Sovereign of the Three Realms - Chapter 1940

Chapter 1940: 1940

Jiang Chen’s reaction gave the others pause . They quickly realized what his words meant and clustered in his direction in response .

“Are you sure there’s someone there, Jiang Chen?” Yan Wanjun asked in a low voice .

The young man responded with silence and a deadly glare towards an empty patch of space . His certainty was quite obvious in his actions .

Sinister laughter sounded from the void .

“Pretty sharp kid . I was rather well-hidden, but you noticed me anyway, eh?” Someone slowly stepped out from the source of the laughter, causing a number of ripples in the dimensional fabric . He wore a brown cloak, but his face was as indistinct as the starry night sky . His actual appearance was completely concealed .

The aura alone of this new challenger was incredibly intimidating . Jiang Chen instinctively assigned grand origins to him . He was at least a demigod, if not a god proper .

The man stood in the air with an insubstantiality that made him seem only half-there .

Jiang Chen’s Evil Golden Eye fired an aureate spark that sped through the air like an arrow .

“Haha, trying to use an ocular skill on me, pal?” The mysterious man shook his head . There was a luminous crest before his face, blocking Jiang Chen’s optical ray . The two energies collided in a burst of light before dissipating .

Such a splendid exchange captivated Elder Shun and Chu Xinghan . They admired Jiang Chen’s skills even more for it .

“Who are you?” Jiang Chen was a little taken aback . His Evil Golden Eye was a commonly used method of his, and it rarely failed to deliver .

Even if he couldn’t petrify someone with a single hit, he could at least stun their consciousness, momentarily dazing them . Incredibly, this mysterious man in a mysterious cloak had countered his attack! This was a definite first .

Jiang Chen was hardly discouraged though . His ocular strike had been a test, rather than a full-on assault .

“Haha, who do you think I am?” The man in the cloak had a voice as cold as iron . It was forbidding to hear .

“You must’ve taken part in the massacre of House Yan!” Jiang Chen shot back frostily .

“Heh, that’s not hard to guess . ” The cloaked man made no effort to deny the accusation .

“You’ve been hidden here all this time?” Yan Wanjun blurted out in surprise .

The cloaked man laughed softly . “Indeed . I’ve pretty much been here the entire time . Old Man Yan, you came here a few times, but you never suspected a thing . A venerated elder of House Yan? Not much to look at, at the end of the day . ”

Yan Wanjun was ninth level empyrean realm . It was incredibly shameful for him to be derided as worthless .

“Why… why did you not kill me as well?” he demanded with some exasperation . “You dared slay the entirety of House Yan, so why did you falter here?”

Despite his sadness, he found this rather odd .

“To do so would be as easy as breathing . You come from House Yan yourself, so it would only make sense… is that what you think?” The cloaked man chuckled . “However, I have my reasons . ”

“You better give your reasons for killing so many,” Jiang Chen stated coldly . “Otherwise, you can forget about leaving today . Call out your companions too . ”

The man in the brown cloak blinked . “Oh? You think I have friends here?”

“Three more of you,” Jiang Chen shot back . “But I don’t think you’re the lot in charge . Where is your master?”

The man in brown was amazed . Jiang Chen had pointed out many more details than he’d expected . “Interesting, interesting,” he roared with laughter . “I didn’t expect House Yan to have someone as clever as you . It deserved destruction, but it’s not totally worthless at all . Brothers, come forth!”

Three more appeared in the air as his words sounded . They wore cloaks and disguises as well, though in different colors than the brown-cloaked man . One wore crimson, one wore azure, and the last, silver .

They bore different auras as well, enough to distinguish them at a single glance . Regardless of that difference, their cultivation levels were similar to each other .

Jiang Chen supposed that all four were demigods . Four of them appearing all at once was rather astonishing .

Any faction in Myriad Abyss would find it difficult to produce that number at the drop of a hat . Even the ten sacred lands couldn’t accomplish such a feat . Moreover, these four had a master!

It was a very good conjecture that the quartet before him and their missing master were the ones that’d been responsible for the massacre .  

“Boss, is this kid from House Yan?” the blue cloak spoke up .

The brown cloak, who seemed to be first among his company, smiled . “If I might hazard a guess, this kid is House Yan’s son-in-law… the young lord of the Eternal Sacred Land . ”

Jiang Chen braced himself . These enemies were better informed than he thought . They knew the affairs of Eternal Divine Nation well .

“Oh? Then he’s…”

“Shut up!” The brown cloak quickly put a stop to a possible information leak .

Realizing his error, the blue cloak coughed with some embarrassment before quieting down . He wasn’t angry about his comrade’s rebuke in the slightest .

Jiang Chen was rather curious where these strange cloaked men came from . Their ambiguous secrecy was intriguing .

Yan Wanjun, on the other hand, flared with fury . He glared hateful daggers at the four, ready to pounce recklessly at any moment .

“Calm yourself, Elder Wanjun . None of these four are ordinary cultivators . I reckon they’re all demigods, in fact . ” The young man hastily messaged his friend’s grandfather upon seeing the latter’s impulsiveness .

Though Yan Wanjun didn’t become any less angry, he did feel his mind clear a little . Carelessness against four demigods would only mean defeat for him .

To put it bluntly, he would be more of a liability . If he made a mistake here, he would lose both grandson and granddaughter . There had to be a reason these four hadn’t struck him down already, and he needed to find out why .

Cupping his fists, Jiang Chen asked once more . “If you know my identity as well as Elder Wanjun’s, you should be noteworthy individuals in your own right . In light of that, House Yan wouldn’t dare anger you gentlemen . Why have you exterminated the house, pray tell?”