by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
It was a drop of blood. It looked scarlet at first, but careful examination revealed rainbow light flowing within it.
Although it was just a single drop of blood, as soon as it appeared, divine chains sealed the entire world.
A single drop of blood suppressed heaven and earth. Everyone felt an unprecedented power.
This power wasn’t domineering. Instead, it was noble and holy, a power that made others want to kneel in respect. In front of this drop of blood, no one could be arrogant. They would be humbled no matter how strong they were.
“The Sovereign blood finally appeared.” Long Chen stared at the drop of blood
The reason he was so calm was because he had sensed this aura from the start. Back on Devil Spirit Mountain, he had witnessed the Sovereign Blood Seal.
His memory of the Sovereign Blood Seal was imprinted in his soul, and it was because he sensed that Sovereign blood here that he had known this matter wasn’t so simple. The only thing that made him curious was that not only had Chu Yao not sensed the Sovereign blood, but Sha Guangyan and Peng Wanshang had also failed to sense it.
If it was just them, then fine. But what about the saber? Hadn’t it once fought against a Sovereign? How could it not sense it?
“Yun Shang, you bastard! Are you planning on sealing me forever?!” roared the saber.
Black qi exploded out of the saber, transforming into huge black dragons that roared at the sky.
Its roar shook everyone’s eardrums, and the weaker ones had to cover their ears tightly to try and resist the pain.
A total of eighteen huge dragons soared out of the saber, unleashing such pressure that no one could breathe. They were not even qualified to touch existences on that level.
Yet shockingly, these huge dragons were blown apart when they touched the chains. They vanished into smoke.
“What?!”
Everyone, including Long Chen, was shocked. This kind of terrifying attack was unable to even rattle a single drop of blood? How? Was this what it meant to be a Sovereign?
“All Life Offers Sacrifice!” The black saber suddenly roared again, and all the experts’ expressions changed.
Chapter 1432 The Gamebreaker
All the experts from the Corrupt path, the ancient races, and the ancient family alliance exploded one by one. Chu Yao jumped in shock. This was too sudden.
“This con was arranged from the start.” Long Chen watched as those experts struggled to resist.
Through this reminder, Chu Yao thought of how every one of these people had coughed up a mouthful of blood before this. She instantly realized something.
All of those experts summoned their manifestations and went all-out resisting. But this power wasn’t an outer force. It was coming from within them. They were unable to control their own bodies. It was like the self-detonation process had been triggered and could not be stopped.
Blood poured towards the black saber. As more essence blood gathered on it, a vague figure gradually grew more solid.
“NO!”
Screams of despair rang out. Unable to resist this bizarre power, these experts exploded.
In the end, the only ones left were Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and seven rank nine Celestials. They had summoned their manifestations and were just barely able to prevent themselves from exploding.
Sha Guangyan and Peng Wansheng were a bit better off. Their primal chaos manifestations made it so there wasn’t much change in them. But the rank nine Celestials were all pale as paper, and had the majority of their Spirit Blood extracted.
They had felt like their bodies were no longer theirs. Their Spirit Blood had been extracted in the most barbaric, most domineering method. Even their Heavenly Dao energy hadn’t helped them.
The fortunate thing was that they were alive. The unfortunate thing was that having lost the majority of their Spirit Blood, they would need to spend a long time recuperating.
In the blink of an eye, over a thousand experts were slain. Even Life Star experts hadn’t been able to resist.
It had to be known that those who were able to reach this place were all true experts. But they didn’t have the slightest ability to resist in front of the black saber.
The blood quickly condensed into a three-hundred-meter blood giant. It grasped the black saber.
The black saber also grew to become three hundred meters long. It slashed down, shaking the sky. Black light devoured the world. A black crescent moon slashed towards the drop of Sovereign blood.
BOOM!
The black crescent moon was like a devil’s blade. The Sovereign blood ripplied, and its rainbow light suddenly blazed. A supreme will descended. It was like the will of a god, something no one could resist.
Peng Wansheng, Sha Guangyan, and the rank nine Celestials all knelt on the ground in front of this terrifying pressure.
Long Chen also felt the pressure, but it didn’t affect him at all. On the other hand, Chu Yao turned pale and tottered, requiring him to support her.
In that instant, Chu Yao felt like a god was looking at her. She felt that not kneeling would be a blaspheme to that god.
But with Long Chen’s support, most of the Sovereign pressure suddenly vanished. In the end, she didn’t kneel.
The rainbow light lit up the sky. The black crescent moon shattered.
The blood giant exploded, and the black blade dimmed. It once more stabbed into the stone platform in exactly the same position as before.
“Chu Yao, be careful. I’m going in.”
Just at this moment, Long Chen shot over. When the black saber stabbed into the ground, just as everyone had yet to recover from their shock, he arrived in front of it.
“Bastard, don’t even think about it!” Sha Guangyan and Peng Wansheng roared at the same time, charging over.
But Long Chen had taken the initiative. He grabbed the black saber. This was the best opportunity to take it.
This was also his only chance. For this chance, he had already moved the World Tree sprouts in the primal chaos space into one of the life storage rocks. He was preparing to drop the black saber into the primal chaos space and have the primal chaos bead suppress it.
In truth, he could tell that this black saber was still being a scammer. It was acting heavily injured, but it was just for everyone to see.
It wanted someone to bring it away. The Sovereign blood in the sky only targeted it. It didn’t target anyone else.
When the time came, no matter who managed to bring it away, it would cooperate. Of course, after striking an agreement with it, the price for bringing it away would probably be that person’s life.
Peng Wansheng and Sha Guangyan were unable to see this. They were still rushing over without realizing that if they did succeed in taking the saber, they would most likely be forfeiting their lives.
If Long Chen didn’t have the primal chaos bead, he wouldn’t hesitate to toss the saber to them. But since he did, he had to try it.
His hand grabbed hold of the hilt. He was just about to pull it out and toss it in the primal chaos space.
But the instant his hand touched the hilt, the saber vanished.
Not only did the saber vanish, all the surroundings vanished. Long Chen appeared in a strange space.
This space was only a few square meters. The space around it was twisting. It was like he was currently in a stable space flowing through the river of time. Long Chen was shocked, thinking he had fallen into a trap.
“Don’t worry. Right now, time is still.”
Just at this moment, a voice rang out behind him. He turned back to see a white-robed man standing there, looking down at a chessboard on the ground. The man didn’t look at him. He seemed to be lost in thought.
When he saw this man, Long Chen’s heart began to pound madly. He instantly felt like he knew who this person was.
“Come and have a look at this chessboard.” The man beckoned Long Chen over without looking at him.
Long Chen’s heartbeat pound
ed loudly in his ears. Despite his big guts, he couldn’t stay calm in front of a legendary existence.
He forcibly suppressed his emotions and walked over to the man. He didn’t feel any pressure. He didn’t feel any aura at all. It was like this man didn’t even exist. It was like everything in front of him was nothing more than a fabrication.
“How would you play out this game?” asked the white-robed man.
Long Chen carefully examined the chessboard. There was a chaotic arrangement of white and black pieces. Although he didn’t know how to play this kind of chess, he could see that the black pieces had almost taken over the board. The white pieces were fighting with their backs in a small corner.
“It should be your turn. Whatever you decide, you have to choose a path,” said the man.
Long Chen was startled. This sentence sounded like it had a double meaning. He wanted him to make a choice?
He knew that this white-robed man was most likely the Sovereign Yun Shang mentioned by the black saber.
But what did choose a path mean? He looked at the chessboard, not saying a word.
“Hesitating like this shouldn’t be your character,” sighed the man.
Long Chen nodded. Clenching his teeth, he reached out.
The chessboard flipped through the air, the pieces tumbling to the ground. The white and black pieces transformed into runes that vanished.
“I don’t know how to play this kind of chess, and I don’t like wasting time playing by other people’s rules. If I have to play, then I’m going to play by my rules.” Long Chen was a bit apprehensive inside, but he thickened his skin.
The white-robed man seemed to be stunned. Only at this moment did he raise his head. Long Chen finally saw his face.
He looked very young, and wasn’t particularly handsome. He simply looked average except for his bright eyes.
It felt like his eyes contained the river of time. Although he looked young, he also looked ancient. Although he was looking right at him, his memory of him felt like it was constantly being turned vague and indistinct.
“You wear black robes?” The white-robed man was a bit surprised. The flow of the river of time in his eyes suddenly began to flow differently. Looking at his eyes made Long Chen’s head hurt.
“Hahaha, I understand, I understand! Truly worthy of the gamebreaker!” The white-robed man suddenly laughed heartily.
“Junior Long Chen greets Sovereign Yun Shang.” Long Chen paid his respects, while also testing his guess.
“Good, very good!” The white-robed man didn’t admit to it, but he didn’t deny it. He just looked at Long Chen.
Now it was awkward. Long Chen didn’t know what to say to that. However, his face wasn’t so thick for nothing.
“Yes, I also feel like I’m very good.” Long Chen nodded.
The white-robed man smiled. “How is the situation of the Martial Heaven Continent now?”
“Unfortunately, I’m not aware of it. My elders refuse to tell me, and I don’t particularly care. In any case, no matter what the situation is, all I need to do is look after myself and my people,” said Long Chen honestly.
When it came to the Martial Heaven Continent as a whole, he might as well be blind. There were many things that he didn’t know. Whether it was the old man of the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect or Li Tianxuan of the Xuantian Dao Sect, or even the Xuantian Tower, they all didn’t want him to come into contact with too many secrets.
He knew that they were doing this for his benefit, so he didn’t press them on these questions. Even if he knew those things, what could he possibly do about it?
No matter what kind of dangers there were, they would come sooner or later. Dodging was not a way to resolve a problem. In the end, he would have to rely on his power, so all he needed to do was increase his strength.
The man nodded at Long Chen. “With your current cultivation base, they are afraid of having you bear karma. I can’t nitpick them on that. However, you are the gamebreaker. These burdens will fall to you to carry sooner or later. You won’t be able to run. However, not telling you these things is fine. It’ll avoid the implications of karma. They won’t be eliminated in accordance to the rules.”
“Senior, what is the gamebreaker?” Long Chen finally asked this question which he had been puzzling over ever since he had first heard this word. He greatly longed for this white-robed man to answer him.
Chapter 1433 The Style of a Sovereign
“What is the gamebreaker? Isn’t it this?” The white-robed man smiled and pointed at the chessboard on the ground.
At this moment, Long Chen was astonished, realizing that after being flipped, the chessboard had revealed an image.
The image was covered in interweaving lines, but he could tell what it was. The ring of blue was the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring, and the inside of the ring was the Central Plains. This chessboard actually depicted the Martial Heaven Continent.
The man waved his hand, and the chessboard transformed into dots of light that scattered. “I’ve been studying this chessboard for a long time. I’ve examined countless possibilities to break out of it, yet not a single path worked. But you, you broke the board with a wave of your hand. I’m ashamed.”
“Senior, this little one was just messing around. I really just don’t know how to play chess,” said Long Chen with embarrassment.
“Whether or not you know how to play chess isn’t important. What’s important is that you dare to break convention. That’s what’s most important. The reason I was unable to break the board was because I’m limited by the rules. I wholeheartedly wanted to protect the white pieces, so I was forced to be passive everywhere. But you killed the black pieces with the white pieces. Just this one point is far beyond me,” said the white-robed man. “Tell me, why do you like the color black?”
Long Chen was dumbfounded. How was he supposed to answer such a question? If you liked something, then you liked something. Did there have to be a reason?
“White represents what is light and holy. It shows the way. Black represents destruction and killing. It signifies the end. So I’m very surprised to see you wearing black robes. But now I understand, the gamebreaker needs to reach a land of death before giving rise to new life. Ah, some things are so simple and right in front of you. But they’re like your eyelashes, and they’re so close that you can’t see them. Sometimes you can only see things clearer when you have a mirror. Good, very good,” sighed the white-robed man emotionally.
Although this man didn’t give off the slightest aura, each of his actions possessed a certain bearing that made others trust him. Despite being a Sovereign, he spoke bluntly about his own shortcomings. Just that humility was enough to win Long Chen’s praise.
Although Long Chen’s skin was so thick that it was on the level of an Ancestral item, he felt a burning sensation on his cheeks. He shook his head. “Junior wouldn’t dare to accept Sovereign’s praise. There are so many things I don’t know that it makes me blush with shame.”
“Sometimes knowing more isn’t necessarily a good thing. Imagination is always ahead of reality. Reality has to chase the footsteps of imagination. Without imagination, this world would never progress a single step.”
The white-robed man didn’t retort when Long Chen called him a Sovereign. Now Long Chen was certain that this man in front of him was the first generation Sovereign, Yun Shang.
He was talking with an expert who had shaken the world. A grand feeling filled Long Chen. Furthermore, many of Sovereign Yun Shang’s viewpoints and philosophies were similar to his own. He couldn’t help but feel that they were old friends.
“Senior, do you want to drink a bit?” Long Chen took out a jug of wine. This was currently his best wine. It was the first batch of wine that Tu Qianshang had made after advancing to the Life Star realm. Other than the High Priest’s wine, it was definitely the best.
To be able to drink with the first generation Sovereign, Long Chen would definitely be able to brag in the fu
ture. That was like drinking with a god! When he bragged about it in the future, he might not even believe himself!
“No, a person who’s been dead for so many years shouldn’t waste your wine.” Sovereign Yun Shang smiled.
“What?” Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked. Even Sovereigns could die?
According to reason, by that level, a person should have essentially reached the point of never aging or dying. Their longevity would be almost limitless!
The Sovereigns had vanished from the continent. But the rumor was that they had simply hidden themselves, secretly protecting the world.
When the next dark era descended, the Sovereigns would once more appear and lead them against the devils invading them.
But now Sovereign Yun Shang had admitted he was dead from his own mouth. That was somewhat difficult for Long Chen to accept.
“You’ll understand in the future. Life and death aren’t actually important. What’s important is the final result. Junior brother, I’m very happy to have seen you. You will definitely be the one to save the Martial Heaven Continent from this game of death.” Sovereign Yun Shang patted Long Chen on the shoulder.
From start to end, Sovereign Yun Shang didn’t have the slightest arrogance, nor did he act like a supreme expert. Rather than the leader of an era, he seemed more like a respectable big brother speaking to his little brother.
“You overestimate me. Right now, I’m surrounded by enemies. I can’t even save myself.” Long Chen felt emotional that Yun Shang would treat him like this, but he also couldn’t help but bitterly smile. He had yet to recover from his shock that a Sovereign had died.
He very much wanted to ask, couldn’t a Sovereign undergo reincarnation? Couldn’t they undergo nirvanic rebirth? Wasn’t it said that once a person reached the Netherpassage realm, they would comprehend the profundities of life and death?
Now that he looked at Sovereign Yun Shang, Long Chen felt extremely unwell inside. Such a peerless hero had actually died. That was a great pity.
Then when he thought about it, if a Sovereign was still alive, perhaps the Martial Heaven Continent wouldn’t have fragmented into contending powers that had turned the world into such a mess.