Chapter 609 - 607: Déjà Vu

Wen Liang was stunned that even the Fire Sparrow was pleading on behalf of Jiang Chen and the others.

He looked at the Fire Sparrow, confused.

"Fire, why are you, of all creatures, speaking up for them?"

The Fire Sparrow raised its head and looked at Jiang Chen.

In that instant, Wen Liang’s gaze followed, landing on Jiang Chen as well.

"Hm?"

He suddenly frowned.

’He... he looks so familiar. I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere before.’

But it was all too sudden, and he couldn’t quite recall where he might have seen Jiang Chen.

He looked down at the Fire Sparrow.

"You know him?"

The Fire Sparrow shook its head. "No, but we absolutely must not provoke him."

"He exudes an aura that makes me want to prostrate myself in worship."

"It’s... it’s more like the aura of the most sacred being in the legends of our Fire Sparrow Race—the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast. Whenever I get close to him, I can feel a suppression so overwhelming I can hardly breathe."

Hearing the Fire Sparrow’s words, Wen Liang was truly shocked.

He stared at Jiang Chen in astonishment once more.

He even sized Jiang Chen up from head to toe.

In the end, he still couldn’t see anything special.

’He’s only at the Martial King Third Heaven. He’s just too weak. Utterly insignificant.’

"There’s no need to worry about it. I’ll kill him right now."

Before the Fire Sparrow could stop him, Wen Liang had already taken to the air.

He flew out of the city.

"Today, you all die."

Wen Liang was filled with killing intent for these people who dared to threaten his Fire Sparrow Kingdom.

"This is bad!"

The Flame Dragon cried out in alarm.

He said to Jiang Chen, "Big Brother, you have to go! We’ll hold this man back."

Wen Liang was charging toward them, exuding a terrifying aura.

The Flame Dragon cried out.

He was the first to charge toward Wen Liang.

At this moment, the Flame Dragon was a hundred meters long, his entire body wreathed in flames.

With his Martial Emperor Cultivation, he was exceedingly ferocious. He took flight on his four claws and charged viciously at Wen Liang.

Even knowing his cultivation was inferior to his opponent’s, the Flame Dragon held nothing back.

He had to buy time for Jiang Chen to escape.

But Jiang Chen didn’t run. Running was impossible.

He was already preparing to summon Fang Yinzi.

He just hadn’t expected Wen Liang to strike so quickly, giving him no time to react.

BOOM!

Wen Liang extended a hand and sent a palm strike flying toward the Flame Dragon.

From this strike, a dancing Fire Sparrow materialized. This was different from the Guardian Fire Sparrow; the one Wen Liang had conjured was far more terrifying.

Its entire body burned with flames.

The Fire Sparrow Seal. This was the true, most powerful Fire Sparrow Seal of the Fire Sparrow Kingdom.

In Wen Liang’s hands, the Fire Sparrow Seal truly displayed its divine might.

BOOM!

With a muffled explosion, the Flame Dragon felt an endless inferno rush toward him. Even though his own body was wreathed in flames, he couldn’t block Wen Liang’s Fire Sparrow Seal at all.

In an instant, the lunging Fire Sparrow Seal sent him flying.

BAM!

The Flame Dragon, despite his Martial Emperor Cultivation, was no match for a single one of Wen Liang’s moves.

He was sent flying backward, crashing into the distant beast horde and knocking down a large swath of them.

Jiang Chen saw that Wen Liang was also using the Fire Sparrow Seal, but its power was far greater.

His expression turned cold.

’Backlash!’

He prepared to use his Vermilion Bird Seal to cause the enemy’s Fire Sparrow Seal to backlash.

After all, the Vermilion Bird Seal causing the Fire Sparrow Seal to backlash had been, one could say, a hundred-percent effective every time.

Furious, he naturally tried the same method as before, hoping to make the Fire Sparrow Seal turn on its user and secure a victory without a fight.

"Hm?"

Wen Liang suddenly felt a strange fluctuation from the Fire Sparrow Seal within his body.

’Strange. The Fire Sparrow Seal is actually showing signs of backlash.’

However, Wen Liang was a Martial Emperor Peak of Nine Heavens expert. The moment he felt the backlash force from the Fire Sparrow Seal emerge, he immediately diverted a fraction of his cultivation to suppress it.

Almost instantly, the impending backlash from the Fire Sparrow Seal was quelled.

There were no further abnormalities.

Even so, Wen Liang’s expression changed.

A backlash from the Fire Sparrow Seal was something that should have been utterly impossible.

But now, the seal had clearly tried to turn on him. If not for his profound cultivation, it might have actually succeeded.

A cold sweat beaded on his brow.

At this, Wen Liang grew even more furious.

His eyes glinted with a cold light.

His hostility toward Jiang Chen and the others intensified.

"Die!"

After sending the Flame Dragon flying, Wen Liang abruptly locked onto the other expert with a Martial Emperor Cultivation, the Black Fire Crow.

His figure shot toward the Black Fire Crow like a great bird.

SWOOSH!

He was so fast that he was practically a blur, appearing before the Black Fire Crow in an instant.

Even though the Black Fire Crow reacted quickly, he still only saw a flicker of a figure before Wen Liang was upon him.

He could only defend passively.

"Huh?"

’Damn it, why didn’t it backlash?’

Jiang Chen realized that his attempt to use the Vermilion Bird Seal to trigger a backlash in his opponent’s Fire Sparrow Seal had failed.

Experiencing this failure for the first time, Jiang Chen’s expression turned grim.

Just now, he had only managed to affect his opponent slightly. But for an expert like Wen Liang, whose cultivation was already so high, even being slightly affected, he still had more than enough power to deal with them.

While he was puzzling over this,

PFFT!

The Black Fire Crow hurriedly spat out a terrifying stream of Black Fire. It was his own Pill Fire; any ordinary Martial Emperor Expert who encountered his Pill Fire would surely be burned to ashes.

However, when his Pill Fire rushed toward Wen Liang...

SHHHF!

Wen Liang merely flicked his large sleeve.

PFFT!

The Black Fire Crow’s Pill Fire was extinguished in an instant.

It had no effect on Wen Liang whatsoever.

"This is bad!"

The Black Fire Crow was aghast.

Not only had his Pill Fire failed to affect his opponent, but now he himself was facing a terrifying crisis.

"Kill!"

Just then, seeing the Black Fire Crow in danger, Mr. Qiu Shui let out a furious roar.

"Celestial Dragon Sun-Destroying Technique."

He immediately unleashed the Celestial Dragon Sun-Destroying Technique.

A Celestial Dragon burst across the sky, lunging viciously to devour Wen Liang.

Mr. Qiu Shui’s cultivation was at the Martial Emperor First Heaven, making him slightly stronger than the Black Fire Crow and the Flame Dragon.

This attack was immensely powerful.

But Wen Liang just sneered.

"A parlor trick. It can’t withstand a single blow."

He just waved his hand, casually sending out a Fire Sparrow Seal.

It brutally slapped toward Mr. Qiu Shui’s Celestial Dragon.

BANG!

The Celestial Dragon was sent flying.

Because his Celestial Dragon had taken a heavy blow, Mr. Qiu Shui suffered collateral damage and was forced to retreat continuously through the air.

"ROAR..."

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Xiaotian also leaped forward, leaving Jiang Chen hovering in mid-air as he rushed up.

Xiaotian was a battle maniac to begin with.

Now, faced with an expert, he showed no signs of retreat.

BOOM!

Knowing how powerful Wen Liang was, Xiaotian roared as he flew out.

"Battle Form!"

The next moment, Xiaotian transformed into a young man clad in golden armor.

The two small bumps on his head were his not-yet-fully-grown Dragon Horns.

He had transformed directly into his battle form from the very beginning.

Originally, Xiaotian was at the Martial Emperor First Heaven.

Now, having entered his battle form, he radiated the aura of the Martial Emperor Second Realm.

And that was just the beginning.

"Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon, First Transformation!"

He roared again and again.

He began to execute the Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon.

The Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon was a technique passed down to him by the Blood Dragon from within the Dragon-locking Realm.

Now, he was finally unleashing it.