Free Web NovelChapter 267: Chapter 265: One Move
Although Jiang Chen’s Cultivation was low, this time, he was able to precisely meet Wen Quan’s palm strike.
Normally, with such a vast difference in power, this would be impossible for any other Martial Cultivator.
The gap in their strength was simply too vast.
A Warrior Seventh Heaven facing a Martial King Fifth Heaven was a complete joke.
But this time was different.
Because Jiang Chen possessed the Vermilion Bird Seal.
Wen Quan, however, had learned the Fire Sparrow Seal. This seal contained Jiang Chen’s Spiritual Qi, meaning it could never harm Jiang Chen, no matter how powerful the attack.
’The master of the Vermilion Bird Seal is, by extension, the master of the Fire Sparrow Seal.’
He simply raised his hand, unhurried.
Although Wen Quan’s terrifying aura was startling, Jiang Chen met the attack head-on without the slightest hesitation.
It was as if he had completely forgotten the gap between them.
In fact, Jiang Chen had known all along that as long as Wen Quan used the Fire Sparrow Seal, his defeat was guaranteed.
After a deafening boom.
Everything fell silent in an instant.
It was the silence that follows an explosion.
All eyes turned to them.
In that moment, gasps of shock erupted from the crowd.
"He blocked it! He blocked it..."
"Heavens! Our young master blocked Wen Quan! He blocked a strike from a Martial King Fifth Heaven expert!"
Disbelief, shock—everyone was utterly stunned by the scene before them.
Jiang Chen had actually blocked Wen Quan.
The man who not even the six great Martial King Experts, including the Patriarch, could stop, had been blocked by Jiang Chen, a mere Warrior Seventh Heaven.
At that moment, Jiang Chen and Wen Quan seemed frozen in place.
"No, this is impossible."
"How is this possible? Why didn’t my father strike Jiang Chen dead?"
Wen Bufan cried out in astonishment.
He nearly leaped to his feet.
Behind him, the men from the City Lord’s Mansion were utterly bewildered.
The situation was just too bizarre, like something out of a dream.
How could someone with Jiang Chen’s meager Cultivation possibly block their City Lord?
This was a question that Wen Quan himself couldn’t comprehend.
His palm had been aimed at Jiang Chen’s head, but it had inexplicably landed on Jiang Chen’s own palm instead.
At that moment, he was astonished to find that as he descended, the full force of his Cultivation Power had continuously weakened the closer he got to Jiang Chen.
It seemed his Fire Sparrow Seal was to blame.
His power had steadily weakened, almost to the point of vanishing.
So by the time his palm struck Jiang Chen’s, he discovered his strength was practically gone. He possessed the Cultivation of a master, but he couldn’t unleash even a fraction of its might.
Now, it was as if Jiang Chen’s hand was holding him up; otherwise, he would have fallen to the ground.
’My power... where has my Cultivation gone?’
He could hardly believe it, his scalp tingling with dread.
He stared wide-eyed at Jiang Chen, who was just inches away.
The handsome face before him was a mask of utter indifference.
But Jiang Chen simply offered him a faint smile.
"My turn."
Jiang Chen knew what was happening. When Wen Quan’s Fire Sparrow Seal encountered him, it wouldn’t attack; it would only protect its master.
Although Wen Quan was the current wielder of the Fire Sparrow Seal, the seal itself genuinely contained Jiang Chen’s Spiritual Qi. It was part of Jiang Chen’s Cultivation Technique, making Jiang Chen its ultimate master.
In fact, with a single thought, Jiang Chen could reclaim the Fire Sparrow Seal from Wen Quan.
He tilted his head back and opened his mouth.
"Vermilion Bird Seal, backlash!"
As Jiang Chen spoke, a red light erupted from his body, shooting toward the heavens.
It instantly transformed into a Vermilion Bird Divine Beast, poised to spread its wings and soar, ready to pierce the highest heavens.
"A Vermilion Bird?"
At that moment, Wen Quan was even more dumbfounded. He was seeing a Vermilion Bird.
A true Vermilion Bird, not just a Fire Sparrow.
A wave of scorching heat washed over him.
It rushed right at him.
At the same time, the moment Jiang Chen unleashed the Vermilion Bird Seal...
...the Fire Sparrow Seal inside Wen Quan’s body began to roar.
An endless torrent of Flame Power, completely beyond Wen Quan’s control, began to turn on its master from within his body.
The color drained from Wen Quan’s face.
"No, no..."
He grew terrified. ’A backlash! The Fire Sparrow Seal is turning on me!’
This was something that had never happened before.
It was unheard of for the Fire Sparrow Seal to turn on its wielder.
Of course, the Fire Sparrow Seal wouldn’t normally cause a backlash.
But against Jiang Chen, it was a different story. He could force the Fire Sparrow Seal to turn on its user.
This was the inherent weakness of learning one of Jiang Chen’s Cultivation Techniques.
At any moment, Jiang Chen could reclaim the technique, rendering one’s entire Cultivation null and void.
But Wen Quan was given no chance to react.
The Fire Sparrow Seal was inside his own body; once the backlash began, he was powerless to suppress it.
Raging flames began to burn.
In an instant, Wen Quan’s face turned deathly pale.
He tried to suppress the Fire Sparrow Seal’s backlash with all his might.
"Begone!"
Jiang Chen thrust his palm upward.
At this point, Wen Quan was completely defenseless. He was not only suffering a backlash from the Fire Sparrow Seal, but the seal itself was also being suppressed by Jiang Chen’s Vermilion Bird Seal, rendering it powerless.
Struck by Jiang Chen’s palm, his body was sent flying toward the sky.
WHOOSH!
Wen Quan’s body was flung into the air.
He had been sent flying by Jiang Chen with such ease.
All the onlookers were dumbstruck.
They nearly fell over in shock.
"Is that even possible?"
"The young master defeated Wen Quan?"
"That’s incredible."
"One move! It only took a single move!"
Jiang Han himself stood frozen, his and Elder Qi’s mouths hanging open in disbelief.
Wen Quan, whom they had been unable to defeat, had actually been beaten by Jiang Chen alone.
And with such effortless grace, at that.
It simply defied all logic.
They rubbed their eyes hard, trying to make sure they weren’t dreaming.
Meanwhile, the people from the City Lord’s Mansion—Wen Bufan, Lin Hai, the steward Wu Feng, and the others—simply couldn’t accept what they were seeing.
"Impossible... This is truly impossible..."
They wanted to shout, but their throats were too dry to make a sound.
They were simply too stunned by the spectacle.
As Wen Quan soared through the air, his entire body was wreathed in raging flames, his clothes burning away.
He was completely unable to mobilize his Cultivation, which was in total disarray.
He tried to control his body, but found he could not.
Finally, after hanging in mid-air for a moment, he began to plummet to the ground. freёweɓnovel.com
Yet the men from the City Lord’s Mansion still thought their City Lord was flying down under his own power.
No one moved to catch him.
THUD!
Wen Quan slammed heavily into the ground, face-first.
It was a brutal landing.
He lay sprawled on the ground like a toad, black smoke billowing from his body.
The sight was, from any angle, utterly ridiculous.
Wen Quan was on the verge of tears.
He had worked so hard to break through to the Martial King Fifth Heaven and dominate the field, but the moment Jiang Chen appeared, he was utterly defeated.
His own Fire Sparrow Seal had turned against him. freewёbnoνel.com
He hadn’t been injured by Jiang Chen, but by the backlash from the Fire Sparrow Seal within his own body.
The intense pain in his chest caused Wen Quan to spit up several mouthfuls of fresh blood.
The blood spurted out nearly ten feet.
It stained a large patch of the ground red.
Worst of all, the backlash showed no signs of stopping. The Fire Sparrow Seal continued to run rampant inside him, destroying his body from within.
’How can this be happening?’
Wen Quan’s mind reeled with doubt and confusion. He simply couldn’t understand how any of this was possible.
The more he thought about it, the more he spiraled into despair.
He coughed up more blood.
"Father..."
Only then did Wen Bufan realize his father was still lying on the ground, and he rushed forward in a panic.
