by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Careful!”
Zhao Mingshan had only just realized Long Chen had disappeared when he had a bad feeling and called out a warning. However, it was too late.
Gu Qi’s hand had just been about to touch the hammer when he felt a chill on his neck. Then, heaven and earth began to spin around him.
From his viewpoint, he was spinning around. He saw many people’s horrified gazes directed at him. He saw a golden saber. He also saw a familiar body. But that body didn’t have a head on it. Blood was spurting out of its neck.
He heard Zhao Mingshan’s warning, but that sound seemed to come from incredibly far away. Just as he suddenly realized what had happened, he descended into eternal darkness.
“Long Chen, you’re courting death!” Zhao Mingshan had never imagined that Long Chen possessed such bizarre footwork. That had allowed him to instantly kill Gu Qi.
Long Chen smiled coldly and grabbed the hammer. Wow, it’s twice as heavy as Devil Decapitator.
Long Chen didn’t have time to carefully examine it. He quickly placed it into his spatial ring and then tried to absorb the entire forging table.
“Go to hell!”
Suddenly, the wind blew on his neck, and a terrifying attack came from behind him. Long Chen didn’t have time to absorb the forging table. He hastily dodged to the side.
BOOM!
A terrifying ray of Saber Qi smashed into the forging table. This time, Zhao Mingshan was truly infuriated. He had used his full strength in this attack, not caring about any of the consequences.
The power behind his saber had cut a huge scar into the ceiling. The entire tomb was almost cut in half, and the tomb rocked intensely.
The incredibly heavy forging table was actually knocked flying by the saber. Long Chen quickly appeared in front of it.
“Haha, thank you, thank you!”
Seeing that huge forging table smashing at him, Long Chen surprisingly laughed and raised a single hand to grab it.
“No!”
Zhao Mingshan and the others instantly had a bad feeling.
The instant Long Chen’s hand touched the forging table, it disappeared. It had been absorbed into his spatial ring.
One special property of spatial rings was that they could only absorb objects that had left the ground. The majority of people thought that meant you needed to pick up the object in order to store it into the spatial ring.
But in reality, as long as the object had left the ground, then with a powerful enough Spiritual Strength, it was also possible to absorb it into a spatial ring.
Long Chen had originally thought that he would have to waste some effort to absorb this forging table into his spatial ring. Who would have thought Zhao Mingshan would be so smart and send it directly to him as a gift?
The entire tomb began to rumble because of Zhao Mingshan’s attack. It felt like an earthquake, and a huge amount of dirt began to pour from the ceiling. Portions of the ceiling even began to fall.
“This place is about to collapse! Hurry and run!”
Following that shout, the Righteous disciples all fled to the passageway. Even the Corrupt disciples were a bit flabbergasted now. If this place collapsed, then they would all die.
Seeing the Righteous disciples charging over at them, they didn’t know whether they should kill them or run.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a huge pillar collapsed, directly crushing two unlucky fellows to death.
Furthermore, this pillar had also coincidentally fallen onto the huge coffin. That huge force caused the coffin to burst apart.
After the coffin burst apart, everyone suddenly saw a smaller coffin appear from within. That coffin had a golden page on its lid.
Chapter 334 Golden Page
That piece of paper was only the size of a palm. Lines covered the entire page, and as soon as it appeared, an incredibly ancient air radiated off of it, filling the entire room. At the same time, a powerful spiritual pressure shot out as well.
This sudden change stunned everyone. After pausing for just an instant, everyone crazily charged towards the page.
“Fuck off, it’s mine!”
Although the tomb was already beginning to collapse, everyone, whether they were from the Righteous or Corrupt path, was now charging at the golden page. Blood splattered everywhere.
All of their eyes had reddened. Anyone who was in front of them, whether it was someone from the same path or opposing path, would be attacked by them.
The three Chosen were the furthest from the coffin. As for Long Chen, because he had taken the forging table, he had then retreated further away to avoid being attacked. So it was the regular disciples who were the closest to the coffin.
“Haha-!”
One person was the first to reach the golden page. He had just laughed and been about to say something to an expert from the monastery when his hand was directly cut off by someone’s saber.
This first person was actually from the same monastery as Zhao Mingshan. His plan had been to announce that this treasure now belonged to Zhao Mingshan, and so no one could fight over it.
However, he had underestimated people’s greed. After his hand was cut off, he only managed to get out half a wail before he went silent.
A sword had already cut off his head. Someone behind him had been irritated that he had been blocking the way, and he had directly killed him in one attack. Surprisingly, the one to kill him was also a monastery disciple.
But that disciple was smart and had long since torn off the markings on his robes. He had also applied something to his face so no one could recognize him, leaving no evidence.
The entire room was a complete mess now. The tomb was constantly quivering, and it was pouring dirt from the ceiling.
That dirt was not ordinary dirt. It was as hard as steel, and sometimes huge portions of it would collapse at once, instantly killing any core disciple it landed on.
But all that was not able to stop the fervor. This inner coffin was a normal size one; in other words, this coffin was the one that really contained the tomb owner’s corpse.
And this golden page that had been laying on top of this coffin was definitely a treasure amongst treasures. Even the Corrupt disciples became greedy, and they also joined the struggle.
In just a couple of breaths, this golden page passed through several hands, and over ten disciples had already died.
The three Chosen wanted to join the fight over it, as that golden page was definitely invaluable.
But they were also unwilling to give up on killing Long Chen. If they allowed Long Chen to escape while fighting for the treasure, that would definitely fill them with regret.
But if they lost the treasure in order to kill Long Chen, that would also be regretful. For a moment, they didn’t know what to do.
They only watched as those disciples struggled, while also dodging the large slabs of earth falling from the ceiling.
The tomb was shaking with more intensity as time passed. Even standing was getting difficult.
Another stone pillar collapsed, smashing into the crowd. Tens of people were instantly turned to pulp.
Suddenly, a figure charged into the crowd, and a terrifying Sword Qi swept through the remnants.
Several people were instantly killed by that Sword Qi, one of them being a powerful Favored.
“It’s the Corrupt Chosen!”
Someone let out a startled cry. They all realized now that the Corrupt Chosen had charged into their midst, going straight for the Favored who was now holding the golden page.
That page was extremely odd, and it could not be absorbed into a spatial ring. They could only hold it.
“Save me senior apprentice-brother Zhao!”
The Favored with the golden page immediately turned pale when he saw the Corrupt Chosen coming to kill him.
Right now, he was completely focused on blocking the attacks from several other Favored. At the same time, he also had to pay attention to the sneak attacks from other
s. That was already extremely taxing for him. If a Chosen was added into the mix, he would definitely die.
“Bastard, how dare you go back on your word?!” raged Zhao Mingshan, charging at the Corrupt Chosen.
The Corrupt Chosen was just about to reach the Favored and kill him when a terrifying aura locked onto him. If he wanted to kill the Favored, he would need to receive a full-strength attack from Zhao Mingshan, which would at least heavily injure him, if not kill him.
Naturally, he chose to block Zhao Mingshan’s saber. He sneered, “I only agreed not to interfere with what was inside the outer coffin. I didn’t say anything about the treasures of the inner coffin.”
“Blood Figure Devours Souls!” He suddenly spat a mouthful of blood onto his sword, and a terrifying aura shot out.
“AHHH!”
All the Righteous disciples suddenly began to scream, feeling as if their heads were being stabbed with needles. Even Favored were not able to bear it.
Favored were clenching their heads tightly. As for core disciples, they were bleeding from their seven apertures[1]. Their souls filled with immense pain as if countless ghouls were devouring their souls. Their bodies were trembling intensely, and they lost any ability to fight.
The Corrupt disciples weren’t affected in the same manner. Instead, under the influence of that Spiritual Strength, they became even more savage, crazily assaulting the Righteous disciples.
The two Righteous Chosen were startled. They hadn’t expected the Corrupt Chosen to possess such a bizarre technique. They were able to just barely block that energy, but they still felt some pain in their souls.
They finally realized the Corrupt Chosen had been holding back this whole time and had just been using them. From the start, he had been planning on devouring the two of them when the time came.
The Favored holding the golden page finally wasn’t able to endure it, and his arm was cut off by a Corrupt disciple.
The hand with the golden page flew into the air. The three Chosen all reacted by directly jumping up to grab it.
But the instant their hands were about to touch that page, it suddenly escaped and flew in a certain direction.
“What?!”
The three of them were all shocked. They saw the page was flying towards Long Chen’s hand.
“Courting death!” The Corrupt Chosen roared and his body suddenly twisted. He somehow took a step in midair, springing forward and grabbed the golden page.
“Hehe, the treasure is mine-!”
The Corrupt Chosen’s smile had only just appeared when blood suddenly splashed.
The golden page had cleanly cut his hand in half as it continued flying towards Long Chen.
All of them were shocked, even Long Chen. How could this small page so easily pierce through a Chosen’s hand?
The reason everyone had been fighting for it wasn’t because they had realized that the material of the page was special. They had just assumed it was made of normal gold.
The real treasure had to be lines that were written on it. Those were very likely immortal characters that recorded an unrivaled cultivation technique or a heaven-startling Battle Skill.
Even in all that fighting, none of them had realized that the paper was special. Only Long Chen had felt a faint spiritual calling to that page.
Long Chen had been constantly waiting for an opportunity. And just now, that opportunity had come, and he had used his Spiritual Strength to draw the page towards him.
But when his Spiritual Strength touched the page, he realized the page seemed to possess an extremely great thirst for Spiritual Strength.
Under the urging of his Spiritual Strength, that page was like an obedient puppy. A faint light had shone from it and it had directly flown over to him.
When that Corrupt Chosen had first managed to grab it, Long Chen had thought his plan had failed. He had just been about to start fighting when that page directly cut apart the Chosen’s hand and continued flying towards him.
Long Chen was delighted and surprised. This golden page was definitely a true treasure.
“It’s a soul item?!” The Corrupt Chosen was filled with disbelief. “Get back here!”
His Spiritual Strength immediately surged out to grab the golden page.
The golden page suddenly paused in midair before reaching Long Chen. Sometimes it would pull a bit towards Long Chen, sometimes it would pull a bit towards the Corrupt Chosen, seeming like a tug-of-war.
“You want to compete with me in terms of Spiritual Strength?”
Although he didn’t know what secrets were contained within this golden page, Long Chen knew that it had a certain affinity with Spiritual Strength.
His mind-sea shook, and an enormous Spiritual Strength surged out. That hesitating page instantly shot in Long Chen’s direction.
Long Chen easily received it. It felt as if it was an extremely delicate, thin layer of gold. It was only the size of a palm, but there were countless lines on top of it. They didn’t look exactly like words, but they didn’t look like drawings either. Instead, they seemed extremely similar to runes.
It was very light in his hand. In fact, it was so light he almost didn’t even feel it. It was like gold but not gold, like paper but not paper. It was extremely bizarre.
“Hand it over!”
Three figures charged over at Long Chen. The three Chosen were no longer holding anything back at this point, and their auras completely exploded out, marks appearing on their foreheads.
Three weapons attacked Long Chen at the same time. These were full-strength attacks now. They wanted to kill Long Chen before the tomb collapsed.
Long Chen swung out Devil Decapitator with his full might, clashing with their three weapons.
With an explosive sound, a terrifying energy directly broke apart the tomb. Previously, it had just been dirt falling. Now, the ceiling really was collapsing.
Due to the various pillars supporting it, there were some portions that didn’t collapse immediately. But the pillars were already starting to fall one by one. Those broken pieces were terrifying as they smashed down.
At this time, the other disciples no longer had any more wishful thinking and all fled for their lives.
As for Long Chen, under their three combined blows, he was sent flying back. His expression greatly changed, as he was flying in the opposite direction of the exit.
His foot had just touched the ground when a huge pillar collapsed, falling down on him. It was too late to dodge.
“FengFu Battle Armor!”
A star suddenly appeared in Long Chen’s eyes, and a terrifying aura surged out. His saber slashed out at the stone pillar.
[1] The seven apertures here refers to the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and mouth.
Chapter 335 Being Duped
“FengFu Battle Armor!”
The three Chosen were appalled to see Long Chen’s saber somehow manage to send that terrifying stone pillar flying.
Those stone pillars were made of an unknown material that was shockingly hard and heavy. Anyone who was struck by them had been crushed to paste. In fact, it was a stone pillar that had smashed apart the outer coffin, the outer coffin that had been so tough that even hammers had been unable to cause any damage to it.
Such a tremendous pillar had been sent flying by Long Chen’s saber. But since Long Chen had knocked it back, it ended up impacting the other pillars, causing a chain reaction, and all the stone pillars quickly collapsed.
Once the stone pillars toppled, the ceiling was unable to endure anymore and completely collapsed.
Long Chen’s expression changed. If he didn’t flee now, he would be buried alive here.
He saw that the three Chosen had already snuck into the passageway. He didn’t dare tarry, and he rushed over. But as soon as he approached, three different weapons attacked him.
Long Chen furiously brandished Devil Decapitator. Its crystal core even lit up this time, bringing its power to an unprecedented level.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s attack instantly destroyed their three weapons. Furthermore, they were sent flying out, going from the bottom of the passageway to the top in an instant, crazily vomiting blood.
The three of them were horrified. Never had they imagined Long Chen was so powerful. But turning back to look, they saw the passageway was already buried by rubble, and Long Chen hadn’t managed to follow them out.
They didn’t have much time to celebrate and quickly fled for their lives.
Even the outer caves were collapsing with the tomb. The three of them wildly rushed out, looking like three miserable stray dogs.
They were fortunate that they had already left behind marks for the right trail. Even as they fled, the tunnels behind them collapsed. Those collapsing tunnels almost looked like the mouth of a human-eating monster that wanted to devour the three of them.
Suddenly, light appeared in front of them, and they all celebrated. That was the exit.
The three of them shot out of the cave. Behind them, the mountain peak completely sunk. They had just barely managed to avoid being buried alive.
Having just escaped from that danger, the Corrupt Chosen hadn’t even had a chance to sigh with relief when he felt a burst of pain as one sword and one saber stabbed through his back.
“You two…”
The Corrupt Chosen turned in shock and fury at the two people behind him.
He had never imagined that after just narrowly escaping the death, these two would immediately betray him. He could feel his life force rapidly fading, filling him with shock, anger, and regret.
The Corrupt path’s seniors had long since heavily warned him to never, ever cooperate with the Righteous disciples. When they encountered Righteous disciples, there was only one word: kill!
Originally, he had thought that with his powerful strength and innumerable trump cards, he could easily toy with these weaker, cowardly Righteous disciples.
But now he realized he had been wrong, very, very wrong. The craftiness of the Righteous disciples had far surpassed his expectations.