Dragon-Blooded War God

Ye Xuan had given Long Chen this Shield Talisman. He had not expected to use it today.

This was Long Chen’s first time using a spiritual talisman. All he needed to do was use his essence to activate the energy in the talisman, then its powers would be triggered.

The transparent talisman appeared in Long Chen’s hand. There was no time to lose. At the last possible moment, Long Chen triggered the talisman and the runes on it spun. A burst of energy erupted from the talisman and formed a large, transparent shield in front of Long Chen.

Boom!

Song Yang’s punch landed hard on the light shield.

The shield trembled, but it did not break. It indeed could block his opponent’s attack, but the huge momentum still impacted Long Chen.

“Go!”

Long Chen used up all his strength to push the talisman at Song Yang. The transparent light shield spun, and its great power suppressed Song Yang.

Boom!

The transparent light shield pushed Song Yang tens of meters away.

“Think you can run?”

Song Yang panicked. He needed some time to break the shield, but he was not worried. With Long Chen’s speed, he would not be able to run far in the Underworld Battlefield.

Long Chen grinned. He waved and said, “You didn’t manage to kill me this time. It’ll be your turn next.”

Then he turned into a ray of blood-red light and shot into the Blood River, disappearing from Song Yang’s sight.

Song Yang shattered the shield talisman.

“Why would the brat have a Shield Talisman? Did Ye Xuan give it to him?” Song Yang was frustrated.

“That warp technique he used … How could it be so fast?”

He pushed down his rage and tried searching around for a while. Indeed, Long Chen had disappeared and Song Yang had no choice but to accept it.

“What was that golden lightning he used just now? It actually managed to hurt me. That brat is a strange one. If I let him train in the Underworld Battlefield for a while and he encounters a good opportunity …”

With that thought, he shook his head and smiled. “Song Yang, O Song Yang. You’re starting to regress as you age. He’s just some annoying kid. It’ll take him at least a hundred years to reach the Divine Martial Realm. And can’t I kill him within a hundred years?”

With that though, he decided to set Long Chen aside for the moment and returned to the Camp of Life and Death.

When they saw Song Yang emerging with a calm expression, the Hundred-Sergeants at the entrance did not make a sound. After Song Yang left, they all looked in the direction of the Underworld Battlefield with pity. They knew that the youth from just now had already gone down to hell.

When a Divine Martial Realm expert attacked, no Heavenly Martial Realm cultivator could survive.

And it was in a place like the Underworld Battlefield too.

Who would have thought that Long Chen had survived?

Long Chen was hiding in the Underworld Blood River, traveling with the flow.

Churning, red water surrounded him. It had only become red because unbelievable amounts of blood had been mixed in.

The Blood River was very wide and many Underworld Beasts were hidden inside. It was said that Underworld Beasts were born in this river too. However, Long Chen had the Soul Swallowing Gaze, so he could avoid them with ease. He was absorbing the energy in the Underworld Beasts’ blood to replenish the energy he had used up in Blood Warp. At the same time, he chatted with Little Cat.

He had also killed two Category Seven Emperor-tier Underworld beasts and consumed their blood. Using Blood Transmutation, he turned the blood into his own dragon essence.

“I was certain that the power of a hundred thousand Emperor Crystals would be enough to defeat Song Yang.”

He realized he had been too ambitious. At the same time, the Divine Martial Realm was much more powerful than he expected. It was not at all what he thought.

“At that level, the Five Emperor Palm will become ineffective. Even the boosts provided by the Dragon Soul Transformation and the Yin-Yang Sword Soul aren’t as huge as I imagined. I’m only at the Fifth Heavenly Martial Stage too. The most important thing now is to increase my cultivation level. Right now, I can barely defeat a Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage opponent. While that is close to the Divine Martial Realm, I still cannot defeat an opponent of that level. I may need to reach the Seventh or Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage in order to stand up against a Divine Martial Realm expert.”

Long Chen did some calculations.

Song Yang was an expert on the same level as the Five Emperors. The Five Emperor Palm they had left behind could provide him with additional boosts until he was at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage. It would lose its effects after that point.

“The Divine Martial Realm is a metamorphosis process. The Divine Martial Realm can be said to be nine levels on its own, despite them being part of the same realm. A Perfect First Divine Martial Stage cultivator is at least ten times stronger than a person who has just entered the Initial First Divine Martial Stage. They would be strong enough to kill Song Yang instantly. This is the difference between Initial and Perfect.”

Little Cat talked to Long Chen while tumbling around in the Primordial Realm for fun.

“Every stage of the Divine Martial Realm has its own Initial and Perfect sub-tiers. Progressing from Initial to Perfect also takes a lot of effort. Don’t underestimate the Divine Martial Realm. You progressed quickly in the Heavenly Martial Realm—it took you about two years. With the talent bestowed upon you by the ancestral dragon lineage, the amount of time you will take to cultivate the Divine Martial Realm will be at least ten times more than the Heavenly Martial Realm. And that is already an extraordinary affair. No one in the Three Royal Territories can compare, especially when you have the True Martial Soul.

“Don’t be too smug about it though. I’ll explain the Divine Martial Realm to you in detail now.”

Little Cat had not explained any of this to Long Chen yet before because his abilities had not reached that level.

“Explain away. I will remember what you said.” Long Chen nodded. He was healing his essence, and it was a good chance to understand the Divine Martial Realm.

“As you know, when you reach the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage, it is also reaching the Perfect Heavenly Martial Realm. Usually, a cultivator would have completed the Heavenly Fist Manual. However, there is no such thing as a Divine Fist Manual beyond this. Everyone needs to comprehend the Heavenly Path at the Divine Martial Realm, thus forming their own path. This is actually a universal law. Of course, the Heavenly Path you all need to comprehend is very, very tiny to me. But to you, it’s basically your whole world.

“Every person who has reached the Divine Martial Realm needs to forge their own path, and the paths between people may differ or be similar, but never identical. No one can teach you how to progress through the Divine Martial Realm either, but with your True Martial Soul, you can get help from other people’s paths.”

Long Chen did not quite understand. The Earthly Martial Realm and the Heavenly Martial Realm were both the first step to understanding the Path of Heaven and Earth. Then, in the Divine Martial Realm, they needed to forge their own path based on the Heavenly Path.

“Is this path referring to one’s own mind? To create a fighting technique unique to oneself?” asked Long Chen curiously.

“It can be considered your mind, but it’s not a type of combat technique. However, from the outside, it does look like a type of combat technique. The fact that you could understand this shows that you’ve got extraordinary comprehension skills,” said Little Cat approvingly.

“As for forging your own path, you are far from reaching that point. This thing decides many subsequent matters. Let me tell you about the process of the Divine Martial Realm. When a Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivator first comprehends the path, they will be able to condense their Divine Soul and plant it in their Martial Soul to form the Divine Martial Soul. The Divine Martial Soul is every person’s core. Even if your body rots away, as long as the Divine Martial Soul isn’t destroyed, you can still survive. If the energy in the Divine Martial Soul isn’t spent, it can survive for more than ten thousand years.”

Long Chen understood this. Ling Xi was surely a Divine Martial Realm expert, but she had exhausted too much of her Divine Martial Soul’s energy, so she needed Long Chen’s help.

“After forming the Divine Martial Soul, you can trigger the Heavenly Empowerment process. When that happens, the energy from the heavens and earth will pour into your body through the crown of your head and transform your body. Your body will evolve 9,999 meridian points and a hundred thousand meridian veins like star clusters. This is an evolution of the physical body. Your essence will change too, and it will become the even more powerful Divine Essence. The Divine Martial Body is formed and you will be able to fly in the sky, split mountains in half, and chop up rivers. There will be nothing you can’t do. Song Yang has 9,999 meridian points in his body and a large quantity of Divine Essence. This is the First Divine Martial Stage, also the Star Cluster Realm. The special part about the Star Cluster Realm is the initial formation of your own Martial Path, and also the large increase in essence.

“When you progress from the Initial to the Perfect First Divine Martial Stage, not only will your essence increase, it also signifies the maturation of the cultivator’s martial path. When the 9,999 meridian points have achieved the Perfect phase, one can enter the Second Divine Martial Stage, known as the Divine Intuition Realm!”

“What’s the Divine Intuition Realm?” asked Long Chen.

“The Divine Intuition Realm is when the Divine Martial Soul condenses and forms something like the Divine Martial’s antennae that can sense its surroundings. Compared to abstract feelings from before, the Divine Intuition is much more sensitive to its surrounding prey. Although it is slightly lacking compared to your Soul Swallowing Gaze in terms of locating life forms, the Divine Intuition can sense almost everything. When you have reached the Second Divine Martial Stage, the cultivator will know everything around him even without using his five senses. Most importantly, the functioning range of this Divine Intuition can grow.”

“How far can the most powerful Divine Intuition reach?” asked Long Chen.