Chapter 936 - Scarlet Flame Demon Blade

“A Three-Headed Underworld Snake.”

The snake was extremely huge. Half of its body was still submerged in the Underworld Blood River. The anterior part of its body was separated into three heads. Currently, all three of its heads were roughly a hundred meters high up in the air.

It used all three pairs of gray eyes to look at Long Chen before it reared its heads and lunged at him.

It had seen people wearing the same attire as Long Chen many times before. They all wore the Underworld Armor. Underworld Beasts killed every human they laid eyes on, and every human killed Underworld Beasts too.

This was a grudge that had been ongoing for generations. The Three-Headed Underworld Snake didn’t hesitate in the slightest to attack Long Chen.

This wasn’t the first time it had attacked an Underworld Soldier. Just an hour ago, it had swallowed one whole.

The Three-Headed Underworld Snake was a Category Eight Emperor-tier beast, so Long Chen could defend himself against it.

His goal this time was to kill any Underworld Beasts at the Category Eight Emperor-tier, or anyone at the Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage. Once he grew stronger, he could consider fighting against someone at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage or above. At his current stage, Long Chen had to rely on the Golden Thunder Beast to kill anyone at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage.

The three massive heads of the Three-Headed Underworld Snake covered the skies and an intense stench emanated from its mouths. All three mouths of the beast were dripping green saliva. Its tongues were inky green, flickering and lashing towards Long Chen.

Long Chen was surprised to see that the beast’s tongues were covered in sharp rows of teeth.

Unfortunately, he was out of Emperor Crystals, so he had no choice but to let the Golden Thunder Beast rest for now. He had to find some Underworld Soldiers to hunt later on to take their Emperor Crystals and feed them to the Golden Thunder Beast.

While fighting against an Underworld Beast wouldn’t improve his understanding of the Heavenly Martial Realm much, the beast’s blood could be stored and used as an essence battery. By storing it in his Primordial Realm, he could use Blood Transmutation on it and replenish his essence rapidly.

There were plenty of Underworld Beasts here in the Underworld Battlefield, and they never went extinct.

Even though Long Chen couldn’t use the Golden Thunder Beast for now, he was still very happy that he had it by his side. The golden lightning called the Hell Soul Lightning was definitely a good tool to have at his disposal.

As it excelled in speed, Long Chen’s muscles could now move much faster thanks to its constant tempering.

Crackle!

Golden lightning formed beneath Long Chen's feet. When the Three-Headed Underworld Snake lunged at him, Long Chen turned into a golden lightning bolt and disappeared in front of it.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

“Emperor’s Manual, Emperor’s Arrival!”

Long Chen appeared above the Three-Headed Underworld Snake without any warning. A single attack from him destroyed one of the ugly heads, causing the flesh to explode while the other two heads shrieked in surprise.

He had reduced that head to nothing. The headless neck slumped and crashed into the river, causing red water to splash everywhere.

The remaining two heads were incomparably angry. They attacked Long Chen from both the front and the back. Underworld Beasts were technically a type of demonic beast too, so their bodies were far stronger than human bodies.

Two clouds of black smoke flowed out from the beast’s heads. It was extremely corrosive!

“You want to wound me with that kind of speed?”

Long Chen chuckled, and the golden lightning flared up again. He was now faster than a Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivator. With a golden flash, he disappeared in front of the beast and avoided the attack before appearing behind one of the heads.

Long Chen’s second attack dispatched the second head flawlessly.

The Three-Headed Underworld Snake panicked and was afraid. The last remaining head dove into the water, attempting to escape.

“Trying to run?”

Long Chen lunged forward. The Three-Headed Underworld Snake was slower, so he managed to land his attack just moments before the beast was completely submerged in the water. He destroyed the final head.

Boom!

The Three-Headed Underworld Snake was dead just like that, and its massive body went limp.

“Blood Devouring Domain!”

Under its effect, the blood essence of the beast was sucked towards Long Chen. Instead of consuming it, Long Chen placed the big ball of blood essence in his Primordial Realm for emergencies.

As for the dried-up corpse, Long Chen threw it into the river. Various smaller Underworld Beasts swarmed the corpse and tore it to pieces.

In Long Chen’s hands were three gray orbs. He could see the silhouette of the Three-Headed Underworld Snake on each of the orbs.

“This must be the Underworld Core of the Underworld Beast. I can pass it to the Merit Hall to earn merit points. Once I have enough, along with sufficient strength, I can get promoted. Becoming an Underworld Admiral or Underworld General doesn’t sound like a bad deal.”

Long Chen was in a good mood after killing the Three-Headed Underworld Snake.

This was a good start for him.

“Stop hiding. Come out,” Long Chen suddenly blurted out loud after putting the cores away.

Behind him, in the rocky lands, was a large boulder. Long Chen easily saw someone hiding behind the boulder using Sight.

“You have very sharp senses.”

A middle-aged man walked out from the back of the boulder. He was big, burly, and taller than Long Chen by a single head. He wore a suit of Underworld Armor that was much more exquisite than Long Chen’s.

He smiled when he approached Long Chen.

“Which camp are you from? I’m a Hundred-Sergeant from Camp Tyrant Bear. I saw your battle and was impressed with it, especially your technique to keep the beast’s blood. It’s definitely very special.”

His smile was very genuine, and Camp Tyrant Bear was a real camp. It wasn’t far from Long Chen’s Camp Wolf.

But Long Chen remained silent.

The man was definitely at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage since he was a Hundred-Sergeant.

“Are you afraid of me? Is that why you are on guard?”

The middle-aged man stopped and smiled bitterly at Long Chen.

“The Underworld Battlefield is an important place to train oneself. There are no grudges between camps to begin with, and not everyone will fight to the death here. Most of them will just fight and compare notes, that’s all. We only risk our lives when we fight against Underworld Beasts. This must be your first time here, right? My name is Tao Feng. You don’t look too old, so you can just call me ‘Brother Tao.’ I have some friends that form a squad with me whenever we enter the Underworld Battlefield. Are you interested in joining us? You have good potential.”

“Sorry, I’m not interested. I’m used to being alone.”

But Long Chen did not let his guard down. This was the Underworld Battlefield, and he couldn’t trust anyone here.

“Are you sure? Remember that this is the Underworld Battlefield. Without someone at the Hundred-Sergeant strength, one cannot hope to survive with certainty here.”

Tao Feng did not stop talking. He was just ten meters away from Long Chen right now.

Long Chen stated clearly, “Stop.”

Ten meters was a short distance to ambush someone.

When Long Chen told him to stop, Tao Feng’s eyes changed and he lunged towards Long Chen.

“Give me the Underworld Cores or I will kill you!”

This was Tao Feng’s true goal. He wanted the Underworld Cores that Long Chen had obtained. Everything he said before about inviting Long Chen was a lie, but Long Chen didn’t fall for it.

As he lunged, Tao Feng brandished a burning blade from his storage ring. It appeared that there was a silhouette of a beast dancing in the flames.

“This is the Scarlet Flame Demon Blade, a Rank One Divine-tier Divine Weapon. I wonder if you can handle it?”

The burning blade slashed towards Long Chen while flames sprayed everywhere. It almost cut Long Chen in half!

Ding!

But a screeching, metallic ding stunned Tao Feng. He saw Long Chen holding onto the blade with his bare hands.

On closer inspection, he only realized that Long Chen was wearing gloves. Those gloves were Divine Weapons too!

“Those look amazing. They must be Rank One Divine-tier too if they can stop my Scarlet Flame Demon Blade. Looks like you have a lot of treasures on you!”

Tao Feng was pleased when he saw that Long Chen had some good treasures.

Long Chen’s eyes lit up, and the True Martial Overlord Soul was activated.

“You are a good sparring partner.”

Facing the hurricane of attacks, Long Chen smiled instead of despairing. Golden lightning wrapped his body and he moved like the lightning. His speed and agility far surpassed Tao Feng’s!

Long Chen had the advantage in terms of speed.

Let me fight against you for three days straight to learn more about the Heavenly Martial Realm!

Moving with intense speed, Long Chen had no reservations as he fought. He still had the blood essence from the Three-Headed Underworld Snake, so he had no reason not to fight!