Chapter 717: The Miserable Chen Changyuan

Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

Zong Huang, Lin Yu, and the others stood before the giant thunder sphere, while Chen Yu, clad in Heavenly God Armor, wanted to say something but hesitated.

"On this journey, I do not know if we can survive, but I hope you will tell the Heavenly God General to take care."

Zong Huang spoke calmly.

"Vice General Zong Huang, Minister Lin Yu, you must also take care."

Chen Yu bowed slightly.

"Very well." Zong Huang nodded, and after speaking, he turned and left directly.

Lin Yu and the others glanced at Chen Yu with complex expressions, then followed Zong Huang away.

Within the void.

Zong Huang and the others flew across the endless sea of blood like streaks of light.

"Vice General, leaving without saying goodbye like this, is it..." Lin Yu pursed his lips, his expression somewhat complex:

"The other two tasks the Heavenly God General entrusted to us have not yet been completed."

Zong Huang and the others had not yet found the third fragment of the 【World Instant】.

Chen Yan had also instructed them, hoping that Zong Huang and the others could repair the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror, which had been infiltrated by the rules of the Shi Meng Mo.

This should have been done after Zong Huang broke through the Moon-Eroding Blood Sea.

But at this moment, Zong Huang was burning with anxiety and could no longer continue to carry them out.

"Even if we find the World Instant fragment, Chen Yan cannot comprehend it in such a short time.

As for investigating the cracks in the Purple Firmament World-Fixing Mirror, that would consume too much time.

I have already done what I believed I should do."

Zong Huang spoke quietly:

"But the Patrol Sun God General is now trapped in a crisis, and as his Vice General, how can I continue to stay here?"

Lin Yu and the others looked at each other, no one speaking.

There was a crisis where Lu Xunyang was, and there was also an extreme crisis here with Chen Yan.

But Zong Huang was Lu Xunyang's Vice General, not Chen Yan's; even though Lu Xunyang's soul-split had previously called for Zong Huang to come, Zong Huang could no longer sit still.

After Chen Yu informed Zong Huang of Lu Xunyang's current situation, Zong Huang had the intention to leave.

After all, his purpose in coming to the Ancient God Forbidden Land had always been to find Lu Xunyang.

"It is not that I do not listen to orders, nor is it that I underestimate Chen Yan; he is very monstrous, even more monstrous than the Patrol Sun God General."

Zong Huang looked at Lin Yu:

"But give me a chance to die in battle, and I will certainly go to my death alongside the Patrol Sun God General."

Lin Yu and the others nodded, their eyes filled with a resolve to die.

They were all Lu Xunyang's core team; it was impossible for them to sit and watch Lu Xunyang die at the hands of two ancient divine beasts.

…………

Pure True Yang Realm.

Chen Yan still noticed the message of Zong Huang and the others leaving on the tip of the thread belonging to Chen Yu.

"Why go to such lengths?"

Chen Yan murmured. Zong Huang was indeed powerful, even capable of resisting the suppression of ancient god auras, but going to help Lu Xunyang was undoubtedly an act of seeking death.

But everyone has their own aspirations, and Chen Yan would not stop them.

Inside the cave, waves of distorted fluctuations radiated from Chen Yan's body.

Chen Yan's entire body was enveloped in True Martial Power, roaring lowly like a crouching dragon about to awaken.

Every beat of his heart carried the rhythm of the surrounding heaven and earth rules.

Powerful, powerful.

Within his body, the nascent Qi-blood self-universe and the hard-tempering self-universe had completely merged, transforming into a brand-new True Martial Path self-universe.

This was Chen Yan's fifth True Martial Path self-universe.

And on the Saint-Breaking Tree.

Twenty 【Blood】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits.

Five 【Power】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits and fifteen 【Body】 character Saint-Breaking Fruits had completely matured.

The fifth self-universe was clearly more powerful and magnificent than the previous ones.

Moreover, the speed of its formation was unimaginable.

This was seizing the fortune of others to transform into one's own power.

The energy opportunity extracted from the 【Eternal Calamity Inverse Blood】 formation was extremely pure; it was a god-level formation that another Chen Yan had spent his whole life fighting for.

Chen Yan's intent flashed, and he swallowed all the Saint-Breaking Fruits in one breath.

Boom—!

This was an injection of even purer energy!

Inside Chen Yan's body, Qi-blood and force intertwined, directly forming True Martial Power, condensing into the sixth True Martial Path self-universe.

Countless hot currents intertwined within Chen Yan's body; if one were to sense the temperature, it would be comparable to a Great Sun Furnace.

The wanton and unrestrained True Martial Power rampaged through Chen Yan's body, yet it was perfectly controlled by him.

Within his body, every inch of skin, every particle, and every segment of bone was becoming purer and more powerful.

His physical structure was evolving continuously, as if the world were being renewed.

Evolution!

"Is this the joy of Chen Changyuan?"

Chen Yan's pupils narrowed, erupting with a terrifying gaze that illuminated the cosmos.

Back then, when he saw Chen Changyuan directly devour an ancient divine beast and digest it entirely within a few days, Chen Yan was shocked and envious.

But now, Chen Yan's cultivation speed even surpassed that of Chen Changyuan at the time.

After all, he possessed not only the god-level array 【Eternal Tribulation Reversing Blood】, but also the Saint-Breaking Tree.

His power of will could even push his cultivation speed to the extreme.

Perfect cultivation techniques and martial arts also elevated his cultivation efficiency to another level.

Chen Changyuan truly could not be mentioned in the same breath as the current Chen Yan.

…………

"This kid..."

The woman in the fairy dress inside the Ancient War Palace parted her red lips.

Is this what you call cultivating?

You are eating!

No.

Even eating isn't this exaggerated; to think he hasn't been bloated to the point of bursting.

The white-haired old man tilted his head, watching intently.

He knew he hadn't missed a single step of Chen Yan's process.

But now, he could no longer see clearly.

When exactly did this person master such a powerful array?

Could it be that Chen Yan's attainments in the paths of Hard Refinement and Blood Qi were not even comparable to his attainments in the path of arrays?

Is the Master of Arrays this exaggerated?

…………

Boom!

Pure cultivation, ultimate evolution.

Chen Yan didn't even have time to let his nascent True Martial path self-universe be destroyed and then reincarnated.

All he thought about now was stealing as much as he could.

Who thinks about digesting while stealing?

That is not proper conduct.

It is too disrespectful to the Shi Meng Mo, such a big benefactor.

Countless blood-red meridians, like blood-sucking snakes, drilled out from the 【Eternal Tribulation Reversing Blood】 array and pierced deep into the core of the Pure Truth Yang Realm.

The massive, churning, crimson-red core, containing extreme energy and chaos, actually began to show signs of localized withering.

Chen Yan manipulated the blood-red meridians to leave the withered areas, locked onto regions with denser energy, and continued to feed.

The entire world seemed to be sucked and absorbed by an indescribable behemoth.

Between heaven and earth, within the shattered land.

The rolling magma began to extinguish, turning into gray-black obsidian that clung to the earth like solidified rivers.

The sky, whether overcast or drifting with clouds, began to show a withered twilight, looking as if it were dying.

Among the mountains and rivers, the water began to slowly dry up, and the plains and earth began to crack from drought.

It was as if a plague were sweeping across the entire Pure Truth Yang Realm.

The whole world was gradually becoming terminally ill.

Chen Yan began to assault the seventh self-universe.

At this moment, Chen Yan clearly felt a sense of difficulty.

The Master of Hard Refinement had told him.

In the early stages of the Martial Path, the Creation Realm only has at most five self-universes.

Ten thousand years later, Lu Xunyang broke the limit and created the seventh self-universe.

Seven was already the limit for human martial artists.

And back then, Lu Xunyang had only created the seventh self-universe of the Hard Refinement path.

Chen Yan was now creating the seventh self-universe of the True Martial path, forged from the fusion of Hard Refinement and Blood Qi.

The difficulty of this can be imagined.

But breaking the limit had long been carved into Chen Yan's bones.

"Compared to an unchangeable future, breaking the limit today is actually simpler."

Chen Yan murmured.

Inside his body, a familiar pain emerged.

It was as if everything was trying to stop his current limit-breaking.

But that magnificent energy continued to be drawn out by Chen Yan without end.

His body began to crack with numerous fine marks, and blood surged out from the wounds.

Yet, a smile appeared on Chen Yan's face.

"The feeling of breaking the limit... is truly good."

He sighed sincerely.

Only by breaking the limit could he deepen his control over the world.

His physical body was being tempered to the extreme, and his flesh and blood were perfectly evolving under the cleansing of pure energy.

This made him appear increasingly divine; even though he was injured from breaking the limit, that aura, which only a god would possess, was slowly radiating from his body.

Perfect, perfect, perfect.

On Chen Yan's body, those few remaining flaws in flesh and blood were also being eliminated, improved, and transformed into a thoroughly perfect divine physique.

If it were the current Chen Yan, when dealing with that giant beast fused from five Ascenders again, he could suppress it at will.

Because now, Chen Yan's strength, speed, and even his methods far surpassed what they were before.

But Chen Yan did not become complacent.

He had seen what true powerhouses were like.

The Shi Meng Mo was a powerhouse, and Lu Xunyang was a powerhouse.

As he was now, he was still very far from such powerhouses.

The next instant, Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

At the tips of the meridians, he saw someone he had not expected.

…………

Chen He, dressed in green, stood in the sky, frowning as he watched the changes occurring all around.

"The Shi Meng Mo's body is withering."

He murmured, a look of surprise appearing in the depths of his eyes.

"Lu Xunyang, even in such a state, he is actually able to achieve this much while suppressed by two top-tier Ancient God Beasts."

Beside him, Lu Zhiwei, wearing white robes with her eyes covered by a black cloth strip, spoke with a hint of reverence.

Lu Xunyang was a legend of the world, and also a legend of Lu Province.

For a powerful martial artist, dealing with an Ancient God Beast of the same realm is always much harder than dealing with a martial artist of the same realm.

But Lu Xunyang was an exception.

When Chen He and the others observed the changes in the Pure True Yang Realm, the first person they thought of was Lu Xunyang.

Besides Lu Xunyang, who else could achieve such a feat?

Chen He's gaze was burning as he looked toward the distant heavens and earth at a glance.

There, countless pitch-black intestines sprouted from the earth and the high heavens, wrapping around something at the center of the world like a cocoon.

An extremely evil aura was overflowing from that cocoon.

And on that giant cocoon, a head was squeezing out from the gaps between the intestines, its face ferocious, flesh and blood rotting, its eyes filled with madness and fear.

"Ancient God... aura..."

Chen Lanqiu, dressed in a red dress, exclaimed in shock, her pretty face tightening.

The human head exposed inside the giant cocoon seemed to be raving madly.

Chen He listened carefully, his eyes narrowing.

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

A roar, as if from a madman yet filled with endless pain, was sounding from the mouth of the head on the cocoon.

"Chen Changyuan's voice..." Chen He stepped forward, arriving a hundred miles away from the cocoon to watch from afar, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise:

"Chen Changyuan, how did you end up in this state?"

Lu Zhiwei's voice began to tremble:

"He is saying the two terms 'Chen Yan' and 'Lord of Will'; he has learned some secret, what connection could Chen Yan and the Lord of Will have..."

At this moment, Chen Lanqiu's expression also tightened.

Does Chen Yan have a relationship with the Lord of Will?

There should be a relationship; after all, Chen Yan's power of will is famous throughout the world.

But what exactly is that relationship?

The Lord of Will, an existence that caused the entire human world to change completely.

The Great Xia side regards it as their highest faith, while the Five Clans side fears it like a plague.

"My unfilial descendant, he..." Chen Lanqiu said, her voice growing soft.

Chen He was also extremely surprised; after all, listening to Chen Changyuan's mad ravings, anyone could see that Chen Changyuan had learned of some connection between Chen Yan and the Lord of Will.

"No wonder..." Chen He suddenly chuckled:

"No wonder the Lord of Chen said that the Lord of Will is likely some ancestor of the Xia clan, and Chen Yan is the disciple chosen by that person."

Chen He's voice fell.

Lu Zhiwei and Chen Lanqiu's expressions eased slightly, but they were still very shocked.

"Chen Yan seems special, but all his power comes from the Lord of Will. If we kill Chen Yan, the Lord of Will might choose another successor, but how much time does He have left?" Chen He said calmly:

"The Lord of Chen sent me here to kill Chen Yan, also with the intention of forcing the Lord of Will to emerge early."

As his voice fell, the expressions of Lu Zhiwei and Chen Lanqiu both changed slightly.

The Lord of Chen is actually playing a game against a Lord of Martial Dao.

Just what kind of strength does the Lord of Chen possess?

"So my descendant was just lucky enough to be chosen," Chen Lanqiu suddenly laughed, as if saying this made her feel a bit better.

Having learned such a secret, her inner wariness toward Chen Yan lessened a little.

It was also at this moment.

Chen Changyuan's originally unfocused eyes suddenly revealed a hint of human-like pleading:

"Kill... me..."

He was in immense pain, having his Ancient God aura stripped away by the Shi Meng Mo, a pain like someone peeling his skin off over and over again.

Chen He's gaze was calm:

"Sorry, I am currently cooperating with the Shi Meng Mo; just endure the suffering, perhaps you will be able to die soon."

Chen Changyuan's eyes once again revealed confusion and pain.

"Chen Yan... Chen Yan..."

He kept murmuring, that endless fear once again about to obliterate his sanity.

The familiar feeling struck again, and Chen Changyuan wailed aloud:

"He is coming again, he is coming again, I was wrong, I was wrong... Ahhhhhhh!!!"

He seemed to see the arrival of some endless terror and began to shriek incessantly.

He could feel that familiar method.

Chen Yan was once again using some method unknown to him to alter his cognition, his speech.

It was just that, compared to the previous silence, this time Chen Yan was wielding it with absolutely no scruples.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

Chen Changyuan wailed aloud, his festering face began to collapse, his blurred features piling up to organize into a visage manifesting endless fear.

It is hard to imagine that this was once the Invincible Son.