Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate

Chapter 234: Gu Ran's Cultivation Breakthrough, E Tianjue's Demise

"Ahh!" E Tianjue experienced an overwhelming, unseen force emanating from the axe and coursing into his arm, igniting surges of unbearable pain.

Upon inspection, he found his arm's skin ruptured!

More than that, there was an additional influx of energy wreaking havoc inside him, inflicting intense torment.

However, as a warrior of the Demon Race, E Tianjue had endured innumerable challenges.

A bout of extreme pain wasn't sufficient to strip him of his fighting prowess.

Whoosh!

The mammoth axe was thrust aloft once more, promptly directing a rapid slash towards Jiang Chen.

"Stop your futile defiance; allow me to offer you a quick death." Jiang Chen wielded his Purple Sun Thousand-Mile Sword, countering E Tianjue's assault with a nonchalant expression.

E Tianjue chose to fall silent, instead, channeling all his might, employing every tactic to dart into a fissure on the ocean bed.

But, that brief span felt like an unreachable horizon; he found it impossible to traverse, despite his best efforts.

'Do I truly need to strain myself?' Jiang Chen realized that while he could keep E Tianjue in check, executing him quickly would still be somewhat taxing.

In the meantime, the low-ranking demonic beasts that had erupted from the ocean bed had already breached the borders of Black Wood Island.

Gu Ran, who had been at sea, was rapidly swarmed by a legion of demonic beasts.

Beside him, the formerly carefree young masters led by Fu Huacan were also overpowered.

Employing his bloodline's power, Gu Ran took refuge in a coral reef cave, rendering him undetectable to the demonic beasts outside.

However, Fu Huacan and his comrades fell victim to the savage onslaught of the demonic beasts, meeting their demise in a flash.

Hiding in the coral reef cave, Gu Ran was far from idle.

Whenever a suitable demonic beast ventured near him, he would promptly initiate a surprise assault!

Whether his strike resulted in the death of the target or not, he would swiftly withdraw and hide himself.

Those demonic beasts, already tainted by the Nether Demon Spiritual Qi, had lost their rationality and only attacked visible living beings.

As they failed to detect Gu Ran, they did not launch an attack on him.

Thus, Gu Ran performed a delicate dance between attack and concealment.

His aptitude and fortune were extraordinary; nearly every blow he delivered resulted in a demonic beast's downfall.

Soon, Gu Ran had accumulated sufficient cultivation base, progressing to the Early-stage Heavenly Origin realm!

This enhancement further amplified his combat prowess, with his targets now being the slightly weaker Heavenly Origin realm demonic beasts and those at the Peak-stage Mysterious Platform realm.

Jiang Chen had been monitoring these developments.

By now, Gu Ran had already reaped significant benefits from this demonic incursion, and if left unimpeded, he would continue to fortify his strength.

In this brief period, he had already ascended to the Heavenly Origin realm.

If permitted to proceed, he might even reach the Inquiring Journey realm!

It must be acknowledged that Gu Ran's heaven-defying trump card was indeed extraordinary.

However, if Jiang Chen interjected, E Tianjue might slip away - after all, the latter was not to be overlooked either.

Hence, he could only attend to E Tianjue first.

"Then witness the zenith of my power!" Jiang Chen's gaze honed, as frosty as ice.

'Heavenly Blood Surge Secrets! Vigorous Sift Diagram! Shattering Sky Secrets! Death Calamity Dragon Transformation!' With a quick thought, he unleashed his secret arts!

Within moments, numerous purple-black crystal dragon scales surfaced on Jiang Chen's body.

Dragon horns sprouted from his forehead, his eyes stretched and narrowed, and his facial features took on a sharper and more pronounced contour!

The pupils of both his eyes, akin to specks of black ink, metamorphosed into impenetrably deep purple-black dragon pupils.

His hands transformed into lethal dragon claws, radiating an aura that set one's nerves on edge.

But this was merely the metamorphosis brought about by his True Dragon Bloodline.

The effects of the three self-damaging power-enhancing secret arts ensued immediately.

As he activated the sequence of secret arts, countless tendrils of Dao Yuan Power swelled and surged, unlocking numerous rarely utilized meridians.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Chen's aura was on the brink of the Transcendence realm!

"You...you...true...True Dragon Bloodline!" E Tianjue stammered, regarding Jiang Chen with stark terror. His heart brimming with wrath and desperation, he seemed as though he was rooted in place.

"No, this cannot be!" he exclaimed, panic seeping into his voice. "There has never been a True Dragon on this continent before. How could you possibly possess the bloodline of a True Dragon!"

His entire body trembled, and all that remained was despair.

"Your end is nigh!" Jiang Chen coldly sneered, discarding the Purple Sun Thousand-Mile Sword, he charged directly towards E Tianjue in his dragon-human hybrid form.

E Tianjue had no chance to respond, feeling only an intense pain searing his body!

Glancing down, he saw Jiang Chen's hands had punctured his chest!

"No! Please spare...!" In his desperate plea for mercy, E Tianjue attempted to articulate his request, but before he could complete his sentence, he fell into unconsciousness.

A member of the Nether Soul Demon Clan, who had tapped into the power of the Peak-stage Dao Palace realm, succumbed to Jiang Chen's might.

'The second Dao Palace realm Nether Soul Demon Clan member.' Jiang Chen's mouth twisted in satisfaction.

With a thought, a significant amount of qi and blood was quickly consumed by the Wordless Heavenly Jade.

At this moment, a system alert rang out.

[Ding! You have successfully altered the plot, reducing the protagonist Gu Ran's opportunities. Gu Ran's Heavenly Fate Value has dropped by 2000 points!]

[Ding! You have gained 4000 Villain Value points!]

Clearly, E Tianjue was a considerable opportunity for Gu Ran.

Now that Jiang Chen had pre-emptively slain and beheaded E Tianjue, Gu Ran could not do the same and absorb E Tianjue's cultivation base!

'Reducing 2000 points of Heavenly Fate Value, quite satisfying indeed!' A pleased smile crossed Jiang Chen's face.

Immediately after, he retrieved the Nether Soul Crystal from E Tianjue's neck, purified it, and used it to nourish Nangong Wan and Shangguan Ning.

Although E Tianjue's Nether Soul Crystal could not compete with Long Tianlu's, it was still a crystal of the Dao Palace realm.

After Nangong Wan and Shangguan Ning absorbed it, their residual souls advanced another step further within the Transcendence realm.

Having addressed E Tianjue's corpse, Jiang Chen promptly secured the massive axe and E Tianjue's storage ring.

His gaze then shifted to the caves and crevices on the seabed, which had been expanding incessantly, and by now, they had surpassed what he could mend with his power alone.

'Let's commence by slaughtering these tainted demonic beasts on the surface first.' Jiang Chen's gaze became frosty.

'I refuse to believe that the demonic beasts beneath the ground are infinite!' He declared as his formidable dragon-human form blurred into an afterimage as he streaked through the ocean, heralding death in his path.

Wherever he journeyed, countless demonic beasts crumbled into dust!

Streams of qi and blood power were also absorbed by Jiang Chen.

Even though each amount was minuscule, the accumulated energy, transmuted by the Wordless Heavenly Jade into miraculous energy, could be conserved as a backup.

Simultaneously, Jiang Chen made it a priority to eradicate the demonic beasts near Gu Ran's marine territory.

Although his attack range was limited and he couldn't wholly exterminate the demonic beasts within a short timeframe, it did decrease the number of demonic beasts Gu Ran could hunt.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chen observed that each subsequent demonic beast tide was always stronger than the preceding one.

The inaugural demonic beast tide comprised mainly of creatures below the Heavenly Origin realm, with Inquiring Journey realm beasts scarce enough to be counted on one hand.

The tides that contained a larger number of Inquiring Journey realm beasts, including some from the Dao Comprehension realm, mostly emerged around the time of E Tiaojue's demise.

No sooner had these demonic beasts materialized than they were obliterated by Jiang Chen.

While Jiang Chen persisted in his relentless culling of the demonic beasts, a potent aura abruptly emanated from a distance.

As it neared, Jiang Chen soon discerned that this aura belonged to a being from the Dao Palace realm!

So, as he maintained his slaughter, he utilized his Villain's Eye to scrutinize the approaching figure, instantaneously gaining comprehensive knowledge about them.

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