Strongest War Emperor

Shen Lang didn’t look the least bit worried.

He was completely relaxed. His breathing was steady, and his heartbeat was as normal as ever. There was even a smile on his face.

The Barrier the Ghost King had set up was certainly formidable, but it wasn’t enough to make Shen Lang frown.

His Divine Thought extended from his palm, blanketing the entire Barrier.

A complete Array Map of the Barrier immediately appeared in his mind, incomparably clear.

For Shen Lang, as long as it wasn’t a Killing Array with overwhelmingly powerful Evil Qi, cracking or even modifying a common Array was an incredibly simple matter once he saw its Array Map.

Back then, Shen Lang had possessed all the memories of the War Emperor, inheriting his six thousand years of insight and understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. That was why, when he reforged the Celestial Water Blade at the Artifact Refining Institute, he had casually modified its original Spirit Array Map into a Thunder Spirit Array Map, all without knowing its original design!

This had left the Artifact Refining Institute Director, Mo Liusheng, so shocked he was incoherent, viewing him as a celestial being!

If this Ghost King didn’t understand Arrays and had merely gathered all the ghosts in the Dark Forest to create a Barrier with their power... with no pattern to follow, Shen Lang would have had no choice but to enter a Burst state, unleash all his Thunder Power, and smash the weakest point with his strongest attack to break the Barrier.

It was like countering a technique. If an opponent used a powerful move, there would be openings to exploit. For example, if you used a Fire Element Technique, I could counter it with a Water Element Technique. If you thrusted with a longsword, I could parry or dodge.

But if the opponent was a madman or a fool, swinging a club around wildly, it would instead give one the feeling that there was no way to begin.

You could knock the madman out with a single blow, but trying to analyze the path of his club would be quite difficult.

This Barrier was not like that. The Ghost King had obtained some kind of Ancient Array Secret Manual and had set up this Array completely according to the manual!

But the current Shen Lang had not only reached the Peak Realm in the way of Arrays, he could grasp the basics of any Array just by sensing it.

Moreover, he possessed the Silver Eyes of Truth, which could see through all illusions!

All things are a map; the Great Dao connects everything!

How could such an Array possibly stump Shen Lang?

Under the Ghost King’s watch from the sky, a soft Spirit Light suddenly burst from Shen Lang’s palm. Then, the Barrier shook violently, and thousands of Spiritual Lines appeared upon it, dense as electric currents.

Immediately, those "currents" began to move, shifting from their fixed paths and positions.

Everything happening within the massive Barrier left the Ghost King and the five newly arrived Rakshasa Ghosts completely stunned.

’Damn it all, can this kid really break Arrays? Even if he knows them, this is impossible! He couldn’t break my Ancient Strange Array even if he’d been studying them since the womb, right? I’ve been studying this Array for over a hundred years... How can such a monster exist in this world!’

The Ghost King muttered to himself in disbelief, the two balls of Soul Fire in his eyes flickering much faster.

"This kid is just putting on a show! Get down there and slaughter him for me!"

"Rest assured, Milord! Leave it to us!" Five enormous figures swooped down; the five Rakshasa Ghosts had arrived.

It was at this exact moment that Shen Lang did something that scared the Ghost King so badly he nearly tumbled off the top of the Barrier.

BZZZT!

With a soft sound, Shen Lang placed his palm on the Barrier and gave it a gentle push. A small door in the transparent Barrier was pushed open, just like that...

Then, with a light flicker, Shen Lang stepped through the opening and casually closed the door behind him.

It was as easy and casual as returning to his own home.

The entire Barrier returned to its previous state, as if nothing had happened at all.

"Holy shit, what the hell was that!"

The Ghost King couldn’t believe what he was seeing. To think that he, a mighty Ghost King, would actually blurt out a phrase like "seeing a ghost"!

The five Rakshasa Ghosts who had just landed on the ground were also completely dumbfounded...

Inside the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron, the Fruit in Nalan Ziyun’s hand fell to the ground with a soft THUD and rolled away, but she didn’t even notice...

"What are you standing there for?! Get in there and kill him! Kill him!" The Ghost King in the sky was the first to react, screaming frantically.

The black mist that was the Ghost King flickered and landed on top of the Barrier, extending a ghostly claw to grab onto it.

A wisp of light shot out from the Ghost King’s claw, and in the next moment...

BOOM!

The Barrier erupted with a powerful light. A burst of Energy exploded from the top of the Barrier, and the Ghost King was sent flying with a miserable shriek!

"Impossible, how is this possible... How can something like this exist in this world! I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!" the Ghost King shrieked hysterically in mid-air.

"W-what’s going on? How did that kid just poke a hole in the Barrier and walk in?" one of the Rakshasa Ghosts asked, gulping hard.

"You idiot, that wasn’t poking a hole! He broke the Barrier!"

"This is bad. It seems he not only broke the Array, but he also modified it. That’s why Lord Ghost King can’t control it anymore, and we can’t get in either..." The last Rakshasa Ghost seemed to be the smartest.

The other Rakshasa Ghosts immediately stared at him. "Damn it, you’re not joking, are you!"

’This was no joke. A young human kid broke the Array that Lord Ghost King spent forty-nine days setting up... in just a few breaths?’

’After breaking it, he casually modified it and seized control?’

’And now Lord Ghost King can’t control the Array anymore?’

’The Barrier that was meant to keep out all enemies, even other ghosts, has now become a Barrier that’s blocking us?’

’Are you kidding me? Or are you literally trying to kid a ghost?’

The Rakshasa Ghosts looked at each other, then glanced up at the enraged, cursing Ghost King. They immediately had an epiphany: Old Four was right!

"Damn it, what do we do now? We can’t get in!"

"Break the Array! Concentrate the power of all our ghosts and break this Grand Array by force!" said the Rakshasa Ghost known as Old Four.

And so, the situation took a dramatic turn. The Barrier originally meant to repel invaders had fallen into Shen Lang’s control.

Shen Lang walked toward the Ancient Bronze Coffin inside the Barrier, holding his Celestial Water Blade, while a huge horde of ghosts outside tried everything they could think of to break the Array...

"Old Ghost, I have no quarrel with you. I was just passing through the Dark Forest. You shouldn’t have mobilized your forces to come looking for trouble with me! Since things have come to this, you should just accept your fate!"

Shen Lang let out a cold shout. The Celestial Water Blade flared, and he viciously slashed down at the Ancient Bronze Coffin.

BANG!

A thunderous crash, like the fury of the Thunder God, echoed through the small valley, making the thousands of ghosts outside tremble in fear.

The Ancient Bronze Coffin spun rapidly, erupting with an endless black mist that blocked Shen Lang’s attack.

However, even though it was just a probing strike from Shen Lang, his power was immense, and the slash contained an unparalleled Sword Intent. As the attack landed, fine cracks immediately appeared on the Ancient Bronze Coffin, and the Ghost King’s resentful roar could be heard from within. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Brat, don’t push me too far! If you dare to attack again, I will emerge from this coffin and kill you, even if it means failing my advancement!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Massive explosions began to sound from outside as the five Rakshasa Ghosts started leading the thousands of ghosts in a desperate assault on the Barrier.

Inside the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron, Nalan Ziyun was still staring blankly at everything, her eyes glazed over.

It was all simply too shocking.

It was even more shocking than when Shen Lang had fought multiple Spirit Martial Realm experts all by himself.

Something like this should have been impossible!

Not even those old masters from the Celestial God Academy who specialized in Arrays could have pulled this off!

But Shen Lang had done it as easily as if he were playing a child’s game, breaking the Barrier, seizing control of it in two breaths, and shutting the horde of ghosts outside!

’That little rascal has so many secrets. I thought I knew him best after secretly following him and watching him train in the Phoenix Mountain Range for all these years, but I never expected this...’ Nalan Ziyun’s chest heaved, and it was a long moment before she finally muttered to herself.

By this time, Shen Lang had already resumed his attack on the Ancient Bronze Coffin, slashing at it again and again.

Seeing the flashes of his blade, imbued with Thunder Power, about to completely disperse the black mist around the Ancient Bronze Coffin, the Ghost King inside screamed in a rage.

"Despicable human brat! It’s you or me!"

Strange cries echoed from the Ancient Bronze Coffin as hundreds of blood-red characters shot out from its surface. After circling fiercely in the air, they immediately coalesced into Four massive, shimmering, blood-colored skeletal demons.

These demons were tall, a full head taller than the five Rakshasa Ghosts outside. Each had two horns, was covered in armor, and had its bony joints exposed.

From their deeply sunken eye sockets shone a cold, sinister light like that of an ancient python, dark and treacherous.

Some wielded heavy hammers, others carried terrifying blood-red scythes. Their entire bodies were covered in dense, bizarre script, filled with a sense of ancient history and timeless vicissitude.

The moment they appeared, an abyssal pressure and a chilling aura swept across the area.

Their imposing Momentum was even greater than that of the five Rakshasa Ghosts outside!

Once these four humanoid demons took form, their bodies suddenly shrank dramatically, becoming roughly the size of an ordinary person.

But as their bodies shrank, the pressure they exuded increased by another level! It was faintly approaching the level of the Spirit Martial Realm Eighth Heaven!

REEE!

The four humanoid demons let out a piercing shriek and charged toward Shen Lang, swinging their weapons.

"Bone Demons? Interesting. So the old ghost had this trick up his sleeve. These four refined Bone Demons are even more powerful than his five Rakshasa Ghost subordinates!" Shen Lang said with a calm smile.

Just as the Bone Demons’ weapons, filled with ferocious and Powerful Qi, were about to reach Shen Lang’s body, his figure suddenly blurred.

His entire body was wreathed in lightning, making him look like a Thunder God. With a single flicker, he left an afterimage in his place and, in the blink of an eye, charged into the midst of the four Bone Demons.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Shen Lang’s perfectly prepared attack exploded outward. Sword Qi, carrying an unparalleled Sword Intent, slammed heavily into the four Bone Demons amidst a series of low sonic booms!

In that single instant, Shen Lang had unleashed four strikes!