Xia Chen

This guy destroyed the Grand Han in a single night. He is an array cultivator / formation cultivator (阵修) and had dominated 1st place of the Devil Slaughter Rankings for a month. Later, he joins the Dragon Blood Legion.
==Appearance==
Within an abyss, a man who appeared to be in his early twenties was sitting lotus style on the ground. His complexion was fair and delicate. He had a foot-long square formation board. This seemingly delicate, scholarly man was the one who had dominated first place on the Devil Slaughter Rankings for over a month. At his first meeting with Long Chen, he was a Soul Transformation stage powerhouse.
==Summary==
After news spread that Grand Han colluded with the Pill Tower, Bloodkill Hall, and ancient races to slaughter experts of the Xia, Chu, and Zhou in the Four Nations Ancient Remnant, Xia Chen razed Grand Han to the ground and slaughtered their royal family (save two Life Star experts) in a single night.
The inheritor of the Ancient Spiritual Immortal Array Sect, a sect which had disappeared for tens of thousands of years. He later joined the Dragonblood Legion.
== Story ==
=== Destroying the Grand Han ===
There was a beast hide on the table. Atop the beast hide, in immortal characters, were written two characters: Xia Chen. The beast hide was touched with bloodstains, and they gave off shocking fluctuations.
That was the essence blood of a Soul Transformation expert. This was no ordinary essence blood either. It contained all the grievances of a Soul Transformation expert before their death.
The capital of the Grand Han was razed to the ground by Xia Chen. Other than two Life Star experts, the rest of the Grand Han's imperial family were all slaughtered.
It wasn't done by the Grand Zhou or the Grand Chu as the Pill Tower paid them hush money. It was done by an expert from a branch of Xia Yuyang's Grand Xia. Yuyang originally thought this branch had already died out, so he was surprised when it reappeared now.
Yuyang told Long Chen one of the Grand Xia's secrets: thousands of years ago, the Grand Xia had fractured, and a branch of the Xia family had left. Then they had vanished without a trace.
The Grand Xia had always thought this branch had already disappeared. But the appearance of this beast hide made Xia Yuyang recall that history.
This Xia character contains the bloodline energy of the Xia family. Furthermore, based on the power of the fluctuations, that bloodline power came from a youngster around the same age as Chong-er and Yun-er. However, to be able to annihilate the Grand Han's imperial family on his own and still escape under the attacks of two Life Star experts, this expert from the branch is truly terrifying.
It happened too fast, and no one had time to record it. According to the reports from some experts, that person was a formation cultivator. He stealthily established a grand formation within the Grand Han's imperial city, instantly annihilating it. Other than Life Star experts, the rest were killed instantly. As for the Grand Han's two Life Star experts, they attacked that person, but he used a formation to escape. He threw a bunch of beast hides like this into the air before leaving. This is just one of them.
The four ancient nations' disputes are supposed to be resolved through the power of the four nations. It is prohibited to use other people's power. This Xia Chen did this in order to give an explanation to the rest of the world: this is retribution from that branch of the Xia family.
Xia Chen was a supremely terrifying expert. He had challenged the Grand Han's imperial family on his own. But this branch of the Grand Xia didn't communicate with the Xia Yuyang's branch. Since they had left, they didn't want to return.
=== Dragon Slaughtering Convention ===
Later he sends a Formation diagram to Long Chen. Xia Chen was the one who designed the powerful formation at the Dragon Slaughtering Convention.
Xia Yunchong said that Xia Chen was most likely a disciple from a branch of the Grand Xia's imperial family. He had no real connection with the Grand Xia, and no one knew where he was.
=== Joining DBL ===
He was a thin and somewhat frail-looking man, with a fair complexion. He didn't look like a martial artist but rather almost scholarly. If he wore a scholar's band and held a white fan in his hand, he would look even more like one. That was the first impression that Xia Chen gave Long Chen. Long Chen could sense his aura and knew that he was definitely a Soul Transformation expert. However, the fluctuations of his spiritual yuan were very weak, so weak that Long Chen found it unimaginable. They were even weaker than a Foundation Forging expert.
Xia Chen was a very prideful person.
A large part of the reason why he was working so hard to train the Dragonblood Legion was due to his pride. He wanted to prove his power, to prove that after he joined the Dragonblood Legion, the Dragonblood Legion's power would completely transform.
How could Long Chen not see through that thought? It was just that Xia Chen's talent was even greater than he had expected. The battle formations he had just witnessed were absolutely astounding.
If the current Dragonblood Legion were to face the Devil Abyss's eruption again, then even without Long Chen, they would be able to easily slaughter those devil creatures. That was the difference.
After being together for so long, Guo Ran had understood Xia Chen's nature. He was a very serious person who didn't like the slightest flaws in what he did. However, just raising the Dragonblood Legion's power to this extent was enough for everyone to prostrate themselves before him. It had won him all their respect.
=== Volume 10 ===
==== Immortal World ====
After arriving in the Immortal World, following the destruction of the Martial Heaven Continent, he joins the Spirit Rune Pavilion.
== Relationships ==
Xia Chen has great synergy with Guo Ran in the DBL.
As soon as Long Chen had seen Xia Chen here, he had essentially seen through the latter's thoughts. Although Xia Chen was strong, he was isolated from the rest of the world and wasn't able to hide his emotions as well as others. As for Long Chen, having had to deal with all kinds of people since childhood and enduring countless setbacks, he could guess a person's character and thoughts with just a glance. So he wasn't surprised that Xia Chen would join at all.
However, the fact that Guo Ran would be so excited about Xia Chen joining was a bit of a surprise. The two of them had hit it off as soon as they met, so much so that it was like they regretted not having met earlier.
Xia Chen had always been a solitary figure. The materials for his formations had been purchased by himself, and they were very expensive. Although he had obtained some materials when he had gained his inheritance and had always been very meticulous with his formations, he had always been low on money. Now that he had found a big money bag called Long Chen, he felt how blessed the days when he didn't have to worry about money were.
== Chapter Appearances ==
==References==
Category:Human
Category:Ally
Category:Grand Xia Ancient Nation
Category:Grand Xia Ancient Nation/Xia family
Category:Golden Evil Dragon Bloodline
Category:Dragonblood Legion
Category:Formation cultivator