Dragon Blooded War God

Chapter 925: Tiny Golden Thunder Beast

It was just as Jiang Chong said. The Underworld Plaza was indeed huge, with a radius of about five kilometers. Standing on the edge of the plaza, Long Chen would have to use up his Blood Warp quota in order to reach the Underworld Rock.

The plaza’s floor was covered with a layer of black crystal. It was a beautiful and clear crystal that could reflect a person’s face almost as well as a mirror. Ink-green lights flowed in the depths of this crystal.

About ten thousand people had gathered in the plaza to cultivate Underworld Qi. These people were a mixture of both high and low-ranked soldiers. The stronger ones included Divine Martial Realm Thousand-Sergeants, while the weaker ones were newcomers to the Underworld Army like Long Chen.

Very few newcomers dared to cultivate Underworld Qi directly after joining. Long Chen leaving Camp Wolf to cultivate here was considered strange.

The most prominent thing in this plaza was the hundred-meter-tall Underworld Rock. Long Chen looked up at the black, asymmetrical rock. It was like a long, oval egg with many sharp corners, and it also took up a lot of space on the ground. It was a gigantic object.

The black rock was covered with ink-green runes. These runes danced and grouped up on the surface, and they faintly emitted a strange aura. Long Chen guessed that this was the method to cultivate Underworld Qi.

“Jiang Chong, you may leave without me.”

Long Chen merely wanted to cultivate here quietly on his own. Once his cultivation was complete, he would head to the Underworld Battlefield. He was not going to bother dealing with military training.

The Underworld Battlefield was his goal.

“If I head back, you’ll be here alone …” Jiang Chong hesitated. Long Chen was new after all, and he did not know many things. If he offended someone here, he would be in trouble.

“Go back,” Long Chen repeated.

“Alright. Be careful!”

Jiang Chong then returned via his original path. Butcher was now crippled, and without a few months of rest, he would not recover to his original state. He was no match for Jiang Chong now, and the body part he had used on the other squad members had been destroyed by Long Chen.

Jiang Chong felt that life was wonderful without constant terror.

After he left, Long Chen observed the rock closely. All the people who came here approached the rock, then sat down next to it. Long Chen approached the rock while studying it at the same time.

“Long Chen?” A familiar voice sounded.

Long Chen looked to his left and saw Ye Xuan, who was in white brocade robes. He was also sitting among the crowd and had probably just arrived, so he was not immersed in cultivation yet. When he spotted Long Chen, he waved.

Long Chen sat down next to him.

“Are you also cultivating Underworld Qi to enter the Underworld Battlefield?” Ye Xuan asked with a smile.

He was a young master who came from a large clan, so he exuded elegance and was very well-mannered. The way he spoke made people feel at ease.

Long Chen nodded and smiled. “I can’t believe you’re quicker than I am. You must have come straight here.”

Ye Xuan was not surprised to see Long Chen cultivating Underworld Qi. To him, the fact that Long Chen could help him escape a Second Divine Martial Stage cultivator meant that he was a hidden expert himself.

“Since you’re here, then let’s cultivate the Underworld Qi. We can also share our thoughts and experiences. Let’s see who will successfully cultivate it first!” Ye Xuan challenged him.

To be honest, there were very few prodigies who were strong enough to be Ye Xuan’s peers in Underworld City. That was why when Ye Xuan met Long Chen, he felt like he had finally met a peer. It was more fun and motivating to compete with someone at almost the same level.

“Alright! I won’t lose to you!”

Along Long Chen’s journey, he had been immersed in killing. It was a good thing for him to meet a friend who did not have a conflict of interest with him.

The two chatted for a while, then they started to study the mysterious Underworld Rock.

“It is said that the Underworld Rock came from beyond the heavens. There are a total of one hundred and one Underworld Rocks. Each of the one hundred cities under the Underworld Estate contains one Underworld Rock. The Underworld Estate has the largest rock of them all on its own territory. I haven’t even seen that rock before. Only the high-level officials of the Underworld Army can study it. I heard that one is five hundred meters tall,” said Ye Xuan with admiration.

“From beyond the heavens? You mean a meteor from the sky?” Long Chen studied it up and down. This rock had a mysterious aura, and it was indeed strange.

“The world beyond the heavens is mysterious. Who knows what’s out there? Hehe. Let’s focus on cultivating Underworld Qi. The fastest person to cultivate it in history took two months. The average prodigy takes three or four months, and Su Mo took three months. I want to see how many months it takes me!”

“Two months? Let’s see which of us will break that legendary record,” said Long Chen.

After the promise, both of them stopped chatting and focused on studying the runes on the rock. Out of the ten thousand people in the plaza, they were not eye-catching at all, considering they had only just joined the army and very few people recognized them.

This meant that no one disturbed them.

Long Chen focused his mind. The Underworld Rock was the only thing that remained in his world.

He knew that his comprehension abilities had always been shocking. This was a gift given by the ancestral dragon’s Inherited Blood Essence. He had absorbed one-hundredth of the Inherited Blood Essence, but his comprehension abilities had surpassed the normal person and even many prodigies of the Three Royal Territories.

In the tiny Underworld Estate, Long Chen’s comprehension abilities were the best of the best.

He was naturally sensitive to invisible elements, making him much more receptive to these subtle things.

Furthermore, he was naturally a patient person.

There were many runes on the Underworld Rock, and it was not easy to find the starting point. The runes spun around the rock, so Long Chen did not need to move around to find the correct ones. However, they also flickered, which only made things more difficult. Many people wasted a lot of time searching for the starting point during their first time.

Long Chen had to rely on himself to understand this.

There had to be certain special parts in this mass of countless runes. Understanding Underworld Qi was actually a mundane process, and Long Chen kept searching. Normal people took ten to twenty days to find the starting point, but Long Chen had a faint feeling after just two days.

It seems to be starting from this point.

His super-comprehension abilities made these things crystal clear to him. After grasping the main concept of the runes, it was easy to find the starting point he was looking for.

He glanced at Ye Xuan next to him. Ye Xuan was still working hard, and his sweat was dripping like rain. Long Chen knew he had not found what he had found yet. Everybody’s understanding was slightly different, so Long Chen could not tell him where to start either. He had to rely on himself.

After that, Long Chen started to study the runes.

They looked complicated, but after grasping the order of everything, it was not difficult to understand. Long Chen studied this from a very high angle, using the perspective of the ancestral dragon to study the runes. After grasping the root concept, he studied the specific mechanisms, and it grew much easier. No one could've guessed that Long Chen would progress this fast. When ten days passed, an ink-green aura quietly formed in Long Chen’s dantian, then it spread to his meridian points. Soon, the ink-green aura had already spread and mixed with all his essence.

Long Chen sensed that a strange aura had appeared in him.

This was Underworld Qi.

Underworld Qi had a strengthening effect on the Dragon Essence without any side-effects since it was born from Long Chen’s understanding, and he controlled it.

When he successfully cultivated the Underworld Qi, Ye Xuan had only just started to enter the zone.

I can’t believe it only took me eleven days to cultivate Underworld Qi. Isn’t that several times faster than the fastest record in the Underworld Army?

Long Chen was delighted. The Underworld Qi flowed through his nine meridian points once. He was prepared to stop when he seemed to sense something inside the rock through the connection between his Underworld Qi and the Underworld Rock.

He instinctively opened his True Martial Soul, which had become his third eye.

Gray light faintly shone from between his brows.

Looking through the eye of the True Martial Soul, the black rock started to transform. The ink-green runes spun quickly and transformed into an ink-green circle. A golden light shone in the middle of the circle, which came from the inside of the rock. Long Chen peered closer and felt a violent and fierce aura from the golden light. It was a tiny Golden Thunder Beast.

This small creature was almost the same size as Little Cat. It looked both like a lion and a tiger, and its body was made up of golden lightning. Dense bolts of lightning formed the tiny Golden Thunder Beast’s body. Although it was made up of lightning, it seemed to have its own sentience. It roared furiously, as it was trapped in the rock. Long Chen was hit with a shock wave. Golden lightning shot out of the small creature’s body, crackling loudly, as if it was about to destroy the world!

Long Chen felt immense psychological pressure when facing the Golden Thunder Beast.