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Just as the disciples guarding the gates were discussing things quietly, the gates slowly opened, causing them to jump in shock.
It had to be known that the Xuantian Dao Sect’s members also came and went from the smaller side door beside the main gate. This was the first time the actual main gates were opened since the reconstruction of the Xuantian Dao Sect.
The huge gates slowly opened, revealing Long Chen, the Dragonblood warriors, as well as the other elite disciples of the Xuantian Dao Sect.
Those experts hurling abuse against the gates instantly fell silent. These hundreds of thousands of experts went quiet like a blade had severed their throats.
Long Chen’s name and fame had already spread throughout the Martial Heaven Continent. When they actually saw him, they felt a chill. Looking at him was like looking at a death god.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen!” Those guards hastily bowed.
“It’s been hard on you.” Long Chen knew that they had had to endure a great deal during this time. He coldly looked at the crowd. “There are many kinds of death, and the most annoying one is when the person dying has to irritate you right before death. However, I, Long Chen, am already used to it, and I’m not picky about who I kill. As long as someone wishes to be killed, I won’t let them down. I’ll give you all one incense stick’s worth of time. If you don’t want to die, then scram. After an incense stick’s worth of time, anyone within a hundred thousand miles of the Xuantian Dao Sect will be killed to the last.”
Long Chen took out an incense stick. It was a completely ordinary stick of incense, and he jabbed it onto the staircase and lit it.
Long Chen’s arrival shocked all these experts. Those people that had been cursing so eloquently had their mouths clamped tight.
The guards looked at them disdainfully. Weren’t these people so arrogant just now? But as soon as they saw senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, they became mute.
“Long Chen… so you still have the face to come out? If I were you, I’d have long since killed myself out of shame. You slaughtered countless innocents! You’re even worse than a devil! How dare you stay in the Righteous path!?” shouted a rank nine Celestial.
Although he shouted loudly, his voice was clearly quivering, showing his nervousness. There were quite a few syllables that he stumbled upon.
Guo Ran snorted and raised his hand, but he was stopped by Long Chen. He looked at the disciple who was hiding behind others and holding a talisman tightly. He shook his head.
Clearly, this person was one of the leaders. He wanted to provoke everyone’s hatred. If Guo Ran really attacked, he would immediately flee using that talisman in his hand.
“A talisman is unable to protect your life. At most, it can make you feel a bit more secure. But that feeling of safety will be what makes you lose your life,” said Long Chen indifferently.
“Laughable! Since I came here, I never thought about leaving alive! Do you think others are as afraid of death as you? Do you think everyone else is the same as you and tramples over other people’s lives just for their own? Let me tell you, this is a Blood Explosion Talisman, a trump card I prepared for fighting you to the death! Even if I can’t beat you, I’ll show you what’s called righteousness! I would rather die than submit! Compared to me, you are garbage!” shouted that rank nine Celestial.
His words impressed countless others. Who would have thought that this person was so unyielding and upright? Quite a few people felt their blood heating up.
“What a joke. That’s clearly a seven star aimless teleportation talisman. As long as you crush it, you’ll immediately scram and leave a bunch of idiots sending themselves to their deaths. For there to be someone so shameless in this world, my eyes have truly been opened. Let me put it this way. This person is a talisman cultivator and skilled in all kinds of talismans. If I’m wrong, I will cut off my own head and give it to you. How’s that?”
Behind Long Chen, a white-robed man walked forward. He was also an Empyrean and was one of the new members of the Xuantian Dao Sect.
This immediately caused an uproar. Everyone looked toward the rank nine Celestial.
The rank nine Celestial panicked. He didn’t know how to reply. From within the crowd, another Empyrean walked up to him. It was a woman.
She sneered, “Although I’m not a talisman cultivator, I know a bit about them. Don’t you think having your own people decide what a talisman does is a bit conceited?”
The white-robed man’s expression sank. This woman was actually questioning him. He was about to speak when Long Chen waved his hand. “They’re just trying to stall for time. Let them do as they please. In any case, there’s still a bit of time left.”
Only then did everyone realize that in that tense atmosphere, they had forgotten the incense stick. There was only an inch left.
“Run!”
Some people were finally afraid. With their understanding of Long Chen, they knew that staying was death. Following a portion of them fleeing, the remaining people were thrown into chaos.
“Haha, run then! I won’t run! I don’t believe Long Chen dares to do so! If he did, then Pill Valley, the ancient races, the ancient family alliance, and the Xuan Beasts would have a righteous reason for tearing the Xuantian Dao Sect up by its roots! What reason does he have to kill us all?” sneered that woman.
“Correct, Long Chen definitely wouldn’t dare to do so. If he did, he would implicate the Xuantian Dao Sect and they would be exterminated along with him. He’s just trying to intimidate you!” shouted another Empyrean. He stood at the front of the crowd.
With one expert after another standing up, a portion of the people that had run returned, feeling that these Empyreans made sense.
Long Chen didn’t say anything. When the incense stick finally burned out, he finally opened his mouth.
“Kill them all.”
Chapter 1681 Let Me Send You On Your Way
“Everyone, don’t be afraid! He’s just trying to scare-”
A rank nine Celestial was in the midst of shouting when a black light pierced his head, instantly killing him.
“Idiot, in all my years of following boss, I’ve never seen him trying to scare people,” sneered Guo Ran. He was the one who had killed the rank nine Celestial.
However, he was so fast that no one even saw him move before that person was dead.
Following Long Chen’s shout, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples charged out, excluding the Dragonblood Legion. They were like a flood slaughtering those experts. These were the elites of the Xuantian Dao Sect, and their opponents weren’t even a match for them.
Five Empyreans flew out from the Xuantian Dao Sect, fighting the Empyreans of the other side. In a one against one, they fought evenly.
The other Empyreans of the Xuantian Dao Sect didn’t fight. They were standing beside Long Chen. They didn’t want to attack the other experts, and they didn’t want to gang up on the opposing Empyreans. Even if they won, it would be meaningless.
“Haha, Long Chen, you’ve done it this time! You and your Xuantian Dao Sect have nowhere to run now! Just wait to be destroyed!” laughed the rank nine Celestial with the talisman in his hand.
After laughing, he immediately crushed his talisman. His body rapidly faded and intense spatial fluctuations appeared, showing that it was clearly a teleportation talisman.
“Bastard, you tricked us!” shouted quite a few experts in fury.
However, just as the rank nine Celestial was about to vanish, space twisted again, and his body, which had almost vanished, reappeared.
“What?! What’s going on?!” That rank nine Celestial’s smile vanished, replaced with horror.
“I said that this teleportation talisman of yours wouldn’t be able to protect your life. Now, do you believe me?” Long Chen looked at the shocked Celestial indifferently. “Your plan was to dupe a bunch of idiots into provoking me so that I kill them, and then that Pill Valley, the ancient races, the ancient family allia
nce, and the Xuan Beasts would have a justifiable reason to kill me and destroy the Xuantian Dao Sect. I really suspect whether you people even have a brain. Do you think others are as stupid as you?”
The rank nine Celestail’s head flew into the air. He had no idea how his talisman had failed.
“I really hate these kinds of bastards.”
Tang Wan-er’s hands came out of a seal. Just now, she had used a magical art to seal the space around the rank nine Celestial and prevent him from fleeing with his talisman.
She had obtained the wind inheritance of the Jade Lake Sacred Land. Her wind energy could now be silent and almost motionless, creeping up on someone without them even noticing. That rank nine Celestial hadn’t even noticed that he was already within the domain of Tang Wan-er’s magical art.
The rank nine Celestial’s head exploded in midair, showering those below him with blood. Tang Wan-er’s silent, invisible energy gave others goosebumps.
“Long Chen, we were tricked! We don’t want to be enemies with you! Please, let us go!”
Seeing the situation immediately turn on them, people began to beg for mercy.
Up in the sky, ten Empyreans were fighting an intense battle. Neither side was able to get an advantage over the other. However, there were still so many Empyreans on the side of the Xuantian Dao Sect that hadn’t done anything yet, as well as Long Chen’s Dragonblood Legion. They were all just indifferently watching them, as if they were in complete control over the situation.
The ones attacking were just the disciples of the Xuantian Dao Sect, but even they were too strong for this mob of people. How could a mob of random disciples from various regions be able to block the attack of the elites of the Xuantian Dao Sect?
In just a few breaths’ time, tens of thousands of experts were slain. In front of the Xuantian Dao Sect’s elites, they didn’t have the slightest ability to resist.
In the distance, over three thousand people were watching. They were both rejoiceful as well as filled with lingering fear. Their guts had been comparatively smaller and they had fled before Long Chen’s incense stick was up.
Originally, there had been over ten thousand of them to flee, but a portion came back due to the conning of others.
The choice to flee while they could, had saved these people’s lives. Seeing the Xuantian Dao Sect’s experts cut down their opponents so easily gave them chills.
Their numbers constantly dwindled. They despaired. Long Chen was only watching them indifferently, completely unmoved by their pleading.
“Long Chen, you slaughterer, a bloodthirsty fiend like you isn’t even human! We’re innocent! Just wait, even in death, we’ll become ghouls that haunt you for eternity!” cursed one disciple upon seeing that they couldn’t escape.
Long Chen glanced at that person lightly. “You’re innocent? Do you even believe your own lie? You insulted me, the Xuantian Dao Sect, and every single one of our disciples. What, did you not realize that you were fed lies? Does that make you free from the responsibility of your own actions? Fine, then after we kill you, I’ll also apologize to you by saying sorry, I had no idea you were innocent at the time.”
“But you know we’re innocent right now! Why do you have to kill-?!” Another disciple roared, but before he could finish speaking, his head was severed from the rest of his body.
“Right now, I really don’t know if you are innocent or not. If I let you off this time, who knows whether you’ll be duped again and used against me? In my eyes, you are a weapon aiming to harm my Xuantian Dao Sect, so there’s no such thing as innocent or not.” Long Chen shook his head.
“No! I don’t want to die!”
“Don’t kill me!”
“I surrender!”
Death cries rang out one by one, but none of these cries could stop the fury of the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples.
“Fuck, you cursed us so happily while blocking our gate. You even included our fathers, mothers, wives. You can all die, cowards!”
After having to endure these people’s cursing for so long, they had long since been filled with fury. A supreme sect like the Xuantian Dao Sect had actually had a bunch of trash come to their gates and curse them. They definitely wouldn’t have mercy.
In fact, some of them even began to pick up the pace for fear that Long Chen would accept their surrender. Just a dozen breaths’ later, all the experts were slain. They had really killed them all.
“Refreshing, so refreshing!” The Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples all had excited expressions. Their bellies full of fire had finally been released.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a divine item shook the sky. A woman holding a sword forced her opponent back.
“Long Chen, I really admire you. You really are just as bloody and domineering as the stories. Regretfully, you’ve signed your death warrant. So sorry, but since my mission is complete, I won’t accompany you any longer.”
The woman took out a jade plate and crushed it. A large spatial channel appeared in the sky, and she stepped into it.
This spatial channel was gigantic and formed with its own spatial barrier. It was much more difficult for external power to damage it. In fact, the fluctuations coming from it showed that it was connected to her divine item. There were also other divine fluctuations.
Clearly, this was a channel formed through two divine items, the one she was holding and one on the other side. As long as she entered, she would appear where the other divine item was. Perhaps that place was her sect.
“If you left just like this, it would make the Xuantian Dao Sect appear rude. Let me send you on your way.”
Yue Zifeng suddenly stepped forward. His sword came out of its sheath, and without even seeing his sword, people felt like the world had suddenly been cut in two.
The spatial channel exploded. A flash of light fell, and that woman only had time to let out a startled cry before she was killed. Not even her Yuan Spirit managed to flee.
This sword came without any warning. It hadn’t had any fluctuations and had struck like lightning. Both friends and foes were stunned by this one attack.
Yue Zifeng’s sword slowly returned to his sheath. It was like a quiet dragon cry, and it sounded like two cries on top of each other.
“The sound of his sword coming out and going in came at practically the same time. Has his sword already broken the restrictions of time? Otherwise, how could such a thing happen?!” All the Empyreans present were completely shocked. This attack had been absolutely bizarre. If Yue Zifeng wanted to kill any of them, just how would they resist?
Such a terrifying speed and killing power didn’t allow others to react. They could only wait for their own death just like that woman. It was an attack that created despair.
Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, and Liu Ruyan exchanged a look. Just as Long Chen had said, Yue Zifeng had abandoned defensive power to obtain the highest offensive might.
Such a sharp sword was practically impossible to block. This was using offense instead of defense.
That woman was slain, and her divine sword transformed into a ray of light that instantly fled.
The remaining four Empyreans’ expressions changed. They also forced back their own opponents, preparing to summon their own methods of escape.
Suddenly, a golden spear appeared in the sky, emitting blazing light. It pierced toward one of the Empyreans.
Chapter 1682 Taking Wickedness To New Heights
The spear was like a prison, completely locking down its target. It was clearly just an Ancestral item, and yet it was thrumming with power.
It was like a strike from a coiling dragon. Hence, that Empyrean hastily blocked with his divine item.
BOOM!
The spear exploded, and the Empyrean was blown apart. His divine item was sent flying, while his Yuan Spirit emerged from the dust. Suddenly, a hand caught his Yuan Spirit.
Gu Yang’s large figure appeared, his hand covered in divine light. With all the effort of a single brea
th, that Empyrean’s Yuan Spirit was blown apart, turning into a rain of light.
Gu Yang’s attack was just as shocking as Yue Zifeng’s. Yue Zifeng had been so fast that things had been over before they had even started. However, with Gu Yang, they saw it clearly, which was why they were so shocked. Gu Yang had used an Ancestral item to knock away a divine item and destroy his opponent’s physical body. If he had been in possession of a divine item, wouldn’t he have killed his opponent in one move without any suspense?
In the blink of an eye, two Empyreans were slain. The remaining three Empyreans were finally terrified. Two of them had given up on building a spatial formation and ran.
They could see that a spatial formation could no longer save them. Hence, they split up in two different directions, quick as lightning.
Two walls suddenly appeared in front of them. Those earthen walls possessed an incredibly thick air and sparkled with a golden luster. Those two Empyreans crashed into them and exploded.
“What…?”
Everyone’s jaws dropped. Two Empyreans had died from smashing into a wall? That was something they had trouble believing even though they had personally witnessed it. After all, an Empyrean’s body was so tough that even if a mountain crashed into them, they would just fly straight through it.
However, these earthen walls didn’t shake at all. It was like two eggs had been thrown into a stone wall. The toughness of these earthen walls was practically a match for divine items.
Two Yuan Spirits flew out of the mess of blood. However, they had just appeared when two golden thorns came out of the wall and stabbed their heads.
“No!” Those two Empyreans let out unwilling cries, but that couldn’t change their miserable fates. Their Yuan Spirits quickly withered until they turned to dust.
Li Qi and Song Mingyuan had finished refining the earth essence now. They had not only obtained its pure earth energy, but they had also obtained the Jade Lake Venerate’s earth inheritance. They were no longer their old selves, and their power could only be described as terrifying.
