by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“But even if they do interfere, the other side will also move to block them. Both parties have already fought for countless years without being able to eliminate the other side. That means both sides are relatively even in terms of strength.
“It seems this time, the Corrupt path has brought in even more disciples than before, giving us even more pressure. Don’t assume that the Elders will be able to save you at a critical moment.
“If the Elders try to interfere, the experts from the Corrupt path will also interfere, counteracting each other. In the end, you’ll still be on your own.”
Everyone was shaken by that. They had all assumed the Elders would be there to protect them during this trial.
But now they all realized that Long Chen was most likely right. At that time, none of the Elders would be able to help them.
“It’s better for only you guys to know this. Don’t let the other disciples learn it,” advised Long Chen.
Li Qi bitterly smiled, “I kind of wish you hadn’t told us either. Maybe it’d be better for us to not know.”
Long Chen shook his head solemnly. “If you can’t even handle this little pressure, how will you become an expert? How will you be able to maintain a calm heart while treading the line between life and death?”
“Cough, I was just joking,” laughed Li Qi awkwardly.
Long Chen turned to everyone. “Since you’ve all chosen to be the leaders of your squads, you have to be able to accept this pressure, and so you had to know this. Your brothers all trust you. That is a kind of life and death trust. In order to protect that trust, then even if you have to die, you have to die in front of everyone.”
“Hehe, what is there to be afraid of? I, Gu Yang, have long since been wanting to experience how strong the Corrupt path is. It doesn’t matter how strong they are; as long as they aren’t as abnormally strong as Long Chen.”
Gu Yang laughed heroically, and his last words caused everyone to laugh as well. Of all the monastery’s disciples, only Long Chen could suppress Gu Yang.
Wilde wasn’t technically a disciple since his master was someone who was in the same generation as the sect leader[1] . Furthermore, that fellow was only sleeping on the Magical Beast. Even during that previous fight, he still hadn’t woken up.
Luckily, that fellow’s weapon could be stored in a spatial ring, otherwise, even a third rank Magical Beast wouldn’t have been able to fly with it.
They once more flew over a small town, but that sight caused everyone’s hearts to sink. All the small towns in this region had become dyed in blood, corpses covering the land.
“These brutes, I really want to bite them to death!” cursed one of the core disciples, clenching his teeth. Seeing those corpses of the innocent commoners, none of them liked that feeling.
“Now you’ve all seen how savage the Corrupt path’s disciples are. You’ve all seen that their only belief is in vicious slaughter. Once we start fighting again, none of you hold back.
“Ah, but remember to keep your minds this time and not do it like just now.
“Although it’s nice to crush them into paste, then we won’t be able to get our points. After all, we need to exchange their heads for points,” said Long Chen.
Everyone nodded. The monastery’s rules were that the points would be awarded in accordance to the Corrupt path’s disciples’ heads. The monastery had the ability to appraise a Corrupt disciple’s talent just from their head, and they would hand out the points in accordance to their level.
Previously, in everyone’s fury, they hadn’t cared at all about those points. Now that Long Chen brought it up, that really did make them feel pained.
Even a Corrupt outer disciple was worth five thousand points. Those disciples just now had been tens of thousands of points. But they had been wasted just like that.
Continuing flying, they suddenly heard the sounds of killing. They saw an army of tens of thousands troops fighting against Corrupt disciples who were crazily besieging them.
Corpses were already piled up into mountains there. But even as their fellow troops continued dying, more came to take their place, doing their best to resist those Corrupt disciples.
“Everyone, fight!”
Looking at those ordinary warriors who were charging forward, replacing their fallen comrades one after another, Long Chen was reminded of his father. His eyes turned red.
Following Long Chen’s order, everyone jumped off the Magical Beasts and charged forward. They formed their squads, the core disciples leading them. Then with Long Chen at the front, they all charged at the Corrupt disciples.
[1] Little Hu-zi = Little Tiger
Chapter 237 Soul Attack
“The Xuantian Monastery has come to assist! The Corrupt path’s villains will die!”
Long Chen’s roar rang out like a clap of thunder, shaking the land and spreading hundreds of miles.
He didn’t actually like that style. He would prefer to slaughter his enemies before they even realized what was going on.
But this was a chaotic battlefield right now, and those soldiers had to know that they were coming to help. This was just to avoid them not being able to tell friend from foe.
Long Chen had only just charged forward when a Corrupt disciple charged out and blocked his way.
Seeing Long Chen’s cultivation base was only at the peak of Blood Condensation, he laughed sinisterly, “Jiejiejie-”
But his laugh was cut off midway. Long Chen had suddenly sped up, shooting forward and immediately cutting off his head.
“Jie your sister. Who has time to listen to you jie?”
Long Chen stored that head which was still locked in an expression of disbelief into his spatial ring. It seemed you could run into idiots like this anywhere.
That Corrupt disciple had been tricked by Long Chen’s cultivation base. Even in death, he still didn’t understand what had happened.
“Everyone retreat. Leave this to us!” Those warriors were still fighting all-out and dying. They were simply not on the same level as the Corrupt disciples and were quickly being cut down. Even as Long Chen shouted, he charged forward again.
A sinister Corrupt disciple also charged towards Long Chen. He pointed his sword at Long Chen, “Idiot from the Righteous path, listen well! I am-”
He only got half his words out before Long Chen’s saber slashed down on him, not giving him any time to be long-winded.
That person was greatly alarmed. He hadn’t seen Long Chen kill the previous Corrupt disciple, and he was trying to intimidate him by using his name.
But Long Chen’s saber cut down too fast, and he immediately felt a chill. A strong feeling of death filled him, and he hastily blocked.
His sword was cut in half, while Long Chen’s saber didn’t slow down at all, directly cutting across his neck. His head flew into the air.
“I’m not interested in knowing who you are,” said Long Chen icily. He had already charged forward again. After being delayed twice, Tang Wan-er and the others had already caught up.
But they were listening to Long Chen’s plan, and they didn’t charge forward in a swarm. Instead, Long Chen had become an arrowhead that they were following into the battle.
Surprisingly, those Corrupt disciples didn’t panic much at all despite the fact that the monastery’s disciples outnumbered them two to one.
Ignoring those warriors, they rushed forward to meet them. At the front was an extremely emaciated man who almost looked like a dried up mummy.
That man’s voice was gravelly as he said, “Kill these Righteous path disciples as much as you want! They’re easy profit; their blood, their flesh, and even their souls are treasures for us! Kill them all for me!”
Those Corrupt disciples all began to laugh sinisterly, their eyes shining. They looked just like savage beasts as they charged forward.
Everyone was infuriated, especially the core disciples. Their eyes were about to spit flames.
They were all geniuses bless
ed with great talent. Other than Long Chen, who else was worthy of them paying any attention to?
Being treated as ‘easy profit’ by this group of Corrupt disciples was an absolutely naked insult.
Of the people present, only Long Chen’s expression remained tranquil without any emotion. He simply charged to the front, his saber sweeping out.
“Parting Wind Cut!”
A huge Saber Qi shot out like a dragon’s tail, viciously cutting through those ahead of him.
Having reached the thirteenth Heavenstage of Blood Condensation, not only had Long Chen’s physical strength increased, but his spiritual qi had also been condensed to its peak. That one saber blow shook the land and was at least tens of times stronger than it had been in the past.
The Saber Qi that Long Chen shot out now was no longer a simple qi, but practically solid energy, similar to Tang Wan-er’s wind blades.
Blood and flesh filled the air as that Saber Qi shot out. There were over a dozen Corrupt disciples who were cut into broken pieces.
The smell of blood filled the air. His own blood seemed to be provoked by that scent and began to circulate faster, his killing intent becoming even denser.
His second saber slash cut through the air. The blood of even more Corrupt disciples filled the air.
“Kill!”
Long Chen’s opening attacks were only the prologue. Tang Wan-er, Gu Yang, and the other core disciples arrived and crazily began to attack.
The Corrupt disciples were caught off-guard, not expecting the monastery would possess so many core disciples. They immediately began to be cut down.
How were Long Chen and them easy profit at all? They were even more savage than tigers! It was they who were being turned into easy profit!
Suddenly, one of the Corrupt disciples opened his mouth and let out a bestial howl that pierced everyone’s ears like knives.
Everyone felt a burst of pain in their mind. They temporarily lost consciousness as if stuck in a dream.
“Soul attack?”
Long Chen was startled. That kind of attack was extremely bizarre, and external forces were unable to block it. It could only be blocked with Spiritual Strength.
Spiritual Strength varied from person to person. It wasn’t necessarily true that someone with a higher cultivation base would have a stronger Spiritual Strength.
Long Chen, Tang Wan-er, and Ye Zhiqiu possessed incomparably powerful Spiritual Strength. They could fundamentally ignore that kind of soul attack. But not everyone could do that.
Gu Yang especially possessed extremely weak Spiritual Strength. He immediately became lifeless, almost being cut apart by a Corrupt disciple. Luckily, Lei Qianshang had reacted quickly, sending a bolt of thunderforce to kill the Corrupt disciple.
However, there were still many people stuck in dreamland. But the ones who had charged to the front were all core disciples. The ordinary disciples behind them were ensnared by it, but there was nothing to worry about for them because this particular soul attack wasn’t particularly powerful and would only have an impact for a moment.
If they had already begun to fight, then that moment would have been enough to cause a person to die ten times over.
However, the Corrupt disciples had been too startled by the core disciples’ imposingness and had been unable to hold them off. That was why they had released this soul attack now instead of at a perfect time.
At a critical moment, this kind of soul attack was too terrifying. Hundreds of their disciples wouldn’t be able to defend against it and would end up dying.
Having been impacted by this soul attack, their offense immediately turned sluggish. Their thunderous sharpness was blunted.
“Wilde, kill that person with the dead person banner.”
Long Chen knew Wilde was essentially immune to soul attacks. He pointed to the emaciated man who was holding a soul-attracting banner.
He knew that if he called it a soul-attracting banner, Wilde would probably not understand, and so he called it the dead person flag.
“Brother Long, can I use my weapon?” Wilde had been following Long Chen the entire time, waiting for his orders.
“You can. Smash him to death.”
“Nice!”
Wilde roared and brandished his spiked club, charging forward.
“All of you die!” Wilde looked like a giant as he charged forward. Everyone saw just how terrifying he was.
He was practically a human meat grinder. His huge spiked club immediately shattered whatever it touched, whether it was a weapon or a human body.
“Close range fighters at the front, long ranged ones at the back! Cover each other and move forward steadily!” shouted Long Chen. Now that he knew this enemy had such bizarre techniques, they couldn’t rashly charge forward.
They had to strike them steadily and surely. Just now, over ten disciples had ended up injured. Fortunately for them, those weren’t life-threatening injuries. The injured people had already retreated to be healed by the Healing Hall’s disciples.
That previous battle at the village couldn’t even be considered a battle. This was the true start. Long Chen had to control the flow, and he was constantly looking for ways to raise morale.
If too many people died or were injured during just this first fight, then their entire troops’ morale would receive a fatal blow.
Everyone began to push forward steadily. As for those Corrupt disciples, they clearly didn’t have any group fighting formations. They all fought for themselves. Under the monastery’s disciples’ steady attacks, they were pushed back step by step, and occasionally one of them would die.
To them, the most frightening thing was Wilde. He had charged straight through their ranks with no one able to stop him.
His spiked club would whistle through the air, and every time, whoever was hit would die. In just the blink of an eye, he had charged over to where the emaciated man with the soul-attracting banner was.
Long Chen had seen that although that sharp cry soul attack had been emitted by quite a few people, it was this emaciated man’s soul attack that was the strongest. If they could kill him, that would make everything much safer for everyone.
That emaciated man coldly snorted when he saw Wilde charge at him. A bizarre red light appeared in his eyes.
That was a secret technique of his sect called the Bewitching Soul Eyes. Anyone with a weaker Spiritual Strength than him who he looked at would immediately be drawn into a realm of illusions and could easily be killed by anyone.
Furthermore, the soul-attracting banner in his hand assisted him. It absorbed all the resentment of those who were killed.
The stronger a person was, the stronger the resentment that was left behind when they died. And if they were killed savagely, then that resentment would be even stronger.
To them, slaughter was its own kind of cultivation. And that was why they had actually been excited to see these Righteous disciples.
They had heard from their Elders and senior disciples that the Righteous path’s disciples were gutless weaklings that were just cash cows for them.
However, now that they had encountered them, they found that they weren’t easy pickings at all, but absolute monsters that were crushing them ruthlessly.
The emaciated man was startled by how powerful Wilde appeared, but at the same time, he was also delighted. Once he killed Wilde, then that powerful resentment from him would quickly increase his cultivation base.
And thereafter, once his cultivation base grew, his secret technique would become even stronger. Then he could kill even more experts.
A blood-colored light shone from his eyes. He pushed his Spiritual Strength to its peak, and a ray of invisible Spiritual Strength struck Wilde.
But he was appalled to find that Wilde simply raised his huge club and smashed it down on him.
“What are you looking at me for? I’ll smash you to death!”
Chapter 238 Explosive Crossbow
“You dare keep glaring
at me! I’ll smash you!”
Wilde roared, his immense, spiked club smashing down on the emaciated man. That terrifying power made the air explode.
That emaciated man was horrified. His soul art was his most powerful attack, and he was almost unrivaled amongst the same level. But Wilde wasn’t affected at all.
Space shook as that club smashed down like a mountain. That terrifying pressure told the emaciated man that this wasn’t a hallucination, and he hastily fell back.
He was a Corrupt core disciple with a powerful cultivation base. His strange footwork allowed him to escape in an extremely bizarre manner. No one was able to see just how he had done it.
After dodging that attack, he put away his soul-attracting banner. Since soul attacks were useless against Wilde, he could only use a different move.
Just as he was about to take out a new weapon, the land suddenly shook. The emaciated man hadn’t expected that even though he had already dodged, Wilde’s attack still landed on the ground.
Cultivators would definitely not do something like that. No matter who it was, they would always leave a little bit of energy in reserve when attacking.
If they ended up missing, they would have the power to change the attack. But Wilde wasn’t acting like a cultivator at all. He hadn’t restrained his power in the least, and his club had smashed into the earth.
That strike was too vicious. The land caved in, and the terrifying power caused the surrounding people to fly into the air, including that core disciple.
Even the distant monastery disciples stumbled and reeled from the shaking, almost falling to the ground. The Corrupt disciples who were closer were stumbling and flying through the air.
The emaciated man was horrified. It would be impossible for him to block such power. But as he was filled with shock, Wilde had already come charging out.
“Stop glaring at me!”
Shockingly, Wilde didn’t need to take the slightest pause after such a powerful strike. His spiked club once more smashed out. He hadn’t been affected by the shaking of the earth at all.