Dragon-Marked War God

The boundless Immortal Island of Penglai was falling apart. Mountains collapsed and the earth split, seas dried up and rocks crumbled, and ancient trees turned to ash. The cries of the suffering filled the land, as if it were a living hell.

“Kakakaka, everyone has to die, everyone has to be buried with my son!”

Kouxiang Daqu’s ferocious smile was unrestrained and chilling, his eyes dark. Whether he looked at Jiang Chen or at the Immortal Island of Penglai, his heart was full of vengeance. He had completely changed. He had become an avenger, a madman who would stop at nothing, dragging everyone on the Immortal Island of Penglai into this prison, where their bodies would die and their Dao would perish.

Now, countless people on the entire Immortal Island of Penglai had died or been injured. Only ten thousand or so were left, all of them experts above the Heavenly God Realm. But their bodies were gradually growing sluggish too. They wanted to fly up into the heavens and out of the territory of the Immortal Island of Penglai, but they had no chance at all of escaping. All they could do was wait for death to come on the Immortal Island of Penglai, inside this Cloud Mist Formation. That fear was far more painful than being killed with a single sword. Feeling oneself being devoured by death bit by bit was the most terrifying thing of all.

More than half of the divine Origin Strength in Jiang Chen’s body had already drained away. His attacks were completely useless against this formation. He wanted to use the No Beginning Formation to break it, but Jiang Chen found that this formation was a completely dead formation. It could be said that the changes in the formation were made purely for killing. There was no way to break it at all.

But Jiang Chen believed that he simply hadn’t found the right way to break it yet. This Cloud Mist Formation was nothing like those great formations that attacked wildly. It was like a formation that gathered countless divine Origin Qi and finally turned it into nothingness. The divine Origin Qi was gradually turning entirely into mist, and the more serious the misting became, the stronger the formation grew. As one side waned and the other waxed, the Cloud Mist Formation had clearly reached the point of being unbreakable.

Jiang Chen struck out again and again, with layer upon layer of sword shadows and invincible fist wind. But when they hit the formation, it was like a clay ox sinking into the sea. There wasn’t the slightest echo. No matter what Jiang Chen tried, it was the same. Two thirds of his divine Origin Qi had already turned to mist. The crisis was growing bigger and bigger, and death was closing in step by step.

“Damn it. This formation is so strange, and he even turned himself into the eye of the formation. He really is going all out to the death.”

Jiang Chen murmured. This time, however, his attacks had completely lost the initiative and had no effect at all. This great formation, which completely turned divine Origin Qi into mist, could be called invincible. It was like four ounces deflecting a thousand pounds. It didn’t fight you at all. It overcame hardness with softness, like boiling a frog in warm water, gradually wearing away all your edges until you perished in silence.

“Let’s see if you can block my Emperor Realm soul.”

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes. This was his last resort. No matter how strong an attack he threw at this formation, it couldn’t stir the slightest ripple. So Jiang Chen could only rely on his Emperor Realm soul as a last resort and try to deal Kouxiang Daqu a fatal blow.

“Soul Seizing Divine Art, Roaming Spirit Capture Soul!”

Jiang Chen’s soul stirred, and a terrifying soul storm swept up. As the soul storm crushed down, the entire great formation of the Immortal Island of Penglai seemed to shake.

The Soul Seizing Divine Art was very terrifying. Those whose strength was inferior to his would definitely be severely injured by it, or even killed. But Jiang Chen never expected that this guy’s soul power had already reached the Divine Emperor level. Although he had only just broken through, it still shocked Jiang Chen greatly. If he had only had a Late Hierarch Realm soul, he would surely have been killed by Jiang Chen already.

But no matter what, it still had an effect, even if the effect was minimal. Jiang Chen had underestimated the enemy a little earlier. For this guy’s soul power to be so strong, there had to be a reason. Could it be because of the Jade Marrow Soul Seed?

Jiang Chen’s heart stirred and his eyes lit up. He urged the Soul Seizing Divine Art again to press his advantage.

“Dead Spirit Kill Soul!”

The second form, Dead Spirit Kill Soul, filled Kouxiang Daqu with terror. The terrifying soul power swept over the entire Cloud Mist Formation. No one knew that under Dead Spirit Kill Soul, Kouxiang Daqu’s soul power had been almost instantly swallowed up. But at this moment, his soul power had become the controlling power of the soul of the entire Immortal Island of Penglai. It was like a sacrifice. His life and death were no longer in his own hands, but were controlled by the Cloud Mist Formation instead. Even though his soul had been severely injured by Jiang Chen, the Cloud Mist Formation kept devouring and changing. Nothing could stop the Immortal Island of Penglai from heading toward its destruction.

“I really didn’t expect your soul power to be so terrifying. It seems I really underestimated you. My soul has been severely injured by you, and I don’t have long to live. But if you want to change the Cloud Mist Formation, you’re dreaming. Kakaka, you’re all going to die, you all have to die. Be buried with my son and with me!”

Kouxiang Daqu’s sinister, eerie laughter echoed in Jiang Chen’s ears. In the heart of every person still alive on the Immortal Island of Penglai, it was like a judgment from hell. They didn’t have much time left. Although the soul power he was so proud of hadn’t even been unleashed, it had already been completely suppressed by Jiang Chen. If it weren’t for the Jade Marrow Soul Seed, he would have been completely destroyed the moment Jiang Chen unleashed the first form of the Soul Seizing Divine Art.

“Damn it, this bastard is playing with fire and burning himself, and dragging everyone else down with him.”

Jiang Chen was extremely angry. Kouxiang Daqu’s soul fire was growing weaker and weaker, almost going out, yet the Cloud Mist Formation hadn’t changed in the slightest.

“This Cloud Mist Formation is really troublesome. It’s just that I haven’t found the way to break it yet. Once I find the way to break it, it won’t be so difficult.”

Jiang Chen kept comforting himself. With a heart as clear as ice, he would not be shaken even if the sky fell. Only by calming his mind could he have a chance to find a way out. In any formation, where there was yin, there must be yang; where there was fullness, there must be lack. Only when yin and yang embraced and guarded each other, and fullness and lack followed each other, could a formation undergo a qualitative transformation between heaven and earth and become a great Dao formation. Traced back to its source, every formation came into being because of the Dao of heaven and earth.

Jiang Chen’s heart shook. Formations were drawn with the simplest Dao. In other words, the Dao of formations and the Great Dao led to the same destination by different roads.

“Although I don’t have any Dao Essence in my body right now, I do have an understanding of the Dao. If I use the power of the Great Dao to analyze this Cloud Mist Formation, could I get an unexpected result?”

The thought came to Jiang Chen, and he immediately prepared to use his understanding of the Great Dao to analyze the formation. At that moment, Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up at once, because what he saw was completely different from before. In his eyes, the Cloud Mist Formation no longer seemed so mysterious or so unreachable. His understanding of the Great Dao wasn’t that strong, but when he used it to analyze the formation, everything became simpler and simpler. The structure and layout of the Cloud Mist Formation, in his eyes, was no different at all from the simplest of formations.