by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Long Chen immediately understood what he was planning. Yin Luo was truly patient. He was actually using this extremely clumsy method to get rid of them. As time passed, fewer Metal Devouring Insects flew out of the cave. Two hours later, they had all been knocked unconscious.
Yin Luo finally sighed. These Metal Devouring Insects were very powerful, and being bitten by one would be extremely painful, even for him.
To have to constantly focus and strike each Metal Devouring Insect one by one hard enough that they passed out had been extremely tiring after all this time.
Even Yin Luo felt exhausted after doing this for hours. But when he looked at the Qilin Fruit Tree, he felt as if it had all been worth it.
The Qilin Fruit was also known as the Qilin Sacred Fruit. A matured Qilin Fruit could be used to refine the Qilin Luck Pill that was able to increase the quality of a person’s Spirit Root. That was something that had already disappeared from the outside world. There were only some recordings of it in some ancient texts.
Originally, Yin Luo had seen three Chosen enter this basin from a distance. Seeing those three Chosen together had piqued his curiosity, and he had followed from behind.
From their words, he had learned that one of them had found a priceless treasure and had invited the other two to help him obtain it.
But one of them had used some unknown method to detect that there was someone following them, and he had turned to attack.
However, when they saw that it was Yin Luo, the three of them had instantly fled. Yin Luo hadn’t cared to chase them down. But then when he saw that the treasure was the Qilin Fruit Tree, he had changed plans and charged after the three of them.
Unfortunately, he hadn’t expected that one of them would be able to escape from him by using some secret technique. As a result, while halfway to his death, he had ended up drawing over Long Chen.
Yin Luo walked up to the tree. It was surprisingly growing out of a rock that looked like a flower pot.
“That took quite the effort.” Yin Luo smiled slightly. He was filled with excitement and was just about to gather the Qilin Fruit Tree when a voice rang out from behind him.
“It took quite the effort from me too.”
Yin Luo hastily turned around.
Pow.
A large hand slapped across his face. Yin Luo flew back.
After knocking Yin Luo back with a slap, Long Chen couldn’t help but celebrate. His divine face-slapping technique was truly unrivaled beneath the heavens. He had actually ended up succeeding.
It had to be known that an expert like Yin Luo would be able to sense the slightest killing intent or murderous intention. The only technique Long Chen could have used in this case was his face-slap.
And he had ended up succeeding. Without saying anything else, he directly absorbed the Qilin Fruit Tree along with the rock it was growing out of into his life ring.
Long Chen thanked his luck that he didn’t keep his life ring with his other spatial rings on his finger.
Normally, he would keep a few spatial rings on his fingers so it was convenient for taking out and putting in things.
But spatial rings were not so stable, and if they broke, the items inside them would be lost in the chaotic flow of space, forever disappearing.
“LONG CHEN!!!”
Yin Luo hastily stabilized himself after being slapped flying. Turning back, his fury erupted. He had turned back just in time to see Long Chen gather the Qilin Fruit Tree.
That made Yin Luo feel like his eye sockets would tear apart, and he was so furious his hair stood on end, his eyes looking like they might spit flames at any moment. He had worked bitterly for hours, but at the final critical moment, his treasure had been stolen by someone else. Yin Luo felt like he might explode.
“Hey, don’t be so petty! I didn’t even bring up how you chased me down last time. This little sapling can just count as your apology to me,” said Long Chen magnanimously.
“Hand over the tree!” Yin Luo roared furiously. His aura completely exploded out, his long hair beginning to dance in the air, looking like some kind of devil god. His terrifying pressure instantly destroyed the trees around him.
Yin Luo truly was infuriated. That Qilin Fruit Tree was a priceless treasure. Treasures that could upgrade the quality of a person’s Spirit Root were practically heaven-defying.
His spear smashed towards Long Chen. The power behind that spear caused heaven and earth to change color. His aura exploded into its peak, making Yin Luo even more terrifying.
In the face of Yin Luo’s seemingly heaven-encompassing spear, Long Chen put away his smile. Devil Decapitator began to release golden light into the sky, and waves of energy began to soar out. He slashed out.
BOOM!
The ground exploded, and huge boulders blew away. The forest had been turned into a plain for miles. A terrifying wave of qi surged out.
“You aren’t embarrassed to get angry? The one who should be angry is me. Last time, when you chased me down, you almost got me killed in the end. This time it’ll be my turn.”
Thinking back to how miserably he had fled back then, and how he had almost ended up dying to Jiang Yifan because of him, Long Chen’s fury erupted. Devil Decapitator cut across the void, slashing at Yin Luo like a bolt of lightning.
BOOM!
Yin Luo’s spear blocked Long Chen, and a sinister smile appeared on his face. “Then let’s completely settle our debts this time! Today, we’ll have a battle to the death!” He smashed his spear at Long Chen.
Long Chen ducked to dodge Yin Luo’s spear. Devil Decapitator followed along the side of a spear to cut at Yin Luo’s fingers. Yin Luo could only first take a step back, creating some distance between them.
“Then let’s have a decisive fight to the death. Last time you took advantage of my realm being too low. Now that I’m no longer restrained by being a major realm below you, I’ll break that myth of you being unrivaled within the same realm!” Long Chen raised Devil Decapitator to rest on his shoulder.
“Hmph, what arrogant boasting. I, Yin Luo, have killed countless people in my lifetime. My reputation is something created through my actual skills. Do you think I’m like you idiots from the Righteous path, raising people like greenhouse flowers? What an enormous joke. Today you’ll definitely die. However, the scenery here is pretty nice, so it’s not a bad burial ground. I guess you’re pretty lucky!” Yin Luo raised his spear, his aura constantly rising.
Space began to buzz, as a powerful aura shot out.
As Long Chen had expected, Yin Luo had truly reached the peak of Tendon Transformation. He was just a single step from reaching the Bone Forging realm.
Long Chen sighed sorrowfully inside. As he had thought, not all geniuses were created from just boasting. That was especially true of those experts from the Corrupt path. They were all experts who had managed to charge through endless cruelty and slaughter. Whether it was their cultivation talent or their combat abilities, they could not be compared to.
Long Chen took a deep breath. His FengFu Star began to slowly circulate, and a vast, almost ocean-like spiritual qi poured into his body.
His robes fluttered and his long hair danced. Long Chen pointed Devil Decapitator at Yin Luo.
“Come! Let’s have a decisive battle to the death!”
Chapter 376 Once More Fighting Yin Luo
“Come! Let’s have a decisive battle to the death!”
Long Chen’s roar shook the nine heavens. His divine ring once more appeared behind him, and endless light pierced through the clouds.
Boundless qi waves continuously battered the blue dome of the sky. A terrifying aura erupted out, one that could destroy the world and cause gods and devils to quiver.
“FengFu Battle Armor!”
BOOM!
The ground collapsed, the mountains shaking. A star appeared in Long Chen’s eyes, and he now seemed like a devil god that was causing heaven and earth to constantly rumble.
Meng Qi and t
he others who were guarding the exit were all horrified. Even from hundreds of miles away, even though they were separated by huge mountains, that terrifying pressure still caused their hearts to tremble.
If Chu Yao wasn’t absolutely sure that this was Long Chen’s aura, then Meng Qi and Lu Fang-er would have refused to believe it.
Although Lu Fang-er had seen Long Chen attack, it had seemed like he was just defeating children, and he hadn’t used his full strength.
But now the current Long Chen seemed like a divinity of the world. That kind of aura caused the world to tremble and all living things to lower their heads.
Long Chen and Yin Luo had already fought each other twice, and Long Chen was well aware of Yin Luo’s strength. He no longer needed to use any probing blows against him. He immediately erupted with his full strength.
For a terrifying opponent like Yin Luo, who possessed extremely rich battle experience, it would be useless for Long Chen to try any tricky moves or other things he had gained through his battle experience. Unlike when he had fought against Yin Wushuang, if he wanted to fight Yin Luo, the only way was to use true power.
Long Chen roared, his voice like spring thunder shaking the heavens. He raised Devil Decapitator into the air, and a terrifying Saber Qi split open the void, slashing down on Yin Luo who was a dozen meters away. “KILL!”
“Hmph, then let me see just how many of my blows you can receive now that you’ve advanced to Tendon Transformation. Netherworld Possession!”
A huge illusory phantom appeared behind Yin Luo. It was the same figure that had appeared back in the Righteous and Corrupt battle.[1]
However, this time, that illusory phantom was even larger and even more solid. It looked just like a devil god, emitting a fiendish aura.
When Yin Luo merged with that phantom, a terrifying wave of qi soared into the sky. He snorted and smashed his spear at Long Chen’s attacking saber.
BOOM!
An earth-shaking collision. It was like the collision of two meteors. The land shook, and the closest cliff to them directly collapsed. Over half of that huge cliff, which was miles high, fell to the ground, countless boulders falling.
However, neither Long Chen nor Yin Luo cared. They both roared and crazily attacked each other.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
Each time their weapons collided, it caused a terrifying explosion. Those huge boulders that had just fallen were now crushed to smithereens.
The two of them were both top experts, and under their full strength attacks, the ground was continuously crumbling, and the surrounding mountains began to cave in. It was like the end of the world.
BOOM! With a final collision, one of the cliffs was unable to bear the powerful impact, and the majority of it collapsed.
Furthermore, many huge boulders fell off it and began to smash towards the two of them like meteorites.
BANG!
The two of them were struck by a huge boulder, but after a moment, that huge boulder suddenly exploded. Countless rock fragments flew away from their bodies. The spear and saber were still crazily fighting.
Continuous explosions rang out. Dust soared into the air, eventually soaring out of the basin in a thick pillar into the sky. Even people thousands of miles away could see it.
The ground was constantly shuddering, and space was rumbling. The two of them fought for two hours without their auras declining in the slightest. In fact, their auras only grew stronger over time, becoming more and more majestic.
BOOM!
With another earth-shaking collision, both of them were knocked back dozens of meters. Long Chen’s heart was pounding wildly.
Yin Luo was too terrifying. If he hadn’t advanced to Tendon Transformation and increased his stores of spiritual qi by tens of times, he would have long since become exhausted.
But even so, he could still sense that his spiritual qi was beginning to run out. He couldn’t continue like this.
He was truly shocked. But Yin Luo was even more shocked. His Netherworld Possession was a secret technique from ancient times. It allowed his combat ability to soar to a shocking level, but it was also equally exhausting.
Having fought intensely for two hours, he had been unable to suppress Long Chen in the slightest. That profoundly shocked him.
Up until now, Yin Luo had fought with who knew how many experts. Even Bone Forging Elders were unable to fight against him anymore. But Long Chen was able to. Furthermore, his realm was even lower than his.
Although it could be considered the same realm, he was at the peak of Tendon Transformation, while Long Chen was in the early Tendon Transformation realm. The difference between them was still extremely large.
That caused Yin Luo to feel a sense of defeat for the first time. At the same time, his killing intent grew even denser. He definitely couldn’t leave Long Chen alive.
His spear shook, and a strange energy soared out. A formless aura caused heaven and earth to quiver, and the energy of heaven and earth began to gather around him.
“Hmph, you’re finally activating your Xiantian power? Yin Luo, you really have become depraved!” sneered Long Chen.
“Nonsense, this Xiantian power is a part of my power! It’s not depraved.”
“Whether or not it’s a part of your own power is something you know best. Do you really need to try and deceive yourself?” Long Chen made his preparations. All his energy was circulating.
Yin Luo’s expression turned chilly. Long Chen was insulting him. This Xiantian power was fundamentally not his, but something his sect had bestowed upon him.
For him, his sect had sacrificed a Xiantian expert, sealing that expert’s Xiantian essence blood into his body. He was to refine it, and it would become a powerful assistance as he grew stronger.
It truly couldn’t be counted as his power. However, Yin Luo still sneered, “Resources are also a kind of power, so stop spouting so much nonsense. Today, I’ll definitely take your life.”
His spear surged forward. Endless energy from hundreds of miles around began to surge towards Yin Luo. A terrifying aura locked Long Chen in place.
This wasn’t his first time encountering the Xiantian power of being able to control natural energy. However, this time, Yin Luo’s control over the natural energy was clearly much more refined.
That meant another portion of his Xiantian essence blood had been refined. His control over natural energy was only growing greater over time.
Taking a deep breath, Long Chen circulated his FengFu Star to its max, and energy surged through nine acupuncture points before entering Devil Decapitator.
Countless lines lit up along Devil Decapitator. Although a large portion of the blade was covered in notches, it still didn’t affect its fierce aura.
As Long Chen poured in more and more spiritual qi, it was like a stream became a rushing ocean. His nine acupuncture points were pushed to their peak.
This was the first time Long Chen was using Split the Heavens since advancing to Tendon Transformation. Terrifying Saber Qi was cycling around Devil Decapitator, emitting a blinding light.
“DIE!” Just at this moment, Yin Luo finished condensing all his natural energy and shouted. His spear pierced through space, stabbing at Long Chen.
Long Chen had also finished storing energy. Devil Decapitator was letting out a constant rumble in the air. It appeared like a berserk Magical Beast thirsting for battle.
“Split the Heavens!”
BOOM!!!
The spear tip collided with the saber-light. For dozens of miles, the ground intensely shuddered. Terrifying astral wind unfurled, and mountains collapsed. Both Long Chen and Yin Luo were sent flying by the other person’s force.
At the same time, the two of them vomited a mouthful of blood. Before either could react, they were smashed by the boulders falling from the collapsing mountains.
Rocks exploded as Yin Luo jumped out of the boulders. His robes were badly damaged, and his hair was a complete mess. His spear-wielding ha
nd was drenched in blood, appearing extremely miserable.
After jumping out from the boulders, Yin Luo didn’t see Long Chen’s figure. He suddenly felt a chill in his heart and threw himself to the side.
BOOM! A huge, violet lightning ball exploded beside Yin Luo’s body. That terrifying energy created a huge ditch in the ground, a ditch that was so deep that the bottom couldn’t even be seen.
Although Yin Luo had made the right choice to dodge, he still hadn’t been fast enough. The terrifying wave of energy struck him, causing him to vomit more blood.
Before their final collision, Long Chen had already made his plan. Yin Luo was too powerful. The two of their strengths were not much different, so it would be difficult for either one of them to defeat the other. To kill their opponent was just a fantasy.
But now after using an absolute full power attack, both of their strengths had sharply declined. It wasn’t possible to kill the other through absolute strength like this, but it was possible depending on what strategy you chose.
After that huge attack, Long Chen had hidden himself below the boulders and summoned the thunderforce in his body. After constant compression, he had let out his deadly attack.
Unfortunately, Yin Luo was a veteran of hundreds of battles. The instant Long Chen had released his attack, Yin Luo had sensed it and dodged it. He was only struck by the shockwave.
But even so, Yin Luo vomited three large mouthfuls of blood. After all, Long Chen’s thunderforce wasn’t from ordinary lightning, but from tribulation lightning. It contained a boundless destructive will.
The destructive ability of this lightning was far too shocking. Even though Yin Luo had dodged and raised his guard, he was still heavily injured by the shockwave. His whole body became numb.
“Shit!”
Suddenly, a golden page silently slashed out at Yin Luo’s neck. Yin Luo felt his hair stand on end and threw himself to the side.
The golden page slashed through Yin Luo’s neck. Unfortunately, it had strayed from the intended target and only cut through a portion of his neck. It hadn’t completely decapitated him.