by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Everyone in the Dragonblood Legion had advanced to the Jade Core realm, and it was a perfect advancement. Even Li Tianxuan felt emotional to see this.
These Dragonblood warriors were all elites amongst elites. Not only were they brave warriors who would fight one against a hundred, but they were even monsters who could fight across realms.
With such a terrifying group of disciples, there was no point in worrying over whether the Xuantian Dao Sect could return to its former glory. It would probably surpass any point in its history to reach an unprecedented level.
However, the Dragonblood Legion was too conspicuous now. Countless people were envious of them, and most likely, the Xuantian Dao Sect had become a huge target for many people.
But the only thing that didn’t draw envy was mediocrity. As long as you stood at a high level, there would definitely be people envious of you that hoped for your downfall. Dirty tricks, scheming, trying to crowd you out, these things were unavoidable.
This was the cultivation world. The struggle was endless. If you weren’t prepared for such a thing, then you should simply never think of rising.
Whether it was a single genius or a whole sect, if they wanted to rise, they would have to face countless enemies.
The history of a powerful sect’s rising had to be bloody. They rose by climbing the mountain of bones of their enemies.
Geniuses were the same. One of the laws of the Heavenly Daos was that everyone was in competition. Life was a survival of the fittest. To not climb over other people’s corpses was to allow others to climb over your corpse. The path of cultivation was one with no turning back.
After returning to the Xuantian Dao Sect and making sure everyone was set, the only one with nothing to do was Long Chen. He was unable to use his spiritual yuan to cultivate. As soon as he tried, the curse would reactivate.
Although the curse wasn’t able to threaten his life, it stuck to him like cancer. It was incredibly irritating, and there was no way for him to fight.
However, he did find that while he couldn’t do anything else, he would be able to circulate his flame energy. The curse wouldn’t reactivate as long as he only used his flame energy.
His guess was that it was due to the Nirvana Scripture. His flame energy wasn’t affected by the curse. Otherwise, there would have been no way for him to refine pills for everyone.
After everyone went through the tribulation, Long Chen noticed that there was something strange with Wilde. Wilde was constantly yawning, and his focus was gone. Sometimes Long Chen would be talking to him and he would just start napping.
When Long Chen asked Li Tianxuan what was going on, Li Tianxuan said that Wilde was very likely undergoing some kind of metamorphosis.
That made Long Chen jump. Wilde wasn’t a Magical Beast. How could he go through a metamorphosis?
Li Tianxuan said that the true Barbarian race only existed in legends. Perhaps they had existed, but they had disappeared from this world.
The Barbarian race of legends used to eat anything with flesh. Even dragons were eaten by them.
Their bodies were similar to Magical Beasts. They cultivated neither spiritual yuan, true qi, nor the Dao. They were an oddity of the entire world.
When their physical strength reached a certain level, their bodies would undergo a metamorphosis. But when undergoing this metamorphosis, they would be like hibernating Magical Beasts. They would enter a long slumber. Once their metamorphosis was complete, they would automatically wake, and their combat power would have increased massively.
However, Li Tianxuan didn’t know what kind of changes would happen. All of this was from the scanty sentences about the Barbarian race he had read in ancient texts. No one could say whether it was true or not.
But as expected, in just two days, Wilde completely collapsed and entered a deep sleep. He couldn’t be woken no matter what.
At the same time, the pores on his face and hands began to have slim threads grow out of them. More and more of them appeared until they completely enveloped him in a large cocoon.
“It seems the legends are true. The Barbarian race was exceptionally domineering back in the immortal era. But how could someone from the Barbarian race appear now? Didn’t they go extinct a long time ago?” wondered Li Tianxuan.
Long Chen had told him about how he had found Wilde on the streets in the Phoenix Cry Empire. Feeling him to be pitiable but an honest and sincere person, he had kept him by his side.
But now that he looked back on that, Wilde’s origins were too mysterious. The Barbarian race was clearly extinct, so where had Wilde come from? Who were his parents?
Wilde didn’t recall his parents. He had been raised in a little rural village by villagers. Then an epidemic had struck the village and they had all died. Only he had survived.
It was like a portion of Wilde’s memories were missing. His memories started at the age of four or five, and he didn’t remember anything before that.
“Once Wilde comes out of his cocoon, he’ll probably be very terrifying,” sighed Li Tianxuan. It seemed a great era had truly descended. Even the legendary Barbarian race had appeared. This was an era of all the powers of the world.
Li Tianxuan felt like he had suddenly grown older. Perhaps the future of this era would become the land of these monsters.
Long Chen carried the cocoon that was Wilde into a private room of the Xuantian Tower. There was a stone bed in this room, and Yue Zifeng was lying on it, his hands holding his sword.
“Xuan Master, Zifeng…” Long Chen worriedly looked at the lifeless Yue Zifeng.
The current Yue Zifeng was essentially an empty husk. He didn’t have the slightest sign of life.
“He is a genius of the Sword Dao. He placed his whole heart, mind, and soul into his sword during that battle. However, he hasn’t reached that level of power yet. He was able to use that move, but he’s not able to do the opposite. Now, his essence is locked within his sword. As for whether he will be able to bring his soul back into his body, it’s completely up to him,” said Li Tianxuan.
Back then, Li Tianxuan had been completely stunned by Yue Zifeng’s powerful sword arts. Yue Zifeng’s killing power had already surpassed the control of heaven and earth. That meant his comprehension of the Sword Dao had reached an extremely high realm.
But although his realm had reached the level that he was able to use such a terrifying move, his actual power had not reached that level. After placing his soul within his sword, he had managed to bring his power to his peak, and with a single attack, he had killed over ten Soul Transformation experts. But being unable to retrieve his soul from his sword, his body had become empty. No one could help him. The only one who could help him was himself.
Long Chen placed Wilde on another bed. Through Li Tianxuan’s explanation, he no longer felt so much worry for Yue Zifeng.
He understood Yue Zifeng well. Although he rarely spoke, his willpower was definitely at the apex of the Dragonblood Legion. Otherwise, there was no way for him to be so outstanding amongst all sword cultivators.
The only thing he felt regretful over was that Yue Zifeng hadn’t undergone tribulation with everyone. He didn’t know if this would leave behind any flaws.
But thinking about all this had no meaning now. After making sure the two of them would be safe here, Long Chen was called over by Li Tianxuan to his personal room. The two of them sat facing each other.
Li Tianxuan asked, “For you to raise everyone’s power so openly, I presume you have some trump card to shut their mouths?”
Li Tianxuan felt like Long Chen wasn’t so impetuous. According to reason, he should have raised everyone's power in secret. Although it would be noticed sooner or later, stalling for just one day was a good thing.
But he had done it so openly and brazenly. Furthermore, the Dragonblood Legion hadn’t hidden the marks of their tribulation. All of the Xuantian Dao Sect knew that the Dragonblood Legion’s Celestial ranks had increased once more.
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bsp; With Li Tianxuan’s understanding of Long Chen, he was sure Long Chen had done that intentionally. So he wanted to know the whole story so he could prepare as well.
“Yes. Paper isn’t able to cover up a fire. Pill Valley has had its gaze on me for a long time now. No matter how carefully I act, they’ll still find ways to find trouble for me. Compared to the Corrupt path, Pill Valley is far more shameless. They’ll just make a random excuse and start making things hard for me. They’re the most hateful. So this time, I also want you to spread the news openly. Let’s blow this matter up as big as possible and slap Pill Valley in the face,” said Long Chen.
Pill Valley’s people had truly been too shameless. They were despicable and felt no guilt with harming the innocent. He was fed up with them.
“Long Chen, you should think through this. The second volume of the Nirvana Scripture is in Pill Valley’s hands,” reminded Li Tianxuan.
“That’s fine. Once I slap them in the face, I’ll go learn it. They’re two separate matters. Otherwise, if I learned their Nirvana Scripture and then slapped them, I’d feel bad. So it’s best to first slap them,” said Long Chen indifferently.
Li Tianxuan was speechless. What kind of logic was this? Was this supposed to mean that Long Chen wouldn’t feel bad learning their art after slapping them?
“From your tone, you already have a way to handle this?” asked Li Tianxuan.
“Yes, it shouldn’t be a problem. After all, I’ve had past dealings with Pill Valley. I’m very familiar with their patterns,” said Long Chen. He took out a badge from Pill Valley.
This was the first place reward he had obtained in the Pill Tower’s competition back in the Eastern Wasteland. Now it was finally time to use it.
Li Tianxuan nodded. Long Chen’s intelligence wasn’t inferior to his. As long as his temper didn’t get the better of him, he wouldn’t lose out.
“Then since you’re so confident, I’ll leave it to you. I guess the Xuantian Dao Sect is about to become very lively. You’ll be in charge of slapping their faces, and I’ll be in charge of cowing them with power. We’ll split the work!” Li Tianxuan smiled.
“Xuan Master, can I ask how much power the Xuantian Dao Sect has?”
“Hahaha, little fellow, you don’t need to worry about that. You can go as far as you want. The foundation of the Xuantian Dao Sect is far greater than you imagine. Although the Pill Tower is strong, my Xuantian Dao Sect isn’t so easy to bully. When it comes to such a situation, whoever has more misgivings will suffer more. So since I’m fine with leaving this matter to you, you should know how much confidence I have. It just so happens I can use this chance to properly give a display to those fellows. It can count as my oath to the Central Plains that the Xuantian Dao Sect is rising. Anyone who’s not afraid of dying can come and try to stop us!” laughed Li Tianxuan grandly.
“Hahaha, good. If that’s the case, then I’m at ease. I’ll properly slap those idiots’ faces this time.” Long Chen was delighted.
With what Li Tianxuan said, Long Chen’s confidence rose. He just happened to be an expert in slapping faces.
Chapter 1308 The Crisis of the Xuantian Dao Sect
It had been over ten days since the battle at Devil Spirit Mountain. Countless experts were paying close attention to this matter as they made all kinds of guesses as to who had done this.
But on this day, an explosive piece of news spread. The main character behind this matter had been the Xuantian Dao Sect that had declined to the point that people had almost forgotten about it.
When they heard this news, people couldn’t believe it. The Xuantian Dao Sect had already declined. How could it possess such power?
Although they hadn’t seen the battle personally, just the aftermath and the remnant aura told them that it had been a chaotic battle of over ten thousand people. Just where had the Xuantian Dao Sect found so many experts?
Just as people were doubting this news, a photographic jade began to circulate through the Righteous path. When they saw the scenes of that battle, everyone’s jaws dropped.
The recording contained various parts of the battle. There was the Dragonblood Legion slaughtering the Corrupt path’s Foundation Forging disciples like predators hunting prey.
Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Wilde, and the other heavenly geniuses had even stepped foot on the Soul Transformation battlefield with a group of Kings. They had slain consecutive Soul Transformation experts.
Yue Zifeng’s attacks had been exceptionally stunning. Those powerful Soul Transformation experts had been unable to receive a single blow from him.
And then there was Long Chen fighting a rank nine Celestial in the air. That was a clash of peak geniuses that shook them all.
Just witnessing this recording caused everyone’s hearts to pound. The twists and turns of the battle had made them sweat for the Xuantian Dao Sect.
But in the end, the Xuantian Dao Sect had still managed to win. When they saw Long Chen being cursed by Gui Yan’s Underworld Soul Blood Curse, they all felt pity for him.
The Underworld Soul Blood Curse was something all the senior cultivators of the Righteous path knew of. It was a curse of definite death. There was no way to resolve it.
Huge waves immediately began to soar. The Xuantian Dao Sect’s power shook them all.
Just how had a declined sect managed to raise a terrifying group of disciples like the Dragonblood Legion?
It had to be known that just raising one or two geniuses on that level would require a sect to spend a huge amount of effort and resources. But the Xuantian Dao Sect had managed to raise a huge group of them without anyone knowing.
At the same time as they were shocked, their guards were also raised. The Dragonblood Legion was already so terrifying now. How much more frightening would they be once they advanced to the Jade Core realm or even the Soul Transformation realm?
With their talent and power, fighting across realms was as easy as eating to them. The people all felt a chill.
Not long after this news, another bit of information spread. Right before that battle, the Xuan Master of the Xuantian Dao Sect had used the Reincarnation Mirror to kill Pill Valley’s expert, Dan Sheng, as well as a group of ancient race experts.
This news was equally shocking. Just what was the Xuantian Dao Sect planning? They actually dared to offend Pill Valley and the ancient races. Were they mad?
Then a third piece of news followed: Long Chen was a variant Heaven-Seizer.
This news said that Long Chen was definitely a Heaven-Seizer, but he was different from the Heaven-Seizers that had appeared in history. He bestowed the power he stole from others to the people by his side.
The slain Celestials had their Heavenly Dao seeds extracted by Long Chen to be given to his people. That was why the Dragonblood Legion existed.
This news even contained information of Long Chen’s growth and his experiences in the Eastern Wasteland. They had investigated all of it.
Originally, they had only been a group of over three hundred people who had been nothing more than ordinary cultivators. Now those people had advanced to become rank five Celestials.
This news was absolutely stunning. This was a heaven-defying ability that terrified countless people.
Long Chen became an existence that all those sects feared, as this kind of ability naturally made people uneasy. Many of them thanked their luck that Long Chen had been cursed by the Underworld Soul Blood Curse. He was definitely doomed to die, so they were comforted.
And yet, before they could even relax, another piece of explosive news spread: Long Chen hadn’t died. He was still alive and well, while the Dragonblood Legion had all advanced to the Jade Core realm. Furthermore, their Celestial ranks had advanced once more.
This news shook the entire Righteous path. Just the Dragonblood Legion of rank five Foundation Forging Celestials had been terrifying enough.
Now they had become rank six, rank seven, and even rank eight Celestials. Were they trying to go against
the heavens?
Now the sects were no longer able to just continue watching. Those sects that had once suppressed the Xuantian Dao Sect were especially uneasy.
After declining, the Xuantian Dao Sect had been suppressed and humiliated countless times. Countless sects had hit them while they had been down.
There was a good expression: it was hard to send coal in the snow, but easy to throw rocks at someone who fell down a well. Once a sect declined, even the sects that had had good relations with them would stab them in the back, let alone the sects that had enmity with them.
The Xuantian Dao Sect’s forceful rise caused countless people to feel uneasy. At this time, Pill Valley and the ancient races announced that they would go to the Xuantian Dao Sect to get an accounting for this matter in three days.
Countless people added in their own opinions, condemning the Xuantian Dao Sect as criminals that needed to be put down.
Countless sects expressed their support for this. One reason was to suck up to Pill Valley, while another reason was their selfishness. They refused to allow the Xuantian Dao Sect to rise.
These sects had had past relationships with the Xuantian Dao Sect or simply hadn’t been too friendly with them in the past few years. They were afraid of the Xuantian Dao Sect’s rise, so they didn’t hesitate to join the army condemning them.
“You idiots, ignoring whether or not he really is a Heaven-Seizer, he has killed countless Corrupt experts from the Eastern Wasteland to the Central Plains. Just how much merit has he made to the Righteous path?
“So what if he’s a Heaven-Seizer? Isn’t he a disciple of the Righteous path? You’re just doing this because you’re jealous. It’s despicable.”
There were always some voices that spoke out against this injustice, but they were drowned out by countless other voices.
“Long Chen is a crazy homicidal devil. Who knows whether or not he’ll kill Righteous disciples to raise his power?”
“How do you know he only killed Corrupt experts to raise the Dragonblood Legion? Each year, countless geniuses of the Righteous path die. It’s very likely that many were killed secretly by Long Chen! We can’t leave such a scourge!”
