by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
BOOM!
An explosive sound erupted. People could clearly see huge spatial fluctuations originating from where their fist and palm connected. There were countless spatial cracks caused by those fluctuations.
When the fluctuations faded, everyone was stunned to see Long Chen still standing in his original position. He hadn’t moved at all. One of his hands was behind his back, and he was like an immovable mountain.
Luo Qingfang’s terrifying attack was only able to cause Long Chen’s hair to blow back slightly. This scene made everyone suck in a cold gasp.
Gao Xianyang’s expression changed. In fact, the expressions of everyone, including the Elders and Hall Masters, changed.
“Just what kind of power is this?”
The Elder Hall’s Elders were staring in shock. They were unable to tell where Long Chen’s power was coming from.
Everyone could see that Long Chen hadn’t activated any magical art or Battle Skill. He had relied purely on the power of his physical body to easily receive this terrifying attack.
Luo Qingfang was also shocked. It had to be known that this attack was one powered by the medicinal pill he had previously consumed. It was twice as strong as it normally would be, and it was so powerful it would be enough to easily kill any other experts in the same realm as him.
However, this attack was ineffective against Long Chen. Furthermore, Long Chen’s hand was tightly clenching his fist. He tried a couple of times but was actually unable to pull it away.
Everyone was deathly silent now. Even Guo Ran and the Dragonblood Legion were dumbfounded.
Although they had practically blind trust and worship in Long Chen, and he was undefeatable in their minds, they still hadn’t expected Long Chen to receive such a powerful attack so easily.
“This is all your power? Are you trying to make me laugh?” Long Chen shook his head.
“Bastard, don’t be so pleased! Bloodline Spirit Activation!” Luo Qingfang roared and his Blood Qi erupted. A blood-colored figure appeared behind him. When it appeared, the martial stage quivered.
“He activated his Spirit Blood already?! Has he really been forced to this point?!” All the Foundation Forging experts were stunned.
All of them knew that activating one’s Spirit Blood could increase one’s power, but it came at a price. Fully activating one’s Spirit Blood might increase their power immensely, but after the battle, they would enter a state of weakness. No one was willing to do such a thing unless they were forced to.
Furthermore, Luo Qingfang hadn’t just activated his Spirit Blood. He was using all his power. That meant he had been forced to the point of despair.
This discovery shocked everyone. Just an ordinary exchange had caused Luo Qingfang to unleash all his trump cards. Perhaps the battle was more complicated than what appeared on the outside.
“Scram!” Luo Qingfang shouted and a fierce energy smashed into Long Chen’s extended hand.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s long hair blew back, but his body didn’t even take half a step back. His hand was still tightly clenching Luo Qingfang’s fist, and he didn’t even blink an eye.
“Impossible! Bastard, die!” A trace of terror finally appeared in Luo Qingfang’s eyes. He found that no matter what he tried, he was unable to rattle Long Chen in the slightest. A bad feeling rose in his heart. Suddenly, light appeared on his leg and he sent a kick at Long Chen’s abdomen.
Luo Qingfang was finally afraid. The people outside might not be able to tell, but he had already used up all his power. That made him think of a very bad consequence.
Long Chen shook his head once more. “Since you’ve used up all your skills, goodbye.”
Just as Luo Qingfang’s kick was about to reach him, Long Chen increased the power in his hand. He raised Luo Qingfang into the air and then smashed him into the ground.
BANG!
Blood mist filled the martial stage. Luo Qingfang was killed just like that.
The ground was too hard. Its hardness was such that even Kings would be unable to damage it. And so Luo Qingfang was blown apart.
Half an arm was tossed to the ground by Long Chen. That was the only thing to testify that Luo Qingfang had ever existed in this world.
The sound of that arm landing on the martial stage wasn’t loud, and yet it was like a hammer smashing into the weakest parts of people’s hearts.
Everyone was silent. Even the Elder Hall and Law Enforcement Hall’s Elders were silent. The Hall Masters, Pavilion Masters, Palace Masters, everyone was silent.
One-shot instant kill, and the easiest possible one-shot instant kill. It was like a frog had provoked someone, been caught, and then smashed onto the ground.
Long Chen was also surprised as he tossed aside the arm. It seemed he had underestimated the power of his 108,000 original runes.
Not only was Luo Qingfang’s body destroyed, but Long Chen could also sense that in that instant, even his soul had been sealed in his body, destroyed along with his body.
“The secrets behind the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art are truly immense. What I know is probably just the tip of the iceberg,” sighed Long Chen inside.
However, the stronger it was, the more worried he became. He felt like he was in a huge whirlpool, helplessly struggling.
When Luo Qingfang was killed, a new Heavenly Dao Fruit appeared on the tree in Long Chen’s primal chaos space. It was a rank six Heavenly Dao Fruit.
After advancing to Foundation Forging, not only had the primal chaos space once more expanded to three hundred thousand miles, but even the Heavenly Dao Tree had grown.
The Heavenly Dao Tree was at the core of the primal chaos space, which was the center of the black soil. It was now three thousand meters tall with many branches.
However, Long Chen wasn’t able to sense any life from it, nor was he able to extract energy from it to heal. Long Chen still knew very little about it.
Long Chen was transported off the martial stage, rousing him from his thoughts. He decided not to think too much about it. He would have to take things step by step.
“Boss, you really are unrivaled!” Guo Ran ran over, excitedly shouting. He found that Long Chen was becoming more and more monstrous.
“Congratulations.” Su Mo and Mu Qingxuan also came over. But their expressions were a bit unnatural. They still hadn’t recovered from their shock.
Long Chen was a monster, an unfathomable monster with limitless potential. Su Mo and Mu Qingxuan had personally witnessed his growth. It had only just been over half a year, but he was already so terrifying.
At this time, Long Chen just happened to see an icy face. He called out to the departing Gao Xianyang, “I don’t like killing people, so don’t make me kill more.”
“A single victory doesn’t mean you’ll win every time. Luck won’t be on your side forever. Next time, the person to die might be you,” replied Gao Xianyang icily.
Originally, the plan had been so perfect. They had finally had a chance to eliminate Long Chen. However, they hadn’t expected such a huge mishap to occur. Long Chen’s combat power was actually so terrifying.
Even Gao Xianyang felt immense pressure. He sensed a large threat from Long Chen that made him very uneasy.
“I’m just warning you. After all, life is sacred, so I have to at least give you a warning. But if you really don’t mind leaving this world, I won’t mind sending you to a different one. If you want a free ticket for crossing the river of reincarnation, do your best to insult me and my people,” said Long Chen indifferently.
His words caused Gao Xianyang’s heart to shake. Long Chen’s meaning was very clear. If anyone wanted to pick a quarrel with him, insulting Meng Qi like Luo Qingfang, he wouldn’t hesitate to initiate a life and death challenge.
This was a warning, as well as a promise. He was clearly telling everyone: if you want to die, come!
Long Chen returned to Crouching Dragon Mountain. Meng Qi accompanied him, and then red-faced, gave him a kiss. It
could count as fulfilling her previous promise.
But when Long Chen became too engrossed in his feelings, and his hands began to grow disobedient, Meng Qi stopped him. The most awkward thing was that it was at this moment that Qing Yu arrived.
“Oh! Sister Qing Yu, how coincidental!” Long Chen laughed, breaking the awkward atmosphere. Meng Qi didn’t dare to raise her head.
Qing Yu directly acted like she hadn’t seen anything and said, “Qian Duoduo says that many of the pills have sold out in the outer sect, and the rest are about to run out. He suggests raising the price. After all, our pills are more effective and cheaper than the Ten Thousand Pill Hall’s. We can get more profit and avoid running out of stock so fast.”
“Don’t raise the price. That would affect our reputation. If we want long-term growth, reputation is very important. Tell him that I have a few days now to refine more pills. The sold-out pills will quickly be restocked,” said Long Chen.
Qing Yu nodded and left. After she was gone, Meng Qi viciously pinched Long Chen. It was all his fault that she had been embarrassed.
Long Chen tried to continue where they left off but no matter what he said, Meng Qi refused. She directly ran off into seclusion.
And so Long Chen called out Huo Long to refine pills. Although they weren’t lacking points now, if you started something, you should finish it. He couldn’t just abandon the outer sect disciples after using them.
Fortunately, Huo Long could refine pills on its own, and could use eight pill furnaces at the same time. Just one day of alchemy was enough to keep them stocked for a month. Furthermore, the points they obtained basically had no manufacturing costs. It was purely profit.
After one day of alchemy and refining all kinds of pills, he handed them to Qian Duoduo. After giving him a few instructions, Long Chen went to the Ten Thousand Pill Hall.
Chapter 1103 Beginning to Take Shape
This was Long Chen’s third trip to the Ten Thousand Pill Hall. The one attending him was still that maiden. She was extremely polite, but she always maintained a certain distance from him.
“I came to buy some Earth Flames,” said Long Chen.
“We have a total of seven Earth Flame seeds here, they are…” She gave a quick introduction of their wares.
Earth Flame seeds referred to Earth Flames whose consciousnesses were erased, leaving behind only their core energy. Other people could control and raise them.
“Are there no Earth Flame Beasts?” asked Long Chen.
Although Earth Flame seeds were decent, they weren’t what Long Chen needed. He wanted Earth Flame Beasts that Huo Long could directly devour. That way its power would increase faster.
If he used Earth Flame seeds, it would require a long time to raise them, and he didn’t want to wait.
“We had some before, but now we don’t,” she said with a strange expression.
What was that supposed to mean? Looking at her odd expression, he suddenly asked, “It couldn’t be that the Dao Sect only had those two Earth Flame Beasts?”
Long Chen’s Huo Long had devoured four Earth Flame Beasts, and they had all come from Que Xinyan. Devouring those Earth Flame Beasts had allowed Huo Long’s power to skyrocket. Now that Long Chen had money, he wanted some more.
“Yes. Normally, Earth Flame Beasts aren’t very useful, because not just anyone has the ability to subdue them. Those two Earth Flame Beasts were imprisoned by the Xuantian Dao Sect for a long time. For normal flame cultivators, Earth Flame seeds are better,” she said.
Long Chen thought about it and understood. Subduing an Earth Flame beast was very difficult, and the danger of a backlash was extremely high. Even if someone was willing to take the risk, they might not have the qualifications.
On the other hand, Earth Flame seeds were most suitable for disciples. Although it took longer to raise one, it was safe, and controlling it would be easier.
“Then how many points do the Earth Flame seeds cost?” asked Long Chen.
“They cost more than the Earth Flame Beasts, and they cost more the greater their ranking. The cheapest one is fifteen million points, while the most expensive one is eighty million points,” she said.
Long Chen swore. That was even more expensive than a King item. But then thinking about it, the wealth an alchemist could make after they subdued an Earth Flame far surpassed the investment. It could just barely count as reasonable.
“Which one do you want?” she asked.
“All of them,” said Long Chen.
In any case, there was no way to bargain over the price, so he couldn’t be bothered to waste the time. For the moment, he had plenty of points, so he decided to just directly buy them all.
Although those seeds weren’t very useful, he could raise them like raising pigs. Once they were nice and fat, he could feed them to Huo Long.
“Alright, then I’ll…” The maiden immediately ordered someone to go get them.
“Wait a moment.” Suddenly, an Elder walked in. That person was the same one who had tried to stop him from buying the Iron Spruce Oaks, the Elder from the Alchemy Pavilion whose head Long Chen had almost lopped off.
The Ten Thousand Pill Hall was the Alchemy Pavilion’s business, and so it was naturally run by them. They had the authority to modify what medicines or items they sold.
“Old thing, is your neck itchy?” Long Chen glared at him. He had guessed this matter would once more cause some waves.
“How arrogant, you dare to be rude to an Elder?” he raged.
“Do you think threatening me will work? I dared to cut off your head once, so what would I not dare to do? The Xuantian Dao Sect really has been too peaceful for idiots like you to appear. If you were on the battlefield, vermin like you wouldn’t be able to survive even a single day. If you have something to say, say it, but if you give me some bullshit excuse like someone else reserved them, I won’t mind slapping your face rotten!” In front of that maiden’s stunned gaze, Long Chen gently patted the Elder’s face.
An icy killing intent appeared in Long Chen’s eyes toward the end, one that made the Elder immediately shiver. It was like a death god had suddenly appeared before him, and he was frozen in place.
He felt like a blade of death was already pressed against his shoulder. If he moved, his head would immediately fly. So even though Long Chen touched his face, he didn’t dare to move.
This Elder had relied on alchemy since childhood and had never gone onto the battlefield. As soon as Long Chen released his killing intent, he couldn’t bear it.
“What… what do you think you’re doing?! I’m… I’m warning you! Don’t do anything crazy!” he cried, his voice shuddering.
“It’s not what I’m doing, but what you’re doing,” said Long Chen.
The people working in the Ten Thousand Pill Hall were all dumbfounded. This was their first time seeing a disciple pat an Elder on the face while speaking to one.
“There is a clear clause in the rules. Alchemy disciples can only possess one Earth Flame. After buying one, they can’t buy more,” whispered the Elder nervously. He wished he could talk louder, but he wasn’t able to.
“Senior apprentice-brother, don’t make things hard on Elder Sun. This truly is one of the rules. I’m sorry, but I just forgot about it, wasting your time. Please don’t make things hard on me,” implored the maiden.
Long Chen looked at her. Although she was being sincere, Long Chen’s mouth curled. It was once more this routine.
She clearly knew that he wouldn’t do anything to her, and so she intentionally put the blame on herself. After being helped out, the Elder would definitely form a good opinion of her, and her chance of being promoted would increase.
However, she had won. Long Chen truly did recall that there seemed to be such a rule. Alchemy disciples could not possess two kinds of Earth Flames at once.
To alchemists, an Earth Flame was like their life. This rule had been created to avoid wasting resources.
“Fine, forgive di
sciple for his rudeness. However, my temper isn’t good. I get emotional easily, and when I get emotional, I get impulsive. When I get impulsive, well, you know what happens. It’s normally accompanied by the deaths of a bunch of idiots in the Xuantian Dao Sect. It has happened several times, and although quite a few idiots are gone, I’m still standing tall. So I’d advise you to use your brain instead of carelessly being used as a scapegoat.” Long Chen patted the Elder on the shoulder before leaving.
Once Long Chen left, the Elder and disciples still didn’t dare to make a sound for a long time. Finally, after his expression changed several times, the Elder sighed and left.
He was still terrified. Long Chen was right; the number of people that had targeted him was as high as the number of people that had died in the end. Even after all the trouble he had caused, Long Chen was still alive and well.
Now he had learned his lesson. He told the Ten Thousand Pill Hall’s disciples to keep this matter secret, and he directly returned to the Alchemy Pavilion to enter seclusion. He had another Elder temporarily take charge of the Ten Thousand Pill Hall.
Long Chen had gained nothing from his trip to the Ten Thousand Pill Hall. But when he returned to Crouching Dragon Mountain, he received a pleasant surprise.
“Brother Wenlong, you’ve come!” Long Chen was delighted to see Zheng Wenlong. Qian Duoduo was currently talking to him.
“Haha, congratulations on advancing to the Foundation Forging realm. I even heard you’re in a league of your own in the Xuantian Dao Sect now.” Zheng Wenlong laughed and cupped his fists toward Long Chen.
“Haha, you’re making fun of me, aren’t you? You’ve already advanced to the second Heavenstage of Foundation Forging. Don’t you think this slap is a bit too resounding?” Long Chen was surprised to see that Zheng Wenlong had advanced even faster than himself.
“Brother Long must be unaware, but once the Huayun Sect disciples reach Foundation Forging, they will no longer have to rely on cultivating to advance. Our cultivation base will rapidly advance on its own, but our actual combat power will be very weak,” said Zheng Wenlong.
