"Rumble... Flames
covered the sky, enveloping the entire world, turning heaven and earth into a prison of flames in an instant.
"Which deity has descended upon my Seven Star City?" A human Divine Venerable realm expert shouted loudly.
Seven Star City was sealed off, and everyone turned pale with fear. They had never witnessed such a terrifying scene. The scale of the blockade was so intense that even Divine Venerable experts were terrified.
"The Sacred Pill Hall is arresting the wanted criminal Long Chen. No one should move recklessly, or they will be killed without mercy."
A majestic voice echoed from above the void. Amidst endless flames, countless powerful figures wielding chains darted back and forth in the void, seemingly reinforcing the grand formation. Among those figures were several Divine Venerable realm experts.
When Long Chen was mentioned, countless people gasped. Who exactly was this Long Chen, and how did he provoke the famous Saint Pill Hall, sending so many powerful figures to capture him?
"Sorry, but I have some unfortunate news to share with you. Just a few breaths ago, Long Chen left Seven Star City." The human Divine Venerable-level experts inside the city said nervously.
"What?"
...
"Boom!"
Long Chen wielded a black dagger and pierced through the void. With a loud explosion, Long Chen and Jiang Lei were shot out of the void like two meteors, crashing hard into a cliff. The cliff was pierced, and Jiang Lei spat out a mouthful of blood.
Long Chen pulled Jiang Lei up from the ground. Jiang Lei wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and asked in confusion, "
Boss, the teleportation was going smoothly. Why did you have to stop teleportation?"
It turned out the two were still teleporting when Long Chen suddenly broke through the teleportation passage. This was extremely dangerous—if they got caught in the spatial turbulence, who knew where they would end up.
"There are flies chasing me from behind. If we follow the original teleportation method, we probably won't even leave the city before being surrounded." Long Chen said.
Before the experts from the Sacred Pill Hall arrived, Bing Po had already warned Long Chen. By then, the experts had already quietly appeared, quickly setting up a net of heaven and earth. Long Chen teleported away before they could seal them off.
Interrupting teleportation partly to prevent powerful figures from the Saint Dan Hall at the destination from waiting for them, and partly to prevent tampering with the teleportation array. If they forcibly changed the direction midway, it would be a disaster.
Long Chen took out the map and glanced at it, finding that it was at least ten days' journey from here to Seven Star City, so it was safe for now.
Only then did Long Chen ask about Jiang Lei's situation. It turned out that Jiang Lei's ascension to the Immortal Realm was the most tragic, falling directly onto the battlefield. At that time, humans fought fiercely against the demon beast clan, nearly wiped out. Jiang Lei, alone with his sword, fought his way out of the beast army and escaped with a bloody path.
After breaking out, only half of the longsword remained, covered in blood. After finally encountering a human city, he thought he had been saved upon arrival, but he lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he found himself chained all over his body, having become a slave and sold to the demon beast clan.
It turns out that the reason that city survived was because the humans there had already betrayed the demon beast clan. To curry favor with the demon beast clan, they handed Jiang Lei over to them.
Jiang Lei was enslaved by the beast clan, wearing various torture devices and enduring humiliation every day. If it weren't for a mysterious voice telling him everyone was alive when he ascended to the Immortal Realm, and he had set reuniting with everyone as his goal, he would have long since lost his life.
During his time being enslaved by demon beasts, Jiang Lei escaped three times. The first two times he was caught and nearly beaten to death, but the third time, he finally succeeded.
From then on, he trusted no one again and became a lone wolf among rogue cultivators, specializing in hunting demonic beasts and robbing traitors for a living.
It can be said that Jiang Lei's experience was the most difficult; endless pain and setbacks did not defeat him; instead, they made him even braver.
To survive, he constantly pushed himself to the limit. Although he was just an ordinary first-generation fighter, he had successfully hunted supreme prodigies of the beast clan. Even if he didn't kill them head-on, that alone proved his terror.
Precisely because he had been enslaved by the demon beast clan, Jiang Lei's hatred for them was higher than the sky and deeper than the sea.
After entering the Three Thousand Worlds, he had warned himself countless times to endure, to endure until he was reunited with everyone.
But in Seven Star City, facing the mockery and insults from those beast clans, he suddenly recalled his days of enslavement. In his rage, he killed without regard for the consequences.
Fortunately, he killed someone; otherwise, Long Chen wouldn't have noticed him at all. By then, Long Chen had already planned to leave by teleportation array.
"Good brother, you've suffered." Hearing about Jiang Lei's ordeal, Long Chen gave him a firm pat on the shoulder.
"Boss, what are you talking about? A sharp sword is forged through grinding. Without these painful trials, how could I have raised myself to this level? Without some strength, how could he be qualified to call himself a Dragonblood Warrior? Jiang Lei chuckled and said, "He had no complaints about his past. Without the trials of life and death, how could he be where he is today?"
"Well done, every one of our Dragonblood Warriors is the best." Long Chen laughed heartily, grateful that fate had been kind to him—so many fine men had all been met by him.
"Come, eat the fruit and absorb it in peace. I'll protect you." As Long Chen spoke, he handed Jiang Lei a Heavenly Dao Fruit inscribed with thunder runes.
Without hesitation, Jiang Lei swallowed the Heavenly Dao Fruit, sat down to meditate, and began absorbing the power of thunder.
Jiang Lei used to be cautious everywhere, but now that Long Chen was around, he didn't need to think about anything. He firmly believed that even if the sky fell, the boss could hold on.
"Buzz buzz buzz... After
Jiang Lei swallowed the Heavenly Dao Fruit, lightning began to flicker around him, and his supreme aura gradually emerged.
Suddenly, Lei Ling'er appeared, her small hand clapping behind Jiang Lei's back, slowly channeling her thunder power into his body. This not only allowed Jiang Lei to better absorb the Heavenly Dao Fruit, but also fused more thunder power.
An hour later, with Lei Ling'er's help, Jiang Lei not only absorbed the Heavenly Dao Fruit and became a Supreme-level prodigy, but also possessed a powerful aura of destruction—the aura of a heavenly tribulation.
In this way, when he faces the heavenly tribulation in the future, he can steal the tribulation power to nourish himself, just like Lei Ling'er, not only making his body stronger but also allowing him to control more thunderous power.
When Jiang Lei felt the thunder runes flowing through his blood and watched lightning erupt all over his body, he couldn't help but howl toward the sky, as if to vent all the humiliation and anger in his heart.
"Clang!"
The long sword was drawn, thunder rolling like a roar. A bolt of thunderous sword energy shot into the sky, piercing through a mountain. Jiang Lei's face was filled with wild joy, as if he were in a dream.
"Let's go, let's go to a treasure spot!"