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Long Chen was startled. The battle inside the Heavenly Evil Cave was definitely not public information. It was suppressed by the Corrupt path, but despite Xie Wentian’s information lockdown, Zheng Wenlong still knew of it.
“Amazing.” Long Chen praised Zheng Wenlong. He knew that the Corrupt path definitely had people that the Huayun Sect had bribed. For the Huayun Sect to be able to do such a thing in a place where only the most fervent of the Corrupt path’s followers were allowed, perhaps only Pill Valley possessed the same ability.
“How is the continent’s state currently?” asked Long Chen.
“It’s still the same, and they’re using the same moves. However, there have been several large battles with the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race. They have taken some heavy losses. With Heavenly Fate Island’s help, seven of their strongholds have been destroyed by the Xuan Beasts.”
Long Chen’s teacup shattered. “Good. Very good.”
Long Chen’s voice was filled with icy killing intent. Unable to target him, they actually turned toward others.
“Brother Wenlong, help me release news that three days from now, I, Long Chen, will be paying a visit to Heavenly Fate Island. Have them wash their necks for me. Other than that, welcome the other major powers to come watch. Tell them not to miss this chance, because in three days, Heavenly Fate Island will no longer exist.” Long Chen smiled, but that smile was chilling.
Zheng Wenlong gulped. He could guess what Long Chen was about to do.
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A shocking piece of news quickly resounded throughout the Martial Heaven Continent.
“What? Long Chen is challenging Heavenly Fate Island by himself? Is he mad?”
“If it wasn’t the Huayun Sect spreading this news, I’d really think it was just a wild rumor. Just what is he thinking, challenging the entire world by himself?”
“Perhaps he found some powerful backer, and he couldn’t wait for revenge?”
Long Chen’s challenge toward Heavenly Fate Island shook the continent. Just what kind of figure was Long Chen? He was a figure of miracles. He was the creator of the number one legion, a legend with countless worshippers amongst the junior generation, a figure that was imitated but never surpassed.
The most widespread saying was that Long Chen never said any empty words. And after investigating his history, this saying had been confirmed. As long as he dared to say it, he would dare to do it.
If these words were coming from someone else, they would assume it was just an attempt at intimidation or mental warfare. But for Long Chen to say it shook countless sects.
“Long Chen’s finally angry. He’s going to strike back as he would rather break than bend. There’s going to be an unprecedented bloody battle soon.”
Many people guessed that Long Chen had already advanced to the Life Star realm. It had been three months since he had vanished.
For him to suddenly come back, he would definitely bring the Dragonblood Legion with him. The Dragonblood Legion was filled with monsters who fought across realms as easy as eating. They were equivalent to over ten thousand Netherpassage experts. Just how terrifying was that?
However, some people also scoffed at this challenge. Did Long Chen think that all geniuses in this world were in the Dragonblood Legion? What about the countless experts and geniuses of the sects?
True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, Di Feng, they were peak heavenly geniuses. They represented the greatest force of their respective powers. Moreover, the various powers had only sent a portion of their powers into the Yin Yang World. They had all held a few geniuses back. The foundations of the major powers of the continent were too great to estimate.
Many people thought that Long Chen was simply courting death. If he went to Heavenly Fate Island, then even without the Netherpassage experts interfering, just the monsters of the junior generation would be able to trample the Dragonblood Legion.
After all, the strongest person in the Dragonblood Legion was just Long Chen. If an expert on True Immortal Jiaoqi’s level charged into the Dragonblood Legion, they wouldn’t be able to stop him.
In any case, Long Chen’s challenge had shaken the continent. The attention of the entire continent concentrated on Heavenly Fate Island.
Heavenly Fate Island quickly responded to this news. The general meaning was that Long Chen had finally revealed his cowardly head, and that if he had continued to hide, the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race would have been destroyed because of him.
Long Chen’s supporters were enraged at that reply. Heavenly Fate Island was absolutely shameless. It was clearly a conflict between the Xuan Beasts and the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race, but they had interfered and then blamed Long Chen.
At the same time, Heavenly Fate Island released word that anyone from any power could come to Heavenly Fate Island to watch how they would uphold justice for the continent and remove a scourge from this world. Hopefully, the ‘justice warriors’ of the world wouldn’t miss this chance to make their name known.
Heavenly Fate Island wasn’t just openly allowing people to help, but they were encouraging the prideful geniuses to come and target Long Chen.
This was their chance to defeat the strongest junior generation expert of the continent. They would only have this one chance. If they missed it, they would never have another chance.
Long Chen’s name had eclipsed the other geniuses of the continent. This should have been an era where many heavenly geniuses competed with each other, but after True Immortal Jiaoqi, Huo Lieyun, and Xie Luo had joined hands and still failed to defeat Long Chen, they had solidified his position as the number one expert. Although Leng Yueyan had appeared in the end and interrupted their attacks, it didn’t change the fact that Long Chen hadn’t been defeated by them.
Ever since Long Chen had been expelled by the Martial Heaven Alliance, the entire continent had grown uneasy. However, this news caused countless experts that had been hiding in their sects to fly toward Heavenly Fate Island. They were going to bear witness to this fight.
Heavenly Fate Island was a mysterious existence. It wasn’t an island surrounded by water but a floating island.
It was a gigantic island measured in millions of miles. It floated in the Central Xuan Region’s southern domain. It was one of the continent’s four great wonders. No one knew how it floated there.
Most of the time, Heavenly Fate Island’s experts stayed in seclusion and rarely interacted with the rest of the world. But during the next three days, they were extremely lively, with experts arriving with each passing day.
Heavenly Fate Island’s disciples greeted the newcomers. They were extremely courteous to those that came from Pill Valley, the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the Xuan Beasts, the ancient family alliance, and those allied powers. But to the other experts, they turned up their noses. They had clearly received orders and were doing that on purpose.
“Long Chen, today, I, True Immortal Jiaoqi, will personally cut off your head!”
The void rumbled, and a giant war chariot pulled by a nine-color celestial horse arrived.
Chapter 1965 Unstable Storm
True Immortal Jiaoqi arrived, appearing as overbearing as ever. However, when he walked off his war chariot, everyone couldn’t help being stunned.
“The fifth Heavenstage of Life Star? How did he advance so quickly?!”
Just three months ago, when True Immortal Jiaoqi had fought Hu Feng, he had just broken through to the second Heavenstage of Life Star. But now he was at the fifth Heavenstage.
“The rumors say that he refined his race’s only drop of qilin essence blood. Perhaps the growth of his cultivation base is related to that.”
“Then doesn’t that mean that the qilin-drake race has bet their entire future on him?”
“Probably. Not only that, I heard True Immortal Jiaoqi managed to fully awaken his manifestation. There’s no way to estimate his power any longer.”
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venly Fate Island were staring up in shock at True Immortal Jiaoqi. The people permitted to come here were either geniuses or people on the level of sect masters. They were all at the Life Star realm, with even Netherpassage experts amongst the seniors.
These seniors couldn’t help feeling that they were past their prime. They had once been figures that had led their generation. When they were young, they were the ones creating waves on the continent. But now, they saw their disciples advance to the Life Star realm at such a young age. They had no choice but to admit that this era was not their playing field. They had been reduced to spectators.
Monsters like True Immortal Jiaoqi in particular were so powerful that they made them feel despair. Even the old monsters that had been living for countless years had to retreat in front of him. The change in eras meant that they had to accept their age.
True Immortal Jiaoqi was extremely arrogant, and he directly entered Heavenly Fate Island with his Qilin War Chariot.
He had only just arrived when another group of people came. They weren’t as overbearing as True Immortal Jiaoqi, but they also raised waves.
“It’s Xie Luo!”
The Righteous path’s experts retreated with fear. The leader of this group was Xie Luo, and there was a skeletal mark on his forehead. Where the skeleton’s eyes were supposed to be, there were two flickering ghost flames. Just looking at them caused sharp pain in people’s souls. They suddenly realized that their Yuan Spirits had been injured just by looking at them.
Beside Xie Luo were the other peak geniuses of the Corrupt path. Of the Three Corrupt Kings, Gui Yan was present, and while Ming Jie had been killed, he was now replaced by a short man who looked like a child.
“That one’s Yan Wei. Supposedly, he was rivals with Ming Jie, and while they were mostly evenly matched, Ming Jie had a more powerful background, so his status was greater than Yan Wei.”
Quite a few Righteous experts gathered in front of Heavenly Fate Island. Heavenly Fate Island had done this on purpose, saying that they were busy arranging things inside and having the Righteous experts wait outside. However, the experts from the other factions were allowed to enter.
When people questioned them over this, their reply was that they hadn’t expected so many people from the Righteous path to come. There were only so many seats, and they were currently expanding things.
However, no one believed this excuse. Heavenly Fate Island was clearly intent on giving them a show of power.
Xie Luo didn’t say a word and walked into Heavenly Fate Island. He was much more low-key than True Immortal Jiaoqi. Gui Yan and Yan Wei also didn’t say anything. Their gazes swept through the Righteous path’s experts, and their silent disdain was the greatest insult.
“Fuck, who do they think they are? Didn’t they still have the crap beat out of them by senior apprentice-brother Long Chen?” Someone spat on the ground.
Suddenly, the world rumbled. A giant flame sphere shot over like a meteorite, making everyone jump.
That flame sphere was covered in divine runes. Its power was horrifying.
“Get out of the way! It’s a paragon art!”
However, the flame sphere began to slow down, eventually dissipating and revealing a man wrapped in flames.
“Huo Lieyun?”
Startled cries rang out. It was actually Huo Lieyun, whose physical body had been destroyed by Long Chen. With his physical body destroyed, he had been cast aside from the rankings of the peak heavenly geniuses. No one had expected him to have recovered.
“No, that isn’t a physical body. His body is made of flame runes!” Someone suddenly noticed that his body wasn’t wrapped in flames. It was made of flames!
“He actually replaced his physical body with a flame body? He looks even more terrifying than before!”
Huo Lieyun’s flame fluctuations were so powerful that even Netherpassage experts felt afraid. If Huo Lieyun were to go all-out, just how terrifying would he be?
Huo Lieyun glanced at the crowd. People were shocked to see that he no longer had pupils, instead, there were two flame runes. The current Huo Lieyun was no longer even human. He was a humanoid flame monstrosity.
“Anyone related to Long Chen, listen well. After I kill Long Chen, I’ll exterminate all your sects.” Huo Lieyun coldly looked over the crowd.
His voice was not the voice of a human. It had a metallic grinding sound to it.
“That’s purely bragging. I refuse to believe it.” A disdainful voice rang out. A cloaked man appeared with a bow on his back.
“Mo Nian!”
Everyone instantly recognized this person. On the Martial Heaven Continent, only Mo Nian liked to wear a cloak that covered the upper part of his face.
Just looking at his chin, many people might mistakenly think that whoever was inside was a fatty. But once he took off his cloak they would find that he wasn’t actually fat. It was just some leftover baby fat.
Mo Nian lazily pulled off his cloak, revealing his handsome face. This was one of his signature moves, but to be considerate to someone, he didn’t use his signature slogan.
“Tsk tsk, young people shouldn’t be so fiery all the time. Don’t carelessly end up burning yourself to cinders,” said Mo Nian. He looked curiously at Huo Lieyun’s new body.
Huo Lieyun roared and suddenly smashed a fist at Mo Nian. Flame energy condensed into a giant fist of flames.
“He’s also reached the fifth Heavenstage of Life Star!”
People immediately sensed his realm and couldn’t help being shocked.
Mo Nian snorted and his bow twanged. Space distorted, and Huo Lieyun’s attack actually vanished within that twisted space.
“This is spatial energy! How is that possible?!”
The Netherpassage experts let out startled cries. That was no ordinary magical art. It was a kind of law, something that even Netherpassage experts had only just managed to touch upon. How could Mo Nian possibly use such a profound power?
“Heaven and Earth Lock!”
After resolving Huo Lieyun’s attack, Mo Nian took out a formation disc. The power of a dozen divine items suddenly erupted.
The formation disc transformed into runic chains that were connected to a dozen divine items. Those divine items lit up, but all their light was absorbed by the chains. In the end, the divine items crumbled away, becoming nothing more than scrap iron.
The divine items were crippled, but the runic chains blazed with light. They pierced toward Huo Lieyun.
Huo Lieyun had prepared another attack after having his first attack failed. This new attack struck the runic chains and disappeared. Meanwhile, the chains enveloped Huo Lieyun, binding him.
“It’s bad for your body to be so fiery. Let me help cool you off.”
Just as Huo Lieyun was chained, Mo Nian shockingly pulled down his pants, and a stream of urine fell toward Huo Lieyun.
“He…”
Everyone’s jaws dropped. They were dumbfounded. What was Mo Nian doing? He was a peak genius, someone on the same level of fame as Long Chen. He would actually piss on someone?
Some of the female cultivators hastily turned away, not daring to look. Mo Nian was too shameless to even do such a thing.
Huo Lieyun’s body was made of flames. The heat coming from him instantly vaporized his urine.
“Ah, brother, your flames are too strong. I can’t help!” Mo Nian was unable to extinguish Huo Lieyun’s flames.
“Mo Nian, I will tear you into a million pieces!” Huo Lieyun roared, and the chains binding him exploded. Even though he had sacrificed a dozen divine items, those runic chains could only hold him for a second.
However, Mo Nian was also quite amazing to finish peeing in just a second. A normal person definitely couldn’t do that.
“Die!”
Huo Lieyun’s flame energy erupted, and a sea of flames filled the surrounding space. He was about to attack when he suddenly stopped, staring in shock at Mo Nian.
Chapter 1966 Monsters Gather
The wild Huo Lieyun instantly stopped, looking at Mo Nian in shock. The latter had actually taken out a formation disc again, but this time, there were hundreds of divine items behind him.
Although those divine items were all quasi divine items, the sight of so many of them was still shocking.
The thing that people didn’t understand was how Mo Nian was capable of controlling so many divine items. It had to be known that each divine item had its own item-spirit. A person’s Spiritual Strength was limited, and normally they could only control a single divine item.
Controlling two divine items was difficult, and those who could control three to five were very rare.
The fact that Mo Nian had taken out a dozen divine items before and instantly absorbed all their divine energy had already been shocking enough. Now he was doing the same thing, but with hundreds of them.
“Are you not coming? Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. But if you dare to come over, it won’t just be piss this time.” Mo Nian waved the formation disc at the shocked Huo Lieyun.
“You… wretch,” cursed Huo Lieyun.
Huo Lieyun didn’t know what method he had used, but when Mo Nian had sacrificed those divine items, the runic chains he had condensed had actually been able to bind Huo Lieyun. Huo Lieyun had been careless just now, however, if hundreds of divine items were sacrificed this time, the power would be dozens of times greater than before.
Perhaps it might not be able to cause any serious harm to his flame body, but while he was bound, Mo Nian might actually crap on his head. The name of the Western Wretch was not for nothing. Being humiliated in front of this many people was not something Huo Lieyun was willing to accept.
“Hehe, that’s right, young people shouldn’t be so fiery. Just look at me. I’m hard at work every day, but I don’t complain. No matter how people curse me, it doesn’t stop me. So, little fellow, try to calm down. Once you reach my realm, you’ll understand. That’s all I have to say to you. I’m going to enter now, so you can leave!” Mo Nian actually swaggered past Huo Lieyun’s body and into Heavenly Fate Island.