Ninth Grade and Tenth Grade, they seem just one grade apart, but in reality, they are as different as heaven and earth.
The Ninth Grade Red Lotus is a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. On the other hand, the Tenth Grade Red Lotus is a supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
One could even say that the current Tenth Grade Red Lotus is somewhat stronger than the Ninth Grade Green Lotus in Jiang Chen’s hand.
Naturally, Jiang Chen felt thrilled that the Karma Fire Red Lotus was even more potent than he had imagined.
But as his gaze lowered, upon seeing the things beside the Karma Fire Red Lotus, all of Jiang Chen’s joy turned into sheer terror.
Silver fur, sharp claws, an enormous body, half of it sunk into the Blood Pool. The roots of the Karma Fire Red Lotus were rooted in its body, crazily draining the power from it.
It was a giant silver bear, which although didn’t seem large, gave an infinite, boundless feeling that dwarfed even heaven and earth.
Rules wound around its body, emitting endless Innate Dao Rhymes, twisting heaven and earth, exerting an endless oppressive aura.
Merely looking at this silver bear, Jiang Chen had the urge to confront the embodiment of the Great Dao head-on. The dazzling rays of the Dao deluged him, nearly blinding him.
"Quasi-Saint of the Demon Clan, the Great Earth Bear King!"
Regaining his senses, Jiang Chen recognized the origin of this giant silver bear, it was one of the ten Quasi-Saints of the Demon Clan, the Great Earth Bear King.
This Bear King, having slain two corpses, was a rare powerhouse even among Quasi-Saints, verging the level of the Great Divine Transcendents.
Unfortunately, even such a powerhouse perished in the decisive battle between the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan. According to the records passed down from Emperor Xi, the Bear King’s nemesis was Xing Tian, the most formidable witch of the Witch Clan.
He was the first innate grand witch nurtured in Pangu’s heart after the twelve ancestral witches.
When Xing Tian was born, the Pangu Divine Palace shook, and fragments of the Pangu Axe flew in from outer space. The blade fragments transformed into a battle-axe, and the axe fragments converted into a shield, his accompanying spirit treasure.
Xing Tian, a grand witch inheriting Pangu’s fate, was second only to the twelve ancestral witches in power. The Great Earth Bear King, notorious for his might, challenged him on earth.
Unsurprisingly, Xing Tian slaughtered the Great Earth Bear King, denying him even the chance to self-destruct.
Slowly acclimated to the pressure emanating from the Great Earth Bear King, Jiang Chen looked at him again, only to notice a gaping wound stretching from his forehead, all the way down.
That was the mark left by Xing Tian’s axe, which also dealt the fatal blow to the Great Earth Bear King.
From this wound, it was clear that Xing Tian’s axe blow nearly split the Great Earth Bear King in two. The overwhelming death aura invaded his body, extinguished his life force, and shattered his True Spirit.
The Great Earth Bear King was one of the few corpses left out of the ten Quasi-Saints of the Demon Clan. Jiang Chen hadn’t expected to be so lucky to stumble upon a Quasi-Saint corpse.
Yes, he was quite lucky as there were no signs of this corpse being spiritually awakened.
Otherwise, a spiritually awakened Quasi-Saint corpse could slaughter all the creatures in the battlefield of the Witch-Demon war, not to mention him.
After a countless number of years, Xing Tian’s immortal axe intent still lingered on the wounds of the Great Earth Bear King. Jiang Chen couldn’t help but shiver as he barely glanced at it from a distance, feeling a suffocating sensation of impending death.
Rapidly shifting his gaze, Jiang Chen looked back at the Karma Fire Red Lotus, contemplating how to obtain it.
If the corpse of the Great Earth Bear King weren’t there, Jiang Chen could easily collect the Karma Fire Red Lotus. But the bear king’s body lay there, and Jiang Chen dared not approach.
The Quasi-Saint’s pressure was not a joke, a slight carelessness, and the aura emitted by the Great Earth Bear King could severely injure Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen tried to summon the Dao Mirror attempting to teleport himself to the side of the Karma Fire Red Lotus, but the hitherto success-guaranteeing Dao Mirror encountered unprecedented resistance this time.
Vibrant divine light ascended from the Dao Mirror, radiating towards the Karma Fire Red Lotus from a distance. But the closer it got to the Karma Fire Red Lotus, the more resistance the divine light encountered.
Finally, faint roars of a bear echoed in the void, and in no time, the divine light emitted by Dao Mirror was shattered.
Jiang Chen hadn’t expected the lingering power of the Great Earth Bear King to be so potent that even the Dao Mirror couldn’t resist it. But Jiang Chen had to obtain the Karma Fire Red Lotus, giving up was not an option.
In the midst of his hesitation, Jiang Chen was not sure whether to use his trump card. He had items capable of contending with a Quasi-Saint.
The Hundred Schools’ classics he obtained from the Great Qin treasury weren’t all personally written by the scholars of the Hundred Schools. If Jiang Chen attempted to draw upon them without any hesitation, breaking through the Great Earth Bear King’s aura wouldn’t be too difficult.
However, he couldn’t decide whether it was worth it.
Just as Jiang Chen was hesitant, someone arrived from a distance.
"My senses weren’t wrong, the aura of the Karma Fire Red Lotus is nearby."
Hearing the voice, Jiang Chen turned back and saw Asura leading a group of Asura clanspeople, rushing towards him.
"The Asura clan has arrived too? That was quick."
Moving to kill them all in a heartbeat, Jiang Chen suddenly had a thought, extinguished his intentions, and deliberately concealed his presence, vanishing into thin air.