Chapter 794: My Actions Require No Guidance From You, Understand?

Xi Congyun narrowed his eyes, his heart filled with hatred.

The reason these people had bright futures was that they were all, to some extent, connected to Chen Yan; they had either helped Chen Yan in the past or were believers in Chen Yan.

Yet he had never helped Chen Yan, which was why he was now struggling at every turn.

Chen Yan was dead, but Chen Yan was everywhere.

The batch of man-made Eighth-Order, peak Creation Realm experts that Chen Yan brought back from the War of the Five Clans were all Chen Yan's forces.

This was the backbone of the Great Xia today, even more powerful than the Xunyang faction of the past!

Xi Congyun hated Chen Yan to the core!

Looking at Xi Congyun at this moment, Chen Youqing knew what the other was thinking.

After all, the Five Clans had studied the Great Xia thoroughly.

Although she said nothing more, she sneered in her heart.

What of ten years?

Even given ten years, you would still never catch up to the Chen Yan of the past.

In all the world, only Chen Yan could make her address him as "Exalted One" while he was still at a low cultivation realm.

Chen Yan never bowed his head even until his death; such a thing would only win her respect and admiration.

Although they were enemies, and Chen Yan had even played her, Chen Youqing never felt hatred toward him, but rather, she admired him all the more.

However, Chen Youqing was very satisfied at this moment.

With Xi Congyun defecting, the Great Xia military guards within the Abyss now had no way out.

Her strategy had already succeeded.

That Li Zhiyi had also been forced by the upper echelons of Great Xia and now had no path of retreat.

There was only the path of obediently coming to the Five Clans to serve as a Blood Gu destined for death.

At the mere thought of Chen Zhixian being killed by Li Zhiyi's own hand, she felt a surge of anger.

Chen Zhixian was her subordinate.

After the Blood Brand was released, Li Zhiyi, as the Blood Gu, would inevitably be devoured.

But she wanted to extract Li Zhiyi's soul and subject it to punishment.

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To malice, even thick rock walls were like foam full of gaps, easily drilled through.

But the place where the malice was most intense was still the air; the further they went, the darker it became.

Even Jidao Wu found it somewhat difficult to breathe, and the dozen or so Will-cultivators behind him successively showed signs of being scorched by the malice.

Hum.

Jidao Wu and the dozen or so Will-cultivators behind him successively erupted with the Way of Will.

"Damn it, beasts, beasts!"

"One day, I will emulate the Heavenly God General and slaughter my way to the Five Clans!"

The dozen or so Will-cultivators had faces cold to the extreme, each of them roaring in fury.

But they were only First-Order Will-cultivators; the power of will they erupted was formless and colorless, and its ability to annihilate malice was very poor.

"Li Zhiyi, don't release your power of will yet."

Jidao Wu looked at Li Zhiyi and said:

"The entrance ahead is narrow and the malice is most intense; we will open the path first, and we will need to rely on you later."

Jidao Wu's expression was somewhat bitter.

Previously, Chen Min wanted to seize Li Zhiyi's Blood Brand, and he hadn't stopped it, yet now he had to rely on Li Zhiyi to block the malice.

Even Xi Congyun telling him to travel with Li Zhiyi was intended to have him monitor Li Zhiyi.

The three of them, Chen Min included, still showed a lack of trust in Li Zhiyi.

"Li Zhiyi," Jidao Wu said while opening the path:

"Chen Min wanting the Blood Brand is a move of desperation; he is a person who trusts himself more than he trusts external objects."

Jidao Wu's voice was somewhat bitter.

He might be very dissatisfied with Chen Min, but everything Chen Min did was correct.

The upper echelons of the Military Martial Guard also wanted Chen Min to wield the Blood Brand.

Military orders were like mountains; Li Zhiyi, who refused to give up the Blood Brand, was actually the one violating military discipline.

Sometimes it is just like this; collective interests are always above individual interests.

But many people will always pay everything for the latter, even to the point of shattering an entire collective.

Jidao Wu looked at Li Zhiyi sincerely:

"The Blood Brand is yours, this is beyond doubt; I guarantee it in the name of the Tiger-Dragon Battalion Commander.

You only need to lend the Blood Brand to Chen Min for use; as soon as the army is out of danger, I will definitely help you retrieve the Blood Brand.

We can sign a contract."

It was also at this moment that Mu Zigui arrived.

Jidao Wu glanced at Mu Zigui and sighed in his heart; he knew why the other had come, and at this moment, he chose to remain silent.

"Zhang Yu, you are the Punitive Battalion Commander." Jidao Wu spoke, opened his mouth, but looking at Zhang Yu, he could not say another word.

He wanted Zhang Yu to chime in, but Zhang Yu was ignoring Jidao Wu entirely at this moment.

Li Zhiyi glanced at Jidao Wu and Mu Zigui and said:

"My memory is missing; I merely walked into an ordinary resident's courtyard that had no guards and stole a piece of clothing that no one cared about, yet my fate was changed.

I joined the military, only to be treated as a human bomb, with nine deaths and no chance of survival."

Jidao Wu's expression grew increasingly somber as he looked at Li Zhiyi.

He felt helpless in his heart.

Li Zhiyi, however, laughed:

"My life is worth less than a piece of clothing?!"

He stared fixedly at Jidao Wu:

"When did you lot ever consider me a comrade-in-arms?

In your hearts, I am inferior to Chen Min, having taken what should not have been taken, but this Blood Brand was something I seized with my own hands!

If you had spoken politely from the start, how could it have come to this?!"

A murderous intent permeated the depths of Li Zhiyi's eyes.

Was his dissatisfaction with the Great Xia truly his own problem?

For those who did not respect him, why should he respect them?

Whether facing the Great Xia or the Five Clans, it was nothing more than using the blade in his hand to carve out a bloody path.

Why assume that he, Li Zhiyi, would identify with the status of a military guard?

What does the life or death of your Great Xia have to do with me?

He looked coldly at Jidao Wu:

"What I do requires no interference from you lot, understand?"

Jidao Wu opened his mouth, looking at Li Zhiyi in this moment, his entire person stunned.

So it turned out that the so-called duty of a military guard was something the other party never possessed at all.

All of this was forced by Si Wenyi, by Chen Min, and by him.

At this moment, Chen Youqing sensed Li Zhiyi's side, a smile appearing at the corners of her mouth.

"Sure enough, he has also been pushed to the edge."

Chen Youqing looked at Li Zhiyi in this moment as if looking at a pathetic, headless fly, destined to walk toward a predetermined, bleak fate.

Yet, at this very moment.

Chen Youqing froze, her face full of astonishment.

Because she discovered that Li Zhiyi's gaze was actually looking toward her, through layers of rock walls.

This gaze...

Sharp, icy, and even strangely familiar...

A chill struck instantly.

Chen Youqing found it somewhat unbelievable; she was an Eighth Rank, how could she be detected?

"And you!"

The angry shout was like endless, churning clouds of rage, rushing over.

"Did you truly think I was an insect, only to be toyed with?!"

Li Zhiyi's eyes burned with fire, rays of golden-red light erupting from the depths of his eyes!

This scene appeared suddenly.

Whether it was Chen Youqing, or Jidao Wu and Mu Zigui, their bodies stiffened in disbelief.

Boom!

Radiant!

The radiant glow of will erupted instantly like a sun of molten gold, the scorching light spilling across every crevice of the rock wall in an instant.

The light swept through like a torrent, and the malice that had been eroding the flesh of the military guards was forcibly stripped away.

The veins writhing beneath the skin of the eroded calmed down suddenly, and their bulging eyeballs regained clarity.

This was power of extreme purity!

Surpassing the second realm of the Will Path, the power of will that had already entered a broken breakthrough was incomparably strong.

Rumble!

The rock wall trembled violently under the impact of the light, and the black mist gushing from the cracks was suppressed in reverse, as if some higher-order power was declaring sovereignty.

Jidao Wu stumbled backward, his armor reflected as blood-red by the golden-red light, looking at this scene as if he had seen a ghost.

Mu Zigui's vermilion lips parted slightly; Chen Min's disdain and Xi Congyun's vigilance and calculations now seemed so laughable.

All the malice within the entire exit was devoured and extinguished, and even intense malice had already entered the abyss, devouring all malice.

Zhang Yu watched blankly, his face illuminated red, endless waves rolling in the depths of his heart, and he suddenly growled:

"Li Zhiyi!!!"

His eyes widened:

"I was wrong, we were all wrong!"

Zhang Yu was on the verge of tears, excited to the extreme.

He knew he hadn't misjudged him.

Amidst the shocked expressions of the few, Li Zhiyi walked toward the front.

Jidao Wu and the others pursed their lips, unable to speak, and followed behind Li Zhiyi.

Outside the abyss, radiant golden light erupted from the cave entrance.

Chen Youqing and Xi Congyun stood above the void.

Xi Congyun's face was full of astonishment; he was not an Eighth Rank, so naturally, he had not heard Li Zhiyi's earlier voice, and he spoke at this moment:

"Chen Min?"

Xi Congyun's face tightened:

"Chen Min's power of will is not this strong!"

Beside her, Chen Youqing was in no mood to pay attention to the currently incredulous Xi Congyun.

She was also stunned.

Even if the Five Clans had no Will Martial Artists, the Five Clans' research into the path of will was not insignificant.

The power of will that Li Zhiyi erupted with had already transcended all current Will Martial Artists.

But why?

This person appeared abruptly, rose abruptly.

By what right could he possess such power within such a short time?

Even Chen Yan was not this outrageous.

She suddenly remembered the words the Clan Master had spoken.

Those who can only cultivate one martial path are all designed by some unspeakable big shot.

Can Li Zhiyi truly only cultivate the path of will?

Or is it that he could cultivate other martial paths, but simply chose not to?

At this moment, Chen Youqing looked at Li Zhiyi squarely for the first time.

Before the cave.

Chen Yuanxin and the five thousand Five Clans military guards had finished preparing for battle, each one filled with an aura of slaughter.

Watching the power of will at the cave entrance, they were also taken aback, clearly sensing that someone was about to come out.

Xi Congyun's heart was about to jump out.

He had originally thought Chen Min and the others would die in the abyss, so he would not have to face them in person.

Unexpectedly, Chen Min was coming out.

"Exalted One, I request to fight!" Xi Congyun saluted, his eyes filled with determination.

Since he had betrayed them, he would build a career!

He believed his choice had never been wrong.

Chen Youqing did not want to pay attention to Xi Congyun at this moment; seeing this, Xi Congyun said nothing more and descended directly to the cave entrance.

He formed seals with both hands, and a grand array had already manifested.

But in the very next instant.

Xi Congyun opened his mouth wide, staring in extreme astonishment at the person walking out from inside the cave.

"Congyun..." Mu Zigui was happy at first, but then her expression slowly changed.

"This..." Xi Congyun frowned, not daring to even look at Mu Zigui, all his attention focused on Li Zhiyi at the very front.

How is it possible?!

How could it be him?

All this time, he had never taken Li Zhiyi seriously.

But now...

"Xi Congyun, you have betrayed us!!!" Jidao Wu roared.

He saw Chen Yuanxin standing beside Xi Congyun, and also saw the five thousand Five Clans military guards behind Chen Yuanxin.

"How could you dare to do this, ah ah ah!!!" Jidao Wu shrieked, his physical body instantly swelling, blue veins bulging one by one.

The next moment, Xi Congyun gritted his teeth and pressed forward alone.

He seemed unwilling to explain, wanting only to finish off Li Zhiyi and the others as soon as possible.

Finish them off.

Then everything would be fine.

He locked his gaze on Li Zhiyi at the very front.

"Leave him to me!" He roared, not waiting for Chen Yuanxin beside him to give the order.

As he reached out with one hand, the void instantly flared with light!

Red!

Xi Congyun's Qi and blood surged like a wild tide, instantly condensing into a blood-colored grand array.

The array patterns spread through the void like a spiderweb, and as the scarlet runes flickered, they transformed into blades of blood filling the sky, enveloping Li Zhiyi with the violent pressure of the mid-Creation Realm as they moved to shred him.

His face was ferocious as he shrieked:

"Betrayal is betrayal; today, I shall use your head to sacrifice to my future path!"

At this moment, even Chen Yuanxin was surprised by Xi Congyun's ruthlessness.

This was going straight for his ultimate move.

But in the very next instant.

Hum!

The Blood Brand in Li Zhiyi's hand was suddenly raised, and a beam of blood light erupted.

Xi Congyun's body was still charging forward, but at this moment, he suddenly felt every particle of his physical body wailing.

He suddenly stopped with all his might, shouting toward Chen Yuanxin behind him:

"Save..."

"Save me!!!"