by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
As for Little Snow, he had consumed the Barbaric Wind Beast’s Neidan, and his wind energy had become even purer. Most terrifying of all, as a Magical Beast, his wind energy was shockingly forceful.
After the final battle in the secret realm, everyone had been completely exhausted. Only Little Snow had still been filled with energy. It could be seen how terrifying he was.
Long Chen hoped for the two of them to gain insights into some of the wind mysteries within the Wind Spirit Crystal, raising their comprehension.
As for Gu Yang, Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and Yue Zifeng, they had all entered seclusion to cultivate. There was an immense number of Bone Tempering Pills in the first monastery, and Long Chen had them consume those first.
Although those medicinal pills were trash in Long Chen’s eyes, there was no harm in consuming them. It would just be less efficient.
Currently, Long Chen didn’t have time to refine pills for them. So he had them consume those first, and when he finally had time, he would refine more pills for them.
Long Chen went to see Tu Fang, asking him to give him a list of disciples who had come to support him at the risk of their lives.
Seeing Tu Fang was curious, Long Chen said the following: those who could follow him in life and death were his brothers, and he definitely couldn’t mistreat his own brothers. He would raise them with his full ability.
From Tu Fang, he learned there had been a total of 347 disciples who had come with him to the first monastery. He gave Long Chen a list of names.
Looking over that list, Long Chen couldn’t help but smile. At the same time, he was filled with emotion.
He didn’t recognize the majority of the names on that list. But those people had all been hot-blooded enough to abandon their own lives to follow him in life and death. There was only one word to call such people: brothers.
Since they were brothers, they should follow each other in life and death, sharing wealth and happiness. Now that the life and death crisis had passed, Long Chen definitely wouldn’t let them lose out.
Long Chen returned to his residence. Tu Fang had set up that place for him, and it was extremely spacious. There were even disciples guarding the perimeter so that no one would disturb him.
There, he took out some medicinal ingredients but then suddenly clapped himself in the head. He had actually forgotten to go get a good pill furnace from the storehouses.
“Wait, I probably won’t have to go there.” Long Chen suddenly thought of something and took out a spatial ring. That was a simple ring, with a sparkling gemstone embedded into it.
That gemstone was sometimes called a storage stone or spatial stone. It had its own space inside it.
Looking at that spatial ring, Long Chen smiled, thinking of Guo Ran.
Guo Ran was like Long Chen and was extremely brazen. He dared attempt all kinds of crazy ideas.
Long Chen was the only one who knew the secret behind Guo Ran’s armor because Guo Ran had once shown off his brilliant idea to him.
He had actually taken the spatial stones within spatial rings and directly embedded them into his meridians.
He had embedded a total of sixteen spatial stones in the meridians all over his body. That way, with just a thought of his Spiritual Strength, the armor within those spatial stones would instantly cover him.
That was also why Guo Ran’s armor seemed like magic, and others were unable to see how he put it on.
He had set up special components on each of the spatial stones so that the armor would instantly assemble. Even Long Chen had been completely astonished by Guo Ran’s intelligence.
Other than the armor, those spatial stones also contained his consumables, and he could replenish them at will.
Shaking his head, Long Chen had no choice but to admit Guo Ran really did come up with quite a few crazy ideas.
However, this spatial ring in front of him was a bit special. There was an exceptionally exquisite flame pattern on it, and within the ring itself was an indentation of a small tower.
That was naturally the Pill Tower’s marking. The owner of this ring had been Huo Wufang.
This was Long Chen’s battle spoils. When he had thought of the pill furnace just now, he had also thought of this spatial ring.
“Oh? There’s still a spiritual imprint? Hehe, so that little fellow hasn’t died yet. Truly worthy of congratulations!”
Spiritual imprint was something that could be left behind on certain objects by people with strong enough Spiritual Strength.
If such an object stayed with its owner for a long period of time, then it would form a kind of resonance, and as long as the owner didn’t die, the spiritual imprint wouldn’t fade.
Furthermore, that spiritual imprint would be like a faithful guard dog. If anyone else tried to open the spatial ring, it would attack them.
Finding out that Huo Wufang hadn’t died made Long Chen smile with gratification. I wonder who is happier, him or Yin Wushuang.
Long Chen snorted, and his Spiritual Strength directly erased Huo Wufang’s spiritual imprint.
Perhaps that spiritual imprint might be able to cause some trouble for others, but Long Chen could erase it with a wave of his hand.
Opening the spatial ring, Long Chen couldn’t help jumping in shock. This spatial ring actually had a subsidiary life space attached to it. In other words, it could be considered a life ring.
But this life ring was far better than the one he had obtained before. It was actually three thousand meters wide and was like its own world.
“He actually built a palace within his spatial ring. What an idiot.” Long Chen sneered upon seeing the world within the spatial ring.
But after looking inside the palace, he understood that Huo Wufang had treated this palace as a treasure house.
There were all kinds of weapons, secret arts, and bottles of treasures piled within it. He hadn’t expected that idiot to be so obsessive. He had actually arranged everything incredibly neatly.
Outside the palace was a medicinal field with many precious herbs. Quite a few of them had new soil beneath them, which indicated Huo Wufang had most likely obtained them within the Jiuli secret realm.
“Hehe, nice, nice. I’ll transplant them into the primal chaos space.” Long Chen was delighted upon seeing the medicinal ingredients. That fellow truly was rich. There were hundreds of rare medicinal ingredients here, many of which he didn’t have.
To pill cultivators, medicinal ingredients were like their lives. No matter how many they had, it wouldn’t be enough. Originally, Long Chen had been planning on waiting a bit and patiently going through what else Huo Wufang had, but he had overestimated his restraint. He ended up directly transplanting all of them first.
That took him quite a few hours. Not only had he transplanted the medicinal ingredients, but he had even moved the palace into his primal chaos space.
Plunk. A certain object rolled out of the palace.
“Pill furnace!” Long Chen cried out with delight.
Originally, this ancient bronze pill furnace had been placed atop a platform in the palace. When he had moved the palace, it had ended up shaking the palace, and the pill furnace had fallen off, rolling out.
“Based on the handles and pinholes, this is actually a peak fifth tier pill furnace!” Long Chen’s eyes reddened.
The pill furnaces he had been using had all been second tier pill furnaces and incredibly rotten. They were so terrible that he didn’t even dare use his full strength when using them. And even so, his pill furnaces were like firecrackers, blowing up one by one.
But with a fifth tier pill furnace, he wouldn’t have to worry about that anymore. He could refine pills with his full strength.
A fifth tier pill furnace could refine fifth tier medicinal ingredients without a problem. In fact, it could even refine sixth tier medicinal ingredients.
“Hahaha, time to get to work!” Long Chen laughed and immediately began refining pills.
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Bang!
After a muffled sound, Long Chen slowly opened the pill furnace and sighed emotionally: if a worker wanted to do good work, then they really did need good tools first.
Previously, each time his refinement was about to be complete, an explosive sound would ring out from his pill furnace. Each time, Long Chen had to be on the edge of his seat, afraid the pill furnace would explode.
But this time, instead of an explosive sound, it was just a light, muffled grunt. Using a fifth tier pill furnace to refine fourth tier medicinal pills was truly effortless for him.
Most importantly, he could fully activate his Pill Flame now, allowing him to use his greatest techniques.
Nine medicinal pills were shining like jade, halos of light present on each of them. Each one of these pills had rings on them.
Refining ringed fourth tier medicinal pills was a criteria for the examination to become a Pill King. As for the Bone Connecting Pills Long Chen had just refined, each one of them had at least three rings, and some even had five rings.
Each increase in rings represented an increase in the quality of the medicinal pills. Five rings was something even Pill Kings that had devoted their whole life to the Pill Dao were not necessarily able to achieve.
Long Chen finally had a chance to experience what it was like for his equipment to be completely revamped. These Bone Connecting Pills were for those three hundred-plus life and death brothers of his.
He had refined over three hundred Bone Connecting Pills so that they could all undergo complete tempering. It had to be known that the Bone Forging realm was the most important of the five Houtian realms. You were essentially building a foundation twice. Undergoing complete tempering could make a person completely transform.
Right now, Long Chen definitely didn’t have enough Bone Tempering Pills for over three hundred people. But with a heaven-defying treasure like the primal chaos bead, it would be fine as long as he had enough time.
Long Chen didn’t care about their talent. Talent could be raised, Spirit Roots could be upgraded. But a person’s inherent nature was extremely difficult to change.
What Long Chen cared about the most was these people’s loyalty. Despite clearly knowing they would definitely die, they had still marched bravely to the first monastery in order to follow Long Chen and the others in life and death. That kind of loyalty was the most valuable thing.
As for those various disciples and Elders who hadn’t come with them for various reasons, Long Chen didn’t feel a grudge towards them, but he also had no obligation to treat them so well.
Other than members of the new generation of disciples, people like senior apprentice-brother Wan had come as well.
Long Chen was planning on washing away their tempered bones and then having them consume the Bone Connecting Pill. He wanted everyone to undergo complete tempering.
If he allowed senior apprentice-brother Wan and the others who had already started on the path of ordinary bone tempering to continue, then after some time, they would be thrown far into the distance. That would definitely be discouraging for them.
They were all life and death brothers, and Long Chen was planning on walking together with them on his cultivation path to compete against the heavenly geniuses of all the various sects, to look down arrogantly upon the whole world.
No matter how strong a single person was, it had no meaning. Only a group’s strength was the greatest. For example, in the secret realm, Long Chen had already reached the pinnacle.
But even though he had been strong, he had still needed everyone’s assistance. If he hadn’t had their help, then even if he wouldn’t have died in the secret realm, he would have died outside.
So this time, Long Chen had made his resolution. He would make a powerful group to face off against the future’s unknown dangers.
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Within a plaza at the back of a mountain in the first monastery, there were over three hundred disciples standing gravely. Looking at the figure in front of them, their eyes were filled with admiration and worship.
Within the secret realm, this person had dominated the pinnacle experts of the two paths on his own. His blood-colored saber had cut apart the very world, terrifying countless people.
“Brothers, today I’ve gathered you to tell you one thing. From today onwards, you will all be my life and death brothers,” announced Long Chen as he looked upon those fervent faces.
“Gu Yang, Song Mingyuan, hand out the medicinal pills.”
Gu Yang and the others quickly began to distribute the medicinal pills Long Chen gave them. When they saw what those medicinal pills were, they were all shocked.
But then they quickly understood Long Chen’s intentions, causing them to be filled with admiration. The scale at which Long Chen did things was always too shocking.
“Alright, you can swallow the medicinal pills,” said Long Chen.
Seeing them all swallow the medicinal pills without a moment’s hesitation, a warm feeling filled Long Chen. Trust was always the hardest thing to obtain.
“Everyone here, we’re all brothers- wait a moment, no, there are also some sisters.” Long Chen suddenly became a bit embarrassed, as he noticed there were five women amongst them. One of them was someone he was very familiar with, Qing Yu, Tang Wan-er’s maid and good sister.
But they were just wearing ordinary, sexless clothes, so he had made an oversight. “Cough, whether you are brothers or sisters, from today onwards, we are all one family.
“Since you are capable of being unafraid of death, treading through water or fire for me, then I, Long Chen, will also do the same for you.”
Hearing Long Chen’s powerful and resonating words, quite a few disciples’ eyes reddened from emotion. Back then, in the Righteous and Corrupt battle, Long Chen had said the same, and he had then used his conduct to show he was telling the truth.
For everyone’s safety, the opponents Long Chen chose for himself were always the strongest and most ruthless. Whenever there was danger, he was always the first to face it.
Such a heroic figure was someone they admired and worshipped. Now his words caused all their blood to boil.
“Starting today, we will form a group. All of us will now be members of the Dragonblood Legion.
“Dragons are divine beasts from legends that can disdain the nine heavens and look down on all. A dragon’s will is something neither gods nor devils can shake.
“Let our hot blood merge with the will of the dragon. From today onwards, we will be the masters of our own fates. We won’t lower our heads to anyone.
“No matter how poor our origins are, no matter how inferior our bloodline is, no matter how garbage our talent is!
“From today onwards, we will be dragons that can look down on the rest of the world. We will rise, and no one can bar our path!” Long Chen’s voice struck like hammers into the core of people’s hearts, causing all their blood to boil.
“Dragonblood Legion!”
“Dragonblood Legion!”
“Dragonblood Legion!”
Everyone couldn’t help letting out heaven-shaking cheers, their voices coming in waves that resounded throughout the sky.
Within that cheering was boundless excitement. That was an emotion from finally being released after years of suppression.
In their hearts, Long Chen was just like a god. They would never doubt his words.
“From today onwards, you don’t need to be subjected to the monastery’s administration and restrictions. You only have to listen to me.
“I will make you a cultivation plan that will let you quickly advance. This place is reserved for you to cultivate.” Long Chen pointed towards the large building behind them.
This place was something Long Chen had asked for from Tu Fang. No matter what Long Chen said, Tu Fang would support him. He hadn’t even objected when Long Chen wanted to create his own group, something that went against the rules.
Tu Fang was like Ling
Yunzi. He had watched Long Chen grow step by step. Now that Long Chen’s sharpness had finally been revealed to all, he would support him no matter what he wanted to do.
This was a region Long Chen had reserved for them. He was planning on secretly training them here. In the future, he hoped to raise them into this world’s most terrifying legion.
Now, this place had become a restricted land. Other than members of the legion, nobody else was allowed to enter, not even Elders.
Gu Yang, Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and Yue Zifeng were now the Dragonblood Legion’s generals.
There were 347 new disciples that were part of the Dragonblood Legion. Then adding on senior apprentice-brother Wan, senior apprentice-brother Chang, and the others, they had a perfect three hundred and sixty members.
The four generals were in command of ninety people each, while there was also a squad leader per group of five. That would make it easier to manage everyone.
After organizing this, Long Chen left, leaving the rest to Gu Yang and the others. He had them tell the others his bone tempering plan.
When they heard the words ‘complete tempering’, all of them were stupefied. Long Chen actually wanted all of them to undergo complete tempering. They felt as if they were dreaming.
Even large sects were not able to afford such an expenditure.
For example, within all of Mo Gate, only Mo Nian had the talent and qualifications for the sect to bring out enough resources for him to undergo complete tempering.
Just who was Mo Nian? He was Mo Gate’s number one disciple, while they were simply ordinary disciples. Whether it was status or talent, they were miles away from reaching Mo Nian’s level.
The first thing they thought of when they heard Long Chen wanted them to undergo complete tempering was the ocean’s worth of resources that needed to be spent. That made all of them extremely grateful to Long Chen, as he truly did show exceptional consideration for them.
After they all calmed down, Gu Yang gave them Long Chen’s instructions, having them absorb the Bone Connecting Pills’ energy to create channels in their bones.
