Dragon-Marked War God

As Jiang Chen abruptly turned around, the five ice sculpture guards came sweeping at him at that moment too. These guys were extremely annoying, and undying as well. Even Jiang Chen did not know how he could wipe them out for good. Jiang Chen frowned deeply and retreated again and again. He had no time to fight with these puppet ice sculptures. The seven Heavenly Dragon Knights came out and blocked the path of the five ice sculpture guards. For the moment the two sides were deadlocked, and Jiang Chen no longer had any mind to deal with the ice sculpture guards.

“Clap! Clap! Clap!”

“Brilliant, simply brilliant! Brother Jiang, you’re truly domineering beyond compare. I admire you greatly.”

A voice of praise rang out. Jiang Chen’s brows knitted, only to find that this guy Wude was poking his head out of the pile of treasure right at this moment, speaking with a look of delight.

“You turtle hiding in your shell, I thought you were dead.”

Jiang Chen said with a cold face. At the critical moment, this guy had vanished without a trace, and now he actually came running out. Naturally, this made Jiang Chen extremely annoyed.

“Hehehe, this poor Daoist is a lucky man blessed by heaven. This place may be sinister, but it can’t trap me.”

Wude said with a chuckle. Jiang Chen should have guessed that this guy had burrowed into the pile of treasure. Seeing him crawl out of it now was extremely comical.

“You’re quite confident.”

Jiang Chen said with a cold smile.

“Brother Jiang, don’t be impatient. I hid myself only so that I wouldn’t become a burden to you. Otherwise, you’d have to worry about my safety while you were fighting, and you’d definitely have been distracted.”

Wude said with a straight face.

“You sure think highly of yourself. You’re so useless and worthless, why would I save you?”

Jiang Chen said bluntly.

“Ahem, Brother Jiang, you can’t put it like that. You should know that I was the one who broke through the stone formation and helped you all get out of danger. Even a grain of sand in this world has its use, and my uses go far beyond that.”

“Who broke that formation? Don’t you have any idea yourself?”

Jiang Chen asked back.

Wude’s eyes went wide at once, and he looked at Jiang Chen in disbelief. On one hand, he felt guilty, and on the other hand, he was shocked by Jiang Chen’s strength. What he meant was that he was the one who had broken that stone formation?

“Brother Jiang is truly a divine being. This poor Daoist admires you very much! My admiration for you is like a surging river flowing on without end, like the Yellow River overflowing its banks, unstoppable. You are simply a dragon among men, a rare talent under heaven.”

Wude showered Jiang Chen with praise, with a face full of earnestness.

“Enough. If you have something to say, hurry up and say it. I thought you’d be a turtle hiding in your shell for the rest of your life.”

Jiang Chen glared at Wude. This guy took to his heels the moment he met danger, which was something even Jiang Chen could not match, and he could still make it sound so high-minded. To have cultivated such a thick face was also shocking.

“Brother Jiang Chen, under the treasure there are five grooves. Guess what they are?”

Wude said with a narrow-eyed smile.

“Could there be another hidden secret under this treasure?”

Jiang Chen said with a frown.

“If you’ve got something to say, just say it. Why keep us in suspense?”

Yuan Hua said with a curl of his lip. He disliked this stinky Daoist who had fled from battle very much. It was already lucky enough that Jiang Chen had not killed him.

“What’s the hurry? You can’t eat hot tofu if you’re impatient, hehe. I think you must have guessed it already, right, Brother Jiang?”

When Wude finished speaking, Jiang Chen frowned deeply. He already had a guess of his own, but whether it was true or not, there was no way to know.

“Those five divine weapons? They’re the keys that open the grooves underneath?”

Jiang Chen looked at Wude doubtfully.

“That’s right. Brother Jiang really is learned and gifted, brave and wise, rarely seen in the human world.”

Wude praised Jiang Chen once again, and with a look of adoration on his face too, which made even Jiang Chen feel a little awkward. This guy really was a living treasure.

“This Five Directions Great Emperor really calculated everything. Who would have thought there was another hidden secret under the treasure?”

Yuan Hua said in great surprise.

“Let’s move the treasure away first.”

Jiang Chen and the others began moving the treasure away bit by bit. Sure enough, just as Wude had said, under the treasure there was actually a door, and on the door were five grooves, one for each of the five divine weapons in Jiang Chen’s hands: saber, spear, staff, mace, and halberd.

Jiang Chen held the five divine weapons, and with a wave of his hand, the five divine weapons dropped into the grooves. The bluestone door, sealed for who knew how many years, slowly opened. Dust rose everywhere and dirt flew. What appeared was a pitch-black staircase. At the bottom of the staircase was a cave so deep and dark that its bottom could not be seen, giving off a cold, oppressive aura.

“It looks like this is the real divine palace, right?”

Yuan Hua murmured. Before the door were four enormous characters, written with strokes like iron and hooks like silver: Shihai Ice Palace!

“It looks like we’ve finally found the real treasure of this undersea divine palace, hehehe.”

Wude’s eyes shone. Those treasures were all incredibly precious, yet he did not seem to care about them in the least.

Tantai Jingzang silently gazed at the entrance of the Shihai Ice Palace, her expression extremely grave as well. At this moment, only the four of them were left. Entering the Shihai Ice Palace would be all the more unhurried.

“Let’s go down and have a look first. This Shihai Ice Palace really is well hidden.”

Jiang Chen said.

“Naturally. If not for my way of scouting underground, I’m afraid you wouldn’t have found the Shihai Ice Palace any time soon. You might even have overlooked it entirely.”

Wude said very proudly, glancing at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen, however, paid him no attention at all. This guy only knew how to put gold leaf on his own face.

The four of them entered the Shihai Ice Palace one after another. The path beneath their feet grew colder and colder. They descended the steps for a full hundred meters before they truly entered the Shihai Ice Palace.

Jiang Chen moved his palm. Green light flickered and flames rose, and the whole Shihai Ice Palace appeared before their eyes.

The surroundings spanned a hundred zhang. It was an ancient, classically styled great hall, no different from the others. However, in the middle of the hall was a bronze coffin, and in front of the coffin stood a stone tablet.

“Heavenly Tomb! What does that mean? The tomb of heaven?”

Yuan Hua murmured, extremely puzzled. Behind the stone tablet, that bronze coffin was what shocked them most.

Before the bronze coffin, five experts holding a saber, a spear, a staff, a mace, and a halberd were kneeling on one knee, as if they were the most loyal guards, protecting this bronze coffin.

“The Five Directions Great Emperor. Could this be the Five Directions Great Emperor’s tomb? The one inside the bronze coffin should be the Five Directions Great Emperor, right?”

Tantai Jingzang said calmly, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly as her gaze fell on the bronze coffin.