Chapter 896: The Heaven-Chosen and the Unique

Hum!

A long, humming sound exploded deep within Chen Yan's mind.

Chen Yan woke from his dream, his eyes wide open.

That name, "Bai E," exploded in Chen Yan's mind like a violent thunderclap.

For the longest time, Chen Yan had not known the name of the owner of this body.

But the moment the name was shouted by Xiao Fan, all of Chen Yan's speculations collapsed.

In truth, from the moment Chen Yan saw Bai E begin to create the long, winding road and high walls using the corpses of the human race.

He had already felt that something was wrong.

So, the Master of Psychokinesis who created the path of psychokinesis was none other than Bai E!

So, the reason why the Unity-Bound World created by 【Unity】 listed the first and second as Bai E and Fanni.

Was because 【Unity】 itself was created by the Master of Psychokinesis!

And the reason 【Unity】 had never been taken by the strongest, Fanni, was because She already knew it herself.

Bai E was originally the Master of Psychokinesis, but he encountered Jilie and was bewitched by Jilie from the very beginning.

Until Jilie, acting as the Mother God, ascended, and Bai E and Xiao Fan gradually grew into Ancient Gods.

This was undoubtedly a heaven-shaking secret.

The thickest, deepest layer of secret in history unfolded before Chen Yan.

Chen Yan gradually recovered his composure, but in the next moment, he widened his eyes again.

No!

In the memories brought by the ten thousand Realm Fruits, what occupied the most space was not the story of Bai E.

It was... the history of Bai E creating the martial path of psychokinesis!

But now, Chen Yan clearly knew one thing.

Bai E did not create the path of psychokinesis; he was merely the pioneer of the path of psychokinesis.

The other realms of the path of psychokinesis were not created by him at all.

What he created at that time, or rather, what he unearthed while being bewitched...

Was the path of the Ancient Gods!

What was truly passed on to Chen Yan within this memory.

Was how to become an Ancient God!

Even if Bai E was bewitched by the Mother God and could not see reality clearly.

His cultivation process absolutely had a massive connection to the path of the Ancient Gods!

Or perhaps, the path of psychokinesis itself had an extremely close connection with the path of the Ancient Gods.

Chen Yan's brow furrowed deeper and deeper.

There was another, even more terrifying problem.

Bai E had searched for a long time within his own universe but had never found those two fruits.

Perhaps that meant those two Saint-Breaking Fruits had never appeared at all.

Everything was just a phantasm that Bai E had seen.

But ten thousand years later, the Saint-Breaking Tree did indeed appear.

When Chen Yan accepted Bai E's memories, he also clearly felt that there was an extremely close connection between those two Saint-Breaking Fruits and the Saint-Breaking Tree.

Why was this?

And...

Chen Yan looked up at the gold-carved and jade-wrought ceiling.

"I have always had a question," Chen Yan whispered in his heart:

"Why are there 【Blood】, 【Body】, 【Force】, 【Origin】, 【Array】, and 【Will】 Saint-Breaking Fruits on the Saint-Breaking Tree?"

These Saint-Breaking Fruits corresponded to the five great martial paths.

But there was no 【Psychokinesis】 Saint-Breaking Fruit corresponding to the path of psychokinesis.

What kind of Saint-Breaking Fruits the Saint-Breaking Tree bore had always been irrelevant to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan had always thought it was because he did not cultivate the path of psychokinesis, so there was no need for the Saint-Breaking Tree to bear a 【Psychokinesis】 Saint-Breaking Fruit.

But looking at it now, that did not seem to be the case.

On one hand, Chen Yan truly had no time to cultivate the path of psychokinesis.

On the other hand, the Saint-Breaking Tree did not support Chen Yan in cultivating the path of psychokinesis either.

Why would it be like this?

Could it be that the path of psychokinesis had a profound connection with the path of the Ancient Gods?

Chen Yan recalled his own past.

As a child, he was extremely ordinary.

The only thing that was not ordinary was his identity.

A son of a collateral branch of the Chen family, suppressed by Luo Chen, who was also from a collateral branch.

But there were plenty of collateral branches among the five clans.

Within the Great Xia, there was no telling how many collateral branches of the five clans there were.

His aptitude was strong, but it was by no means as heaven-defying as Jiang Yuan's.

Even if he were chosen for Limit-Breaking Awakening, while those who underwent Limit-Breaking Awakening were few, he was not the only one.

The fact that Chen Yan's later tempering aptitude became stronger was only because he continuously practiced breathing techniques like the 【Eight Extreme Tempering Forms】, which enhanced his own aptitude.

If one does not speak of willpower, Chen Yan is truly just a very ordinary person.

Moreover, Chen Yan's initial willpower was only stronger than the average person's.

Chen Yan's willpower has grown stronger and stronger, day by day, month by month.

So from the very beginning, Chen Yan was actually just a very ordinary person.

Even suffering a car accident and becoming paralyzed.

Chen Yan had always thought that it was the Saint-Breaking Tree that sensed his willpower, which is why it came.

But at this moment, Chen Yan felt a strong sense of doubt.

Where exactly is he different from others?

To be chosen by the Saint-Breaking Tree?

What is it about him, Chen Yan, or his family, that is the most special thing in the human world?

He, Chen Yan, is ordinary.

His mother died early.

His father, Chen Yuhu, is nothing more than a stir-fried noodle shop owner.

His younger sister, Chen Yu...

Suddenly!

Chen Yan's eyes widened, and an endless sense of incredulity flashed within them.

He finally discovered where the problem lay.

Chen Yu!

Chen Yu is definitely not ordinary!

Chen Yu's aptitude was unearthed from the very beginning, attracting Ji Yannan to be her teacher.

Chen Yu began her path of Dao at the same time as Chen Yan, practicing the path of Mind Power and the path of Arrays.

Today, Chen Yu is already an Array God Sovereign!

Chen Yu's status as an Array God Sovereign is different from Chen Yan's.

Chen Yan's arrays only lie in the path of offense and killing.

But Chen Yu is an all-encompassing Array God Sovereign.

Chen Yu knows every array, whether of the offensive type or the auxiliary type.

And as for Chen Yu's path of Mind Power, Chen Yan had never paid it any mind, and it had always been very vague.

But previously, when the Great Xia fought the Underworld Nightmare Beast, Chen Yu had taken action.

A single person was already able to exert the same influence as extremely powerful Eighth-Rankers like Shen Keqing and the Longevity King.

Chen Yan has the Saint-Breaking Tree and the Enlightenment Myriad Forms Map.

But Chen Yu does not.

Chen Yan's monstrous talent made people overlook Chen Yu.

But if there were no Chen Yan, and one were to compare Chen Yu alone with geniuses like Jiang Yuan, San Jin, and Chen Min.

Or even place Chen Yu within the ten-thousand-year history of martial arts and compare her with those peerless geniuses.

One could only use two words to describe Chen Yu.

Supermodel!

Not counting Chen Yan.

Chen Yu is the number one genius in the ten-thousand-year history of human martial arts!

If nothing goes wrong, Chen Yu will definitely become a true pinnacle, a true supreme being of the human race in the future.

Chen Yu herself is the least ordinary one of all.

"Heaven-chosen" and "the only one" seem to have never had anything to do with Chen Yan.

"Heaven-chosen" and "the only one" can only describe his younger sister.

Chen Yan hung his head, as if he had thought of the most critical question.

The fact that the Saint-Breaking Tree could choose him might be related to Chen Yu.

Bai E has a younger sister.

And he, Chen Yan, also has a younger sister.

Perhaps he is merely the product of a misunderstanding.

Perhaps he has been gazed upon by some unspeakable thing from the very beginning.

Waves of chill emerged from the bottom of Chen Yan's heart.

Chen Yan looked around.

Inside the empty grand hall, he was the only one.

His perception continuously overflowed, submerging into the entire Yun Hai Dao Fu, flowing past every single face, and finally falling into the depths of that endless sea of malice.

Chen Yan stood up:

"Do you think this is enough to stop me?"

He said to himself.

"Do you think I, Chen Yan, would be filled with panic because of this?"

"My ordinariness and non-ordinariness, Chen Yan, have never been defined by the world."

"The only one who can define me is myself!"

Chen Yan paced within the grand hall, walking alone.

This immense confusion and terror had only hindered him by a mere fraction.

His will was incomparably powerful; how could he care about the setbacks and hardships of a fleeting moment?

He waited for his mood to calm.

Chen Yan came back to his senses, only then gradually feeling the sensation that the memory from just a moment ago had brought him.

Madness and trance.

Bai E perhaps realized something himself, but he dared not believe it.

He was like a lone traveler who had endured countless years of torment, telling his story to Chen Yan, the latecomer.

A tremendous weight from the ancient past hung in the depths of Chen Yan's heart.

A low murmur traversing time and space swirled by Chen Yan's ears.

"I can feel pain, endless pain and evil."

He seemed to see once again that low whisper of the Lord Chen within the blood-branded memory.

"Evil, endless evil."

What had the Lord Chen understood, and what had he seen?

That was why he had become the greatest obstacle for the human race today.

The Lord Chen was afraid.

But Chen Yan was not.

A surging flood rushed toward Chen Yan, and Chen Yan gradually calmed down.

It was also at this moment that a voice came through.

"No one wants to stop you; it is you yourself who refuses to move forward."

This voice was incomparably grand, exploding by Chen Yan's ears.

Chen Yan frowned; this was precisely the old man's voice from within the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm.

At that time.

Central Divine Soil.

The Master of Arrays sat cross-legged in the center of the lake, watching the image gathered by the flowing light before him.

It was precisely Chen Yan.

"Do you think you can stop me with just this?"

Chen Yan spoke continuously:

"Do you think I, Chen Yan, would be filled with panic because of this?"

"The ordinariness or extraordinariness of me, Chen Yan, has never been defined by the world."

"The only one who can define me is myself!"

The Master of Arrays lowered his eyes and sat quietly, his gaze clear as glaze, without joy or sorrow, reflecting all phenomena of the world yet remaining unruffled.

He opened his mouth to say:

"No one wants to stop you; it is you yourself who refuses to move forward."

The Master of Arrays had not originally wished to participate in the affairs of the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm.

But now seventy days had passed, and there had not been the slightest movement from Chen Yan's side.

The Master of Arrays had even thought that Chen Yan had been killed by the other Dao Children.

That was why he had specifically checked the situation on Chen Yan's side.

As a result, he used the power of his arrays to extract the scene from Chen Yan's side.

The Master of Arrays discovered that Chen Yan had been looking for people to collect Realm Fruits from the very beginning.

And after Mu Yanwan brought the Realm Fruit to Chen Yan, Chen Yan simply stored the Realm Fruit into his own universe and immediately began to meditate.

Yes, the Master of Arrays had not seen the scene of Chen Yan consuming the Realm Fruit.

He only saw the Realm Fruit disappear before Chen Yan, so he naturally assumed that Chen Yan had stored the Realm Fruit into his own universe.

Afterward, the Master of Arrays saw that Chen Yan meditated for a full seventy days.

This was normal.

After all, many people focused on meditation during their seclusion.

After Chen Yan ended his seclusion, the Master of Arrays had originally thought Chen Yan would directly enter the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm to give it a try.

As a result, Chen Yan said these words just now.

To be honest, the Master of Arrays had not expected the blow of the one-hundred-day time limit to have such a great impact on Chen Yan.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't.

No, it was impossible.

Failure is just failure; what is there to be unable to bear?

Or perhaps, the temptation of the Emperor Fruit was too great for Chen Yan?

At this moment, Chen Yan within the Yun Hai Dao Fu frowned and looked around.

"Master of Arrays?"

The Master of Arrays did not answer, but instead spoke calmly:

"Thirty days from now, if you still cannot pass the first trial of the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm, you will completely lose the qualification to enter the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm."

Immediately.

The Master of Arrays directly dispersed the image before him.

"In the end, you are still too young; time will not wait for you."

The Master of Arrays shook his head:

"What Xuan Yi has displayed is only the strength of this lifetime of his, if it were the final Xuan Yi."

I will certainly be able to achieve my goal."

In the eyes of the Array Master, Chen Yan's aptitude and will were surely stronger than Xuan Yi's.

But Chen Yan had no time left.

His plan, spanning these tens of thousands of years, would also not be disrupted by Chen Yan.

The next moment.

The Array Master looked toward a certain spot.

"Master of Blood and Qi, since you have come, why hide and skulk about?"

PS: The memory content in the previous few chapters should actually correspond to the content of chapters 652 to 654.

In other words, the era of Bai E and Fanni is the same era as that of the Xia Master and the Master of Blood and Qi.

It is the same event from different perspectives.

In the previous memory, Bai E annihilated the Ancient God Beast Corpse City, and only one Ancient God Beast survived.

This is the same event as the fall of the Human Ancestral Land Stone City mentioned in chapter 652, where only the Xia Master survived.

The line describing the Xia Master's weeping is the same sentence in both stories.

However, these two segments of the story are separated by nearly a million words, so everyone might have forgotten; Dongzi is mentioning it here.