by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Back in the Eastern Wasteland, this group had only contained three hundred-some members. Now they had grown to over thirteen thousand. It was unknown what method Long Chen had used, but he was actually able to continuously upgrade their Celestial ranks. That was a secret the Corrupt path longed to obtain.
So Dan Sheng’s attempt at using Pill Valley’s name to intimidate the Corrupt path showed that he clearly underestimated their determination.
“Long Chen is a criminal suspected to be a Heaven-Seizer. Pill Valley had been implored by many sects to investigate this matter. If you do this, how will my Pill Valley continue with its long-standing dignity?” raged Dan Sheng.
Although the Corrupt path was famed for its viciousness, Pill Valley wasn’t afraid of them. Instead, it was the Corrupt path that was afraid of Pill Valley. If Pill Valley cut off their supply of medicinal pills to the Corrupt path, they would sooner or later decline.
“Hmph, you think you can represent Pill Valley’s higher-ups? I’m sure everyone here has their own understanding of whether or not Long Chen is a Heaven-Seizer. Is there a point in uttering such a bald-faced lie? Only the Righteous path’s idiots like to play such games. If you get greedy for someone’s treasures, just directly take them. What’s the point of making such excuses that even children wouldn’t believe? My Corrupt path always disdains such things. Today, let me say it clearly for you. Long Chen must be brought away by me. If you dare to block me, don’t blame me for not being courteous. This Blood Moon Devouring Sun Formation is something formed from the essence blood of thirty-six of the Righteous path’s Life Star experts and millions of their souls. It is capable of both defense and offense. As long as I will it, you will immediately turn to dust,” sneered the dwarf, his tone growing more and more impolite as he spoke, causing Dan Sheng’s expression to sink.
The ancient race experts that had come along didn’t dare to make a sound. They didn’t have any dealings with the Corrupt path. Both sides simply minded their business. But if these few experts provoked them, then the Corrupt path wouldn’t mind killing them. After all, they weren’t from Pill Valley. The Corrupt path didn’t depend on them for anything.
After the dwarf finished speaking, the other Corrupt experts also sneered, infuriating Dan Sheng. It seemed he had come for nothing.
“These friends I brought along must be allowed to leave as well. Just treat it as giving me face.” Dan Sheng took a deep breath and calmed himself down as much as possible.
Right now, he had no bargaining chips to use against the Corrupt path. After all, right now, everything was in their control. This Blood Moon Devouring Sun Formation might not have shown any of its power yet, but anyone with a brain could tell that it was extremely terrifying. Otherwise, it wouldn’t require so many people to maintain.
Dan Sheng didn’t suspect the Corrupt dwarf’s words at all. The latter could kill the former with just a thought.
Although Dan Sheng was sure that he wouldn’t dare to kill him, if the dwarf used that power to completely suppress him, he would lose his dignity. It was better to be smart and save himself that face.
“Sorry, but you don’t have that much face.” The Corrupt dwarf shook his head.
“You…!”
Dan Sheng was infuriated by this. It had to be known that these people had come to help him in order to suck up to Pill Valley. If he allowed them to be killed, wouldn’t their sects lose their faith in him?
Of the Life Star experts that had come with Dan Sheng, other than the ancient races, those from the Righteous path had come purely to suck up to Pill Valley. If they were slain, it would be a blow to Pill Valley’s prestige.
“Listen well. I’ve already conceded when it comes to Long Chen. I must be allowed to bring these people away!” demanded Dan Sheng.
“Looks like you can’t understand my words. Then let me see if I can use something that you’ll understand!”
The Corrupt dwarf smiled icily. When his already twisted face smiled like this, he appeared as sinister as a ghost.
Buzz.
He formed hand seals, and the entire formation shook. Countless runes lit up.
Chapter 1284 Gui Yan
Following the hand seals of the dwarf from the Corrupt path, the blood-colored formation shook, and it was like blood was flowing within it. Baleful qi surged out, causing everyone to feel a chill.
Suddenly, a blood-colored hand stretched out of the formation and slammed toward Dan Sheng’s group.
“How brazen!” Dan Sheng was infuriated that they would dare to attack him. They were ignoring Pill Valley’s might.
Seeing this mountain-like hand smashing toward him, Dan Sheng summoned his flame giant once more. A flame blade appeared in its hand, and it slashed at the blood-colored hand.
BANG! Shockingly, Dan Sheng’s terrifying flame giant was instantly blown apart.
Thirty-six figures appeared within the hand. They were crazily struggling within it, letting out ear-piercing wails that gave others goosebumps.
“Those are thirty-six Life Star experts from the Righteous path. After being refined into the Blood Moon Devouring Sun Formation, their anguish and resentment from before they died was imprinted into the formation. This attack is equivalent to the attack of thirty-six Life Star experts. Tell me, just how are you supposed to block me?” sneered the dwarf.
Seeing this hand smashing toward them, the other Life Star experts brought along by Dan Sheng went all-out attacking it. But their attacks all blew up upon contact. They were powerless to stop it.
Horrified, they hastily fled. But they suddenly found that they couldn’t move. At some unknown time, the ground beneath them had turned scarlet. There was some kind of energy keeping them stuck to the ground.
BANG!
The hand slammed down. It was like it had landed amongst a group of ants. Dan Sheng and the others were unable to resist.
Once the hand caught them, it transformed into countless chains that bound them. Dan Sheng and others’ expressions changed. They found that these chains had some special energy that had sealed their cultivation bases.
“Are you trying to become enemies with my Pill Valley?!” roared Dan Sheng.
“We have no intention of becoming enemies with Pill Valley. But that doesn’t represent that the Corrupt path must submit to Pill Valley all the time. That’s why you should shut your mouth for now. If you keep being irritating, I might not be able to hold myself back from getting rid of you.” After saying that, a chain tightly bound Dan Sheng’s mouth. Dan Sheng was infuriated, but he could no longer speak.
Suddenly, seven explosive sounds rang out, and seven chains pierced through the middle of seven Life Star experts’ heads.
Those Life Star experts shook intensely as they struggled painfully. But with their bodies bound, they could only struggle in pain.
What shocked Long Chen and the others was that these chains seemed to be sucking something out of the seven Life Star experts.
Long Chen’s gaze was icy. These Life Star experts had ignored right or wrong to suck up to the Pill Tower. They had brought about their own demise, so their deaths didn’t make him feel any sympathy.
But for the Corrupt path to be killing them in this manner, they were clearly humiliating the Righteous path to increase their own intimidating reputation.
Back when Long Chen had first heard that the Righteous path captured the Corrupt path’s experts and tortured them by grinding their skulls to powder and mixing it with mud to form walls as symbols of their achievement, he had felt a bit unnatural.
But now he realized that these people from the Corrupt path weren’t even human. They were cold-blooded brutes. They had to be torn apart piece by piece, or there would be no way to resolve the hatred in people’s hearts.
In just a moment, the aura of life from those seven Righteous Life Star experts vanished, and the chains pulled out of their heads, leaving behind seven large holes. Their bodies were nothing more than lifeless husks now. The dwar
f waved his hand and gathered those corpses.
“Hehe, the material for seven Life Star puppets. My gains aren’t bad this time,” he laughed. “As for the subordinates, they’re useless. So… time for you to die!”
The Corrupt dwarf glanced at the Righteous path’s Soul Transformation experts. They immediately turned stiff.
Several of the Righteous path’s experts actually knelt down and begged, “Please, don’t kill me! I’m willing to join the Corrupt path, I’m willing to be used as a tool by the Corrupt path…”
“Just die. Trash like you isn’t fit to join the Corrupt path.” The dwarf waved his hand, and red chains shot out from the sky at these Soul Transformation experts.
They despaired. Some tried to flee, some gritted their teeth and prepared to resist. There were also some who directly gave up and stood there like a dead dog.
Even Life Star experts couldn’t resist in front of the Blood Moon Devouring Sun Formation, so these little Soul Transformation experts were just ants. They didn’t even have the bravery to resist.
In front of death, these usually bold and powerful experts all showed their cowardice and terror, as well as their longing toward life. But in front of absolute power, they didn’t have any choice.
The chains fell. Those who tried to resist were directly blown to bloody mist, their weapons shattered.
Whether they tried to resist, run, or just lay on the ground in defeat, they were all slain. Their unwilling screams still hung in the air as they vanished from the world.
However, there were over ten of them that didn’t die. They were still bound in chains and hung in the air. They had already fallen unconscious.
These people were from Pill Valley and the ancient races. The Corrupt expert didn’t kill them. But as a show of power, he completely bound them.
Dan Sheng and the remaining five Life Star experts from the ancient races were also dangling in the air as prisoners. They were terrified. If the Corrupt path wanted to kill them, it would be as easy as turning a hand. They finally experienced the terror of the Blood Moon Devouring Sun Formation.
When the wails and screams faded, everything within the formation became deathly silent. Now, it was Long Chen’s group of ten people facing tens of thousands of Corrupt experts.
“The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect used to have so many powerful existences. It’s too bad that they declined to such a point and even needed their Soul Transformation experts to win face for their sect. What a shame.” The dwarf shook his head with a pitiful expression at the bosses.
“Hmph, don’t act so fake. If the seven of us had advanced to the Life Star realm, do you think this little formation would be able to stop us?” Boss Bao sneered.
Now that things had reached this point, the bosses became calm. There was no way they could run. Thus, the only thing to worry about was whether or not they could drag a few Corrupt experts down with them before dying.
The only thing that they felt regretful about was that they had no way to send out Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao. For such talented geniuses to fall so early made them sigh.
But they were all hot-blooded men. Even in the face of death, their expressions were calm. They didn’t spout any nonsense.
The dwarf ignored Boss Bao. Instead, he turned toward Long Chen. He suddenly spoke to someone behind him. “Gui Yan, what do you think about this little fellow?”
That young disciple with the red hair slowly walked forward. It went without saying that when compared to the fierce and sinister appearances of the Corrupt path, this person was an especially handsome existence.
This red-haired Gui Yan looked at Long Chen and shook his head. “I suppose he’s alright. But he’s very different from what I imagined. It’s disappointing. I really doubt that he’s the fellow Leng Yueyan was talking about. How could he be so weak? He can’t even last ten exchanges against me.”
Boss Bao and the others’ pupils shrank slightly. Through their sharp eyesight, they instantly saw through his true power: he was a rank nine Celestial.
Long Chen was even more shocked than them. That wasn’t because of his cultivation base or Celestial rank. It was because of that name he mentioned.
“You know Leng Yueyan?” asked Long Chen.
Gui Yan smiled faintly. But that smile was not very natural, because when he smiled, his face split open and blood flowed out.
That was a terrifying injury. It was like a horizontal line that stretched across his whole face where his mouth was. This smile of his instantly revealed all his teeth.
This injury looked like it had been caused by a sharp blade. If that blade had pressed forward any more, Gui Yan’s head would have been severed at his mouth.
Gui Yan put away his smile and wiped away that blood. The injury on his face also instantly healed.
“This injury was caused by Leng Yueyan. She said my smile was very ugly, so she left behind this injury. Now, whenever I smile, the injury instantly splits open. It has been a long time since I smiled, but seeing you today, I couldn’t help it.” Gui Yan looked at Long Chen with rancor.
Long Chen’s heart shook. Just what realm had Leng Yueyan reached? She was actually so domineering as to torment such a powerful person.
When Gui Yan had smiled, Long Chen had sensed an extremely bizarre energy cut across his skin. The image of a perfectly beautiful face appeared in his mind. Those ocean-blue eyes were like gems.
“Next time we meet, I will take your life. Be careful!”
This was something Leng Yueyan had said to him in the Immemorial Path. Now seeing this terrifying injury, Long Chen felt a chill. That demoness had probably completely broken through any of her old limits.
Gui Yan looked at Long Chen icily. “Just because I smiled at her once, she attacked me, saying my smile was ugly. She said that if I could smile as brilliantly and wretchedly as you, I could come smile at her again. Otherwise, she would cut off my head. So I was very curious as to what kind of person you were. Did you have three heads and six arms? Just how outstanding were you? But now that I see you, I see you’re just trash.”
Gui Yan’s eyes almost had flames spurting out of them. Long Chen realized something and suddenly laughed.
Chapter 1285 Breaking the Formation
Long Chen suddenly laughed as if he had encountered some supremely funny thing.
“With death at hand, you can still laugh? Hopefully you can still laugh once I refine you into a puppet,” said Gui Yan icily.
After laughing for a while, Long Chen finally said, “I know that you definitely tried to take some liberties with Leng Yueyan for her to attack you. Not bad, not bad, that girl Leng Yueyan is truly beautiful. I was never able to view her as a woman, but you’re much stronger than me. You actually dare to dally with her, hehe, admirable.”
Long Chen had to admit that Leng Yueyan’s beauty could shake a person to their core. With just her beauty, she could probably make a person die from enthrallment.
But that murderous and baleful aura within her was something that people didn’t dare to get close to. She was like a beautiful fiend. Getting close to her would make you lose your life.
No matter how beautiful she was, it was impossible to view her as a woman, because the only thing she gave off was boundless killing intent. If you were to liken women to flowers, then Leng Yueyan was a beautiful man-eating flower.
“Even now, you can still be sarcastic? Hmph, once I turn you into a puppet, I’ll bring you in front of Leng Yueyan and see what she says,” sneered Gui Yan with a bit of hatred in his eyes.
“You should just give up. Do you think you can seduce Leng Yueyan with your kind of conduct? If she can cut your mouth with her first attack, she’ll definitely exterminate you with her second attack. Next time, she’ll kill you like killing a chicken. You should stop being so cocky. Leng Yueyan isn’t someone you can have any delusions about.”
Long Chen smiled coldly. He felt the slightest bit of hope within these desperate straits.
Although his cultivation base was the highest, it seemed Gui Yan’s status was particularly special. Long Chen had a skillful grasp over other people’s emotions. He could tell that this Gui Yan was probably someone with an extremely high status in the Corrupt path.
If he captured him, perhaps he could use him as a protective talisman to threaten the Corrupt path into letting them go. As for carrying out that plan, Long Chen didn’t have any assurance, but right now it was his only hope.
Although Long Chen was scoffing at Gui Yan right now, in truth, his heart was unsteady. After all, that was a rank nine Celestial. Although the previous assassin from the Bloodkill Hall was also a rank nine Celestial, Long Chen had only seen a fraction of his power.
Yet even so, the power that the assassin had displayed still shocked him. A rank nine Celestial had to be a terrifying existence.
If it was an all-out fight, he wouldn’t be afraid. But wanting to capture a rank nine Celestial alive was extremely difficult.
But the more difficult it was, the more challenging it was, the more Long Chen liked doing it. He intentionally mocked Gui Yan, and due to the envy Gui Yan already had in his heart, his killing intent immediately began to soar.
The first time Gui Yan had seen Leng Yueyan, he had been attracted by her peerless beauty. He viewed himself as exceptionally handsome, as a dragon amongst men in the Corrupt path. Thus, he had taken the initiative to flirt with her.
As a result, Leng Yueyan had directly replied with her bone sword, leaving behind an injury that would never heal in his lifetime. That was extremely humiliating.
This injury contained Leng Yueyan’s specific mark. Unless she died, the mark wouldn’t disappear. In other words, each time Gui Yan smiled, his injury would split open and make him appear frightening.
