"Father!"

"Grandfather!"

Zai Lun and Pu Liang's faces changed color, and they moved their bodies forward, while Li Jiang even started to channel his Inner Qi.

"Everyone, believe in Young Jiang!" Supreme Long Huang urgently spoke up.

Although he didn't know what Jiang Chen was planning to do, Supreme Long Huang believed that Jiang Chen would not harm the former emperor.

"Roar!"

Just as the Golden Divine Dragon was about to pounce on the former emperor, a roaring hiss sounded, and a thick black mist suddenly surged around the former emperor.

"Divine Dragon! Strike!"

Jiang Chen shouted angrily, and the Golden Divine Dragon's tail whipped fiercely towards the head of the former emperor!

"Bastard!"

A loud shout erupted, and a small black mist snake suddenly flew out from above the former emperor's head.

As soon as the small snake flew out, it instantly transformed into a giant Black Mist Serpent.

"What is that?"

"Soul Clone!?"

"This is the Eight-Headed Serpent's Soul Clone!"

Li Jiang, Supreme Long Huang, and the others all cried out in alarm.

"Divine Dragon, slash it!" Jiang Chen shouted again.

The Golden Divine Dragon's body shuddered, and its tail, which had been about to hit the former emperor's head, stopped just beside it. The dragon's body shook and charged directly towards the Black Mist Serpent.

"Former emperor, get out of there!" Jiang Chen shouted loudly.

Whoosh!

The former emperor's expression shifted, and he rushed to the side of Li Jiang and the others.

"Roar! You tricked me!" The Black Mist Serpent suddenly felt something was wrong, roared angrily, and its tail whipped out, striking the Golden Divine Dragon!

Bang!

The Golden Divine Dragon was instantly shattered, transforming into a scatter of Golden Radiance across the land!

Swoosh!

Taking advantage of the Black Mist Serpent attacking the Golden Divine Dragon, Jiang Chen's figure flashed, and he leaped to stand behind Li Jiang and the others, urging hastily, "Block it, don't let it return to the former emperor's body!"

Tap tap tap!

Li Jiang, Zai Lun, Supreme Long Huang, and Pu Liang each took a step forward, positioning themselves in front of the former emperor, while Jiang Chen, pulling Yan Hu, ran to both sides of the former emperor.

"Bastard!" The Black Mist Serpent roared again, its body shook, and a majestic aura emerged, speeding towards the former emperor.

"Go back!"

"Get out of the way!"

Li Jiang and Zai Lun shouted loudly and harshly slapped out with a palm.

Bang!

The Black Mist Serpent was struck by the two and was instantly knocked flying!

"Not good! Draw the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, seal this place, don't let it escape!" Jiang Chen's expression changed, and he exclaimed loudly.

Swoosh swoosh!

Supreme Long Huang and Pu Liang immediately leaped to two corners of the chamber, swiftly waving their hands, drawing the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, directly blocking the Black Mist Serpent's path.

Boom!

The Black Mist Serpent was about to crash into the wall when it was suddenly blocked by the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy that appeared in front of the wall.

"Let's act together to control the flow of Heaven and Earth to seal the stone chamber. Senior Li, get ready to cut him down!" Jiang Chen shouted again.

Li Jiang and Zai Lun also began to control the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.

The Supreme Emperor stepped forward, wanting to make a move.

Snap!

Jiang Chen pressed his hand on the Supreme Emperor's arm and said gravely, "Senior Supreme, do not act. Although I am not certain, if the Black Mist Serpent touches the power belonging to you, it is very likely that it will follow your power back into your body!"

The Supreme Emperor was stunned for a moment and quickly retracted his hand!

Buzz buzz buzz!

A slight, ethereal fluctuation emerged in the stone chamber as Li Jiang and the others worked together to control the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy to seal the chamber.

Bang bang bang!

The Black Mist Serpent scrambled around the chamber but couldn't escape the cage of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy formed by the four people!

"Damn it! How did you know I existed?" the Black Mist Serpent, having charged several times without breaking free, floated in the middle of the chamber and glared angrily at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen smiled faintly and said softly, "It was you and Jiang Wuqing, the ancestor, who told me!"

"What did you say?!" The Black Mist Serpent froze.

"What?!"

"Senior Jiang and him?"

The Supreme Emperor and the others were also stunned.

Jiang Chen glanced at the Supreme Emperor, then turned his head and looked at the Black Mist Serpent jokingly, "If I am not mistaken, the Soul Clone that the ancestor cut down was also you, wasn't it? It was just not thoroughly destroyed, and you were reborn with Spiritual Intelligence within the Supreme Emperor's soul, right?"

"How… how did you know?!" the Black Mist Serpent's gaze shifted as it spoke in a deep voice.

Jiang Chen smiled faintly, "I've had quite some dealings with your Soul Devouring Group! I've cut down quite a few Soul Clones and annihilated several Soul Devours! From this, I have made some guesses."

"Last time, when I went to meet with Dragon Saint Senior from the Flame Dragon Group, I found that he had battled the Eight-Headed Serpent directly, so I asked him and confirmed my guess!"

"You… oh no, I should say Eight-Headed Serpent! Every time the Eight-Headed Serpent splits a Soul Clone or creates a Soul Devour, it grows weaker. However, it needs to control someone else's consumed soul using the Soul Clone and Soul Devour to enhance itself, so it has no choice but to do so!"

"Every Soul Clone it splits has an ability, which is to return to its body and receive everything experienced by the Soul Clone."

"When the ancestor Jiang Wuqing once destroyed one of your Soul Clones, the Eight-Headed Serpent could not receive the experiences from that Soul Clone, thus it thought the Supreme Emperor had broken away from its control. Yet it wasn't aware that the Soul Devour was not destroyed!"

"Just now, I experienced the Power of the Divine Dragon left by ancestor Jiang Wuqing and discovered why he didn't help the Supreme Emperor destroy the Soul Devour in his body—that's you!"

"To destroy a Soul Devour, one needs the Power of the Divine Dragon with Spiritual Intelligence. However, the Divine Power left by ancestor Jiang Wuqing contained no trace of Spiritual Intelligence, which means when the ancestor first encountered the Supreme Emperor, for some reason, he couldn't summon a Divine Dragon with Intelligence!"

"And through your growth over time, you developed Spiritual Intelligence and consolidated your own Soul Clone, which is why you could continuously trigger the explosive growth of the Soul Devour."

"It was also after hearing Senior Li say that he stayed here to help the Supreme Emperor suppress the explosions of the Soul Devour that I deduced your existence!"

"By the Power of the Divine Dragon of ancestor Jiang Wuqing, it is known that the Soul Devour has always existed, mainly because the Soul Power left in the Soul Devour by the Eight-Headed Serpent has always existed. Also, because of the Soul Devour explosions you instigated, I confirmed your existence."

"Is it not you and ancestor Jiang Wuqing who told me?"

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, the corners of his mouth curled up into a mocking smile.

"You…"

The Black Mist Serpent stared coldly at Jiang Chen, its eyes bursting with a bloodthirsty intent to kill.

"Mr. Jiang's mind is sharp; in such a short time, you've thought of so much. I admire you!" the Supreme Emperor said, full of praise.

While Li Jiang was controlling the cage of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, he turned his head to look at Jiang Chen and asked in confusion,

"Mr. Jiang, how did you manage to force him out, then? Just now… you didn't attack the Supreme Emperor, did you?"

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