Chapter 894: My Path is Cautious and Careful, and I Do Not Wish to Be Cut Off Halfway

"You are quite sensible."

Chen Yan frowned as he looked at Mu Yun Hai; Mu Yun Hai's series of actions left even Chen Yan marveling repeatedly.

"Chen Yan, I am your dog; whatever you tell me to do, I will do!"

Mu Yun Hai looked toward Chen Yan:

"I will go and deal with the other few Daoists for you right now!"

Chen Yan pinched with one hand.

"Ahhh!"

The long needle piercing into Mu Yun Hai's brain stirred, and Mu Yun Hai let out a miserable shriek.

Golden light gradually emerged in Chen Yan's pupils, and strands of willpower pierced deep into Mu Yun Hai's brain.

Soon, a dazed look appeared in Mu Yun Hai's eyes.

【Royal Decay - Holy Will Bewilderment】!

Chen Yan briefly controlled Mu Yun Hai, then used his willpower to reshape his physical body.

However, this body of willpower was entirely a shackle for Mu Yun Hai; once Mu Yun Hai made any other moves, Chen Yan would directly detonate the other's body.

Soon.

Mu Yun Hai walked out of the Daoist Mansion.

Mu Yanwan, Peng Linjun, and the others turned deathly pale the moment they saw Mu Yun Hai appear.

Mu Yun Hai appearing meant that Chen Yan had failed.

"Mu Yanwan," Mu Yun Hai spoke.

Mu Yanwan gritted her teeth, staring fixedly at Mu Yun Hai.

"That... yes, you, Chen Yan wants you to go in," Mu Yun Hai said.

"Hm?" Mu Yanwan was stunned, and immediately, a feeling like a dream from a past life emerged in her heart.

She nodded, her body trembling slightly as she walked out of the Daoist Mansion.

She went deep into the palace at the very back and saw Chen Yan sitting on a prayer mat.

"Chen Yan... Exalted One!"

Mu Yanwan knelt down, tears streaming from her eyes.

Chen Yan had succeeded.

This immense shock caused a touch of bitterness and bewilderment to surface in her heart.

Chen Yan had truly defeated Mu Yun Hai, the Fifth Daoist of the Evil Realm!

Chen Yan was truly a god who could look down upon the human world!

Chen Yan sat cross-legged, not turning his head, only saying indifferently:

"From now on, Mu Yun Hai is at my disposal; you and he shall cooperate to seek more Realm Fruits for me."

Chen Yan's voice rumbled deep in Mu Yanwan's mind like thunder from the nine heavens.

"Yes... yes!"

Mu Yanwan spoke earnestly, then retreated.

At this moment.

Within the gray fog world created by 【Unity】, Chen Yan sat at the thirty-eighth seat, calmly watching the other four seats.

The very moment Bai Wuseng died.

The figure on the seat ranked twenty-third suddenly vanished.

Then, a human figure suddenly appeared at the fiftieth seat.

The forty-fifth seat became the thirty-seventh seat.

The thirty-first seat became the twenty-ninth seat.

The twentieth seat became the eighteenth seat.

The eleventh seat became the tenth seat.

These seats with such significant changes must certainly be the four Daoists whose strength suddenly increased because Bai Wuseng died.

What amazed Chen Yan was that the strongest Daoist was originally ranked at the eleventh seat.

Perhaps, it was Xuan Yi.

Aside from the two ancient gods, he was the eighth strongest in the human world!

Chen Yan calculated in his heart.

Among those at the very front.

The Xia Master, the Blood Master, the Chen Master, the Formation Master, the Yu Master, and the Element Master must all be there!

That was already six people.

Moreover, there were also the strongest ancient divine beasts.

Lu Xunyang was perhaps there too.

No, he was definitely there.

Lu Xunyang was the second strongest human in the outside world.

The strongest Daoist could actually be on the same level as these existences.

It was a bit unbelievable.

However, Chen Yan quickly figured out the key issue.

Time.

The flow of time in the Evil Realm was ten times that of the outside world.

These Dao Children are existences that have been absorbing the opportunities of the human race tainted by blood for ten thousand, or even tens of thousands, of years.

Lu Xunyang is only a few hundred years old.

In terms of resources, the outside world utterly crushes the Evil Realm.

But in terms of time, the outside world cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the Evil Realm.

At the same time.

Throughout the entire Evil Realm.

All five Great Dao Children sensed something.

"Bai Wuseng, I never expected that you would be the first to fall."

"Who killed you? Could it be the Seventh Dao Child?"

"Everyone is keeping an eye on Xuan Yi, but Xuan Yi has not left his Dao Fu at all."

"Bai Wuseng's death has also allowed me to gauge the strength of the others; not bad, not bad!"

Central Divine Earth.

The Master of Arrays, sitting cross-legged at the heart of the lake, slowly opened his eyes.

With one hand, he formed a seal, and streams of light presented images before him.

It was everything that had happened within the Yun Hai Dao Fu.

When he saw that Bai Wuseng had successfully controlled Mu Yun Hai, the Master of Arrays' brow furrowed even deeper.

Until, the next moment, he saw the figure of Chen Yan.

"It was actually you, not only killing the heavily wounded Bai Wuseng but also controlling the dying Mu Yun Hai."

A look of helplessness appeared in the Master of Arrays' eyes.

He had not expected such a turn of events to occur.

The struggle between the Dao Children was a major event he had planned long ago to alter the future.

But he had not expected a Chen Yan to suddenly pop up, and that Chen Yan was interfering in the Dao Child struggle more and more deeply.

A cold light appeared in the Master of Arrays' eyes.

He did not know what had happened between Chen Yan and Bai Wuseng within the Sea of Malice.

But he guessed that perhaps the Master of Qi and Blood and the Xia Lord had intervened.

The Master of Qi and Blood was easy enough to deal with; at the very least, he could have a fight with him.

Moreover, the Master of Qi and Blood clearly had more secrets he was unwilling to expose.

The Master of Qi and Blood is a pitiful person, but also an extremely strong one.

He is using ten thousand years of time to try to let go of hatred, to accept and then negate his own father, and to seek a new path for the human race using his own methods.

But the Xia Lord...

The Master of Arrays pursed his lips.

That person is indeed the greatest of the human race, the most noble and supreme existence.

Even the Five Clans were founded by the Xia Lord single-handedly.

The Xia Clan both respects, hates, and fears him.

How could the Five Clans be any different?

For such a long time, the Xia Lord has no longer cared about the internal strife of the human race, nor has he cared about the Xia Clan or the Five Clans.

To the Xia Lord, the Five Clans and the Great Xia are both tools, both dispensable descendants.

But the Xia Lord cares about Chen Yan.

This makes things a bit difficult.

"You have clearly already chosen a Li Zhiyi to be your walker in the mortal world; why do you still care about Chen Yan, whom you abandoned?"

The Master of Arrays murmured.

The Xia Lord is the Master of Will; this point is beyond doubt.

Yet that day, when the Chen Lord killed Chen Yan, the Xia Lord did not step forward.

Why now, however, does he care so much, letting Chen Yan participate in the struggle for the Imperial Fruit?

"Your path has been paved for ten thousand years; it is a broad and smooth road.

My path is cautious and meticulous, and I am unwilling to have it collapse halfway!"

The Master of Arrays looked toward a certain place, then spoke:

"Within one hundred days, if you do not break through the first refinement of the Nine Refinements of the Imperial Realm, you will lose your qualification for the Nine Refinements of the Imperial Realm."

Immediately following this, the Master of Arrays closed his eyes once more.

"One hundred days—give him a hope that is impossible to fulfill."

Chen Yan's previous speed in entering the ninth refinement of the Nine Refinements of the Imperial Realm only reached half of the target requirement.

This was the greatest speed Chen Yan could exert after all these years of accumulation.

One hundred days is not enough for Chen Yan to bridge his disadvantage.

In this way, he has both promised the Xia Lord and gotten rid of Chen Yan.

It can be considered killing two birds with one stone.

At the same time.

Yun Hai Dao Fu.

Chen Yan opened his eyes.

"Within one hundred days, if you do not break through the first refinement of the Nine Refinements of the Imperial Realm, you will lose your qualification for the Nine Refinements of the Imperial Realm."

This voice rang out in Chen Yan's mind.

"A time limit?" Chen Yan murmured, though he did not begin training immediately.

Last time, at the ninth refinement of the Emperor Realm, Chen Yan's speed was merely five thousand kilometers per instant.

Yet the minimum requirement for the ninth refinement of the Emperor Realm is ten thousand li per instant.

It seems very far away.

In reality, it is not difficult.

"Zhang Huizhi is absorbing elemental power over there, which cannot be applied to my true body.

But Zhang Huizhi can be the first to complete the God-level protective patterns and the 'Boundary Instant' micro-manipulation."

Chen Yan murmured in his heart.

One hundred days in the Evil Realm is ten days in the outside world.

But since Zhang Huizhi has the Enlightenment Myriad Manifestations Map, he can turn these ten days into sixty days.

Zhang Huizhi also has the support of the Saint-Breaking Tree and the Yu Clan.

Sixty days is enough.

"And I can also prepare to break through, reaching the eighth realm of the True Martial path, the Tribulation Light Realm."

A smile appeared on the corner of Chen Yan's mouth.

It is time to advance to the eighth rank.

Once advanced, his own strength will be improved in every aspect.

The quality of his physical body, his speed, and the amount of True Martial power will all rise to a major level.

Chen Yan has fought for half a lifetime and killed countless eighth-rankers.

He has fought against ninth-rankers, been besieged by eighth-rankers, and even slaughtered a supreme eighth-rank Ancient God Beast.

Looking back, he was only at the Creation Realm.

There was no pressure.

"Since I must charge through, I must achieve the strongest!" A sharp light appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

Only by being the best in all things can one be worthy of one's own heart.

After a while.

Mu Yanwan arrived:

"My Lord, I have already collected ten thousand Realm Fruits.

The time was too short; there are still many Realm Fruits within the entire Yun Hai Prefecture."

Chen Yan nodded:

"That is enough, just these will do. I will be in seclusion for this period."

"Yes." Mu Yanwan withdrew.

Chen Yan then casually refined these Realm Fruits into medicinal pills and swallowed them.

Within the Realm Fruits are contained the rich true meanings of Qi-Blood and Hard-Refinement.

This is the purest true meaning, and it is of great help to Chen Yan.

After absorbing so many Realm Fruits, perhaps Chen Yan will not need to do anything else, and his speed will be sufficient to meet the standard.

Chen Yan consumed the pills condensed from the Realm Fruits.

Whoosh.

Rich status energy poured into Chen Yan's mind, and infinite martial true meanings dissolved within his mind.

Chen Yan's soul once again appeared within that physical body.

After leading a great army to slaughter the Ancient God Beast Corpse City.

He was like a god in the Brightness Kingdom.

Even if people had once been terrified of his iron-fisted rule, after learning of the army's victory.

He undoubtedly became the only god of the human race.

Everything he said was right, and everything he did was a divine decree.

Under his control, the Brightness Kingdom became a true kingdom of steel.

After the common people were born, they would be selected by institutions, and those with good aptitude would be uniformly trained in Thought-Power Martial Arts.

Those with poor aptitude would also be trained to become cooks, physicians, tailors, and other service personnel.

Everyone's coming-of-age ceremony was to go and kill an Ancient God Beast.

The weak, the lazy, and the cowardly were deprived of the right to reproduce and were forever reduced to the status of low-caste people.

People needed to believe in his commands and curse malice day and night.

And he also began his long study of the martial path.

Day and night, without regard for time.

Xiao Fan became the only person who could accompany him.

"I need a breath that can change the rules of this world and determine the life and death of Ancient God Beasts."

"Life-Death Breath, yes, Life-Death Breath, to kill an Ancient God Beast with a single thought!"

He had gone mad.