Dragon-Marked War God

The Tidal Sea Spirit was utterly terrified. Even if the guy in front of it was not of the Dragon Clan, he must be a close relative of the Dragon Clan. Not only did he have such terrifying dragon might, he also had a human-dragon body. That was quite terrifying.

“Now you know to beg for mercy? Where did all that ferocity go just now?”

Jiang Chen grabbed the Tidal Sea Spirit’s tail, swung it hard, and smashed it into the giant rocks of the underwater world once again. Blood stained its body red, but strangely, the blood did not spread through the whole sea. It only lingered within ten meters around its body. Even Jiang Chen was very surprised by this. He did not know whether it was because this guy was so different from humans, or because these waters were quite strange.

“Spare me, Lord Dragon. I know I was wrong. I beg you, a great man is magnanimous. Spare my worthless life…”

The Tidal Sea Spirit’s miserable voice echoed through the undersea world. Jiang Chen frowned, but he did not deliver a killing blow. After all, he still needed to ask this Tidal Sea Spirit about some things. He knew nothing about the underwater world. To avoid detours, he might be able to get some secrets unknown to others from the Tidal Sea Spirit’s mouth.

“Now you know to surrender? Heh heh. What were you thinking just now? I love eating fish more than anything. Someone as big as you should be enough for me to eat for ten years or eight. They say the eyes are the tastiest part when you dig them out. What do you think?”

Jiang Chen said with a smile. The Tidal Sea Spirit’s eyes were full of terror. It had already seen Jiang Chen’s strength. How could it dare to say a single disrespectful word now?

“Lord Dragon, a great man is magnanimous. I beg you to let me go. I’ve cultivated for tens of millions of years. It really hasn’t been easy.”

“What you mean is that if you ate me, my cultivation would be easy?”

Jiang Chen said with a cold laugh.

“No, no, no, that’s not what I meant. Forgive me, Lord Dragon.”

Facing the Tidal Sea Spirit’s attitude, Jiang Chen found it quite funny inside. Jiang Chen still had a use for it at this point. Killing it would not mean much.

“Then let me ask you a few questions. If you answer well, maybe I’ll be in a good mood and let you go.”

“Please ask, Lord Dragon. I will definitely tell you everything I know without holding anything back.”

The Tidal Sea Spirit said hurriedly.

“What is this place? And what is that ice palace?”

Jiang Chen said in a deep voice. The Tidal Sea Spirit trembled all over in fear and did not dare to be slow.

“This is the Shichahai Sea, one of the greatest oceans between heaven and earth. As for that ice palace, it was built by a Great Emperor expert. It’s called the Shihai Ice Palace!”

“The Shichahai Sea? Could it be that ahead of us is the endless Shichahai Sea? Then if we leave this sea, where is the world outside?”

Tantai Jingzang asked.

“I don’t know. I’ve never been out. I’ve never even been to the surface, because I can’t get out. All the creatures here can only live under the sea. We can’t leap out of the water. I’d really like to go out and see the outside world too, but it just isn’t possible.”

The Tidal Sea Spirit said, quite helplessly as well.

Jiang Chen and Tantai Jingzang looked at each other. If this really was the Shichahai Sea, why could no one break out of it? Not even these sea creatures could.

“Then what’s the story with this ice palace? Did the Five Directions Great Emperor build it?”

Jiang Chen went on asking.

“It doesn’t seem so. This ice palace has always been here. It wasn’t built by any Five Directions Great Emperor at all. As for what’s inside the ice palace, I don’t know either. Under the sea, all the Divine Emperor Realm experts have gone into it, but for some reason, they’ve never come back out. And an ancestral instruction was left in the undersea world: no one below the Divine Emperor Realm may enter this ice palace. This ice palace seems to be a place guarded by us sea folk. I don’t know what kind of place this ice palace is either. I’m very curious too, but right now I can’t go into it.”

The Tidal Sea Spirit sighed. It was very curious about this ice palace too, but without reaching the Divine Emperor Realm, they were not allowed to enter it.

“This ice palace is that strange? And all the Divine Emperor Realm experts under the sea went into it, but none of them ever came out. Don’t you think it might be some kind of ominous place?”

Jiang Chen asked doubtfully.

“No. Nearly all the experts of the undersea world for hundreds of thousands of miles around are here, because there’s extremely rich divine origin energy in this ice palace that we can use to cultivate. Cultivating around this ice palace, you get twice the result with half the effort.”

The Tidal Sea Spirit said.

Jiang Chen’s heart jolted. He had noticed this too, but there was no explanation for it. This ice palace held extremely rich divine origin energy, enough for hundreds of millions of sea creatures to cultivate with, endlessly, for tens of millions of years. This ice palace was not even worse than a dragon vein. It made one very curious. Such rich divine origin energy was truly impossible to refuse. These sea creatures had gathered around this undersea ice palace in order to cultivate.

“This ice palace is a full hundred miles across. It’s very magnificent. I really wonder who built it. Was it really not the Five Directions Great Emperor?”

Tantai Jingzang grew more and more curious as well. An ice palace this magnificent was truly rare. An ice palace a thousand miles around, a project this vast, even if a Great Emperor expert had built it personally, probably could not have been finished in a day or a night.

But what Jiang Chen cared about most was what the Tidal Sea Spirit had said. All the Divine Emperor Realm experts had gone into this ice palace, but not a single one had come out. Was this a holy land for cultivation? Then why had no expert ever walked out? That was the strangest part. And the descendants of the undersea world had been warned that they had to reach the Divine Emperor Realm before they could enter the ice palace. What was the meaning of all this?

Jiang Chen always felt that this ice palace was definitely not a good place. The existence of this ice palace was very thought-provoking. It was inside the Five Directions Great Emperor’s traveling palace, and also in the Shichahai Sea, yet no one could break out of the Shichahai Sea. Jiang Chen felt that everything here seemed very strange and hard to explain.

“Even Divine Emperor Realm experts have a hard time getting out after going in. I want to see what’s in there too.”

Jiang Chen grew more and more curious. No one could stop his steps of exploration. Even knowing there were tigers on the mountain, he would still go and find out. Besides, those guys had now disappeared, so he could not linger here too long. Jiang Chen had to find out as soon as possible what kind of place this ice palace was.

“Before this, did you see anyone go into the ice palace?”

Jiang Chen asked.

“Yes, four people in all. But it won’t be that easy for them to get into the ice palace. I once tried to get into the ice palace myself, but I couldn’t find the entrance at all. It’s hard, hard, hard.”

The Tidal Sea Spirit shook its head and said.

“Why don’t you go down with us? How about it? Right now I don’t even know whether you’re lying to us. A Half-step Divine Emperor, you can’t still be unable to take human form, can you?”

Jiang Chen said coldly.