by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Let’s go.” Long Chen pulled Xie Qianqian away from the other lifeforms. Those lifeforms immediately got out of their way.
They arrived at where the staircase was. As expected, Xie Qianqian had walked the orange path, and Long Chen couldn’t see the staircase here. That was one of the laws present. Each person could only go through their own path.
“Long Chen, I’m going to leave. You have to come find me in the future.” Xie Qianqian looked at Long Chen. Her eyes reddened slightly. They were about to go on different paths.
Although the time she had known Long Chen was short, she had great trust in him. He was the first person she felt any trust in after her parents had died.
“Don’t worry. Study hard once you get back. I’m looking forward to your strongest battle armor.” Long Chen smiled warmly and patted Xie Qianqian’s head.
Xie Qianqian waved goodbye and began climbing a seemingly invisible staircase.
Eventually, Xie Qianqian vanished from Long Chen’s sight.
Once she was gone, Long Chen didn’t directly go to the black region to find his staircase. Instead, he returned to the Gates of Hell.
When he was once more standing before the Gates of Hell, a sinister smile appeared on his face, one that frightened all the other lifeforms. What had this vicious person come back for?
“Long Chen, what are you planning? Don’t tell me you want to tear off the doors!” exclaimed Evilmoon.
Chapter 1611 Escaping the Netherworld
“Why would you say that? Am I such an unreasonable person? Look at how big this door is! There’s no way I can carry such a thing,” said Long Chen.
“Stop trying to fake it. After knowing you all this long, I’ve never once seen you be a reasonable person. Don’t be a fool,” warned Evilmoon.
Evilmoon had originally thought that its guts were pretty big. After all, it had dared to challenge a Sovereign, which had resulted in it paying a miserable price.
However, after knowing Long Chen, it felt itself to be a coward in comparison. Long Chen couldn’t be described as just having big guts. No, he was a madman.
“Don’t worry, I have a plan. Evilmoon, help me out. Don’t you think you should help me get some trump cards?” Long Chen smiled mischievously.
“What are you planning?”
“Do you see the nail on the lower left of the door? I want to take it.” Long Chen pointed to a nail on the huge door.
There were countless nails on this giant door. The door was pitch-black, but the nails emitted divine light. They were definitely something good.
“Are you crazy?! You want to take the nails of the Gates of Hell?!” roared Evilmoon. Was this something a sane person would think of?!
Riches naturally had to be taken from danger. Long Chen ignored Evilmoon’s roaring. He looked at the blood essence stones, blood soul stones, as well as the chains and blades from the Skinners that he had in his primal chaos space. He couldn’t help but sigh.
This time, his trip had been very profitable. In fact, Long Chen had an urge to go take a look at the second level of Purgatory to see what else he could get. Right now though, it was the nails that made him excited.
“You madman, the Gates of Hell definitely have their own restrictions on them! If you take a nail, it will definitely disturb some terrifying existence!” shouted Evilmoon.
“We’ll just try it. Worst case, we turn and run. Furthermore, I feel like these gates only allow people through but not out. Whatever’s inside should also be restricted and not able to come out. What do you think?”
“Well, that does seem logical but… this is way too dangerous. With my current power, there’s no way for me to fight against the existences here. If something unexpected happens, we won’t even have a place to cry,” said Evilmoon.
“It’s fine, let’s just try it! If we succeed, I’ll have gained another terrifying trump card.” Long Chen didn’t waste any more time trying to convince Evilmoon. He ran directly to the door.
All the lifeforms attacking the Netherpassage realm fell back. The sight of Long Chen killing that powerful lifeform before had shocked them. None of them dared to fight against him.
Once Long Chen was close enough, he jumped up and began to run along the door to get higher. He only reached the nail after half an incense stick’s worth of time. Only once he was there did he realize the doornail was even larger than what he had thought.
Just this single doornail had a diameter of thousands of meters. In front of this nail, Long Chen was like a dragonfly trying to shake a tree.
Evilmoon stabbed into a crack between the nail and the door. Long Chen slowly began to push. “Evilmoon, are you alright?”
“Don’t worry, although I haven’t recovered my power, my body is hard enough,” said Evilmoon.
Long Chen began to use his full power, forcing the nail out of the door. As he increased his power, the nail began to shudder.
The lifeforms stared lifelessly at Long Chen’s actions. When they saw that he wanted to take the door, they all turned green and began to shout.
“It really is possible!” Long Chen saw that the nail was starting to rise slowly.
However, as the nail slowly rose, the Gates of Hell began to shake. At the same time, divine might crashed down. The lifeforms all fled for their lives.
“Long Chen, I think… we should just let it go. I’m feeling dizzy!” shouted Evilmoon.
“We’ll finish it in one burst!”
Long Chen shouted, and he activated his divine ring and Five Star Battle Armor.
BOOM!
The world shook as the huge nail flew out of the Gates of Hell.
At that instant, a berserk aura came from within the Gates of Hell. Terrifying killing intent filled the world. The small crack of the two doors opened wider.
“Is a monster about to come out?” In that instant, Long Chen felt a chill as some kind of energy locked onto him.
Lightning flashed on his feet and lightning wings appeared on his back. He tossed the nail into the primal chaos space and fled.
A huge hand suddenly came out of the Gates of Hell and reached toward Long Chen.
“Hehe, bye!”
However, Long Chen was too fast. He reached the whirlpool in an instant and fled up the staircase near the black lake. The hand missed.
Just as Long Chen thought that the danger had passed, that hand snaked up from below and reached out for him again.
“It can curve like this?!” Long Chen let out a startled cry and slashed Evilmoon at it.
BOOM! Long Chen was sent flying up the waterfall. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, feeling like his body was about to break apart. He couldn’t help being shocked. That hand contained the laws of this world. His power was unable to block it.
Originally, going from the bottom to the top would have required a long time, but thanks to the attack, he flew out like a shooting star. Borrowing its power, he began to flee along the wooden logs.
However, the huge hand followed him, once more slamming toward him. It was too big to dodge. Long Chen let out a furious roar and attacked; however, his saber-image exploded, and he coughed up blood once more.
“How can this thing be so strong?!” raged Long Chen.
“How could it not be so strong? It’s condensed by the laws of this place. It won’t stop until it kills you,” said Evilmoon irritably.
Long Chen was repeatedly blown back by the hand. He repeatedly coughed up blood. However, its attacks also increased Long Chen’s speed. He quickly saw the bridge ahead of him.
“Just a bit more!” Hope appeared in Long Chen’s eyes. As long as he returned to the gate, he would be able to leave the Netherworld.
BOOM!
Long Chen blocked once more and was sent flying by the large hand. This time, he smashed into one of the monstrosities on the bridge. The two of them tumbled back.
The monstrosity’s eyes suddenly turned sharp, and runes revolved around it as it attacked Long Chen.
Long Chen immediately grabbed hold of its chain and gave it a vicious slap in the face, also wrestling the chains from it.
The chains transformed into divine runes that attacked him like millions of vipers. They actually weren’t true chains.
“Raging Flames Incinerate the Heavens!”
Golden flames exploded out of him, burning the runes around him into ashes.
As for the large hand, it returned, striking again. It seemed it really wouldn’t stop until he was dead.
Long Chen had no time to deal with it. He ran, barely dodging its attack. Its strike ended up breaking the bridge.
Long Chen fled as fast as he could. He quickly saw many gates open in the darkness. He had already determined which one was the old man’s, and just as he was about to run through, he came to a stop.
He was being followed by that large hand. What if when he fled, the hand destroyed the old man’s gate? Then the old man wouldn’t be able to return.
“Fuck, why didn’t I think of this problem?!”
Long Chen was vexed. He couldn’t go through the other gates, because once he did, he would enter that person’s body.
Who knew whether these gates would lead to the body of a human or a demon? What if they led to a completely different star-field? One mistake, and he would never be able to return to the Martial Heaven Continent.
The hand once more slammed toward him. Long Chen blocked it again, but this time, his bones almost shattered. He felt like he was reaching his limit.
“What do I do?!”
Long Chen’s heart raced. There was no other choice. He could only randomly pick a door. No matter what, he couldn’t implicate the old man.
Just as he was preparing to randomly pick a gate to go through, a fluctuation came from the surrounding space. A new gate opened, and an elder walked out.
When Long Chen saw that elder’s robes, he almost wept tears of joy. This old fellow really had come at the right time.
“Old fellow, I’m going to borrow your gate. Many thanks!”
That elder had just entered the Netherworld and didn’t even know what was going on when he was grabbed by Long Chen and thrown into the distance. At the same time, Long Chen charged into his gate.
“Long Chen!”
The elder was wearing robes of the Corrupt path. He only recognized Long Chen once he was tossed aside.
He had just recognized Long Chen when he was blown to pieces by the hand. The hand slammed into his gate, destroying it. However, Long Chen had vanished.
Chapter 1612 Old Patriarch Long Chen
The darkness was familiar. By the time the gate was destroyed, Long Chen had already escaped through it.
“Stimulating.”
Long Chen sighed with relief. That really had been dangerous at the end. He had almost made a big mistake.
That huge hand had been a manifestation of the laws of the Netherworld. Now that he had left, it would also vanish. The old man’s gate would be fine.
“Long Chen, do you remember how you escaped from Purgatory at the end?” asked Evilmoon suddenly.
“Ah, you know what, I really can’t remember. I was caught by the chains when trying to take the purgatory evil dragon corpse. I remember struggling and not being able to escape the chains. And then… and then my head’s blank. My next memory is appearing outside the Gates of Hell. What happened in the middle?” asked Long Chen.
“Hello? Why aren’t you saying anything?” asked Long Chen when Evilmoon didn’t reply.
Evilmoon was silent for a long time. Eventually, it said, “It’s nothing. You managed to forcibly escape from Purgatory. It makes sense that Purgatory would erase those memories. The only strange thing is that it only erased a portion of your memories. Curious.”
In the end, Evilmoon decided to conceal what had happened to Long Chen in the end. It had sensed something, and after considering it, it decided that Long Chen shouldn’t learn of this.
“That makes sense. Anyone who returns from the Netherworld has their memories erased. But I didn’t go through the Gates of Hell, so I only had a portion erased. It seems the Netherworld really is strange.” Long Chen nodded.
The majority of Netherpassage experts were not as amazing as Qu Jianying. Qu Jianying had managed to seal a portion of her memories and bring them out, but the majority of Netherpassage experts had all their memories erased by some mysterious energy.
It was said that the Netherworld existed on a Yin plane, while the world of the living existed on a Yang plane, which meant that memories of the other plane had to be erased. However, this was just a guess, and it was just what everyone said. There was no solid proof of the matter.
“Long Chen, have you ever felt yourself to be evil or very sinister?” asked Evilmoon suddenly.
“What? Did you take the wrong medicine this morning? Aren’t you an evil weapon that has slaughtered countless people? Don’t you feel embarrassed calling me evil?” Long Chen was speechless.
“Alright, let’s not talk about that then.” Evilmoon shut its mouth. It felt that its own communication abilities were lacking. It couldn’t pull any useful information out of Long Chen without him sensing something.
“Evilmoon, why are you acting strange?” asked Long Chen curiously.
“It’s nothing. I’m going to absorb the purgatory evil dragon’s soul essence. I won’t be able to help you during this time, so try to act calm.” After that, Evilmoon fell silent.
Long Chen clearly felt that Evilmoon’s words were a bit strange and off from how it usually acted. He was about to ask it for more details when his body shook.
Long Chen opened his eyes. He found himself to be in a sealed-off room. At this moment, he was a white-haired skinny elder.
The moment the Netherworld’s laws had been about to kill him, an expert from the Corrupt path had attacked the Netherpassage realm. Long Chen had instantly recognized his robes. At that moment, he had been so moved that he had almost cried. This was his first time feeling that the Corrupt path’s experts also had a lovable side to them.
Now that Long Chen had gone through the expert’s gate, he had entered his body. That expert’s Yuan Spirit had been destroyed, and this body had become a masterless object, allowing Long Chen to control it.
Long Chen opened the door. The sight that entered his eyes was a naked man and woman sweating and plowing the fields.
Both the man and woman were Life Star experts. In the midst of their plowing, they saw Long Chen walk in. They immediately knelt on the ground, quivering with terror. The woman was especially terrified.
“Greetings, patriarch!”
Long Chen directly pressed a finger against the man’s head. A lightning arrow pierced his head, killing him.
A rush of information poured through his mind. Long Chen learned that the owner of the body he was in was called Zhao Manchu. He was the old patriarch of the Evil Spirit Sect, while the man he had just killed was the Evil Spirit Sect’s new sect leader.
As for the woman, that was a bit interesting. She was Zhao Manchu’s disciple and his dual cultivation cauldron. However, just the third day after he went into seclusion to attack the Netherpassage realm, she had ended up with the new sect leader.
Experts attacking the Netherpassage realm would take at least three months to succeed. Some would even take years. The two of them had never expected their old patriarch to return so quickly.
“Things are a bit messed up now…”
Long Chen clapped himself on the forehead. He hadn’t expected this old ghost to still have such firepower at such an age. However, the old patriarch didn’t know that someone else had already given him a green hat.
“Patriarch, don’t kill me! Please, think of the years I’ve attended you…”
Long Chen pointed another finger, killing her.
“If you knew life was so precious, why did you take other people’s lives so easily?” sighed Long Chen.
If they weren’t from the Corrupt path, he wou
ldn’t have killed them. Whether or not they wanted to give a green hat to this old ghost had nothing to do with him.
However, the Corrupt path’s hands were covered in the blood of the Righteous path. If it was just the blood of the Righteous path, he wouldn’t care that much. After all, the Righteous path didn’t have many good people either.
However, the Corrupt path’s first step on their cultivation paths was to kill the innocent commoners and use their blood as proof of their conviction toward their Corrupt God.
That was something Long Chen couldn’t accept. So he didn’t feel any guilt about killing them.
Long Chen entered a larger palace from his room. Sitting on the throne, he shouted, “All core elders are to come for an emergency meeting!”
The entire Evil Spirit Sect was shaken. None of its members could understand how their old patriarch had come out so quickly from his seclusion.
“Greetings, patriarch!”
In just a bit, over seventy core Elders gathered. Of these people, half were Life Star experts. This Evil Spirit Sect had to be very powerful.
“Two of you go and drag out those two brutes inside,” ordered Long Chen coldly.
All the Elders’ expressions were odd. Two of them entered the back of the palace and came out with two corpses. Everyone became shocked, but no one said a word.
“Let me tell you, I’m in a bad mood, a very bad mood,” said Long Chen gloomily.
The Elders were silent out of fear. If such a thing happened to anyone, they would also be in a bad mood. They just prayed that the patriarch’s anger wouldn’t fall on them.
“Tell me, what had happened during the time I was in seclusion?” demanded Long Chen.
“Reporting to the old patriarch, an emissary from Pill Valley came yesterday to discuss something with the sect leader. He has yet to leave!” reported an Elder.
In truth, Long Chen already knew about this from soulsearching the new sect leader. He was asking on purpose as a cover.
After the battle in the Grand Han, Qu Jianying had released the experts from the Corrupt path so that they could bring word to the higher-ups of the Corrupt path to not be used by Pill Valley.
