Dragon Blooded War God

Chapter 954: Unexpected Threat

The whole stage trembled from the impact of the Rank Two Divine-tier attack. This was the most powerful technique ever used across all twenty-thousand participants since the beginning of the round. It attracted everyone’s attention, including many people who were fighting. They were intrigued by the first duel on stage number one.

Everyone looked forward to seeing Long Chen’s response.

Long Chen held up a fist and punched very casually.

“Crushing Void!”

He punched. Ripples appeared in the surrounding space. Although it was only a Rank One Divine-tier technique, it contained Rank Two strength. Boosted by Long Chen’s powerful and abundant essence, the punch, which made the surrounding space ripple, easily shattered Gongsun Wudi’s attack. The crowd watched in shock as the punch broke a hole in the middle of the golden feather-like blades, passing through toward Gongsun Wudi.

Boom!

There was a loud explosion, and Gongsun Wudi screamed. He was thrown into the air, flying off the stage before finally being caught by a Divine Martial Realm expert from the Gongsun family.

Long Chen shattered the remaining golden blades, then landed in a stable manner.

In reality, it was not easy for his Crushing Void to defeat Gongsun Wudi’s Rank Two technique at all. It looked effortless, but Long Chen had used up all his strength for this.

As a result, he had completely suppressed Gongsun Wudi in every aspect. He was stronger than Gongsun Wudi in all aspects; therefore, Gongsun Wudi completely accepted this defeat despite his injuries.

This was just a tournament, so there was no enmity and no grudges between Long Chen and Gongsun Wudi. Long Chen had curbed the strength of his attack at the final moment because it was already sufficient to knock Gongsun Wudi off the stage.

After Gongsun Wudi was blasted away, the crowd erupted. Long Chen only looked like a Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage cultivator, but he had defeated Gongsun Wudi, who was at the peak of the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage. It was an absolute and indisputable victory. This showed that relative to Gongsun Wudi, he was even closer to the Divine Martial Realm!

Perhaps Long Chen was even strong enough to take on a Divine Martial Realm cultivator.

“This means that the guy named Long Chen should be able to enter the top three in this tournament. Or maybe he can even beat that prodigy Su Xue?”

The crowd went from doubtful to impressed. To them, Long Chen was now ranked only second to Su Xue.

Long Chen’s performance was just too impressive.

After the judges declared Long Chen the winner, everyone woke up from their shock. The eyes of the surrounding spectators filled with reverence when they looked at Long Chen. He had completely convinced them of his strength.

Even the other participants, who were at the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage and above, looked at him with respect.

This was Long Chen’s first time showing off his strength in a place packed with this many experts.

After he won, he returned to the City Lord’s side. She was waving at him. As a high-level expert, she could see clearly that if she had to pick one person to beat Su Xue amongst the twenty thousand participants, Long Chen would be the only choice.

The participants from the Gongsun family, the Fu family, and even other major factions were nowhere near his level. Although there were many participants and some performed impressively, Long Chen and Su Xue far surpassed them all.

The duels on the other stages continued.

On the way back, Long Chen glanced in the direction of the Underworld Soldiers. Su Xue and Underworld Admiral Su Tian were sitting next to Su Mo. With all three of them sitting together, just their combined gazes were enough to intimidate Long Chen greatly.

There was still an unreadable smile on Su Mo’s face, and Long Chen felt like Su Mo could see through his secrets. Su Tian had an icy expression and was glaring at Long Chen with killing intent. Su Xue was more direct—her eyes swept across Long Chen’s body with clear malice.

It was clear that after Long Chen’s performance, Su Xue also knew that he was her only rival.

Still, she did not care about him. The difference between the Heavenly Martial and Divine Martial Realms was like heaven and earth.

When Long Chen returned to the City Lord’s side, her brother hugged him excitedly, then patted his shoulder twice and said, “Not bad. You didn’t disappoint us. Next time, flatten Su Xue for me!”

Ye Xuan was not particularly mature, and he spoke in a very straightforward manner. People like that were most compatible with Long Chen.

“She’s such a pretty girl; I don’t think I should flatten her. It’s better if I give her to you,” Long Chen said jokingly, then he sat next to the City Lord and continued to watch the other fights. ???????

After this, he would only need to fight once per day.

Unless he was prematurely paired with Su Xue, this pace would be easy for him.

“Judging by your attack just now, I can tell that you have reached the third stage in your comprehension of the Sword Path, which boosts your attacking power by seven times or more. Am I right?” the City Lord suddenly whispered.

Long Chen nodded. He even had two Sword Souls, both offering a seven-time boost in attacking power. This resulted in a more than ten-time boost.

She looked at him with great respect, then said approvingly, “There are far fewer people who cultivate the Sword Path in the True Martial Territory than in the Swordsoul Palace Territory. No more than five people have reached the third stage, and I am one of them. I’m very impressed that you have achieved this at your age.”

The City Lord was telling the truth. Most people who reached the third stage of the Sword Path were over a thousand years old, and Long Chen was not even fifty yet.

Long Chen had not comprehended the Sword Path on his own, so he did not think he was that impressive.

As she looked at him, her eyes filled with more and more hope, until it turned into resignation.

She suddenly said emotionally, “I can sense that your Sword Soul’s most suited weapon is the sword. Your comprehension of the Killing Path is also beyond the average person. Both Fluttering Blood and Killing Tribulation are very suited for you. To be honest, I really want to take you in as my disciple, but seeing as I have made a public announcement, it will now depend on you. Good luck!”

Her well wishes filled Long Chen with energy.

“Don’t worry. I understand.” He smiled and his eyes shone with confidence.

With such a powerful master supporting him, he felt like there was nothing to be afraid of. The City Lord was emotional because of her appreciation of talent in others.

The powerful cultivators fought round after round. Very soon, ten days had passed. The ten thousand people from the end of the first day dwindled to barely a hundred. Other than Long Chen and Su Xue, everyone else was at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage. They were also famous prodigies in their own cities.

Long Chen was somewhat lucky in his duels. Even when he encountered Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage opponents, he defeated all of them in one move. Su Xue was on the same level; no one had been able to survive more than one strike from her.

Every opponent was drawn at random, so no one knew who their next opponent would be until the start of the duel. There was a close call when Long Chen and Su Xue were both allocated to the same group, but to the disappointment of the crowd, they were not opponents.

The final one hundred were the elites of the elites. All of them had survived at least ten rounds, so they had been conditioned by the intense fights.

The duels offered Long Chen great help because sometimes, he activated his True Martial Soul mid-fight to increase his comprehension of the Martial Path.

It had been some time since he first reached the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage.

Long Chen felt like he was seriously lacking in essence compared to Su Xue. It would be difficult to defeat her without reaching the Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage.

And this was an urgent matter.

After the day’s duels, only about fifty people remained. Long Chen toyed with his opponent for a while, then easily defeated him, despite his opponent being at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage.

On the next day, his opponent was also at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage, and he was very anxious when he encountered Long Chen.

This time, Long Chen was allocated to the stage nearest to where the Underworld Soldiers were sitting. Su Xue had ended her fight already and was watching Long Chen along with twenty-plus Divine Martial Realm cultivators from the army.

Since the number of participants was very small now, very few duels were taking place around him. Long Chen’s duel was not particularly attractive to the crowd because they all knew that he would easily defeat his opponent.

Long Chen hated this feeling.

The gazes of twenty-plus Divine Martial Realm experts were like rays of cold light scanning his body. They felt like knives cutting across his skin.

Are they trying to intimidate me? Long Chen smirked to himself. He knew that they saw him as Su Xue’s only opponent, so they were using this chance to scare him.

At this point, the judges had already announced the start of the fight. Long Chen did not even use the Dragon Soul Transformation against an opponent like that.

His opponent was a man in blue fighting gear. He seemed very nervous and stood without moving. He merely stared woodenly at Long Chen.

What he did not see was that when the duel began, a strange smirk crept up the corners of Underworld Admiral Su Tian’s mouth.

This was Long Chen’s first time meeting such a nervous opponent, but he was not surprised. He turned into a bolt of golden lightning and charged at him. He could move much faster than his opponent, so he only needed one punch to defeat him.

Though Long Chen suddenly sensed an impending threat, one that should not have been possible!