by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
He had been hoping to figure out his opponent’s abilities and skills through battling in order to find a good opportunity to strike. That would give him the steadiest chance of victory.
But then he realized this fellow really was an idiot. He had almost no combat experience. All he knew how to do was to blindly strike.
Just now he had even said he was only using a portion of his strength. Long Chen had thought he had something to back up his words, but as a result, Long Chen had struck out with his saber so hard that he had sent him flying. Now Long Chen felt as if he had been humiliated.
If he had known this idiot was so weak, why would he have fought so carefully? He would have killed him with just a few strokes of his saber.
At the same time, Long Chen realized that these so-called Chosen also had large differences between them. Not all of them were on the same level as Mo Nian and Yin Luo.
“Impossible, how are you so strong?!” Jiang Yifan couldn’t help being shocked and angered.
“Does your face hurt?”
“You!” Jiang Yifan’s shock was instantly overwhelmed by his fury, and his staff once more smashed into Long Chen.
“Scram.” Long Chen swung out Devil Decapitator in a profound arc that smashed into Jiang Yifan’s staff.
A huge, irresistible force smashed into Jiang Yifan, and he was sent tumbling. This time he flew back for over a mile, landing with a mouthful of dirt.
“Impossible!”
“Just what kind of monster is this Long Chen?!”
The thirty-sixth monastery’s disciples finally couldn’t hold back from exclaiming in disbelief. Long Chen was too abnormal.
Luo Bing was also looking at Long Chen with shock. But the instant she clearly saw his saber, she finally realized Long Chen was incredibly physically powerful. She was able to tell that his saber was definitely shockingly heavy.
Most importantly, Long Chen’s thin figure had tricked all of them. No one would have expected such a thin body to possess such terrifying strength. He was practically a Magical Beast in human form.
Jiang Yifan cut a ditch into the ground, his face like an iron plow. As soon as he got up, he realized his mouth was full, and he spat out a mouthful of dirt. After spitting out the dirt, he could still taste blood. He turned to glare at Long Chen.
At this moment, Long Chen looked at him ‘with great concern’. “Does your face hurt?”
Jiang Yifan slowly stood up and pointed at Long Chen. “I admit that I underestimated you. But if you think that you’ll be able to survive this day, then you are incredibly wrong. Congratulations on infuriating me. I’ve decided I’ll tear your body apart piece by piece. Not only that, but I’ll also investigate your family, hehe…”
Long Chen narrowed his eyes. This bastard was actually trying to use his family to threaten him. Furthermore, Long Chen could sense this bastard really was narrow-minded and would actually do something like that.
Long Chen couldn’t help but sigh. The heavens really were blind to allow such a bastard to become a Chosen.
“Looks like I can’t let you leave here alive.” Long Chen icily looked at him, slowly walking over.
The entire martial stage had already exploded, and a huge crater had formed for miles. There were no longer any boundaries to speak of.
“Hahaha, you want to kill me? Are you trying to make me laugh myself to death? I’ll let you see a divine technique that you wouldn’t be able to comprehend even if you tried for a thousand years!”
Jiang Yifan crazily laughed, and he bit down on his finger. He rubbed that blood atop the image on his forehead and then formed an extremely complicated hand seal.
A loud rumbling rang out and the space behind Jiang Yifan became unsteady, looking as if it might explode. An extremely savage aura shot out.
Long Chen couldn’t help being startled. The space behind Jiang Yifan was constantly twisting, gradually forming a huge figure.
That figure seemed to be made of black mist and was over thirty meters tall.
The aura coming from it stifled everyone else. Jiang Yifan’s eyes turned blood-colored, looking like the eyes of a fiend.
Jiang Yifan swung out his staff, and space immediately buzzed. With the support of this illusory figure, his power had completely erupted.
“This is my true form! Little brat, die!” Jiang Yifan roared and charged directly at Long Chen, smashing his staff down at Long Chen viciously with both hands.
Long Chen blocked with his saber, and yet he still felt a huge impact and was forced back a dozen steps by a terrifying strength.
With each step he took, the ground beneath him was crushed. With just a dozen steps, Long Chen was hundreds of meters away.
“Not bad. Now it’ll be a bit interesting.” Long Chen shook out his slightly numb hand. Now, this seemed more like the power of a Chosen.
“DIE!” Jiang Yifan once more smashed out with his staff. Now that he had the support of this illusory figure, his physical energy had explosively grown.
Their weapons once more collided. But this time there was no loud explosion. Jiang Yifan’s staff seemed to have struck cotton, and all of his force had nowhere to go, causing a backlash that made him cough up blood.
Violent Gale Saber really is worthy of being a high Earth class Battle Skill. It’s extremely exquisite. Now that I’ve used its defensive aspect, it’s time to test its explosive aspect.
“Scram!” Long Chen roared, his voice like thunder. Devil Decapitator suddenly released the power Jiang Yifan had used in his attack in addition to Long Chen’s power as well.
Jiang Yifan suddenly felt an earth-shattering power surge out of Long Chen’s saber. He was horrified to realize that it actually had two portions of power, and he was unable to completely block it.
When Luo Bing saw that Jiang Yifan was still unable to do anything even with this trump card, she turned pale. “How is this possible?”
Long Chen’s strength had far surpassed her expectations. Jiang Yifan was being repeatedly forced back by Long Chen.
In truth, in terms of strength, Jiang Yifan surpassed Long Chen at the moment. Unfortunately, Long Chen had just managed to comprehend some of the profundities of saber arts from the Violent Gale Saber technique.
Jiang Yifan’s power was unable to do anything to Long Chen now. Long Chen’s saber repeatedly slashed out, golden light filling the air. Jiang Yifan could do nothing but retreat.
Under Long Chen’s berserk tempest of attacks, Jiang Yifan felt as if he had nowhere to release his power. Sometimes he would use a powerful attack, only to have Long Chen use some kind of profound technique to disperse its power and actually then return a portion of his own power at him.
“This is the Violent Gale Saber technique!” One of the monastery’s Elders had recognized this Battle Skill. “Long Chen really is a monster. I heard he only just went to the Xuantian pavilion to get a few Battle Skills. But in this short amount of time, he has already managed to grasp some of the essence of saber arts. That kind of talent, comprehension skill, and perseverance is terrifying!”
These Elders were all over sixty years old. After living that long, their vision was extremely sharp.
They immediately saw that Long Chen was relying on his battle experience and skills to fight against Jiang Yifan. It was a bit different from his previous brute-force style.
Furthermore, Long Chen’s attacks were only becoming sharper as he became more and more familiar with his saber arts. In the end, his attacks flowed completely naturally without the slightest bit of unfamiliarity.
The Elders couldn’t help but sigh. As expected, the new generation surpassed the old. Long Chen was actually using a Chosen to practice and temper his saber arts.
Thinking back to when they were young and how they had carefully followed every single rule and restriction, they couldn’t help but feel as if they had lived for nothing when comparing themselves to Long Chen.
Even Tang Wan-er and the other more skilled disciples
could tell what Long Chen was doing.
It was far too obvious. In the beginning, Long Chen’s saber arts had clearly been too stiff. But as time passed, they began to flow more easily and smoothly.
Tang Wan-er couldn’t help but shake her head. Even after knowing him for so long, Long Chen was still constantly challenging everyone’s imaginations.
To use a Chosen to experiment, what a luxurious sparring partner! Perhaps in this world, only Long Chen would dare think of doing such a thing.
Luo Bing’s expression was incredibly ugly. Occasionally, she would raise her hand slightly before once more bringing it back down. At this time, she was already panicking and had no idea what she should do.
“You bastard Long Chen, you’re really forcing me!”
Jiang Yifan suddenly roared. Clenching his teeth malevolently, he suddenly brought his hands together.
“Beast Image Merges With the Body!”
Chapter 300 Blood Ignition Art
“Beast Image Merges With the Body!”
Following Jiang Yifan’s roar, the huge image behind him slowly merged with his body, and an incredibly savage aura soared out.
Long Chen was shocked. He felt an extremely ancient aura lock him in place.
What horrified everyone was that Jiang Yifan’s body was releasing loud cracking sounds now.
“Heavens, what is going on?” Guo Ran was looking in horror at Jiang Yifan. As that beast image merged into his body, his body began to transform in an incredibly horrifying manner.
His face changed shape, the two tusks on his mouth growing longer. His head enlarged, his two eyes spread to his temples, and a horn grew out of his forehead.
His body was also blowing up like a balloon. His limbs became covered in black fur and became as thick as a person’s waist.
And most shocking of all, a long tail appeared at Jiang Yifan’s butt. It was a three-meter-long snake which was covered in dense scales.
Now Jiang Yifan didn’t even look human. He was more like a monster. His terrifying aura caused the ground beneath him to tremble.
Everyone present, whether it was friend or foe, was stunned by this form. Such a technique was absolutely terrifying.
Only Luo Bing was sighing a breath of relief. In truth, Long Chen had been right. Jiang Yifan didn’t actually have the qualifications to be a Chosen.
His strength was still one level weaker than true Chosen.
But in the end, Jiang Yifan had used this beast image merging technique to obtain the supermonastery’s approval. With this technique, he had the ability to at least fight with a Chosen for a long period of time, so in the end, they had still bestowed a Chosen status to him.
But in the thirty-sixth monastery, only the sect leader and Luo Bing knew that using this technique would pose a huge burden to Jiang Yifan’s body and mind.
Jiang Yifan’s family was extremely old. Although they had already declined, there had been an amazing figure that had appeared amongst them back then.
That person had actually ended up fusing with a powerful beast, leaving behind an extremely powerful bloodline. That bloodline had finally been awakened in Jiang Yifan.
However, using this beast image merging technique of his not only brought with it a beast’s power, but also a Magical Beast’s berserk will. Someone who overused this technique would become incredibly savage, most likely turning into a bloodthirsty madman in the end.
That ancestor of his had precisely brought about people to kill him because he had been too berserk. In the end, a top expert had killed him.
But no matter how many negatives there were, once he used this technique, Jiang Yifan’s strength would increase by dozens of times.
Without this technique, Jiang Yifan didn’t truly possess the qualifications to be a Chosen. This was his strongest state.
However, after using this technique, Jiang Yifan would be bedridden for at least half a month before recovering from the sequelae of this technique. This was essentially a self-harming technique.
“Long Chen, now you should know the difference between us! You can die at ease!” Jiang Yifan’s physical body had explosively grown in size, and his voice didn’t even sound human. That rasping, bestial voice caused people’s blood to turn cold.
“Does your face hurt?” Long Chen was too lazy to change his line.
His response was a staff smashing down on him like lightning. Before it even arrived, the ground beneath him began to crack.
When the staff smashed into Long Chen’s saber, the ground beneath his feet completely collapsed, and Long Chen involuntarily flew back.
“How powerful!” Long Chen felt a burst of pain in his abdomen as if his internal organs were flipping around inside of him. A trace of blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth. The current Jiang Yifan was extremely powerful. His Chosen title wasn’t undeserved.
After sending Long Chen flying, Jiang Yifan stamped on the ground and charged. Holding his staff with both hands, he ferociously smashed it down, wanting to crush Long Chen to pulp.
Long Chen smiled. Now it was a real battle.
“Divine ring!”
The instant Jiang Yifan’s staff smashed down, the ground of the entire monastery trembled. A wave of dust filled the sky, along with a wave of qi.
“Senior apprentice-brother Jiang is so strong!”
“Hehe, this time Long Chen’s definitely dead.”
“How could a group of poor pigs compare to our monastery?”
Seeing that aura surging into the heavens, all of them assumed that there was no way Long Chen could have survived such a powerful blow.
“Wait, something’s wrong!”
Just as the dust began to scatter, they saw one odd thing. A three hundred meter divine ring had appeared in the sky, lighting up the world.
“What?!” The thirty-sixth monastery’s disciples were suddenly filled with disbelief.
They saw Long Chen still standing there with his saber, his black hair dancing in the wind. His clothes fluttered as his aura incessantly climbed. With that divine ring behind him, he looked just like a divinity arrogantly looking down on the nine heavens.
He and Jiang Yifan still had their weapons locked together as they icily glared at each other. Jiang Yifan’s body had completely morphed so his expression couldn’t be seen, but it was obvious he was also filled with complete disbelief.
“Impossible! I don’t believe this! Die!” Jiang Yifan roared and all his energy poured crazily into his staff.
Countless runes lit up on his staff, and a violent energy surged out at Long Chen.
Long Chen snorted and his FengFu Star quickly circulated. He didn’t hold back his energy either, pouring it into Devil Decapitator.
After being supplied with so much of Long Chen’s spiritual qi, Devil Decapitator suddenly rumbled, and the lines on top of it lit up like it was a beast that had awakened.
Terrifying energy caused the earth to subside, and a huge whirlpool appeared around them, rapidly spreading out. The ground around them was crushed to smithereens.
The distant disciples were all shocked. When that whirlpool began to reach them, they felt the scent of death appear and quickly fled.
Even the Elders were also retreating with them. Jiang Yifan and Long Chen’s power had reached a level that even they were unable to completely block, and there was no need for them to act arrogantly.
Tang Wan-er, Gu Yang, and the others all finally realized just how terrifying Long Chen was. Back when he had fought Yin Luo, he had been too far for them to sense his power.
But now just their shockwaves were able to easily obliterate outer disciples. That was practically a heaven-defying strength.
These were Chosen. They could easily crush those in the same generation, looking down disdainfully on them all.
Both of their powers were constantly rising, and the ground was continuing to cave in. Luckily, this place was spacious enough and there were no buildings.
The spot where th
e martial stage had been was now a crater over a mile deep and dozens of miles wide.
At the center, Long Chen and Jiang Yifan were still crazily facing each other. That was a competition lacking any technique, a competition of pure power.
Jiang Yifan was crazily roaring, the veins of his face bulging out. His entire body was blood-colored now, appearing extremely dreadful.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t overpower Long Chen. The ground beneath them was sinking at a visible rate.
“Boss Long Chen really is my idol. He’s too powerful!” Guo Ran excitedly cried out.
The disciples on his side were all looking at Long Chen with an indescribable passion. Long Chen was always an undefeatable war god to them, their sole spiritual pillar.
When Tang Wan-er saw those worshipful expressions, the tender side of her heart felt a bit of pride.
Although Long Chen liked to joke around and was normally never serious, even occasionally irritating her with his teasing, he had never let anyone down during critical moments. He was definitely a man worthy of everyone’s confidence.
Even after being with Long Chen for so long, Tang Wan-er’s feelings for Long Chen had never been expressed, and he had never expressed his emotions to her. But in her heart, her emotions were extremely clear.
Sometimes it was better to not explicitly say everything. Chu Yao had already purposely told her to look after Long Chen. That already said everything that needed to be said.
Now looking at Long Chen, who seemed like an arrogant god, with his natural heroism and pride, his glory was her glory as well.
Hundreds of miles away, Ling Yunzi was also watching that figure, his eyes filled with a cold sharpness.
“Could it be that the heavens sent him to enlighten me? Back then, I was the same as him, prideful and free.
“But ever since I stepped into the Xiantian realm, I started to have more and more misgivings. I was never able to be free like this again.
“What happened to me? What am I afraid of? Did that old Ling Yunzi, the one who massacred all his enemies while laughing indifferently in the face of death, die?”