Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

"Impossible! No one in this world can withstand my Icebound Thousand Years with their physical body! It’s impossible..."

Duann Shuiliu roared, his face contorted in a savage expression.

He thrust a palm through the air. As True Essence surged, the wind and snow in the sky instantly gathered.

It coalesced into an icy palm the size of a small mountain.

The surface of the icy palm was covered in fine, dense patterns, containing the Secrets of Ice.

Jiang Chen remained expressionless, one hand behind his back as he pointed a single finger forward.

There was no fluctuation of True Essence whatsoever.

He merely used his physical body, tapping the center of the icy palm with his finger.

BUZZ...

The icy palm abruptly froze in place.

Immediately after, at the point of contact between Jiang Chen’s finger and the icy palm, a spray of ice chips suddenly burst forth. A crack appeared, followed by a second and a third.

CRACK... CRACK... CRACK...

Amidst a series of crisp cracking sounds.

Fissures continuously spread across the icy palm, covering its entire surface like a spiderweb.

With a loud BANG.

The mountain-sized icy palm violently exploded, sending shards of ice flying everywhere.

"Such a powerful physical body..." Duann Shuiliu sucked in a sharp breath of cold air.

He was starting to believe that Jiang Chen had indeed used his physical body to shatter his Icebound Thousand Years.

’Impossible! This has to be a coincidence! How could there be someone with such a monstrous body? It must be a coincidence!’

Duann Shuiliu’s features twisted, his eyes glowing with a blood-red, chilling light, as if looking for someone to devour.

"Blade, come!"

He made a grasping motion in the air, and the Battle Blade that had fallen in the distance buzzed, flew through the air, and landed in his palm.

True Essence surged around Duann Shuiliu, causing his blue battle robes to flutter violently. An Ice and Snow Storm swirled around him. With a raise of his arm, he slashed out again. "Icebound Thousand Years, kill!"

"Shatter!"

Jiang Chen’s gaze was frigid as a dark golden light pulsed from his body.

He charged out abruptly!

One punch, carrying the shadow of an Azure Dragon!

BOOM...

The punch viciously smashed into the blue blade light. A layer of frost covered his fist and began to spread up his arm.

Jiang Chen was neither afraid nor flustered.

He let out a cold snort. His body trembled, and as the dark golden light pulsed, he directly shattered the thick layer of solid ice.

"Iron Fist Wudi!"

Jiang Chen’s fists instantly blurred into a dense flurry of shadows, smashing forward like a raging tempest.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Punch after punch followed, thousands upon thousands thrown in an instant. These powerful iron fists hammered against the blue ice blade. It was like quarrying a mountain, forcefully smashing the blue ice blade to pieces inch by inch. Under Jiang Chen’s Iron Fists, the several-hundred-zhang-long blade light turned into a sky full of ice shards.

"Impossible, this is impossible..." Duann Shuiliu was dumbfounded, his whole body trembling.

Fear flooded his heart.

’Who could have imagined that such a horrifying physical body existed in this world!’

’To use a physical body to completely crush my strongest attack!’

’How terrifying!’

BANG!

The last bit of the ice blade shattered. Jiang Chen and Duann Shuiliu were now face to face. The corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth lifted slightly as he threw a vicious punch.

"Ice and Snow World!"

"Profound Ice Blade Shield!"

"Block it...!"

Duann Shuiliu frantically waved his Battle Blade.

An Ice and Snow Storm and a Cold Ice Blade Shield all appeared before him.

Jiang Chen remained unstoppable!

His Iron Fist crossed the sky...

BOOM!

One punch smashed through, pulverizing the streaks of icy blade light. He hammered with both fists simultaneously, like beating a war drum, producing a dull THUD-THUD sound as they struck the blade shield.

The entire blade shield exploded.

"Go down!"

Jiang Chen shouted coldly and threw a punch...

BANG!

A fist smashed into Duann Shuiliu’s face.

"WAARGH..."

Duann Shuiliu was sent flying backward.

Jiang Chen pushed off the void, gave chase, and clasped his hands high above his head, bringing them down like a heavy hammer.

BOOM...

This strike landed viciously on Duann Shuiliu’s chest.

CRACK!

The sound of breaking bones was especially jarring. Duann Shuiliu let out a wretched scream as he was smashed toward the ground. Jiang Chen pursued him again. The moment Duann Shuiliu hit the ground, Jiang Chen relentlessly swung his fists, a dense flurry of shadows raining down.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM...

Punch after punch landed on Duann Shuiliu’s body.

His shoulders shattered, his ribs broke, his head was crushed to pulp, and his entire body was beaten until it resembled a pile of mud.

"Die!"

Jiang Chen roared and smashed a fist into his heart.

BANG...

The Iron Fist landed on his chest, instantly sending out ripples of power. The force was so immense that it seemed to make the very void tremble.

As the ripples of power spread.

Amidst a series of crisp CRACKS, Duann Shuiliu’s flesh burst apart, his bones exploded, and his entire body was smashed into a pool of gore!

He couldn’t be any more dead!

’He was a powerhouse ranked two-thousandth on the Human Venerable List, after all. Can’t let him go to waste!’ Jiang Chen’s lips curved as he activated the Heaven-Swallowing Secret Technique.

BUZZ!

His five Life Palaces began to spin.

A Devouring Power emerged from the Profound Yellow Melting Furnace, enveloping Duann Shuiliu’s corpse. Streams of Essence Blood were devoured, and an Ice Martial Soul, struggling violently, was directly swallowed into the Profound Yellow Melting Furnace. Jiang Chen’s gaze was icy. "Refine!"

BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!

The Profound Yellow Melting Furnace activated completely, erupting with a brilliant golden light inside Jiang Chen’s body.

Under the continuous refinement.

The infinite blood and qi and power contained within the Essence Blood were devoured by his Life Palaces. The Ice Martial Soul was also transformed into the purest form of energy and consumed by the God-slaying Sword.

This was a Celestial Tier Eighth Grade Martial Soul.

However, it only made the God-slaying Sword’s light more brilliant and radiant; it didn’t level up.

On the other hand, the Secrets of Water and Secrets of Wind that Duann Shuiliu had mastered transformed into Mystical Essence. After Jiang Chen devoured them, the Secrets of Wind and Secrets of Water within his own body stirred, on the verge of advancing to Tier Four Middle Level.

"Still just a little bit away from breaking through to Tier Four Middle Level." Jiang Chen sighed with regret.

He glanced at the shriveled, mangled corpse on the ground and stomped his foot.

A shockwave enveloped Duann Shuiliu’s remains, blasting them into dust, leaving not even bones behind.

"Brother Wuu Rui, and all the innocent members of the Purple Wind Clan who died, I have avenged you!" Jiang Chen took a deep breath, then glanced toward the outskirts of Purple Wind City. It was chaos outside.

The experts from the Royal Family and the Ice King Race held an absolute advantage in numbers!

The Purple Wind Clan was at a disadvantage!

A glint flashed in Jiang Chen’s eyes. ’If this continues, the Purple Wind Clan will surely be defeated. It seems I must help those afflicted by the Soul-Loss Gu recover as quickly as possible!’

At this thought.

Jiang Chen had already made a decision.

The Purple Wind Clan experts afflicted by the Soul-Loss Gu had lost too much blood and qi; they needed to rest and recuperate.

But the situation was urgent.

Jiang Chen could only resort to extraordinary measures: using the Heaven-Swallowing Secret Technique to refine the blood and qi of the fallen Purple Wind Clan members and transfer it into the bodies of the poisoned clansmen.

’I’m sorry, everyone!’

Jiang Chen swept his gaze over the mountains of corpses and the Xue Hex surrounding the training grounds, his expression extremely grave. He abruptly activated the Heaven-Swallowing Secret Technique.

WHOOSH...

Streams of Essence Blood converged into an unparalleled Xue Hex, surging madly toward Jiang Chen and coalescing into a giant sphere of blood around him. Inside his body, the five Life Palaces spun wildly, and the Profound Yellow Melting Furnace operated at full force, refining this massive amount of Essence Blood.

Hundreds of thousands of clansmen had died outside the training grounds.

Though each contributed little, the total amount added up. The richness of the blood and qi contained within all this blood was enough to awaken the hundred thousand poisoned clan members!

"Blood and Qi Infusion!"

Jiang Chen let out a cold cry. Burning his Divine Thought Power furiously, he shot streams of blood and qi into the bodies of the more than one hundred thousand Purple Wind Clan members.

WHOOSH!

Above the training grounds, Jiang Chen stood suspended in mid-air. Streams of blood and qi converged into long rainbows, blanketing the more than one hundred thousand people.

The time it takes to drink a cup of tea passed...

All the blood and qi had been transferred. Jiang Chen was drenched in sweat and pale with exhaustion, but his face was filled with ecstatic joy.

Under Jiang Chen’s watchful gaze, the more than one hundred thousand poisoned members of the Purple Wind Clan opened their eyes in unison...