104: Beneath the hidden realm, all are but ants!

Chu Ye couldn't dodge in time.

He still took a slash.

As Chu Ye spat blood and fell toward the sea, a life-saving Jade Slip slid out of his sleeve.

The moment the spatial teleportation array lit up, Lu Chen's blade tip was a fraction slow, only flicking away the jade pendant at his waist!

Lu Chen gazed at Chu Ye, who had escaped into the magic array.

Coldly, he said, "Tell your third brother—send some decent toys next time."

The jade pendant was crushed to dust in Lu Chen's hand!

The wreckage of the Templar Knights' fleet began to self-destruct, and the Presiding Judge transformed into a giant of light amidst the flames.

Morning Dew's six wings suddenly split into a seventh pair of phantoms, and the holy stigmata formed a crown of thorns on her forehead: "Isaiah—Chapter 63!"

Although Morning Dew was not an orthodox priest of the Holy See.

She... she was actually so proficient in the Secret Tome of Holy Light.

On this point alone, Lu Chen's earlier intuition had been correct.

These three women were a tremendous help to both him and Xiwei.

He just didn't know why their fates were so aligned with his own.

Lu Chen began to have some simple conjectures in his heart.

Morning Dew's Divine Staff pierced the chest of the light giant, devouring all the Holy Light.

The Magic Association's airship fleet was currently being crushed by a storm vortex!

This time, the Magic Association and the Holy See had joined forces.

Coming to the Pacific Ocean, they wanted to split the hidden treasures here.

They never expected to encounter such a difficult situation!

In her desperation, the Holy See's female consultant directly brought out her trump card!

She directly tore open this treasured scroll!

"Void Banishment—!"

The magic scroll exploded with mana.

It was actually a forbidden-rank scroll!

The entire cross stele area began to quantize; at the critical moment, Sun Feifei, protecting Xiwei, threw out her family's heirloom bronze compass.

Using the protective treasure, she temporarily solidified the space.

A follower behind Sun Feifei coughed up blood and smiled, "Young Miss, you didn't say the intensity would be this high! But if we win, we'll make a massive profit!"

Shelley condensed an ice crown with magic, releasing an absolute zero shockwave that froze the last three submarines into ice sculptures.

Ignis took the opportunity to inject the overbearing power of the Molten Heart—the heart of a Flame Demon descendant—directly into the seabed!

Ignis wanted to directly trigger an undersea volcano!

This method was clever and domineering.

Even if it destroyed the ocean environment, she wouldn't hesitate.

When Ignis took on her True Body of the Flame Demon, her eyes held only a thirst for slaughter.

The erupting undersea volcano swallowed all of the Chu Clan's shadow guards.

When the smoke cleared, Lu Chen was using the hem of Ning Xiwei's skirt to wipe his blade.

Sun Feifei suddenly came over, grabbed his collar, and looked him up and down carefully for a long while!

"Little Skeleton, you've changed! Are you really the skeleton Wei'er summoned?" Sun Feifei's eyes could see through magic disguises, but on Lu Chen, she saw real flesh and blood!

This took her by surprise!

Sun Feifei actually thought Lu Chen's human form...

...was quite tall and handsome.

She couldn't help saying, "How do you look even more like a pretty boy than Chu Ye? Quite handsome!"

Suddenly, a bell chimed from the deep sea, and the cross stele beneath everyone's feet began to sink.

Lu Chen pulled the four exhausted girls onto the golden compass, and Sun Feifei followed close behind.

"Everyone, hold on tight."

As Lu Chen spoke, he turned to a sixth-tier mage brought by Sun Feifei and said, "Brother, please go and inform Chu Jian—"

Pausing, as the bronze giant gate rose from the undersea vortex, Lu Chen spoke with resounding force:

"The next battlefield will be in the Ancient Secret Realm—the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor."

The dark clouds over the Pacific Ocean were like cotton soaked in ink, with blood-colored lightning snaking through the clouds, illuminating the cross stele—the crystallized tomb of gods and demons—like a monument of Hell.

Lu Chen stood with his hands behind his back at a crack atop the stele, stepping on the half of a python robe left behind by Chu Ye, molten patterns swirling like a galactic vortex in his pupils.

"Your Excellency the Presiding Judge, do you realize—" He suddenly raised his hand and caught a bolt of blood-colored lightning, the thunderlight turning into a docile swimming dragon between his fingers, "—that you are desecrating your own faith?"

The deck of the Holy See's flagship exploded into charred pits, and the silver armor of twelve Templar Knights melted into molten iron in the thunderlight.

Presiding Judge Abraham's beard was singed with sparks, and the holy relic atop his scepter cracked with fine lines!

"This is impossible... How can an undead creature manipulate heavenly thunder!? In our faith, heavenly thunder is also an incomparably sacred power; we call it Holy Thunder. How can you control it? What on earth are you!?"

Lu Chen gave a light laugh, and the thunder dragon soared from his palm, exploding into the Hebrew word for "Hypocrisy" above the fleet.

Lightning scorched through the magic airships' shields, burning the Magic Association's hexagram flags to ashes.

"Aaaah!" The scream of the female consultant, a purple-robed old woman, was instantly drowned out by the thunder. "Presiding Judge! Stop him!"

The female consultant brandished the Void Scepter, and a star chart had just lit up in an attempt to block the heavenly thunder.

At that moment, Shelley's ice crown suddenly refracted an aurora, freezing the entire matrix blocking the thunder into an ice sculpture.

"And me!"

Shelley stood beside Lu Chen like an ice princess.

Declaring her stance.

Ignis stepped on a lava pillar and leaped onto the flagship's mast, the sulfurous wind from her demon wings igniting the sails: "Old man, you'd better worry about your wig first!"

The lava bead she flicked from her fingertip accurately hit the top of the Presiding Judge's head, and his silvery-white wig immediately began to smoke.

Ning Xiwei's bone sword plunged into the deck, and the eerie light released by the nether moon pendant enveloped half the fleet!

"Erosion Magic—!"

With the help of Lu Chen's power, Xiwei erupted with a powerful Power of the Undead that climbed up the mast.

Directly twisting the cannon barrels into the kneeling posture of a penitent!

"Who gave you permission to fire at Little Skeleton!"

The Presiding Judge knelt on the ground, somewhat exhausted, as the top of his scepter let out a mournful cry.

His cloudy pupils reflected the phantom gradually solidifying behind Lu Chen—it was a demon god!

A demon god holding thunder in his left hand and grasping a storm in his right.

There was even a third eye, shaped like a geared compass, embedded in his forehead.

In the eyes of this judge!

Lu Chen was so invincible!

"You... Are you... not an undead creature?" Abraham's silver armor cracked under the Divine Might. "Are you an existence at the level of an Ancient God?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen glanced at himself.

A contemptuous smile played on his lips!

Was he?

At least for now, he was!

Lu Chen stepped down from the void on stairs of thunder, each step causing spatial ripples!

"To reap the benefits of others' labor requires capital! Let me tell you, there's only one identity I like right now." Lu Chen's well-defined finger pointed toward Ning Xiwei not far away. "—Just a certain young girl's exclusive skeleton."

In a secret cave deep under the sea, Chu Ye crushed his seventh healing Jade Talisman.

The images reflected in the crystal ball made his throat feel sweet with blood!

"Third Brother was right. This skeleton indeed carries the aura of the ancient Huaxia people... It even has the same aura as the undead aura from the rumored strongest Secret Realm in Huaxia, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor!"

As Chu Ye spoke, he pulled open his lapel, and a bronze sword tattoo appeared on his chest.

"It seems I have no choice but to activate the backup plan. Using undead against undead—my Chu family's forbidden magic, one of the ancient immortal arts: Ghost Soldiers!"