Dragon-Marked War God

Deep in the Great Snow Mountain, in front of the Spirit Vulture Cave, stood two guardian envoys who had not moved for tens of millions of years. Jiang Chen could tell that they were not statues. They had died hundreds of millions of years ago, yet their will had never fallen, and they still stubbornly guarded this place.

The heart dead, the spirit extinguished, yet the will still remained!

Calling them puppets was not quite accurate either. They were more independent than puppets and had thoughts of their own, and that was to guard the Spirit Vulture Cave and keep it from being violated by outsiders.

Jiang Chen did not go straight into the Spirit Vulture Cave. Instead, it was the Scarlet-Ass Macaque who could not wait to get inside, because he knew that in the Spirit Vulture Cave of the Great Snow Mountain there were surely incomparable treasures. This was the place where the Buddha had attained enlightenment. How could it be like those broken-down ancient halls? As long as he could find one or two divine weapons or treasures, holy objects or sacred images the Buddha had left behind after attaining enlightenment, it would surely let him soar to the sky in one leap.

If the Scarlet-Ass Macaque had been at his peak, he might not have cared about these things at all, because the first thing he would have done after breaking out of his seal would have been to wreak havoc on Mount Yanling. But now the Buddhist faith had already been destroyed, and he needed divine weapons, treasures and miraculous pills to restore his body. So the Spirit Vulture Cave of the Great Snow Mountain naturally became his most important target.

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque took a step forward. The two envoys guarding the Spirit Vulture Cave made their move in an instant and came straight at the Scarlet-Ass Macaque. Spears nineteen feet long pierced the sky. Though they seemed slow, they were full of incomparable force. Within that ancient weariness lay enormous pressure. The Scarlet-Ass Macaque’s eyes turned cold. He was forced back a step by the two envoys, and a trace of gloomy coldness hung at the corner of his mouth.

The two guardian envoys attacked again, trying to drive the Scarlet-Ass Macaque back and kill him. But the Scarlet-Ass Macaque was already prepared. Although the will of the two guardian envoys still remained, they no longer had the divine abilities of their past, nor their true might. Back then, to be able to guard the Spirit Vulture Cave of the Great Snow Mountain, the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment, their strength would have been no lower than that of a Golden Body Arhat.

But at this moment, they were driven back again and again by the Scarlet-Ass Macaque.

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque had long since shrunk to about twelve feet tall, but he was still full of beastly savagery. His giant palms came slapping down one after another, leaving the two guardian envoys no room to attack. Their strength was at most around the Half-step Divine Emperor level. After being eroded by hundreds of millions of years, it was already remarkable that they still had the might of Half-step Divine Emperor experts.

Without spirit and without soul, only a wisp of the will to guard had kept them here until now.

“Humph, a mantis trying to stop a chariot! You’ve been dead for ten thousand ages. Why would I be afraid of you?”

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque swept both palms through the air and slapped the two guardian envoys straight into dust. Two wisps of formless power drifted away between heaven and earth and vanished completely.

Jiang Chen had already taken the chance to enter the Spirit Vulture Cave of the Great Snow Mountain. The Scarlet-Ass Macaque’s pupils shrank, and he hurried after him, afraid that some good treasure would be taken by Jiang Chen first.

The cave was extremely spacious. There were three prayer mats, three bookshelves and two green lamps, and nothing else. It was simple, yet it carried a plain and pure Buddhist aura. As soon as he entered the Spirit Vulture Cave, Jiang Chen felt an extremely comfortable sensation. It was an incredibly serene power, as if his whole body had been placed in a warm ocean and completely wrapped up in it.

As soon as Jiang Chen went in, he saw a relic on the central prayer mat. That relic was gentler than any relic Jiang Chen had seen before. It was as if the relic held endless Buddhist teachings and Buddhist light, as if it were the only relic in this whole world. That calm serenity was a feeling nothing else could give.

Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up. This relic was truly something good. Without hesitation, Jiang Chen reached out and grabbed the relic in his hand.

Jiang Chen swept his eyes around, but found that there were no other treasures. Only those three golden prayer mats struck him as somewhat strange, though he could not say why. What use could those three prayer mats have? Jiang Chen glanced at them and paid them no further attention.

The relic was held in Jiang Chen’s hand. That feeling of boundless Buddhist teachings and aura made Jiang Chen feel as if bathed in a spring breeze, and his mind became even clearer, as though he were a transparent person in this world. But Jiang Chen felt the relic begin to tremble nonstop. The Dao Essence of Heavenly Domination in his heart seemed to run directly counter to this relic. The Dao Essence of Heavenly Domination and the relic were entangled with each other, extremely complicated, and rejecting each other completely.

“This relic really is hard to believe.”

Jiang Chen could feel that this relic seemed to reject him strongly.

Jiang Chen had no way of knowing about this relic. Could it be a relic left behind by the Buddha? In the Buddhist faith, any powerful great saint of the Buddhist Realm would leave behind a relic after death. But this relic was more than ten million times stronger than the relics Jiang Chen had seen before. That was why he boldly guessed that this relic had been left behind by the Buddha, which meant that the Buddha had already passed into nirvana.

Although in the legends of the Buddhist Realm, the Buddha had long since become history, if this really was a relic left behind by the Buddha, it would truly make people sigh.

“I’ll take it first.”

Jiang Chen held the relic in his hand and smiled faintly. At this moment, the Scarlet-Ass Macaque also happened to rush in, and his eyes fell right on the relic in Jiang Chen’s hand. He immediately let out a loud shout.

“Kid, hand it over!”

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque was extremely fast. He arrived in an instant, tearing through the void and crushing down. His giant palm overturned the sky, terrifying to behold.

Jiang Chen struck out with a palm and met the Scarlet-Ass Macaque’s palm head-on. He was knocked back more than ten steps, while the Scarlet-Ass Macaque did not move an inch. Jiang Chen still could not stand up to this guy’s formidable strength. At least for now, killing the Scarlet-Ass Macaque would be as hard as climbing to heaven.

“This is a dead end. If you don’t hand over the relic, I will definitely crush your bones and scatter your ashes.”

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque clenched both fists and stared straight at Jiang Chen.

“You say that as if you would let me go if I handed it over.”

Jiang Chen said with a smile.

“At least I can leave you a whole corpse.”

“Hahaha, what a great favor. Then today I want to see whether you can tear me into ten thousand pieces.”

Jiang Chen and the Scarlet-Ass Macaque stared at each other. The fighting spirit in both their eyes rose, and their fury erupted.

“You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit. Then die!”

The Scarlet-Ass Macaque roared furiously. At some point, a huge battle axe had appeared in his hand. The battle axe was extremely crude, even covered with rough, uneven patterns, and its edge was dull. Yet it gave people the feeling of holding the power of life and death. This battle axe was absolutely not to be underestimated.

But at this moment, the Monk Tyrant and Qing Xuan appeared at the entrance of the Spirit Vulture Cave. The moment the Monk Tyrant saw Jiang Chen, his eyes were full of shock and full of emotion, and even more full of excitement and joy!

In that moment, there was only Jiang Chen in the Monk Tyrant’s eyes!