by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Shui Yuncong’s expression completely changed. He suddenly charged over and snatched the photographic jade away. Right in front of the vice sect master, he destroyed it.
“Do you think a rotten stone can frame me? You’ve gone crazy!” Shui Yuncong put on an expression of fury. He wanted to display the anger of a person who had been wrongly accused.
The vice sect master indifferently watched them and sighed. “You’ve really disappointed me. It seems you’ve been in power for so long that your heads have rotted. You’ve even forgotten the Xuantian Dao Sect’s rules. Did you think you could stand above the rules with your statuses? Anyone who colluded with the Corrupt path will be taken in by the law enforcers and soulsearched. Even those who were involved will be soulsearched. Did you think destroying the proof would save you? You really have gotten old, so old that your head no longer works! Where are the law enforcers? Bring them away!”
Law enforcement disciples came over and icily said to Zhou Tianyi and Shui Yuncong, “Please.”
After all, they were two family heads, and so they didn’t use force against them.
But the law enforcement disciples were neutral within the Xuantian Dao Sect. No matter what their statuses were, they still had to listen to their orders, or they would be immediately arrested.
“Vice sect master, my family head was just muddleheaded in his old age. I wish to take his punishment.” Suddenly, Shui Guanzhi stood out, startling everyone.
The vice sect master icily glanced at him. “Don’t think that a rank three Celestial is above the Xuantian Dao Sect’s rules. Even a rank nine Celestial isn’t, let alone you. Pray that this matter didn’t involve you, or the law enforcement hall’s blade will also take your head.”
The vice sect master was already infuriated because the two family heads had committed such a disgraceful act. As the person in charge, he was also responsible.
Then, this pampered brat Shui Guanzhi had actually vainly thought to use his newfound status as a rank three Celestial to save Shui Yuncong. That made him even more furious, because he already loathed people like that who thought themselves to be so important.
Long Chen and Meng Qi were startled. Although they had been prepared, they hadn’t thought that Shui Guanzhi would advance so quickly.
It was also surprising that the vice sect master would actually not give a rank three Celestial any face at all.
Shui Guanzhi hadn’t expected that his advancement would be valued so little in the eyes of the vice sect master. He clenched his teeth furiously.
The two family heads were also panicked. They hadn’t expected this matter to have blown up this big. Although they normally fought against each other constantly, it was like a chess game. It wasn’t a fight to the death.
But now the situation was grave. The Qu family head and the Wang family head looked at each other and then walked out and directly knelt in front of the vice sect master.
“Please be lenient, vice sect master. Although the two of them committed a taboo, they’ve worked for the Xuantian Dao Sect for so long. Even if they didn’t make contributions, they still toiled for the sect. Please spare their lives.”
After all, they had known each other for so long, and they didn’t have that many years left. The two of them ended up feeling pity for them, like a fox that grieves when the rabbit is dead.
They definitely had to receive a heavy punishment, but as long as it wasn’t the death penalty, they would feel better. A generation’s family head, that was a dignified position. If they were killed just like this, they really would be unable to accept it.
Zhou Tianyi and Shui Guanzhi looked at the two of them in shock. At this time, these old fellows they had fought against for countless years had actually knelt and begged for leniency for them. They couldn’t help feeling emotional. Their hearts also became a bit clearer.
Zhou Tianyi suddenly said, “Vice sect master, in truth, I was lying just now. Everything was done by me. Shui Yuncong is innocent!”
Shui Yuncong looked at him in surprise. In that instant, he thought of many things. The resentments and grudges from many years instantly resolved.
“This matter truly was done by me,” said Shui Yuncong.
“Brother Yuncong…” said Zhou Tianyi.
“Say no more. We’ve fought for a lifetime, so if you die, I won’t have an opponent. Let’s go together. At least we’ll have an opponent on the way,” said Shui Yuncong, patting Zhou Tianyi’s shoulder.
“Family head!”
The Shui family and Zhou family’s disciples all knelt on the ground at the same time.
“What are you doing?! Get up!” shouted Shui Yuncong. “Don’t make things harder on the vice sect master. A mistake is a mistake. As the family head, I have even more responsibility to face the consequences of my actions.”
The disciples didn’t say a word. There were several of them who quietly sobbed.
Long Chen had never thought that things would progress like this. The specter of death had given them a moment of enlightenment. Their resentment from years of fighting had actually disappeared.
“Vice sect master…” Long Chen opened his mouth. In any case, he hadn’t taken any loss this time. This matter could end like this.
“Long Chen, don’t plead for leniency for us,” said Shui Yuncong suddenly. “We thank you for the thought. Just this magnanimity of yours has shown us how worthless our lives were. An hour ago, even we definitely wouldn’t be able to put aside our hatred after someone had entrapped us like we did to you.
“We’re sorry to you, and we’re sorry to the Xuantain Dao Sect. Even if the vice sect master agreed to spare us, we wouldn’t have the face to continue living. All disciples listen to my orders: no one is allowed to bear a grudge against Long Chen. Otherwise, even in the nine springs, I wouldn’t acknowledge such an unfilial descendant!”
Shui Yuncong looked at Shui Guanzhi when he said his final sentence. He was clearly warning him not to do anything.
“Brother, let’s go,” said Shui Yuncong to Zhou Tianyi.
Zhou Tianyi nodded. He merely smiled slightly and waved his hand to the Zhou family’s disciples before going with the law enforcers.
Everyone was silent for a moment. All their hearts were heavy. Even the vice sect master’s delight in killing four Corrupt experts faded.
Long Chen sighed. If they had known this day would come, would they still have done what they had done? Was it really true that people could only open their eyes once they reached the end and were about to depart from this world? Was that the only way for them to understand the truth about the world?
“Long Chen, now you should be happy!” Shui Guanzhi clenched his teeth.
Everyone turned to look at him in surprise. Shui Guanzhi had clearly placed all his hatred on Long Chen. Was he going to target him now?
“It’s still the same thing. When you want to die, come find me at any time,” said Long Chen icily. He brought Meng Qi over to Shui Wuhen’s side and regrouped with Tang Wan-er and the others. They returned to their camp.
Shui Wuhen’s heart was clearly a bit heavy. After all, that was her uncle who had just been sent to his death. Although she normally hated how her family head was only full of schemes, looking at his back, she felt a bit of pain. No one celebrated, even though Long Chen had returned safely.
Long Chen also knew that now wasn’t the time to make any large movements. He had everyone continue to cultivate normally. Also, Meng Qi gave Tang Wan-er her new housepets.
Long Chen returned to his private room, and his mind entered the primal chaos space. He was going to check his harvests.
Chapter 764 That Fellow Finally Returns
There were four new large trees in the primal chaos space now. One of them was the especially large tree whose leaves were covered in runes.
Although the trees hadn’t completely matured yet, when Long Chen tested their life energy, he found that the three large trees had over ten times the life energy of his
old trees.
But when he tested the runic tree, he was shocked to find that its life energy was absolutely enormous. Furthermore, as he drew out its life energy, it absorbed the soil’s energy to replenish itself.
Just in terms of life energy, it had dozens of times more than the other three large trees combined. That was both startling and delightful to Long Chen. As expected, fortune existed within danger.
Long Chen directly tossed away the three large trees and his old ones. He began to rapidly plant the runic tree’s branches with set distances between them.
Thinking of a three-thousand-mile primal chaos space filled with this species of towering trees, Long Chen was delighted. He would practically have an undying body. Even if he was injured by a Celestial’s Heavenly Dao energy, he would still be able to recover.
After a day of work, Long Chen had planted three thousand trees within the primal chaos space. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to plant more, but simply that he only had this much space. Once these trees matured, their crowns would be over ten miles wide. Growing them too packed in an area wasn’t a good idea. Increasing the amount to lower the quality wasn’t a good idea.
Now, other than one big tree, the rest were all tiny little sprouts. Long Chen knew that his bitter days had come again.
“Oh, I forgot.”
Long Chen suddenly recalled that he had four Magical Beast corpses.
He directly tossed the Magical Beast he had killed underwater into the black soil. It finished devouring the corpse in just a few minutes.
It was like the corpse had dissolved and endless life energy spread throughout the primal chaos space.
The sprouts began to rapidly grow. One meter, ten meters, a hundred meters…
In the blink of an eye, the three thousand sprouts grew to a height of three hundred meters, and they continued to rapidly grow.
Long Chen was delighted. It seemed he would need to gather some stronger Magical Beast corpses in the future. When fighting others, if he exhausted the trees’ life energy, he could rely on the Magical Beast corpses to heal.
Those trees grew until they were over six hundred meters tall and thirty meters thick. They appeared incredibly majestic.
But Long Chen was curious why they didn’t possess any of their own consciousness. They seemed like ordinary trees now, but back in the Spirit World, it had been filled with a berserk will.
“It really is strange.”
These trees had to have secrets he was unaware of. Or was it that the primal chaos space’s duplicated trees were different from the originals?
After a moment of hesitation, Long Chen also threw the python’s corpse into the black soil. As the primal chaos space grew, so did the area of the black soil. It was now thirty miles wide and could even fit in such a large Magical Beast.
Once the python’s corpse was absorbed, the trees once more grew, reaching a height of a thousand meters. But it was still a far cry from the huge, towering forest he had seen in the Spirit World.
However, in terms of life energy, these trees could already offer Long Chen hundreds or even thousands of times what his original trees could. In the end, he decided to temporarily not use the Azure Scale Horned Eagle and Nine Spike Lizard’s corpses.
He already had plans for the Nine Spike Lizard’s hide. If he could make some leather armor for the Dragonblood warriors, it would become a powerful defense for the Dragonblood Legion.
Currently, he still had a few Heavenly Dao Fruits. But it wasn’t enough for all the Dragonblood warriors to become Celestials.
Rather than having them advance one by one, it would be better to develop in a low-profile manner while they properly built their foundation. When the time came, they would all become Celestials. Right now, Long Chen didn’t dare to continue drawing attention, as he was worried about drawing more trouble.
The Immemorial Path was on the verge of opening. It was better for them all to calmly cultivate here. In truth, Long Chen hadn’t even been planning on allowing Gu Yang and the other captains to become Celestials yet. But then, he thought to himself that true experts had to face danger, or they wouldn’t be able to grow. He didn’t have the right to strip them of those opportunities.
Most importantly, they were strong enough. They definitely wouldn’t be cannon fodder in the Immemorial Path.
Retreating from the primal chaos space, Long Chen stretched. Little Snow quietly grumbled when he saw Long Chen awaken.
“Hahaha, good, then let’s go take a look.”
Little Snow said that Meng Qi had come to tell Long Chen to go see the vice sect master. The vice sect master had come to see him two days ago, but because Long Chen had been in a meditative state, he hadn’t disturbed him. In truth, at that time, Long Chen had been hard at work being a farmer.
“Little Snow, you can stay here. You can play with sister Meng Qi.” Long Chen hugged Little Snow’s head.
He felt a bit sorry for Little Snow. The majority of the time when Long Chen was out, Little Snow stayed in his spiritual space. He rarely got a chance to accompany him.
It had to be known that Little Snow was still young and still very much had a child’s temperament. Having him stay in the spiritual space for so long was definitely not good.
But luckily, Little Snow’s body wasn’t extremely large. Ordinarily, he could run around within the camp. As long as he didn’t go out, no one would bother him.
Long Chen went directly to see the vice sect master. The first thing the vice sect master said was, “How were your gains in the Spirit World?”
“Not bad. We were lucky and obtained two Azure Scale Horned Eagle chicks.” Long Chen smiled. But he didn’t bring up the Redeye Sacred Blood Phoenix.
Long Chen had also told Meng Qi not to mention it and not to bring it out unless she was forced to. If she was to bring it out, then she had to kill her opponent. The Blood Phoenix would be her greatest trump card and the greatest assurance of her safety.
If an expert wanted to live longer, they couldn’t allow others to know their strongest trump cards. No matter how strong the trump card was, once others were on guard and knew how to counter it, it wouldn’t possess any threat. In fact, once they came up with a plan to use against your trump card, it would be dangerous for you.
“Oh? The Azure Scale Horned Eagle possesses the ancient dragon eagle’s bloodline. It’s extremely powerful. Once matured, even a Foundation Forging expert would have to run if they didn’t have a Treasure item on hand! Your luck’s not bad.” But after the vice sect master said that, he felt like he had misspoken.
That was because he saw Long Chen’s expression had become a bit odd. He immediately realized that with Long Chen’s heaven-defying bad luck, perhaps they had run into quite a few twists and turns to make such gains.
It could be said that whether it had been to capture Magical Beasts or to find stronger trees, Long Chen’s luck had been extremely lacking. That was especially true when that unimaginably terrifying existence had ended up coming out just because he had taken a branch off the runic tree. How could he accept the praise that his luck was not bad?
Long Chen didn’t want to discuss this topic any further. “What about the Zhou and Shui family heads…?”
“They’re both dead. Not only them, but seven monastery heads were also executed with them.” A dim light appeared in the vice sect master’s eyes. If only he had been more strict, perhaps there wouldn’t have been such an ending.
“A person has to know how to feel reverence and gratitude, or they will have no bottom line to hold back their own depravities. In the end, they’ll simply be devoured by their desires and become a walking corpse. Although it’s a bit regretful, at least the two of them ended up comprehending everything in the end,” said Long Chen.
The vice sect master looked at Long Chen for a long while before sighing, “Even a child can see things more clearly than us old fellows. It really is too ironic!”
“Vice sect master, you overpraise me.
I’m just spouting nonsense,” said Long Chen hastily.
“How regretful that their comprehension came too late. I also understood what I should have done too late.” The vice sect master shook his head. It could be said that the loss of two family heads and seven monastery heads was a large blow to the core strength of their branch sect.
“Vice sect master, you’re overthinking it. A sect has its own fate just like how a person has their own fate. You can’t change someone else’s fate. In this world, the only one capable of helping someone is themselves. Using myself as an example, although I might have bad luck that makes it so I have to put in more effort than anyone else, I don’t complain. A person’s luck is fated.
“But fate is not something that cannot be changed. It just depends on whether or not you want to fight against the heavens. If you want to change your own fate, you don’t only have to struggle against the heavens, but you also have to struggle against yourself. Regretfully, those two family heads and seven monastery heads weren’t able to overcome the demons in their hearts and were devoured.” Long Chen shrugged.
“Hahaha, well said. Wuhen said you were pretty smart. Now I realize what she meant. If your soul didn’t match your body, I’d even suspect your body was being controlled by some old demon,” laughed the vice sect master.
He was surprised to hear that Long Chen’s theory was very similar to what the sect master had told him. Although the specifics were different, what they expressed were shockingly alike.
“Vice sect master, did you have something you needed me for?” asked Long Chen.
“That’s right. You have done a great deed. By killing four Corrupt Foundation Forging experts, our Dao Sect was gifted a huge reward. As for you, you can choose any Treasure item in the Dao Sect as your personal reward. Don’t blame me for being stingy, as the sect’s reward is still in the application process. Once the head sect sends down the reward, you’ll be given quite a bit more,” said the vice sect master.
In truth, killing four Corrupt Foundation Forging experts would definitely shake the Righteous path. This matter had already been reported, but they had to wait for the higher-ups to approve the reward before it came.