by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Power of the Flame Spirit, Form of Ten Thousand Beasts, I am your Soul, my Life is your Name. Contractual Flame Spirit Beast, appear!”
BOOM!
Flames suddenly erupted out of Luo Xiao as he formed hand seals. They condensed into a huge figure beneath his feet.
It was a flame salamander hundreds of meters long. A terrifying pressure caused the spectators’ hearts to shake.
“This Luo Xiao is actually able to condense his own Earth Flame Spirit Beast?” Kan Dongze was a bit surprised.
There were two types of Earth Flame Spirit Beasts. One was natural Earth Flames that took the appearance of beasts. They could be forcibly subdued and enslaved to fight for their master. But Earth Flames had their own spirits, and using a slave imprint to forcibly order it to fight would cause a conflict between its spirit and its master’s will. Sometimes it would suddenly attack its master.
The second method involved condensing an Earth Flame Spirit Beast through a kind of secret art possessed by Pill Valley. This Earth Flame Spirit Beast would be fully obedient.
The prerequisite to do such a thing was to sacrifice a portion of your Spiritual Strength to give life to the Earth Flame Spirit Beast. This Earth Flame Spirit Beast formed from your own Earth Flame energy and Spiritual Strength would be one hundred percent loyal, because its soul was a part of your soul. The master and beast could fight all-out.
Every alchemist could raise Earth Flame Spirit Beasts, but sacrificing a portion of their Spiritual Strength for an Earth Flame Spirit Beast was not worth it.
As for the Spiritual Strength you sacrificed, it would never fully recover. It signified that you would never have one hundred percent of your soul energy ever again.
Each sliver of Spiritual Strength was extremely important to an alchemist. Sometimes the success or failure of a refinement was dependent on just that one sliver.
As a result, there were essentially no alchemists that raised their own Earth Flame Spirit Beasts. Furthermore, the more powerful the Earth Flame Spirit Beast, the more soul energy would be exhausted.
Luo Xiao’s Earth Flame Spirit Beast was extremely powerful. Luo Xiao had sacrificed a full ten percent of his Spiritual Strength to raise it. That was why it was so terrifying, capable of instantly killing ordinary Jade Core experts.
“Die!”
Luo Xiao’s flame salamander suddenly charged forward, slamming a claw at Long Chen.
BOOM! Flames filled the sky. Long Chen had met the salamander’s claw with his fist.
Compared to the flame salamander, Long Chen was as tiny as a fly. Although he managed to stop the claw, he was constantly being pushed back by it. The huge power blew apart Long Chen’s shoes.
Blood-red runes appeared on Long Chen’s feet. They ground against the metal bricks, releasing a hair-raising metallic ringing.
“Not bad. That Earth Flame essence wasn’t wasted. Long San’s physical body is comparable to a body cultivator.” Seeing Long Chen rely on just his physical strength to block this flame salamander, Zhuo Tianxiang nodded.
“Reporting to Protector Zhuo, disciple has noticed that Long San’s physical body is extremely powerful. Even after absorbing all that Earth Flame essence, it doesn’t seem like he’s reached his limit. If we had more time and he could absorb more Earth Flame essence, his body would grow even stronger,” interjected Elder Zhu.
“I see. Alchemists normally have weak bodies. This Long San really is an oddity. If we weren’t in such a rush, he definitely would be raised properly. With such a powerful physical body, there’s basically no way he can lose. When he gets back, properly raise this secret weapon. Perhaps he can give us a pleasant surprise.” Zhuo Tianxiang smiled.
BOOM!
Long Chen was finally unable to continue blocking the power of the flame salamander and was sent flying.
Die!” Luo Xiao didn’t give Long Chen any chance to recover. The tail of the salamander whipped toward him.
“Hmph, do you think you’re the only one with an Earth Flame Spirit Beast? Power of the Flame Spirit, Form of Ten Thousand Beasts, I am your Soul, my Life is your Name. Contractual Flame Spirit Beast, appear!”
Long Chen suddenly made the same hand seals and chanted the same thing as Luo Xiao.
Seeing this shocked everyone, even Zhuo Tianxiang and the ones in the room.
“Hehe, under my supervision and guidance, Long San can now use this move.” Elder Zhu modestly smiled. But the delight in his eyes sold him out.
In truth, Elder Zhu was just trying to make himself look better. This wasn’t something he had taught Long Chen. It was something he had taken the initiative to learn.
Suddenly, a huge blood-colored wolf appeared in the air. Itwas extremely lifelike, looking just like a real Magical Beast.
It immediately let out a furious howl. All its hair stood on end, and its eyes contained icy killing intent.
“He’s actually able to condense such a lifelike Earth Flame Spirit Beast? Just how much Spiritual Strength did he sacrifice?” asked Zhuo Tianxiang.
The more solid the Earth Flame Spirit Beast, the greater its power, and the more Spiritual Strength had to be sacrificed to condense it.
“I really don’t know. Long San has so much Spiritual Strength that even after condensing this Earth Flame Spirit Beast, I didn’t sense his Spiritual Strength drop.” Elder Zhu shook his head, sighing.
The wolf bit the salamander’s tail and instantly tore it off.
Not giving the tail any time to transform into runes, the wolf opened its mouth and devoured it.
This blood-colored flame wolf was no Earth Flame Spirit Beast. It was one of Huo Long’s transformations. Its appearance was similar to Little Snow’s, but its fur was blood-colored instead of white, the specific color of the Berserk Blood Flame.
Long Chen stood atop its head. Seeing this familiar figure, he felt a wave of emotion. It was like he could see Little Snow blocking the Yama King Blood Curse for him and dying in the Immemorial Path.
“Little Snow, charge!”
Long Chen let out a quiet cry. It was like he had returned to a time when they could fight alongside each other. Huo Long seemed to be able to sense Long Chen’s emotions, and it let out a roar. It bent its legs and then pounced at Luo Xiao as quick as lightning.
Luo Xiao was shocked and infuriated. He had never imagined that Long Chen would have an Earth Flame Spirit Beast, and one even stronger than his own at that.
Due to Long Chen’s Earth Flame being of an even higher rank than Luo Xiao’s, his Earth Flame Spirit Beast was stronger, causing Luo Xiao to panic.
Luo Xiao made the salamander dodge, wanting to avoid it being killed in one hit. But he didn’t know that Long Chen’s flame wolf was no ordinary Earth Flame Spirit Beast. Huo Long had been raised by Long Chen from its youth, and it had experienced countless bloody battles with him. It possessed its own combat instincts.
Although its form had changed to a wolf instead of a dragon, it was still nimble and agile. Missing its first dash, its back legs stamped on the ground and it spun, rushing toward the salamander that had just dodged. Luo Xiao had yet to even stabilize it yet.
BOOM!
In front of countless shocked gazes, the wolf’s paw slammed into the salamander, making it explode.
Although Luo Xiao had abandoned his Earth Flame Spirit Beast at the last moment and was flying away, he was coughing up blood from the shockwaves.
Before he could do anything, a figure appeared in front of him, and a large hand clamped over his throat, holding him in the air like a chicken.
A pair of eyes with blood-colored runes in them stared at him. That gaze was like the gaze of a death god, and Luo Xiao’s soul almost fled out of terror.
“Long San… don’t kill me… please, I’m begging you!” At this time, Luo Xiao’s throat was caught and he couldn’t speak. He could only send out a spiritual message, begging for mercy.
“I had no choice other than to target you! Please, let me go! I won�
�t do anything to you ever again!” Luo Xiao was full of terror.
The outsiders couldn’t sense Luo Xiao’s spiritual messages outside the martial stage, but they saw his begging appearance.
“Speak. Who deceived Duan Tianqiao?” Long Chen’s voice was icy without the slightest emotion, just like a Grim Reaper from hell.
Chapter 1346 Damn Trash
Blood-colored runes surfaced on Long Chen’s hand, and the flames instantly enveloped Luo Xiao. At that time, Long Chen released Luo Xiao’s throat, and a miserable cry resounded throughout the arena.
Everyone felt a chill. Long San was completely vicious. He had not only killed Luo Xiao, but he had also made him suffer the pain of being incinerated before his death.
Luo Xiao’s miserable cry hung in the air for half an incense stick’s time before Long Chen’s flames incinerated him into nothing. Even his soul was gone without a trace.
Behind Long Chen, the flame wolf, which had already absorbed all the flame salamander’s energy, shrank down to three meters and quietly stood behind Long Chen.
One man and one beast stood atop the martial stage. Everyone was deathly silent, and all their gazes gathered on this man whose eyes unleashed a scarlet light.
“Qu Chunsheng, you little bastard, I, Master Long San, challenge you to a life and death match right now. If you’re a man, you’ll come out and fight me to the death.” Long Chen suddenly let out a furious roar that shook the sky. His killing intent had reached a terrifying level that made others involuntarily shudder.
Qu Chunsheng was an existence that few outer disciples would know. But to old inner disciples that had investigated things in the Divine Pill Hall, he was quite well known.
They also knew why Long Chen would challenge him. That was because the one that had tricked Duan Tianqiao of her purity was Qu Chunsheng.
In truth, Qu Chunsheng’s reputation was extremely bad in the Divine Pill Hall. Many people loathed him.
He had a decent face, but the way he acted disgusted people.
Pill Valley did not prevent men and women from dual cultivating. A situation where a man had multiple dual cultivation Dao-companions was not that rare.
But the majority of those men would tell their Dao-companions about everything. They wouldn’t conceal their partners. That was because whether it was in the secular world or cultivation world, the feeling of being tricked was unendurable.
That was especially true in the cultivation world. The Dao-heart was extremely important, and being tricked like this would very easily form a heart-devil. It was taboo.
As for Qu Chunsheng, what he had cared about was Duan Tianqiao’s potential. He had helped her when she had had no support, showing care for her in every possible manner and winning her heart.
Only later had Duan Tianqiao noticed that Qu Chunsheng had other Dao-companions. She was able to accept this. But then she had heard Qu Chunsheng speaking with Jiang Zijun. Only then had she learned that Qu Chunsheng didn’t have any feelings for her. He had only gotten close to her to get another helper for the Divine Shield Alliance.
At that time, Duan Tianqiao had felt like the heavens were collapsing. She had demanded to know why Qu Chunsheng would trick her. Who would have thought that after being exposed, Qu Chunsheng wouldn’t even be the slightest bit apologetic? Instead, he insulted Duan Tianqiao for not being able to recognize kindness.
If it hadn’t been for him, she wouldn’t have been able to enter the Divine Pill Hall in her lifetime.
Duan Tianqiao had never imagined that the modest man she liked was actually such a person. She was completely disheartened and contemplated suicide.
It was the Pill Fairy that had saved her from this darkness. It took a long time for this matter to be settled.
However, just a few days ago, the day Duan Tianqiao had committed suicide, Qu Chunsheng had gone to find her in her courtyard. It was unknown what had gone down between them, but it was that very day that Duan Tianqiao killed herself.
Long Chen hadn’t known about all this. This information was what he had found out by investigating Luo Xiao’s soul before he died.
Long Chen almost couldn’t believe a man would be so shameless. His fury immediately soared, and he directly challenged Qu Chunsheng.
“You aren’t qualified to challenge me. I am an alchemist, while you have already become a flame cultivator. You’re already far below me in terms of status.”
A good-looking man with shoulder-length hair sneered from amongst the crowd.
The people around him immediately retreated, and a few of the inner disciples stared at him with a look of disgust. That was the Qu Chunsheng who used his looks to survive in the world.
In truth, with Qu Chunsheng’s talent, if it wasn’t for the backing of the Divine Shield Alliance, he would probably have long since fallen to the bottom of the rankings and been kicked out of Pill Valley.
This pretty boy specialized in picking out inexperienced but talented women from the inner sect. But with the Divine Shield Alliance behind him, no one dared to expose him to those women. However, everyone who knew about him hated him.
Qu Chunsheng sneered. Suddenly, he sent a spiritual message to Long Chen. “Do you want to know what I said to Duan Tianqiao that day? Hehe, it wasn’t much of anything. I just looked back on our experiences and the details of our romance. I then made a comparison to some other women. They were such beautiful memories. I didn’t expect her to be so narrow-minded, sigh!”
Buzz.
All of a sudden, the martial stage shook. After killing Luo Xiao, it was sending Long Chen out.
Coincidentally, the exit and the entrance to the martial stage were not the same places. Long Chen was transported to a place less than three thousand meters from Qu Chunsheng.
In that instant, Qu Chunsheng’s expression changed and he turned to flee. Once he was outside, he’d definitely be safe, because there were guards outside the martial arena, but not inside.
Just at this moment, someone intentionally blocked his path. They crashed into each other.
“Are you blind?! Why would you crash into me?”
That person was an inner disciple. After blocking Qu Chunsheng’s path, he acted like it was his fault. But he was actually trying to stop Qu Chunsheng.
Many people hated him and wished for Long San to get rid of this trash.
Qu Chunsheng’s expression once more changed as he felt a terrifying killing intent lock him down. That killing intent made it so he couldn’t move.
A hand suddenly pierced through his back and ripped out his beating heart.
An icy voice rang out from behind him. “How curious. How could garbage like you also have a heart? And your blood’s even red?”
The hand shot forward like a blade, splitting Qu Chunsheng apart. Long Chen pulled.
“Your guts are a bit small. That doesn’t make sense. After doing so many heartless things, how could your guts be so small? Well, people say the guts and the liver are connected, so let’s see your liver.”
Pfft!
“Ah, sorry, my anatomy’s not so good. It seems this is your spleen?”
Long Chen’s hands were bloody, but curiously, none of the surrounding disciples felt any pity. Instead, they felt like their hatred was finally being vented.
“Long San, tear apart this scum of Pill Valley! This bastard should be cut into a million pieces!”
Seeing female disciples being seduced by this bastard one by one had made them hate him to the bone a long time ago. Right now, watching Long San torture him allowed them to finally vent.
“Long San, stop! Release Qu Chunsheng, otherwise-!” Just at this moment, Jiang Zijun led a group of people over.
Just as Qu Chunsheng saw Jiang Zijun and a sliver of hope appeared within him, runes circulated around Long Chen’s arm, blowing apart his body. Qu Chunsheng only had a head left.
“Senior apprentice-brother Zijun, save-!”
Pfft!
Long Chen punched Qu Chunsheng�
��s jaw, making it so he couldn’t speak.
According to reason, a person would require vocal cords to speak. But an alchemist could make other parts of their bodies rub together to make sounds, so even without a neck, he had managed to cry something out.
However, without even a tongue, he couldn’t cry for help. Well, perhaps if he knew how to rub his eyelashes together to make noise, he could speak, but he didn’t know how to do such a thing.
“Your daddy Long San never gives in to threats. Do you want to try it again?” Long Chen held Qu Chunsheng’s head.
Jiang Zijun was infuriated. “Long San, you are-”
Buzz.
Flames suddenly burst out of Long Chen’s hand, wrapping around Qu Chunsheng’s head. A miserable shriek resounded in everyone’s souls.
This wasn’t the cry of a physical body, but Qu Chunsheng’s spiritual fluctuations. All the disciples here had powerful Spiritual Strength and could sense his pain.
In truth, the reason why he felt so much pain was because Long Chen’s blood-colored flame hid a slight violet color within it.
That was the Soul Devouring Violet Flame, something specialized against souls. Qu Chunsheng was enduring unspeakable pain at the moment. The people closest to Long Chen felt his pain too clearly and had to fall back.
The spiritual resonance allowed them to experience Qu Chunsheng’s pain. What they were experiencing was just one ten-thousandth of what he was feeling, but it still felt like needles were stabbing their souls.
“Long San, you’re courting death!”
Jiang Zijun suddenly extended a hand, and a flame spear appeared. Nine flowers materialized behind his back as he summoned the peak manifestation of a Celestial, Nine Flowers Manifest the Heavenly Daos.
When Jiang Zijun summoned his manifestation, every disciple here turned pale, unable to even move. They were all suppressed by this Heavenly Dao energy.