"Brother Jiang Chen, be careful!"

On the stage, a young man from the Gold-devouring Rat Clan softly reminded him.

Jiang Chen smiled and nodded.

"Devour the world!"

Four voices shouted out, as four young men from the Gold-devouring Rat Clan simultaneously unleashed their combat skills.

Wow!

Dark, profound Great Dao Divine Light burst forth from all four of them, unleashing a powerful force of attraction from within that darkness.

Buzz!

The Five-Colored Divine Sword above Jiang Chen’s head trembled violently, seemingly trying to escape his control and fly out on its own!

Hmm?

Jiang Chen’s eyes flashed with a hint of surprise as he watched the dark divine light on the four of them with interest.

At that moment, the four dark Great Dao Divine Lights vaguely took on the form of four giant mouths, with the force of attraction emanating from these mouths.

"Devouring Path power, is it? Then let’s see how much you can swallow!"

Jiang Chen smiled slightly, releasing his control over the Five-Colored Sword Shadow.

Swoosh!

The Five-Colored Sword Shadow instantly flew out, divided into four colorful strands under the powerful attraction to be swallowed up by the four giant mouths.

The four young men from the Gold-devouring Rat Clan were stunned for a moment, glanced at Jiang Chen in surprise, with a hint of puzzlement in their eyes.

"Rumor has it that the Extraterritorial Alien Race is also proficient in devouring power, so I wanted to get familiar with it first."

Noticing their puzzled look, Jiang Chen explained softly to avoid any misunderstanding.

"Brother Jiang, the devouring power of the Extraterritorial Alien Race is different from the Devouring Path of our clan."

The four young men from the Gold-devouring Rat Clan exchanged knowing glances, and one of them reminded him softly.

"I know, even for the same path, each person or race has different characteristics inherent within it. However, the essence is the same, isn’t it?"

Jiang Chen smiled slightly, and once again, brilliant Great Dao Divine Light exploded from his body. This time it did not coalesce into a sword shadow, but directly charged towards those four giant mouths.

The four young men from the Gold-devouring Rat Clan were momentarily stunned, looking at each other with wry smiles, allowing Jiang Chen to test their Devouring Path.

The fact that, despite the combined effort of their Devouring Path, they couldn’t directly swallow Jiang Chen’s Five-Colored Sword Shadow proved that their Devouring Path was powerless against him. Thus, they ceased any pointless struggle and cooperated with Jiang Chen.

The willingness to cooperate stemmed from Jiang Chen mentioning the Extraterritorial Alien Race. They were all aware of the great competition that engulfed the entire continent.

After that competition, participants would be selected to enter the Extraterritorial Battlefield to fight the Extraterritorial Alien Race. With Jiang Chen’s combat ability, he was likely to be chosen.

Given this, the members of the Gold-devouring Rat Clan, who harbored a deep-seated hatred for the Extraterritorial Alien Race, didn’t mind lending Jiang Chen a hand.

While intense battles raged on the other eleven stages, Jiang Chen’s stage remained peaceful—a party relentlessly releasing the Power of the Great Dao, while the other constantly devoured.

Each time Jiang Chen unleashed the Power of the Great Dao, a trace of Primordial Spirit Power would be consumed along with it.

And with each devour, he would gain some insight into the Devouring Path. As time passed, though he hadn’t fully comprehended the Devouring Path, he gained a considerable understanding of the Devouring Path of the four young men before him.

"It seems that the Devouring Path isn’t without its flaws!"

When Jiang Chen noticed the weakening of the four young men’s devouring power, he smiled slightly and moved his mind.

Wow!

Suddenly, a vast Five-colored Divine Light emerged from above the four young men’s heads and, guided by a profound ripple, surged out of the giant mouths, flying back toward Jiang Chen.

"What’s happening?"

"This, this, this energy returned?"

"It can return after devouring?"

The crowd stared at Jiang Chen’s stage in surprise. Although the battles on this stage weren’t particularly fierce, there was a mysteriously harmonious feeling to what transpired here.

"This is... some powerful Primordial Spirit Power!"

Jin Ang looked at Jiang Chen in astonishment.

"To merge Primordial Spirit Power with the Power of the Great Dao and then activate one’s own power far beyond the opponent’s to make the energy breakthrough the Devouring Path and return to oneself—the Primordial Spirit Power required for this..."

Jin Ming looked at Jiang Chen with a gaze full of surprise and appreciation.

"Mr. Jiang’s Primordial Spirit Power must have been almost refined to the point of condensing a Primordial Spirit; otherwise, he couldn’t break the Devouring Path of our clan in this way."

Jin Tianqiong spoke with certainty.

"Almost to the point of condensing a Primordial Spirit?!"

Jin Ang glanced at Jin Tianqiong in astonishment, his expression changing slightly as he frowned and spoke: "To reach this stage would require a large amount of unclaimed Primordial Spirit Power or the God Concealing Spirit Herb, but he..."

Jin Tianqiong was also momentarily stunned, turning to look at Jin Ming.

Though Jin Ang’s words were discreet, he understood them clearly—to obtain unclaimed Primordial Spirit Power would require slaying strong individuals with condensed Primordial Spirits and erasing the consciousness from their Primordial Spirit. And given Jiang Chen’s mere Divine Infant Realm Peak status, at this level, to have honed his Primordial Spirit Power to this extent, wouldn’t he have slain several strong individuals with condensed Primordial Spirits?

Recalling the hidden powerful aura emanating from the Jade Pendant Jiang Chen produced earlier, Jin Tianqiong’s face turned grim. If Jiang Chen were a person who would stop at nothing to cultivate, he would certainly not allow such a person to enter the ancestral land of their race.

"Relax."

Jin Ming smiled gently: "The reason Jiang Chen’s Primordial Spirit Power is so strong is that he encountered an ancient mentor who survived until now and had suppressed an alien king at the Abandoned Plains. He helped this mentor kill the alien king, and in gratitude, the mentor bestowed upon him all remaining Primordial Spirit Power, transformed into pure energy!"

"What?"

"He helped an ancient mentor slay an alien king?!"

Jin Tianqiong and his companion exclaimed in shock, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"Yes!"

Jin Ming nodded gently, then transmitted his voice: "Jiang Chen has Lord Ancestral Dragon’s Dragon Qi within him; he absorbed Lord Ancestral Dragon’s Sword Intent left in Death Valley to slay the alien king!"

"Ancestral..."

Jin Tianqiong and his companion’s hearts trembled fiercely.

Phew!

Jin Tianqiong inhaled deeply and then exhaled, gazing at Jin Ming with significant meaning in his eyes: "No wonder you recommended him to the clan. With that person’s Dragon Qi, he might really be able to take away the Spiritual Fire, after all, it was left by that person!"

"Let’s see if he’s destined to achieve this." Jin Ming said softly: "Back then, our clan was saved by that great individual, preserving our bloodline. If Jiang Chen truly can take the Spiritual Fire, it will prove he is the one chosen by that great individual. We have no means to repay that individual, so perhaps we can repay him through Jiang Chen!"

Jin Tianqiong and his companion shared a glance, nodding in agreement.