by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
But shockingly, these golden gates were like wooden planks in front of Long Chen’s Star Fall. They exploded one by one.
After going through the nine gates, its power had been greatly reduced. It exploded as it blew through the last one, but by then, it was right in front of Han Zhenyu.
BOOM! A golden figure shot back, also tearing a long gorge in the ground identical to Long Chen’s.
Where the two gorges intersected was where the martial stage had once been. The terrain had already completely changed, and it was no longer possible to tell that there had ever been a martial arena here.
The disciples and even the Elders were no longer able to keep their composure. This battle was absolutely horrifying. It had to be known that these two were still merely at the early Foundation Forging realm.
“Heavenly Encompassing Killing Formation!”
Despite receiving such a heavy blow, Han Zhenyu wasn’t injured at all. Suddenly, the ground beneath him became covered with golden runes.
The entire battlefield quickly changed to become golden. Millions of golden awls shot at Long Chen, and each one of them had a Heavenly Dao rune powering it.
Each one of these awls possessed unprecedented power, but people also clearly saw that after using it, Han Zhenyu’s sea of runes shrank by quite a bit. This move’s power was great, but it was also exhausting.
“Double Dragon Twister!”
Long Chen extended his arms, no longer daring to hold back. He directly summoned Huo Long and Lei Long’s true bodies.
Chapter 1123 Blooddrinker Advances
Lei Long and Huo Long’s thirty-thousand-meter bodies charged out. Lightning and flame runes exploded, forming a berserk hurricane.
The countless golden awls were blown apart by Lei Long and Huo Long. The awls were unable to damage their defenses.
As for Long Chen, he was standing in the center of the hurricane, looking coldly at Han Zhenyu. “This is your absolute power? Then sorry, I’ll have to give you a slap in the face again. If you think this is enough to take my life, I’m sorry to tell you that your wish will never be realized.”
“Bastard, fuck off!” Han Zhenyu roared. He hadn’t expected Long Chen to once more cause him to lose face. Thinking of his previous big words, if he couldn’t kill Long Chen, he would become the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s laughingstock.
Compared to the physical slap in the face, this silent one was even more unbearable.
Golden chains suddenly emerged from the golden ground, and they sealed off a huge space of three thousand miles. That made everyone jump in shock. Just how much spiritual yuan and Heavenly Dao energy did sealing such a huge space take? Furthermore, they saw that these chains contained a faint blood color.
“He also activated his Spirit Blood? Is he planning on ending things with this?” Everyone was shocked. For such a large scale attack, supporting it with Spirit Blood would come at a huge price.
As expected, when they looked at Han Zhenyu, he was completely pale. The sea of runes around him had dimmed and shrunk. It wasn’t even half its previous size.
“Heaven and Earth Cage, Extinguish Yin and Yang!”
The huge cage rapidly shrank. As it did, the ground also compressed with it. In the air, there were golden chains; down below, there was a golden platform. It formed a perfect sphere that wrapped around Long Chen.
“Now… it might be troublesome.” Guo Ran’s expression changed. Although he considered Long Chen to be undefeatable, he couldn’t imagine how Long Chen could escape from such a terrifying move. According to what he knew, Long Chen had already used up all his trump cards.
Furthermore, it was clear that this was Han Zhenyu’s strongest killing move. He was confident in killing Long Chen with it, or he wouldn’t have exhausted so much spiritual yuan, Heavenly Dao energy, and Spirit Blood energy to use it.
Being encased, there was no chance for Long Chen to get out. As the cage shrank, its power grew greater. It was essentially the same principle as Long Chen’s Raging Flame Prison.
When the cage was a few thousand meters wide, Lei Long and Huo Long’s bodies spread out to fight against it, and its shrinking came to a halt.
“Haha, boss really is boss!” Guo Ran was delighted to see that Long Chen could endure. This would become a battle of endurance, and he would still be able to win.
“Idiot, do you think my Heaven and Earth Cage is so easy to endure? Let alone you, even a King would definitely die.” Han Zhenyu sneered, and runes began to slowly revolve in his third eye. At the same time, his Blood Qi erupted.
The cage shook slightly, and with countless new runes added to it, it once more began to shrink.
That made the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples’ expressions change. They all saw that Long Chen was at an absolute disadvantage.
Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er clenched their fists, their palms covered in sweat. They stared closely at the trapped Long Chen. The only thing that comforted them was that Long Chen’s expression was still calm.
But that was just Long Chen’s character. Even if he really was about to die, he would still be that calm. No one could see through what he was thinking.
At this time, they were all silent. Everyone’s heart clenched.
“Magic Master, your spiritual yuan fluctuations are so strong. Are you trying to stop me from saving him?” The Xuan Master indifferently looked at Ma Xingkong.
“What? No, I just haven’t seen such an intense battle in a long time. I couldn’t control myself.” Ma Xingkong randomly replied, but he was still intent on stopping the Xuan Master.
The Xuan Master sighed inside, “When did my Xuantian Dao Sect decline to this point? Master, this was your mistake…”
As the Xuan Master was sighing emotionally, the cage was still shrinking. It was now fifteen hundred meters wide, and it looked like a sphere floating in the air above a huge pit. It was a bizarre sight.
When the sphere had shrunk to fifteen hundred meters, Lei Long and Huo Long started to break down. This was Han Zhenyu’s strongest move, and it was incredibly powerful.
However, Long Chen didn’t even twitch. He allowed it to continue shrinking, simply having Huo Long and Lei Long do their best.
When the sphere reached three hundred meters, Lei Long and Huo Long roared and once more fought against it, causing it to once more stop shrinking.
Han Zhenyu’s expression changed. He continued to feed it energy, but he was shocked to find that a portion of his energy and Spiritual Strength had mysteriously vanished.
It was like he was doing his best to blow up a balloon, but there was a hole in it. No matter how much he breathed into it, he was unable to make it bigger.
After several tries, instead of continuing to shrink, the runes on the cage began to dim. Han Zhenyu was appalled to find that the cage’s energy was rapidly disappearing as if it was being devoured.
“Bastard, what did you do?!” Han Zhenyu poured in more energy, but he found that it would simply vanish without a sound. Now the Heaven and Earth Cage had become a bottomless pit that wouldn’t fill up no matter what he did. He was simply exhausting himself.
“Me? I’m not doing anything. Truly, I’ve just been politely watching you pose.” Long Chen innocently shrugged.
The disciples were unable to understand what they were seeing, and even the Elders were lost. Only those on the level of Hall Masters were able to see through some clues, but even they didn’t quite understand it.
Suddenly, a light cracking sound rang out. Everyone hastily followed the sound to see that one of the millions of chains that was part of the cage was covered in cracks. All the runes on it had disappeared.
Following one chain, a second and third chain also became covered in cracks. In just a breath, cracks had appeared on all the chains.
BOOM! Finally, like rotting wood, the chains all shattered, and this time, they didn’t transform into runes like Han Zhenyu’s previous attacks. They simply turned to dust that blew away with the wind.
“What is going on?!” roared Han Zhenyu. He simply couldn’t comprehend it. This was his supreme killing move, but it had been broken by his opponent, and he didn’t even know how.
With the chains in the air gone, the foundation at the bottom also cracked and began to fall piece by piece.
“Heavens, what is that?”
As the golden fragments fell, a blood-colored saber appeared in front of everyone. That saber was right at the core of the Heaven and Earth Cage.
Han Zhenyu icily swept his gaze over, and he could see that blood-colored runes began to fly toward the saber. They merged with it, causing its aura to soar. Han Zhenyu seemed to realize something, and he let out a heart-rending cry. “Long Chen, you bastard, I’ll tear you apart piece by piece! How dare you use me like this?!”
Everyone looked at Han Zhenyu blankly. What was that supposed to mean?
Long Chen grabbed Blooddrinker and rested it on his shoulder. He sensed Blooddrinker’s messages to him and was full of gratitude.
First of all, he had to thank the Eastern Wasteland Bell. It was the one who had taught him a spirit-upgrading technique, which had allowed Long Chen to nourish Blooddrinker, giving it the chance to advance to the King item level.
But he also had to thank this fellow who wished to tear him apart piece by piece. Without his endless metal energy, earth energy, Spiritual Strength, Heavenly Dao energy, and Spirit Blood energy, it would have required quite a while for Blooddrinker to advance.
Not only would it take time to advance to the King item level, but it would also take resources and opportunity. But all this had been selflessly offered up by his opponent.
“Don’t be so petty. Didn’t I just borrow some of your energy to temper my weapon? Is there a need to fly into such a rage?” said Long Chen disdainfully.
“You… pfft!”
Han Zhenyu coughed up a mouthful of blood. This incredibly powerful killing move of his that had taken so much of his energy had actually benefited his opponent. He almost fainted from fury.
“When did he do this…? Ah, it was at that time,” the Xuan Master muttered to himself. He suddenly recalled a certain scene.
Long Chen had just destroyed Han Zhenyu’s defenses when the ground had split open and an earth dragon had devoured him. It had then returned to the ground. It was clear that Long Chen had only had this one chance to send Blooddrinker into the ground. He had tricked everyone.
The Xuan Master’s guess was correct. After confirming that Han Zhenyu possessed metal and earth energies, Long Chen had begun laying out this trap.
He had placed Blooddrinker underground without anyone noticing. Each time Han Zhenyu had used the ground’s energy, each time he had gathered endless energy throughout the ground, Blooddrinker would stealthily absorb some of his energy.
Blooddrinker had been forged with Phoenix Blood Black Gold, so it needed to absorb a huge amount of metal energy to advance. Han Zhenyu’s energy was perfect for that.
Han Zhenyu was truly nice. He had poured metal energy into the ground repeatedly to unleash powerful moves. This had all benefited Blooddrinker.
The nicest thing about Han Zhenyu was that he had even used his Heaven and Earth Cage, giving his metal energy, earth energy, Spiritual Strength, Spirit Blood energy, and Heavenly Dao energy to Blooddrinker, allowing it to finally break through the barrier.
Chapter 1124 Defeated
This was Long Chen’s first time feeling that Han Zhenyu wasn’t bad. Blooddrinker had absorbed so much energy that its power had leaped to a terrifying level. He felt that it wasn’t any weaker than Wilde’s club now.
Furthermore, absorbing Han Zhenyu’s Spiritual Strength, Heavenly Dao energy, and Spirit Blood energy had greatly increased Blooddrinker’s spirituality and intelligence. Now, it could freely communicate with Long Chen, and that was what delighted Long Chen the most.
Furthermore, not only did he sense Blooddrinker’s immense power surging from within, but he also sensed another kind of energy from it.
This energy was still in a state of slumber. That made him think of his own original runes. Right now, Blooddrinker was still unable to use that energy.
But just its newfound power was amazing. Long Chen felt battle intent overflowing from it.
This was a weapon given to him by the Barbarian race’s expert within the Jiuli Secret Realm, and its spirit longed for a battle. The Barbarian expert had also been filled with battle intent. Despite being reduced to just a skeleton, he had still fought against the winged devils. Blooddrinker was the weapon that had fought alongside him during his life.
As for Long Chen, he also had the same kind of hot blood flowing through him. Resting Blooddrinker on his shoulder, he felt a close connection to it.
Both the man and the saber were overflowing with battle intent. At this time, Long Chen stood with a blood-red saber on his shoulder, appearing like a god of war that looked down on all.
“Bastard, I will definitely kill you!” Han Zhenyu roared, looking like he had gone insane. He suddenly took out a golden sword.
A sharp aura immediately erupted from it. Startled cries rang out, as this was something only a King item could possess. That was something normally only those possessing a Jade Core could use. And yet, Han Zhenyu had taken one out.
He spat a mouthful of blood on it, and his already pale face became as white as paper.
The runes in his third eye, as well as the tiny runic sea behind him, flowed into the sword. Not only that, even the larger, now faint, seven runes merged in as well.
“Star Extinction Sword!”
Han Zhenyu held the sword with both hands and slashed it at Long Chen. When a huge sword-image appeared in the air, all King-level experts were shocked. Han Zhenyu was actually capable of activating a King item’s power.
Long Chen’s four qi seas and 108,000 original runes poured their energy through twenty-seven divine runes.
“Split the Heavens 3!” Blooddrinker pointed at the sky, a huge saber-image condensing.
BOOM!
Both of them had activated King items. When their two attacks clashed, the world became still for a moment, and then a huge explosion erupted.
The original valley was completely blown apart. Two figures shot out, both vomiting blood.
At the same time, two King items also flew into the distance, disappearing beneath the ground. Both of their owners' hands couldn’t hold them anymore and were covered in blood.
“Double Dragon Destruction!” Long Chen saw that Han Zhenyu hadn’t died, and using his last spiritual yuan, he sent Lei Long and Huo Long with all their remaining power. All he wanted was for Han Zhenyu to die.
Long Chen could sense that Han Zhenyu’s current state was worse than his. Not only had he used up his spiritual yuan, but his Spirit Blood was almost dried up and his Spiritual Strength had been overdrafted. He didn’t have the slightest Heavenly Dao energy left to him. Therefore, Long Chen was ninety percent sure this move could kill him.
Seeing two dragons roaring at him, Han Zhenyu suddenly took out a jade talisman. It was violet, looking almost the same as Long Chen’s nine-vein Soul Calming Jade. However, it only had two veins.
He crushed the jade talisman, and a barrier of light enveloped him.
Long Chen’s Double Dragon Destruction struck the barrier and exploded. The barrier didn’t even ripple, but after blocking the attack, it also slowly faded. This violet jade was clearly a one-time use item.
Long Chen had no time to get Blooddrinker. He stamped on the ground and shot toward Han Zhenyu, sending a kick straight for Han Zhenyu’s head.
Han Zhenyu was heavily injured. His body had almost collapsed after their previous exchange. Seeing Long Chen’s kick coming, he knew he couldn’t dodge, and he hastily circulated his last bit of metal energy to protect his head.
As a result, he was sent flying, his head caving in. But he still wasn’t dead.
As for Long Chen, he was unable to use lightning or flame energy
to chase him any longer. To give Blooddrinker more time to absorb energy, Huo Long and Lei Long had used up almost all their energy holding back the Heaven and Earth Cage.
That previous attack was their final bit of energy. Now they were in a deep slumber.
Otherwise, at this time, a single Lightning Finger would kill Han Zhenyu. But Long Chen could only rely on his physical body to chase now.
Han Zhenyu fell unconscious after Long Chen’s kick to his head. Long Chen shot after him, preparing to attack him once more.
But a silent hand appeared in front of Long Chen, slamming toward him. In that instant, he felt the world go still, and he couldn’t move. He could only watch as that hand descended toward him. If it landed, even ten thousand lives wouldn’t be enough. That was because the person who had interfered was the Magic Master, Ma Xingkong.
But naturally the Xuan Master also appeared. He pushed Long Chen away and sent his other palm at Ma Xingkong.
The fact that the Xuan Master and Ma Xingkong would exchange blows shocked everyone. When their palms collided and everyone thought they might be killed just by the shockwaves, a barrier appeared around them.
Their two palms only caused a light sound. Then it looked like transparent glass was expanding between their hands. Suddenly, countless cracks spread throughout the space around them and into the sky.
Bang! With a muffled sound, Ma Xingkong was sent flying by the Xuan Master. The cracks in the sky healed. But Ma Xingkong suddenly extended his hand and clenched it at the distant Long Chen. Long Chen found himself unable to move and involuntarily appeared in front of Ma Xingkong, with Ma Xingkong’s hand around his throat.
“Bastard, release brother Long!”
“Release our boss, you shameless ghost!”
All the Dragonblood warriors roared and charged forward. Despite knowing they would die, they wouldn’t permit anyone to humiliate Long Chen like this.
They had only just taken a few steps when they became frozen by some terrifying power. It was the Xuan Master. He first settled them before indifferently turning to Ma Xingkong. “Release Long Chen. Don’t do such meaningless things. You don’t dare to kill him, no matter what pompous excuse you can come with.”
