by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Don’t get any ideas. Although I don’t know much, someone like you is unable to swindle me,” said Long Chen, a touch of disdain appearing on his face.
From that person’s gaze, he had seen greed and craftiness. This person had actually started to view him as a fat sheep. Did his fake appearance really look like a spoiled young master?
Long Chen made his gaze sharp. This person now felt like two sharp blades were piercing his heart and seeing through his thoughts.
“No, no, it was a misunderstanding! I wouldn’t dare to have such thoughts!” The person hastily shook his head. Sweat dripped down his forehead.
He felt like a death god was staring at him. As long as Long Chen wished it, he could kill him.
“Speak. What exactly is going on? I only just came out for experience, so I don’t know what’s happening in this secular world. If you explain it properly, there might be a reward,” said Long Chen, boasting shamelessly.
Since this person thought he was a young master, he could just act like a young master, someone who knew nothing about the world but was actually an extremely powerful existence. At least then an idiot wouldn’t try to scam him.
“Yes, of course! It seems you’re not someone from the Eastern Xuan Region, or you’d definitely know who this terrifying existence is.” That person hastily began to act sincerely.
“Don’t try to guess my background. If you refuse to say, I’ll just find someone else,” said Long Chen impatiently. This person really viewed him as an idiot. He actually wanted to bait out information from him.
“Yes, yes, I’ll speak!” Seeing his impatience, this person hastily put away those thoughts and pointed to the painting. “That person is a terrifying Yama King who has killed countless people. I suppose you know of the three great heavenly sects? Two of them were recently destroyed by him.”
“Two?”
This time it was Long Chen’s turn to be shocked.
“Yes. This person’s name is Long Chen. He is a genius amongst geniuses, the most terrifying genius of the Eastern Xuan Region. However, after going to the Spirit World, an evil weapon took control of his mind, turning him into a devil. He kills anyone he sees, whether they are friend or foe. As soon as he returned to the Xuantian Dao Sect, he destroyed his sect, killing his masters and fellow disciples. Even the sect itself was turned into barren land.
“At first, most people didn’t believe it. But yesterday, Pill Valley, the ancient races, Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, the Bloodkill Hall, and countless other large powers came forward to confirm that Long Chen is under the control of an evil weapon. He’s no longer the old Long Chen. He’s a fiend who kills without batting an eye, and all of them have sent out a death warrant for him. Even the Martial Heaven Alliance participated in the death warrant, and they’ve summoned all the large sects to hunt him down for the Eastern Xuan Region’s safety. And so, since everyone is hunting him down, the large transportation formations all have people screening them to make sure Long Chen doesn’t come,” said that person.
Without even realizing it, Long Chen was clenching his fists tightly. Although he did his best to control himself, he couldn’t hold back his fury.
This was clearly a despicable and shameless attempt at framing him. It was a scheme the ancient races, Corrupt path, and ancient family alliance had colluded to create. They were using Dragonbone Evilmoon to frame him for these criminal charges.
Now the destruction of the Xuantian Dao Sect had become something despicable that he had done. For them to say that he would do something like destroy his own sect and kill his elders, how could Long Chen not be enraged?
It wasn’t just the ancient races, Corrupt path, and ancient family alliance. There was also Pill Valley which had been silent for so long. They had also participated in this, coming forward with their special status to confirm he was a fiend.
This was a huge scheme, and one without any solution. Right now, the Xuantian Dao Sect was gone, and the Martial Heaven Alliance was also against him. That was what infuriated him the most.
Furthermore, considering that the Eastern Xuan Region’s vice alliance master of the Martial Heaven Alliance had been at the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, Long Chen smelled a scheme. Now, he finally realized that the Martial Heaven Alliance had completely changed. It was no longer the fair and just Martial Heaven Alliance it had been in the past.
It had taken him two days to arrive here. He could have come earlier, but he had waited to fully recover. Now his just-suppressed rage soared once more.
The entire world was now full of his enemies. Now that he learned this, his original confidence grew shaky.
He was friends with Zheng Wenlong, and they had collaborated for a long time. They had a deep friendship, but could this friendship endure such a trial? That was difficult to say. Businessmen cared about profit. When the profits didn’t match up to the danger, would he still collaborate with him?
Zheng Wenlong was different from the Dragonblood Legion that had fought their way out of death together. Businessmen had to look at things from the viewpoint of a businessman. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be worthy of being called businessmen.
Long Chen now didn’t know if he had made the right decision to come to the Eastern Xuan Region. If he made the wrong choice, he wouldn’t just lose a friend, he might have consigned himself to eternal damnation.
Just as he was lost in thought, that person continued, “In truth, this is all nonsense. Searching for Long Chen is just an excuse. This excuse has become a way to take other people’s wealth.”
“Oh? Why is that-”
Just as Long Chen was asking this question, an uproar came from the front.
“Release me! I don’t even know Long Chen! You’re framing me! This isn’t fair!”
The person shouting was a young man wearing luxurious robes. He looked to be a Jade Core expert with a certain status. But now his voice was full of terror.
“What a joke, everyone in the Eastern Xuan Region knows who Long Chen is! Your lying only makes it worse. Bring him away for a detailed interrogation. But you don’t need to worry, we won’t wrongly treat a good person. However, he also won’t let off a bad person. You’d best cooperate!” shouted a Life Star expert. It seemed he was the leader in charge of overseeing this region.
“Do you see? This is all just a play. Long Chen wouldn’tbe so stupid as to actually come out after having done such a thing. He’s definitely in hiding. They’re goal in doing this isn’t to capture Long Chen, but to simply target some people with decent wealth but not much of a background. If this fellow’s lucky, he’ll only lose all of his money. But if he’s unlucky, he’ll lose his life,” said that person indifferently. It seemed he was used to seeing such a sight.
So that’s what it was. Now Long Chen understood that this was truly a way to rake in money. Without saying anything else, Long Chen tossed this person a bottle. Inside were three ninth tier pills, causing that person to repeatedly thank him.
The information he had provided had been very useful. At the very least, Long Chen now knew how dangerous his current situation was.
After taking this gift, that person ran to the back of the line, afraid of being implicated by Long Chen.
Long Chen advanced with the line. He quickly reached the end, where a Soul Transformation expert reached out to touch his face to see if he had changed his appearance.
Pow!
Long Chen slapped that person across the face. “Fuck your mother, do you think you can touch my face?”
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Long Chen’s slap sent the Soul Transformation expert about to touch his face flying. He spun through the air, his bloodied teeth flying.
Everyone jumped in fright. The people in the line all retreated, afraid of being drawn in.
“Brat, you’re asking for it!” Long Chen’s unexpected attack enraged the experts carrying out the investigation. One of the Life Star experts immediately stepped forward,
slamming a palm towards him.
The terrifying pressure of a Life Star expert crashed down. This pressure made it difficult for Soul Transformation experts to breathe, while others were unable to move, their faces pale as paper.
But shockingly, his wrist was suddenly caught. Long Chen had ignored the Life Star expert’s pressure to capture his hand.
The Life Star expert was shocked. He felt like his hand was caught in an iron pincer. He felt great pain, but when he tried to pull back, he found himself unable to move.
Crack.
Long Chen kicked the Life Star expert in the armpit as he pulled on his hand, forcibly tearing off his arm.
“AH-!” The Life Star expert only had time for a short cry at having his arm torn off when Long Chen’s hand caught his throat. He was pale with terror and unable to speak. He didn’t even dare to move.
From Long Chen’s hand, he sensed a mountain-toppling energy. It was extremely condensed, and if it was released, he would be blown to bits.
Perhaps others couldn’t sense it, but the Life Star expert could sense that his life and death would be decided by a single whim from Long Chen.
“First comes the left hand.”
Pow!
“After the left hand’s done, then comes the right.”
Pow!
Long Chen slapped the Life Star expert twice in the face. His head swelled, but instead of growing smarter, he felt like stars were spinning around his head. He was already completely stunned, and he was powerless to escape even when Long Chen switched hands.
Seeing this site, all the people lined up were dumbfounded.
“Bastard, who do you think you are?! Release him!”
At this time, another Life Star expert roared and unleashed his aura. A violet-gold broadsword pointed at Long Chen, and powerful runes circulated around it. It was an Ancestral item.
This Life Star expert was the leader of this group. There were only two Life Star experts for the corrupt investigation here. He hadn’t expected this youngster to immediately subdue his companion.
Long Chen suddenly tossed out the dizzy Life Star expert in his hands. He coldly said, “Don’t point your stick at me. Otherwise, you won’t have a life anymore.”
Long Chen’s actions only made this Life Star expert even more stunned. Originally he had thought that Long Chen wouldn’t release him easily. But he simply let him go like this. It was like he didn’t even care about him.
As for the Life Star expert whose head was swelled up and now looked like a pig’s he finally regained his wits and roared, “Who are you?!”
Long Chen sneered and took out a golden tablet. He tossed it to him.
The Life Star expert caught it, but his hand shook and almost broke just from catching it. Long Chen had tossed it casually, so he had also casually received it. But this resulted in Long Chen’s power shocking him.
The tablet was heavy, but when he saw the image and the words carved into it, his expression completely changed.
“The Flame Divine Pa-”
“Shut up. Since you know it, don’t you think you should hand it back to me?” shouted Long Chen, interrupting him.
The Life Star expert’s expression changed several times. In the end, he handed the tablet back to Long Chen.
After taking it, Long Chen hung it on his waist and coldly said, “We’ve received orders to come here to hunt down Long Chen. The real experts have already been mobilized and created an inescapable net. You people should reserve yourself. Don’t make things hard on us. After all, now that we’re participating, I don’t want to see anything that could damage our image. Otherwise… hmph, you’ll receive the strictest punishment, understood?”
“Understood, please do as you wish!”
The other Life Star expert hastily apologized, gesturing for Long Chen to continue onwards.
Long Chen nodded and left. The others all stared at his back, all shocked. Just who was this person.
“Brother Zhao, who was that?” asked the Life Star expert who had been beaten badly.
“He’s a golden-plate warrior from the Flame Divine Palace. You… you really were unlucky. We can’t provoke Pill Valley.” The other Life Star expert helplessly sighed.
“Pill Valley actually mobilized the golden warriors of the Flame Divine Palace? Isn’t it said that the golden warriors are all on the level of rank nine Celestials?!”
“That’s why you had no ability to resist. Your defeat is simply natural, so don’t worry about it.”
He thought that the reason the beaten Life Star expert had been captured by Long Chen so easily was because of the suppression of Heavenly Dao pressure.
But in reality, the beaten Life Star expert hadn’t felt any such thing. In his state of confusion, he didn’t even remember sensing any Heavenly Dao energy. All he remembered was that this person had been absolutely terrifying and capable of taking his little life at a whim.
“Isn’t Pill Valley supporting us? Why would they send out their golden warriors?”
“Who knows? We’re unlucky to run into him. Whatever, we’ll just have to reserve ourselves. There’s only half a day until we hand over our duties. Yesterday, the Qilin Sect got so many fat sheep, but we only got a few thin sheep before encountering this person. How unlucky.”
“But… we had to pull in so many favors to get our authority today!” The pig-headed Life Star expert was a bit unwilling to do this. Most likely, those favors included large bribes. They still hadn’t made back that initial investment.
“There’s no way around it. Who would have thought that the Pill Valley that initially only verbally supported us would send out their golden warriors/ This means Pill Valley is very likely trying to use this opportunity to kill Long Chen and shake the Martial Heaven Continent with a show of their power. After all, it was because of Long Chen that Pill Valley was disgraced, and then that Long San caused complete chaos within Pill Valley. It should be about time for them to show the continent that they’re not weaklings. We’ll just have to count ourselves unlucky. If Pill Valley’s mobilizing their power, they’ll definitely take the main stage. Little people like us will have to endure.”
The other Life Star expert sighed again. Ordering his subordinates to continue investigating, he made special attention to tell them not to touch the ‘fat sheep’.
…
Long Chen passed through the checkpoint forcibly with the golden tablet. But he didn’t feel the slightest joy.
This golden tablet was something from Pill Valley’s Heaven Dragon Flame Region. It had come from the dead Qu Dajiang.
Back then, Long Chen had thought it was some kind of treasure, and so he had taken it while running from the Alldevil monster. But in the end, it had just been a status tablet, and so he had randomly tossed it into the primal chaos space without thinking about it.
He didn’t even know what the golden warriors were. All he knew was that this matter had Pill Valley’s shadow behind him, and so this was a test. And this test showed Pill Valley had truly participated in it.
In other words, Pill Valley had already recovered from the blow that Master Long San had given them.
Did that mean the radical faction had recovered from the verge of death?
But that didn’t seem too lightly. The radical faction had lost all its power. It should be next to impossible for them to regain power.
He couldn’t figure it out. This was one point that he was uneasy about. Just how deeply was Pill Valley involved in this?
If they were just participating in name, if they were only saying that he was a devil without actually doing anything, then it would be fine.
But suppose that Pill Valley wanted to pull one over the ancient races, Corrupt path, and ancient family alliance by killing him before they could? This would show off their power for everyone and protect their status as the overlord of the continent.
When he had first heard that Pill Valley was involved, he hadn’t thought too much about it. But after see
ing this golden tablet intimidate those people, he looked at things at a deeper level, and saw a bigger problem.
Pill Valley had always been the overlord of this world. They definitely wouldn’t allow anyone else to stand above them. In fact, they wouldn’t allow someone else to stand on the same level as them.
But now Long Chen’s matter had shaken the Eastern Xuan Region. If Pill Valley didn’t take a leading position in this manner, it would make their prestige fall.
So whether they were being active or passive, they would have to show up sooner or later. And once they did, they would definitely be coming in the most domineering and tyrannical manner possible!
“Fine, I admit I didn’t think this through thoroughly before. Hmph, this is quite a bit of pressure.”
Long Chen took a deep breath. Now he had done it. The ancient races, the Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, the Martial Heaven Alliance, Pill Valley, they were all targeting him with their full power.
“Surrounded by enemies? Interesting. Whoever wants to go against me can come. Time to see if the Huayun Sect wants to join them or join me.”
Long Chen calmed himself down. Since he was surrounded by enemies already, there was no need to think that much about it. Just thinking about it wasn’t going to get him out of this. It would just rattle his heart.
It was still the same thing: in front of absolute power, all schemes were useless. This was the case right now. There was no way his intelligence could get him out of this. He could only put his life on the line.
But before doing that, he wanted to know who was his enemy and who was his friend to prepare himself.
“Hello, may I ask who…?”
Long Chen entered the largest auction house belonging to the Huayun Sect in the Eastern Xuan City. As soon as he entered, a pretty attendant came to greet him.
“Tell Zheng Wenlong that an old friend from the Eastern Wasteland urgently wishes to see him.” Long Chen put emphasis on urgently.
Long Chen was brought to a private room. Inside it, he simply sat with his eyes closed, not moving. It was like he was meditating.
