Chapter 933 – The Mighty Divine Martial Realm

Long Chen walked faster and covered the two-hundred-meter distance in a quick moment. One of the two guards took out an ink-green stone. The stone was round, like a compass. Long Chen took the compass and saw a small, red dot on it. Currently, the red dot was at the center of the compass.

“After you enter the Underworld Battlefield, if you have lost your bearings and are unable to find the path to return to this place, look at this compass. The red dot will point in the direction of the entrance.”

“Thank you.”

After the guards gave him the compass, they did not speak again, Long Chen put it in the Primordial Realm and was prepared to enter the ink-green array. The large array had green runes flickering in it, and they were changing quickly. It resembled a whirlpool to Long Chen.

He was prepared to enter when he sensed someone watching him from behind. He turned around. Although that person was still outside the Pavilion of Life and Death, Long Chen had the Soul Swallowing Gaze, so he knew who it was.

It was Song Yang.

That old bastard still refuses to let me go. He’s looking for death.

Long Chen did not want trouble. However, if that person refused to let him go, he would do his best to survive the situation.

The Golden Thunder Beast has already absorbed one hundred thousand Emperor Crystals. I wonder if it has enough energy to deal with Song Yang? If it can kill Song Yang, then it’ll be worth it because there will surely be a lot of money in his storage ring.

If Long Chen did not kill Song Yang, Song Yang would try to kill Long Chen. He did not want to suddenly get killed by Song Yang, so he had to act as quickly as possible and not drag the situation out.

He smiled and stepped into the ink-green array.

“Fighting is forbidden within a thousand meters of the entrance. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed. Remember this,” reminded the guard.

Then the voice disappeared. The ink-green array spun, and Long Chen had already left the Dragon Continent and arrived at the Underworld Battlefield.

After a long time, Long Chen finally discovered that his body had stabilized.

He was still inside an ink-green array, but his surroundings were completely different.

The Underworld Battlefield!

The cold aura of massacre hit him in the face. A strong gust of wind blew and brought with it a thick, bloody scent that came from afar, along with the stench of wild beasts and corpses. This scent was very obvious and pervasive. This meant that many people had died here.

Killing was forbidden within a thousand meters of the entrance. Long Chen looked around while he accelerated to leave this area. After he was out, he looked up. The Underworld Battlefield consisted of large, desolate plaints. Perhaps due to the year-round killing, rotting corpses and skeletons whose flesh was gone were strewn everywhere.

Every few steps, he could see patches of blood. Some were human, some were from beasts.

There was an Underworld Beast a hundred meters away. It was chewing on a corpse with blood and flesh flying everywhere. It looked like a rat, but it was at least five meters long. It was just like a feral beast as it could not take a human form despite having surpassed the King-tier.

Feral beasts radiated a violent aura. On the other hand, this Underworld Beast was filled with Underworld Qi, perhaps because it was affected by Underworld Qi all year round. It was a very strange aura with both Yin and Yang energies. The clouds in the sky were made of Underworld Qi, and they rolled along fiercely. The Underworld Beast’s eyes were the same shade of gray.

The corpse was clearly not killed by this beast. This rodent-type beast was very timid and was likely at Category Six or Seven Emperor-tier. In the Underworld Battlefield, it was considered the lowest-tiered beast, so when it saw Long Chen, it turned and fled. It ran with great speed, like a street rat, and rushed into a river.

Rivers could be seen everywhere in the Underworld Battlefield, but the water was blood-colored. Long Chen was very sensitive to blood.

“Is this the Underworld Blood River? Maybe it used to be filled with clear water, but now it is mixed with too much blood, from both humans and beasts. It made this river extremely turbid.”

Many similar rivers could be found throughout the battlefield.

Long Chen had only just walked up to the bank of the Underworld Blood River when more than a thousand meters away, the ink-green array lit up once more. A silhouette appeared in the large array. The man had only just arrived, but he was impatient and charged in Long Chen’s direction instantly. In the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Long Chen.

Long Chen did not even need to look at him to know that it was Song Yang.

Long Chen turned around and looked at the older man with a calm gaze. “May I ask if there’s anything you want to tell me, seeing as you followed me into the Underworld Battlefield?”

A thousand years of cultivation, or even more, had exhausted his life force. People like Song Yang were already showing signs of aging, and it was difficult for him to achieve breakthroughs again.

The First Divine Martial Stage, also known as the Star Cluster Realm, was Song Yang’s endpoint.

Long Chen recalled what Ye Xuan had said. Right now, Song Yang’s body contained 9,999 meridian points. Just like a cluster of stars, they were spread across his whole body. He also had a hundred thousand meridian veins connecting all the points, and powerful essence flowed within the countless meridian points. Song Yang’s body contained many times more energy than Long Chen’s.

When a cultivator progressed from the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage to the First Divine Martial Stage, the largest and most obvious transformation was in the amount and quality of essence. One would have ten times more essence than they did at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage, and it also transformed in terms of quality. At this point, the essence was no longer the same as before and could be known as Divine Essence.

“Something to tell you? That’s precisely why I came here. Military law does not exist in the Underworld Battlefield. You can kill as you like here, and no one will care,” said Song Yang as he strode over to Long Chen.

“That also means you want to kill me now, right?” Long Chen did not show even a hint of fear in front of Song Yang, a powerful Divine Martial Realm expert.

“Isn’t that obvious?” Song Yang sneered.

It was as if his body had merged with the heavens and earth, and every movement channeled the power of the world. The stars in his body were like the endless stars in the sky. He had a total of 9,999 meridian points, and at every moment, they were absorbing the Royal Qi in the air like countless lungs. Long Chen was lagging far behind his speed of cultivation and regeneration.

Progressing from the Heavenly Martial Realm to the Divine Martial Realm was a process of turning from human to god. It was said that more than a hundred Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivators merged together would still be no match for a Divine Martial Realm expert. Long Chen only dared to stand in this spot because he had two trump cards: Blood Warp from the Ancient Bloodsoul Dragon and the Golden Thunder Beast in his left palm’s meridian point.

Long Chen raised his left hand.

“Then let me give you a feast.” His tone was mild.

His left palm was facing Song Yang. After the Golden Thunder Beast had eaten a hundred thousand Emperor Crystals, Song Yang’s arrival had agitated it greatly and it kept tumbling around in Long Chen’s meridian point. Finally, Long Chen unleashed the beast.

Roar!

It was a deafening roar!

Golden lightning wrapped around his left palm, and the image of the Golden Thunder Beast split open. A gigantic Golden Thunder Beast erupted from within. This was a beast made of densely packed golden lightning. It looked like a lion, but also a tiger. It roared furiously and pounced on Song Yang, radiating a terrifying aura!

“What is this?!” Song Yang squinted.

This thought had just popped into his mind when the Golden Thunder Beast, with its gaping jaws and sharp claws, had already pounced in front of him. Song Yang took a deep breath, clenched his right fist, and punched. All 9,999 meridian points released essence at the same time and the space around him trembled. When Song Yang punched, it brought with it a huge momentum, as if he was throwing the whole space around him at the Golden Thunder Beast!

Boom!

There was a gigantic disturbance as the golden lightning crackled, popped, and flew everywhere. Deep lines were dug in the ground by the violent lightning.

But Long Chen’s heart sank to rock bottom. He had sensed a cry of agony from the golden lightning. Song Yang was too strong. A hundred thousand Emperor Crystals were not enough to kill him. Long Chen had been too ambitious.

He hurriedly recalled the Golden Thunder Beast back into his left hand, and the tiny beast became more withered than before. It crouched obediently in his left hand, and it only recovered a little when Long Chen fed it his remaining Emperor Crystals.

I need to go. I’m no match for Song Yang right now.

Due to the Golden Thunder Beast’s attack, Song Yang had been thrown more than a hundred meters back and was also very shaken and pale. He was completely shocked that a Heavenly Martial Realm cultivator could harm him this much.

“What treasure was that? If you’ve taken it out, you shouldn’t put it away.” While Long Chen was feeding the Golden Thunder Beast, Song Yang charged at him again, despite being injured himself. He arrived instantly and threw a punch at Long Chen’s head!

Long Chen was unable to compete with a Divine Martial Realm expert in terms of both speed and attack.

What the hell? He’s so strong! I’m not taking any risks.

At the last moment, there was not enough time to use Blood Warp. Furthermore, it was possible that Song Yang would be able to catch up to the Blood Warp. Long Chen immediately took out the Shield Talisman that Ye Xuan had given him.

Let’s hope this thing is reliable.