Dragon-Marked War God

Sun Yuan shuddered, clenched his teeth, and kept his face expressionless.

“Great Yu Soul Forming Light!”

Jiang Chen clenched his hand, and the Great Yu Soul Forming Light was in his grasp. He threw Sun Yuan straight into it.

At once, incomparable screams rang out from inside the Great Yu Soul Forming Light, right beside his ears. Even Sun Zhan could hear them very clearly. Those inhuman screams were chilling. Listening to them, Sun Zhan trembled all over. It was a tearing and convulsing from the very depths of the soul, an incomparably terrifying aura rushing at him. Sun Zhan’s face turned ashen and his eyes went blank. Although he had not been thrown in, he could feel just how dreadful Sun Yuan’s pain was.

“Ah… kill me, I beg you, kill me!”

Sun Yuan’s voice was full of despair and deathly stillness. But suffering the pain of being devoured by ten thousand souls inside the Great Yu Soul Forming Light, he could not die even if he wanted to. As long as Jiang Chen did not let him die, he would never die.

“Unable to live, unable to die. That feeling isn’t very pleasant, is it?”

Jiang Chen said with a smile. The pain deep in his own heart was nothing Sun Yuan could ever understand. For Qingcheng, he would not hesitate even to become an evil ghost, and he would absolutely not let them off easily.

“Now, will you talk or not?”

Jiang Chen looked at Sun Zhan. By now, Sun Zhan’s mind had completely collapsed, because he did not want to be thrown into that terrifying divine lamp like Brother Yuan. Being unable to live or die was the most painful thing of all, because life and death were no longer in your own control. At that point, despair could no longer describe the struggle inside him.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll tell you everything! Ask away. Whatever I know, I’ll tell you every last detail. I’ll hold nothing back.”

To stay alive, to avoid ending up like Brother Yuan, Sun Zhan could only choose to give in.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk too. Please let me out, or kill me.”

Sun Yuan’s voice became extremely weak, but he could not die. Being devoured by ten thousand souls ate away at his soul, inflicting incomparable damage on it.

“Now you want to talk? Too late. Stay in the Great Yu Soul Forming Light and endure a hundred years of roasting. Whenever I happen to think of you again, maybe I’ll be merciful and let you out. Haha.”

Jiang Chen’s laughter left Sun Yuan in the Great Yu Soul Forming Light utterly in despair. Sometimes death was not frightening. What was frightening was not being able to die even when you wanted to, while having to bear incomparable pain.

“Jiang Chen, my Futu Pagoda will never let you go, never…”

Sun Yuan’s voice faded away inside the Great Yu Soul Forming Light. Sun Zhan could not help shivering, and he looked at Jiang Chen with a deathly pale face.

“Tell me the truth, and I won’t throw you into the Great Yu Soul Forming Light. If you’re not honest, that’s another matter. He won’t die. As long as I don’t want him to die, he’ll go on enjoying his journey inside the Great Yu Soul Forming Light. Let’s set a small goal first. Lock him up for a hundred years and see if his mouth gets any more honest.”

Jiang Chen’s threat worked perfectly. Even Sun Yuan had completely broken, it was just that Jiang Chen no longer wanted to hear him talk.

“Who exactly is Yun Geyao, and how strong is she? Tell me.”

Jiang Chen took a deep breath and stared at Sun Zhan without blinking.

“Yun Geyao is the second disciple under Buddha Long Xiang. She’s extremely strong and has quite a high standing in the Futu Pagoda. Sun Yuan and I are disciples of a Buddha too, but we’re not core disciples. Each Buddha has only two true core disciples. The first disciple is usually a closed-door disciple, and the second disciple is usually the strongest representative each Buddha leaves behind in the Futu Pagoda.”

Sun Zhan said fearfully, afraid that Jiang Chen would throw him into the Great Yu Soul Forming Light at this very moment.

“How many Buddhas does the Futu Pagoda have in all? And how strong is each of them?”

Jiang Chen went on asking, frowning deeply.

“The Futu Pagoda has Eight Buddhas in all. Each Buddha is a symbol of the Futu Pagoda, but the Buddhas never show themselves in the world. At least as far as I’ve heard, the last time a Buddha appeared in the world was more than thirty million years ago. The first disciples of the Buddhas rarely show their faces in the Futu Pagoda either. But the Futu Pagoda has eight great elders, each the spokesman of one Buddha, and their strength can’t be underestimated either. These eight are the true masters of the Futu Pagoda.”

“Eight Buddhas! It seems this Futu Pagoda really is powerful.”

Jiang Chen murmured, a look of shock at the corner of his mouth. The Futu Pagoda was actually this strong. These two were only fringe disciples of a Buddha. From the look of it, the Futu Pagoda’s hidden strength went beyond even this. Even if the Eight Buddhas never came out into the world, the whole Futu Pagoda could hold an absolute position of supremacy in the Central Region Divine Land, standing as an equal to the Wudan Hall. If all Eight Buddhas revealed their true bodies, wouldn’t they become the one and only absolute power in the whole Central Region Divine Land?

“And where is Yun Geyao now? How strong is she?”

Jiang Chen went on asking.

“Yun Geyao’s strength should be around the Mid Divine Emperor Realm. But she isn’t in our branch of the Futu Pagoda. The Futu Pagoda is divided into eight branches, and we belong under the Venerable First Life Buddha.”

Sun Zhan said in a low voice, not even daring to speak loudly.

Jiang Chen was even more shocked inside. He no longer dared guess how terrifying the strength of this Futu Pagoda was. Could it be that there were even Great Emperor Realm experts in the Futu Pagoda? After all, as far back as tens of millions of years ago, there had already been rumors in the Central Region Divine Land that Great Emperor Realm experts had long since died out. Yet even Yun Geyao’s strength was at the Mid Divine Emperor Realm, and she was only the second disciple of a Venerable Buddha. Wouldn’t the first disciple be even stronger? And could the Eight Venerable Buddhas themselves be any weaker than Great Emperor Realm experts?

Jiang Chen did not dare guess wildly, but at this moment he had become extremely grave.

“Where is the gate of the Venerable Buddha Long Xiang? I don’t want to hear nonsense. Where can I find Yun Geyao?”

“South of the Central Region Divine Land, atop Qionghua Mountain, above Lingyun Cave! That is where Yun Geyao cultivates.”

Sun Zhan said.

A smile appeared at the corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth. He could finally go find Yan Qingcheng!

“You may not be able to go. Atop Qionghua Mountain, above Lingyun Cave, is not a place you can go just because you want to.”

A deep voice echoed through the void. Sun Zhan’s face suddenly lit up with joy. He was finally going to be saved. The two of them never had the strength to seize the Heavenly Lightning Spirit in the first place. They were only the advance party. The real expert had finally appeared.

“Senior Brother, save me!”