by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Chapter 1526 Pull My Carriage
The three of them left the Wine God Palace and were very quickly surrounded by a group of experts wearing the Grand Han’s robes.
They numbered in the fifties and were all young Soul Transformation experts. Their leader was even a rank nine Celestial. He was of medium build and had shoulder-length hair. The thing about him that gave the deepest impression was his large face. His face was very large, or perhaps it should be called wide. For normal people, two hands would be enough to cover their face, but this person would need three hands.
“Xia Yunchong, what do you think you’re doing?! This person killed people of my Grand Han repeatedly, and you’re actually walking with him? Is this your public provocation toward my Grand Han? You want a war between our two nations?” demanded the rank nine Celestial.
Clearly, this person was finding trouble for Xia Yunchong, infuriating him. These fellows always kept saying that the Grand Xia was provoking the Grand Han, that they wanted war, all while clearly aware that the Grand Xia didn’t want a war.
The Grand Xia knew how frightening war was. Many people would die. War was not a crafty trick, it was barbaric plunder. The goal was to get the most benefits through fighting. But whether you won or lost, the ones who suffered the most were always the innocent commoners.
Just how many true experts could the Grand Xia and Grand Han really utilize in a war? Their main force would still depend on their army.
And where did that army come from if not the commoners? The pain of the battlefield would fall on them.
The Grand Xia was profoundly aware of how much pain war brought. Only idiots like the Grand Han would repeatedly say that they wanted a war whenever they didn’t get what they wanted.
Because the Grand Xia had simply endured, the Grand Han had continuously increased their provocations, thinking that the Grand Xia was afraid of them. That was what infuriated Xia Yunchong the most.
Before Xia Yunchong could even reply, Long Chen slapped that rank nine Celestial across his large face. He spun through the air in a beautiful arc, landing in the distance.
“Did your parents never teach you not to point at others when speaking to them?” snorted Long Chen.
If it was before, perhaps he would have directly launched a sudden attack to kill, because a rank nine Celestial would have posed some threat to him.
Now that the Divine Gate Star had grown stronger along with the other four stars, Long Chen’s power was so great that he no longer cared about rank nine Celestials.
Only Empyreans could be his opponents. As for this rank nine Celestial, he was nothing more than a clown.
Long Chen might not care about rank nine Celestials, but that didn’t mean that other people didn’t. Even Xia Yunchong and Xia Youluo jumped in shock. Long Chen was even stronger than the legends.
That rank nine Celestial had only just landed when Long Chen appeared in front of him like a phantom. Long Chen pressed a finger right against his head.
“Do you want to live or do you want to die?”
Lightning revolved around Long Chen’s finger. It could erupt at any moment.
“Who… who are you?!”
The rank nine Celestial didn’t even dare to move. He was pale, shocked and infuriated. He hadn’t expected such a terrifying expert to appear in the Grand Xia.
Long Chen once more slapped him, sending him flying.
His face was originally large, but now it was swelling even larger. He coughed up blood, and half his teeth were knocked out. His head was buzzing so hard that he couldn’t even form the will to resist.
Long Chen’s finger pressed against his head once more. “If you answer besides the point again, I guarantee that you won’t see tomorrow’s sun. Tell me, do you want to live or do you want to die?”
“I… I want to live…” The rank nine Celestial was now completely terrified. He wasn’t able to resist at all, and his life was completely in Long Chen’s hands. No one could save him.
“Where do you come from?” demanded Long Chen.
“I’m from…”
“Think well. You’ll only have one chance. As soon as you lie, you’ll lose your chance at living,” said Long Chen coldly.
“I’m from… the Grand Han…”
“You’re asking for it.”
The lightning runes on Long Chen’s finger began to shine brightly, and a terrifying pressure descended.
“I’m not lying… I really am… They are the ones who were invited over. I’m really a native of the Grand Han. If you don't believe me, just look at my signature large face, and you’ll know…” The rank nine Celestial pointed at his own face in terror. The Grand Han’s faces were a bit large, but this person’s face was definitely an exaggeration.
“They were all invited? Invited from where?” demanded Long Chen. The fact that this rank nine Celestial would bring up his own face at the end meant that he might be telling the truth.
“I…”
Only now did the rank nine Celestial realize that he had said something he shouldn’t have, and he gulped.
The thunderforce on Long Chen’s finger brightened once more.
“They come from many places! They’re all from other regions!” cried out the rank nine Celestial.
Long Chen nodded. That seemed to be true. If they came from the Eastern Xuan Region, people would have long since found mistakes in their identity. Even if they were disciples from secluded sects, there couldn’t possibly be this many experts.
They came from other regions. That was about what Long Chen had guessed. It was just that he didn’t know their goal. What was the point of all this?
To use the Grand Han to provoke the other four nations, who would benefit from a war between the four ancient nations? Or were they testing the Wine God Palace?
“Die!”
Just as Long Chen was considering this, the rank nine Celestial, who had been trembling in terror, suddenly unleashed his aura, and his Heavenly Dao runes surged into existence. He sent a punch at Long Chen’s chest.
A banging noise shook everyone’s ears.
The rank nine Celestial had a twisted smile. He had succeeded in attacking Long Chen. At such a close distance, there was no way he could have survived.
Everyone jumped in shock from the sudden change, even Xia Youluo and Xia Yunchong.
Then they found that Long Chen hadn’t even twitched in the face of this powerful punch. He didn’t even bat an eye.
It was the rank nine Celestial’s arm that had cracked and broken. His sinister smile vanished, replaced with terror.
“I originally didn’t want to kill you, but you really just had to ask for it.” Long Chen looked down and patted his chest a few times as if brushing off some dust.
The rank nine Celestial was just about to try and flee, but as soon as he moved, Long Chen captured his throat and tossed him to the ground.
The bricks blew apart, and the rank nine Celestial turned into a mass of flesh. He hacked up blood and broken fragments of his teeth. Simply smashing a rank nine Soul Transformation Celestial shouldn’t have caused such injuries normally, but Long Chen had sealed his spiritual yuan when Long Chen had gripped his throat. If Long Chen really wanted it, he’d already be dead.
Long Chen was as quick as lightning. His angle, timing, speed, they were all perfect. This person might be a rank nine Celestial, but his battle experience was clearly lacking. He had no ability to resist.
After half-crippling the rank nine Celestial, Long Chen turned to the other experts that had come with them.
Long Chen waved a hand, and dozens of chains pierced through their backs and out their chests. These chains were like vipers, and there was a hook at the end. If they wanted to extract them, they would pull out their insides as well.
This was actually a weapon used by the Corrupt path. Long Chen used them to chain these experts, but he didn’t immediately kill them. They were screaming in pain, but they didn’t die.
Long Chen suddenly took out a carriage and jumped in. He coldly said to those people, “If you want to die, kill yourself quickly. If you don’t want to die, then listen to my orders and pull my carriage!”
Chapter 1527 Courting Crap
These experts wearing the Grand Han’s robes were all pierced through by the chains. Long Chen tied the other ends of the chains to the front of the carriages, turning them into his carriage-pulling animals.
Let alone others, even Xia Yunchong and Xia Youluo were stunned by what Long Chen was doing. He wanted a bunch of Soul Transformation experts to pull his carriage?”
“Bastard, a man can be killed but not humiliated!” roared a rank seven Celestial. He tried to escape the chain, but the hooks made it so he couldn’t escape. Unless he split himself in two, he wouldn’t be able to escape.
That person had only just shouted when Long Chen tugged on his chain. That person immediately exploded. Although he was a Soul Transformation expert, no Yuan Spirit flew out. It had also been killed.
The strength of a person’s Yuan Spirit depended on their Spiritual Strength. Not everyone had such a powerful Yuan Spirit.
“You’re right, a man can’t be humiliated, so I’ll just kill you. Whoever wants to die, go ahead and say it. I will help you,” said Long Chen indifferently.
“How dare you do this?! You’re going to cause the Grand Xia to be destroyed-!”
Yet another expert roared, causing Long Chen to snort and touch another chain. That person also blew to bits.
Long Chen sneered, “The seed you planted is the fruit you get. When you used the support of a secret backer to run amok inside my Grand Xia, deliberately provoking us, bullying our commoners, why didn’t you say that men could only be killed but not humiliated? Don’t use such childish words to threaten me. I know the majority of you don’t know the real details and are just being used. So I’ll give you a chance to live. As for whether or not you want to grasp that chance, it’s up to you. No one can trample over other people’s dignity. Now you’re reaping what you sowed. This is the karma of humiliating the Grand Xia’s commoners.”
Through his conversation with Xia Yunchong, Long Chen had learned just how tyrannical these people had been in the Grand Xia. Although they hadn’t killed people, trampling over someone’s dignity was worse than killing them.
They were deliberately provoking Grand Xia. The Grand Xia’s emperor had seen that this was a sinister plot, so he intentionally ordered his people to endure until he figured out just who was really in the shadows scheming against the Grand Xia.
However, enduring like this only made them more arrogant. The Grand Xia’s commoners were forced to avoid these people wherever they went, and now, if they didn’t have something major to do, they wouldn’t even go out.
Just from how they had intentionally tried finding trouble with Mrs. Long, it could be seen how shamelessly arrogant they were.
Now, Long Chen was simply returning it to them. Didn’t they like bullying others? Then he would properly bully them today.
“Mush!” shouted Long Chen. Long Chen was really viewing them as pack animals. This was too humiliating.
Under their pull, the carriage slowly moved forward. When it passed the crushed bricks, an unpleasant sound rang out.
These people included the large-faced rank nine Celestial. Just now, he had almost been killed by Long Chen. Now that his injuries had healed, he had a chain going through his body and had become Long Chen’s slave.
With his strength as a rank nine Celestial, he could easily escape these chains. But he didn’t dare to.
He knew that as soon as he had a bad thought, Long Chen would kill him. He lowered his head as much as possible, trying to make it so people wouldn’t recognize him as he pulled the carriage.
Seeing these people willingly pulling the carriage, Xia Yunchong sneered slightly. These people had acted so wildly arrogant before. But in front of Long Chen, they were like a herd of sheep.
“It really is a case of evil people being handled by evil people.” Xia Youluo sighed upon seeing this.
“Hehe, it’s quite satisfying. I wish I could have done this a long time ago. But I have to listen to father, or he’d definitely beat me half to death.” Xia Yunchong looked at Long Chen’s actions with some envy.
He cultivated the Undefeatable Dao, and he was supposed to be unconstrained and free. But that was only in theory. In truth, nobody was truly undefeatable. To Xia Yunchong, the Grand Xia’s people and his family were his weak points. He couldn’t possibly act without worrying about the consequences for them.
So while Xia Yunchong had been infuriated and stifled, there was no way around it. However, Long Chen was different. He could be unconstrained.
It could be said that Long Chen had greatly helped Xia Yunchong and the Grand Xia as a whole in venting their anger.
“Don’t just lower your heads. Are you looking for coins to pick up? Here, each of you gets a gong, and you’ll beat them as you pull. Don’t forget to also shout our catchphrase,” ordered Long Chen.
He felt like just this wasn’t enough. If he was going to do this, he was going to do it properly. In any case, he had plenty of storage rings, and randomly searching through them resulted in him finding quite a few gongs. He gave each of them one.
Their faces immediately turned green. Flames of rage blazed in their eyes, but they didn’t dare to rebel. Unless they wanted to die, they had to endure.
“The Grand Han Ancient Nation is garbage. Only complete fools would shamelessly bully others blindly without knowing that they are being used!”
Chanting filled the air along with randomly beaten gongs. It was extremely painful to listen to, giving other people goosebumps.
This was the slogan Long Chen told them to shout. They had to shout it while banging their gongs.
“Wrong, wrong, make sure to synchronize the rhythm and the beat of your gongs. Yes, yes, just like that. Louder. Remember, the voice comes from the chest, not the throat. That way, your shouting will spread farther and will reverberate, making it especially nice to listen to. Don’t shout like a bunch of wild ducks without the slightest beauty. Look at my hand and follow along!” Long Chen took out a small duck and began to act as a conductor for them.
As Long Chen messed around, more and more people arrived to watch. More of the Grand Han’s experts also came out.
Seeing Long Chen use the Grand Han’s experts as animals to pull a carriage, they were infuriated. But the ones who attacked Long Chen ended up chained by Long Chen and joining their fellow countrymen. Anyone who resisted was killed.
“Brother, isn’t this bad?” Seeing more and more people arriving, Xia Youluo couldn’t help being worried. Long Chen seemed to be making this matter grow even bigger on purpose.
“Whether this is a blessing or disaster, we can’t dodge it. I trust Long Chen. Since he agreed to help, he definitely has his own plans,” said Xia Yunchong.
“If his identity is exposed, won’t this end up implicating him?” said Xia Youluo.
More and more experts arrived and were forced to work for Long Chen. Fortunately, Long Chen had enough chains. After two hours, over eight hundred people were pulling his carriage.
A portion of these people had attacked him and were captured, while some had come only to watch and pass on the news of this to others, but they were also captured.
Another portion of people was very unyielding and refused to submit. They all died.
Now, the Grand Xia’s capital was filled with chaos. Countless heads were looking outside the windows of the buildings lining the streets.
They saw a cloaked man, whose face was blocked off, sitting on a carriage with hundreds of the Grand Han’s people forced to work for him. None of the Grand Han’s experts were able to stop him. Seeing these people that had bullied them turn into beasts of burden, the Grand Xia’s commoners almost started dancing.
There were also more people coming to watch. A long flood of people had a
ppeared at the back of the carriage; they were the Grand Xia’s commoners. They thought that the imperial family was finally fighting back. Some people were cheering as they vented their anger.
Suddenly, the sky shook, and a figure descended in front of them. The world instantly became heavy.
This person was very tall with long hair trailing over his shoulders. His nose was very sharp, while his eyes were like golden lanterns, having mysterious runes in them. Heavenly Dao energy circulated around him, and he was like an emperor amongst commoners.
“Brat, you’re courting death!” That man looked down on Long Chen from the sky. His voice contained undoubtable dignity.
Long Chen stood on the carriage and stretched. He then unhurriedly said, “Yes, I was really looking for crap. And now I’ve found a giant turd like you.”[1]
The man’s expression instantly sank, and a fierce pressure descended, causing heaven and earth to rumble.
A palm crashed down toward Long Chen, and it grew larger until it covered an area of three hundred meters. It possessed a strange locking power that made Long Chen unable to dodge.
However, Long Chen smiled. As he waved his chains, startled cries rang out as the experts he was using to pull his carriage were thrown into the air and toward that palm-image.
“Despicable!” That person shouted and formed new hand seals. The palm-image scattered and received them. He roared, “Brat, today, you’re definitely dead!”
[1] Courting death sounds like looking for crap.
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That person roared furiously, completely provoked by Long Chen. He wanted to kill him, but Long Chen actually used these people as shields, making it so he couldn’t attack.
“Despicable? Why does that sound so ironic when it comes from your mouth? Are you trying to tell me that none of you have any idea about what you are doing? Is being used to threaten the Grand Xia and bully weak commoners not despicable? Didn’t you use the lives of the commoners to threaten the Grand Xia? The Grand Xia hasn’t started a war not because they’re cowardly, but because they don’t want to involve so many innocent people. Taking advantage of that, you continued to bully and humiliate the Grand Xia, constantly testing the Grand Xia’s bottom line. And now you use the word despicable to describe me? Is your head full of shit?” sneered Long Chen.