by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Long Chen’s words shocked the Life Star experts. Did he not want his life?
“Long Chen, your mouth’s tough. Today, let’s see whether your Xuantian Dao Sect can see tomorrow’s sun.”
What startled people was that these ancient race experts didn’t attack. Despite clearly wanting to kill Long Chen, they simply stood there.
“Old half-breeds, let’s see then,” said Long Chen indifferently. He knew exactly what the ancient races were doing.
They weren’t fools. They knew that this matter wouldn’t be so simple. There was very likely going to be a bloody battle, and they didn’t want to take the lead for fear of taking losses.
That made Long Chen look down on them even more. The old man’s words were entirely correct. The ancient races were just a pack of idiots who bullied the weak and cowered from the strong. Their viciousness was just an act for others to see. At a life and death juncture, they were just cowards.
“It’s already so tense here even though we’ve just arrived. It seems there will be a good show to watch today.”
Suddenly, another group of hundreds of people appeared. This group contained various people. There were men and women, young and old. There were dozens of young disciples amongst them.
But these young disciples’ power shocked everyone. They were all rank eight Celestials. There was one lanky man with a mole on his chin who had practically solidified Heavenly Dao energy circulating around him. It seemed he was a terrifying rank nine Celestial.
“People from the ancient family alliance!”
Someone let out a startled cry. It was unexpected that they would also come today. But what did they intend to do by bringing over so many disciples? To watch the fun? That was too much, wasn’t it?
“Everyone, don’t misunderstand. We were only passing by and were drawn over. We are leading our disciples to chase down a traitorous ancient family. It just so happens that this traitor has a bit of a relationship with Long Chen. So hearing the news of Long Chen, we decided to come and take a look. We definitely won’t interfere with your matter.”
One of the elders of the ancient family alliance explained with a smile. He sharply saw Zhuo Tianxiang and the ancient race experts’ frowns.
Hearing that they came from the ancient family alliance, Long Chen was startled. In the Eastern Wasteland, he had encountered the ancient family alliance twice.
The first time was after the Mo family had fled. The ancient family alliance’s people had come to ask him a few questions.
The second time was after the battle of the Immemorial Path. When he had been annihilating the Remote Heaven Gang, the ancient family alliance had also appeared. At that time, the ancient races and Pill Valley’s experts had also come out, using the excuse that he had killed too many people in the Immemorial Path. They said that they had come to determine justice for everyone, but they had actually just come for his secrets.
Then Feng Xinglie and Ling Yunzi had come and resolved that crisis. After he came to the Central Plains, Long Chen hadn’t heard anything from the ancient family alliance again.
For them to appear again and mention a traitor who had a relationship with him, Long Chen immediately thought of a bow-wielding person wearing a hat to cover his face. That person, who still had a bit of a baby fat, often liked to act mysterious and pose.
“It seems that Mo Nian’s not doing too bad himself!”
Long Chen smiled faintly. They were truly brothers in hardship. Seeing this mass of troops, it seemed Mo Nian was also being hunted down, and not on a small scale. They were truly fated to be brothers.
“You know Mo Nian? If you know where he is, it would be best if you told us right now.”
Long Chen had only just spoken when one of the young disciples opened his mouth. That disciple looked to be in his early twenties. His words were irritatingly arrogant.
But he was already a rank eight Celestial at the second Heavenstage of Jade Core. He truly had the qualifications to be arrogant.
“I know him. But why should I tell you? Are you my son?” said Long Chen disdainfully. This brat really was an idiot. Long Chen wasn’t afraid even when facing this many experts, so did he think threatening him with his little bit of power would work?
“Little brat, you dare to take advantage of me?!” Suddenly, before anyone else could speak, a woman who appeared to be in her thirties angrily cursed Long Chen.
Long Chen’s expression became odd. It seemed that this woman was that fellow’s mother, or she wouldn’t say he was taking advantage of her. This truly was a bit awkward.
Long Chen didn’t quite know what to say. He had just randomly said something, but he had provoked this woman.
“Tch, how did he take advantage of you? With my boss’s handsomeness and talent, where else could you find such a man? Him being your son’s father is your blessing as a mother. Don’t quibble after getting such an advantage.”
Seeing that Long Chen was speechless, Guo Ran hastily covered for him. As a result, he really did well. Now Long Chen was even more embarrassed. He had an urge to kick this brat. He had definitely done this on purpose.
“Bastard, die!” The young man roared and wings appeared on his back. The aura of a rank eight Celestial erupted, and he transformed into a ray of light that shot at Long Chen.
“Scram. You don’t have the qualifications to get close to my boss!”
Gu Yang suddenly smashed his spear out. The man snorted and took out a sword.
BOOM!
With an explosive sound, both Gu Yang and the young man were knocked into the distance by the other’s power.
Gu Yang’s heart shook. This man’s control of Heavenly Dao energy was extremely great. He had felt some strange energy from the man’s sword pushing him back, causing him to be at a disadvantage.
He was actually capable of using such a queer technique with his thin sword against a heavy spear. That showed just how great his combat experience was as well. It was no wonder he was so arrogant. This kind of power was truly great.
Gu Yang was startled, but the young man was also stunned. The power of his sword was to absorb his opponent’s power and attack back with it. But Gu Yang’s power was too condensed for him to absorb much of it. As a result, things went out of his expectations and they were at a draw.
Long Chen was also extremely shocked. This many powerful experts were hunting Mo Nian? He suddenly thought of something, and a disdainful expression appeared on his face. He said, “You should give up. With just your little bit of ability, you wouldn’t even be able to block three attacks from Mo Nian. Why bother sending yourself to your death?”
“Hmph, so what if Mo Nian can cut down consecutive Soul Transformation experts? His cultivation base still hasn’t broken through the Jade Core realm, so I can easily kill him. Do you dare let me have a fair fight against him?” sneered the man, trying to provoke Long Chen.
Long Chen immediately feigned anger, roaring, “What nonsense! Mo Nian hasn’t broken through to Jade Core? How long do you think it’s been? Do you think his cultivation base will never increase? Foolish.”
“You’re the one who’s foolish! Just a month ago, Mo Nian was only-”
“Feng-er, don’t take his bait. He doesn’t know anything about Mo Nian’s current situation, and he’s just trying to get you to tell him,” said his mother, cutting him off.
Long Chen smiled. Not bad, not bad. He hadn’t expected to learn news about Mo Nian here. Although he wasn’t able to get much out of them, it was enough.
To be able to kill Soul Transformation experts in the Foundation Forging realm, he could truly be described as a monster. No wonder the ancient family alliance would send so many people to hunt him down.
Based on this, they were trying to find Mo Nian and have their disciples beat him. It seemed they were treating it as a hunt.
Long Chen wasn’t clear on the enmity between Mo Nian and the ancient family alliance, but he wasn’t worried about him. That little brat wa
s so slippery, nothing could happen to him.
“Now that so many esteemed guests have come, don’t you think it’s rude if you don’t show up, Li Tianxuan?”
Just at this moment, a group of ten people walked into the Xuantian Plaza. The speaker was an icy-faced elder.
Chapter 1311 Expert Reinforcements Arrive
These ten people were wearing light blue robes. The front of their robes had a large immortal character embroidered onto them: Alliance. Around this character was a dark blue circle, and it represented the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring.
This was the sign of the Martial Heaven Alliance. These people were all Life Star experts, and their robes were not the same as the Martial Heaven Alliance’s people that had appeared at the eastern sea. Their statuses were clearly even higher.
The leader was an icy-faced elder with electric eyes. He gave off immense pressure. His chin was a bit long, and he gave off a very unfriendly feeling.
“It’s not that I, Li Tianxuan, am putting on airs, but that there are many people who aren’t qualified for me to personally receive them. The Martial Heaven Alliance is naturally an exception.”
Li Tianxuan suddenly materialized in front of this group of experts. Behind him were all the higher-ups of the Xuantian Dao Sect, the experts above Foundation Forging.
Li Tianxuan might be able to ignore the people from Pill Valley, the ancient races, and the ancient family alliance, but he had to treat the Martial Heaven Alliance with sincerity. After all, the Xuantian Dao Sect was under the administration of the Martial Heaven Alliance.
The Martial Heaven Alliance was the sum of the Righteous path’s powers. It administered the entire Righteous path, and its goal was to point the blades of the Righteous path toward the Corrupt path.
The Martial Heaven Alliance was where all the wealth of the Righteous path was concentrated. Each year, each Righteous sect would send some of their resources to the Martial Heaven Alliance as a tax.
Those resources were used for the daily costs of the Martial Heaven Alliance and their reward system. Anyone who had achieved merit in the battles against the Corrupt path could apply for a reward from the Martial Heaven Alliance.
Once the Martial Heaven Alliance investigated and collected proof, if the circumstances were verified, they would give out rewards in accordance with how much damage a person or sect had done to the Corrupt path. The possible rewards and criteria for them were very explicit.
In the past, the Martial Heaven Alliance had always been fair, just, and open with their actions. Their conduct had won all the Righteous path’s trust and support. They had been the most solid support of the Righteous path.
But in the past few years, a few problems had gradually appeared in the Martial Heaven Alliance, causing some friction between it and the Righteous sects.
Previously, the Martial Heaven Alliance had only been in charge of overseeing the overall battle strategy against the Corrupt path. But recently, they had slowly started to interfere in the competition between sects, causing quite a bit of dissatisfaction amongst the smaller sects.
After all, it was unavoidable to have some conflicts between sects. That was very normal. But if a third party decided to interfere, the flavor changed.
For example, if two brothers fought, no matter how they fought, they were still brothers. Once their fight was over, they would remain brothers.
But when two brothers fought, and an outsider came and was biased to one side, perhaps even helping that side defeat the other, the conflict would immediately escalate. They would become enemies.
There were now quite a few sects that had been harmed heavily because of the Martial Heaven Alliance’s meddling. That was what caused the Righteous sects to accuse the Martial Heaven Alliance of misconduct and begin to refuse to cooperate with them.
Seeing how much fury they had incited, the Martial Heaven Alliance had stopped interfering with the sects. It could count as lowering their heads.
But it seemed that after lowering their heads, the Martial Heaven Alliance also became dissatisfied with the Righteous sects. They felt like their good intentions had been spat on, and they began to entirely stop caring about the Righteous sects.
In the past few years, they had even lost their original initiative in the fight against the Corrupt path. Now, they were only fulfilling their basic mission mechanically. They simply handed out the rewards. Other than major events, they wouldn’t appear anymore.
As for this time, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s fight at Devil Spirit Mountain had shaken the Central Plains. Other than requiring a huge amount of resources as a reward, they had also killed experts from Pill Valley and the ancient races. The Martial Heaven Alliance had no choice but to appear. After all, the Xuantian Dao Sect was one of their members.
Considering how this matter involved Pill Valley and the ancient races, huge waves could erupt from this. So they had come to investigate. The Martial Heaven Alliance’s position in the Righteous path was unshakeable. Even Pill Valley and the ancient races wouldn’t want to offend them. Offending the Martial Heaven Alliance was equivalent to offending the entire Righteous path, so the consequences would be heavy.
With someone from the Martial Heaven Alliance appearing, Li Tianxuan had no choice but to personally appear. More and more experts were appearing in the Xuantian Plaza, and this matter was growing even more complicated.
Seeing the people from the Martial Heaven Alliance, the ancient races’ experts’ expressions changed slightly. For the Martial Heaven Alliance to appear here, it seemed that they had come to smooth things over. Turning something big into something small and then waving off that small thing was their specialty. The ancient races had come prepared to destroy the Xuantian Dao Sect, but with the Martial Heaven Alliance’s people here, it seemed that wouldn’t be possible.
Seeing Li Tianxuan appear, the expression of the Martial Heaven Alliance’s elder softened slightly. After all, this was giving face to the Martial Heaven Alliance.
The elder nodded. Turning to the people from Pill Valley, the ancient races, and the ancient family alliance, he said, “I am Deng Cang, the vice regional master of the Eastern Xuan Region’s alliance.
The Eastern Xuan Region he mentioned referred to the eastern region of the Central Plains. The Central Plains were so large that they were split into five regions, north, south, east, west, and the central region.
Looking up from the sky, the five regions of the Central Plains were like a copper coin. At the middle was a square, which was the Central Xuan Region. The rest was evenly divided into four regions, while the Xuantian Dao Sect was within the eastern region.
Deng Cang continued, “I came specifically for the matter of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Yes, the Xuantian Dao Sect truly has some fault in this matter…”
Long Chen frowned. What was this old man doing? If the first thing he did was declare them guilty, how was he supposed to fix it?
He stealthily glanced at Li Tianxuan, only to see the latter give him a special look. Long Chen instantly understood.
“I’m sorry, but vice regional master Deng, my Xuantian Dao Sect is unable to accept that we did anything wrong,” interrupted Long Chen.
The other experts were stunned that Long Chen would be so brazen. This vice regional master Deng Cang had clearly come to help him, but why was he being this rude?
“Long Chen, don’t be rude! Apologize to vice regional master Deng Cang,” shouted Li Tianxuan immediately.
Long Chen shook his head. “Xuan Master, I’m sorry. Disciple simply has a temper. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. As for manners, that’s for later. The most important thing is that our Xuantian Dao Sect did nothing wrong, so my apologies vice regional master Deng Cang, I had no choice but to interrupt you.”
Long Chen and Li Tianxuan’s cooperation was flawless, not allowing Deng Cang to have a way to vent his fury. If he expressed his anger now, it would seem like he wasn’t magnanimous.
“What nonsense! Are you saying that
it’s right for you to kill others?!” shouted one of the Life Star experts standing behind Zhuo Tianxiang.
“Is it really fun to help a dog eat shit?” sneered Long Chen. This boot-licking ability was too low-level. It was nauseating.
“Long Chen, don’t be rude!” chided Li Tianxuan.
“My apologies, Xuan Master. I’m unable to be polite to those who eat shit all day and then spout that shit to others,” said Long Chen helplessly.
“Brat, you must want to die!” raged that Life Star expert.
“Old bastard, in another three years, my boss will be able to kill you like killing a chicken! Do you want to try offending him some more?!” Guo Ran finally couldn’t bear it anymore and cursed the Life Star expert.
The rest of the Dragonblood Legion was also infuriated. It was clearly this group of ‘guests’ that had established a heaven-encompassing net to hunt down Long Chen. Could it be that others were supposed to just be killed obediently without counterattacking?
Long Chen and Guo Ran’s arrogance immediately infuriated all the experts. Just as they were about to start cursing them, another group of people arrived.
“Hahaha, the youngsters these days are truly good. They have guts and intelligence, and bravery in spades. It wasn’t a waste for me to come such a long way to see today’s heroes.”
Everyone was startled and hastily looked back. They saw a group of over ten people slowly walking into the Xuantian Plaza.
The person at the front looked like a kindhearted elder in his fifties. His medium build was a bit pudgy. He didn’t look like a cultivator but an elderly shopkeeper instead. That magnanimous smile was something that put others at ease.
The group behind him was wearing luxurious robes and had graceful airs. Amongst them, a young man gave Long Chen a thumbs up.
Long Chen immediately felt like flowers were blooming in his heart. He hadn’t expected them to come at this time. Now it was going to be lively.
