Chapter 728: If there is no grandeur to pave the way, what is the point of being invincible?

Even if the Shi Meng Mo devoured Chen Changyuan, half of the Ancient God aura still remained within Chen Yan's body.

In the eyes of the Shi Meng Mo, Chen Yan's importance was not a bit lower than Chen Changyuan's.

Even though Chen Yan had written clearly in the contract that he would hand over that half of the Ancient God aura to the Shi Meng Mo in one year.

But if the Shi Meng Mo could obtain it directly, why wait a year?

The original intention of the Xia Lord was to let the Shi Meng Mo forge Chen Yan to the absolute limit.

But he did not expect Chen Yan to cooperate with the Shi Meng Mo.

He looked over faintly, and then his brows rose:

"The time has come."

"What time?" the woman in the fairy dress asked.

"The time for this brat to pay the price for his choices," the Xia Lord said indifferently.

As he spoke, he stood up, and waves of powerful aura slowly revived within him; as he stretched out his hands, the entire Upper Ancient War Palace trembled.

"You..."

Above the throne, the woman in the fairy dress exclaimed:

"You are finally going to make a move."

"It is not that I want to make a move," the white-haired old man said, his eyes full of disappointment:

"It is that I have no choice but to make a move."

"It is just a pity for this magnificent second-greatest divine artifact under heaven."

His withered lips twitched, and his pair of eyes grew colder and colder.

If he were to force his way out of seclusion, the Purple Universe World-Stabilizing Mirror would surely shatter and perish.

This was a divine object created by the Lord of Blood and Qi.

When it was detected that this soul-split of the Xia Lord was hunting down the Lord of Elements, the entire Purple Universe World-Stabilizing Mirror became the Xia Lord's prison.

"You hate me, loathe me, fear me, isn't it all because you are too weak?"

He said faintly:

"I also hope that you can be as powerful as I am, but you simply cannot do it."

He cast a glance and had already seen the place of that great battle.

"Chen Yan!!!"

A roar of extreme rage resounded.

From the center of the explosion, circles of black light frantically expanded outward, pushing away all the fire and light of the explosion.

Xia Long and the others were instantly scattered by waves of powerful gravity, each of them looking at the center of the explosion in shock.

Yet they saw.

There, a figure with tattered clothes, covered in bloodstains, and hair completely blown away stood still.

Chen He stood right there, his pair of eyes as cold as if they had come from hell, staring fixedly at Chen Yan.

Blood flowed from him like a fountain, and through the shattered, charred blood holes, one could even see his wriggling organs.

He bit down on his broken teeth, his eyes wide open, and as a terrifying pressure continuously spread outward, he suddenly laughed.

"You think I am so easy to suppress?"

"You think a bunch of stinking fish and rotten shrimp can destroy me, Chen He, at the late stage of the Eighth Rank?"

He laughed loudly, raging wildly:

"In the three hundred years since I, Chen He, was born, I have never been so disheveled; you did it, you did it!!!"

He reached out with one hand.

The distant horizon suddenly changed color.

Endless ink-black color surged from the other side of the horizon, turning into an endless tide.

A long-haired woman with a human body and a fish tail stood above the ink sea, her terrifying form occupying the length of heaven and earth, and her endless might spread across hundreds of thousands of miles of land, sweeping over all the way.

"Nether Sea Great Array!" Lu Jianxia watched with narrowed eyes, her face turning pale.

"Continue!" Chen He grinned hideously:

"Continue your attack, let us die together!"

He spread his arms without fear, wearing a ferocious expression:

"I have long since prepared the Nether Sea Great Array; once activated, it will destroy one hundred thousand miles of mountains and rivers; do you want to die with me?"

His voice fell.

Hum!!!

Terrifying pupil light erupted from the eyes of the mermaid woman above the ink sea, scanning Chen Yan and the others, infinitely sinister.

Silence.

A sudden silence.

As if endless terror had arrived.

Chen He looked at Chen Yan mockingly, wearing a ferocious look.

Silence.

Suddenly.

"Hahaha!"

Laughter rang out.

A man named Wu Song laughed out loud, carrying indifference and sneers.

"Is this the Eighth Rank of the outside world?"

"Hahaha!"

Chen He's expression turned cold.

Immediately following.

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Chen He, oh Chen He, how are you as childish as a kid."

Peals of laughter rang out.

Dozens of Creation Realm experts surrounded Chen Yan, laughing with disdain and arrogance.

Chen He narrowed his eyes, staring fixedly at everyone.

Above that throne, the youth in black robes sat upright and spoke indifferently:

"Chen He, who do you think we are?"

He looked down at the disheveled Chen He with haughtiness.

"Since you have such methods, why not use them? Come, kill us."

Chen Yan laughed softly, sensing Chen He's emotions.

Chen He narrowed his eyes.

It was not just Chen Yan; no one was worried about dying.

Were they not afraid of death, or did they think he, Chen He, dared not perish together with them?

A bunch of lunatics.

What on earth had these people experienced?

"Chen He, if these are your only methods, you might as well go home, wash up, and go to sleep."

Chen Yan spoke indifferently:

"Do you think I would be happy to perish together with you and die here?"

"Wrong!"

Chen Yan's eyes became indifferent:

"Killing you might solve many things, but as I am now, I only want to enjoy this battle."

His eyes bloomed with golden light:

"If there is no struggle to pave the way, what is the meaning of being invincible?

If you only have these methods, neither struggling nor extraordinary, you can only be a joke."

Chen He's eyes turned ferocious.

Chen Yan was forcing him; Chen Yan was saying that his attempt to perish together was a joke.

This was the height of absurdity.

Who would not panic when facing the Underworld Sea Great Array?

But this group of people were all lunatics.

Veins bulged on Chen He's face; he slowly raised his hand, and streams of light gathered from his palms.

In the distance, that terrifying ink-colored ocean instantly churned, with giant waves towering to the sky.

But Chen Yan only looked at Chen He indifferently, as if looking at a joke.

Not just Chen Yan, but Xia Long and the others behind him were the same.

Only the little girl in that distant place clenched her hands nervously.

"Forget it, Chen He."

Chen Yan spoke uninterestingly:

"Stop acting. The world knows I can see through others' thoughts; your acting is simply clumsy."

Chen He was furious; this sentence from Chen Yan almost destroyed all his arrogance.

The other party was bluntly saying that his thoughts were extremely childish.

Chen Yan stood up.

Stepping through the void, his eyes looked toward the high sky.

"What are you waiting for again?"

As Chen Yan spoke, Lu Jianxia and the others' expressions changed, and at this moment, the Master of True Intent frowned, looking at Chen Yan in astonishment.

It was not just the Master of True Intent.

Inside that Upper Ancient War Palace, the white-haired old man who was about to strike had his expression change, filled with astonishment.

The next instant.

Hum!

Blood color!

Endless blood color suddenly erupted in the sky.

A cross-shaped long blade formed from countless spines suddenly appeared!

Lu Jianxia and the others all widened their eyes, their expressions filled with terror, as if they had seen some great horror arrive.

That spine blade spanned the heavens and earth, endless blood-evil diffused, and the terrifying blade light pierced straight into the earth veins.

It slashed down from above.

And beneath the tip of the blade was Chen Yan.

Chen Yan punched toward the sky, the fist wind colliding with the blood light erupting from the blade tip.

In an instant, Chen Yan's flesh and blood burst apart.

Xia Long breathed rapidly and roared aloud:

"The seventh divine art under heaven, Heavenly Bone!"

Chen He's expression was indifferent;

"Have you already anticipated that you cannot withstand this move of mine at all?"

In an instant.

Xia Long and the others felt their breathing hitch.

"Brother!!!"

From a distant place, Chen Yu cried out.

And beneath that blade light, Chen Yan's physical body began to disintegrate, yet his pair of eyes remained extremely calm.

"Kill!!!"

A roar resounded.

Xia Long and the others charged toward Chen He to kill him.

Rumble!!!

The entire earth surged suddenly, and ground spikes condensed and manifested, stabbing toward Chen Yan.

Puchi, puchi!!!

One ground spike after another pierced through Chen Yan's body, beginning to suck the half of the Ancient God aura within Chen Yan's body like a straw.

Rumble!!!

The heaven and earth shook, and countless cracks appeared from the east, west, north, and south; the entire Pure True Yang Realm was collapsing.

The Shi Meng Mo tore up the contract; at the moment of Chen Yan's greatest peril, not only did it not offer help, but it instead began to seize the opportunity to snatch the Ancient God aura within Chen Yan's body.

And the punishment for the contract also arrived simultaneously; the Pure True Yang Realm began to shake, and countless destructive auras erupted everywhere in the surroundings.

"Fool!" Chen He spoke indifferently:

"You actually believed in the contract of an Ancient God Beast."

He was full of disdain.

Yet the young man, suppressed by the divine art 【Heavenly Bone】 and with his physical body pierced by ground spikes, had a calm expression:

"Senior, it is precisely this moment."

The Master of True Intent was stunned, and cast out a hand.

That cube composed of golden array patterns appeared and flew toward the void.

Suddenly, the array patterns disintegrated, revealing a light spot the size of a melon seed within.

【Control Decay - Saint Condensation Origin】!

Chen He narrowed his eyes, wanting to strike, but the next moment he was stunned.

Because this strike was not aimed at him at all, but rather…

The Firmament!

Boom!

Explosion!

Like a great sun shattering, ten thousand paths of golden-red clouds swept across the heaven and earth, the void collapsed, and the vault of heaven shattered.

The vault of heaven of the entire Pure True Yang Realm was blown through!

A terrifying rift in the vault of heaven appeared, revealing the situation of the outside world.

Outside, the one-eyed old man, whose entire body was in the twilight of life and filled with the aura of decay, looked at this scene in suspicion and uncertainty.

"Chen Yan, you are still alive..."

The twilight-years Lu Xunyang spoke in horror; he had not merged with his split soul and thought Chen Yan had long since died.

But the next instant, Lu Xunyang's gaze changed, and looking at Chen Yan's current appearance, his emotions were too complex to describe.

The Pure True Yang Realm was blown through once again.

Even the Master of True Intent had his mouth agape, his lips trembling.

"Is this your plan?"

He was exceptionally shocked; even he found it difficult to remain calm.

At the same time, he reached out a hand, and countless sword souls enveloped Xia Long and the others.

"Chen Yan!"

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Heavenly God General!"

One after another, shrill roars resounded.

They had intended to attack, but were wrapped by the sword souls and taken out of the Pure True Yang Realm by the Master of True Intent.

The reason for everything was because the Pure True Yang Realm at this moment...

Had been blown through.

"Brother!"

Chen Yu was weeping; the Master of True Intent had not forgotten her at all and was taking her away with them.

Shen Yiwei's eyes were blood-red.

Chen Yan's battle with Chen He was a lie; taking the opportunity to let everyone leave was the truth.

"Chen Yan, why did you have to do this!"

Shen Yiwei roared aloud:

"Do you want to kill me, Shen Yiwei?!"

"Do you think that by escaping like this, I am surviving?!"

He was angry to the extreme:

"Do you still not understand me even now?!

You insult me, you insult me!"

He struggled continuously, but was fundamentally unable to stop the Sword Soul unleashed by the Master of True Intent.

Chen He stood stunned, staring in shock at the young man suppressed by the 【Heavenly Bone】 and pierced through the body by ground spikes.

"You..."

He stopped mid-sentence.

"Brother...!!!"

Chen Yu's wailing voice resounded; her body was enveloped by the Sword Soul, and she reached out helplessly, grabbing toward the space below.

However, she was moving further and further away from Chen Yan.

"Brother, how could you treat me like this..."

The young girl sobbed bitterly.

Lu Jianxia's face was deathly pale; at this moment, she had lost all her strength, as if she were dead.

Boom!!!

The entire Pure True Yang Realm was still collapsing, but the rift that had torn open in the sky was rapidly healing.

The group was brought out of the Pure True Yang Realm by the Master of True Intent and appeared in the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

Yet they stared fixedly downward, their gazes passing through the ever-shrinking rift in the firmament to look at Chen Yan.

Puchi, puchi, puchi!!!

One ground spike after another pierced through Chen Yan's body.

Caw!!!

A sharp, ear-piercing shriek rang out throughout the entire Pure True Yang Realm.

At this moment, it was a carnival for the Ancient God Beasts.

The next instant.

The rift in the firmament vanished.

Chen Yan's figure was no longer in the eyes of the group.

Everyone was dejected and soul-lost, as if they could still see the image of Chen Yan's body being continuously pierced by the ground spikes.

That indescribable, intense pain seemed to have fallen upon them clearly.

"Ha..."

The woman named Ke Qingxuan parted her red lips, looking around blankly; her vision had long since blurred, and she kept her mouth open.

"Ha... ha..."

Her breathing was labored.

Until the next moment.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

That scream, as if she had lost everything, was heartbreaking.

She, who had always been cold toward others, could no longer maintain her former composure.

Inside the Upper Ancient War Palace.

"What are you doing?"

"Aren't you going to go out?"

"What are you trying to do?"

"You clearly knew that the Shi Meng Mo would go back on its word."

"You clearly knew that Chen Yan was doomed."

"What are you doing?!!!"

The woman in the fairy dress's voice trembled, and tears even welled up in her eyes as she cursed incessantly.

"Why don't you go die, why don't you go die!"

The white-haired old man's expression was gloomy:

"Shut up!"

"You sit and watch a Martial Dao Master die; what exactly are you trying to do? He is Chen Yan, he is more monstrous than you, more extraordinary than you!" The woman in the fairy dress wept:

"You will regret this, you will absolutely regret this!"

"Shut up!"

The white-haired old man barked:

"To be played by someone and still shed tears for them, how can you be this stupid?!"

"You deserve to die, you..." the woman in the fairy dress cursed, but then she paused.

She had been played?

Played by whom?

When she looked again, she was stunned.

For she saw, inside the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

A figure clad in pitch-black divine armor was flying like a streak of light toward where the Shi Meng Mo was located.

Click, click, click...

The faceplate of the divine armor retracted, revealing Chen Yan's peerlessly handsome face.

He let out a long sigh, as if an endless repression had been completely dispelled from within his body at this very moment.

"It hasn't been easy, I have finally..."

He smiled, endless fighting spirit erupting in his eyes.

"Finally, I am no longer bound by anything!"