Strongest War Emperor

Shen Lang glanced at the Black and White Qi that flashed and vanished in his hand. The corner of his mouth curled up as he said, ”There’s no need to wait and gather materials for an antidote to the Black Crow Witchcraft. I’ve already found a way to completely resolve this problem.”

Flower Soul was overjoyed. ”Really? Then my lady won’t have to suffer from the pain of the Black Crow Witchcraft anymore? ...Yes! I’ll send a messenger at once!”

The moment she finished speaking, a shower of petals rained down from the sky, and Flower Soul vanished.

Shen Lang scanned his surroundings and said calmly, ”I have some personal business to attend to. I’ll find you all afterward; there are some things I need to tell everyone.”

Without waiting to see their reactions, Shen Lang turned to Shui Qingwu in the pavilion and said, ”Would you mind preparing a quiet room for me?”

”It’s already been prepared for you,” Shui Qingwu said with a radiant smile. ”Follow me.”

Following Shui Qingwu, Shen Lang soon arrived at an elegant wooden cabin.

The wooden cabin stood amidst a bamboo grove, immaculate and serene.

Shen Lang immediately sat cross-legged on the platform bed and began using the Tai Chi Diagram to devour the sealing chains Lan Mengling had placed on him.

He had just completely removed it, and now, in the blink of an eye, he was sealed again. Shen Lang was left speechless by Lan Mengling’s capriciousness.

Moreover, this time was completely different from the last; Lan Mengling had recast the seal after discovering that Shen Lang had broken her previous one.

It was nearly twice as strong!

The Vermilion Bird Divine Fire on the Spiritual Power Chains was also more than twice as potent!

If it weren’t for his considerable understanding of the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, coupled with the current power of his Tai Chi Diagram, breaking this seal in a few hours would be nothing but a pipe dream.

’A powerful woman... more of a demon than an actual Demon... Damn it, I hope I never run into you again!’

In a foul mood, Shen Lang controlled the Tai Chi Diagram and had it completely devour Lan Mengling’s seal.

More than three hours passed, and night fell.

”Qianshang, come in for a moment.” Shen Lang sensed the presence outside the cabin and called out.

Yin Qianshang pushed the door open and entered. ”Lord, you were looking for me?”

Since the matter involved the secrets of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect, Yin Qianshang no longer called Shen Lang ”Sect Leader” as he had when they first met. Instead, like Flower Soul and the others, he addressed him as ”Lord.”

Gesturing for Yin Qianshang to sit, Shen Lang said, ”Aside from the group in the Witch Race Secret Realm, the members of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect are scattered across the world. How am I supposed to find them?”

An excited look appeared on Yin Qianshang’s face when he heard Shen Lang wanted to start searching for the people of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect.

He said hurriedly, ”The Thunder Sword is in your possession, Lord. As long as a disciple of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect comes near you, they will...”

”Bullshit!” Shen Lang interrupted him rudely. ”I found you back in the Desolate Land, and you sensed my presence long before that. Did you come looking for me right away?”

”In the end, I was the one who had to come find you, wasn’t I?”

Sweat instantly beaded on Yin Qianshang’s face. ”Well... uh, at the time, I was locked in a fierce battle with Flower Soul, and you... you...”

”Fine, I’m not trying to blame you,” Shen Lang said, waving his hand dismissively. ”But that method is just relying on dumb luck. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack! And I can’t possibly travel to that many places in a short period. It’s preposterous!”

”A great disaster is drawing closer, and I urgently need the formidable power of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect. Qianshang, think. Does the Sect have any other way to quickly rally its experts?”

Yin Qianshang stroked his chin in thought for a moment before his face lit up. ”Lord, finding all our sect members scattered across the continent in a short time will be difficult. But if we start with smaller areas, beginning with the Snow Domain and the nearby Piaomiao Domain, that’s certainly achievable.”

”Oh? So the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect really has such a method? Let’s hear it.” Shen Lang’s spirits were lifted.

Yin Qianshang nodded. ”The Thunder Sword is the Sacred Artifact of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect; it’s one of a kind. However, the sect possesses a Secret Technique that can copy the Thunder Sword’s aura and seal it into a Jade Talisman.”

”This Jade Talisman will then carry the Thunder Sword’s aura, and it will last for about a year.”

”We disciples of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect cultivate the Thunder Element Technique, the ’Thunder Control Divine Technique.’ During cultivation, we generally must choose places where the Nine Heavens Thunder Power is highly concentrated... For example, before I met you, Lord, I was cultivating on a high peak not far from the Desolate Land.”

”My Lord, you can send people to find and record these locations. Once you have maps of these areas in the Snow Domain and Piaomiao Domain, you can dispatch people with the Jade Talismans carrying the Thunder Sword’s copied aura to those places.”

”Any member of the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect who senses the Thunder Sword’s aura in the Jade Talisman will naturally come to rendezvous!”

Shen Lang nodded in satisfaction. ”That’s a good plan... Give me the Secret Technique. I’ll copy the aura from the Thunder Sword as soon as possible.”

”Yes!” Yin Qianshang hurriedly pressed a Jade Talisman to his forehead, inscribed the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect’s Secret Technique onto it, and handed it to Shen Lang.

After briefly inspecting the Jade Talisman, Shen Lang praised, ”Simple, but very effective. The foundation of a Legendary Power is truly extraordinary.”

Then, Shen Lang used his Divine Thought to sense the people waiting outside the cabin. ”Alright, you can go out now. Let the members of the Shui Family leave first, then call everyone else in.”

Yin Qianshang got up and left the cabin. A moment later, a group of people walked in, led by Xue Shiyin.

Chaos, Shark’s Kiss, Shangguan Feiyue, Nangong Yan, and Tantai Jingming—the five great Emperor Martial Realm experts;

Yuan Bupu, Flower Soul, Yin Qianshang, as well as Evil Song and You Yue.

Eleven people in total.

Shen Lang’s gaze fell upon Xue Shiyin. ”Shiyin, place a Restriction here to completely seal us off from the outside world.”

Xue Shiyin hadn’t expected him to call her by her given name so directly. She froze for a second, and a blush immediately crept onto her face.

”Oh... I understand.”

Seemingly to hide her embarrassment, Xue Shiyin stood, turned away, and began to place layer after layer of Restrictions around the courtyard.

Once the Restrictions were in place and everyone was seated, Shen Lang organized his thoughts before looking at Evil Song and saying, ”There is something I need you to do for me as soon as possible.”

”Please speak, Lord,” Evil Song replied without hesitation.

Shen Lang began, ”There are many types of Energy in the world. The kind of Spiritual Qi and its concentration differs from place to place.”

”Some places are abundant in Wood Element Spiritual Energy, perfect for the cultivation of Martial Artists with a Wood Constitution. Other places are filled with lava, where Fire Element Spiritual Energy can allow a corresponding Martial Artist’s progress to advance by leaps and bounds. Then there are places where the sky rumbles with thunder all day, with ceaseless lightning, suitable for the cultivation of Martial Artists who have practiced Thunder Element Techniques...”

”I want a map—one that covers the entire Western Wilderness and marks all the locations within it where Thunder Power is most abundant.”

”This will consume a great deal of time and resources. Go to the Treasure Pavilion later and commission them for the task... Only a power like the Treasure Pavilion, with its network spread across the entire continent, can accomplish this quickly.”

Evil Song nodded. ”Yes, I understand.”

Shen Lang added, ”The map doesn’t need to be a single entity. It can be divided and drawn country by country... For instance, for the Eighteen Snow Countries, you can create eighteen separate maps.”

”I need to acquire the maps for the Snow Domain and the Piaomiao Domain as soon as possible. The faster, the better—at any cost!”

”Understood!” Evil Song replied respectfully.

Shen Lang paused in thought for a moment before speaking. ”Over three hundred years ago, a piece of news spread like wildfire across the continent: A great cataclysm, the Nine-Star Linked Pearls, would throw the Human Realm into great chaos, and the Blood Ancestor Tomb would appear. The appearance of the Blood Ancestor Tomb would coincide with the completion of the Nine-Star Linked Pearls alignment.”

”At that time, the Supreme Yin Qi between heaven and earth will flourish, while the yang qi will wane. Demonic fiends will wreak havoc, and the entire Star Continent will descend into chaos, with endless slaughter and incessant war.”

”You all should know about this, right?”

Tantai Jingming spoke first. ”You told Shangguan and Shark’s Kiss about this back in Celestial Phoenix City. After Shangguan returned to the Imperial Dragon Sect, he summoned me at the earliest opportunity and informed me of these matters... To think that this legend, which so many people dismissed as nonsense, is actually true!”

”And now, Earth Rifts are actually appearing all over the world. It’s truly terrifying!”

Shark’s Kiss hesitated for a moment before asking, ”Xiaolang, for you to suddenly bring this up with such a grave expression... has something else happened?”

Everyone immediately held their breath, their eyes fixed on Shen Lang.

Shen Lang shook his head. ”Nothing new has happened, per se. It’s just...”

At this, Shen Lang gave a wry smile before continuing, ”It’s just that the situation is far more dire than what I told you before.”

”How can that be?” Shangguan Feiyue asked in surprise. ”Is there something even more serious than the Blood Ancestor’s return?”

Shen Lang said with a solemn expression, ”It’s still about the Blood Ancestor. However, the War God Hall’s records concerning the Blood Ancestor, as well as the many Divine Demon wars of the Ancient Era, have all deviated from the truth to varying degrees.”

”To put it simply, the real Blood Ancestor is far, far more powerful than the Blood Ancestor of legend, the one recorded in the various Classics!”

”And it’s very likely that in the great battle back then, the Blood Ancestor wasn’t seriously injured at all!”

”How is that possible!” everyone exclaimed in shock.

Shen Lang continued, ”More than a million years have passed. The major races have rested, recuperated, and then flourished. Countless experts have emerged, and the overall strength of the Human Realm seems much greater than it was back then. The Blood Race, on the other hand, is on the brink of extinction and looks like it can’t cause much trouble. However...”

”You all should understand that when dealing with the Blood Ancestor, victory cannot be achieved through numbers!”

”To deal with the Blood Ancestor, we would still need a lineup like that of the Five Emperors and Five Ancestors from back then... The current Five Emperors and Five Ancestors are a far cry from the originals, and as for the new generation of experts, apart from the War God Hall’s War Emperor, not even one or two others have emerged!”

At this, a look of horror appeared on Tantai Jingming’s face. He asked, ”’A far cry from the originals’... What do you mean by that?”

Shark’s Kiss and Shangguan Feiyue were also stunned, their faces clouded with confusion.

Even in the records of the War God Hall, information regarding the Five Emperors and Five Ancestors was vague, to say nothing of the legends in the outside world.