by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
BOOM! The ground cracked and the sky swayed. Long Chen felt a terrifying force send him flying. He didn’t even know how far he flew, but in any case, he clearly heard every single one of his bones breaking.
His body almost collapsed, and he tumbled across the ground, almost fainting.
When he finally stopped, Long Chen once more drank the divine life elixir. The slain sea demons from the eastern sea had given Long Chen three jugs of the divine life elixir.
Drinking a few mouthfuls, his injuries instantly healed. Long Chen hastily looked forward to see that there was now a ten-thousand-mile hole where he had been.
A cauldron and a pot were lying at the bottom. Long Chen couldn’t help being delighted. The pot wasn’t the slightest bit damaged and looked as unremarkable as before.
He rushed over and grabbed the pot. Then he looked at the distant cauldron lying beside Dan Chu. Dan Chu’s body had already deformed from the impact and he was simply laying there, constantly coughing up blood. His broken innards were also coughed up. He clearly suffered a terrifying internal injury.
His spiritual yuan was completely exhausted. Let alone using Heavenly Dao energy to heal, he didn’t even have the strength to take out a medicinal pill from his spatial ring.
The impact from the cauldron and pot colliding had been absolutely terrifying, and he hadn’t been able to bear it. In order to save his life, he had used his final bit of essence blood and Spiritual Strength to recall the cauldron to protect himself.
But he had reached the verge of collapse. Seeing Long Chen walking over with a pot, his eyes were full of fury.
He had never dreamed that Long Chen possessed so many trump cards and was even capable of blocking his cauldron. After being duped at the beginning, an easy victory had turned into a complete defeat. If he had attacked all out from the beginning, perhaps this wouldn’t have been the conclusion.
Long Chen carried the pot over to the almost dead Dan Chu. He didn’t dare to be careless. This kind of person had too many trump cards, and who knew when he would unleash another one?
Carrying the pot made him feel much more at ease. This pot hadn’t disappointed him. It had actually blocked that terrifying cauldron.
Walking to the panting Dan Chu, Long Chen kicked him. Like a mass of flesh, Dan Chu rolled across the ground several times, almost collapsing. With his butt on his head, he once more vomited blood.
“Looks like I don’t need to worry.”
Looking at Dan Chu’s state, he grabbed the cauldron. The cauldron’s runes instantly lit up.
Long Chen’s arm almost blew apart. His skin broke and blood poured out. He was blown back into the distance. He looked in shock at the cauldron. So it was capable of unleashing its own attacks.
Without a word, Long Chen smashed the pot at it. As a result, the cauldron’s runes dimmed somewhat.
Seeing that this was effective, he continuously smashed it with the pot. The cauldron rapidly dimmed, while the pot grew darker, its aura growing stronger.
“It’s absorbing its energy for itself?” Long Chen was startled. This pot was strange. Back then, it had extracted his spiritual yuan. Now it was absorbing the cauldron’s energy.
Perhaps his luck really had turned and he had obtained a heaven-defying treasure. This pot was extraordinary for it to even suppress such a terrifying cauldron. It had to be known that the pot had been on the verge of collapse when he had found it.
After smashing it a few times, Long Chen hastily stopped. He found that the cauldron was rapidly dimming, and it sent him a message that it submitted. Now he was worried that if he kept hitting it, it would be crippled.
“You’re willing to submit to me?” asked Long Chen.
The cauldron suddenly unleashed a pure white light. A small rune appeared. When it appeared, the distant, unconscious Dan Chu quivered.
“A spiritual seal?” Long Chen started.
Suddenly, that rune ignited on its own and was incinerated into nothing.
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“Damnit, I’ve lost connection to the Blazing Dragon Cauldron!”
Within the Central Plains, in a place far away from the Grand Xia, there was a city. Within that city was a soaring tower, and there was an elder within that suddenly let out a heaven-shaking roar.
This elder was the Pill Tower’s master that Long Chen had once seen before, Dan Teng. Right now, he looked almost insane.
“Something definitely happened to Chu-er!”
In order to make sure this matter was completed perfectly, he had sent Dan Chu, his Pill Tower’s top genius, and he had even lent him his Ancestral item.
The Blazing Dragon Cauldron was something Dan Teng’s ancestors had left for him. Naturally, the reason Ancestral items were called Ancestral items was because generations of experts had used their bloodline to nourish it.
An Ancestral item’s power far surpassed a King item. Normally, only a Soul Transformation expert could use it.
But because Ancestral items had spiritual seals binding them and had been nourished by one bloodline, descendants of that bloodline could use their bloodline power to order the Ancestral item to attack, even if they were too weak to use it normally.
However, although an Ancestral item was powerful, it had a drawback. If the spiritual seal was too forceful, it would be like slavery and the item-spirit would have a natural resistance toward it. It wouldn’t be very loyal.
That was why the cauldron was now willing to submit to Long Chen. It even incinerated that spiritual seal.
This spiritual seal was something it originally hadn’t been able to resolve. But in order to allow Dan Chu to use it, Dan Teng had removed a portion of the original spiritual seal and allowed Dan Chu to place his own.
But Dan Chu’s Spiritual Strength was now exhausted. His spiritual seal had lost almost all effect. Furthermore, within this minor world, Dan Teng’s spiritual seal was weakened. So to save its own life, the cauldron used its core energy to forcibly remove the restrictions of the spiritual seal.
Long Chen didn’t know that Dan Teng was currently roaring furiously. He looked at the white light coming from the cauldron, and he sensed a message.
Its meaning was that Long Chen could place his own spiritual seal. It was willing to submit to him as long as Long Chen stopped hitting it. Otherwise, it would be destroyed.
Long Chen looked at the black pot in his hand that was now shining slightly to the cauldron that was just waiting for his spiritual seal. He was delighted. Today, he had obtained two amazing treasures.
“If you want to follow me, then that’s enough. There’s no need for a spiritual seal. In my life, there are only enemies or companions. Hopefully, you’ll live up to my trust.” Long Chen placed a hand on the cauldron.
It wasn’t that Long Chen was so arrogant as to not place a spiritual seal. The real problem was that the cauldron was too powerful. The item-spirit was also intelligent, and so Long Chen couldn’t view it as a slave. Therefore he didn’t want to place a spiritual seal.
Furthermore, he sensed terror and helplessness from the cauldron, but he didn’t sense any animosity. That was why Long Chen dared to accept it.
Long Chen trusted that he could keep this cauldron suppressed. Even without the pot, he had no fear of it. Within his body, there was something that could suppress all other objects, the primal chaos bead. So far, it had never failed him.
Even in the Immemorial Path, the Eastern Wasteland Bell had been extremely intimidated by the primal chaos bead. Although the Eastern Wasteland Bell hadn’t said it explicitly, Long Chen could sense it.
If even the divine item, the Eastern Wasteland Bell, was afraid of it, what was there to fear from a cauldron? Long Chen carefully examined the cauldron in his hand.
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The cauldron had four feet, implying the four directions of north, east, south, and west. Normally, such cauldrons would be square on the outside and square on the inside.
But this cauldron was squa
re on the outside and circular on the inside. It was a cauldron specifically used for refining pills. It was different from a pill furnace in that a pill furnace only had three feet and was as round as a ball outside and inside. It also had a lid, but medicinal cauldrons did not.
There were two extremely detailed runes around the opening that were dragon-shaped. The mouths of those dragons were spurting flames, and they were both incredibly lifelike.
“Blazing Dragon Cauldron.”
Long Chen finally saw three immortal characters on the cauldron. Only then did he learn its name.
This Blazing Dragon Cauldron’s item-spirit was expressing its gratefulness to him. After thinking about it, Long Chen directly placed it in his spiritual space.
The Blazing Dragon Cauldron would be nourished by his soul within his mind-sea. That made it even more grateful, and it even began to give him some of its secrets.
Only now did Long Chen learn that the Blazing Dragon Cauldron was an existence that surpassed King items. It had been passed down and enslaved through generations of the Dan family. It was no wonder it would be so grateful that Long Chen wouldn’t place a slave mark on it.
He had no time right now to ask it about all of its secrets. He walked over to Dan Chu and saw that his face was still as twisted as ever.
However, now he no longer had any of his grandness. He looked just as pathetic as a dead dog.
“Well? Are you still thinking of my treasures?” asked Long Chen.
“Long Chen, you’ve stolen the Blazing Dragon Cauldron. The Tower Master will not let you off,” said Dan Chu, filled with rancor. He felt that his defeat in this battle was a complete injustice. He was filled with hatred.
“Tch, I’m the one who’s not going to let him off. The Tower Master you’re talking about should be that old bastard Dan Teng, right? Hmph, he and Xuan Jizi want to target me? I’ll make sure that bastard Dan Teng’s balls really hurt[1]. Do you have anything else to say? If not, I’ll be sending you on your way. Ah, that’s right, money isn’t useful to a dead person. I’ll help you take care of it.” Long Chen took away Dan Chu’s spatial ring.
Glancing inside, he saw it was a huge life ring with over a hundred square miles in space. It was packed with all kinds of precious medicines.
Regretfully, other than those precious medicinal ingredients, the rest were all bottles filled with medicinal pills, as well as some alchemy techniques or theories. Those things were useless to Long Chen.
But the medicinal ingredients made him red-eyed. He was truly worthy of being the Pill Tower’s most outstanding junior disciple. He was incredibly rich. There were at least hundreds of species that Long Chen hadn’t possessed before. That was incredibly important to him.
Putting away the spatial ring, he said, “So there’s nothing left to say. You can go now.”
Long Chen stabbed Blooddrinker at Dan Chu’s forehead. This was the fastest way to annihilate a person’s soul. There was no need to first kill the body and then target the soul.
Buzz.
But just as his saber was about to pierce his head, a jade tablet materialized over it.
The jade tablet was something almost identical to Long Chen’s Soul Calming Jade. The difference was that his Soul Calming Jade had nine veins, but this one only had seven.
This Soul Calming Jade floated above Dan Chu’s forehead. It was shattered by the tip of Long Chen’s saber on contact, but in that instant, a barrier of light wrapped around Dan Chu, blocking Long Chen’s attack.
“Haha, Long Chen, you can’t kill me!”
Within the light, Dan Chu suddenly began to laugh. A fierce-looking elder appeared within the barrier.
“Long Chen, you dare to kill my Pill Tower’s disciple and steal my ancestral treasure, the Blazing Dragon Cauldron?! This time, not even the Xuantian Dao Sect will be able to protect you! Hand over the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and I can spare your life, otherwise…” This elder was precisely the Pill Tower’s master, Dan Teng.
Killing intent was blazing within his eyes as he glared at Long Chen. Even separated by an incomprehensible distance, Long Chen could feel his anger.
But thinking about it, he supposed that was forgivable. Instead of getting his treasures, Dan Teng had lost his own ancestral treasure. He’d probably be angry too if the positions were reversed.
Long Chen looked at Dan Teng indifferently. There was clearly no way to placate Dan Teng’s killing intent, and yet he still had to act like there was room for compromise. Long Chen involuntarily spat out one word to describe him: “Idiot.”
Within the light barrier, Dan Teng was thinking about how to intimidate Long Chen and force him to hand over the Blazing Dragon Cauldron when Long Chen’s word struck him across the face.
“You… do you believe when I say I can destroy your entire Xuantian Dao Sect?!” roared Dan Teng, flames almost spurting from his eyes. He knew that Long Chen had no family he could threaten. The only thing that could make him have some misgivings was the Xuantian Dao Sect.
“Brag a bit harder and I might believe it,” said Long Chen.
Seeing Dan Teng’s face swell up until it looked like a pig’s, Long Chen couldn’t help but sneer inside. No matter how amazing the Pill Tower was, it was a neutral power. Did he really dare to destroy one of the three heavenly sects, the Xuantian Dao Sect? This bragging didn’t have any skill.
“First, ignoring whether or not you have the power to destroy my Xuantian Dao Sect, can you even tell me what excuse you’ll give for attacking the Xuantian Dao Sect? You really are an idiot, an idiot who will even listen to that other idiot Xuan Jizi’s lies. Just for greed, you were willing to invert right and wrong and frame me as a Heaven-Seizer.
“Back then the Xuan Master used the entire Xuantian Dao Sect to guarantee there was no chance I was a Heaven-Seizer right in front of all the Martial Heaven Alliance. He slapped your faces so hard that as I see it, you ended up slapped into an idiot.
“Even now, what reason do you have to so openly collude with the Grand Han and interfere with the matters of the ancient nations? Your goal is only to kill me and take some treasure that doesn’t even exist. Tell me, don’t you think you’re an idiot?
“Perhaps if you’re able to kill enough people to keep the truth from getting out, things won’t be so bad. But if you aren’t… hehe, old ghost Dan Teng, although I don’t guarantee that I can make your balls hurt, I guarantee I’ll make your head hurt. I’ll make your scandal public so that the entire Martial Heaven Continent can see that the Pill Tower is full of hypocrites selling dog meat as sheep meat, trash capable of using any underhanded methods,” sneered Long Chen.
“Hmph, do you think anyone would believe a brat like you? So what if I wrongly accused you? Nothing I set my sight on ever manages to get away. If you’re smart, you’ll immediately hand over your secrets and treasures. Otherwise, not only will I kill you, but not one member of your Dragonblood Legion or lovers will survive. When the time comes, don’t regret this decision. I, Dan Teng, will use my status as the master of the Pill Tower to tell you that this region is my world. No one can go against me here.
“There are countless sects that have close relationships with my Pill Tower. As long as I say the word, all of them will point their spears at your Xuantian Dao Sect. When the time comes, the Xuantian Dao Sect will end up wiped out, all because of you. You, Long Chen, are claimed to be a hot-blooded hero, but are you not even loyal enough to spill some blood to protect your brothers’ heads? In my view, you are just a weak coward, willing to bring about the destruction of his own sect for some treasures, a petty person who will throw away his brothers and lovers without a second thought,” sneered Dan Teng.
Long Chen smiled coldly. Truly shameless. Even when threatening others, he could make up something so pompous sounding.
It was like the only way for Long Chen to be a hero was to hand over his treasures. If he didn’t, he would become a despicable coward.
But Long Chen didn’t mind, nor d
id he get angry. Within the primal chaos space, the photographic jade was still activated. Dan Teng’s words and shameless appearance were all recorded.
“Long Chen, I’ll give you one more chance. Hand over your treasures, and I’ll spare your life. If you don’t, not only will you die, but your lovers, your brothers, your senior apprentice-brothers, senior apprentice-sisters, they’ll all die. Think about it.” Dan Teng looked at Long Chen coldly, his voice full of confidence. He truly did have that power.
Countless sects had secretly been consumed by the Pill Tower, becoming nothing more than their troops. On the surface, it only looked like they were cooperating. But as long as the Pill Tower gave the word, those sects would start making all kinds of little moves to threaten the Xuantian Dao Sect.
“Old idiot, you’re too confident. With your intelligence, you’re not suited to scheming. If you tried scheming, you’d be played to death. You’ve already released your fart, so you can leave now. Don’t hold me up from killing people.” Long Chen once more stabbed Blooddrinker at Dan Chu.
However, his spiritual yuan was almost exhausted. Blooddrinker pierced into the light barrier, but then its movements were slowed. It inched toward Dan Chu’s head.
“Tower Master, save me!” cried Dan Chu. Dan Teng was Dan Chu’s paternal great-grandfather. But within his family, they had to call family members by their official positions.
“Long Chen, you’re consigning every single person beside you to eternal damnation. Are you willing to do that!?” shouted Dan Teng.
Long Chen ignored him. Although his saber was affected by the light barrier and its progress was slow, he was increasing the power. It was less than three inches from Dan Chu’s head.
Dan Chu was terrified. Previously he hadn’t been afraid, not because he was courageous, but because he had known that with the Soul Calming Jade protecting him, he would be automatically saved.
But now, Long Chen was still trying to kill him. He couldn’t help being terrified, and he begged the Tower Master to save him.
Within the light barrier, Dan Teng suddenly formed hand seals and the light barrier flashed, sending Long Chen flying.