Chapter 692: Are You Already This Powerful?

Black mist occupied the vault of heaven, malice pouring down upon the earth like molten metal.

In an instant, the vegetation throughout Yunxin Valley withered and the rocks cracked, the earth corroded into spiderweb-like black fissures.

Malice condensed, and countless dense, deformed monsters bred within the darkness.

Upon the earth, Xia Long, Yin Qingshuang, Zhang Chao, and others walked out of the cave one by one, staring fixedly at the dark clouds in the sky and at Chen Changyuan, who stood before them all.

Unknowingly, Chen Changyuan had already grown to such a state; merely sensing this viscous malice made one tremble.

Hum, hum, hum!!!

Sounds of sword humming resonated within Shen Yiwei's body; something was restless.

That was the Heart of the Inverse Nine Swords that Xia Long had won for him on the auction platform.

And within Chen Changyuan's body, there was the Marrow of the Inverse Nine Swords.

The sword heart and sword marrow were sensing each other, but Shen Yiwei could clearly feel it.

Unlike the fusion between himself and the sword heart, the Marrow of the Inverse Nine Swords had already been suppressed by Chen Changyuan and transformed into some kind of evil spiritual object.

This was one of the legacies rumored to have been left behind by the Master of True Meaning, yet it had been suppressed by Chen Changyuan in such a way.

Endless killing intent surged in the depths of Shen Yiwei's eyes.

Chen Changyuan swept a faint glance at Shen Yiwei and ignored him, his gaze piercing through the depths of the mountains—already withered by malice—to lock onto the figure still sitting cross-legged.

Four children dressed in fine robes appeared behind Chen Changyuan, looking down indifferently.

Within the dark clouds, a woman shouted:

"Invincible in the world, suppressing ten thousand generations!"

The moment this voice resonated.

"Invincible in the world, suppressing ten thousand generations!"

"Invincible in the world, suppressing ten thousand generations!"

"Invincible in the world, suppressing ten thousand generations!"

Voices that were stirring, suppressed, or twisted rang out across the sky.

It was as if countless ghostly things were screeching in unison.

Chen Mi, Lu Wuyi, Yu Laiwei, and a group of Creation Realm experts who had defected to Chen Changyuan appeared.

They looked at Xia Long and the others below with cold expressions, lifting their heads arrogantly.

Inside the cave.

Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes; in these past few days, he had cultivated a fourth internal universe, and the rest of the time he had spent entirely on studying the aura of life and death.

After the fourth internal universe successfully underwent reincarnation, the number of Chen Yan's life-and-death auras reached seventy-three.

This had completely surpassed Lu Jianxia.

At this moment, Chen Yan activated 【Decay Control - Holy Condensation Origin】 to lock onto Chen Changyuan.

The next moment, Chen Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.

The instant he locked onto Chen Changyuan, Chen Changyuan also locked onto him.

The number of life-and-death auras within the opponent might even be greater than his own.

Chen Yan had never seen Chen Changyuan use the aura of life and death at the ends of the meridians.

After Chen Changyuan advanced to the eighth rank, he had naturally birthed more life-and-death auras than Lu Jianxia, and now he had completely digested that eighth-rank ancient divine beast.

His strength was unfathomable.

It was also at this time.

A faint rhythmic movement of rules was perceived by Chen Yan.

Within the boundless darkness, it felt as if four pairs of eyes were quietly staring at him.

These were the four children in fine robes, and also the four Ascenders that Chen Changyuan had brought out from the hospital.

"You are Chen Yan?"

A mocking voice rang out:

"Just a lowly human pig-dog, yet you actually caused us to wake from our slumber to deal with you."

Outside, a little boy dressed in cyan fine robes stood with his hands behind his back, his black hair fluttering in the wind. Mockery swirled in his eyes, and black patterns faintly appeared on his face.

Beside him, a girl in red frowned and transmitted her voice:

"Do not go looking for him ahead of time, lest you provoke Chen Changyuan."

The little boy lifted his head and transmitted back:

"I just don't understand why we must make such a great fuss just to deal with a tiny human."

Before him, Chen Changyuan seemed to sense something and was about to turn his head.

It was also at this moment.

The little boy pressed down with one hand:

"Ten Thousand Dimensions!"

Woo!!!

Like ten thousand dragons and elephants screeching in unison, waves of sound instantly shattered the layers of clouds.

An incomparably terrifying explosion occurred, and the endless firmament was covered by firelight.

Almost in an instant.

Chen Yan appeared in a place of endless pitch-black, and strands of life-and-death aura locked him in place.

And before him, a River of Time appeared.

A boundless River of Time.

Upon it, every inch and every fraction evolved everything that had happened in the human world from ancient times to the present.

He saw the rise of the Lord of Hardened Body, saw the Lord of Blood and Qi rule over the human race, saw the human race collapse, and saw the founding of the Great Xia.

He saw Green Mountain, and saw the birth of a youth named Chen Yan.

He saw that youth grow step by step, until he arrived at the Pure True Yang Realm.

Just at that very instant, the youth named Chen Yan suddenly vanished.

He saw Lu Jianxia die in battle, Shen Yiwei die in battle, Xia Long and others become endless bones, their blood spilling over the Pure True Yang Realm, and saw Lu Xunyang suppressed once again, transformed by endless malice.

"This is..."

Chen Yan watched silently:

"The fourth dimension?"

He narrowed his eyes; he had been elevated in dimension, pulled out of the three-dimensional space and placed into the fourth dimension.

The next instant, Chen Yan's body was stretched infinitely; with him at this moment as the starting point, another fourth-dimensional space was being born.

This was an infinite world composed of Chen Yan alone.

And he could never return to the human world, never return to that very instant just now.

He himself had become a second fourth-dimensional space; he himself could appear at any instant in the future, or appear at the time when he had just arrived in this dark place.

But he could not return to the human race.

"To erase a person's existence is to make them lose any coordinate, any meaning, still within the world."

A playful boy's voice rang out:

"I grant you endless time, and you will forever be unable to return to your original world."

His voice grew more mocking, more frivolous:

"This is my gift to you, and also my punishment for you, you lowly pig and dog."

He left.

Cold intent erupted in Chen Yan's eyes as he felt the breaths of life and death flowing within his body.

"Dimensions, the universe, and time exist forever; they are the most supreme laws of heaven and earth, restrictions that cannot be broken through.

And the breath of life and death is merely a means to utilize the rules, a key to see through the rules."

Chen Yan whispered, stretching his hands out toward the distant reality world that was infinitely close to him, yet impossible to reach.

"The current me might not be able to break the rules of heaven and earth, but breaking the rules of a bug should be more than enough!"

His eyes surged with brilliant light, burning endlessly like two golden suns, exploding with infinite radiance in the dark, boundless fourth dimension.

Some kind of power was preventing Chen Yan from touching the reality world.

That was the trail of life and death breaths left behind by the little boy.

"Break!" Chen Yan said calmly.

The rule-based shackles shrouding him shattered instantly, and his fingertips finally touched a corner of the reality world.

The reality world was like a boundless giant snake, every inch representing the time of that moment.

Chen Yan wanted to return, and needed to find his original point in time.

However, this was fundamentally impossible.

Because even in a time interval of one second, there is an infinite amount of time to calculate.

Chen Yan could only find an approximate time and space, and then...

Return!

The next instant, Chen Yan returned to the Pure True Yang Realm.

"Where is this?"

Chen Yan looked in all directions; great mountains stood tall, and the sea was boundless.

This was outside the Yunxin Valley.

At the same time.

Panic, shock, confusion, and other emotions flashed through the hearts of Lu Jianxia and the others inside Yunxin Valley.

"What are you doing?"

Xia Long's roaring voice resounded; he had already ascended to the eighth rank and felt the terrifying flow of rules.

In an instant, Lu Jianxia was suddenly startled: "Chen Yan is gone!"

She sensed the cave, and Chen Yan's aura had indeed vanished.

Everyone's expression changed in shock as they all sensed it simultaneously; Chen Yan had indeed vanished.

"Chen Changyuan!!!"

A blood-curdling roar resounded, and someone cursed with reddened eyes:

"What exactly did you do?"

Panic appeared in some people's eyes, but soon their inner depths were occupied by endless rage.

"What did you do?"

"The struggle of the five races was originally a struggle of the human race itself; you joined in with malice, are you aware of this?

You are traitors to the human race, traitors to the human race! As Creation Realm experts, how can you lose your humanity like this, how can you be so unworthy of the human race?!"

"Are you still human?"

"Is being a traitor really that arrogant?"

"The Heavenly God General will never be suppressed!"

Voices filled with extreme anger resounded!

Hum!

A brilliant sword light erupted from Shen Yiwei's body; he took a step forward and looked at Chen Changyuan:

"Chen Yan will return on his own, but right now, I want the head on your shoulders!"

High above in the sky, Chen Changyuan narrowed his eyes.

Behind him, however, a youthful and mocking voice rang out.

"Why go to such great lengths? I can erase that Chen Yan with just a single thought.

I am not Li Li; to deal with these insects, one person is enough."

A terrifying aura instantly erupted from his body, overflowing and suppressing the entire Heart-Meteor Valley.

He looked down at everyone below with indifference, his gaze arrogant to the extreme, filled with a spirit of dominance that was also to the extreme.

In his eyes, Xia Long, Chen Yan, and everyone else were nothing more than a group of pigs and dogs.

He was an Ascender, a different kind of existence, a god—a god who could slaughter the human race at will.

An indescribable malice descended just like that, wanting to harvest everyone's lives.

Behind him, Yu Laiwei and the others watched, all of them shocked to the extreme.

Chen Yan had vanished.

He had vanished in just an instant.

Chen Mi had already entered the Eighth Rank and could see some clues, but the others were incomparably terrified.

A woman named Ye Qingxin opened her mouth wide, and the next moment she screamed in pleasant surprise:

"Invincible!"

Ecstasy appeared in her eyes, and the last trace of fear in her heart toward Chen Yan vanished completely because of the scene that had just occurred.

"Invincible!"

"Invincible!"

"Invincible!"

The Creation Realm experts who had defected to Chen Changyuan shouted one after another; there was no need for Chen Changyuan to act at all, as a single Eighth Rank Ancient God Beast was enough to annihilate Chen Yan.

The expressions of Lu Jianxia and the others, however, were ugly to the extreme.

But they had already prepared themselves for a fight to the death.

Oppression!

An oppressive feeling was brewing; everything was about to erupt in a split second!

The little boy slowly extended his right hand, his gaze following his fingertips, as if he had already grasped and pinched an entire world.

"Let me bestow upon you infinity!"

*Click. *

A large hand instantly clamped onto the little boy's neck; Chen Changyuan's eyes were cold:

"What are you doing?"

He spoke only quietly, but endless killing intent had already erupted from the depths of his eyes.

He had not ordered this person to act; this person had acted on their own initiative.

If Chen Yan were to be annihilated just like this, then what did that make him?

What did all that he, Chen Changyuan, had sacrificed and all the steps he had taken to get here amount to?

"No..."

Endless terror appeared in the little boy's eyes; he had not expected Chen Changyuan to be so furious.

"For... forgive..."

He struggled, his vision beginning to blur, and only endless despair remained in the depths of his eyes.

It was also at this moment.

*Hum! *

Accompanied by a golden light piercing through the clouds, endless golden light suddenly shrouded down from beyond the firmament, blinding to the extreme.

The sky was torn open; a great sun crossed over from the other side of the horizon, connecting the earth and the firmament.

All sound vanished completely.

Everyone looked toward that golden sun, feeling waves of indescribable pressure strike them in an instant, as if being burned by the great sun.

"My aura of life and death is above yours."

An indifferent voice resounded.

The figure wrapped in the golden sun slowly raised his right hand and pressed down with one hand:

"Kneel!"

In an instant, an infinite power of will suddenly erupted and arrived, suppressing them directly like an entire heaven and earth.

Chen Mi and the others instantly felt waves of suppression from their hearts; the endless pressure of will suddenly struck their hearts.

Yu Laiwei and the others were even less able to withstand it; at this moment, their bodies began to lose strength, and their legs could not help but bend.

*Boom, boom, boom!!! *

A golden-red ocean of will arrived like a cataclysm.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Screams rang out abruptly.

First, a portion of the people could no longer bear it and knelt down directly.

Chen Changyuan narrowed his eyes, feeling the waves of will pressure being exerted upon him.

*Sss, sss, sss! *

Black smoke began to rise from his body, and the malice within his body was actually being devoured and extinguished.

"No... impossible!"

The little boy, still held in the hand of Chen Changyuan, watched in shock and let out a low growl, unable to believe it.

Xia Long, Shen Yiwei, and the others watched this scene with wild joy, instantly invigorated.

"Kill!"

"Exterminate this scum!"

"Together, we are immortal!"

One by one, the Creation Realm experts laughed aloud, their bodies erupting with all their blood-Qi and strength; Chen Yan's return was like a stabilizing needle pressed onto everyone's hearts.

The next instant.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Everyone transformed into streaks of light, rising from the earth and soaring toward the high heavens to kill.

Chen Changyuan's robes fluttered as he stood his ground, still sensing this power of will that belonged to Chen Yan.

He looked behind him and saw that half of those who followed him had already knelt down, directly facing the pressure of Chen Yan's will.

Chen Changyuan took a deep breath; this was his first direct confrontation with Chen Yan.

"So, you are this powerful?" Chen Changyuan's eyes widened, a look of wild joy erupting:

"Chen Yan, so you are this powerful?!"

He swung one hand out, pressing down instantly:

"Attack!"