by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
No one had expected Long Chen to suddenly attack and send Yin Wushang flying. He had already leaped after him as well.
“Die!”
A blood-red saber appeared in Long Chen’s hand. A blood-colored qi wave filled the sky, and endless killing intent boiled. His saber came slashing down on Yin Wushang.
“Cry of the Heavenly Daos!”
Heaven and earth shook as countless runes appeared in the air around Yin Wushang, forming a sea-like defense.
“Break!” Yin Wushang’s sword slashed out, and the runes in the air actually gathered onto the sword.
BOOM!
That runic sword smashed apart Long Chen’s saber-image, and without pausing, it continued toward Long Chen.
Long Chen hastily raised his saber to block, but his body shook intensely and the ground beneath his feet shattered. He was sent flying straight back.
“His true body is so much stronger than his clone!” Mo Nian was shocked by this power.
Yin Wushang was surrounded by runes as he stood there with his sword in his hand. He appeared like an emperor looking down on others, icily arrogant.
His clone’s Heavenly Dao runes had only been able to fill an area of a mile around him. But his true body’s runes had increased this range by ten times.
Furthermore, those runes were constantly revolving around his body as if they were alive, constantly absorbing the energy of heaven and earth for him.
“This Yin Wushang really is terrifying. Although I’m also a Celestial, I probably wouldn’t be able to last more than a hundred exchanges with him,” said Liu Zongying.
Although such words were a bit embarrassing to say, it was the truth. Yin Wushang’s true body was too strong, so strong that it caused a person to despair.
This grand manifestation was giving Yin Wushang endless energy. Other than a true Sea Expansion expert, no one would be able to challenge him.
“Grandfather, maybe we should-” said Mo Nian.
“Divine ring!” Suddenly, a furious roar rang out through the sky.
A powerful aura surged into the sky, and a pillar of light blew apart the black clouds from Yin Wushang’s manifestation.
“What?!”
Yin Wushang had brought forth heavenly fury with his manifestation which had covered the sky with black clouds. But this pillar of light pierced through the black clouds, and the clouds were rapidly forced back. The sky now appeared extremely bizarre.
Above Yin Wushang, the black clouds were still turbulently roiling. But above Long Chen, it was sunny. It was like two worlds were clashing, neither capable of suppressing the other.
“Just what Battle Skill is this?! It is actually able to resist the Heavenly Daos! Even the manifestation of heaven’s fury is being blown back!”
Seeing this scene, everyone was flabbergasted. This was heaven-defying!
Even Mo Yi, Lin Chengdian, and the bald elder were shocked. They had experienced many great battles; thus, Long Chen and Yin Wushang’s strength weren’t anything special to them.
But the two of them had brought forth world-shaking manifestations. Yin Wushang was a Celestial, so for him to be able to draw out the power of heaven and earth was reasonable.
But Long Chen was not a Celestial. Using just his own strength, he was forcibly breaking the restrictions of heaven and earth, forcing back Yin Wushang’s manifestation. Despite having lived for countless years and being extremely experienced, their hearts pounded. Just what level of strength was this?
As for the bald elder, he was also incomparably shocked at first, but it was soon replaced with a smile. However, this smile was extremely sinister. Long Chen’s secrets, the secrets which allowed him to be this powerful, would belong to his Yin family soon.
Space was rumbling, and qi waves surged out like furious waves.
“What… terrifying strength…” The Mo family’s experts were actually not able to bear their auras and all retreated.
The power surging out of Long Chen shocked them and also gave them an extreme sense of danger. If they were too close, they felt like their lives could be lost at any moment.
A huge divine ring had appeared in the sky. This divine ring was split into three colors. The middle color was yellow, and it was bordered by red and orange.
The middle color was stationary, but the other two colors were rotating in opposite directions.
Following their rotation, the world rumbled and changed color. Long Chen was standing in front of the divine ring, his clothes and black hair fluttering in the wind.
With his blood-red saber in his hand and furious killing intent pouring out of him, he seemed like a berserk god of death.
“Die!” The ground beneath Long Chen’s feet erupted. He had already shot forward like a bolt of lightning.
Blooddrinker released a cry as its runes lit up, and a blood-red saber-image soared into the sky.
This saber-image was over a mile long, looking like a celestial blade that could cause even gods to shiver. It slashed down ruthlessly upon Yin Wushang. Even the void was cut apart, and an unpleasant screech was emitted.
Everyone’s expressions changed. That wasn’t just because of this saber’s power or because of its aura, but because of the will contained in this saber. It had actually absorbed all the murderous aura within heaven and earth, not leaving a single drop.
This saber was influenced by Long Chen’s will, and each person present felt a sense of death from it.
“What terrifying killing intent!” Just how many people had Long Chen killed to condense such a terrifying level of killing intent?
It had to be known that killing intent was something that would increase by absorbing the resentment of the person you killed. It was a kind of special aura that would condense within the bones.
Once a person was infuriated, once they went berserk, that killing intent would be released. In other words, it would unleash endless resentment that would terrify most people.
Seeing Long Chen’s saber slashing toward him, Yin Wushang roared and the Heavenly Dao runes around him suddenly compressed, forming a strange image behind his back. That was the image of a huge ancient beast.
At the same time, a mark lit up on his forehead. His aura crazily grew and a terrifying pressure shot out. He slashed his sword toward Long Chen’s saber.
BOOM!
The ground exploded, the black earth rippling like it was liquid.
Both sides had to hastily defend against this wave of earth. This wave contained Long Chen and Yin Wushang’s power, and it had the power to shatter mountains.
The Xiantian experts struck by this wave of earth were miserably blown back, shocked. Was this the strength of Celestials? It was truly terrifying.
RUMBLE!!!
Two weapons were currently clashing, their owners icily glaring at each other. They both roared, releasing their greatest strength.
A blood-colored rune appeared on Yin Wushang’s forehead. He was actually igniting his ancestral blood to increase his power. The runes around him surged turbulently, and his power crashed down on Long Chen.
“Three Star Battle Armor!” Long Chen cried out inside and the FengFu Star, Alioth Star, and Life Fate Star, which had been crazily circulating, suddenly paused. Light soared out of them, pouring toward the primal chaos bead in Long Chen’s Dantian.
BOOM!
The ground shook intensely, and cracks covered it. They started off as small cracks, but they quickly grew to become several feet thick, revealing a bottomless abyss.
“Wha… what?!” Every person was struck dumb. Just what level of strength was this?
Suddenly, Yin Wushang vomited a mouthful of blood and was blown back. He then continuously coughed up more blood in the air, and even the ancestral mark on his forehead dimmed.
“How is that possible?!” The elder from the Yin family was appalled. Yin Wushang was not only a rank one Celestial, but the hopes of the entire family had also been placed on him. They had spent over ten thousand yea
rs worth of savings on him to make him into the greatest genius.
But even now that his true body had descended, he was still unable to defeat Long Chen. That was something this bald elder was unable to accept.
If this continued, it would be impossible for them to achieve their main goal, which was to have Yin Wushang kill Long Chen to maintain his pure Dao-heart. That was even more important than exterminating Mo Gate.
But Yin Wushang had to personally kill Long Chen. If others did it, that stain in Yin Wushang’s heart would never be washed away.
“What?!”
Just as everyone was still completely shocked that Long Chen was able to force back Yin Wushang, startled cries rang out. At some unknown point, Long Chen had appeared like a phantom in front of Yin Wushang, his saber mercilessly slashing down.
Blood splashed and the entire world turned still.
Chapter 598 Great Battle Begins
A blood-colored ray pierced through the void, slicing Yin Wushang’s body in two. His blood filled the air, and time seemed to slow down.
Whether it was the experts from the Mo family, the Lin family, the Yin family, or even those distant spectators, everyone was dumbfounded. They felt as if their hearts were no longer beating, as this scene was too shocking.
The image of Yin Wushang’s body slowly splitting in two in midair was deeply imprinted in their minds.
“He was killed just like that?”
No one could believe it. From the start of the battle, not even an incense stick’s worth of time had passed. His true body had been killed just like that?
Long Chen’s previous battle with Yin Wushang had already shaken all of Qing Prefecture, and countless experts had gathered here and investigated what had happened from the start.
Within the secret realm, Yin Wushuang had framed Long Chen, and later it was Long Chen who had managed to forcibly reverse the scales. That had brought on the ire of the Yin family. The small details of what the Yin family had done in retaliation had all been found out now.
In Long Chen’s first battle with Yin Wushang, although there was no proof, it was apparent from the words the two of them had spoken to each other that Long Chen had been much weaker than Yin Wushang. It was only by taking advantage of his carelessness that Long Chen had managed to injure him and flee.
Less than a month after that first battle, they’d had an even more shocking fight. In the end, Long Chen had managed to kill Yin Wushang’s clone.
Although he had managed to kill the clone, everyone could tell that Long Chen had used his full strength to just barely bring about that result.
As for this third battle, Yin Wushang’s true body had come. Originally, they had all thought that Long Chen would find it difficult to escape from Yin Wushang’s clutches.
But now, that true body had lasted less than an incense stick’s worth of time before being defeated.
No one doubted how powerful Yin Wushang was. The strength he had released caused all those Xiantian experts to be terrified. For him to be defeated so quickly, the only thing that could be said was that Long Chen was too abnormal. Just what kind of growth rate was this?
Thinking of how arrogantly Yin Wushang had challenged him, asking him if he ‘dared to battle him’, it was completely laughable and practically an insult to himself.
“Heavenly Dao Reco-” Countless runes wrapped around Yin Wushang, and the two parts of him instantly merged back.
But in that instant, Long Chen’s saber slashed out four consecutive times, severing all his limbs. He then reached out his hand to grab his throat.
He couldn’t kill him right now. He had to use Yin Wushang as a hostage to find out the location of his parents.
“Fuck off!”
Suddenly, a suffocating force attacked him, causing Long Chen’s scalp to turn numb. A sensation of death filled him, and he hastily retreated.
A ray of light fell right beside Long Chen, cutting a long gorge in the ground.
That gorge was only the width of a palm, but it was so deep that it was impossible to see the bottom. It was like a sharp blade had cut it.
If Long Chen hadn’t retreated so quickly, this ray of light would have slashed down on him. Even with his physical body, he still would have been cut in two.
The person who had attacked was the bald elder from the Yin family. Runes covered his hands, making his hands as sharp as blades.
“You shameless old bastard!”
A furious roar rang out as Mo Yi suddenly charged out like a phantom, his fist instantly reaching the bald man.
Mo Yi was infuriated. He hadn’t expected this baldie to be so shameless, ignoring his status as a Sea Expansion expert to sneak attack a junior.
Countless runes lit up over Mo Yi’s body. He seemed like a furious battle god, his fist causing the void to rumble.
“Old fellow, do you really think I’m afraid of you?” sneered the bald elder.
BANG!
Space violently shook, and it was like the entire world was being fried. Some people directly vomited blood from the spatial vibrations.
“Scram!” Mo Yi roared, and the bald elder’s expression suddenly changed. He felt a mountain-toppling force attack him, and the ground beneath his feet exploded as he was knocked into the air.
A pair of huge, black wings suddenly appeared on Mo Yi’s back, looking just like real wings.
Those wings were actually created by countless black runes. As soon as they appeared, Mo Yi’s aura erupted.
Runic wings were a specific mark of the Sea Expansion realm. Once you entered the Sea Expansion realm, you could nourish your own core runes.
Such runes could be transmitted to your descendants through your bloodline, so it was another kind of bloodline energy and an exceptionally strong one.
Once Sea Expansion experts called out their runic wings, they could release their greatest strength, drawing on the power of heaven and earth.
Although the Xiantian realm was also said to be capable of connecting with the power of heaven and earth, there was a qualitative difference between the two. Xiantian experts were amateurs at using the energy of heaven and earth, while Sea Expansion experts were masters.
It could be said that the Xiantian realm was just a starting point for a person to adapt to heaven and earth’s energy. But the Sea Expansion realm was the point at which a person could use that energy as they pleased.
The wings behind Mo Yi’s body shook, and he was like a bolt of black lightning as he flew into the air, once more punching that elder.
The bald elder’s expression changed, and he furiously roared, a pair of wings also appearing on his back as he punched out.
BOOM!
The void erupted as a terrifying force spread in all directions, a blinding light dazzling people’s eyes.
A terrifying pressure spread and the experts on the ground were all blown away by terrifying astral winds.
Long Chen did his best to resist, but he was still blown back several miles before stabilizing.
“This is the power of the Sea Expansion realm? Truly powerful.” Long Chen was amazed. This was his first time truly seeing Sea Expansion experts fighting. The strength contained in just the wave of their hands could destroy mountains.
That exchange had occurred in the air just now. If it had occurred on the ground, then perhaps everyone would have been buried by the ground from the aftershock.
“Mo Yi, curb your arrogance.”
Seeing that the bald elder was repeatedly forced back by Mo Yi’s ferocious attacks, Lin Chengdian couldn’t help being horrified. Mo Yi was much more terrifying than in his youth, making Lin Chengdian decide to also join the battle.
“Hmph, a group of shameless things, trash that only knows how to bully the weak. Do you think that I, Mo Yi, am afraid of you?”
Mo Yi’s furious roar shook the heavens, and his white hair danced in the air. Light shone from his eyes as his aura continued to climb, battle intent soaring off him. How was he an
old man? He seemed more like a bloodthirsty battle god that had finally been revived.
BOOM!
Even fighting one against two, Mo Yi’s punch managed to send the two of them flying. The void rumbled intensely, and runes filled the air. It was incredibly horrifying.
When Sea Expansion experts released their full power, that power could crush mountains and overturn seas. The three of them continued to fly higher into the sky, creating more distance from the ground.
Obviously, both sides were worried that their aftershocks could kill their own people. The three of them flew high into the sky, appearing like three black dots continuously colliding.
Although they were now incredibly far up, each time they collided, a terrifying pressure would crash onto the ground, making it hard for the people to breathe.
This was the gap between realms. Sea Expansion experts had already completely comprehended how to use natural energy. With their core runes absorbing that energy to use as their own, that power was practically apocalyptic.
That was also why Meridian Opening Celestials could dominate the Xiantian realm but were unable to jump across the chasm known as the Sea Expansion realm.
Just like Celestials, Sea Expansion experts could also control heaven and earth’s energy. Although it wouldn’t be as monstrous as the Cry of the Heavenly Daos, a rank one Celestial was unable to suppress the power of a Sea Expansion expert’s core runes.
If you were to compare a Celestial to a dagger, then a Sea Expansion expert could be likened to a forest. Although the dagger was sharp, its range was too short.
A single dagger could not possibly cut down a huge forest in a short amount of time. But a forest’s trees could gather together, using quantity to suppress quality, crushing that dagger.
Once those three were far away from the rest of them, Mo Yunshan waved his hand.
“Kill them all!”
The Mo family’s experts all released their auras. Countless pillars of light soared into the sky, and bows appeared in their hands.
“Attack! Kill these degenerates from the Mo family!”
The experts from the other side also roared furiously, charging forward. Killing intent soared into the sky.