by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Five Star Battle Armor!”
Only once he activated the Five Star Battle Armor did he barely manage to lift it into the air.
“Get in here!” Long Chen immediately sucked it into the primal chaos space.
BOOM!
The entire primal chaos space shuddered as it thudded to the ground. Even Evilmoon and the Heaven Flipping Seal were startled.
“Heavenly Meteorite Stone!” Evilmoon let out a startled cry. It recognized the stone that the statue was made of. “Haha, this is good stuff!”
BOOM!
Just at that moment, the other stone statue was tossed in. Hearing that it was something good, the Heaven Flipping Seal flew toward it.
“Fool, get back!” shouted Evilmoon. But the Heaven Flipping Seal ended up touching the stone statue. Before it could even attempt absorbing its energy, it was sent flying by a terrifying power. Several cracks appeared on its body.
Evilmoon cursed, “You idiot, you can’t absorb it that way. Go absorb more energy. Once you recover, I’ll teach you how to handle it.”
The Heaven Flipping Seal obediently went back to the divine pillars like a chided child.
The experts outside were stunned. Their eyes almost popped out when they saw Long Chen actually take away the two stone statues.
After putting away the two stone statues, Long Chen turned to the rest of the palace. His attention was drawn towards the eighteen stone pillars in front of the palace. Those stone pillars were gigantic. They were what propped up the gates of the palace.
He was like an ant in front of them. He grabbed one of the pillars, but even with the Five Star Battle Armor, he wasn’t able to make the pillar budge in the slightest.
“I’m not even close. Even the Azure Dragon Battle Armor wouldn’t work.” Long Chen couldn’t help shaking his head.
If he could at least rattle the pillar with the Five Star Battle Armor, then he might try bringing out the Azure Dragon Battle Armor. But if he wasn't even close, then there was no point in trying.
“Are you joking? Each one of these pillars is made of the Heavenly Meteorite Stone. They’re millions of times heavier than those stone statues. A single one of them is as heavy as a star. Don’t waste your time,” said Evilmoon.
“Ah? Then I can’t suck in this palace?” asked Long Chen.
“There’s no way to talk with you.” Evilmoon almost cursed him. “Those two stone statues were added later. But the rest of the palace was made by just one whole piece of Heavenly Meteorite Stone. For you to actually want to take it all away, your brain must not work.”
Hearing that, Long Chen immediately gave up. It seemed that this treasure had no destiny with him.
“Seeing a good treasure but not being able to take it away is so painful!” Long Chen sighed.
Evilmoon said, “I really look down on you. It was never yours in the first place, so what are you so pained for?”
As for the experts outside, seeing Long Chen trying to move that stone pillar but not being able to make it budge, they found it shocking and funny. So Long Chen really had been planning on destroying the entire palace.
Unable to take the pillars, Long Chen could only leave things like that. He walked toward the gates. The word Brahma appeared on top of the gates.
When that word appeared, divine power surged out, forming a golden praying mat beneath Long Chen’s feet.
“Heavens, he can actually get in?”
“Has he received the acknowledgement of the palace?”
“How is that possible?!”
Seeing that praying mat, everyone was stunned. Could the attack of the stone statues really have just been a test? Having passed the test, could Long Chen enter?
They felt like they were going crazy. How could Pill Valley’s rules be so messed up? Someone who destroyed everything they owned could be allowed to pass through so easily? Where was the logic in that?
“You want me to kowtow? Do you think you’re qualified?”
Killing intent appeared in Long Chen’s eyes. Perhaps to others, this was just some grace, but this was an insult to Long Chen. That feeling came from the pride within his soul.
Just as everyone was filled with envy that Long Chen could kowtow and be sent into the palace, Long Chen raised Evilmoon and slashed apart the praying mat.
“What?!” Jaws dropped. They couldn’t believe their eyes.
BOOM!
The praying mat transformed into runes. The sight of it shocked people. Long Chen had refused? Just what was he thinking?
“Do you think that you, Brahma, are so amazing? Would you even dare to accept my kowtow? I don’t need your approval to take what I want. I’ll take it myself,” sneered Long Chen.
In truth, Long Chen was intentionally releasing his fury. He wanted to awaken his other will and probe its secrets.
His actions seemed to have provoked the palace, and divine light condensed, transforming into a blinding sun. It was like the entire world was about to be crushed.
In front of that divine pressure, every expert outside involuntarily knelt on the ground. The rage of a god could not be blocked.
Long Chen’s divine ring shuddered. Long Chen didn’t take any action though. He simply allowed his body to react.
His 108,000 stars and the primal chaos bead shook. Some kind of energy slowly grew within them.
“This is the power of the primal chaos bead!” Long Chen focused closely on these changes. It seemed that this was a way to control the primal chaos bead. However, he didn’t have time to closely examine it before the world shuddered.
Long Chen’s will clashed with the pressure of the palace. The sky dimmed. It was like eternal night had descended.
However, while that darkness came suddenly, it also left quickly as if it had never been present. But for some reason, the palace’s terrifying divine pressure had vanished.
“Too bad it was too quick. I didn’t get to see how it worked.” Long Chen sighed inside. The primal chaos bead possessed terrifying power. It was his absolute treasure, but he had no idea how to use it.
Currently, all he could do with it was draw things into the primal chaos space and then suppress them. But when it came to living things, he would need to bring them in through his spiritual space first. The Scarlet Blood Spirit Fish had been brought in that way.
However, when fighting, could he possibly draw his enemies into his spiritual space? Was that any different than suicide?
Long Chen had been constantly thinking of ways to unleash the power of the primal chaos bead outside, and now he finally saw some hope. However, that feeling had faded too quickly for him to sense it.
The primal chaos bead seemed to have suppressed the Brahma Divine Palace’s divine pressure. Long Chen walked in and didn’t receive any more attacks. He pushed open the gates.
The gates were extremely heavy, and even when Long Chen was going all-out, they only slowly opened. They were thousands of meters thick, and his arms hurt from the effort. Finally, a crack appeared that he walked through.
As soon as he entered, the gates slammed shut.
The sound of the slamming shut gates startled those experts awake. Some of them flew over, wanting to enter as well.
However, the divine pressure that had previously been suppressed by the primal chaos bead once more flared.
“Not good!” Those experts’ expressions changed.
Chapter 2023 Internal Disorder
Although the first group of disciples retreated instantly, some of them were still killed by the divine palace’s sudden attack. As for Xiong Tianba, he had been at the front, and his arm was wiped out of existence.
“What is going on?! How did Long Chen pass?!” Xiong Tianba let out a furious roar. Not only was his arm gone, but the remnant divine energy was suppressing his healing abilities and attempting to destroy the rest of his body.
They had just seen Long Chen walk in, but now they were blocked by the divine light. Xiong Tianba felt like he might explo
de out of fury. Was the Brahma Divine Palace also a bully?
What they didn’t know was that the reason Long Chen could enter was because the palace’s divine pressure had provoked the primal chaos bead’s power.
However, they were unable to sense the power of the primal chaos bead. All they had seen was that the Brahma Divine Palace had tried to scare Long Chen with its divine pressure, and having failed to scare him, it had simply let him waltz right in.
When it came to them though, they weren’t treated the same. The palace wasn’t just trying to scare them, it was really killing them. If they hadn’t retreated fast enough, even more of them would have been killed.
The most incomprehensible thing about it was that Long Chen was Pill Valley’s mortal enemy. He had destroyed his way to the Brahma Divine Palace, even taking the two guarding statues, but the Brahma Divine Palace had just let him be. But as for obedient people like them, it refused to allow them in. Just where was heaven’s reason?
“Didn’t someone just now say that it was impossible for Long Chen to enter, and that they would eat the palace if he could get in? I want to see it,” demanded someone sinisterly.
Before this, a disciple from Pill Valley had said that if Long Chen could enter the Brahma Divine Palace, he would eat it. Now that his words were brought up once more, his face burned.
“Go and eat. We already have photographic jades ready. Your name is about to shake the cosmos. What are you hesitating for?”
“It couldn’t have been bragging, right? Could it be that Pill Valley’s disciples have no skills other than conning others?”
More people joined in on the jeering. The so-called core region, the so-called barrier breaking beads, the so-called curse of the gods, they were all just one lie after another. They had all been exposed by Long Chen.
Pill Valley’s sinister schemes had been fully exposed. All the good opportunities within the Brahma secret realm had long since been reserved, but they had still used them to trick the neutral camp’s experts onto their side.
Without Long Chen exposing all this, anyone who fell for it would be stuck in Pill Valley’s shameless trap. Their fury had long since been brewing, and now it was unleashed on the disciples of Pill Valley here.
“Bullshit, do you think you’re even qualified to enter the Brahma secret realm normally?! We didn’t even ask you for anything, but we let you in for free! Hmph, thankless ingrates, have some shame!” shouted that disciple of Pill Valley.
That only added fuel to the fire. At this time, ninety-nine percent of the disciples that had entered the secret realm had been drawn over to this location. Of those people, there had been a portion prepared to use the barrier breaking beads to enter the core region.
The bait had just been too enticing. The difference in the Grand Dao energy between the core region and the outer regions was immense, enough to shake their hearts. Then adding on the possible inheritance lands and the legendary eleventh tier medicinal pill, the core region had possessed a fatal attraction.
However, once Long Chen opened a path for them to enter for free, they found that other than the density of the Grand Dao energy, the rest was all nonsense.
The main reason people had wanted to enter was for the promised opportunities. But those were kept from them. After being played like that, their fury soared.
“Fuck you! You might have let us in for free, but do you think we don’t know your intentions?!”
“You think we’re idiots?! This is all Pill Valley’s trap! You wanted to use the Brahma secret realm to turn us into your fighters. How vicious!”
“If it weren’t for senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, who knows how many people would have fallen for this con? I really don’t understand how Pill Valley can be so malicious.”
More and more experts began to curse Pill Valley. They had almost lost their futures because of this, so they were filled with resentment.
That disciple from Pill Valley’s expression sank. How could he talk back against so many people? He raged, “Shut up! If you knew it was a trap, why did you jump in? You can only blame yourselves for being stupid! There are no free lunches in this world, but since you came to eat, you have to pay! Even if there was bait, you willingly took it!”
Hearing him say this, Di Feng frowned. This disciple’s brain definitely wasn’t screwed on right. Perhaps he had spent so much time refining pills that he had refined his head into mush.
As expected, after a moment of furious silence, it was like a volcano had erupted. Those disciples began to shout with even greater fury.
“Hahaha, do you see? This is Pill Valley’s true face! They tricked us with bait and then left the good stuff for their own people! These words came straight out of Pill Valley’s genius disciple, so remember them!” shouted an expert from the neutral camp.
“Hmph, it’s all recorded. I’ll even give you copies of this photographic jade. Hopefully, it can spread throughout the world so that everyone can see Pill Valley’s true face,” said one expert, holding up a photographic jade.
The face of that disciple immediately turned white. He had only been yelling some angry words. Although they were the truth, such things couldn’t be said out loud. This was equivalent to admitting to everything. He hastily said, “I was just caught up in a fit of rage. You can’t take it as true…”
“A fit of rage? Don’t worry about it. Things that people say in a rage are always true, and what we wanted was the truth,” sneered someone.
“I…” That disciple suddenly coughed up blood.
Pill Valley definitely couldn’t admit to such a thing. To appease people’s anger, they would have to pay quite a bit of compensation and set up a scapegoat to take the blame. Now it seemed that he was about to take the position of scapegoat. This was what the expression ‘trouble comes from the mouth’ meant.
“Coughing up blood to look pitiful? I’ll tell you, that’s useless,” said a disciple.
However, at this moment, another disciple said, “Now isn’t the time to fight. Long Chen has cut down the divine pillars, evening out the distribution of the Grand Dao energy. Let’s hurry and absorb it. Since we’re already here, we can’t waste this chance.”
The speaker was the Yin Yang Sword Sect’s Lu Zichuan. He had previously been on one of the divine pillars. Although his words were very reasonable, he was clearly on the side of Pill Valley.
The meaning was that the process wasn’t important. The real important thing was that everyone was benefiting. If they could awaken their manifestations, it would be a huge celebration. Why bother quibbling about the process?
Through this reminder, those experts shut their mouths and spread out, once more attuning themselves to the dense grand Dao energy in the air.
After this much time, Xiong Tianba’s arm had managed to grow out again, but he no longer had the courage to charge into the Brahma Divine Palace.
“Truly absurd.”
Looking at the gates to the palace, Xiong Tianba and Leng Wufeng both said the same thing.
What kind of logic was it that allowed Long Chen to enter the Brahma Divine Palace after plundering, destroying, and being so disrespectful, yet they were locked outside? Even Pill Valley’s people were refused.
Although such logic should not exist in this world, no one dared to go argue with the Brahma Divine Palace about it.
People could only sigh. Other than envy, they also felt admiration for Long Chen. He definitely wasn’t human. He had to be a monster.
Everyone surrounded the Brahma Divine Palace. The Grand Dao energy was the densest around it. It was like a whirlpool, and this place was the optimal cultivation region.
…
The gates slammed shut behind Long Chen. He was within a vast and empty room, the sound of the doors slamming still echoing.
“Evilmoon, was I a bit too impulsive?”
“Is there a time when you aren’t impulsive?” retorted Evilmoon.
Evilmoon couldn’t focus on just ab
sorbing the energy of the divine pillars. It had to split its attention and was now also keeping watch over what was happening on Long Chen’s side. It was prepared to come help him at any moment.
At the center of the giant room was a throne with a man seated on it. It was another statue.
There were no divine runes on this statue, but as soon as Long Chen saw it, his hair stood on end. He felt like a pair of sharp eyes were locked onto him.
“Lord Brahma.”
Chapter 2024 The Third Volume of the Nirvana Scripture
Long Chen’s heart pounded. This statue looked the same as one of the statues by Pill Valley’s gates, one of their two gods, Lord Brahma.
This statue depicted Lord Brahma sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed in meditation. His hands were placed on his knees and were forming a strange seal.
Although there were no divine runes around it, despite the fact that it was just sitting there quietly, Long Chen couldn’t stop his heart from pounding wildly. This statue gave him a sensation of immense danger.
“Be careful. This is a true divine inheritance statue,” said Evilmoon heavily.
“What is that?” asked Long Chen.
“Most of the divine statues you’ve seen are ones that gather faith energy and form a connection with the god. Those statues at Pill Valley’s gates are like that. But this statue contains a trace of the god’s true divine energy. It is left behind as a blessing to his descendants. So, don’t do anything stupid like attack it. You’ll definitely be instantly annihilated.”
“So this statue contains a trace of Lord Brahma’s divine will?” asked Long Chen.
“I wouldn’t go that far. In my current state, I cannot accurately judge, but based on the fluctuations, it should just contain divine energy and none of the god’s actual will.”
“Then why not test it with a slash? If we can make it bleed, you can absorb its divine energy,” said Long Chen boldly.
“Are you crazy? That’s absolutely impossible. The divine energy inside is on a completely different level. It can only be accessed by someone that he has approved in advance. That divine energy inside is only for his descendants. If anyone else touched it, they would be killed. I’m not even close to being able to absorb that kind of divine energy.”
