Chapter 729: Extreme Fury

A plan?

Chen Yan never truly had a plan in his heart that he could be certain of executing.

Lu Xunyang was about to die, the Shi Meng Mo was about to finish consuming the Ancient God aura within Chen Changyuan's body, and Chen He had arrived.

These were all crises, all rugged paths that had to be traversed.

Every contradiction evolved and intertwined in Chen Yan's heart, making it difficult to see clearly.

Chen Yan knew that if multiple contradictions existed, one should identify the most primary one; by resolving that single contradiction, the difficulty brought about by all other problems could be greatly reduced.

And the core of this contradiction was strength.

Therefore, the focus of Chen Yan's plan had to be to bring his own strength to its absolute peak.

Which meant having the Heavenly God Armor and the Ash-Evil Spear upon his person.

With the assistance of two great divine artifacts, how could Chen Yan's strength not increase a hundredfold?

With such a great cheat, why not use it?

Did he feel that his situation was not difficult enough yet?

Therefore, from the very beginning, Chen Yan had the Heavenly God Armor and the Ash-Evil Spear carry his true physical body as they flew toward the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

However, he did not have the Heavenly God Armor envelop his body, but rather had the Ash-Evil Spear envelop it.

Because once the Heavenly God Armor was donned, all the malice the Shi Meng Mo exerted upon Chen Yan would be completely isolated.

The rule-based martial arts the opponent unleashed using malice and the aura of life and death would also become useless.

Chen Yan's consciousness would return, and the channel established between the true body in the Pure Truth Yang Realm and Chen Yan would be severed, rendering it useless.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Yan could use the Heavenly God Armor to protect Chen Yu.

Thus, there had always been two methods for Chen Yan to escape the Pure Truth Yang Realm.

But after Chen He secretly unleashed the aura of life and death, causing Chen Yan's consciousness to be sealed within the Pure Truth Yang Realm and unable to return to his true body—

Chen Yan could no longer establish contact with the Ash-Evil Spear and the Heavenly God Armor.

The only way was to break through the Pure Truth Yang Realm and perceive the existence of the two divine artifacts once more.

At the moment 【Imperial Decay - Saint Condensation Primordial】 broke through the Pure Truth Yang Realm.

Within the Pure Truth Yang Realm, the dying Chen Yan perceived the Ash-Evil Spear and the Heavenly God Armor, and a connection was formed with the consciousness of the two divine artifacts.

And then, the Ash-Evil Spear no longer enveloped Chen Yan's true physical body, but the Heavenly God Armor enveloped Chen Yan's body instead.

This directly severed all the malice the Shi Meng Mo exerted upon Chen Yan, rendering the opponent's malicious rule-based martial arts ineffective as well.

And at that very moment, Chen Yan's consciousness returned to his true body.

This was the end point of Chen Yan's plan, the thing Chen Yan would do no matter what.

The only difficult point was the process in between.

How to preserve Shen Yiwei and the others, and...

How to heavily injure the Shi Meng Mo.

Chen Yan's goal was not merely to annihilate Chen He alone.

If the Shi Meng Mo did not die, what remained for everyone was still despair.

Therefore, Chen Yan played a dangerous hand.

He signed a contract with the Shi Meng Mo to deal with Chen He together.

Once the contract was signed, Chen Yan could no longer strike at the Shi Meng Mo, and after one year, he would have to hand over the remaining Ancient God aura in his body to the Shi Meng Mo.

And, the Shi Meng Mo also needed to assist Chen Yan.

But this contract had a problem.

That was, if Chen Yan were to die midway, the Ancient God aura within his body might not be preserved.

Was Chen Changyuan still alive because the Shi Meng Mo was too kind-hearted?

It was that the Shi Meng Mo was also uncertain what changes would occur to the Ancient God aura within Chen Changyuan's body after he died.

The same concern would also apply to Chen Yan.

But this was a point the Shi Meng Mo had not thought of.

After Chen He and Chen Yan fought, the Shi Meng Mo was also helping Chen Yan with the utmost seriousness, with no intention of tearing up the contract at all.

At this moment, the ones who wanted Chen Yan to die were not only Chen He, but also Chen Yan himself.

He wanted to force the Shi Meng Mo to tear up the contract.

If the Shi Meng Mo did not tear up the contract, how could the power of the contract heavily injure the Shi Meng Mo?

If the Shi Meng Mo was not heavily injured, then Lu Xunyang would die, and he, Chen Yan, would have no chance to annihilate the Shi Meng Mo.

If the contract was not torn up, Chen Yan truly could not make a move against the Shi Meng Mo within the coming year.

Not only that, one year from now, Chen Yan would have to personally bring about the birth of a Ninth-Rank Ancient God Beast.

And the only one who could kill Chen Yan was Chen He.

If Chen He could not kill Chen Yan, then Chen Yan would have to go along with the ruse, cooperate with the Shi Meng Mo to annihilate Chen He, and look for a way to annihilate the Shi Meng Mo later.

Fortunately, Chen He did not disappoint Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's eyes were calm.

This series of plans should not have been so perilous.

If he did not consider striking at the Shi Meng Mo, there would not even be a need for such intense combat.

He could have negotiated with the Shi Meng Mo, saved Lu Xunyang, and taken Shen Yiwei, Lu Jianxia, and the others away.

He could have compromised.

He could have sought out the best solution.

But ten million living beings had died just like that before his eyes, their vitality sucked away by the Blood-Drawing Array, with even their divine souls to be exploited for eternity.

And they are merely the most insignificant part of the Shi Meng Mo Project.

Killing intent overflowed from Chen Yan's eyes.

I seem calm, seem as if I have already grown accustomed to it.

After all, on the Martial Dao path, people are dying every single moment.

Every day, I can hear desperate cries and silent roars.

There is always someone by his ear, confusedly asking why?

Why would heaven and earth treat him this way, treat his family this way.

I should be accustomed to it.

I watch it every day.

I'm accustomed to a...

Bullshit!

I am furious, furious every single moment, and at every moment, that terrifying killing intent is stacking up in my heart.

If not for that powerful will suppressing it, I, Chen Yan, would have long since turned into a blood beast.

I am constantly warning myself to be patient, that your ability is not yet enough, that you are not yet a true Lord of Martial Dao.

But.

Ten million people just died like that.

Ten million!

Is it just a number?

Some people's dignity is not even worth one thousand, and some people's dignity is only one ten-millionth.

The human race has already been debased to such a degree.

Yet there are still those who ignore this and make agreements with the Ancient Gods.

There are still those who do not care about these numbers and want to join hands with the Ancient God Beasts to exterminate me, Chen Yan.

That day, I just watched quietly.

I coldly, blankly calculated those numbers, showing nothing.

It was just a number, after all.

But I cannot forget Wu Song's desperate expression and cries.

I cannot forget Zhou Lu, who had already become an Ancient God Beast, whispering to me for help.

This is my...

Power that has never ceased since the beginning.

I created the Will Path, telling the world that malice can also be worn away.

I created 【Royal Decay Holy Will: Soul Confusion】, telling my comrades that Ancient God Beasts can also be toyed with by me.

I created 【Eternal Calamity Reversing Blood】, telling them that Ancient God Beasts can also be consumed by the human race.

I told them silently, yet pleadingly.

I can, I can do it, I can change things.

But why won't they listen, why do they ignore me?

The Five Clans seem even more deserving of extermination than the Ancient God Beasts.

Even though I... have long since been unable to hold back.

Chen Yan opened his mouth, and the killing intent hidden in his heart could no longer be suppressed.

It was as if a sense of madness was sprouting, blending with the clanging of metal against his divine armor, the sharp sound of his clenched fists, and the crisp sound of his teeth grinding together.

The color of his eyes had completely changed.

It was as if he were roaring silently.

I will use the flesh and bones of the Five Clans to forge my divine rank, I will use the blood of the Ancient Gods to wash my divine armor!

I will make them fall into an endless purgatory for all eternity, I will let the light of my body endlessly erode those withered, ugly hearts of theirs.

BOOM!!!

Like a burning meteor streaking across the sky, absolute speed brought absolute high temperature, and trails of fire like red clouds dragged long tail flames behind Chen Yan.

…………

The center of the battlefield.

Lu Xunyang's true form, with white hair hanging down and a single, world-weary eye, looked at Shen Yiwei and the others who had already lost the will to live.

"Is this the result you wanted?"

Lu Xunyang raised his withered palm and struck out toward the distance.

BOOM!!!

In the void, golden light suddenly appeared, tearing apart the boundless malice, the palm wind vast and mighty, pressing down in an instant.

It struck a red-eyed infant in an instant, smashing it deep into the shattered earth.

"Yiwei, Xiaoting..."

Lu Xunyang's body was withered, but within that gaunt frame, there seemed to still lie dormant a vast, ocean-like strength.

He had never shown weakness, even though he now fully displayed the twilight of his years.

"Mountains and rivers can be recast, the sun and moon can reappear; since he used all his strength to bring you out..."

Lu Xunyang closed his eyes, golden clouds rising around his body, brilliant as a divine crown; as he struck out with one hand, a vast and mighty aura of life and death swept past Shen Yiwei and the others.

"Go back, return to Great Xia, and reshape the mountains and rivers."

He said calmly.

But as this voice fell, the bodies of Shen Yiwei and the others stiffened; Lu Xunyang was severing the rule-based restraints the Shi Meng Mo had placed upon them.

Completing the final step of Chen Yan's plan.

"Master...!" Shen Yiwei's voice trembled:

"Chen Yan, he is not dead yet."

He opened his mouth; a middle-aged man like him had also long since lost control of his emotions.

"Save my brother, save my brother..."

A sorrowful woman's weeping rang out.

The young girl's expression was pale, and she spoke numbly:

"Save my brother..."

She pleaded, as if she had already lost everything.

Lu Xunyang's white hair covered his eyes; he could have scolded Shen Yiwei and the others, telling them to stand up, that they still had other things to do, that the Great Xia still needed them, that the human race needed them.

But facing that young girl's plea, he could not say a single word.

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

He let out a long sigh, pressed one hand down, and the aura of life and death, like a blade, severed all rules.

The next one.

Those wailing, screaming, and sorrowful sounds vanished entirely.

The bodies of Shen Yiwei and the others all began to fall, and the consciousnesses that had been stripped away and imposed upon these bodies all returned.

As for the Creation Realm cultivators of the Pure True Yang Realm like Wu Song and Hong Mi, they were struck by a massive force and instantly pushed away, flying off in a certain direction.

Lu Xunyang looked with his single eye; a thousand miles away from him, a patch of chaos and darkness was writhing, incomparably terrifying.

That was the Shi Meng Mo.

"Shi Meng Mo..."

Boundless killing intent erupted in Lu Xunyang's eyes, and his final Immortal Will burst forth completely, carrying a chilling murderous intent as it pressed down in an instant.

"You truly... have enraged me to the extreme."