by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
He had already killeddozens of similar disciples. Furthermore, it seemed even ordinary core disciples had been quite lucky here. Their spatial rings had contained quite a few nice surprises for him. So this was already a habit of his.
“I’ll grant your wish.”
An extremely unremarkable brick came flying over from an odd angle, smashing into Jiang Yifan’s face.
Jiang Yifan had never imagined someone would sneak attack him at this time. Furthermore, the brick had come silently from his blind spot. There was no chance for him to block it.
Half his face caved in and he vomited a mouthful of blood, his teeth flying through the air.
Those two disciples, who had thought they were about to die, suddenly saw a figure flash over like a bolt of lightning, catch the brick, and then twist in midair to once more slam it into Jiang Yifan’s face.
Jiang Yifan had already been spinning through the air from the first blow. Now his spin was completely reversed, and he once more vomited a mouthful of blood.
However, this time, because of his high-speed revolving, it was like red fireworks were shooting out of his mouth. It was a bizarre kind of beauty.
“Long Chen…!”
Although he was spinning through the air rapidly, he was still a Chosen. He might be the absolute weakest level of Chosen, but he was still far stronger than regular Favored and thus he managed to recognize Long Chen even through the spinning.
“Do you think you can say my name?”
Long Chen’s brick repeatedly struck Jiang Yifan. The first thing Long Chen did was break his elbows and knees so that he couldn’t run.
It went without saying that this brick was quite effective. Long Chen could use it just as nimbly as his own fists, and when it was used in close-range combat, it was practically unblockable.
Crack…
The sounds of Jiang Yifan’s bones breaking rang out. Even back when Long Chen had been in the Blood Condensation realm, he had still been able to completely suppress Jiang Yifan.
Now that he was at the Tendon Transformation, killing Jiang Yifan didn’t require any effort. However, killing him like this would be letting him off far too lightly. First, Long Chen broke all his limbs, and then he pondered on how he should handle this scum.
As Long Chen attacked Jiang Yifan—no, it should be as Long Chen played with Jiang Yifan, those two disciples who had escaped death didn’t even dare to move.
From the very first attack, Jiang Yifan’s body had still been floating in the air.
The only change was whether he spun clockwise or counterclockwise. Long Chen continuously swung out his brick, almost like he was hitting a spinning top. They were completely stunned.
“Hey, what are you two still doing here? The scene will get a bit bloody in a bit, and it wouldn’t be good for you to see it.” Only when Long Chen finally said something did they react.
The two of them took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Long Chen. “We’ll remember this favor of saving our lives.”
“What favor? Hurry up and leave,” prompted Long Chen.
The two of them glanced at each other. Once more bowing to Long Chen, they turned and rushed away. They were filled with appreciation, and Long Chen’s name was deeply carved in their hearts.
As for Jiang Yifan, he was beaten into a pulp and was constantly letting our miserable shrieks. His heart was filled with terror.
As soon as Long Chen had appeared, he had broken his limbs. He had no idea what method Long Chen was using, but he had severed all the meridians in his limbs. The only thing he could feel was pain.
“What are you fucking screaming about? Fuck your granny, don’t you like being arrogant? Taking advantage of when I was injured, you wanted to take my life? This time I’ll let you know who your grandpa Long Chen is!”
Thinking of how he had almost died because of this idiot, his fury completely exploded. If he died to an expert, then fine. But if he died to an idiot like this, then that would really be too vexing.
Long Chen alternated which side of Jiang Yifan he hit, making him continuously spin through the air.
In fact, Jiang Yifan almost seemed like a professional dancer, continuously dancing gracefully through the air. However, if there wasn’t so much blood flying through the air and there weren’t so many ghost-like wails, it would look more pleasant.
Although Long Chen had an urge to kill him instantly just like this, he held himself back. He wouldn’t let him off so easily.
Long Chen seemed to be striking him extremely hard, but each one of his blows was controlled extremely precisely. He crazily struck Jiang Yifan’s pain nerves while not aiming for anything vital.
Jiang Yifan continued to spin through the air while letting out his howls. Finally, after two hours, the world returned to calm.
It wasn’t that Long Chen had gotten tired. Nor was it that Jiang Yifan had gotten tired of screaming. Instead, it was because he had fainted. Jiang Yifan no longer looked human.
Who knew how many of his bones were broken now. He had been turned into a bloody pulp. Being proficient in the pill path, Long Chen’s comprehension of the human body had reached complete perfection.
He knew this bastard had fainted because he had gone past his pain threshold. This was an instinctive life-preserving reaction of his body so that he wouldn’t die from pain.
“This idiot, he really is soft. With your morality, you wouldn’t even be able to endure three Bone Eroding Needles.”
Long Chen snorted icily. Jiang Yifan really was trash. His pain tolerance was lower than even ordinary disciples.
He took out a bucket from his spatial ring and crushed a medicinal pill, dissolving it in the water. The water immediately turned black as ink. He poured it over Jiang Yifan.
“AHHH!”
An incredibly mournful music once more began to fill the air, a music that caused a person’s hair to stand on end.
A brick smashed across his face. Long Chen’s spiritual qi sealed Jiang Yifan’s throat. That sound was too ugly to listen to.
Jiang Yifan was temporarily turned into a mute. He was in so much pain that even his eyeballs were about to pop out of his head. His mouth opened, but no sound came out.
“Don’t worry, I won’t kill you like this. Those were all healing medicines. It’ll just hurt a bit is all.”
Long Chen laughed icily. He picked up Jiang Yifan and rushed forward, looking to find a suitable place to sort him out.
Suddenly, Long Chen saw a cave in the distance. More accurately, it should be called a well. It was a stone well that was around three meters wide and three hundred meters deep.
Long Chen thought about it for a moment. He took all the spatial rings Jiang Yifan had. A thought popped into his head to take his clothes as well, however, the clothes he had been wearing had been torn to pieces already, so he didn’t bother with those rags. He left him essentially clad in some torn threads and a pair of boots. Feeding him another healing pill, he threw him into the well.
“Little fellow, wait patiently for me at the bottom of the well. If you want to live, then don’t try shouting. Otherwise, your qi will explode within your meridians and you’ll die.”
After saying that, Long Chen found a large boulder. Picking it up, he found it was a suitable weight.
He used it to seal the well. He then examined the well. He confirmed there were a couple of cracks that would make it so Jiang Yifan wouldn’t suffocate. Only then was he ready to leave him here. In the future, he could come slowly to put him in order if he had the time. If he didn’t have time, then Jiang Yifan could just die in there.
Long Chen had just been about to leave when he suddenly sensed someone was staring at him. He turned back and was stunned. Did such coincidences really exist in this world?
Chapter 355 Seeing Senior Apprentice-Brother Qi Again
“Brat, what are you hiding? If you’re smart, you’ll hand it over right now, and I’ll spare your life.”
That man looked
to be in his twenties. He was tall and had excellently proportioned facial features, but the unconcealable haughtiness that came from him broke that image.
His powerful cultivation base had reached the late Tendon Transformation realm. However, the more amazing thing about him was that by just standing there, he gave off a heavy pressure. It was a pressure that came from the soul.
Seeing that man, Long Chen smiled extremely sincerely. It was always nice to run into old acquaintances.
“Crap-brother[1] Qi, long time no see!”
That person was precisely the man who had appeared back in Phoenix Cry when he and Meng Qi had parted ways. Lu Fang-er had called him senior apprentice-brother Qi.
At that time, Long Chen had still been at Qi Condensation, while this senior apprentice-brother Qi had been an expert capable of controlling a second rank Magical Beast.
Once Meng Qi had left, he had attacked Long Chen, wanting to destroy his mind and turn him into an imbecile. It was only because Meng Qi had fortunately told Lu Fang-er to stay behind, just in case of anything unexpected happening, that Long Chen had managed to avoid tragedy.
Back then, Long Chen had felt he might explode from fury. He had had no enmity with this senior apprentice-brother Qi at all. But after just meeting, this crap fellow had wanted to turn him into an imbecile.
At that time, Long Chen had sworn that if he one day ran into senior apprentice-brother Qi again, he would definitely turn him into crap-brother Qi.
So when he now ran into him here, Long Chen almost couldn’t believe his eyes. This was practically a heavenly gift.
“You know me?” Seeing Long Chen looking at him with delight and surprise, senior apprentice-brother Qi was a bit flabbergasted.
“Hehe, of course, I know you! My impression of you is extremely, extremely deep,” laughed Long Chen.
“Then how come I have no memory of you? Don’t try to randomly make up friendships, or it’ll make your death even uglier,” sneered senior apprentice-brother Qi.
That was because no matter how senior apprentice-brother Qi looked at Long Chen, he felt he was extremely unfamiliar.
“Should I give you a reminder? Phoenix Cry Empire, Sunset Mountain, sister Meng Qi? Now do you remember?” Long Chen excitedly rubbed his hands.
“So it was you.” Senior apprentice-brother Qi was a bit startled. He finally remembered that youth who had just been an ant in his eyes.
Who would have thought that in just over a year, that youth would have reached this level? He had also reached the Tendon Transformation realm and had even entered the Jiuli secret realm.
“You recognize me now? Hehe, looks like we really do have destiny together,” said Long Chen excitedly.
“Destiny? Hmph! Yes, we really do have destiny! Last time, I wanted to slaughter you, you little bastard, but Lu Fang-er ruined things. This time let’s see where you can run!” said senior apprentice-brother Qi icily.
Long Chen became a bit ‘horrified’, asking with complete confusion, “Why would you want to kill me?”
“Brat, I don’t care if you’re acting or if you’re really this stupid. Today, the only path left for you is death. No one can save you, and if you’re smart, you’ll tell me the truth. Are you really Meng Qi’s fiancé? I can give you quick death if you tell me. If you don’t… you won’t even be able to beg for life, and when you beg for death, it’ll become a luxury you can’t have.”
Long Chen nodded. So it really was like this. It seemed that back when Meng Qi had come to find him to break off the marriage, others must have known.
It was very likely that this senior apprentice-brother Qi had come especially to dispatch him. However, he had been stopped by Lu Fang-er. Long Chen wondered whether senior apprentice-brother Qi had gone to kill him voluntarily or because of someone else’s orders.
“Correct, I am Meng Qi’s fiancé. In the future, I will be her man. So what?” Long Chen said confidently and righteously.
“Haha, you want to marry junior apprentice-sister Meng Qi? What a joke! An idiot like you is really a toad trying to eat swan meat.” Senior apprentice-brother Qi sneered with ridicule. He continued, “In our Wind Spirit Pavilion, junior apprentice-sister Meng Qi is practically a fairy. Countless geniuses admire her, and who knows how many Chosen-level experts would prostrate themselves before her. You, someone at the first Heavenstage of Tendon Transformation, want to marry a person who is a fairy in our eyes? You’re really trying to make me laugh to death. But since you told the truth, and also since you made me laugh so much, I’ll be generous and give you one chance. Hand over your spatial ring and then kill yourself. You better treasure this opportunity-”
Pow.
Long Chen had been planning on learning a few more things from senior apprentice-brother Qi’s mouth before attacking. That was because he was afraid that once he started attacking, he wouldn’t be able to control his emotions, and he didn’t have the ability to make a dead man talk.
However, he had underestimated senior apprentice-brother Qi’s ability to provoke him and overestimated his own ability to restrain himself. Despite doing his best to hold back, his hand didn’t listen to him and slapped across senior apprentice-brother Qi’s haughty face.
This slap of his was incredibly ruthless. If senior apprentice-brother Qi’s cultivation base had not reached the late Tendon Transformation realm, Long Chen’s slap could have possibly taken off his head.
Although he had only swung out of reflex and hadn’t added any extra strength, it still broke senior apprentice-brother Qi’s jaw, and all his teeth shot out.
Before senior apprentice-brother Qi even fell to the ground, Long Chen shot forward and grabbed his head. He then ruthlessly slammed his knee into his nose.
Crack. The hair-raising sound of bones breaking rang out accompanied by senior apprentice-brother Qi’s scream.
He flew high into the air from the force of the blow, blood filling the sky. He flew a beautiful arc through the air before tumbling to the ground.
Long Chen didn’t dare to look at his own hands. Only now did he realize he had involuntarily struck him.
Was it that his patience was growing thinner, or that the skills of the idiots around him had grown stronger? He had actually struck without even realizing it.
“You damn bastard!” Senior apprentice-brother Qi stood up, his face covered in blood. His own face felt foreign to him. He could clearly feel there was something flowing out from his nose and eyes, but he couldn’t feel anything from his skin.
Being caught off guard, he, a grand Beast Tamer, had been injured by such a lowly fellow’s sneak attack. Furthermore, this injury was the most humiliating kind, causing his fury to burn.
“Contract summoning!” Senior apprentice-brother Qi formed a hand seal in front of him. Space twisted and three huge Magical Beasts appeared in front of him.
Long Chen was slightly surprised. Two of his Magical Beasts were Curved-Eye White Tigers, and the third was a Rockscale Python.
The Curved-Eye White Tigers were at the peak of the third rank. They were over thirty meters long and their auras were extremely powerful. As for the Rockscale Python, it was surprisingly a fourth rank Magical Beast and was over three hundred meters long. Although it was only at the early fourth rank, that powerful pressure coming from it was comparable to a Chosen.
“No wonder it’s said that Beast Tamers are terrifying existences. Although he’s only at the Tendon Transformation realm, he’s able to control a fourth rank Magical Beast.”
Fourth rank Magical Beasts were equivalent to the Bone Forging realm for cultivators. Furthermore, Magical Beasts had powerful bodies that possessed extraordinary strength and abnormal defense. Ordinary human cultivators were not equal matches for Magical Beasts of the same rank.
Senior apprentice-brother Qi was just an above average Beast Tamer. And yet, he was still surprisingly able to control a fourth rank Magical Beast.
“Bastard, you dare attack me, a grand Beast Tamer? Don’t e
ven think about getting to die today! I’ll tear out your soul and burn it for a hundred years first!” Senior apprentice-brother Qi’s face had caved in, especially his nose, and it made him appear exceptionally sinister.
He wanted to clench his teeth as he said this, but he was unable to. His jaw was broken, and his words were extremely unclear.
Hearing him speak, Long Chen’s head buzzed, and he almost lost control and involuntarily struck him again.
Senior apprentice-brother Qi was really just too strong. With just a couple of words, he was almost able to provoke Long Chen into impetuously attacking him without hesitation.
“Go!” Senior apprentice-brother Qi swallowed a healing pill. His unclear voice ordered his Magical Beasts to attack Long Chen. The three Magical Beasts immediately roared and charged at him.
“Little Snow, kill them all.”
Long Chen didn’t say much. He directly summoned out Little Snow. That was because he didn’t dare personally attack as he was afraid of losing control.
The instant Little Snow appeared, he let out a heaven-shaking roar. His white hair stood on end, and a powerful pressure shot out.
Those third rank Magical Beasts instantly turned sluggish from Little Snow’s pressure.
Fights between Magical beasts were extremely direct and different from fights between cultivators. Other than some poisonous Magical Beasts, it was mostly whoever possessed a more powerful pressure would be able to suppress their opponents.
That kind of pressure was strictly based on rank. If their rank was lower than their opponent, an uncontrollable terror would well up within them.
So, as soon as Little Snow released his aura, those third rank Magical Beasts were suppressed. Even the fourth rank python was suppressed.
Suddenly, space buzzed as Little Snow spat out a huge wind blade. It was like a divine blade cutting apart the sky, slashing towards the three Magical Beasts.
What was inconceivable to Long Chen was that the two Curved-Eyed White Tigers were clearly filled with terror and despair, but they didn’t dodge.
Long Chen was unaware of just how strict the ranking suppression was in the Magical Beast world. A fourth rank Magical Beast possessed an absolute suppression towards third rank Magical Beasts.
