Chapter 713: Hidden Danger

The blue light in the Land of Mist surged, and the Saint-Breaking Tree, rooted in the void, trembled slightly; a fruit, entirely azure, hid upon one of the branches within the canopy, overflowing with divinity.

【Break: 100/100】

The 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit is ripe!

A smile appeared at the corners of Chen Yan's mouth, and the exhaustion born from long-term, intense pressure quietly dissipated in this instant.

On another branch, the 【Skill】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit, containing a wealth of knowledge regarding the 【World Instant】 technique, was already prepared.

With just a single thought from Chen Yan, he could transform that one 【Skill】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit into one hundred.

One hundred!

Enough for Chen Yan to master this fifth-greatest divine technique in the world to a significant degree.

More crucially, 【World Instant】 is neither a hard-body martial art nor does it belong to any type of blood-Qi martial technique.

Whether a hard-body martial artist or a blood-Qi martial artist, both can use 【World Instant】, though it is somewhat more suitable for hard-body martial artists.

Because 【World Instant】 involves the physical body charging through space, a powerful physical body is a necessity.

If a blood-Qi martial artist uses it, they must protect their physical body with blood-Qi before executing 【World Instant】.

Otherwise, it is easy to be severely injured.

And Chen Yan no longer possesses hard-body or blood-Qi.

What he has is a stronger martial path formed by the fusion of hard-body and blood-Qi: the True Martial Path.

Executing 【World Instant】 with the True Martial Path will allow Chen Yan to reach a level of power 【World Instant】 has never seen throughout history.

Chen Yan took a long breath.

It was at this very moment.

Chen Yu entered the room.

"Brother, is the situation in the Pure True Yang World alright?" The young girl's eyes held worry.

"It is already much better."

Chen Yan smiled.

Chen Yu nodded slowly, and she spoke with hesitation.

"Brother, you can leave that place, right?"

Her gaze was heavy:

"In this world, there is no way to have the best of both worlds."

Chen Yan's expression was calm as he gazed at Chen Yu:

"Things will get better."

Chen Yu pursed her lips, merely lowering her head.

Chen Yan smiled:

"If the situation becomes most critical and I cannot resolve it, I will find a way to protect myself."

Chen Yu was startled; she looked at Chen Yan and nodded with effort.

Immediately after, Chen Yu left.

Undisturbed, Chen Yan looked at the 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit once more.

Fusing this 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit with the 【Skill】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was the result of Chen Yan's careful deliberation.

Once he possessed unimaginable speed, he could, in one aspect, obtain the power to contend with the Shi Meng Mo.

If his speed were fast enough, the Shi Meng Mo wouldn't even be able to lock onto him.

As for using them on the other Saint-Breaking Fruits, the limitations were too great.

For example, the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

Even if Chen Yan obtained one hundred 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits, it would be useless, because the current him no longer needs the power of the blood-Qi path.

What he wants to create is the True Martial Path.

And the strength of the True Martial Path requires starting from the three aspects of 【Blood】, 【Body】, and 【Force】; strengthening one aspect alone is not enough.

Then there is the 【Origin】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

One hundred 【Origin】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits would only bring Chen Yan's ice or lightning attributes to the divine level.

Whether divine-level elemental power could have an effect on the Shi Meng Mo is hard to know.

As for the 【Array】 and 【Intent】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits.

Chen Yan's strength in these two martial aspects is too weak.

Even if he improved them, it would be difficult to bring any one aspect of his power to the extreme.

"This is already the best choice," Chen Yan murmured.

With a flash of thought, he was about to use both the 【Skill】 and 【Break】 Saint-Breaking Fruits together.

However, at this very instant.

A cold current suddenly flashed through Chen Yan's mind.

Where was something wrong?

Where was it?

He suddenly perceived an inexplicable anomaly.

This feeling seemed to have arisen after his conversation with Chen Zhu.

Just a moment ago, this anomaly suddenly made him alert.

What was the problem?

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

He had been thinking about what method Chen Zhu used to suppress Chen Changyuan.

Even if Chen Changyuan is a split soul of the other party, it does not mean that Chen Changyuan will submit to Master Chen.

And according to Chen Changyuan's previous rate of growing stronger, Master Chen does not have complete certainty at all that he can suppress Chen Changyuan.

Moreover.

Chen Yu would never say such things.

Chen Yu knows Chen Yan's thoughts and understands Chen Yan.

All this time, Xiaoyu has always endured silently and never spoken out of turn.

But just a moment ago, even though Chen Yu suppressed it very hard, she still revealed the thought of letting Chen Yan abandon Shen Yiwei and the others.

It shouldn't be like this.

Chen Yu, was she influenced?

Influenced by whom?

It can only be him.

Chen Yan himself was influenced by some kind of method of Master Chen, and this influence radiated from Chen Yan's body, indirectly influencing Chen Yu.

Furthermore, he himself had actually just felt that Shen Yiwei and the others were a burden.

Then, what exactly is that method?

A Rule Martial Art?

Or a malicious method?

A malicious method is unlikely.

Chen Yan has absolute sensitivity to malice, while Rule Martial Arts are formless and substanceless, not attached to malice, and therefore harder to detect.

Then the only possibility is a Rule Martial Art.

Rule Martial Arts are profound, difficult to articulate, carry the characteristics of rules, and can even ignore time and space.

And to destroy someone else's Rule Martial Art, one needs the Life-Death Qi within one's own body to reach a certain quantity.

As long as your Life-Death Qi is sufficient, others' rule methods will be easily cracked by you.

Life-Death Qi is the key to seeing through rules.

But this time, if it weren't for Chen Yu appearing abnormal, Chen Yan wouldn't even have been able to perceive that he had been influenced by a Rule Martial Art.

Powerful!

To what degree has Master Chen actually reached?

Even for a Shi Meng Mo, there are ways to crack the other party's malicious rules.

But Master Chen's rule methods make it impossible for Chen Yan to solve them at all.

Chen Yan took a deep breath.

He suddenly felt that he had fallen into an abyss where no light could be seen.

From the moment Chen Yan seized half of the Ancient God Qi, from the moment Chen Yan just spoke with Master Chen.

He had already walked into a prison set up by the other party.

The problem lies in the Ancient God Qi.

Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

This object that caused Chen Changyuan to grow strong rapidly is also a dangerous trap set for him by Master Chen.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Chen Changyuan's problem lay in the origin.

"Because I seized the Ancient God Qi, I walked into the rule trap originally set for Chen Changyuan by the other party.

Once the Shi Meng Mo completely devours the other half of the Ancient God Qi in Chen Changyuan's body, the Shi Meng Mo will also walk into the rule trap."

Chen Yan whispered in his heart.

No wonder, no wonder Master Chen never showed any appearance of anger from the beginning.

To trade a Chen Changyuan who was artificially planted and rose to power for a Great Xia Heavenly General and one of the five great Ancient God Beasts, the Shi Meng Mo.

This is simply a huge harvest.

Chen Yan's expression turned cold; Master Chen is likely already overjoyed.

This move is directly killing two birds with one stone.

Chen Yan once again perceived toward the 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit.

"So what if I completely master World Instant; I have already walked into a dangerous trap."

Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart.

The only way now is to increase the quantity of his own Life-Death Qi, which is to establish more of his own universes.

But the 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit cannot act on three types of fruits at the same time.

Acting on any one of 【Blood】, 【Body】, or 【Force】 cannot enable Chen Yan to establish a new True Martial Path universe of his own.

"Unless, I do not establish a True Martial Path universe of my own, but only establish a Qi-Blood Path universe of my own."

Chen Yan paced in the room.

He slowly shook his head.

He currently has seventy-three strands of Ancient God Qi.

Such a large quantity is even more than Lu Jianxia, who just entered the eighth rank.

But these originated from Chen Yan creating and then destroying a True Martial Path universe of his own.

A Reincarnation True Martial Path universe of his own will cause Chen Yan to generate more Life-Death Qi compared to Reincarnation Tempering and Qi-Blood.

Because it is powerful, the True Martial Path is just that powerful.

It makes the addition of Qi-Blood and Tempering achieve an effect where one plus one is greater than two.

Even if Chen Yan applied the 【Break】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit to the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit, causing Chen Yan to generate four, or even five, Qi-Blood Path universes of his own.

Nor would too much aura of life and death be born.

"No."

Chen Yan murmured aloud.

The idea of using it on the 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was suppressed by him.

He looked toward the martial path.

"Chen Yan, Lord of Will, Chen Yan, Lord of Will..."

Chen Changyuan was wrapped in endless darkness, as meat intestines formed from pitch-black malice pierced into his body, devouring all of his Ancient God aura.

There was only a little more than half of the Ancient God aura left in Chen Changyuan's body.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

At this rate, in less than three days, the Shi Meng Mo would completely devour Chen Changyuan and obtain that half of the Ancient God aura.

"Still devouring, others are about to come and collect you."

Chen Yan said indifferently.

In his view, the Shi Meng Mo already belonged to Master Chen.

Chen Yan rubbed the space between his eyebrows.

At this moment, he looked at that mass of Ancient God aura again.

"If I were truly that easy to resolve, I would have already died."

Chen Yan murmured, and came to the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map once more.

Inside the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map, Chen Yan's physical body seemed to have been copied, and that Ancient God aura within his body was once again perceived by Chen Yan.

He perceived it intensely.

Countless whispers of evil spirits resounded in his mind.

Perceive, perceive, perceive...

Visualize!

A strong sense of resistance was born in Chen Yan's mind.

A series of twisted, filthy perceptions that he loathed were forcibly dragged over by him.

"Devour and extinguish it, devour and extinguish it!"

Bursts of low roars resounded in Chen Yan's heart.

This was a form of resistance originating from the depths of Chen Yan's heart.

He loathed and despised these things.

Continuously visualizing, Chen Yan's consciousness felt as if it had fallen into a cliff; unlike the previous perception, this time Chen Yan was visualizing and learning.

The 【Technique】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit path would not work.

Other energy-type 【Saint-Breaking Fruits】 would also not work.

What Chen Yan needed was the aura of life and death, to quickly build a new universe of his own.

Since that was the case, the only way was to seize.

Seize the vitality of the living beings of heaven and earth, take the power of the living beings of heaven and earth.

Seize whose?

Naturally, the Shi Meng Mo's.

Who stipulated that only Ancient God beasts could devour humans?

Hiss, hiss, hiss...

A faint malice began to overflow within Chen Yan's body.

Inside the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map.

Black mist poured over the mountains and rivers like ink, the peaks were instantly dyed gray, and the trees curled up, shedding all their verdant color.

The river water in the rivers was infected by malice, and unspeakable things were gestating within.

The grasses bowed their heads, and the ten thousand trees were desolate.

Chen Yan seemed to be growing toward a point beyond control.

"Use the enemy's techniques to defeat the enemy; the Shi Meng Mo and I have both become lone beasts in a cage.

But what if I, this lone beast, devoured the other?"

Chen Yan murmured aloud; because he was visualizing something most evil, his physical body began to change, becoming twisted and evil.

Everything within the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map was also withering away due to the aura overflowing from Chen Yan.

This was not actually happening; the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map was illusory, and the Chen Yan body within it was also illusory.

This was a simulation, but if Chen Yan's real body were to do the same, such changes would occur.

Within the Saint-Breaking Realm, rays of yellow light emerged.

On a branch that had not grown fruit for a long time, a yellow bud grew out.

A 【Formation】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was slowly ripening.

Inside the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map, a pitch-black and evil formation disk slowly took shape behind Chen Yan.

Rays of blood light were forcibly extracted from the high heavens and from the earth, flowing toward the formation disk.

"The Blood-Drawing Formation is related to the Ancient Gods."

Chen Yan murmured:

"If I delve deeper into the Blood-Drawing Formation, perhaps I will also turn into some kind of existence."

His voice was deep.

This move was too risky.

The closer one gets to the darkness, the easier it is to become a part of the darkness.

But he had no other choice.

He looked toward the Saint-Breaking Tree, only to see that sky-supporting tree still standing in the void, its aura majestic.

The 【Array】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit was slowly ripening.

One percent.

Two percent.

…………

Ten percent!

…………

Thirty percent!

…………

Seventy percent.

Chen Yan clearly felt changes occurring within his body.

The Blood-Drawing Array he was currently researching was different from the one Xia Weimin used when at Myriad Forms Island.

In the past, what the human race used was merely a clumsy imitation of the Blood-Drawing Array; it looked evil, but it would not affect the user.

But what Chen Yan was researching was directly imitated from the aura of the Ancient Gods.

This was directly linked to the most evil and filthy existences.

Chen Yan could feel that his body was undergoing changes.

Fortunately, this was only a simulation within the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Forms Map.

Yet Chen Yan could not bring himself to smile.

Because in a moment, he would truly have to consume that 【Array】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit, which had condensed the profound mysteries of the Blood-Drawing Array.

And it was not just one, but one hundred.

Time passed slowly.

When one golden-yellow 【Array】 character Saint-Breaking Fruit ripened, the speed of Chen Yan's heartbeat also began to quicken.

He exited the Dao-Enlightenment Myriad Forms Map.

Chen Yan pondered for a while, then left the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison directly.

Above the boundless sea of blood, Chen Yan sat cross-legged and looked toward the Saint-Breaking Realm.

"Are you not worried that I am about to undertake such a dangerous act?"

Chen Yan's consciousness appeared in the Saint-Breaking Realm, his hand brushing across the rough trunk of the Saint-Breaking Tree.

The massive ancient tree simply stood there quietly, without any movement.

"It seems you are truly not worried."