Dragon-Marked War God

Fen Gudong plunged straight down, leaping into the eighteenth level of purgatory. In that moment, feeling the terrifying, scorching tongues of flame spewing ceaselessly around him, Fen Gudong’s expression turned stern. He struck out with a single palm like a thunderbolt. Amid the surging flames, he stood within the fire completely unaffected, and even swallowed those tongues of flame whole.

“Hmph, a few wisps of leftover flame want to compete with me? That’s simply a fool’s dream.”

Fen Gudong shouted angrily and rose with a flick of his sleeves. He stood in stark contrast to the flames around him, like a giant of fire towering in midair. He swept outward, and all the tongues of flame scattered.

“Lowly human, you aren’t qualified to devour me. Since ancient times, who knows how many people have set their sights on me. You aren’t the first, and perhaps not the last.”

A cold shout echoed through the eighteenth level of purgatory. The voice carried a chill that came from the depths of the soul and filled the entire eighteenth level.

“Is that so? Today, I’m afraid you won’t escape my hands. I’ve already devoured most of your karmic fire origin. What right do you have to fight me? In terms of origin power, you’re nothing more than a leftover fire spirit.”

Fen Gudong looked down from midair, sweeping his gaze over the endless tongues of flame around him. Within the fire domain, three thousand fire shadows came surging toward him, as if they were the supreme rulers of heaven, blotting out the sun and covering the sky.

“Do you think that with the karmic fire origin you have now, you can really devour me?”

Fen Gudong was extremely angry at the karmic fire. With his current strength, he did not fear that karmic fire at all, because he controlled seventy to eighty percent of the Hell Karmic Fire from before. He had nothing to fear from the karmic fire’s attacks now.

“If not for this formless formation binding me, for hundreds of millions of years, would an ant like you dare compete with me? That would be a fantasy.”

The deep, heavy voice of the Hell Karmic Fire echoed in Fen Gudong’s ears. At that moment, Fen Gudong only sneered again and again, without the slightest fear.

“A good man doesn’t boast of his past glory. Do you think you were so mighty back then? If you were mighty back then, how did you end up trapped here by someone? If you were so peerless, how did you become someone else’s prisoner? Trapped beneath the eighteenth level of purgatory, no matter how dazzling you once were, now you’re nothing more than a lingering remnant. You still want to become a true expert and soar above the Nine Heavens? Hahaha, stop dreaming. After today, there will be no more Hell Karmic Fire. Your origin power will all be devoured by me.”

Fen Gudong laughed wildly, full of confidence. With seventy to eighty percent of the Hell Karmic Fire’s origin power, what did he have to fear?

“Petty rat, I am the karmic fire spirit itself. Do you really think that by controlling seventy or eighty percent of my origin power, you can devour me? Without my karmic fire spirit, your seventy or eighty percent of origin is nothing but dead fire.”

The karmic fire spirit sneered.

“Even if heaven and earth lock me in nine layers of reincarnation, I am still not something you mortals can contend with. If you want to die, then come at me. Let me see where this so-called confidence of yours comes from.”

Fen Gudong narrowed his eyes, looked at the countless layers of fire shadows around him, and murmured,

“You just refuse to die, don’t you? Today, I’ll send you to the real Avici Hell.”

Fen Gudong formed seals with both hands. Wave after wave of origin fire spewed out of his body and began fusing toward the surrounding flames, gathering them in. That formless devouring force began to devour madly. All the surrounding karmic fire retreated a long way, afraid of being devoured by Fen Gudong.

Layer upon layer of phantoms appeared over Fen Gudong’s body, transforming into an enormous crocodile. Its bloody maw kept opening and closing, as if it would devour every last bit of the karmic fire origin around it and take it for its own use.

“Your thinking is a bit too simple.”

The karmic fire spirit sneered. Ignoring Fen Gudong’s attack completely, it laughed coldly as a giant fire dragon roared and coiled above the giant crocodile Fen Gudong had transformed into. The two entangled with each other, each resisting the other.

At this moment, Jiang Chen and Red Lotus were already exhausted. Red Lotus’s face was pale to the extreme. Even inside the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, she was already at her last breath. Jiang Chen was in slightly better condition, a bitter smile at the corner of his mouth. Only when he saw the flames around them growing dim did he finally breathe a sigh of relief. This Hell Karmic Fire was truly too terrifying. With three layers of defense and every last trick he had, he had barely managed to survive. And he had been continuously pouring his divine origin qi into Red Lotus’s body. Only then had the situation finally been stabilized.

“You’ve given me all the divine origin qi in your body. What about you?”

Red Lotus said with a worried face. Even though Jiang Chen’s recovery was extremely strong, he still could not keep up when spending more than he took in. His situation now was also very difficult, even hanging between life and death by a thread. But as long as Jiang Chen had one breath left, he would never let anything happen to Red Lotus.

“I’m fine. I can hold on.”

Jiang Chen said with a smile, but Red Lotus clearly saw the dimness in his eyes. He was also forcing his tottering body to stay upright so that she would not worry.

“Even if you were dying, you wouldn’t say a single word about it hurting.”

Tears glistened in Red Lotus’s eyes as she hugged Jiang Chen tightly. Only through life-and-death hardship is true feeling seen. Jiang Chen’s heart rekindled in Red Lotus an endless longing for life. It was as if, as long as he was there, the sky would not fall.

Jiang Chen smiled and said nothing.

“That Fen Gudong has already entered the eighteenth level of purgatory. All the karmic fire origin has been mobilized to resist Fen Gudong, so our situation should be much better now.”

Jiang Chen said. Looking out through the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda, above their heads a world-shaking giant dragon and a heaven-swallowing giant crocodile were completely entangled. That mad devouring left even Jiang Chen shocked. The terrifying origin power on those two made people feel a sense of danger. This Hell Karmic Fire was truly frightening.

“What should we do? Should we leave now?”

Red Lotus hesitated. She was truly worried that if that Hell Karmic Fire really was her father, then by simply leaving she might leave it in dire straits, even to be devoured by Fen Gudong.

“That Fen Gudong must have already taken control of most of the Hell Karmic Fire’s origin. That’s why he dares to fight the Hell Karmic Fire here in the eighteenth level of purgatory. Otherwise, given that even I can’t withstand this Hell Karmic Fire, that Fen Gudong would never take such a risk unless he were completely confident.”

Jiang Chen said in a deep voice, a cold look at the corner of his mouth, his eyes blazing. This Hell Karmic Fire was now at a disadvantage, and for a moment Jiang Chen also fell into hesitation.