Chapter 753: Immortal and Indestructible!

Lu Xunyang stared at Master Chen, his eyes profound, the martial Dao aura surging throughout his entire body already thick to the extreme.

Battle intent.

Powerful battle intent erupted at this moment!

Within the deep space of the universe, the blood-stained Master Lu and Master Ji were already silent; their bodies were tattered, flesh and blood stripped away, revealing ghastly white bones.

Rumble!

A roar like the earth moving and mountains shaking resounded from the depths of Great Xia, as if the billions of Great Xia living beings were clenching their fists at this moment, eyes filled with fury, growling low, the shouts of battle wanting to pierce the heavens.

There were elders kneeling on the earth, their physical bodies trembling incessantly, clenching their fists and smashing them toward the void.

"Reverse-slay!"

"Reverse-slay!"

"Reverse-slay!"

Those countless frantic shouts of battle intertwined, containing the grand killing intent and fighting will of the entire Xia Kingdom.

Chen Yan had fallen; countless people were furious, harboring hatred, their eyes filled with hot tears.

Now, they could only look together at that broken, void-like Divine General Xunyang.

It seemed as if everyone had lost their reason; because of Chen Yan's death, they had lost the ability to think, and at this moment, there was only killing intent.

Kill!

Avenge!

But between heaven and earth, one voice after another was transmitted over.

"Retreat, Lu Xunyang, retreat!"

"Take Chen Yan's corpse and return to Great Xia!"

"Do not fight anymore, we have lost!"

"We have lost, preserve our strength, preserve our strength! If you continue to fight and slay, there will be no Great Xia in the future!"

Those voices were trembling, fearful, and terrified.

They were afraid.

They were cowardly.

They could not fight anymore.

The matter of reverse-slaying a higher rank only happens at low cultivation levels.

For an Eighth Rank to reverse-slay a Ninth Rank is simply a fantasy.

The source of these voices was one after another of the Great Xia powerhouses who had already appeared above the sea.

At this moment, their expressions were pained, their fists clenched tight.

Chen Yan was dead, Master Lu had been resurrected, and Chen Yan's plan for a surprise attack on Ji Province had failed!

Even though anyone could see that this plan was like a desperate struggle, strange and difficult to describe.

But failure was failure.

The strongest heaven-gifted talent to appear in Great Xia in ten thousand years had fallen in Ji Province today.

Dong!

A sorrowful and grand bell toll erupted from Jin Province, stretching across mountains and rivers, transmitting over.

Dong!

The bell toll was grand, yet it was as if the mountains and rivers were weeping together, heartbroken and desperate.

Dong!

The bell toll turned into invisible sound waves, sweeping across wheat fields and overturning wheat waves, penetrating the window lattices of thousands of households, startling children so that the rice bowls in their hands shattered, and shaking the Great Xia commoners who were still shouting 'reverse-slay' until their complexions changed abruptly.

This was the bell toll for the fall of a Divine General, the low weeping of the ten thousand people of Great Xia.

"Divine General Xunyang..."

A green, youthful girl's voice resounded, traveling all the way to the sky above Ji Province.

That was the voice of the current ruler of Great Xia.

The girl's voice carried trembling, carried panic, carried sorrow.

"Bring the Heavenly Divine General's corpse back to Great Xia."

The ruler's voice fell.

Lu Xunyang looked over, his gaze seeming to pierce through endless mountains and seas, locking onto the girl in the golden robe inside the Ruler's Mansion in Jin Province.

This was not the ruler's order.

The ruler, Xia Yiyi, was only eight years old now and possessed no political wisdom whatsoever.

This was a decision made by the Great Xia high-level officials still in Jin Province.

They wanted Lu Xunyang to return to Great Xia and bring back Chen Yan's corpse.

Xia Hanzhou was not there, and those high-level officials dared not fight to the end.

If Lu Xunyang also fell in Ji Province, then Great Xia would be completely destroyed.

Master Chen had arrived alone and reversed everything.

The high-level officials were afraid; Great Xia was afraid.

Lu Xunyang's expression did not change in the slightest, his pair of eyes constantly staring at Master Chen below.

Master Chen's green robe fluttered; his appearance was mediocre, yet he possessed an indescribable, powerful spirit.

"If I had known today would come, why act as I did back then? Since Lu Xunyang has already arrived, how could I let him leave like this?"

The peripheral vision of his eyes swept across the vast Great Xia, and he spoke:

"Why must you all block me? Do you think I want to exterminate the human race?"

"What I do is to preserve the human race; the world's malice has long been boiling over, and if this continues, the Ancient Gods will awaken."

His voice was extremely calm, yet it felt like the judgment of an emperor.

As the words rang out, the entire roaring Great Xia fell into silence.

In the void, Lu Xunyang looked down at the current Lord Chen:

"If the human race does not fight and only knows how to retreat, it is destined to die."

Lord Chen narrowed his eyes:

"What about a thousand years from now? Ten thousand years from now?"

"The human race has never had a tomorrow; the human race only has the present." Lu Xunyang spoke, the radiance of his will flowing around his body, hazy and profoundly mysterious.

Lord Chen's eyes were filled with disappointment; Lu Xunyang had said the same thing many years ago, and he was still saying it many years later.

He scanned the entire firmament and sighed for a long time:

"The human race has existed for ten thousand years and has never truly defeated the Ancient Gods, yet there are always fools who wish to offend the divine might. It is not the Ancient Gods who destroy the human race, but the human race destroying its own lineage."

He was silent for a moment, then suddenly turned his head to look into the depths of Great Xia.

"Where are you?"

That grand voice bombarded the entire Great Xia.

"Lord of Will, if you truly exist, then destroy the Ancient Gods for me! Destroy Him now! If you destroy Him, I will commit suicide right here!"

Within his body, all his bones were clanging, and a terrifying gaze swept across the vast human world, as if trying to find that hidden Lord of Will from the cracks of any ley line.

But he was disappointed.

He saw nothing.

Lord Chen narrowed his eyes, and ripples of clear radiance appeared on his green robes, seemingly brewing a powerful technique, and a terrifying murderous intent instantly spilled downward.

"Since that is the case."

He sighed long and looked at Lu Xunyang:

"Since you have come today, do not leave."

He raised one hand, and an intangible blade appeared in his palm with a hazy, illusory light; it suddenly manifested as a long sword covered in runes, suppressing the brilliance of the sun and moon and the spirit of the mountains and rivers.

At this moment, the entire world shook instantly.

Lu Xunyang's eyes erupted with golden light, and he laughed aloud:

"Come!"

He raised his fist:

"What I do is not about foolishness or wisdom, but solely for ten thousand generations of peace!"

"Slaying you today will settle the world!"

Rumble!

An incredibly powerful battle erupted suddenly!

Lord Lu and Lord Ji were pushed away from the battlefield by the power spilling from Lord Chen's gaze.

Boiling!

Everything was boiling in this space.

Lord Ji's eyes contracted wildly; after tonight, the situation of the world would change completely.

The struggle between Great Xia and the Five Clans would come to a complete end!

Yet, in this moment of shock.

"Hmm?!"

Lord Chen's eyes narrowed, and he instantly looked downward, his gaze locked onto the young man who had been struck by the 【Dao Slash】 divine technique's Life-Severing Dao attack.

At the same time.

Lord Ji, Lord Lu, and even Lu Xunyang looked over in astonishment, as if they had seen something that was absolutely impossible to happen.

Meanwhile, the entire world became completely silent.

In everyone's sight, golden radiance was actually flowing on the body of the young man who had originally been lifeless.

That ocean-like power of will was surging endlessly, boundless, brilliant, and vast.

The Immortal Will was actually causing Chen Yan, whose life force had been stripped away, to revive at this moment.

Immortal, immortal, immortal!

At this moment, Chen Yan was actually hoping to die; everything was in line with his plan.

Xia Long and the others had long since arrived and had already prepared the path ahead for him.

Chen Yan felt that dying at this moment was undoubtedly perfect.

Struck by that sword from Lord Chen, Chen Yan's physical body and consciousness had completely shut down, and his life force had been stripped away entirely.

But at this moment, he was like a corpse frozen for ten thousand years suddenly thawing, breathing violently.

The power of the Immortal Will did not care about any of Chen Yan's plans, burning like a single spark.

A thread of Immortal power could become two; one produces two, two produce three, and three produce all things—undying and indestructible.

This was the powerful strength accumulated through countless struggles and battles since Chen Yan entered the Dao.

Even though the 【Dao Slash】 could extinguish the life force of all the world's powerhouses, it could not extinguish Chen Yan's power of will.

It was not that the 【Dao Slash】 was weak, but that the strength of Chen Yan's will had long since condensed to a level that even Chen Yan found hard to believe.

More importantly, the Life-Severing Dao strike of the 【Dao Slash】 was an aura of destruction.

This was exactly the same as the aura of destruction Chen Yan felt when he blew up his own universe.

Chen Yan did not even know how many times he had destroyed his own universe and revived it with his Immortal Will.

If anyone else had to endure this, they would have died long ago.

But Chen Yan... was already used to it.

Whoosh!

His ink-colored robes billowed, his long hair flared wildly, ten thousand streaks of pitch-black lightning intertwined over his physical body, and countless particles slowly hovered, centered around him.

At this moment, Chen Yan was truly the center of the world, the foundation of all things.

The strands of destructive aura within his body remained thick, yet they were being suppressed by his constantly erupting immortal will.

"Could it be that I really can't die?" Chen Yan thought to himself, feeling it was somewhat absurd.

He could not commit suicide directly; otherwise, even a fool would see there was a problem.

Now, Chen Yan could only rely on Chen Zhu to strike him with a few more 【Dao Slashes】.

Under the incredulous gazes of everyone, Chen Yan sat cross-legged and began to force the destructive aura out of his body.

Everyone could feel that Chen Yan was recovering his physical body at an unimaginable speed.

It was simply ghostly.

Even Lu Xunyang watched in silence.

This was different from the plan Chen Yan had discussed with him.

He had appeared to be defying a Ninth-Rank, but in reality, he had already been thinking about how to slip away.

As it turned out, Chen Yan had come back to life again.

What was to be done?

Chen Yan remained silent, continuing to sit cross-legged, not moving from his spot, just waiting for Chen Zhu to strike him again.

Everyone was unable to remain calm.

"Immortal and indestructible?!" Chen Zhu said in a low voice, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

Could someone in this world truly achieve immortality and indestructibility?

Had Chen Yan's power of will really grown to such a degree?

If Chen Yan was like this, then what strange methods might the Lord of Will, who created the Path of Will, possess?

"If you do not die, the world will not be at peace."

Chen Zhu's silent voice rang out, and the invisible blade in his hand was raised once more, falling toward Chen Yan.

If I cannot kill you once, then I will kill you twice, three times, countless times!

Chen Zhu did not believe that there could be true immortality and indestructibility in the world.

Chen Yan opened his eyes, looked at Chen Zhu, felt the strike descending from Chen Zhu, and took a deep breath.

This strike was even stronger than the previous one.

This time, he, Chen Yan, would surely die!

Chen Yan's eyes erupted with brilliant light, but in his heart, he felt a sense of relief.

Finally, I am going to leave.

Yet, at this very moment.

Hum!

A clanging sword hum suddenly rang out.

The entire heaven and earth seemed to have been severed by a sword light striking from the distant horizon.

Wherever the sword light reached, a terrifying Sword Domain suppressed everything and destroyed all Daoist techniques.

The invisible blade that Chen Zhu had slashed with was destroyed by this sword.

"Who dares to destroy my Great Xia Heavenly General!!!"

"Chen Yuan!"

Xia Hanzhou's roar came from afar:

"You think a Province Lord and a dozen Eighth-Ranks can stop the foundation of my Great Xia?!

You think this can block me, Xia Hanzhou?!"

Chen Zhu's expression turned gloomy.

The Province Lord of Chi and Chen Qi and the others had actually failed to stop Xia Hanzhou, who was wielding the Xia Lord Sword.

The Xia Lord Sword was not the most terrifying thing.

Xia Hanzhou was even less terrifying.

What was terrifying was Lu Xunyang, who held the Xia Lord Sword!

Chen Zhu's pupils contracted; the scene he least wanted to see was about to occur.

He reached out one hand toward the incoming sword light, and an endless aura of life and death erupted from within his robes; ten-colored brilliance, like immortal rays, pierced through the clouds and shot straight into the heavens and earth, attempting to block the incoming divine artifact.

"Sword!"

A low voice rang out, suppressing the entire Ji Province.

Lu Xunyang reached out a hand, assuming the posture of holding a sword, as if a powerful summoning force had been generated between him and that long sword.