by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
In this world, it was practically unheard of for someone to fight across realms against a Celestial. If Long Chen’s battle accomplishments ended up becoming public, they would definitely shake the entire cultivation world.
Not only was Long Chen able to battle across realms against a Celestial, but he had almost killed one. If a Celestial was a freak, then Long Chen was a freak amongst freaks.
It could be said that this battle counted as a victory, but he knew that his win was only because of luck. Yin Wushang was definitely feeling irritated now.
His defeat had been entirely because of his conceit. Long Chen was sure he had even more powerful techniques, but he hadn’t used them.
In the beginning, when Yin Wushang had been shocked by his abilities, he mostly felt that it was a blow to his dignity and had wanted to use the grandest method to crush him to regain his honor. That was a Celestial’s pride and arrogance.
But for that pride, Yin Wushang had ended up paying a harsh price. If he had treated Long Chen seriously, then Long Chen would never have had a chance to release his combination wind flame attack with Little Snow.
That attack’s power had already surpassed the level of a Heaven class Battle Skill, as the flame energy did not come from a beast flame, but an Earth Flame.
If Long Chen had not held back a portion of its energy, Yin Wushang would have been turned to ash by the attack.
In that scenario, he himself wouldn’t have been able to block it either, and he would also have been incinerated.
The fact that Yin Wushang had spent an ocean’s worth of spiritual qi to activate his Ancient Blood Divine Shield and still almost been killed was enough to prove how terrifying that attack was.
It was only because of this that Yin Wushang had run out of spiritual qi and been injured. After that, he was unable to use any of his more powerful techniques and thus was almost killed.
It could be said that Long Chen’s victory had been extremely lucky. That allowed him to see just how terrifying Celestials were.
“Little Snow, spit out a wind blade to cut a ditch in the ground.”
Opening his mouth, a wind blade shot out of it, creating a hundred-mile gorge that was several meters deep and wide.
Long Chen then had Little Snow run within that gorge. The terrain here was a desert, and the ground was very soft. But there was very little wind here to cover up tracks. By cutting open this gorge, his footprints would be hidden as the sand flowed back in.
The next thing he had Little Snow do was spit out multiple wind blades from one location, creating multiple paths that would mislead any trackers.
Furthermore, within the desert, everything blended together. They would only be able to tell the path was wrong when it was just a few dozen miles from ending.
Now, any trackers would have to split up and wait to reconvene before they could continue chasing.
There was no solution to this game. They would have to split up, leaving behind perhaps one person to wait for them back at the center. That one person wouldn’t have to play the game.
After fleeing for half a day, Long Chen didn’t even know how many of those split up points he had set up. But he estimated it would have to be numbered in the hundreds.
Little Snow’s wind blades were perfect weapons for cutting open gorges, and it basically cost him no time to set them up.
He was very worried about pursuers. Although he hadn’t interacted with Yin Wushang much, he knew Yin Wushang was actually quite capable and sinister. He was also smart and wouldn’t give up such a good chance to kill him.
After having Little Snow set up another branching point, Long Chen took out over ten spheres from the primal chaos space. Those spheres were all around a foot in diameter, and there were dozens of small openings on them, each hole revealing a sharp arrow that gave off a chilling light.
These were Guo Ran’s inventions. He remembered that Guo Ran had given them some sort of name, but by now he had forgotten.
When he had first seen these things, he had jumped in fright. These were basically bombs. Not only were the arrows backed by extremely powerful springs that gave them a shocking penetrative power, but when they were activated, it would also cause the energy at the core of the bomb to explode. The metal casing would transform into jagged pieces that would fly out in every direction, a second wave of destruction.
Even with Long Chen’s daring, he still had to handle these things carefully, afraid of triggering them accidentally.
Burying them in the ground just deep enough to not be noticed but not deep enough to weaken them, he took out several thin strands of black silk and connected all their trigger mechanisms together. Anyone who walked within this three-meter area would end up activating the triggers.
He had already calculated the position. This place was just outside the gorge, so that when any pursuers left the gorge, they would unconsciously slow down to take a look around, and a single step in this place would trigger the bombs.
Long Chen gave the trap a quick once-over and confirmed there were no mistakes. Then, jumping over the ‘minefield’, Long Chen continued fleeing. There was a large mountain range ahead.
After traveling another two hours in the mountains, Long Chen swung his saber, and Saber Qi directly cut off a mountain several miles high.
“Get in here!” Long Chen waved his hand, directly absorbing the mountain into the primal chaos space. As soon as it entered, the countless trees and vegetation on it withered, and a vast amount of life energy poured into him.
With that nourishment, he felt his wounds slowly healing.
This time, his injuries were not the same as before. There was a suppression caused by the laws of the Heavenly Daos which made his injuries much harder to heal. That was also why Long Chen hated the Heavenly Daos so much.
Throwing out the withered mountain, Long Chen continued onward, absorbing more mountains in the primal chaos space.
Right now, the primal chaos space was only thirty miles wide and couldn’t store mountains that were any bigger. He could only go slowly.
He was like a thirsty person who had to drink his water drop by drop. But although each drop was small, it could still accumulate to a shocking amount.
“Nice, these trees are bigger!” As he rushed forward, he saw that the trees were getting even taller, and the largest tree he saw was at least a mile high. The crown of the tree was enormous, covering several miles, looking like a giant standing amongst men.
Those ordinary trees were less than half its height. Long Chen was delighted to find this tree, as larger trees were able to supply him with more life energy. He hastily began to excavate it.
It took him an incense stick’s worth of time to dig the tree out and transplant it into the primal chaos space.
“What vast life energy!”
Circulating the primal chaos bead, the life energy within the trees spread throughout his body, causing his injuries to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Excellent, even the wounds of the Heavenly Daos can be healed with enough life energy. As long as I find some more trees as big as this one, I won’t need to fear Celestials.”
Long Chen noticed that this particular huge tree was able to supply him with as much energy as all the other trees combined. However, this time, he didn’t absorb all its life energy. Once the tree leaves began to show signs of withering, he stopped. He needed to keep such huge trees.
What pleasantly surprised him was that after this absorption, his injuries had at least healed by twenty percent, and he had recovered some ability to fight.
“Oh? There’s another one here!” Long Chen couldn’t help being delighted. After a while, he found seven huge trees, and after absorbing their energy, his injuries had almost healed to eighty percent. That made him much more at ease. Strength was always the greatest guarantee of life.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s heart shook, and he looked behind and smiled. He sensed a sensation of danger that was slowly approac
hing. As expected, Yin Wushang really was unwilling to give up!
Chapter 537 Sharp Weapon
Over ten blue-robed experts were following a deep gorge in the sand. Right now, they were incredibly furious.
They were Xiantian experts from the Yin family. They had received orders from Yin Wushang to chase after Long Chen. After chasing him to this desert, they saw the gifts Long Chen had prepared for them.
After going down hundreds of different paths, they were fuming in anger, but they were also helpless. Each time they encountered those intersections, they could only split up and go to the end. One of the paths had to be the right one.
As for those on the right path, they had no choice but to slow down and wait for the others to loop back, or they would run out of people in just a few more intersections.
Amongst them were three late Xiantian experts, but all of their abilities were useless here. They could only obediently walk down each path, wasting their precious time.
When they finally arrived at the final intersection and saw that the path led them to a thick forest, they couldn’t help celebrating. They had finally escaped this damnable maze.
Without even thinking about it, they increased their speed to leave the gorge. The elder at the front slowed down to examine the distant terrain, wanting to figure out in which direction Long Chen had fled.
BOOM!
Continuous explosions rang out from beneath them. Arrows filled the air, and countless jagged pieces of metal flew, creating a net of death in the air.
Everything had happened too quickly, and they had been too close. By the time they reacted, those terrifying arrows and jagged pieces of metal had already reached them.
The sound of blades piercing through flesh rang out along with miserable screams. These Xiantian experts normally lived an easy, comfortable life, and they had long since lost their sense of danger.
Not one of them had been circulating their Xiantian power. Before they could do anything, merciless blades pierced through their bodies. Over ten Xiantian experts were instantly turned into mincemeat.
“Damn, Guo Ran’s invention is this vicious?”
Over a hundred miles away atop a high mountain, Long Chen stood on a large tree, peeking through the leaves. He managed to see everything clearly.
Long Chen had already sensed a strong hostility coming for him from a thousand miles away. He had long since found a good place to watch the show.
Seeing over ten Xiantian experts be completely exterminated, even he was dumbfounded.
“Fuck, if I had known it would be like this, I would have kept half.” Long Chen slapped himself on the leg, vexed.
Previously, he hadn’t thought this trap would have such a great effect. He had underestimated the power of Guo Ran’s invention.
At the same time, he had also overestimated his enemies’ intelligence. If a Xiantian expert didn’t circulate their Xiantian power, their physical bodies alone were unable to block such an attack.
Thinking of that, Long Chen felt great regret. He actually hadn’t calculated in his opponents’ intelligence, wasting such good things.
Looking at those broken corpses in the distance, Long Chen hesitated for a moment and then shook his head, deciding not to go pick up any spoils.
Although there were probably quite a few good things in their spatial rings, it wasn’t worth him taking the risk. Just like that, he sat on the large tree and began circulating the primal chaos bead to nourish the huge trees inside.
There were seven immense trees he had planted on the edge of the space, and then taking their size into account, Long Chen had also planted those trees’ seeds in the ground. Those seeds were already starting to germinate.
In addition to those seven original trees, the primal chaos space now had thirty-six trees that could grow to immense heights. These trees were not medicinal ingredients, and Long Chen didn’t even know what they were called.
Twenty-nine saplings were rapidly growing within the primal chaos space. Following the circulation of his two stars, the primal chaos space also circulated. After two hours, those seven original trees had already recovered from their slightly withered state.
As for the saplings, they had also grown to a height of several dozen meters. Each trunk would require three to four people to wrap around. This growth rate truly made a person speechless.
“Oh? There are more people already?”
Long Chen was in the midst of recovering his spiritual qi when he sensed something and hastily looked into the distance. He saw dozens of people had appeared around the trap he had set up.
Their robes were different from the people at the beginning. The elder at the front was gravely examining the scene, his expression completely shocked.
“Damn, they really are worthy of being an ancient family. For me, they actually sent out this many Xiantian experts.”
Long Chen sneered. It seemed Yin Wushang treated him as a must-have. He had actually sent out this many people.
Some of these people had truly powerful auras and killing intent. With a glance, it was obvious they were real experts who had experienced countless trials and bloody battles. They were completely different from those idiots from before.
What Long Chen didn’t know was that Yin Wushang had still not been at ease. Taking advantage of the spatial gate still being open, he had used his status as the junior master to set a portion of the Yin family’s elites into motion.
Those previous people had just been the Yin family’s ordinary guards. Yin Wushang didn’t have much confidence in them.
Taking advantage of those people being busy investigating the aftermath of his trap, Long Chen stealthily descended from the tree and slipped away.
No matter how brazen he was, he wouldn’t dare fight with so many people. Moreover, those people were true experts.
Practically, each one of them was holding a Xiantian weapon. Once they fought and activated those weapons with Xiantian power, he would be doomed.
Let alone Long Chen, even Yin Wushang, a Celestial, someone who could treat Xiantian experts as ants, would not dare do such a thing. However, that was under the precondition that Xiantian experts did not activate their Xiantian weapons. A Xiantian weapon was a Xiantian expert’s strongest killing tool, and they would not use it easily.
Activating a Xiantian weapon would immediately draw out all their Xiantian power. If they were unable to kill their opponent with that attack, then they would have no more energy to resist.
Now with this many opponents present, if any random one of them activated their Xiantian weapon, Long Chen would probably die. He wasn’t that stupid. Slipping away was the way of the king.
Within the forest, Long Chen became even more confident. Back when he had been chased down by Marquis Ying, he had also taken advantage of the forest to contend with him for a long time, so he actually liked thick forests very much.
Long Chen was extremely quick as he traveled through the forest. He made sure to leave behind as few tracks as possible, even closing his pores as to not leave behind any scent.
After half a day, he was no longer able to sense any danger. In other words, his enemies had been thrown off far into the distance.
With the day darkening, Long Chen jumped onto a large tree, creating a small nest in the crown for himself. Just like that, he began urging on the primal chaos bead again.
Furthermore, now he felt safer, and he even summoned the divine ring. Heaven and earth’s energy poured into him crazily, causing the primal chaos space to circulate even faster.
Those sprouts were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Long Chen found that the divine ring was extremely mysterious and that there were two ways of circulating it.
Circulating it one way was his battle state, allowing his strength to erupt and absorbing spiritual qi for him to use.
Circulating it the other way was a cultivation state. It absorbed spiritual qi to nourish the core of the two stars, pushing the stars towar
ds perfection.
He also noticed that after obtaining the primal chaos bead, his FengFu Star and Alioth Star had changed slightly, but as for what that change exactly was, he was unable to say.
It was like the primal chaos bead was the central star, while the FengFu Star and Alioth Star were complimentary stars that revolved around it. It was extremely mysterious.
Long Chen was starting to understand the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art and the primal chaos bead less and less. Back in the Jiuli secret realm when he had merged with the primal chaos bead, he had clearly sensed a great deal of information flooding into his head.
But after that information had entered, it had been like snowflakes falling in an ocean, completely disappearing. No matter how he searched through his memories, he was unable to find that information.
There was only one thing he was sure of. The Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s power surpassed his imagination. At the same time, he felt as if he had descended into some kind of huge game.
When he thought of those strange murals he had seen, as well as that mysterious voice, Long Chen felt a bit restless.
At the same time, he felt a kind of indescribable excitement. He knew the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art could lead him to an unimaginable world.
The goal of martial cultivation was to stand at the peak of the martial path. All cultivators longed to reach that point, and even if they weren’t able to stand there, they would still hope to see a vaster sky before them.
That was especially true once a person reached the Xiantian realm. Then, their longevity would grow to a thousand years—the higher the realm, the greater the longevity.
At the same time, those that managed to reach higher cultivation heights were also more captivated by cultivation, and they longed even more to see a vaster sky. For that dream, many people had fallen on the path of cultivation.
But each one of those fallen people’s dreams had been to take a look at that vaster sky. Even if that cost them their lives, they wouldn’t mind.