by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
After the creature was killed, the Sovereign Blood Seal returned to its original appearance as if nothing had happened. But now one of those terrifying creatures had vanished.
Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao were filled with shock. The Sovereign Blood Seal was actually this powerful. Then just what level of existence was a Sovereign?
Just a single seal left behind from over a hundred thousand years ago that had already started to loosen up was still able to easily kill such a terrifying expert.
The three of them stood and bowed respectfully to the Sovereign Blood Seal. They were filled with reverence and gratitude to this Sovereign.
A Sovereign’s power could extend through time. A single seal had suppressed Devil Spirit Mountain for tens of thousands of years, making those terrifying creatures unable to enter the Martial Heaven Continent. This kind of domineering power was something anyone would wish for.
“Let’s go.”
Now they were definitely safe. No matter how many of those creatures there were, they wouldn’t dare to be arrogant in front of the Sovereign Blood Seal. They slowly walked over.
They quickly saw the two stone pillars again. The Sovereign Blood Seal was still floating calmly between them.
As they walked beneath the Sovereign Blood Seal, they all took a deep breath. They looked at the clear sky and blazing sun that they hadn’t seen in a long time. They had finally managed to come out alive.
After having brushed past death so many times, coming out now made them feel like they had been reborn.
They had only just stepped out of Devil Spirit Mountain when dozens of gazes landed on them, filled with shock.
Those people were all adventurers who hadn’t made their resolve to enter Devil Spirit Mountain or were still adjusting their condition. Seeing the three of them walk out, they were filled with disbelief.
There were even some who were emitting unconcealable killing intent and greed. Anyone who walked out of Devil Spirit Mountain had to have amazing treasures of heaven-shaking secrets.
The three of them were dyed in black blood, which made it impossible for the others to see their original robes. No one could tell who they were.
As soon as they appeared, a group of wild cultivators surrounded them. One of them was a Jade Core expert who immediately unleashed his powerful aura and extended a hand at them without even saying a word, wanting to capture them alive.
Long Chen didn’t even look at that person. He swung his hand, and that Jade Core expert didn’t even have a chance to make a sound before being blown to bloody mist.
The others surrounding them couldn’t help being appalled. A Jade Core expert was killed with the wave of a hand. Just how strong were they?
“Scram!” Bao Buping shouted coldly, and a powerful qi wave blew away the people surrounding them. Two unlucky fellows were knocked unconscious just from that.
Just because the three of them had been bullied in Devil Spirit Mountain didn’t mean that they were weak. These people here were nothing more than rank three or rank four Celestials. They were nothing to Long Chen and the others.
“You want to rob me? Fucking dog eyes,” cursed Chang Hao.
Long Chen’s slap, Bao Buping’s roar, and Chang Hao’s cursing immediately suppressed everyone. Those wild cultivators instantly realized that the fact that these three could walk out of Devil Spirit Mountain wasn’t because of just luck.
“Isn’t that one… Long Chen?” Suddenly, one of the cultivators let out a startled cry upon recognizing Long Chen.
Long Chen’s name was already famous within the cultivation world. He was a complete oddity. He wasn’t a Celestial but was able to contend with top heavenly geniuses.
His name had been especially resounding due to what happened in the eastern sea and the battles after the Four Nations Ancient Remnant. He had ignored the threat of the ancient races and killed his way out of the encirclement of countless Soul Transformation experts to leave the Grand Xia.
His name had reached the point that practically all cultivators in this region knew his name.
Later, because he had entered the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, things had calmed down slightly. But now, all these cultivators were shocked to see him here.
As for Bao Buping and Chang Hao who came from the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, they were covered in blood and there was no way to tell anything from their robes. Just the swords on their backs weren’t able to show their status.
Just as everyone was shocked, the space behind Long Chen transformed into a water screen. A sharp blade silently stabbed toward his back.
It happened so suddenly that Bao Buping and Chang Hao didn’t react at all. Their attention was fixed on the shocked cultivators.
Sparks flew as the sharp sword was suddenly blocked by a black pot.
At the same time, Long Chen slashed out Blooddrinker in his right hand, tearing through the space behind him. This slash of his also came suddenly as if he had been expecting this.
Only now did Bao Buping and Chang Hao react. They hastily turned back to see Long Chen’s saber slash down, and that sharp blade which was floating in the air pulled back to block.
BOOM!
The blade blocked Long Chen’s saber, and that water curtain blew apart, revealing a seemingly ordinary man in grey robes.
He looked completely ordinary. If tossed into a crowd, it would be impossible to find him again. At this time, he had a hint of shock in his eyes.
“The Bloodkill Hall just refuses to go away. Since that’s the case, you can stay behind.” Long Chen smiled coldly, and stamping on the ground, he shot forward, slashing his saber down with both hands.
After being entangled with the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins for so many years, Long Chen was extremely sensitive to their auras. As soon as the three of them had walked out of Devil Spirit Mountain, he had felt that he had been locked onto.
The reason he hadn’t said anything was because he had been waiting for the attack. After all, not all assassins were like those twin Bloodkill 10 assassins who were capable of canceling out each other’s killing intent and auras. No matter how amazing the assassin, they wouldn’t have anywhere to hide in front of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s senses once they attacked.
Long Chen’s first attack tore apart the assassin’s concealment, while his second attack was a killing blow.
The assassin had nowhere to go. With a cold snort, he raised his sword to block. A water-like barrier appeared on it, and with an explosive sound, the mist suddenly shot out, filling the air.
The mist instantly covered the area around them. Within this mist, it was impossible to even see your own fingers if you waved your hand in front of your face. All you could see was the white mist. Even divine sense couldn’t pierce this mist.
Bao Buping and Chang Hao were startled. Within this mist, they were blind, unable to see or sense anything.
BOOM!
Suddenly, the mist blew apart, and people could see Long Chen attacking the assassin. The assassin had blood pouring out of his chest and dripping out of his mouth. He had a shocked expression as he flew back.
“You can see through my Heart Bewilderment Mist?” The assassin couldn’t believe it.
He was a powerful water element cultivator, and the mist formed by his Water Qi wouldn’t scatter no matter how strong the wind was. It could block sight and isolate divine sense. Within the mist, others were blind while he could see clearly. Countless experts had died unwillingly within his mist.
The mist could be scattered through great explosive and destructive power, but anyone who did that actually fell into his trap. The instant they unleashed that powerful attack, he would launch a fatal attack.
At first, Long Chen had also been like the other experts he had slain. The first thing he had tried was using his aura to blow apart the mist. And the assassin had been waiting just for that moment to launch a silent sneak attack.
But just as he had been about to attack, he saw that
the energy Long Chen had been accumulating hadn’t been to blow apart the mist. Instead, a powerful saber had slashed toward him. He had actually fallen for Long Chen’s trap.
Long Chen’s attack caused him to vomit blood and shoot back. If he hadn’t been strong enough, this attack would have killed him.
“Split the Heavens 3!” Long Chen’s reply was another ruthless attack. The blood-colored saber-image mercilessly fell from the sky at the worst possible moment for the assassin.
The assassin took a deep breath. Runes suddenly materialized behind him, forming a sea of runes. Nine dots of light appeared within the runic sea. A powerful aura soared into the sky.
When this runic sea appeared, the assassin seemed to become a completely different person. A slash of his sword broke Long Chen’s saber-image.
Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao were all shocked. “A rank nine Celestial?”
Chapter 1273 An Unforeseen Change
The Bloodkill Hall’s assassin summoned his manifestation for just a moment before pulling it back as if nothing had happened.
But Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao were all shocked. Although they hadn’t managed to see his manifestation clearly, they were sure he was a terrifying rank nine Celestial.
“Regretfully, I can’t have an all-out fight with you here. Hopefully you can escape this calamity, or I’d have stalled my advancement to the Jade Core realm for nothing. Remember me - I am Bloodkill 9, and if you live past today, I will take your head next time.” The assassin emotionlessly looked at Long Chen.
After saying that, the mist covered his body, and he disappeared in front of all of them. Even Long Chen didn’t sense how he had left.
“What a powerful assassin.” Bao Buping and Chang Hao were shocked. This was their first time seeing a rank nine Celestial. And this rank nine Celestial was actually an assassin.
Long Chen narrowed his eyes. He recalled how the twin assassins in the Four Nations Ancient Remnant had told him that they, Bloodkill 10, were the strongest assassins in this region.
The assassins ranked higher than them weren’t in this region. But Bloodkill 9 had suddenly appeared. That meant that Bloodkill Hall had mobilized him from some other place.
Furthermore, based on his words, he seemed to have even stalled his chance to advance to the Jade Core realm to kill him. Was this to say that the assassins above Bloodkill 9 had already advanced to the Jade Core realm or even higher?
“Why did he stop fighting?” Bao Buping and Chang Hao were a bit flabbergasted. They had wanted to experience the true power of a rank nine Celestial.
“Long Chen, people have reported you as being a Heaven-Seizer and have entrusted me with investigating this matter. It’d be best for you to be sensible and willingly go with us. Otherwise… hmph!”
Suddenly, a cold shout rang out, and dozens of figures surrounded the entrance to Devil Spirit Mountain. When they saw those figures, Bao Buping and Chang Hao’s expressions changed. There were several amongst those people who were Life Star experts.
The person at the front wore violet-gold robes with the marking of the Pill Tower on them. Only a Tower Master was qualified to wear such robes. Long Chen had only ever seen Dan Teng wear such clothes.
However, this person wasn’t Dan Teng. Instead, he was an icy-faced man with shoulder-length hair who appeared to be around forty years old.
This middle-aged man had several Life Star experts around him, and one of them was surprisingly someone Long Chen recognized - the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s vice sect master, Ma Xingkong.
Other than Ma Xingkong, Long Chen didn’t recognize any of them, but based on the way they carried themselves, they were probably the masters of their sects or on that level. Other than them, there were five large, especially arrogant experts. Those were experts from the ancient races.
A total of thirteen Life Star experts and over fifty Soul Transformation experts. Such a terrifying lineup caused Bao Buping and Chang Hao to jump in fright.
“Are all of you here just to capture me? You really look highly on me!” Long Chen calmly smiled, clasping his hands behind his back.
The person at the front was actually Dan Teng’s little brother. As for Dan Teng, he had disappeared from this world.
Due to that foolish child, Dan Chu, who had exposed all the secrets to Long Chen in the Four Nations Ancient Remnant, the entire cultivation world had been shaken.
Dan Teng had abused his position to interfere in the matters of the four ancient nations. That was a huge crime. Then adding on how he had been preparing to support the Grand Han in controlling the four nations, he had left himself with no path for leniency.
Even though he was the Tower Master, he hadn’t been able to bear Pill Valley’s fury. In order to appease the masses, Pill Valley had announced that Dan Teng had been executed.
It went without saying that Pill Valley was truly ruthless. Even a Tower Master, a grand Life Star expert, could be killed by them. That had managed to shut everyone's mouths, including the Huayun Sect. There was no longer any way to find trouble for them over this matter.
Now that Dan Teng was dead, all the responsibility was pushed onto him, and the matter was brought to a close.
But Dan Teng’s death caused quite a few waves within Pill Valley. The main bloodline of Dan Teng’s family was exceptionally furious. But they didn’t dare to release that anger on Pill Valley, so they placed all of it on Long Chen.
This new Tower Master’s name was Dan Sheng. He was Dan Teng’s little brother and had been promoted to take over Dan Teng’s Pill Tower.
Dan Sheng had only just been promoted when he started to target Long Chen. In truth, killing Long Chen was a minor thing. As long as they properly did it in secret, with the Pill Tower’s power, they could easily crush a Foundation Forging ant.
But Dan Sheng’s goal wasn’t just to kill Long Chen. He wanted to kill Long Chen as an example to others, to win back the Dan family’s honor. Otherwise, the Dan family’s position in Pill Valley would fall.
Killing Long Chen now wasn’t just to avenge their enmity with him, but more for political reasons. Behind Dan Sheng was his entire family supporting him.
“Long Chen…” Bao Buping sent a transmission to Long Chen.
“Don’t speak.” Long Chen directly opened his mouth.
He knew what Bao Buping wanted to say. But he had plenty of experience when it came to handling something like this, and he knew what to do. As for Bao Buping’s spiritual message, there was no way it would escape the senses of these wily old foxes.
“Long Chen, are you going to let us capture you willingly?” Dan Sheng icily stared at Long Chen, his expression calm. However, his killing intent could not be concealed, as he hated Long Chen to the bone.
He wanted to crush Long Chen right here and now. But he couldn’t do that, because he needed a reason. A righteous reason.
“Go with you willingly? A person who can make me do such a thing has yet to be born. Who do you think you are to dare ask me such a thing?” sneered Long Chen.
“Little brat, do you want to try saying that again?!” raged Dan Sheng.
“Old bastard, even if I say it again, what can you do to me?” Long Chen directly pointed at his nose and cursed.
“You arrogant brat, I can’t watch any longer. Today, I’ll teach you how a junior should respect his seniors in Li Tianxuan’s place!”
Suddenly, a shout rang out, and a figure appeared in front of Long Chen like it had teleported. A large hand reached toward his throat.
The attacker was the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s Ma Xingkong. At this time, Ma Xingkong’s face was twisted in hatred. His hatred for Long Chen was even greater than Dan Sheng’s.
Last time when he had gone to the Xuantian Dao Sect as a display of might, instead of showing off the power of the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, his disciples had been killed and he had left in defeat. He had even gambled away a huge amount of resources, as well as his own Life Sta
r Bead.
However, the worst thing was that slap in the end. It was a stain that he would never be able to wipe away, so he wanted Long Chen dead even more than Dan Sheng.
He directly reached for Long Chen’s throat, and the pressure of the Life Star realm crashed down upon him, freezing heaven and earth.
Long Chen smiled coldly. Last time, his cultivation base had been too low, and he had been like a fish that could only allow itself to be slaughtered.
But now, he clearly felt that he was not so helpless. As long as he wanted to and used his full power, well, although he wouldn’t say that he could block him, he definitely could lift a finger, unlike last time.
However, he didn’t have any intention of dodging. Instead, he just looked at Ma Xingkong with his cold smile, no fear in his eyes. The only thing there was contempt.
Ma Xingkong clearly saw that expression. He thought that Long Chen had simply accepted his helplessness and was doing this to infuriate him so that he would kill him quickly. Ma Xingkong smiled. That smile was savage and pleased. He could already imagine the sight of Long Chen being tortured and begging for release.
“Brat, don’t vainly think you can get me to kill you so easily.” Ma Xingkong sneered, his hand continuing to Long Chen’s throat.
Bao Buping and Chang Hao both slashed their swords at Ma Xingkong. However, within Ma Xingkong’s domain, moving was extremely taxing and their movements were sluggish. There was no way for them to compare to Ma Xingkong’s lightning-like speed.
Yet even so, their movements caused the other experts to be surprised. Even Kings would be unable to move within the domain of a Life Star expert. As for Soul Transformation experts, their movements would be heavily suppressed.
As for Bao Buping and Chang Hao, they were merely Foundation Forging disciples. For them to be able to move in this domain was truly surprising.
Some of them were envious and formed an urge to kill both of them. Talented geniuses needed to be put down while they were still growing, or they would eventually become terrifyingly powerful enemies.
