Chapter 166: Chaos Emperor Shi Yan

Ye Tian Yun, while thinking about the person who could wield the chaos qi, suddenly decided to stand up and head towards the waterfall.

As he stepped closer to the waterfall, a nauseous feeling welled up in his heart. It was a feeling of restlessness that kept on increasing as he stepped closer to the waterfall. 

Ye Tian Yun couldn't help but frown as the weird feeling kept on bugging him. He began to circulate his qi and surround himself with his own aura; this action did somehow calm him down. However, it didn't remain the same for long, and the restlessness once again began to increase.

However, this time, he was also beginning to feel like vomiting, and Ye Tian Yun knew that he had to stop here, or his health may get severely affected by this.

He then looked at the remaining distance between him and the waterfall. It didn't turn out to be much, with only seven to eight steps remaining between him and the waterfall.

However, he decided to stop because he didn't wish to take risks. At least not yet. He wasn't yet fully prepared, and before doing anything else, he wanted to confirm some things.

Ye Tian Yun took a deep breath and returned back to the place where he was sitting earlier and once again began to stare at the waterfall.

The restless feeling had already disappeared by now, and he was currently thinking about why he was feeling that way - it was due to the chaos qi.

Ye Tian Yun knew many things about this topic. In fact, he was most probably the most knowledgeable person regarding chaos qi in the Lower Heavens.

It wasn't an arrogant claim or anything, but rather, it was Ye Tian Yun's advantage of knowing the future that made him the person with most information regarding the chaos qi.

When Elder Lai Chang was speaking about Chaos Qi, Ye Tian Yun had decided to keep quiet and was trying to gauge how much average cultivators know about chaos qi in the first place.

And as expected, Elder Lai Chang only knew the very basics, in fact, the knowledge he had regarding chaos qi was mostly false.

Ye Tian YUn took a deep breath, and once again, the familiar face popped up in his head.

This person was someone who could cultivate the Chaos Qi.

And as mentioned earlier, this person was able to conquer half of the continent due to his ability to control and cultivate the Chaos Qi wherever he stood.

One must know that chaos qi is very rare. Even in this hall, where the Qi density is at the highest of all the places Ye Tian Yun had been to ever since his rebirth, the chaos qi here was deficient.

This alone shows the rarity of the chaos qi, but that person could cultivate chaos qi anywhere. 

ANd his cultivation worked differently from the normal cultivators. Even at Qi Refining Realm, he could go head-on against a peak Qi Condensation Realm.

That's one whole realm higher than himself!

And what made this possible was the Chaos Qi present in him.

Ye Tian Yun let out a sigh thinking of how troublesome and powerful that person was, and what made it worse was the fact that this person was actually a part of the organization which ruined everything for him - the God's Legion.

This also meant that eventually in the near future, Ye Tian Yun would have to go after him, and just like against Xiao Ming, he would have to prepare himself to kill that person and take away the 'plot armor' that allowed him to cultivate the Chaos Qi in the first place.

Ye Tian Yun remembered how powerful that person was, in fact, that person was someone with the highest battle prowess and most achievements in the God's Legion.

He was someone who could have easily been their Leader if not for the presence of WAng Yao.

Even though Wang Yao was very powerful and could evenly match against Ye Tian Yun in their final battle at the Hundred Realm Refining Stage, Ye Tian Yun wasn't actually afraid of Wang Yao.

He was rather very confident in his battle prowess.

However, in the whole God's Legion, there was one person who made even Ye Tian Yun feel very cautious in battle. 

One must not forget that at that time, Ye Tian Yun was ranked number one in the Middle Heavens Ranking Stele; however, even then, someone from the Lower Heavens made him feel cautious and wary. And this person was from his same generation.

When Ye Tian Yun woke after his rebirth, he was able to think of many plans and choices to destroy God's Legion and take their Emblems and Tokens.

And among those plans, most of them started with him ranking the members with the highest threat to him in the coming future.

Wang Yao was of course ranked his number one target. Not only was his talent high, but his social skills and scheming nature made him a formidable opponent.

But the person who was always ranked second could cultivate the Chaos Qi and suppress cultivators one realm higher than himself.

This person was called Shi Yan.

Born in the Wu Kingdom, this boy, though he had a very tragic and unlucky past, grew up to be one of the most terrifying existences in the whole Lower Heavens.

Shi Yan had many kills and achievements under his name. And even a single one of them could show how powerful he was.

In the coming future, during God's Legion's crusade to conquer the lower heavens, he was going to confront the most powerful organization, the Crimson Pavilion, on his own.

And he was going to make them bow down to him.

This alone showed how powerful he was.

And it was the ability to control and cultivate the chaos qi that made him a fearsome existence,

After God's Legion had conquered the Lower Heavens, Shi Yan was proclaimed as the Chaos Emperor.

To be called an Emperor was not a joke, nor was it anything that anyone would take lightly.

One must not forget that under the heavens, there had been only one emperor. The Heavenly Emperor.

And when Shi Yan was proclaimed as the Chaos Emperor, it caused a lot of commotion and stirred in the middle heavens.

Some laughed, some were jealous, but almost all of them were inwardly frowning and angry at this.

After all, how could they let someone be called Emperor for nothing? Because in the eyes of the cultivators of the Middle Heavens, the Lower Heavens was nothing more than barren land.

And any peak cultivator from the Middle Heavens could easily conquer the Lower Heavens; this was why almost no one was happy with a bumpkin from barren land to be proclaimed as the Emperor.

Becoming an Emperor was like having the same footing as Emperor Ye, the ruler of the Middle Heavens.

And of all the people in the Middle Heavens, the person who had most problems with someone else becoming the Emperor was none other than Crown Prince Ye Tian Yun.

Being number one on the Middle Heavens Ranking Stele, Ye Tian Yun himself had the power to conquer the Lower Heavens, but in the end, he controlled himself from challenging this Chaos Emperor.

After about a year later, Ye Tian Yun finally had a confrontation with Shi Yan.

These two were alone, and the biggest coincidence was that Ye Tian Yun was actually in disguise, but having seen Shi Yan's portrait before, he had recognized him.

Thus, Ye Tian Yun began to trigger him and make him fight him, just so that he could test Shi Yan's battle prowess first hand.

And that day became the first day when Ye Tian Yun lost to someone from the same generation as his.

This put Shi Yan second on his hit list, right after Wang Yao.

And this incident made Ye Tian Yun do thorough research on Shi Yan. 

He wanted to know everything he could before their next confrontation. And it was through this, he came to know about something vital information that he had, for some reason, previously missed.

Ye Tian Yun's informants did thorough research and presented him a report on Shi Yan.

From this report, Ye Tian Yun got to know that Shi Yan was actually able to cultivate the Chaos Qi!

This was impossible.

And the even crazier part was that Shi Yan was a sword cultivator and one of the best ones at that.

One must not forget that it was common knowledge among cultivators that Chaos Qi was not something that anyone could cultivate and would have drastic effects on future cultivation if it was cultivated. And this qi was especially harmful to Sword Cultivators.

And here someone was cultivating Chaos Qi and was also a sword cultivator!

And when Ye Tian Yun asked why such information was not mentioned earlier, he got to know that this was actually a public secret in the Lower Heavens and was mostly regarded as a rumor to justify Shi Yan's battle prowess.

But the informants were able to confirm it this time somehow, and they had put it in the report.

Just then, Ye Tian Yun, who was lost in his thoughts, suddenly came back to his senses as a very intriguing question popped up in his head.

If Shi Yan was this powerful and was also one of the central characters of the God's Legion, why was he not present when God's Legion had attacked Ye Tian Yun and beheaded him to help Wang Yao on the hundred realm refining stage.