by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Boss, just tell me what you need and I’ll do it! I won’t shirk from a mountain of blades or a path of flames!” guaranteed Guo Ran.
“Alright then. Put on your armor.”
Immediately, Guo Ran regretted his words. He had a bad feeling, but he had said his big words.
Guo Ran had only just put on his armor when Long Chen kicked him in the butt, sending him flying out.
Like a skipping stone, Guo Ran bounced across the lake, eventually plummeting into the water.
“Long Chen, what are you doing?!” Meng Qi and the others cried out in shock.
“It’s fine. I’m just testing his luck. If his luck is really good, just this kick of mine should settle things,” said Long Chen with a chortle.
Suddenly, a golden light flew out, and Guo Ran was now holding a golden rock. He excitedly cried out, “Boss, I found the treasure!”
Everyone became petrified. So even this method could work?
Chapter 1944 Scarlet Blood Essence Gold
Guo Ran flew over, clutching a golden stone.
“Would this little fellow be trying to con me?” Even Long Chen was startled. His kick had actually just been for Guo Ran to remember not to get arrogant, or he might lose his life.
“Boss, look! This is Scarlet Blood Essence Gold! It’s a divine ore that can be used in forging divine items!” Guo Ran’s eyes were blazing. Even his voice shuddered with excitement.
Everyone couldn’t help but jump. It really was a treasure. The ore that Guo Ran was clutching was like gold with blood veins running through it. There was a faint divine energy coursing through it that was a bit similar to divine items.
“Yes, it’s definitely Scarlet Blood Essence Gold, and this ore is extremely pure. You could probably refine nine-tenths of a tael of the Scarlet Blood Essence Gold from a three-feet square block of this ore. Is there more below?” asked Yue Xiaoqian.
“Yes, it’s a huge ore deposit! I just grabbed a piece and immediately came to report it!” said Guo Ran. “Boss, I can create divine items with this ore!”
“You can actually forge divine items?” Long Chen was startled.
“Hehe, just a bit.” Guo Ran was smiling brightly, but he actually acted low-key. That appearance made others want to kick him.
Long Chen was truly shocked. It seemed that the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record Guo Ran had obtained in the Jiuli secret realm had truly shocking origins. It even included divine items.
Although Long Chen was extremely disappointed in Guo Ran when it came to cultivation, when it came to forging, he was only filled with admiration.
If Guo Ran was acting like this, then he was definitely confident in creating divine items. Even Long Chen was getting excited.
The Dragonblood warriors had already advanced to Life Star, but only a portion of them had divine items. Moreover, most of those divine items also weren’t weapons that they were suited to.
In the Yin Yang World, many divine items had been destroyed in combat, while the survivors had mostly fled. They hadn’t gained very many.
If Guo Ran could create a matching armor and weapon that was on the level of divine items for each Dragonblood warrior, wouldn’t they be able to flip the heavens?
More and more Dragonblood warriors arrived from the transportation formation. It was only a moment later that they were all gathered.
“It seems we’ve really struck gold this time. Guo Ran, well done.” Long Chen patted Guo Ran’s shoulder. Now, Long Chen believed that Guo Ran’s luck was truly monstrous.
“Hehe, it’s all thanks to boss’s nurturing.” Guo Ran said humble words with the least humble expression.
“Everyone, move out. Form up ten-man groups led by squad leaders, and eliminate the Magical Beasts in the surroundings. But be careful. These Magical Beasts have advanced to the twelfth rank thanks to this lake. Some of them possess strange divine abilities, so don’t be careless,” ordered Long Chen.
“Yes!” The Dragonblood warriors’ eyes lit up. Their power had grown so much that they were itching for some powerful opponents to test it against.
They spread out along the lake. Very quickly, roars began to ring out. As expected, many twelfth rank Magical Beasts were hiding in the vicinity.
“Long Chen, isn’t it a bit dangerous for them to split into ten-man groups?” whispered Yue Xiaoqian.
“It’s fine. Ten people is already very safe. These Magical Beasts were originally only at the eleventh rank, and they relied on this lakewater to break through to the twelfth rank. However, their bloodlines aren’t very good, and their divine abilities aren’t very strong as a result. They’re a level below twelfth rank Magical Beasts that advance to that level thanks to their bloodline and talent. Even in a one against one, I believe the Dragonblood warriors would be able to challenge them. As long as they aren’t as careless as Guo Ran, there will be no problem. And there’s no one as careless about their life as Guo Ran in the Dragonblood Legion,” said Long Chen.
“Boss, I was wrong.” Guo Ran raised his hands in surrender. He knew that Long Chen was still angry about his previous display.
Seeing this, Long Chen hoped that he would finally remember this lesson.
The Dragonblood Legion was rapidly spreading throughout the surroundings, and rumbling rang out in the distance. Their fights were extremely intense.
“Boss, should we go help?” probed Gu Yang.
“Can you grow up a bit? Are the captains really interested in fighting over other people’s prey?” scolded Long Chen with a smile.
“It’s not fighting over prey. Seeing them fight just makes my hands itchy.” Gu Yang scratched his head.
The others laughed. Gu Yang was saying what they were all thinking. Having advanced to the Life Star realm, they all wanted to know just how strong they were.
However, Long Chen’s meaning was clear. These weren’t very powerful twelfth rank Magical Beasts, and they would be left to the ordinary Dragonblood warriors as training targets. They weren’t for the captains.
“Xiaoqian, does the original devil race have the ability to refine ores?” asked Long Chen.
“Yes, we do, but that’s limited to ores on the level of Ancestral items. We also have the tools to refine material on the divine item level, but they’ve been wasting away for countless years. I don’t know if anyone is still capable of using them,” said Yue Xiaoqian.
The original devil race had declined from their peak, and they had barely been able to scrape by. Furthermore, what were they supposed to refine while they had been blocked from the Martial Heaven Continent? Whatever they refined couldn’t be sold. As a result, the original devil race had been stuck in a vicious negative-feedback loop. Many of their old inheritances had been lost.
Refining ores was expensive and required investment. Even the current original devil race that was recovering couldn’t quite refine this ore.
“Hehe, as long as you have the ability, it’s fine. I’ll think of something,” said Long Chen.
More and more Magical Beasts were startled awake. The Dragonblood warriors were slaying them one by one.
These Magical Beasts were quite a bit weaker than twelfth rank Magical Beasts that had advanced thanks to their powerful bloodlines. Hence, the Dragonblood warriors were able to kill them in just a few exchanges. In the ten-man squads, some of the members didn’t even get a chance to fight before the target was slain.
Two hours later, twenty-three hundred twelfth rank Magical Beasts had been slain. The battle spoils went to Long Chen’s primal chaos space.
The immense life energy had made the World Trees flourish once more, and the Yin Yang Immortal Grass on the edge of the black soil had grown larger. It was filled with life and death energy.
However, for some reason, the Yin Yang Immortal Grass didn’t possess the slightest spirituality. There were no signs of it growing a consciousness like the Yin Yang Immortal Grass in the Yin Yang World.
It seemed that raising a Yin Yang Immortal Grass
like that one wasn’t possible. However, it could still help him out.
After the surrounding Magical Beasts were killed, Long Chen ordered the few water elemental warriors of the Dragonblood Legion to suck away the lakewater with their magical arts.
As the water level dropped, it revealed a giant mountain at the bottom. That mountain looked like it had been made of gold.
Guo Ran hadn’t lied. There was a giant mineral deposit here thousands of miles wide.
There were also dozens of Magical Beasts that had been hiding in the water, but they were slain as soon as they were exposed. Once the silt at the bottom of the lake was cleaned up, they were looking at an impressive golden mountain.
“We’re rich. This ore deposit is huge, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Based on the terrain, at most, the part that’s exposed aboveground is just half of the total deposit,” said Yue Xiaoqian excitedly. Once this news was sent back to the original devil race, her people would definitely be overjoyed about it.
Just the value of this one mineral deposit far surpassed the price of establishing the spatial channel and the grand formations. Even if they didn’t gain anything else, they had profited.
“Xiaoqian, alert the seniors of the original devil race. It would be best if they established a transportation formation right here. Don’t worry about saving money. Our time is more precious,” said Long Chen.
“Alright.” Yue Xiaoqian sent a message to the original devil race. Some Elders should quickly be rushing over.
“Guo Ran, you stay behind. Work together on excavating and refining this ore. Give me an estimate on how long and how expensive it will be. You’re an expert in this regard, so I trust you,” said Long Chen.
As expected, this bit of praise revitalized Guo Ran. He solemnly said, “Boss, go in peace. I’ll handle things here.”
“Are you cursing me to die?” Long Chen glanced at Guo Ran.
“Ah, I misspoke. I definitely didn’t have that intention,” Guo Ran apologized.
“Fine then. Everyone else, continue with the previous arrangement. Stay in your ten-man squads and spread out. You have compasses that are locked onto the spatial channel, so you won’t get lost. If there’s anything suspicious, mark it down and alert the higher-ups. Make sure to be careful,” said Long Chen.
The Dragonblood warriors hastily flew off, spreading in every direction like a flood. Long Chen didn’t give them any direction to go, so they could run wherever they wanted.
No one knew where Wilde had run off to. Whether or not they could find him was up to luck.
“We should go as well. Each one of us will go in one direction. Hopefully, we can find Wilde.”
Long Chen picked a direction. Lightning wings appeared on his back, and he shot away.
Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others also chose their directions, and flew away.
Chapter 1945 Golden Eye Berserk Ape
Long Chen didn’t see any signs of intense battle as he flew through this world. Wilde’s battle style was completely different from Magical Beasts, so it should be easy to tell if he had been somewhere.
Only once Long Chen had been flying for a while did he find that this world was lacking any civilization. There were no advanced lifeforms here. Magical Beasts ruled this world.
He encountered quite a few twelfth rank Magical Beasts that blocked his path, but they were all killed by him.
The Magical Beasts in this world were much more concentrated. Hence, even twelfth rank Magical Beasts only had a tiny bit of territory.
Some of the weaker Magical Beasts were forced to roam on the edges of the more powerful Magical Beasts’ territories.
“The spiritual qi in the air is very dense. The earth is fertile enough to give rise to spirit grasses that can raise so many Magical Beasts, but it hasn’t given rise to a food chain collapse. How curious.”
In any world, there needed to be an equilibrium. The big fish ate the small fish, the small fish ate the worms.
He couldn’t comprehend how this world was able to maintain its order when there were so many powerful Magical Beasts present in such close quarters.
The further he went, the stronger the Magical Beasts became. Although they were still at the twelfth rank, there were immense differences in their level.
For humans, the Netherpassage realm was split into four stages, the initial Life and Death realm, the Life realm, the Death realm, and the Samsara realm. The difference between these four levels was immense.
Of all the experts that Long Chen had encountered, the only ones he knew that had reached the third step, the Death realm, were the grand Elders of the Martial Heaven Alliance.
As for the fourth realm, the Samsara realm, he knew of no one who had reached that level. However, Long Chen did guess that the High Priest was a legendary existence at the peak of Netherpassage realm based on how he had so easily resolved Yu Xiaoyun and the old man’s attacks.
However, that was just a suspicion, and he couldn’t say for sure.
As for twelfth rank Magical Beasts, their ranking wasn’t as clear, but the human race had also divided them into four levels.
They were split into the early, mid, late, and peak stage twelfth rank Magical Beasts. Usually, their bloodlines decided their limits. Some Magical Beasts would never be able to advance past the early twelfth rank due to their bloodlines.
The Magical Beasts he saw as he was flying were still all at the early twelfth rank. But even though they were still at the early stage, their actual combat power was increasing as he went in deeper.
“Perhaps this world has a terrifying existence in control of it. No wonder aunt Han doesn’t dare to go openly explore it.”
BOOM!
Long Chen was in the midst of thinking when a giant flame sphere shot at him.
Hence, he unleashed a punch, blowing apart the flame sphere. As soon as he did so, a giant mouth swallowed him.
The mouth had just closed when a saber-image pierced its head. Long Chen cut off the majority of this giant head.
A giant figure fell to the ground. It was a lion in golden fur.
“The Explosive Flame Golden Lion!”
Long Chen was startled. This Magical Beast was quite famous for its power. For its fur to all be a perfect golden color, it clearly had quite a pure bloodline.
Hesitating, Long Chen decided not to throw it into the primal chaos space. Its hide was a luxury item that could be sold for a great profit.
Such Explosive Flame Golden Lions were almost gone from the Martial Heaven Continent. He could sell it for a tidy profit. Consuming it for life energy would be a pity.
He had just flown away when he suddenly noticed a giant lair on a mountain. There were five furry fellows lying inside.
“Young ones?”
Long Chen was delighted and immediately flew over. A giant cave had been dug into the mountain, and a giant hideout had been made out of bones. The smell was difficult to bear.
Five Explosive Flame Golden Lions were lying inside, and they were sound asleep. Each of them was only a couple dozen meters long.
“Hahaha, I’ve found a treasure!” These five Explosive Flame Golden Lions would definitely possess great killing power if they were raised properly and fought alongside their masters.
Long Chen placed them inside a life ring. They were still too young to resist.
“Amazing. They’re much more impressive than the Blood Pattern Lion Vulture that Guo Ran and the others had found before. And it just so happens that Guo Ran, Gu Yang, Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, and Yue Zifeng can each have one.” Long Chen smiled. He could already see the day when they raised them into powerful beasts.
Furthermore, with a Beast Tamer like Meng Qi present, they would be raised perfectly, with special resources that would stimulate their bloodline. They would be much stronger than if they grew up in the wild.
This truly was a good place. Long Chen suddenly had a thought. What if he could find each Dragonblood warrior a powerful twelfth ra
nk Magical Beast as a steed? Just how awe-inspiring would they appear then?
Long Chen continued onward. He didn’t know if the five Explosive Flame Golden Lions had ended up using up all his luck or not, but he didn’t encounter any particularly powerful Magical Beasts again, let alone young ones that could be captured.
For three days, he continued flying, and the Magical Beasts started to grow sparse. Long Chen gradually began to have a bad feeling. He smelled danger ahead.
He was about to continue carefully exploring this region when he suddenly took out a jade plate. “Wilde’s been found?”
Long Chen didn’t care what danger was ahead. He returned down his original path. When he arrived at the ore deposit they had found, he saw millions of experts from the original devil race busy excavating the ore and bringing it to the Skyscraping World.
“Boss, we’ve found Wilde’s whereabouts, but we’ve run into trouble. Wilde’s being chased down by some terrifying monster and is in a critical situation. These are the coordinates.” One of the Dragonblood warriors immediately gave Long Chen another jade plate upon seeing him.
“I understand. You continue waiting here for the others.” Long Chen nodded and rushed off in the direction indicated by the jade plate.
He was flying as fast as he could, but it was a full twelve hours before he arrived at the coordinates. Wilde was nowhere to be seen. Instead, all Long Chen saw was a ruined battlefield.
Sensing the surroundings and disarray, he suddenly flew to the left. After an incense stick’s worth of time, he heard intense rumbling sounds coming from in front of him. The ground was shaking intensely.
Once he was closer, he saw a giant figure. It was actually a giant pitch-black ape. It had thorn-like fur and a pair of golden eyes. There were runes flickering within its golden eyes. It held a bone club and was crazily roaring.
