembling, she knelt halfway on the ground, burying her head low:

"Ye Qingxin is willing to go through fire and water for the Invincible One!"

Inside the classrooms and on the sports field, everyone looked at Ye Qingxin, and one by one, they fell silent.

Everyone hates a sycophant, but everyone longs to be able to succeed at being one.

Soon, someone spoke up:

"The Invincible One is the only orthodox authority in the world; Chen Yan and his lot are undoubtedly rebellious traitors."

"The Invincible One is the Invincible One; he is an invincible existence."

"Hahaha, the fact that the Invincible One is valued by the Lord Chen already says enough."

One after another, voices that were either spirited or filled with admiration rang out.

However, the others were not as lucky as Ye Qingxin to have their Life Seals undone.

Ye Qingxin raised her head, looking at those who had previously disdained her but were now filled with extreme regret.

"You sycophants, can you not see that I am the one with true loyalty to the Invincible One?

Want to imitate me?

How can loyalty be imitated?"

Ye Qingxin's expression was cold:

"Lord Invincible One shines upon us like the sun; we must be infected by the grace he radiates at every moment.

You all..."

She gritted her teeth:

"Have you ever said thank you even once?!"

The crowd looked at Ye Qingxin at this moment, feeling incredibly stifled, but they could not say anything.

Inside a room in the dormitory.

"Noisy!"

Lu Wuyi let out a long sigh and looked at the communication array disk in his hand:

"Chen Yan has fallen into demonic ways?"

"Yes." From within the communication array disk came Chen Mi's voice.

Lu Wuyi's expression turned ugly.

His younger sister, Lu Jianxia, was still under Chen Yan.

"Do you..." Lu Wuyi said, stopping mid-sentence:

"Do you think that with Chen Yan's current methods, he can contend with Chen Changyuan?"

On the other side of the communication array disk, Chen Mi was silent for a long time before suddenly speaking:

"Are you joking?"

The communication cut off.

Lu Wuyi sat in the room, silent for a long time.

His mood had sunk to the extreme.

Signing a Life Seal with Chen Changyuan did not mean that Chen Changyuan necessarily knew everything Lu Wuyi did.

But with a single thought, Chen Changyuan could kill Lu Wuyi through the Life Seal.

In fact, even when Chen Yan first had San Jin sign a Life Seal for him, he did not know.

Reaching such a state, Lu Wuyi no longer cared about the Five Clans or the Great Xia.

He only wanted his younger sister to live.

To live with dignity.

Therefore, when Chen Yan arrived, it was Lu Wuyi who let Lu Jianxia join Chen Yan's side.

To surrender to Chen Changyuan, who had become an Ancient Divine Beast, was no different from death.

Sometimes, life is not the most precious thing.

Lu Wuyi understood, though he could not do it himself, but he respected his sister's choice.

"What is to be done..."

Lu Wuyi murmured.

He could not see any hope for Chen Yan to defeat Chen Changyuan.

It was at this very moment.

With a hum.

Streaks of flowing light suddenly appeared within Lu Wuyi's room, transforming into the likeness of Chen Changyuan.

"Invincible Son," Lu Wuyi spoke.

"Lu Wuyi..." Chen Changyuan looked at Lu Wuyi indifferently and said:

"Chen Mi has already told me that you spoke with him in private."

Lu Wuyi's expression shifted slightly, and in his heart, he cursed Chen Mi a thousand times over.

Chen Mi was, after all, ranked first on the Creation Realm Ranking; how could he have so little personal dignity?

No sooner had he spoken with him than he turned around and betrayed him to show loyalty.

Just how afraid of death are you?

Chen Changyuan looked at Lu Wuyi calmly:

"In your eyes, what does Chen Yan count for?"

Lu Wuyi was silent for a moment, then said:

"Naturally, he is the greatest talent of all time; if he does not die, he will surely become the number one in the world.

Were it not so, the Five Clans would not target him so, and the Great Xia would not value him so highly."

Chen Changyuan looked down from a high position at Lu Wuyi, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and asked again:

"Then what do you think of me?"

Lu Wuyi pursed his lips.

Chen Changyuan had stumped him with that question.

How the hell was he supposed to answer that?

A servant of three masters?

Or perhaps a servant of four masters who had defected to malice?

Even though Chen Changyuan possessed too many secrets, for as many people who feared him, there were just as many who looked down on him.

"Invincible Son, you possess great secrets that always transcend human imagination," Lu Wuyi said.

"You could just say I am a servant of three masters," Chen Changyuan laughed:

"Lu Wuyi, do you not know that those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trifles?

Any powerful person must endure all kinds of humiliation and failure."

Chen Changyuan stood with his hands behind his back:

"If one says that Chen Yan has never been defeated, then how many more than one or two times have I, Chen Changyuan, been defeated?

But if Chen Yan fails once, he will be completely destroyed.

Whereas I, Chen Changyuan, can fight repeatedly after defeat, until I see the great world of the future."

Lu Wuyi frowned:

"What great world?"

Chen Changyuan did not answer; after speaking with the Lord of Will, Chen Changyuan suddenly felt that everything had become extremely base.

The ancient gods feared by the world and the Lords of the Five Clans revered by the world were merely specks of dust in the Great Thousand Worlds.

Everyone was like insects amusing themselves in a corner, unaware of the existence of the thirty-three thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

The so-called Chen Yan, the so-called greatest talent of all time, was, in the eyes of the Lord of Will, merely ordinarily surprising.

And he, Chen Changyuan, was the most special one in the entire human realm.

He was the Heaven-Chosen, and he was the only one.

But this did not hinder him from preparing a little more to exterminate Chen Yan.

After all, only by stepping over Chen Yan could he have the opportunity to once again receive the favor of the Lord of Will.

"Lu Wuyi, I know you want Lu Jianxia to live; you only need to help me with all your might.

I will not kill Lu Jianxia, and I can even let you and your sister leave this world after I exterminate Chen Yan.

You can also try to persuade Lu Jianxia to join me."

Chen Changyuan said.

Lu Wuyi's eyes narrowed slightly, but he still smiled sheepishly:

"My sister... is different from me; she is very stubborn."

He spoke very tactfully.

Lu Jianxia could not surrender to malice just to stay alive.

Once Lu Jianxia determined that Chen Changyuan's threat to Luzhou was greater than Chen Yan's, she would never bow her head to Chen Changyuan.

Chen Changyuan squinted and swept a glance at Lu Wuyi:

"Then just do your own part; as long as you perform meritorious service, I will spare Lu Jianxia's life."

Lu Wuyi's eyes trembled slightly, and Chen Changyuan left.

Inside the room, Lu Wuyi's expression turned cold, and for a moment, he found it difficult to choose.

"If I completely defect to Chen Changyuan's side, Jianxia might look down on me."

He murmured aloud:

"But if I take all the sin and humiliation upon myself alone, I can ensure Jianxia survives."

He did not see a trace of worry in Chen Changyuan's eyes.

Regarding the battle against Chen Yan, Chen Changyuan did not think Chen Yan had any formidable points that could threaten him at all.

This was exactly what Lu Wuyi found most alarming.

"What on earth should be done?" Lu Wuyi felt incomparably conflicted.

Should he live on while disappointing his younger sister, or...

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"One thousand nine hundred years ago, the first ascender appeared, and the Pure True Yang Realm has very few records of them.

It is only known that the other party was named Yu."

Chen Yan and the others crossed over the Qiong Heaven, their sleeves fluttering like flowing clouds, and in a fleeting glimpse, they flashed past the mountains and rivers below.

Wu Song spoke incessantly, a look of resentment swirling in his eyes:

"It was precisely because Yu returned to the world after ascending and praised the perfection of the Flying Ascension Realm before the world,

that the world became filled with such immense yearning for that Flying Ascension Realm.

He is the source of all evil."

Chen Yan listened quietly and continued to ask:

"And what about the second ascender?"

Hong Mi replied:

"The second ascender was named Wu, who came from our Henggu Town; it is rumored that their strength was extremely formidable, and after ascending, they descended back to the mortal world and, with just a single sentence, directly wiped out a mountain range."

Xia Long asked in surprise:

"Was it wiped out, or destroyed?"

Hong Mi said:

"In historical records, Wu only said one sentence, and that stretch of mountains and rivers simply vanished, along with a hundred miles of cultivated land.

This act benefited all directions, and this 'settling the mountains and rivers with a single word' is the most classic allusion in the Pure True Yang Realm; I cannot be mistaken."

A look of astonishment also appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

Destroying a hundred miles—even those in the Creation Realm could do that.

But for a single sentence to directly make a hundred miles of mountains and rivers disappear, that meant that at the time, Wu had utilized the aura of life and death.

Was the rule-based technique the other party created directly modifying reality?

Or was it that they could directly make things in the world vanish?

This was undoubtedly one of the powerful rule-based techniques.

"As for the third ascender, this one was even more powerful; it is rumored..." Wu Song spoke again, telling everyone about the history of the Pure True Yang Realm.

Shen Yiwei and the others listened intently; these ascenders were enemies they would have to face in the future.

It was also at this moment.

Chen Yan pondered in his heart, slowly closed his eyes, and wisps of willpower suddenly erupted within his body.

Chen Yan pressed down with one hand, and the willpower erupting within his body gradually stabilized.

"What's wrong?" Xia Long asked.

"Nothing." Chen Yan shook his head:

"My willpower is unstable; the heart demon's influence on me is still very significant."

Xia Long, Shen Yiwei, Lu Jianxia, and Wu Song all looked at Chen Yan in surprise.

What was this?

They knew of Chen Yan's plan; feigning demonic possession was only for Chen Changyuan to see.

Hadn't he already pretended once?

Why pretend again?

Was he being this dedicated?

As for the other Creation Realm experts who did not know of Chen Yan's plan, they looked at each other, a trace of fear flashing in their eyes.

If Chen Yan truly became possessed, then it would be over; who could defeat Chen Yan?

Many people felt panicked in their hearts.

The invincible image Chen Yan had previously established also had an impact on their minds.

Chen Yan did not speak.

Inside his body, the aura of life and death circulated.

A battle between two martial artists possessing the aura of life and death was, in fact, a battle of rules.

Perhaps, one could inadvertently fall into a rule-based trap set by another.

On this point, Li Li, who had been killed by Chen Yan, had experienced it deeply.

The aura of life and death began to overflow, probing the outside world.

Chen Yan also began to perceive everything happening in the four directions, wanting to sense if anyone else's aura of life and death had been cast upon him.

The next moment.

Chen Yan opened his eyes.

There was none.

Either the other party was too powerful, powerful to the point that even Chen Yan could not detect them.

Or, Chen Yan truly had not been subjected to the aura of life and death.

However, among normal occurrences, the appearance of a single abnormal event was enough to make Chen Yan vigilant.

Although Chen Mi had ascended to the eighth rank and already possessed the aura of life and death.

However, the other party's application of the aura of life and death is definitely not as good as Li Li's; after all, Li Li has been studying the aura of life and death for a long time.

When Chen Mi came to investigate Chen Yan, the journey was almost like teleportation, with a speed so fast that even Chen Yan's 【Decay Control - Sacred Will Bewilderment】 could hardly lock onto the other party.

But after the other party stopped at the cave, Chen Yan began to slowly influence the other party using 【Decay Control - Sacred Will Bewilderment】.

The other party, logically speaking, should have been attracted over by Chen Yan and then completely influenced.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan became even more certain of the conjecture in his heart.

There is some terrifying existence that has been plotting everything from the shadows.

The rise of Chen Yan and Chen Changyuan has always been under the other party's control.

Then why didn't the other party kill him from the very beginning?

After all, Chen Yan was extremely weak at the start, and an ordinary martial artist could have killed him at will.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

There is only one reason: the other party's goal is not him, but Chen Changyuan.

Yes.

Only in this way can it be explained why, after Chen Yan escaped from the hospital, Wu Song and the others could find the fleeing Chen Yan, while Chen Changyuan and the others could not.

The other party has been helping him from the shadows.

But the other party also has no goodwill toward Chen Yan.

The other party is merely using Chen Yan.

Therefore, when Chen Yan prepared to lure Chen Mi over and control Chen Mi.

The other party influenced Chen Mi, causing Chen Mi not to fall for the trap.

The other party cannot kill Chen Changyuan, so they must let Chen Yan rise, but they absolutely cannot let Chen Yan become too powerful, which is why they interfered with Chen Yan's plan.

The other party wants to let Chen Yan and Chen Changyuan suffer mutual destruction!

Icy coldness condensed in Chen Yan's eyes.

This already involves the application of Rule Martial Arts.

Unknowingly, Chen Yan has already walked into the Rule Martial Arts designed by the other party.

But the other party has not directly used rule-based means against Chen Yan.

Then from what direction did the other party start?

A sense of crisis emerged in Chen Yan's mind.

Even though Chen Yan has now discovered the parts that are not right, he still cannot walk out of the other party's design.

Perhaps, even Chen Yan going to the Heart-Falling Valley is within the other party's calculations.