Dragon-Marked War God

Jiang Chen silently watched this scene, but he was powerless. At this moment he had already given everything he had, but his opponents were too strong. If it had only been the Second and Third Palace Lords, Jiang Chen would not have lost like this. But who could have imagined that this Second Palace Lord would bring in reinforcements? The three great Half-step Divine Emperors of the Battle God Clan were almost stronger than the Profound Connection Divine Palace itself, at least until the Palace Lord returned.

Jiang Chen was already struggling at every step, but the situation of Xue Liang and the others was even more dangerous. Jiang Chen knew that he had to make his decision. Otherwise, everyone here would be dragged down to their deaths, and that was clearly not what Jiang Chen wanted to see.

Jiang Chen kept being forced back by the two Half-step Divine Emperors, his face extremely ugly. But his heart was with Dragon Shisan, Wu Ningzhu and the others. Once he was broken, it would mean that everyone here would become part of history forever.

“Dead monkey, go now!”

Jiang Chen glanced at Dragon Shisan. Dragon Shisan looked back at him and replied in a deep voice:

“I’m not leaving!”

“If you don’t leave, everyone dies. Take Sister Ning and Qingcheng and go, now.”

Jiang Chen shouted in a deep voice. Dragon Shisan froze for a moment, his heart extremely conflicted. Those words of Jiang Chen’s were full of helplessness. He knew Jiang Chen had done his best, but the enemy’s Half-step Divine Emperors were simply too powerful. They had no chance of turning things around anymore. The powerful arrival of the Battle God Clan’s experts was the greatest suppression on them. The Second Palace Lord was now like a fish back in water. The Third Palace Lord had been killed by Jiang Chen, and he would not let a single person go.

“You want to leave? Can you? Hmph.”

The Second Palace Lord sneered. He no longer intended to give Dragon Shisan and the others any chance. This time he went straight for Yan Qingcheng and Wu Ningzhu, because he knew these two women held an extraordinary place in Jiang Chen’s heart. With such tender feelings, how could he ever achieve great things? Not that he would ever have the chance to achieve anything now.

“This is the moment!”

The Second Palace Lord’s palm carried the Five Thunders Ultimate Transformation, aimed squarely at Wu Ningzhu. Jiang Chen trod the Azure Dragon Five Steps and pushed the Great Void Technique to its limit, colliding head-on with the Second Palace Lord. He took the Second Palace Lord’s palm with his own body and barely managed to save Wu Ningzhu.

“Little Chen!”

Wu Ningzhu and Yan Qingcheng cried out. They grabbed Jiang Chen’s hands, their faces full of worry. If Jiang Chen had been one second late just now, Wu Ningzhu might already have become another soul who died at the Second Palace Lord’s hands.

“Run? You won’t get the chance.”

Dou Qing roared and gave chase. Even he had been quite shocked by Jiang Chen’s Great Void Technique just now. No one had expected Jiang Chen to block the Second Palace Lord with such ferocious speed.

“Go now! I’ll hold them off.”

Jiang Chen said in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on Wu Ningzhu and Yan Qingcheng.

“No. If we leave, we leave together. If we die, we die together!”

Yan Qingcheng and Wu Ningzhu said in unison. They would rather die than abandon Jiang Chen.

“How could I bear to let you die?”

Jiang Chen smiled faintly and sent the two of them straight into the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda. At the same time, Qian Renji, Bing Yun and even the people of the Soul-Leaving Sect were drawn into the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda by Jiang Chen.

“No! Don’t, Little Chen!”

Yan Qingcheng’s tears fell like rain, her eyes wide with anguish.

“Jiang Chen, you bastard!”

Wu Ningzhu’s body shook, and she almost collapsed to the ground. Inside the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, everyone was watching this scene. They had never expected Jiang Chen to be so resolute.

“Dead monkey, don’t let me down. Take them away!”

As fast as lightning, Jiang Chen pushed the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda toward Dragon Shisan. At that moment, Dragon Shisan’s eyes also filled with tears, and the blood-red light kept growing larger in his pupils.

Dragon Shisan and Jiang Chen exchanged a look. Jiang Chen knew he would do it, and Dragon Shisan understood that he had no choice. If it were only himself, he would stay without the slightest hesitation. But Wu Ningzhu and Yan Qingcheng were inside the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda. If he could not carry out Jiang Chen’s wish and leave, how could he call himself Jiang Chen’s brother? But if he left like this, he would bear a supreme burden, a misery worse than death. He was not afraid of dying. What he feared was losing Jiang Chen, his brother.

“Fine!”

Dragon Shisan nodded silently, yet that single word felt as heavy as a thousand jun. This was the only chance, the moment when they had to do this.

Xue Liang glanced at Jiang Chen, his eyes blank with shock. Had he really decided this?

“Xue Liang, protect them and get them out for me. I can’t let them die here with me.”

Xue Liang could see the helplessness in Jiang Chen’s eyes, but he had no choice. He wanted to stay and fight side by side with Jiang Chen, but how could Dragon Shisan alone hold off the wave after wave of attacks from the Profound Connection Divine Palace?

“You’re the only person I, Xue Liang, have ever admired in this life.”

Xue Liang looked at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen could have left freely and no one could have stopped him. With the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda he could at least stay undefeated, and with the Great Void Technique he could shake off the Half-step Divine Emperors. But if he simply left, everyone else would die.

Xue Liang and Dragon Shisan suddenly turned back to take one last look at Jiang Chen, then resolutely stepped into the air and left. The Seven Heavenly Dragon Knights guarded their backs. But the Second Palace Lord and Dou Qing still pressed hard, giving them no chance to escape. Killing Jiang Chen alone was not enough to relieve the hatred in his heart.

“You want to escape? That depends on whether I let you.”

The Second Palace Lord’s gaze was like a sword. He waved his hand, and Lin Youkang and the Great Elder all went after them. Dragon Shisan and Xue Liang were attacked from front and back.

“Soul Seizing Divine Art, Dead Spirit Kill Soul!”

Jiang Chen moved his mind, and his Emperor Realm soul erupted in an instant. The soul shock it unleashed made even the four Half-step Divine Emperors pale and retreat quickly. Jiang Chen’s soul ripples swept out like a storm. Lin Youkang, the Great Elder and the other Late Hierarch elders, seven in all, were seriously injured, their soul fires on their last breath. And the hundred-odd experts at the Mid Hierarch Realm and below were all wiped out directly by Jiang Chen’s Dead Spirit Kill Soul, their souls extinguished. A hundred Hierarchs perished in a single instant.

But using his Emperor Realm soul this time cost Jiang Chen far too much, because what he had slain were a hundred Hierarchs. That scene was simply appalling. A terrifying soul storm shocked the four Half-step Divine Emperors once again.

“What terrifying soul power. If I hadn’t been prepared, even I might have been badly hurt.”

Dou Qing drew in a cold breath, unable to believe the scene in front of him.

Of course, no one’s face was darker than the Second Palace Lord’s. A hundred Hierarch experts had been slain. That meant not a single expert of the Inner Palace of the Profound Connection Divine Palace had survived, and apart from a few Late Hierarch elders who escaped death, all of the mentors and elders had been killed by Jiang Chen.

Everyone had thought Jiang Chen was already utterly exhausted. Who could have imagined that the might he unleashed in an instant would kill over a hundred Hierarch experts at once?

It was absolutely appalling and shocking!

The Divine King experts were so shaken at this moment that they could not speak. If Jiang Chen wanted to kill them, it would be as easy as taking something from his pocket. Was this what a supreme expert standing above the void and the Nine Heavens looked like? And a hundred years ago, he had only been a student of the Profound Connection Divine Palace. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. With a posture above all the heavens, Jiang Chen made everyone’s heart and soul tremble.

“Jiang Chen.”

Wu Ningzhu murmured, because in her eyes, Jiang Chen had already been completely suppressed by the four Half-step Divine Emperors and kept suffering heavy wounds. With supreme divine might he had slain a hundred Hierarchs, but he no longer had the strength to resist the four Half-step Divine Emperors. His life was in grave danger, hanging by a thread.