by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Lei Long’s power had grown explosively, but it wasn’t a healthy growth. Although it had expanded like a balloon to a shocking point, it wasn’t able to endure powerful attacks.
Lei Long needed some time to refine the energy it had absorbed, and only then could it release its full power. Right now, it was still too weak.
After putting away Lei Long, Long Chen was immediately surrounded by those nine figures, and the pressure instantly increased. These nine figures were too terrifying. Even going all-out, he was being constantly injured, and the most dangerous moment was when he was almost cut in two.
Long Chen clenched his teeth and bitterly endured. Right now, he was in a crisis, but those four experts were also surrounded in the same situation. None of them were better off than him, and he even saw one of them cough up blood.
“Hehe, how is the taste of an ant’s tribulation?” sneered Long Chen.
“Bastard, you are provoking us! Just wait-” One of them ended up being slashed on the shoulder because he had divided his attention. It was unknown what treasure was protecting him, but instead of being cut, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
“Now you should know what it feels like to be implicated by another person’s tribulation.”
Fighting all-out, Long Chen gradually switched to a defensive battle. He found that although these Ancient Heroic Spirits were powerful, their moves were inflexible. Laws were laws. Their moves didn’t adapt as easily as real people.
If the nine of them were really alive, Long Chen would definitely die. Even though they were made of lightning runes, Long Chen still couldn’t defeat them. He could only stall and continue watching them.
Using the Lightning Body Blink, Long Chen retreated, doing his best to avoid facing them head-on and preserve his energy. Through the divine ring, he began to restore the spiritual yuan he had used up. In any case, the four of them were undergoing tribulation with him. He wasn’t impatient. He wanted to see just who would die first.
As time passed, Long Chen was constantly injured, but that wasn’t a problem with the primal chaos space. Long Chen was using his life energy to stall while his spiritual yuan recovered.
Suddenly, an explosive sound rang out. One of the flame-wrapped men used some unknown technique to kill an Ancient Heroic Spirit.
Chapter 893 Qiankun Lightning Chains
That person managed to kill an Ancient Heroic Spirit, but he paid an immense price. He was counterattacked and vomited blood.
“This is the last wave of the tribulation. Don’t hold back any longer!” said one of the men. He noticed that after killing one of the Ancient Heroic Spirits, the tribulation clouds above him lessened.
Following his shout, the others also began going all-out. A huge saber-image exploded and another Ancient Heroic Spirit was killed.
As expected, as that one was killed, the tribulation clouds in the sky shrank. This represented that once the Ancient Heroic Spirits were all killed, the heavenly tribulation would come to an end.
“Kill!” Those mysterious experts erupted with immense power and were clearly using their ultimate moves. It was impossible to tell what their moves were while they were wrapped in flames. But one thing that could be confirmed was that their strength was horrifying. Even from such a distance, it gave the people watching endless pressure.
“It seems it really is the last wave. I guess there’s no need to hold back any longer. Blooddrinker, let’s go all-out!” Long Chen smiled. His vast spiritual yuan all poured into Blooddrinker.
Buzz… Blooddrinker seemed to come to life, and a blood-colored light soared into the sky.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s full-strength attack forced back all the Ancient Heroic Spirits, and he used the rebound force to soar into the sky, raising Blooddrinker while he was at it.
Blooddrinker rapidly grew into a huge heavenly blade. This was a Treasure item’s true form, a sign it was about to release its full power.
Long Chen’s spiritual yuan was sucked dry. Blood Qi erupted from Blooddrinker’s blade, forming a huge illusory image. That image was three thousand meters long, ten times longer than its true form.
“Split the Heavens 2!” The huge saber slashed down, instantly devouring those Ancient Heroic Spirits.
Explosive sounds reverberated. The only thing remaining after that huge saber slashed down was a sky-full of lightning runes. All those Ancient Heroic Spirits had been killed by Long Chen’s attack.
“Lei Long, time to eat!” Long Chen summoned Lei Long and simply lay on its head. He felt like he was hollow now. He didn’t have the slightest bit of energy left. But fortunately, the tribulation had ended.
Lei Long devoured those runes. Although they weren’t large, consuming them caused Lei Long’s body to swell up explosively. Its body grew stiff, and it couldn’t even swim through the air anymore. It slowly fell to the ground.
“You’ve eaten too much and need to digest it. Go into seclusion.” Long Chen put Lei Long away again, and it fell into a slumber. Its power had increased too much and it needed to digest it.
Seeing that Long Chen’s final attack was able to destroy all those Ancient Heroic Spirits, the aboriginals let out a cheer. Long Chen had actually succeeded. Yue Xiaoqian even began to cry.
Long Chen stood up on the Immortal Condensing Platform, looking at those four figures above. He just managed to see them using their trump cards to kill their Ancient Heroic Spirits. That caused Long Chen’s heart to sink. Those four were truly powerful.
As the final Ancient Heroic Spirit was killed, the tribulation clouds in the sky shrank. Just as they were about to disappear, the tribulation clouds shattered.
In that instant, lightning chains descended from the sky, piercing straight toward the five of them.
“These… these are Qiankun Lightning Chains?!?! This bastard… Run!” shouted one of the men, seeming to have realized something. The divine flames on his body suddenly fluctuated, and runes wrapped around the four of them. They flew back toward the spatial whirlpool in the air.
Before Long Chen could even figure out what was happening, he was bound by the lightning chains and dragged into the air. He was startled to find that he couldn’t even move with the lightning chains around him.
Those four rapidly fled, but just as they were about to enter the spatial whirlpool, the lightning chains formed a huge net that trapped them. The four of them were horrified, but no matter how they struggled, it was to no avail. These were Heavenly Dao chains and were impossible for them to break.
Suddenly, space exploded. A large hand stretched out from the whirlpool and caught the four of them. It pulled, and the lightning chains were broken apart. The hand brought the four of them into the spatial whirlpool and disappeared. Everything returned to normal.
That scene was too shocking. That large hand had been hundreds of miles long, like a celestial hand. Just what kind of power was that? The aboriginals were all motionless, unable to say a word. This kind of power had exceeded their understanding.
“Long Chen!” Yue Xiaoqian cried out and didn’t bother with that huge hand. She was focused completely on Long Chen. He was bound by the chains and being pulled into the air.
The tribulation clouds had disappeared, but chains were coming from heaven and earth, binding Long Chen. The lightning chains suddenly stretched taut, wanting to pull him apart.
Yue Xiaoqian panicked. She actually rushed over but was stopped by lord Heaveneye. At this moment, no one could help Long Chen.
“Fuck, I just knew my luck couldn’t be this good. But good thing I still have a backup.”
Long Chen cursed inside. A seal within his body suddenly opened. This was where Long Chen had sealed all the medicinal energy and essence of the Enlightenment Palace Pills he had consumed during this time.
The medicinal energy erupted, pouring into the Enlightenment Palace Star. The star had originally been almost full and now it suddenly shook.
The Enlightenment Palace Star absorbe
d all the medicinal energy that poured out of the seal. This was like the straw that broke the camel’s back, and the originally still star began to slowly revolve.
As it revolved, it went from an ordinary ball of light to become a planet. Images appeared, mountains, rivers, valleys…
Once the Enlightenment Palace Star had revolved nine times, a faint mist began to appear over it. It then came to a sudden stop. The FengFu, Alioth, and Life Fate Stars all revolved, sending energy to the Enlightenment Palace Star.
After receiving a trace of the three other stars’ core energy, the Enlightenment Palace Star suddenly began to rapidly revolve.
Long Chen’s divine ring suddenly reappeared behind him. But this time, it was no longer three hundred meters wide, but three thousand meters.
Red, orange, yellow, and green rings were present within it. It rapidly spun, resonating with heaven and earth. All the spiritual qi within ten thousand miles was instantly sucked dry.
Long Chen’s exhausted spiritual yuan was fully restored in an instant. His mind shook, and that tearing force from the chains no longer felt so strong. At least for now, he didn’t need to worry about being torn apart.
“Hm? Something’s different… Is the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s Sea Expansion supposed to be done like this?”
Long Chen suddenly noticed that once the Enlightenment Palace Star had reached perfection, the four stars suddenly had small whirlpools appear underneath them. The whirlpools were rapidly growing as energy was poured into them.
“Could it be these are my initial seas? I have four of them?”
Long Chen sensed the energy within the whirlpools rapidly growing. But he was unable to tell how large they were.
At this moment, he was still wrapped by countless lightning chains. He suddenly thought of something, and his divine sense entered the four whirlpools. He connected them to the chains binding him.
BOOM!
The four whirlpools instantly grew explosively. Four huge illusory initial seas appeared behind Long Chen. Each of those four seas was three hundred miles wide, and they blocked practically half the sky.
“What?!”
Lord Heaveneye couldn’t help being shocked. Long Chen had originally been in danger, but now he suddenly summoned four huge initial seas? Everyone looked at Long Chen with shock, not knowing what was going on.
Long Chen was still bound by the lightning chains. They stretched far into the sky, too far to even see their end. It was an extremely shocking scene.
Long Chen snorted. He hadn’t expected to accidentally realize the mystery of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s Sea Expansion. So the requirement was that the four stars had to reach perfection before undergoing sea expansion. He had almost committed a grave error.
Now the four seas were connected to the lightning chains, and heaven and earth’s energy were pouring into them. His initial seas rapidly grew, reaching three thousand miles in just a few breaths.
Once they reached that size, they continued to surge, but something unknown was restricting them. He tried several times without succeeding.
He tried many times but gave up in the end. Although there was more energy to be absorbed, this world’s laws didn’t allow initial seas to grow beyond three thousand miles. It was impossible to break this law.
But having four initial seas still delighted Long Chen. Now he had the equivalent of four Dantians, which would give him enough spiritual yuan to play around with.
Buzz.
The four initial seas disappeared. A qi sea appeared below each of the FengFu, Alioth, Life Fate, and Enlightenment Palace Stars. The four stars floated above them, each star and sea being one unit.
The four seas’ energy suddenly poured throughout Long Chen’s body, and his divine ring rapidly spun. Heaven and earth shook as a terrifying pressure descended upon the world. A will desiring to tear apart heaven and earth’s restrictions exploded.
“I want to see whether you really can restrict me! Four Star Battle Armor!”
Chapter 894 Tearing Apart the Dome of the Sky
As Long Chen struggled, heaven and earth quivered. Each of the chains soared into the nine heavens and deep into the ground. His struggling made it seem like heaven and earth would collapse.
The aboriginals were pale. They had never seen anything like this and had never imagined that someone could rely on his own power to fight against the Heavenly Daos.
“Let’s go help big brother Long Chen,” said Xiao Fei.
“Don’t mess around. These are the heavenly tribulation’s chains. Although the tribulations clouds have scattered, the tribulation still isn’t over. We would also be bound by the chains, or perhaps even killed,” shouted lord Heaveneye, stopping a group of impetuous fellows.
They were too young and didn’t understand. But lord Heaveneye knew just how terrifying these chains were. They weren’t things that could be resisted just through great power. Those chains represented the Heavenly Daos’ destructive aura.
“You’ve come against me time after time, each time wanting to take my life. You blind heavens, just wait. Sooner or later, I’ll tear you down!” roared Long Chen as he struggled. He wanted to break these Heavenly Dao chains, but he didn’t know what these chains were made of. No matter how he struggled, they wouldn’t break.
As Long Chen’s fury erupted, space constantly trembled. Long Chen pushed his four stars to their peak, and he clenched his teeth so hard that blood poured out.
“Break for me!”
RUMBLE!!!
“Heavens, the void is being torn!”
With Long Chen’s full power erupting, cracks appeared in the space around one of the chains. As Long Chen struggled, those cracks grew larger.
From the pitch-black cracks, primal chaos aura poured into the Immemorial Path like a dam had been cracked.
BOOM! The cracks continued to grow, and as Long Chen pulled the chain, a hole appeared in the sky.
“He… he really knows how to pull…”
Following the creation of that hole, the Heavenly Dao chains gradually faded. The tribulation had finally scattered, and Long Chen broke out of his chains, regaining his freedom.
Long Chen looked up at the sky and saw the huge hole. It was in the midst of closing. In less than the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the ten-thousand-mile-wide hole was fully recovered. The sky returned to normal.
“Long Chen!” Yue Xiaoqian suddenly crashed into Long Chen’s embrace.
Long Chen smiled. “Sorry I worried you. I was too impetuous.”
Yue Xiaoqian gently sobbed into his embrace, shaking her head. She knew he had done this because of her. But that wasn’t important anymore. What was important was that Long Chen was still alive.
The heavenly tribulation had come to an end, and everything had returned to normal. Many of the experts collapsed on the ground, feeling like their hearts had been in overdrive. This tribulation had been too frightening.
Lord Heaveneye had his eyes closed, seeming to be sensing something. After a long time, he finally opened his eyes, a faint smile on his face.
“Lightning breaks the sky, the Immemorial revives. Hehe, so that’s what it is, that’s what it is! Do you all sense it?” asked lord Heaveneye to the tribe leaders.
“Sense what?”
“You don’t sense the change in the world?”
With lord Heaveneye’s reminder, the tribe leaders spread their senses. An expression of disbelief and delight appeared on their faces.
“This…”
“Shh. It’s good as long as you know. Don’t let the children know.” Lord Heaveneye smiled.
Now that the tribulation had ended, Long Chen bid lord Heaveneye and the others goodbye. He returned to the Stone tribe. He had finally advanced to Sea Expansion.
Not only that, the Enlightenment Palace Star had reached perfection, and he had created four qi seas. Even he didn’t know how much his power had increased.
Once he returned to the Stone trib
e, Long Chen got to work, refining pills for Yue Xiaoqian. Although he couldn’t recover her core energy, he could at least make her feel better.
“Long Chen… I want to return to the Skyscraping World.” Three days later, Yue Xiaoqian’s condition had finally improved somewhat. She held Long Chen’s hand, unwilling to part.
Long Chen nodded. Yue Xiaoqian had a method to leave the Immemorial Path ahead of time. She had already advanced to Sea Expansion, and her qi sea was connected to her core energy. She had to return to the Skyscraping World to replenish her lost core energy and blood essence. But she also didn’t want to part with Long Chen.
“Just stay for a few more days.” Long Chen gently brushed Yue Xiaoqian’s cheek. He also didn’t want to part with her, but he also knew she had to go back to her race, and the sooner the better. Otherwise, if her blood essence was exhausted for too long, it would affect her foundation.
“Okay.” Yue Xiaoqian nodded.
“I’ll refine a large batch of Sea Merging Pills for you. When you get back, don’t be in a hurry to stabilize your cultivation base. Use the medicinal pills to continue expanding your sea until it reaches its absolute limit,” said Long Chen.
The Sea Expansion realm was important. It decided how much a person could grow in the future. So the sea had to be expanded to its peak.
The initial sea was just the first step of Sea Expansion. Once the initial sea was formed, it returned to the Dantian. Through medicinal energy, it was possible to continue expanding the sea.
Once a cultivator reached the first Heavenstage, their realm would completely stabilize, and future expansions would be in proportion to the size of the initial sea. So the greater the foundation, the greater the future prospects.
Long Chen spent the next few days refining Sea Merging Pills. Although he didn’t have the Earth Flame’s power, his Spiritual Strength had increased after advancing to Sea Expansion, so the difficult Sea Merging Pills were refined much easier this time.
Yue Xiaoqian finally left a week later. She slipped away without telling him, but Long Chen was aware. He just acted like he didn’t.