by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Only rank seven Celestials and above were barely able to endure the poison by summoning their Heavenly Dao manifestations. But they still withered, and their skin dissolved away, exposing their flesh and blood.
As for those below rank seven Celestials, even Soul Transformation experts were unable to endure. They were all killed by the black mist.
The rank seven Celestials and above who managed to survive thanks to their Heavenly Dao manifestations immediately fled for their lives. They hadn’t expected Long Chen to dare to attack them. Tens of thousands of experts flew into a panic. The majority of the experts that had crept forward died in the mist.
“Bastards of the Xuantian Dao Sect, just wait! If we don’t kill you all today, I’ll swear I’m not human!” roared an ancient family expert. His face no longer had a shred of skin on it. It was a mass of flesh and blood.
He was a powerful rank eight Celestial, but he had still been turned into his current state. His Heavenly Dao energy was in the midst of expelling the poison from his body.
However, the poison was very difficult to deal with. It felt like it had taken root in his body and was trying to tear him apart inch by inch. Even his soul was in immense pain. This was definitely a kind of torture.
“Idiot, if you have any guts, then just come. Does shouting over there have any meaning?” scoffed Long Chen.
Since they were standing on the battlefield, they were already enemies. Shouting obscenities at the other side was meaningless.
Tang Wan-er’s wind continued to blow through the enemies. They had to hastily retreat and flee like bunnies. Eventually, they went too far, and her wind energy weakened, allowing them to escape.
“Ignore them. Send the mist to attack the Magical Beasts,” said Long Chen to Tang Wan-er.
Long Chen was smiling brightly inside. The Dark Forest truly did have wooden brains. They didn’t even know how to properly plan out battles or what the proper order should be.
As Tang Wan-er’s wind returned, the black mist began blowing through the Magical Beasts. The Magical Beasts also let out mournful wails as smoke began coming from their bodies. Only a few armored Magical Beasts were able to resist the mist and continue attacking the Dragonblood Legion.
“Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, trap the centipedes. But don’t attack them. Spirit race warriors, shoot the furred Magical Beasts,” shouted Long Chen.
Thanks to the poison mist, the Spotted Ghost Mosquitoes were falling from the sky. They were the first to die from the poison.
“The Dark Forest is so stupid! Aren’t they just helping Long Chen now?!” cursed Peng Wansheng.
“There’s no way around it. Those idiots all have wooden brains, and they don’t know how to think. Furthermore, they’re so stubborn that they won’t listen to anyone else. It doesn’t matter. Even if they die, they aren’t really our people,” said Sha Guangyan indifferently. He had long since heard of the Dark Forest’s stupidity. But today, he supposed he was experiencing what peak stupidity was.
In the end, the black mist annihilated the Spotted Ghost Mosquitoes. Only a small portion of them actually died to the Spirit race warriors. The rest all died to the poison, as the poison mist was their bane.
The furred Magical Beasts were also weak to the mist. Thanks to the poison’s corrosion, their defenses sharply dropped.
For the Spirit race warriors, shooting through their tough hides was very difficult. But that tough defense had become as weak as paper now, and their arrows rained down on them.
Their arrows were very accurate, and each one aimed for vitals. The Magical Beasts collapsed one by one.
As for the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes, they were constantly popping out from the ground, attacking the Dragonblood warriors. The Dragonblood warriors retreated repeatedly.
Li Qi and Song Mingyuan both summoned their Heavenly Dao manifestations, and nine flowers revolved around each of them. They slammed their hands on the ground.
“Great Earthen Wall!”
A huge wall rose from the earth. It was many miles thick and tall, and it spread through the battlefield.
Countless runes floated across the wall. Thanks to the runes, the earthen wall actually gave off a metallic luster. A heavy aura came from it that made it seem like an invincible city wall.
Long Chen smiled. After becoming rank nine Celestials, Li Qi and Song Mingyuan’s earth energy had grown even purer. This wall’s defensive power was startling.
Countless Golden Tail Underground Centipedes came crashing out of the ground. This wall didn’t just seal the sky, it also sealed the ground beneath it. They were unable to pass.
More and more of the centipedes were popping out, crazily attacking the wall.
However, this wall was the result of both Li Qi and Song Mingyuan pouring in all their strength. It was incomparably tough. No matter how the Countless Golden Tail Underground Centipedes attacked, they were unable to break through it. At most, they would cause a few cracks, but those would quickly recover.
They tried to climb the walls, but as a result, the wall’s runes shook them off. No matter what they tried, they were unable to get by. They were so infuriated that they began to spit out more black mist.
“They’re so useless! The Dark Forest is filled with idiots!” cursed an ancient race expert.
Unable to get past the earthen wall, the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes began crazily spitting out poison mist. Tang Wan-er was sending the mist to the attacking Magical Beasts. As a result, those Magical Beasts had their defenses sharply drop and were easily picked off by the Spirit race warriors’ arrows.
As for the defensively powerful armored Magical Beasts, Guo Ran would target them with a giant crossbow. Although the armored Magical Beasts didn’t fear the poison, Guo Ran’s explosive arrows were much more terrifying. He aimed for their weakest spots, and once his arrows pierced their bodies, they would explode.
Guo Ran only targeted the armored Magical Beasts. He didn’t want to waste his exploding arrows on the other Magical Beasts. He left them to the Spirit race warriors.
As a result, the battlefield became very strange. The Dragonblood warriors were standing atop the giant wall, looking at the centipedes attacking.
Tang Wan-er was constantly sending out the centipedes’ mist at the other Magical Beasts. Guo Ran killed armored Magical Beasts, while the Spirit race warriors killed the furred Magical Beasts.
Long Chen continued to gather corpses, while the Dragonblood warriors’ injuries had long since vanished.
The Dragonblood warriors didn’t go kill the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes. Occasionally, they would launch an attack to provoke them a bit and make them spit out more poison.
“Fuck, are you serious?! I can’t watch this!” The ancient race, Corrupt path, and ancient family experts were all enraged. They couldn’t tell what the Dark Forest was thinking. Were they trying to help the Dragonblood Legion?
The most difficult thing to bear was that despite the poison clearly being at the front, the other Magical Beasts all continued foolishly charging head-on into it. That was no different than sending themselves to their deaths.
“Are these Magical Beasts also idiots? Have their heads turned to wood as well?!” cursed someone.
“The Dark Forest’s Magical Beasts are all controlled by the Dark Forest. Their souls are completely controlled, and they were originally dumb anyways. Now they basically don’t have any ability to think on their own,” said one of the Life Star experts from the Corrupt path. He clearly knew a bit more than the others.
“But then… this is too painful to watch,” said another expert.
It wasn’t as if Long Chen’s tactics had been very skilled. But those Magical Beasts were still just foolishly falling for everything. Seeing the powerful Magical Beasts being slaughtered so easily enraged these experts.
The Dark Forest’s tree demons had all retreated, and there was no way for them to communicate with them. These Magical Beasts were all dying for noth
ing.
Long Chen felt like flowers were blooming in his heart. The Magical Beast corpses were all being tossed into the primal chaos space, and endless life energy was nourishing his World Trees.
It had to be known that these Magical Beasts were the elites of the Dark Forest. They were all tenth and eleventh rank Magical Beasts. They possessed extremely strong life energy.
Now the World trees were slowly growing, and even the final batch of them had reached fifteen hundred meters. They had almost caught up to the first batch.
It seemed the primal chaos space was spreading its life energy evenly throughout the World Trees. In the future, the difference between them would grow less and less. In the end, they would reach the same height.
“You want to run? That’s no good. Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, slaughter them.” Long Chen suddenly snorted. He also saw intense fluctuations coming from the distance. Shocking auras were rapidly approaching.
Chapter 1447 Ardent Meteor Shower of Flames
The Golden Tail Underground Centipedes had spat out as much poison mist as they could. Now it seemed that they had received orders, and they suddenly dived back into the ground to flee.
Long Chen naturally wouldn’t let such outstanding helpers leave like that. He immediately gave the order to Li Qi and Song Mingyuan.
Huge hands began to appear in the ground, grabbing the centipedes. A single pinch of two fingers on the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes’ heads and they would die. That was because that was where their poison sac was.
Although it was their fatal weak point and had no armor to cover it, enemies didn’t dare to actually attack them there.
Once the poison sac ruptured, the poison would instantly explode and kill the attacker as well.
So while this was their weakest point, it could also be likened to their strongest point. As long as their poison sac was full, even an eleventh rank Magical Beast would be killed in an instant considering that density. So only enemies prepared to die along with it would attack that place.
However, today was different. They had run into their bane. Long Chen was using them to kill other Magical Beasts.
They were all killed. Their poison parts were removed, and then their corpses were tossed into the primal chaos space as fertilizer.
Just at this moment, rumbling sounds rang out from the distance, and a sea of giant figures were rushing over.
It was a veritable sea of beasts. But this time, the scale was ten times greater than at the start.
Within this wave of Magical Beasts were flying leopards, white tigers, flame wolves, and scaled eagles. All kinds of Magical Beasts were attacking. Furthermore, the Magical Beasts flying at the front were all eleventh rank Magical Beasts with powerful auras.
“Hehe, the Dark Forest is finally bringing out their full power. Now the Dragonblood Legion is doomed,” snickered a Corrupt expert.
“This beast sea is practically endless. Exterminating the Dragonblood Legion would be simple.”
“Hopefully, they won’t be so stupid as to be used by Long Chen again,” said someone worriedly. What had happened with the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes had been too irritating.
Long Chen’s expression also became serious now as the true battle was about to start. Even the wood-brained leaders of the Dark Forest wouldn’t send Magical Beasts like the Golden Tail Underground Centipedes again. There would probably be no chance to use any tactics, and they would only be able to fight head-on.
The mist slowly scattered. The battlefield was running with the blood of Magical Beasts. There were even large lakes of blood on the ground.
The first wave of Magical Beasts had all been killed. Now, the Dragonblood warriors stood behind Long Chen, staring at the endless wave of Magical Beasts. They tightly clenched their weapons.
Behind the Dragonblood warriors were millions of Spirit race warriors. Their expressions were now slightly nervous. This battle related to the survival of the Forest of Life.
If they won, the Forest of Life would have some breathing room. If they lost, the Spirit World would no longer have a Forest of Life.
Although they were nervous, they were fearless. That was because their Spirit Emperor had told them that the man standing at the front was the savior of the Forest of Life. This wasn’t said directly by the Spirit Emperor, but by the Life God Tree.
Even after experiencing countless battles, seeing this endless horde of Magical Beasts still made Long Chen’s heart pound.
To say that he didn’t feel the slightest bit nervous would be a lie. This was a true battle, not a game. Losing meant people would die, and death would give the survivors an unbearable eternal pain. No one wanted that.
Long Chen took a deep breath. He announced, “Brothers, you’ve fought with me against enemies from all sides. Our path was formed by the skeletons of our enemies, and the rivers we crossed were formed with their blood. We were able to defeat powerful enemies time and time again, but that wasn’t because we were so strong, or because we were so brave. It was because we knew we had no path of retreat, it was because we knew we couldn’t lose, it was because we knew winning was our only option. Look around you. Look behind you. They are what you have to protect. This is our conviction. To protect what we want to protect, we would rather die than let it fall. But if we fall, we will leave our pain to others. So we can’t be defeated, and we can’t die. Brothers, raise your weapons. Let us fight together again and sweep away the enemies in front of us. Let us use their corpses as our stepping stones to the peak of cultivation. Let us use their blood to paint the picture of our lives. Brothers, fight. Reap their lives to protect what is inside your hearts.”
Long Chen’s voice was subdued at first, but it grew louder and louder, until it resounded through the air.
His voice contained his arrogant will to sweep through everything before him. His voice and his will were above the Heavenly Daos.
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The Dragonblood warriors clenched their fists. Each of Long Chen’s words smashed into their hearts like a hammer.
They looked at their brothers and sisters around them and also looked at the pure Spirit race warriors behind them. Long Chen’s voice pounded in their ears. Their overflowing battle intent was ignited. It felt like they might combust at any moment.
“Hmph, what idiots. Does he think randomly saying a few lines will create a miracle? How laughable.”
Seeing their surging morale, one of the ancient family experts sneered. The others also looked at the Dragonblood Legion disdainfully. In their opinion, Long Chen’s actions were to cover up the terror in his heart. He needed words to make himself feel brave.
“Die.” That person had only just spoken when Meng Qi suddenly opened her mouth.
That ancient family expert suddenly summoned his manifestation, his aura surging violently.
BANG!
That rank seven Celestial actually self-destructed from just one word from Meng Qi.
His self-destruction killed two others beside him and injured over ten of the people around him. Blood filled the air.
“That woman knows demonic arts!” cried someone. To cause a person to self-destruct from just one word had to be a demonic art. It was absolutely bizarre.
“Everyone be careful. That woman has powerful spiritual fluctuations. She’s a terrifying soul cultivator!” warned someone. That person was also a soul cultivator, but he was absolutely terrified. He was at the peak of Soul Transformation, but not even he could use his Spiritual Strength to control someone from thousands of miles away. Injuring them would be difficult, let alone causing them to self-destruct.
At this time, the sea of beasts finally arrived. Their roaring was like thunder, but they were drowned out by the killing cries of the Dragonblood Legion.
“Ardent Meteor Shower of Flames!”
Long Chen formed hand seals, and flames began to surge behind him. Arrows of fire flew through the sky.<
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Flame energy circulated through the sky. Golden arrows rapidly grew to become meteors shooting down to the earth.
This was a secret art that came from Pill Valley. It involved using the flame energy in his body to link up to the fire elemental energy in the sky, forming huge balls of fire.
Each ball was three thousand meters wide and smashed down like falling stars, exploding amongst the Magical Beasts.
Each of them was like a firework exploding when they landed. Golden flames covered the battlefield.
The rain of meteors didn’t stop. It was like the heavens were collapsing, and terrifying flames completely enveloped the battlefield.
The Magical Beasts that were struck were instantly smashed to pieces. And those that weren’t smashed to death were burned to death.
Only a few powerful eleventh rank Magical Beasts were able to charge through the flames to attack.
However, their bodies were still burning, and the furred ones had their defensive power sharply drop.
Although Long Chen had unleashed a huge area attack, there were still too many Magical Beasts. Some of them were already skating around the zone of the flames to attack from the sides.
“Life God, bless us with your divine power to repel our enemies!”
Just at this moment, devout chanting filled the air. More and more Spirit race warriors appeared, and countless spirit beasts also arrived. The Forest of Life’s full power was finally appearing.
These Spirit race warriors unleashed a rain of arrows at the Magical Beasts. These arrows easily pierced through the bodies of eleventh rank Magical Beasts and killed them.
These were Spirit Generals, and although their cultivation base was equivalent to the Soul Transformation realm, there was now divine light shining from above their heads. That was the Life God’s blessing. Their arrows now had a terrifying penetrative power. Not even an eleventh rank Magical Beast would be able to endure being struck where their crystal core was.
