Mandala had been nothing but good to Liu Chen. Ever since the Great Luo Heavenly Domain had entered its expansion phase, she had basically let Nine Nether and Liu Chen run wild under her name.
Mandala's exact words were:
"Fight however you like. Any territory you take is yours, and any trouble you cause will be mine to bear."
While those words put Liu Chen at ease, they also made him feel as though he had always lived under Liu Xi's shadow. Even after running away from home, he was still protected by Liu Xi.
To be honest, Liu Chen did not resist it.
He even felt somewhat reassured. After all, this was his first time truly venturing through the Great Thousand World. Having someone above him to rely on meant he had no worries holding him back.
And so, like a wild horse freed from its reins, he led the original Nine Nether Guards and numerous experts in an assault on the Hundred Battles Domain.
The flames of war erupted with startling suddenness.
Though the Great Luo Heavenly Domain was immensely powerful, it had not made any major moves for nearly a hundred years.
Thus, the sudden war caught everyone completely off guard.
Several armies set out at once, swiftly seizing over half the Hundred Battles Domain's territory. During that period, Liu Chen naturally went through several bloody battles.
Unlike in Fentian Continent, where others yielded to him at every turn, or Northern Cang Continent, where he had been invincible, Liu Chen finally experienced battles of life and death on Tianluo Continent.
That real, chilling, terrifying killing intent was enough to make people lose heart before even fighting, reducing their full strength to barely sixty or seventy percent...
Yet it was precisely such life-and-death battles that fully unleashed Liu