Dragon Blooded War God

“Do you know what it is?”

“It’s too far to tell. I might be able to detect it if we get to the same layer, but the barriers between the layers are blocking me.” The cat sighed.

Long Chen couldn’t go to the deeper layers for now, but he was confident that he would get there eventually if he stayed in the Ancient Demon Domain longer. He just wasn’t sure how long it would take. His mission was to find a way to enter the Ancient Graveyard, so he wouldn’t stay here for too long.

The Ancient Demon Domain was just a place for him to increase his strength. The Divine Martial Empire was massive, and he wasn’t content with being stuck in one place. He had come here to avoid the Martial Alliance as well as to hunt down stronger demonic beasts. After meeting Huangfu Qi, he had come up with another goal: obtain the Emperor Flame Pearl.

And now it was within his sights.

Once he reached the third layer, he didn’t dare to let his guard down. The place had fewer demonic beasts, but all of them were extremely strong. He used the Soul Swallowing Gaze to navigate the area. At his current stage, he needed the blood of a Category Nine Heaven-tier beast to become stronger. Unfortunately, he wasn’t strong enough to kill one.

The stronger he got, the larger the gap between stages was. The advantages brought to him by his strong physical body had completely diminished.

He was focused on finding fire-attribute demonic beasts in the third layer, but there were very few demonic beasts in the first place, and finding ones that suited Xiaolang’s needs was proving to be difficult. It took Long Chen almost four hours to find a Category Seven Heaven-tier fire-attribute beast.

It was a wolf-type demonic beast. It was larger than Xiaolang and its fur was red. The heat it emitted made it hard to see what it looked like. The Sun Devouring Wolf was originally a Category One Earth-tier beast, but because of its special talent, it was much rarer than the fire wolf in front of him.

Long Chen didn’t need to transform to hunt the beast down, since he was already at the Seventh Passage Stage. He took the Demon Emperor Sword and shot out a Supreme Demon Sword at the wolf’s waist.

The Sword Qi pushed the wolf several meters back, and Long Chen quickly followed it. He used Blood Devouring Domain at the same time to restrict the wolf’s movements. Long Chen used this chance to stab his sword into the wolf’s throat and destroy its brain using Sword Qi.

The wolf howled and fell over. Long Chen picked up its demon core and placed the corpse in the Primordial Realm. It was a Category Seven Heaven-tier demonic beast, so there was a possibility the corpse would be useful at some point.

The demonic core was enough for Xiaolang to advance into the next tier. Long Chen was happy to see his brother slowly growing stronger. Xiaolang’s ability to devour fire was several times stronger than Long Chen’s Blood Transmutation. The latter had restrictions, but Xiaolang didn’t. All he needed to do was eat as much as he could and he would eventually reach the peak of all demonic beasts.

After some time, Xiaolang finished digesting the demonic core and reached the Category Five Heaven-tier. However, he had failed to copy the talent of the fire wolf, as the odds were fairly low. Thankfully, he had managed to copy the talent of the Blazing Lion last time, which allowed him to control the Nine Demons Ancestral Fire even more accurately.

“I still can’t hunt a Category Nine Heaven-tier beast, and I don’t think there are any with the fire attribute here. Let’s go see if there’s any at the Category Eight Heaven-tiers instead. I can still hunt them down.”

Xiaolang nodded. “I will just follow you.”

He was actually bored.

Thanks to Long Chen’s Inherited Blood Essence, his growth could be described as explosive. If he got the Emperor Flame Pearl, he could easily reach the Ninth Passage Stage, and Xiaolang would fall behind. Thankfully, they were working together, and the stronger one would protect the weaker one until they grew up. Since Long Chen was stronger now, he was protecting Xiaolang while hunting down the resources for his brother to grow.

If Xiaolang became stronger, he could hunt the demonic beasts down himself.

Long Chen and Xiaolang slowly encroached into the deeper part of the third layer. Even though Demon General Typhoon had warned him not to go too deep, Long Chen slowly entered the deeper regions. After an hour, the demonic beasts around them became suspiciously scarce. Long Chen searched around for a long time, but he found nothing.

“Hmm. You are really lucky,” the cat suddenly said.

“Fat Cat? You found something?” Long Chen was pleasantly surprised.

“What should you call me?”

“Sir Cat, hehehe.”

The cat lazily pointed at a direction, and Long Chen walked towards it. When he got closer, he sensed the temperature around him rising rapidly. The closer he got, the hotter it became.

It’s a Category Eight Heaven-tier fire-attribute beast! I’m so lucky!

But he didn’t dare to let his guard down. Hunting down a Category Eight Heaven-tier beast was pushing it, though it would allow him to gauge how well he could handle an Eighth Passage Stage cultivator like Ying Shaotian. The only difference was that the latter would have a lot of martial techniques as he was a direct disciple of the Red Ghost King.

He was closer now.

There was a deep gorge in front of him. Black rocks littered the place, and the walls were burnt black. Long Chen entered the gorge and slowly moved towards the end.

There were small embers floating in the air and white smoke drifted out from the rocks. The temperature was visibly high here. Those below the Divine Core Realm would be burned to a crisp in no time.

He heard the sounds of a strong heartbeat coming from the depths of the gorge, signifying the strength of the beast. The loud heartbeat meant that its blood was very strong too, though the blood of a Category Eight Heaven-tier beast was no longer useful to Long Chen.

Long Chen also understood that using Blood Transmutation to increase his cultivation level was not a good idea. He had only done it for the Emperor Flame Pearl. Thankfully, his emotions were still under control thanks to the hundredth of the Inherited Blood Essence.

Long Chen slowly made his way towards the beast. Soon, he saw what kind of beast it was.

The beast’s body was covered in green flames. The beast was ugly, with thick paws, sharp fangs, and green saliva. The disgusting saliva did not evaporate in the heat but instead burned a dark hole on the ground when it dripped out of the creature’s mouth.

The beast had one other characteristic: there were nine fiery wheels on its back, and they seemed to be the source of the fire.

The greenish fire flowed viciously on its body.

“Nine Wheels Ghost Fire Beast …” Long Chen recalled what he had read about it. It was a Category Eight Heaven-tier demonic beast that was fairly well known. Its strongest attack was called the Nine Wheels Ghost Fire. It was an attack that chained nine times with destructive force.

Xiaolang was looking at the beast with greed. It was a delicious meal for him.

“Xiaolang, watch how well I perform, hehehe …” Long Chen took out the Demon Emperor Sword and transformed. His blood-red scales and sharp bone spikes completed his battle form. The ancient and regal aura of a king overflowed from his body, and the Nine Wheels Ghost Fire Beast immediately reacted to it. It warily looked at the direction where Long Chen was hiding and stood up.

After standing up, Long Chen saw that the beast was larger than the wolf from earlier. Its thick paws indicated that it excelled in ripping things apart.

Long Chen had decided that there was no point in sneaking around. He shot forward like a red arrow and used the Blood Devouring Domain in the process. Under its influence, Long Chen could attack even more fiercely!

“Roar!”

The beast howled in anger when it saw the small being attacking it.

Doge & Chacha's Thoughts

These names are such a hassle to translate and there's no good alternatives!