by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
A black crescent moon slashed down, splitting the sky in two.
“Earth Devours the Cosmos!” Xiong Tianba immediately sensed how terrifying this move was. The ground suddenly shook and it turned golden. Ten thousand runes appeared on it.
At the same time, Xiong Tianba’s manifestation also became golden. Endless runes surged toward Xiong Tianba. His rod absorbed all those runes and transformed into a heaven-propping pillar that met Long Chen’s saber.
BOOM!
Golden light mixed with black mist filled the world. In that instant, people felt like time had stopped. Even their souls became blank.
By the time they recovered, they were flying through the air, pain wracking their bodies. The collision of those two attacks had almost blown them to bits.
Black and yellow light filled the world. That light was crushing them painfully. Fortunately, they were far enough away and strong enough to survive.
When the light finally faded, they saw that Long Chen’s chest was bloody, and there was blood leaking out of his mouth. He had clearly been injured. Despite that, his expression was still calm, and he had Evilmoon resting on his shoulder.
On the opposite side was Xiong Tianba. Half his body was soaked in blood, and one of his arms had vanished.
Even though he was in his bear form, he still had hands as it was easier to use weapons. But now, one of those arms was gone, while his other arm was drooping. His rod was stuck in the earth far away.
The current Xiong Tianba was appalled. He had not expected Long Chen to be even more terrifying than the legends said. Even though he had fully awakened his manifestation, he still wasn’t a match for Long Chen. Furthermore, it was a complete defeat. There had been no tricks. His defeat could not be more clear.
“So this is your unrivaled power? Were you playing with me? If True Immortal Jiaoqi hadn’t died, and his manifestation had awakened, he would be able to crush you with a single hand. But even True Immortal Jiaoqi wasn’t qualified to challenge me, yet you blindly charged toward me. Are you an ape?” sneered Long Chen.
When it came to pure power, Xiong Tianba was a far cry from True Immortal Jiaoqi. Furthermore, because he was a Xuan Beast, his control over techniques was lacking. It wasn’t that the power of the earth wasn’t strong, but that Xiong Tianba wasn’t able to use it properly.
After mocking the human race all day, he didn’t deign to learn the human race’s magical arts or techniques for controlling energy. In Long Chen’s eyes, Xiong Tianba was inferior to even True Immortal Jiaoqi.
“Bastard, try taking another one of my attacks!” Xiong Tianba roared, and his arm instantly grew back. Clapping his hands, his rod flew back toward him.
However, before his rod could even reach him, Evilmoon appeared right in front of him. Its sharp point was about to press into his head before Xiong Tianba even reacted.
However, a sharp Sword Qi suddenly shot, striking Long Chen’s saber. Leng Wufeng was actually interfering and saving Xiong Tianba.
“Another awakened manifestation.”
Leng Wufeng’s manifestation was active. It formed a ring of swords that was constantly revolving.
“Long Chen, your life is mine!” Leng Wufeng crossed his hands, and the ring of swords behind him instantly exploded, transforming into millions of flying swords that shot toward Long Chen.
Each one of those swords was incredibly sharp and capable of slaying Netherpassage experts. With millions of them shooting toward him, even Long Chen’s expression changed.
Lightning wings appeared on Long Chen’s back, and he instantly reappeared many miles away, dodging that attack.
“Too immature!” Leng Wufeng sneered, and his hand seals changed. Where the ring of swords behind him had been, a sea of swords appeared, surging out in an even greater number.
Those flying swords were blessed by the Heavenly Daos, making them even sharper. Long Chen was instantly surrounded by the sea of swords. Even from a great distance, people’s hearts shook upon seeing those swords. Their sharpness was incredible.
Leng Wufeng was intent on killing Long Chen in one blow and wresting away the title of the Martial Heaven Continent’s number one junior expert. “Long Chen, weren’t you looking down on me? Today, I’ll show you my Blood Spirit Sword Sect’s peak technique. These spirit swords were nourished by my Spirit blood, and it took almost all the Blood Spirit Sword Sect’s resources to condense so many of them. Now they’re even blessed by the Heavenly Daos. Let’s see just how long you can endure-!”
BOOM!
The sea of swords exploded. Long Chen’s lightning swings blew it apart. “You want to know how long I can last? I can tell you. With your level of power, I can last until next year.”
Strands of lightning came from Long Chen’s wings, protecting him. The swords were unable to pierce through his defenses.
“How is this possible?!” Leng Wufeng couldn’t believe it. These spirit swords were blessed by the Heavenly Daos. They possessed a great destructive power toward any technique in this world.
However, Long Chen was taking them seemingly effortlessly. How could Leng Wufeng not be shocked?
What he didn’t know was that Long Chen’s lightning had been transformed by the dragonization tribulation, and it could be said to be outside the Heavenly Daos. Those spirit swords might be terrifying against others, but if he wished to use them to kill Long Chen, then he was naive.
Nevertheless, Long Chen hadn’t been planning on exposing his new lightning so that others thought that his lightning was still at the previous level.
“I’ve experienced your technique. Now have a taste of mine!”
The lightning around Long Chen suddenly grew explosively. His lightning wings spread out, growing larger and larger before suddenly slashing down.
“Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings!”
Chapter 2029 Encircled by Heavenly Geniuses
Long Chen’s lightning wings filled the sky, blowing away the sea of spirit swords. Those heaven-shaking wings then slashed down at Leng Wufeng.
“Unending Blood Sword Divine Ring!”
Leng Wufeng retreated, lengthening his distance from Long Chen. In the blink of an eye, he had completed seven different hand seals, condensing a giant ring of spirit swords in front of him.
The sword ring spun continuously, and the surrounding Heavenly Dao energy surged toward it like it was a gaping maw.
BOOM!
The lightning wings smashed into the sword ring, and it instantly exploded, completely unable to endure Long Chen’s power.
Even Long Chen was surprised. He hadn’t expected Lei Long’s power to have grown to such a level.
All the power Long Chen was using was Lei Long’s. He could no longer draw any thunderforce out of the air because he was in front of an Empyrean with a fully awakened manifestation. But just Lei Long’s power alone was enough to destroy Leng Wufeng’s absolute defense.
It seemed the dragonization tribulation had allowed Lei Long to transform. It also possessed its own dragon might now. Although it wasn’t powerful, it was definitely there.
His wings destroyed Leng Wufeng’s defense, and he switched out Evilmoon for a lightning spear, stabbing it at Leng Wufeng.
Leng Wufeng’s expression changed. His spirit swords were actually suppressed by Long Chen’s lightning. Seeing Long Chen’s lightning spear shooting toward him, he took out a transparent sword.
As his sword swung through the air, the void was sliced apart, forming a twisting space. Long Chen’s lightning spear actually deviated from its path.
“Heavens, this is spatial power! How can Leng Wufeng control a power on that level?!” Countless experts cried out in shock. That was something that only Netherpassage experts were supposed to be able to control. It had nothing to do with power but a cultivation base realm.
Long Chen merely snorted. His lightning spear suddenly exploded, sending lightning runes in every direction.
Leng Wufeng had been preparing a counter
attack when Long Chen actually detonated his spear. That terrifying power completely swept away his spatial distortion and blew him back. He hacked up blood.
“Just some superficial spatial skill. I’d be too embarrassed to bring out such a thing.” Long Chen suddenly stamped on the air, and lightning exploded out of him. He suddenly split into two people, coming at Leng Wufeng from two different directions.
“Not good!” Leng Wufeng’s expression completely changed. One had to be a clone and one had to be the true body, but the two of them were identical. Even the spiritual fluctuations were the exact same.
After all, Lei Long shared the same soul as Long Chen. It was not a spirit beast that Long Chen had been raising but his most trusted companion who was closest to him.
So Lei Long’s clone of him was practically identical to Long Chen. It was almost impossible to tell the difference.
Leng Wufeng instantly turned white. Long Chen’s combat power far surpassed his expectations. If he focused all his power on one side, he might face a sudden attack from the other side. If he split his power, he wouldn’t be able to block the real one.
Just at this moment, a giant rod smashed through the air at one of the Long Chens. Xiong Tianba had come back.
Seeing that, Leng Wufeng was ecstatic and immediately caused the sea of swords to transform into two rings of swords that whirled toward Long Chen.
Two explosive sounds rang out. What shocked everyone was that both Long Chens exploded, transforming into sparks of lightning.
“Not good!”
Xiong Tianba and Leng Wufeng cried out at the same time. They instantly realized that those two were clones. At this time, killing intent appeared behind them, causing them to shiver. A sensation of death enveloped them.
At some unknown point, Long Chen had appeared behind them. Evilmoon was already raised high.
Just at this moment, Long Chen’s heart shook, and he gave up the attack he was preparing, instead slashing Evilmoon behind him.
BOOM!
Evilmoon met a black sword. Long Chen was shocked to sense the power of his attack rapidly flowing away.
Just at this moment, a white sword slashed toward Long Chen, and he hastily blocked it with Evilmoon, only to be sent flying. He coughed up blood, his hand broken.
Long Chen stabilized in the air, looking at a man with two swords in his hands, one white and one black. The black was as black as ink, while the white was as white as jade.
“The Yin Yang Sword Sect’s Lu Zichuan… How is he so powerful? He actually forced back Long Chen and injured him in one move?”
People were shocked to find that Lu Zichuan had also awakened his manifestation. Furthermore, he was so powerful that he had injured Long Chen.
“Long Chen, don’t blame me. Having accepted someone’s favor, I have to repay them. If you need to blame someone, you can only blame yourself,” said Lu Zichuan with a complicated expression.
Long Chen shook out his arm. He quickly healed and rested Evilmoon on his shoulder. He shook his head. “Don’t act so sanctimonious. You became Pill Valley’s dog a long time ago. You’ll bite whoever they tell you to bite. People like you can lose their bottom line just because of a steamed bun.”
“That’s enough! Long Chen, I respect you as a man, but how dare you slander me? I have my own principles. I don’t need you to judge me,” shouted Lu Zichuan.
“Slander? No, I’m not interested in that nor am I interested in judging you. It’s just the natural reaction after seeing such a hypocrite. I already said that if anyone wants to kill me, they can come at any time. There’s no need to make up a sanctimonious excuse to cover up your true intention. The cultivation world is far crueler than the secular world. It’s more shameless and more direct. Although I’m enemies with the Corrupt path, I admire that they don’t cover up their evil. In my eyes, they’re superior to hypocrites like you,” sneered Long Chen.
Lu Zichuan was clearly someone who had been unable to handle the temptation and had joined Pill Valley a long time ago. He had no enmity with Long Chen, but he had to fight for Pill Valley. Having his lies exposed by Long Chen, Lu Zichuan was embarrassed and angry.
During this time, Leng Wufeng and Xiong Tianba quickly healed, preparing to fight once more.
“Long Chen, how are you qualified to criticize others? You’re the one whose infamy has drawn enemies all over the world. Why don’t you reflect on yourself? Or did your parents never teach you to ponder your mistakes?” sneered Lu Zichuan.
At the start, Lu Zichuan’s words could count as courteous, but now he didn’t bother to speak any courtesy. He even insulted Long Chen’s parents.
Long Chen smiled coldly. “Fine, you win. I really dislike it when people talk about my parents. Lu Zichuan, is it? Today, if you can walk out of the Brahma secret realm alive, I will cripple my own cultivation base.”
Long Chen’s calmness was even more terrifying than if he was furious. Long Chen was definitely infuriated.
Even though Lu Zichuan had awakened his manifestation, even though Xiong Tianba and Leng Wufeng were present, Lu Zichuan’s heart clenched. He forced himself to remain calm. “I, Lu Zichuan, am not someone you can intimidate. This oath of yours is meaningless. Do you think that you will live past today? Keep dreaming. Ignoring the net Pill Valley has arranged outside, you won’t even be able to leave this place.”
“That’s right. Long Chen, you’re not getting away today. As for crippling your own cultivation base, there’s no need for that. I’ll do it for you!” Di Feng slowly walked into the sky, his manifestation appearing behind him. The halo of the Heavenly Daos was present around it as he had also awakened his manifestation.
“Long Chen, don’t you claim to be unrivaled in your generation? Let’s see who among us will be cutting your head off.” Xie Luo also came out. A large figure was present in his manifestation. It was actually identical to the Corrupt path’s statue of the Corrupt God.
“Who would have thought that the unrivaled Long Chen would die here? I’m already excited.” Yan Wei also came out.
Following Di Feng, Xie Luo, and Yan Wei, one powerful Empyrean came out after another. They had all awakened their manifestations.
“Long Chen, you can be happy with your death. To have thirteen of us send you on your way, you can die at peace.” Someone from the Flame Divine Palace also stepped forward, his body wrapped in flames.
Including Xiong Tianba and Leng Wufeng, there were thirteen Empyreans who had awakened their manifestations. They surrounded Long Chen.
Chapter 2030 Have I Given You Too Much Face?
A total of thirteen Empyreans had awakened their manifestations. The experts present were all shocked.
“They really did manage to awaken their manifestations!”
Those thirteen experts were all people who had been sitting on top of the divine pillars at the start. That meant that they had definitely absorbed a certain amount of the Grand Dao energy before Long Chen had broken the pillars. That had become the foundation for their awakening.
The other disciples that had been on the divine pillars were envious, as well as angry. If Long Chen hadn’t broken their pillars, perhaps they would also have awakened their manifestations. Then they would be standing on this battlefield, not hiding as a spectator.
It was an uncontestable fact that if Long Chen hadn’t ruined things, there would have been more people to awaken their manifestations. By breaking the pillars, Long Chen had spread the Grand Dao energy amongst over a million experts. With each person absorbing their share, the people with the special treatment had obtained much less.
These thirteen people had clearly reached the cusp at the time, and so even once the Grand Dao energy had dispersed, they had still managed to awaken their manifestations in a month.
Although there were many others who had reached the cusp thanks to being on the divine pillars, they were still the tiniest bit away from awakening their manifestations.
It was just this little bi
t that caused an immense difference between their combat power, making it so that they could only watch.
“Long Chen might be in danger today,” sighed someone. The fact that Long Chen could defeat Xiong Tianba and Leng Wufeng was already shocking enough, but that Lu Zichuan of the Yin Yang Sword Sect was truly terrifying. Those dual black and white swords in his hands were the Yin Yang Sword Sect’s inherited divine weapons. To be able to injure Long Chen in one blow, there was definitely something special about them.
If Long Chen was only facing Xiong Tianba, Leng Wufeng, and Lu Zichuan, then even if he couldn’t beat them, he should be able to escape with his life. But now, Di Feng, Xie Luo, Yan Wei, and the others had joined in. A full thirteen Empyreans with awakened manifestations were surrounding Long Chen. He might not even have a chance to run.
“Long Chen, your arrogance has come to an end,” said the expert from the Flame Divine Palace.
“Your reign of slaughter ends here. Do you think you can destroy the Martial Heaven Continent? Your retribution has come,” said a Righteous expert.
This expert was wearing the robes of the Righteous path, but those on Pill Valley’s side claimed to be the true Righteous path, a separate entity from the Martial Heaven Alliance.
Long Chen also hadn’t expected so many people to have awakened their manifestations. But seeing them act like executioners, his surprise became anger. “I can’t be bothered to waste words with you all. If you want to fight, then come. I don’t know how many idiots like you I’ve killed. Do you think awakening your manifestations makes you unrivaled? Even one against thirteen, I’m not the slightest bit afraid.”
Long Chen actually took the initiative, attacking an ancient race expert with Evilmoon.
“Even a trapped beast dares to act arrogant!” sneered that ancient race expert. He extended a hand, and a copper furnace appeared before him. Divine runes flowed along it, and golden light ignited. This was a divine ring with a very mysterious origin.
He pointed the opening of the furnace at Long Chen and slammed it. A ring of light shot out of it, and when it reached Long Chen, it instantly contracted, wanting to bind Long Chen.
