Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

High in the Celestial Vault.

Jiang Chen soared leisurely through the air, his Divine Thought delving into his Storage Ring.

Inside his Storage Ring lay over two hundred Celestial Fate Orders.

Each Celestial Fate Order contained a certain number of points. However, Yinn Tianzong of the Nine Sins Hall was so brutally exploitative that even the experts from his own hall had to hand over more than half of any Cyan Radiance Stones they found.

Therefore...

Most of these two hundred-odd Celestial Fate Orders only held a few thousand, or at most, tens of thousands of points.

The one with the most belonged to Xie Zesen, holding a full fifty-six million points.

’With Xie Zesen’s fifty-six million points and the twenty-eight million from the other two hundred or so Celestial Fate Orders, that’s eighty-four million points in total. I only get half the points from plundering orders, but even so, it brings my score to over 870 million. Now, I’m not far from Yinn Tianzong, who’s ninth on the Venerable List.’

An excited smile spread across Jiang Chen’s face.

Before entering the Celestial Fate Ancient Realm, almost everyone was certain he would die.

’Who would have ever thought...’

’That through my own efforts, I’d actually be able to climb the Venerable List and become one of the Ten Great Young Venerables?’

’Murder and pillage... Robbing others of the points in their Celestial Fate Orders is so much faster than painstakingly searching for Cyan Radiance Stones myself. Yes, I think I’ll start by picking off some straggling experts from the Nine Sins Hall!’

Jiang Chen felt a deep-seated revulsion for the sect known as the Nine Sins Hall.

The Ghost Emperor himself had come from the Nine Sins Hall. To achieve his goals, he had actually used the experts of the Seven Great Dynasties as raw materials to construct the Nine Demons Sky Demon Array.

It was a truly heinous act.

SWOOSH—

Jiang Chen began to speed through the Ninth State, searching for targets.

With his formidable power, as long as he didn’t encounter one of the top ten on the Venerable List, ordinary experts posed no threat to him.

An hour later, Jiang Chen encountered his first batch of prey.

It was a group of more than fifty experts from the Nine Sins Hall. A grim Ghost Qi emanated from each of them, making them look like Evil Ghosts walking the earth. They were chasing a wretched-looking youth, and they quickly caught and surrounded him. ”Hahaha, kid! Let’s see you run now!”

”How dare you hide Cyan Radiance Stones? You must have a death wish!”

An Ice Cone plummeted down.

The youth, himself an expert from the Nine Sins Hall, was pierced through the collarbones by several black Ghost Qi Lock Chains and pinned directly to the ground.

His face was contorted with fury as he roared indignantly, ”Why should Yinn Tianzong get to just sit back and reap the rewards? The Cyan Radiance Stones I worked my fingers to the bone to find, I have to hand them all over to him? I won’t accept it!”

”Hahaha, you won’t accept it? Who the hell do you think you are? You’re just a measly Inner Sect Disciple at the Heavenly Destiny Realm Third Stage. Senior Brother Yinn is the strongest expert in our Nine Sins Hall, a Young Venerable! Before we even entered the Celestial Fate Ancient Realm, the Hall Master himself ordered us to serve Senior Brother Yinn in all matters. As a disciple of the Nine Sins Hall, how dare you disobey?” several of the other Nine Sins Hall experts sneered.

The youth roared back, ”Before, we had to hand over fifty percent of our Cyan Radiance Stones, and I did it. But now, that Yinn Tianzong wants us to hand over all of them. That’s something I cannot do.”

”Hmph!”

”You don’t know life from death! Daring to defy Senior Brother Yinn’s command. From this moment on, you are no longer a disciple of our Nine Sins Hall!”

The men sneered coldly.

The youth looked at his former sect brothers, his face a mask of despair. ’The Nine Sins Hall... Hahaha, what a fine Nine Sins Hall. You don’t need to expel me. I, Wu Hao, hereby cut all ties with you. From this day forward, I have nothing to do with the Nine Sins Hall!’

”You dare defect from the Sect?”

”Such insolence! You deserve to die!”

The fifty or so surrounding experts from the Nine Sins Hall all sneered. One of them, a Heavenly Destiny Realm Sixth Stage expert, had black Ghost Qi swirling in his palm.

The Ghost Qi coalesced into a hideous, green-faced, tusked ghost head. It bared its fangs, poised to swallow Wu Hao whole!

Wu Hao closed his eyes in despair.

However...

The next moment, what splashed across his face wasn’t the hideous ghost head, but a spray of warm, fresh blood. Wu Hao froze, his eyes snapping open. He was stunned to find that the Heavenly Destiny Realm Sixth Stage expert who had been about to kill him had been decapitated.

The blood on his face had just sprayed from the man’s severed neck.

”Wh-wh-what just happened?” Wu Hao was dumbfounded.

The other few dozen experts from the Nine Sins Hall were also stunned.

All eyes focused on the golden figure descending from the sky.

It was none other than Jiang Chen!

Jiang Chen wore a mocking smile as he spoke lightly, ”I’ve always felt that the people of the Nine Sins Hall are just a pack of mad dogs, biting anyone and everyone. Now I see it’s true. You even prey on your own sect brothers. Tsk, tsk, it’s really been an eye-opener!”

”Who are you?”

”You know we’re from the Nine Sins Hall and you still dare interfere in our business?”

”You’re just looking to die!”

The fifty-odd members of the Nine Sins Hall recovered their wits. Though they were bluffing, they let out low snarls.

One of them, a Heavenly Destiny Realm Eighth Stage expert, gave Jiang Chen an icy stare. ”A mere Heavenly Destiny Realm Sixth Stage cultivator dares to interfere in the affairs of my Nine Sins Hall? Brat, how do you want to die?”

”I want to watch all of you die!”

Jiang Chen gave a cold smirk.

Then he attacked!

SWOOSH—

An Azure Dragon Fist Shadow tore through the air, its form twisting like a real dragon as it charged into the crowd from the Nine Sins Hall.

”Cross Slash!”

”Devilish Qi!”

”Flaming Demon Fist!”

The Nine Sins Hall experts unleashed their powerful Martial Skills, attempting to destroy the True Essence Dragon.

However...

Their formidable attacks vanished without a trace when they struck the True Essence Cyan Dragon, as if a clay ox had entered the sea. If anything, they only seemed to enrage it. The Azure Dragon reared its head and let out a long roar. With a violent whip of its colossal body, it swept its tail and utterly pulverized the ten Nine Sins Hall experts in its path.

In the next moment, its jaws opened and snapped shut, swallowing the experts before it alive.

Within the dragon’s belly, battered by a torrential flood of True Essence, all several dozen experts from the Nine Sins Hall were annihilated!

A single punch!

Of the fifty-odd experts from the Nine Sins Hall, not one survived!

”GASP...”

Wu Hao’s eyes went wide, and he sucked in a sharp breath, his face a mask of utter disbelief. ”H-h-he’s... he’s too powerful!”

Jiang Chen glanced at Wu Hao and frowned. ”Are you alright?”

”I’m... I’m fine.”

Wu Hao came to his senses, his face alight with joy as he hurriedly said, ”Thank you for saving my life, Benefactor!”

”No need for thanks.”

Jiang Chen waved his hand dismissively. With a flick of his finger, he destroyed the Ghost Qi Lock Chains. He tossed Wu Hao two pills to stabilize his injuries, then asked with a frown, ”I heard them say you’re also from the Nine Sins Hall. Why did they want you dead?”

Wu Hao gave a bitter smile. ”It’s all because of that Jiang Chen!”

Jiang Chen blinked. ’What the hell does that have to do with me?’

Wu Hao explained, ”Some days ago, Jiang Chen of the Saint Martial Sword Sect suddenly shot up the ranks of the Venerable List. Yinn Tianzong of our Nine Sins Hall is ranked ninth with over nine hundred million points. But Jiang Chen’s rise is so ferocious that Yinn Tianzong fears being surpassed. So, he started aggressively confiscating Cyan Radiance Stones. Even we, the disciples of the Nine Sins Hall, are forced to hand over everything we find. Anyone who refuses gets hunted down.”

Hearing this, Jiang Chen’s expression turned odd. ’So, it turns out Wu Hao really was being hunted because of me!’

”Benefactor, thank you again for saving me!” Wu Hao bowed once more, his voice full of respect.

Jiang Chen waved his hand. ”It was nothing.”

”No. To you, Benefactor, it may have been nothing, but to me, Wu Hao, you’ve saved my life,” Wu Hao said with grave sincerity. ”Once a benefactor, always my benefactor!”

Jiang Chen shrugged, not bothering to argue. ”By the way,” he said, ”I’ve been searching all over the Ninth State these past few days, but I haven’t found anyone from the Nine Sins Hall mining for Cyan Radiance Stones. Do you know why?”

Wu Hao stared, looking at Jiang Chen in surprise. ”Benefactor, you don’t know?”

”Know what?” Jiang Chen asked, confused.

Wu Hao said quickly, ”A few days ago, an alliance led by experts from the Saint Martial Sword Sect and the Fiery Sun Sect was formed to resist Yinn Tianzong. In the end, Yinn Tianzong crushed the alliance. While his forces were hunting down the survivors from the two sects, someone discovered a cave. Inside the cave are countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and even more, a massive amount of Cyan Radiance Stones. I found a batch of Cyan Radiance Stones in that Celestial Cloud Cave earlier. They demanded I hand them over, and when I refused, they started hunting me.”

”The Celestial Cloud Cave? With lots of treasures and Cyan Radiance Stones?”

Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up with elation. ”Quick, tell me! Where is this Celestial Cloud Cave!”

”It’s thirteen thousand li east of Haifeng City...”

Wu Hao pointed, and seeing that Jiang Chen was clearly interested, he quickly added, ”Benefactor, if you wouldn’t mind, please allow me to guide you to the Celestial Cloud Cave!”

”Alright!”

After a moment’s hesitation, Jiang Chen nodded.

The two of them shot into the air, flying toward the Celestial Cloud Cave...