Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

The Netherworld, where the Six Mountains Dynasty was located, was separated from the Cloud Domain by three whole domains.

The distance was immense.

Even at Jiang Chen’s speed, it would take a couple of weeks to cross a single domain. With the Mystic Sect’s opening imminent, he couldn’t afford to waste so much time on the road.

His first destination was the Jiuhua Celestial Sect.

He would use their Teleportation Array to enter the Red Gold Realm, then use the Red Gold Realm’s array to travel to the Six Mountains Dynasty.

This was the fastest route!

While flying through the Cloud Domain, Jiang Chen maintained an altitude of ten thousand meters, making it difficult for ordinary people to spot him.

He slipped into the Jiuhua Celestial Sect unnoticed and used their Teleportation Array to travel to the neighboring Red Gold Realm.

Red Gold Realm, Yaojin City!

This place was controlled by the Five Elements Dynasty. Although their strength couldn’t match a top-tier Upper Grade Dynasty, they had their own means of protection and hadn’t been drawn into the war.

Yaojin City was the Imperial Capital of the Five Elements Dynasty.

The Teleportation Array was controlled by the Royal Family. During this critical time, a hundred thousand soldiers of the Forbidden Guard stood watch before it.

"It’s all thanks to His Majesty’s close relationship with the Sovereign of the Fengyang Ancient Country that our Red Gold Realm has been spared from disaster!"

"I heard the Cloud Domain was jointly attacked by the Six Mountains Dynasty and the Fengyang Ancient Country. The place is a wasteland, and the people are utterly miserable!"

"I think His Majesty is being overly cautious. Who would even use a Teleportation Array to come here at a time like this?"

A group of Forbidden Guard soldiers were chatting in hushed whispers.

Suddenly...

The Teleportation Array exploded with light.

The hundred thousand Forbidden Guards reacted as if facing a great enemy, raising their weapons and staring tensely at the Teleportation Array.

But in the next moment...

Cries of alarm, sounds of retching, and the clatter of weapons falling to the ground erupted from among the hundred thousand Forbidden Guards.

"Ho-holy shit..."

"Is... is that a Killing God from the Underworld?"

"Oh my god, I think I’m going to faint..."

"BLEGH..."

Inside the Teleportation Array.

A youth in black robes slowly materialized. Behind him followed a dense, horrifying swarm of five hundred thousand severed heads.

Bloody, severed heads, each one floating in mid-air.

The eyes on every head were wide open, filled with unwillingness and despair.

Jiang Chen swept his gaze over the crowd, frowning slightly. In a deep voice, he asked, "Who is in charge here?"

"I... I am. It’s me..."

A middle-aged general in Golden Armor stepped forward. His cultivation had reached the Seventh Stage of the Human King Realm, and he was an expert ranked on the Earth Venerable List. But at this moment, his face was deathly pale as he looked at Jiang Chen with trepidation. "S-Sir," he asked tentatively, "I am the Commander of the Five Elements Dynasty’s Forbidden Guard. How may I be of service?"

"Don’t worry, I have no intention of troubling the Five Elements Dynasty," Jiang Chen said calmly. "Just open the Teleportation Array to the Six Mountains Dynasty for me."

"S-Sir, I don’t have the authority for that. I must report this to His Majesty!" the Commander said.

Jiang Chen frowned. "Hurry up, then."

"Yes!"

The Commander fled in a hurry, as if granted a royal pardon.

A short while later...

A middle-aged man in a golden dragon robe and a Purple Jade Crown descended from the sky with a group of experts. When they saw the five hundred thousand heads floating behind Jiang Chen, they couldn’t help but gasp.

The man in the dragon robe was Su Qian, the Emperor of the Five Elements Dynasty.

The corner of Su Qian’s eye twitched. He was a mighty Human Emperor, yet even he had to humble himself. "I am the Emperor of the Five Elements Dynasty. My subordinate reported that you wish to travel to the Six Mountains Dynasty, young friend?"

"That’s right."

Jiang Chen nodded, looking Su Qian up and down. "Please open the way."

"This..."

Su Qian hesitated before asking gravely, "May I ask for what reason you wish to go to the Six Mountains Dynasty?"

The Six Mountains Dynasty was currently expanding in all directions, conquering its neighbors.

Thanks to their relationship with the Fengyang Ancient Country, the Six Mountains Dynasty wouldn’t invade them lightly. However, if he gave the Six Mountains Dynasty a valid excuse, their grand army would descend, and not even the Fengyang Ancient Country could protect the Five Elements Dynasty.

Su Qian had no choice but to be hesitant.

Jiang Chen glanced at him and coolly uttered two words: "To kill."

HISS!

Su Qian sucked in a sharp breath.

To kill...

’Could a reason be any more direct?’ he thought.

Su Qian looked awkward. His first instinct was to refuse, but when he glanced at the five hundred thousand heads floating behind Jiang Chen, his heart skipped a beat. With a wry smile, he said, "I understand. I’ll have the Teleportation Array opened for you right away, young friend."

A few moments later.

The array activated.

Just as Jiang Chen was about to step into the array, Su Qian hurriedly asked, "Young friend, may I be so bold as to ask your name?"

Jiang Chen didn’t break his stride. As he stepped into the array, his indifferent voice echoed out: "Jiang! Chen!"

WHOOSH!

His figure was swallowed by the Teleportation Array.

"Jiang Chen?"

"He... he’s Jiang Chen from the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect in the Cloud Domain?"

"The same Jiang Chen who reigns at number one on the Human Venerable List and is also ranked on the Earth Venerable List? The prodigy on two lists?"

"I remember the Six Mountains Dynasty sent two waves of experts to attack the Cloud Domain... one even included the Black Demon Army... Wait a minute, among those heads, I think I saw Black Yama, ranked twenty-third on the Earth Venerable List!"

"Holy shit, don’t tell me Jiang Chen wiped out the entire Black Demon Army? He’s taking the heads of hundreds of thousands of their soldiers to the Six Mountains Dynasty. This... something huge is about to happen!"

"Quick, inform the Fengyang Ancient Country!"

The Five Elements Dynasty fell into chaos.

News of Jiang Chen heading to the Six Mountains Dynasty, carrying the five hundred thousand heads of the Black Demon Army’s soldiers, spread like a plague across the Eastern Continent.

When the news first broke, everyone’s initial reaction was disbelief.

But after powerful figures purchased intelligence from the Celestial Secret Pavilion, confirming that the entire Black Demon Army had been annihilated and Black Yama had been slain by Jiang Chen outside Lingtian City...

Everyone was forced to accept the shocking truth.

"Quick, to the Six Mountains Dynasty!"

"Now this is a show worth watching! That Evil Star, Jiang Chen, is really trying to defy the heavens!"

"Hmph. Daring to go straight to the Six Mountains Dynasty? He’s courting death!"

Opinions on the matter were divided.

Countless experts rushed toward the Six Mountains Dynasty.

Jiang Chen himself was unaware of any of this. He had already used the Teleportation Array to enter the territory of the Six Mountains Dynasty.

The Six Mountains Dynasty was incredibly powerful, possessing vast lands, abundant resources, and formidable national strength.

Other kingdoms, and even entire domains, typically had only a single Teleportation Array. The Six Mountains Dynasty, however, had a full hundred, spread across its major cities. A dynasty of the Five Elements Dynasty’s rank could not connect directly to the Six Mountains Dynasty’s Imperial Capital Transmission Array. Thus, Jiang Chen was transported to Zhendong City, a major city on the Six Mountains Dynasty’s eastern frontier.

Zhendong City was a prosperous city in the Six Mountains Dynasty, ten times larger than even the Imperial Capital of the Saint Martial Dynasty.

The whole of Zhendong City was teeming with experts.

There were no legal constraints here; the word of the nobility and the royal authority was absolute.

The Teleportation Array was situated right beside the Beast Fighting Arena.

Inside the arena, a crowd of nobles was watching a group of commoners fight to the death against powerful Demon Beasts.

These commoners were slaves, captured and forced to fight beasts. They were told that survival meant freedom. Failure meant death.

In truth, however, even the commoners who were lucky enough to survive and walk out of the Beast Fighting Arena would ultimately be killed by the nobles.

To the nobility, once you became their slave, you were never allowed to be free again.

"Kill!"

"Hahaha, look at that one! The Demon Beast bit him clean in two!"

"Hell yeah! That’s what I’m talking about!"

"Useless trash! It’s just a broken leg! Keep fighting! If you make me lose my bet, I’ll have your entire family buried with you!"

The nobles shrieked with hysterical excitement.

However...

The nobles, lost in the clamor and thrilling spectacle of their bloody games, had no idea that a veritable Killing God was stepping out of the Teleportation Array right beside their arena...