by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Hmph.”
Long Chen raised a hand and directly caught the blood arrow.
Chapter 1737 Reaping What You Sow
Bang!
Long Chen caught the blood arrow in front of everyone’s dumbfounded gazes.
Although not everyone understood curse arts, the sinister runes on the blood arrow caused a stabbing pain in people’s souls even when they just looked at them. They definitely couldn’t and wouldn’t allow such a thing to touch them.
Seeing Long Chen catch it, the expert from the Western Xuan Region laughed. “Hahaha, what an idiot, this Ancestral Blood Arrow is-”
BOOM!
Before he could explain just how amazing his Ancestral Blood Arrow was, Long Chen clenched and the arrow exploded.
“AHH!” The instant the arrow exploded, that expert let out a miserable screech.
Black lines covered his body. They were like thousands of vipers wriggling over, and a bloody hole appeared in his head.
“Watch out!”
Blood spurted out of that expert’s head. The surroundings experts fled for their lives, afraid of being touched by the blood.
When the blood landed on the ground, each drop caused a hole to appear in the bricks. Furthermore, each hole had a locust-like rune still wriggling within it that corroded the brick rapidly. Even stone was being cursed.
That expert from the Western Xuan Region tried to form a hand seal to control his own curse, but his arms had already corroded. As he wasn’t able to resist, his body slowly collapsed.
This terrifying curse made everyone shiver. Those experts that had been close just now were especially terrified. They didn’t even dare to touch the blood.
“No…”
That expert let out an unwilling roar. His legs and arms had both corroded, and the rest of his body was melting like snow. There was nothing he could do.
“Now when I tell you I was showing off my power just now, is it still laughable?” Long Chen looked indifferently at this expert, who was now just a head lying in a puddle of black blood.
Furthermore, there was a large hole in his head that had black runes crawling out of it. Each time a new rune crawled out, his Yuan Spirit weakened.
This curse was absolutely terrifying. It not only destroyed a person’s physical body, but it also crushed their soul.
However, no matter how amazing the curse was, it was unable to harm Long Chen, who was protected by divine lightning. He had used his Spiritual Strength to transfer the curse back to its master.
This expert specialized in curses. He was like a poisonous bug keeper. As his curses were his core energy, when Long Chen had made his core energy detonate, it caused a backlash that made him eat his own attack.
“Save me, save me! I don’t want to die! As long as you crush my head, my Yuan Spirit can survive!” pleaded the expert.
Right now, his head was like a furnace protecting his Yuan Spirit. However, as the curse continued to eat away at it, it wouldn’t be long before he died in body and soul.
His plea fell on deaf ears. What kind of joke was that? They weren’t even his allies, so who would dare to take the risk of saving him?
Ignoring the fact that Long Chen was right there, who would dare to crush his head? If they were touched by a single drop of his blood, they would meet a similar end.
Even a long-distance attack wasn’t an option. That would cause the blood to splatter everywhere. If that implicated others, wouldn’t they have become a killer?
With his pleas being ignored, that person suddenly shouted at Long Chen, “Long Chen, I know you’re a good person. You care about others, right? A hero like you can save me! I’m willing to be your slave!”
In the face of his death, he was so afraid that he even turned to Long Chen for help.
Long Chen shook his head. “No, you’re wrong, I’m not a good person. As for caring about others, that depends on who it is. Even if I was more generous, I wouldn’t save someone who wants my life. So, hurry up and get going. Your voice grates on my ears.”
Long Chen tossed a flame sphere that landed on that person’s head. The blood around him was incinerated, and the black runes within it turned into thick black smoke. Both the blood and the head were incinerated.
Long Chen didn’t bat an eye after killing this person. He slowly started walking out of the city.
All experts in the Eastern Xuan City made way for him. There wasn’t a single person on the path in front of him. They all hid behind the buildings.
The foreign experts from the other regions looked at Long Chen with shock. He had killed a genius from the Western Xuan Region who was famous in his own right. Furthermore, Long Chen had killed him with one attack. This kind of combat power was simply terrifying.
All the experts that had been cursing Long Chen for being a coward now felt cold sweat drip down their heads. In order to see a good show, they had intentionally provoked Long Chen. They wanted their words to reach the Xuantian Dao Sect and make Long Chen come out and face the challenge.
Now, he really had come. They thanked their luck that they hadn’t been the ones that Long Chen had caught. Those two fellows that Long Chen had killed had essentially saved them from a similar fate.
Suddenly, quite a few heads exploded in the crowd, raising startled cries.
The instant those heads exploded, a lightning rune appeared on them. Then they were instantly killed.
“A loose tongue causes trouble. Did you not know this? Those who insult others will be insulted back. Unfortunately, my time is precious, so I have no time to insult you back. Sorry, I can only kill you.”
More and more heads exploded in the crowd as Long Chen advanced. This bizarre scene horrified the people watching.
When he had heard the first two people talking ill of him, he swept his divine sense through the entire city, recording who had been cursing him.
Long Chen was now settling accounts with them. If it was before, Long Chen might have let them off after killing the first two, but he was no longer able to remain as calm as before. His killing intent was especially provoked when he heard them insulting his brothers and lovers.
These people might not be skilled at other things, but their ability to infuriate others was exceptional. Sometimes, words left worse injuries than physical damage. They were even more difficult to endure.
More and more heads exploded, and people could only look on in horror. They quickly realized that the ones dying were the ones who had cursed Long Chen viciously. His accuracy sparked disbelief.
“What kind of domain is this?! Why can’t we sense anything?!” exclaimed one expert.
They were able to feel the slightest trace of strange energy causing spatial fluctuations, but they were unable to sense the source. All they felt was an invisible blade that pressed against their necks. Some people were spared, but some weren’t.
In truth, this was Long Chen’s Celestial Lightning Domain. It was a technique he had gained insight into after cultivating the Celestial Lightning Body Blink.
He hid lightning runes throughout this space, forming an invisible domain. Within this domain, he could freely move to any of the lightning runes.
Later, he had changed this domain a bit, transforming the spatial runes into killing runes, making a powerful killing domain. It was just that he had never had a chance to test this domain before.
Having been infuriated by this crowd, Long Chen activated it, silently killing those people that had angered him.
“We were being used by others! It’s not our fault!”
Pfft!
An expert that had loudly cursed Long Chen was terrified at this sight, but his shout didn’t save his life. He was still killed.
“I had no enmity with you, so why did you have to force me? Did you think that offending me meant nothing, that I couldn’t do anything in retaliation? A person should cherish their life. If you don’t cherish your own life, why should I cherish it for you? Is harming others in the dark v
ery satisfying? Then go ahead and be satisfied.”
More heads exploded and corpses collapsed to the ground. The other experts were all pale, not even daring to move.
Even Empyreans didn’t dare to. They found that they were within an invisible domain, and their lives were in Long Chen’s hands. If he wanted to, then no matter how they struggled, they wouldn’t be able to escape death. They had finally experienced Long Chen’s domineering terror.
“Long Chen, slaughtering innocent people doesn’t make you a hero. If you have the guts, then come out of the city for a fight. Why make things hard on the weak? Is that the only ability you have?” Xiang Yunfei’s voice rang out in the distance.
“Who do you think you are to criticize me? Don’t be in such a rush, as long as you don’t run, I will cut off your dog head,” replied Long Chen with a snort.
He didn’t charge out to meet Xiang Yunfei, but he also didn’t continue killing these people. He had essentially killed them all. A few had managed to slip away, but Evilmoon had taken Long Chen’s place to kill them. Not one managed to run. Evilmoon said Long Chen was finally acting like a man.
Long Chen was walking toward the exit of the city when he suddenly looked at his left. Narrowing his eyes, he slowly pointed a finger.
BOOM!
A lightning arrow shot out at a distant building.
Chapter 1738 Xiang Yunfei
A tall building that was still in the midst of being built exploded.
Everyone jumped in shock. Before this, when Long Chen had killed the experts that cursed him, he had used five-colored lightning. But this time, he had used a violet lightning bolt.
Although there had been no chance for them to get a good look at that bolt of lightning, for the brief instant it had appeared, they had sensed a terrifying divine might, one that stabbed their souls. They had felt that intense destructive aura.
Long Chen usually used five-colored tribulation lightning to kill others, but this time, he had used divine lightning.
Divine lightning was equivalent to Lei Long’s core energy. It recovered slowly, so Long Chen wouldn’t easily use it.
Lei Long and Huo Long both had a kind of core energy. Lei Long’s core energy was divine lightning, while Huo Long’s core energy was the Black Illusion Dragon Flame.
Normally, Long Chen would use five-colored tribulation lightning or the Heaven Incinerating Flame to fight because those two forms of energy used up very little of Lei Long and Huo Long’s energy, and they also recovered quickly. They were good for long-term battles. However, their power was lower than their core energies.
“Long Chen!” A furious roar rang out from the dust of the destroyed building.
“The Bloodkill Hall!”
When people saw the elder who had roared, they let out startled cries. That elder was wearing the Bloodkill Hall’s robes. His killing intent was obvious now, but he had no aura. That was the specific ability of the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins. It was so that others couldn’t sense their existence.
“You really have some guts. Last time, I destroyed your divine statue, and now you’ve come again. It seems being an assassin is very profitable,” said Long Chen.
As Long Chen had been walking, he had suddenly sensed something wrong. He had noticed the aura of the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins in the distance. Considering his enmity with the Bloodkill Hall, he didn’t even need to think about it. He had then sent a bolt of divine lightning to destroy their new stronghold. The reason he had used divine lightning was to destroy the Killing God’s statue within.
“Go back and tell your master that whenever I encounter people from the Bloodkill Hall, I will kill them. If I find your strongholds, I will destroy them as well. You can scram now!” Long Chen glanced at the elder coldly before continuing on his way as if he had done something incredibly minor and unimportant.
The elder of the Bloodkill Hall was covered in blood, and half his body was black. Just now, he had been lucky to be on the edge of the attack. Furthermore, he had been strong enough to survive. There had been thousands of other experts from the Bloodkill Hall in this building, and they had all been annihilated by Long Chen’s attack. This elder’s eyes were red. He had long since lost the calm an assassin needed.
In the end, the elder clenched his teeth and vanished. He didn’t even leave behind any vicious words as a goodbye.
The experts present all stared in shock. As expected, evil people were best handled by evil people.
Just how mighty was the Bloodkill Hall in the Martial Heaven Continent? They were so terrifying that not even the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, Pill Valley, or the Xuan Beasts would be willing to provoke them.
They were too difficult to deal with. They came and went like the wind, and their assassination arts were unrivaled. They were an extremely special existence.
However, even the domineering Bloodkill Hall wasn’t able to do anything to the even more domineering Long Chen. He had destroyed their temple and killed their people, and the only survivor left without even daring to let out a fart.
The Bloodkill Hall was truly unlucky. Last time, Long Chen had found their headquarters in the Eastern Xuan Region and destroyed their Killing God statue. Now, they had managed to secretly reconstruct a new stronghold when it was destroyed by Long Chen just as it was about to be finished. That was also a reason the elder was so enraged.
That was because… he had been sent to be the master of this branch. He had just arrived today, but before even getting a chance to sit down, this calamity had struck. However, the fact that he hadn’t died should count as good enough luck for him.
“When it comes to being domineering, no one can compare to Long Chen! Last time, he also walked this path alone with no one being able to stop him! Blood dyed the street red! This time, he’s walking the same path, like a king returning to his kingdom! To be able to live in the same world as such a figure, I have no regrets about this life!”
Within the crowd, a rank nine Celestial couldn’t help sighing emotionally. Last time, Long Chen had killed his way out of the Eastern Xuan City. That image was still deeply imprinted in people’s minds.
Now, even with heavenly geniuses soaring and monstrous figures everywhere, Long Chen was still as domineering as ever.
Last time, many people had refused to accept him, and they had been slaughtered in droves. Now, no one dared to stop him.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, eliminate that idiot Xiang Yunfei! Let him know our Eastern Xuan Region isn’t so easy to bully!”
“Kill him! Who asked him to act so arrogantly here? Beat him until his mother won’t even recognize him!”
“Those people swaggering on the streets just now, didn’t you feel like you were very badass? Come out again and see if senior apprentice-brother Long Chen can knock you into the wall so hard that you can’t even pull yourselves out!”
Seeing how imposing Long Chen was, seeing how the arrogant experts from the other regions were so intimidated that they didn’t even dare to make a sound, the experts native to the Eastern Xuan Region all began to criticize them.
Before Long Chen had arrived, those foreign experts hadn’t just cursed Long Chen, but they had also provoked the flames of fury of the entire Eastern Xuan Region’s junior generation.
Those experts truly had looked down on the disciples of the Eastern Xuan Region. Those disciples were truly just weaker, so being looked down upon was normal.
Those disciples finally had a chance to vent with Long Chen’s arrival. So it was also very normal for them to curse back at those people.
Those foreign experts felt a burning sensation on their faces as if they had been slapped. However, they chose to act like they couldn’t hear anything.
Long Chen quickly reached the end of the main path and arrived outside the city. He saw the uneven ground outside and couldn’t help but recall his fight here against Ye Qingkuang, Sha Guangyan, and Peng Wansheng.
Ye Qin
gkuang had even summoned his lightning tribulation at the end. If Long Chen hadn’t intentionally provoked the lightning tribulation and drawn it away, it was unknown how many innocent lives in the city would have been lost to it.
Now, the same story was replaying. Those three were dead, replaced by someone from the Central Xuan Region.
“Long Chen, sinner of the human race, hurry up and face your death.”
Long Chen had just stepped outside the city when Xiang Yunfei’s voice rang out again.
On a distant mountain peak stood a young man. He was tall and muscular. His skin was copper-colored and covered in many tiny runes.
Just by standing there, the power of his Blood Qi caused the space around to rumble.
“Xiang Yunfei is a top expert of the ancient races. He possesses the ancient Barbarian Mammoth bloodline, which gives him immense power. It is said that in the immortal era, such experts were capable of tearing apart stars. Although those legends aren’t very believable, considering Xiang Yunfei’s immense Blood Qi, he could probably kill other Empyreans with a single punch,” said an elder within the crowd.
“I don’t think it’s just that. After Xiang Yunfei’s talent awoke, he relied on his whole race to undergo an ancestral restoration sacrifice. The spirit of his ancestor was pulled into his body. He not only has his own power, but he also has another kind of forbidden power,” said another elder from a foreign region.
“Then you mean his race has hedged everything on Xiang Yunfei?”
That was a huge gamble. If Xiang Yunfei died, their ancestral spirit would disappear with him. Then their race would quickly decline until it vanished like smoke in the wind. This was no joke.
“A great era has already descended. Countless monsters are awakening, and sects that have been missing for tens of thousands of years are reviving. If they don’t gamble at this time, then what are they supposed to wait for? Some powers have the capital to gamble, while many powers can only watch as others gamble,” sighed the elder. He was actually the leader of a sect, and he also had powerful heavenly geniuses rising within his sect. It was just that his sect’s foundation was too weak, and he was unable to raise a true monstrous genius. He was helpless to do anything about it.
