by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Peng Wansheng had perfectly imitated Sha Guangyan. The angle he was struck, the stone pillar he smashed into, it was all the same.
Seeing his hand still in the same slapping posture, everyone’s hearts skipped a beat. Long Chen was heaven-defying. He had slapped two peerless heavenly geniuses in the face.
Pan Wansheng possessed a powerful physical body, but this slap still made him feel a bit dizzy. Most importantly, this slap completely stunned him.
This was his first time being slapped in the face. He had no experience in it, and it took several seconds for him to understand what had happened.
“You despicable human, you dare to blaspheme the noble Golden Peng race?! Today, I’ll tear about your corpse, and tomorrow, I’ll eradicate the Xuantian Dao Sect! I’ll kill everyone remotely related to you!” Peng Wansheng roared furiously. His golden wings spread, and a majestic aura caused heaven and earth to rumble.
A powerful pressure descended, and all the Celestials present scurried away in terror. There was some kind of will being released from Peng Wansheng that made them feel a chill.
“It seems we won’t be able to avoid a battle today. Fairy Chu Yao, you can pick one of the two.” Long Chen sighed.
Both Peng Wansheng and Sha Guangyan were extremely powerful existences whose power surpassed that of rank nine Celestials.
When they unleashed their auras, Long Chen could sense that the Heavenly Daos became one with their bodies. It wasn’t the way Celestials borrowed Heavenly Dao energy. It was like they themselves were part of the Heavenly Daos. Their power was the power of the Heavenly Daos.
This kind of power was extremely domineering. He had vaguely felt it from Zi Yan, and he had also sensed it from the Pill Fairy, Yu Qingxuan.
At that time, he had only felt that their bodies emitted strange fluctuations that were extremely different from Celestials.
However, when he encountered Leng Yueyan, he was shocked to sense the same fluctuations from her body as well.
He hadn’t paid too much attention at the time, but now that Peng Wansheng’s aura was also released, he finally understood that this was the peak of the Heavenly Daos. Instead of borrowing the power of the Heavenly Daos, they themselves were in control of that power.
He also sensed the same kind of fluctuations from Chu Yao, so he trusted that Chu Yao was also a terrifying expert on that level. Then he had Chu Yao pick one. He hadn’t reached the level of conceit where he could defeat both of them at the same time.
“Then I’ll choose Sha Guangyan. I specialize in defense, not offense. I probably wouldn’t be able to do anything to Peng Wansheng. But you should be careful. They have surpassed rank nine Celestials, so you can’t be overconfident,” warned Chu Yao.
“Don’t worry, I’m quite good at fighting.” Long Chen smiled.
At this moment, golden runes revolved all around Peng Wansheng’s body. He looked like he was made of gold. Like a golden devil god, he attacked.
“Sha Guangyan, I want to kill this fellow before fighting over the saber with you!” shouted Peng Wansheng. Despite being infuriated, he still retained some of his wits. He was worried that while he attacked Long Chen, Sha Guangyan would snatch the black saber.
“Don’t worry, Long Chen is my enemy as well. I’ll handle his woman!” called out Sha Guangyan. He no longer called her Fairy Chu Yao.
Someone like Chu Yao who was full of spirituality and felt like a goddess of life would make people involuntarily feel good toward her. Although a person wouldn’t necessarily reach the point of wanting to pursue her, they would still desire her favor.
However, when Chu Yao personally stated that Long Chen was her future husband, Sha Guangyan was unable to conceal his hatred and jealousy.
Furthermore, he saw that the black blade was protected by restrictions. Taking the saber would require a long time.
He didn’t want to waste his time going through all that trouble when it would put his life at risk. Even if he managed to break through the restrictions, it could still be snatched away by others.
So seeing Peng Wansheng attacking Long Chen, Sha Guangyan formed hand seals and slammed his palms against the ground. The sea of sand once more surged and attacked Chu Yao.
Lightning runes flashed on Long Chen’s feet. It was like he was wearing lightning shoes. With a single step, he appeared dozens of miles away. He didn’t move forward. Instead, he was moving further away.
“You want to run? Keep dreaming! No one has ever managed to get away from me!” sneered Peng Wansheng. With a slap of his wings, he reached his peak speed.
Long Chen also wasn’t slow. He repeatedly dodged in the air as he sped away. With Peng Wansheng chasing, they quickly appeared in the distance.
As for their original location, Chu Yao had yet to move. With the sea of sand crashing toward her, she simply formed hand seals. Wooden stakes suddenly grew out of the ground.
Each wooden stake was three meters thick and thousands of meters tall. Dark golden runes revolved around them. The wooden stakes lined up and crossed, forming a huge wooden box, and the sand was unable to shake the wooden stakes.
Not only was the sand unable to do anything to the wooden stakes, but the wooden stakes also inhibited the movement of the sand. It became much more difficult for it to move. Losing its original agility, there was no way for the sand to form a vortex again. Only a third of the sand was free to move, and the rest of it was locked by Chu Yao’s wooden stakes.
“This sand has your core energy inside it. Now you won’t be able to take it back,” said Chu Yao.
Sha Guangyan was a rarely seen variant earth element cultivator. He possessed an innate sand spirit body that allowed him to control sand.
A portion of his sand was his core sand. It was created through his Heavenly Dao energy, soul energy, and blood. That kind of core energy possessed terrifying power. It possessed the power of assimilation. When his core sand landed on the ground, it could draw out all the sand in the region, and it could even break apart rocks to make more sand. His core sand was the leader of a giant sand army.
As long as Sha Guangyan wanted to and had enough time, he could turn this entire world into a world of sand. That was an extremely terrifying ability.
“So what? I’m not even exhausting one-thousandth of the core energy you’re exhausting,” sneered Sha Guangyan.
This was a battle of attrition. Neither side was able to get any advantage over the other. The only way to win was to be more efficient with their energy.
Chu Yao merely smiled. “I should just tell you that the amount of energy a wood cultivator possesses is even greater than you imagine. Furthermore, this is the Spirit World, and the air is filled with life energy. The energy I’m spending is being rapidly replenished. You won’t be able to defeat me.”
Sha Guangyan’s heart shook. Just at this moment, an explosive sound rang out in the sky. They had started fighting on the other side as well.
Chapter 1427 Consecutive Slaps in the Face
Long Chen rushed away, dodging Peng Wansheng’s attacks. However, Long Chen was shocked by his opponent’s speed. He was truly worthy of being a descendant of the Golden Peng. His speed was incomparably fast.
The movement art Long Chen was using was one of the lightning techniques he had seen the lightning expert in the Ancient Battlefield use. Lei Long had comprehended it and taught it to him.
His speed was now much greater than before, but he still couldn’t compare to Peng Wansheng.
Although Long Chen’s speed was one level lower than Peng Wansheng’s, he was much nimbler and that allowed him to dodge Peng Wansheng’s attacks. Due to his own high speed, Peng Wansheng wasn’t able to control the change of pace perfectly.
“Cowardly human, as soon as you run into experts, you can only flee like a rabbit!” sneered Peng Wansheng.
Long Chen ignored him, and only once he was far enough did he finally stop. Peng Wansheng was rushing straight toward him, so Long Chen turned around, dodgi
ng Peng Wansheng’s claw and slapping him in the face.
Pow!
His slap came without any warning and didn’t contain any killing intent. His movements flowed naturally, and Peng Wansheng was once more struck.
“It’s been a while since I’ve done this. My hand feels a bit out of practice, and it’s not as clean as before. This is why I have to keep training. Once you reach such a high level, you have to keep training every day. Missing a day takes ten days to make up for.” Long Chen looked at his own hand and sighed emotionally.
He had truly regressed. Before, when he encountered people in the same realm, he didn’t have to prepare at all to slap them. If he raised his hand, it was inevitable that they would be slapped. No one could dodge.
However, now he couldn’t. He needed to prepare a foundation for his slap before he used it. That made him sigh.
“Heavens, am I dreaming?!”
The ancient race experts weren’t paying that much attention to Chu Yao and Sha Guangyan’s fight. They were focused on Long Chen and Peng Wansheng.
Just before this, they had seen Peng Wansheng mightily chasing down Long Chen, while Long Chen could only dodge. But in an instant, Peng Wansheng was struck by his slap. The sound was so loud that even thousands of miles away, they heard it clearly. It was absolutely resounding.
It felt like two people had been playing tag, then the person running suddenly said he didn’t want to play anymore, slapped the chaser in the face, and told him to scram.
This was completely different from the grand battle they had expected. They were unable to accept this. Peng Wansheng was one of the ancient races’ top experts, someone above the level of a rank nine Celestial. Yet, he had been slapped in the face consecutively. Had the world gone insane?
“You’re lucky, or the person being slapped would be you,” said Chu Yao to Sha Guangyan.
“Bullshit. Long Chen’s trash, human waste, and scum. He’ll definitely be killed today. You should…” Sha Guangyan suddenly burst into loud curses, making everyone jump in shock. They didn’t know why Sha Guangyan would explode in fury.
Chu Yao smiled faintly. Having reunited with Long Chen, very few things could make her angry now.
“Only scum would use scummy moves.” Chu Yao shook her head.
At that moment, a spear appeared and shot at her from behind. It happened so suddenly that it caught everyone off guard.
The spear pierced Chu Yao’s body, but there was no blood. Chu Yao slowly faded, and the spear dissolved into sand.
Suddenly, a shadow covered the earth as countless vines soared into the sky. “Thorn Prison!”
Thorny vines covered heaven and earth, binding around Sha Guangyan. A sharp light came from the thorns, giving others chills. It felt like just looking at those thorns was giving them pain.
Upon seeing the thorny vines binding Sha Guangyan, all their hearts shook. Being caught in these vines was a form of torture.
“Sand Armor!”
BOOM!
The vines exploded, and Sha Guangyan flew out.
However, as he flew out, people saw his armor covered in holes. Blood slowly dripped out of those holes.
“Heavens, how sharp are those thorns?! Sha Guangyan’s sand armor is comparable to an Ancestral item!” cried out an ancient family expert familiar with Sha Guangyan.
Their battle looked very calm. There weren’t huge explosions that changed the color of heaven and earth. But during this calm battle, life or death could be determined in an instant.
Sha Guangyan’s gaze was grave as he charged out of the thorns, his body covered in blood. Just now, he had cursed so loudly to draw Chu Yao’s attention and then sneak attack her. But this little plot of his had been easily read by Chu Yao. She had long since been prepared, and just as he thought he had succeeded, she launched a counterattack that forced him into this bloodied state.
He had underestimated Chu Yao. Or perhaps it should be said that he had underestimated her attack power. Normal wood cultivators were simply healers and weren’t skilled in offense.
Even wood cultivators that cultivated to fight were still specialized in defense. Their attack power wasn’t very high, but Chu Yao’s attack power was terrifying.
“Your wood energy contains some metal energy. You actually managed to merge two conflicting elements. I suppose I underestimated you,” said Sha Guangyan icily. “Since that’s the case, I’ll get serious.”
Sand began to fall from Sha Guangyan’s body. More and more of it fell, until his feet and legs also began to turn to sand and flow away, shocking everyone.
“Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. I’ll let you see your so-called husband be killed first!” Sha Guangyan’s waist and chest turned to sand. With a sinister smile, his face also disintegrated and flowed into the earth.
BOOM!
The ground shook intensely, and the wooden stakes that were binding the sea of sand exploded to bits. Chu Yao was shocked and hastily fell back.
Sand arrows shot out after her. A hail of sand crashed down from the sky.
These sand arrows were several meters long and incredibly sharp. They whistled through the air, and there were so many of them that it was impossible to dodge them all.
“Heavens, is this the power of a sand spirit body? He can actually transform into sand! The entire sea of sand is his body!” cried a rank nine Celestial. Even the rank nine Celestials were incomparably shocked.
An expert on Sha Guangyan’s level had surpassed the domain of Celestials. He was another kind of existence.
“Red and violet dances, an endless sea of flowers fills the sky…”
Chu Yao formed hand seals and began to chant. Flower petals appeared in the air and covered her. Their fragrance even reached the spectators.
Chu Yao began to lightly spin, her long hair waving. As she spun, more and more flower petals appeared, descending from the sky. From a distance, the spectators felt that they were watching a goddess dance.
The flower petals rippled with white divine light. An immortal mist seeped out of them, making them glisten and shine.
When those sand arrows struck the flower petals, the flower petals exploded, and the immortal mist would spread. The sand arrows that flew through the immortal mist lost their cohesiveness and fell apart.
Endless sand, endless flower petals. The golden sand sea and white flower sea crashed against each other. The flower petals began to dance lightly and gracefully.
Chu Yao was like an elf from an ancient forest that didn’t possess the slightest murderous aura. She was like a heavenly goddess who wasn’t tainted by the slightest dust of the mortal world. She was beautiful and untouchable.
The ancient races, ancient family alliance, and Corrupt path’s experts were all drawn in by Chu Yao’s image. They even forgot she was an enemy.
They had never seen such a beautiful fight, and they were struck dumb for a moment. The sand arrows grew more concentrated, while the flower petals spread, growing in number. Her dance also grew quicker.
BOOM!
The sea of petals and sea of sand exploded. The sea of sand transformed into many furious dragons, while the flower petals transformed into beautiful swans. When they spread their wings, ripples struck the dragons.
Explosive sounds rang out once again. Although the sand dragons were fierce and sinister, the swans were strong as well. When the two collided, the swans would shatter into petals that would continue the fight, while the sand dragons would be unable to bear the power of the swans, and they would explode, their particles falling to the ground.
In the air, the sea of petals was dominating, while down below was the sea of sand. Sand dragons were flying out and swans were dancing. This was a battle scene that no one had ever witnessed before.
Despite being incredibly fierce, the sight of the dancing flower petals relaxed their hearts. But all the experts watching knew that this was a battle of attrition.
Both the sea of sand and the sea of petals required
energy to maintain. The two of them were even right now, with neither being able to suppress the other. That meant that in the end, the winner would go to whoever’s spiritual yuan lasted longer.
When they saw that, they were shocked, especially the ancient family experts. They all knew that when it came to a battle of attrition, no one could defeat a wood cultivator.
If nothing else happened, then based on this common knowledge, the scales of this battle would eventually tilt toward Chu Yao.
Buzz.
Just at this moment, fluctuations spread from the distance that caused their hearts to palpitate.
Chapter 1428 Empyrean
Peng Wansheng’s face had turned purple after being slapped by Long Chen. That wasn’t a bruise, it was the result of fury. Long Chen’s slap might be powerful, but it didn’t contain any killing intent. It didn’t invoke a sense of danger. This was Peng Wansheng’s first time encountering such an opponent.
“People who don’t fight seriously are all depraved trash!” cursed Peng Wansheng. He felt like he was about to go insane. After being slapped twice in the face, even if he did kill Long Chen, this would be a stain for the rest of his life.
He was a peerless expert, and he quickly realized the trick behind Long Chen’s move. But even though he knew the trick, he couldn’t do anything about it.
When experts fought, they would fight with the intent to kill. Each attack was launched with killing intent.
However, Long Chen’s slap was purely to humiliate his opponents. It couldn’t be sensed, but the taste of being slapped was horrendous.
It was even more painful than having an arm or leg cut off. Compared to the pain of the body, this mental humiliation was far more painful.
Despite being on the verge of exploding, Peng Wansheng had to force himself to stay calm. He now had a thought that he couldn’t kill Long Chen. He needed to capture him alive and make him live a life worse than death.
Peng Wansheng glared at Long Chen, his chest heaving as he did his best to suppress his rage.
