Dragon-Marked War God

The power of thunder crushed the void. Jiang Chen’s face remained extremely grim throughout. In Tantai Jingzang’s hands, Jiang Chen was already at the end of his strength and could hardly do anything. Even with his Myriad Qi Body, he could not possibly recover to his peak in such a short time. That would be pure fantasy.

But the look in Jiang Chen’s eyes was incredibly firm. Again and again he was forced back by Tantai Jingzang, and each time he narrowly escaped death. Their gazes met again and again. Tantai Jingzang’s heart was as still as water, while Jiang Chen was forced step by step toward the abyss.

“Power of Three Lives, World-Destroying Palm!”

Tantai Jingzang struck out with a palm, a sky-propping blow. In the void, every path of Jiang Chen’s was sealed off, and he could not move at all. Under the enormous pressure, the heavy palm landed on Jiang Chen. Just how powerful the World-Destroying Palm was, Jiang Chen did not know, but under this palm even he was completely crushed. He dropped to one knee, his face ashen, with almost no strength left to fight.

Jiang Chen slowly raised his head and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. The battle intent in his eyes had not lessened in the slightest.

At this moment, Jiang Chen slowly fused the thunder in his hands. The Dawn Sky Golden Lightning, the Nine Stars Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, and the Zheyu Drought Heavenly Lightning, three kinds of Heavenly Lightning, merged in Jiang Chen’s hand in an instant. At that moment, Tantai Jingzang sighed. Even at this point, was Jiang Chen still unwilling to give up?

“You can’t beat me.”

Tantai Jingzang sighed. But the moment Jiang Chen’s three kinds of Heavenly Lightning fused together, she even felt a trace of fear. The three Heavenly Lightnings fused completely, and a purple lotus of thunder slowly bloomed in Jiang Chen’s hand. At that moment, Tantai Jingzang finally felt a threat.

“This is… three kinds of Heavenly Lightning? But even so, you may not be able to defeat me.”

Tantai Jingzang shouted in a low voice. The movements of her hands changed again, and her hand seals moved once more. Black palm prints rose one after another. Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes but said nothing. The purple thunder lotus in his hand bloomed in an instant, and amid Tantai Jingzang’s shock, he struck out with it forcefully.

“Fused Thunder, activate!”

The purple thunder lotus collided with Tantai Jingzang’s death palm print. The next moment, the whole Shihai Ice Palace began to shake. A terrifying aura completely filled the entire undersea divine tomb. That terrifying, peerless domineering power almost instantly engulfed the two of them. The thunder lotus bloomed and spread out, thunder surged, and the ice palace trembled.

The black palm print, carrying invisible might, finally slowly collided with Jiang Chen’s thunder lotus. At this moment, both of their powers rose to the supreme peak. Tantai Jingzang also used all her strength, because she knew that if she did not go all out, she would probably be unable to truly contend with Jiang Chen. This guy, fusing the power of three Heavenly Lightnings, gave off an incomparable sense of terror.

Smoke filled the void. It took a full several dozen breaths for Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus to slowly fade into nothingness, and Tantai Jingzang’s face changed drastically, her pretty face covered in shock. This scene was something she had never anticipated. She had thought Jiang Chen had only been able to defeat Leng Ruyan by relying on that astonishing Ashura Sword Formation. But now it seemed that even without the Ashura Sword Formation, Jiang Chen’s power was beyond doubt.

Tantai Jingzang knew she had underestimated Jiang Chen. That was something she had never expected. But then again, she had already rated Jiang Chen highly enough, and she had only made her move when his strength was close to exhaustion, yet in the end she and Jiang Chen had both ended up wounded. This greatly troubled Tantai Jingzang. But things had come to this. Jiang Chen had no strength left to fight, and she too had suffered quite serious injuries and could not make another move.

Both were wounded, and neither had gained the slightest advantage. That was something Tantai Jingzang could not stand.

“I still underestimated you.”

Tantai Jingzang said with great unwillingness, her face as cold and indifferent as ever.

“Perhaps.”

Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile.

“Why don’t you keep asking why I want to kill you?”

Tantai Jingzang looked at Jiang Chen, frowning deeply.

“If you want to say it, you will. If you don’t, it’s your secret. Now, do you still want to keep fighting?”

Jiang Chen said.

Tantai Jingzang nodded heavily, her expression complicated. She had to kill Jiang Chen. This was her fate.

Jiang Chen closed his eyes slightly. In his right hand, a Heavenly Lightning Pearl slowly appeared. At that moment, Tantai Jingzang was completely dumbfounded and froze where she stood. The terrifying energy in it went without saying. The explosive power within the Heavenly Lightning Pearl was enough to wipe her out. But Tantai Jingzang vaguely felt that this Heavenly Lightning Pearl in Jiang Chen’s hand did not seem to be that simple.

“If he had fused this Heavenly Lightning Pearl in along with the rest when he was fusing the Heavenly Lightning just now… would I already be dead…?”

Tantai Jingzang thought to herself, and in an instant she fell silent. She knew that if Jiang Chen had fused this Heavenly Lightning Pearl, it would have been equivalent to fusing four Heavenly Lightnings. Before such terrifying might, even two of her might not have been able to withstand its edge.

In the end, Jiang Chen still did not kill her. He could have killed her, but he did not.

Tantai Jingzang’s heart was full of anger and full of resentment. Jiang Chen had let her go once again. Not only had he repaid hostility with kindness, but he clearly could have killed her. Why, why had Jiang Chen not done it! Killing her and ending it all might have been simpler than anything else.

Yet Jiang Chen had not made a move. Just how much was he still hiding?

Tantai Jingzang finally did not dare to face Jiang Chen head-on any longer. She did not even dare to look at him, because she felt so ashamed that she wished she could disappear into the ground.

If you treat me with such feeling, what can I give you in return?

Tantai Jingzang slowly turned around, and in an instant, tears poured down like rain. She, who was a death god who never wept, shed tears like a downpour at this moment.

Tantai Jingzang left without a word. Jiang Chen gazed at the Heavenly Lightning Pearl in his hand. In the end the two of them had been evenly matched, but if he had added this Heavenly Lightning Pearl, Tantai Jingzang would surely have died.

“Life always has its share of helplessness. Forget it! Forget it!”

Jiang Chen murmured. Killing a person was easy. Forgetting a person took a whole lifetime.

If it is love, how many women under heaven will ever hear of it? If it is not love, heaven and earth are boundless and the years leave no trace.

Gone was gone. In letting her go this time, Jiang Chen had also let go of Tantai Jingzang’s heart. He would not owe anyone anything.

“Ahh, what a nice nap. That felt so good. What happened? What’s wrong with me?”

Wude yawned, stretched lazily, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Jiang Chen.