by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Long Chen didn’t glance at the battle after his attack and orders. He immediately returned back to his own battlefield. His attack, kills, orders, and return were all done in an instant.
Just as Yan Weishan and the others were charging over, Long Chen received them midway, not allowing them to interfere with the battle.
Chapter 1562 The Dragonblood Legion Slaughters
The one that Long Chen had been most worried about hadn’t been Yan Weishan, Hu Xiaolin, or Jin Mingwei. No, the one he had been most worried about was Bloodkill 1.
If Bloodkill 1 didn’t die, he wouldn’t dare to allow the Dragonblood Legion to fight. Once a battle started, Bloodkill 1 and his assassins could launch sneak attacks and bring the Dragonblood Legion great pain.
Perhaps only Yue Zifeng, Guo Ran, and Chu Yao would be able to stop their assassinations. The others would be in danger.
That was why even during that intense fight, he had kept some of his attention on Bloodkill 1. He was the greatest danger.
As soon as Bloodkill 1 had died to his trap, he had taken advantage of everyone’s shock to slaughter the rest of the Bloodkill Hall’s experts.
Now that the Bloodkill Hall’s people were dead, the Dragonblood Legion would be safe, and only then did Long Chen issue the order to kill.
“Everyone, don’t panic. They’re only ten thousand people! We have ten times their number!” shouted someone to raise morale.
They truly did have ten times the Dragonblood Legion’s members. Furthermore, many of them were rank nine Celestials. On the surface, the power difference between them was stark.
Others immediately began to echo what that person had said and attacked the Dragonblood warriors. Sword Qi swept through the air, saber-images filled the sky. All kinds of magical arts and Battle Skills clashed.
BOOM!
Long Chen slashed Yan Weishan’s golden furnace, and both sides were forced back. Yan Weishan sneered, “How foolish. Are you really in such a hurry to see your subordinates die?”
It had to be known that the people he had gathered were the elites amongst the elites from Pill Valley, the Corrupt path, the ancient races, the ancient family alliance, the Xuan Beasts, and the Martial Heaven Alliance. Long Chen actually ordered his ten thousand people to attack these elites that outnumbered them ten to one? To him, that was the peak of folly.
“You’re the fool. Did you really think the Dragonblood Legion had revealed all its power before?” sneered Long Chen. Evilmoon swung through the air as he met all three of their attacks. He wasn’t at a disadvantage at all.
Although the two sides had already clashed and it had seemed like the Dragonblood Legion was in danger, that was because they had been fighting to stall for time. They hadn’t unleashed all their power to avoid causing their opponents to be wary.
Now, it was different. Long Chen had arrived. They could fight without any misgivings or hiding anything.
Each of the Dragonblood warriors was shining as the runes on their armor activated. Their swords immediately glowed with a sharp light.
A rank nine Celestial had just stabbed his spear at an ordinary Dragonblood warrior’s chest. However, that Dragonblood warrior didn’t even look at him as he slashed his sword at his opponent’s head. As a result, that person’s head exploded, while the Dragonblood warrior merely coughed up a mouthful of blood.
“What the fuck, their armor and weapons are all Ancestral items!” cried someone.
Ordinary rank nine Celestials would at most have a single Ancestral item, while some people didn’t have any. But every member of the Dragonblood Legion had two.
“Their Ancestral items are strange. They’re so strong! They… they have to be top grade Ancestral items! Pfft!”
One person cried out a warning just as he was killed by a Dragonblood warrior.
Even though he died, his warning was heeded by everyone. The armor and weapons in the Dragonblood warriors’ hands were no ordinary Ancestral items.
What they didn’t realize was that these Ancestral items were not just top grade. They were first generation Ancestral items. The item-spirits of these Ancestral were all fully loyal to their masters, which was what allowed them to unleash such immense power.
“Impossible! How can they have so many top grade Ancestral items?!” raged someone. Ancestral items weren’t that rare. Ordinary sects would all have one or two of them to maintain their karmic luck.
However, it wasn’t as if they were cabbages just sprouting out of the ground. Furthermore, not only did they have top grade Ancestral items, but each Dragonblood warrior had two! That made their opponents crazy with envy.
“Kill them and their Ancestral items will be ours!” cried someone greedily. However, greed oftentimes led to death. That person was killed not long after crying out.
“What terrifying killing arts.” In the distance, the neutral camp’s experts were all shocked. They found that each of the Dragonblood warriors’ attacks was refined and sharp. Their fighting style was shocking, as they continuously exchanged injury for injury or even suicidal moves. Despite that, the Dragonblood warriors’ expressions were calm. There was no anger. They were simply calm and indifferent.
A rank eight Celestial of the Dragonblood Legion killed a rank nine Celestial without batting an eye. It was simply natural, as if this was an incredibly minor thing. Witnessing this made other people’s hair stand on end.
If Yue Zifeng, Meng Qi, and Chu Yao’s power was terrifying, then the display of these ordinary Dragonblood warriors was horrifying.
“They are true experts who have gone through the tempering of blood and fire,” sighed someone.
Everyone here was an expert, a genius. But the display of the Dragonblood warriors gave them chills.
At this time, Chu Yao, Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Guo Ran, Song Mingyuan, Yue Zifeng, Li Qi, and Gu Yang had tied down all the Empyreans. This had become a true battle of soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals.
However, in just the first clash, a mass of experts had been slain by the Dragonblood Legion. It was just that the number disparity between the two sides was so immense that it didn’t seem like much. Blood soaked the land. Translucent figures occasionally flew through the air. Those were the fleeing Yuan Spirits whose physical bodies had been destroyed.
Ordinary experts didn’t have very powerful Yuan Spirits. They weren’t as condensed as the Yuan Spirits of Empyreans. Some of them were killed just by random shockwaves.
The Dragonblood Legion’s ferocity caught everyone off-guard. Yan Weishan’s expression immediately became unsightly. He hadn’t expected the Dragonblood Legion to be equipped to such a level.
It had to be known that even with Pill Valley’s financial power, gathering over twenty thousand Ancestral items could not be done in a short time. This completely surpassed his prediction.
However, he trusted in his side’s power. After all, they had so many people. Which one of them didn’t have trump cards? Suppressing the Dragonblood Legion would just be a matter of time.
As they fought Long Chen, they saw blood spurting from his hand with every exchange. They felt like Long Chen wouldn’t be able to last much longer. However, even after all this time, his aura hadn’t changed in the slightest. There were no signs of it starting to fall. They were in a stalemate.
The four of them crazily fought in the sky, while the Dragonblood Legion was slaughtering their enemies below. Blood dyed the land. There were severed limbs and broken weapon fragments scattered throughout the area. This was an incredibly bitter battle.
The neutral camp’s experts all stared with fright and shock. The Dragonblood Legion seemed to be a group of bloodthirsty Magical Beasts tearing through these experts.
Zi Yan watched. She didn’t say a word nor express any opinion. It was like she was just a spectator.
In the end, she sighed, “Perhaps I shouldn’t have come.”
“If you didn’t come, master wouldn’t be happy. You will have to face your
fate sooner or later,” said Yu Tong.
The slaughter continued on the battlefield. The battle of the Empyreans was still undecided, but the Dragonblood Legion’s killing power was too great. In just a short incense stick’s worth of time, over ten thousand experts had fallen, while there was not even a single casualty amongst the Dragonblood Legion.
That was thanks to the fifty wood cultivators amongst the Dragonblood Legion. Any time someone was injured, they would immediately wave their staves and heal them in an instant.
Furthermore, their armor was protecting their vitals. They wouldn’t give their opponents any chance to inflict mortal injuries on them.
The opposing experts were all infuriated. They tried to charge through the Dragonblood Legion to kill the wood cultivators, but they were all slaughtered midway.
The wood cultivators were the greatest assurance for the Dragonblood warriors’ lives. Long Chen had naturally anticipated that their enemies would target them, so the formation they were in was created with over ten barriers between them and their enemies.
It could be said that if anyone wanted to kill the wood cultivators, they would have to completely destroy the Dragonblood Legion’s formation. However, if someone focused on breaking their formation, they would be unable to ambush the wood cultivators.
Quite a few experts tried without succeeding. They all died to the Dragonblood Legion’s sharp blades. As soon as they tried to attack the wood cultivators, they didn’t even have a chance to escape.
After hundreds of experts who thought too much of themselves died attempting it, people finally stopped and began a head-on fight against the Dragonblood warriors.
“No wonder they’re called the Dragonblood Legion. Over ten thousand people who are able to work together perfectly, it’s truly a rare sight. On the other hand, although their opponents’ collective power is ten times greater, they are nothing more than a wild mob. As a result… well, the results are easy to see,” sighed someone in the neutral camp.
The neutral camp’s people could already see that although the Dragonblood Legion’s fighting style looked chaotic and disordered, as if they were all fighting for themselves, they all had a tacit understanding with each other. As soon as someone needed help, someone would appear beside them. This was especially true when someone was in danger or had landed a heavy injury on an opponent. There was always someone who would come to assist or land the finishing blow. Many people were killed by this silent cooperation without even realizing it.
The Dragonblood Legion’s cooperation was at such a high level that others couldn’t even understand it. Their cooperation raised their killing power to a peak, and they were not only in possession of great offense but also great defense. Up until now, not a single one of them had died.
“Fuck, you monsters, I’m not playing around with you any longer!” A rank nine Celestial whose arm had just been cut off suddenly cursed and fled. His courage had been completely broken.
Over twenty thousand of the experts gathered from various forces had been slain without killing a single member of the Dragonblood Legion. That was truly frightening. It made them feel profoundly powerless.
Yan Weishan’s group of three was still fighting Long Chen, while the other Empyreans were unable to assist them. They couldn’t see any hope any longer. The Dragonblood Legion was too powerful.
That person ended up taking the lead in fleeing, and the result was that his departure shook the confidence of the others. Hundreds of people followed his lead.
That started a snowball effect. Despite Yan Weishan’s furious roar, he couldn’t stop everyone from running away.
Yan Weishan’s fury soared. There were still over one hundred and fifty thousand of them left. Although twenty thousand of them had died, they still outnumbered the Dragonblood Legion ten to one. However, they actually lost just like this.
The first expert had gotten a thousand miles away when suddenly, four huge pillars of light soared into the sky from the core of the battlefield.
Chapter 1563 Strange Formation
The four pillars of light shot into the sky, blowing apart the clouds.
“That direction, isn't it the Grand Han’s capital’s city walls?” cried someone.
The Grand Han’s capital’s city walls were square-shaped, and its four corners corresponded to the four rays of light. However, now that the capital had vanished, the light seemed to come out of nowhere.
Divine runes filled the sky and fell, covering the world. At this time, a huge barrier had enveloped everyone, including Long Chen and the others.
The first expert who had fled was at the front, but when he slammed into the barrier, he exploded into bloody mist.
“What?!”
The experts rushing to flee hastily stopped themselves. However, the barrier had appeared too suddenly, and quite a few people weren’t able to stop their momentum and struck it.
Continuous explosive sounds rang out as those people were all blown to bits. Even their Ancestral items exploded.
The appearance of this sudden barrier shocked everyone, including Long Chen. Was it to keep everyone here?
However, when he looked at Yan Weishan and the others, he saw that they also had surprised expressions. They clearly hadn’t known about this beforehand.
“Peng Wansheng, isn’t this formation supposed to be used for trapping Long Chen? Why is it trapping all of us?” cried an expert from the ancient family alliance.
Peng Wansheng was also befuddled, and he roared back, “Sha Guangyan was the one who arranged this barrier! It was only supposed to be used to trap people within the city. How am I supposed to know what happened?!”
Sha Guangyan had invited an expert to set up a killing formation within the Grand Han’s capital, turning it into a giant cage that Long Chen would never be able to escape from.
All the matters were left to the mysterious expert Sha Guangyan had invited. Apparently, that formation master was extremely mysterious, but his enmity with Long Chen was like a sea of blood, which was why he had come to help Sha Guangyan. However, that mysterious expert hadn’t revealed his face the entire time. And since Sha Guangyan was dead, no one knew where that mysterious expert had gone to.
Now the formation had ended up covering a huge space ten times greater than it was supposed to. No one could escape now.
“Send out the distress signal!”
“You idiot, the formation blocks our messages!”
Panicked cries rang out. Someone tried launching a ranged attack at the formation, but the barrier caused his attack to rebound and kill him.
“Dragonblood Legion, ignore the formation. Kill all these people!” shouted Long Chen. Although he didn’t know the situation behind the formation, at least currently, it didn’t matter.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
“No!”
The Dragonblood Legion’s rhythm didn’t change. They were like one giant slaughter machine, slaying these experts in droves. Their so-called alliance was thrown in complete chaos and they were unable to form any effective defense. More and more of them were dying.
“Zither Fairy, your Illusive Music Immortal Palace is also one of the protectors of the continent! Are you just going to watch these murderous devils do as they please?!” Yan Weishan suddenly let out a furious roar. The three of them were unable to do anything to Long Chen, and they couldn't help their people.
The experts standing in the neutral camp turned to Zi Yan in surprise. Did Zi Yan have some sort of relationship with Pill Valley? What did it mean for them to be the protectors of the Martial Heaven Continent? They had never heard of such a thing.
“How despicable,” snorted Yu Tong disdainfully.
Zi Yan didn’t react. It was like she hadn’t heard Yan Weishan’s shout. It was unknown what she was thinking.
“Zither Fairy, please-!”
Pfft!
“Zither Fairy, save me-!”
Pfft!
Although there were many experts on th
at side, the Dragonblood Legion cut them down like wheat, harvesting their lives. They had nowhere to run now and began to beg Zi Yan for help, but their begging ended up splitting their attention, causing them to die even faster.
Twang!
The sound of a zither suddenly rang out as heavy as a bell. People felt like their spiritual yuan and Heavenly Dao energy were instantly stripped away. As a result, the magical arts and Battle Skills that were in the midst of being unleashed dissipated.
Everyone was shocked and involuntarily paused, turning to look at Zi Yan in shock.
Long Chen also stopped fighting and flew back to the Dragonblood Legion. He stared at Zi Yan coldly.
Yan Weishan, Hu Xiaolin, and Jin Mingwei also returned to their own groups. The other experts hid behind them like chicks behind their mother hen.
Previously, they had been full of disdain toward the Dragonblood Legion. Now, they only had fear.
Yan Weishan couldn’t help sighing with relief inside upon seeing Zi Yan interfere. On the other hand, Hu Xiaolin’s eyes were spitting flames. The experts he had brought from the Darkwing Devil Tiger race had been cut down. Only three of them remained.
That was partially the result of the Darkwing Devil Tiger race’s experts being too conceited. They had charged to the very front of the battlefield, so naturally their losses were greater.
“Miss Zi Yan, are you becoming enemies with me?” Long Chen took a deep breath, doing his best to keep his voice calm. However, he was unable to do so. His voice contained a kind of anger that could not be described with words.
Long Chen didn’t fear any of his enemies, but he didn’t want to become enemies with people he knew. Most importantly, there was a faint relationship between himself and Zi Yan that was very unclear. For Zi Yan to interfere made him feel extremely aggrieved and even indignant.
“None of you are to participate.” Zi Yan looked back at Yu Tong and the others she had brought before slowly walking out.
Zi Yan walked to the middle of the two camps. She lightly shook her head. “I don’t want to be your enemy, nor have I ever wanted to be. I hope that this matter can end here. You’ve already done what you’ve come to do. Your friends, you’ve saved. The person you wanted to kill, you’ve killed. You’ve gotten your vengeance, you’ve established your power, you’ve intimidated everyone. Your light will drown out everyone else in the Eastern Xuan Region. There is no one in the junior generation who can compete against you any longer. You’ve already done everything you can do, so you can release these innocent people.”