278: Unroll the scroll!

Although rumors were also spreading outside.

That Jiang Chen was a Martial Emperor Realm expert.

But in reality, so what if he was in the Martial Emperor Realm? In the eyes of the Lingcang Domain Lord, as long as this was his territory, Jiang Chen had to stay low.

If you Cultivate honestly and don't cause trouble for me, I'll let you keep living your humble life.

But if you insist on making a scene, he will take action and kill you directly!

After all, even if you are in the Martial Emperor Realm, so what?

I, the Domain Lord, haven't received a single bit of resource contribution from you; you really lack manners.

Although Jiang Chen's action this time heavily damaged the Zhao Family.

To the Lingcang Domain Lord, this was also a good thing.

This way, the Zhao Family would hand over even more resources later on.

After all, the Lingcang Domain Lord couldn't actively ask for them; wouldn't that make him a beggar?

This blow just happened to make the Zhao Family learn their lesson.

They obediently sent over a large amount of resources.

Since that was the case, he would make an appearance once to protect the Zhao Family.

Of course, if that Martial Emperor named Jiang Chen didn't know his place and wanted to look for trouble, the Lingcang Domain Lord wouldn't indulge him.

It would be the perfect time to kill one to warn a hundred.

To let everyone in the Lingcang Domain know who the real overlord here was!

The people of the Zhao Family were extremely excited to have invited Master Qin Yun to oversee things.

At least they were saved.

Not to mention that Master Qin Yun himself was a Martial Emperor Realm expert.

And standing behind Master Qin Yun was the Lingcang Domain Lord.

The crowd actually wasn't clear about the Lingcang Domain Lord's strength, but now even one of his Disciples was at the Martial Emperor Realm; this was quite shocking.

So the Domain Lord had already become powerful to such an extent!

The Zhao Family members were even somewhat looking forward to Jiang Chen showing up.

If Jiang Chen didn't come, wouldn't all the money they spent be in vain?

Even though the Zhao Family hadn't perished yet.

They had already suffered losses in some of their territories.

After all, the Zhao Family's strength had indeed been weakened by more than half.

Thus, those jackals began to take action one after another, encroaching on the Zhao Family.

And everyone was waiting for an opportunity.

Waiting to see if Jiang Chen would actually come.

If the Zhao Family was really destroyed by Jiang Chen, whether the Domain Lord would go and kill Jiang Chen was another matter.

The Zhao Family's territory was a huge piece of fat meat.

Even taking a single bite amidst the chaos would make one dripping with wealth.

In this chaotic situation, some ambitious forces also had ideas about the current state of affairs; after all, there were many people who hoped the Zhao Family would lose.

Furthermore.

The Zhao Family's enemies were not few in number.

Among them was an inconspicuous Family.

Divine Medicine Valley, Lin Family!

The Lin Family's original power wasn't small either; they once dominated a region. But what they relied on wasn't brute strength, but the art of Alchemy.

Everyone in the Lin Family could perform Alchemy and were highly skilled physicians.

Originally, the Lin Family lived well until the Zhao Family seized their territory and killed many clansmen. They barely survived by relying on the grand Formation in the Divine Medicine Valley left by their ancestors.

Now, seeing that someone had heavily damaged the Zhao Family, they were also extremely excited.

At the same time, after learning about the harsh words released by the Lingcang Domain Lord, the Lin Family decided to go to the Great Lan Dynasty first to tip them off.

So that Jiang Chen could hide for a while and wait for Master Qin Yun to leave the Zhao Family before taking action.

Temporarily avoiding the brunt of the force was a very correct choice.

Thus, the Lin Family dispatched two people.

The Grand Elder of the Lin Family, Lin Ningfeng.

The favored daughter of this generation of the Lin Family, the Disciple with the strongest Alchemy talent.

Lin Youer.

Sending Lin Youer was also because she had a connection in the Great Lan Dynasty: Ye Zishan of the Ye Family.

When Ye Zishan was gaining experience in her early years, she had met Lin Youer. Later, the Ye Family proactively reached out to invite the Lin Family to develop in the Great Lan Dynasty and do some business.

However, after an investigation, the Lin Family found the Great Lan Dynasty to be insufficient in caliber, so they temporarily abandoned the plan. Of course, the relationship between the two families remained quite good.

Lin Ningfeng and Lin Youer rushed to the Great Lan Dynasty, arrived at the Ye Family, and told Ye Zishan about the Domain Lord arranging for Master Qin Yun to stay with the Zhao Family.

"To think such a thing happened."

"The Lingcang Domain Lord is actually so biased!"

Hearing this, Ye Zishan was immediately consumed by rage; it was truly despicable!

"When the Zhao Family wanted to attack my Great Lan Dynasty, I didn't see the Lingcang Domain Lord come out to say a single word. Now that the Zhao Family has been beaten by my Great Lan Dynasty, he actually stands up to protect them!"

Ye Zishan said indignantly.

Of course, she didn't have the final say in this matter.

In the end, Ye Zishan still went to report to Ye Duling and let her decide.

While Ye Duling was meeting with these people from the Lin Family.

Ancient Mountain Range.

Before the Demon Cave.

Jiang Chen and Xue Lianyue were currently working together to set up a Formation. Calling it 'working together', Xue Lianyue was actually just handing talisman slips to Jiang Chen from the side.

Of course, while setting up the Formation, Jiang Chen also gave Xue Lianyue an explanation.

As Xue Lianyue listened from the side.

The more she heard, the more alarmed she became.

She was even more shocked in her heart; how could Jiang Chen possess such great talent?

And he was so young.

Could there really be such a genius in this world... Only a Formation Master could hear the mysteries within the Formation Jiang Chen was setting up.

Xue Lianyue also listened carefully, trying to understand everything Jiang Chen said.

In reality, Jiang Chen didn't know why he could explain it so eloquently.

As long as it involved knowledge about Formations, Jiang Chen could speak it out naturally; it was quite miraculous.

The Eighth-Grade Formation Art given by the martial arts scroll was truly too strong.

It directly captured Xue Lianyue, making her a little fan girl.

Of course, Xue Lianyue was several years older than Jiang Chen.

However, Jiang Chen wasn't the type to care about a woman's age.

"It's done!"

As Jiang Chen's movements finished, the final talisman slip fell into place.

Immediately, a golden light Formation descended, directly sealing the opening of the Heaven-Grade Demon Cave.

Any demon Qi was burned clean the moment it approached.

This Formation Jiang Chen set up.

Was not just for defense; it also had a counter-attacking effect.

As long as a demon approached within a hundred-zhang range of the Formation, it would be directly refined.

And the demons refined by the Formation's power would all become Jiang Chen's enemy killing value.

However, they had to be demons at the Heavenly Martial Realm or above.

Because Jiang Chen's current Physical Body cultivation had already reached the Martial King Realm level.

"It's really done!"

"Jiang Chen, you're too strong!"

Xue Lianyue said, her entire being filled with pleasant surprise.

She looked at Jiang Chen with a face full of admiration.

Jiang Chen also scratched his head.

He felt a bit embarrassed by Xue Lianyue's fervent gaze.

"The outer Formation is complete; go inform the Empress."

"I'll take a break, then I'll enter to kill the demons and reinforce the inner Formation."

Jiang Chen said.

The outside was fixed.

But what was truly broken was the inside.

The Formation Jiang Chen set up was a Rank Eight Formation.

Even a Martial Emperor Realm demon wouldn't be able to break out.

At least for now, there was no need to worry.

Because the opening the Zhao Family made inside only allowed Martial King Realm demons to appear at most.

The demon royal Family probably wouldn't find it that easy and wouldn't come here so readily. Most of the time, these demon royals would send those with royal family bloodlines, and those demons hadn't reached maturity yet.

"Alright!"

"Do you need me to arrange guards for you?"

Xue Lianyue asked.

Although she knew Jiang Chen's strength was unrivaled under heaven, it was inevitable that someone might come to disturb him.

"No matter, I can do it myself."

Jiang Chen said.

He didn't actually need much rest.

It was just to be able to open the martial arts scroll.

"Alright, then I'll have the patrols move further away."

Xue Lianyue nodded.

Then she went to report the matters here to Her Majesty the Empress.

Although voice transmission was convenient, for such a major matter, a face-to-face report was more important.

After Xue Lianyue left.

After meditating for a while, Jiang Chen brought up his status panel.

[Name: Jiang Chen]

[Fate: Martial Dao Saint Body]

[Divine Body: Great Void Ape Demon Body]

[Physical Body Cultivation: Heavenly Martial Realm First Layer]

[Spiritual Qi Cultivation: Martial King Realm First Layer (8,250,000/20,000,000)]

[Divine Soul Cultivation: star realm Middle Stage]

[enemy killing value: 1,868]

[cultivation points: 0]

The enemy killing value had increased a bit from before. Besides the lives of the Zhao Family, some were from demons Lu Qian and the others had killed with Demon Suppression Talismans over the past few days.

The over eight million cultivation points were also because some of the Zhao Family's Martial King experts practiced demon techniques, so they occasionally gave some cultivation.

But Jiang Chen couldn't figure out who among them was practicing demon techniques or what Rank those techniques were, because they didn't have the chance to use them. It seemed that next time, he should let these people try to use them.

That way, Jiang Chen could deal with them more calmly.

Although the Zhao Family was weak, there would inevitably be some experts stronger than the Zhao Family who mastered similar demon techniques. Once he figured it out, Jiang Chen would be better prepared.

"I must strive to let this Great Void Ape Demon Body show its Divine Might as soon as possible!"

Jiang Chen thought to himself.

Of course, although the Great Void Ape Demon Body hadn't been fully exerted yet, having this attribute was a completely different situation from not having it.

"I reckon my cultivation increase has also allowed Rou'er and the others to improve a bit these past few days. This Cultivation Technique is really strong; it gets more comfortable the further it goes."

After a rough organization.

Jiang Chen also summoned the martial arts scroll.

The martial arts scroll was currently glowing, flashing as if attracting Jiang Chen to open it.

"Ding... Do you wish to consume 340 enemy killing value to open the martial arts scroll?"

"Open!"

Jiang Chen muttered in his heart.

"Ding... Consumed 340 enemy killing value to open the martial arts scroll."

"martial arts scroll: Current three-way choice."

"One: Increase Spiritual Power cultivation by one layer."

"Two: Increase Divine Soul cultivation by one layer."

"Three: Increase Spiritual Manifestation cultivation by ten levels."

When Jiang Chen saw these three options.

His eyes naturally lit up.

He thought that after his cultivation Realm became high, these options to directly increase cultivation would disappear.

So Jiang Chen was also very surprised.

Because during this period, it had mostly given things like Medicinal Pills.

Last time, it was precisely because Jiang Chen took the ninth revolution form condensing pill that he increased his Spiritual Aspect Power to level twenty, which was the level of a twenty-zhang Spiritual Manifestation.

"I'm not in a hurry about Spiritual Power cultivation."

"Martial King Realm First Layer is about the same as Martial King Realm Second Layer."

"As for Divine Soul cultivation, with my star realm Middle Stage Realm, it's sufficient for the current situation."

Jiang Chen skipped the first two options.

His gaze fell on the last one: Increase Spiritual Manifestation cultivation by ten levels!

That was equivalent to increasing to thirty zhang of Spiritual Aspect Power.

Once Spiritual Manifestation cultivation reached level one hundred, or one hundred zhang, one could condense their own Domain power, comparable to a Martial Emperor Realm expert.

This was also what Jiang Chen needed to do at the moment.

Only by reaching this Realm could Jiang Chen dare to say he could face the various methods of the Martial Emperor Realm.

Of course.

With Jiang Chen's own Physical Body cultivation plus the currently full Body Tempering Qi.

If he faced a Martial Emperor Realm expert and exerted the Shattering Dao Emperor Fist with full power, it was really uncertain who would live and who would die.

Even if the opponent survived.

Jiang Chen still had Magic Treasures in his hands.

The Yin Yang Life and Death Mirror.

One flash from this thing costs a life.

Even if you are a Martial Emperor, the result would be the same.

"It's been a long time since I chose the third option; I'll pick three today!"

Jiang Chen thought.

With a thought.

The martial arts scroll quickly deducted the enemy killing value, and simultaneously, a burst of light surged into Jiang Chen's body.

Buzz!

At the same time.

Jiang Chen felt the Spiritual Manifestation miniature inside him rapidly growing in energy.

Like a small sapling, it was currently shooting up rapidly.

Finally growing to thirty zhang!

Spiritual Manifestation cultivation, level thirty!

Jiang Chen was delighted.

This effect was even stronger than that Rank Nine Medicinal Pill from last time.

Because for Spiritual Aspect Power, the further it goes, the stronger the energy level becomes, the more energy it requires, and the harder it is to increase.

Jiang Chen felt a wave of comfort.

It seemed his connection with heaven and earth had become even closer.

"I only have a thirty-zhang Spiritual Manifestation and I already feel this way. If a Martial Emperor Realm expert has cultivated a hundred-zhang Spiritual Manifestation, it must be even more terrifying!"

"It seems I cannot underestimate them."

Jiang Chen gave himself a warning in his heart.

He glanced at the enemy killing value and saw there were still quite a few.

So he chose to continue opening.

"Ding... Consumed 350 enemy killing value to open the martial arts scroll."

"martial arts scroll: Current three-way choice."

"One: Increase Physical Body strength by one hundred thousand jin."

"Two: Zhu Xuan Heavenly King Body (Saint Grade Low Grade)."

"Three: Five-Strong Spiritual Yang Pill (Divine Grade)."

Jiang Chen looked at that third option.

He always felt the name was a bit strange.

It seemed to have some special implication.

However, even if it was truly as he thought, he didn't need it!

The first was to increase Physical Body cultivation.

The second was a Saint Grade defensive Cultivation Technique, an upgraded version of the Cast Profound Golden Body Skill.

Jiang Chen didn't hesitate at all.

"I choose..."