Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 653: Five Two Two, Tenth Grade Red Lotus

Chapter 653: Five Two Two, Tenth Grade Red Lotus

Right now, it was crucial for Jiang Chen to collect the Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed. Jiang Chen knew that the forces who rushed to the ancient battlefield were not limited to the Demon Clan alone.

If he were fully engaged in battle with the Demon Clan here, allowing outsiders to take advantage of the delay to collect the Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed, Jiang Chen would be at a significant loss.

Understanding this, now was not the best time to engage in melees. Jiang Chen forcefully suppressed his resentment and turned to flee in the other direction.

Upon collecting the Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed, Jiang Chen would be able to harness it to reach the state of perfection in Ancient Martial Arts. At that time, even a Demon God would not be his match.

He could completely sweep through all those who came here, monopolizing the entire ancient battlefield.

"Trying to escape?"

"You should stay!"

"You invaded our territory and desecrated the remains of our warriors, little human. You can’t escape. Stay here and atone for your sins!"

Nobody could compete with Zao Chi’s cultivation. From the first glance at Jiang Chen, he could feel a strong resentment of the Demon Clan on Jiang Chen’s body.

This could only come from the defeated old demon corpses that wrapped Jiang Chen, which were hard to erase.

Seeing this, Zao Chi naturally guessed that Jiang Chen had refined many demon corpses somewhere out of his view. How could he tolerate this?

"Die!"

In silence, a pitch-black long spear appeared in Zao Chi’s hand. It radiated a gloomy black starlight and lunged towards Jiang Chen.

On the other side, Jiang Chen, who was about to leave, suddenly felt he was locked down.

Just as if the spear was already bound to hit him in the future, so now, no matter how he evaded, he couldn’t escape Zao Chi’s attack.

"Impudent!"

Seeing he was about to retreat, and still, Zao Chi persisted, Jiang Chen impulsively grew angry and decided to teach him a lesson.

In Jiang Chen’s hand, the Dao was quietly revealed. With one wave of his hand, dazzling divine light was emitted, instantly surrounding the whole space with multiple Jiang Chen’s shadows, leaving it unclear which was the real one and which was the illusion.

Moreover, in the surrounding void, Dao hung high. Everywhere was a bright moon and sun, as if thousands of moons and tens of thousands of suns appeared in the universe together, illuminating heaven and earth.

Seeing this, Zao Chi couldn’t help but be taken aback. He never imagined that Jiang Chen still had such tricks up his sleeve and for a while, he couldn’t distinguish the real from the fake.

Whoosh!

He exerted force on his hand, and the long spear would pierce numerous Jiang Chen’s shadows in the air. Each strike would destroy a shadow, but none of them was the real Jiang Chen.

Yet strangely, each shadow contained a strong law power. Destroying one shadow caused Zao Chi’s law power to start shaking.

Jiang Chen’s body never appeared, while all Dao Monarch and other items around him vanished. Heaven and Earth seemed to create a complete isolation.

Before he knew it, sheer terror began to fill Zao Chi’s heart. His well-forged Dao heart was trembling at this moment.

"Damn, break for me!"

Realizing that something was wrong, he was probably under some influence. Zao Chi became resolute and was prepared to stimulate the long spear in his hand to break this strange environment.

It was at this moment when a looming figure silently appeared behind Zao Chi. He made no sound at all, didn’t even disturb the air, and seemed like a ghost, a shadow, a flash of light.

This figure was Jiang Chen!

Without any hesitation, Jiang Chen raised the Taichu Divine Sword in his hand and fiercely stabbed it towards the spot at the back of Zao Chi’s head, where the Niwan Palace was located.

This was where the True Spirit of Primordial Soul resided.

At the moment when Jiang Chen made his move, all the shadows around the space began to move. They turned into a strand of light and integrated into Jiang Chen’s body. His power surged countless times in an instant.

There was one thing Zao Chi was wrong about. These shadows in the void were all Jiang Chen. Not one was a mere illusion.

Jiang Chen, with the help of the Dao Mirror’s ability to reflect time and space, projected all of his past and future selves from countless dimensions.

As a result, Jiang Chen was temporarily endowed with power truly equal to that of the Innate Dao Sovereign.

In other words, the strength of Jiang Chen’s sword had reached the level of Dao Sovereign.

Swish...

The Taichu Divine Sword silently swept across, piercing directly into Zao Chi’s mud-pill palace. In a flash, the sword intent that could obliterate everything exploded, threatening to shatter Zao Chi’s primordial spirit and True Spirit into fragments.

But at the critical moment, an ancient shield surfaced in Zao Chi’s Sea of Consciousness, standing before his True Spirit and blocking this life-threatening sword.

However, the sharpness of the Taichu Divine Sword was not so easily resisted. Although the shield did block the sword, the body of the shield was penetrated by the Taichu Divine Sword, leaving an indelible scar.

Failing in his first attempt, Jiang Chen immediately turned and retreated without any lingering, disappearing on the spot.

"Today, consider yourself lucky. If only I had more time, I would leave no stone unturned," he said.

Even though he left, his voice remained, echoing for a long time.

At this moment, Zao Chi couldn’t afford to be furious. Instead, he sat down on the spot, guarding his heart and mind, exerting all his strength to suppress the rampaging Taichu sword intent in his Sea of Consciousness.

The sword had left his body, but the sword intent remained. If Zao Chi ignored it, even if he were the Innate Dao Sovereign, he would be seriously injured.

This blow from Jiang Chen almost cost Zao Chi half of his life. If there was no shield protecting him in his Sea of Consciousness, that sword would have seriously wounded or even killed him.

...

On the other side, after Jiang Chen had escaped, he marveled at the Dao Mirror in his hand. He did not expect that the Dao Mirror could be used in such a wonderful way.

His strike just now, when compared with an Innate Dao Sovereign using time-space authority, could be said to be exactly the same.

That is to say, with the help of the Dao Mirror, Jiang Chen’s greatest flaw was filled, and he could perfectly impersonate the Innate Dao Sovereign.

"Wonderful!"

This discovery made Jiang Chen realize that he still knew too little about the Dao Mirror, and there were many unknown wonderful uses waiting for him to discover.

Thus, Jiang Chen studied the Dao Mirror in his hand while heading in the direction of the Red Lotus Karma Flame.

There was silence all the way, with nothing happening.

This time, Jiang Chen finally arrived safely where the Red Lotus Karma Flame resided.

In the centre of the witch-demon battlefield, the fresh blood of countless strong fighters gathered, forming a scarlet pond.

In this blood pond, a blood-red lotus rooted, blooming tenfold, emitting an eerie red glow, like a blood-red flame.

Red Lotus Karma Flame!

No, calling it Red Lotus Karma Flame is no longer appropriate. After millions of years of growth, it has already taken root and sprouted, growing into a tenth grade Red Lotus Karma Flame.

That blood-red flame is the most malicious flame in the world, the Red Lotus Karma Flame.

This flame uses karma as fuel. With never-ending karma, the fire will never be extinguished. Even an Innate Dao Sovereign, if contaminated, will be incinerated to ashes if he carries a monstrous karma.

"This is serious trouble!"

Staring at the tenth-grade Red Lotus in front of him, Jiang Chen felt both fear and joy.

He was happy that the Red Lotus Karma Flame had indeed undergone a mutation, but this mutation had developed in a good direction.

The blood pool in which the Red Lotus Karma Flame took root was transformed from the super strong fighters who fell in the witch-demon battlefield. It contained astonishing divinity.

The Red Lotus Karma Flame took root therein, absorbing the contained divinity, causing its original source to evolve, breaking through the constraint and evolving from a ninth-grade Red Lotus to a tenth-grade one in one fell swoop.