Novel Full Chapter 196: Chen Yan’s Death
Pain.
Over and over, the piercing agony swept through Chen Yan’s consciousness.
“…Kill.”
He could hear that ancient, hoarse voice.
[Reincarnation Ended]
First the left arm, then the right arm, then the shoulder blades and thighs, the chest and the soles of the feet.
Repeatedly.
“…Kill!”
The hoarse voice in the haze began to grow clearer and clearer.
[This Reincarnation Rating: D]
Up until now, how many times had he been killed?
Fifty, a hundred?
Or thousands?
He did not know. The only thing Chen Yan could feel was the suffocating, endless torment.
Chen Yan’s consciousness had already begun to blur.
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
The ancient, hoarse voice grew louder and louder, and Chen Yan seemed to be able to feel the malice and fury embedded in it.
[Accumulated Cultivation: Peak Qi Sea Realm]
A pale-blue spiritual energy once again pierced Chen Yan’s body, pinning him to the stone pillar behind him.
It hurt so much.
Chen Yan’s eyes were already beginning to lose their light.
Really, did this have to continue forever?
Just what could he still do?
Break the cycle?
Impossible.
Impossible, impossible, impossible…
[Reincarnation Reward: None]
Let me die.
Please, just give me a merciful end.
Let me die, let me die, let me die…
Chen Yan didn’t even know whom he was begging.
But pleading was the only thing he could do besides feeling the pain.
“Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!”
[Reincarnation settlement complete, the host will return to the previous reincarnation checkpoint, inherit this reincarnation’s accumulated cultivation, and restart life]
Chen Yan, whose consciousness was almost entirely lost, had nearly become a walking corpse that would only keep reincarnating and being reborn.
Only that ancient, furious, roaring voice kept echoing in his head—
“Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill!”
As the twelfth pale-blue spiritual energy pierced Chen Yan’s chest, the entire world froze in an instant.
Chen Yan’s current chaotic, nearly extinguished consciousness could no longer maintain the Shadow Binding Rope sealed within it, nor the existence of that ring.
Huo Mu’s twelve spiritual energies that pierced Chen Yan’s body were intended to force the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul out of Chen Yan’s body.
But when the ring was exposed, the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul did not flee from Chen Yan’s body.
Instead, it surged toward the inside of that ring.
The ruined immortal artifact seemed like a bridge, linking Chen Yan’s soul and the Black Flood Dragon’s remnant soul.
The enormous Black Snake Projection stared at the nearly mindless Chen Yan before it.
Similarly, the remnant soul of the Black Flood Dragon, which had been suppressed under Caijun Tower for nine thousand years, also had no consciousness.
These were two shells of souls devoid of cognitive ability.
Only, Chen Yan’s soul seemed to carry one more thread of fixation than that Black Flood Dragon remnant.
After a thousand tortures, this final thread of fixation was not to live, to save Kongshan Sect, or any grand purpose.
It was—
“Let me die.”
This was Chen Yan’s last sliver of obsession.
That thread of fixation obviously affected the Black Flood Dragon remnant linked by the ring.
In the next instant, the remnant soul lunged at Chen Yan’s soul, crazily tearing at it.
The pain of the soul being shredded made Chen Yan’s nearly extinguished consciousness flicker one last time.
Finally, was everything about to end?
…
Strange.
When Huo Mu drove the twelfth spiritual energy through Chen Yan’s chest, he suddenly felt an extreme sense of incongruity.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the body nailed to the stone pillar.
Motionless.
As if completely dead.
Huo Mu used his consciousness to confirm Chen Yan’s life force for an instant.
Still alive.
But the kid seemed to have completely lost awareness, and…
Peak Qi Sea Realm?
Just a moment ago this kid’s cultivation was still early Martial Spring Realm.
It seemed this boy hid quite a few secrets.
But Huo Mu had no intention of probing Chen Yan’s secrets now.
Time was tight;
nothing was more important than his refining of the Black Flood Dragon remnant soul.
Then Huo Mu withdrew the pale-blue spiritual energy that had pierced Chen Yan’s chest.
But to his utter surprise, the Black Flood Dragon remnant soul did not emerge from the wound the spiritual energy had made in Chen Yan’s chest.
There was only a hole completely piercing Chen Yan’s body.
Crap!
Huo Mu’s gaze hardened. This mighty Divine Ability Realm powerhouse who had endured six thousand years still did not know why he had failed, but he clearly understood that he might be in trouble.
And not a small one.
In the next moment, the eleven remaining spiritual energies still piercing Chen Yan’s body slowly faded and then, like vapor, vanished without a trace.
Even so, Chen Yan’s body still floated midair.
“Destroy!”
Huo Mu bellowed softly.
A colossal spiritual force, great enough to warp space, gathered on the training grounds. The thirty-six stone pillars supporting the arena, the walls and the viewing stand all crumbled into dust.
This Supreme Imperial Law Elder had meant to use that move to obliterate Chen Yan’s body.
But nothing happened.
Almost in the same instant, Chen Yan lunged sharply toward Huo Mu.
Huo Mu did not underestimate him for a second. From the start he had decided to go all out, leaving no room for error.
The Supreme Imperial Law Elder waved his hand and hundreds of thousands of surging spiritual energies fell like a torrential downpour toward Chen Yan.
However, the moment any of those energies approached within three zhang of “Chen Yan,” they instantly vaporized.
Before Huo Mu could react further, Chen Yan had already arrived before him, their eyes locked.
Only then did Huo Mu finally understand why his attacks had no effect on the boy in front of him.
Because of Dao Domain.
Dao Union Realm!
At the moment Huo Mu and Chen Yan’s eyes met, he immediately realized that the body manipulating the form in front of him was not that rash youngster Chen Yan.
Or rather, Chen Yan was already dead.
“So that’s it.”
Huo Mu’s white hair fluttered in the wind, and he let out a smile of resignation. Looking at the brutal, bloodthirsty soul reflected in “Chen Yan’s” pupils, he said slowly:
“Supreme Pivot Elder Li, did you calculate everything from the very beginning?”