Chapter 338: No Martial Virtue, mysterious finger bone

"Cough, cough, cough… Why… I Cultivated for thousands of years within the Seal, how could I lose to a junior like you…"

His voice grew weaker and weaker.

Zhou Chen walked up to him and looked down at him from above.

"Because you are too cowardly."

"You were an Ancient Prodigy, yet you chose to Seal yourself, essentially escaping the struggle of the great era of your own time."

"But you forgot, no matter the era, as long as you shrink back, you will forever fall behind others."

"During these thousands of years you slept, who knows how many Prodigies have been born on the Tianxuan Continent."

"Being a Genius is merely the threshold to see me."

Zhou Chen said, raising his hand.

A streak of azure Sword Qi flew from his fingertip, heading straight for the center of Jiang Beichen's brow.

Jiang Beichen's pupils constricted; he wanted to dodge but found his body could no longer move.

The Sword Qi pierced through his brow, crushing his Divine Soul.

The light in Jiang Beichen's eyes faded completely.

A generation's Ancient Prodigy had fallen just like that.

At the same time, the System's notification sounded in Zhou Chen's mind.

[Congratulations to the Host for killing the Ancient Luck Prodigy Jiang Beichen and intercepting his Three-Colored Luck.]

[Triggered ten-thousand-fold critical hit, obtained Five-Colored Luck fate!]

[Congratulations to the Host, your Luck fate has been promoted from Golden Luck to Five-Colored Luck!]

A flash of pleasant surprise crossed Zhou Chen's eyes.

Five-Colored Luck fate!

This was an existence second only to Nine-Colored and Seven-Colored Luck fates; in the entire Tianxuan Continent, Cultivators with Five-Colored Luck could be counted on one's fingers.

And now, he had become one of them.

Zhou Chen could feel that with the promotion of his Luck fate, his connection with heaven and earth had become much tighter.

His Cultivation speed and comprehension speed had both received a massive boost.

He even faintly felt that he was only a hair's breadth away from the Fourth Layer of the Emperor Realm.

"Good, very good."

Zhou Chen nodded in satisfaction.

He withdrew his gaze and looked at the haotian mirror on the ground.

This High Grade Emperor Rank emperor weapon had now lost its master and become an ownerless object.

Zhou Chen walked over and reached out to pick up the haotian mirror.

The ancient mirror felt scalding in his hand, and the runes on the mirror's surface flickered constantly, seemingly resisting Zhou Chen's touch.

"Still want to resist?"

Zhou Chen gave a cold laugh.

He activated the Chaos Qi within his body and poured it into the haotian mirror.

The Chaos Qi was incredibly overbearing, forcibly erasing the Jiang Family's brand from the haotian mirror.

The ancient mirror trembled violently, emitting bursts of mournful wails.

But under the suppression of the Chaos Qi, it ultimately yielded.

Zhou Chen left his own Divine Soul brand on the haotian mirror, completely refining it.

From now on, this treasure of the Jiang Family was his.

Having done all this, Zhou Chen looked up toward the sky.

There, several Elders of the Jiang Family were looking at him with ashen faces.

They wanted to strike to avenge Jiang Beichen.

However, several Elders from the Jixia Academy had already blocked their path.

"Everyone, this was a fair duel; one must accept the loss."

A Jixia Academy Elder said indifferently.

"If your Jiang Family dares to violate the rules, don't blame us for being impolite."

The Jiang Family Elders' expressions were unsightly, but they ultimately gritted their teeth and endured it.

They knew that if they acted here, not only would they fail to kill Zhou Chen, but they would also cause the Jiang Family to lose face completely.

"Let's go!"

A Jiang Family Elder snorted coldly and turned to leave.

The other Elders followed closely behind.

But just as they were about to leave the Ascending Immortal Platform, a rift suddenly split open in the sky.

A giant palm reached out from the Void Realm crack, heading straight for Zhou Chen.

That palm was a full ten thousand zhang in size, radiating a terrifying pressure.

The aura of the First Layer of the Venerable Realm!

"Not good!"

The expressions of the Jixia Academy Elders changed drastically, and they hurriedly tried to intervene.

But that palm's speed was too fast; they simply couldn't make it in time.

Zhou Chen instantly manifested the eighth layer of the Pluto Seal—Immovable Pluto Body!

Bang!

The Void Realm palm only stalled for a brief moment before its speed resumed unabated, striking toward Zhou Chen once more.

Seeing that the palm was about to land on him, Zhou Chen suddenly looked up, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.

"Hahahaha!"

"If I do not wish to die, who dares to kill me, who can kill me! Come!"

His voice was like thunder, echoing across the entire Ascending Immortal Platform.

These words seemed to trigger something.

Inside Zhou Chen's storage ring, that mysterious finger bone he had intercepted from Ye Chen early on suddenly began to vibrate.

Zhou Chen had thought this mysterious finger bone was useless and had left it to gather dust in his storage ring; he had almost forgotten about it.

An ancient voice rang out in everyone's mind.

"Excellent."

In the next second, the finger bone flew out of the storage ring and hovered above Zhou Chen's head.

The finger bone was pitch black and covered in densely packed runes.

These runes emitted an eerie light, as if containing some terrifying power.

The finger bone suddenly expanded, turning into a giant finger a million zhang tall in the blink of an eye.

The giant finger was pitch black, radiating an aura that could destroy the world.

That aura had already surpassed the Venerable Realm, carrying a hint of a Quasi-Immortal's aura!

The giant finger tapped upward, colliding with that ten-thousand-zhang hand.

Boom!

The heavens and earth lost their color; the sun and moon dimmed.

A terrifying shockwave spread in all directions, tearing the Void Realm around the Ascending Immortal Platform apart.

The hundreds of thousands of spectating Cultivators retreated one after another, fearing they would be caught in the aftermath.

The dust settled.

The ten-thousand-zhang hand had vanished.

And that million-zhang giant finger also slowly shrank, turning back into a finger bone and falling back into Zhou Chen's hand.

The light on the finger bone had completely disappeared.

Clearly, this was a one-time life-saving trump card, and it had now been used up.

Zhou Chen looked at the finger bone in his hand, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.

But he soon came to terms with it; although he had lost this life-saving card, at least he had kept his life.

That strike just now also let everyone know that he was not someone to be trifled with.

Moreover, Zhou Chen remembered that in his storage ring, there was still a complete mysterious hand bone returned by the System, and his confidence instantly soared.

In the sky.

A white-haired Elder of the Jixia Academy looked at the finger bone in Zhou Chen's hand, his eyes flashing with shock.

"If I am not mistaken, that was a piece of Immortal Bone just now."

"Even though it's a one-time use item, being able to possess such a treasure is enough to prove the depth of this boy's Luck."

He paused and continued, "This boy Zhou Chen has limitless potential."

"It seems our Jixia Academy must focus on nurturing him."

The other Elders nodded in succession.

And in the distance.

The Jiang Family Elders' faces were as pale as paper.

The one who had struck just now was none other than the Jiang Family's Seventh Old Ancestor, a powerhouse of the First Layer of the Venerable Realm.

But now, he had been crushed by that giant finger, leaving not even his Divine Soul behind.

"The Seventh Old Ancestor… is dead…"

A Jiang Family Elder murmured to himself, his eyes filled with terror.

They never imagined that Zhou Chen actually had such a terrifying trump card in his hands.

A piece of Immortal Bone!