Chapter 887: Questioning the Great Dao

The blurry figure fell silent.

It gazed at Chen Yan with such calmness.

Time passed slowly.

The blurry figure stood together with Chen Yan.

"Do you hear it?"

Chen Yan frowned.

"It is the sound of the rules, look!"

The blurry figure patted Chen Yan's shoulder, one finger pointing ahead.

"It is the sound of the malice rules."

The blurry figure smiled:

"The Underworld Nightmare Beast wants to plant a seed within the living beings of the Great Xia.

It lets the Ancient God Forbidden Land descend upon the Great Xia, letting malice pour out, to tell all living things one thing."

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes:

"What thing?"

The blurry figure laughed:

"The Heavenly Dao is unjust, and all living things must bear their own fruit!

Malice towers above all living beings, and it cannot be broken; it is the rule of heaven and earth, an indestructible law!"

The blurry figure said.

In Chen Yan's world of consciousness, images emerged.

It was the changes occurring in Qi Province.

Boundless corpses spread out from the earth, wanting to cover Qi Province, to cover the Great Xia.

Endless malice overflowed from within the Ancient God Forbidden Land, constantly spreading.

The Blood Sun Embryo wrapped around a black sphere of malice.

The malice rules of the Underworld Nightmare Beast erupted from within the black sphere of malice like a surging tide.

Chen Yan saw that across the Great Xia, those at the Eighth Rank were unleashing the aura of life and death, trying to resist the malice rules of the Underworld Nightmare Beast.

He saw Chen Min and the one hundred thousand Evil-Slaying Army erupting with the power of their will, trying to block the malice from the Ancient God Forbidden Land from invading further.

He saw face after face of terror and despair.

He heard the panicked cries of the entire Great Xia.

They were calling out for Lu Xunyang, calling out for Chen Yan, calling out for that suddenly rising Great General of Evil-Slaying.

The suffering of living beings was like a tattered tapestry of heaven and earth.

"Malice riding above all living beings is a part of the rules."

The blurry figure spoke calmly:

"Just as humans need to breathe, need to eat, just as plants need to absorb sunlight, just as water can extinguish fire.

It is a rule, it is the Heavenly Dao, it is the law of all things."

Chen Yan listened calmly, watching calmly.

"I know you have loathed malice, you have disparaged malice.

But no matter how you say it, no matter how you act.

The existence of malice, this is the rule; do you acknowledge it?"

Chen Yan was silent.

"Do you accept it?"

The blurry figure asked.

Chen Yan still did not answer.

Because within the image, a figure appeared.

Chen Yu.

At this moment, Chen Yu was in a white dress, like a fairy descending to the world.

One could see her hands forming seals, with the flowing radiance of mental power condensing behind her.

It transformed into array discs, weaving into an airtight net of light.

The pitch-black malice poured down from the horizon like spilled ink, yet the net of light resisted stubbornly.

Chen Yu narrowed her eyes and gritted her teeth, her mental power surging throughout her body.

Yet, her complexion grew paler and paler.

"It's the Heavenly God General's sister!"

"Princess Chen Yu!"

"The Array Divine Venerable, the Array Divine Venerable!!!"

Countless exclamations rang out.

Countless people looked up at the high heavens, gazing at the white-dressed woman with awe, their eyes filled with reverence.

However, their expressions gradually changed.

Because the net of light, condensed from hundreds of divine arrays, was rapidly being eroded by the malice.

Chen Yu showed signs of struggle, sweat beading on her forehead, yet she still gritted her teeth and continued to cast it.

Boom—!

The massive Ancient God Forbidden Land continued to rise, and the Great Xia land covered and eroded by it measured in the tens of thousands of miles.

"A false history makes the human race forget the true power of malice.

They have forgotten that malice is the rule by which living beings are governed."

A blurry figure whispered in Chen Yan's ear.

Chen Yan watched this scene quietly.

Even so, his heart was shaken.

His gaze fell upon the faces of the people of the world.

Countless living beings felt the terror in their hearts, stunned and lost.

Tears fell from their eyes.

"What is happening? What on earth is happening?"

An old man could bear it no longer and sat on the ground:

"What did our Great Xia ever do wrong? We only wanted to live, we just wanted to live!!!"

A powerhouse sensed all of this, eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Heaven and Earth are unkind, treating all things as straw dogs; sometimes, being alive is also a mistake."

A young man clenched his fists:

"Heavenly God General, where is the Heavenly God General? Where is the Sun-Patrolling God General!"

He shouted in despair.

But then.

Two streaks of pitch-black light rushed to Qi Province.

There was divine armor, black as ink.

There was a divine spear, shimmering with cold light.

Standing in the vast sky, a majestic pressure spread, causing the heavens and earth to lose their color.

"The Heavenly God General!"

A military guard exclaimed.

"No, it is the Heavenly God Armor and the Malice-Ashen Spear," someone said, tears appearing in their eyes:

"Is the God General still here? Is the Heavenly God General still here?"

"He must be, otherwise why would the Heavenly God Armor and the Malice-Ashen Spear appear?!"

Chen Yu watched this scene, tears falling from her beautiful eyes.

"Brother..."

Countless living beings watched in shock.

Though the God General was dead, his weapons had arrived.

People watched in a daze, tears streaming down.

It was as if they felt that the person who had passed away, even in death, could not rest and had descended back to the mortal world.

The next moment.

Boom!

The Heavenly God Armor exploded, turning into countless pitch-black scales; black light flowed between the scales, pulling them together to form a barrier across the sky, surrounding Qi Province to prevent the malice from spilling out.

Countless black mists suddenly erupted from the Malice-Ashen Spear.

Billions of Malice-Void Spores surged like a torrent through the scale barrier into the Ancient God Forbidden Land.

This scene broke the hearts of the living beings.

They had originally held a sliver of hope, hoping that Chen Yan's figure was inside that armor.

And this hope vanished completely the moment the Heavenly God Armor exploded.

"He is truly gone..."

Someone collapsed to the ground, fainting away.

"Hatred, hatred, hatred! I hate the heavens for being unfair, I hate the heavens for envying talent, I hate the malice, I hate the Five Clans!"

Someone shouted, their eyes weeping blood.

Scene after scene of the mortal world played out before Chen Yan.

"Malice is a rule, a Heavenly Dao rule that has existed since ancient times."

Chen Yan spoke calmly.

"You have figured it out," the blurry figure laughed.

"In the past, I hated malice, I despised malice, but malice was always there."

Chen Yan lowered his head:

"My martial path was to oppose malice, yet malice remained there.

The evil of the world, the evil of the human heart, is something that never disappears.

Just like suffering, it never disappears; it only arrives in another form."

The blurry figure stared at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan suddenly sighed:

"The evil of the world is the norm of the world; the evil of the human heart is the norm of living beings."

The blurry figure:

"Therefore, malice will never disappear."

"Yes, malice will never disappear; even if the Ancient Gods perish, the Mother God still exists outside the world.

Even if the Sinful Offender dies, there are still endless sins lying dormant."

"Even if the evil in one's heart disappears, in the next instant, new evil will arrive."

Chen Yan raised his head, carrying a trace of melancholy.

"All this time, I have been wrong; I should not... should not have denied malice."

The blurry figure laughed loudly:

"So, you are finally going to admit defeat."

Yet, listen.

Boom!

The pitch-black barrier formed by the scales of the Heavenly God Armor exploded, shattering the heavens.

Endless malice surged out.

The Malice-Void Spores spewed by the Ember-Evil Spear were devoured and extinguished by the malice, unable to block the malice by even a single step anymore.

The light-web array manifested by Chen Yu was broken, and Chen Yu vomited blood and retreated violently.

"Ahhh!!!"

Chen Min roared, and the power of will erupted by the One Hundred Thousand Evil-Slaying Army was corroded by the endless malice.

At this moment.

Countless people wept in despair.

Countless people were terrified to the extreme.

The blurry figure watched this scene and laughed out loud:

"So, you are also going to admit defeat."

The blurry figure laughed, covering their own face with one hand.

"No," Chen Yan spoke:

"Malice will never disappear, but the struggle will not disappear either."

The blurry figure was surprised:

"How so?"

"A person's life should be used to practice and verify the laws of the Heavenly Dao."

A sharp light appeared in Chen Yan's eyes:

"Struggle without attachment, act in accordance with the Dao!"

The blurry figure was stunned for a moment, then stood with hands behind their back, gazing earnestly at Chen Yan:

"How to struggle?"

Chen Yan stared at the other, saying in a deep voice:

"Transform the Qi in your heart into a blade; when malice strikes, the blade shall sever it.

If the malice does not cease, the blade shall not stop slashing, until death!"

The blurry figure's body trembled:

"So, you are finally going to take this step."

"Mm."

Chen Yan nodded.

"It has been a long time," the blurry figure laughed loudly.

The mist shrouding their body dissipated, revealing the appearance of Chen Yan.

That was the appearance of Chen Yan in his youth, still carrying a touch of callowness.

Just like that, they smiled at Chen Yan.

"I am very satisfied."

The young Chen Yan smiled and said:

"I can become a person like Chen Yan."

Chen Yan watched quietly and also smiled.

The next moment, the world of consciousness dissipated.

Chen Yan was still sitting cross-legged on the leaf-boat.

"On the path of breaking the Dao, I encountered three questions of the self.

Questions of suffering, questions of life, questions of the Great Dao.

And my Dao heart has long been as firm as a rock; from now on, it will not change."

Chen Yan murmured, a smile appearing in his eyes; this smile carried peace and melancholy.

In front of him, fifty-two strands of destruction will slowly circulated, condensing into a blood-red long blade.

At this moment.

The Will Status appeared!

Chen Yan looked at the Will Status, and the voice from back then echoed in his ears.

Following that, a sharp light appeared in his eyes:

"Once this blade is unsheathed, it shall sever the injustices of the world!"

At the same time.

In the outside world.

In Great Xia.

Before the endless malice, inside that blood-sun embryo.

Hum!

A humming sound resonated!

A beam of light!

Suddenly appeared!

It pierced through the sphere of malice, slashed through the Blood Sun embryo, and thrust straight into the Forbidden Land of the Ancient God.

A single flash of blade light shattered the firmament, causing ten thousand Daos to lose their color!