by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
When Chu Yao’s energy poured into Long Chen, three large leaves that were three meters long appeared on Long Chen’s back.
Those weren’t real leaves, but the form that Chu Yao’s runic power had taken. They were both real yet not real, illusory yet not illusions. They alternated between solid and ethereal, completely incomprehensible.
Long Chen could feel an incredibly vast amount of energy inside those three leaves. Compared to his own FengFu Star’s energy, it was at least ten times greater. And now all that energy was at his disposal.
With the support of this powerful energy, Long Chen was completely revived. He had immediately attacked when he saw Tang Wan-er in danger.
Tang Wan-er had really thought that she would die. That Corrupt Elder was just too frightening.
“Wan-er, you guys don’t attack. Make sure to protect Chu Yao. Don’t let anyone get close to her.” Long Chen knew that Chu Yao was in a special state right now. Her soul was acting as the bridge to share her energy with him. At this moment, she was unable to move her own body, and her defensive strength was zero.
Long Chen then rushed out, slashing down with Devil Decapitator onto the horrified Corrupt Elder.
“I see a black mark on your face. Today, you’ll definitely die.”
BOOM! The Corrupt Elder pushed down his shock, pushing out with his full strength at Devil Decapitator. As a result, he was sent flying back. He tumbled across the ground for hundreds of meters before miserably stabilizing himself.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!” That Corrupt Elder angrily roared up at the sky.
Long Chen was now even more powerful than he had been before. His own full strength attack was now unable to block even a random wave of his saber!
In truth, it wasn’t that Long Chen was now stronger than before, but that he had just become weaker. After blocking Long Chen’s Split the Heavens, he had lost one of his arms while also suffering internal injuries. But in his fury, he had completely forgotten that his body was now too weak. That was why he couldn’t even receive an ordinary attack from Long Chen anymore.
Long Chen slowly walked over to the Corrupt Elder. His divine ring appeared behind him once more. The three hundred meter wide divine ring looked just like a rainbow in the sky.
Long Chen’s aura erupted like a volcano, the space around him twisting. Looking from a distance, his figure was extremely indistinct through that twisted space, making him appear both powerful and strange.
With each step Long Chen took, the ground beneath him would shatter. He was like a celestial descended from the heavens, an existence that all beings could only submit to.
Whether it was the Righteous or Corrupt path, everyone was given a fright when they saw Long Chen’s current appearance. Long Chen was an absolute monster, powerful beyond compare.
“KILL!” Long Chen suddenly stamped on the ground, shooting forward like a wild gust of wind at the Corrupt Elder. He looked like a demon king demanding his life, once more slashing out with Devil Decapitator.
However, this slash was different from his previous attacks. Previously, each time Long Chen had brandished his saber, gusts of wind would whistle around it. But this time, there was no sound at all.
That was because his energy had been focused to the pinnacle, cutting through the air so sharply that there was no wind.
That Corrupt Elder was shocked, infuriated, and yet also filled with terror. By relying on his many years of battle experience, he knew that at this time, the only chance for him to win was to go all-out. Circulating all of his energy, he concentrated everything into his hand.
“Black Yin Ghost Claw!”
BOOM!
The entire battlefield shook intensely. A figure shot out like a cannonball, shooting through the entire battlefield to crash into a huge mountain a dozen miles away.
The place that he crashed into was a cliffside. He slammed into it so hard that his body left behind a deep imprint. Cracks spread throughout the entire cliff, but it didn’t collapse. The Corrupt Elder was still embedded in the cliff, his eyes having lost all their color, his expression both shocked yet vacant.
Lazily resting Devil Decapitator on his shoulder, Long Chen took a deep breath, so emotionally moved that he almost teared up.
He was simply too refreshed and excited at being able to use spiritual qi in this manner. Previously, he had had to carefully use each and every bit of his spiritual qi.
But with Chu Yao sharing her energy with him, he was able to become a complete spendthrift. He no longer had to worry about running out of spiritual qi.
“Brothers of the Righteous path, become heartless killers! Dye your robes red with blood, let your blades pierce through the bodies of your enemies. Unleash all your desires, all your vengeance! Look at your fallen brothers! They are definitely watching us from the heavens! Brothers, kill them all!” Long Chen’s passionate speech rang through the air.
“KILL!”
“KILL!”
“KILL!”
Long Chen’s fight with the Corrupt Elder had been so eye-catching that the entire battlefield had slowed down. But now, the eyes of the Righteous disciples turned red, and their blood boiled. Thinking of their fallen brothers, they began going all-out against the Corrupt disciples.
By now, the battlefield held almost equal numbers of Righteous and Corrupt disciples. They each had just over two thousand people.
But the Righteous path had started off with just over three thousand people. As for the Corrupt disciples, they had started off with more than ten thousand at the time of the first clash. Now they had been reduced to just twenty percent of their number…
This huge disproportion was largely thanks to two fighters. One was Little Snow. His wind blades could rapidly dispatch multiple Corrupt disciples. If Long Chen hadn’t told him to focus on core disciples, he would have managed to kill even more.
The other contributor was Guo Ran. However, Guo Ran was now only wielding a saber behind the front lines and ferociously hacking it at the Corrupt disciples.
That was because he had run out of arrows an hour ago. He had been incredibly angered by that. But he could only fight like the others now.
His regular combat strength was extremely ordinary. It would take him quite a while just to kill an ordinary Corrupt disciple. Furthermore, those Corrupt disciples had already been covered in wounds from this battle. Otherwise, it would be difficult to say just who would be killing who.
That angered Guo Ran even more. He practically went insane, and he vowed he would never let himself run into this state of having no more ammunition again.
The Righteous disciples were incredibly dominant now, suppressing the Corrupt disciples. After experiencing this kind of battle, they would undoubtedly become amazing experts.
Seeing that the result of this battle was already set, Long Chen turned to look at the senior disciples’ battle. The battle there was even more intense because they had more people. But both sides’ combat abilities were relatively even.
Long Chen immediately rushed over. He deliberately picked out the more powerful Corrupt disciples who was at the peak of Tendon Transformation.
With Chu Yao’s enormous spiritual qi supporting him, Long Chen activated all of Devil Decapitator’s runes. Each swing of his saber contained an incredible force, and almost no one was able to block him at all.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s saber killed a bunch of experts who had been surrounding senior apprentice-brother Wan. Senior apprentice-brother Wan’s expression was one of crazy rapture.
“Nice job Long Chen! I really didn’t misjudge you!” Senior apprentice-brother Wan laughed. He had always believed that Long Chen would definitely become a peerless expert. “We don’t need you here, Long Chen. Go see whether you can go and kill that person called Yin Luo. But you have to be careful, as he’s definitely not weaker than you at all!”
Long Chen nodded. Randomly killing a couple of displeasing fellows on his way, he rushed o
ver to Yin Luo and Mo Nian’s battle.
Chapter 263 Xiantian Power
Arriving at Mo Nian and Yin Luo’s battle, Long Chen’s heart shook. Their battle was incredibly intense.
A spear and arrows continuously shook the heavens. Qi waves surged out, causing the sky to constantly tremble.
Although Long Chen had already killed a Favored, these two were much, much stronger than that Favored. They were simply not on the same power level.
“Brother Mo Nian, do you want some help?”
Seeing their battle, Long Chen’s heart was filled with a desire for battle. The two of them were around the same age as him, and they were shockingly powerful, not at all inferior to that Corrupt Elder. In fact, looking at their battle now, they might even be stronger.
“I’m still a bit lacking. Come, let’s kill him quick and then find a place to drink some good alcohol.” Mo Nian’s bow was constantly shooting out arrows, but from the start, he was unable to do anything to Yin Luo, which irritated him.
He had bragged at the beginning of their fight, but this Yin Luo was just too powerful. The two of them were completely even for now.
Mo Nian was unable to kill Yin Luo, but Yin Luo was also unable to do anything to Mo Nian. The two of them were both top experts, and it was incredibly difficult to kill either of them.
Mo Nian had already grown tired of this. This was the first time that he met someone in the same realm who could fight against him for such a long time. He surprisingly didn’t have any complaints about Long Chen’s suggestion.
Long Chen laughed and shot forward, entering their battle range and bringing his saber down on Yin Luo.
But when he entered their range, he felt a strange forcefield present.
That forcefield wasn’t any aura, but both of their wills. This was the first time Long Chen had encountered such a forcefield.
But as soon as he entered that forcefield and was influenced by their wills, Long Chen’s own will erupted out of his control.
His will was different from their wills. Long Chen’s will wasn’t focused on any person but against all of heaven and earth. His will was one that wished to break apart the shackles of the world and disdainfully look down on the nine heavens.
Both Mo Nian and Yin Luo sensed Long Chen’s will erupting and were shocked.
“Watch out!” Long Chen’s Devil Decapitator radiated brilliant light as it slashed down.
Yin Luo coldly snorted. The spear’s runes lit up, smashing into Long Chen’s saber.
BOOM!
Golden light shot out and an explosion shook the sky. Long Chen’s body shook, and his arm turned a bit numb.
“What powerful strength!” Long Chen was appalled. Yin Luo was really too powerful, definitely not weaker than that Corrupt Elder in the slightest bit.
Long Chen was forced back, but Yin Luo was also shocked. His strength placed him number one amongst this region’s Corrupt path’s junior generation.
In all of his years, he had always relied on his powerful strength to directly kill his opponents. He had even killed quite a few Bone Forging experts.
But Long Chen’s attack had caused his arm to turn slightly numb as well. In fact, his spear had almost been knocked out of his hands. How could he not be shocked?
Just at this moment, Mo Nian shot over an arrow, and Yin Luo hastily raised his spear, smashing the arrow apart.
But due to the powerful strength behind it, he was knocked back. Long Chen naturally wouldn’t give up that opportunity, and his saber once more attacked him.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM...!
With Long Chen at close range and Mo Nian at long range, they forced Yin Luo to retreat over and over again. After all, no matter how strong Yin Luo was, he couldn’t handle their combined attacks.
“Let’s hurry up and kill him.” Mo Nian was delighted to see that Long Chen was so powerful. His bow continuously shot out arrow after arrow.
Mo Nian was a long-range fighter, so naturally he had been at a disadvantage when fighting against Yin Luo. Yin Luo was just too fast, and it was difficult for Mo Nian to keep him at a distance.
Now that Long Chen was in the front, he no longer had to be worried about that and could continuously rain down arrows. Although he kept the pace a bit slow since he was afraid of accidentally hitting Long Chen, the two of them were still extremely powerful when fighting together.
“So what if you two are joining hands? Netherworld Possession!” Yin Luo suddenly shouted, and an illusory phantom appeared behind him before then slowly fading into his body.
Space suddenly began to surge. Long Chen and Mo Nian’s expressions changed. They sensed that something had changed in the world around them.
“Not good, this bastard has refined Xiantian essence blood!” Mo Nian warned.
That was something that could only be formed once a Meridian Opening expert broke apart the limits of the Houtian realm, stepping into the Xiantian realm[1]. Only once you were in the Xiantian realm and your body had been completely cleansed could you form Xiantian essence blood.
Xiantian experts had already escaped the limits of the Houtian body. Heaven and earth blessed them, allowing them to control the natural energy around them for their own use. Even their lifespans would extend to over a thousand years.
And their essence blood was the source of their energy and was extremely precious. That was because only Xiantian essence blood was able to control natural energy.
As for Yin Luo, somehow his body also contained Xiantian essence blood. He could now control the natural energy around him. However, he could only control the slightest little bit.
But that slightest little bit was absolutely terrifying. It wasn’t something an ordinary person could resist.
“Die!” An unhealthy flush appeared on Yin Luo’s face. Although his body contained Xiantian essence blood, natural energy was not so easy to control. Even that little bit was not something he could control perfectly.
Space trembled as all the energy within three thousand meters of him was poured into his spear.
“Chasing Soul Pierce!” Yin Luo’s golden spear ferociously shot at Long Chen, its terrifying energy almost causing space to erupt.
“Earth Reversal Mountain Shaking Arrow!” Mo Nian was the first to react. Unlike Long Chen, he had a greater understanding of how terrifying Yin Luo’s attack was. This attack had the power to kill even Bone Forging experts. And so he no longer kept anything back. All of his energy was poured into his bow and a thirty-meter-long, red-colored arrow shot out at Yin Luo.
Although he didn’t know what Xiantian essence blood was, Long Chen’s intuition told him that this attack would definitely be terrifying.
Holding Devil Decapitator with both hands, he poured Chu Yao’s vast energy into his saber. This time, Long Chen was being a true spendthrift.
He used up every single bit of Chu Yao’s energy that was several times more than what he possessed even at his peak.
But Long Chen was shocked to find that even with Chu Yao’s vast energy, he still hadn’t reached the limit of Split the Heavens.
Due to how vast that energy was, Long Chen felt the familiar sensation of his meridians in pain, as if they were about to burst.
A terrifying saber image shot out. Long Chen’s Devil Decapitator began to let out a cry that was full of a desire to massacre.
“Split the Heavens!” Devil Decapitator slashed down. This was the most powerful attack Long Chen had ever used.
BOOM!!!
The three attacks ferociously slammed into each other. A loud rumbling deafened the world. Long Chen’s arm was shaken so intensely that he lost hold of Devil Decapitator. He was sent flying, vomiting blood.
When Long Chen’s line of sight recovered, he saw a huge crater had formed. At the bottom, a spring of water was gushing out. The entire battlefield turned sluggish.
He couldn’t hear anything, but he could see that there were still two figures who looked just as exhausted as him.
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sp; Yin Luo’s face was paper-white. His aura had plummeted, and he was completely shocked. Mo Nian wasn’t any better off. That previous blow had exhausted all of his energy, and he was now frantically gasping for air.
Yin Luo took a deep breath and suddenly took out a jade tile. When Long Chen saw that jade tile, his expression immediately changed.
That jade tile’s appearance was the same as the jade pendant that his parents had left for him! Only the color was different, as Yin Luo’s was white while Long Chen’s was violet.
“This fellow’s trying to run! Stop him!” Mo Nian recognized what that jade tile was. He quickly shot out an arrow.
However, Mo Nian was completely out of spiritual qi now. It was impossible for him to condense any powerful arrows, so the arrow he shot wasn’t any more powerful than an ordinary arrow. It was completely useless.
Yin Luo coldly snorted and took a single step to dodge. He just managed to squeeze out a single strand of spiritual qi from his weary body and then crushed the jade tile, sending that strand of spiritual qi into it.
The jade tile lit up, and space erupted. A transparent spatial door gradually appeared behind him. He had actually managed to open a teleportation portal.
Only now did Long Chen recover from his shock at seeing that jade tile.
He quickly picked up Devil Decapitator and rushed at Yin Luo. He was already out spiritual qi, and Chu Yao’s leaves had disappeared from his back. But he still had a bit of physical energy left. As long as he could reach Yin Luo, he would simply slash him to death.
Yin Luo was truly too terrifying. If Mo Nian had not joined hands with him to block that last attack, he would very likely have lost his life.
He definitely couldn’t give up this opportunity to kill him. That was why he pushed himself so hard to reach him in time.
Yin Luo smiled at Long Chen mockingly, sneering, “Long Chen, I’ll remember you. Next time, I’ll definitely take your life.”
Although Long Chen’s eardrums were still broken from that collision and couldn’t hear anything, he could easily tell from Yin Luo’s expression that he was acting pompous.
