Chapter 695: Ying Zheng vs. Yan Dan

Boom!

The powerful energy of Soul Dragon Roam gouged a massive crater into the earth, instantly sending gravel flying and chaotic dust swirling into the air.

Yan Dan and Ji Wuye were blocked, unable to advance even a fraction further.

Because Yan Fei in the sky was like a sharp sword at their throats, ready to take their lives at any moment.

Behind them, the majority of the twenty thousand Meng Hu Army had been burned to death by Yan Lingji's Phoenix Fire, and the remnants were fleeing in all directions to save their lives.

"Yan Fei!"

Yan Dan looked up; at this moment, Yan Fei appeared like a goddess hovering in the void, wearing a dark gold Golden Crow Palace Robe, her figure tall, beautiful, and moving.

He had never imagined that the one blocking him would be Yan Fei, and her aura seemed even stronger than Yan Lingji's.

Why? What on earth had happened?

How were they all so powerful? This was completely different from the Script he knew.

"Yan Dan?"

Yan Fei was surprised; she also had not expected Yan Dan to be with Ji Wuye.

Since meeting him in Old Han a while back, she had assumed it was a coincidence and hadn't taken it to heart, but now it seemed there was a major problem with the Yan Dan before her.

For instance, Yan Dan's current cultivation had actually reached the peak of the Heavenly Human Realm, only one step away from advancing to the Land Immortal Realm; this cultivation was even more fierce than that of the young Gai Nie.

"My lord, save me."

Ji Wuye looked at Yan Dan with pleading eyes; this was his only remaining straw to grasp for survival.

Flames swirled around Yan Lingji as she gently extended her slender, fair arm, a wisp of flame coiling around it, bewitching and moving.

Ji Wuye felt only his five viscera burning, his entire body's blood igniting, followed immediately by his skin splitting and flesh tearing; he turned into a human torch, roaring in agony, rolling continuously on the ground, and lost all signs of life in just a few breaths.

Although she had killed the culprit behind this, Yan Lingji did not feel as though her great vengeance had been satisfied.

After all, these Meng Hu Army soldiers had severely harmed her homeland, and the dead could not be brought back to life.

"Yan Dan, why are you here?" Yan Fei asked.

Yan Dan's mind raced, and he hurriedly explained:

"Lady Yan Fei, this has nothing to do with me. I was captured by this Ji Wuye; you know, I am a good person."

"Heh." Yan Fei gave a contemptuous smile.

"Just now, this palace clearly saw Ji Wuye following your lead; how could he have captured you?"

Yan Fei said, not believing Yan Dan's excuse at all.

At this time, Ying Zheng, Han Fei, and Gai Nie also flew in from the horizon.

Seeing this scene, Yan Dan was even more shocked.

What on earth was going on? Why were these people all flying down from the sky?

Although Martial Dao experts could temporarily travel through the air, they were far from being as relaxed and at ease as Yan Fei and Ying Zheng, not to mention that Ying Zheng was also carrying Han Fei and Gai Nie.

When the arrivals drew near, Yan Dan saw Ying Zheng's appearance clearly, and for a moment, he lost his composure.

Was this not the very same Ying Zheng who had been a hostage in Zhao State back then?

Yan Dan and Ying Zheng had known each other since childhood, and their relationship was extraordinary.

"Yan Dan."

Ying Zheng recognized this friend he had not seen for many years and felt surprised.

"Yan Dan, why are you here?" Ying Zheng asked.

"I was captured and brought here," Yan Dan said.

"Is that so?"

Although the two had been friends in the past, Ying Zheng was no ordinary man; looking at the devastated Baiyue and Yan Dan, who had not a single injury, his intuition told him this matter was not simple.

"He is lying! He and Ji Wuye are in cahoots; they were both trying to capture little Yan'er!"

From beneath the rubble of a collapsed house, an old woman covered in blood crawled out, her eyes glaring fixedly at Yan Dan; after finishing her last sentence, she died completely.

Hearing this, the atmosphere in the area turned icy cold; Yan Dan's expression darkened, never expecting there to be a survivor here.

"Yan Dan, what else do you have to say?" Yan Fei asked coldly.

Yan Dan remained silent, contacting the system internally, and said:

"System, what should I do? Why is the cultivation of the Yan Fei and Yan Lingji before me higher than mine?"

The Plane Emperor System issued a voice:

"Scanning, currently scanning. Disturbed by an unknown force, unable to detect the true cause."

"..., then what should I do? If I don't explain this well, my fate will be no different from Ji Wuye's," Yan Dan said.

"Detected that the host's points are insufficient. Pay twenty years of lifespan to obtain one Supreme Martial Dao Golden Core," the system said.

"Supreme Martial Dao Golden Core, what is its use?" Yan Dan asked.

"It can help the host immediately advance to the Land Immortal Realm without side effects, and obtain the Heaven-Human Body to reach the perfection of this realm," the system said.

A look of struggle flashed in Yan Dan's eyes, and he gritted his teeth: "Fine, twenty years it is. Give me the Martial Dao Golden Core."

Although lifespan was precious, if he lost his life, no amount of lifespan would be of any use.

If he could advance to Land Immortal Perfection, then he would not be without the strength to fight; perhaps he could even defeat Yan Fei and Yan Lingji.

"Ding, twenty years of lifespan deducted, one Martial Dao Golden Core obtained."

After his lifespan vanished, Yan Dan immediately felt an intangible weakness, as if his entire essence, energy, and spirit had been drained; he could not even stand steadily, though this was only for a fleeting moment.

His hair had also turned mostly white, and wrinkles had appeared on his face, but as the Supreme Martial Dao Golden Core merged into his heart—

A surge of majestic vitality replaced those twenty years of lifespan, spreading from his heart to his five viscera, six bowels, limbs, bones, and every blood cell in his body, like withered wood meeting spring; the Qi in his dantian increased rapidly.

The Martial Dao bottleneck that had trapped him for so long was broken in an instant; he advanced directly from the peak of the Heavenly Human Realm to the Land Immortal Realm, and this was far from over!

Under the nourishment of the Martial Dao Golden Core, Yan Dan's body was also transformed into a Land Heaven-Human Longevity Body; this physique was the strongest physique in the Land Immortal Realm, so there was no need to worry about his lifespan drying up, his physical strength declining, or his realm falling.

Land Immortal Early Stage, Middle Stage, Late Stage...

Until perfection, Half-Step God-Demon Realm, only one step away from entering the God-Demon Realm.

The God-Demon Realm is the realm where Di Shitian, the God Lord of the mask, and currently Zhang Sanfeng reside.

Yan Fei, Yan Lingji, and Ying Zheng also discovered the transformation of Yan Dan.

"Hahaha!"

Feeling his own strength, the power erupting endlessly from his dantian like a great river, it was surging and unstoppable; it was too strong, too intoxicating, as if he were the master of all things.

"So what if I ordered it? Those who submit to me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish!"

Yan Dan's body stood by Wind Control, standing in mid-air extremely arrogantly, as if he had become a different person.

"Land Immortal Realm, and perfected at that, even a bit stronger; finally stopped pretending, have you?" Yan Fei said calmly.

Ying Zheng, however, did not understand and said with some regret:

"Yan Dan, why? Why did you do this? You once told me your ideals, and that it was for the stability of the world; now look at what you have done."

"Ying Zheng, wake up, he is not Yan Dan at all," Yan Fei said.

She guessed that this Yan Dan, just like what was discussed in the Chat Group before, might be a Transmigrator.

"?" Ying Zheng was even more confused.

Upon hearing this, Yan Dan showed anger and said:

"I am Yan Dan, who says I am not Yan Dan?"

"At the very least, the Yan Dan I know did not have such high cultivation," Yan Fei said.

"Yan Fei, what do you know!"

"You know nothing; you have no idea what I have experienced," Yan Dan said, full of hatred.

"Tell me then," Yan Fei said indifferently.

Perhaps it was the powerful strength that gave Yan Dan unusual confidence, so he stopped pretending and said:

"The ancients said, was it Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou? In the dream, I was Crown Prince Dan of Yan, the Mohist Leader, exhausting my heart and soul to restore the country.

Unfortunately, in the end, it was all for nothing. Ying Zheng, you swept across the six directions, destroyed the six states, and destroyed my Yan, making me a joke.

In the end, I also died under the pursuit of your empire. And the one who killed me was the Six Soul Fear Curse of you, the Yin-Yang School.

Perhaps Heaven took pity on me and let me return to the era before Ying Zheng destroyed the six states, giving me a chance to change my fate."

"Yan Fei, you were originally my wife, my most powerful right-hand assistant; why do you treat me like this now, standing on the opposite side of me?"

"It is not too late to turn back now. Once I replace Ying Zheng and let Yan replace Qin, you will still be the greatest Empress in history."

"So that's how it is, heh. It really is disgusting and annoying. I treated you with sincerity, but unfortunately, you only saw me as a tool to eliminate dissidents, without a shred of genuine feeling," Yan Fei said.

In the trajectory of fate, she had indeed been deeply in love with Crown Prince Yan Dan, even violating the rules of the Yin-Yang School for him.

But in the end, she was left with the fate of a heartless, ungrateful, poisonous woman, nearly kicked out, and finally trapped in the Forbidden Land of the Yin-Yang School, dying in depression.

Now, Yan Fei also understood why Yan Dan had changed; he was not a Transmigrator, but a reborn person who had returned from the future to the past, and then everything made sense.

Ying Zheng realized and understood what had happened.

"Ying Zheng, as long as I kill you, history will be rewritten, and fate will stand on my side."

"Go to hell!"

Yan Dan performed a ghostly movement technique, and the Mohist Leader's token, Mo Mei, appeared in his hand.

As soon as Mo Mei appeared, the whole world seemed to turn into an ink wash painting at this moment; Mo Mei was edgeless, and although it was not on the weapon ranking, its power was no weaker than the divine weapons on the weapon ranking.

Countless black ink Sword Qi coiled around the surface of Mo Mei; Yan Dan merged with the sword and turned into a black light to slash over, his whole person like a black Dragon choosing people to devour.

"What a pity."

Ying Zheng did not dodge or evade, letting Mo Mei pierce his body, but unfortunately, the edgeless Mo Mei could not break his God Body defense at all.

And Ying Zheng's body was already a God Body, immune to all cold weapon attacks; in the martial arts world, that was a huge bug.

Seeing this scene, Yan Dan's eyes widened, and he muttered to himself: "This is impossible."

This was almost his full-strength strike, enough to slay a Land Immortal of the same realm, and now it hadn't even cut a single hair of Ying Zheng.

"There is nothing impossible, Yan Dan. You have changed, but I have also changed; I am no longer the Ying Zheng of the past.

You cannot handle the matter of destroying the six states, so leave it to me."

As the words fell, Ying Zheng controlled the Magnetic Field Force, and lightning shot out from his palm, turning into an unstoppable Electromagnetic Cannon and blasting away.

The speed of the Electromagnetic Cannon was too fast, and the distance between the two was so close; Yan Dan opened his Qi shield to defend, but it was as brittle as paper, shattered in one blow.

Bang!

The Electromagnetic Cannon pierced through Yan Dan's chest and heart, leaving a bloody hole in his entire body, with sheets of blood spilling out, and his body fell from high altitude like a sandbag.

"Why... why..."

Yan Dan looked up at the sky, which was already covered with dark clouds; he did not understand all of this.

He had clearly been reborn, relying on his foresight to reach the pinnacle of life and fulfill the wishes of his previous life—it should have been very simple, so why did it end up like this!

"System, save me!"

"I don't want to die."

Yan Dan roared internally; the Plane Emperor System had become his only straw to clutch at for survival.

"Beep, detecting that the host is in critical condition and can no longer continue to survive."

"Beep, the Plane Emperor System is preparing to withdraw."

A point of white light shot out from Yan Dan's body and rushed toward Ying Zheng.

Clearly, the Plane Emperor System had chosen the more capable Ying Zheng.

"Whether to bind the Plane Emperor System! Binding..."

The sound of the system came to Ying Zheng's ears; he had not yet agreed, but it had automatically bound itself.

However, the next second, the Plane Emperor System seemed to encounter some terrifying existence; a Black Hole appeared out of thin air, instantly breaking the Plane Emperor System into fragments and completely Devouring it.

"Uh..." Ying Zheng frowned, wondering what had just happened.

Having lost the system, Yan Dan no longer had a source of power, and on top of that, he had lost twenty years of his lifespan.

At this moment, he looked like a withered husk; he closed his eyes in unwillingness, and as a gust of wind blew by, his body turned into dust and dissipated.

"Ying Zheng, what was that white light just now?" Yan Fei walked over and asked.

"I don't know either, I just seemed to hear something about a Plane Emperor System binding. But before the binding was complete, it was Devoured by a mysterious force," Ying Zheng said.

Yan Fei thought seriously and said, "It seems Yan Dan was reborn with the help of this system, and since Yan Dan was beaten by you until he was on the verge of death, the system chose you as its new host.

It just didn't expect that you have a Chat Group inside you; presumably, the Chat Group Devoured this system."

"I think so too." Ying Zheng nodded.

But if the power of the Chat Group Devoured the Plane Emperor System within him, then could it not also Devour him one day?

For a moment, Ying Zheng felt somewhat uneasy; this feeling of his fate not being in his own hands made him uncomfortable.

But there was nothing he could do at the moment. Furthermore, with so many people in the group, including an Immortal, it was useless for a mortal like him to worry.

Han Fei ran over, looked at everything around him, and said:

"Qin King, aren't you going to explain? Was the one who just died Yan Dan? Why do I feel like something is different? What exactly is going on?"

Ying Zheng said expressionlessly, "Sometimes it's quite good to be a naive fool, don't you think, Han Fei?"

Han Fei curled his lips and said unconvinced:

"Do I look like a fool? Ying Zheng? Tell me, am I right, Gai Nie?"

"I listen to the Young Master," Gai Nie said expressionlessly.

"Damn, boring." Han Fei shook his head.

Afterwards, Ying Zheng and Yan Fei helped Yan Lingji tidy up her home; although Baiyue had been heavily damaged this time, many people had survived.

However, to avoid another catastrophe, they needed to move deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains of Baiyue and live in complete seclusion, cutting off all contact with the outside world.

For the common people, as long as they could survive, that was enough; they didn't care about the war at all.

Because no matter who won, in this chaotic world, the common people, being at the very bottom, would never gain any benefits.