Dragon-Marked War God

“This saber art… it seems even faster than my sword, and sharper. My Seventeenth Sword had no power to resist it at all in his hands…”

Jiang Chen murmured, his heart extremely shaken. But within his blood shadow saber art, Jiang Chen made a new discovery. As it happened, he gained a glimmer of insight into the Eighteenth Sword. Saber and sword, qi and momentum, as they crisscrossed and intertwined, the sword was sharper and the saber more supple. His Shadowless Blood Saber combined the dual resilience of saber and sword. In attack and defense, advance and retreat, it was perfectly ordered. Sword intent for attack, saber intent for defense, formless and shadowless, the blood saber ran rampant.

“Limitless Sword, the Eighteenth Sword!”

Jiang Chen was feeling his way forward, but he only managed to swing out half of this sword stroke. The rest of the opportunity was directly wiped out by Shangguan Hongyan. Shangguan Hongyan’s saber art was far more mature than Jiang Chen’s Eighteenth Sword. With an overwhelming Shadowless Blood Saber, Shangguan Hongyan forced Jiang Chen back three thousand zhang.

Above the bamboo sea, snowflakes drifted down. Shangguan Hongyan rose up treading on the snow, not giving Jiang Chen the slightest chance to fight back. With lightning speed, he attacked again. The Shadowless Blood Saber hemmed him in between heaven and earth, leaving Jiang Chen nowhere to hide.

“Eastern Emperor Limitless Art, Divine Golden Bell, God Sealing Prohibition!”

Jiang Chen activated the Eastern Emperor Bell again, but this time, even the Eastern Emperor Bell cracked again and again under Shangguan Hongyan’s attacks, and in the end it turned into fragments of shattered holy light and flew backward.

“The Eastern Emperor Bell! Kid, you really have given me too many pleasant surprises. I’m taking this Eastern Emperor Bell, no matter what.”

A sharp light shot from Shangguan Hongyan’s eyes. This little junior brother had too many secrets on him waiting for him to dig out. The Heavenly Dragon Sword, the Eastern Emperor Bell, and the Craftsman God’s Codex he longed for so much. The Eastern Emperor Bell was a super divine weapon at the level of a Chaos Saint Tool, so Shangguan Hongyan naturally had a special fondness for it. As the most powerful refining grandmaster in the Central Region Divine Land, he knew the divine weapons between heaven and earth like the treasures of his own house. Even the divine weapons he had not seen could not escape his ears and eyes.

“That depends on whether you have the ability.”

Jiang Chen gave a low roar and forcibly swallowed back several mouthfuls of blood. At this moment, he had already been gravely wounded, yet Shangguan Hongyan was still at ease, as relaxed as strolling in a courtyard, without any pressure at all.

“Now I’ll let you see just how big the gap between the Late Divine Emperor Realm and the Early Divine Emperor Realm really is. No matter how strong you are, it can’t be made up.”

Shangguan Hongyan’s expression was calm. He turned his palm over, and three thousand thunders stirred, ten thousand li of clouds gathered, swift as wind and lightning, thunder roaring like the awakening of insects in spring.

“Prajna Undying Palm!”

Shangguan Hongyan struck out with a palm. Jiang Chen could not dodge. It covered the sky and blotted out the sun, leaving him nowhere at all to escape. Jiang Chen knew that he would have to resist this palm as if his life depended on it, or he could never take it.

The Heavenly Dragon Battle Armor, which Jiang Chen had not activated for a long time, was also completely reduced to flying ash at this moment. Even under the Divine Golden Bell, he had no power to resist at all. Jiang Chen stood his ground with nowhere to turn and could only meet it with a punch, forcibly taking this palm.

But in the end, Jiang Chen’s strength was too, too far from Shangguan Hongyan’s. Under that palm and punch, Jiang Chen’s figure was almost instantly swallowed by the undying palm print.

Even Jiang Chen’s power of nine dragons and ten elephants and his bones as hard as vajra became unsteady at this moment. Blasted back a hundred zhang, Jiang Chen was gravely wounded.

“Not bad. You can still survive under my palm, which shows your talent really is good. It’s a pity you came to seek revenge on me today. You should have foreseen long ago that you could never be my match.”

Shangguan Hongyan stood with his hands behind his back, gripping the Slender Willow Saber. With one saber stroke, heaven and earth changed color and the long sky turned red, half white and half blue. Amid the crisscrossing blue and white, Jiang Chen gripped the Heavenly Dragon Sword and used the Ancient Soaring Dragon Technique. The sword soul came out of its sheath, and with bursts of dragon roars, like an azure dragon rising from the sea, it merged with that blue and white saber light. But in the end the sword soul was a move short and was forced back by Shangguan Hongyan. The dragon soul cried mournfully, the Heavenly Dragon sword qi retreated a hundred zhang, and Jiang Chen was thrown back by the recoil, his face pale and bloodless.

“A mantis trying to stop a chariot. I told you, you’re no match for me at all.”

Shangguan Hongyan shook his head. This Jiang Chen was indeed extraordinary, but winning against him was impossible. The gap between them was simply too, too great.

“Then try taking this move of mine.”

Jiang Chen’s eyes were sharp. The four Heavenly Lightnings in his hands had slowly fused together. Four rays of thunderous light, blue and red intermingling, gave off wisps of electric snakes, light and shadow blurring.

This time, he had replaced the nameless Heavenly Lightning from last time with the Thousand Flames Annihilation Lightning, and its terror multiplied. That fearsome death lotus gradually took shape, and even Shangguan Hongyan’s face became extremely dark at this moment.

“What terrifying Heavenly Lightning power. This guy has actually fused four Heavenly Lightnings.”

Shangguan Hongyan narrowed his eyes, his heart pounding a little. Wasn’t this guy afraid of playing with fire and burning himself?

But while Shangguan Hongyan was still in a daze, in the blink of an eye, the Death Lightning Lotus had already finished fusing.

“Now let me give you a taste of my methods too.”

Jiang Chen sneered, his face extremely pale. Under this fusion of four Heavenly Lightnings, he had almost completely drained all the divine origin qi in his body. He struck out with a palm, and the Death Lightning Lotus swept across the sky, lightning flashing and lighting up the void. At this moment, Jiang Chen was also completely exhausted, his oil spent and his lamp burned out.

That terrifying Death Lightning Lotus exploded in an instant. Shangguan Hongyan’s pupils contracted. He knew that the terror of this Death Lightning Lotus was even threatening his very existence.

“Damn guy!”

Shangguan Hongyan said through gritted teeth. But at that very moment, something happened that neither Jiang Chen nor Shangguan Hongyan had expected. Tuoba Longyu, who had already been on his last breath, actually charged up at this moment and directly blocked Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus. He used up all the strength of his life, clashing with that Death Lightning Lotus. Lightning pierced the void, five thunders struck his body, and at that moment Tuoba Longyu’s body was nearly torn apart. The instant Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus exploded, Tuoba Longyu still could not withstand that blow in the end, and died completely in front of Shangguan Hongyan.

All that was left was a lingering wisp of departing soul, barely holding on.

At this moment, even Shangguan Hongyan had suffered no small injury, because Jiang Chen’s Death Lightning Lotus just now had been terrifying to the extreme. If Tuoba Longyu had not taken most of the attack for him, even Shangguan Hongyan did not know whether he could have survived Jiang Chen’s blow.

Jiang Chen’s face changed slightly. This was also something he had not expected. Tuoba Longyu had actually charged out at the last moment and offered Shangguan Hongyan a redemption through death.