Chapter 712: The Struggle of Faith, the Fruit Ripens!

"For one thousand years, Chen Prefecture has had no Prefecture Bright!!!"

As Chen Yunyou's voice resounded throughout the entire Great Xia.

Across the entire human world, many people watched in a daze.

In Chen Prefecture, the Chen Lord's body gradually stiffened, staring coldly at the figure of Chen Yunyou on the screen.

"The current Chen Lord is the Chen Prefecture Chen Lord of two thousand years ago, Chen Yuan!"

Chen Yunyou's voice continued to ring out.

Throughout the entire world, everyone wore an expression of shock.

Chen Yuan, father of Chen Sheng and Chen Yi, rose to power in the final generation of Chen Prefecture.

Since taking control of Chen Prefecture, both martial arts and technology have seen long-term development, step by step surpassing Chi Prefecture and Ji Prefecture.

Becoming the third among the Five Clans.

It was not until one thousand years ago that Chen Yuan became the Prefecture Bright, his son Chen Sheng succeeded to the throne, and Chen Prefecture experienced a revival, developing over a thousand years to become the strongest of the Five Clans today.

The current Chen Lord's strength is even more unfathomable.

Back then, during the Iron Prefecture Incident, Lu Xunyang led a great army to strike at Ji Prefecture, nearly killing the Ji Lord with his own hands.

The Chen Lord and the Chi Lord appeared, intercepting Lu Xunyang, who held the Xia Lord Sword, and saved the Ji Lord's life.

That year, the top powerhouses of Great Xia and the Five Clans engaged in a shocking yet secret war.

But looking at the results, Great Xia lost, Lu Xunyang withdrew his troops, and Ji Prefecture did not fall.

After the great war, the Chen Lord's strength became even more astonishing.

Since then, Chen Prefecture has flourished, firmly occupying the top spot in all fields with an absolute advantage.

Number one in the Creation Realm, Chen Mi.

Number one in the Sixth Rank, Chen Changyuan.

Number one on the Five Clans Ranking, Chen Yunyou.

Chen Prefecture, in everyone's eyes, is powerful and unfathomable.

But at this moment, Chen Yunyou suddenly appeared, revealing a heaven-shaking secret to the entire world.

The Chen Lord sat quietly, showing no expression, but his eyes were cold to the extreme.

Almost in an instant, messages from all directions arrived.

The next moment, the Chen Lord slowly turned his head and looked in one direction:

"Chen Qi, do you believe what this impostor Chen Yunyou said?"

In a certain direction of Chen Prefecture, the Great Elder of Chen Prefecture, Chen Qi, had an ugly expression, his aged eyes flickering with many emotions, and he immediately spoke:

"Naturally I do not believe it; Chen Yunyou died inside the Myriad Forms Island, I saw it with my own eyes."

Chen Qi fell silent.

Was it something he saw with his own eyes?

He had not seen it with his own eyes; Chen Yunyou died inside the Brocade Palace, and no one had seen whether Chen Yunyou had truly died.

Moreover, after Chen Qi left Myriad Forms Island at the time, Chen He arrived and sent many people to continue breaking into the Brocade Palace.

This matter completely bypassed him, Chen Qi.

Even now, he does not know what task the Chen Lord entrusted to Chen He at that time.

"Great Elder." The Chen Lord's voice sounded again.

"Chen Qi is here."

Chen Qi stood up and bowed in the direction of the Chen Lord.

"This matter is merely a move by the Xia clan to disturb people's hearts; many people might be bewitched."

Chen Qi nodded:

"I will handle it."

The Chen Lord smiled slightly:

"I believe in your ability."

Chen Qi looked solemn, then spoke:

"Chen Lord, was Bing Yi's corpse found on Myriad Forms Island?

That day, I saw a future day where Bing Yi, like a god of slaughter, annihilated hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

This matter should come to pass."

The Chen Lord narrowed his eyes:

"The future you saw using the formation?"

Chen Qi is no fool; combining all the previous events, he perhaps already had a guess in his heart.

"Yes, it is the rule formation I created myself," Chen Qi said.

The Chen Lord narrowed his eyes:

"The future is not immutable; what you saw at that time was only a future composed of the countless events intertwined in the human world at that moment.

But when you see the future and take actions you otherwise would not have taken, the future will be changed; even a very small move will stir up monstrous waves in the future."

Chen Qi's expression sank:

"If I had watched the future that day, I would not have left Xiaoyang City, and Chen Yan would have returned to Chen Prefecture..."

He sighed deeply, endless regret flashing in the bottom of his heart, and then bowed again:

"Chen Qi takes his leave."

Inside the room, the Chen Lord's eyes were calm; with a wave of his hand, the screen in front of him disappeared.

"Chen Yan... Bing Yi, was it you who did this?"

"Lord Chen," Chen Yuan murmured to himself, to be precise.

The Chen Prefecture Creation Realm that invaded the Palace of Brocade has returned, and Bing Yi's corpse is not there.

Once Chen Yuan learned this information, he concluded one thing: Bing Yi is Chen Yan.

Now that Chen Yunyou is not dead and his own secret is exposed, it can only be because of Chen Yan.

"The brocade mountains and rivers will shatter, the dark ages are about to arrive, why... must a Chen Yan appear..."

A chill appeared in Lord Chen's eyes, but the next moment, he laughed.

"Hahaha!"

His body began to tremble slightly; a cigarette appeared between his fingers, he took a delicate puff, and curling blue smoke was exhaled from his mouth.

"Hahaha!"

"The human race is so beautiful, the world has countless waves, heroes emerge in full, chasing the firmament in the Golden Sea!"

The next moment, the color of his eyes began to change; the whites disappeared, as if completely occupied by chaos and darkness.

"Chen Yan."

He spoke calmly, and within his perception, a blurry, gray, gargantuan entity appeared.

A distorted figure that kept wailing 'Chen Yan' and 'Lord of Will'.

A more blurry existence that used something to shield his perception.

Chen Yuan looked toward that blurry existence and spoke quietly: "Chen Yunyou, you saved him, correct?"

A smile of appreciation appeared in Chen Yuan's eyes.

"I didn't expect that you actually understood everything that happened back then while on Ten Thousand Phases Island."

"In your view, is someone like me a calamity to the human world?"

He spoke calmly, and within his perception, that blurry mass that had shielded his perception withdrew its concealment; it was a human figure.

Lord Chen's eyes were profound:

"The Xia Lord of that year was colder than me, more cruel than me; how could the number of humans who died because of him be merely hundreds of millions?!

Do you think I am afraid of death and that is why I do not become the Prefecture Bright?"

Anger appeared in Lord Chen's eyes:

"Wrong, dead wrong!

The Prefecture Bright is a nail used by the human world to suppress the Ancient Gods, but it is also a nail destined to rot; tell me, are you willing to be that nail destined to rot?

To be that puppet who watches the human race perish while being unable to do anything?"

Inside the Purple Universe World-Fixing Mirror and the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Chen Yan frowned.

He did not expect that Lord Chen would actually say such things.

In Chen Yan's understanding, Lord Chen should be the same type of person as Chen Changyuan.

Pure evil, pure greed.

Was what the other party said an attempt to bewitch him?

Chen Yan's eyes turned indifferent, and he said nothing.

"Perhaps you feel I am too hypocritical, clearly doing the work of exterminating the Great Xia, yet speaking of things like the human race."

Lord Chen's voice continued to come through:

"But in my plan, the living beings of Great Xia will not be exterminated, just castrated; they simply won't be able to give birth to children, won't have descendants.

They will either sink into bestiality or sink into desire; they can live out their lives perfectly well.

From now on, the human race will no longer produce excessive death, nor will it give birth to excessive malice.

The human race... can continue to extend for ten thousand years!

Martial arts are developing, technology is developing; if the human race of today cannot defeat the Ancient Gods, the human race ten thousand years from now absolutely can slaughter the Ancient Gods!

What I do, the sin is in the present age, but the merit will last for a thousand autumns!"

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and spoke faintly at this moment:

"I really cannot listen to your sophistry any longer; if you are so lofty, have you ever cared about the calamity of the ten million living beings on Ten Thousand Phases Island?"

Lord Chen spoke indifferently:

"Did the Xia Lord of that year ever care?

Did the Xia Lord of that year ever care about his own Xia Clan, care about the tens of millions of humans he slaughtered, or the hundreds of millions of humans he abandoned?

If we speak of sin, I am far inferior to him.

But he was the founding lord, he was the meritorious founder of the human nation, he was right."

As Lord Chen spoke, he suddenly laughed, and his eyes bloomed with a sharp light:

"Kid, no matter how you struggle, you will never be able to change one fact.

The human race of today stands upon a mountain accumulated with endless sin.

The soil you walk upon has always been decomposing the flesh and blood of your ancestors.

The world is sinful, the world is fair; it does not care about good or evil, it simply exists.

Without extreme sin, how can there be extreme rationality?"

Chen Yan's gaze was indifferent; he did not want Lord Chen to know that he already understood too much, but there were some things he had to ask the other party.

Chen Yan spoke:

"Ancient God Fanni, what is its current state?

Are you, as you are now, no longer part of the human race?"

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes:

"I want to know, if you truly have such ideals, then how do you oppose the Ancient God Fanni who has been awake for a thousand years?

What you are doing, is it ultimately to save the human race, or have you been acting according to the will of Ancient God Fanni all along?"

Silence.

Chen Zhu fell into a long silence.

The information Chen Yan possessed was even beyond his expectations.

"Hehehe..."

His body trembled slightly, as if the laughter were being squeezed out from his throat.

"Then have you ever seen Chen Prefecture fall?

Have you ever seen the Ancient God emerge?" he asked with a laugh.

"Nonsense!" Chen Yan snapped:

"The other four clans have been suppressing the other four body parts of Ancient God Fanni, so of course the Ancient God cannot emerge."

"Precisely because of that!" Chen Yuan said calmly:

"A gentleman judges by deeds; you may look at me coldly, but the human world has been following my plan all along.

I have done nothing wrong."

A look of disgust appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

He was no longer willing to listen to Chen Zhu's sophistry.

He would not be changed in the slightest.

If one firmly walks down a certain path, then there should be no more hesitation, no more questioning.

Even the slightest bit of questioning is an insult to one's own will.

Seeming to sense Chen Yan's disgust, Chen Yuan's laughter subsided.

"Chen Yan."

He spoke quietly:

"There are always reefs that want to block the waves of history; the reefs do not want the waves to crash onto the beach, the reefs are not wrong, but the waves are not wrong either.

I do not want to see you smashed to pieces by the waves; a genius like you, given a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years, you would be enough to grow into the Lord of the Human Race, enough to contend with the Ancient Gods.

At that time, you can brand me, you can slice me into a thousand pieces, I will let you do as you please!

I am a sinner, and I shall certainly bear the retribution a sinner deserves!

If you can forge a new path for the human race, no one will stop you from doing what you want."

He took a deep breath:

"This is the last chance I will give you; if you assist me, I will give you everything you want, I can swear a contract!"

He stopped speaking, sitting in his chair and slowly smoking a cigarette.

He could guess a little; Chen Yan should be in a precarious situation now; this was not just Chen Yan giving him a chance, but also him giving Chen Yan a chance.

If he did not agree, Chen Yan would be on a dead-end path.

However, time passed slowly.

A pinch of ash fell onto Chen Yuan's leg; he paid it no mind and closed his eyes.

"Chen Yan..."

He said calmly:

"You have your grand will, and I have my great aspiration for the human race.

For the human race, there has never been true right or wrong; this is the human race, this is the world."

As he spoke, he directly cut off his perception.

Sitting quietly on the sandalwood chair, he lit another cigarette:

"A person's life... a person's life..."

He murmured, his intent flashed, and a figure quickly appeared within the room.

The person who arrived wore green robes, their eyes extremely long and narrow, a feeling of cunning and coldness striking instantly.

"Chen He."

Chen Zhu looked at the newcomer.

"Greetings, Chen Zhu." Chen He bowed slowly to Chen Yuan, but his eyes flickered with wariness.

Chen Yuan sized up Chen He:

"Do you believe what that so-called Chen Yunyou said?"

Chen He looked up and smiled:

"Naturally, I believe it."

Chen Zhu narrowed his eyes and stood up, scanning Chen He indifferently.

Chen He continued to smile:

"Even if it is true, so what?"

Chen Zhu nodded with satisfaction:

"I need you to go to the Ancient God Forbidden Land, and take two Eighth-Rankers with you."

Chen He's expression tightened slightly.

Chen Yuan continued:

"Go and kill Chen Yan; although I have already tampered with him, I am still not at ease."

Chen He was startled, then narrowed his eyes, revealing a gaze like a fox:

"May I seize his body? I am very curious about him."

Lord Chen glanced at Chen He and nodded.

Chen He departed.

Lord Chen stood quietly before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the prosperous entirety of Chen Province outside, watching the living beings of Chen Province, each one flashing with a look of terror.

The appearance of Chen Yunyou had dealt a massive blow to the entire world.

"A person's life... a person's life..." Chen Yuan sighed deeply.

Chen Yan composed his mind.

Regardless of what Lord Chen's true thoughts were, it was a fact that he had caused the Ancient God Fanni to awaken, and it was a fact that he had created the tragedy of the ten million people on Myriad Forms Island.

His split soul, Chen Changyuan, had caused the annihilation of the ten million people in the Pure True Yang Realm.

Murderous intent overflowed in the depths of Chen Yan's eyes.

What is terrifying is not that your enemy loses their humanity; what is terrifying is that your enemy possesses faith.

The more paranoid the faith, the more troublesome it is.

Chen Yan sensed the Saint-Breaking Realm.

At this moment, the azure radiance was almost filling the Misty Land, and a bright, shimmering 【Break】 Saint-Breaking Fruit was slowly ripening.

Ninety percent.

Ninety-one percent.

Ninety-two percent.

At this time.

It was not just the matter of Lord Chen, but also the matter of the Lord of Will descending upon the battlefield that was being made known to the world, and it was continuing to spread.

Those who had not seen it, those who had not heard it, also learned of the Yun Province war from the accounts of others.

Countless people were shocked and filled with awe.

The Lord of Will was inclined toward the Great Xia; the Lord of Will had turned the tide of the war.

The Lord of Will had once said that he would come in person; although he had not yet arrived, he was already helping the human world.

The entire Great Xia was undoubtedly given a shot of adrenaline.

Tie Province had fallen, the stronghold of the Xunyang faction, Qin Province, had fallen, and Yun Province was mired in a bitter struggle; many people understood that Yun Province's defeat was only a matter of time.

The entire Great Xia was shrouded under dark clouds, and everyone was pressed to the point of being unable to breathe.

But now, the war in Yun Province had turned, bringing hot tears to the eyes of many.

"The Lord of Will illuminates the past and present; his brilliant might can be called the Saint of the human race!"

"The Saint descends upon the world, reversing the fate of the human race!"

"There has never been a Saint throughout history; the Will shall rebuild the human race!"

The entire Great Xia was boiling; the entire human race was boiling.

Conversely, panic swept through the Five Clans.

The matter of Yun Province was a major event for the world, one that the Five Clans could not suppress at all.

Whether it was the Lord of Will helping the Great Xia turn the tide, or the fact that Chen Province had not seen light for a thousand years, both made the Five Clans even more terrified.

"The Lord of Will is concerned for the Great Xia, yet he has not favored the Five Clans..."

"In my Chen Province, is there truly a terrifying existence sleeping that has already awakened?"

"The Lord of Will once wanted to descend upon Chen Province; could it be that he had long ago discovered that Chen Province is the source of the disaster?"

"That day, a million living beings of Chen Province perished; someone did not want the Lord of Will to descend."

"Heavens, who can save my Five Clans?"

Panic, endless panic, spread throughout the Five Clans.

The amount of information was too great, too shocking, and too difficult to accept.

It was not just the common people, but also the armies of the Five Clans; at this moment, their morale had scattered.

Even though the high-level officials of the Five Clans were constantly suppressing it, the atmosphere of the entire Five Clans was wrong.

Suspicion was being born.

As time passed, this suspicion would grow deeper and deeper, eventually growing into a beast that would devour people.

Some of the Five Clans' people ran in panic to offer sacrifices at the Temple of the Lord of Will, only to suddenly discover that the Temples of the Lord of Will located within the Five Clans' territory were being demolished.

Almost at the same time, Tier 6, and even Creation Realm experts, took action to destroy the Temples of the Lord of Will everywhere.

Then, even bloodier events were born.

The slaughter began.

The sects within the Five Clans that had established faith in the Lord of Will were subjected to slaughter.

The sect named the Will Divine Sect had all of its hundred-plus high-level members executed within three hours, and their bodies were completely destroyed.

Tier 6 experts were killing, Creation Realm experts were also killing, and even Tier 8 experts appeared.

With a wave of their hands, the high-level members of the sects who were secretly deliberating were all annihilated into dust and dissipated.

The remaining sects, large and small, were all suppressed.

Some people were angry and wanted to protest, but before their plans could be made, they were all annihilated.

High-tier martial artists killing people was completely silent and traceless.

Even when killing in the street, they could employ martial arts to make it so that everyone on the entire street could not see.

This day was a bloody day.

The Will-believing martial artists within the Five Clans were arrested and imprisoned.

The high-level members of all major sects were slaughtered to the last.

All faith related to the Lord of Will seemed to have evaporated from the Five Clans.

No blood, no corpses, no shouts; it just disappeared like that.

"The Power of Will can annihilate malice; the Lord of Will is a conspiracy of the Great Xia, an Ancient God. Malice cannot be annihilated, so why can the Power of Will annihilate malice?

That is because the Power of Will is itself a form of malice!"

In Luzhou, above buildings large and small, the figure of the Grand Elder of Luzhou appeared on holographic projections.

He spoke to the entire Luzhou:

"The Power of Will can suppress will, can suppress the cognition of others; think about it, what does this resemble?

Malice!"

The Grand Elder of Luzhou spoke decisively:

"The Power of Will is malice, Chen Yan is an Ancient God Beast; everything is a conspiracy!"

Across Chenzhou.

People looked up, and between every heaven and earth, there was a giant Dharma image of Chen Qi.

He stood above the void and spoke to the world:

"All along, the Lord of Will has been a conspiracy of the Great Xia, a poisonous scheme of the Great Xia to erode the hearts of my Five Clans' people!

If that Lord of Will truly favored the human race, why is it difficult for the Path of Will to spread among my Five Clans?

Why does he not assist my Five Clans?"

The Five Clans, everywhere.

Everyone watched and listened, their eyes trembling.

Some began to roar, began to curse the Great Xia, began to rage against the Lord of Will.

Some had tears flowing from their eyes, near despair; they were the most loyal believers of the Lord of Will.

Some gritted their teeth, unwilling to believe.

Some had coldness emerge in their eyes, and combining everything they had seen, they began to deduce the truth of the matter.

The Lord of Chen watched all this happen in silence.

Destroying faith is also a way of fighting.

Even, a more important one.

…………

"I should actually thank you all."

Inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, golden light emerged in Chen Yan's eyes.

Just as the Five Clans began to purge everything related to the Lord of Will.

The blue light within the Saint-Breaking Realm suddenly increased sharply.

That's right, it increased sharply.

This was thanks to the Great Xia's increased faith in the Lord of Will.

And also thanks to the Five Clans' suppression of the Lord of Will.

Some Five Clans commoners who had already doubted the Lord of Will clearly no longer believed.

But those Five Clans commoners who had already believed in the Lord of Will, upon seeing the Lord of Will being suppressed, instead believed even more, and looked forward to the Lord of Will's descent even more.

They did not speak, but that did not mean they had been corrected.

They would only remain silent, pressing that power deep into their hearts.

Angry people are silent.

The appearance of Chen Yunyou caused the Five Clans people to develop doubts about the Five Clans themselves.

The growth speed of the 【Break】 Saint-Breaking Fruit had not slowed down at all.

He could see that some Will martial artists of the Five Clans were already beginning to flee with the surviving sect personnel.

Leaving the Five Clans, heading toward the Great Xia.

Even.

The Lord of Yu contacted Xia Hanzhou once again.

However, Chen Yan did not see the content of this discussion at all.

Because neither of these two were Will martial artists.

But the person the Lord of Yu contacted at the very beginning was the Grand Minister, and the Grand Minister had long since entered the Path of Will.

Yuzhou was, by nature, the clan among the Five Clans that was most distant from the other four.

The Yu Clan was also the clan most likely to break away from the Five Clans.

This could be seen from people like Yu Ming and Yu Cheng.

What the Yu Clan's thousands of years of technological progress had brought was also the opening of the people's wisdom.

The development of Yuzhou's technology was not for the human race's mutual slaughter, but to seek a new way out for the human race.

The way many people of the Yu Clan thought was different from the general public.

Of course, there were idiots too, and Yu Laiwei was one.

"If killing could solve all problems, then the human race of today would have long since perished."

Chen Yan whispered.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, that deep blue fruit became increasingly plump, overflowing with divine wonder, containing endless opportunities and a brilliant future.

And on a tree branch not far from this deep blue fruit, a pure gold 【Technique】 fruit had already finished growing.

Chen Yan had not been idle during this time.

Instead, he had entered the Myriad Manifestations Enlightenment Map and had been contemplating 【World Instant】.

Within this "Skill" Saint-Breaking Fruit, the full martial essence of "World Blink" is contained.

And after the "Break" Saint-Breaking Fruit matured.

It was one hundred "Skill" Saint-Breaking Fruits.

Time passed slowly.

Even for Chen Yan, his heartbeat accelerated at this moment.

Ninety-seven percent!

Ninety-eight percent!

Ninety-nine percent!

It was as if the cries from the human world were resounding in Chen Yan's ears at this moment.

The power derived from faith reached full maturity at this moment.

One hundred percent!

The "Break" Saint-Breaking Fruit, matured!

PS: One chapter, not splitting it up.