by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
This so-called limit referred to never being able to advance again after making their breakthrough. In other words, once a rank five Celestial broke through to the Life Star realm, their cultivation bases wouldn’t advance again.
These people’s cultivation bases would be stuck in the state of someone who had just broken through. They couldn’t even count as having reached the first Heavenstage. It was a bit similar to how Liu Cang had used a Life Star Bead to break through.
However, these people were even weaker than Liu Cang, and their weapons were all inferior King items, with half not even having reached the King item level. As for Gu Yang’s spear, it was an Ancestral item Long Chen had brought out of Devil Spirit Mountain.
In the first clash, that curved blade was as weak as paper, and the Life Star expert was slain.
“Kill them all. Meng Qi, see if you can soulsearch them.” Long Chen waved his hand, giving out his orders.
“Kill!”
Gu Yang felt like his heart was about to burst with joy after killing a Life Star expert in one blow. This feeling of accomplishment was truly stimulating. His spear unleashed a wave of spear-images at the Corrupt experts.
The Dragonblood Legion instantly surrounded those people. Tang Wan-er, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan all attacked. What they found strange was that these Life Star experts were truly weak. They were all killed in just a few exchanges.
As for the Soul Transformation experts, they were even weaker, weaker than ordinary Jade Core disciples. They might not even be a match for the Xuantian Dao Sect’s outer sect Jade Core disciples.
The Dragonblood Legion had never encountered such weak Life Star experts. They were all slain in just a few breaths, dumbfounding the Dragonblood warriors. They were just too weak.
“Boss, what’s going on?” Gu Yang’s excitement vanished. He was just stunned at how weak these people had been.
“How was it, Meng Qi?” Long Chen didn’t reply to him, instead turning to Meng Qi.
Meng Qi’s hands slowly came out of their seal. A rune on her forehead faded, and she opened her eyes, shaking her head. “Their souls were filled with restrictions, and I couldn’t get anything of value from them. They’re the Corrupt path’s weakest existences and aren’t even fighting experts. Normally, they are in charge of gathering information, and thus the Corrupt path doesn’t view them highly. These people’s longevity was coming to an end, so they were sent to kill any disciples that entered from this channel. But there is one piece of important news I obtained. They didn’t enter from this spatial portal. Instead, they entered through other means.”
“Other means?”
“Yes. Their memories were sealed, but by scouring the fragments of their souls, I was able to piece together that they had entered the Spirit World from a large transportation formation. Furthermore, the number of people that came with them was extremely, extremely great.” Meng Qi was now worried.
The Corrupt path’s transportation formation could dispatch experts above the Jade Core realm. Meanwhile, the outside world’s experts could only send in Jade Core disciples and below. In this case, the Righteous path’s disciples would be slaughtered if they encountered the Corrupt path here. The scent of a scheme was growing stronger.
The Corrupt path’s experts had entered the Spirit World in force. For the Dragonblood Legion to have also entered, they had essentially stepped into the Corrupt path’s hive.
Long Chen thought about it for a while before shaking his head. “The old man said constantly using brains to resolve problems will cause a person’s body to regress and their guts to shrink. There’s no need to think too much about it. It doesn’t matter what they’re scheming. All we have to do is flip the heavens as usual. When has the Dragonblood Legion ever been afraid?”
Then he raised his hand and summoned the flying boat. “Since they want to play with their secret schemes, we’ll just use an open scheme. Let’s move out!”
Chapters 1400 Piles of White Bones
The flying boat shot through the air like a streak of light. It was completely unbridled and fearless. Below them was an endless sea of trees.
“Boss, don’t you think this is too unbridled?” asked Guo Ran as he controlled the flying boat.
“No need to worry, just keep flying like this. The more carefully we travel, the easier they’ll find us. Perhaps by flying so openly, we can pass ourselves off as belonging here,” said Long Chen.
Since the Corrupt path could enter this place without any restrictions on their cultivation base, Long Chen wanted to test if the tree demons might view them as from the Corrupt path.
He also realized why they hadn’t seen disciples of other sects rushing over to the spatial portal. The sect leaders of the various sects must be aware of some secrets and had warned their disciples not to come.
He didn’t know why the Xuantian Tower would prevent Li Tianxuan from telling him those things, but he knew the Xuantian Tower wouldn’t harm him. If the Xuantian Tower wouldn’t tell him, he would find the answer on his own.
“What direction should we go then?” asked Guo Ran.
“Just close your eyes and fly. As long as you don’t fly into any mountains, you can go wherever you want,” replied Long Chen.
“Boss, can you not mess around so much? I’m talking seriously.”
“I’m talking seriously as well. The Spirit World’s huge, and I don’t even know where the person I’m looking for is. So you can fly wherever you want,” said Long Chen.
Last time, he had come with Meng Qi to the Spirit World, and they had only seen a single corner of the Spirit World. They hadn’t entered very deeply.
When he compared the huge trees they had seen at that time with the Heaven Devouring Forest’s tree demons, he found that what they had seen last time weren’t worth anything. So they could fly around blindly.
“Heavens, these trees are giant!”
Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, and the others all let out a startled cry. The trees in front of them blocked out the sun, turning the world dark.
“We were just in the outer region before. Now we’ve entered the real Spirit World. Guo Ran, keep flying like before. Just charge through directly,” said Long Chen.
These trees were so tall that the flying boat couldn’t fly above them. The airflow that high would cause huge resistance and greatly impact their speed.
Guo Ran involuntarily gulped at the sight of these somewhat sinister giant trees. He had never seen trees like this. They gave off a feeling similar to Magical Beasts baring their teeth.
However, with Long Chen’s orders, he could only steel himself and send the flying boat charging through their midst.
The darkness in front of them was endless. The sunlight was completely blocked by the leaves. This was a world of darkness, of deathly silence.
However, the flying boat didn’t slow down. It continued charging forward, and these sinister trees didn’t do anything to stop them.
Long Chen narrowed his eyes. This was truly abnormal. Although these tree demons were low tier, they definitely had to have some intelligence. According to reason, they shouldn’t permit the flying boat to continue so brazenly.
“Increase the speed.”
Guo Ran slowly increased the flying boat’s speed to its max. Just as everyone’s hearts were clenching tightly, these huge trees opened a path for them.
“Boss, why is the path starting to curve?” called out Guo Ran. The path the trees had opened was not straight.
“It doesn’t matter. Just follow the path,” said Long Chen.
This wide path finally let in some sunlight. It was the only light in this world of darkness. They rushed forward on this path, but everyone was still tense.
Through this flight, they finally recognized the terror of the Spirit World. Even after three days and nights of travel, they were still on this path.
The flying boat was going at max speed. The distance they had crossed would probably be enough to even cross the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring.
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br /> “Boss, another flying boat has appeared!” cried out Guo Ran.
Another flying boat was up ahead, but it was much smaller than theirs. After all, this flying boat had been stolen from Pill Valley. It was the highest grade flying boat.
Just a few seconds after noticing the second flying boat, they caught up.
“It’s from the ancient races.”
Everyone easily recognized that the flying boat belonged to the ancient races just from the mark.
There were thousands of ancient race experts on the flying boat. An elder standing at the front of the flying boat shouted, “Which power are you from? Why haven’t you displayed your symbol?”
“Boss, what do we do?” asked Guo Ran.
Long Chen thought about it for a moment. He couldn’t figure out why these ancient race experts would be here. Furthermore, that elder was clearly a Life Star expert.
“Eliminate them.”
“Boss, are you joking?!” Guo Ran jumped in shock.
“Don’t waste words. Slowly open the barrier. We’re attacking,” said Long Chen.
The flying boat’s runes lit up. The barrier slowly opened, allowing the ancient race experts to see which power they were from.
They were first dumbfounded to see a mass of people. But when they saw one guy in particular who was waving at them, when they saw that extremely friendly smile, their expressions instantly changed.
“Long Chen?!”
BOOM!
Just as they were shocked by the sight of Long Chen, a huge cannonball smashed into their flying boat.
The ancient races hadn’t expected that they would be attacked. And Long Chen was truly evil to store up energy as they slowly lowered the barrier.
As a result, the ancient races’ flying boat exploded, and all the people on it were killed. Even the Life Star expert was not an exception.
Because it had come so suddenly, they hadn’t been prepared at all. The explosion of their flying boat’s core was so destructive that not even their Yuan Spirits escaped.
Although the explosion also affected the giant trees, Long Chen had told Guo Ran to fly away at top speed as soon as the attack was launched. They were already rushing away.
“Strange. Why didn’t these trees attack us?” wondered Guo Ran.
“It’s not strange. The ancient races and the Corrupt path have very likely come to reinforce the Heaven Devouring Forest,” said Long Chen.
From his various tests and the fact that Li Tianxuan had wanted to warn him, as well as Pill Valley’s relationship with the Heaven Devouring Forest, Long Chen had come up with a very brazen theory.
The forest divinity he had encountered in the outskirts of the Phoenix Cry Empire had possessed a holy and divine aura. It had been completely different from the berserk and evil aura of these tree demons.
It was likely that the Spirit World possessed two great powers. One was the side of the forest divinity, while the Heaven Devouring Forest represented the other side.
As for the experts that said that a war was being fought in the Spirit World, that was nonsense. It was part of the Corrupt path’s scheme. They were trying to draw more adventurers to their deaths.
There had been so many experts guarding the spatial portal. Although they were incredibly weak for the Dragonblood Legion, they could easily slaughter Jade Core disciples.
Most importantly, this situation in the Spirit World was definitely known by Li Tianxuan. His warning was definitely going to be that other sects weren’t letting their disciples come because this wasn’t a good opportunity, but a sinister trap instead.
They continued flying for two more days, and the huge trees slowly dwindled in number. Replacing the forest was a barren mountain range. The ground had been destroyed, and the scars of battle were still present. A dense scent of blood still hung in the air.
“It seems we’ve reached the battlefield. Let’s continue onward, but carefully. We might end up joining a bloody battle at any moment, and there won’t be any time to warm up,” called out Long Chen. He couldn’t conceal his excitement.
He had owed this debt for a long, long time, and that pressure had been like a stone weighing down his heart the entire time. He wanted to cast it away as soon as possible.
As they continued onward, he realized that this battlefield was even larger than he had thought. The ground below them was stained red with blood, and there were huge skeletons as large as mountains. Their flesh had already vanished, but their skeletons still emitted terrifying auras.
At first, they only appeared occasionally, but as the flying boat advanced, more and more of them appeared. The entire ground became covered with white bones.
“Did we end up coming to hell?” Guo Ran couldn’t help muttering as he stared at the white bones covering the bloodstained ground. This scene was truly similar to the hell spoken in legends.
Suddenly, they heard a furious roar in the distance, and the ground trembled. A ray of light soared into the sky, but they were still too far to tell what was going on.
“We’re going!”
The flying boat sped off in the direction of the light.
Chapter 1401 Woman of the Spirit Race
The flying boat shot forward, allowing them to see several giant beasts attacking a person.
These beasts were called Scorpion Lions. They were eighth rank Magical Beasts. Their upper bodies were covered in fur, while their lower bodies were cloaked in plates of armor. They had long tails with huge stingers.
Each of these Scorpion Lions was three hundred meters long and crazily attacking one person.
Long Chen and the others were surprised by the appearance of the person whom these Scorpion Lions were attacking. It was a slender, beautiful woman who wasn’t wearing any clothes.
She had two leaves covering her chest and a skirt made of woven leaves around her waist. Her legs were extremely large. She didn’t have the proportions of a normal person.
At this time, one of the Scorpion Lions opened its mouth, and a white ripple spread. The ground crumbled, and the woman pressed down on the ground. That allowed Long Chen and the others to see her face.
Her face was beautiful, making her look like a spirit elf. Her nose pointed up slightly, and her eyes protruded out a bit more than a regular person’s. Her pupils were emerald green, and there was an image of six leaves on her forehead.
This woman was extremely strange. Her aura was completely different from a normal cultivator’s. But based on the power she had displayed, she seemed to possess the power of a Sea Expansion expert.
Even surrounded by these Scorpion Lions, she didn’t panic. She held an emerald bow, and she shot out an arrow.
The bow and arrow were extremely simple. The bowstring looked to be a wooden vine, while the arrow didn’t even possess an arrowhead. It was just a sharp stick.
Shockingly, the arrow directly pierced through the Scorpion Lion’s defenses.
“How is that possible?!” A stick was able to break the defense of an eighth rank Magical Beast?
If that bow was a King item, then fine. But it was clearly just the simplest, most primitive bow. How did it possess such power?
The Scorpion Lion roared painfully. It was the same furious roar that they had heard before.
“Guo Ran, prepare to attack. I’ll give you a chance to be the hero saving the beauty. That woman’s running out of energy,” said Long Chen.
Although Long Chen didn’t understand this woman, from his years of combat experience, he could guess that this woman was like an oil lamp on the verge of running out of oil.
That arrow she had shot out had clearly been pointed at the Scorpion Lion’s eyes, a vital spot. But when she had unleashed it, her hand had shuddered, causing her arrow to miss and strike its neck.
“Boss, you really are my beloved boss, my-”
“Just go!” Long Chen grabbed Guo Ran and threw him off the boat.
“I swept through the four seas, crossed a thousand mountains,
caused huge billows in heaven and earth, slaughtered demons, eliminated devils, plucked the stars and moon. If there’s a beauty in need of saving, Guo Ran will be her hero!” Guo Ran struck a very flashy pose in the air as he shouted.
Long Chen and the others almost coughed up blood. This was just too shameless.
This damn chant of his was always identical, except he would change the last few lines to match the situation. Just how thick did a person’s face have to be to say such a thing over and over again? Guo Ran’s shamelessness gave them goosebumps.
Long Chen had an urge to give this fellow a vicious beating. If he had to show off when there was a good chance to show off, then fine.
However, right now, the only ones here were the Dragonblood Legion, excluding one outsider and a few Magical Beasts. Just who was he showing off to? It wasn’t a time to be showing off, but he still forced it. It was completely unbearable.
The woman seemed to have sensed Long Chen and the others’ arrival a while ago, and she wasn’t surprised by Guo Ran coming. She continued to nimbly dodge the Scorpion Lions’ attacks.
“What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and attack! We’re all busy!” shouted Long Chen. If he hadn’t tossed out Guo Ran, he’d have charged out already. This fellow was clearly waiting for a critical moment to interfere.
Guo Ran helplessly pointed out his finger, and rays of golden light shot out. The heads of the Scorpion Lions were all pieced straight through the middle, and they exploded.
“Miss, don’t be afraid. I’m a good person. I’m here to save you, and I won’t ask anything of you. All you have to do is give your heart to me.”
After killing those Scorpion Lions, Guo Ran advanced closer to the woman. She suddenly raised her bow and pointed an arrow at Guo Ran, making him raise his hands innocently.
The woman didn’t react to Guo Ran’s words. Her hands were shaking from how tired she was. Just pulling back the bowstring was taxing to her.
“Miss, put down your bow. I don’t want to be killed when your hand slips. Ah, fine, you don’t need to give your heart to me.” Guo Ran shook his head.
