by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Other domains?” asked Long Chen.
“The universe isn’t composed of just the Martial Heaven Continent. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the Martial Heaven Continent is just a speck of dust in the universe. Due to the battle of the immortal era, the world was fractured, and our path to ascension was severed. The Martial Heaven Continent also lost its connection to the rest of the world. However, this is the Netherworld, the place where people come when they die. It’s possible to encounter existences from the outer world here,” said the old man.
These lifeforms were all silent and maintaining a respectful distance from each other. However, many of them looked over at Long Chen and the old man in shock. They were shocked at Long Chen’s cultivation base and the old man’s staff.
However, they weren’t as foolish as the red-haired man, and they didn’t attack the two of them.
“These fellows are all harboring some evil thoughts. How about I send you back to the Yellow Springs Path?” said the old man.
Long Chen was about to refuse as he didn’t fear these people. However, he didn’t want the old man to worry either and have that affect his mental state. He nodded and turned back, but when they saw the place the staircase had touched the ground, the old man’s expression changed.
“Where is the staircase?”
Long Chen was startled. He could still see the staircase, but the old man couldn’t. Could it be that after crossing the Yellow Springs Path, the experts attacking the Netherpassage realm could not go back?
“Old man, the staircase is still present for me. You can keep going forward, and I’ll go back. I’ll wait for your good news,” said Long Chen as he climbed back up.
Seeing that Long Chen was capable of going up, the old man relaxed. He walked over to the Gates of Hell. In front of all those strange lifeforms, he walked right through them, vanishing behind them and beginning to truly attack the Netherpassage realm.
Long Chen returned to the original black lake. He waved his hand, and a pillar of black water soared toward him.
At the same time, a large vortex appeared behind him, sucking in the black water.
Long Chen’s primal chaos space had grown along with his cultivation base. It was now as large as the entire Grand Xia Ancient Nation.
The central black soil was also tens of thousands of miles wide. With just a thought, it formed a giant hole, and the black water poured into it.
“Hahaha, success!” Long Chen laughed. This black water contained an air of absolute death, and it was stronger than the strongest of poisons. It was the best killing tool.
Although the black soil also possessed the power to kill, it was only effective against vegetation. On the other hand, this black water was effective against anything living. Anything touched by it would quickly be destroyed.
Even experts attacking the Netherpassage realm couldn’t bear it. Then killing Life Star experts should be easy, especially if they didn’t have a divine item to protect themselves. After all, based on his previous test, not even Ancestral items could block it.
If he had had this black water during the Dragon Slaughtering Convention, then wouldn’t he have been able to slaughter his enemies to the last with just a piss?
As Long Chen sucked in the black water, the world suddenly began to shake uneasily. Long Chen instantly felt a grave sense of danger and stopped.
Long Chen looked around and didn’t see anything. Once he stopped, the terrifying sensation of danger slowly faded.
“What, it’s this stingy? I can’t even take a bit of water?” Long Chen realized that taking this black water had touched one of the laws of the Yellow Springs Path. If he continued taking it, he might be killed by those laws.
Looking inside the primal chaos space, he saw a thirty-mile lake inside it. There was already quite a bit of the black water.
“If this black water represents death, then the white water must represent life. Since I only took the black water, it caused a disbalance. Let me see if I can take the life water and then some more black water.”
Long Chen took out more black soil, and mixing it with the branches of the World Tree as a foundation, he made a small boat. He roasted it with fire and then made a paddle from the black soil as well. He began to speed along the water in a boat.
Chapter 1598 Butterfly Woman
The small boat sped along. Only once Long Chen was trying to paddle did he find that this lake caused his paddling speed to lessen dramatically.
“Hmph, I refuse to accept this.” Long Chen made another paddle on the boat and then began paddling with all his might. The paddles looked like wheels as he spun them, and the small boat almost started flying as it bounced along the water.
With his speed increased, he quickly left the black lake and arrived at an orange lake. In this region, it was like gravity had suddenly lightened, and as a result, his quick paddling caused his boat to fly into the air.
“It seems each region represents a different law. Whatever, getting the white water is more important. Time is definitely different here. If a hundred years passed in the outside world while I’m in here, that would be bad.”
It was impossible to sense the flow of time here. Although a hundred years was a bit exaggerated, if a few years had passed when he returned, then who knew what could have happened? The Xuantian Dao Sect was still surrounded by powerful enemies.
Long Chen quickly crossed the orange lake. When he flew over the bridge of floating logs, a lifeform was swaying on top of it, and it looked like it couldn’t maintain its center of gravity.
When it saw Long Chen’s boat fly over it, it let out a startled cry and almost fell in.
Long Chen left the orange region and entered the violet region. As soon as he did so, he sensed something. He hastily put away the boat and stepped onto the lake.
Countless lightning runes appeared on the surface of the lake. With five-colored lightning wrapped around him, Long Chen directly ran across it.
This violet lake actually contained thunderforce. With his own five-colored lightning, this thunderforce was unable to do anything to him.
However, he still felt a stinging sensation on his feet. That made him very curious. His thunderforce was one of pure Yang power, while the lake’s thunderforce was a strange Yin lightning. A portion of its power was able to bypass the protection of the five-colored lightning. However, it wasn’t even an injury, just a stinging sensation. Although Long Chen couldn’t fly, he was as fast as lightning as he crossed this region.
A lightning beast suddenly appeared, blocking Long Chen’s path. It was a strange lightning fish. It opened its mouth, attempting to swallow him.
“Get out of the way.”
Long Chen directly slapped the fish away. However, he remembered not to kill this fish creature. Otherwise, it would cause even more of them to attack him.
The strange fish let out a furious roar and once more attacked Long Chen. Its speed was shocking with its giant tail.
Lightning wings appeared on Long Chen’s back, and his speed instantly increased. Two rapid figures could now be seen speeding along the top of the violet lake. Even within its own domain, the lightning fish couldn’t catch up to him.
Ripples spread as Long Chen stamped down on the ground, activating his emergency brakes. The blue lake was ahead.
The blue water was frighteningly still, but he felt a terrifying danger from this lake.
Although Long Chen managed to stop himself, the fish behind him didn’t have emergency brakes. Long Chen dodged its attempt to swallow him, and it shot into the blue region.
It crashed into the surface of the lake. But rather than raising a shower of water, not even a single drop was displaced.
Time seemed to stand still. The instant the lightning fish touched the surface of the water, time seemed to freeze. It stayed in its original posture, just barely touching the surface of the water.
“What terrifying Ice Qi.”
Long Chen was s
hocked to see it suddenly come to stop. However, frost crystals quickly began to appear around it. Those crystals were incredibly small and almost impossible to notice.
That made Long Chen’s heart pound. This lightning fish did not possess an actual physical body. It was composed of lightning. Just how terrifying did this Ice Qi have to be in order to freeze it?
“Fuck, how dangerous.” Long Chen had never encountered such a thing. This ice water was even more terrifying to him than the death water.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t take any of it like how he had taken the black water. If he did, probably all the World Trees and precious medicinal ingredients in his primal chaos space would be destroyed.
“Ah, the most painful thing is seeing good stuff but not being able to take it away!”
Long Chen was vexed. The Netherworld was definitely a good place with all kinds of killer items. However, he didn’t have enough time to study them.
Golden flames appeared on Long Chen’s feet as he summoned the Heaven Incinerating Flame. He cautiously stepped onto the blue water.
“Fuck, it’s freezing!”
Long Chen sucked in a cold gasp of air. Even with the Heaven Incinerating Flame, he couldn’t completely block the Ice Qi.
It felt like needles were stabbing him from the bottom of his feet. Those needles were so long that they stabbed his bones. That pain was even insufferable for Long Chen.
“This ice lake is ridiculous.” Long Chen looked around and shook his head. This place was not far from the whirlpool where the nine lakes gathered. Since he had no idea how long the lake was, or how long it would take to bypass it, who knew whether something would block his path again or not?
“I’ll risk it.”
Long Chen clenched his teeth. Increasing his flame power, he raced across the water.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” A flaming figure could be seen shooting across the water.
Long Chen was sweating from the pain. His knees were particularly painful whenever he moved them.
Just as he was unable to endure any longer, he reached the bridge of floating logs. He immediately jumped onto them.
His entire body was covered in frost now. As soon as he jumped onto the floating logs, he felt like his entire body had been frozen stiff.
Huo Long flew out of Long Chen’s arm and wrapped itself around him, expelling the Ice Qi.
The Ice Qi was too powerful. At first, Huo Long was able to block the majority of it. However, as it continuously invaded Long Chen’s body, Huo Long’s power was gradually suppressed by it. Hence, more and more Ice Qi had accumulated in Long Chen’s body. If it weren’t for his powerful constitution, he’d have long since died.
Although he hadn’t lost his life, he had lost half of it just now. Huo Long could only slowly expel it now. Once all the Ice Qi was expelled, Long Chen sighed with relief.
Huo Long actually let out a human-like sound when it crawled back onto Long Chen’s arm.
“Hahaha, it’s not your fault. You’re still small. Once you grow up and refine a few divine crystals, you’ll be able to block it completely,” comforted Long Chen. Huo Long was actually blaming itself for not being able to block the Ice Qi.
In truth, Huo Long was already shockingly powerful. It was able to unleash the full power of the Heaven Incinerating Flame.
However, because Lei Long had devoured the five-colored lightning and was absorbing the power of divine lightning, its power had surpassed Huo Long’s.
Both Huo Long and Lei Long were growing more intelligent and even starting to understand some human emotions. Long Chen had to look after their emotions.
The flame crystals that he had obtained in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region in Pill Valley had already been absorbed. As for the supreme Divine Flame Crystals that had been part of the formation to seal the Alldevil monster, their quality was too high for Huo Long to absorb them yet. So its power hadn’t increased in a while.
On the other hand, Lei Long was eating until it was full each day. Its power was constantly rising. Just now, Lei Long had done so well in helping Long Chen pass the violet region, but Huo Long hadn’t, causing it to feel guilty.
Just as Long Chen was comforting Huo Long, a figure appeared ahead. It was a slender woman with a pair of wings on her back.
The wings were wide, like a butterfly’s. They were brightly colored and beautiful. The woman herself was also very stunning.
She looked to be a work of art, with every part of her appearing perfect. She also belonged to a race that Long Chen didn’t recognize.
Her wings were slowly fluttering, and thousands of runes could be seen flickering as they moved. It was like there was an illusion or fantasy wrapped around her. The Ice Qi was unable to touch her.
Of course, she was just crossing on the floating logs. It was difficult to say if she could be so nonchalant if she were standing on the actual water.
When she saw Long Chen resting on the log, she was shocked. She found that Long Chen’s cultivation base was too low. Furthermore, he wasn’t even using a divine ability to force back this Ice Qi.
Long Chen retreated to the side a bit, his meaning that she could pass and that he wouldn’t attack her.
The woman looked at Long Chen for a while. She suddenly opened her mouth and spoke, but Long Chen couldn’t understand what she was saying.
The woman looked at Long Chen oddly and didn’t try to speak again. She slowly walked past Long Chen, but her gaze locked onto him, on guard against a sneak attack.
Long Chen’s guard was also raised. After all, this was a powerful expert attacking the Netherpassage realm. Furthermore, these strange lifeforms all had their own bizarre divine abilities.
The two of them were now on one log, which was just six meters long. At such a close distance, any sneak attack could be fatal. Long Chen stared closely at her, and she stared closely back.
Just as the two of them were passing by each other, a giant figure appeared from the front, and space began to rumble. The woman’s expression changed, and fright manifested in her eyes.
Chapter 1599 Blood-Colored Three-Headed Lion
The figure that had appeared was a three-hundred-meter lion covered in blood-colored fur. It had three heads, one large one and two smaller ones, growing out of the side of its neck. It emitted a terrifying pressure.
All of its hair was standing on end. A strong flame energy came from it, twisting space around it.
“What powerful flame energy. It’s not inferior to the Heaven Incinerating Flame at all!” Long Chen was shocked by that sight. Ever since he had come to possess the Heaven Incinerating Flame, he had yet to encounter another flame as strong as it.
The lion let out a roar toward Long Chen. Although Long Chen didn’t understand what it was saying, he could tell its general meaning: if you don’t want to die, then scram!
The lion didn’t pause as it rushed forward. It didn’t give Long Chen or the butterfly woman a chance to get out of its way.
It was extremely tyrannical. Its red fur glowed, and flames were constantly surging out of it. There was no way the two of them could get out of its way on this narrow path.
Long Chen saw the pale face of the butterfly woman. Looking at her wings, he realized she had to be weak to fire.
Most likely, her wings would be destroyed if touched by these powerful flames, and that was where most of the power of her cultivation base was located.
However, if she jumped into the lake, she would instantly be frozen and killed. She panicked.
“Fuck, I’ve seen tyrannical people but not someone even more tyrannical than me!”
Long Chen grabbed the butterfly woman’s arm and flung her into the air. She let out a startled cry.
“Kneel!” Long Chen roared. He leaped into the air and smashed his fist into its large head.
BOOM!
Violet ripples surged on the lake, and waves of Ice Qi soared into the sky. Long Chen and the lion fell off the floating logs and into the lake.
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Up in the air, the butterfly woman was still letting out startled cries. Although she didn’t understand what Long Chen was saying, she knew that he had saved her. However, she couldn’t save him now that he had fallen into the lake.
In this place, her powerful wings were useless. She reached her peak in the sky after being thrown and slowly descended.
The lion appeared, standing on top of the lake. Flames enveloped its body, and divine runes appeared on its feet. It wasn’t frozen.
Long Chen was also enveloped in flames, standing on top of the lake and looking at the lion.
The lion stamped down on the water, transforming into a red bolt of light shooting at Long Chen.
Just now, neither of them had managed to get an advantage over the other. However, Long Chen had attacked from a stationary position, while the lion had been charging forward. To be even in power after that showed that Long Chen’s raw power surpassed the lion’s.
“I thought you were so badass, but you’re only this powerful.”
A flame spear appeared in Long Chen’s hands, and he stabbed it at the lion. Its giant claw met Long Chen’s spear.
BOOM!
The lion actually flipped into the air due to Long Chen’s attack. It let out a pained grunt as it tumbled back.
The butterfly woman stared in shock. She had never imagined this seemingly weak human would be even more terrifying than the lion.
She immediately ran along the wooden logs once she landed and stopped near the whirlpool. If she went down, she would be safe. However, she didn’t immediately leave. Instead, she watched as Long Chen fought the lion.
The lion let out a heaven-shaking roar. All of its fur stood on end, and its body seemed to grow larger. Suddenly, its other two heads opened their mouths as well.
Three fiery rays of sword-light shot out at Long Chen. Long Chen felt a chill, sensing a fatal danger from them.
Long Chen immediately dodged. Lightning wings appeared on his back as he instantly accelerated to his peak.
Shockingly, a large cut appeared on the lake where the first sword-light struck. Water droplets filled the air and transformed into frozen crystals.