Dragon-Marked War God

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. With a raise of his hand, a bronze throne suddenly appeared in it. In that instant, the Heavenly Lightning Spirit’s face changed drastically. He staggered back several steps, his face incomparably pale, his eyes changing again and again. For a moment even his breathing grew heavy. Jiang Chen wanted to ask, but found that the Heavenly Lightning Spirit had already frozen on the spot, a look of indescribable terror still in his eyes.

“You, you, you… Where on earth did you get this thing?”

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit even stammered a little as he spoke.

“What, is this thing very frightening?”

Jiang Chen’s smile grew brighter and brighter. It seemed he had asked the right person. This guy really did know what this thing was. Otherwise he would not have shown such a terrified expression.

“If you had used this thing to suppress me from the start, I reckon my soul would already have been scattered.”

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit’s words stunned even Jiang Chen. Was this bronze throne really that formidable? Was it even more abnormal than the Eastern Emperor Bell and the Myriad Qi Cauldron?

“Tell me about it.”

“I don’t recognize this thing.”

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit shook his head, a look of fear on his face, and kept his mouth shut.

Jiang Chen frowned. This guy looked like he wanted to go up against him.

“If you don’t talk, you should be able to imagine how it ends.”

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice:

“All I can say is that one of the five great Ancestor Gods of the primordial era, Ancestor God Youchao, was suppressed to death by this bronze throne. As for whom this bronze throne belonged to, I don’t know. I really don’t know. Even if I did know, it may have been erased from the depths of my memory. My memories are not complete. I have no need to lie to you about this. It’s precisely because there is such a memory in my mind, that the moment this bronze throne appeared it suppressed Ancestor God Youchao alive until he died, that I’m so terrified.”

“Is that really so?”

Jiang Chen was half convinced. It seemed this Heavenly Lightning Spirit was not lying. And if it could suppress Ancestor God Youchao to death outright, just how terrifying was this bronze throne? And what kind of origin did it have? Jiang Chen wanted to ask about the origin of the man in the ice, but he found that he did not even know his name, let alone what he looked like. It seemed his existence was just a figure, coming and going without a trace, impossible for him to grasp.

This bronze throne deepened Jiang Chen’s curiosity about the man in the ice and about this damned thing. It seemed far too many things, and far too big, had happened in the primordial era to be explained clearly in a moment. Even this guy who had lived through the primordial era could not explain it clearly. That his soul had been erased was an extremely strange thing. Could it be that someone did not want him to know what had happened?

Jiang Chen did not ask anything further, because he could already sense that the Heavenly Lightning Spirit seemed extremely wary. There were some things he wanted to hide and did not want to say, and Jiang Chen had no way of knowing whether they were true or false. Even if he wanted to make up lies to deceive him, Jiang Chen would have no way of knowing. Although the things he had learned were not of much help to Jiang Chen, at least they let him know about some figures and secrets of the ancient era. Leaving him a wisp of origin power did no harm.

“Now, are you finally ready to be swallowed by me? Remember, don’t resist. I said I would leave you a wisp of origin power, and I will absolutely not go back on it. Otherwise, I can make it so you are never reborn for all eternity.”

Jiang Chen said lightly. With several divine weapons suppressing the Heavenly Lightning Spirit, he no longer had the slightest room to fight back. Now he could only be like a lamb standing there dumbly.

“I hope you can keep your promise.”

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit said.

“I, Jiang Chen, always keep my word. You were born and nurtured by heaven and earth. Cutting off your road back would do me no good. A wisp of Heavenly Lightning origin power is no big deal.”

As he spoke, Jiang Chen began to swallow frantically. The origin power contained in the Heavenly Lightning Spirit was extremely vast. If not for several divine weapons suppressing him, swallowing the Heavenly Lightning Spirit in one go would have been almost impossible for him.

The Heavenly Lightning Spirit closed his eyes tightly. He knew things could no longer be reversed. The best outcome was for him to keep a wisp of origin power and cultivate again some day in the future, and only then could he rise up once more.

With several divine weapons suppressing it, swallowing the origin power of the Thousand Flames Annihilation Lightning was not too difficult for Jiang Chen. And since the Heavenly Lightning Spirit was compliant and offered no resistance at all, Jiang Chen swallowed the Thousand Flames Annihilation Lightning like a fish in water. It even seemed easier than when he had swallowed the Zheyu Drought Heavenly Lightning before.

Time drifted on, the years flew by, and three years passed. The Heavenly Lightning in Jiang Chen’s eyes surged more and more pure and terrifying. Dragon marks covered his whole body. Thousands upon thousands of dragon marks gradually converged into streams of terrifying divine origin qi that filled every part of Jiang Chen’s body, every narrow cell of flesh and blood in his eight extraordinary meridians.

As time passed, Jiang Chen swallowed the entire Thousand Flames Annihilation Lightning. The pain and hardship involved were naturally not something to tell outsiders, and he could only bear the dangers alone. But Jiang Chen still left a wisp of origin power. He had promised the Heavenly Lightning Spirit, so he would not go back on his word.

At this moment, the dragon marks in Jiang Chen’s body had reached a terrifying five million five hundred thousand, almost at their peak. As the dragon marks in his body soared, the ninety-second level of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda was gradually opening as well.

Jiang Chen’s strength also reached the Divine Emperor Realm at this moment. Jiang Chen could not help letting out an angry roar. Dragon roars rang out again and again, echoing to the nine heavens. Jiang Chen felt that his strength seemed to have become stronger than ever before. In this moment he had broken through to the Divine Emperor Realm. It was a carp leaping over the dragon gate in every sense. From this moment on, Jiang Chen no longer needed to worry about anything. With his current strength, Jiang Chen was confident he could defeat the Mid Divine Emperor Realm, and even against the Late Divine Emperor Realm, as long as the opponent was not too overwhelming, he might be able to fight.

“The Divine Emperor Realm, I’ve finally reached it! Hahaha.”

Jiang Chen said with a loud laugh. The gleam in his eyes turned into sharp swords that soared straight up into the sky.

With a turn of Jiang Chen’s hand, four Heavenly Lightnings gathered together. That terrifying energy fluctuation made one’s heart palpitate. Even Jiang Chen himself was incomparably curious. With this Thousand Flames Annihilation Lightning, if he fused all four Heavenly Lightnings in the future, what terrifying fighting power would erupt? Jiang Chen really did not dare imagine it.

“It looks like it’s time to see what exists on the ninety-second level of this Ancestral Dragon Pagoda.”

Jiang Chen murmured.

Jiang Chen reached out his hand, and the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda appeared out of thin air, golden light shooting in all directions. At this moment he even felt an extremely strong aura. It seemed the Ancestral Dragon Emperor was about to wake up as well.

When Jiang Chen opened the ninety-second level of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, he unexpectedly discovered another Azure Stone Jade Slip!