Chapter 706: The Counterattack Begins!

Exhaustion, an endless sense of exhaustion emerged from the heart of Lu Xunyang.

His hair was completely white, his body decaying, his divine aura vanished.

His single eye was cold, already withered.

"Truly... Heaven does not grant one's wishes."

He looked toward the high sky, where the massive blood-sun embryo had already broken its cocoon, and a red-eyed infant covered in bloodstains floated slowly before the embryo, staring at him.

"What good would a mutual destruction do you? Even if I, Lu Xunyang, die, I can still completely annihilate you."

Lu Xunyang looked at the red-eyed infant calmly.

"Do you intend to pin all your hopes on the Shi Meng Mo?"

He seemed to have already entered his twilight years; every time he spoke, the withered skin on his body trembled incessantly.

He cast a glance toward the boundless, profound land of darkness.

That was where the true form of the Shi Meng Mo resided, and he finally sighed:

"Since it has come to this, there is only blood sacrifice to Heaven."

Hum!!!

Streams of brilliant light exploded upon his already withered body, as if overdrawing all his life force, making him appear both powerful and even more decayed.

It failed.

Chen Yan's scheme failed; Lu Xunyang did not take Chen Yan away.

His foster son Zhang Ting and his disciple Shen Yiwei were about to perish completely within the body of the Shi Meng Mo.

"My life, Lu Xunyang's life, is enough to stand peerless through the ages, traversing the world.

Yet I have neither become an Ancestor nor a Sect Founder; I am no match for the Master of Blood Qi, nor the founding Xia Sovereign.

Now, I have even reached the abyss, unable to ascend to the Boundless."

He spoke words of self-mockery, yet the fighting spirit in his eyes grew increasingly intense.

"But the will of the human race must not be extinguished; I, Lu Xunyang, even in death, remain..."

Boom!!!

Golden light erupted from his body; every cell, every bone was ringing with a clanging sound.

Squeezing, squeezing, constantly squeezing.

A surging, endless power erupted completely at this moment.

Overdrawing vitality, overdrawing the future.

He reached out with one hand, and the world itself wailed.

"Lu Xunyang!"

He knew well that he would certainly die.

Chen Yan's plan had failed, causing the Shi Meng Mo to completely devour all the ancient god aura.

And before this, the Nether Nightmare Beast was bound to block all his actions.

But if he did not strive, how could he be content?

………………

Hum!!!

Ripples of space appeared in the void.

Chen Yan took Chen Yu and the others into the space formation disk, traversing the void.

The nothingness transformed into tangible mysterious-colored flames that flowed around their bodies.

Behind them.

Screech!!!

A shrill, piercing scream resounded throughout the entire world.

The will of the entire world was shrieking.

Rumble!!!

The earth began to surge, transforming into towering walls that rose up and attacked toward the group.

But the next moment.

Everyone had already stepped into the space formation disk.

The group was silent, but the intense sound of heartbeats in their chests rose and fell one after another.

Chen Yan had actually prepared a contingency plan from the very beginning.

Chen Yan had actually treated himself as a chess piece from the start.

Such foresight was admirable.

Yet everyone was also worried, worried that the formation disk Chen Yu had made would not work.

After all, the Shi Meng Mo had already created walls of malice surrounding them on all sides.

Until.

The flowing light of the void streamed past them.

When the group stepped out from the other side of the space formation disk, the shattered earth and charred corpses everywhere fell into their sight.

"We actually... really came out."

Tears welled up in the eyes of the woman named Hong Mi as she looked at the charred corpses in all directions, and she fell into silence once more.

"Oh, vast Heaven, why are you so unkind to our race?"

A low, mournful cry arose; Wu Song looked at everything presented before him in a daze.

Death, death, death.

Just as Lu Xunyang said, everyone is dead.

Under the constant spreading and suction of the Blood-Drawing Array, they died in despair and wailing.

It was as easy and casual as a flame spraying into an ant nest.

As a remnant soul, Chen Yu's face was deathly pale; she held Chen Yan's hand tightly and flew with Chen Yan toward another location.

Inside a mountain cave, another spatial array disc appeared.

Chen Yan looked at the crowd with complex expressions: "I once saw a more tragic catastrophe on Myriad Image Island."

His eyes were heavy.

Inside the cavern beneath the Myriad Image Divine Tree, there were tens of millions of human souls that had endured over a thousand years of torment.

They suffered while alive, and suffered even more after death.

What Chen Yan said did not mean that he had already grown accustomed to it.

"I know there is sorrow in your hearts, but if we do not resist, only a more tragic catastrophe awaits the future of the human race."

Xia Long looked at the crowd and said in a low voice.

Wu Song's gaze was dead, then he suddenly smiled:

"There are no living beings left in the Pure True Yang Realm; I have no attachments, so I might as well go outside the world to take a look and exterminate those rot-worms that are gnawing at the human world one by one."

The crowd looked at each other.

Upon learning that all the humans in the Pure True Yang Realm had perished, the other party had lost the desire to live.

Now, the desire was rekindled, but it seemed as if they had become a different person.

And it was at this moment.

Rumble!!!

Surrounding the cave, the earth on all four sides began to surge, drowning toward the crowd like a tide that blotted out the sky and covered the sun.

Chen Yu's spatial teleportation was not a straight line.

When Chen Yan and the others walked out of the spatial array disc, the Shi Meng Mo needed time to lock onto Chen Yan and the others.

It did not expect that Chen Yan's other plan had almost loophole-ishly set up an escape route for everyone.

However, at this moment, the Shi Meng Mo looked more like it was throwing a tantrum out of incompetence.

Chen Yan remained silent and continued to lead the crowd into the spatial array disc.

They passed through nearly thirty-some spatial array discs.

A small town wrapped in endless aura of life and death and malice appeared before everyone.

If one looked past the rules, one could see endless evil and terror.

Throughout the escape, the Shi Meng Mo's lock-on time for Chen Yan and the others grew longer and longer.

Chen Yan waved one hand, and thirty-some spatial array discs floated before him.

"These spatial array discs can be reused," Chen Yu said:

"As long as they are planted in advance, one can continuously cross space."

Chen Yan nodded and handed the spatial array discs to Ke Qingxuan:

"Leave at your fastest speed and randomly plant these array discs in various regions of the Pure True Yang Realm."

Chen Yan kept one for himself.

Ke Qingxuan took the spatial array discs from Chen Yan's hand:

"Guerrilla warfare?"

"Mm."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Once the Shi Meng Mo locks onto us, we will directly use the spatial array discs to leave."

The hearts of the crowd stirred slightly.

Chen Yan was indeed sharp-minded; in this way, they truly had gained an extra path to survival.

Ke Qingxuan nodded and then left immediately.

Chen Yan pondered.

"The Shi Meng Mo's consciousness does not cover the entire world, but rather, like a pair of eyes, it needs to search for us within the world."

He looked at the crowd:

"Now, it is not that we should worry about the Shi Meng Mo attacking us, but rather worry about the Shi Meng Mo directly cutting off the malice and the aura of life and death imposed upon our true bodies.

Forcing our consciousness to return."

Cold light appeared in the eyes of Xia Long and the others.

Now, the Shi Meng Mo seemed to be the weaker party.

Of course, the other party's weakness was mainly directed at Chen Yan; Xia Long and the others posed almost no threat to it.

Chen Yan calculated the time.

"Xiaoyu."

Chen Yan looked at Chen Yu beside him:

"You did very well; if not for you, we would have died long ago."

Chen Yan looked at his younger sister with some heartache.

The pain suffered by Chen Yu, who was left with only a remnant soul after being sucked by the Blood-Drawing Array, was beyond words.

Chen Yu tilted her head, quietly looking at Chen Yan, and revealed a smile:

"Big brother doesn't care whether he is a Path-Opener or a Path-Martyr, but I only want you to be a Path-Opener, not some so-called Path-Martyr."

She punched Chen Yan with her fist and complained:

"You say it so easily, do you know how painful it is for me to hear?"

Chen Yan might have only been speaking out of sentiment, but Chen Yu had already taken it to heart.

Chen Yan's eyes trembled slightly, and he nodded quietly; he stroked Chen Yu's cheek, and a faint aura of life and death flowed, opening up the connection between this body and his true self.

Inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Chen Yan's true self slowly opened his eyes.

A red-clad phantom stood before him.

"Xiaoyu, what happened to Xiaoyu?"

The red-clad Ji Yannan had detached from Chen Yu's consciousness world and was now floating outside, full of worry.

Beside Chen Yan, Chen Yu's true self stood quietly.

With a flash of Chen Yan's intent, the Heavenly God Armor covered Chen Yu's body, causing the Shi Meng Mo's malicious interference to vanish completely.

Under the shroud of the Heavenly God Armor, Chen Yu slowly opened her eyes:

"Brother, do you not need my help anymore?"

Chen Yu said, feeling as though she had just experienced a dream.

"Xiaoyu!"

Ji Yannan exclaimed in pleasant surprise and returned to Chen Yu's consciousness world.

"Teacher, I am fine," Chen Yu said internally, reporting her safety to Ji Yannan.

But at the mere thought of Chen Yan having to return to such a tragic world, Chen Yu could not help but worry.

"All the hardships have long since ended; what remains now is to harvest the results."

Chen Yan smiled and with a flash of intent, connected to the Evil-Ash Spear.

At this moment, the Evil-Ash Spear was hovering above the broken Shi Yue Xue Hai, continuously releasing Evil-Void Spores that swept across the entire Shi Yue Xue Hai.

Under the perception of Chen Yan's intent, the Evil-Ash Spear transformed, taking on Chen Yan's appearance and walking into the Shi Yue Xue Hai.

It arrived all the way to the interior.

By the pool flowing with malice, the battered Zong Huang stood before Chen Changyuan, who was sitting cross-legged by the pool.

"Heavenly God General, you have come out?!"

Zong Huang said in pleasant surprise.

"No, this is an avatar of the Evil-Ash Spear," Chen Yan said, controlling the Evil-Ash Spear.

Zong Huang was slightly stunned, then looked at Chen Changyuan:

"He is somewhat strange; as soon as I get close, the Ancient God aura within his body will devour me."

Chen Yan nodded; Chen Changyuan was a vessel for the Ancient God aura.

His consciousness was already completely insane, and the Ancient God aura within his body, having been suppressed too severely by Chen Yan before, had withered and could only be continuously consumed by the Shi Meng Mo.

The Shi Meng Mo's current focus was surely this half of the Ancient God aura inside Chen Changyuan.

Besides that, there was the Ancient God aura inside Chen Yan's own body.

"You can ask Chen Yu for the details," Chen Yan said:

"There is no need to obliterate Chen Changyuan now; let him struggle for as long as he can."

Chen Yan looked at Zong Huang with some surprise; the other party was indeed powerful, actually able to resist some of the suppression of the Ancient God aura.

Truly impressive!

Zong Huang raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded.

Chen Yan looked at Chen Changyuan's true self with calm eyes.

"I want him to live so he can contend with the Shi Meng Mo a bit longer, and then be imprisoned by me in the Endless Purgatory to enjoy eternal torture and wailing."

His eyes were cold to the extreme.

For a clown to have lived until now, it could be called a legend.

Immediately after.

Chen Yan's consciousness returned.

Above the small town, the others were still waiting.

"This is the core area of the Shi Meng Mo's rules, containing the Shi Meng Mo's most profound and powerful core strength."

Wu Song sneered:

"If this place is destroyed, the Shi Meng Mo will certainly be injured."

His eyes were filled with high fighting spirit.

Chen Yan nodded; soon, the Shi Meng Mo would lock onto them.

However, before the Shi Meng Mo could lock on.

Chen Yan and the others had enough time to pull off something big.