Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
âYou are going to kill me?â Jiang Chen asked.
Yao Yuntong found it hard to believe too. She had seen these four people before. They were kind of famous. However, they were going to attack their peers just because the Spirit had told them to?
Listening to Jiang Chenâs question, they looked at each other questioningly, and appeared much less aggressive.
Jiang Chen raised his brow. These four were not too bad.
âWe donât want to kill you. But the trouble you made has affected us. We are not happy with that.â
âYeah.â
âIf we canât take the adventures this time, weâll have to wait for another month. The Title Battle will start soon. We donât have the time to wait.â
âWhat are you going to do? There is an Earth Spirit ahead who wants to kill you.â
The four people one by one expressed their thoughts.
âIf you trust me, we can go together. You donât have to worry even if we run into them,â Jiang Chen said.
The four were struck dumb. Not sure about Jiang Chenâs strength, they were hesitating.
âThis is the Doctrine Palace. If someone dies, theyâll just throw the corpse off the cliff, and no one will ever find it ,â one of them said.
This was to tell Jiang Chen to take this seriously. The Spirit would kill for real. If the four were not ashamed of killing a human peer, they would attack Jiang Chen for real too.
âThatâs perfect, isnât it? That means we donât have to worry about the consequences.â Jiang Chen still did not think it a big deal. He was very confident.
âIn this case, can you show us what youâve got first?â The four people still could not trust him completely. The strongest of them came forward.
âNo problem.â Jiang Chen understood them, so he did not make things more difficult for them.
âYou can call me Wu Hui.â He introduced himself. The weapon in his hand was also a sword.
Jiang Chen looked toward him. He was average-looking and of average height, but he had the elegance of a good sword cultivator, which suggested his great swordsmanship. He was a Celestial Venerable in the late stage, much stronger than Young Master Shenji.
However, Jiang Chenâs body was already the Nine Clouds Divine Body thanks to the wonderful effects brought by the Source Heaven Stone. Although his state stayed the same, thanks to the divine body, both his Alien Flame and his thunder had improved a lot.
âSo, we are going to use sword....â
Jiang Chen was not going to gain the victory by using the divine body. He drew the Red Cloud Sword out of its sheath.
âIt is a Doctrine Artifact!â
The Red cloud Sword emitted a strong heat. The blade was like a red flame, crystal and shining.
The four humanâs eyes lit up. They could even perceive a killing intent from that sword.
Everyone would expose his dark side, especially when they were in a place like the Doctrine Palace, where no one was bound by rules. However, the killing intent disappeared quickly. A thought of greed flashed by. But it was reason that had taken charge.
âPlease!â
Wu Hui attacked first. They could not fly here, so he moved forward with mysterious steps, which worked perfectly with his swordsmanship. With his unpredictable movement, he came up to Jiang Chen like a ghost.
Holding his sword in the right hand, Jiang Chen brushed against the blade with the index finger and the middle finger of his left hand. Fire was released like a fire dragon.
Wu Huiâs body was devoured by the fire immediately. Jiang Chenâs sword realm of fire emitted numerous white radiances.
However, Wu Huiâs three friends were not disturbed by such a scene. They showed complacent smiles instead.
Jiang Chen was surprised. Wu Hui suddenly showed up behind him. He had deceived Jiang Chen successfully and managed to avoid the sword realm of fire.
âThe Three Middle Realms is full of strong people,â Jiang Chen exclaimed. Taking the Red Cloud Sword back, he threw it over right away again toward Wu Hui, who was dashing toward him as well with his sword.
âThe momentum of his sword is so smooth!â
When the two swords hit, Wu Hui could not handle the quickness and the fierceness of the sword realm of fire. He turned to his mysterious steps again. His movement was once again unpredictable.
Jiang Chen made up his mind to switch on the Eye of Heaven. Looking around from a special visual angle, he would not allow anything to escape him.
Wu Hui lost his biggest advantage. He was being approached by Jiang Chenâs sword realm of fire.
âI lost!â Unable to hold out longer, Wu Hui took his sword back and went back where he had been.
âItâs almost a landslide victory.â
âHe wasnât affected by Wu Huiâs unpredictable movements. Thatâs really something.â
âMost important, he kept throwing his sword over, but it seemed he would never get exhausted. Wu Huiâs trick got him, but he still cracked Wu Huiâs sword attack.â
Amazed by Jiang Chen, Wu Huiâs three friends could not stop commending him for his performance. If they acted with Jiang Chen, they would not have to worry about Shui Muâs threat at all.
âSo, the hearsay is true. Jiang Chen has been practicing elixir refinement and martial arts techniques at the same time. He is good at everything.â
Wu Hui was totally convinced by Jiang Chen after the loss. He asked, âYou didnât go all out, did you?â
âIâm flattered,â Jiang Chen said modestly.
His Nine Clouds Divine Body was still functioning when the sword realm of fire was used. His rival had managed to hold out for several rounds. It was really amazing.
âLetâs take the challenge of the Third Palace.â
Seeing the episode over, Yao Yuntong said, âTo pass the Third Palace, we must go through this palace. There are 18 stone statues inside. When people go inside, those statues will launch attacks with their weapons.â
âIf only one person goes in, about two or three stone statues will join the attack. The more people there are, the more powerful those stone statues will be.â
She had experienced it a few times, so she knew it pretty well.
âWeâd better go inside one by one, because the stone statues will attack based on the overall strength of the group. Itâs quite unfair for those in a lower state,â Yao Yuntong said.
âYeah. The previous three people also went inside one by one. Before them there was a Spirit called Fei Yu. When we got here, he had already gone into the palace, so we didnât see him,â Wu Hui said.
Jiang Chen knew what he was implying. He said, âDonât worry. Iâll go inside first, in case there is an ambush in the Fourth Palace.â
They all agreed. They saw Jiang Chen walking into the open gate.
The gate suddenly closed as soon as he went in. The people staying outside could perceive there was a great disturbance inside, as if there was a storm of energy.
âItâs not good. Is there anything wrong? Seems all of the stone statues have woken up.â
Yao Yuntong turned pale. Among other noises, she heard the stone statues come to life.
She counted them. All of the 18 statues had woken up.
The same thing only happened when extremely strong people came here to seek treasures. Since the youngsters began to take adventures here, no one had ever received such a treatment.
âEven the Martial Emperorâs apprentice, who completed a divine piece of arts in the Civil and Martial Arts Institute, only awoke ten stone statues.â It did not make any sense to Yao Yuntong.
âWe are doomed.â Wu Hui and his three friends were also struck dumb. They could hardly believe it.
The palace was a very big place, because there was nothing that could be moved away.
However, normal-sized stone statues were situated on three walls. None of them was for decoration. Their clothes and faces were all different. So were their weapons. When Jiang Chen was standing at the center of the palace, the stone statues kept giving off noises as well as energy.
âWhatâs going on?â Jiang Chen threw them a casual glance. Then five or six statues came to life and more started coming to life. In the end, all of the stone statues started to attack him.
They were still stone statues, but all of them were like alive. They could move around as they wished. They kept spitting out noises, and the weapons in their hands started to shine. All kinds of weapons made of energies were thrown over to him in the end, including sword, knife, spear, and even furnace and calabash.
âSeriously?â
Jiang Chen was speechless. Each of these stone statues had the strength of a Celestial Venerable in the peak stage.