Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 1071 - 1054: Divine Beast Descendant, Dragon Pepper Map!

Chapter 1071: Chapter 1054: Divine Beast Descendant, Dragon Pepper Map!

However, Xiao Chen trampled a Soul Nightmare into the Sea of Suffering. Around him, on the surface of the Soul Sea, ripples turned into raging waves, and there were, astonishingly, three more Soul Nightmares howling toward him, opening their Bloody Giant Mouths, attempting to tear and bite at him.

"Sinful obstacles, Your past lives and affairs have all been severed, the myriad worldly desires have shattered, already vanishing between heaven and earth, yet you still come out to stir up trouble!"

Xiao Chen’s mental fluctuations transmitted outward, but he did not hold back in the slightest. He flipped in the air, his large hand striking downward.

Thud!

Under the palm print, the three Soul Nightmares shattered, a gray crystal, the size of a pinky finger, exuding a pure Soul Power.

Soul Crystals of Sea of Suffering.

When Xiao Chen once again stepped onto the Bamboo Leaf Boat, holding the Soul Crystal of Sea of Suffering in his hand, with each breath, the Soul Crystal gradually shrank, absorbed by him.

"Hmm?"

This was a real and warm current flowing within his Soul Body. Following this, Xiao Chen realized that above his head, a very tiny wisp of Primordial Impurity was spilling out.

"What is this?"

Primordial Impurity!

With this tiny thread of impurity expelled from his body, Xiao Chen felt the part of his Soul Body that had been deprived of that wisp of impurity had become somewhat translucent.

Humans are born of the latter days when heaven and earth were already contaminated. The pure qi from the world’s inception had long since disappeared, hence humans are tainted with the impurity of heaven and earth from birth.

The Sea of Suffering must be the place designated for warriors to strip away the impurities deep within the Soul, only those with untainted and pure Souls could ascend to the Supreme realm.

This is the baptism for the Spirit!

There is no wind in the Sea of Suffering, but waves follow one after another. Beneath Xiao Chen’s feet, the Bamboo Leaf Boat glided over the waves, his expression solemn as he constantly perceived the changes around him.

The unknown world is terrifying, and the taboos of the Sea of Suffering are not just those Soul Nightmares.

By his estimate, he had crossed tens of millions of miles of the Sea of Suffering, but the scenery before him remained unchanged without a hint of the so-called other shore.

The only thing worth mentioning was that, the numbers of Soul Bodies from other races around him had significantly decreased, and at some point, Fog and Mist had risen, enveloping him.

Along the way, he had killed over a hundred Nightmares, and he had obtained dozens of Soul Crystals of Sea of Suffering. The largest was the size of a fist. Now his one arm had turned into a crystal clear and transparent color, just like crystal, no longer the color of darkness.

The crystal clear hand brought him a feeling of being more connected with the outer world.

Transparent!

Yes, that was the sensation, no more barriers, a direct, penetrating perception!

The only thing that puzzled him was that the arm, from which the Primordial Impurity had been removed, now had strands of Soul Power, but they hadn’t fused together yet.

Xiao Chen started hunting the Soul Nightmares in the Sea of Suffering, seizing the Soul Crystals of Sea of Suffering, intending to use the crystals to expel all the Primordial Birth impurities within him from his body.

Thus, Xiao Chen began his hunting journey in the Sea of Suffering. Every Soul Nightmare that appeared beside him, he did not let go, and with the help of the Soul Crystals of Sea of Suffering, the impurities in him were gradually being removed.

Strand after strand of black qi emerged from the top of his head, vanishing into the Sea of Suffering. Not only that, he found that as the impurities were extracted, his perception in the Soul Sea became progressively clearer. From the initial range of a hundred yards upon entering to a thousand yards now, his perception kept extending further and further out.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

Suddenly, bubbles tens of yards in size began rising around him.

In front of him, beneath the dark water surface, there was a shadow approximately thirty yards long.

Xiao Chen stopped in his tracks, staring intently at the shadow. However, it was clear that the shadow below was not friendly, as it charged at him, evidently intending to knock him into the Sea of Suffering.

Boom!

Waves roiled as the shadow finally burst forth, mixed with an aura that made Xiao Chen’s soul tremble, even causing his entire Soul Body to shudder.

This turned out to be a Jiao Long, with a dragon’s head and a body shaped like a conch, but lacking the majestic presence.

This was a true Dragon kind, and even the Jiao Longs of the Desolate Wilds on earth were vastly inferior in bloodline.

To find a Soul Body Jiao Long in the Sea of Suffering, or to be precise, a Dragon Soul, emitting an ancient and desolate aura of the primordial Desolate Wilds era, and Xiao Chen could even feel an aura inside the Soul Body that shocked him.

Divinity!

"Could this truly be a remnant from the ancient Desolate Wilds era?" Xiao Chen couldn’t help speculating, "Did the spiritual beings of ancient times also need to transcend the Divine Soul Tribulation to cultivate divinity, weren’t they born as gods?"

Roar!

A roar, like a dragon or a tiger, was the only sound Xiao Chen had heard in the Sea of Suffering, not a mental fluctuation!

The terrifying aura billowed, it turned out that the Jiao Long, under ten yards in size, had yet to reach adulthood before its Spirit entered the Sea of Suffering. What a pity it hadn’t avoided the Divine Soul Tribulation, becoming eternally trapped in the Soul Sea.

The Jiao Long fixed its gaze on Xiao Chen, its eyes filled with longing.

Xiao Chen realized this Jiao Long was quite different from the other Soul Nightmares in the Sea of Suffering, as it possessed a hint of intelligence that others lacked, not resembling the life that had already ceased to be.

Desire gleamed in its eyes.

Desire for what?

Suddenly, Xiao Chen’s thoughts flashed at lightning speed, the Jiao Long was desiring divine power!

No wonder it had sought him out!

He was cultivating divinity, and although it was superficial, he had begun to embody a trace of divinity.

All events in this world, every drink and morsel, have their destined outcomes. This Jiao Long inherently possessed divine power. Perhaps his earlier speculation was accurate: it truly hailed from the era of spiritual beings in the ancient Desolate Wilds.

Wasn’t this evidence that within the soul body of this Jiao Long before him, there remained the vestiges of divinity?

Its spirit was a true divine spirit, the spirit of a spiritual being!

If it weren’t just a soul body, Xiao Chen reckoned he would already be gasping for breath.

Capture this Jiao Long!

Offspring of a divine beast from the Desolate Era, its soul body drifting in the Sea of Suffering, having endured uncountable years yet never eroded—only a true divine spirit could possess such wondrous qualities. The descendant of a divine beast could at least be considered a spiritual being, couldn’t it?

Only a true divine spirit could endure through the ages without decay!

A Desolate God forged a Divine Body, fading away in despair because he failed to create a true divine spirit!

No matter what, he could not let such a fate pass him by; he wanted to see for himself what the spirit of a true spiritual being was really like!

He wanted to consume this Jiao Long, and the Jiao Long had the same intention towards him.

Hum!

After several breaths, the Jiao Long burst forth from the water again, its conch-like body charging towards Xiao Chen, aiming for his lower half as though intending to knock him into the water.

Hum!

The dull Sea of Suffering finally revealed a different color, so spectacular and bright. A streak of golden radiance circulated over the Jiao Long’s body.

Boom!

Waves surged one after another, and Xiao Chen punched at the conch-like back of the Jiao Long, his body repeatedly swaying on the surface of the water.

After the strike, the Jiao Long dove back into the sea, apparently angered at not having bested Xiao Chen.

Yet Xiao Chen was delighted. The soul power of this Jiao Long had obviously declined to a very low state.

"Stay!"

A surge of spiritual will emanated from Xiao Chen’s soul body. Then he extended a large hand, with formidable soul power pouring forth, pressing down even the surrounding swirls of the nest, and tore through the waters of the Sea of Suffering to grasp at the Jiao Long.

The waters of the Sea of Suffering exploded, a hundred zhang all around crumbling as if collapsing. The Jiao Long, less than ten zhang in size, revealed its form, its eyes showing a hint of anger—it clearly felt offended by Xiao Chen.

Roar!

Then, the Jiao Long let out an enraged roar, a wave of divine radiance sweeping down like a blanket over Xiao Chen. In a single breath, Xiao Chen was trapped in a mire.

"Indeed, it’s the power of a divine spirit, the power of a true divine being," Xiao Chen’s eyes lit up even more. If he could acquire from it the method to temper a divine spirit, then his Divine Cultivation Technique would have no more flaws!

The next moment, Xiao Chen’s hands began to penetrate the divine spirit power, grasping the Jiao Long, pulling it firmly towards himself.

The power of the divine spirit was terrifying—Xiao Chen felt his own soul power rapidly dissolving, not at all on the same level.

Unconcerned with the dissolution of his soul power, Xiao Chen continued to hold the Jiao Long firmly, his ten fingers like knives, stabbing into the core of its soul body.

Roar!

The Jiao Long wailed in agony, the pain piercing its soul, while Xiao Chen paid no heed to anything else and thrust his arm through the Jiao Long’s soul body.

Finally, Xiao Chen lifted the Jiao Long out of the Sea of Suffering.

Just like that, after the time it took to burn an incense stick, even though his soul power was mostly drained, he still resisted the incursion of the Jiao Long’s divine soul power. His soul power, turned into his palms, wreaked havoc inside the Jiao Long’s soul body.

Whimper whimper whimper!

Soon, the previously fierce Jiao Long’s eyes showed a glint of terror. Xiao Chen’s arm was too ruthless; he did not care about the erosion of his own soul power, intent on causing chaos within its Divine Body.

In just this short incense-burning time, the pain endured by the Jiao Long felt lengthier than all the endless years it had been trapped in the Sea of Suffering.

This was a torment it had never experienced since its birth.

Whimper whimper whimper!

The Jiao Long howled mournfully at Xiao Chen.

Subdued?

Sensing the intentions transmitted from the Jiao Long, Xiao Chen couldn’t help but wonder, was the offspring of a divine beast so easy to dominate?

Whimper!

The crystalline eyes of the Jiao Long shone bright, and the crystal orbs of its eyes rolled around before meeting Xiao Chen’s gaze for an instant; he immediately understood the reason.

The Jiao Long’s memories were almost a blank slate. Soon after its birth, its spirit wandered, unknowingly slamming into the Sea of Suffering World, and since then it never left.

The one certainty was that it was indeed the offspring of a true divine beast.

However, its memories mostly consisted of drifting, slumbering in the Soul Sea. Before entering the Soul Sea, there were few mentions in its memories, which is why it was so easily dominated.

A young dragon trapped in the Sea of Suffering shortly after birth, despite floating in the Sea of Suffering for who knows how long, had never experienced the trials of life and death.

Moreover, since the Jiao Long’s soul power had been worn down during the long years in the Sea of Suffering, though its divine power hadn’t been lost, the absence of replenishment made it weak.