Chapter 785: Light in This Life

Li Zhiyi stepped over Chen Zhixian's body and glanced at Zhang Yu behind him:

"Brother Zhang, help me store her corpse in the Origin Space."

Zhang Yu nodded blankly and did as Li Zhiyi said.

Li Zhiyi's gaze swept across the high sky, having already judged the situation in his heart.

The Great Xia's attitude toward him was currently ambiguous, but no matter what, it was better than the Five Clans.

If he truly went to the Five Clans, he would be truly falling into a demon's den, treated as a blood parasite for the Blood Brand to be born.

He could even less afford to reveal the secret of the blood parasite; if he did, the Five Clans would kill him, Li Zhiyi, at all costs.

As it stood, the Five Clans actually wanted him to live.

Li Zhiyi narrowed his eyes.

The best situation now was for him to continue staying in the Great Xia, and then for Chen Min to die.

In that case, in the eyes of the Great Xia, he would be the only holder of the Blood Brand, and in the eyes of the Five Clans, he would be the only blood parasite.

As for Chen Min, Li Zhiyi had not a shred of affection for him; on the contrary, only if the other party died would his own interests be maximally protected.

A sliver of coldness lingered in Li Zhiyi's heart; currently, Chen Min was being besieged by three Creation Realm experts of the Five Clans, and although he appeared severely injured, he was always able to restore his physical body because he possessed the Immortal Will.

Could it be...

Li Zhiyi narrowed his eyes; could he join forces with Chen Min head-on, and then inadvertently kill Chen Min?

Others could not kill Chen Min, but the Blood Brand in Li Zhiyi's hand could.

Thinking of this, Li Zhiyi shook his head.

On one hand, the conflict between him and Chen Min was only over the Blood Brand, not a blood feud.

On the other hand, if he killed Chen Min inadvertently, he might be able to deceive ordinary soldiers, but he could not deceive the crowd of high-level martial artists here.

Withdrawing the killing intent from his heart, Li Zhiyi looked around; those Great Xia military guards who had originally treated him with cold words now had changing expressions.

It was a look of respect, and terror.

Why were they afraid?

It was because, in their eyes, the current Li Zhiyi was no longer the frail and powerless person from just a moment ago.

Li Zhiyi smiled and looked at Zhang Yu behind him:

"Brother Zhang, there is no such thing as a punishment camp or not; we are looked down upon simply because we are too weak."

He looked up at the firmament, where stars were twinkling; high-level powerhouses were radiating divine brilliance, extremely dazzling and setting each other off, as if to cover up the light of the sun and moon.

They were noble to the extreme, and powerful to the extreme.

But Li Zhiyi remembered very clearly that when Chen Yan stepped into Ji Province, these high-level experts did not have this expression at all.

"These pigs and dogs filling the sky all view me as an ant."

Li Zhiyi spoke, and it was as if a certain majesty from the bottom of his heart bloomed at this moment, radiating outward.

In an instant, it attracted everyone's attention.

Hum!

Golden light!

The brilliant golden-red light rose like a great wave crashing against a reef, a surging tide.

As Li Zhiyi took a step forward, it was like a small sun rising into the sky, and even his body appeared extremely imposing.

【Will Bestowed Upon My Body】!

Within Li Zhiyi's body, all the power of his will was frantically driving every particle, every tendon and bone of his physical body.

Strengthen!

Strengthen!

He did not have a powerful physical body, nor did he have an inexhaustible supply of blood-Qi; he only had his own will.

Seeing Li Zhiyi like this, high above in the sky, Chen Qi and the other Eighth-Rankers of the Five Clans could not help but have their pupils shrink.

Li Zhiyi said word by word that they were pigs and dogs filling the sky; whether it was Chen Qi or others, they all felt cold in their hearts, wishing they could pinch this jumping grasshopper to death with one finger.

The Blood Brand gave you a sliver of power, and you actually think you are strong yourself?

But at this moment, as Li Zhiyi erupted with the power of his will, ripples appeared in everyone's hearts.

Even in Chen Youqing's eyes, there was a flash of surprise.

What kind of martial art was this?

A martial art of the will, unique to the path of the will?

She could feel that Li Zhiyi's physical body had been strengthened by the power of his will.

Previously, Li Zhiyi should have also used this martial art, but it was only for an instant, and it did not erupt this intensely; but now, it allowed everyone to feel it truly and clearly.

Chen Youqing even perceived that Li Zhiyi's originally ordinary physical body actually had the power to rival a Sixth-Ranker of the Hard-Body path under the reinforcement of the power of his will.

Strange!

Who created it?

She seemed to be looking at Li Zhiyi again, as if she were knowing him for the first time.

The next moment.

Clatter!!!

Cyan chains suddenly struck from afar, coiling and killing like dragons as they covered Li Zhiyi.

It was a Creation Realm expert of the Five Clans who had suddenly appeared, wanting to capture Li Zhiyi.

Within the four directions of heaven and earth, the heavily injured Chen Min was also watching this scene; his pupils shrank, and he rushed toward Li Zhiyi.

Chen Min felt Li Zhiyi's change clearly; that strange martial art of the will naturally shocked him.

But Chen Min's focus at this moment was still the Blood Brand.

After all, Li Zhiyi could slay those in the Creation Realm with the Blood Brand, and he himself could already fight those at the peak of the Creation Realm; once he had the Blood Brand, he might even be able to battle an Eighth Rank.

A single Eighth Rank already possessed the ability to change the course of a war.

"Give it to me!" Chen Min roared, his legs bent in the void, his body nearly parallel to the ground.

The next instant.

Boom!

He charged directly toward Li Zhiyi.

He did not care whether Li Zhiyi was currently facing a crisis; he only knew that as long as the Blood Brand was in his hands, the Five Clans would have something to fear.

Could it be that he was snatching the Blood Brand for his own sake?

No!

It was absolutely not for himself.

Chen Min would never forget that moonlit night.

"Those who abandon me, the days of yesterday cannot be kept. Those who disturb my heart, the days of today bring much sorrow."

"I, Bing Yi, act only so that my heart may be free of worry, so that there is no thief within my heart, so that this life may be radiant!"

These were the words Bing Yi told him, the true meaning he missed every day and would never forget.

Chen Yan was a Heavenly God General, the future of the Xia Kingdom, a talent unique in all eternity.

But in Chen Min's heart.

He was Bing Yi.

What does it mean for this life to be radiant?

It means that even if there is endless darkness ahead, one must still walk forward with unwavering determination!

The Blood Brand belonged to Li Zhiyi; it was Li Zhiyi who snatched it, so it was Li Zhiyi's.

Could it be that he, Chen Min, did not know this?

Of course he knew.

At any other time, he would not care about a Blood Brand, nor would he care about the fifth-ranked divine artifact in the world.

He did not want it!

He himself was his own greatest trump card.

But now, it was different!

He knew even better that only when the Blood Brand reached his, Chen Min's, hands could it truly become a divine artifact.

If the Eighth Ranks did not enter the fray, then he, holding the Blood Brand, would be the strongest on the battlefield!

He would be targeted by the Five Clans, plotted against and framed by powerful figures from all sides.

But he, Chen Min, had long since sacrificed himself for the country; why fear his own hardship?

"Give it to me!"

Chen Min used all his strength to fly toward Li Zhiyi; already covered in severe wounds, his body began to crack from the sudden burst of power.

His eyes were wide enough to split, his pupils roaring with extreme ferocity:

"Give it to me, ahhh!!!"

Like a starving wolf that had not eaten for a long time, he roared and struggled with everything he had.

The scalding molten power instantly boiled and sublimated endlessly; at this moment, he actually rose directly from the early stage of the Creation Realm to the middle stage.

A breakthrough in battle!

His rage, his will, and his hot blood stunned the Eighth Ranks of the Five Clans standing in the high heavens.

Today, Chen Min completely proved the worth of the Chen family's collateral branch.

At this moment, even Chen Youqing's expression stiffened; he took a deep breath for a split second and roared:

"Stop him! If you can't stop him, kill him!"

Chen Min must never be allowed to obtain the Blood Brand.

At this moment, Chen Youqing was absolutely certain that even if Chen Min became a Blood Parasite, he might still be able to reverse the hierarchy between the Blood Brand and the Blood Parasite and completely suppress the Blood Brand.

If that happened, the Blood Brand would become an offensive divine artifact that the Five Clans had personally delivered to the Great Xia.

The cold killing intent swept down, causing Chi Ning and the other two Creation Realm experts who were originally blocking Chen Min to feel a chill in their hearts.

At this moment.

"Kill!"

Chi Ning roared, and along with the other two Creation Realm experts, instantly erupted with their maximum speed, turning into three brilliant streams of light as they pursued Chen Min.

At the same time, Li Zhiyi stood in the high heavens holding the Blood Brand, looking at the cyan divine chains that were already attacking.

Hum!

A spatial array disk suddenly condensed just a hundred meters away from Li Zhiyi.

A figure flew out from within the array disk; it was none other than Chi Ning, who had been chasing Chen Min.

Unexpectedly, this Chi Ning actually practiced array formations, and at this moment, he stood between Li Zhiyi and Chen Min.

Chen Min's pupils constricted, blood-red light erupting in the depths of his eyes.

At the same time, Li Zhiyi raised the Blood Brand in his hand and slashed toward the cyan divine chains.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

The edge of the Blood Brand was silent as it sliced through the air, yet it could cleave sunlight; anything it touched either shattered or melted.

Those cyan divine chains, condensed with massive amounts of blood and Qi, were instantly slashed into fragments, the chill piercing straight to the bone marrow.

In the far distance, the Creation Realm expert who unleashed the divine chains sneered and continued to deploy them; in just a brief moment, divine chains surging like the sea continued to coil and kill toward Li Zhiyi.

Since the Blood Brand can sever everything, then I will give you divine chains that you can never finish cutting.

Once Chen Min was killed, the four of them at the Creation Realm would join forces to capture Li Zhiyi.

"The farce is over."

Chi Ning spoke indifferently, forming hand seals at the same time.

A spatial formation disk appeared in front of the two Creation Realm experts who had been chasing Chen Min, while two spatial formation disks simultaneously appeared beside Chen Min.

The moment those two Creation Realm experts dived into the spatial formation disks, they had already appeared at Chen Min's side.

One wielding a saber and the other a sword, they stabbed into Chen Min's hands simultaneously.

"Get lost!!!"

Chen Min's entire body was pierced through by the saber and sword, but at this moment, he paid it no mind; with fierce eyes, he twisted his torso, allowing his waist to be severed by the blades embedded in him.

In an instant, his body was split apart, blood sprayed wildly, and even his internal organs were dragged out.