Chapter 909: The Opening of the Total Martial Path, The Speed of the Limit

"Protective markings?"

Chen Fazheng narrowed his eyes, a few strands of silver hair clinging to his temples trembling slightly, as if disordered by an invisible, shocking thunder.

Protective markings are different from array disks.

This is a type of array carved into a martial artist's body, which can be activated directly as the martial artist's power circulates.

Protective markings are a power used exclusively for combat, perfectly matched to the martial artist themselves.

The research of protective markings requires immense mental effort and aptitude.

Furthermore, the person themselves must participate, because no existence knows the flow of their own power better than they do.

Chen Yan actually possesses god-level protective markings.

Chen Fazheng's gaze was like lightning, his line of sight shifting back and forth over Chen Yan.

Is this Chen Yan's trump card?

When did Chen Yan possess such protective markings?

Chen Fazheng's gaze turned cold, watching indifferently.

As a master of arrays, how could Chen Fazheng not see the ingenuity of this array?

Within the Nine Refinements of the Emperor Realm.

Crack!

A pitch-black electric arc flashed from Chen Yan's body, and thousands of profound runes drifted through the void like living creatures.

The protective markings covering Chen Yan's physical body seemed at this moment to have merged with Chen Yan, as if they were things that had grown within Chen Yan's body from the start.

Heart and intent merge, intent and Qi merge, Qi and power merge, power and markings merge.

As Chen Yan breathes, every marking seems to be breathing, inhaling and exhaling majestic True Martial power.

Swish!

A black radiance suddenly appeared, and heaven and earth were pulled by a thread of ink-colored light.

As Chen Yan took a step, the protective markings pulsed.

Following Chen Yan's step, a spatial array condensed before him.

With every step Chen Yan took, a new array disk was generated under his feet, while the old array disk turned into dust and annihilated.

A distance of ten thousand kilometers was actually compressed by him into nine steps!

Space was pulled into a long, ink-colored line of light.

Chen Yan was already over ten thousand kilometers away, and behind him, one spatial array after another slowly annihilated.

"Thirteen thousand kilometers in an instant, ranked fifth among the seven.

You may view the recorded footage of the fourth-place challenger."

A grand voice resounded.

Before Chen Yan, an image appeared.

Within it was a mass of pitch-black ink shadow.

Inside the image, an ink shadow stretched out like a living creature.

It suddenly straightened like an arrow, breaking through the void, its form turning into a blurred afterimage, crossing fifteen thousand kilometers in an instant.

"Wind Spirit?"

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

A god-level Wind Spirit!

This is a heaven and earth spirit object that does not exist in the outside world, yet it possesses such extreme speed.

Who is this person?

The only ones Chen Yan has not seen yet are the seventh Dao Child, Ying, and the fourth, Mo.

This person must be one of those two; Chen Yan remembered this point.

Zhang Huizhi is fusing eight great god-level spirit objects into one body.

The Wind Spirit, Zhang Huizhi has already accommodated it himself.

But Zhang Huizhi's Wind Spirit, Pianfeng, is a treasure of the Yu Province, and its speed cannot compare to what this person in the image possesses.

Chen Yan pondered to himself.

After activating the protective markings, can I cover ten thousand kilometers in an instant?

If I hadn't ascended to the eighth rank, I fear I would find it difficult to achieve this step.

After all, the promotion brought Chen Yan a very high increase in combat power.

"Is this what you use to shatter my martial path?"

Chen Fazheng's voice rose:

"Using my own method to break my own dream?"

His voice carried a trace of mockery.

He did not expect that after Chen Yan spoke for so long, he would ultimately use the path of arrays to clear the trial.

Even though Chen Yan has indeed reached the requirements for the eighth refinement.

But what he has displayed is not nearly as ruthless as Chen Yan previously claimed.

Chen Fazheng was about to speak.

But then he saw.

Chen Yan took a step, his white hair fluttering, and endless Dao essence emerged from around Chen Yan's body.

At this instant.

Space seemed to freeze, and the concept of time disappeared completely.

Chen Fazheng's eyes widened in an instant, and his figure swayed.

Stunned.

At this moment, all of Chen Yan's aura changed completely, as if he had transformed into a single entity within this heaven and earth.

This is World Instant!

The perfected, Micro-level 【World Instant】!

And!

Hum!

A point of flashing light erupted from around Chen Yan's body!

Third-grade Extreme Piercing Spear Soul!

Extreme Piercing lies in the extreme, lies in the piercing!

The extreme of the physical body, existing only for a single pierce.

At this moment, Chen Yan was no longer a human body, but a point of cold light, a long spear.

Boom!

The protective patterns operated, light and flames erupted, and spatial arrays appeared one after another.

But this time, the sound of Chen Yan stepping into the spatial arrays was fast to the extreme, making it impossible for one to see his figure clearly.

God-level protective patterns!

Micro-level 【World Instant】!

Third-grade Extreme Piercing Spear Soul!

In this step, three types of martial arts erupted, all for this extreme speed!

Boom!

Crack!

It was as if space had been corroded by lightning, and a scar tens of thousands of kilometers long appeared!

By the time Chen Yan's figure appeared, he was already at a very distant place.

Forty thousand kilometers in an instant!

Seeing this scene, Chen Fazheng leaned backward.

His aura, which had been as calm as an ancient pool, shattered instantly, replaced by surging waves that could not be concealed.

"Your Excellency!"

Chen Yan spoke indifferently:

"Speak!"

Chen Fazheng's eyes flashed with cold light, and a feeling he extremely disliked surfaced in his heart.

In an instant!

Boom!

In the Central Divine Soil, ten thousand zhang of waves exploded.

Speak?

Speak what?

The more he looked, the more it resembled two brats quarreling, where one brings out some powerful means and clamors for the other silent one to continue the quarrel.

Absurd!

Who do you think I, Chen Fazheng, am?

Is this how you speak to your ancestor?

No matter what, you, Chen Yan, bear the surname Chen, not the surname Xia.

Impudent junior!

Do you really think that what you have displayed now can compare to the Master of Martial Arts?

What kind of Master of Martial Arts are you?

Cold light flashed in Chen Fazheng's eyes; he wanted to speak, but did not say it.

Four words were stuck in his throat.

True Martial Path.

This Chen Yan, even if not the Master of Martial Arts, is better than the Master of Martial Arts.

"Forty thousand kilometers in an instant, ranked second among the seven.

You may view the recorded image of the first-place challenger."

Chen Fazheng did not speak.

Instead, the voice belonging to the Emperor Realm Nine Refinements program sounded.

An image appeared before Chen Yan.

Within the image, a tall and stout figure wearing white clothes appeared.

His round face was broad, his brows and eyes were cold, and endless majesty was hidden in the depths of his eyes.

Like an emperor, like an immortal god.

Xuan Yi!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; the first in speed was indeed Xuan Yi.

Seeing this, a cold sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Fazheng's mouth.

There was no need for him to quarrel with Chen Yan at all.

Reality would bring Chen Yan the answer.

At this moment, Chen Yan watched with exceptional focus.

Within the image, as Xuan Yi took a step, endless martial charm flowed forth.

Ultimate power of blood and Qi, ultimate power of horizontal tempering, ultimate power of thought!

Three great physical martial paths!

Boom!

Xuan Yi's white robes billowed, and array patterns flickered; every strand of the array was exquisitely beautiful, as if a combination of the most profound things in heaven and earth.

Whoosh!

A pitch-white flame erupted from Xuan Yi's body, carrying endless might, blazing and fierce.

God-level fire spirit!

The next instant.

Xuan Yi stepped out!

Boom!

The white flames exploded, transforming into an endless pushing force, and spatial array disks manifested one after another before Xuan Yi.

As Xuan Yi stepped in, dense swarms of true souls emerged from his body, merging into his physical form.

The fist soul was for explosion, the spear soul for speed.

Chen Yan even saw the wind soul and thunder soul, which he had never seen before!

Various true souls intertwined, flickering for only an instant.

Looking again.

Xuan Yi's figure had completely dissipated.

Such a traversal, one hundred thousand kilometers in an instant!

Chen Yan frowned; it was his first time seeing a wind soul and a thunder soul.

The path of true intent could actually not only create weapon true souls, but also visualize things of heaven and earth to create true souls.

Xuan Yi was a master of all six paths!

The three great physical martial paths had already ascended to the extreme.

The three great auxiliary martial paths were also the pinnacle of the human world.

Especially the path of true intent...

The other party's path of true intent made even Chen Yan feel astonished.

One instant, one hundred thousand kilometers.

This was already an unimaginable level.

Compared to the second-place Chen Yan, the gap with Xuan Yi was actually this large.

Did the other party truly possess the means to rival Lu Xunyang?

No.

Lu Xunyang only had horizontal tempering.

The other party cultivated only horizontal tempering, yet every punch and kick made him a grandmaster of the human world.

Where Lu Xunyang stood, he was the strongest of the human race.

And now, Lu Xunyang even possessed the path of will, his strength having reached the extreme.

Chen Yan's astonishment lasted only for this instant.

Immediately, it turned into calmness.

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

He very much wanted to say "Speak" just as Chen Yan had done before.

Two simple words would be enough to make Chen Yan feel ashamed of himself.

But Chen Fazheng did not.

Instead, he turned all his emotions into indifference.

Reality was the most ruthless slap, enough to turn all of Chen Yan's confidence into laughable dust.

This was the reason why he, Chen Fazheng, admired Xuan Yi and why he was unwilling to let others disrupt his plans.

This was the reason.

Back then, he was the number one person of the Chen Clan.

Even the blood brand was developed by him, granting it the ability to devour killing intent.

At that time, he was only at the peak of the eighth rank.

His talent was already peerless in the human world; he could have stayed in Chen Prefecture after creating the blood brand, allowing Chen Prefecture to surpass the Great Xia.

But on that very day, the newborn blood brand sliced something open.

The barrier between the Evil Realm and the outside world.

That day, he saw it very clearly; he saw endless chaos, endless evil.

He was only eighth rank, yet he saw things that only a ninth rank should have been able to see.

He remembered very clearly the words he said that day.

"If one cannot sever malice, there will be no divine artifacts in the world; if one cannot end the humiliation of the human race, there will be no divine weapons in the world.

I, Chen Fazheng, will be the one to open heaven and earth, to let my human race see the light again!

If I do not break all evil, I swear I will not be human!"

Only after that did the Master of Arrays appear.

Chen Fazheng looked at Chen Yan, as if seeing his former self.

Furthermore, this junior is even more brilliant than he was back in his day.

He naturally understands the other party's anger.

But time makes people strong, and it also makes people recognize reality.

There are many things that, just because you cannot stand them, does not mean you must go and change them.

What the human race is facing is the survival of the species.

The process of the Dao Child's growth is indeed dark, but that is how one can evolve into true perfection.

The Evil Realm is dark by nature, and everyone has already grown accustomed to the darkness.

You, Chen Yan, appearing and becoming a god is not a mistake.

But if you, this god, cannot endure and let others see the light, only to have them accept the darkness again—

That is the true mistake!