by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Looking at that blood-colored saber that was stabbed into the ground, Long Chen was filled with a burning fervor that made his heart itch.
Although the saber was very far, it emitted a bloody qi that seemed as if it could break apart the heavens. Just from that chilling feeling, it had to be a practically divine weapon.
Furthermore, Long Chen was a master at using the saber. To just leave such a precious saber lying there all alone made him feel worse than being killed.
So, despite knowing it was very dangerous, Long Chen still wanted to try. However, the many skeletons also gave him the chills. So he begged Yue Xiaoqian not to further attack his already shaken confidence.
Buzz.
“No good, three Two-Winged Devilmen were alarmed at the same time.” Long Chen had advanced very slowly; his goal was to target just one of the skeletons. However, the two skeletons beside it had also awoken.
“Run!”
Long Chen fled with Yue Xiaoqian. These three newly awakened Two-Winged Devilman skeletons chased after the two of them extremely quickly.
“There’s a way!” Long Chen’s eyes suddenly brightened. These three skeletons were all broken. One of them only had its upper body, so it was much slower.
As for the other two, one had no arms, while one only had one leg. Since they weren’t complete skeletons, Long Chen could come up with a way to handle them.
“Xiaoqian, you go draw away the two without both legs. We’ll handle them one by one,” said Long Chen.
“How am I supposed to draw them away?” Yue Xiaoqian was extremely nervous.
Fucking hell. Long Chen almost coughed blood. Just what level of intelligence was this? Long Chen wanted to curse her, but he endured.
“If you run up to those two skeletons, they’ll automatically be drawn towards you. You don’t need to attack them; just run around and wait for me to handle my skeleton. I will come help you after I defeat my target. Understood?” Long Chen explained it extremely simply to her. He really was afraid of this girl screwing up something simple now.
“Okay.” Yue Xiaoqian seemed to have sensed Long Chen’s dissatisfaction, so her voice contained some grievance. She slowed down, allowing two of the skeletons to approach her. And as Long Chen had said, those two immediately began to rush at her.
Yue Xiaoqian was delighted. “Long Chen, I did it!”
As for Long Chen, he had already led his skeleton further away. He had just been about to attack it when he heard her delighted voice, causing him to almost cough blood again.
If you succeeded, then you succeeded; did you have to shout so suddenly?! Just now, Long Chen had thought she had fallen into danger and been given a fright because of her shout.
This Two-Winged Devilman skeleton didn’t have its arms. Thus, a large foot came stomping at Long Chen.
With a snort, Long Chen jumped, avoiding its foot, and slashing his saber into its ankle.
Long Chen’s powerful attack had been aimed cleverly. He didn’t hit it head-on but instead used its own power to force its leg forward.
With Long Chen’s assistance, the skeleton ended up falling flat on the ground. Without any flesh, there was no way for it to maintain its balance and its head slammed into the ground. Before it could get up, Devil Decapitator was already slashing down.
Crack. Long Chen’s attack severed its neck. Long Chen wasn’t as foolish as Yue Xiaoqian. Instead of attacking the neck bone directly, he aimed for the seam between the bones.
The small cracks between bones of these Two-Winged Devilman skeletons all had something that looked like ligaments connecting them. Those ligaments weren’t as hard as the bones, and after countless years of erosion, they had already decayed. Long Chen’s attack only managed to sever its neck because he had accurately aimed it at this ligament material.
His golden page flew out, cutting at its forehead. A devil core fell to the ground.
Because the Two-Winged Devilman’s skeletons were too large and because they would always begin to move while still far away, Long Chen wasn’t able to accurately pinpoint the core.
Furthermore, controlling the golden page required him to use Spiritual Strength. That required him to split his attention. But he also didn’t dare take the Two-Winged Devilman’s attack head-on. So it was better for him to do this safely and steadily.
Gathering the devil core, Long Chen rushed over to where Yue Xiaoqian was. At the very least, she hadn’t been so stupid as to run in a straight line and end up out of his sight. She was still just running around in circles.
His golden page flew through the air, directly slashing onto the crystal core of the Two-Winged Devilman that had no legs and was crawling on the ground. At the same time, Long Chen jumped through the air, his saber slashing heavily onto the other Devilman skeleton’s waist.
Long Chen’s aim was very precise, and Devil Decapitator slashed right through the crack between two bones. The Two-Winged Devilman’s skeletons were extremely large, but being large also had its negatives. Those openings between bones were far too obvious and easy to target.
The skeleton was cut in two. Before its upper body could even budge, Long Chen had already run up its body and cut at its neck.
Its large head fell to the ground. But before it even reached the ground, a golden light shot out and another devil core fell down.
The head rolled directly in front of a stunned Yue Xiaoqian. At the same time, its devil core landed on top of her foot.
“Here.” Long Chen handed two other devil cores to Yue Xiaoqian.
Yue Xiaoqian looked at Long Chen with shook. “How did you do this?”
“How… did I do this?” Long Chen was expressionless. Did he really need to explain something so obvious?
“Ah! I got it! You used your saber to cut at the part where two bones meet. That way they’ll lose their ability to move, right?” Yue Xiaoqian suddenly grabbed Long Chen excitedly.
“Wow, you really are smart! You even managed to notice this!” praised Long Chen while being speechless inside.
“I’m not smart, you’re smart Long Chen! Why didn’t you tell me about this trick before? Then we wouldn’t need to be so scared!”
This counts as a trick? This is just common sense! Long Chen had been completely defeated by Yue Xiaoqian’s naivety.
“Let’s keep going.” Now it was Yue Xiaoqian’s turn to take the initiative. She pulled Long Chen rushing back.
“Hey, slow down! Are you trying to throw your life away?” Yue Xiaoqian was running to the pile of skeletons. In just the blink of an eye, she awoke over ten skeletons at once, making Long Chen’s face turn green with fright. He didn’t even remember to feel her soft hand pulling on him.
Having awakened this many Two-Winged Devilman skeletons, the two of them would have to flee for their lives. Long Chen was so angry, veins were bulging on his forehead.
Suddenly, Yue Xiaoqian stopped and unsheathed her sword. A bolt of lightning seemed to flash through the void.
“Lightning Sword!”
Long Chen was shocked to see that with a wave of Yue Xiaoqian’s sword, thousands of rays of light appeared through the void, flying towards those Devilman skeletons.
BOOM!
Those rays of light all accurately landed on the spaces between the bones. Although individually they weren’t very powerful, with that many of them, this attack easily sliced apart those ligaments, turning those ten-plus skeletons into a pile of scattered bones.
“Long Chen, I did it, I did it!” Yue Xiaoqian was incomparably excited that her attack had been effective.
Long Chen was dumbfounded as he lifelessly looked at the skulls on the ground. He was completely speechless.
He had managed to see her attack clearly just now. That sword-light hadn’t been made of Sword Qi, but some kind of energy he had never seen before.
With a single wave of her sword, over ten Two-Winged Devilman skeletons had fallen apart. Just what level of power had her attack reached? Furthermore, thous
ands of rays of light had all accurately landed on the seams between bones. Just what abnormal level of control did that require? Long Chen had finally experienced just how terrifying Yue Xiaoqian was.
Her attack strength and her intelligence were not even comparable. This was Long Chen’s first time seeing such a monster.
“Long Chen!” Yue Xiaoqian pulled on him. Only now did he recover from his shock. At the same time, he could feel two warm hands pulling on him. “Hurry and take out the devil cores.”
She had only just said that when she realized she was holding Long Chen’s hand in her excitement. She hastily let go in panic, and although he couldn’t see her face, Long Chen knew she was blushing. That was because even her ears had turned red.
He involuntarily laughed. Without saying anything, he used his golden page to cut off their devil cores. The two of them continued using this method to defeat their enemies.
During a single run, they handled ten to thirty-plus Devilman skeletons. With just a single attack, Yue Xiaoqian was able to handle them all. Her attacks were incredibly sharp.
After a full day, Long Chen didn’t even remember how many of them they had destroyed. In any case, despite her veil, Yue Xiaoqian’s smile was becoming more and more bewitching, and her eyes had turned into two crescent moons.
He roughly estimated that they had destroyed at least four hundred Two-Winged Devilman skeletons. In other words, over four hundred devil cores had entered Yue Xiaoqian’s pocket.
BOOM!
The final wave of thirty-plus skeletons was slashed apart, and they gathered their devil cores. Now the only thing remaining was that bronze-colored skeleton.
Looking at the blood-colored saber that was stabbed into the ground, a fire burned in Long Chen’s heart. The two of them slowly approached it.
But suddenly, that blood-colored saber quivered, and a biting-cold killing intent instantly enveloped the two of them.
Chapter 400 Devil Shakes the Sky
That blood-colored saber quivered, and a biting-cold killing intent instantly enveloped the two of them.
What shocked Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian the most was that an aura suddenly surged out of the bronze-colored skeleton. That was an aura only a living person could have.
The blood-colored saber was pulled out of the ground. Bloody light filled the space, bringing with it endless killing intent that instantly wrapped around the two of them.
They felt as if they had fallen into an icehouse. That saber had yet to even arrive, but the two of them could already smell a strong scent of death.
That was a fatal saber. That Saber Qi filled all of heaven and earth. There was no way to avoid it. The first thing Long Chen did was push Yue Xiaoqian out of the way.
At the same time, a star appeared within his eyes. All his energy surged out crazily, his aura soaring to its peak in an instant. This was the strongest attack Long Chen had experienced up to this point. He had to use his full strength.
“Split the Heavens!” Long Chen shouted. A saber-image extended out of Devil Decapitator, slashing onto the skeleton in a courageous and desperate manner.
BOOM!
The ground, which was harder than steel here, exploded, shooting out everywhere. The instant their weapons collided, Devil Decapitator shattered. As for Long Chen, he crazily vomited blood and was sent flying back.
“Long Chen!” Yue Xiaoqian quickly shot over to catch him.
“Idiot, why aren’t you running yet?!” Seeing that Yue Xiaoqian hadn’t taken that chance to instantly flee, Long Chen furiously cursed her.
“You’re the idiot”! Yue Xiaoqian’s eyes reddened and she retorted, “You clearly know you can’t beat it. Since you wouldn’t abandon me to escape, I won’t abandon you to escape either.”
Long Chen was speechless. He was surprised that this girl had such a strong sense of loyalty. However, this skeleton was too terrifying. “Run!”
He had no time to argue with her. The two of them fled for their lives.
“You clearly knew this skeleton’s origin. Why didn’t you warn me that it would awaken?” complained Long Chen.
“The barbarian race disappeared in the ancient era! The fact I even knew its origin is already not bad. How could I possibly know so many details?” Yue Xiaoqian felt a bit wronged to have all the blame piled on her.
The two of them hadn’t fled far when the skeleton caught up to them. It was incredibly fast.
“Lightning Sword!” Yue Xiaoqian once more used her attack. Thousands of rays of sword-light slashed out at that skeleton, aiming for its joints.
But with a wave of its saber, terrifying Saber Qi exploded out, shaking heaven and earth, easily destroying Yue Xiaoqian’s attack.
“It actually retained its battle consciousness!”
Both Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian’s expressions changed. Back when this skeleton was alive, it had definitely been a terrifying figure. This also seemed to prove that those Two-Winged Devilmen were also killed by it.
Buzz. It once more slashed out with its saber, locking the two of them in place. This time the attack was even more terrifying than last time, and it was as if all of heaven and earth had solidified. The abyss was constantly shuddering, and it was as if the end of the world had come.
“Long Chen, I can only block a single one of its attacks. You should know what you need to do.” Yue Xiaoqian suddenly clenched her teeth and pushed out her hand. Long Chen was sent flying out by some bizarre energy, escaping that terrifying lock.
“What kind of joke is that?!” Long Chen was both startled and furious. Yue Xiaoqian was planning on sacrificing herself so that Long Chen could escape.
Suddenly, an illusory image appeared behind Yue Xiaoqian, one that looked like a heavenly immortal. At the same time, countless runes lit up atop Yue Xiaoqian’s body, and all of heaven and earth began to quiver.
“Ancestral bloodline, hear your descendant’s call! Grant me my bloodline power!”
Divine light shone out of Yue Xiaoqian’s eyes. Following her words, an incredibly powerful aura began to surge out of her, one that caused the ground around her to crumble.
Golden lines began to appear over her forehead. As they gradually condensed together, they formed a single word: Devil!
As soon as that Devil character appeared, a powerful energy formed a huge pillar of light that surged into the clouds, causing heaven and earth to shudder.
Long Chen was stupefied by that energy. That energy wasn’t spiritual qi, nor was it any other energy he had ever seen before.
As her aura soared, Yue Xiaoqian’s veil broke apart, revealing a flawlessly beautiful face.
But before Long Chen could even get a clear look, Yue Xiaoqian raised her sword. Following this movement, all the energy from every direction converged together.
At the same time as Yue Xiaoqian moved, so did the illusory figure behind her. A sword appeared in its hand, and it followed her movements identically.
Dense lines appeared in her pupils, and her aura rose to a peak.
“Devil Heart Slash!”
Her sword merged with the sword of the illusory figure behind her, causing her aura to explosively rise once more as her attack slashed towards the skeleton.
BOOOM!!!
Long Chen only just saw Yue Xiaoqian’s sword collide with the skeleton’s saber when he was struck by a terrifying qi wave.
He felt as if a huge hammer had slammed into his chest, and he shot back like a cannonball smashing into a cliff. That terrifying force caused half the cliff to collapse, and Long Chen felt as if all his bones had broken.
But despite his pain, his gaze was still focused on that battle. He saw that Yue Xiaoqian also flew back after that world-shaking exchange.
After that one attack, the Devil character on her forehead disappeared, and her aura instantly fell. That one attack had used up all her energy.
As for the skeleton, it was forced back hundreds of meters. It had stabbed its saber into the ground, carving out a lo
ng ditch. It had borrowed the power of the ground to stabilize itself.
Then it stamped on the ground and shot forward at Yue Xiaoqian. Even though she had used a secret art to overdraft her energy, her terrifying attack had been unable to harm the skeleton in the slightest, and a saber now came slashing down on her.
Her body was no longer listening to her. She could only watch as that saber came slashing down on her.
Suddenly, two arms wrapped around her and brought her rolling to the side. The blood-colored saber just missed their heads.
A ditch ten miles long was carved onto the ground. As for Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian, they tumbled back further into the distance.
Yue Xiaoqian had thought her death to be certain. She hadn’t expected that Long Chen hadn’t fled. But although she was moved, she also felt sad. The fact that he had stayed behind didn’t give her any hope. Instead, he would just be accompanying her as they died.
She hadn’t expected that amongst all the bad people her mother had told her about, there was a good person like Long Chen who was willing to sacrifice his life for her.
“I’m sorry Long Chen. I’ve implicated you.” The two of them tumbled into the distance. Yue Xiaoqian was quietly sobbing into his chest.
“What nonsense is that? If it weren’t for my greed, you’d have long since left. I’m the one who implicated you.” Long Chen tightly held Yue Xiaoqian. The current Yue Xiaoqian was no longer some expert, but a pitiable and weak girl.
Long Chen really was regretful. It was his greed that had pulled him and Yue Xiaoqian to the point of despair.
Just now when Yue Xiaoqian had pushed him away, he really had had a chance to flee. But if he had actually done it, then he wouldn’t be Long Chen. He absolutely refused to let a woman sacrifice herself to block danger for him.
“Long Chen, we’re about to die. I’m glad I get to die with a good person like you.” Yue Xiaoqian suddenly felt a burst of warmth.
“What nonsense is that? I still have many more things to do, so I can’t die. And since I can’t die, I won’t die. You just rest. I’ll see whether I can find some way to cut it down. Lend me your sword.” Long Chen comforted Yue Xiaoqian, but he had already rushed over to the skeleton before finishing his words.