by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
His power was instantly raised to its peak, and Long Chen felt the space around him solidify. This was not a feeling. The space was truly frozen.
“I said that your sword was just a fake. You’re actually an earth cultivator. You draw other people’s attention with your sword and then use a spatial forcefield to lock them down. If all goes according to the plan, you will then kill them in one blow. But do you think other people are children?”
Long Chen sneered and his divine ring appeared, shattering the space around like glass. Five stars appeared in his eyes, and his sword met the ancient family expert’s sword.
What surprised others was that when they clashed, there was no eruption of power.
Just at this moment, a trident whistled over toward Long Chen’s waist.
Chapter 1414 Spirit Blood Ignition
The trident-wielding ancient race expert’s manifestation was in full bloom. Heavenly Dao energy raged around him, boosting the power of his trident.
BOOM!
Long Chen first blocked the attack of the ancient family expert, and then his sword slashed towards the ancient race expert’s trident.
People were shocked to see this. According to reason, having already blocked the ancient family expert’s sword, his sword shouldn’t have enough power to immediately block the trident.
But when the sword and trident met, blinding light erupted. The ancient race expert let out a muffled snort and was blown back.
Long Chen spun, smashing his fist behind him. Gui Yan’s bone jar was also blown back.
In an instant, he forced back three peak experts. The distant spectators were all shocked.
“Is Long Chen trying to defy the heavens?
“First he killed Bloodkill 9 in one blow, and now he’s even able to hold his own against the three of them.”
Those three were rank nine Celestials! They were at the peak of all Celestials! When they used their manifestations, rank eight Celestials and below would only be able to submit.
In fact, under the pressure of all three of their manifestations, even a rank nine Celestial would be hard-pressed.
And yet, Long Chen’s divine ring was completely forcing back the might of the Heavenly Daos. With this divine ring, heaven and earth couldn’t bind him.
“I already said that your little trick was useless in front of me. Now do you believe me?” asked Long Chen indifferently.
“You borrowed my power?!” raged the ancient family expert.
“You merged the heaviness of earth with the agility of the sword. This kind of thinking isn't bad, but with your brains, there’s no way you would be able to truly create something like that. Although it looks like you now possess great offense and defense, as if you can switch between heaviness and lightness at will, the truth is that when you switch, your power leaks out, and you’re basically giving it to your opponent. This world is full of people who think themselves clever. But I’m sure that if you weren’t from the ancient family alliance, you’d have long since lost your life.” Long Chen shook his head.
He was an earth cultivator who, instead of using a heavy weapon, decided to take an alternative path. Unless he was truly a peerless genius, such an unorthodox style would only cause his combat power to drop. And this person was not a person capable of blazing such an alternative path.
“Bullshit! Who do you think you are? You couldn’t possibly understand the principles between blending Yin and Yang!” roared the ancient race expert, unable to accept that Long Chen would scoff at this self-created style.
The ground exploded, and a three-hundred-meter earth giant appeared. The earth giant’s runes revolved around it, and it became the same color as stone, and then gradually became a golden color.
“Heavy Earth Slash!”
Having summoned this golden giant, the ancient race expert attacked again. The giant’s golden sword slashed towards Long Chen.
The golden sword whistled towards Long Chen, cutting apart space like it was a screen of water.
Long Chen snorted, but he suddenly felt the space around him solidify. His expression changed slightly as the ground beneath him suddenly sank.
“Idiot, this is the gravity domain of my Golden Battle General! All your movements will be slowed down here!” The ancient family expert sneered at Long Chen from his golden giant’s head.
BOOM! The golden sword slammed down where Long Chen was. But everyone was shocked to find that there was no explosion. Instead, the ground sank once more, and even the river of lava was cut off.
The ground in a thousand mile diameter had turned a golden color. The golden giant seemed to be one with the entire earth.
“This level of gravity can’t threaten me. This little bit of power is simply insufficient!” Long Chen suddenly slashed his way out of the ground. The golden giant was knocked back several steps, and spiderweb-like cracks spread.
With the final step, the ground crumbled. It was already over a mile away from its original location.
The golden giant was huge, while a human was tiny in comparison, but the golden giant actually wasn’t a match for Long Chen in power.
“Heavy Earth Burial!”
The golden giant itself suddenly let out a roar, and it stabbed its sword into the ground. It quickly disappeared into the ground.
The ground suddenly shook and subsided. The ground around Long Chen suddenly began to wrap around him like a hand trying to crush him.
It was like the entire ground was being controlled, as if the very ground was the ancient family expert’s weapon.
Long Chen couldn’t help being startled. He had never seen such a huge scale attack. A thousand miles of earth had instantly enveloped him. A bad feeling rose in his heart, and he hastily flew up, wanting to escape the ground.
“Stay behind!”
Gui Yan and the ancient race expert attacked. Gui Yan’s bone jar had the faces of ghosts appear on it, and wailing came from them. Blood-red chains formed a huge net that blocked Long Chen’s path.
Long Chen snorted and slashed his sword. But these chains were exceptionally stuff. His attack only cut a small nick in the net.
Just as he was preparing to go through that nick, a trident smashed towards him.
“Die!” sneered the ancient race expert.
BOOM! Long Chen slashed out his sword, but as a result, he was blown back into the ground.
The ground quickly sealed above him. At this moment, everyone realized it had become a huge coffin.
The coffin had devoured Long Chen like a monster. It then began to shrink. In just an instant, it was only several thousand meters wide.
As it shrank, the runes on it grew more concentrated, and the pressure grew greater.
“Long Chen, dying to my ultimate move should make you happy.” The ancient family expert smiled coldly. He formed hand seals, causing the coffin to continue shrinking.
This was his ultimate move. Once devoured by the coffin, it would shrink and the pressure would increase until you were crushed to powder.
Furthermore, the coffin contained the pressure of the Heavenly Daos as well. Even a Life Star expert would be unable to resist unless they were also a rank nine Celestial.
As the coffin continued shrinking and the pressure increased, the ancient race expert’s expression suddenly changed.
“If Long Chen is killed like this, what about the Heaven Incinerating Flame?”
With his reminder, Gui Yan and the ancient family expert were startled. If Long Chen destroyed the Heaven Incinerating Flame in his death, they would have lost a treasure.
“Split the Heavens 5!”
Just as they were hesitating about whether or not they should speak to Long Chen and force him to hand over the Heaven Incinerating Flame, a roar came from within the three-hundred-meter coffin. A crescent moon sword-image slashed out and towards the three of them.
The three of them were shocked, and all used their strongest moves to block. The ancient race expert and Gui Yan were the
most immoral. As they blocked, they immediately retreated. The ancient family expert’s golden giant ended up becoming their sacrificial shield. It was instantly blown apart.
The coffin split in two and fell to the ground, revealing Long Chen. He looked like a death god that had just crawled out of hell, and his eyes shone coldly.
That coffin had truly been powerful. If he had allowed it to continue compressing, it would have been dangerous. He supposed this was to be expected. Each rank nine Celestial was powerful and had their powerful trump cards.
“I’ll send you on your way.”
Long Chen stepped forward, appeared in front of the ancient family expert in an instant.
The ancient family expert’s expression changed. He was pale, as the destruction of his golden giant had caused a backlash to his soul. An injury to the soul couldn’t be healed with Heavenly Dao energy.
For Long Chen to choose him as his first target, he couldn’t help cursing. Long Chen was launching a vicious killing blow right at the start.
He retreated as fast as he could, and he summoned an earthen armor, but Long Chen’s sword still severed his arm. Letting out a pain groan, he slammed his ramining hand on the ground, and a pillar shot out, carrying him into the air rapidly.
That was actually normally an attack move, but now he used it as an escape move. He was sent into the sky in an instant, and so suddenly that Long Chen wasn’t able to stop him.
The ancient race expert was already charging at him, trying to win time for his ally.
Although he had severed one of his arms, a rank nine Celestial would instantly heal such an injury.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s sword slashed into the trident. But in that instant, Long Chen’s body became covered in green dragon scales. His power erupted like a volcano.
The ground shattered, and rubble flew into the air. A huge hole appeared in the ground, and a wave of earth crazily spread.
The ancient race expert violently coughed up blood, caught off-guard by Long Chen’s sudden increase in power. His arms were deformed.
“Something’s up! He’s intentionally holding back his power!” cried the ancient race expert. Seeing Long Chen’s sword coming for him again, he roared, “Spirit Blood Ignition!”
Blood runes covered his body, and a wild aura rose.
Chapter 1415 The Ancient Battle
The ancient race expert’s Blood Qi erupted, and the trident suddenly let out an ominous roar as if it had come to life.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s sword landed once more. The trident-wielding ancient race expert forcibly received this attack and used Long Chen’s power to shoot away. The runes on his wings lit up, and he transformed into a ray of light that disappeared over the horizon.
The distant spectators were all shocked to see him flee. They couldn’t understand what had happened. The three of them had clearly suppressed Long Chen, so how had things turned around in the blink of an eye?
The ancient race expert had been covered in blood, and his body had been covered in cracks when he had fled. He had been about to die.
Long Chen hadn’t expected the ancient race expert to pull out such a powerful trump card. In the instant when his Blood Qi erupted, his combat power multiplied by several times. His trident had caused Long Chen’s arms to turn numb.
Seeing that the ancient race expert had fled, Long Chen turned toward the ancient family alliance expert. But as soon as he started to move, the ground erupted, and earthen walls appeared like high mountains, blocking his path.
Long Chen slashed his sword, breaking the earthen walls. But when he looked around, he found that his target had vanished.
A quick survey revealed that Gui Yan had also vanished at some unknown time. Perhaps he had been the first to flee.
“In the end, I still got nothing,” sighed Long Chen.
The Eastern Wasteland Bell had said that without absolute power, it was very difficult to kill heavenly geniuses who were in possession of copious karmic luck.
A situation like his sneak attack against Bloodkill 9 was very rare. Of course, Long Chen had known from the start that fighting one against three, it would be very difficult for him to kill any of them.
He hadn’t been willing to accept that, and so he had wanted to see if he could kill one or two. But he ended up empty-handed.
In truth, if he had wanted to kill Gui Yan, Gui Yan’s life would have most likely been lost here. But he hadn’t wanted to kill him, or he would have released him for nothing last time.
Right now, Long Chen estimated that in a one on one or in a sneak attack situation, his chances of killing a rank nine Celestial were still decent. But in a group fight, he would just be wasting energy.
Unless he could fully condense the Divine Gate Star, it would be very difficult to counter the karmic luck acting behind the scenes. However, despite how he consumed pills like his life depended on it, the Divine Gate Star was still improving very slowly. There was an extremely large distance between its current state and its peak state.
Long Chen looked around. The other people had already fled. The lava river that had been blocked had found a new path and was once more flowing.
“I suppose it wasn’t a complete waste. Now I’ll be able to use Huo Long openly.” Long Chen didn’t care if others spread this news or not. In any case, he had recorded his own scene of him capturing the flame dragon. If anyone dared to frame him as being Master Long San, he would take out the photographic jade and slap them in the face.
“I’m really not used to wielding a sword. It’s too light, and I can’t use my real power!” Long Chen looked at his sword and shook his head.
This sword was something he had snatched away in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. He didn’t have any better weapons, so he was forced to use it.
Although the sword was also an Ancestral item, it wasn’t a good fit for him. It was a sword for flame cultivators, and he wasn’t a real flame cultivator.
Tidying up his thoughts, Long Chen left this region, continuing deeper into the Ancient Battlefield. He quickly reached another region of violent and chaotic space.
This time, the spatial fluctuations were even more intense. Long Chen sensed two different laws clashing. Space was booming, and it was like the roaring of ten thousand beasts.
When he entered this chaotic space, he felt like a fish trying to swim through a turbulent current. Spatial energy was constantly pulling at him, and he almost wasn’t able to bear it.
“Damn, so this is the result of a clash between two supreme magical arts. Even after this many years, the Heavenly Dao will left behind by these two experts is still clashing!” Long Chen was shocked.
“Hm, I wonder if I could learn it?”
Long Chen suddenly had an extremely brazen thought. Looking around, he decided to have Lei Long come and protect him.
The current Lei Long was no longer its old self. Unlike Huo Long, Long Chen hadn’t been constantly interrupting it. By absorbing the lightning chains’ energy, Lei Long’s power had crazily risen during this time. Its power was no weaker than Huo Long’s now.
With Lei Long’s protection, Long Chen could safely attempt to immerse himself in the clashing energy in the air.
He sat lotus style on the ground and slowly circulated the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. His divine ring appeared behind him. His eyes were closed as he entered a state of emptiness.
Long Chen seemed to be in a dream. As the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art circulated, he was transported through the river of time. The roaring of Magical Beasts and devil creatures rang out in his ears.
When he heard those voices, his heart shook ever so slightly, causing the sound to intensify. Long Chen knew this was a result of his distraction, and taking a breath, he completely relaxed his heart.
The roaring grew louder once more. With his experience from last time, he didn’t try to guess what the origins of those voices were.
Right now, he was willing this empty state o
f mind to grasp some of the remnants of the ancient battle that had been fought here.
Originally, he had just been testing an extremely brazen thought. This kind of thinking was completely crazy. The only reason why he was trying it was because he was experimenting with the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
He hadn’t expected to see some hope of success from this test. But right now, he couldn’t think about that. He had to take the attitude of an indifferent spectator. Not trying to see nor hear anything, he could only let it come naturally.
The voices grew clearer. He heard the sounds of weapons whistling through the air. He heard the wails of strange beasts. He also heard the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh. But he still maintained this steady state of mind.
These were scars left behind from that ancient time. They had been imprinted in the Heavenly Daos, and the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was currently seizing them.
Once the imprint was seized, it would vanish. Once he grasped it, it would cease to exist. So this kind of opportunity would only come once. If he missed it, there would be no do-overs.
He listened to the voices, but he didn’t pay any meticulous attention to any of them.
A blurry scene appeared before his eyes, but he still couldn’t look. In fact, he intentionally didn’t look for fear of being attracted by anything he saw. The slightest disturbance in his mind would cause all this to vanish.
The scene slowly grew clearer. Long Chen had gotten used to this state, and he began to look at the battle.
Countless strange creatures were present. There were beasts that looked like apes but had lizard-like tails. Some were like leopards, but they had three heads and a pair of wings.
There were also human-shaped creatures. They had a pair of bat-like wings and two horns coming out of their heads. They had fangs protruding out of their mouths, and their bodies were covered in scales.
“Those are devil creatures.” Long Chen recognized those creatures from their appearance.
As the scene grew clearer, he began to sense those creatures’ auras. That further proved that his guess was correct.