Chapter 736: Li Zhiyi

"Back then, I repeatedly created momentum, set a fixed time, and put on a show for the world to see, while in reality, I entered the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods ahead of schedule to hunt Ancient God Beasts.

The prey I chose was the Nether Nightmare Beast!"

It was that red-eyed infant gestated within the Blood Sun embryo.

Chen Yan's expression turned cold; he too had once nearly been taken to the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods by the Nether Nightmare Beast to be slaughtered.

That day, the Nether Nightmare Beast had indeed taken him away right in front of everyone in the world.

Lu Xunyang shook his head slightly:

"I never imagined that the Dream-Eating Tapir would still appear; two peak Ancient God Beasts suppressing me simultaneously caused me to miss my golden opportunity time and time again.

If you fail once, you are suppressed forever."

Lu Xunyang sighed with emotion.

The Immortal Body kept him from dying, but the arrival of Chen Yan was the beginning of everything changing.

"So Master Lu has now already slaughtered the Dream-Eating Tapir." Chen Yan's eyes flashed; he was a bit curious about Lu Xunyang's current realm.

"I am still at the peak of the Eighth Rank." Lu Xunyang shook his head slightly:

"Hunting Ancient God Beasts requires one person to do the killing; if it were possible to join forces, why would I have come alone?"

He looked at Chen Yan:

"If not for you, I would have had no possibility of killing the Dream-Eating Tapir."

He revealed a smile:

"But I now possess the Immortal Will, and my split soul has long since mastered the essence of hard-body training far beyond what I once had."

A look of confidence appeared in his eyes.

Just because he did not become a Ninth Rank did not mean he had become weaker.

Having struggled in the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods for so many years, he was like a piece of refined iron that had been constantly forged, extremely rigid and strong.

"As for you..." Lu Xunyang looked at Chen Yan:

"I observe that although you are calm, you seem to be burdened with heavy thoughts?"

"It is not that I am burdened with heavy thoughts."

Chen Yan smiled:

"It is just that I have grown tired of being constantly plotted against and constantly killed by shadows."

Lu Xunyang looked at Chen Yan in surprise; he knew that Chen Yan was not a person who would be afraid.

"Are you going to take a desperate risk?" Lu Xunyang asked.

Chen Yan's current strength was not as great as his, but that did not mean Chen Yan's methods would necessarily be inferior.

Chen Yan was the Master of Martial Dao.

"Yes." Chen Yan nodded:

"I am going to launch a surprise attack on Ji Province and exterminate one of the Five Clans!"

Endless cold light erupted in the depths of his eyes, and his blazing fighting spirit made even Lu Xunyang feel immense emotion.

Lu Xunyang just looked at Chen Yan like that, and only after a while did he speak:

"I will assist you."

Since he wanted to start a war of extermination, Chen Yan would certainly need supreme combat power.

Since fighting side-by-side with Chen Yan, Lu Xunyang never believed that Chen Yan was a person who had courage but no strategy.

Daring to say this, it must be because Chen Yan already had a detailed plan in his heart.

"Naturally, I need Master Lu's help." Chen Yan smiled:

"However, the ending might make everyone uneasy."

"You..." Lu Xunyang opened his mouth:

"Have you already decided on the ending?"

He frowned; how could there be an ending that was certain to be realized?

Unless Chen Yan had an ending he could decide for himself, one that would definitely be realized.

Lu Xunyang stared at Chen Yan, only to see the young man smile:

"The people of the world all want to destroy me; why can I not destroy myself?

If it is possible to exterminate the clan, even if I, Chen Yan, die, it will appear infinitely glorious."

Lu Xunyang's pupils constricted slightly.

Chen Yan's words made even him extremely surprised.

What was this saying?

Now, they had already cleared away the dangers and did not need to struggle amidst death.

But Lu Xunyang did not refute him; he just wanted to hear what exactly Chen Yan was planning.

"Master Lu and I both have a weakness that cannot be changed, and we also have an advantage that neither of us can change."

Chen Yan smiled.

Lu Xunyang raised his eyebrows slightly:

"Are you referring to bloodline?"

"Yes."

"Bloodline cannot be changed; what can be changed is cognition." Lu Xunyang said calmly:

"What is the advantage?"

Chen Yan revealed a brilliant smile:

"That is naturally the sufficiently large weight I hold in this world, such that enemies will do enough to destroy me."

A heroic spirit emerged within Chen Yan's heart.

In his view, everything had a value that could be utilized.

Even death itself.

Before Chen He even arrived, Chen Yan had already designed the blueprint for what would follow while inside the mountain cave.

"My death can annihilate a clan.

My life can settle the world."

Lu Xunyang was silent for a moment, looking at Chen Yan's back, and said:

"Then how will you live?"

Chen Yan stood up, his eyes erupting with an aura that looked down upon the heavens and earth:

"Heaven and earth mold my bones, mountains and rivers imbue my blood, the human world grants me a heart, and True Martial extends my will!"

Lu Xunyang's gaze trembled slightly, his heart filled with myriad emotions.

He wanted to see exactly how Chen Yan intended to walk this path.

It was just that Chen Yan had not fully explained the reason for his planned birth.

The most critical part.

Was the Breaking Realm.

The Will Domain had already been born.

But it was by no means perfect.

The Breaking Realm, like the Word Realm and the Standing Realm, should be able to change the Martial Dao and extend the Martial Dao.

But the current Breaking Realm did not look like a realm; it looked more like a method.

Chen Yan had already done enough, yet he still had no leads.

He had started from Breaking Law and set the tone of "Break," but it still did not work.

Since that was the case, it would be better to try "no destruction, no construction."

…………

After the conversation ended, Chen Yan arrived inside the Map of Enlightenment and Myriad Manifestations.

"Since I must die, I must design the opportunity for rebirth; if I can only die but cannot be reborn, then it would become a joke."

Chen Yan had long since conceived a plan.

He needed a vessel for another life.

A physical body that was no longer of the Chen clan's bloodline, a newborn body nurtured by the essence of heaven and earth or other materials.

Chen Yan was not worrying needlessly.

Chen He could use Chen Lanqiu's blood to locate him, and Chen Zhou had once used the Chen clan's blood to create a bloodline bomb to kill him.

When Chen Yan ambushed Chen Lanqiu and Lu Zhiwei, he had indeed sensed a pull of bloodline.

Chen Lanqiu was not just a tool used to locate Chen Yan; she was also a means used by Chen He to kill Chen Yan.

Perhaps it was still related to the methods of the Chen Lord.

Bloodline had indeed become a tool used by Chen Zhou to kill Chen Yan.

Never think that your enemies will become merciful; they will only use all kinds of methods to harm you in the shadows.

Therefore, the moment this pulling force was felt by Chen Yan, Chen Yan abandoned the idea of punishing Chen Lanqiu and instead killed the opponent directly.

Making Chen He's backup plan fail immediately.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged on the Divine Mountain, his aura gradually changing, becoming increasingly calm.

At this moment, he looked at the Martial Dao meridian again.

The death of the Dream-Eating Tapir had caused a heaven-shaking phenomenon.

The armies of the Great Xia and the Five Clans were already marching toward the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods.

But all of this had nothing to do with Chen Yan.

Who said that Lu Xunyang and they must exit from the entrance of the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods?

The Purple Void World-Settling Mirror was also an exit.

Chen Yan collected his thoughts and began to observe the Martial Dao meridian.

The entire Martial Dao meridian was like a glowing divine tree, with countless bright, slender branches stretching outward, each branch growing a spherical tip at its end.

Inside the tips, the faces of various Will martial artists were manifested.

As warm as mutton-fat jade, as brilliant as the stars.

This was something born at the same time as Chen Yan's Will Path; it was something born from his own conception when he pioneered the Will Path.

The Martial Dao meridian was also a type of method.

Since that was the case, could the Martial Dao meridian transmit Chen Yan's Will power?

Naturally, it could; every time the Lord of Will descended into the consciousness of a Will martial artist, they used Will power.

But that only manifested the back and voice of the Lord of Will, and the Will power required was not much.

How to transport vast amounts of Will power, however, required long-term research by Chen Yan.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of time inside the Map of Enlightenment and Myriad Manifestations.

And Chen Yan's Divine Spirits were also extremely abundant.

Chen Yan currently had 【6】 Divine Spirits remaining, and the Divine Spirits required by the Map of Enlightenment and Myriad Manifestations were 【2000×6】.

Chen Yan could still use it for sixty-three days.

Inside the Map of Enlightenment and Myriad Manifestations, that was three thousand seven hundred and ninety days.

"I need to create a new Will-rule martial art."

Chen Yan whispered aloud.

A faint golden-red radiance swirled around his body; Dao essence flowed, and the laws hummed softly.

As time slowly passed.

Within the Myriad Manifestations Enlightenment Map, Chen Yan spent a full one hundred and twenty days.

Yet in the outside world, it had been but two days.

Lu Xunyang had been continuously creating artificial Tier 8s.

This was a peculiar method preserved from the Pure True Yang Realm.

After the Dream-Eating Tapir died, it left behind an immense amount of life-and-death energy, enough for Lu Xunyang to use.

Meanwhile, Chen Yan sat atop the Divine Mountain, his aura becoming increasingly profound and deep.

Until a certain moment.

He reached out with one hand, and strands of Willpower flowed into the soil before him; the soil squirmed, rose, and evolved into an object resembling a human body, roughly the height of a human knee.

The moment this object appeared, it immediately disintegrated.

"Not enough, still far from it."

Chen Yan frowned:

"Willpower is just another form of life, but what I want is a newly born physical body.

What is the composition of a physical body? What are they constructed from?"

Chen Yan thought of a term.

Biochemical Martial Dao.

He remembered very clearly that when Lu Cunyang fought him, his physical body had indeed grown a dragon torso.

That dragon torso seemed to be composed of the same parts as human flesh and blood.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan transmitted his consciousness outward.

Soon, a graceful figure appeared within the Myriad Manifestations Enlightenment Map.

"You need to understand the Biochemical Martial Dao of Lu Province?"

Lu Jianxia wore a golden long dress, her crystalline hair draped over her shoulders, looking very noble.

"Mm." Chen Yan nodded.

"I don't know it very well, but I have some data."

As she spoke, she took out a silver metal plate engraved with dense text.

After speaking, she turned around; as she prepared to leave, she paused, wanting to look back, but departed nonetheless.

Chen Yan looked at the silver iron plate, which was engraved with data pertaining to the Biochemical Martial Dao.

Chen Yan glanced at it and was drawn to the first term.

"Human Body Particle Analysis..."

Chen Yan's pupils trembled; the Biochemical Martial Dao had indeed already touched upon the fundamental principles of the human physical composition.

"Human body restructuring... flesh and blood synthesis." Chen Yan was astonished; he even felt it was somewhat unorthodox.

Soon, Chen Yan stopped paying attention to the iron plate.

"Is this taking a crooked path?

It is different from the path I walk." Chen Yan shook his head; he did not deny the Biochemical Martial Dao, but he did not intend to borrow from it.

"Will is inherently an invincible path, why borrow from biochemical soil?"

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes:

"I shall create new life with my own will!"

He closed his eyes, began to evolve it in his mind, and guided with his fingers, constructing a human body in the void using Willpower.

Time slowly passed.

Within the Myriad Manifestations Enlightenment Map, spring, summer, autumn, and winter had long since passed.

In the outside world, it was but a dozen days.

At the same time.

In the outside world.

Within Qin Province.

Willpower martial artists everywhere had their expressions change; they clearly felt something appear within their bodies, only to vanish instantly.

It was as if their bodies were merely a conduit.

In a place they had not discovered.

Strands of Willpower began to gather in Yunmeng City.

Deep within a continuous mountain range.

Strands of Willpower gathered, combined, and radiated golden-red brilliance.

This golden-red brilliance first evolved into bones, then internal organs, flesh, blood vessels, meridians...

Until finally, a youth with a naked body appeared.

"I... who am I?"

The youth looked around; the glow of the sunset from above the firmament fell upon him, and mottled spots of light appeared on his hair and face, appearing exceptionally miraculous.

This was as if the uncanny workmanship of nature; a life that should not have been born in this world had appeared.

"My name is Li Zhiyi..."

The youth spoke slowly, a name appearing deep in his mind, as if it were the call of a god.

He slowly walked down the mountain path, bypassing the ancient trees growing aslant along the road.

Hiss, hiss...

A low beast roar sounded; a Green Dweller Snake coiled atop a large tree was awakened by the sound of his footsteps.

The Green Dweller Snake flicked its tongue, looking down at the young man from above, already treating him as its dinner for the day.

But the next instant, the snake's eyes suddenly constricted, as if it had sensed endless terror.

The massive Green Dweller Snake darted out in an instant, using every ounce of its strength to flee into the distance.

It felt as though it had nearly died just a moment ago.

Yet the young man only glanced at it out of curiosity before continuing to walk down the mountain.

His pace was slow; by the time he reached the foot of the mountain, the sky had already turned dark.

He arrived inside a village that had long been deserted.

The flames of war had spread to this place, and houses were collapsed everywhere.

Yet, a courtyard with an old locust tree growing outside its gate still stood peacefully upon the shattered earth.

The young man saw a notice standing before the gate, with several large characters written upon it.

【Former Residence of Chen Yan】

Li Zhiyi walked into the courtyard and found a set of clothes to put on.

It was also at this moment that a voice suddenly sounded from outside the courtyard.

"Who are you?!" a cold female voice rang out.

A beautiful woman dressed in military uniform had already appeared behind him.

This was a woman named Si Wenyi.

The woman looked at Li Zhiyi coldly, hostility already surfacing in her eyes.

"I..." Li Zhiyi slowly opened his mouth:

"I think my name is... Li Zhiyi."