Chapter 701: Come into the Arms of Lord Dragon

"Where is this...?"

Chen Nan felt his scalp tingle; how could he have been teleported to this ghost of a place?

The stone steps beneath his feet were actually paved with divine bones.

Without any hesitation, he turned and left.

Just then, a hoarse voice came as if from the Nine Nether Demon Realm: "Young man, since you have come, why be in such a hurry to leave?"

Chen Nan was terrified to the point of death; how could he dare to stay? He took out the Fangtian Painted Halberd, intending to use it to fly away.

But it was already too late.

Clang!

The doors of the great hall suddenly swung open, and a terrifying suction force surged from within, causing Chen Nan to involuntarily stumble backward. Terrible divine light erupted from his eyes as he turned and brandished the Fangtian Painted Halberd, slashing toward the inside of the hall.

"Playing god and acting like a ghost, go to hell!"

Since he could not escape, he would fight to the death.

The Fangtian Painted Halberd bloomed with brilliant essence light, stirring up terrifying energy that tore through the void, ready to charge into the great hall.

Inside the great hall, a strand of holy Divine Power erupted, easily neutralizing the terrifying energy stirred up by the Fangtian Painted Halberd, then surged toward Chen Nan without losing momentum, nearly knocking the Fangtian Painted Halberd from his grip.

"Young man, why is your temper so fierce? I, an old man, am merely a bit lonely and just want you to stay and keep me company."

The hoarse voice, sounding like a voice from Hell, came out once again.

Chen Nan let out a muffled groan, feeling a stinging pain in the web between his thumb and forefinger and numbness in his arm; he had almost been unable to hold onto the Fangtian Painted Halberd.

He was horrified in his heart; the one inside was at least a Fifth Tier powerhouse.

It was even possible they were a Sixth Tier.

As for being a Seventh Tier, that was somewhat impossible.

Because if it were a Seventh Tier, he would not just be feeling a stinging pain in his hand, but would have been wiped out instantly.

"Heaven-Defying Seven Demon Blades!"

Chen Nan shouted sharply, a look of madness flashing in his eyes.

Under the crisis of life and death, he did not hesitate at all and unleashed this peerless killing technique.

Instantly, seven tall demon shadows circled around him.

It was truly not Chen Nan's fault for being extreme; he had just escaped from the Death Forbidden Land and was already a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow. Naturally, he was wary of the ancient god inside the Demon Palace to the extreme and had no choice but to fight with his life.

Although the ancient god's tone was peaceful, the voice was simply too cold and sinister.

In such an environment, it was hard not to let one's imagination run wild.

Soon, the seven demon shadows became completely materialized, circling Chen Nan incessantly like seven demon gods.

A massive force, like a raging sea, surged outward from Chen Nan as the center. The surrounding divine bones, white bones, and so on, all eerily floated up, bobbing and sinking outside the seven demon shadows.

"Sigh, young man, I really just wanted to keep you to talk; why must you fight for your life the moment you arrive!"

The ancient god's sigh came from within the Demon Palace.

Facing Chen Nan's desperate struggle, he had to face it seriously, for he was no longer the ancient god he once was.

His power had declined to the extreme, reaching only about the Fifth Tier.

And Chen Nan's Heaven-Defying Seven Demon Blades had once nearly slashed to death a Fourth-order Peak powerhouse.

Compared to when he was in Jin Capital, his cultivation had already greatly advanced.

Unleashing the Heaven-Defying Seven Demon Blades again like this was enough to threaten the ancient god.

"Slash!"

Chen Nan ignored him completely; with a loud shout, he slashed the Fangtian Painted Halberd toward the Demon Palace once more.

Rumble!

The cold blade light tore through the night, and terrifying energy fluctuations surged between heaven and earth, transforming into a blade light over twenty meters long that slashed down toward the Demon Palace, causing the white bones beneath the palace to shatter one after another. The ancient god sighed, and seeing this, he had no choice but to take action.

The vast power transformed into a holy light palm that rushed out from the Demon Palace, completely illuminating the interior of the hall, allowing Chen Nan to see two rows of dried corpses standing on both sides of the hall, their withered skin tightly wrapped around thin bones, their twisted facial features exceptionally hideous.

Such a terrifying scene further solidified Chen Nan's guess.

This demon wanted to turn him into a dried corpse!

As for why the demon's power was so holy, he no longer had the energy to think about it.

He did not know that this ancient god was once a Holy War Angel of the Xifang Tianjie, and a top-tier powerhouse among the Holy War Angels at that. Years ago, he had competed with another ancient god for the Jade Ruyi, and although he won, he was also heavily wounded and on the verge of death.

Come to think of it, he and Chen Nan had some history.

Back then, Chen Zhan had saved the ancient god and his wife, Lady Yuan, and had also guided the couple in their cultivation.

Rumble!

The holy light palm collided with the blade radiance, causing a terrifying explosion. Destructive power swept in all directions, causing the bone mountain beneath the Demon Palace to shatter into powder, revealing sixty-four Essence-Condensing Stones.

Essence-Condensing Stones, a very rare type of immortal stone, contained massive Spirit Qi within them and could also be used to set up Array Formations to gather the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Chen Nan let out another muffled groan, sent flying by the terrifying shockwave.

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Just at this moment, the Jade Ruyi bloomed with brilliant Immortal Light, unexpectedly flying out from Chen Nan's embrace, and then, with a whale-like devouring momentum, plundered all the Spirit Qi within the sixty-four Essence-Condensing Stones.

Even the three hundred and sixty-five Soul-Gathering Stones inside the Demon Palace were forcibly sucked out.

The energy contained in the Soul-Gathering Stones was even more terrifying, but under the whale-like devouring of the Jade Ruyi, they quickly turned to ash. This scene left the ancient god dumbfounded and terrified.

Sixty-four Essence-Condensing Stones and three hundred and sixty-five Soul-Gathering Stones—these were the foundations of the Nine Nether White Bone Array.

Yet they were destroyed in the blink of an eye.

Actually, if they were destroyed, they were destroyed; at worst, it would just release the suppressed Purple Gold Divine Dragon. What made him wary was the Jade Ruyi, which could actually forcibly drain the foundations of the Nine Nether White Bone Array.

One must know that this Nine Nether White Bone Array was something he had set up during his peak period.

Rumble!

As the Nine Nether White Bone Array was destroyed, the ground beneath the Demon Palace suddenly shattered, and countless withered bones shot out in all directions; the entire valley turned into a vast expanse of white, filled with withered bones everywhere.

If the Ancient God had not seen that the situation was dire and moved the Demon Palace away in time, I fear the Demon Palace would have been smashed to pieces as well.

"Awoo! Hahaha, I, Lord Dragon, have finally seen the light of day again!"

Amidst a chorus of ghostly wails and howling spirits, a purple-gold Divine Dragon over a hundred zhang long soared into the sky, its entire body flickering with purple light.

As the Divine Dragon emerged into the world, the winds and clouds shifted, the heavens and earth lost their color, and peals of thunder rolled through the high sky.

Clearly, the power currently displayed by this purple-gold Divine Dragon had already surpassed the upper limit of power in the human Boundary, thereby about to invite Heavenly Punishment.

The purple-gold Divine Dragon circled in the high sky, leaping through the nine Heavens, feeling utterly unrestrained.

But he was also clever, quickly restraining his aura.

"Eh, brilliant Immortal Light, dense Spirit Qi, what a good treasure; from now on, it belongs to me. Ga ga ga, today is truly the lucky day for Lord Dragon; not only have I seen the light of day again, but I have also encountered such a precious treasure."

The purple-gold Divine Dragon laughed wildly and strangely, then charged toward the Jade Ruyi.

Chen Nan was already dumbfounded; he had not expected that a purple-gold Divine Dragon was actually suppressed beneath this Demon Palace, and it was clearly a Divine Dragon of Immortal Martial level or higher.

It would have been fine if it hadn't spoken, but once it spoke, all the temperament of a Divine Dragon vanished, and it was exactly like a hooligan.

Watching the purple-gold Divine Dragon rush toward the Jade Ruyi, he did not stop it.

This purple-gold Divine Dragon was too strong, and since it was unclear whether it was friend or foe for now, it was better to let the Jade Ruyi drain the opponent dry first.

"Hahaha, good treasure, come into Lord Dragon's embrace."

The purple-gold Divine Dragon laughed wildly.

His claws were several meters long, and grasping the Jade Ruyi in his claws was just like an Ordinary person grasping a grain of rice.

But very quickly, his laughter came to an abrupt halt, and it immediately turned into a look of terror: "Damn it! Awoo... get lost, Lord Dragon!" (End of chapter)