Chapter 752: Every Muscle and Bone, a Foundation for the Dao; the Great Dao is Simple, a Martial Arts Grandmaster!

The next moment.

Tap, tap...

The sound of footsteps, as if treading upon a marble floor, rang out; ripples emerged across the void of the distant sky.

A man in green robes appeared under the illumination of the bright moon, calmly sweeping his gaze over Lu Xunyang and over Chen Yan.

Everything between heaven and earth fell silent, save for him, who continued to step forward.

As he took a step, his robes fluttering, the mountains and rivers of the human world seemed to shrink rapidly—shrinking the earth into an inch, covering ten thousand miles in a single stride.

The green-robed man looked at Chen He's head, seeing those withered eyes that had endured countless tribulations, long since exhausted, devoid of any will or soul.

"Chen He..." A trace of imperceptible sorrow flickered in the eyes of the Chen Lord.

"You are dead..."

Chen He was dead.

Although still alive, his heart had long since died; even if his physical body were to be restored later, Chen Yan could never return to the way he once was.

It was as if he had suffered ten thousand years of torture in the depths of the eighteenth level of the underworld; his mind had long since changed, and his will had long since vanished.

The Chen Lord slowly raised his right hand, paused for a moment, but still waved it.

With a swish...

Chen He's head dissipated, vanishing completely from the human world.

The Chen Lord's gaze was calm:

"Chen Yan, you are only nineteen years old; why would you commit such an unconscionable act?

Even if you believed Chen He deserved to die, you should have granted him a swift end, rather than altering his perception and forcing him to endure ten thousand years of agony.

This is not the conduct of a gentleman."

His voice arrived, and the next instant, his body had already appeared above Ji Province.

"You may think me cold-blooded, but I feel that you are no less so, perhaps even far exceeding me."

The Chen Lord said calmly:

"You may have never feared me, but I fear you."

He had actually spoken his inner thoughts without the slightest reservation.

A person capable of making an enemy suffer the pain of being flayed and having their tendons pulled for ten thousand years—how terrifying must that be?

Chen Yan appeared calm, but the Chen Lord seemed to see at a glance the wild beast condensed from fury deep within Chen Yan's heart.

"You hide it well; even since this battle began, you have never shown anger or arrogance.

But you cannot deceive me; you want to release the rage in your heart, you want the Five Clans to bear your fury, otherwise you would not have devised this plan to raid Ji Province."

The Chen Lord said, taking another step forward, the distance between him and Chen Yan constantly shrinking.

The entire world heard his voice.

Yet within the borders of Ji Province, no one could move; they could only listen, unable even to turn their eyeballs.

Powerful.

Undeniably powerful.

Powerful in a way that transcended everyone.

This is the Chen Lord!

"The plan to raid Ji Province could only have been made by you; in my understanding, Lu Xunyang would not devise such an urgent plan."

The Chen Lord walked forward with his hands behind his back:

"I originally did not know who had made you launch a surprise attack on Ji Province, but seeing you now, I understand.

You make me feel a chill of dread!"

The Chen Lord narrowed his eyes.

There was no guarantee that one day, Chen Yan would no longer be able to control this wild beast, causing the human world to suffer.

He did not know what Chen Yan had experienced at such a young age to have nurtured such ferocious fury.

It should not be.

This did not match Chen Yan's age.

He attempted to use his own thinking to understand this youth who defied common sense.

And then he discovered this feeling.

A sense of tearing!

This was a sense of tearing, and also the point of disharmony.

Too disharmonious.

Seeing Chen Yan was like seeing a hidden, massive treasure mountain; it was like seeing the deepest secret of the human world.

Just by looking from afar, one could feel that heaven-piercing fury that made even him feel palpitations.

The world only knows of Chen Yan's miraculous nature, but if one thinks of Chen Yan from the perspective of an enemy, it becomes increasingly terrifying.

The Chen Lord had discovered it.

He even saw the shadow of the former Xia Lord upon Chen Yan.

The Chen Lord slowly shook his head:

"Chen Yan, if you do not die, the world will surely fall into chaos, and the human realm will surely perish!

I originally had the intention to recruit you, but only now do I realize that was merely my own delusional fantasy."

He shook his head slightly, slowly raising his hand into a posture of holding a sword.

There was no sword in his hand, yet it was as if there were.

At this moment.

The entire Ji Province was under his control; even Lu Xunyang and the Ji Master within the void were frozen in space.

The bodies of Ji Yanqing and the others could not move, but at this moment, endless ecstasy surged in their hearts.

The Ji Master floated in the universe, motionless, but endless feelings and various indescribable emotions flashed through their heart.

Lord Chen, truly a Ninth Rank.

People of the world had guessed it, but no one could confirm it.

Now, the power of Lord Chen thrilled her.

The future had been altered!

She did not have to die, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in her Ji Province did not have to die either.

Lu Xunyang's body was frozen; his right fist had already been raised, but at this moment, it was completely unable to fall.

And Lord Chen merely raised his hand slowly toward Chen Yan, then slowly lowered it.

His eyes radiated a power that looked down upon the world, his peripheral vision seemingly catching sight of Great Xia across the ocean.

"Today, I shall let the entire human world witness your death."

With those words, he had already sealed Chen Yan's fate.

At the same time.

"Ninth Rank!!!"

Outside Ji Province, above Tie Province, Divine General Zhen Yue and the others gasped; Lord Chen's range of control did not span across the ocean to affect Great Xia on the other side.

But at this moment, every one of them felt horror and trembling.

"Now you understand why we were coerced by him."

A blood-stained, white-robed Longevity Practitioner, their physical body in tatters, let out a bitter laugh.

Below, the corpses of the other five Longevity Practitioners were either exploded or lay in ruins across the shattered earth.

Divine General Zhen Yue and the others were indeed formidable; the six of them could not defeat them at all.

But she was not worried, for these few dead Longevity Practitioners all had means to survive.

Each of them had a sliver of life that had slipped away during the battle just now.

Even so, this battle had been a grave injury for them.

They might even drop in realm and lose their means of longevity.

They truly could not defeat these Eighth Rankers of Great Xia.

It was too brutal.

"Since Lord Chen has returned, I will not stop you," the blood-robed woman said with difficulty:

"From now on, whether it is the Five Clans or Great Xia, who lives or dies has nothing to do with us.

We will not participate in any affairs of the human world, and you had best not come looking for us."

She flew away:

"I only want to live; what is wrong with pursuing longevity?"

At this moment, Divine General Zhen Yue and the others had no heart to pay attention to this fleeing Longevity Practitioner.

"It's over..." the Grand Bo said blankly, their face devoid of color.

"The second greatest divine technique in the world..." a gray-robed person of Great Xia said with difficulty:

"The one that vanished five thousand years ago... Dao Slash..."

At this moment, the second greatest divine technique in the world had appeared!

Dao Slash!

To slash life, to slash death, to slash time, to slash space.

Slash Life Dao: upon contact, vitality reverses into withering.

Slash Death Dao: reverses life and death, transmuting inanimate objects into living beings.

Slash Time Dao: upon contact, the target's flow of time is manipulated at will.

Slash Space Dao: severs spatial links, freezing the void.

These four Daos must have limitations, but 【Dao Slash】 was already powerful enough; why fear limitations?

Lord Chen had used only one strike of Slash Space Dao to freeze the entire Ji Province.

Such power was unimaginable.

Before the 【Dao Slash】 divine technique, the third greatest divine technique 【Thousand Shadow Kill of the Calamity Corpse】, the fifth 【World Instant】, and the tenth 【Heavenly Bone】 all paled in comparison.

An endless sense of oppression seemed to cross the ocean to suppress the entire sky above Great Xia.

At this moment, within Great Xia, countless people watched in a daze, completely losing their composure.

"Save me, Heavenly Divine General!"

"Who can strike, who can strike?!"

"Divine General!!!"

Someone screamed, tears already welling in their eyes; the sense of oppression belonging to Lord Chen descended, and the entire Great Xia felt it difficult to breathe.

Lord Chen had arrived and frozen everything; now he was about to strike at Chen Yan, and all the living beings of Great Xia could only watch in a daze, powerless.

Suffocation!

An intense feeling of suffocation struck.

Countless people covered their mouths, their eyes flickering, tears falling in abundance.

"Chen Yan..."

Above Qin Province, Si Wenyi watched this scene with a pale face, as if she were about to lose everything.

She saw the invisible blade in Lord Chen's hand slowly descending.

This was intentional, to judge Chen Yan to death before the eyes of the world.

She reached out her hand with difficulty, fantasizing that she could block the fall of that invisible blade.

But she could do nothing.

Rumble...

Within the borders of Great Xia, a series of earth-shaking roars resounded.

It was as if the entire Xia Kingdom were beating violently like a heart.

Because of the fall of the blade in the hand of Lord Chen, it fell into panic.

"Who is attacking, who is attacking!!!"

Someone held their head, unwilling to look anymore.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Someone let out a miserable roar.

Until the next moment.

With a swish.

Lord Chen's hand merely fell slowly, and Chen Yan's body was still there, but it seemed as if everything had changed.

At this moment.

Horror.

An indescribable horror swept across the entire Great Xia, and countless living beings were distraught.

Although Chen Yan was still there, at this moment the entire world, whether martial artists or mortals, could feel a strange sensation.

That was, Chen Yan was going to die.

Such a strange feeling.

It was as if a god had spoken this sentence of divine punishment in their hearts.

Chen Yan, was about to fall.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

"I want to kill him ahhhhh!!!"

"Heavens!"

A series of shrill screams, a series of desperate roars, and angry bellows resounded throughout the entirety of Great Xia.

Life-Severing Dao!

Severing your vitality!

Above Ji Prefecture, Lord Chen indifferently withdrew his sword, and his gaze no longer rested on Chen Yan.

Chen Yan was still there, but it was already of no importance.

The next instant, he swung his sword again.

Swish!!!

Time seemed to flow through this world as tangibly as tassels.

This sword fell, reversing time!

But the direction the sword light rushed toward was the location where Lord Lu was.

When the sword light arrived at that void space filled with blood mist, a strange scene was born.

Yet it was seen that the countless blood mist and minced flesh began to condense visibly to the naked eye.

Until at the very end, it turned into a man covered in bloody gashes.

Lord Lu!

"I..."

Lord Lu spoke in a daze, full of astonishment and shock; his gaze shifted, and he saw Lord Chen, and saw the invisible sword in Lord Chen's hand.

The first moment brought to Lord Lu by the reversal of life and death was not joy, but shock, and an indescribable horror.

"You..."

He opened his mouth:

"Dao Severing... Ninth Rank..."

His breathing became rapid.

Countless pieces of information rushed through his divine sense like a torrent.

At this moment, it was as if he were meeting Lord Chen for the first time.

Mysterious, powerful, unimaginable.

Lord Chen had never revealed his true strength in the human world.

Every time he revealed it, it was always stronger than the last.

Lord Lu thought he could guess Lord Chen's true strength.

But now, he discovered that he was like a frog at the bottom of a well, having never seen Lord Chen's true strength at all.

That person standing there was perhaps...

The strongest human since the disappearance of the Lord of Horizontal Refining ten thousand years ago!

Yet at this time.

Crack, crack, crack...

A sound like glass shattering resounded.

Lord Chen looked up at the sky abruptly, only to see a series of void cracks shattering with Lu Xunyang as the center.

"Lu Xunyang..." Lord Chen said in astonishment, looking at where Lu Xunyang was with surprise.

Then, countless streaks of golden light tore through the frozen void.

Clatter!

The void where Lu Xunyang was located shattered completely, and that man erupted with a radiance as brilliant as the great sun.

"Lu Xunyang!" Chen Zhudu couldn't help but let out a low roar; he was filled with shock and disbelief, which was immediately followed by a complex expression, and even one of admiration.

"Cultivating only the horizontal tempering, a fist that breaks ten thousand techniques.

Every muscle and every bone is a foundation of the Dao.

The Great Dao is simple and unadorned, a Martial Dao Grandmaster!"

Chen Zhu laughed, saying with excitement:

"You are absolutely, in all of history... the strongest Rank Eight of the human race!"

At the same time.

In that vast universe, the man wrapped in endless golden light opened his eyes and gazed down at Chen Zhu from above.

"The strongest Rank Eight?"

His gaze turned toward Chen Yan, the fury in the depths of his eyes soaring to the heavens at this moment.

Even knowing Chen Yan's plan, seeing this scene still made it impossible to avoid a violent rage, and that voice, filled with killing intent, seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, shaking the heavens and earth.

"Can you inversely slay a Rank Nine?"