Heaven-Dominating Martial Emperor

The entire Cloud Mist Tower Ship was in disarray, with terrifying auras still lingering in many places.

One could only imagine the terrifying battle that had just taken place here!

"Commander Xiao Jing, that brat has the True Dragon's blood! Stop him!"

Seeing the newcomer, Murong Dai reacted as if she'd found a lifeline and cried out desperately.

"You talk too much!"

With another flick of his finger, Ye Chen shot a strand of Sword Qi into Murong Dai's mouth. She ended up sharing a fate similar to Zhong Quanming's—rendered speechless, able only to groan in agony.

However, Ye Chen had gleaned an important piece of information from Murong Dai's outburst.

'So the wooden box in my hands contains... True Dragon's blood?'

"You audacious fiend! How dare you injure someone right in front of me! Are you provoking the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce?!"

Seeing Ye Chen act against Murong Dai, Xiao Jing flew into a rage. His aura erupted like a tidal wave, shaking the very heavens!

The crowd was aghast—the commander who had arrived as reinforcements was another Divine Might Realm expert!

However, he was only at the second level of the Divine Might Realm, comparable to Murong Dai. What difference could one more expert of that caliber possibly make?

Xiao Jing's actions, however, quickly gave them their answer.

Though he was still unaware of the full situation, the fact that Ye Chen had dared to harm an expert from the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce right before his eyes was enough for him to decide: Ye Chen was the enemy!

"Brat, you will pay the price for your actions today!"

A voice suddenly cut in from the side.

It was Zhong Quanming! He had recovered enough to speak, projecting his voice with his Divine Soul!

Ye Chen frowned. Seeing yet another enemy challenge him, he finally lost all patience and flicked his sleeve in Zhong Quanming's direction.

BOOM!

A wave of surging power exploded outward. Zhong Quanming had no time to react before he was blown to smithereens, leaving only a mangled pile of flesh and blood on the deck!

"Commander Xiao Jing, save me!" Zhong Quanming's Divine Soul shrieked in terror.

WHOOSH!

The words had barely left him when his Divine Soul was sucked away by the Soul-Catching Lamp. His horrifying screams continued to echo through the air, chilling all who heard them.

He probably never imagined that even with reinforcements on the scene, he would still fail to escape death.

"Brat, you die today!"

Xiao Jing was livid. This youth had dared to kill someone right in front of him—a blatant trampling of the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce's dignity!

Yet, to everyone's surprise, Xiao Jing, in his towering rage, didn't immediately attack Ye Chen. Instead, he zipped back to the smaller tower ship.

"Meteorite Cannon, activate!"

At his roar, a massive cannon barrel suddenly extended from the tower ship, pointing at Ye Chen from afar.

Ye Chen froze. He immediately felt his aura being locked on. No matter where he tried to hide, this blast would most likely hit him squarely.

Moreover, a sense of mortal peril began to grow within his heart, which shocked him!

After all, he had never felt anything like this, not even when fighting the Supreme Profound Daoist or that evil crow!

"The Meteorite Cannon? Oh no, that's a warship from the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce!"

Mo Tianyun cried out in shock, and upon hearing his words, the faces of the others changed as well.

"Warship?" Ye Chen was stunned.

"If a tower ship is for transporting guests or for cultivators on long journeys, then a warship is a powerful weapon built to kill enemies!"

"According to legend, the warships of the Treasure Gathering Chamber of Commerce are all equipped with weapons of immense destructive power."

"Take this Meteorite Cannon, for example. It's built on a foundation of several Top-grade Spiritual Soldiers, combined with multiple killing arrays. Every shot consumes one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones! It burns through money, but its power is truly astonishing!"

"Never mind trivialities like shattering mountains and splitting peaks—it might even be capable of shooting the stars from the sky!"

The aged voice explained grimly.

Hearing this, Ye Chen finally realized just how grim the situation was.

'A single shot consumes one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones?'

'That's equivalent to one million mid-grade Spirit Stones, or ten million low-grade Spirit Stones!'

'How is that just burning money? It's utterly, outrageously wasteful!'

'Back in Lei Province, the entire treasury of a top-tier faction probably didn't even amount to ten million low-grade Spirit Stones.'

'A single shot consumes the entire wealth of a faction. Isn't that a bit too absurd?'

Combined with the power of various killing arrays and Top-grade Spiritual Soldiers, the force of this one shot had reached an unimaginably terrifying level.

No wonder Ye Chen was horrified!

'With my current strength, I'm not sure I can stop this attack!'

Aboard the warship, Xiao Jing watched the distant Ye Chen with an indifferent expression, his cold eyes filled with mockery.

'Did you really think I'd be foolish enough to fight you head-on?'

'Even Steward Zhong and Commander Murong were crushed when they teamed up. Anyone with half a brain knows that my strength at the second level of the Divine Might Realm is nowhere near enough to get involved in this fight.'

'I might not be able to interfere, but that doesn't mean this warship can't!'

'With the power of the Meteorite Cannon, any cultivator below the Void Realm will inevitably be severely wounded!'

'Brat, I don't care what trump cards you're hiding. First, let's see if you can survive this shot!'

Xiao Jing folded his arms, a mocking smile playing on his lips.

"Commander Xiao, the target of the Meteorite Cannon is on the deck of the tower ship right now. Although it has a lock on him, if it explodes on deck, it will inevitably hit innocent people..."

"So what? Did you think we could subdue an enemy of this caliber without suffering any losses? Stop dreaming. As long as we can eliminate this brat, anything is negotiable!"

Xiao Jing snorted coldly. "As for the True Dragon's blood he's holding, the Meteorite Cannon's power can't destroy a divine object like that. We can just retrieve it afterward..."

"Wait... Commander Xiao! The target has moved off the tower ship! He... he's outside the ship now, and seems to be hiding in the clouds to the side!"

A subordinate beside him shouted excitedly.

"He can't be foolish enough to think he can use the storm clouds to dodge or weaken this shot, can he?"

Xiao Jing was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Well, regardless of what he's thinking, as long as he's off the tower ship, we can fire on him with even fewer reservations."

"Meteorite Cannon, prepare! Fire!"

At Xiao Jing's command, bag after massive bag of high-grade Spirit Stones was fed into the array behind the cannon barrel.

The array spun to life, and waves of an utterly terrifying killing aura began to coalesce before transforming into a monstrous, destructive power that surged into the cannon barrel.

Under a sea of horrified gazes, the cannon barrel quickly began to glow.