by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Wang Zhen summoned hundreds of different insects. There were all kinds. Some were used for defense, some were used for offense, some were used for cleaning up corpses, and some were simply used as feed.
Wang Zhen’s fighting insects would need to consume a few feed insects every day to grow.
As for the feed insects, they needed blood and flesh. The energy within the flesh could be transformed by his feed insects and provided to his other insects. It was similar to raising pigs.
Wang Zhen also had a powerful mother insect. According to him, this mother insect was connected to his mind and soul. It was what allowed him to control his insect army.
However, the mother insect was only at the early ninth rank. In order to make sure the other insects could be controlled, their power definitely could not surpass the mother insect’s. That was why Wang Zhen’s other insects were at most at the peak of the eighth rank. If they were any stronger, the mother insect wouldn’t be able to suppress them, and then they would rebel.
Long Chen looked at the huge golden mother insect. It was like a seven-spotted ladybug, but its shell released a metallic luster. Its defensive power was shocking.
It was no wonder he had been able to block the magical arts of rank six Celestials. But it was clear this mother insect only specialized in defense, and didn’t have powerful attacks.
Long Chen extracted a drop of its essence blood. It was golden and very bright.
“How strong can your mother insect grow to?” asked Long Chen.
“The tenth rank.”
“That strong?” Long Chen was surprised.
“Brother Long, although it can grow to the tenth rank, those that actually do are extremely, extremely rare. It is very difficult to grow, and it is very slow. Furthermore, a few years ago, I was in a life and death battle and my mother insect was heavily injured. It’s been recovering these past few years. But my resources are limited, and I can’t help it too much. So the mother insect’s growth is very, very slow,” said Wang Zhen.
It seemed insect cultivators were also a money-burning profession. Poor people couldn’t even try it.
Long Chen said, “I have a general understanding of your mother insect. Since its limit is the tenth rank, I’m not worried at all.”
“Worried about what?”
“I will use medicinal pills to allow your mother insect to advance within a few days. I’m thinking of raising it to the late ninth rank,” said Long Chen after a moment’s thought.
“But… that’s impossible!” Wang Zhen couldn’t believe his ears.
His mother insect had spent three years at the peak of the eighth rank before advancing to the early ninth rank. But Long Chen wanted to raise it to the late ninth rank in just a few days?
If anyone else said that, he would think it was just a joke. But coming from Long Chen, he was delighted.
“Don’t get too happy. Raising it to the late ninth rank is no problem, but it’s just an empty cultivation base. It will have the pressure, but not the true power. My medicinal pills will raise its cultivation base, but its actual power will have to slowly grow and catch up. But just raising its cultivation base is enough to benefit you immensely. You understand?” Long Chen smiled.
“I understand, I understand. As long as my mother insect reaches the late ninth rank, I’ll be able to control mid ninth rank insects as generals in my insect army. Heavens, I almost can’t believe it.” Wang Zhen lost all semblance of calm as he was filled with excitement.
Was he joking? An army of thousands of ninth rank insects? Wouldn’t he be completely unrivaled?
“I’m not done. I’ll also refine a kind of medicinal elixir for your feed insects. It will allow them to grow faster, and after they absorb the energy of flesh and blood, they will undergo a kind of explosive growth. It’s not very good for your feed insects, but your fighting insects can simply devour them and it’ll be no problem. They’ll all grow faster. I’ll refine some for you now, and later I’ll give you the formula. Even when I’m not present, you’ll be able to make it yourself… Hey, what are you doing?”
As Long Chen spoke, Wang Zhen suddenly knelt on the ground. Long Chen jumped and hastily pulled him up.
“I will forever remember brother Long’s kindness,” swore Wang Zhen. Long Chen wasn’t just giving him medicinal elixir, he was giving him the formula as well. It had to be known that such secret formulas were extremely precious. There had been many cases of fathers and sons turning hostile, or brothers turning against each other just for a precious formula.
As for this kind of formula, it was as precious as his life to Wang Zhen.
“Don’t be so serious.” Long Chen was speechless.
Wang Zhen shook his head. “This isn’t just for me, but also for my brothers. Once I’m stronger, I won’t have to just watch as they die in front of me. That feeling… really is painful. I don’t want to feel it a second time.”
“Good, that’s what a man should be like. Now that you understand how brothers will sacrifice everything for each other, anyone who joins you will definitely not suffer.” Long Chen patted him on the shoulder.
Wang Zhen was extremely moved. Receiving Long Chen’s approval felt like a lifetime’s worth of glory now.
After parting with Wang Zhen, he took a look over all of Xuantian City. To keep things safe, Meng Qi had completely covered Xuantian City in her spiritual domain.
This spiritual domain was based on four Golden Little Bells that were spread throughout the city. They were a special kind of soul item that allowed her to keep watch over all of Xuantian City. The sneak attack this time had given all of them a sense of danger. They were no longer within the Xuantian Dao Sect, and there were no rules to protect them. They would have to rely on themselves.
Long Chen returned to the city lord mansion. Calling over Gu Yang, he took out eighty-six rank six Heavenly Dao Fruits and one thousand five hundred rank five Heavenly Dao Fruits. Those were his greatest spoils of battle this time.
It went without saying that the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect was truly more powerful than the Xuantian Dao Sect.
Amongst their new disciples, many of them had been raised to the fifth rank. That had to have cost countless resources.
Amongst their senior disciples, around a tenth of them were rank six Celestials. As for the Xuantian Dao Sect’s senior disciples, only one in a thousand were rank six Celestials. This proportion revealed the difference in financial strength between the two sects.
However, this power difference had ended up benefiting Long Chen. Whether the dead Celestial was an innate or acquired Celestial, once their Heavenly Dao runes were absorbed by the primal chaos bead and condensed into Heavenly Dao Fruits, the people who consumed them would be an innate Celestial.
Most monstrous of all, if those fallen disciples had reached the realm of merging with heaven and earth, the Heavenly Dao Fruit would bestow that ability to whoever consumed it as well.
“Give fifty of the rank six Heavenly Dao Fruits to the healing disciples. Split the rest amongst the warriors with the greatest potential. As for the rank five Heavenly Dao Fruits, first give them to the Dragonblood warriors, and then select the strongest Dragonmark warriors,” said Long Chen.
Right now, the Dragonblood Legion had over thirteen thousand members. There were still just four captains, but now there were three hundred and sixty squad leaders. In other words, each Dragonblood warrior was a squad leader.
In this way, each squad was composed of over thirty people, and it was easier to control things during battle.
Squad leaders naturally had to be strong, so the rank five Heavenly Dao Fruits would be first given to them. As for the rank six Heavenly Dao Fruits going to the healing disciples, Gu Yang had hesitated a bit, but then thinking about it, the healing disciples were what protected the lives of the Dragonblood Legion. They had to be powerful.
During the battle in the Infernal Devil Abyss, they had experienced just how important the healing disci
ples were. Otherwise, there would have been quite a few casualties in that battle.
Once Gu Yang left, Long Chen looked at the remaining rank four and below Heavenly Dao Fruits he had. “I wonder whether Zheng Wenlong managed to send those Heavenly Dao Fruits over.”
Long Chen thought of Yue Xiaoqian. He had sent a large number of Heavenly Dao Fruits so that the original devil race could walk openly on the Martial Heaven Continent to gather resources.
Now, he had another mass of Heavenly Dao Fruits. But he didn’t dare to randomly send them with just anyone. If this secret was exposed, he would be dead.
The only people who truly knew this secret were Tang Wan-er, Meng Qi, Gu Yang, Guo Ran, and a few others. The Dragonblood and Dragonmark warriors only knew that they were fruits. They didn’t know the true story.
Long Chen didn’t want them to know. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust them, but that the more people who knew, the more dangerous it would be. Then their enemies would set their sights on him, and it might cause him to lose his life.
After arranging everything, Long Chen went into seclusion to refine pills. Some were for Wang Zhen, and some were for Hua Shiyu. He needed to take advantage of this time to help Hua Shiyu eliminate that thing.
Chapter 1155 The Abnormal Fourth Form of Split the Heavens
Long Chen spent a whole day refining pills for Wang Zhen. The mother insect was very large, and it needed top grade pills. Moreover, it needed hundreds of them in order to be effective.
As for medicinal elixir, it needed even more of that. Fortunately, he had Huo Long to help him refine it, and it all went very smoothly. Otherwise, refining that much would exhaust him to death.
When Wang Zhen received the medicinal pills, he directly gave them to his mother insect. He also started using the elixir to raise his feed insects.
Long Chen had all disciples prioritize giving their ninth rank sea demon’s corpses to Wang Zhen. Everyone was in support of this. Having sacrificed so many insects to protect his subordinates, he had won their respect.
Furthermore, the most precious aspect of ninth rank sea demons was their core. Their corpses were only worth a tenth, so people didn’t care that much. They directly gave the corpses to Wang Zhen for free.
Originally, Wang Zhen had been planning on using his cores to exchange with the corpses. But he was refused by all the disciples. Some of them even said Wang Zhen was being unreasonable.
Wang Zhen was extremely moved. He took their sea demon’s corpses. With them, he would be able to raise his insects as fast as possible.
Wang Zhen was shocked to find that his feed insects were growing even faster than he had expected. Originally, his feed insects would take five days to mature.
But now, they matured in just a few hours. Furthermore, with the effect of the medicinal elixir, the amount of energy they contained was ten times greater. It was even greater than what Long Chen had predicted.
Now that he had enough flesh, Wang Zhen was crazily breeding his insect army. His mother insect had smoothly reached the mid ninth rank after consuming the first batch of medicinal pills. Furthermore, it was on track to reach the late ninth rank soon. Now Wang Zhen was completely convinced by Long Chen’s abilities.
Just as Wang Zhen was crazily breeding various insects, Long Chen was still healing his injuries.
The backlash of attempting to use the fourth form of Split the Heavens was still causing him problems. He still didn’t know what it was. But it was only after using the primal chaos bead to its full powers for two days that his meridians slowly healed.
That shocked Long Chen. The primal chaos space was flourishing with life. Bones and limbs could be regrown in a few breaths, and yet repairing a few meridians had taken two days.
Long Chen carefully tested the first form of Split the Heavens. There was no problem at all. His nine acupuncture points were connected smoothly.
The second form was also no problem. The third form was no problem. He slowly attempted the fourth form.
His spiritual yuan poured through twenty-eight acupuncture points… twenty-nine… thirty-five.
The first thirty-five acupuncture points were connected easily without a problem. But when he tried to connect it to the last acupuncture point, his 108,000 immortal platforms actually began to pour their energy in the thirty-sixth acupuncture point automatically.
It was like 108,000 streams were crazily pouring into one dike. The dike would instantly overflow and break.
Although Long Chen had been prepared and instantly dispersed his energy, he was still covered in cold sweat.
If he hadn’t instinctively sensed the danger and given up on using the fourth form when fighting that expert from the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, he probably wouldn’t even have a corpse left.
“What is going on? Why didn’t senior Feng Xinglie mention it? Or could it be… could it be because of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art?”
Long Chen was befuddled. When he tried to connect the last acupuncture point, his 108,000 immortal platforms would concentrate all their energy there. Furthermore, it was a kind of instantaneous burst of energy that was out of his control. That wasn’t something he could bear.
“This terrifying attack isn’t something I can use.” Long Chen was deeply shaken. Perhaps Split the Heavens had already diverted from its original scope because of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. That was because the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s disciples who cultivated Split the Heavens all trained in a special cultivation technique: the Battle God Sacred Canon.
This cultivation technique was a set with Split the Heavens. The two complimented each other. But Long Chen hadn’t trained in the Battle God Sacred Canon, and he used Split the Heavens through the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art instead. Thus, it was natural that there was a large difference to it.
“I can’t continue like this. Having a powerful Battle Skill but not being able to use it is too much of a waste.”
Long Chen sank into thought and slowly circulated the energy of his four qi seas. He extracted energy from a few of his immortal platforms and merged it with his four qi seas.
He once more tried to use Split the Heavens and was pleasantly surprised to see that this truly seemed to be a solution. By splitting the work, his qi seas ended up controlling his immortal platforms. He continued pouring energy into his qi seas, while his remaining immortal platforms sent energy to use Split the Heavens.
When he reached the thirty-sixth acupuncture point, Long Chen once more scattered his energy. He found that even the energy of half his immortal platforms was not what his acupuncture point could bear.
After several tests, he finally found a limit that he could endure. If he wanted to use the fourth form of Split the Heavens, he could only use a fourth of his immortal platforms.
Through all this testing, he found the fourth form of Split the Heavens to be truly vicious. If it was activated, it would instantly extract all the energy within a quarter of his immortal platforms.
He thought about testing the power of it, but when he considered how he would have to exhaust a quarter of his energy, he decided not to. In any case, there would come an opportunity sooner or later, and he wasn’t in a rush.
He had already figured out how to use it. For the rest of the day, he continued refining pills.
The next morning, he went to find Hua Shiyu. In a private room containing just the two of them, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
“I’ve refined a few special pills for you, and they will protect your soul. But you should be prepared. That thing has been in your body for too long, and extracting it will be very painful,” warned Long Chen gravely.
Hua Shiyu was a bit nervous. She nodded as she still remembered the pain from last time. That feeling of having one’s soul torn apart was the most painful experience she had ever had.
Hua Shiyu consumed the top grade medicinal pills Long Chen had refined for her. The medicinal energy quickly spread, causing Hua Shiyu to glow with a sacred
light.
That light made her clothes almost see-through, revealing all her crucial parts. Hua Shiyu turned completely red and looked away, incapable of facing Long Chen.
Long Chen gulped. Looking at a peerless beauty who seemed to not be wearing any clothes, he found his mouth dry. Taking a deep breath, he expelled all his beautiful thoughts and warned himself that he had proper things to attend to.
Circulating the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, a faint light came from his palm as he reached for Hua Shiyu’s chest.
The black qi was located right below her solar plexus. That was a very awkward spot. Long Chen’s hand stopped for a long time in front of her chest as he didn’t dare to press down.
Although Hua Shiyu had her eyes closed, her breathing was clearly quickening and her face was completely red. It was an unreplicable beauty.
“Damnit, Long Chen, you’re a doctor now, doctor Long Chen! The more you hesitate, the more it seems you’re feeling guilty…” Long Chen clenched his teeth and pressed. That soft feeling made his heart waver.
“Ah…” Hua Shiyu shook. A soft cry came out from her covered mouth, and it made Long Chen’s blood immediately surge.
Unable to focus, the circulation of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art came to a halt, and the light on his palm also faded.
Hua Shiyu opened her eyes, her face even redder than before. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have made such a noise…”
That cry had been involuntary, but she still felt extremely embarrassed.
Long Chen also couldn’t help being embarrassed. How was he supposed to endure such a sound of rapture?
“Are you nervous, Long Chen? You’re sweating.” Hua Shiyu tried to alleviate the awkward atmosphere. Right now, Long Chen was covered in sweat, while normally he was unafraid of anything. He even dared to slap the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s vice sect master, but he was still so tense now.
“A bit. I just don’t have experience.” Long Chen bitterly smiled. But after saying that, he regretted it.
“What about last time?” teased Hua Shiyu.
