pjbooks Chapter 80 Everyone has things they fear.
Chapter 80 Everyone has things they fear.
"Awesome!!"
"That's awesome!!"
"It feels like Brother Chen brings us different surprises every time he appears!"
At Jiangzhou College, because of Jiang Chen's current popularity, the school simply had all students watch the live stream together in the classroom.
Wang Kai was among them, and the people around him kept discussing Jiang Chen's strength. Naturally, they also discussed what abilities Jiang Chen had awakened and why he had been judged to be powerless before.
"Jiang Chen is so powerful, how come he was judged to be powerless back then?"
"If I had known it would turn out this way, I should have spoken up for Jiang Chen back then!"
Those who had previously slandered Jiang Chen were filled with regret.
But only Wang Kai knew that Brother Chen had never awakened any talent; rather, his power came from the ancient world of cultivation!
So... one day, will I be able to be like Brother Chen?
Thinking of this, Wang Kai seemed even more excited.
Jiang Chen pushed open the doors of each floor, faced each guardian, and ended the battles even faster. He didn't use the exorcism spell anymore, because it wasn't necessary. From the second floor onwards, the guardians were no longer ghosts, but materialized projections of apostles—composite enemies that Morgana had rewoven from the battle memories of awakened beings who had failed to challenge her over the past three hundred years, using her own Soul Scream Law, creating enemies that combined physical attacks and mental corruption.
The second level is guarded by a beast-like apostle wielding a giant sword, twice the size of the guardian of the first level of Astra. Its sword swings are fast enough to cleave a small mountain in two.
Jiang Chen didn't draw his sword. He didn't even throw a punch. He simply pulled his left hand out of his school uniform pocket, spread his fingers, and faced the apostle with his palm, and whispered a single word.
"burn."
A white pillar of fire erupted from his palm. The projection, starting from the sword tip, curled from the edges towards the center like a piece of burning paper, charred, and turned to ash. The entire projection struggled in the cold white flames for less than a breath before vanishing completely.
The third level is guarded by a phantom-type apostle capable of splitting into hundreds of clones. Each clone's aura, spiritual energy fluctuations, and attack methods are exactly the same as the original, making them impossible to distinguish by conventional means.
Jiang Chen didn't even bother to distinguish. He stood there, pulled his right hand out of his pocket, and lightly traced a line in the air with his five fingers.
"Open the Heavenly Eye."
A vertical golden light shone from between his brows. It was an eye, a divine eye formed from pure divine consciousness, capable of seeing through all illusions. The divine eye swept across the entire space, and hundreds of his clones vanished into nothingness in the same instant—they were illusions to begin with, and the light of the divine eye was specifically designed to shatter illusions.
Its true form was exposed thirty paces to Jiang Chen's left. Jiang Chen glanced at it, the light from his Heavenly Eye shining on it like sunlight on snow. The apostle projection began to dissolve from its head, slowly but irresistibly. It tried to escape, but with each step, its body dissolved further, finally turning into a pool of gray liquid less than twenty paces from Jiang Chen.
The fourth layer is guarded by a nightmare-type apostle capable of invading the mental world. It has no physical form and directly burrows into the depths of Jiang Chen's consciousness, attempting to find his most fearful memories, then amplify and distort them, causing him to collapse from within.
It saw in Jiang Chen's consciousness the scene when he first entered the world of cultivation a thousand years ago.
The boy knelt in a pool of blood, surrounded by the corpses of his fellow disciples, and before him stood a demon beast many times stronger than himself. He trembled, wept, and in despair called out a name that was no longer audible.
The Nightmare Apostle let out a triumphant shriek.
Then, the boy kneeling in the pool of blood raised his head. There was no fear in his eyes, only something cold and terrifyingly calm. He stood up from the pool of blood, a broken wooden sword in his hand, and walked towards the demon beast that was much stronger than him.
step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
The monster pounced, biting through his left shoulder. He didn't stop. The monster's tail swept away three of his ribs. He didn't stop. The monster's claws pierced his abdomen. He still didn't stop. He walked up to the monster and plunged the broken sword into its eye.
Then, the screen shattered.
The Nightmare Apostle let out a scream deep within Jiang Chen's consciousness—the first time in three hundred years that it had felt fear within the consciousness of its prey.
Jiang Chen opened his eyes.
His expression remained unchanged. He raised his right hand, brought his index and middle fingers together, and gently touched his brow.
"Destroy".
The nightmare apostle deep within consciousness, at this point, is erased from existence itself.
Fifth floor, sixth floor, seventh floor, eighth floor, ninth floor, tenth floor.
Jiang Chen used different immortal techniques on each level. The fifth level used "Nine Heavens Thunderstrike," turning the entire space into a thunderous inferno; the sixth level used "Void Shift," directly transferring the gatekeeper along with hundreds of illusory clones to the void rift and shattering them; the seventh level used "Five Elements Seal," sealing the gatekeeper in a palm-sized piece of Five Elements Jade, then gently crushing it; the eighth level used "Boundless Sword Finger," using a finger as a sword to cleave the gatekeeper in two from head to toe; the ninth level used "Heaven-Burning Fire," white flames burning for a full ten breaths, incinerating the gatekeeper along with all the demons it summoned; the tenth level used "Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Pull," compressing the gatekeeper into a fist-sized sphere, then casually tossing it into the spatial rift.
It took less than 15 minutes from entering the hall to passing through the tenth level.
The chat in the live stream had completely spiraled out of control. But the state of this chaos was entirely different from before—before, it was screaming and shouting, excitement and frenzy. Now, it was more of a near-dull, muttering monologue, a result of a worldview that had been completely shattered.
"The lightning used on the fifth floor... is it on the same level as Ye Wuhen's Sword Dao Unity? No, it seems even stronger than Unity..."
"That teleportation on the sixth floor—he tore the entire space apart. The space of the Twelfth Apostle's Hall was ripped apart like paper."
"Did you all see the sealing technique on the seventh level clearly? He sealed that apostle alive inside a piece of jade, and then crushed it! When the jade shattered, the apostle was gone too!"
"On the eighth level, he drew his sword! No, he didn't draw his sword! He used his fingers as a sword! Boundless Sword Finger! This move is only used by those at the peak of swordsmanship in cultivation novels! He can unleash sword intent even without a sword!"
"The fire on the ninth floor is different from the one used in the battle against Astra. It was transparent flames before, but this time it's white! What are these things?!"
"The tenth floor... Did anyone see what happened on the tenth floor? I just saw him raise his hand, and then the gatekeeper turned into a ball, and he threw it away. Thrown it away! Like throwing away trash!"
Jiang Chen's journey seemed to be going smoothly, but in the distant outer space, the Apostle Realm was unusually peaceful.
"Jiang Chen is indeed powerful, but I don't believe he has no weaknesses."
Kahn listened to the discussion of the other apostles with great ease, because... although all ten apostles were defeated, their souls had quietly entered Jiang Chen's spiritual world.
His past will be revealed in the next few levels, and Morgiana will know everything about what he feared or was once desperate!
Soul Scream, the apostle who controls souls!