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For some reason, that arrow gave him a sense of unease. It seemed that some energy within that arrow intimidated him.
The woman still didn’t reply. She glared at Guo Ran, but her arms trembled even more.
However, when a certain person walked over, she was shocked and delighted. She put down her bow.
What shocked everyone was that this woman immediately flew over to Long Chen and threw herself into his embrace.
“Hey, what’s with this?! I’m the one who saved you! You should be throwing yourself to my embrace!” cried Guo Ran.
Long Chen also found it strange. But he didn’t sense any hostility from this woman, so he didn’t refuse her.
The woman really did just hug him like that. The leaf image on her forehead spun, and she took a step back.
“Friend, have you come to help our Forest of Life?” The woman suddenly began to speak.
“I don’t know what the Forest of Life is. I came to the Spirit World to repay a debt.” Long Chen shook his head.
“You have the aura of the Forest of Life on you. You have an agreement with the Forest of Life, so you are our friend.”
“Agreement?”
Long Chen suddenly thought of the final words that the Spirit World expert had said.
“She came from your Forest of Life?” Long Chen created an image in the air with his Spiritual Strength. It was an image of the forest divinity that small nameless village in the Eastern Wasteland had offered sacrifices to.
“Yes. Friend, my comrades are in danger. Can you help us?” asked the woman.
“Talking is too difficult. Transmit what you want to communicate with me through Spiritual Strength.” Long Chen pressed a hand against the woman’s forehead. The woman was clearly panicked inside, but her words didn’t seem to match her expression. She probably wasn’t able to speak this way easily.
“Meng Qi, summon Cloud. We have to go!”
Cloud appeared in the air. Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Long Chen, and the woman jumped on. Cloud let out a bird cry and transformed into a rainbow streak of light that vanished from the rest of the Dragonblood Legion’s sight.
“We’re following!” Guo Ran used the flying boat to fly off in the same direction. Due to the urgent situation, Long Chen had left first.
Cloud had been in seclusion in the Myriad Spirit Diagram this entire time. Its cultivation base was still at the peak of the ninth rank, but it was displaying more and more power of the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow.
Its aura had grown far stronger, and its speed was absolutely shocking. It flew so fast that there was no way to see their surroundings as they passed.
Through the woman’s soul, Long Chen confirmed that she was definitely from the same side as the forest divinity.
She was from the Spirit race. The Spirit race was the indigenous race of the Spirit World, and the Forest of Life was what they depended on to survive.
Long Chen could have learned much more from this woman’s soul, but he didn’t, because that was an invasion of her privacy. He only received what she expressed to him. All he really needed to know was that he wasn’t helping the wrong person.
…
“These ladies from the Spirit World really are stubborn. They’re still resisting.” A Corrupt expert pulled out an arrow sticking out of his shoulder, grimacing from the pain.
There were hundreds of Corrupt experts on this battlefield. They were surrounding a large tree, and there were over ten Spirit race women fighting against them, shooting out arrows continuously.
The Corrupt experts were unable to approach the women, because divine runes came falling from the huge tree, forming a natural formation that protected them.
Under the protection of the tree, they were able to hold on. But at this time, the runes on the tree’s leaves were starting to dim.
The Corrupt experts’ attacks were constantly draining its energy. They were powerful experts within the Jade Core realm, and the tree couldn’t last much longer.
Fortunately, the arrows from the Spirit race’s women were also terrifying. They possessed some energy these disciples had never encountered before. If they were shot in their heads, their souls would instantly dissipate. Even the Yuan Spirit of a Soul Transformation expert might be erased.
That was why these Jade Core Corrupt disciples had been in a deadlock with them for the better part of a day. Dozens of them had already been killed, infuriating them.
They had to constantly dodge the rain of arrows as they attacked the tree. As long as the tree ran out of energy, these women would be easily caught.
The runes on the tree’s leaves were dimming, and the barrier protecting it was weakening. Each of their attacks was causing it to shudder as if it might break apart at any moment.
BOOM!
The tree finally couldn’t last any longer. The barrier exploded and the tree vanished, transforming into a withered seed.
At the same time, one of the women coughed up a mouthful of blood. She turned pale and fainted, and the others hastily went to support her.
“Hahaha, beauties of the Spirit race, you’re ours!” The Corrupt experts laughed greedily and sinisterly charged forward.
They didn’t know that a huge mouth had suddenly appeared in the sky above them. It devoured them all in one gulp.
Chapter 1402 Old Acquaintance
All the Corrupt experts were devoured by Cloud. In front of a Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, they didn’t have the slightest opportunity to resist.
Cloud had been cultivating in the Myriad Spirit Diagram this entire time, and it had learned the divine abilities of the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race. Amongst them, the most terrifying was their devouring ability. Of course, that was why they were given the name Heaven Swallowing.
At the same time as Cloud devoured those Corrupt experts, it swung its wings, and the Spirit race women felt their bodies lighten. They appeared on its back.
They were shocked and about to resist when the Spirit race woman beside Long Chen seemed to communicate with them spiritually. They didn’t need to speak to know what the others were saying.
Those women immediately thanked Long Chen. But their ‘clothes’ were far too simple, making things awkward.
He tried his best not to look, but their bodies were all beautiful. Even Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er couldn’t help but glance, let alone a man like Long Chen.
The curious thing was that all the Spirit race’s experts were women. He saved three waves of them on his way, and they were women.
It made him speechless that they all looked identical. It was almost impossible to tell them apart.
BOOM!
Suddenly, an explosion shook the land, and a pillar of light soared into the air. They saw a blood-colored skeleton floating in the air, wielding a huge bone club.
Facing the skeleton was a woman of the Spirit race. An image of an ancient tree hung behind her, one that was even larger than a mountain. Chains shot out of the tree, attacking the skeleton.
The Spirit race woman fought against the skeleton, while countless experts of the Corrupt path and Spirit race were clashing in the distance. Their battle was extremely miserable, and both sides had taken losses. Corpses covered the land, but the Corrupt path was currently winning.
Their power was extremely great. They had over ten Life Star experts and hundreds of Soul Transformation experts. Moreover, their Jade Core experts numbered in the tens of thousands.
As for the Spirit race’s side, they were down to less than ten thousand members, and whether it was in terms of numbers or power, they were at a disadvantage.
The worst thing was that their leader, the one who was fighting the skeleton, was already starting to lose. The chains she summoned were being blown apart one by one.
“Long Chen, please save our Spirit Guard!” begged one of the Spirit race women by Long Chen’s side.
“Don’t worry, with Long Chen present, your Spirit Guard will be fine,” said Meng Qi. Both she
and Tang Wan-er had recognized the master of that skeleton.
“I’ll go greet him. I’ll leave the rest to you two.” Long Chen shot off.
Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, and Cloud charged into the fray.
“Sisters, tell your people to retreat. We’re not that fierce, but when a certain fellow fights, he always causes a mess.” Tang Wan-er smiled to the Spirit race women. She knew that once Long Chen fought, he would definitely shake heaven and earth.
On the battlefield, the Corrupt experts seemed to be crazily attacking the Spirit race women. But although it looked fierce, they were holding back. Their goal wasn’t to kill the Spirit race women, but to capture them alive.
Just as the Corrupt experts thought that they would be able to capture most of their prey, the latter suddenly retreated. At the same time, the sky darkened.
“What’s going on?!”
The Corrupt experts were startled. Looking up, they saw a single wing covering the sky and smashing toward them.
“Watch it, it’s a Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow!” shouted a Corrupt Life Star expert. He immediately launched an attack with his weapon.
The other Life Star experts also attacked. They were people with great experience, and they knew how terrifying the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow was.
BOOM!
Rainbow light exploded. Seven Life Star experts had attacked all out, but were still knocked back, almost coughing up blood.
The shockwaves of this exchange caused the other Corrupt experts to fly back, and quite a few of the weaker ones were killed.
“The Soul Bound by its Dream.”
“Frigid Wind Moon.”
Two voices rang out at almost the same time. The Corrupt experts suddenly entered a dazed state, feeling like mortals who hadn’t slept in a week. They truly wanted to sleep. But once they slept, they wouldn’t need to wake ever again.
“Watch out, it’s a bewildering soul art!”
A sharp cry rang out, startled the Corrupt experts who had been about to fall unconscious. That sharp cry came from a Life Star expert who specialized in the soul. He wasn’t affected by Meng Qi.
An icy crescent wind blade slashed out at the seven Life Star experts that had just been sent flying by Cloud’s attack.
The seven of them were startled, but Blood Qi suddenly erupted out of them, and blood runes condensed into a huge shield.
BOOM!
The crescent wind blade collided with the blood shield. The wind blade exploded, and the shield formed from all seven of them also collapsed, causing them to hack up blood. Due to how hasty their movements were, their internal organs were injured.
The Corrupt experts were in disarray, not having expected the Spirit race to suddenly gain such powerful reinforcements. But when they saw who had come, their pupils shrank.
“The Xuantian Dao Sect?!”
They had yet to recover from their shock when Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er both formed a hand seal.
Nine flowers appeared behind each of them, and Heavenly Dao energy revolved around. With the manifestation supporting them, they appeared more beautiful than ever.
“What?!” The Corrupt experts were even more shocked. No matter what, they would never have expected Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er to become terrifying rank nine Celestials. The instant the two of them summoned their manifestations, the Corrupt experts felt their Heavenly Dao energy sucked away. The amount of Heavenly Dao energy they could use sharply dropped.
“Don’t be afraid, they’re just two people! Furthermore, they’re just in the Jade Core realm! We-”
BOOM!
At this moment, a huge explosion shook the world, cutting off that person’s shouting.
A blood-red skeleton fell from the sky. It had been smashed down by a single person’s fist.
That person was as small as an ant when compared to the huge skeleton. But this ant completely blew the skeleton away.
The expert who had been called the Spirit Guard had thought that the situation was hopeless, but just as the final blow was about to be delivered, Long Chen had arrived.
That woman had received spiritual messages from the other members of the Spirit race, and she looked in shock at the god-like figure that was standing in the air.
“Gui Yan, your pork chop ability has grown ever stronger. Last time I destroyed your skeleton. Could it be that you dug out your family’s ancestor to take its place?” taunted Long Chen.
There was a person at the top of the skeleton, and he was staring in shock at Long Chen. That person was precisely the one who had fought against Long Chen on Devil Spirit Mountain, the Corrupt path’s Gui Yan.
The two of them met once again, both feeling immense hatred for the other. Last time, Long Chen had almost died to Gui Yan’s curse and had only survived thanks to the Nirvana Scripture.
As for Gui Yan, he hated Long Chen as well. His defeat in their last battle had cost him all his face, as well as the Ghost General that he had been raising since childhood.
When he had heard that Long Chen was still alive and had even shown immense power in front of everyone by defeating Luo Minghao, Gui Yan had almost lost his mind. He had learned that in the midst of his cultivation, and it almost made his qi go out of control.
“Hahaha, good, the heavens really have eyes! Now I get another chance to defeat you!” Gui Yan suddenly laughed. That laughter was full of rancor.
As he laughed, his face split open as a terrifying injury was triggered. The blood pouring from his face made him especially frightening to look at when combined with his scarlet eyes.
“No wonder Leng Yueyan cut your face. Your smile really is ugly. You should never smile again in the future,” said Long Chen.
“Long Chen, I don’t know if you’re stupid or just conceited to dare to come to the Spirit World. It seems that your sect leader didn’t know that I would be here,” laughed Gui Yan.
“Oh? Is there any difference now that you’re here?”
“A difference? No, I suppose there isn’t too much of a difference. In any case, you would die sooner or later. There’s not much difference whether you die in the Spirit World or the Martial Heaven Continent.”
“If you have something to say, just say it. If you have to fart, either keep it in or let it out completely,” taunted Long Chen.
“You want to get information out of me? Keep dreaming. However, Long Chen, I admit I underestimated you. I didn’t expect you to ask the Wine God Palace’s High Priest to remove my curse. I suppose you must have kneeled and kowtowed to him countless times,” sneered Gui Yan. He completely ignored the others fighting.
In truth, Gui Yan was full of envy and resentment. If Long Chen had died to his curse, then at very least he could say that Long Chen had died to his hands, and his humiliation at having been defeated would be wiped away.
His defeat in Long Chen’s hands had turned him into a laughingstock of the Corrupt path. People constantly discussed his defeat when he wasn’t around.
Now that he saw Long Chen again, he instinctively mocked and ridiculed him. It was like that was the only way to make himself feel a bit better.
“Do you not feel slapping yourself in the face is painful? Last time you bragged so hard, but weren’t you still defeated? If a Life Star expert hadn’t saved you at that time, you would have never managed to escape. Well, you might have gotten away last time, but this time, I’ll be taking your life.”
Long Chen’s divine ring appeared, and five stars glowed in his eyes.
Chapter 1403 Defeating Gui Yan
Long Chen’s aura began to rise. His robes and hair started to float. Seeing that he was unable to dredge up any valuable information from Gui Yan, he decided not to waste any more time.
“Hahaha, Long Chen, I’ll admit that you defeated me last time. But this time, death is upon you!”
Gui Yan’s expression was indifferent. The blood-colored skeleton beneath him raised its bone club.
“Last time I lost because of your d
ogshit luck. Your flames just happened to suppress my Ghost General, or you’d have died last time. Are you not curious? My Ghost General was destroyed in our last battle, so how do I have it again now?” Gui Yan smiled.
Long Chen simply stared at Gui Yan without speaking. He had no intention of playing along. What he was saying was to either hurry up and release his fart, or just restrain it already. The battle would start either way.
“Long Chen, by defeating my Ghost General, you half-crippled by cultivation base. But I managed to benefit from that defeat. Speaking of which, I need to thank you. Due to your victory, the Corrupt path suffered such immense losses that countless sects were implicated. To compensate me for my losses, lord Xie Luo gave the resources that should have gone to them to me, allowing me to recreate my Ghost General. Your victory last time was only thanks to some people being careless. Those people were all executed, and I obtained the souls of millions of experts. My Ghost General is no longer a Ghost General - now it’s a Ghost King! Have a taste of its power!”
BOOM!
The blood-colored skeleton’s runes lit up. In truth, each of those runes was a person’s face, and an incredibly evil aura came from it. It was like millions of ghosts were demanding others to join them.
Blood mist filled heaven and earth, making it appear like hell on earth. The wails of ghosts pervaded the air.
“The Ghost General was weak to your Earth Flame, but now I have an unrivaled Ghost King! It’s an unrivaled existence in the same realm!” Gui Yan roared, and the skeleton roared along with him. It looked like a devil from hell.
As the blood mist spread, the Spirit race experts had to retreat. They were filled with loathing for this blood mist, and they didn’t dare to touch it.
At this time, Guo Ran arrived with the flying boat. The Dragonblood Legion joined the battle, and there was no longer any need for the Spirit race experts to fight.
“Are you done bragging? If you are, I’m going to attack.” Long Chen slowly stretched his shoulders. His bones cracked.
He wasn’t even listening. He had heard similar words so many times that they all started to blend into each other. The only reason he was circulating his energy so slowly as a warm-up was because it had been three months since he had fought, and it felt like he was a bit rusty.