396: Chapter 396 Slaying the Dragon and Destroying Qin - Seizing the Map and Entering Seclusion

Venerable Divine Dragon was both shocked and furious. The peerless technique he had realized only after burning the midnight oil and exhausting his heart's blood was being used by his opponent as if it were nothing!

Killing intent boiled in his heart: In this world, there could not be a second person who knew this technique!

In an instant, he soared into the air. Black radiance surged around his body, and his aura suddenly skyrocketed, deep as an abyss and vast as the sea, heavy and unfathomable.

Boom—!

He also ferociously unleashed the first move: Divine Dragon Roar!

Behind him, a dragon shadow surged. A furious black dragon raised its head and roared, the sound waves shaking the nine heavens and causing the mountains to tremble and shed rubble.

The next instant, two heaven-destroying sound waves collided with a boom!

The heavens and earth lost their color, and the void collapsed. A deafening explosion resounded for ten thousand li, and the two dragon-shaped shockwaves tore at each other and annihilated one another, finally dissipating together.

"Jiang Chen! I have been comprehending this technique for over three thousand years! No matter how you stole it, thinking you can fight me with such meager skill—you are still far from it!"

Venerable Divine Dragon's face turned ashen. He finally confirmed: Jiang Chen was not pretending; he truly understood this technique.

Yet, this realization did not make him wary; instead, it stirred up even more intense killing intent—this person must die!

Without hesitation, he immediately unleashed the second move, striking before Jiang Chen!

"Dragon God Killing Array!"

Rumble—!

A power so murderous it made one's bone marrow freeze erupted from his body. Six streaks of pitch-black divine light shot into the sky, intertwining and condensing in mid-air, instantly transforming into a massive array that covered the sky.

At the heart of the array coiled a hideous, jet-black giant dragon. Its dragon eyes were cold, its dragon claws sharp. The monstrous dragon might and bone-chilling killing intent wove into a net, suppressing Jiang Chen from above!

In an instant, space froze, and the four dimensions were locked. Jiang Chen was completely trapped within the array, with no path of retreat.

"Haha! Jiang Chen, you can't fly away with wings now, can you?!" Venerable Divine Dragon laughed wildly at the sky.

"Venerable Divine Dragon, I have said it before—you have only obtained the shell of this technique; it might suffice to fool others, but before me, it is full of flaws and vulnerable to a single blow."

Jiang Chen's voice was calm, revealing not a hint of panic.

"You are trapped in the array yourself, and you still have the face to mock me? Fine! I will keep my eyes open and watch how you break the situation!" Venerable Divine Dragon's face was as dark as ink.

From beginning to end, Jiang Chen had looked down on him like a clown. This contempt burned his heart more than any curse—he wished he could slice Jiang Chen into pieces to satisfy the hatred in his heart!

No sooner said than done, the Dragon God Killing Array trembled violently. Hundreds of pitch-black dragon flames erupted, tongues of flame flickering, revealing a dead silence within their intensity. Each cluster was enough to incinerate an immortal soul and refine a golden body.

This was by no means ordinary fire, but the secret Natal Dragon Breath of the dragon race; even a Taiyi Golden Immortal would need to avoid it by three points upon encountering it.

Hundreds of black flames closed in like a net, instantly weaving into a lethal cage that firmly enveloped Jiang Chen.

At this moment, he was like a lonely boat in a raging sea, looking around at the vastness, with the storm pressing down from above, leaving no path of retreat.

Yet, even in this desperate situation, his expression remained unchanged, and his tone was still indifferent: "The True Dragon Saint-Slaying Technique summons dragon breath; how can the power of its true form be compared to a half-baked product like yours? Open your dog eyes—and watch clearly."

Before the words faded, he flicked his sleeve.

Crimson flames soared into the sky, instantly covering the entire firmament like a burning ocean, heat waves rolling and steaming the heavens and earth.

The entire battlefield instantly turned into a giant furnace. The onlookers were sweating like rain, their clothes soaked through, and even breathing brought a burning pain.

And Venerable Divine Dragon, who was at the heart of the array, turned pale—he clearly felt that the oncoming crimson sea of fire had an aura as deep as an abyss and as intense as a prison, far exceeding the dragon breath he had summoned by a hundred times! It was simply not in the same realm!

This was enough to prove that Jiang Chen's proficiency in the True Dragon Saint-Slaying Technique was far beyond his own, and by more than just a notch.

His chest felt stifled, a metallic taste filled his throat, and he could not swallow this defeat.

Venerable Divine Dragon's eyes bulged, bloodshot and dense. He roared hoarsely: "Jiang Chen! You must have used a forbidden technique to suppress me! I do not accept this—watch my trump card!"

Before he finished speaking, thirty-six streaks of intense divine light burst from his brow. Each one moved and leaped like a living creature, with ten thousand rays of colorful light and a thousand strands of auspicious energy—they were remarkably thirty-six pieces of natal spiritual treasures!

In an instant, the thirty-six treasures arranged themselves in the air, forming the Earth Fiend Array. The pitch-black dragon breath was forcibly sucked into it, the array patterns humming and trembling, actually condensing a destructive aura capable of tearing apart the universe and annihilating all spirits.

But Jiang Chen did not even lift an eyelid. "Under the ultimate meaning of the Crimson Dragon Burning Heaven, your dying struggle is nothing but a candle in the wind."

He lightly raised his sleeve, and the crimson dragon breath surged violently, turning into a monstrous sea of fire. It churned like a raging tide, more like a world-burning flame demon crawling out of the abyss, carrying the momentum to burn the eight wildernesses, and charged straight at the array!

Venerable Divine Dragon's eyes were bloodshot. He gritted his teeth, drained all his divine power, and poured it wildly into the array eye!

Boom—!!!

The moment the two forces collided, the thirty-six spiritual treasures could not even let out a whimper before they twisted, melted, and crumbled into specks of fireflies in the crimson flames, turning into fly ash in the blink of an eye.

The remaining momentum of the sea of fire did not diminish. Like a giant python swallowing the sky, it rushed straight at Venerable Divine Dragon's physical body!

"No—!" He was terrified out of his wits. In the face of life and death, he hastily opened ten layers of dragon breath barriers, stacked layer upon layer, as thick as mountains.

But the crimson flames just rolled over, and the ten layers of barriers were like thin paper meeting a knife, burning away with a sizzling sound. Venerable Divine Dragon's scream was stuck in his throat, and his physical body and primordial spirit evaporated into blue smoke together, leaving no trace behind.

The Imperial Lord and the Qin Emperor witnessed this scene, their livers and gallbladders splitting. They turned around, unleashed divine rainbows, and fled with all their might!

Swish!

Two streaks of silver-white destructive divine light shot out from Jiang Chen's eyes, so fast that not even an afterimage was left—the Imperial Lord and the Qin Emperor exploded into a sky full of blood mist on the spot. Their primordial spirits had only just escaped half an inch before they were shredded into annihilation by the light blades.

Jiang Chen stood in the air, his sleeves fluttering, looking down at the officials of the Great Qin Divine Dynasty who were kneeling and trembling below, their faces devoid of color.

"From this day forth, the Great Qin Divine Dynasty is stricken from the records. It shall be renamed the 'Faith Divine Dynasty'. You must all exert your full strength to gather the faith of all living beings for me. Those who disobey—" He pointed slightly with his fingertip at the two charred remains on the ground that were still emitting blue smoke, "—you have all seen the outcome."

Great Qin was a dynasty built on iron-fisted power, relying on the Imperial Lord's suppression and the intimidation of the strong. Now that their backbone was destroyed, the officials knew that the pillar of heaven had collapsed, and there was no longer any chance of luck.

"We are willing to serve unto death! We swear to follow Lord Jiang Chen to the death!" The Left Prime Minister's voice trembled, his forehead pressed against the cold jade steps, cold sweat soaking his court robes.

Seeing this, the Right Chancellor's knees went weak, and he fell to his knees with a thud, scrambling to shout: "As long as Lord has orders, this old official will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

With the two of them kneeling, the entire court of civil and military officials fell to the ground in a flurry, kowtowing like they were pounding garlic.

Jiang Chen nodded, his expression indifferent, and then spoke: "Who has the treasure map fragments of the place where Donghuang Taiyi sleeps?"

"It is in the secret treasury box! We will present it immediately!" The Left Prime Minister bowed and hurried off, personally leading people to retrieve it, holding it to his chest with both hands: "Lord, this is the last fragment of the map."

Jiang Chen took it and brought out the two pieces he had obtained. Putting the three pieces together, it was clearly missing a corner—the edge was sharp, and the lines were distinct; it was clearly gouged out by force.

His gaze darkened slightly: The remaining piece must be in the hands of the Descendants of the Demon Race. Otherwise, they would not be searching the entire star field frantically for traces of the fragments.

Since that is the case, the next target is the lair where the Descendants of the Demon Race are entrenched.

The harvest from this battle was bountiful; his Second Primordial Spirit had faintly touched the threshold of the peak of Mysterious Immortal, and he needed to enter seclusion to stabilize it.

He summoned Wuming and ordered him to handle the aftermath of the affairs on Flame Star, while he himself split the void, opened up another blessed land, and focused on his seclusion.