Chapter 696: One Against the Five Clans

The young boy named Yu stood high in the sky, a smile on his lips, the greed in the depths of his eyes no longer able to be hidden.

"If you or I were to face Chen Yan or Chen Changyuan alone, we would be unable to defeat them.

But from the very beginning, the victors were always you and I!"

His body suddenly blurred, dissolving into the void like a drop of ink falling onto a water surface, and nine ghostly blue corrosion marks spread rapidly into the Firmament like a spiderweb.

The short-browed young girl watched this scene quietly, a smile appearing on her lips:

"It should have started over there by now."

She grinned and said.

Suddenly.

Hum!

A beam of black light erupted from the place where Chen Changyuan had fallen, shooting into the clouds!

Malice!

Endless malice burst forth from the black pillar of light, transforming into countless pitch-black corrosion marks, the edges of every mark flickering with jagged black light that tore through space.

"What is happening?!"

A Creation Realm expert cried out, finding it hard to breathe as they felt the terrifying malice.

Lu Jianxia, Shen Yiwei, Xia Long, and the others had expressions of intense vigilance flash across their faces at this moment, all of them looking toward that pitch-black pillar of light.

Rumble!!!

The pitch-black pillar of light blasted through the clouds, polluting the Firmament like the source of all evil, and endless ink-black color spread crazily along the dome toward the surroundings, completely blocking out all light.

Scarlet array patterns condensed upon this pitch-black color, and boundless blood-evil and madness suppressed the earth in an instant.

Spreading, spreading!

In an instant, the ink-black array disc expanded for ten thousand miles, tens of thousands of miles!

Chen Yan watched this scene with cold eyes; between heaven and earth, everything in the area covered by the ink-black array disc began to wither and die in silence.

Billions of ghostly, twisted whispers exploded between heaven and earth.

Trees withered and fell in an instant, mountains and rivers lost their vitality, and the earth cracked.

"Chen Changyuan!"

Shen Yiwei suddenly roared:

"What are you doing?!"

His eyes became incomparably sharp; at the very top of that black light, a mass of pitch-black slime was boiling and taking shape.

The vitality within the entire world was being drained by the pitch-black array disc and injected into that mass of pitch-black slime.

Such an evil and bizarre scene caused the three Ascendants present to reveal expressions of shock.

The pitch-black slime boiled, manifesting Chen Changyuan's face, and he looked at Chen Yan ferociously:

"Chen Yan, I am no longer human!!!"

His voice was piercing to the extreme, like ten thousand ghosts wailing in unison:

"All of this is thanks to you, all of this is thanks to you!"

He laughed wildly, pitch-black tears splashing from his eyes:

"It was you who killed Meng, it was you who killed Meng!"

Shen Yiwei wore a cold expression, his long sword humming in his hand, and the next moment he slashed toward Chen Changyuan.

At the same time, Xia Long, Lu Jianxia, and the others could no longer care about the other enemies, all of them turning into streams of light and flying toward Chen Changyuan.

How could they not see it?

Chen Changyuan was undergoing a bizarre and special evolution.

Chen Yan's strength had forced the other party to unleash this terrifying evolution ahead of schedule.

And it was at this very moment.

Boom boom boom boom!!!

Pillars of black light suddenly descended from high in the sky, instantly covering Lu Jianxia, Xia Long, and the others.

Their bodies were instantly frozen in the void.

Lu Jianxia was enveloped by the black light, feeling as if her body had instantly sunk into a quagmire from which it was impossible to escape; her face turned pale, and no matter how she unleashed the Kun Secret Flowing Thunder within her body, she could not break free.

She hurriedly looked toward Chen Yan.

Chirp!

Chen Yan was bound by the black light, but the power of his will and the aura of life and death within his body overflowed, directly devouring and dissipating the black light that had enveloped him.

The crowd was about to rejoice, but the next moment their expressions changed in unison.

For they saw that Chen Mi, the three Ascendants, and more than thirty Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans had already surrounded Chen Yan.

"Chen Yan!" Lu Jianxia cried out in alarm.

At the same time.

Boom!!!

Above the firmament, the huge ink-black array disc was still growing, and at the very center of the disc, an ancient Eight Trigrams diagram emerged.

Scarlet blood soaked into the lines like a living thing.

The Yin-Yang fish eyes in the diagram suddenly lit up, and as the hexagram symbols flickered, a blood-colored halo rippled outward, with killing intent boiling in the undercurrent.

Chen Changyuan, beneath the array disc, suddenly let out a long howl.

His power was growing stronger and stronger, and the terrifying malice was churning.

Power from the four corners of the world was being sucked in by him.

And at the center of that Eight Trigrams array disc.

The halo traveled along the carvings, like the trajectory of flowing time, lighting up the Twelve Earthly Branches one by one.

The speed of the lighting was very slow.

The Zi position pattern was lit up first, and gradually, it was the Chou position pattern.

"Blood-Drawing Array!"

Lu Jianxia let out a low shout:

"We must not let him light up all the Twelve Earthly Branches!"

Endless killing intent emerged in her eyes, and the aura of life and death continuously overflowed from her body, wanting to tear apart the black pillar of light shrouding her.

At the same time.

Chen Mi had already appeared directly in front of Chen Yan.

"You cannot go over there," Chen Mi looked at Chen Yan quietly and said in a low voice.

It was he who had blocked Chen Yan.

Chen Mi looked at everyone behind him:

"Surround and kill Chen Yan together!"

He roared wildly:

"Our goal was never the others, only Chen Yan alone, whether before coming to the Five Clans Struggle or now.

As long as Chen Yan is dealt with, everything will be resolved!!!"

More than thirty Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans had their expressions change one by one; they looked at Chen Yan in shock and terror, their power erupting.

"Let's fight him together, we can definitely win!"

"With Chen Mi and the three Ascenders, that's four Eighth-Order powerhouses in total, how can we not take him down?!"

"Kill him, now is our best chance!!!"

"He no longer has the Divine Armor, now is the best chance for us to defeat him!"

The fear on their faces gradually disappeared; after all, their side had a full four Eighth-Order experts.

Chen Yan swept a glance at the high sky, where Chen Changyuan had gradually taken on a human form:

"Is this your Rule Martial Technique?"

Chen Yan said indifferently; just as he had seen before, Chen Changyuan had utilized the Blood-Drawing Array to a point where no one in the world could surpass him.

Now, with the addition of the aura of life and death, the Blood-Drawing Array was even more powerful.

But the aura of life and death was not invincible and possessed many limitations.

For example, even if Chen Yan could reach the fourth dimension, the Ascender who performed the dimension elevation could also reach it.

But whether it was Chen Yan or that Ascender, both could only see a brief future.

Moreover, this future was extremely blurry and could even be changed.

In other words, the aura of life and death was not omnipotent.

Chen Changyuan's current state must be his weakest state.

"Chen Yan!"

Chen Mi's low roar suddenly resounded, and a trace of anger actually appeared on his face.

Even now, Chen Yan actually hadn't paid any attention to them at all.

He, Chen Mi, was at least ranked first on the Creation Realm Ranking.

"Exterminate him!!!"

Chen Mi suddenly roared low and instantly threw a punch.

In just a split second, the offensive means from all four directions of the world arrived simultaneously, and various phenomena filled the heavens and the earth.

Chen Yan's eyes were indifferent, and the True Martial power around his body erupted, transforming into tens of thousands of Saint-Explosion Light Orbs.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The Saint-Explosion Light Orbs collided with the offensive phenomena attacking from all directions, and terrifying roars burst forth one after another.

Chen Yan, who was at the very center, was completely unharmed.

He had already given birth to his fourth-layer True Martial One self-universe.

His self-universe vibrated, his blood and force merged, and his physical mass and True Martial combat power had long since reached the level of the Eighth Order.

Chen Yan's clothes fluttered as he scanned everyone present.

He stood at the center of the endless explosions, looking at everyone present with indifference.

In an instant, the expressions of those Five Clans Creation Realm experts who had smiles on their faces earlier tightened.

The three high and mighty Ascenders also became grave.

Wu Song and the others were shrouded in black light and could not move freely; at this moment, looking at Chen Yan, their eyes trembled.

Just how powerful had Chen Yan become?

Only they knew that the current Chen Yan was still not an Eighth-Order expert.

"Continue!!!"

Chen Mi roared and looked at the three Ascenders beside him:

"Like this, we can't hurt him at all!!!"

Yet, the moment his voice fell, one Ascender had already appeared in front of Chen Yan and smashed a punch toward him.

Hum!!!

A wave of will pressure instantly exploded from within Chen Yan's body and echoed outward.

The boy who was wearing blue clothes and looked only about ten years old stiffened, and at this moment, his consciousness was interfered with.

At the same time.

*Snap. *

One of Chen Yan's hands had instantly seized the boy's head.

*Crack, crack, crack!!! *

His thumb and middle finger instantly sank into the little boy's left and right temples, and streams of pitch-black brain matter were instantly squeezed out by Chen Yan.

The little boy's terrified gaze peered out from between Chen Yan's fingers, meeting Chen Yan's pair of eyes overflowing with golden-red light.

*Screech!!! *

The little boy shrieked abruptly, his body exploding and transforming into thousands of black insects that coiled around Chen Yan, gnawing frantically.

"Attack together!!!"

Chen Mi roared, his body flickering into a phantom.

The next instant, the remaining two Ascenders and over thirty Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans simultaneously turned into streams of light, charging toward Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's physical body was being gnawed by the black insects, splashing blood; this was the corrosion of Rule power, and wherever the black insects passed, Chen Yan's flesh and blood would vanish.

In an instant, Chen Yan's body was riddled with holes.

"So, he can be injured too!!!"

A Five Clans Creation Realm expert laughed aloud, raised the long saber in his hand, and slashed down at Chen Yan's head.

But the next instant, the Creation Realm expert's smile froze.

*Clang. *

The long saber, filled with the peak Qi and blood power of a Creation Realm expert, suddenly buckled the moment it struck Chen Yan's forehead, failing to even break a single hair of Chen Yan's.

At the same time, the other Five Clans Creation Realm experts who had already charged toward Chen Yan hurriedly halted their figures one by one.

An expression of extreme terror flashed across their faces.

Just because an Eighth Rank could injure Chen Yan did not mean they could also injure Chen Yan.

But they had realized this obviously too late.

With Immortal Will flowing within his body, Chen Yan's body rapidly repaired itself while his palm gripped the void, and a pitch-black wheel of light condensed in his palm.

【Heaven-Splitting Style】!

As Chen Yan flicked his hand, the pitch-black wheel of light instantly shattered the head of the man holding the long saber, and in an instant, his skull flew apart.

*Swish, swish, swish!!! *

True Martial power erupted, and the pitch-black wheel of light shattered the void; like cutting through chives, blood exploded, and the heads of one peak Creation Realm expert after another were sent flying.

Chen Mi's body flickered, moving so fast that one could not see his figure at all; he had been searching for an opportunity to ambush Chen Yan.

But the opportunity had not yet arrived.

In an instant, over a dozen peak Creation Realm experts all died suddenly.

High above in the sky.

On the array disc directly above Chen Changyuan, four of the Twelve Earthly Branches had already been lit up in blood-red.

The aura on Chen Changyuan's body grew increasingly terrifying.

The massive array disc continuously spread toward the heavens and earth in all directions.

More and more lives were suddenly harvested.

It spread all the way to the residential area.

"What is that?"

"No!"

"Ahhh, what do we do?!"

Screams rang out one after another.

As the pitch-black array disc covered the firmament, the living people still running on the ground screamed one by one.

A woman holding an infant suddenly stiffened, and the crying of the baby in her arms stopped abruptly.

Their skin rapidly turned gray and withered, and their hair turned into dust and drifted away.

The crowd fleeing in the streets fell in swathes, like wheat harvested by an invisible sickle.

The essence of their flesh and blood turned into thousands of blood-colored streams, drawn out from their seven orifices, rising against gravity to fly toward the array disc.

On the street.

"Put me down, child, put me down."

A man covered in black spots was being carried on the back of a child of about ten years old; behind them, in the sky, the massive ink-colored array disc continued to grow larger.

The sunlight was blocked by the pitch-black darkness.

The black-spotted man looked behind him with difficulty; wherever the massive shadow passed, the people of the same village became mummified corpses one by one.

They maintained their final postures, their eye sockets hollow as if they were still running, and pitch-black mucus gushed from their wide-open mouths.

But they were already dead.

"Put me down."

The black-spotted man roared loudly, but the child carrying him continued to run as if he hadn't heard.

"Dad."

The boy ran with a nimble body:

"Dad!"

But the man continued to wail as if he hadn't heard the boy's voice at all:

"Put me down, I was going to die anyway, and I'm going to turn into an Ancient God Beast."

The man's eyes were filled with despair:

"What is happening, what is actually happening?"

He wanted to pull away from his child, but the child's arms were gripping him tightly.

"Dad, I have awakened my Blood Qi."

The boy said this, speaking the words that should have made a man most proud.

The man with a face full of black spots was stunned; he opened his mouth wide, almost weeping with joy.

Their clan had been miserable people for generations, with every generation hoping for the appearance of a martial artist who could awaken Blood Qi.

This generation, this generation had finally produced one.

His eyes softened; his child's day-and-night efforts had brought about the best result.

But the next moment.

The boy's body stiffened; he was still in the posture of running, but his body was forever frozen in place.