Ye Chen held a rather favorable impression of this Mysterious Saint whose name he didn't even know. Unlike the cultivators from the Qinghua Sect and Xue Sect who looked down on others and despised him, this saint had also helped resolve some troubles for him along the way.
Therefore, he specially made a promise to the other party.
Given his peerless combat power comparable to a Fifth Heavenly Layer Monarch, in this Weiyang Great World where Divine Kings were few and far between, he was practically omnipotent.
Ye Chen said it as a matter of course, but the cultivators from the two major sects exploded.
"Hahaha, am I hearing this right? A coward who doesn't even dare to face demonic beasts says there's nothing in this world he can't accomplish."
"What a colossal joke. Who does he think he is? The Lord of Weiyang? The Canggu Divine King? Or perhaps the Tianjing Divine King?"
"I've seen people with thick skin, but never one this thick."
"Heh, some people have delusions of grandeur, truly thinking themselves invincible experts."
"Heh, even ancient Great Powers wouldn't dare utter such arrogant words. Does he really think he's an Ancient Divine King?"
Everyone mocked relentlessly. Even the Mysterious Saint felt Ye Chen was speaking too presumptuously.
How vast was this Weiyang Great World? Even Ancient Divine Kings wouldn't dare claim absolute invincibility or the ability to fulfill any wish, let alone a junior like the one before him.
Even successors of immortal sects like Gu Xuan and Nangong Xue couldn't possibly possess such capability.
Hearing such arrogant words, the Mysterious Saint felt a pang of disappointment towards Ye Chen, shaking his head slightly in his heart.
So be it. Perhaps this young friend was on his first training journey, perhaps he had some background, but had never seen the wider world. He smiled and nodded: "Since Young Friend makes such a promise, if I ever have a wish in the future, I will certainly seek you out."
"Agreed." Ye Chen nodded. He could tell the Mysterious Saint didn't believe him and was only agreeing to save face. His favorable impression increased by several notches.
Swish—
With a flick of his finger, Ye Chen sent out a Communication Jade Token. "As long as I remain in this world, you may make your wish."
Gu Xuan sneered: "I'm just afraid you'll soon be heading to another world."
That world, naturally, was the world of the dead.
The look of disdain on Nangong Xue's exquisitely beautiful face deepened.
The other cultivators from the two sects were filled with intense mockery.
The Mysterious Saint accepted the Communication Jade Token and casually placed it in a random corner of his internal space.
After bidding farewell to the Mysterious Saint, Ye Chen officially left Gushan City, his figure flashing directly into the mountain forests.
He held nothing back now. In an instant, he traversed a hundred thousand li.
The next moment, Ye Chen directly appeared high above a valley land where peaks soared magnificently and majestically into the clouds. Within the valley, layers upon layers of mist and haze swirled, blotting out the sky and sun, making it difficult to see one's own hand.
This place was the true Divine King Valley.
Deep within the heavy mist and haze, faintly discernible were auras of terrifying power, all belonging to truly fearsome giant demons within Divine King Valley, surpassing the Saint realm.
Inside Divine King Valley, the mist was thick, laws were sealed, and the Great Dao was absent, creating an exceptionally oppressive atmosphere.
Yet, in the void invisible to the naked eye, Ye Chen's eyes reflected a peculiar scene: an abyssal, sea-like blood light was erupting.
That was a sky-reaching blood aura.
Deep within, faintly discernible, lurked a creature of unimaginable colossal size, stretching for tens of thousands of li like a mountain range, its elongated body resembling a chain of peaks.
Ye Chen looked down from his lofty position, gazing at the terrifying demonic god lurking within Divine King Valley, a faint smile appearing on his lips. "It seems this is the so-called Ancient Desolate Dragon."
"The Doumen headquarters should be right here. I can sense a spatial fluctuation—a World Heaven and Earth—but it's beneath the Ancient Desolate Dragon. The dragon is likely the guardian beast."
"Hmm, to find the Doumen headquarters, one must pass through this Ancient Desolate Dragon's obstruction."
"Interesting, interesting."
"To have a Great Power-level member of the Dragon Race standing guard, there must be an exceptionally rare super expert behind this 'Doumen.' Could it be the rumored so-called Ancient Divine King?"
In an instant, he saw through everything. Facing the Divine King Valley below, he let out a single Dao shout: "Awaken!"
"Awaken!"
"Awaken!"
"Awaken!" ...
As the shout fell, it suddenly produced countless enormous echoes, reverberating endlessly over Divine King Valley.
The myriad mountains and ravines of the Divine King Valley land trembled violently.
Especially because the Dao shout contained a strand of soul-shaking divine soul power; even the deepest sleeper would be jolted awake.
Sure enough—
Almost the very next moment, the Ancient Desolate Dragon that slumbered within Divine King Valley and shook the entire Weiyang Continent with its might abruptly awakened.
A pair of golden eyes, larger than lakes, suddenly appeared within the mist and haze, like two heavenly suns hanging in the sky, illuminating mountains and rivers for tens of thousands of li.
The overlapping layers of mist and haze could not conceal them.
Boom—
The entire Divine King Valley shook fiercely. Even many majestic, towering mountains began to collapse one after another.
For at this moment, an inconceivably huge dragon slowly appeared. The mountains that had been upon its body all crumbled and fell, with billowing dust churning skyward.
The next moment, the sky-high dust and clouds were both shattered.
Because the giant dragon surged out from the very depths of Divine King Valley, arriving in the heavens in the blink of an eye.
There, where the mist and clouds blotted out the sky and sun, one could vaguely see a winding, colossal figure, unimaginably huge, appearing and disappearing, as if an entire mountain range were soaring into the sky, stretching for tens of thousands of li.
The massive figure of the demonic dragon was clearly visible even from tens of thousands of li away.
All of this was because the dragon was simply too colossal.
Even outside Divine King Valley, the powerful experts training in the core region could see it clearly.
"This is—"
Everyone held their breath, including the Qinghua Sect, Xue Sect, and the Mysterious Saint who were just about to set off. They all raised their heads, gazing into the distance at the central region of Divine King Valley, at that faintly discernible colossal figure, and couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.
Even from a hundred thousand li away, they could see that inconceivably huge figure suddenly appear in the heavens.
It felt as if the entire territory of Divine King Valley had become countless times more oppressive.
Suddenly, a dragon head larger than an ancient divine mountain pierced through the clouds, revealing a small section of its body before the eyes of the world. It had two thick, forked dragon horns on its head. Its form had nine resemblances: head like a camel, horns like a deer, eyes like a rabbit, ears like an ox, neck like a snake, belly like a clam, scales like a carp, claws like an eagle, and palms like a tiger.
This description matched exactly the records of the Dragon Race in ancient texts.
And such a colossal member of the Dragon Race in Divine King Valley could only be the legendary Ancient Desolate Dragon.
"Not good! The legendary overlord of Divine King Valley, the Ancient Desolate Dragon, has emerged!"
The whole world changed color!