Chapter 184 Drought Demon?!

Jiang Chen's gaze was deep and his expression was impassive, while the officer and the cluster of soldiers were so nervous they dared not even breathe.

For a moment, no one spoke first to break the stalemate.

After a while, Jiang Chen said softly, "I am very curious, why won't your superiors let me in?"

"This... this matter involves classified information. Please forgive me, I cannot tell you the truth."

In fact, he didn't really understand why his superiors wouldn't let Jiang Chen in. After all, it was obvious that Jiang Chen had come here to deal with the evil spirits in that Tang Dynasty Ancient Tomb, not to do anything bad.

"Your superiors, they aren't surnamed Zhou, are they?" Jiang Chen suddenly asked.

When the officer suddenly heard this question, his pupils constricted slightly before returning to normal.

He shook his head and said, "Mr. Jiang Chen, I don't understand what you are talking about. I am just carrying out my mission normally; it has nothing to do with what my superiors' surname is."

But Jiang Chen had already received his answer.

As time passed, beads of sweat broke out on the officer's forehead.

Many soldiers had gathered here; looking over, there were at least a hundred of them, all fully armed and looking at Jiang Chen with hostile expressions.

As long as the officer gave the order, they could immediately open fire on Jiang Chen.

A hundred people was not a small number; according to military configuration, this was already a full company.

And for a company, Jiang Chen said he would let him consider whether these people could stop him.

The officer had indeed considered it seriously, or rather, he didn't need to consider it to know the result: in all likelihood, they couldn't stop him.

But he was not the type of person to give up just because someone said it wouldn't work. He also wanted to test it out—compared to these legendary cultivators, who would come out on top against modern weapons?

Thus, when Jiang Chen stepped into the Void Realm and took a single step forward.

The officer immediately raised his arm.

Clatter!

As his arm went up, all the soldiers raised their loaded rifles, aiming at Jiang Chen in the sky.

All the guns had their safeties disengaged. The uniform sound filled the officer with unprecedented confidence at that moment.

No matter how powerful a cultivator was, weren't they still just mortal flesh and blood? As long as they were made of flesh and blood, he didn't believe they could withstand a torrent of steel!

Jiang Chen seemed not to have heard the uniform sound; he continued to tread upon the Void Realm, moving forward, and was on the verge of entering Mount Laojun.

"Ready—!"

But just as the officer's voice fell and the soldiers prepared to pull the triggers.

Jiang Chen moved. He did not turn back; he merely pressed his left index and middle fingers together like a sword and made a slight, diagonal downward stroke, as if he were carving two paths through the mortal world!

Swoosh!

A brilliant golden light suddenly rose, like the sun illuminating the sky. Before anyone could react, the golden light flashed instantly across their bodies.

Clatter-clatter!

Then came the sound of firearms hitting the ground, still just as uniform as before.

Everyone felt their hands go empty and their heads go cold.

Their helmets had been removed, and the firearms in their hands had fallen to the ground in pieces, without exception.

The officer was shocked, and all the soldiers were astonished by his immense power.

But not one person fled; they all glared at Jiang Chen, waiting only for the officer's order to rush forward, even if it meant using only their fists and feet!

But the officer just sighed softly, casting aside his previous unrealistic thoughts.

The current situation was already the best-case scenario; at least Jiang Chen had only disarmed them, not taken their heads.

He could answer to his superiors, so why risk his life to stop him?

The officer said no more, and the other soldiers, seeming to understand their leader's intent, silently picked up their firearms and helmets.

Jiang Chen glanced at them, then turned and walked into Mount Laojun.

These men were just following orders; they were all the nation's fine sons. Jiang Chen was not some Devil Head who would kill anyone who opposed him; he knew clearly who deserved to be killed.

Mount Laojun had not changed since he last saw it, except for a small area that had undergone man-made ecological restoration.

Jiang Chen walked into the Ancient Tomb passage with familiar ease. Compared to last time, the dry, restless Qi was even more pronounced.

And it made Jiang Chen feel a little bit of familiarity.

How to put it? It was as if he had returned to that feeling from back in the Great Tang Dynasty, when he was walking alongside Nvba.

Although Nvba had barely managed to temporarily suppress the curse within her body, it would occasionally leak out. At those times, Jiang Chen and the others could feel that wild, restless, and scorching sensation.

That scorching sensation was exactly the same as the scorching sensation in Mount Laojun now.

The only difference was that Nvba's scorching sensation brought with it a deathly silence where all things withered, which is why there is the saying, "When Hanba appears, the land is scorched for a thousand miles."

At the time, it had indeed caused two great droughts.

But although this scorching sensation was intense, the surrounding flowers and trees did not seem to be affected much; on the contrary, they appeared vibrant and full of life.

Jiang Chen walked into the Ancient Tomb and came to the side of the stone platform where the long sword had originally been stored.

He could feel that the reason this restless, scorching sensation had spread so quickly was very likely because one corner of the Formation had been broken.

But such Spiritual Qi indicated that this area of Mount Laojun was not so simple; in the past, it was very likely a blessed land.

It was just that in the Age of Dharma Decline, it had not manifested any miraculous properties, but now, this blessed land was recovering!

However, none of this had anything to do with him anymore. Jiang Chen took out the Magical Artifact long sword and prepared to inlay it back into the stone platform to complete the Formation.

But at this very moment, a sudden change occurred. The entire tomb chamber began to shake, and this shaking became increasingly violent. Not only that, but Mount Laojun itself also seemed to begin tottering!

He suddenly looked up, his eyes fixed on the depths of the tomb chamber. The source of the shaking that was causing the entire mountain to tremble was right in the deepest part of this tomb chamber!

...

Outside, the officer, who was just about to report to his superiors—which is to say, Zhou Keji—also suddenly noticed this alarming shaking.

His eyes were filled with horror. As soon as Jiang Chen arrived, such a change occurred in Mount Laojun; he did not believe that such a coincidence could exist in the world.

So he hurriedly reported the situation to Zhou Keji.

And Zhou Keji also seemed very surprised; could Jiang Chen's arrival actually cause the evil spirits in the Ancient Tomb to awaken prematurely?

In fact, the reason they did not let Jiang Chen enter Mount Laojun was because the Chinese official authorities had also learned through Mountain Lord Jiang Bai and some of their own channels that Mount Laojun was a blessed land.

Moreover, the day for the Dilium Jiang to descend was not far off, and such blessed lands were exactly the places where the first batch of Dilium Jiang would fall.

The authorities planned to leave the Ancient Tomb alone for the time being. After all, nothing major had happened for so long. They would wait until they could dispatch official cultivators to finish their training during the period when the Dilium Jiang fell, and then it wouldn't be too late to deal with the evil spirits.

Of course, this proposal had also been first put forward by Zhou Renshou.