The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

The madness in Jiang Zhongjing's eyes froze the moment he met Jiang Chen's gaze.

His hand, raised in mid-air, began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Bastard! I'll fight you to the death!"

As if to bolster his courage, Jiang Zhongjing used all his strength to smash the jade pendant hard onto the ground!

Just moments before the jade pendant slipped from his hand and was about to collide with the hard marble floor.

A blur streaked past.

Jiang Chen was holding the intact jade pendant in his hand.

The crazed expression on Jiang Zhongjing's face had not yet faded, and what was reflected in his pupils was Jiang Chen's expressionless face.

"Snapped!"

A resounding slap.

Jiang Zhongjing was lifted off the ground by the immense force, spun half a circle in the air, and crashed heavily five meters away.

Several teeth mixed with blood and foam flew out of his mouth, leaving several glaring bloody streaks on the ground.

"Ah—! Murder!"

Li Youfang, who had been slumped on the ground, screamed in shock at the scene.

She scrambled to Jiang Zhongjing's side, and seeing her husband's face swelling rapidly, she cried out.

"Jiang Chen! You beast! He's your father!"

She turned her head and stared at Jiang Chen with resentful eyes.

"Our Jiang family has raised you for twenty years! Even a dog knows to wag its tail!"

"How could you treat us so brutally! Have you lost all your conscience?!"

Jiang Chen played with the jade pendant in his hand. The warm and smooth touch made even the remnant soul of the true dragon within him feel comfortable.

He didn't even glance at the couple.

His gaze fell on his elder brother, Jiang Cheng, who lay unconscious in a pool of blood.

"dad?"

Jiang Chen's tone was very light, as if he were asking a ridiculous question.

"Where were you five years ago when I took the blame for him and went to jail?"

"Sentenced to ten years, a full five years, and not one of you went to see me in the prison even once?"

"You arranged this marriage for me not to give me a home, but to use me as a tool to gain benefits, to arrange a ghost marriage for a dead person."

"I saved Su Jinyu's life. What you're thinking about isn't that my son has finally made something of himself, but how to use me to exploit the Su family and gain even greater benefits for you."

"When I was kicked out of the Su family, the first thing you said to me was to call me a piece of trash and tell me to get out."

With each sentence Jiang Chen spoke, he took a step closer to Jiang Zhongjing and Li Youfang.

"Is this what you call family affection?"

"Is this what you call the kindness of raising us?"

Jiang Zhongjing was so dizzy from the beating that he tried to get up from the ground, shouting incoherently.

"So what!"

"We raised you! You should repay us! It's only right and proper!"

"Yes! It's only natural!"

"Without us, you would have starved to death on the streets long ago! Everything you have now is thanks to us!"

Jiang Chen laughed at the ugly faces of the man and woman.

"Well said."

He nodded.

"Since you all like to reason so much, then I'll reason with you too."

He walked up to Jiang Zhongjing and looked down at the man slumped on the ground.

"I can help the Jiang family get projects, that's fine."

Jiang Zhongjing and Li Youfang thought that Jiang Chen still valued their past relationship and had been persuaded by them.

"However, I have one condition."

"I want Jiang Cheng dead."

What?

The joy on Jiang Zhongjing and Li Youfang's faces froze.

"What...what did you say?"

Jiang Chen pointed to Jiang Cheng, who was unconscious not far away.

"Five years ago, he committed the crime, and I was made to take the blame."

"Now that I'm out, shouldn't I take his life back?"

"That's fair, isn't it?"

Li Youfang almost fainted again.

"No...no!"

"That's your older brother! He's your own older brother!"

"My older brother?"

Jiang Chen's mockery deepened.

"Have you forgotten? I'm not your biological child."

"I'm just a tool you picked up, someone you can sacrifice at any time."

"Now, can't I, as a tool, even ask for some interest back?"

Jiang Chen ignored them and turned to walk to Jiang Cheng's side.

He reached out his hand, seemingly ready to finish off this so-called big brother.

"don't want!"

Jiang Zhongjing pounced on the ground and clung tightly to Jiang Chen's leg.

"Jiang Chen! I beg you! Don't touch your older brother!"

He was in tears, looking nothing like the head of the Jiang family.

"He's our Jiang family's only hope! If he's gone, our Jiang family is finished!"

Li Youfang also realized what was happening, and scrambled over to hug Jiang Chen's other leg, crying her heart out.

"Xiao Chen! Mom was wrong! Mom wasn't good to you before, Mom apologizes!"

"Please spare your brother! We'll give you whatever you want! Money! All the money in the Jiang family is yours!"

"Just let him go!"

Jiang Chen looked down at his two relatives who were weeping bitterly at his feet.

His face remained completely expressionless.

"If only I had known then what I know now."

An invisible force blasted Jiang Zhongjing and Li Youfang away simultaneously.

He walked up to Jiang Zhongjing and squatted down.

Jiang Chen extended a finger and casually tapped Jiang Zhongjing's chest.

"I will not kill you."

"Death is too easy for you."

"I just left a hidden force inside your body."

"It won't kill you immediately, but starting today, it will strike once every month at midnight on the 15th."

"When it flares up, you will feel as if tens of thousands of ants are gnawing at your bones, and your internal organs will feel as if they are being burned by raging fire."

"That kind of pain will last for a full hour."

"Each time will be more intense than the last."

Jiang Zhongjing's face turned deathly pale.

"You...you devil..."

"This is the price you pay for sending me to hell."

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he didn't look at him again.

He gripped the jade pendant tightly, turned around, and strode toward the broken door.

"No! Jiang Chen! You can't leave!"

Li Youfang seemed to have gone mad, scrambling to her feet and trying to chase after him.

"The antidote! Leave the antidote here! I was wrong! We were really wrong!"

Her cries were piercing and desperate.

Jiang Chen's steps did not falter for a moment.

He stepped over the ruins of that door, his figure disappearing into the blinding sunlight.

Behind them, the Jiang family members could be heard wailing in despair.

……

Jiang Chen walked out of the Jiang family mansion, the midday sun shining on him, feeling somewhat warm.

He opened his palm and looked at the half of the dragon-shaped jade pendant.

The jade pendant is warm and smooth all over, and the dragon carved on it is lifelike. Unfortunately, it is broken off at the waist and only the upper half is left.

He tried to channel the true energy of the "Formless Technique" within his body into it.

The jade pendant emitted a soft ringing sound.

A faint halo emanated from the jade pendant.

Immediately afterwards, a very faint yet supremely majestic dragon roar seemed to come from the ages and resounded directly in his mind.

The remnant soul of the true dragon within him trembled at this moment, conveying an emotion of longing and closeness.

It was indeed related.

Jiang Chen was certain that this jade pendant was inextricably linked to his background and the stolen destiny of the True Dragon.

However, the jade pendant is incomplete.

Jiang Chen had heard Black Dragon mention this when he was in the Prison of Boundaries.

One of his men, nicknamed "Rat," laundered his identity after being released from prison and opened the largest antique shop in Qincheng, called Jubaoge.

This person's greatest skill is appraising all kinds of rare and precious treasures; he has a sharp eye.

Perhaps he can glean some insight from this half of the jade pendant.

Having made up his mind, Jiang Chen flagged down a car.

"Master, go to Jubao Pavilion."

Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of a quaint old street.

At the end of the street, a three-story, antique-style building with flying eaves and bracket sets stands out.

Jiang Chen paid the fare and got out of the car, walking towards the entrance of Jubaoge.

He was wearing the same ordinary casual clothes he wore when he was released from prison yesterday, making him look out of place among the wealthy and powerful guests on the street.

He had just reached the doorway and hadn't even had a chance to step onto the steps.

A female shop assistant, dressed in a cheongsam with a seductive figure but a face full of snobbery, reached out and stopped him.

"Sir, please wait a moment."

The female shop assistant sized Jiang Chen up and down, her contempt undisguised.

"Our Jubaoge is a membership-based business."

"Do you have an appointment?"