by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
One of the Divine Shield Alliance’s disciples lost his temper and pointed at Long Chen, cursing, “Long San, you-!”
Pow. Long Chen swung his hand and slapped him in the face.
“Do you think the name Long San is something you can say? Call me Master Long!” declared Long Chen.
However, as soon as he slapped him, he regretted it. Long Chen had forgotten that he had reached the great circle of Foundation Forging. His cultivation base had advanced by an immense amount.
Although he hadn’t used his spiritual yuan to support his slap, the pure power of his physical body had risen greatly. With just his lightest force, that disciple’s head almost exploded.
Fortunately, the disciple’s Pill Flame had automatically protected him when he had sensed the danger. Otherwise, this slap would have killed him.
His head was deformed, looking almost like a cracked egg. He hastily used his Heavenly Dao energy to heal and consumed a medicinal pill. Although he quickly recovered, that didn’t change the fact that he had almost died just now. Long Chen’s slap had replaced his fury with terror.
“Long San, you’re courting death!” roared Jiang Zijun.
“I’ve been courting death for a long time, but no one has managed to kill me. As for you? You’re not even fit to try,” snorted Long Chen.
“Long San, be careful in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. Jiang Zijun will definitely try to kill you inside. Although he’s not a pure flame cultivator, he can use the pressure of a rank nine Celestial and the power of his Earth Flame. You aren’t his match,” warned the Pill Fairy through a spiritual message.
“Yes, I understand. I won’t do anything stupid,” responded Long Chen in the same manner.
With the curse afflicting his body, not even the Pill Fairy could sense his true power. All she could sense was his powerful Spiritual Strength and his powerful body.
However, just those two points were not enough. His Earth Flame was ranked outside the top thirty. He would definitely be suppressed by Jiang Zijun.
“I’ll transmit the location of the Nirvana Scripture’s original tablet, as well as a detailed map of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, to you,” said the Pill Fairy. An image suddenly appeared in Long Chen’s mind. It was a map marked with the position of the Nirvana Scripture.
“Thank you. I’ll remember this favor.” Long Chen was truly grateful. The Pill Fairy had helped him out immensely.
It had to be known that this opening of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region was for disciples to test their luck. Pill Valley didn’t offer the disciples maps.
The two of them were communicating with spiritual messages. From the outside, it looked like they were staring deeply into each other’s eyes. Suddenly, the sound of countless hearts shattering rang out.
Even Kan Dongze’s gaze turned a bit cold. Within Pill Valley, every male disciple worshipped the Pill Fairy. Thus, for her to express special treatment to Long Chen made them almost go insane with jealousy.
However, Kan Dongze’s lips then curled. He noticed a certain person looking like he was about to explode. Yes, it was Jiang Zijun.
“Don’t just look at that woman. Remember, you’re in charge of looking after Jiang Zijun in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. Don’t let him slaughter Long San right at the beginning. If that happened, our plans would just be a huge joke,” warned Dan Yanxue.
“I know. It’ll be no problem.” Kan Dongze nodded. He didn’t need this reminder.
“Don’t forget to arrange for the others,” continued Dan Yanxue.
“It has been arranged. Once they enter the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, they’ll find their own targets. It’ll be easy for them to take Long San’s face and kill their targets.”
Dan Yanxue nodded. She no longer said anything in case anyone noticed.
Just at this moment, another group of disciples walked over, and Long Chen was slightly startled. These disciples were powerful. They had intense flame fluctuations coming off of them. Furthermore, they emitted a battle aura that the Divine Pill Hall’s disciples didn’t possess. These were flame cultivators that had seen a true bloody battlefield.
The majority of them were in the Jade Core realm, and they had extremely powerful auras. Their leader was a large man. With his sideburns and bronze eyes, he looked very ferocious. However, he seemed tired, like he had just rushed over from the outside world.
In fact, many of these people looked as travel-weary as him. They had clearly rushed over from some place outside Pill Valley, returning specifically for the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
The opening of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region was a benefit that Pill Valley gave its disciples. It had Earth Flame Spirit Beasts that they could subdue. As for what kind of Earth Flame they got, it would be up to their luck and power.
The top twenty Earth Flames could not be exchanged with merit points inside Pill Valley. If a disciple wanted such a thing, they would need to find it themselves, usually in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
Even Kan Dongze, Dan Yanxue, and Jiang Zijun were using flames outside the top twenty of Earth Flames Ranking.
A portion of these people had entered the Heaven Dragon Flame Region before, but their luck hadn’t been good and they hadn’t gained any suitable Earth Flames. It had to be known that Earth Flames that were too powerful weren’t existences they could subdue. Instead, there was the danger of them dying.
According to Pill Valley’s rules, Jade Core disciples and below had three chances to enter the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. If they didn’t obtain anything in those three attempts, it could only be said that they had no destiny with the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. In the future, they probably wouldn’t have much more room for growth if they couldn’t find a powerful Earth Flame, and so Pill Valley might just abandon them.
The Pill Fairy was naturally an exception. She possessed an innate divine flame and didn’t need to subdue Earth Flames. So she wasn’t entering the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
“Are you the Pill Fairy? I am Qu Dajiang. Well met.” The large man cupped his fists to the Pill Fairy. His voice was like a roaring flood.
Long Chen’s heart shook. Based on this person’s aura, he probably also specialized in power. He hadn’t expected there to be a flame cultivator with such a powerful physical body.
“Senior apprentice-brother Qu is too courteous,” responded the Pill Fairy.
The Pill Fairy felt like she had heard his name before, but she couldn’t remember.
After greeting the Pill Fairy, Qu Dajiang didn’t say anything else. He found a place to close his eyes and rest.
The atmosphere became a bit strange. It was like there was an undercurrent flowing within the air, making it hard for them to breathe.
Just at this moment, the transportation formation lit up, forming a large barrier. Powerful spatial fluctuations came from within the barrier.
The Heaven Dragon Flame Region was its own minor world. It wasn’t within the Martial Heaven Continent. To reach it, they had to go through this transportation formation.
“Let’s go.” Kan Dongze led his people in.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine!” Long Chen waved to the Pill Fairy and Wan Qing, clenching his fist to express victory to them as he hastily followed Kan Dongze and Dan Yanxue.
They had only just stepped into the transportation formation when the world spun around them. Long Chen felt like he had entered a stove. Waves of heat assaulted him. An ordinary person would ignite just from breathing here.
Even he had to circulate his flame energy to protect himself. Otherwise, his robes would be incinerated.
When the world stopped spinning, he saw a sea of lava. In the distance were high mountains, yet they also didn’t seem like mountains. Instead, they were like islands rolling on the lava. Everything here was filled with dense flame energy.
“Long San, hurry and go,” said Kan Dongze.
“Don’t think you can order me around. I’ll leave whenever I want,” sneered Long Ch
en. He crushed a teleportation talisman and instantly disappeared from their sight.
Chapter 1358 Scarlet Blood Heart Flame
“There’s no saving this bastard!” Kan Dongze couldn’t help being infuriated as he looked at where Long Chen had just been.
“Don’t care so much about a dead person. They’ve also come, so as long as you keep watch of Jiang Zijun, there definitely won’t be any problems. Everyone else has their jobs as well,” said Dan Yanxue.
The reason Dan Yanxue had rushed in here ahead of the Divine Shield Alliance’s disciples was for Long Chen to be teleported away before them. That was to avoid Jiang Zijun targeting him.
With the Divine Shield Alliance’s disciples also entering, everyone began to scatter, all of them searching for their own opportunities.
“Alright, the game of cat and mouse has begun. Remember, when you find Long San, release the signal. I want to make him live a life worse than death!” shouted Jiang Zijun to the people beside him.
By the time Jiang Zijun entered, Dan Yanxue and the others had already rushed away. He knew that Dan Yanxue and the others wouldn’t just watch as he killed Long San so easily, so he decided to let them take this early lead so they could start this game of cat and mouse.
“Yes!” All the Divine Shield Alliance’s disciples scattered. They had even more people than the Divine Spear Alliance, and their chances of running into Long Chen were greater, especially with them having been given the order to hunt down Long Chen as their top priority.
As for looking for Earth Flames, that could be done slowly. In any case, the Heaven Dragon Flame Region would be open for a month. Although it was huge, and a month’s time wasn’t even close to being enough to reach its edge, they all started from the same spot. For this many people to look for one person instead of Earth Flames made it very easy for them to stumble into either of them.
Just at this moment, the large Qu Dajiang also entered.
“Brother Qu, if you encounter Long San, I hope you won’t kill him immediately. I have even better ways to handle him and make him feel just how luxurious death is,” said Jiang Zijun.
“That’s up to Long San’s luck. When I attack, my aim is to kill. But I am interested in this suggestion. Goodbye.” Qu Dajiang was indifferent. Flames erupted out of him, and a pair of flame wings appeared on his back. He rushed off like a shooting star.
The Flame Divine Palace’s disciples entered the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, all of them excitedly rushing off to find their own opportunities.
…
On the other side of the transportation formation, the Pill Fairy was slowly walking away when she paused and looked back.
She suddenly recalled where she had heard the name Qu Dajiang.
“Big sister, what is it?” asked Wan Qing.
“It’s nothing. Let’s go back.”
The Pill Fairy shook her head and led Wan Qing away, but worry still lingered on her face. It was no wonder she had felt Qu Dajiang to be familiar. He was Qu Chunsheng’s half-brother. One of them walked the path of the alchemist, while one walked the path of a flame cultivator. And even amongst flame cultivators, Qu Dajiang was extremely terrifying. He was a rank nine Celestial.
Long Chen had slain his brother, Qu Chunsheng, and now Qu Dajiang had entered the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. His goal was obvious.
However, they had already entered, and it was impossible for her to stop them. The only one Long San could rely on was himself.
…
Space shook, and Long Chen appeared atop a mountain, which composed entirely of rock. The mountain had some faint crevices in an almost honeycomb-like fashion.
This was the result of the flame energy constantly washing over it. A burning smell still lingered in the air.
Looking out from this high mountain, he saw a sea of lava around him. Well... it was more like a swamp of lava. But he couldn’t see far because the heat caused space to twist, cutting his effective visual range to about ten miles.
“For me to be able to teleport within such an unstable space, Pill Valley really cares about me.” Long Chen chortled. That ancient teleportation talisman he had just used was an absolute treasure. The talisman cultivators of today couldn’t possibly create such a talisman.
In order to allow Long Chen to get a head start, Pill Valley had given him such a precious talisman. That showed just how highly they viewed him.
“I shouldn’t be in a rush to get to the original tablet. I have to subdue some Earth Flames first. Those bastards all have stronger Earth Flames than mine. It’d be troublesome to run into them as I am now.”
Long Chen looked at his surroundings and then checked with the map the Pill Fairy had given him. He realized that he was just a thousand miles from the transportation point.
“What the? Didn’t that say it could send me up to ten thousand miles away? Tch, it’s definitely my bad luck again.”
Long Chen extended a hand, and Huo Long appeared. He jumped onto Huo Long’s back and they rushed off.
“Huo Long, share your line of sight with me.” Through Huo Long’s senses, Long Chen was able to see even further within this fiery space.
Within the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, his sight and Spiritual Strength were suppressed. But Huo Long was like a fish in water here. If he hadn’t told Huo Long not to cause a disturbance, it’d probably be roaring excitedly.
The air was filled with dense flame energy, which was the best nourishment to Huo Long. It was like dense spiritual qi to cultivators.
Long Chen rushed off with Huo Long for six hours. Within the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, Huo Long’s speed was extremely terrifying.
They had traveled a great distance, yet when he checked the map, he found that this great distance was absolutely nothing compared to the Heaven Dragon Flame Region as a whole.
They were in the midst of traveling when a roar came from below them. A huge figure charged out at Huo Long.
It was an Earth Flame Spirit Beast in the shape of a flame python. It emitted a powerful pressure.
“Huo Long, don’t stand on courtesy. Eat it.” Long Chen laughed. This was a feast for Huo Long.
Huo Long, who had originally kept its size to just three hundred meters long, suddenly grew explosively. Previously, Long Chen had told it to conceal its aura so it wouldn’t be so easily sensed. But now was the time to start drawing the attention of the Earth Flames.
The flame python’s size was less than a tenth of Huo Long’s thirty thousand meters. It was instantly devoured.
Huo Long’s body suddenly flashed as it instantly absorbed all its energy. Its aura also increased in power.
“That Earth Flame Spirit Beast probably wasn’t ranked very high. Furthermore, it wasn’t fully matured. Huo Long, let’s continue eating.”
Long Chen and Huo Long continued. With Huo Long no longer needing to conceal its aura, it began to run rampant throughout this region, seeking to draw more Earth Flames.
“Oh, we’ve been noticed?”
Perhaps it had been drawn over by Huo Long’s provocation, but a terrifying aura suddenly began to rush over to their location.
A huge flame leopard suddenly leaped out of the twisting space. It was as large as a mountain, and the pressure coming from it made Long Chen’s heart shake.
This flame leopard had copper coin-like patterns all over its body. Each one of those copper coins had a blood-colored flower at the center.
“Ranked nineteenth on the Earth Flame Rankings - the Scarlet Blood Heart Flame?”
This was a treasure that delighted Long Chen. He hadn’t expected to be so lucky as to run into a top twenty Earth Flame so quickly.
The flame leopard charged forward like a violent Magical Beast, its fur bristling. It sent a claw at Huo Long, while Huo Long met it head-on. As a result, Huo Long was blown apart into runes by the claw.
Huo Long was unable to even bear a single attack from the flame leopard. This fact shocked Long Chen.
It had to
be known that during this time, Huo Long had been absorbing a huge amount of Earth Flame essence. Its power had risen greatly, and yet this flame leopard still out-classed it. It was truly worthy of being ranked nineteenth on the Earth Flame Ranking.
A fierce roar rang out as Huo Long condensed again. It attacked the flame leopard.
Fierce collisions shook the world. This was the most primitive kind of battle. There was no technique as they simply collided again and again.
Huo Long’s technique and flexibility were definitely a hundred times better than this flame leopard, but the difference in flame energy was too great for it to take advantage of that. In just a moment, it was torn in two by the flame leopard. After reforming, Huo Long’s power dropped slightly, and it let out a furious roar. It was powerless against the flame leopard.
“Huo Long, don’t panic. Stall it!” Long Chen had been closely observing the flame leopard. This natural existence was truly powerful. Ordinary Jade Core experts would be unable to even approach it before being incinerated.
It wasn’t that Huo Long wasn’t strong, but that this fellow was too terrifying. However, natural existences formed by the heavens always had a fatal weakness. They didn’t have brains.
Long Chen formed hand seals and began to chant. Countless flame runes crazily gathered at an unprecedented rate.
“This is…” Long Chen was shocked. The Nirvana Scripture was many times stronger here than in the outside world. Practically, all the flame energy suddenly became like obedient housepets rushing over to assist him.
He was surprised, but he didn’t bother with that for now. Huo Long was already starting to break apart again.
Flame chains condensed in the air, each one of them several meters thick. They came from every direction, surrounding the flame leopard.
“Pill Valley’s flame arts are truly powerful!”
Long Chen was delighted. Sensing the power of these flame chains, Long Chen profoundly experienced the terror of Pill Valley.
“Heaven Earth Prison!” These chains suddenly became like millions of serpents, forming a huge cage that enveloped both the flame leopard and Huo Long.
