As the saying goes, those who master power, master authority.
Now that Wang Chen's strength is unmatched in the world, if he wants to unify the continent and dominate the entire world, it would be as easy as pie.
Anyone who dares to block the unification of the world and hinder him from repairing the black book, Wang Chen would absolutely not mind eliminating that person physically.
For Wang Chen, the black book is his most important thing.
Without the black book, relying solely on his own efforts, Wang Chen's cultivation speed would at most be similar to Xiao Hongchen's.
It might even probably not compare to Xiao Hongchen, after all, Xiao Hongchen is a genius with innate full soul power level 10, and his grandfather is the master of the Mingde Hall.
In terms of resources, it would definitely be much more than Wang Chen, a disciple from a second-rate family.
Without the black book, without the golden finger, Wang Chen's current cultivation would at most be Soul King level.
And Soul King cultivation in the royal power struggle is utterly useless, fundamentally unable to protect the family or those around him.
Wang Chen sensed the broken black book in the depths of his soul and thought to himself, "The first few functions of the black book can be roughly summarised as recording for quick learning, directional deduction and perfection, and enhancing comprehension. All are auxiliary functions.
I wonder if, after I control the Sun Moon Empire and unify the entire world, the black book can be fully repaired and unlock all functions."
For a moment, Wang Chen looked toward the direction of Mingdu, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire, his eyes profound.
The next moment, Wang Chen waved his hand, and a huge silver-white space vortex suddenly appeared in front of him.
Then Wang Chen stepped out, entered the space vortex, and disappeared.
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Sun Moon Empire, Mingdu.
Today's Mingdu had bright sunshine, clear weather, gentle breezes, and a blue sky with fleeting white clouds.
In Mingdu, millions of people were each doing what they were supposed to do.
At this moment, above the sky of Mingdu, a huge silver-white vortex suddenly emerged.
A man of extreme handsomeness, tall and upright, wearing ice-blue armour, with eyes as deep as the starry sky, perfect as if a deity, stepped out from it.
As soon as Wang Chen appeared, the world changed colour.
A white sun and a blue moon, each several thousand meters in size, occupied the entire sky.
Powerful divine sense horizontally oppressed the entire heaven and earth, and time and space within a radius of several thousand li seemed to solidify.
The unparalleled divine sense and phenomena enveloped the entire Mingdu. Even if a Limit Douluo came, upon sensing Wang Chen's vast and boundless divine sense, they would have to lament their own insignificance.
Wang Chen did not use his divine sense pressure to intimidate anyone; he simply released it. But even so, that terrifying divine sense and phenomena still attracted the attention of countless people.
Everyone in Mingdu who was active outside their houses looked up at the white sun and blue moon.
Ordinary people of the Sun Moon Empire and low-to-mid-level soul engineers had shallow eyesight and could not extend their mental power, so they had no idea this was man-made and only thought it was a heavenly phenomenon.
They discussed it fervently, marvelling in amazement. Some even devoutly worshipped it.
Believing it was a heavenly omen protecting the Sun Moon Empire.
Wang Chen stood in the air, calmly overlooking Mingdu. The reason he revealed his aura and divine sense was not to show off.
But to let certain people know his power through this display, while avoiding unnecessary troubles and conflicts.
You see, the repair condition for the black book is to elevate status, so Wang Chen's goal is to stand above everyone, becoming the master of the world.
To achieve this goal, he must stand on the head of the Sun Moon Empire's emperor.
This, for Emperor Xu Jing, is absolutely intolerable.
And Wang Chen wanted Xu Jing to obediently and honestly accept Wang Chen standing above him.
He must let Xu Jing know just how big Wang Chen's fist is, how terrifying his strength is—an existence that the royal family and the entire Sun Moon Empire combined cannot resist.
If he doesn't make Xu Jing understand this, even if Wang Chen is his son-in-law, Xu Jing would most likely send people to take action against Wang Chen.
For an emperor, anyone who threatens his position, even if it's his son, must be ruthlessly eliminated, let alone a son-in-law.
To prevent Xu Jing from being foolish, Wang Chen naturally had to display his strength.
He wanted the high-level experts of the Sun Moon Empire, the many ninth-level soul engineers, to see clearly that the era had changed. Now, he, Wang Chen, is the strongest and most awesome existence in the Sun Moon Empire, having completely surpassed Old Kong.
His strength is powerful enough to crush everything in the Sun Moon Empire, standing above the emperor!
If he couldn't do this and let Xu Jing think Wang Chen's strength was just that, that he could deal with it.
Then, due to power issues, intense conflict and fighting between Wang Chen and Xu Jing would inevitably erupt.
At that time, rivers of blood and countless deaths would be inevitable.
Wang Chen has always disliked pretending to be weak to devour the strong; he hates pretending to be weak, then drawing out a bunch of unnecessary troubles.
Clearly displaying strength can solve many problems and troubles, so why must he pretend to be a pig, let others bully him to the door, and then reveal his strength to solve everything?
As long as Wang Chen displays sufficient powerful strength, the high-level experts of the Sun Moon Empire are not fools.
Even if the emperor had any ideas, no one would die for him.
Those who follow the Way have much help; those who lose the Way have little help.
Submitting to the strong is a matter of course.
If Xu Jing really doesn't know what's good for him and still wants to wrestle with Wang Chen, he orders the ninth-level soul engineers to surround and attack Wang Chen.
Then... the high-levels of the Sun Moon Empire, the many ninth-level soul engineers, would probably make Xu Jing understand what it means to say, "Your Majesty, the era has changed."
The Sun Moon Empire is not one person's Sun Moon; although the emperor's position is high, if he really does something treasonous (opposing Wang Chen), he will send everyone to their deaths.
Then don't blame everyone for tying up the emperor and then setting things right.
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With Wang Chen displaying his aura and divine sense, all the experts in Mingdu felt as if a high and mighty sun, terrifying to the extreme, making people feel as small as fireflies, had appeared above their heads.
In the largest palace of the Court Offering Hall.
Kong Deming, Old Kong, who had broken through to level 95 Super Douluo, was at this time researching the method of his natal soul tool, trying to fully fuse his martial soul Silver Moon with the soul tool Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
Just as Kong Deming was sitting cross-legged, eyes tightly closed, fully concentrated, the powerful aura and divine sense that suddenly appeared in the sky made him involuntarily open his eyes.
"What terrifying mental power, how is this possible? How can there be such a strong person in the world?
Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, those two Limit Douluo, plus this old man, the three of us combined are far from this person's mental power...
What realm is this? Could this person be a legendary deity?"
Kong Deming's face was full of shock, his mind racing with thoughts. He immediately stopped the fusion of the soul tool and martial soul, then called the offerings in the Court Offering Hall to go outside together.
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Sun Moon Empire Imperial Palace.
In the main hall, Xu Jing, who was reviewing memorials, suddenly trembled, the brush dipped in vermilion ink, drawing a long red mark on the memorial.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead—that mental pressure enveloping the entire Mingdu was so powerful that the soul power in his body flickered like a candle flame.
As a Titled Douluo expert and the emperor, Xu Jing's vision and knowledge naturally far exceeded ordinary people.
The person at the centre of that pressure gave him a sense of oppression far exceeding that of the two Limit Douluo experts Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao.
Even Old Kong, who had broken through to Super Douluo, was far inferior; the gap between them was like fireflies and the bright moon, not on the same level at all.
This brought Xu Jing an unprecedented sense of threat, as if that person could crush him to death with a single move.
For a moment, Xu Jing's face, which remained unchanged even before a mountain collapse, involuntarily showed fear.
Xu Jing's nine soul rings emerged automatically, and without hesitation, he activated the high-energy compression array soul tool in the palace for defence.
As an indestructible defence shield rose around his body, Xu Jing slightly relaxed.
With the protection of the high-energy compression array soul tool, Xu Jing immediately issued an edict, letting all ninth-level soul engineers and the five Protectors of the Nation soul engineer legions assemble.
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Mingde Hall core laboratory.
Jing Hongchen and the other three ninth-level soul engineers, who were researching the No. 1 experimental body, a large humanoid soul tool, suddenly stiffened.
A ninth-level soul engineer who was carving a core array immediately loosened his hand, and the rare metal in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
Another ninth-level soul engineer had cold sweat on his forehead, his face full of disbelief.
Jing Hongchen swallowed and said, "Who on earth has such terrifying might and mental power?"
A tall middle-aged ninth-level soul engineer said, "This person's strength gives me the feeling that even Old Kong is far inferior."
"Let's go, let's see what's going on!"
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One minute later.
In the sky above Mingdu, the Court Offering Hall, the royal family, Mingde Hall... a total of more than twenty ninth-level soul engineers stopped everything they were doing and came to the sky.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at the young figure wearing ice-blue soul tool armour, with the sun and moon shining together phenomenon behind him.
Jing Hongchen said, "Wang Chen!! How is it you, kid!"
Starlight Douluo Ye Yulin said, "Holy crap, it's Wang Chen, Old Kong's disciple!!"
Imperial Dragon soul engineer legion leader Xu Tianyuan was shocked with his mouth wide open, nearly dislocating his jaw, "How old is Wang Chen? How can he have such world-shocking mental power? This is impossible!"
"…"
Just as the many ninth-level soul engineers were discussing in shock.
Kong Deming stared fixedly at the ice-blue soul tool armour on Wang Chen's body, completely stunned.
Other ninth-level soul engineers might not see what was special about that ice-blue soul tool armour, but with his level, at a glance, he could tell this soul tool armour was a level 10 soul tool.
Kong Deming was completely shocked and speechless by Wang Chen. Not long ago, in the suburbs of Mingdu, seeing Wang Chen fight against the two Limit Douluo experts Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao was already surprising enough for him.
And now, the powerful mental power and soul power Wang Chen displayed, as well as the level 10 soul tool on his body, made him feel incredibly unfamiliar.
Is this his disciple? How does it not seem like it? The more he looks, the less it seems like it. Could he teach such an amazing disciple?
Level 10 soul tool, he hasn't even researched it yet, but his disciple researched it ahead of time. Is this reasonable? Is this scientific? Is this still human?
Just as Kong Deming fell into deep confusion.
Xu Jing looked at Wang Chen and the sun-moon alternating phenomenon behind Wang Chen, his face extremely ugly.
Wang Chen, as a subject, caused such a big commotion in Mingdu. What does this mean? Could it be that with great strength, he feels his wings are hard, becoming uncontrollable?
Xu Jing said in a deep voice, "Wang Chen, you're causing such a big disturbance in Mingdu. Do you want to turn the world upside down! Hurry up and retract this sun-moon phenomenon for me! Then go do what you should do!"
Wang Chen looked at Xu Jing with an ugly expression, his face calm as water, without the slightest fluctuation.
After his mental power broke through to the god level, he could clearly sense the emotions of those with mental power below the god level.
Compared to the shock and disbelief shown by Old Kong and the other ninth-level soul engineers, he sensed anger, wariness, and a hint of fear from Xu Jing...
Wang Chen thought to himself, "As expected of an emperor, truly a pure political creature, even to me, his son-in-law."
Although Wang Chen is Xu Jing's son-in-law, he is very clear that Xu Jing has no affection for him.
Back then, if he hadn't agreed to become Xu Jing's son-in-law and marry Xu Tianzhen, he probably would have been dealt with by Xu Jing as a threat long ago.
Facing Xu Jing's question, Wang Chen said seriously and indifferently, "Your Majesty, the sky is too big. With my current strength, turning the world upside down is still not possible. I guess I have to wait a bit longer."
"What did you say!!" Xu Jing looked at Wang Chen in disbelief. He really didn't expect Wang Chen to dare speak like this, and immediately said angrily, "Wang Chen, have you gone mad!!"
Xu Jing stared at Wang Chen, thinking to himself, "Turn the world upside down, turn the world upside down!! This Wang Chen After his strength skyrocketed, his ambition grew. He wants to seize power and usurp the throne, take my Xu family's empire! He must be killed!!"
As killing intent arose in his heart, Xu Jing's eyes suddenly became ice-cold deep down.
At this time, Jing Hongchen and the many ninth-level soul engineers also recovered from their shock.
Watching the dialogue between Wang Chen and the emperor, their eyelids twitched wildly, feeling that something big enough to shatter the entire Sun Moon Empire was about to happen.
Jing Hongchen thought to himself, "This kid Wang Chen wouldn't be trying to seize power and usurp the throne, change the dynasty, right? My god, this is too exciting. Later, should I help my grandson-in-law a bit?"
Kong Deming heard Wang Chen's words; his brows furrowed. As someone with one-quarter royal blood and the Sun Moon Empire's greatest trump card, he naturally had to maintain the emperor's majesty.
He immediately said sternly, "Chen'er, what nonsense are you spouting!!"
Wang Chen saluted Kong Deming, then said, "Teacher, let me demonstrate for you what a natal soul tool is. I think it will be helpful to you.
Today, everyone, come at me together! You all attack as you wish, I guarantee not to kill a single person!"
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