Chapter 734: Since Things Have Come to This, Let's Eat First

"Send troops... send troops, I will personally..." Xia Hanzhou's voice was even trembling, but he soon shook his head:

"Director of the Bureau of Astronomy."

"I am here." In the distance, an old man dressed in white spoke.

"You are to lead troops to the entrance of the Ancient God Forbidden Land immediately!"

Xia Hanzhou's breathing was rapid:

"Hurry!"

His eyes erupted with a sharp light.

The anomaly here concerned the national destiny of the Great Xia, and it could not wait.

"Yes!"

Five Clans.

Above the bamboo forest, the Master of Chen stood with his hands behind his back, the scarlet light falling from the firmament reflecting in the depths of his pupils.

"Lu Xunyang... are you dead?"

The Master of Chen murmured, his eyes calm.

Lu Xunyang had blocked him for a long time; a discarded pawn who had escaped from Lu Province had become the steel spine of a crumbling empire.

The grandeur of Lu Xunyang's life was no less than that of Chen Yan.

"Perhaps it was he who killed one of the five great ancient divine beasts, achieving his original goal."

To the side, a middle-aged man with white hair appeared and spoke faintly.

"How could that be..." The Master of Chen frowned:

"He was already at his limit, and I also sent Chen He.

If Lu Xunyang were in a great battle with an extremely powerful ancient divine beast, how could Chen He sit by and do nothing?"

The Master of Chi raised his eyebrows slightly:

"Why not let Chen Qi calculate it."

The Master of Chen shook his head:

"He only calculated the future a few days ago; the backlash was too severe."

"What did he calculate?" The Master of Chi narrowed his eyes.

The Master of Chen did not hide it:

"He calculated that Chen Yan, with the body of a Creation Realm cultivator, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of troops in Ji Province."

The Master of Chi's pupils shrank:

"How could such a thing happen? How can a Creation Realm cultivator slaughter hundreds of thousands of troops? Could it be that the vast Ji Province doesn't even have a single Eighth-Rank?"

The Master of Chi's expression changed; the Eighth-Rank masters the aura of life and death, and even a single wisp could destroy a Creation Realm cultivator with a mere thought.

If Chen Yan was not dead and had gone to Ji Province, he was also seeking death, unless there were other Eighth-Ranks assisting him.

The Master of Chi's expression turned gloomy.

"The future can be changed. I do not believe in any predetermined future; the moment Chen Qi calculated the future, the future had already changed."

To the side, the Master of Chen took out a candle flame, the firelight burning brightly.

"This is Chen He's life-bound candle. Chen He is not dead; he may have already killed Chen Yan and assisted an ancient divine beast in destroying Lu Xunyang."

As the Master of Chen spoke, he shook his head slightly and looked in one direction, his gaze seeming to pierce through the endless void:

"Great Elder, lead troops to the Ancient God Forbidden Land immediately!"

In a distant place.

Chen Qi, with a sallow complexion, bowed slightly:

"Yes!"

The Master of Chi nodded:

"Everything depends on whether Lu Xunyang is dead or alive. If he is still alive..."

"Then what?" The Master of Chen spoke indifferently:

"I will not wait another thousand years. I have planned for a long time, all for this day."

………………

"Why must you all go to the Ancient God Forbidden Land?"

"The Divine General has his own plans; it is not for you all to disrupt the plan."

The blood sea was boundless, and a massive thunder sphere pressed across it, flying toward the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

Ke Qingxuan looked at Shen Yiwei, Xia Long, and the others with a cold expression:

"Are you going to defy Chen Yan's orders?"

Xia Long's expression was complex, and he spoke in a low voice:

"Our strength compared to the Shi Meng Mo is nothing more than duckweed, but we still have the ability to observe from afar."

"That's right, Ke Qingxuan."

A woman named Lu Jingqiu said nervously:

"Chen Yan has been planning, which is indeed a good thing, but we..."

She gritted her teeth:

"Are also worried."

Ke Qingxuan's expression trembled; she opened her mouth and left the conference room.

It was not just Xia Long and the others; even the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder, which created the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, wanted to go to the Ancient God Forbidden Land to find out what was happening.

She told everyone that Chen Yan was not dead, deceiving everyone.

But this lie had a price.

Even if everyone was willing to believe this one lie, they would still want to go to the Forbidden Land of the Ancient Gods to get to the bottom of it.

Even if they did not participate in the battle, they still wanted to hear the true information from afar.

Some were even willing to die to investigate.

No one said that Ke Qingxuan was deceiving the crowd.

But the atmosphere within the entire Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison was as if shrouded by a layer of fragile glass; once everyone saw the truth, this layer of glass would shatter.

"This is..."

The clothes on Ke Qingxuan's back were soaked with sweat, and her eyes flickered with despair.

"What should I do..."

Endless despair completely engulfed her.

It was not because her lie was about to be exposed.

It was because Chen Yan had truly died before her eyes.

Rather than saying she deceived the crowd, it was better to say she was deceiving herself.

She stubbornly, forcibly, chose to believe the lie that Chen Yan was not yet dead.

Any change in detail would be forcibly pulled in by her to prove that her lie was not a lie.

Chen Yan's true self had disappeared.

Then his true self must have gone to the Forbidden Land of the Ancient Gods, his consciousness returning to his true self at the moment of death.

The Heavenly God Armor and the Ember Evil Spear had also disappeared.

That must be because the two divine artifacts were summoned by Chen Yan to unite with him in battle.

It must be like that.

Right?

But.

That Chen He was too powerful, so powerful that even though everyone used all their strength to blast him, he was as fine as if nothing had happened.

But.

The Shi Meng Mo had personally taken action against Chen Yan; that was one of the five great ancient divine beasts.

But.

Lu Xunyang was about to die...

Even more terrifying speculations surfaced in Ke Qingxuan's mind, making her suffocate and find it hard to accept.

Suddenly, her legs went weak, and she almost knelt on the floor.

In her mind, she vaguely recalled that scene.

Yun Province.

By the side of Flying Fish Lake.

In the center of the lake, which was as blue as a mirror, countless silver scales darted through the turbulent whirlpools.

There, the young man and his younger sister sat by the lake enjoying the scenery.

There, Ke Qingxuan, acting as a spy for the Five Clans, came to meet the youngest Divine General of the Great Xia.

The wheel of history tilted at that moment, and her, Ke Qingxuan's, life changed completely.

From then on, she had a goal, as well as panic and fear.

If only the events of that day had not happened.

"But if... it hadn't happened, my life... would also have no meaning..."

Ke Qingxuan whispered.

She fell into a struggle.

She walked into a dim room silently, standing quietly inside, as if she were a sculpture.

She recalled it time and time again, deepening the impression each time, as if those memories would grow wings and fly away from her if she did not think back on them.

Time passed slowly.

The massive thunder ball slowly came to a halt.

Ke Qingxuan pushed open the door, her expression cold.

In the corridor, Shen Yiwei walked out, his expression calm, and said to the crowd behind him:

"No need to worry."

He was going to investigate the news; if he returned, it would mean everything was fine and Chen Yan was indeed still alive.

If he did not return, then it would mean...

"I will go," Ke Qingxuan suddenly spoke, looking at Shen Yiwei indifferently.

Shen Yiwei frowned:

"My master is there, and Chen Yan is also there."

"I said," Ke Qingxuan spoke coldly:

"I will go."

Shen Yiwei's expression changed slightly, as if he had seen through Ke Qingxuan, and he was about to speak.

But Ke Qingxuan had already walked out of the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison:

"Do not stop me."

The next instant.

She transformed into a streak of light and flew forward.

Behind her, Shen Yiwu and the others walked out, watching Ke Qingxuan's retreating back, and one by one, they fell silent.

"It can't be..."

A woman's cry, sounding almost distorted, rang out.

A woman named Lu Jingqiu covered her red lips, tears streaming down:

"It can't be... it can't be that she lied to... us..."

Her eyes turned red.

Ke Qingxuan was cold by nature and almost never spoke a word of idle chatter to others.

Therefore, the group did not understand her.

But Lu Jingqiu had dealt with Ke Qingxuan ever since the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.

Just now, the moment Ke Qingxuan left, there hadn't been a shred of desire for life in those eyes.

It was as if she were a bluebird that had already found its own graveyard, intending to go and never return.

Ke Qingxuan's eyes were cold; she flew across the vast world like a streak of light.

Within the Ancient God Forbidden Land, everything was bizarre and manifold.

The ground was like a pitch-black blanket, upon which pitch-black, writhing tentacles drifted.

In the void, distorted and deformed human faces roamed, and countless low, oppressive whispers rang out incessantly.

But Ke Qingxuan did not care about these at all.

Her goal now was simply not to return.

She would not return to the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison; everyone would know that there was endless danger ahead, and everyone would also know that it was Ke Qingxuan who had lied to them before.

And she, Ke Qingxuan, was merely going to find a graveyard, a place to house her corpse.

In this world, those truly willing to pursue longevity were few and far between; her existence in this world was merely to pursue a meaning for living on.

She had found it.

It was right there.

She would say nothing; even if she only watched from afar, that would be enough.

Her speed was extremely fast, as if she were returning to death as if returning home.

She didn't even notice why the sounds of battle in the four corners of the world had disappeared.

She didn't even care about the battle circle that had already been smashed to pieces.

Until.

Before a boundless, massive abyss.

Countless strands of pitch-black mucus hung everywhere like frozen glass, as if a pitch-black toad the size of a star had exploded, its corpse lying frozen within the abyss.

The blurred, pitch-black flesh was twisted and chaotic to the extreme, filled with evil and ugliness; just one look would make a person fall into madness.

Looking through the gaps in the broken flesh of this behemoth.

One could see that within it lay a shattered world.

The entire world had been destroyed.

Ke Qingxuan stared for a long time, judging for a long time, and could confirm that this was indeed the corpse of the Shi Meng Mo.

She opened her mouth, her breathing stalling.

The Shi Meng Mo...

Was dead.

Dazed and disbelieving, she passed through the gaps in the corpse with tears streaming down, arriving inside the shattered world.

She flew about like a startled bird.

Until.

On a broken mountain peak, several figures stood.

Lu Xunyang, Zong Huang, Lin Yu...

One of them was sitting cross-legged, surrounded by the others.

"Ke Qingxuan."

The youth sitting cross-legged slowly opened his eyes and looked toward Ke Qingxuan.

Ke Qingxuan froze in the void, her thoughts stalling, yet she habitually said softly at this moment:

"I am here."

The youth revealed a smile:

"It's alright now."

His voice brushed past Ke Qingxuan's ear like a clear breeze, causing the woman to be unable to hold back her tears any longer.

"I..." Ke Qingxuan instantly evaporated the tears in her eyes, returning to her usual coldness:

"I will go call them over."

"No need," Chen Yan said:

"I have already ordered my Divine Armor to call them; did you not see it on your way here?"

Ke Qingxuan was stunned; she hadn't seen it, as she hadn't paid attention to her surroundings on her way here.

"Since things have reached this point."

Chen Yan's gaze softened:

"Let's eat first."

Ke Qingxuan stared at Chen Yan, watching as the youth truly took out plate after plate of chicken legs and plate after plate of seafood.

Lu Xunyang looked at this food and fell into deep thought.

When he had left back then, why hadn't he thought to bring some food?

He regretted it very much.

He had been hungry for many years.

He took the plate of sea fish handed over by Chen Yan, opened his mouth, but decided not to speak for now and began to eat.

Zong Huang looked at the chicken leg in his hand and fell into silence.

He should have died, but someone had reversed the heavens and earth.

As for Ke Qingxuan, she pursed her lips, thinking about what she should say.

But in the end, she still uttered her habitual words:

"Good."