Just reading the name on the tablet made Long Chen’s whole body heat up. When it came to playing with fire, there were a scarce few people in the entire world who could match him.

Long Chen went over the tablet’s hand seals and runes. He quickly formed hand seals. With the violet-gold polearm’s support, he had endless bloodline power and law power. If he didn’t take advantage of it now, it would be a waste.

In order to let Shen Qingxue and the others see the order and details of his hand seals, Long Chen deliberately slowed down. Even so, his hand seals were still fast and smooth; it was as if he had been practicing them all his life and long since mastered them.

After thirty-six hand seals, the heavens shuddered. A violet dragon tore out of space and struck the tablet, but the result left Long Chen a bit surprised. This attack’s power did not seem anywhere near as great as he had imagined... for the first instant.

BOOM!

Terrifying violet flames suddenly unfurled like an unstoppable tsunami. However, these flames did not harm anyone. Instead, they enveloped the surrounding space. Then, raging flames filled this enclosed space! The intense heat made them shiver—fortunately, the laws of this place were protecting them, or Xie Wanyi and the others would have been instantly incinerated!

The violet flames locked down heaven and earth, and flame laws surged through this flame cage in a destructive spree. It lasted for three whole breaths before slowly ending.

“What a technique!”

Long Chen’s heart shook. This was definitely a killing blow that left no room for mercy. Once it was cast, it could not be interrupted.

In a nutshell, this domain was a glorified incinerator. Long Chen had clearly sensed the flame laws exploding and reforming before exploding again. In just three breaths, thousands of explosions had been unleashed, covering every bit of space. There was no chance of survival for anyone caught inside.

In the past, Long Chen had always thought that violet blood might be powerful, but lacked killing power due to how gentle it was. However, it seemed he had misjudged. The violet blood race had their own terrifying killing techniques, as well as their own destructive will. It made sense, after all; the earth nourished all life, but it also had erupting volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes, and so on. The earth could unleash cataclysms that extinguished life just as well. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Today, Long Chen saw another side of his violet blood, giving him a new understanding of it.

Meanwhile, Shen Qingxue and the others were like statues, frozen in shock. In spite of the laws protecting them, they still felt like they had just brushed past death.

Long Chen walked to the third tablet.

“Soul law—Soul-Locking Curse!”

Long Chen’s soul shuddered. Additional names appeared in his mind: Soul-Devouring Curse, Soul-Extinguishing Curse, Soul-Refining Curse.

This is four techniques in one!

The Soul-Locking Curse was a curse art. As Long Chen had experience with the Heaven Soul Blood Curse, he instantly realized what this could do.

He formed thirty-six hand seals once more, and a word appeared on the tablet: “Lock.” The next instant, a ripple of light spread from the tablet, touching Shen Qingxue, Xie Wanyi, and the others.

Their bodies and souls were instantly bound, and they simply froze. They found themselves unable to do anything, and unable to resist at all.

“This technique is incredible!”

Long Chen was delighted inside. It was this Soul-Locking Curse that was most useful to him.

In spite of his vast Spiritual Strength, he had always lacked a technique that could let him take advantage of its full extent. This terrifying curse art was perfect for that. The previous two techniques required the support of the violet-gold polearm to use. But this technique could be directly used with just Long Chen’s vast Spiritual Strength!

However, as the violet-gold polearm’s power was practically limitless, Long Chen didn’t waste his own Spiritual Strength.

Long Chen waved his hand and undid the Soul-Locking Curse. Shen Qingxue and the others regained their freedom, but they remained pale as paper.

The feeling of having their bodies and souls stripped out of their control was truly terrifying.

“Eighteen of the runes lit up this time! Big brother, you can say that you’ve gained an initial mastery of the Soul-Locking Curse!” exclaimed Shen Qingxue.

“Of the three divine techniques, the only one I can use with my own power is the Soul-Locking Curse. But even so, it won’t be useful against enemies. If you cannot use it instantaneously, the technique has no meaning no matter how great its power is!” Long Chen sighed.

He had learned three divine techniques, all of them supreme killing arts of the violet blood race. A person could spend their entire life practicing just one of them to gain a sense of mastery. Even for Long Chen, mastering these techniques in a short time was essentially impossible. Even if he could technically use them with the help of the violet-gold polearm, they all lacked finesse.

He would not be able to master these techniques with the amount of bloodline power he had. After all, it was not possible for anyone to increase their proficiency in a technique if they didn’t have sufficient energy to fuel it. And there was one other factor—these divine techniques all grew more difficult to control even as the user gained insight into them. Their power would grow exponentially as the user’s comprehension increased, but the amount of energy required to unleash them would also be far greater, and with that, the difficulty of controlling them once they were cast would skyrocket.

The moment he had walked in, Long Chen knew that the divine techniques here were inaccessible even to him, let alone to the likes of these ten youths. Now it seemed that his initial assumption was correct. Even with the violet-gold polearm, it would be difficult to use any of these divine techniques in combat.

Wait a moment...

Long Chen suddenly thought of something and went back to the first tablet. Golden runes covered his whole body as he summoned his version of the Vajra Saint Body. This time, he formed his hand seals at his normal rate. It was so fast that Shen Qingxue and the others’ eyes widened in shock. They could barely see his hands.

Once more, a massive sword shot out of the void and struck the tablet.

Qi waves surged out. Sixteen runes lit up on the tablet.

“I see, as long as you use the power of your Saint Body, the difficulty and energy consumption drops, while the power actually increases!” Long Chen was excited by this discovery. So the Saint Body was the foundation for unleashing these techniques!

“Big brother, does that mean that we can use these divine techniques as well?” Shen Qingxue and the others were instantly excited. Only being able to see and not use these terrifying divine techniques was too painful.

Long Chen nodded. “I don’t see why not. Your bloodline power is even purer than mine.”

He decided that it was entirely worth it to spend seven days here and completely master these three techniques. Then, he would have a bit more confidence before going to the Jiuli race.

Shen Qingxue and the others were delighted. With his permission, they immediately began forming hand seals.

Long Chen also wanted to see just how strong these divine techniques would be with the purest violet blood backed by the real Saint Body. However, as he watched them try to use it, his smile gradually disappeared. His confidence in them quickly returned to rock bottom.