Chapter 801: Rank-Position Array

Chen Yan looked at Bai Ling; he could perceive the emotions of others.

Bai Ling's goodwill was indeed sincere.

But there is no love without reason in this world, nor is there hatred without reason.

Although Chen Yan knew Bai Ling meant him no harm, he did not know why the other party would act this way.

At this moment, Chen Yan was burning with pitch-black malice, his form only vaguely discernible in outline.

Stared at by Chen Yan like this, Bai Ling spoke up:

"Mom says, it's not easy for everyone to live in this world."

Chen Yan paused, then extended a single finger, and strands of azure blood-Qi emerged at his fingertip:

"I have already recovered somewhat; I no longer need medicinal herbs."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, Bai Ling's face lit up with joy:

"That's great! You must have had enough Anti-Malice Grass on you before; since all the Anti-Malice Grass was consumed, your physical body wasn't soaked in the Sea of Malice for too long."

Chen Yan raised an eyebrow, his power of will radiating invisibly, beginning to make Bai Ling subconsciously overlook the key point:

"Anti-Malice Grass?"

Bai Ling pointed to a patch of mycelium in the corner of the wall:

"This is it, though it hasn't matured yet. Once it matures, it can allow a person to soak in the Sea of Malice for an hour without issue."

Chen Yan looked at the ground.

The leaves of the Saint-Breaking Tree had become a pure land for the creatures of the Evil Realm; even the plants growing upon them could resist malice for a period of time.

What exactly was the Saint-Breaking Tree?

Chen Yan could not figure it out for the moment, but all along, Chen Yan had always felt:

He was the Saint-Breaking Tree, and the Saint-Breaking Tree was him.

It was a feeling that existed between clarity and ambiguity.

Now, suddenly discovering that he did not seem to truly understand the Saint-Breaking Tree, Chen Yan felt conflicted.

Bai Ling, however, continued talking to herself:

"It's useless for us to have Anti-Malice Grass. The Anti-Malice Grass everyone grows is given to the Village Chief. The Village Chief has already saved up enough Anti-Malice Grass to allow Hei Shan to go to White Town to learn arrays."

Chen Yan grasped the main point:

"Learn arrays?"

Bai Ling frowned, lifting her filth-covered face, and looked at Chen Yan in surprise:

"Don't you know? Does the human race in your Chen Province not need to learn arrays?"

Chen Yan's expression was calm, golden-red light emerging in the depths of his pupils.

【Control Decay - Saintly Intent Bewitchment】, activate.

Bai Ling's expression instantly became vacant.

Soon, Chen Yan continued to ask Bai Ling about matters concerning this world.

And Bai Ling, influenced by 【Saintly Intent Bewitchment】, could not even perceive that she was being questioned.

Gradually, Chen Yan's expression changed again and again.

Rank-Position Array!

"What a Master of Arrays!"

Chen Yan turned his back, ignoring Bai Ling, who was still under the influence of 【Saintly Intent Bewitchment】.

The Tainted-Blood human race of the Evil Realm, although they had pure lands to obtain protection,

still always had to endure tides of varying sizes.

A small tide every hundred days, a large tide every three hundred days.

Within the tides existed Malice Rank-Positions, suspected to be the aura of Ancient Gods.

During the tides, the Malice Rank-Positions and Ancient Evil-Void God Beasts of all sizes would charge onto the pure lands.

Facing a Malice Rank-Position, even an Eighth-Rank martial artist could not withstand it.

But the Master of Arrays had sought out a way out.

Just as Chen Yan had studied the aura of Ancient Gods and ultimately created the God-level grand array 【Eternal Calamity Reversing Blood】,

the Master of Arrays had studied the two Rank-Positions of blood-Qi and hard-body tempering, creating three God-level grand arrays: the 【Annihilation God Array】, the 【Force God Array】, and the 【Control God Array】.

On every town-level pure land, there would be a God Array created by the Master of Arrays.

And the Tainted-Blood humans living on these pure lands needed to learn array techniques and master the skills to activate the arrays.

As long as the God Array was activated, one town-level pure land could protect all the village-level pure lands under its jurisdiction.

In this way, the Tainted-Blood human race could avoid dying in the tides.

Chen Yan's eyes brightened.

He became increasingly certain that the so-called Malice Rank-Positions were the auras of Ancient Gods.

And the Rank-Positions of blood-Qi and hard-body tempering were the true essence of the realm born after blood-Qi martial artists and hard-body martial artists ascended to the Ninth Rank.

That Master of Arrays had clearly entered the Ninth-Rank Death Realm in both the paths of arrays and hard-body tempering.

Such power could be called peerless in the world.

Yet this person did not live in the outside world, but chose this dark, sunless Evil Realm, which held only chaos and distortion.

Chen Yan withdrew his power of will, and Bai Ling gradually regained her senses.

"Bai Ling," Chen Yan looked at Bai Ling and said:

"To go to a town-level pure land to learn arrays, how much Anti-Malice Grass is needed?"

"Ah?" Bai Ling was stunned:

"One hundred."

Chen Yan was silent for a moment, looking at the mycelium in the corner of the wall.

This mycelium grew slowly; if it were to grow into a Vile-Reversing Herb, there was no telling how many years or months it would take.

"Do you want to learn formation techniques?" Bai Ling asked, and Chen Yan nodded.

Bai Ling looked at Chen Yan for a long time; she always felt that Chen Yan was a bit too special.

Just like a moment ago, she felt as if she had lost some of her memories.

Bai Ling clenched her left hand, and the tentacle inside her right sleeve also curled up slightly.

She scrutinized Chen Yan carefully, looking him over again and again:

"The Village Chief certainly won't give the opportunity to go to White Town to you, and Hei Shan is also the most formidable formation master we have here."

As Bai Ling spoke, she seemed to think of something, opened the door, and said:

"Come with me, I'll take you to find the Village Chief; if you have any remarkable abilities, don't hide your talent."

Chen Yan nodded.

He had already determined his own objective.

Recultivate!

Recultivate to the Eighth Rank.

At the same time, acquire more Ancient God aura, and also master those three God-level formations created by the Master of Formations.

These all involved the mystery of the Ninth Rank.

The extension of the path of Will was for Li Zhiyi to worry about.

If this physical body were cultivated to the Ninth Rank, he wouldn't even need Li Zhiyi and the others to recultivate a body for him; he would only need to merge.

By then, he would be the strongest Ninth Rank in human history.

Soon.

Chen Yan followed Bai Ling to the place where the Village Chief lived.

This was a relatively affluent small courtyard with four rooms inside.

In the main hall, several people were already seated.

The Village Chief sat in the main seat with a worried expression, while the tall and sturdy Hei Shan sat below him.

Inside the room, there were a few other scattered people, among whom was Sister Chun, who had a tall figure and a tentacle-black hole growing in the center of her brow.

Just as he entered the courtyard, Chen Yan heard the conversation inside the room.

"This time we owe it to Hei Shan; if it weren't for Hei Shan, I'm afraid we would have suffered even greater losses."

"Sigh, those heartless beasts, they are even more detestable than the Ancient God Beasts."

"Hei Shan, you must study hard when you go to White Town; once you succeed, our White Village will rely on you for protection."

The Village Chief looked worried, but when he heard Sister Chun and the others praising Hei Shan, a smile finally appeared in his eyes.

"Village Chief."

Bai Ling brought Chen Yan into the main hall somewhat timidly, took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind.

She was just about to speak.

Chen Yan bowed and said:

"I am Chen Yan, many thanks to everyone in White Village for saving me."

The few people in the main hall looked over one after another; Sister Chun glanced at Chen Yan, then immediately pulled Bai Ling to the side.

"Why did you bring him here?" Sister Chun asked in a low voice, sweeping a glance at Chen Yan and frowning.

The current situation in White Village was clearly not good; one more person meant one more mouth to feed and one more share of resources to invest.

Sister Chun did not like Chen Yan's appearance.

Previously, she had thought that group of Law Enforcers would take Chen Yan away directly.

As it turned out, they hadn't even entered Bai Ling's room.

Yet she had been robbed of most of her medicinal herbs, which made her lament in her heart that her luck was too poor.

Bai Ling looked at Sister Chun and whispered:

"He wants to go to White Town."

Sister Chun was stunned, then opened her mouth:

"What?!"

Sister Chun's voice was loud, immediately drawing the attention of everyone in the main hall.

The others had also heard Bai Ling's previous words, and one by one, they began to look at Chen Yan with displeasure.

Especially the tall and sturdy man named Hei Shan, whose brow was visibly furrowed.

The Village Chief narrowed his eyes, swept them across the crowd, pressed his hand down slightly, and then looked at Chen Yan:

"Surname Chen, are you from Chen Province?"

Chen Yan nodded.

The Village Chief raised his head:

"Looking at your condition, you have improved somewhat; you can stay in White Village from now on, but you must also work. If you can grow more medicinal herbs, it will be easier to appease those beasts."

The Village Chief sighed, hatred appearing in his eyes, and then he added:

"Chen Yan, you are a newcomer and we are not familiar with you; the environment in White Village is poor, and I hope you can be understanding.

In the future, we can only count on Hei Shan to achieve some results."

The Village Chief spoke very kindly.

But in reality, he had already politely refused Chen Yan.

He just stared at Chen Yan like that.

A stranger who had been saved dared to ask for a spot to enter White Town.

On what grounds?

Where is his shame?

Sister Chun sneered, no longer willing to pay Chen Yan any mind, simply regarding Chen Yan as indulging in wishful thinking.

Hei Shan, meanwhile, looked at Chen Yan with ill intent, but feeling it unnecessary to get serious with a fool, he turned his head away indifferently.

Chen Yan did not care about the attitude of the people in the room; he calmly stretched out his hands, and a wisp of blood-Qi he had just cultivated emerged, beginning to change under his intent.

Immediately following, it transformed into a thin, light array disk.

The next moment.

The main room fell into silence.

The Village Chief was stunned, stood up, and carefully examined the array Chen Yan had manifested:

"This is?"

"A spatial array," Chen Yan said.

Currently, he had only re-cultivated a wisp of blood-Qi, and could only condense the most basic Martial-grade array.

But it was already enough.

Sure enough, the expressions of everyone in the room changed.

Sister Chun's eyes widened, and she was speechless for a moment.

Bai Ling was also stunned, not expecting Chen Yan to be so full of hidden talent.

The tall and sturdy man Hei Shan stood up, looked at the array, and took a deep breath.

The next moment.

"Are you here to smash the place?!"

Hei Shan let out a low roar, looking at Chen Yan with extreme anger.

He was just about to lose his temper when he was held back by the Village Chief.

"Chen... little Chen." The Village Chief's expression had already changed, and he looked at Chen Yan and said:

"You shouldn't have entered the Five Viscera Realm yet, right?"

The Village Chief had a sharp eye and immediately saw the problem; Chen Yan's cultivation realm was too low.

"Yes, as long as you give me ten days, I can recover to the Second Rank," Chen Yan smiled.

The Village Chief's expression tightened, and he stroked his beard and said:

"That probably won't work, because in seven days, White Town is coming to pick people up.

Their requirement is that one must be at least a Sixth Rank martial artist."

Chen Yan looked at the Village Chief and saw through the other party's emotions at a glance.

A guilty conscience.

What the Village Chief said was likely correct, but it was definitely not the whole truth.

Perhaps if the people from White Town saw the array Chen Yan had manifested, they wouldn't care about Chen Yan's current cultivation at all.

Chen Yan sighed inwardly, hesitating whether to use 【Decay-Control: Holy Intent Bewilderment】 to influence the Village Chief.

The Village Chief's realm was the Creation Realm, which might cause some trouble for the current Chen Yan, but it shouldn't be difficult.

After thinking about it, Chen Yan canceled this plan.

He would definitely go to White Town, but he was currently in a weakened state; if he made his relationship with the people here too rigid, it would be counterproductive.

Chen Yan glanced at the highly vigilant Hei Shan, then smiled:

"Since that is the case, I won't go."

Afterward, Chen Yan left directly, and Bai Ling spoke up:

"Village Chief, Chen Yan..."

However, just as Bai Ling spoke, she was pulled by Sister Chun.

Bai Ling was startled, then hurriedly followed Chen Yan as he left.

Inside the main room, the Village Chief narrowed his eyes.

"What kind of thing is he, actually wanting the spot that our White Village worked so hard to save up," Sister Chun snorted coldly:

"If it weren't for his luck being a bit better earlier, he would have died when the Law Enforcer came."

Hei Shan took a deep breath:

"It was just a simple array; I just hadn't seen it before. If I had seen it, I could learn it very quickly."

He seemed to still feel ashamed for his anger just now.

When Chen Yan manifested the array just now, he had actually been truly afraid.

The Village Chief glanced at Hei Shan:

"Think thrice before acting in all things. What is his realm, and what is yours? Why do you need to be wary of him?"

Hei Shan rubbed his head:

"Grandfather, I will definitely study hard when I go to White Town."

The Village Chief snorted coldly:

"If you don't study hard, I will break your legs. The entire White Village is counting on you."

The Village Chief stood with his hands behind his back, looked at the spot where Chen Yan had left, and shook his head slightly:

"His realm is too poor, and his background is unknown; what face does he have to come and ask me for a spot?

Does he really think he can succeed and protect a region?"

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Inside the house.

"Chen Yan, please don't mind it." Bai Ling looked at Chen Yan and spoke in a low voice.

She thought Chen Yan would be angry.

After all, Chen Yan had already revealed his talent, yet he was still rejected.

"I'm not angry." Chen Yan smiled and looked at Bai Ling, saying:

"I just wanted to give it a try; failure is the norm, and success is the exception."

Chen Yan shook his head; he was not in a hurry either.

Currently, the flow of time in the Evil Realm is one-tenth that of the outside world, and he still has the 【Blood Domain World-Reversal】.

For him, re-cultivation is the key.

Relying on the power of his will, Chen Yan can alter his physical body in advance to make his growth speed faster.