Chapter 756: Joining Forces

“Lord Sima, join me. Let’s slay this fiend!”

Jiang Chen said, looking to Sima Qingtian at his side and licking his lips.

Sima Qingtian froze.

An astonished expression crossed his face. ‘Kill Qin Lie?’

He and Qin Yulong were mortal enemies, but to kill Qin Yulong’s Grand General would be to make a complete and irreversible break.

This thought still made Sima Qingtian hesitate.

Jiang Chen said gravely, “Even if we let Qin Lie go, Qin Yulong will never spare us. In that case, we might as well kill him now and cut off one of Qin Yulong’s arms!”

Sima Qingtian jolted.

Conflict warred in his eyes, but finally, he gave a sharp nod, gritted his teeth, and said, “Alright. Let’s kill him!”

SWOOSH!

SWOOSH!

Jiang Chen and Sima Qingtian shot toward Qin Lie simultaneously. For beings like them, a distance of several hundred kilometers was covered in the blink of an eye.

Qin Lie stood in the center of a massive crater.

The mushroom cloud still reached for the sky, yet to disperse. The terrifying aftershocks of True Essence still roiled and collided within it, filling the air with an incessant sizzling.

“Qin Lie, die!”

Sima Qingtian charged first. His black Long Spear transformed into a lifelike Black Dragon that opened its cavernous maw and let out a deafening roar as it shot toward Qin Lie.

Qin Lie snorted.

A red light pulsed from his body, and he once again took the form of a giant, humanoid dragon.

ROAR!

Amidst a resounding roar, the red light around Qin Lie surged and coalesced into a massive Fire Dragon. He stood firmly atop its head, clenching his fists. For an expert of his caliber, even severed limbs could be regenerated; new flesh had already grown over his hands.

Gripping two flaming Battle Halberds, he roared, “Sweeping Thousand Armies!”

SWISH…

The fiery red Battle Halberds carved out a fan-shaped crimson arc, sweeping toward the black Long Spear.

CLANG!

The Battle Halberd and the black Long Spear were thrown back, their wielders evenly matched in strength.

“Heaven-Slaying!”

Jiang Chen’s attack descended in the very next instant.

“So what if you’re a peerless prodigy? Until you’ve fully matured, you’re still just a talent… Too many talents die young in this world. Today, I, Qin Lie, will be the one to slay a prodigy like you!”

A smirk touched Qin Lie’s lips.

He slapped the Fire Dragon beneath him. With a roar, it took the initiative and charged toward the Sword Aura.

It opened its mouth and swallowed the razor-sharp Sword Aura.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Sword Aura repeatedly exploded within the Fire Dragon’s body. Beams of sword light erupted from within, piercing through the brilliant creature until it was riddled with holes, like a sieve.

BANG—

With a final, great explosion, the Fire Dragon burst apart.

A golden light flashed through Jiang Chen’s eyes. His Eyes of the Heavens pierced all concealment, revealing Qin Lie, who had dived underground. With a cold snort, a ray of golden light shot from between Jiang Chen’s eyebrows. “Divine Thought as Blade!”

SWISH!

The power of Divine Thought passed through all obstruction, piercing straight into the earth!

ROAR!

A furious roar came from deep underground. The earth trembled violently, swelling and bubbling like boiling water. Fissures spread across the ground, and from them, pillars of fire erupted toward the sky, each one hundreds of meters in diameter.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

Each pillar of fire unleashed a terrifying wave of heat.

Not even an Emperor Realm master would dare to withstand such an attack directly.

Sima Qingtian’s Body Technique was inferior to Jiang Chen’s, and he was struck by two of the fire pillars. His robes were blasted to shreds, and all the hair on his head was burned away.

What a wretched sight!

“Jiang Chen, my friend,” Sima Qingtian said, flying to Jiang Chen’s side with a grave expression. “Qin Lie’s Martial Soul is the Saint Tier Eighth Grade, Fiery Flame Magma. He’s melted the land in a hundred-li radius into a Magma Ocean. He’s hiding inside it. What do we do?”

The entire hundred-li radius had become a Magma Ocean.

With Qin Lie hidden within, able to change his position at will, tracking him would be no easy feat.

‘And as for entering the Magma Ocean?’

That would be suicide!

This Magma Ocean was Qin Lie’s domain. To enter it would be to walk willingly into a trap.

As Jiang Chen dodged the ever-present pillars of fire, an idea flashed in his mind. ‘If he won’t come out, then we’ll force him out!’

“How do we force him?” Sima Qingtian asked, stunned.

While dodging, he was hit again, his face turning black with soot.

Jiang Chen gave a cold smile. “He’s hiding in the Magma Ocean, isn’t he? Then I’ll just heat it up until he can’t take it anymore and comes out on his own!”

“Heat it up?”

Sima Qingtian was taken aback.

Jiang Chen didn’t explain. With a flicker of movement, he plummeted downward, landing directly on the Magma Ocean, his feet standing on the scalding magma.

A smirk played on his lips as he took a deep breath of the scorching air.

The iridescent light around his body transformed into ribbons of energy that stretched across the dome of the sky.

HUMMM!

“Devouring God—Domain!”

He pushed his Divine Thought to its absolute limit. The God-slaying Sword vibrated intensely, and the God-Devouring Realm enveloped everything within a thousand-li radius.

By now, his God-Devouring Realm had undergone a heaven-and-earth-shattering transformation.

Its Devouring Power was even more terrifying and immense!

“Devour!”

Jiang Chen roared.

The God-slaying Sword vibrated intensely as all the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a thousand-li radius surged toward him in a mad frenzy. The Spiritual Qi of the Zhongzhou Land was far denser than that of the Eastern Continent or the Azure Sky Sea. Under the strain of Jiang Chen’s devouring, both the God-slaying Sword and his own body were reaching their limits.

A violet-gold light pulsed unstably around him, the only thing preventing him from being blown apart by the sheer volume of Spiritual Qi.

“Go!”

Spiritual Qi escaped his lips with every breath. He thrust both hands downward, plunging them directly into the Magma Ocean.

A surging tide of Spiritual Qi poured endlessly into the Magma Ocean.

Fueled by the Spiritual Qi from a thousand-li radius, the temperature of the Magma Ocean began to rise relentlessly.

A sizzling sound spread out in all directions.

A hundred-li radius…

Two hundred li…

Three hundred li…

The rising temperature of the Magma Ocean melted the surrounding mountains and earth, expanding its reach. Its overall temperature had increased tenfold, a hundredfold…

BOOM!

A massive pillar of fire erupted into the sky, and from it shot a crimson-red Qin Lie, wreathed in flames. He tried to extinguish the fire clinging to him, but the temperature was so high he couldn’t put it out.

“Now! God Slaying Sword!”

Jiang Chen let out a low roar.

A black Sword Aura shot out, striking Qin Lie with a sickening thud and causing a momentary look of confusion to appear in his eyes.

Sima Qingtian had already been waiting at the ready, gathering his power. How could he possibly let such a heaven-sent opportunity pass?

“Black Dragon Wave!”

The black Long Spear thrust forward, piercing straight through Qin Lie’s torso.

It tore a massive hole in his chest, shredding his internal organs in an instant. A sliver of clarity returned to Qin Lie’s eyes from the intense pain. He looked down at the gaping wound in his chest as his life force rapidly drained away. Qin Lie let out a venomous roar, “Sima Qingtian… Jiang Chen… Lord Qin will avenge me! Ahhh…”

With one last, wretched scream, Qin Lie’s life was extinguished…