by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
When Tang Wan-er’s manifestation appeared, for a single moment, it felt like time was standing still. Tang Wan-er’s invisible blade slashed down.
What shocked everyone was that despite Tang Wan-er being miles away from Wang Haishan, and despite there being no sword-image or divine runes, this simple slash caused Wang Haishan to suddenly smash his spear forward with a horrified expression.
BOOM!
Wang Haishan’s spear smashed into the air. An invisible existence sent him flying.
As he flew back, blood streamed out of a large cut on his chest. Even the soft armor he wore had been cut through.
“What?!”
Startled cries rang out from the Southern Xuan Region’s experts. What kind of magical art was this? An invisible, silent attack that came from miles away?
“I didn’t want to kill you, but you are forcing me.” Tang Wan-er stood in the sky, looking down on these experts. This was her warning.
“Everyone, don’t be afraid! This kind of magical art is completely heretical. We have to attack together to get vengeance for our disciples!”
A white-haired elder roared and took out a shield. Light blossomed from the shield, protecting him as he took the lead to charge toward Tang Wan-er.
Following his actions, other experts roared as well. Their favorite disciples had been slain, so they had to get vengeance.
Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Liu Ruyan, and Cloud were about to join the battle when their attention was suddenly drawn to a gloomy Tang Wan-er. She slowly pressed her palms against each other. When she pulled them apart, a sphere appeared between her hands.
Chapter 1662 Terrifying Expert
That sphere slowly grew as Tang Wan-er spread her hands. It was translucent and sparkling like a crystal, however, when it appeared, time seemed to stand still. Silence drummed in people’s ears, and all those experts quivered. They smelled death from that sphere.
There were millions of almost imperceptibly tiny runes dancing within that sphere. They were simply swimming around naturally, yet everyone sensed a fatal danger from them.
“What kind of magical art is that?!”
The Southern Xuan Region’s experts were horrified. They were large powerhouses who were dominating the Southern Xuan Region, and they had lived for countless years. But even they had never seen such a terrifying and bizarre magical art.
“Wind Spirit Moonslash!”
Tang Wan-er’s hands suddenly began to shine as she unleashed her sphere. Rumbling filled the air, breaking the silence. Space and time were torn to shreds, and the world was thrown into chaos.
Within the Skywood Divine Palace, the palace master and the Elders were watching with shock. How could a Soul Transformation disciple unleash such a terrifying attack?
“The great era has really arrived. Even the Jade Lake Venerate’s four great inheritances have been fully inherited after countless years of people only being able to comprehend portions of them. For Tang Wan-er to be able to unleash her wind attribute divine arts just after obtaining her inheritance, she must have mastered part of it. We can finally see the slightest tip of the ancient Jade Lake Venerate’s power.” The palace master sighed emotionally.
“But Tang Wan-er’s magical art doesn’t seem like it’s using wind energy. The fluctuations are wrong,” said one Elder.
“There is a common saying that wind cultivators must cause a huge gale that shakes the land to display their power, but that’s just a common saying. Tang Wan-er’s magical art has reached the peak of wind, and it returned to a calm state until she unleashed it. This attack is terrifying,” said the palace master.
At this time, Tang Wan-er’s attack had reached the Southern Xuan Region’s experts. The white-haired elder carrying the divine shield was struck first.
BOOM!
The sphere exploded. A vast energy exploded like a volcano.
The previously calm sphere had exploded. Millions of tiny wind blades shot out furiously in every direction.
The white-haired elder’s shield instantly exploded, and the wind blades devoured him, turning him into bloody mist. Even his Yuan Spirit was annihilated.
“She can destroy divine items?!”
The other experts were horrified. They immediately turned around and ran.
However, their speed couldn’t match the wind blades. They could only unleash their strongest attacks as they fled.
Those with divine items were lucky. They only coughed up blood as they were sent flying. However, those who had charged forward to the front without divine items weren’t so fortunate. Their bodies were cut through by the wind blades. The unluckiest ones were pierced through the head and died.
Tang Wan-er’s destructive power was heaven-shaking, and it shocked everyone. If it hadn’t been for the white-haired elder’s divine shield blocking a portion of the power, it was unknown how many of them would have survived.
However, hundreds of Life Star experts were heavily injured, and dozens were killed with this one attack. The survivors looked up in horror at the icy-faced fairy floating in the air.
Even Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Cloud, and Liu Ruyan were shocked. Tang Wan-er was no longer the old Tang Wan-er. In her current state, she was truly terrifying. She had killed a sect leader who held a divine item, even destroying that divine item.
Facing tens of thousands of Life Star experts, Tang Wan-er was completely domineering, like an icy battle goddess. No one dared to take another step forward.
On this side, Tang Wan-er had intimidated all the Southern Xuan Region’s experts to the point that none dared to approach again. On the other side, Long Chen was fighting evenly against the half-step Netherpassage Han Wanchang.
What the Southern Xuan Region’s experts couldn’t accept was that Long Chen was like a ferocious tiger, and he was the one on the offense, forcing Han Wanchang to retreat time and time again.
With his divine ring spinning and five stars revolving in his eyes, he leaped forward again, slashing Evilmoon down heavily.
Long Chen attacked three times, each time stronger than the last. On the third one, Han Wanchang coughed up blood and miserably flew back.
“He… he lost?!”
Seeing Han Wanchang fly back, the Southern Xuan Region’s experts felt their hearts turn cold. That was a half-step Netherpassage expert! He was the one with the highest cultivation base amongst all of them, as well as the strongest. Since he had been forced back by a Soul Transformation disciple, they couldn’t accept it.
Long Chen rested Evilmoon on his shoulder. He coldly looked at the shocked and infuriated Han Wanchang. “You’re only half-step Netherpassage, but your arrogance surpasses a Netherpassage expert. Is this the tradition of your Han family? Do you have no ability other than bullying others? As expected, the young learned from the old.”
Back then, Han Feifei had been the same, charging forward tyrannically through a crowd. When someone didn’t get out of the way fast enough, her people whipped them. Long Chen looked down on people like her the most. They had superiority complexes that had them always crush others to express their own greatness.
Han Wanchang had never expected Long Chen to be so powerful. Even though he had used all his power and magical arts, he was being beaten by Long Chen.
What infuriated him the most was that Long Chen didn’t compete with him in magical arts. Long Chen was like a scoundrel randomly hacking people with his saber. He didn’t give Han Wanchang any opportunity to unleash his ultimate attacks.
Regretfully, Han Wanchang was not an Empyrean who could have his Yuan Spirit form hand seals for him. That would greatly shorten the amount of time required to cast his magical arts.
“You-” Suddenly, Han Wanchang’s expression changed. He took out a dragon-shaped jade plate from his robes, his anger transforming into joy. “Hahaha, Long Chen, your death has come!”
Han Wanchang laughed brazenly as he crushed the jade plate. A pillar of light descended from the sky, and a figure slowly condensed.
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sp; When the palace master saw that dragon-shaped jade plate, her expression changed. However, she had had no time to warn Chu Yao.
A figure slowly appeared within the pillar of light. It was a square-faced dignified middle-aged man in yellow robes and a violet-gold crown.
He was large and muscular. His eyes were as sharp as blades, and blood-colored runes flowed within his pupils. It was like his sight could pierce a person’s soul.
When he appeared, the hair all around Long Chen’s body stood on end. He already knew who this person was.
Without saying a word, the middle-aged man moved through the air, leaving countless afterimages. He appeared in front of Long Chen without anyone seeing how he had moved.
“Split the Heavens 6!” Long Chen, who had already started accumulating energy, slashed his saber.
“Hmph.” The middle-aged man snorted and raised a hand to block Long Chen’s saber. He broke Long Chen’s attack easily with just his palm, and Long Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The middle-aged man’s body shook ever so slightly from Long Chen’s attack, and he was a bit surprised. However, his expression quickly returned to normal. He took another step forward, and the world suddenly lost all its color, leaving behind only white and black.
There were no other colors other than black and white. When that happened, all the experts turned pale with terror.
“Life and death energy!”
“This is a Netherpassage expert! Only a Netherpassage expert can control this kind of energy!”
“An almighty Netherpassage expert actually came to handle Long Chen personally?!”
The experts were all struck dumb. They had never imagined that a Netherpassage expert would lower his own status and dignity to attack Long Chen.
It had to be known that Long Chen was only a Soul Transformation disciple. For a Netherpassage expert to attack him was elevating Long Chen’s status and turning themself into a laughingstock.
The middle-aged man hadn’t said a word. When he summoned his life and death domain, everyone felt that only two types of energy existed in this world now. One was life, and one was death.
Both those energies were under the control of this middle-aged man. Within this domain, he was a god. He decided who lived and who died. There was no way any of them could resist.
Long Chen was completely locked down by this life and death energy. He felt like an invisible hand was gripping his throat, and he couldn’t even move or resist. Resisting meant death.
Space was frozen. Time was still. That middle-aged man coldly walked over to Long Chen, his right hand reaching for Long Chen’s neck.
Suddenly, space shook, and an invisible and silent attack came from behind the middle-aged man. It was Tang Wan-er’s sneak attack.
The middle-aged man didn’t even turn around. His left hand reached back, and the wind from the pointing of his finger broke Tang Wan-er’s attack.
However, just as he crushed Tang Wan-er’s attack, the immobile Long Chen suddenly moved.
Long Chen’s large hand slapped the middle-aged man’s face. That clear sound resounded throughout the battlefield.
Chapter 1663 Netherpassage vs. Netherpassage
It happened too suddenly, so suddenly that everyone was dazed. It felt like time was moving slow as they witnessed one of the most shocking sights of their lives.
Long Chen’s palm slapped across the middle-aged man’s face, and that dignified man was forced back several steps by the immense power. As for Long Chen, he used that force to retreat.
Just as they separated, a powerful bolt of Sword Qi slashed through the space where the middle-aged man had just been. It was like a celestial blade, a blade of the starry sky. This attack had been to prevent the middle-aged man’s attack. However, it was one step too late, as the middle-aged man had already been slapped back.
Long Chen retreated a dozen steps, each of his steps causing the ground to crumble beneath him. Although he was the one who had slapped the middle-aged man, the resulting backlash was still difficult for him to bear.
His left hand concealed a nail, which he silently put away. That was what he had originally prepared before he had sensed the Sword Qi.
A life and death domain might be able to restrict everyone else, but it wasn’t able to restrict him. He didn’t know if it was because he had entered Purgatory, but this kind of life and death energy couldn’t bind him.
Before, just to prepare himself, Long Chen had asked the old patriarch, a Netherpassage expert, to use his life and death domain against him. At that time, Long Chen hadn’t been able to move a finger.
However, it was different this time. He didn’t know why, but this life and death energy wasn’t able to bind him in his place. Therefore, Long Chen had acted like he was completely bound, just waiting for the middle-aged man to approach carelessly.
The middle-aged man was truly terrifying. Long Chen had prepared the nail from the Gates of Hell, however, just as he had been about to use it, he had changed ideas and switched to the slap that he was most proficient in.
Long Chen stabilized himself and looked up to see a woman standing in the air. Her sword was still shining with divine light. That attack had come from her.
“Greetings, alliance head!”
Long Chen smiled when he saw that woman and respectfully bowed. She was the head of the Martial Heaven Alliance, Qu Jianying. She had attacked to force back the middle-aged man and save Long Chen.
However, Qu Jianying’s current expression was very strange. She had been planning to save Long Chen, but Long Chen’s slap was outside her expectations.
“DIE!” That middle-aged man’s dignified face immediately became filled with killing intent, and he pointed a finger.
A black and white spear shot out of it, prying apart the void. It was as if all the cosmos’s energy was concentrated within this spear, and the laws of life and death revolved around it. This middle-aged man was finally infuriated.
“Alliance head, someone is trying to kill your disciple! You must stand up for your disciple!”
Long Chen immediately dodged behind Qu Jianying. He knew that this middle-aged man had gone completely crazy. His current cultivation base was too low to block a Netherpassage expert’s attack.
Qu Jianying was startled but also found it funny that Long Chen was such a madman. This slap might just shake the Martial Heaven Continent.
However, at the moment, she had no choice but to focus her attention on the middle-aged man. She also attacked, slashing her sword that also had white and black energy intertwining over it.
The attacks of two Netherpassage experts collided. The explosion of life and death energy caused a huge ripple to spread.
Long Chen felt a slight pain in his soul, but it quickly went away. However, in the distance, Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others all let out a pained groan and fell from the sky.
Their Yuan Spirits were in intense pain like they were being torn apart. The other experts were no better off, and they all fell from the sky as well, holding their heads and wailing. Their Yuan Spirits had been severely injured.
“A clash of life and death energy causes shockwaves that are very damaging to Yuan Spirits. Fortunately, their Yuan Spirits are strong enough; ordinary Soul Transformation experts would have been killed,” said the palace master. She and the other Elders of the Skywood Divine Palace were watching from a distance.
“Palace master, those two are…” asked a young Elder. She didn’t recognize those two and was very curious.
“They’re both figures that can shake heaven and earth, people with the greatest authority in this world. One is the head of the Martial Heaven Alliance, Qu Jianying. As for the other, he’s the head of the ancient family alliance, Di Long. This will be troublesome. I didn’t expect the Jade Lake Pageant to disturb two extraordinary existences like them. I don’t know how this matter can be settled. If the two of them were to really start fighting, the entire Martial Heaven Continent might become c
overed in a rain of blood,” said the palace master worriedly.
“Ah? Then you mean Long Chen has just slapped the head of the ancient family alliance?!” exclaimed the young Elder before covering her mouth.
The palace master sighed inside. Although she had long since heard that Long Chen dared to do anything, and his ability in causing trouble was unmatched beneath the heavens, an existence that was constantly imitated but never surpassed, she had never expected Long Chen to accomplish a feat never before achieved in all of history.
“Qu Jianying, I must kill him. If you block me, then from now on, your Martial Heaven Alliance will be enemies with my ancient family alliance.” Di Long coldly looked at Qu Jianying. He clasped his arms behind him like a dignified emperor. His voice was like a drum resounding through the air, causing people’s ears to shake. It contained unquestionable confidence.
From the moment Qu Jianying had seen Long Chen slap Di Long, she had sighed inside. She was currently thinking of how to resolve this enmity. After all, the Martial Heaven Alliance was allied with the ancient family alliance. She didn’t want to make matters worse.
However, Di Long’s tone was clearly a kind of order. That provoked her anger as well. She was the leader of the Righteous path. Who dared to threaten her?
“Long Chen is my disciple. No matter what mistake he made, I, Qu Jianying, will help him bear it. If he was really wicked beyond redemption and a disgrace, I would clean up my own door without you interfering. However, if you had someone intentionally provoke and set him up, then you should know my temper. No matter who I should go against, I will get justice for my disciples.”
Although the time she had known Long Chen was short, Qu Jianying had lived for many years and had seen all sorts of people. She had immediately seen that although Long Chen still possessed the carelessness and temper of youth, he was not an untrustworthy person. It was the opposite. He was someone very worthy of her trust and confidence.
