by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
He found that this was an excellent method. The impurities in his body were all forcibly expelled, and the rate at which his blood turned golden increased.
But most exciting of all was that those embryonic thunderforce runes in his body were becoming increasingly clear. At first, they had been vague and fuzzy, but now they were clear and substantial.
He would condense his blood, gather lightning, and increase the power of his physical body. He had advanced three times now practically all in one go.
Now that he had advanced to the thirteenth Heavenstage, those thunderbolts were no longer able to pose any threat to him.
So now he was just focused on absorbing as much thunderforce as he could. If you were to look at him from a distance, you would see a figure covered in a rain of lightning, an extremely shocking sight.
Long Chen needed to borrow thunderforce in order to temper his physical body. Being struck by these thunderbolts here was much simpler than if he had to use his own thunderforce to temper his body. In fact, this place was now painless as well as safer, faster, and energy-saving.
He tempered his body for three straight days before he sensed his body had reached a limit. No matter how much more thunderforce he used to temper his body, it didn’t have any more use.
Furthermore, he realized that the thunderforce here was becoming weaker now. Looking up at the sky, he saw those black clouds that constantly floated above this mountain had become much thinner.
He knew that he had used up all the power here. This particular place was a special environment. The thunderclouds here had probably been accumulating for who knew how many years, and now he had practically exhausted all of it.
Putting away his divine ring, the tempest of lightning also came to a sudden stop. The rumbling from his body faded and everything returned to normal.
Long Chen smashed his own stomach with his fist. A loud booming noise rang out, and the rock beneath his feet cracked.
“Hehe, if I had this much power back then, would I even have had to risk my life against Wu Qi? I could easily smash him to death now!”
Long Chen was now so strong that if Wu Qi fought with him now, he wouldn’t even have to go into a battle state to defeat him.
That filled Long Chen with confidence for the upcoming trial against the Corrupt Devils. According to the trial’s settings, killing a single Corrupt path outer disciple was worth five thousand points.
Killing an inner disciple was worth thirty thousand points, and killing a core disciple was worth two hundred thousand points.
That was an incredible opportunity. Back when Long Chen had bought medicinal ingredients at the Xuantian pavilion, he had seen quite a few of the medicinal ingredients for the Alioth Pill.
But those medicinal ingredients were rare and required thousands of points to purchase. The more expensive ones even required tens of thousands of points. Long Chen didn’t have enough points to buy them.
And so Long Chen didn’t even think about them for now. The medicinal ingredients required to refine the Alioth Pill were just too expensive.
Furthermore, even if he were to gather all the medicinal ingredients in the monastery, he still wouldn’t be able to refine the pill. There were some medicinal ingredients that didn’t exist within the monastery.
But this was still an extremely important opportunity for him. He should still gather as much of the Alioth Pill’s ingredients as possible.
In the future, if he ran into any lucky encounters, he might be able to find the other ingredients. Then he could condense his Alioth Star; with both stars’ superimposition, he would be able to keep up the FengFu Battle Armor for even longer. Currently, he was only able to use it for a couple of moments before it faded away.
Most importantly, he still didn’t know what kind of changes would occur with the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art once he condensed the Alioth Star. Just thinking about that filled Long Chen with anticipation.
Most of the clothes that he had been wearing this time had already been turned to ash by the lightning, so Long Chen put on some new clothes. Looking up at the black clouds that had become much thinner, he smiled, thank you.
The thunderforce in his body had become much more solid now. In fact, it was so strong that it shocked him. After experiencing the tempering of this lightning, Long Chen was confident in being able to survive the next heavenly punishment.
When Long Chen returned to the monastery, he clearly sensed the much graver atmosphere.
In the huge monastery, other than a couple of workers, there was almost no one else about. Most likely, they were all cultivating in seclusion.
Long Chen arrived at the Heaven Earth Faction and found that he was right. Everyone was in their immortal caves cultivating. Their spirit stone formations were pushed to the max as they crazily increased their cultivation base.
Although raising the cultivation base like that wasn’t such a good thing and would weaken their foundations, they were about to face the Corrupt Devil trial.
In that kind of environment where life and death were separated by a fine line, their foundations would quickly stabilize again. So rapidly increasing their cultivation base at this time wouldn’t cause any problems. The most important thing was that every little increase in strength would give them a slightly greater chance of surviving.
Under the monastery’s orders, if they didn’t dare participate in this trial, then they would be directly expelled from the monastery. They were all cultivators. If they refused because they were afraid of death, then there was no meaning in them cultivating.
When Long Chen entered his immortal cave, Tang Wan-er, who had been cultivating, opened her eyes.
Long Chen was startled to see how powerful her aura had become. In fact, it was still rapidly growing.
Seeing Long Chen, she couldn’t hold back a happy smile. But it quickly reversed and she scolded, “Where did you run off to? You left for over a month. I thought you had fled.”
Long Chen laughed, “Ah, I really did flee. But then halfway, I just couldn’t bear leaving my goddess and so I returned!”
“All you know how to do is talk nonsense.” Tang Wan-er rolled her eyes at him. But suddenly she looked at him with shock and confusion.
“Why does your cultivation base seem so strange? It looks like the peak of Blood Condensation, but it’s also not entirely like it either… How come I feel such a powerful pressure from you that it makes my heart pound?”
Long Chen pushed his hair back and took an extremely flashy posture, bitterly complaining, “You also know that I like to be low-key and not be so eye-catching, but it’s always so difficult. As my cultivation base increases with each passing day, my own charm also rises like the eastern sun, my brilliance shining endlessly. Every woman will immediately feel their heart pounding when they see me!”
Tang Wan-er had been listening seriously in the beginning, but after just hearing half, her expression became one of complete disdain. “Hmph, obviously, their hearts are pounding. If they weren’t pounding, they’d be dead!
“If you don’t want to tell me, then fine. Stop being so flippant and glib-tongued. You’re the linchpin of the entire Heaven Earth Alliance, so pay more attention to your image,” said Tang Wan-er.
“What, how is it me? You’re the old boss- ah, I mean, you’re the faction leader; you can’t push your responsibility away.” Long Chen shook his head.
He definitely didn’t want to be everyone’s focus. The more responsibility he had, the less freedom he would have. He preferred to be free and easy without any constraints.
“Long Chen, I’m talking to you seriously. Try to be a bit more normal.” Tang Wan-er was a little annoyed and angry. Even her eyes had turned a bit redder.
Long Chen was startled, promising, “Fine, I’ll pretend to be normal for a bit. Explain it to me.”
Tang Wan-er almost laughed. This fellow was never normal, so hearing that almost made her go mad with mirth. Trying to keep her voice as normal
as possible, she began to explain:
“Long Chen, to tell the truth, I never wanted to be the faction leader. I was just forced by my family.
“The reason the Heaven Earth Faction could reach this level is practically all because of you. Although they all respect me, even I know that it is you who is their idol and spiritual pillar.
“I can see the zealotry in their eyes. They would give up their very lives for you!
“Long Chen, for the sake of everyone, including me, I hope that you’ll once more help me to hold some of this responsibility. I don’t want so many brothers and sisters to die to the Corrupt disciples because of my failures.”
Tang Wan-er’s voice was close to begging. She knew there was no one else who could be a better leader for the Heaven Earth Faction other than Long Chen.
As long as he agreed to lead everyone, that would definitely reduce the casualties and injuries to the minimum. She knew that of everyone, only Long Chen possessed that ability.
But Long Chen always acted so sloppily all day. You would never be able to tell just what he was really thinking inside. That caused her to feel a bit uncertain about him, and so for everyone’s safety, she had to clearly explain this to Long Chen. She wouldn’t care at all about giving up her position to him.
Long Chen bitterly smiled and sighed, “Although I know this kind of responsibility is just a prison, I still have to foolishly squeeze myself inside.
“If I walk into that prison, then I’m an idiot, but if I don’t, then I would be even worse than an idiot. Fine, I’ll be an idiot.”
Long Chen’s meaning was obvious. He would carry this emotional burden. If he refused to accept it, then he would just be a piece of trash who didn’t even care about his friends. Sometimes being an idiot was the better choice.
“Thank you, Long Chen.”
Tang Wan-er hugged Long Chen emotionally, tears streaming down her face. She had thought that Long Chen would scold her for being too emotional and soft-hearted. Previously, he had already given her a warning not to act on emotion.
But she still wasn’t able to hold back all of her emotions. She didn’t want to see any of the people beside her die. Now by begging Long Chen, she had dragged him into this emotional mess.
Although Long Chen knew that this was a quagmire, he still jumped in. That deeply touched her, and yet it also filled her with both shame and guilt. And so she continued to lightly sob into Long Chen’s chest.
Long Chen was still hesitating on whether he should be taking advantage of a beauty in his arms when the entire mountain began to shake and a loud shout rang out.
Chapter 233 Saber Cry Shakes the Heavens
“Brother Long, we’ve returned!”
A loud roar that could be heard dozens of miles away rang out. That was Wilde’s voice.
Tang Wan-er hastily left Long Chen’s embrace and wiped off her tears. Going out to look, they first saw two figures coming over.
Those two were Wilde and Little Snow. On Wilde’s back was a new spiked club that was even bigger than the old one. The old club’s head was around the thickness of a bucket; this new one was several times’ that.
The entire club was pitch-black and emitted a powerful pressure. After all, a spiked club on its own already appeared like a fierce and terrifying weapon. But most frightening of all was that with each step Wilde took, the earth would tremble. The thick stones that paved the path he was walking on cracked with each step.
By the time Wilde and Little Snow rushed all the way up the mountain peak, the neatly paved stone path had become crushed to smithereens.
Long Chen could easily tell just how frightening the weight of Wilde’s new weapon was. If it wasn’t, there was no way he could crush those rocks like that. Each rock that paved that path was between five to six feet thick.
“Little fellow, I told you to pay attention to your footsteps! Did you even hear me?” Behind Wilde and Little Snow was Cang Ming. Seeing this path of broken stones, he couldn’t stop himself from shouting furiously. But he still had a pampering and proud expression despite his anger.
Little Snow rushed over to Long Chen like a gust of wind. Nowadays Little Snow had grown even larger, his body at least ten meters long. His aura was also becoming increasingly powerful. Furthermore, his wounds had already disappeared now, and his white fur practically glowed.
“You’ve advanced?!” Long Chen looked at Little Snow in disbelief. Little Snow’s aura had already reached the mid third rank. The domineering pressure of an overlord third rank Magical Beast made it so that people wouldn’t dare to look at him directly.
Little Snow rubbed his head against Long Chen’s body. Even despite advancing so far, Little Snow was still like how he was when he had just been a tiny little ball of fur and was filled with love for Long Chen.
“Brother Long, let me show you my new weapon! It’s amazing!” Wilde was like a child, waving his club back and forth, causing the land to tremble. It felt as if the air was about to be blown apart, and a huge tempest of wind exploded out.
Tang Wan-er was astonished. Just the wind from a wave of his spiked club was ten times stronger than a Tendon Transformation expert’s attack.
She was about to block that gust of wind when Long Chen appeared before her.
That terrifying gale of wind thundered like an angry sea. But Long Chen was like a heavy boulder, and no matter how that wind howled, it was unable to move him in the slightest.
Long Chen was also awed. After being apart for a month, Wilde’s physical strength had reached a terrifying level.
Just that gale would have been able to easily break the bones of a Tendon Transformation disciple. If they were directly hit with that spiked club, they’d be crushed flat.
“Hehe, brother Long, how is it? My master made this for me.” Wilde put down the spiked club on the ground, causing the entire mountain to shake and the stone beneath him to crack even further.
Pow! Cang Ming cuffed Wilde in the back of his head. He was too short, so he had to jump up to do it.
“Little brat, how many times have I told you to be gentle! Are you trying to tear down the entire monastery?!” raged Cang Ming.
But despite sounding so furious, he was clearly very pleased. Anyone could probably tell that he was actually completely delighted.
He was scolding him, but seeing how powerful his own apprentice was made him incredibly proud.
As for those broken stones, they didn’t mean anything. The monastery had many lazy workers doing nothing to earn their keep. Now they finally had some work to do.
With each step Wilde took, he caused the mountain to incessantly quiver. Quite a few people rushed out of their immortal caves with alarm, thinking some sort of terrifying Magical Beast was attacking.
They only relaxed when they saw that it was only Wilde and Little Snow, and they put away their weapons.
But then seeing that path of broken stones, they were all shocked.
When Cang Ming saw those expressions, he became even prouder and more pleased.
He might be acting like he was calm on the outside, but his acting skills were incredibly lacking. Everyone could clearly tell what he was thinking.
Tang Wan-er was surprised by Cang Ming and laughed. This master-apprentice duo were both eccentrics suited to each other. But seeing that spiked club in Wilde’s hand, all of them were filled with respect.
“But at least you finally called me master for the first time,” laughed Cang Ming.
Wilde would always call him old man, and Cang Ming never cared about that. At least it sounded a bit more affectionate.
Now was the first time Wilde called him master, so that naturally made him feel happy.
“Seni-, cough, uncle Cang Ming, how heavy is this spiked club?” Long Chen couldn’t help but ask.
“Seven hundred fifty thousand pounds,” replied Cang Ming lightly.
“What?!”
Everyone, including Long Chen, was stupefied, their jaws dropping.
Just a ten thousand pound weapon would count as a heavy weapon. But Wilde’s spiked club was seven hundred fifty thousand pounds? That was way too shocking!
Looking from Wilde’s muscles which bulged out crazily and then to that spiked club, they all felt a chill. Just what could you possibly use to block him?
Plus, before Wilde had switched to this new weapon, he had already used his old one to send Gu Yang flying, breaking both his arms in one blow.
Gu Yang’s physical body was incredibly powerful. If it had been another core disciple, they probably would have been smashed to death in one blow.
Now that he had this even more terrifying weapon, was there even a single disciple in the monastery who could receive just one blow from Wilde?
They naturally all turned to Long Chen when they thought of that. Perhaps in their entire generation, only Long Chen could possibly block him!
“Hehe, that old thing was only one hundred eighty thousand pounds. This one’s a real weapon.” Wilde once more swung his club around a couple of times excitedly.
So that old club already had one hundred eighty thousand pounds, and this new one was several times heavier? Everyone finally understood just how terrifying Wilde’s true strength was.
Cang Ming saw how envious Long Chen was and laughed, “Long Chen, last time I said I’d give you a proper weapon. Hehe, take a good look.”
A large saber appeared in Cang Ming’s hand. It was almost three meters long, and its entire body was golden, almost looking as if it had been made of real gold.
The blade was fourteen inches wide and three inches thick. Lines had been carved onto the blade, and careful examination revealed they were carvings of ancient beasts that were extremely powerful and domineering.
Where the blade and hilt met, Long Chen noticed a crystal core. Long Chen’s heart leapt; so this was actually a spirit weapon.
Long Chen had long since heard that powerful Forging Masters could carve runes on top of weapons and embed a Magical Beast crystal core into the weapon. Runic power would draw out the energy of the crystal core, letting the weapon release incomparably terrifying strength. That was the power of spirit weapons.
