He slowly raised his hand. A faint radiance flickered, and that hand paused in midair before finally swinging down.
"No one knows what you did, but in ten thousand years of the Martial Dao, you were the first. You truly..."
The Lord Chen murmured:
"You walked too far ahead of the Human Race."
Crash.
Chen Yan's figure vanished from where he stood.
The Lord Chen stood there calmly, silent for a long time.
"If he comes back, we'll all be killed by him."
A placid voice came from high above. The white-haired Chi Lord had appeared at some point.
The Lord Chen looked at the Chi Lord:
"Do you think that's possible?"
The Chi Lord smiled:
"I think it's impossible. No, I'm certain it's impossible. But the truths of the True Martial Dao that he wrote just now? I thought those were nonsense, too."
The Chi Lord landed by the lake:
"You have to understand: if he can return, not only will we die, but our families, our subordinates, everything will die.
And you..."
The Chi Lord narrowed his eyes:
"Just now, you could have erased him with a single thought."
The Lord Chen shook his head:
"He isn't afraid of dying. Didn't you notice? He's been seeking death all along. If I killed him, I might have walked right into his trap.
Even the Lord of Will's trap."
The Chi Lord fell silent, but kept looking at the Lord Chen for a long while:
"Chen Yuan, I've never misjudged you. If you thought the Five Clans were in your way, you wouldn't hesitate to wipe out every living being in the Five Clans..."
As he spoke, the Chi Lord suddenly laughed:
"Ha ha ha! The Human Race's gatekeeper... The Human Race's gatekeeper..."
"With so many of your own people,