"Stand down!" The divine-path cultivator sitting in the carriage immediately barked at his thick-browed divine servant to withdraw. Clearly, he knew that his subordinates, even if they rushed in together, would be utterly powerless before a god. Destroying them would likely take no more than a flip of the hand.
When gods encountered gods, it was a king-against-king situation.
This divine-path cultivator was obviously weighing the pros and cons.
He realized he had underestimated the enemy before. He truly thought the other side was just a young man who would be easy to bully, that he had already claimed the upper hand.
But it turned out this young man was no pushover. He actually had a divine being protecting him at his side, which forced this divine-path cultivator to calm down and face the situation head-on.
He wasn't particularly confident about facing the Vermilion Bird divine beast. After all, with the bloodline of the Four Divine Beasts, a human cultivator of the same level stood absolutely no chance against it.
The Four Divine Beasts' bloodline gave them an innate combat advantage far exceeding that of the human race.
Suddenly, this divine-path cultivator seemed to recall something. The Vermilion Bird divine beast, a young man! And they were in the territory of the Eternal Divine Kingdom.
Could this kid be Jiang Chen? That genius everyone on Myriad Abyss Island had been talking about lately?
When this divine-path cultivator thought of this, he felt a twinge of hesitation. If this young man truly was Jiang Chen, he was not someone to trifle with.
Setting aside the fact that Jiang Chen himself was part of the Eternal Holy Land, just his relationship with the Divine Venerable Jiaye — how many people didn't know about that by now?
Having escaped from the Infinite Prison, there were few people this divine-path cultivator truly feared, but the Divine Venerable Jiaye was certainly one of them.
If he offended the Divine Venerable Jiaye because of Jiang Chen, the loss would far outweigh the gain. And if the Divine Venerable Jiaye and the Eternal Holy Land stood in the same camp and retaliated against him together, the consequences would be even more unbearable.
What's more, Jiang Chen's guardian true spirit turned out to be a god, which was even more terrifying.
That meant, in the worst-case scenario, he would be facing one divine-path cultivator against three gods. No matter how confident he was, he knew that would be a dead end.
He wasn't even confident he could beat a single Divine Venerable Jiaye, let alone face three against one.
Most people who had survived the Infinite Prison were the type who could bend and flex, who were adept at reading people's expressions, and who were skilled at handling all manner of situations.
This divine-path cultivator was clearly one of those people.
He smiled faintly and clicked his tongue in admiration: "I never expected that in such a remote place, I would get to see a divine being with the bloodline of the Four Divine Beasts. What an eye-opening experience, truly eye-opening. If I'm not mistaken, young friend, you must be Jiang Chen, the young lord of the Eternal Holy Land, correct?"
Jiang Chen felt a chill run through him. This man could change faces at the drop of a hat, and given his status, to do so so naturally was truly no small feat.
This made Jiang Chen all the more wary of such people.
He smiled faintly and said: "Since you already knew this was the territory of the Eternal Divine Kingdom, guessing my identity wouldn't be particularly difficult."
"Haha, what a case of a flood washing away the Dragon King's temple. Brother Jiaye and I go way back — old acquaintances, old friends from the Infinite Prison. I never expected to run into his junior here. Interesting, interesting."
Moments ago he had been calling it dull, dull, but now it had become interesting, interesting.
And before, he had been calling him "young man, young man," but now the address had shifted to "young friend."
This kind of person was indeed someone Jiang Chen found it very hard not to be wary of.