by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Leng Yueyan’s mood changed at the drop of a pin. Who knew what he might say that would cause her to suddenly attack him?
He wanted to leave, but he also felt that would be a feeble display. Worst of all, he couldn’t try to think of anything, or it would be read by Leng Yueyan.
“Let’s sit together!” Leng Yueyan slowly sat on a clean rock nearby. She indicated for Long Chen to join her.
To be invited by a peerless beauty was something every man dreamed of. But Long Chen felt like he was in a nightmare.
However, he was a man, and he thickened his skin and sat beside her, keeping the pot beside him. That was the only thing that gave him a slight sense of safety.
“Long Chen, do you feel like I’m crazy?” asked Leng Yueyan quietly as she stared into the distance.
“Can I not reply?” probed Long Chen.
“No.”
“If I tell the truth, will I be attacked?”
“I can’t guarantee anything.”
“Oh, then no I don’t.”
“Tell the truth,” demanded Leng Yueyan.
“I’m afraid of being attacked.” Long Chen shook his head.
“If you don’t, then I’ll attack you right now.” Leng Yueyan slowly raised her hand to her back.
“Cough, in truth, you’re not that bad. At least your craziness is intermittent.” Long Chen put it in the nicest way possible.
Leng Yueyan lowered her head and was silent for a long time. Long Chen was feeling uneasy. He didn’t know when this woman would start being crazy again. This kind of waiting was torture.
He was like a prisoner waiting to be executed, but his execution date wasn’t set. He wasn’t allowed to relax at all and had to be ready for the executioner’s blade at any moment.
Leng Yueyan looked at her feet, which repeatedly brushed against the sand. It was unknown what she was thinking.
“I’ve decided. I won’t kill you.” Finally, Leng Yueyan raised her head. Looking at the sky, she sighed.
“Really?” Long Chen was stunned. Had she been cured?
“Yes, really. Congratulations.” Leng Yueyan turned to stare at Long Chen. For some unknown reason, her sapphire eyes had become much dimmer.
“You… what’s wrong?” Long Chen was startled. The current Leng Yueyan didn’t look like a killing goddess at all. Instead, she seemed like a pitiable girl who had lost all hope.
“What? Is this not good?” Leng Yueyan smiled. Although her smile was beautiful, it seemed miserable. Seeing that smile made Long Chen’s heart ache.
However, it wasn’t as if he could ask her to continue hunting him down. If he did, wouldn’t that mean he had caught her illness?
“If you have any secret sorrows, you can tell me. I might be able to help,” said Long Chen sincerely.
Long Chen felt a strange mix of emotions when it came to Leng Yueyan. He wasn’t able to describe it. She was like the legendary Hellflower.
Legend was that those who saw it would be attracted by its body. Despite knowing that approaching it meant death, they were unable to resist the allure. Even if they were to die, they had to get closer.
Leng Yueyan gave Long Chen the same feeling. Leng Yueyan was both beautiful and dangerous, but for some reason, Long Chen had a desire to protect her.
That kind of thinking was very foolish and very dangerous. It was also very stimulating. He was unable to extricate himself from her.
“You bastard, why did you have to treat me so well? If you hadn’t, I would be able to keep trying to kill you.” Leng Yueyan smiled as she cursed him. But tears had appeared in her eyes.
Leng Yueyan got closer to Long Chen. She wrapped her arms around his waist, resting her head on his chest.
Long Chen spread his arms, not daring to move. His spine was rigid, and his goosebumps rippled.
This should have been a very alluring action, but being hugged by Leng Yueyan, Long Chen felt a chill.
“It’s over for me. Even the pot won’t be able to save me this time.”
At this distance, if Leng Yueyan wanted to kill him, he would definitely die. He cursed inside. Well, if he died, then he died. He embraced Leng Yueyan, softly patting her hair.
“Other than killing me, can’t you find something else to do with me?” Long Chen bitterly smiled.
“No. Before you, I was constantly searching for targets. But after encountering you, I realized that in this world, only you could…” Leng Yueyan shook her head, cutting herself off in the middle of her words. “Long Chen, if I one day die, will you feel bad?”
“Yes, I’ll feel very bad,” replied Long Chen.
“Then that’s good. Thank you.”
Leng Yueyan suddenly laughed while crying. Her smile was like a blooming flower, while her tears were like pearls of dew. That was an indescribable beauty.
“Yueyan, can’t we properly talk one time? Whatever words you have in your heart, tell me. I’ll keep your secret, and I’ll help you think of what to do,” promised Long Chen. He knew Leng Yueyan had her own secrets. But she never revealed those.
“Aren’t you the same as well? You have just as many secrets as me. Do you tell them to your brothers and sisters?” retorted Leng Yueyan.
“I…”
“It’s useless to share some secrets with others, so there’s no need to reveal them. I’ve already figured out my path forward. I’ll have to rely on myself to resolve things, and I can’t rely on others.”
Leng Yueyan stood, the tears and smile on her face vanishing. Her icy expression appeared once more. The killing goddess was back.
“You weren’t sleeptalking just now, right? Are you going to start trying to kill me again now?” Long Chen asked suspiciously upon seeing her return to this state.
The current Leng Yueyan felt like a completely different person than the one who had been speaking to him a moment ago. If he couldn’t smell her scent, he might even think he had been caught in an illusion before.
“Don’t worry, I said I wouldn’t kill you. Furthermore, I’ll sever the karma between us. We’ll walk our own paths in the future,” said Leng Yueyan.
“Why does that sound a bit hurtful?” Long Chen bitterly smiled, feeling like the emotions that had just appeared in Leng Yueyan had been cut off by a knife.
“This battlefield has something I need, so I’m going to search for it. This calm place that we’re in is a special place where experts once died. It can be considered a pure land within this chaos. They used their own bodies to create minor worlds in their deaths. Because they died, the minor worlds became even weaker, and within a Sovereign’s pressure, these minor worlds form layers upon layers. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find heaven-defying treasures. Long Chen, goodbye. I will return your favor of not killing me twice.” After Leng Yueyan finished talking, she took out her bone sword and slashed the air.
Divine light rippled on the sword tip, and the void was cut open like it was a piece of cloth. Leng Yueyan glanced back at Long Chen for a moment before stepping into that opening.
Through the other side of the opening, Long Chen saw a dark and gloomy world. Before he could see any details, the opening closed and it vanished. All that was before him was this barren desert.
Long Chen was unable to calm himself for a long time. Although he had escaped from Leng Yueyan’s irrational, vexing killing, he didn’t feel the slightest joy. Instead, he felt disappointment.
When Leng Yueyan had asked him if he would feel bad if she died, a vague sense of unease had appeared in his heart.
After she said she would give up trying to kill him, her bright eyes had immediately lost their luster. That scene was deeply imprinted in his mind.
Just what secrets did Leng Yueyan have? Why did she want to kill him, and why did the Eastern Wasteland Bell say that she was a pitiable person?
These questions tumbled through Long Chen’s mind, but he couldn’t come up with a reasonable answer.
Other than that, he didn’t understand what s
he meant by severing the karma between them. Karma was something so vague that people on their level shouldn’t be able to touch it yet.
He felt like his head would split. But since Leng Yueyan refused to answer, he didn’t have the slightest solution to her problems.
Swinging his head, he gave up trying to figure it out. Without being told the riddle, who could possibly find the answer?
BOOM!
Long Chen followed Leng Yueyan’s actions, and he swung his pot through the air. A huge opening actually appeared in the void. Long Chen looked inside and jumped in.
Chapter 1420 Silverwing Heavenly King Ants
The space behind him closed, and Long Chen appeared in a different world. It was his first time experiencing what it felt like to step across worlds.
He had come from one world to another world just like that. Furthermore, he had done so relying on brute strength to tear open the spatial wall. This was almost inconceivable to him.
These worlds were the minor worlds that the fallen experts had created.
They weren’t like the major worlds of the likes of the Martial Heaven Continent. The major worlds had incredibly powerful spatial barriers. Other than those legendary immortals and gods, no one could tear through such barriers.
The minor worlds here had been affected by the Ancient Battlefield, making the spatial walls extremely weak, allowing even Long Chen to break through them.
This was a desolate land without a single blade of grass. Furthermore, there were battle scars everywhere, seemingly from many years ago.
BOOM!
Long Chen smashed the pot in the air, revealing another large hole. He stepped through, entering another world.
When he entered this world, he felt a chill. The air here was filled with brutality and slaughter.
“AHH!”
He had only just entered when an explosive sound rang out along with a miserable scream.
Long Chen hastily rushed over. Rolling hills littered this land, and after passing one particular mountain, he saw a valley below.
Over ten Corrupt experts were being chased down by a group of monsters within the valley. The monsters were a dark mass with only silver wings to offset their black bodies.
Long Chen looked closer and realized that this swarm was actually a group of ants, all of them were dozens of meters long.
“Silverwing Heavenly King Ants?” He was surprised to see them. They were an extremely ancient kind of Magical Beast. Their bodies were as hard as iron, and they possessed limitless power. Their mandibles were strong enough to crush any ore.
Legend was that the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants consumed a kind of mithril spiritual crystal as food. For there to be so many of them here, there had to be a vein of it present.
Mithril spiritual crystal was extremely rare. It could be refined into mithril, a material that was both tough and flexible.
On its own, it couldn’t be used to forge weapons. But it was a material that could be combined with hundreds of different materials to increase the quality of a weapon.
A single drop of mithril could be stretched many miles without breaking. And the most miraculous aspect of it was that a strand of mithril many times thinner than a strand of hair would still have an even thickness throughout the strand.
If the slightest bit of mithril was added to a spear, the spear would become even more flexible, giving it noticeable improvement when it came to attacking and defending.
A piece of mithril would be just as expensive as his Divine Flame Crystals. So Long Chen could guess why these Corrupt experts were being chased by these Silverwing Heavenly King Ants.
One of those Corrupt experts was holding a piece of mithril and running crazily. Despite the swarm of ants behind him, none of the Corrupt experts were willing to toss the mithril away.
Mithril wasn’t heavy and could be drawn into a spatial ring. But it could only be drawn into extremely high tier spatial rings, ones that were made with the best material. Otherwise, it would reject the spatial ring.
These Corrupt experts weren’t particularly powerful. Some were at the Soul Transformation realm, and some were at the Jade Core realm. The strongest amongst them was only a rank seven Celestial.
In terms of speed, they weren’t any faster than the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants. Their wings had special runes that gave them the special ability to break through space. They were practically able to teleport.
These Silverwing Heavenly King Ants were extremely terrifying, and they had been famous even in ancient times.
Although they could be classified as eighth rank Magical Beasts, equivalent to the human race’s Foundation Forging realm, there were just too many of them. There were thousands of them.
The Corrupt experts’ attacks were at most able to kill one or two of them before their attack power would drop to the point that it wasn’t able to break the defenses of further Silverwing Heavenly King Ants.
“AHH!”
One of the Corrupt experts had just killed one of the ants when he was attacked by another. His body was crushed by its mandibles.
His physical body was destroyed, and his Yuan Spirit floated out. He tried to flee. But his Yuan Spirit was struck by one of their wings. That wing unleashed a bizarre energy that destroyed his Yuan Spirit in one blow.
The Corrupt experts were screaming miserably as they tried to fight them off. But there were too many of the ants. They were surrounded, and in just a few breaths, they were annihilated.
The mithril spirit crystals that they had obtained were grabbed by the ants, and they left, leaving behind only broken corpses.
Long Chen glanced at the corpses and saw a few spatial rings. However, those people had been too weak, and they wouldn’t have anything good in their spatial rings. Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to take them.
Furthermore, after fighting against the Corrupt path for so many years, he hated looking through their spatial rings. There were too many revolting and infuriating things inside them.
For such weak people to have entered this minor world, they had definitely entered accidentally like when Long Chen had accidentally entered one to encounter Leng Yueyan. Moreover, they didn’t have the power to break through space. There were simply too many spatial openings in these broken minor worlds. As long as you found such an opening, you could enter.
People as strong as Leng Yueyan wouldn’t bother wasting time searching. She could just brute force her way through.
Long Chen passed the Corrupt experts’ corpses, following the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants. The ground started to change color. A silver tint had appeared, and the ground was becoming harder. Even the stones on the mountains were silver now.
Long Chen was familiar with this kind of stone. These were called companion ores. Normally, ores would be accompanied by their companion ores when they appeared naturally.
Finding companion ores meant there was a high chance of finding the main ore you were looking for. As he advanced, more and more of these silver companion ores appeared.
After reaching the top of a mountain, he saw a huge mountain range shining with a bright silver color. This huge mountain range looked like a winding silver dragon.
These mountains were covered in many caves. He saw many Silverwing Heavenly King Ants coming and going through them.
“Damn, this whole mountain is composed of mithril silver crystal.” Although he had been prepared, he was still shocked to see such a huge vein.
He appraised his surroundings. There was a huge basin below him, and the center was the vein of mithril silver crystal.
There wasn’t the slightest vegetation in this barren land, and everything was under the sight of the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants. To try and steal anything in secret would be too difficult. Those Corrupt experts were an excellent example.
Long Chen jumped off the mountain and began walking brazenly toward the central mountain. He was quickly noticed by the busy Silverwing Heavenly King Ants, and a swarm of the
m gathered around him.
Golden flames erupted out of Long Chen’s body. The terrifying heat left scorch marks on the ground where he passed.
The reason he dared to advance so arrogantly was because the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants’ powerful defenses were only weak to fire.
Their wings were extremely weak to fire, especially strong flames like the Heaven Incinerating Flame. As expected, once he revealed this flame, they all retreated, not daring to block his path.
More and more of them appeared, filling the sky and the ground. But none of them dared to try stopping him. They let out panicked cries.
Those sounds weren’t coming from their mouths. They were making these sounds by rubbing their wings together. This was a warning to their enemies.
“Human, you can stop right there! What do you want?” Just as Long Chen reached the foot of the mountain, two figures appeared in the sky.
They were human in form. One was a man, the other was a woman. They were clad in silver armor, and they had identical horns on their heads just like the Silverwing Heavenly King Ants.
These two were not actual humans. They were the Ant King and Ant Queen, and their cultivation bases were so powerful that they were able to take human form and speak to Long Chen.
Their powerful auras crashed down on Long Chen. Silver light revolved in their eyes. It was like two sharp blades glaring at him.
Long Chen seemed to not hear them, and he continued advancing, step after step, leaving scorched footprints behind him.
“Human, we don’t want to be your enemy. But don’t go too far!” shouted the Ant King.
Only then did Long Chen come to a pause. He raised his head and looked at them. “I also don’t want to be your enemy. It’s the opposite. I hope we can work together.”
“What do you mean? You want to trade for our mithril spirit crystal?” asked the Ant King.
“No, my target’s not the mithril spirit crystal. I don’t have the time to refine the ore. I want the mithril essence.”
“Don’t even think about it!”
Now the Ant Queen opened her mouth, infuriated. Her aura surged, causing space to rumble. The Silverwing Heavenly King Ants slowly got closer, seemingly ready to fight at any moment.