by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
If it was a one against one, Long Chen might have some chance of running even if he was defeated. However, if the two of them joined hands, he would definitely die.
She wondered if it was due to an overinflated ego, or more accurately, whether he was simply ignorant of just how terrifying the two of them were.
Both Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi had terrifying foundations. They had received the best resources since their childhoods. Before the Xiantian realm, all their advancements had been perfect.
As for Long Chen, he had been in the Eastern Wasteland, cultivating in one of the branches of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Those resources were garbage in comparison to what the two of them had been given. Qi Fengxue didn’t know where Long Chen’s confidence came from.
“Yes. I have to go.” Long Chen nodded.
He suddenly thought of the Xuan Beast expert he had encountered outside the mist. There had been a small wound on him that had still been bleeding. Moreover, Long Chen had sensed a curse energy or some kind of poison within that blood. At that time, he had guessed that the wound was very likely caused by someone from the Corrupt path.
Now that he thought about it, he supposed that the only one capable of making a top expert of the Xuan Beasts flee like that from a small wound was probably Xie Luo.
However, since they were enemies, they would have to face each other sooner or later. Sooner was better than later.
“Fine, then I won’t try to change your mind. Here is a map. Although it’s not complete, it should be able to help you.” Qi Fengxue handed Long Chen a spiritual jade.
This was a rather more extravagant method of mapping. Spiritual Strength was used in this method, and it made the map clearer.
Although Long Chen could count himself among the nouveau riche, he had not gotten used to using such luxurious methods. He thickened his skin and handed over his own map. It could count as an exchange of maps.
“Now you can see the general outline of the beast lair. There are three regions, the outer region with the mist, the middle region with the rock forest, and the core which is the real lair. The place we are in is the edge of the middle region. If you go straight, you’ll enter the rock forest. I’ve exchanged this map with others before, as I didn’t know what was beyond the rock forest,” said Qi Fengxue.
In the search for Qi Xuan, Qi Fengxue had been searching around recklessly. She had encountered True Immortal Jiaoqi. True Immortal Jiaoqi had immediately launched a probing blow against her. After testing her power, he had left.
Qi Fengxue also knew that True Immortal Jiaoqi was just testing her, but she was ashamed to find that while he had figured out her power level, she had yet to find out just how powerful he was. The difference in power between them was too great.
“Many thanks. This will save me a great deal of trouble.” Long Chen cupped his hands toward her. “Can I ask what you intend to do now?”
Qi Fengxue bitterly smiled. “We’ll go searching in another region. Even if there are great treasures here, now that there are three monsters inside, I don’t think we have any chance of getting them.
There were now three monsters in this beast lair, True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, and Long Chen. And those were just the ones that she knew of.
There was no way to find out exactly how many monsters were inside. This was practically a lair of death. Even before seeing any treasure, she could already see plenty of danger. If she still charged in, the danger wouldn’t be worth the potential gains.
So Qi Fengxue wisely chose to leave. It wasn’t even guaranteed that there was any treasure inside, but she knew that if Long Chen, True Immortal Jiaoqi, and Xie Luo were to meet, they would definitely have a heaven-shaking battle. The three of them would have achieved their goal of fighting whether or not there was a treasure, but as for herself, she would have only thrown herself into danger for nothing.
“Then I’ll say goodbye here. I wish you good luck,” said Long Chen. His time was precious.
Qi Fengxue looked at Long Chen with a complicated expression. She didn’t say anything else. She knew that Long Chen was determined to go find those two monsters. Perhaps the world of monsters wasn’t something ordinary people could understand.
Qi Xuan didn’t want to part with Long Chen, and she actually wanted to go with him. She was harshly scolded by Qi Fengxue before crying.
Long Chen felt it was funny and comforted Qi Xuan. Now wasn’t a good time, but if they had a chance in the future, he would bring her around so that she could abuse his prestige to frighten others.
Hearing that promise, Qi Xuan was delighted. She made a pinky swear with Long Chen.
Qi Fengxue looked at Long Chen with surprise. She hadn’t expected that this merciless and vicious man that dominated his generation would also have such a gentle side.
Because he knew that Qi Xuan was mentally only seven or eight years old, Long Chen treated her as a child. After pinky swearing, he took his leave. He rushed toward the core according to the path on the map.
Very quickly, he saw the rock forest Qi Fengxue had mentioned. It was truly a forest of rocks. The stones here stabbed into the sky like giant blades.
Long Chen chose not to fly over the stones. That would make him too obvious. Who knew whether someone had laid down a trap here?
He quickly advanced through the stones, but because there were so many of them, his speed dropped.
On his way through, he noticed quite a few experts hiding behind the rocks. When they sensed him passing, they became still, but they couldn’t escape his senses.
Those people were traveling through the rocks very cautiously. No one dared to stroll through as brazenly as Long Chen.
Long Chen felt quite a few divine senses sweep over him, but they quickly pulled back, most likely retreating when they recognized him.
As he continued onward, he saw more and more experts. They came from various sects and powers. He even sensed the aura of the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins.
It took him half a day of rushing to get past the rock forest. What replaced it was a giant nest.
Even with Long Chen’s previous experience, he jumped when he saw this nest. It was absolutely gigantic, easily soaring above the clouds.
Furthermore, what he was currently seeing was just the tip of the iceberg. Standing in front of this nest, he felt himself to be miniscule.
The nest was so big that he couldn’t tell what kind of nest it was, however, its entire body was snow-white, like fine jade. It still had light flowing within it.
“It’s actually made of bone. Furthermore, those bones belonged to extremely terrifying Magical Beasts.”
A chill ran through Long Chen. This giant nest was composed of endless bones. He had no idea what kind of pressure had been forced onto them to make them into bone walls. It looked as if the bones had been melted together so that they were seamless.
“This kind of pressure, they have to be the bones of Magical Beasts that reached at least the twelfth rank.”
Long Chen examined the nest with shock. Just how many Magical Beast bones would it take to build such a giant nest? Just what level was the master of this nest?
“I have to hurry on in. There are definitely treasures here. I can’t let others get them first.”
Long Chen’s figure vanished. He rushed toward the cave. The closer he got, the more shocked he became.
This giant nest possessed a terrifying pressure that caused the surrounding space to be in constant fluctuation. It was a no-fly zone.
Within this region, it might be possible to glide, but it would take up thousands of times the amount of energy it would normally.
As he got closer, he found that the nest was even more monstrous than he had thought. It took him two full hours to finally reach it.
There was a large cave hundreds of miles wide. Even twelfth rank Magical Beasts would be able to easily enter such a giant cave.
Once he entered the cave, he saw that it continued onward, wriggling through
the nest. He didn’t know where it was leading him.
Long Chen took out a sword, following the cave as he rapidly advanced. A fork appeared in the path ahead. Here, people had left behind all kinds of marks. There were some colorful dyes present.
“It’s a maze?”
Long Chen was surprised. These were definitely marks left behind by experts to mark where they had come from.
“This is no good. I’ll need to take a risk.” Long Chen suddenly clenched his teeth. His Spiritual Strength fully erupted. His divine sense rapidly spread through the paths.
This was an extremely dangerous method. If he was noticed by others and they attacked his divine sense, they could easily injure his soul.
Long Chen’s divine sense quickly reached through the two channels, and he found a four-way fork. His Spiritual Strength continued to scatter throughout all the channels, and he quickly found more forks in the path.
Long Chen saw the endless paths in his mind that spread like a spiderweb. There were many paths, many of which crossed each other, and some even led back to the outside, making it a waste of his time. It was no wonder people were leaving marks on the forks.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s mind-sea suddenly shook. An expert had launched an attack on his divine sense, wanting to cut off his exploration.
Attaching Spiritual Strength to his divine sense was a kind of extended soul art. It was easy for others to sense it. When Long Chen’s divine sense went past that expert, that person had condensed his Spiritual Strength into a sword to attack him.
The results of this attack made that person’s expression completely change. His attack was actually unable to cut off Long Chen’s divine sense probing. Before he could unleash a second attack, Long Chen’s cold voice rang out around him.
“If you don’t want to die, get the hell out of my way.”
Chapter 1830 Marrow Cleansing Pool
Long Chen used his Spiritual Strength to express his will, causing that person’s expression to completely change. Long Chen’s icy face appeared in his mind. He was unable to sever Long Chen’s spiritual probing.
He was someone from the ancient family alliance. After learning that this divine sense belonged to Long Chen, he no longer dared to continue attacking him.
Although things were tense between the ancient family alliance and the Martial Heaven Alliance, things hadn’t fully fractured yet. They weren’t at war.
As for this person, he was now afraid. If Long Chen charged over to him, he would definitely die.
The expert stood to the side, allowing Long Chen’s divine sense to continue onward. As his divine sense spread further, it encountered more and more experts. Most of them attacked. Long Chen didn’t bother hiding his spiritual fluctuations, and after attacking, they all knew who the master of this divine sense was.
A few of the Righteous experts stopped upon learning it was Long Chen’s divine sense. However, some were crazily attacking when they knew it was him.
“Hmph, so what if you’re Long Chen? You must be dreaming if you think you can cheat like this.”
Many experts attacked, not letting Long Chen’s divine sense get past them. His divine sense was now split into thousands of strands, so there was no way for him to resist the full-strength attack of other experts. Once the strands were severed, he couldn’t see any further into that path.
Long Chen ignored those people and continued spreading his divine sense. He found that tens of thousands of experts had entered this giant nest.
There were people from the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, the Xuan Beasts, and all sorts of other powers. Long Chen even sensed a few powerful flame cultivators who had to come from Pill Valley.
Some avoided his divine sense, but others crazily attacked it instead. Some who were skilled in the aspects of the soul even launched spiritual attacks on him, following his divine sense to strike his mind-sea.
However, as soon as they tried that, Long Chen would sever that strand of divine sense, not letting them locate him.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of them, but that he didn’t have the time to bother with them. Furthermore, with his Spiritual Strength spread so widely, he had lost the ability to fight with them spiritually.
Fortunately, just his name was enough to frighten off quite a few experts from the ancient family alliance, and they let his divine sense pass.
As for the Righteous experts, over ninety percent let him be. Only a few irritating fellows attacked to sever his divine sense.
Despite so many people blocking his divine sense, he still managed to get a general grasp of this nest. It was truly a giant complicated maze. The people inside were like ants crawling within it.
There were countless paths, and it was completely chaotic. As his divine sense continued spreading, it covered a larger and larger area.
Finally, his divine sense reached an area hundreds of miles above him. There, he saw an empty space. But before he could get a clear view of this space, his heart skipped a beat.
That was because he saw a giant multi-colored bird currently fighting intensely.
“Cloud!”
Long Chen couldn’t help letting out a shout. It was the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow.
BOOM!
Cloud’s giant wings came crashing down with amazing power, but she was sent flying, smashing into the wall. Feathers were falling off of her body.
Long Chen’s heart shook. Cloud had advanced to the tenth rank, and her innate divine abilities had started to awaken, making her incredibly powerful. When she summoned her true body like this, her power was such that even Gu Yang and the others would only be able to force her back.
Who was capable of making her unable to receive a single blow? Long Chen had barely managed to glance at who was in the air when a spiritual arrow pierced through his divine sense.
“Did you think some weak soul arts could stop me? If I didn’t want you alive, you wouldn’t have been able to last three exchanges.” Long Chen heard an icy voice resound through the air. An illusory figure entered his sight, fighting a giant drake. However, when the drake opened its mouth, it emitted a piercing ray of light that blasted apart the illusory image.
Long Chen saw Meng Qi slowly descend from the sky. She stood on top Cloud’s head, her expression grave.
Long Chen’s expression changed as he withdrew his divine sense. Then, lightning wings appeared on his wings and he pushed his speed to his peak. The reason for his abrupt change in expression was because Meng Qi’s opponent was the True Immortal Jiaoqi of the Xuan Beasts.
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Meng Qi looked at the supreme heavenly genius of the Xuan Beasts gravely. In just three exchanges, she and Cloud had been defeated.
She felt powerless. This True Immortal Jiaoqi had an ancestral spirit protecting him. Her spiritual attacks were completely ineffective.
As for just Cloud on her own, she was unable to defeat True Immortal Jiaoqi. True Immortal Jiaoqi had created a domain around them through brute force. There was no way for them to run.
“Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, traitor of the Xuan Beasts, we let you escape last time, but this time, I’ll make you live a life worse than death so that the world can see how traitors are punished,” said True Immortal Jiaoqi. He clasped his hands behind his back, feeling completely confident.
“You evil people, you were the ones who coveted our race’s treasures! How dare you call us traitors?!” raged Cloud.
Divine light flowed around Cloud. She had entered her strongest state and was almost berserk. Her hatred for the Xuan Beasts was more intense than anyone.
When the Xuan Beasts had captured her last time, they hadn’t dared to initiate a soulsearch. The Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race had placed restrictions on everything related to their ancestral land. That was something that had allowed them to survive while being hunted by the Xuan Beasts. The memories relating to their ancestral land were completely
sealed.
If someone forcibly conducted a soulsearch on them, it would cause their soul to crumble. So Cloud’s secrets could only be obtained through torture. Those days of pain and despair were a time that she would never be able to forget in this lifetime.
Now seeing someone from the Xuan Beasts, she didn’t care how strong he was. She was fearless. Her hatred drove her to be almost crazy. The pain she had gone through was something that only she knew.
“Cloud, don’t be impulsive. Long Chen’s coming. We just need to stall.” Meng Qi sent Cloud a spiritual message. Just now, she had sensed Long Chen’s spiritual fluctuations. Although they hadn’t spoken, she knew that Long Chen was aware of what was happening.
For his spiritual fluctuations to suddenly vanish, it meant that he was already rushing over. The reason he hadn’t said anything was because he was worried about True Immortal Jiaoqi sensing it. Meng Qi knew Long Chen well.
“True Immortal Jiaoqi, do you really think you can kill us?” Meng Qi stood grandly atop Cloud’s head. Her robes were snow-white. She was a peerless beauty.
“No. I won’t kill you, at least not yet. If I kill you, I’ll do it in front of Long Chen. I’ll make him see his beloved woman have her head cut off right in front of him. I’m sure his expression at that time will be very marvelous.” True Immortal Jiaoqi smiled. His vertical eyes were icy, making him seem like a cold-blooded viper.
“If that’s the case, then all the Xuan Beasts will be annihilated by Long Chen.” Meng Qi smiled lightly. Despite it being a cold smile, it still made her seem like a flower blooming.
“I don’t have time to waste. Xie Luo has also entered the nest. Once I kill you, I’ll be taking the treasures here and then continuing onward. I can already sense that the true treasure is above.” True Immortal Jiaoqi’s manifestation slowly appeared. The image of a drake appeared, its aura growing stronger and stronger.
Meng Qi suddenly found difficult to breathe as she was a soul cultivator with a weak physical body. If it weren’t for Cloud helping her, she would have long since been unable to resist. She might have even been crushed by this pressure.
