by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
After that stampede of Magical Beasts, their group of over thirty Corrupt disciples now only had nine people who managed to avoid getting hit by any Magical Beasts.
This time, they had truly taken heavy losses. One reason was that those Magical Beasts had turned towards them too suddenly and that they hadn’t been prepared. The other reason was that these Magical Beasts were huge, and so it was extremely difficult to dodge them.
“You goddamn Righteous brat, if you have the guts, then take off your mask and tell us your name!” The Corrupt Chosen had escaped from the range of the Magical Beasts, his expression exceedingly ugly. He roared at the distant Long Chen.
“Are you talking to me? You don’t have the qualifications to see my true face. However, I can let you know my name. Stand firm. Don’t piss your pants once you hear my amazing name.”
As Long Chen continued driving the Magical Beasts forward, he also stood up and raised his left hand high into the air, taking an extremely eye-catching pose. A certain person popped up in his head, and he smiled.
“Ten years I wandered with my bow, my arrows causing heaven and earth to shake. The nine heavens, ten lands, and all the universe will revolve around me. Only I, Mo Nian, will rise to glory.”
His voice contained a special cadence and also contained a disdainful will that looked down on the nine heavens. Long Chen’s voice rang out loud and clear, and those hidden experts within thousands of miles heard it.
Hehe, Mo Nian, don’t you like being in the spotlight? Your brother will help you. There’s no need to thank me. Long Chen laughed. This time Mo Nian’s name would definitely rise to glory!
Ignoring how many people heard him, Long Chen continued driving the Magical Beasts forward. However, Long Chen’s luck really was so lacking that it was heaven-defying. Even after three days of travel, he hadn’t run into anything that dared face off against the Barbaric Wind Beast.
Just as he was starting to get anxious, he saw a tranquil lake ahead and celebrated. Abandoning his army of Magical Beasts, he urged Little Snow over to that lake.
Chapter 353 Forest of Darkness
The lake was three thousand miles wide and flat as a mirror. As soon as he caught sight of it, Long Chen urged Little Snow in its direction.
Little Snow was extremely fast, and those thousands of miles were traversed in just a short time.
“Hide in the spiritual space for a moment.” Long Chen activated his Spiritual Strength to return Little Snow to his spiritual space. Glancing back at the Barbaric Wind Beast, he laughed mischievously.
“This little chase of ours is over. I’ll definitely remember you, and hopefully we’ll meet again!”
Long Chen cupped his fists in its direction and leaped into the lake, rapidly swimming to the bottom. The lake was extremely deep, almost like an abyss. And just a few dozen meters from the shore, the water level reached a depth of hundreds of meters.
Suddenly, the water trembled and Long Chen felt a powerful undercurrent rushing towards him, accompanied by a terrifying pressure. He hastily swam further.
He could hear the Barbaric Wind Beast’s angry roar. Long Chen knew that it was currently attacking the lake.
Long Chen followed the undercurrent all the way to the center of the lake. More and more undercurrents shot out around him, most likely created by wind blades from the Barbaric Wind Beast.
However, the lake water was obstructing most of that attacking power. Other than the first few being a bit uncomfortable for Long Chen, the rest weren’t able to pose any threat to him once he was deeper.
At the center of the lake, the depth had reached a terrifying three thousand meters. The water pressure was strong, but it didn’t pose any danger to Long Chen.
Just like that, Long Chen hid in a crack at the bottom of the lake, using only his divine sense to keep track of the activity above water. In the beginning, the lake water had been constantly shaking, with countless fish being killed by the impacts.
However, those impacts were unable to threaten him. The crazy bombardment continued for two hours before gradually pausing. Perhaps the Barbaric Wind Beast had already left.
Long Chen bitterly endured for a full day at the bottom of the lake before swimming back up to the surface. When he was about to reach the surface, he saw the countless fishes that were dead, floating on the surface. Many of them were species that Long Chen didn’t recognize.
Evildoer! Killing the innocent, and then shamelessly wasting it all! If only Wilde were here.
Long Chen stealthily stuck his head out from the crowd of dead fish when the air suddenly shook.
“Shit!” Long Chen hastily dived back into the water.
BOOM!
A huge wind blade shot through the water. Even though Long Chen had reacted quickly, he had only reached a depth of thirty meters before a terrifying wave of energy struck him. It was as if a hammer had smashed him, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.
At the same time, a strange energy struck his head. He became incredibly dizzy and almost fainted directly.
Long Chen was horrified. He endured the intense pain in his head and continued swimming downward.
Continuous explosions rang out and Long Chen’s head continued to buzz. He felt like his head might split apart.
Fuck, now I know how those fish died. They weren’t killed by direct hits, but by the vibrations of the water from its attacks.
Long Chen once more reached the bottom of the lake, feeling like his head might split open. This time it had really been too dangerous. If he had lost consciousness, it would have been all too likely for him to have died.
“This is no solution… the Barbaric Wind Beast wants to kill me and definitely won’t leave this place. I have to think of a way to get out of here.”
He began to swim over to the other shore. The part of the shore he chose to go to was like a steep cliff. It was still extremely deep here and as long as he didn’t swim up, he still wouldn’t be noticed.
However, Long Chen didn’t dare climb ashore. The lake might be three thousand miles wide, but that distance was nothing to the terrifying Barbaric Wind Beast.
With its speed and its control over wind energy, it would easily be able to run across the water. These three thousand miles were no obstruction to it.
I guess I can only use this clumsy method.
Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength spread out and a golden page appeared in front of him. He began to cut through the rock. He wanted to cut a tunnel that stretched far away enough from here that it was out of the Barbaric Wind Beast’s line of sight.
Although this method was a bit clumsy, Long Chen was unable to think of a better solution. It wasn’t as if he could try to compete in terms of patience.
Magical Beasts had shocking lifespans. A year was nothing to them. However, Long Chen would be killed if he waited for a whole year.
So, he didn’t dare compete with it in terms of patience. He still needed to go looking for more opportunities for himself. He could sense that the mysterious feeling of something summoning him was growing more intense. That should be the greatest opportunity for him.
He had no idea what this golden page was made of. It was as thin as paper, but when he used Spiritual Strength to control it, it was capable of piercing iron like it was mud. Its sharpness was terrifying.
The golden page cut through this rock like a sharp blade cutting through tofu. In just a couple of breaths’ time, a channel thick enough for him had been cut into the rock.
Long Chen did this all very carefully. He replaced the rock behind him as he went. If he made too big of a movement, then it would be noticed by the Barbaric Wind Beast.
However, Long Chen was pleasantly surprised to find that after he had excavated just a few hundred meters, he actually managed to connect to a natural underground cave.
And the best thing about it was that he could feel wind within the cave. In other words, this cave had to be connected to the surface.
He sensed th
e wind and began walking with it. Generally, it was colder underground than the surface, so the wind would usually blow from underground to the surface.
In less than six hours of wandering underground, Long Chen finally saw light ahead. He was filled with an incomparable sensation of freedom.
He carefully went to the edge of the cave and used his divine sense to scout the surroundings. Only when Long Chen confirmed that this wasn’t near the lake did he dare walk out.
He realized he had come out from halfway up a mountain. He hastily concealed his aura and snuck his way to the top of the mountain.
As he had expected, he hadn’t gone far.
From the top of the mountain, he could see the lake that was now over two hundred miles away. The Barbaric Wind Beast was still closely staring into the lake.
Hehe, just keep guarding here. I’ll be leaving first.
Although Long Chen knew he no longer needed to be so careful here, he had truly been scared by the Barbaric Wind Beast.
He carefully crept away. Only when he was two mountains further away did he finally relax.
Over these past few days of being chased by the Barbaric Wind Beast, Long Chen might have appeared relaxed, but in truth, his nerves had been constantly stretched taut. Even now that he had shaken off the Barbaric Wind Beast, he still almost felt like its huge head would come up from behind and swallow him at any moment.
Being chased by a terrifying fifth rank Magical Beast was practically a nightmare. If it had been any other person, then even if they managed to survive after being chased for that long, they probably would have had a mental collapse.
Now that he was further away, Long Chen began to increase his speed. When he was finally tens of thousands of miles away, he finally allowed himself to completely relax. He found a hidden area to rest.
His mental strain far surpassed the exhaustion of his body. Long Chen found a cave and summoned out Little Snow. With Little Snow guarding him, he slept deeply while lying on Little Snow’s side.
Even Tendon Transformation experts needed to sleep. That allowed them to relax in the face of the pressure they were under. Long Chen slept soundly for three whole days before finally opening his eyes, feeling completely refreshed.
“Little Snow, enter the spiritual space. We’ll work together to make it bigger.”
Long Chen needed to increase the size of his spiritual space. Originally, three thousand meters was more than enough for Little Snow. But with the addition of the Wind Spirit Crystal, there were now terrifying gales surging around in his spiritual space.
Although there were no signs that it would cause the spiritual space to collapse for the moment, it was possible that it would pose a threat in the future. So now that he had escaped from the Barbaric Wind Beast’s chase, Long Chen was planning on settling this matter. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to put his heart at ease.
Once he put Little Snow in his spiritual space, Long Chen used his Spiritual Strength to communicate with him. “I want to increase the size of the spiritual space. I’ll be using the Wind Spirit Crystal’s energy to evenly expand it. Little Snow, you do your best to try to spread the Wind Spirit Crystal’s energy evenly throughout the space.”
“Aowu!”
Long Chen nodded. Little Snow was still growing smarter. He was easily on the level of a human and capable of comprehending such things.
“I’m starting. Don’t be nervous.”
Long Chen took a deep breath. His mind-sea shook, and his Spiritual Strength began to circulate.
Within Long Chen’s boundless mind-sea, there was a small sphere that was practically just a speck of dust in this space. That was his spiritual space.
Ordinary cultivators were unable to expand their spiritual space. They would normally have to destroy the original one to create a brand new spiritual space.
As a person’s Spiritual Strength grew stronger, it would allow them to create larger and more stable spiritual spaces. However, it would exhaust far more time. It could easily take months, and Long Chen didn’t have that much time.
So Long Chen was planning on loosening the restrictions of his spiritual space and then borrowing the Wind Spirit Crystal’s energy to slowly expand it like slowly blowing a bubble.
In order to do this, there were two requirements. One was that there needed to be energy inside the spiritual space that was evenly expanding it. The other was that the owner’s Spiritual Strength had to have reached an abnormal level. Otherwise, there was a risk of the spiritual space exploding. However, this wasn’t anything difficult for Long Chen and Little Snow.
Three days later, the spiritual space in Long Chen’s mind-sea had reached a width of thirty thousand meters. Long Chen gave Little Snow a thumbs-up. Little Snow’s control had been perfect, and there had been no danger the entire time.
Long Chen adjusted himself slightly. He finally took off the baby mask and revealed his face. He would reveal his real face to the world.
Although that would draw over countless people wanting to kill him, he had already made his decision. In the future, he would not run from those situations. If you want to kill me, then come. I’ll welcome you at any time.
Looking at the map, he saw that not far from this place was a forest. A red warning marker was drawn over it.
“The Forest of Darkness.”
Long Chen smiled. Forests definitely had various kinds of precious medicinal ingredients. He definitely had to take a look.
He began to travel in its direction. After just a couple hundred miles, the vegetation started to become increasingly dense.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s divine sense noticed three figures in an open space, and a pleasantly surprised expression appeared on his face.
“I thought I’d have to search everywhere for you. But instead, you appear in front of me like this, hehe!”
Chapter 354 I Guess I’ve Finally Caught You
The Forest of Darkness was marked in red, indicating it was an extremely dangerous area.
It spread for millions of miles, and it was extremely gloomy. Adding on the dense vegetation that concealed all kinds of unknown Magical Beasts, a person might lose their life there at any moment.
The Jiuli secret realm had several well-known danger areas. The Forest of Darkness was said to be even more dangerous than the Misty Mountain Valleys.
That was because the Misty Mountain Valleys were simply filled with a terrifyingly thick mist. As long as you didn’t enter deeply into that mist, the danger level wasn’t necessarily high.
However, the Forest of Darkness was different. It looked like just an ordinary forest, but there were countless vicious beasts and poisonous insects hidden within it. Perhaps a single ant would be able to easily kill a Tendon Transformation expert.
All these fatal threats were hidden in places you couldn’t even see. Those threats might come out and take your life at any moment.
You could defend against dangers you could see. They weren’t dangerous. But the unseen dangers were the most frightening. By the time you realized you were in a perilous situation, you would already be dead.
However, the Forest of Darkness was extremely vast, and it was said there were countless relics from ancient times, as well as countless medicinal ingredients. In fact, it was said that there had been people who had obtained an unaging medicine.
Once someone consumed it, it was said they would never grow older, allowing them to maintain their youthful appearance. Even up to the day you died, you would never age. That was a treasure countless female cultivators would go mad for.
There were also legends that people had obtained heaven-defying treasures that were able to promote the level of a person’s Spirit Root. There were also stories of spirit medicines that were capable of roving around the forest. However, the best ones must be the legends that people had obtained immortal grass. Just a single whiff of it was supposed to allow someone to shed their mortal body.
In short, there were all kinds of legends a
nd myths. But even though people knew these legends were exaggerated, they still caused people to go a bit crazy.
All the various large sects classified this as one of the top important places of the secret realm. So despite its fearful reputation, there were still countless experts who risked their lives to go there.
As for Long Chen, he had only just approached the fringes of the Forest of Darkness when he encountered three people. One of them was blocking the other two from leaving.
“I’ll say it again. Hand over your spatial rings and then scram.”
Long Chen’s eyes began to glow. That person was Jiang Yifan.
Previously, back when Yin Luo had chased him down and heavily injured him, it was this bastard who had taken advantage of it and almost taken his life. If it hadn’t been for that mysterious woman, he would have died to him.
Facing Jiang Yifan were two ordinary core disciples. Long Chen didn’t recognize their robes, and so they were probably from some unremarkable small sect.
These two were completely suppressed by Jiang Yifan’s aura.
“We’re all members of the Righteous path! You’re a powerful Chosen, but you’re making it hard on two ordinary disciples. Are you not afraid of ruining your reputation?”
“Now that you say that, you’re absolutely correct. Then for my reputation, I can only sacrifice the two of you.”
Jiang Yifan suddenly shouted icily, and his powerful aura exploded out. A palm smashed towards the two of them.
These two were just ordinary core disciples. In front of Jiang Yifan, they were unable to do anything. Just that single palm made them unable to move. They could only watch in horror as Jiang Yifan’s palm approached.
“Bastard, you definitely won’t have a good death!”
In front of that absolute power disparity, the two of them were filled with despair. One of them used his full strength just to be able to open his mouth and curse Jiang Yifan.
Jiang Yifan sneered, and his palm didn’t hesitate. He didn’t have any misgivings about killing disciples from smaller sects with no power.