Dragon-Marked War God

Another Azure Stone Jade Slip!

Jiang Chen’s gaze turned grave, and even his breathing quickened. Back on the ninety-first level, Jiang Chen had obtained an Azure Stone Jade Slip holding the first seal of the Heavenly Derivation Seal. Could this second Azure Stone Jade Slip be the second seal?

Even using the first seal was quite difficult for Jiang Chen now, and it meant taking on enormous risk. If this really was the second seal, then its help to Jiang Chen would undoubtedly be enormous. It was just that he might not be able to use it yet, or rather, he did not yet have the ability to bring it out.

Jiang Chen gripped the Azure Stone Jade Slip. In that moment, his soul power merged into the jade slip. Jiang Chen’s whole body shook, and his expression grew more and more solemn, while the smile at the corner of his mouth grew deeper and deeper.

“Just as I thought. If nothing unexpected happens, this Heavenly Derivation Seal should be an extremely terrifying technique. The first seal, the Sui Tian Seal, can already destroy heaven and earth. This second seal, the Kuo Tian Seal, should be even more terrifying. If I open all the last nine levels of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, then barring accidents, I should be able to obtain nine great seals.”

Jiang Chen looked at the Azure Stone Jade Slip in his hand and committed the Kuo Tian Seal within it completely to memory. Then he destroyed the jade slip in his hand.

Right at this moment, the shaking inside the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda grew more and more violent. Dragon roars echoed one after another in Jiang Chen’s mind. Jiang Chen sighed, a hint of helplessness at the corner of his mouth, and murmured:

“Senior Dragon Emperor, are you finally about to wake up?”

Sure enough, before Jiang Chen had even finished speaking, a golden phantom slowly appeared in the sky from within the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, its dragon might awe-inspiring and peerless in the world. At this moment, the power of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda also became extremely terrifying. The Ancestral Dragon Emperor had finally awakened completely, and at this moment his strength had reached the Early Divine Emperor Realm. That radiant appearance was who knew how many times stronger than before. The current Ancestral Dragon Emperor gave Jiang Chen an enormous sense of pressure. Even he himself did not seem to find it easy standing before the Ancestral Dragon Emperor.

This was the peerless might of the Dragon Emperor. The terror of the king of ten thousand beasts could be glimpsed from this.

Thinking back to those days, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor’s strength had not even been much greater than Jiang Chen’s own back then. Jiang Chen had come all this way step by step. It could be said that he had been nourishing the Ancestral Dragon Emperor, which was why the Ancestral Dragon Emperor had gradually been able to recover to this level.

The years drifted by and time flew past. Jiang Chen could not help feeling a myriad of emotions in his heart.

“Senior Dragon Emperor, you’re finally awake.”

Jiang Chen said with a smile. The golden dragon before him finally transformed into a man in golden robes. His eyes shone with brilliant light, gleaming in all directions. Compared with his decrepit appearance before, his image had completely changed. He stood with his hands at his sides in high spirits, entirely like a peerlessly domineering War God soaring above the heavens, his bearing unrivaled.

“Little guy, I never thought your strength would rise even faster than I imagined. You’ve actually reached a realm on par with mine, the Divine Emperor Realm. It’s truly hard to believe. Hahaha. Thinking back to the Nine Region Immortal World, to the Saint Origin World, how weak and frail you were! Looking at you now, it really makes one sigh. It seems I really wasn’t wrong about you.”

The Ancestral Dragon Emperor said with a loud laugh, and the gratification in his eyes was plain to see. The two of them relied on each other and complemented each other. That they had been able to come this far, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor was full of respect and gratitude toward Jiang Chen, and of course, so was Jiang Chen. The Ancestral Dragon Emperor had made him unstoppable in his cultivation. Neither of the two could do without the other, and in the end they would stand at the summit of the Saint Origin World, at the summit of the Nine Region Immortal World, at the summit of the Divine World! Although it was still too early to say this, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor was full of confidence in himself and in Jiang Chen.

“People always have to grow up. Time is the best weapon.”

Jiang Chen said with a smile.

“Good, well said! Time is the best weapon! I, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor, have lain silent for hundreds of millions of years. Today, I am finally going to return to the Divine World.”

The Ancestral Dragon Emperor said with great emotion. The complicated look in his eyes made it harder and harder for Jiang Chen to understand him.

“What I once lost, I will take back with my own hands. My enemies of the past, I will tear them into ten thousand pieces with my own hands. I, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor, have finally returned.”

The burning passion in the Ancestral Dragon Emperor’s eyes was something Jiang Chen could not understand. It was emotion and fury, as if from being suppressed for hundreds of millions of years. It was the boundless joy of rebirth. From this moment on, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor no longer needed to lie silent in the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda in constant anxiety. From this moment on, his road of return had formally begun.

“Senior Dragon Emperor, you should be able to leave the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda now, right?”

Jiang Chen asked.

The Ancestral Dragon Emperor shook his head and said:

“It’s not time yet. Although my strength has reached the Divine Emperor Realm, there are still some people who can kill me. I can sense that although today’s Divine World has long since lost its former glory, there are still quite a few Great Emperor Realm experts in existence.”

“What? There are still quite a few Great Emperor Realm experts? Didn’t they say no Great Emperor Realm expert has appeared in the Divine World for tens of millions of years?”

Jiang Chen’s heart sank. He was extremely puzzled and shaken.

“That’s only what some experts say to the outside world. Today’s Great Emperor Realm experts are certainly far fewer than in the primordial era, perhaps not even one in ten remains. Because spiritual energy is scarce, things have long since lost their former glory. For many, without great perseverance and peerless talent, breaking through is almost impossible. But there will still be some astonishingly talented people who become Great Emperor Realm experts. Great Emperor Realm experts are extremely formidable existences, but for the true rulers, a Great Emperor Realm expert has only just stepped into a realm of cultivation that transcends worldly things.”

“Because only on reaching the Great Emperor Realm can one cultivate one’s own Dao. But you have no idea how deeply those guys hide. Many Great Emperor Realm experts have already gone into seclusion to cultivate quietly, or for some reason no longer show themselves in the world. At least on the surface, the Divine World now looks calm, but that doesn’t mean no Great Emperor Realm experts are born. So beneath this calm surface, there may long since have been undercurrents surging. We just don’t know about them.”

The Ancestral Dragon Emperor’s words gave Jiang Chen another considerable understanding of the Divine World. He had originally thought that once he entered the Divine Emperor Realm he would rarely meet a match. But now it seemed that many experts were hiding and not coming out, and that was why the Divine World appeared so harmonious and so calm.

“Once I come out into the world, I reckon I’ll stir up storms from every direction, and all my old enemies will probably come swarming. Most importantly, the Dragon Clan is probably in turmoil now too. My fall back then had a great deal to do with a traitor appearing in the Dragon Clan. Even if I return to the Dragon Clan now, I may not be able to take hold of power again. So before that, you need to make a trip to the Dragon Clan, to open up a road, so to speak, and scout out where the dangers lie.”

The Ancestral Dragon Emperor looked at Jiang Chen with incomparable gravity.