Chapter 892: Oh, Brother Chen

A blood-colored grand array shrouded the firmament, reflecting the entire Yun Hai Dao Fu as if it were a purgatory.

The originally clear sky of clouds was instantly dyed dark red, and viscous blood-light poured down like a tidal wave, pressing down until the air itself seemed to congeal.

The sky-clouds of the Yun Hai Dao Fu were originally simulated by the grand array.

The current change was merely the disappearance of the disguised sky-clouds, as the grand array shifted into another form.

"The Blood-Drawing Array; this Blood-Drawing Array has been above our heads all along. Lord Dao Child had already made preparations for this day!"

A powerful Array Pivot Envoy spoke with difficulty, their eyes trembling:

"It cannot be. We are Array Pivot Envoys; Lord Dao Child only consumes the flesh and blood of commoners, he will not consume us!"

"Yes, when the Great Tide arrived, Lord Dao Child was even willing to abandon the nearby village-level Pure Lands rather than send us to take risks. We will certainly be fine!"

"Protect the Dao Child Mansion, do not let those commoners in!"

Inside the Yun Hai Dao Fu, the powerful eighth-rank Array Pivot Envoys instantly made preparations, protecting the Dao Child Mansion like guards.

Boom—!

The ground was trembling, and countless living beings looked up, their pupils contracting in fear.

"My Lord, save me!"

"My Lord, my child is only one month old!"

"My Lord, it is me, I am Zhang Rujui; have you forgotten, I once treated you to a meal!"

Near the Dao Child Mansion, the commoners' legs felt as heavy as if filled with lead, and they knelt on the ground, begging for mercy from those Array Pivot Envoys guarding the Dao Child Mansion.

Swish!

A blade of light flashed by.

An Array Pivot Envoy swung the long blade in their hand, instantly slaughtering a large swath of wailing commoners.

The flesh and blood of the old, weak, women, and children scattered across the ground.

"Get lost, all of you!" the blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy roared:

"The only reason you could live until now is because of Lord Dao Child. Now that Lord Dao Child needs you to do something, how can you be so stingy!"

One after another, the Array Pivot Envoys erupted with powerful pressure, forming a dual pressure with the blood array in the sky, which rippled outward.

They would not let anyone approach the Dao Child Mansion.

"Ah!!!"

"Beasts, you are beasts!"

"Mu Yun Hai, how could you do this!"

Someone screamed, finally feeling despair in this moment.

Someone held their child and trembled; the child's crying was covered up by the humming of the blood array in the blink of an eye.

Around the four sides of the Dao Child Mansion, powerful figures took to the air, wanting to rush out of the Yun Hai Dao Fu, but they were blocked by the layers of barriers enveloping the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

"Mu Yun Hai, you are mad! I was invited here by you from the Xuanyi Dao Fu, only for you to consume me like this?!"

An eighth-rank expert roared in disbelief.

Above the firmament, figures radiating powerful auras stood still.

The entire Yun Hai Dao Fu was now like a hollow iron ball being constantly heated, with no exit whatsoever.

Despair appeared in the eyes of some experts as they looked at the Array Pivot Envoys guarding the Dao Child Mansion:

"Look, Mu Yun Hai is even going to kill us eighth-rankers; you Array Pivot Envoys will also be consumed by him!

It would be better to join forces with us to break the barriers around the Yun Hai Dao Fu and escape into the Evil Sea!"

As their voice fell, some among the Array Pivot Envoys guarding the Dao Child Mansion began to hesitate.

"Impossible!"

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy slashed down, the blade light cutting through the bodies of the wailing commoners like a ribbon.

"We are loyal and devoted to Lord Dao Child, as can be seen day and night; Lord Dao Child will absolutely never lay a hand on us!"

After saying this, the person turned around and knelt toward the Dao Child Mansion:

"Yun Hai Dao Child, peerless in the world, achieving the Supreme, invincible in the Evil Realm!"

Immediately, the Array Pivot Envoys, who had been terrified just moments before, all knelt down at once.

"Yun Hai Dao Child, peerless in the world, achieving the Supreme, invincible in the Evil Realm!"

"Yun Hai Dao Child, peerless in the world, achieving the Supreme, invincible in the Evil Realm!"

Their expressions were impassioned, their loyalty absolute.

Someone appeared holding an array longsword, their hair standing on end with rage:

"Mu Yun Hai, you are a Dao Child; do you really intend to commit such an atrocious act?!"

That person was named Peng Linjun; the veins on his forehead were throbbing, and his hair seemed to be bristling.

"To harm millions of living beings with the Blood-Drawing Array—even the Ancient Divine Beasts are not as cruel as you!"

Peng Linjun roared to the extreme; at this moment, he was almost going mad as his faith collapsed.

Mu Yanwan stood behind him, her face pale and filled with anger:

"We are under the seat of the Venerable Chen Yan; is the Yun Hai Dao Child certain he wants to harm living beings and slaughter us, completely turning against the Venerable Chen Yan?!"

Behind her, the members of the Mu family who had followed Chen Yan all trembled, the fear in their eyes intense to the extreme.

Terrifying pressure poured down from the sky, and Peng Linjun could barely stand steady.

One by one, the Mu family disciples knelt down.

Bai Ling's face was flushed red, and blood flowed from her seven orifices.

If not for the Mu family matriarch protecting her with her life-blood, Bai Ling would have already been crushed to death.

"Chen Yan?!"

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy's eyes flashed, looking toward Mu Yanwan; he knew of Chen Yan's formidable power.

But at this moment, there was no room for negotiation!

"The Yun Hai Dao Child is the Fifth Dao Child; how could a mere Chen Yan compare to such a noble status?

Letting you die is a supreme honor bestowed upon you; all of you, kneel for me!"

Peng Linjun roared:

"The Dao Child slaughters living beings, no different from an Ancient God Beast!

Damn you, ahhh!"

He trembled all over, stepping forward one step at a time, but was torn by the terrifying pressure, his breathing becoming unstable.

The formation longsword in his hand pointed diagonally as he desperately walked toward the Dao Child's Mansion.

A common man's rage, enough to splash blood three feet high!

Crack, crack, crack!

Peng Linjun's legs made cracking sounds, his bones shattering as he knelt on the ground, blood seeping from his eyes.

"Hahahaha!"

The group of Array Pivot Envoys laughed loudly:

"Fool, a mere Array Pulse Soldier from a town-level Jing Tu, how much ability do you think you have!"

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy looked coldly in all directions:

"Those of you who follow the Dao Child, if you dare to resist like him, you will only die more miserably.

Whether it is Chen Yan or you lot, you are all just flesh and blood meant to be consumed by the Dao Child!"

His eyes erupted with golden light, and endless might spilled forth.

"All of you, get down!

Welcome this honor bestowed upon you!"

At this moment, despair finally appeared in Mu Yanwan's eyes.

Peng Linjun lay on the ground, unable to breathe.

Countless living beings wailed in unison!

"I can no longer serve Honorable Chen Yan."

Mu Yanwan closed her eyes, the majestic figure that had slain the Eighth-Rank Ancient God Beast appearing in her mind.

That was a god whom the world was unworthy to admire, only to revere.

Unlike the so-called Dao Children, even if these Dao Children were the supreme beings of the Evil Realm and the most noble existences of the human race.

They might be gods, but they were not the gods of the human race.

"I am... fortunate..."

Mu Yanwan collapsed to the ground:

"Before I die... to be able to... follow a god belonging to the human race."

Yet, at this very instant.

Mu Yanwan suddenly felt her physical body grow light.

Am I dead?

Mu Yanwan thought to herself, opening her eyes slightly.

Tap, tap...

A slow and steady sound of footsteps rang out beside her.

It was a back, and in her blurred vision, that dark-robed back was very slender and very calm.

Like an elegant teacher, or perhaps a swordsman walking the four corners of the world.

Very ordinary, yet very extraordinary.

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy was startled for a moment; his vision blurred, and a figure had already appeared on his left side.

Chen Yan stood just like that, very calmly.

His eyes were slightly closed, his expression peaceful, as if breathing in unison with heaven and earth, yet the pressure radiating from his body was substantial, causing people's breathing to hitch.

In an instant.

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy felt as if he were facing a silent god, not daring to harbor the slightest thought of blasphemy.

An illusion!

This was clearly a very quiet person!

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy's eyes turned sharp.

The next moment, in his perception, this black-robed man was like a cultivator who never left his sect.

Just like a weak scholar who couldn't even truss a chicken.

"Honorable... Chen Yan."

Mu Yanwan's belated voice sounded, somewhat dazed.

Peng Linjun, Bai Ling, and the others stared blankly, not knowing if they were seeing a hallucination.

In an instant.

"Audacious!" the blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy roared, looking at Chen Yan:

"You actually dare to..."

All around, every Array Pivot Envoy's eyes contained anger, simultaneously unleashing their methods as terrifying might surged toward Chen Yan like a tidal wave.

But the next moment.

Their bodies froze.

Crack, crack, crack!

It was as if a giant machine had its valve abruptly shut off in that very instant.

Within the entire Yun Hai Dao Fu.

The howling gale came to a standstill, the dust motes in the air solidified, and streaks of blood-red light were etched into the space just like that, unable to move.

Upon that terrifying blood-colored grand array, every array vein and every wisp of array pattern was trembling incessantly.

Their operation had been forcibly halted by a powerful force.

It was just like a noisy infant being pinned to the ground by an incomparably thick arm, unable to move.

Utterly feeble.

The man in black merely stood there, causing birds to fold their wings, grass and trees to bow their heads, and all things to prostrate themselves.

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy's eyes widened, as if he had seen something incomparably terrifying.

And the man dressed in black merely looked toward him indifferently.

That gaze was without waves or ripples, as faint as a breeze brushing past the eternal, not disturbing a single thing.

The next moment.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

The blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy let out a scream of extreme misery, as if he had seen something of endless horror.

Surrounding the entire Daoist Mansion, all the Array Pivot Envoys who had originally been suppressing the common people began to scream just like him, one by one.

"Kill me!" the blade-wielding Array Pivot Envoy wailed aloud, clutching his head.

His hands continuously tore at his own body, flesh and blood began to be forcibly ripped away, and endless pain was heaped upon him, impossible to extricate himself from.

"I was wrong!"

"Ahhhh!!!"

Sounds of begging for mercy rang out one after another.

This scene appeared suddenly.

Mu Yanwan and the others felt as if they had entered a dream; looking again, Chen Yan had already slowly stepped into the Daoist Mansion.

He was as calm as if he were merely entering the gate of his own courtyard.

From beginning to end, he had not paused for even half a moment.

In the center of the Daoist Mansion, the pond was shattered and the pavilion had collapsed.

Mu Yun Hai was covered in blood, his abdomen was ripped open, and blood flowed all over the ground.

"Move for me!"

Mu Yun Hai roared, raising his fist to strike repeatedly at the void.

Sss, sss, sss!

It was as if he were striking a solid piece of steel; blood-red sparks burst forth from his knuckles.

"Move, just a little!"

Mu Yun Hai struck his fists repeatedly, his eyes growing increasingly anxious.

The next moment.

A slender figure in dark robes walked over slowly.

Mu Yun Hai's fist, which was about to strike down, stopped in mid-air, and a gentle smile instantly bloomed on his face.

"Oh my, Brother Chen!"