Dragon-Marked War God

“Run!”

Hao Yunhang’s face was incomparably twisted and ugly. Now there was only one thought in his heart, and that was to run, as far as he could. That terrifying might had already swept over, sealing off almost the entire sky.

Yun Geyao was the same. She felt that Jiang Chen’s attack at this moment seemed impossible to withstand. Such a terrifying lotus of death had quietly bloomed in that instant, and they had no way to avoid it.

The fusion of four Heavenly Lightnings was Jiang Chen’s most terrifying method now. It was almost on par with the Sui Tian Seal, perhaps even surpassing it. Since Jiang Chen still could not fully control the Dao Essence, the power of his Sui Tian Seal was probably a shade weaker than this fusion of four Heavenly Lightnings.

At this moment Jiang Chen had also made up his mind to kill. If he did not kill these two, he could never search for Qingcheng with peace of mind. Even with a formation in the way, Jiang Chen had no misgivings.

“Go and die!”

Jiang Chen roared furiously. At this moment the lotus of death fully bloomed. Its terrifying explosive force seemed to blast a hole in the void itself. With all of Qionghua Mountain as the center, for ten thousand miles around, peaks and ravines were shaken out of the land. The first to bear the brunt were Yun Geyao and Hao Yunhang. The two of them were blasted away almost instantly. That explosive force sealed them completely inside, leaving them nowhere to hide.

“Heavenly Twin Fists!”

Hao Yunhang knew he absolutely could not sit and wait for death. He threw a punch, his most powerful method. But under this eerie lotus of death, it instantly turned to nothing. Hao Yunhang was forced back, completely dumbfounded.

“Nine Revolutions Zither Melody!”

Yun Geyao also unleashed the last of her strength. If they sat and waited for death, the two of them would die even more thoroughly.

Notes of the zither turned into sharp blades that shot up into the nine heavens.

But Jiang Chen’s fusion of Heavenly Lightning was simply too terrifying, so terrifying that the two of them completely lost the will to fight.

Countless bolts of Heavenly Lightning fell from the sky. Electric light and flashing sparks lit up the entire void, bright for ten thousand miles.

The lotus spread and ripples surged. Yun Geyao and Hao Yunhang bore the brunt and were completely engulfed by this terrifying lotus of death. It was like crushing dry weeds and rotten wood, and they had no power at all to fight back.

After a long while, in the dust, Yun Geyao was holding a Wind-Riding Bell of the Primal Origin Treasure grade. The Wind-Riding Bell had already split apart. As the wind blew past, it instantly turned to stone powder. Yun Geyao and Hao Yunhang had survived by the narrowest of margins, but the two of them had now completely lost their ability to fight and were nearly at the end of their strength.

“This guy is a devil…”

Hao Yunhang’s face was ghastly pale, his eyes full of terror. Having survived the disaster, the two of them were deeply shaken, their shock beyond words.

“Trash will always be trash.”

Jiang Chen stood with his hands at his sides, calm and composed, looking coldly at Hao Yunhang and Yun Geyao. At this moment he too had completely lost his ability to fight. Trying to fight the two of them again now was impossible. But his Myriad Qi Body was recovering rapidly, at least letting him keep his composure.

Fusing four Heavenly Lightnings together drained Jiang Chen like never before. It had almost completely emptied his body. That he had not collapsed and passed out already made him very relieved.

“This isn’t over. Our paths will cross again. We’ll see.”

Yun Geyao’s eyes were wide with fury, her beautiful eyes flickering. Her once bewitching figure had completely lost its luster, yet she still could not hide her peerless bearing. Yun Geyao and Hao Yunhang quickly retreated and in a turn vanished into the void. Jiang Chen did not give chase, because he himself was already almost at his limit.

“Puff——”

After Yun Geyao and Hao Yunhang had left, Jiang Chen finally could not hold it in any longer. He spat out three mouthfuls of blood and dropped down on his backside. Where was the heroic bearing he had shown just now?

“Damn your ancestors’ coffin boards. Even for the me of now, fusing four Heavenly Lightning Spirits is hard to sustain. It looks like from now on I absolutely can’t use the four Heavenly Lightning Spirits lightly.”

Jiang Chen wiped the sweat from his face and murmured. Right after that, he almost collapsed too. But he knew he could not stop. Yan Qingcheng was definitely here. He could feel it. The woman he loved was right here on Qionghua Mountain.

“Qingcheng, wait for me, Qingcheng…”

Jiang Chen moved step by step, using his soul power to search the summit of Qionghua Mountain again and again. At last he found a strange place, and that was above Lingyun Cave. Just as Yun Geyao had said, there was a nine-layer great formation here, and it was a confusion formation. Breaking the formation to get in was quite difficult.

But that was for others. For Jiang Chen, even if this formation could not be called a mere decoration, he needed only a moment to break it open.

Jiang Chen’s expression was grave as he set about breaking the formation. In just a short while he broke open the so-called nine-layer confusion formation. Jiang Chen took one step into Lingyun Cave, and in that moment he stood there completely stunned.

Yan Qingcheng was sitting upright on a stone platform, her eyes tightly closed. But she was alive, and her life was in no danger. For Jiang Chen this was already enough. At least all the effort he had made up to today had been incomparably worthwhile.

“Qingcheng…”

Jiang Chen called out and rushed toward Yan Qingcheng. But at this moment Yan Qingcheng suddenly opened her eyes. Her gaze was full of brilliant light, radiant, and she quickly retreated, dodging Jiang Chen’s embrace.

Yan Qingcheng’s delicate brows knitted slightly. Her gaze gradually turned cold as she stared fixedly at Jiang Chen.

“Who are you?”

“I… Who am I? You don’t recognize me again?”

Jiang Chen frowned tightly. Yun Geyao had now been driven off by him and had nearly died here. She should no longer be able to control Qingcheng’s soul. So was the current Yan Qingcheng still herself? Jiang Chen could see that look in her eyes did not seem to belong to Yan Qingcheng…

Jiang Chen’s heart suddenly ached. Where had the Yan Qingcheng he had loved most deeply gone? Why were her eyes so strange, and yet also so familiar? Jiang Chen could see that those eyes did indeed belong to Yan Qingcheng, but their spirit was gone, and she seemed to be holding him a thousand miles away, which made Jiang Chen suffer more and more.

Jiang Chen very much wanted to take a step closer, but she was full of wariness toward him. That icy gaze stabbed at Jiang Chen’s heart, and for a moment he actually did not know what to do.

“Have you really forgotten me? Or does your soul no longer belong to you?”

Jiang Chen murmured. At this moment, meeting her again, his heart felt as if it were being cut by knives. Why did the heavens always have to toy with him like this?

Why had it come to this? That vanished look in her eyes. Where was the Yan Qingcheng of the past now?