Dragon-Marked War God

The Great Elder was dumbstruck. Lin Youkang was dumbstruck. Yu Chenglong, Gu Maolu, Donghuang Tai’a, everyone was dumbstruck. Jiang Chen had fought three Half-step Emperors in his fury, with a momentum that swallowed mountains and rivers, and the entire Profound Connection Divine Palace had been razed to the ground by him. Such might was unimaginable. Before Jiang Chen, they all seemed to have turned into ants. That sense of helplessness and defeat welled up in them, something ordinary people simply couldn’t understand, especially the Great Elder and the others.

The miserable state of the Profound Connection Divine Palace was already too much for him to bear to look at. For them, it was utterly despairing, like a bolt from the blue. But that was the reality. The Profound Connection Divine Palace had collapsed, and their faith seemed to have completely crumbled in an instant as well. The Second Palace Lord and the Third Palace Lord were dead. Their last hope was the Palace Lord, yet the Palace Lord was still nowhere to be found, roaming the world, completely unaware of the Profound Connection Divine Palace’s crisis.

The Great Elder, Lin Youkang and the others looked at one another with bitter smiles. They had even resolved to face death calmly, because once the Profound Connection Divine Palace fell, they couldn’t escape with their lives either. Given how ruthless Jiang Chen was, he would absolutely not allow them to live. The Great Elder had anticipated this long ago.

“Heaven wants to destroy my Profound Connection Divine Palace.”

The Great Elder sighed, his face deathly pale. He had lived for tens of millions of years, and in the end he still couldn’t escape this doom. This catastrophe was far too shocking for the Profound Connection Divine Palace.

“Our Profound Connection Divine Palace has really fallen completely…”

“Is this Jiang Chen’s might? It’s comparable to the blue sky itself. Even two Palace Lords and three Half-step Divine Emperors were so vulnerable in his hands. What are we, then?”

“Perhaps this is fate. The Profound Connection Divine Palace was destined to suffer this calamity, but nobody could have imagined it would die at the hands of one of its own. This really was raising a tiger only to bring disaster on ourselves.”

“A person like him will surely stand at the very peak of heaven and earth, far beyond what people like us can reach. If we’re lucky enough today to witness the birth of a true Great Emperor, that would be a stroke of fortune in itself.”

The disciples of the Profound Connection Divine Palace were filled with all kinds of emotions. They were all disciples of the Profound Connection Divine Palace as well, all disciples who had cultivated step by step from the Outer Palace, yet compared to Jiang Chen, the difference was like heaven and earth. Who wouldn’t be jealous of that? Who wouldn’t sigh over it?

Everyone had their own heart set on becoming strong. The law of the Divine World was that the strong were respected. Only the strong could stand firm on the land of the Divine World, where a hundred races stood side by side and experts were as fierce as tigers. Even Hierarch Realm experts didn’t dare to claim they were invincible under heaven, and Divine Emperor Realm experts didn’t dare to boast that they were peerless in the world. Probably only Great Emperor Realm experts had the means to cover the blue sky with one hand.

Dou Qing’s aura had withered to the extreme. He might even die at any moment. The two clan brothers behind him had been killed instantly by Jiang Chen, which was simply a bolt from the blue. Dou Qing himself could barely save his own life and had no chance at all. Facing Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus, even bringing out the Earth Wheel had been useless. Under Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus, the Earth Wheel had been reduced to dust and nothingness, without a single remnant left. He himself had used every trick he had, and only because the Earth Wheel had blocked ninety percent of the might had he managed to survive, barely clinging to life. But he had already lost the ability to fight Jiang Chen. It was even a case of others being the cleaver and he the fish on the chopping board. He had completely become Jiang Chen’s prisoner. With one move from Jiang Chen, his life would surely dissipate.

Dou Qing looked at Jiang Chen in utter terror. His life was already in the other man’s hands, in grave danger, hanging by a thread.

He had used every trick he had, yet in the end he had still failed. He had lost to a Hierarch Realm fellow, and lost to the Battle God Clan’s own secret art, the Dou Formation Technique. For Dou Qing, this was more painful than simply being killed. But since he wasn’t dead, the desire to live was something everyone had. Dou Qing was no matchless hero with a sense of justice reaching to the clouds. Faced with life and death, he too had no choice but to yield. He had been full of confidence and ended up being slapped in the face. Although it was humiliating, a miserable life was better than a good death.

“Now, what else do you have to say?”

Jiang Chen said coldly, already pronouncing Dou Qing’s death sentence. This guy had to be killed. Otherwise, the Battle God Clan would probably send even stronger experts after him in the future. Though a Half-step Emperor like Dou Qing was already considered a peerless expert. Even if the Battle God Clan sent people after him again, they might not be all that strong.

“Can you spare my life? I beg you. My Battle God Clan will surely repay you.”

Dou Qing said through gritted teeth. A Half-step Emperor of his generation, a peerless expert who had roamed the Northern Cold Divine Region without batting an eye, was now meek and submissive before a Hierarch Realm brat. Dou Qing was already enduring tremendous humiliation, but if he wanted to live, he had no other way.

“Your Battle God Clan regards me as a thorn in your eye and a splinter in your flesh. If I let you go this time, wouldn’t that be letting the tiger back into the mountains? Would your Battle God Clan really let me off? Do you even believe that yourself?”

Jiang Chen scoffed. This guy was talking complete nonsense. If he let himself be fooled by him, then he really would be an idiot. He had killed several experts of the Battle God Clan, two of them Half-step Divine Emperors. This was a deep, irreconcilable hatred. No matter how magnanimous the Battle God Clan was, it could never reconcile with him. How could Jiang Chen not understand this? This Dou Qing was just talking to himself.

Dou Qing’s breath caught. He knew he had underestimated Jiang Chen. This guy obviously wasn’t falling for it.

“Things have come to this. You’ve already killed two great experts of my Battle God Clan. Why don’t we turn swords into ploughshares? I’ll tell you a huge secret, and you let me go. Isn’t that a good deal?”

Dou Qing said in a deep voice. This was his last chance to live. Before Jiang Chen, he had lost the means to put up a fight, and now he could hardly move an inch.

“Go on.”

Jiang Chen said flatly, glancing at Dou Qing with interest. Dou Qing’s heart immediately leapt with joy. As long as Jiang Chen was interested, he had a chance to live.

“In the Western-pole Divine Land, a reincarnated Living Buddha has been born. And our Battle God Clan knows that the God Suppressing Monument has also appeared. Within a hundred years, the whole Western-pole Divine Land is bound to be thrown into turmoil. We were among the first to get this news. It is said that whoever obtains the reincarnated Living Buddha and gets the God Suppressing Monument will be able to command all the heroes, and the whole Western-pole Divine Land will be thrown into great upheaval. Right now the Western-pole Divine Land is completely fragmented, and the God Suppressing Monument is the supreme divine weapon that can unify the Western-pole Divine Land.”

Dou Qing said word by word.

“The God Suppressing Monument?”

Jiang Chen’s pupils contracted and his expression changed. Whoever held the God Suppressing Monument must be the monk, without a doubt. They had been apart for more than a hundred years. Could that guy have stirred up some kind of trouble in the Western-pole Divine Land again? But Jiang Chen believed that guy would never be the one to suffer a loss. Back in the Nine Region Immortal World, it had always been him tricking others. Still, Jiang Chen was a little worried now. After all, the Divine World was not like the Nine Region Immortal World where they used to be. Here, experts truly gathered like clouds and stood all over the world. Who knew how many experts stood at the very top of this world. Even though Jiang Chen’s present strength gave him the means to contend with Half-step Divine Emperors, before a true Divine Emperor Realm expert, he would still find it hard to put up a fight.

“You know about the God Suppressing Monument?”

Dou Qing was even more delighted. Since Jiang Chen knew about the God Suppressing Monument, he must understand even better the relationship between the God Suppressing Monument and the reincarnated Living Buddha, and how inseparable the two were.