by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Elder Tu Fang, what should we do? If we continue like this, then won’t all of our disciples be completely exterminated?” All the Elders were worried.
Each sect’s disciples were like their own children. No one was willing to have their children be killed like this.
“There’s nothing we can do. Now that it has reached this point, we can’t retreat. If we were to take action, the Corrupt path’s experts would go and block us. We can only watch.”
Tu Fang forcibly calmed himself. Looking at Long Chen’s face, he felt a glimmer of hope.
That was because Long Chen’s expression had remained calm the entire time. He hadn’t revealed the slightest bit of panic.
It was like Long Chen was a steady boulder. Even in the face of countless powerful enemies, his Dao-heart wouldn’t waver in the slightest.
The Corrupt disciples stopped once they were five miles from the Righteous disciples. They stared icily at them like tigers looking at their prey.
“Run!”
No one knew who was first, but a dozen disciples from the Righteous path suddenly turned on their heels and fled.
Tu Fang’s face immediately darkened. All the Elders were stunned. Those people were the Bloodnet Sect’s disciples.
Following the Bloodnet Sect’s disciples’ desertion, hundreds of others began to follow them. In the face of that many Corrupt disciples, their courage was completely broken. Fleeing was their instinct.
“A bunch of bastards!” Tu Fang raged, raising his hand, about to kill all the disciples who were running.
“Let them go.”
Suddenly, Long Chen’s calm voice rang out.
His voice was backed with his spiritual qi, so it rang out clearly for dozens of miles.
Tu Fang stiffened slightly, and slowly lowered his hand. He also knew that killing his own allies at this time wasn’t a good idea. He would just be ridiculed by their opponents.
But now that they had fled, everyone else’s confidence would also be shaken. That was a huge blow to their morale. Even Tu Fang was trapped in an impossible situation.
“If you feel afraid, if you feel terrified, you can all leave. This is a battle of the brave. The weak do not even have the qualifications to participate.” Long Chen’s voice rang out once more.
His voice was filled with calm without the slightest bit of nervousness or panic. There was not even any anger within it.
Those disciples, who had been filled with terror, calmed down a great deal just from listening to it. They suddenly saw that none of the disciples from the Xuantian Monastery looked the slightest bit afraid. In fact, only anticipation and overflowing battle intent could be felt radiating off them.
Those disciples who had been fleeing paused, turning to look at Long Chen.
“Cultivation is a path of no retreat. If you want to continue forward, then you have to be able to face the threat of death. If you don’t even dare to face death, how will you break through your shackles and advance to higher realms?
“I can guarantee that all of you who ran today will have their realm freeze. What happened today will become a heart-devil, and you’ll never be able to advance further.
“If you run, you’ll at least be able to live. You can enjoy your remaining years.
“As for those of us who stay, we’ll very likely die here. But if we manage to survive today, we will definitely become top experts in the future.
“So those who want to become experts, stay. Those who want to live, you should quickly leave. In a bit, it will no longer be possible for you to leave,” said Long Chen.
Hearing Long Chen’s words, over half of those who had fled clenched their teeth and returned.
“Fuck, I’m going to be a hero, not a coward!”
“What’s so hard about this? Even if I die, I’ll be reborn as a real man in a couple of years.”
“I’ll go all-out against these bastards from the Corrupt path! Even if I die, I’ll definitely bring a couple of them down with me, letting my old man feel proud of me!”
Although their words were only just to pump themselves up, it had to be said that these people were all brave men. They were all infected by the heroism of the Xuantian Monastery’s disciples.
Of over five thousand people, half of them had fled. Now a portion of them returned.
Now they had nearly four thousand Righteous disciples. As for the thousand disciples who had fled, no one stopped them, and they all disappeared from view.
Long Chen smiled slightly. He held no hate or resentment towards those disciples who had fled. No one had the right to decide another person’s life or death.
Those people who had fled might be selfish and cowardly, but it wasn’t necessarily who they really were.
The majority of the disciples present were all ‘geniuses’. The way their families and sects had raised them had brought about this conclusion.
As for the other disciples of the monastery, none of them looked upon the ones who fled with any anger or disdain. There was only sympathy and pride.
If they hadn’t met Long Chen and he hadn’t taught them the true meaning behind protecting the ones important to them, allowing them to become true warriors, then it would have been all too possible for them to be one of the deserters as well.
“Congratulations to all of you. If you can survive today, you’ll definitely be able to become true experts.
“All disciples, follow behind the backs of the Xuantian Monastery’s disciples. With the weapons in your hands, kill as many as you want. Kill a path towards that weirdo who looks thirty percent inhuman and seventy percent like a ghost!
“Simply do your best to slash your weapon over and over and over again. If you eventually find that there’s no one beside you anymore, then you can stop, because at that time, you’ll already be dead.” Long Chen smiled slightly.
“Hahahaha…”
Gu Yang and the others laughed, leading the other disciples to laugh with them. That tense atmosphere was lightened a great deal.
With just a few words, Long Chen was able to turn many of those cowards who had fled into brave warriors. He really was a marvel. No matter how difficult the problem, he could accomplish it so easily.
“Not bad. That really was a wonderful show. We’ll definitely properly appreciate the scene of you trying to stop our blades. Just thinking about it makes me impatient, jiejiejie…” Gui Yan’s crow-like voice rang out.
The experts of both sides were situated on top of two mountains, while between them was the battlefield for their disciples. Those three locations formed a triangle that were less than a hundred miles from each other.
“Jie your sister. I’ve never seen a fellow as contorted as you. I really wonder which tomb exploded for someone like you to escape. We’re all born from dads and moms, but I guess your mom and dad were too careless. Just how did they manage to produce someone like you?”
Long Chen then came to a sudden comprehension. “Ah, could it be that after your mom gave birth to you, she was too careless and ended up throwing the baby away, instead raising the placenta into you?”
The people behind Long Chen couldn’t hold back their laughter. Tang Wan-er’s whole face was contorted. As a reserved woman, she should have been acting as if she didn’t understand, but she wasn’t able to stop herself.
The Xuantian Monastery’s disciples could glare death in the face without batting an eye. They didn’t have any misgivings, and they all laughed to their content.
In the distance, Tu Fang and the others watched blankly. In Tu Fang’s eyes, Long Chen was supposed to be a solemn leader. How did he suddenly erupt with a bunch of curses now?
The Corrupt disciples were all stupefied. Old demon Gui Yan was someone they had to call master Gui Yan. He was a powerful figure amongst the Corrupt path of this region.
If anyone dared be even slightly rude to him, even if it was one of their own Elders, he would tear out their muscles and flay their bodies. His viciousness was extreme
ly well-known.
Such a respected figure had now been jeered at by a member of the Righteous path’s junior generation.
“Damn brat, I’ll specially flay your body and refine your soul! Kill them all for me! But leave that brat alive.” Gui Yan’s roar was like thunder in everyone’s ears.
The Corrupt disciples bellowed and took out their weapons, charging at them.
“Divine archers, take your marks!”
Following Long Chen’s shout, the monastery’s disciples all took out a longbow. They nocked them all with arrows.
“Forty-five degrees! Close your eyes and shoot!”
The arrows rained down upon the Corrupt disciples. Other than the monastery’s disciples, the other Righteous disciples were all flabbergasted.
“Divine archers? They’re not even shooting directly at them?”
Even Tu Fang was dumbfounded. Arrows didn’t possess any killing power against Corrupt disciples, and they weren’t even shooting directly at them head-on.
BOOM!
Just as people were completely puzzled by Long Chen’s actions, explosions echoed throughout and smoke filled the air.
“AH! Contemptible bastards, there’s poison in the smoke!”
Countless screams rang out. Many disciples consumed antitoxin pills, but they were horrified to see that their effects were far from ideal.
Just as the rain of arrows was falling from the sky, another set of arrows came flying at them. But this time, they were sent flying directly at them.
Howls of anguish rang out, and flesh flew through the air. The Elders, who were watching the battle, were all dumbfounded. This was not at all how they had expected it to go down.
“Spread out! Quickly spread out from the range of the poison!” Gui Yan roared angrily. But he didn’t know just how much pain the ones who were enveloped by the poison smoke were in. The majority of them all died before managing to run out of the smoke.
There was a portion who was luckier. They only died after running out of the smoke. Before the two sides even met, a huge number of Corrupt disciples were already killed.
The ground was littered with corpses that numbered in the thousands. This time, Long Chen had brought out all of his poison balls.
And this result was actually because the Corrupt disciples were lucky. In the beginning, they had been in a line formation in order to intimidate the Righteous disciples.
When they had charged forward, they had been spread out in that line. In order to keep the toxicity high, the arrows had all been shot at one spot, allowing the other areas to get off completely fine.
If they had charged at them in a more clumped out manner, Long Chen would have been able to exterminate at least half their number with just this one move.
“Kill, kill them all!” roared Gui Yan sinisterly.
Those Corrupt disciples that had been outside the range of the poison gas charged forward.
But before they could arrive, a snow-white figure appeared in front of Long Chen.
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That figure was Little Snow. As soon as he appeared, he opened his mouth and a huge sphere appeared before him.
Space constantly trembled around that sphere. Thousands upon thousands of tiny wind blades were quickly circulating within it, emitting a sharp, piercing sound.
Those that were closer felt as if a knife was stabbing them in the ears, and they hastily covered them.
Long Chen was delighted. Little Snow had now advanced to the mid third rank, and his strength had multiplied. That sphere caused even him to feel a chill.
Suddenly, a red liquid appeared within the sphere. It looked like a demonic flame, constantly swaying back and forth.
After that bizarre flame appeared, Little Snow shook and that sphere shot forward.
At first, it was only a foot long, but as soon as it left Little Snow’s mouth, it began to grow, becoming over thirty meters wide.
Countless wind blades scattered from the sphere as it sped forward. Those blades were like the Grim Reaper’s scythe as they mercilessly cut down the Corrupt disciples.
“Quickly spread out! It’s a Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf King!”
Gui Yan was shocked and gave everyone a warning, his voice filled with shock.
The Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf was quite famous, and there were few cultivators who didn’t know that it was a dual wind and fire attribute Magical Beast, making it incomparably powerful.
It was said that amongst Scarlet Flame Snow Wolves, there was a certain variation that would make them kings amongst the wolves, and they were called the Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf King.
Little Snow’s aura was unable to remain concealed from Gui Yan’s eyes. Although it was a bit weak, that was definitely the aura of a wolf king.
If a Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf mutated to become a wolf king, its combat ability would undergo heaven-toppling changes. That was why he gave everyone a warning.
The Corrupt disciples were startled by his warning, and all began to spread out.
However, Little Snow’s attack range was too wide. In the blink of an eye, that sphere cut straight across hundreds of meters of the battlefield, leaving behind a large ditch as it passed, only stopping once it was miles away.
The Corrupt disciples that had been within that line had all been directly cut to pieces by the wind blades. They hadn’t even had a chance to scream.
“How powerful!”
Even the Righteous disciples were filled with shock when they saw how powerful Little Snow was.
“Tu Fang, you damn bastards, you actually dare call yourselves the Righteous path? You’re using such despicable methods; you’re all just a bunch of shameless fuckers!” Gui Yan angrily cursed.
Their armies hadn’t even collided yet, but the last two attacks had killed half of their Corrupt disciples.
If they had died in a normal manner, then that would have been fine. When waves cleansed sand, they would only leave behind the gold. What they wanted was that gold.
However, Long Chen’s attacks had destroyed the gold with the sand, infuriating Gui Yan to the point that he felt like he might explode.
Tu Fang and the other Righteous Elders looked at each other in dismay as they were cursed by Gui Yan. They were also completely stupefied by what they were watching. They hadn’t expected Long Chen to possess such a terrifying Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf King housepet.
His housepet’s strength in a one on one battle would probably only be a level stronger than ordinary core disciples. But Little Snow’s attacks were extremely suited for group battles like this. His ability to kill hordes of disciples at once was terrifying.
Even core disciples had been unable to receive that last blow. As for the ordinary disciples, they were killed as soon as they were touched.
Tu Fang and quite a few of the others had all experienced multiple battles between the Righteous and Corrupt paths. But this was the first time they had encountered such a fighting style. It was also the first time they saw Gui Yan cursing and raging at them like an old vixen.
As Gui Yan cursed them, Guo Ran took out his crossbow, beginning to crazily rain down arrows.
Because of the poison smoke attack, the Corrupt disciples had split up into two groups. Little Snow’s attack had cut through the group on the right.
Now the other group was held back by Guo Ran. A huge cask of arrows was on his shoulder, feeding into his crossbow. The mechanisms continuously clicked as they shot out arrows.
“Fucking hell, there’s more!”
The Corrupt disciples were all in a panic. Each volley of Guo Ran’s arrows contained a poison pill given to him by Long Chen.
In reality, without any overlaying, those poison pills weren’t that toxic. The more powerful Corrupt disciples were more than capable of resisting it with their antitoxin pills and high cultivation bases.
However, they had already become intimidated by that first poison smoke. They didn’t dare forcibly charge into these new poison mi
sts that Guo Ran shot out, and they appeared extremely miserable.
Seeing that he was actually able to intimidate his opponents all on his own, Guo Ran didn’t care about the cost and continued to rain down arrows crazily.
“Despicable Righteous path, you definitely won’t have good deaths!” Gui Yan was completely infuriated now. He couldn’t hold back any longer, and with a wave of his hand, a couple of figures behind him stood up slowly, revealing their youthful faces.
“Kill every single one of these damn Righteous path bastards!” raged Gui Yan.
Those few nodded and moved suddenly, rushing towards them with incredible speed. The man at the front was the quickest, crossing a hundred miles in an instant like a phantom.
Rushing forward, Long Chen saw that he was an incredibly demonic man. There was a crack between his eyebrows, looking like a closed third eye.
When that man was just five miles away from them, he suddenly opened his hand. Space fluctuated, and a golden lotus appeared, floating above his hand.
That golden lotus caused all of heaven and earth to buzz. A berserk energy began to soar.
Long Chen’s expression changed. This man was too terrifying. That lotus in his hand possessed an incredibly destructive strength.
That demonic man coldly snorted, and that golden lotus shot out of his hand straight towards Long Chen.
Space seemed to explode wherever this lotus passed as if it was unable to endure that terrifying strength.
This was the most powerful attack Long Chen had ever seen. This fellow was definitely a Favored, or there was no way he could be so terrifying.
“Everyone, scatter!” roared Long Chen. This attack was too terrifying, and it was definitely a group attack. Ordinary disciples wouldn’t be able to resist it.
Just as he was preparing to take out Devil Decapitator to face off against this terrifying golden lotus, a gorgeous ray of light appeared in the sky, a huge arrow shooting out. “Piercing Cloud Arrow!”
BOOM!
That gorgeous arrow collided with the golden lotus, emitting a huge explosion. Long Chen was sent flying by an incredibly powerful shockwave.
