by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Two hours later, he had completely absorbed all the essence.
Long Chen’s blood had finally reached its saturated state. In other words, Long Chen could proceed with the next purification.
“Time to strike while the iron is still hot.” Long Chen took a deep breath and his FengFu Star’s spiritual qi began to crazily circulate as he attempted to break through the next barrier.
Long Chen’s blood was boiling and surging, emitting a loud rumbling sound.
It was like boiling underground magma. Endless energy was igniting; that pure energy was being sent through every nook and cranny of his body.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s aura exploded out. Stones flipped hundreds of meters through the air, and a powerful qi wave shot out in every direction.
“Haha, I’ve finally reached the eighth Heavenstage!”
Long Chen set out a delighted exclamation. Clenching his fist, he felt an endless energy surging out of him. In fact, he felt that he had so much energy that he would explode if he didn’t use it.
“Breaking Wind Fist!”
Long Chen punched a boulder. That boulder that was several meters large was smashed into powder.
“My physical body’s power has increased even further. It’s almost frightening to even myself.”
Long Chen was incredibly excited. His physical body really was his most powerful aspect.
He wouldn’t be an expert focusing on Battle Skills. The most powerful aspect of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was its ability to increase his physical body’s power.
It really was unfortunate that cultivating in it was so slow. Otherwise, there would basically be no need for him to even learn Battle Skills. No matter how his opponents came at him, he could just let out a single punch to crush them.
“The Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s path focuses on the physical body. I can’t waste time on Battle Skills or other things. I have to focus on it and my physical body.”
Having reached the eighth Heavenstage, Long Chen found that his own physical strength had multiplied several times. Now he really understood what the ‘Hegemon Body’ part of this technique’s name meant.
Battle Skills could make his attacks even sharper, but without his physical body as the foundation, they would all be useless no matter how powerful they were.
It was just like Split the Heavens. Although he could now use it confidently without worry of a backlash, he found that as his cultivation base increased, Split the Heaven’s power also increased greatly, becoming more and more terrifying.
Other than its own power, that was also because Long Chen’s physical body was growing stronger. That previous Breaking Wind Fist he had tested just now was essentially useless to the current him.
Just his punches alone were comparable to Earth class Battle Skills. That showed how powerful his physical body had become.
Long Chen had confirmed the focus of his cultivation. He wouldn’t waste his time chasing after powerful Battle Skill techniques. It would be better to focus on increasing his cultivation base with the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
After reaching the eighth Heavenstage, Long Chen rested for a day to become accustomed to his new strength. On the next day, he once more began searching for new targets.
This rubble wasteland really was worthy of being called the graveyard of the exiled. Powerful third rank Magical Beasts were everywhere.
But Long Chen always picked his targets extremely carefully. First, he selected those defensively weaker furred Magical Beasts, not even considering targeting the scaled Magical Beasts.
One reason was because Long Chen’s arrows were unable to break through their defenses, but the other reason was that every scaled Magical Beast possessed a powerful resistance to poison. His poison arrows would basically be useless.
Furthermore, the absolute majority of them were cold-blooded. They had more flesh but less essence blood, so it was simply not worth it.
Long Chen was able to use his powerful Spiritual Strength to observe distant Magical Beasts. He prepared traps in advance and made meticulous plans.
Although Long Chen had advanced to the eighth Heavenstage and his physical body had become incomparably powerful, he didn’t become egotistical at all. He never chose mid third rank Magical Beasts again.
This was no game. A mistake was death. Long Chen wouldn’t treat his own life as a game.
Ever since arriving at the rubble wasteland, he had completely broken the relative stability there. The angry roars of powerful Magical Beasts would occasionally ring out.
Magical Beast after Magical Beast disappeared. After another half a month, there were a total of seven third rank Magical Beasts who had fallen to his hands.
But what appalled Long Chen was that even after absorbing seven more third rank Magical Beasts’ essence blood, his blood had still yet to reach saturation.
He sensed that it had only reached around the halfway level. In other words, if he wanted to reach the ninth Heavenstage, he would have to kill at least another seven third rank Magical Beasts.
That kind of difficulty actually delighted him. That was because such a large increase in difficulty would always bring increased benefits as well.
But at the moment, he really needed to hurry up. He wasn’t just one person in the world; he needed to return to everyone to get their revenge.
His brothers’ blood definitely couldn’t be bled for nothing. He also couldn’t just let Tang Wan-er be so aggrieved for nothing. For those devoted brothers of the Heaven Earth Faction, he needed to return as early as possible.
Otherwise, with Gu Yang, Lei Qianshang, and Qi Xin’s contemptible natures, they would definitely suppress their growth as much as possible. He worried that Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu would be unable to handle that kind of oppression.
But he really couldn’t speed up at all. One reason was that he had to carefully select his Magical Beasts. He also had to set up traps and make a meticulous plan.
But most importantly, Long Chen had to avoid late third rank Magical Beasts at all costs. If he encountered one of them, he most likely wouldn’t even have the chance to flee.
Worrying only brought more worries, so thinking of all that was useless. He could only continue as he had.
He had already killed almost all the Magical Beasts that he was able to within an area of one hundred miles. The rest were ones he certainly couldn’t defeat.
Long Chen could only start searching in further regions. He had just been carefully scouting when he saw a distant person.
It was essentially inconceivable for there to be someone else in this graveyard of the exiled. Long Chen hastily hid himself.
Stealthily observing that person, he saw that the man was in his twenties. But most strange of all was that his body didn’t have any aura at all. If he hadn’t seen him with his eyes, even his Spiritual Strength would have found it hard to sense him.
“He consumed an aura concealing pill…” Long Chen immediately saw through some clues. That person was looking all around. He then took out a jade plate and lightly pressed on it.
Long Chen immediately felt the heat on his waist. His disciple badge had let out a fluctuation. His heart sank.
The moment that fluctuation came from his medal, that person immediately started rushing over in his direction.
“Haha, Long Chen, you’re still alive!” That person was delighted, arriving in front of Long Chen in just a moment.
Long Chen no longer had any thoughts of hiding himself anymore. He walked out openly, but he had an extremely bad feeling about this.
“Who are you?” asked Long Chen.
“Haha, I’m Feng Hai, your senior apprentice-brother. Elder Tu Fang sent me to protect you. Luckily, you’re still alive.” That person laughed happily, hiding his sinister intentions.
“Then, I’ll thank senior apprentice-brother Feng. To tell the truth, I’ve been almost frightened to death these few days,” smiled Long Chen.
“That’s normal. Even I was
terrified coming here. Come, let me bring you back.” Feng Hai came over to help support him extremely naturally, but his aura had already begun to stealthily circulate.
Long Chen had on a thankful expression without the slightest intention of denying his kindness. “Senior apprentice-brother Feng really is a good person.”
Feng Hai’s smile became even more brilliant. He really hadn’t expected to dupe Long Chen so easily.
He had been previously worried that Long Chen had already been eaten by a Magical Beast. Seeing he was so alive, as long as he subdued him, he could easily capture his spirit in the Soul Locking Pearl. Then, his mission would have been accomplished perfectly.
Feng Hai didn’t have the slightest defense raised against Long Chen. Instead, ridicule filled his eyes at the moment his hand touched Long Chen’s arm. The time had come to subdue him. But suddenly he heard a whistling sound from behind him.
Feng Hai was completely shocked. Long Chen was clearly right in front of him, but there was an attack coming straight for his back. Giving up subduing him at this exact moment, he tried to dodge to the side.
But although he let go of Long Chen, Long Chen grabbed onto his arm, not letting him escape.
Feng Hai looked at Long Chen’s icy smile with alarm. He immediately realized that Long Chen had long since seen through his intentions.
“Fuck off!”
He didn’t even have the time to look at what was coming for him from behind. But his intuition told him that it possessed an extremely grave threat. His aura exploded out and he sent Long Chen flying.
Although he did his best to dodge at the last moment, his shoulder was still scraped by an arrow, leaving a line of blood.
He was completely startled and was about to furiously attack Long Chen when three more arrows shot at him.
Unsheathing his longsword, he shot out a terrifying ray of Sword Qi that crushed those three arrows.
“You dare sneak attack people?” Feng Hai furiously glared at Long Chen, no longer bothering to conceal anything.
Long Chen brushed off some dust and spoke slowly for him, “Do you think everyone in this world is as stupid as you?
“Elder Tu Fang is an extremely righteous and strict person. Do you think he’d send someone to save me?
“And if he did, why would he send you? Furthermore, that was the decision of the sect leader. Even an idiot would realize Elder Tu Fang wouldn’t do this.
“If I haven’t guessed wrongly, you came to kill me, and the person who sent you should be that old bastard Sun!”
Feng Hai was first startled, but he then laughed. “Ha, I wouldn’t have thought you knew so much. But since you do, I also don’t need to waste my time. Hand over your spatial ring.”
Long Chen shook his head and lightly asked, “Why should I hand over my spatial ring? Are you going to let me live if I do?”
“Nope. But I can promise to kill you a bit faster. You won’t feel any pain.” Feng Hai pointed his longsword at Long Chen.
Long Chen nodded, “That’s reasonable. If I resist you’ll cut me into pieces. That’ll definitely be miserable and painful. If I don’t resist, I can just die in one go. What a good idea. But I have a better idea.”
“What idea?” asked Feng Hai.
But at that moment he suddenly sensed something was wrong. A rotting smell drifted into his nose.
Long Chen smiled slightly. He had finally noticed? His aura exploded and a huge flame blade appeared in his hands.
“To slaughter you!”
Chapter 204 Sly Killer
Long Chen struck like lightning, his aura exploding out and a flame blade appearing in his hand which he slashed down.
Feng Hai was completely startled. He saw that the tiny little nick on his shoulder had already turned black and he had lost feeling in his shoulder.
The stench coming from it was what had finally alerted him that Long Chen’s arrow had been coated with a terrifyingly powerful poison. He had just been stalling this entire time.
Most frightening of all, that poison had spread completely silently. He hadn’t even sensed it. If he hadn’t smelled that rotting smell, he would still be clueless.
Long Chen struck him in the midst of his confusion and fury. Without having even the time to examine his wound, he attacked with his longsword.
BOOM!
What appalled Long Chen was that the moment his flame blade collided with that longsword, his flame blade directly broke down. “Is this the strength of the mid Tendon Transformation realm? How powerful!”
Feng Hai didn’t dare reserve anything at this point anymore. Using his full force, with one slash he destroyed Long Chen’s flame blade, and now a second stab was piercing towards Long Chen.
Pressure shot out of the sword, making it so Long Chen was unable to dodge. He could only receive it head-on. A green light enveloped the longsword, marking it as a powerful Battle Skill.
Long Chen knew that he had to use his full strength at this moment. A mid Tendon Transformation realm expert was too terrifying. He immediately summoned his divine ring and his FengFu Battle Armor.
He also brought out the blue flame in his body and condensed it into a huge blue blade. Runes fluctuated over it.
When the flame blade collided with the longsword this time, Long Chen was forced back a hundred meters, but his flame blade didn’t collapse again.
Each time his flame blade collapsed, it would require him to use up a great deal of his flame energy. Condensing a new flame blade used up a great deal of spiritual qi.
Furthermore, this time, Feng Hai also was forced back over thirty meters by Long Chen’s full force strike.
He could sense his physical power sharply dropping. That was the effect of the poison, and so he hastily swallowed an antitoxin pill.
But he was horrified to realize that his antitoxin pill was completely unable to cure the poison and it continued to spread. Although it had slowed down a great deal, he wouldn’t be able to endure it for long.
“Bastard, hand over the antidote!”
“What are you talking about?” Long Chen put his hand to his ear, acting as if he hadn’t understood.
“If you hand over the antidote, I’ll spare your life,” offered Feng Hai angrily.
“You’re lisping too much; I can’t understand what you’re saying. Can you talk a bit calmer?”
“Bastard, you’re asking for it!”
How could Feng Hai still not understand that Long Chen was just purposely drawing out the time? He furiously brandished his longsword at Long Chen, trying to kill him.
Long Chen’s flame blade danced in the air. He mostly tried to avoid head-on strikes, borrowing his force to fall back. He was not a match for a mid Tendon Transformation expert.
Split the Heavens was a final trump card. If he used it but was unable to kill Feng Hai, he would definitely die.
Currently, Feng Hai was already poisoned. As time passed, Long Chen would gain more and more of an advantage. Rather than taking a risk, it would be better to fight while delaying as much as possible. His chance of coming out on top would increase more that way.
Long Chen fought and retreated at the same time, saving as much energy as possible. The two of them ended up traveling over three hundred miles in this manner.
Feng Hai roared, realizing that the poison in his body had already invaded his organs. If he still didn’t obtain the antidote, he would definitely die.
Inside, he cursed himself for trying to be clever at first. If he had instead attacked Long Chen right at the beginning, how could he have ended up in this state?
If this continued, he would end up both failing his mission and dying. He really was frantic now.
He took out a medicinal pill and threw it into his mouth. That pill immediately suppressed the poison.
That was a kind of precious poison suppressing pill. Its purpose wasn’t to cure the poison but to suppress the poison’s eruption.
That kind of suppression was like tr
ying to hold back a flood. As the water grew higher, the dam would eventually break. When that happened, the poison would erupt and he would immediately die.
If he hadn’t been forced to this point, Feng Hai would definitely not consume such a pill. Taking this poison suppressing pill meant that if he couldn’t obtain the antidote shortly, he would definitely die.
But for the moment, he no longer needed to focus his energy on keeping the poison back and could fight with his full force.
“Die!” Feng Hai roared and his speed exploded. He arrived in front of Long Chen in just the blink of an eye, slashing down with his sword.
Long Chen was startled, hastily raising his flame blade. But this time, his flame blade completely broke down. Feng Hai’s sword tip cut across his forehead, leaving behind a bloody cut.
If he hadn’t thrown his head back at that last moment, his head would have been cut in half.
Long Chen took a deep breath and summoned all the spiritual qi he had been keeping in reserve, another flame blade appearing in his hands.
“Split the Heavens!” All of his energy poured into his sword. That huge flame blade slashed down in an unstoppable manner.
Feng Hai’s expression changed, obviously not expecting Long Chen to be able to release such a powerful attack. This attack actually gave him a feeling of mortal danger.
“Falling Leaf Slash!” Feng Hai shouted and his longsword once more lit up. A cold Sword Qi swept over Long Chen’s flame blade.
BOOM!
Space almost broke apart under that intense collision. Long Chen was sent flying back a whole mile under that terrifying force, vomiting out blood.
“The mid Tendon Transformation realm really is too powerful.” That was the first time Long Chen felt such powerlessness. He saw that his own attack had only forced Feng Hai back without causing any injuries. He once more charged back at him, pointing his longsword at him.
“Hand over the antidote and I’ll spare your life!”
Long Chen almost rolled his eyes. It was already such a time, but he still said such idiot words. Would anyone possibly believe him?
He was just about to mock him when he suddenly noticed that there was a large ‘boulder’ behind Feng Hai. It was slowly beginning to move.
