Chapter 873: I See Malice Approaching, I Stride Forward

The Nether Nightmare Beast is right within the black mist of malice.

Even the Longevity King did not perceive that the malice rules of the Nether Nightmare Beast had long since locked onto the entire Evil-Subduing Army.

Under the shroud of the supreme ancient divine beast's rules.

Everyone's movements, sound transmissions, and even the slightest circulation of power within their bodies had no concealment.

This is a suppression that is nearly above their rank.

The human race's Eighth Rank, the human race's supreme, appear exceptionally frail before the four great ancient divine beasts.

In the entire Great Xia, those who can battle a supreme ancient divine beast.

Only Lu Xunyang.

"Retreat!"

Li Zhiyi spoke:

"Transmit a message to the Governor of Tui Province, evacuate all civilians in the border cities of Tui Province."

Li Zhiyi's voice fell, like cold water poured onto everyone's hearts.

The killing intent in the Longevity King's eyes gradually dissipated, turning into calmness.

Chen Min did not speak, but flew directly toward the ground and began to organize the great army.

"You..."

A trembling voice rang out.

Yin Xue opened his mouth wide, looked around, and finally, a pair of furious eyes looked toward the direction of Xiaoyang City.

"Xia Hanzhou!

What are you doing?!"

He roared out:

"What exactly are you trying to do, why did you let him be the Great General!?

Xia Hanzhou, answer me!!!"

At this moment, he ignored Li Zhiyi and directly questioned Xia Hanzhou.

In the direction of Xiaoyang.

The gazes of Xia Hanzhou and Xia Yuan arrived.

Xia Hanzhou remained silent and did not answer.

He perhaps did not trust his own decision, but every time, he would choose to trust the person most worthy of trust.

Within Jin Province.

At the bottom of the Divine Lake, Lu Xunyang, whose entire body was overflowing with golden light, slowly stood up, wanting to soar into the sky and charge across eighty thousand miles, but in the next moment, he sat back down.

"Is the Xia Clan going to perish?!!!

Qi Province is gone, and Tui Province is about to be gone too!

Compatriots are suffering, civilians are wailing, ancient gods are throwing the heavens into chaos, you all..."

Yin Xue roared with blood-stained tears; the next moment, a hand grabbed his arm.

He slowly turned his head and saw Li Zhiyi's pair of extremely blood-red eyes.

"You!"

At this moment, Yin Xue actually had a helpless and desperate smile.

"Give me half a day!" Li Zhiyi spoke, his eyes calm:

"Give me half a day, and I will lead the army to slaughter through these million ancient divine beasts.

Let you see."

His eyes were like a still pool of blood, showing no sharpness, yet cold to a terrifying degree.

…………

At the same time.

Within the Evil Realm.

Cold light flickered in Chen Yan's eyes.

The Nether Nightmare Beast is now a hurdle he cannot bypass.

However, who is hunting whom is not yet known.

Whoosh!

The sound from the Sea of Malice has become increasingly surging these past few days.

The Great Tide is coming.

Outside the house, voices rang out.

"What is the situation, why hasn't the Yun Hai Dao Fu dispatched an Array Pivot Envoy?"

"The Great Tide is coming; if there is no Array Pivot Envoy, we... we are all going to die."

"Impossible, it's impossible that no one is coming."

"In the past, they would at least let us go to other village-level Pure Lands to wait first."

"We are so close to the Yun Hai Dao Fu, how could we be ignored?"

Voices of terror and disbelief rang out one after another.

In this village-level Jing Tu where Chen Yan arrived, hearts have been anxious these past few days.

Because the Great Tide is imminent, yet the Yun Hai Dao Fu has not dispatched an Array Pivot Envoy.

This Jing Tu is very close to the Yun Hai Dao Fu, so like other nearby village-level Pure Lands, it is directly administered by the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

The architecture and style within this village-level Jing Tu are also far better than the White Village where Chen Yan once stayed.

Chen Yan listened to the panicked voices of the villagers and closed his eyes.

The pavilion closest to the water enjoys the moonlight first.

This village-level Jing Tu is so close to the Yun Hai Dao Fu, how could it be forgotten by the Yun Hai Dao Fu?

Chen Yan took out the 【Force】 Divine Array and 【Defense】 Divine Array gifted by Mu Yun Hai and began to contemplate them.

His mastery of the 【Annihilation】 Grand Array had already reached the divine level, and Chen Yan knew that there were grades within the divine level.

Naturally, it was still the four minor grades of A, B, C, and D.

But to raise his mastery of the 【Annihilation】 Grand Array from divine grade D to grade A would require too much time and resources.

It would be better to first cultivate the 【Force】 and 【Defense】 grand arrays to the divine level.

Time passed slowly.

Day by day.

Outside.

Li Zhiyi led the Evil-Subduing Army in a continuous retreat, giving up the three major cities of Tui Province.

And where Chen Yan was.

The turbulence of the Sea of Malice became increasingly fierce.

This village-level Jing Tu rose and fell continuously within the Sea of Malice, and the sounds of the villagers' panic and lamentation grew more intense.

Until a certain moment.

Splash!

When a tide of malice as high as a mountain lifted the small leaf of the Jing Tu, desperate cries rang out throughout the entire village.

Everyone cursed those big shots living safely within the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

The loud crying of children and the shouting of the elderly rose incessantly.

Chen Yan opened his eyes.

The Yun Hai Dao Fu had truly abandoned this village-level Jing Tu that was so close to it.

Chen Yan frowned.

What Mu Yun Hai had used to converse with Chen Yan was only an array puppet, so Chen Yan naturally could not sense the emotions of the array puppet.

But the impression Mu Yun Hai had left on him was not bad.

Chen Yan also believed that the dangerous feeling within the Yun Hai Dao Fu came from others.

Could it be that the high officials within the Yun Hai Dao Fu had forgotten this boat-leaf?

How could that be?

Chen Yan reached out a hand, and glowing white array patterns flickered at his fingertips, flowing into the Jing Tu on the ground.

Every piece of Jing Tu within the Divine Soil was connected by arrays, and given Chen Yan's current level of array mastery, it was easy to find the array-pattern chains between these boat-leaves.

Following the array-pattern chains, Chen Yan sensed the profound network formed by the interconnection of the boat-leaves.

Countless array patterns intersected, converging and extending at nodes, carved with ancient and mysterious runes like tree rings, extending and extending, as if without boundaries.

This was a breathtaking world of arrays.

It made even Chen Yan have to marvel at the power of the Master of Arrays.

Chen Yan saw a massive leaf; that was the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

And surrounding the Yun Hai Dao Fu were hundreds of leaves of various sizes.

Chen Yan began to perceive what was happening on these boat-leaves through the array patterns.

Gradually, cold light flickered in Chen Yan's eyes.

Apart from this village, there were actually over a hundred other village-level Pure Lands that no Array Pivot Envoy had reached.

In these hundreds of villages, the villagers' emotions had gone from anticipation to hesitation, and now to despair.

This was by no means an oversight by Mu Yun Hai, but rather something Mu Yun Hai had done on purpose.

Chen Yan gradually understood Mu Yun Hai's thinking.

With the Thousand-Day Ancient God appearing, for the seven Dao Children including Mu Yun Hai, the most important things were their own survival and their own influence.

The Great Tide was coming, and every Great Tide would be stronger than the previous ones.

Sending Array Pivot Envoys to rescue the villagers of these village-level Pure Lands would also put the Array Pivot Envoys in danger.

And compared to these useless and lowly villagers.

The Array Pivot Envoys were the core strength that Mu Yun Hai valued.

They were the powerful force that could assist him in the future struggle for the position of Dao Child.

So, what did the lives of these villagers, who were only fit to be protected and had no abilities, matter?

With the apocalypse coming, whether these lives, as lowly as insects and ants, died or not, and how many died, was unimportant to him, the Fifth Dao Child.

Chen Yan had not yet met Mu Yun Hai's true self, but at this moment, he understood the other's character.

The previous gifts and kindness shown to Chen Yan were all based on Chen Yan's strength.

A murderous intent surfaced in the depths of Chen Yan's eyes.

He discovered that the higher one's position, the more their view of living beings tended toward mere numbers.

But life is life; it cannot be compared as numbers.

If he, Chen Yan, agreed with that, he would not have walked a different path from Chen Zhu.

"I don't think this is just Mu Yun Hai's problem; I think this is your problem too."

Chen Yan's expression was icy, his eyes looking toward a certain point in the void.

The next moment.

Streams of array patterns flowed from Chen Yan's palm, rhyming into the Jing Tu beneath him.

Rumble!

The terrifying True Martial power surged, condensing into the most profound and complex secrets of the Great Dao of Arrays, pouring in frantically just like that.

Along the array chains between the Pure Lands, it flowed from this Jing Tu as the center toward the other unprotected Pure Lands.

Outside the house.

A voice of surprise suddenly rang out.

"It has appeared, the great array has appeared!"

"Wonderful!"

"Heaven bless our Wang Village!"

"Good... good..."

"Eh, why is it black? Before... before it was clearly blue..."

Sounds of joy and sobbing arose one after another.

Surrounding the perimeter of the village-level Jing Tu, a pitch-black array barrier slowly rose, gradually enveloping the entire village-level Jing Tu.

Rumble!

The constantly churning Sea of Malice was like countless ancient ferocious beasts wanting to choose people to devour.

But in front of these massive, ferocious beast-like maws, this Jing Tu protected by the divine array, though tiny, was also resilient.

Just like this village-level Jing Tu, over a hundred other village-level Pure Lands simultaneously raised the 【Annihilation】 Great Array.

Chen Yan pushed open the door, his expression unsightly.

He could not cast over a hundred 【Annihilation】 Great Arrays at once.

This was a defensive barrier created by Chen Yan drawing upon the power of the 【Annihilation】 Divine Array within the Yun Hai Dao Fu and adding his own True Martial power.

Although he had succeeded, his expression became increasingly unsightly.

With his talent, this was all he could do.

But what about the other Dao Prefectures?

What about the other village-level Pure Lands?

It was feared that today, millions of living beings would die under this monstrous despair.

His appearance went unnoticed by anyone.

However, outside the Jing Tu, a pitch-black tide spanning the heavens was already surging over.

Chen Yan's figure flickered, appearing outside the Jing Tu.

Facing the endless giant waves of malice, Chen Yan took a step forward.

Boom!

As Chen Yan stomped his foot.

The power throughout his body surged like a pouring galaxy.

Endless True Martial power gushed out, transforming into a giant blade spanning the heavens, hacking fiercely toward the giant waves of malice.

The tide of malice was torn apart as if it were made of paper.

Within the village-level Jing Tu, under the incredulous gazes of everyone, the pitch-black and terrifying waves parted to the sides.

Like a great gate, it opened for them.