Chapter 697: Exterminating Chen Mi

Inside a room.

A woman with a face covered in black spots held a knife against her own chest.

Bang, bang, bang.

The door was being pounded on forcefully.

A child's shouting rang out from outside the room:

"Mommy, Mommy, it's okay, it's okay, you haven't turned into an Ancient Divine Beast!"

"Mommy, Mommy!"

The crying grew more and more intense.

Yet the woman remained unmoved, tears streaming from her eyes.

She was already twenty-eight; she had reached the end of the lifespan for a human of the Pure True Yang Realm.

Just a few days ago, she had suddenly discovered tooth marks on her child's body.

She then understood that the malice within her had reached a point she could no longer control; she would inevitably gnaw on her child unconsciously.

Therefore, she had to die.

"Mommy, Mommy..., don't leave me."

Outside, the child's crying grew louder and louder.

The tears in the woman's eyes could no longer be held back, and the knife piercing her chest could no longer be pushed in.

"At least, let me see Xiao Ni one last time."

The woman said through her tears:

"One last time, just one look, just one look..."

Countless ripples emerged in her heart.

She wanted to see her child one more time.

She stood up, her body trembling, feeling increasingly desperate.

"Xiao Ni likes to eat Ani pork; at the very least, I should make a jar of meat sauce..."

She thought this, but her body trembled more and more, and she thought again that she shouldn't be so indecisive; what if, after opening the door, the beastly nature within her caused her to turn completely into an Ancient Divine Beast?

She struggled in this way.

But just then, the sound outside suddenly ceased.

The moment the woman's hand touched the doorknob.

Her body suddenly turned into a dried corpse, and within those withered eyes, she was still desperately trying to form a gentle smile.

She would never know that the child on the other side of the door had died before her.

…………

More and more living beings were dying just like that.

Screams, sounds of despair, and wails were intertwined across the entire land.

Life was being harvested madly, like blades of grass.

This was the apocalypse belonging to the Pure True Yang Realm.

…………

Deep within the earth's core.

Chen Yu was wrapped in an array disc; in front of her, a teleportation array disc was still flickering with fluorescent light.

Following what Chen Yan had said, she had entered the Pure True Yang Realm within the planned time, with the starting point being the school.

And because of the life-and-death aura method Chen Yan had left behind from the very beginning, this physical body had inherited the full strength of the original body.

Thus, using the school as a starting point, she created teleportation array discs, manufacturing them all the way, crossing hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

She had arrived here, with only the final fifty thousand kilometers left to the Yunxin Valley.

But now.

"What on earth has happened..."

A voice of twilight spilled from Chen Yu's mouth.

Her black hair had turned into white hair, and shallow wrinkles had already appeared on her beautiful face.

Her once youthful appearance now looked like that of a forty-year-old woman.

Her life force was being drained away.

If she were not a cultivator, and given that she had always carried defensive array discs on her person,

her current state would be even more miserable.

Warning signals suddenly appeared in her heart; Chen Yu knew that the closer she got to the Yunxin Valley, the more terrifying the crisis imposed upon her would become.

This was not Chen Yu's own ability, but rather a certain array disc Chen Yu had manufactured that possessed this warning capability.

Compared to Chen Yan, who only cared about his own combat power,

Chen Yu blossomed in many areas regarding the path of array discs.

Yet, even so, the speed at which Chen Yu produced spatial array discs had not slowed down in the slightest.

Her movements began to grow sluggish, and the aura of twilight on her face grew increasingly intense.

…………

At the same time.

Inside the Purple Ring World-Fixing Mirror.

A massive ball of lightning spanned across a sea of blood that had no end in sight.

Zong Huang, Lin Yu, and the others stood upon the lightning ball, all of them looking up at the high sky together.

There, a blood moon composed of countless eyeballs stood high in the sky.

"Chen Changyuan's true form is right there; the Blood Sea of the Eroding Moon cannot actively attack the martial artists participating in the Five Clans Struggle, but that does not necessarily include us."

Zong Huang spoke up.

Lin Yu laughed out loud:

"What do you mean, looking down on me?"

The others laughed even more spiritedly.

Zong Huang glanced at the comrades beside him, his thoughts stirred, and he took out a plate of chicken legs, distributing them to Lin Yu and the others:

"Taste this."

Lin Yu and the others were extremely surprised.

"Boss, are you really willing to part with this?"

A woman said with a smile.

"Stop the nonsense, taste my daughter's cooking."

Zong Huang held one of the chicken legs, his gaze incredibly soft, yet the apology in the depths of his eyes grew ever stronger.

He placed the chicken leg into his mouth and chewed slowly; tears actually shimmered in the eyes of the man with the weather-beaten face.

Once everyone had finished eating their chicken legs.

"For Great Xia!" Zong Huang's eyes became solemn.

Killing intent erupted in the eyes of Lin Yu and the others:

"For Great Xia!"

"For Great Xia!"

………………

Yunxin Valley.

"Attack together, otherwise we will all die!!!"

A sharp screech rang out; a girl dressed in purple screamed, her body actually crystallizing at this moment, and she stared fixedly at Chen Yan:

"Right now, I am invincible!"

She pressed her body forward, blinding purple light erupting from her crystallized form; with a sharp whistle, she suddenly struck out with her right fist, and wherever the fist wind passed, the void shattered and vanished.

Golden-red light surged in Chen Yan's eyes; he did not dodge or evade, meeting the strike head-on with his right fist like a falling star.

The moment the two fists collided.

Boom!!!

A ring-shaped shockwave exploded from the point of impact, and the clouds for ten thousand miles were instantly torn into shreds.

Chen Yan's knuckles caved in, but his expression remained unchanged as he threw another punch; his fist bones emitted a metallic roar, his muscles coiled like dragons, and immense power surged through his arm, joint by joint!

The little girl's expression turned to shock, and she hurriedly threw a punch.

Boom boom boom boom!!!

Four punches collided, the speed so fast that it was impossible to see clearly.

In her crystallized state, the girl's body presented a form of absolute invincibility.

Invincible hardness!

Chen Yan's fist bones shattered, but the moment he retracted and threw his next punch, his Immortal Will flowed through and repaired the wounds.

Accompanied by the biting of thousands of black insects, Chen Yan's physical body constantly shifted between severe injury and recovery.

The only thing that remained constant was that Chen Yan's punching movements grew faster and his power grew more ruthless.

"He..."

A Creation Realm expert of the Five Clans gritted his teeth and roared:

"Is he human or ghost!!!"

The moment his voice fell.

A hiss sounded.

A pitch-black laser instantly pierced through his head.

【Condensed Radiance Style】!!!

Chen Yan smashed out a punch, a pitch-black ball of light condensing on his knuckles.

The light ball compressed, then compressed again.

The next moment.

Boom!

The little girl struck with a punch, and the moment the two fists collided, the light ball shattered.

The next instant.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!

Countless pitch-black lasers erupted from the crushed light ball, streaking across the firmament.

【Void Breaker - Saint Condensation】!

Puchi, puchi, puchi!

Head after head was directly pierced by the pitch-black lasers, and corpse after corpse of peak Creation Realm experts fell from the high sky.

A rain of blood began to fall from the firmament.

"We can't win, this isn't a battle that belongs to us!"

Someone screamed in terror.

He was ranked twentieth on the Creation Realm Ranking, originally an extremely powerful Creation Realm expert, but in this battle, he was nothing more than a small fry.

"We can't beat them, this is a battle of the Eighth Rank, those in the Creation Realm cannot join in!"

Someone shook their head in a panic.

The next instant.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Their bodies shattered abruptly, turning into two clusters of blood-light that drifted toward the high sky.

Chen Mi and the others looked on in astonishment.

The two clusters of blood-light were swallowed directly into the belly of Chen Changyuan, who was still taking shape.

Chen Changyuan's eyes were indifferent:

"Whoever flees will only die a more miserable death!"

Upon the earth, the corpses of those fallen in the Creation Realm, under the shroud of the pitch-black array disk, had already withered, turning into streams of blood-colored light that drifted toward Chen Changyuan.

Chen Changyuan looked at Chen Yan with a sinister chill.

In the past, he and the Ancient Beast of Dreams had conspired to use the Blood-Drawing Array to consume the lives of the millions of living beings in Wushi City to ascend to the Creation Realm.

But that day, all his schemes were ruined by Chen Yan's General-Bestowing Ceremony.

Today, the one with the ability to stop him was still Chen Yan.

"Chen Mi!"

Chen Changyuan laughed coldly:

"I hope you can prove more useful than being consumed by me."

Chen Mi's expression trembled; he lowered his head at this moment, endless killing intent surging in the depths of his eyes.

Turning, his gaze locked onto Chen Yan:

"It's all because of you!"

Chen Mi roared out:

"If not for you, why would we be in this state!"

He was angry to the extreme.

The little girl trading blows with Chen Yan saw her expression change, becoming increasingly urgent.

"The invincible state is about to disappear, you all..."

She shrieked, still blocking Chen Yan's attack, but cracks had already appeared on her palms.

At the same time, a shadow of blood slammed over in an instant.

Chen Mi unleashed 【World Instant】, his speed reaching the extreme; he struck, his whip-kick booming toward Chen Yan's head.

At the same time.

An Ascender who had not yet made a move suddenly appeared, a pitch-black bone blade appearing in his hand, stabbing toward Chen Yan's face.

"Kill!!!"

The crystallized girl let out a shrill screech, turning her fists into claws, her five fingers hooking toward Chen Yan's heart like hooks.

Thousands of black insects exploded in unison, turning into pitch-black slime intended to completely cover Chen Yan.

At the same time, four Eighth Rankers attacked simultaneously.

Surrounding Chen Yan, the void shattered inch by inch; invisible force fields pulled at each other, erupted, and turned into tens of thousands of flowing electric currents that exploded in the void.

Rumble!!!

The powers intertwined and exploded, surrounding Chen Yan, eventually forming a pitch-black black hole; the black hole collapsed!

This scene arrived suddenly.

Time seemed to go quiet.

Everyone watched this scene.

Shen Yiwei's eyes widened, the Inverse Nine Sword Heart within his body ringing and trembling frantically; streaks of sword light seemed as if they wanted to tear apart the black pillar of light shrouding him.

The next instant.

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

A scream suddenly resounded.

Chen Yan's body was completely blasted apart, turning into a sky full of blood that sprayed in all directions.

Chen Yan's head broke open, his single eye still flowing with shock and disbelief.

As if asking.

Why?

With a bang.

Chen Yan's broken head fell to the earth, rolled for a long time, and then had no more life.

Xia Long widened his eyes, looking at this scene in disbelief.

Lu Jianxia's body went rigid; at this moment, she closed her eyes, tears appearing in the depths of her eyes.

She had resented Chen Yan, feared Chen Yan, and later understood Chen Yan and respected Chen Yan.

Until now, she witnessed Chen Yan's fall.

For some reason, endless sorrow almost destroyed Lu Jianxia at this moment; she felt as if she had completely lost everything.

"Speak my heart to heaven and earth..."

That voice resounded in her mind once more.

The endless heaviness made Lu Jianxia unable to breathe.

If there really was someone who could use such a wish as their motto, then where was he?

Gazes filled with extreme anger looked toward Chen Mi and the others.

Everyone found it hard to believe.

"Impossible!"

A woman's voice, cold to the extreme, rang out.

Ke Qingxuan's voice was hoarse, tears shimmering in her eyes that had always been cold, and her voice was even distorted:

"He is invincible."

High above in the sky, Chen Changyuan watched this scene, his brows furrowed.

It shouldn't be.

At the very least, it shouldn't be this simple.

Chen Yan...

He was stunned, he was disappointed, he was even sorrowful.

Yes, he was somewhat sorrowful.

That was his strongest enemy; how could he die like this?

Chen Mi shook the blood off his legs with some discomfort, looking dazed, then he laughed:

"So, he was nothing more than this!"

All the wariness in his eyes vanished, and he returned to his former arrogance.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!!!

Thousands upon thousands of black insects gathered again, transforming into the shape of a little boy.

The other two Ascendants also revealed smiles.

"Nothing more than this!!!"

The girl who could crystallize raised her head, looking at everyone with wild arrogance.

She was the one who had fought Chen Yan the longest, and now her body was covered in bloodstains.

The girl patted the shoulders of the other two Ascendants.

The other two Ascendants frowned; they were older than the girl, and the girl was being a bit presumptuous.

But upon thinking of the other party's performance just now, the two could only let it go.

"Hong Yu, you did well."

One Ascendant laughed.

Hong Yu chuckled and slapped a palm onto Chen Mi's shoulder:

"You are quite good; why not become an Ascendant like us?"

Chen Mi revealed a look of disgust, glancing at the hand the other party had placed on his shoulder.

He did not like others doing this to him.

He excelled in speed, and with the power of 【World Instant】, almost no one could catch him.

His only weakness was also others making contact with his body.

Therefore, the moment the Ascendant named Hong Yu made contact, he felt immense disgust.

But now, as it was a prime opportunity to kill Chen Yan, Chen Mi did not dwell on it.

"That won't be necessary."

Chen Mi replied:

"Chen Yan is merely a rebellious disciple of my Chen Clan; that he could grow to this stage is already the tolerance of my Chen Clan."

A look of disdain appeared in his eyes as he looked again toward the place where Chen Yan's head had fallen.

On the shattered earth, between two concave rocks, a broken head was wedged, blood flowing from it.

The disdain in Chen Mi's eyes grew more intense, and he turned a blind eye to the roars and wails echoing in his ears from the Great Xia Creation Realm.

"Indeed, nothing more than this, he..."

As Chen Mi spoke, he squinted his eyes and looked again at that broken head.

For some reason.

In a certain instant.

He felt he had seen wrong; that did not seem to be Chen Yan's head.

It was...

Hong Yu's head.

Chen Mi's body stiffened, his eyes slowly widening.

And it was at this moment.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Sounds of bones cracking rang out, and sharp pain suddenly radiated from Chen Mi's shoulder.

Chen Mi let out a startled cry and hurriedly looked over.

The hand that had been patting his shoulder had already crushed it, blood flowing from between the distinct knuckles.

"You..."

Chen Mi let out a loud cry and looked toward his side again.

The next moment.

"Chen Yan!!!"

A shriek rang out.

He widened his eyes; Chen Yan had altered his perception!

The person everyone had attacked just now was not Chen Yan, but...

Red Jade.

When?

When!!!

Boom.

A roar suddenly erupted.

The massive head just like that suddenly smashed Chen Mi's head to pieces.

Chen Mi, die!!!