<h4>Chapter 1549 (Raw 1531): Blood-Soaked Dragon Emperor</h4>


    While it was clearly day, the world outside was inplete darkness.


    When Xiao Chen walked out of the Azure Dragon Pce, he found that he was far from the battlefield in the Profound Domain. However, this ce should not be the Tianwu Domain, either, as he had never been here before.


    Xiao Chen looked at the sky. The demonic clouds overhead made the ce dark and hid the sky and the sun.


    Using his sharp senses, he looked in the direction of Kunlun Mountain. The sounds of the battle there were already faint.


    He could only vaguely feel some auras. Even so, those still felt frightening. The battle taking ce there would decide the fate of the Kunlun Realm.


    Without a miracle, the fall of the Kunlun Realm was just a matter of time.


    The Demonic God was practically immortal. Even after half its body was destroyed, it could still recover to a perfect state. The ordinary cultivators on Kunlun Mountain were also facing the Demon Race cultivators whose potentials were being overdrawn. This was a peak battle, different from an ordinary battle.


    No matter which side won, they would immediately gather their allies and bring about a swift conclusion to this desperate battle.


    Since Xiao Chen arrived in this world, he had never experienced such an intense battle before. Even his bloody Emperor’s Road was not even a thousandth as intense as this battle.


    One moment before, Xiao Chen’s friends were still alive. Perhaps, they would die in the next second. Scenes of parting happened at every moment.


    This battle would not have any winners. The Demons were just pitiful creatures that had been kidnapped by the Dark Church. From the moment they offered their souls to the Demonic God, they were fated never to betray it.


    The Thunder Sovereign had turned into something neither human nor ghost. Clearly, this was not what he wanted. After ten thousand years of plotting, he still ended up a loser.


    How pitiful,mentable, but even more so, how hateful.


    Now that Xiao Chen was no longer on the battlefield, his anxious heart managed to catch a rare moment of tranquility. During this time, he thought of many things.


    The death of the Cyclic Astral Lord hade as a great shock to Xiao Chen. This was the man who once used the Oath Stone to pressure Xiao Chen, yet he died.


    With the death of the person that Xiao Chen made the oath to, the oath no longer applied.


    However, Xiao Chen did not feel rxed at all. At this moment, when he looked at the distant Kunlun Mountain, many scenes shed in his mind.


    Many people used their lives to bet on Xiao Chen.


    This time, Xiao Chen could only seed; failure was not permissible.


    He gently pushed off with his feet and soared into the air. Then, he looked around, searching for a suitable ce.


    After a while, Xiao Chennded atop a mountain and sat down cross-legged.


    It was not easy to break through to the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation’s tenthyer—a level that brushed the limit of strength that this world’s Heavenly Dao permitted.


    Since the seventhyer, every breakthrough brought Xiao Chen experiences that were carved into his bones.


    When he remembered them, aside from pain, only the word “danger” came to mind.


    “Sky Dome Immortal Lord, if I die in the hands of your Cultivation Technique, don’tugh at me.”


    Before starting, Xiao Chen mocked himself, rxing his mood.


    Then, the smile on his face vanished as he turned serious. He inhaled a deep breath of air before closing his eyes.


    Like something ordinary like eating or drinking, the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation started circting in Xiao Chen’s body very naturally. He had been practicing this Cultivation Technique every day and every night and was now extremely familiar with it. Even if he was unconscious, his body would automatically circte it. He was simply too familiar with it.


    The Veritable Essence Energy moved, flowing through Xiao Chen’s meridians. The lightning-attributed Spiritual Energy in the world quickly gathered at his body.


    After the Veritable Essence Energy circted one major cycle, the area around Xiao Chen started flickering with crackling electric light.


    Normally, one should stop here; it was enough already.


    However, now, Xiao Chen was trying to break through, so he clearly could not stop. He calmed himself and opened up minor meridians. With every seedingyer, the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation would flow through even more meridians.


    The so-called breakthrough was the opening of new meridians, making the major cycle even longer.


    This allowed one to absorb even more energy at an even faster pace.


    This was originally a rather difficult process. However, Xiao Chen had two years of umtions, so it was not difficult.


    The difficult part was that when he opened the meridians needed for the tenthyer of the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation, a Lightning Tribtion would descend.


    Only when Xiao Chen truly cleared the Lightning Tribtions would he be considered to have broken through to the tenthyer. Otherwise, it was pointless. Furthermore, he was trying to do something even more dangerous: to use the Lightning Tribtions’ energy to stir up the scarlet dragon seal.


    Time passed by the second. When Xiao Chen opened thest minor meridian, tribtion clouds appeared above him.


    “Boom!”


    Very straightforwardly, a purple lightning bolt tore through the sky andnded on Xiao Chen.


    “It’s starting.”


    Xiao Chen opened his eyes and silently endured the Lightning Tribtions as theyshed down continuously.


    When the lightning bolts struck his body, he directed the energy of the Lightning Tribtion to smash into the scarlet dragon seal in his dantian.


    The scarlet dragon seal, which was the size of half his palm, felt like it was a vast and boundless sea with the energy of the Lightning Tribtions as drops of dew. As this energy struck it, it did not move at all.


    Xiao Chen was in no rush. ording to his experience, the Lightning Tribtions would slowly intensify.


    This matter could not be rushed. Using the energy of the Lightning Tribtion was extremely risky. Previously, Xiao Chen would do his best to block the energy of the Lightning Tribtion outside his body. This time, however, he was doing his best to absorb them into his body.


    If he was careless, he would lose control of the Lightning Tribtion’s energy, which would then explode in his body. Barring the unexpected, he would end up exploding on the spot, his bodypletely ripped apart, not leaving anything behind when he died.


    “Boom!”


    After about seven minutes, a divine dragon treasure pce formed by lightning descended. Its immense might and pressure immediately pulverized the mountain that Xiao Chen sat on.


    “Rumble...” Before the lightning bolt even arrived, the tall mountain was already destroyed.


    Xiao Chen felt very nervous. When the lightning boltnded, sparks flew off his skin. His numbed body, which was already in incredible pain, felt like it would crumble.


    He pulled through by sheer willpower, directing the energy of the Lightning Tribtion through his meridians.


    “Rumble...” The energy of the Lightning Tribtion was like an unruly wild horse galloping very quickly. It took a lot of effort for Xiao Chen to control it.


    “Bang!”


    This time, the scarlet dragon seal, which had not reacted so far, finally shook for a moment.


    It was just a moment, not even a second. If Xiao Chen had not been watching closely, he would have thought that he saw wrong.


    The thing that Xiao Chen never noticed was that the instant the scarlet dragon seal shook, countless scarlet particles came out of the dragon seal and merged into his blood vessels, helping his physical body recover.


    His bloodline vaguely became stronger.


    Xiao Chenughed loudly towards the sky and said, “You deceitful heavens, again!”


    Ten thousand bolts of lightning shed and gathered, turning into a ferocious, venomous lightning snake trying to bite him.


    Before the first wave was over, another wave came. Xiao Chen was like a small boat in the sea, bobbing up and down in a sea of berserk Lightning Tribtions.


    The time that the scarlet dragon seal shook increased with each tribtion. The various signs indicated that the scarlet dragon seal could be truly stirred up.


    Suddenly, the storm-like lightning stopped.


    The entire ce turned quiet. Was the Lightning Tribtion over? No! The tribtion clouds were merely brewing up an even more ferocious Lightning Tribtion—which was also thest set of Lightning Tribtions.


    The tip of a sword suddenly came out of the clouds, which gave off a sound akin to ten thousand horses galloping.


    “The Lightning Tribtions turning into a weapon!”


    The sight of the Lightning Tribtions turning into a weapon gave the impression that he hadmitted a major offense and was being executed by the Heavenly Dao. It also shocked him to his senses; he had forgotten this.


    Oh no! Even if I can withstand this Lightning Tribtion weapon, I have no way of drawing it into my body.


    Sharpness. Aside from berserk energy, this Lightning Tribtion weapon also had a sharp edge.


    “Whoosh!”


    The Lightning Tribtion weapon arrived instantly, so fast that Xiao Chen could not react.


    The tip of the sword entered Xiao Chen’s head without drawing any blood.


    I’m fine?


    However, in the next second, Xiao Chen’s expression changed radically. This Lightning Tribtion was here for his physical body. Itpletely ignored his defenses and wanted to explode inside his body.


    As the Lightning Tribtion weapon entered his body, it continuously shrank.


    Electric light shone throughout his body, turning it transparent. His internal organs, flesh, blood, bones, and marrow were all visible.


    This condensation of the lightning-attributed energy would allow the energy of the Lightning Tribtion topress over and over again without pause—until it exploded and vaporized Xiao Chen instantly.


    In reality, it was not yet time for this breakthrough.


    If not for the scarlet dragon seal quietly and slowly strengthening Xiao Chen’s bloodline, with his current physical body, there was no way for him tost until now.


    Given his physical body, enduring up to this point should have been impossible. There were only twelveyers to the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation. The dangers of thest threeyers far surpassed his expectations.


    Xiao Chen watched wide-eyed as that Lightning Tribtion weaponpressed in his body, unable to do anything.


    The Lightning Tribtion weapon condensed into a small dot. Its light was already as resplendent and dazzling as the sun. There was no earth-shattering boom.


    Amid silence, the final Lightning Tribtion exploded.


    Before Xiao Chen had any time to think, his flesh, blood, bones, and marrow all vaporized on the spot.


    Only a coiling Azure Dragon image was left, tightly wrapped around the scarlet dragon seal.


    “Whoosh!”


    It seemed like something awoke in the scarlet dragon seal. Then, the Azure Dragon image opened its eyes.


    They were a pair of cold scarlet eyes, proud and aloof, looking down on the entire world.


    “Interesting. This barrennd actually produced an inheritor that dares to show me his temper. The secrets in his body are also plentiful. You shall be the one!”