It was obvious.
If he wanted to break through the pass, he first had to cross the river.
This Blood River was his trial.
Chen Yan took a deep breath, without the slightest hesitation.
He came to the bank and felt the bloodthirsty aura rushing toward him. Yet his gaze grew calmer.
The next moment, Chen Yan leaped into the churning Blood River!
Boom!
The instant he hit the water, terrifying pressure crushed in from all directions.
The river was icy cold, yet it burned with a heat that seared his soul. The extreme contradiction nearly tore his consciousness apart.
Even more terrifying, the Blood River seemed alive. Countless strands of blood-red energy burrowed through his pores like living things, flooding into his body.
Chen Yan felt his qi and blood boiling, almost tearing free of him to become part of the river.
At the same time, an irresistible force seized him, dragging him toward the endless darkness at the riverbed.
I... absolutely cannot fall here!
At a thought, the Internal Furnace, which had just reached the minor mastery stage, roared to life!
The blood-red energy that had burrowed into his body was instantly cut off and isolated, becoming ownerless nourishment that the furnace flames quietly refined.
The danger inside his body was temporarily contained, but the destructive torrent outside did not let up. The Blood River struck his body again and again like a hammer weighing ten thousand jun, making it groan under the strain.
Bring it on!
Chen Yan roared inwardly and pushed the Hundred Bones Body Forging Technique to its limit.
His muscles quivered at high frequency in a mysterious rhythm, channeling and dissipating the destructive force layer by layer.
He stopped resisting. Instead, he went with the force, constantly fine-tuning every detail of how his bones