Chapter 88

Jiang Chen saw a slight disappointment in Mang Qi's eyes, and his heart also felt a slight stir. If he just left like this, it really seemed a bit unrighteous.

"I can delay a bit more, for at most two days. During these two days, we can talk about your seal and this formation." Jiang Chen said.

Mang Qi smiled, "Yes, Jiang Chen, I can now finally confirm that you are a reliable human. I know nothing about the seal in my body and cannot detect any information. But this formation, I only vaguely heard about it from the lord of the fourth layer. It seems to be called the 'Great Array of Ten Thousand Spirits Locking the Gods'!"

"Great Array of Ten Thousand Spirits Locking the Gods?"

Jiang Chen's brows slightly furrowed. His memory from his previous life was reactivated. He had studied formations in his previous life, and he had definitely heard of and seen the Great Array of Ten Thousand Spirits Locking the Gods. However, his current memory was not fully restored, and he couldn't immediately sort out any clues.

But how could Mang Qi know Jiang Chen's secret?

"Jiang Chen, you don't need to rack your brains over this now, or even in the next hundred or five hundred years. Unless your cultivation can reach the pinnacle of this world." Mang Qi sighed lightly.

Mang Qi's words, Jiang Chen actually understood.

"Jiang Chen, take this." Mang Qi handed him a hard object that seemed like jade but wasn't.

"What is this?"

"It's something from my body, specifically, my tooth."

When he said it was a tooth, it shone like jade, but it looked very ancient, like the bones of a god or demon, with ancient and strange patterns.

"Don't overthink it. This thing is not a weapon and cannot protect you. Its only use is as my mark, representing me."

Mang Qi chuckled, "If you need my help, just infuse your true qi into it, and I will receive the signal."

"What if you can't help? Aren't you trapped in this endless cavern?"

"I can't leave, but my subordinates can." Mang Qi smiled, "Imagine millions, tens of millions of Green-Winged Swordbirds, led by Golden-Winged Swordbirds, in the secular kingdom. Who could resist them?"

Jiang Chen shuddered.

Just thinking about such a scene made his scalp tingle. If these Green-Winged Swordbirds left the endless cavern, it would be an endless disaster.

Not just the Eastern Kingdom, but even the surrounding sixteen countries could be swept away!

This Mang Qi was indeed a remarkable person! Sending such a great gift clearly aimed to bind Jiang Chen's interests with his own.

This was a gesture of goodwill, a way to pull him in, and a play on emotions.

"Jiang Chen, I'll accept this gift." Jiang Chen didn't feign modesty; he indeed needed this great gift now.

"Hehe, this thing has another function. If I think of you, I just need to focus my mind, and it will generate energy on your body to remind you."

"Then I must come to see you, right?" Jiang Chen smiled.

"Hehe, I won't seek you out unless it's absolutely necessary. You can rest assured." Mang Qi blushed and promised.

After reaching an agreement with Mang Qi, Jiang Chen proposed to take his leave. Although there were still five or six days left, Jiang Chen had something on his mind.

The assassins from the Pursuit Secret Door had impersonated Xuan Fatso and Hu Qiu Yue. Jiang Chen was concerned about these two close friends and wanted to investigate.

Live to see a person, dead to see a body.

"Jiang Chen, the assassins who chased you are still waiting outside the fourth layer." Mang Qi reminded him.

"Is that so? How many are there? I'm afraid they might have left." Jiang Chen's tone was cold.

"Let you down. Two have already left. One is still there, and it looks like he's determined to finish you off."

"Long Yin Ye and Long Ju Xue left?" Jiang Chen thought and understood. With a one-month mission period, they couldn't stay much longer.

So, the one who didn't leave was the leader of the Pursuit Secret Door.

"Alright, Jiang Chen, I've decided. I'll temporarily send a division of Swordbirds to listen to your command. A division has ten Golden-Winged Swordbirds, a hundred Silver-Winged Swordbirds, and ten thousand Green-Winged Swordbirds. If it's not enough, you can contact me with that thing anytime."

Mang Qi now treated Jiang Chen like a treasure, not wanting him to have any accidents. Moreover, in his territory, he naturally had the duty to ensure Jiang Chen's safety.

Mang Qi's aura rose, and he issued orders in the beast language. Immediately, ten Golden-Winged Swordbirds obediently flew to Jiang Chen.

"Jiang Chen, rest assured, they will absolutely obey you." Mang Qi guaranteed, "I can't leave the fourth layer, but let my people teach that guy a lesson."

Jiang Chen didn't refuse and left with the division of Swordbirds.

...

At the boundary between the third and fourth layers, the leader of the assassins, Xue Sha, had been waiting for six or seven days.

"Jiang Chen, if he doesn't come out, he must be in a dire situation, right?" Xue Sha was hesitating, "Should I go in and check? What if he died at the edge of the fourth layer? If it's just a few dozen miles, I can go in and come out, right?"

Xue Sha tried to comfort himself, but he couldn't muster the courage to step into the fourth layer.

After all, the legend was too terrifying. No martial artist who entered the fourth layer had ever come out.

Even if it was just a few dozen miles, Xue Sha couldn't guarantee he would come out unscathed.

But the temptation of Jiang Chen's sword made him itch! He knew that if he could get that sword, he would be invincible among those below the Spirit Dao realm and could dominate the secular kingdom!

This temptation was hard to resist.

To enter or not to enter?

"Damn Jiang Chen, if he hadn't entered the fourth layer, that treasure sword would definitely be mine." Xue Sha thought of the sword and felt itchy.

He also regretted not killing Jiang Chen as quickly as possible. If he had killed Jiang Chen in the third layer, none of this would have happened.

But he had to admit that Jiang Chen's strength exceeded his expectations. If not for Long Yin Ye and Long Ju Xue's spirit weapons distracting Jiang Chen, it would have been even harder for Xue Sha to kill him alone.

"Damn, when did the Eastern Kingdom produce such a freak?" Xue Sha cursed in his heart, "Right, Jiang Chen is from the Jiang Han Marquis Manor. Jiang Han is just a second-rank marquis, how could he cultivate such a genius? Could the Jiang Han Marquis Manor have some secret? If I can't get that sword, I'll definitely go to the capital of the Eastern Kingdom and capture Jiang Han to interrogate him."

Just as he thought this, Xue Sha's ears twitched, and his nose twitched. He subconsciously raised his bow.

He almost couldn't believe it because he sensed a faint aura, the same scent he had left on Jiang Chen!

"Jiang Chen?" Xue Sha asked, not quite believing it.

"It's me." Jiang Chen's voice came from the darkness, cold and indifferent.

"Is it really you?" Xue Sha was excited, "You're not dead? Great! Jiang Chen, we can talk. I won't kill you if you leave, but you must leave your sword behind."

"Do you think I'll believe your lies?" Jiang Chen sneered.

"You have no other choice but to believe me. Or do you want to try going in again? No one has ever come out of the fourth layer alive! You must have only gone a short distance, right?" Xue Sha asked.

"Is that so? Why don't you come in and see for yourself?" Jiang Chen mocked.

Xue Sha laughed coldly, "I don't need to go in. I just need to wait here, and you won't be able to leave. Do you want to hand over the treasure sword and leave alive, or die in the fourth layer's forbidden area?"

"Must I choose?" Jiang Chen smiled slightly.

"Must you choose!"

"Very well, I choose for you to stay, and I to leave!" As Jiang Chen spoke, he muttered a few words.

"What did you say?" Xue Sha was stunned.

Suddenly, Xue Sha's breathing stopped. He saw swordbirds, like a swarm of locusts, pouring out from all directions.

The sky was filled with them, so densely packed that there was no space to lift a foot.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Countless swordbirds, fearless and deadly, rushed over. Their sharp beaks and razor-sharp wings cut through the air, the rock walls, and everything else.

Xue Sha's face changed, and his eleven-meridian true qi surged, trying to defend.

But in the narrow space, surrounded, his options were limited.

The power of an eleven-meridian true qi master was indeed formidable. Swordbirds hit