Chapter 1694

The Thunder Dragon was no longer a weapon soul, but a true Thunder Dragon.

It opened its mouth and spat out a large amount of dragon flames.

Dragon flames were lightning, and there was also fire within. It was a flame that carried lightning, the Thunderfire.

The Thunderfire covered a large area and contained a terrifying destructive power. It instantly spread and enveloped Hu Fo.

The Thunder Dragon's attack also had the special effect of sealing space. Hu Fo had nowhere to run. Facing the surrounding dragon flames, he could only do his best to put up a defense.

Under the Thunderfire's continuous destruction, Hu Fo's defense quickly crumbled, and a cry of despair rang out.

Hearing the cry that reverberated between heaven and earth, everyone's heart trembled.

Zi Chen, who had already expected this, was expressionless.

The Thunderfire was extinguished, and a charred corpse appeared on the ground. It was the 23th ranked Hu Fo.

Hu Fo was dead. He had died under the dragon's breath.

However, the moment Hu Fo died, Zi Chen sensed many energy fluctuations from the city. These energy fluctuations were very strong, all stronger than Hu Fo.

Clearly, these were all experts on the list.

Zang Yongsi had once said that he would arrange everything. Other than Xu Hou, no other experts on the list would be allowed to appear. However, Zang Yongsi had already appeared, and now there were so many experts in the city. This made Zi Chen frown involuntarily, and a cold killing intent appeared in his eyes.

Then, these fluctuations disappeared without a trace.

Hu Fo's corpse was there.

However, everyone still felt like they were in a dream. It was unreal.

Two powerful experts on the Marshal List had died in a single day.

At this moment, the city ahead suddenly shook, and a dazzling golden light once again enveloped the entire city.

This was another change on the list.

As expected, Zi Chen's ranking jumped from 655th to 23th.

With two experts on the list dead, a difficult problem was placed in front of the guards.

Should they let Zi Chen in or not?

If they let him in, they would definitely be punished. However, if they didn't, based on Zi Chen's attitude, whoever blocked them would die.

Zi Chen took a step forward, and all the guards took a step back, fear in their eyes.

They wanted to stop him, but Zi Chen was too strong.

Even an expert like Xu Hou could not see through life and death, let alone them.

Thus, a scene that shocked all the cultivators appeared. Zi Chen had single-handedly fought against an entire city.

The group of guards retreated again and again. Behind them was the city gate, and they had nowhere else to go.

Now, almost everyone's faces were filled with fear as they stared at Zi Chen.

"Those who stand in my way, die." Zi Chen's indifferent voice reverberated in the air.

Life and death could be decided in an instant. The atmosphere was tense to the extreme. Many people already had thoughts of escaping.

At this moment of life and death, the order to withdraw was finally issued from the city. The group of guards heaved a huge sigh of relief and dispersed with a whoosh. They no longer dared to obstruct Zi Chen, this malefic star.

Just like that, the city gate was left empty. With the power of one person against the entire city, it was actually the entire city that was avoiding him.

Zi Chen walked towards the center of the city. Lei Long's body shrunk rapidly, turning into a lightning belt that wrapped around Zi Chen's waist.

Man Shi and the rest followed closely behind with faint smiles on their faces.

Along the way, everyone looked at Zi Chen with awe and veneration.

Zi Chen's name was destined to spread throughout the entire Royal Sky Region today. Not only in the Battlefield of Despair, but also in the Seven Mansion Alliance's Royal Sky Region.

After stepping into the 4th level and entering the Marshal Rankings, Zi Chen had already become a true expert.

An existence of this level was worthy of the Seven Mansion Alliance's attention.

After entering the city, Zi Chen did not hold back at all. The 67 of them split up and headed straight for the properties of the five great clans.

"You guys are going against the entire human race."

"Zi Chen, you've gone too far. You'll definitely suffer retribution."

"You guys rely on your strength. Instead of dealing with the foreign races, you guys attacked your own people. You'll all die a horrible death."

During the plundering, there would be some cultivators loyal to the five great clans who resisted. However, none of them survived.

"The winner is king, the loser is a bandit."

After hearing those voices and killing these people, Zi Chen replied indifferently.

Indeed, the winner was king and the loser was a bandit. This was a principle that had never changed since ancient times.

The winner was the principle.

Actually, in the eyes of others, this was just a show. There was no righteousness to speak of.

It was nothing more than you rob me and I rob you.

The guards in the city did not appear again, even though there were many shouts of killing in the city.

Because of Zi Chen's group's plundering, the entire city seemed to be in chaos. However, it was actually still orderly. The only ones in chaos were the properties of the five great clans.

One had to admit that Schenker's information was very accurate. There was no error at all.

If someone were to take advantage of the chaos to plunder the shops of the five great clans, they would discover that the guards had disappeared. They would instantly appear and deal with these troublemakers.

Wherever Zi Chen went, no one dared to stop him. Of course, no one dared to stop him from plundering. However, when it came to Shuntian's group, there were many cultivators who tried to stop them.

After all, Shuntian's group was only at the peak of the eighth layer, while the weakest here was at the early stage of the ninth layer.

Zi Chen chose to split up the group of twelve with the intention of training them. Because everyone was about the same level, they only lacked an opportunity to break through.

During the course of the battle, everyone used their full strength. That kind of decisiveness in killing shocked many people.

However, compared to the shock brought by Zi Chen, the others were much weaker. Thus, the group of ninth layer cultivators began to break through.

"Buzz."

Shuntian's body trembled. The rules descended from the sky. He looked at the group of ninth layer cultivators in front of him with a smug and cruel smile.

"The ninth layer has broken through."

The group of ninth layer cultivators was stunned. Then, their faces turned ugly.

Shuntian was already powerful. Once he broke through, his combat strength was even more unimaginable.

Sure enough, during the process of breaking through, the entire Marshal Ranking shook. There was one more name in the empty spot of the hundredth place.

Shuntian.

Seeing this scene, everyone was dumbfounded. He had not broken through, but he had already entered the Marshal Ranking.

The hundredth place was equivalent to the former Xu Hou.

However, Shuntian in front of them was only at the early stage of the ninth layer. Could he be the next Zi Chen?

With the rules on his body, Shuntian began to break through. His breakthrough was the same as Zi Chen's. He needed a huge amount of power. This power could not be supplied by the energy of heaven and earth. He could only rely on himself.

With Zi Chen as a precedent, Shuntian took out a large number of supreme-grade spirit crystals and many dragon crystals.

These crystals exploded into a huge amount of energy, which was all absorbed by Shuntian.

Under the incredulous gaze of the crowd, Shuntian smiled coldly and made a powerful attack.

"Boom."

With a loud bang, more than a dozen ninth layer cultivators were annihilated under this attack.

Just as the crowd was shocked and watched Shuntian enter a large store, the Marshal Ranking changed again.

The hundredth name of Shuntian shone again, and then began to jump.

This jump was a total of fifteen names, and he was ranked eighty-fifth.

Having just entered the ninth layer, he was already ranked eighty-fifth, squeezing out many peak ninth layer cultivators. Shuntian's battle prowess was astounding.

To enter the Marshal Ranking, one had to rely on the rules of the world. He relied on his own attacks, and after analysis by the rules, his ranking was determined by his battle prowess.

Evidently, Shuntian's attack just now was qualified to enter the eighty-fifth place after analysis by the rules.

While Shuntian was breaking through, Man Shi, who'd transformed into a steel giant, also broke through.

After his breakthrough, his attacks became even more powerful. Similarly, with just one attack, his ranking began to jump up to the eighty-fourth position.

However, Man Shi didn't stay in that position for too long before he was pushed down by Fortune Teller.

As a titled cultivator of Destiny City, Fortune Teller's strength was undeniable.

Comparatively speaking, the last titled cultivator, Hidden Mist, wasn't as strong. His methods were all focused on a single shadow. His attacks weren't that strong compared to the rest, but he had no problem entering the Marshal Ranking.

Next was Wu Xie. He used the Eye of Death, but still couldn't surpass Man Shi's full strength. This was quite a pity.

Golden light flashed continuously throughout the city as one law after another descended.

Faced with the attacks of so many ninth-level experts, everyone had reached their limits and broken through.

After breaking through, everyone was able to enter the Marshal Ranking.

The Marshal Ranking, which had remained unchanged for many years, was undergoing frequent changes today. Some people couldn't enter it their entire lives, but Man Shi and the others were already on the ranking as soon as they broke through.

This huge gap shocked everyone and made them feel incomparably disappointed.

Including Zi Chen, all twelve of them were on the Marshal Ranking. Among them, Zi Chen was the highest at seventy-eighth place.

If he could rank seventy-eighth when he'd just entered the ninth level, then once Zi Chen reached the peak of the ninth level, it wouldn't be difficult for him to take first place.

Today, not only had they witnessed Zi Chen's rise, but they'd also witnessed the rise of Zi Chen's eleven followers.

After the eleven of them entered the Marshal Ranking, no voices of resistance could be heard in the city. The voices that'd been criticizing Zi Chen's group were also gone.

The experts of the five houses retreated, as if they'd accepted their fate.

Thus, the plundering came to an end.

After that, the twelve gathered again, all of them in the ninth level.

"How's the harvest?" asked Zi Chen.

Wu Xie shook his head, slightly disappointed. "We only found one piece of emperor-level material in each shop. The harvest wasn't as great as we expected."

Zi Chen smiled faintly. "It seems that they'd already expected this and took away all the good stuff."

"How is that possible? If that's the case, why were we still able to find emperor-level materials?"

"Of course it's to ease the tension between the two sides."

At this moment, Zi Chen's potential wasn't any weaker than Long Fei's, and he'd clearly grown. Under such circumstances, if the five houses still couldn't see the situation clearly, they'd be pure fools.

Leaving some materials in each shop was actually to express their goodwill to Zi Chen.

"Bah, it's too late to express goodwill now." Man Shi was very disdainful when he understood the meaning.

At this moment, a peak ninth-level expert came over. Looking at Zi Chen's group, he said, "You're Zi Chen. My master wants you to go over."

Zi Chen turned around and glanced at him.