Chapter 821: Ten Thousand Ages of the Human World

"Can't fight it!"

"Flee!"

The remaining four Creation Realm experts had long since been scared out of their wits, transforming into four streaks of light and flying off in every direction.

Li Zhiyi stood upon the earth, his gaze flashing over these few figures.

Hum!

The Blood Blade suddenly hummed, its blade body erupting with endless blood-colored light; this blood light was like a living thing, baring its fangs.

Hum, hum, hum!

The blood light surged into the heavens, and the sun in the clear sky suddenly shed its golden glow, as if washed over by blood, turning into an endless crimson.

Blood color!

The blood-colored sun appeared!

At this moment, countless living beings across the entire human world looked up, staring at the sun in unspeakable shock.

The Blood Sun has appeared!

Endless blood light spilled down, dyeing the clouds red; between heaven and earth, only the blinding red radiance remained, as if the end of the world were at hand.

Blood Brand is born, ninety-nine percent complete!

Slaughtering Creation Realm experts has an effect that even exceeds killing a thousand martial army guards.

At this moment.

Chen Qi and Xia Hanzhou did not speak again; both stood up and looked toward where Li Zhiyi was.

At the Xiaoyang battlefront, the two sides of the five Great Xia clans who were killing each other also slowed down; they looked toward Yixian in shock or fear.

Shen Yiwei, Jiang Yuan, and the Creation Realm and Enlightenment Origin experts of the five clans who were in pursuit all stopped their movements, their gazes locking onto Li Zhiyi.

Above the distant earth.

A mortal trembled in the face:

"I... I feel like my physical body is about to be shredded..."

Hum!

The sensation of sharpness transmitted across ten thousand miles, tens of thousands of miles, one hundred thousand miles, ten million miles.

All living beings who felt this endless sharpness revealed a sense of fear born from the depths of their hearts.

This is the Blood Brand.

It is...

The fifth divine artifact under heaven.

A divine artifact with limitless sharpness and invincible power without an upper bound.

Chi, chi, chi!

In the void, countless spatial rifts were created; Li Zhiyi could feel the sharpness of the Blood Brand reaching a brand-new level.

It was as if, with one slash, the entire human world could be cut open.

The world itself seemed to be tearing apart.

Li Zhiyi stood quietly; at this moment, he seemed to truly understand the Blood Brand.

Blood Brand, killing intent...

Killing intent is a semi-finished product!

Just like Lu Xunyang's Immortal Body, both are semi-finished products of the path of will.

A burning light appeared in Li Zhiyi's eyes, and his body was brushed by a light force, slowly flying into the high heavens.

Boom!

A pillar of blood-colored light suddenly descended from the sun, enveloping Li Zhiyi's entire body.

Li Zhiyi could feel increasingly wondrous sensations emerging from the bottom of his heart.

As he raised his eyes, it was as if he saw a ten-thousand-year scroll of martial arts unfolding before him.

He saw the ancestors using stone clubs to strike down fierce beasts, and saw Mind Masters clad in animal skins shaking ancient divine beasts head-on.

There was Qi and blood burning in the desolate human world, and to this day, tempered bodies break the firmament, the hot-blooded torch burning forever.

Suddenly.

In a trance, Li Zhiyi saw a hunched back:

"Use my spine as the Xia Lord Sword to protect the ten-thousand-year national destiny of my Xia clan!

Use my skull as the Purple Universe to stabilize the peace of the world!

Use my sternum as the Calamity Corpse Divine Lamp to keep the human race safe for ten thousand ages.

Use my arms to make a blade.

A blade capable of cutting the physical body of the Fanni Ancient God!"

The old man speaking slowly turned his head.

The old man's eyes were half-closed, yet his pupils seemed to be soaked in ten thousand years of time, having seen through the changes of mountains and rivers and the rise and fall of ancient gods.

They revealed a nobility that looked down upon all living things, as if one glance could reflect the entire past of the world.

This glance, across ten thousand years, met Chen Yan's gaze.

"You... can you do it?"

The old man spoke, turned around, and stepped toward a road with no end:

"I never did it either, never once... I do not know if there is a peak higher than mine in the human world...

My flesh and blood shall establish the foundation for the world.

My divine soul shall bind the lifeblood of the human world."

"Throughout the ages of humanity, I alone am supreme!"

As he spoke, he gradually walked away, until he disappeared into the vast, boundless end.

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

"All living beings under heaven shall be branded with my blood seal; this blade, then, shall be called Blood Seal."

Immediately following.

Chen Yan saw one powerful individual after another, holding the Blood Seal, heading into the depths of malice, the Forbidden Land of the Ancient Gods.

"Not enough, not enough!"

A man with a refined appearance but an overbearing aura held the Blood Seal, roaring like a madman:

"If it cannot sever malice, then there is no divine artifact under heaven; if it cannot end the humiliation of the human race, then there is no divine weapon under heaven.

I, Chen Fazhen, will be the one to open the heavens and split the earth, to let our human race see the light once more!

If I do not break all evil, I swear I shall not be human!"

Memories of the Blood Seal, one after another, surged into the depths of Li Zhiyi's mind.

Within the Blood Seal.

The suppressed artifact spirit closed its eyes, as if accepting its own fate.

"So that is how it is..."

Li Zhiyi murmured softly.

The Blood Seal was actually crafted from the hand bones of the Xia Lord.

Which is to say, the one who created the Blood Seal was the Xia Lord.

The reason the Blood Seal appeared in Chen Prefecture was perhaps because the Chen Clan followed the Xia Lord in those years and was bestowed it by the Xia Lord.

And the original Blood Seal did not have the ability to devour killing intent.

The predecessors of Chen Prefecture remodeled it, thoroughly transforming it into a divine artifact capable of infinite evolution.

The Blood Seal's emergence time and again, its accumulation of killing intent time and again, the honing of its blade time and again.

All for the sake of being able to sever that insurmountable malice on some day in the future.

At this moment, Li Zhiyi absorbed these memories one by one.

He saw tears, he saw unwillingness, he saw ferocity, he saw...

"Why?"

A man with a head of gray hair clutched his head and cried out in pain:

"Is there truly no turning back for the path ahead of the human race?

Must I, Chen Yuan, turn my blade against them, personally crushing the dreams of millions of humans, and become an irredeemable executioner?"

He murmured, looking at the Blood Seal before him, motionless.

Just sitting cross-legged like this.

One day, two days, ten days, a hundred days, one year.

He seemed to have lost his vitality, just sitting cross-legged on the mountaintop, regardless of the wind and snow.

It was not until three years later that he opened his eyes again.

The expression in his eyes had completely changed.

He cast aside the Blood Seal and turned to leave, with someone waiting on the mountainside:

"Where are you going?"

Amidst the wind and snow, the man spoke calmly:

"The world."

"What did you see?" the person waiting continued to ask.

The man paused for a long time, then said:

"Endless... endless evil..."

Memories flowed, layer by layer, into the depths of Li Zhiyi's mind.

At this moment.

He stood in the high heavens, shrouded in blood-colored light.

The momentum of the Blood Seal climbed step by step.

Boom, boom, boom!

The ground split into countless blood-filled chasms, and the boiling killing intent condensed into countless blade shadows, surging wildly in all directions.

Killing intent!

Pure killing intent, endless killing intent.

The killing intent, containing ancient blood hatred and endless ferocity, boiled completely.

"Run!"

The man in golden armor saw this scene and roared in despair.

The tens of thousands of Ji Prefecture troops were now like mice, fleeing in all directions across the shattered earth.

Only, their speed was not as fast as that blood-colored killing intent.

Swish, swish, swish!!!

The blood light spread, and the fleeing Ji Prefecture troops turned into blood-colored powder before they could even react.

On the earth, dense clusters of blood flowers bloomed.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Seeing the surging blood light, the man in golden armor roared:

"Chenzhou, Chenzhou, this hatred is irreconcilable!"

At this moment, how could he not understand the purpose for which Chen Youqing had sent them here.

The next instant, he was swallowed by the blood-colored light, disappearing completely from the human world.

Chen Min lay on the ground, watching everything that was happening in shock; he opened his mouth, but could no longer laugh.

Chen Youqing's eyes shone with a sharp light as he stared fixedly at Li Zhiyi, the trembling hilt of the Blood-Branding Blade appearing in his hand.

Until the next instant.

Hum!

All the blood-colored light suddenly retracted, and the terrifying killing intent vanished in an instant.

The surviving Jizhou troops looked toward the rear with deathly pale faces.

Li Zhiyi, who had been suspended in the void, slowly descended to the earth.

Beside him, a spatial rift suddenly appeared.

That rift was very, very small, and it vanished the next instant.

But Li Zhiyi had seen it—the other world behind that rift.

There, endless malice surged, and the entire world swirled with chaos and evil.

That place was... the Evil Realm!

The final slash before the Blood-Branding Blade emerged into the world had torn open the thin membrane between the reality and the Evil Realm.

It was just that the rift was too small, so small that only Li Zhiyi alone saw it.

At this moment.

Heaven and earth were silent.

Li Zhiyi sat cross-legged; blood-colored light overflowed from the Blood-Branding Blade, wrapping around the blade body and Li Zhiyi to form a large cocoon.

Outsiders could not see it.

They only knew.

The Blood-Branding Blade had emerged!