by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
The Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples roared, their blood burning inside them. Having seen the disciples beside them die one by one, they were filled with fury and killing intent.
They had just learned how to trust their companions. This was their first time entrusting their lives to others.
Many of them had sacrificed their lives so that others could live. That filled the survivors with grief, as well as hatred for these devil creatures.
Explosive sounds suddenly came from the distant channel. It grew larger once more, and an endless flood of blood-colored devil creatures poured onto the battlefield.
These blood-colored devil creatures were even more bloodthirsty and ruthless. Their fellow devil creatures that were in their way would be directly trampled or torn apart to make a path for themselves.
“Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Wan-er, Cloud, Ruyan, Li Qi, Mingyuan, push the battle line forward and guard the entrance. Together, you will hold back the flood. Guo Ran, get out your giant crossbow and support them from long range. Pay special attention to the Golden Claw Blood Devils. Gu Yang, you lead the Dragonblood Legion and create the second defensive line. Zifeng, I’ll leave the Golden Claw Blood Devils to you. Their attacks are extremely sharp, and they’re fast. Take care.” Long Chen quickly made a new deployment in the face of this change.
“Alright.” Yue Zifeng, who had yet to fight, nodded. Without waiting for Meng Qi or the others, he sprang forward to the very front of the battlefield, targeting one of the Golden Claw Blood Devils.
That Golden Claw Blood Devil roared and slashed its claws at him. Its immense power and its terrifying speed made its claws emit an ear-piercing whistle. Golden light exploded. It was like space could not endure the power of its claws.
The distant Empyreans were stunned. This Golden Claw Blood Devil’s attack seemed to be on par with one of their full-strength attacks based on its pressure.
Within that blinding golden light, a sword came out of its sheath. A flash of sword-light appeared.
The golden light instantly vanished. The roaring Golden Claw Blood Devil stiffened, and its body split into two halves. It was evenly split from head to toe. Even its claw was perfectly cut in two. That precision was unbelievable.
That Golden Claw Blood Devil was killed. Yue Zifeng was already gone before its body began to split apart, charging toward another Golden Claw Blood Devil.
People only saw another flash of sword-light before that Golden Claw Blood Devil was also killed. Yue Zifeng moved toward the third Golden Claw Blood Devil.
“What terrifying attack power.”
“No wonder it’s said that sword cultivators are number one in terms of offense.”
“The sword is his god. That’s a true sword cultivator.”
Other than Long Chen, everyone present was stunned by Yue Zifeng’s attacks. Those terrifying Golden Claw Blood Devils were unable to resist in front of him.
Even Guo Ran, Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, Gu Yang, and the others familiar with Yue Zifeng had not expected his attacks to have reached such a level.
“Zifeng’s sword arts have once more improved. This offensive power truly is stunning,” sighed Long Chen emotionally.
The reason Yue Zifeng was so strong was because of his firm and unyielding drive as well as his infatuation with the sword.
Yue Zifeng’s current sword was not an Ancestral item. It wasn’t even a King item. It was just an ordinary weapon.
It was something he had obtained from Ling Yunzi in the Heavenly Sword Gate. Ling Yunzi had said that true sword cultivators didn’t rely on a divine weapon to improve their attacks. That was a kind of blasphemy to the sword.
Yue Zifeng was holding a completely normal sword, yet his attacks were unstoppable. It was a kind of incomprehensible divine ability.
Following Yue Zifeng, Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Liu Ruyan, and the others also charged forward. While passing a suitable location, Li Qi slammed his hands on the ground, summoning a square platform that soared into the sky.
Guo Ran flew onto it, placing a giant golden crossbow on it. It was dozens of meters wide. This was a bow he had made along with his armor. It represented his highest achievements on the Forging Dao. Both the armor and the crossbow were the masterpieces he was most pleased with.
Li Qi had given him a good platform to shoot from. Here, his arrows could reach anywhere on the battlefield. This crossbow was something he had named Army Breaker, so its full name was the Army Breaker Divine Bow, in reference to his old bow.
The Army Breaker Divine Bow’s runes lit up, and a ray of golden light shot out, striking a Golden Claw Blood Devil in the distance.
It was too fast for anyone to react to. People were only able to see a flash of golden light before that Golden Claw Blood Devil exploded. It was impossible to track the trajectory of the arrow.
This crossbow was an extremely sinister invention of Guo Ran’s. It combined spatial and illusionary runes. By the time people saw the arrow leave the bow, the arrow would have already struck.
That was because Guo Ran would activate the illusion to make it seem he was shooting, when in reality, he had already shot. Due to the concealment of the illusion runes, there was the misperception of a fraction of a second.
That slight difference was enough for his attack to land before others could see his strike. When Guo Ran had first made a demonstration for Long Chen, Long Chen had praised Guo Ran for this invention, saying it was a divine conning ability, one that would kill people without them even realizing how they died.
“Fuck, so a Golden Claw Blood Devil is actually worth fifty million points!” Guo Ran was delighted to realize this. While he had killed another one before on the other side of the channel, it had been too dangerous and he hadn’t had time to look.
Just as he said this, a hand clapped him on the back of his head. Long Chen’s roar rang out. “Focus on the task at hand!”
Long Chen had appeared behind Guo Ran without him even realizing it. Seeing that this little fellow was actually so bored as to take a peek at the Devil Slaughter Rankings, Long Chen had an urge to throw him back to the other side of the channel.
“Oh, my bad!”
Guo Ran hastily focused himself. He slowly turned the Army Breaker Divine Bow. Due to its immense size, the turning wasn’t so nimble, and he needed it to be immobile to be accurate.
Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, Liu Ruyan, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan were unleashing large-area attacks, limiting the movements of the Golden Claw Blood Devils. That gave Guo Ran enough time to attack. He killed one with each arrow, delighting him.
“Boss, take a look. Have I managed to take back first place?!” shouted Guo Ran excitedly as he shot.
Chapter 1698 Fighting for the Front of the Pack
Guo Ran had been first, but after his shrapnel fragments had lost effect, his ranking had rapidly fallen since he had relied purely on his dual sabers to kill. Despite how hard he had tried, his ranking had still fallen, driving him crazy.
By the time Guo Ran had come out of the channel, he had fallen to fifth place. That couldn’t be blamed on him. He had already done very well. The only thing that could be said was that his competitors were all monsters.
Now that he was killing a Golden Claw Blood Devil every few seconds with his arrows, he should be able to quickly climb above others.
After all, each Golden Claw Blood Devil was worth fifty million kill points. As for one of those ordinary blood-colored devil creatures, they were only worth a thousand kill points. One Golden Claw Blood Devil was equivalent to slaughtering all the blood-colored devil creatures here.
With Guo Ran’s reminder, Long Chen looked at his jade plate. When he saw the rankings, his pupils shrank. He was silent for a long time.
“Boss, did I manage to take first place or not?” asked Guo Ran.
“You’ve already fallen to rank twenty-one. No, rank twenty-two.”
“What?!”
Guo Ran was so shocked that he missed his shot. He hastily released another a
rrow, killing a Golden Claw Blood Devil being restricted by Liu Ruyan.
“Boss, how is that possible?”
Long Chen looked at the expert in first place. He felt a slight chill. The Bloodkill Hall’s Dong Mingyu.
If it was an expert from somewhere else, he wouldn’t be too shocked. However, this name made him feel a vague sense of unease.
The Bloodkill Hall did not possess area attacks. They killed their targets one by one.
This Dong Mingyu had to have been waiting for this moment. They were targeting the Golden Claw Blood Devils, using their single-target killing arts to quickly eliminate them.
It had only been two hours since the third eruption started, but Dong Mingyu’s kill points had surpassed nineteen billion. That meant she had to have killed close to four hundred Golden Claw Blood Devils in two hours.
These Golden Claw Blood Devils were on the same level as Empyreans, yet this Dong Mingyu killed them so easily.
Considering his enmity with the Bloodkill Hall and how he had destroyed their statue of the Killing God, Long Chen was mortal enemies with them. He might not be afraid of them, but he was worried about them targeting the people beside him.
However, knowing that the Bloodkill Hall had such a terrifying figure meant that he was at least prepared. It was better than not knowing at all.
When Long Chen saw second place, a strange expression crept over his face. A beautiful face appeared in his mind. It was a face that was so perfect that it shouldn’t exist in this world. Even each hair of her eyebrows was perfectly symmetrical. There was no flaw to pick out.
She was a woman whose beauty could cause the downfall of a nation. She was a woman who was merciless, becoming hostile in the blink of an eye. She was a woman who was a vicious, ruthless killer. She was a woman whose thoughts Long Chen could never read.
“Leng Yueyan.”
There was no prefix to this name. There was only an image of a fierce human skeleton. That was the mark of the Corrupt path. Leng Yueyan was actually participating in this battle of the Devil Abyss.
Qu Jianying had said that even the Corrupt path would participate. They normally wouldn’t attack the weaker devil creatures and would instead kill the strongest ones to get first place. That was to suppress the Righteous path.
Back then, Long Chen hadn’t understood. Only later had he learned that if the Devil Abyss’s creatures managed to charge onto the continent, the most dangerous ones weren’t the strong ones, but instead the weak ones that charged out in hordes.
The powerful ones would be quickly found by divine items and killed. However, the weaker ones were limitless, and if they charged onto the continent, it would be a cataclysmic blow.
Their numbers were too great. Even if only one slipped through the net, they could destroy a whole city. So even though the Corrupt path was enemies with the Righteous path, they would come in to kill the powerful devil creatures. It was a competition of morale. It was a mark of their future reputation and prestige, and that was very important to any large power.
Leng Yueyan was second, with over nineteen billion kill points as well. She was right on Dong Mingyu’s tail. However, their kill points were crazily rising with every second, showing how quickly they were killing the Golden Claw Blood Devils.
“Monstrous, absolutely monstrous! What am I supposed to do?” Guo Ran was enraged. He had thought that he was competing for first place, only to find out he had been completely trampled.
“Shut up and get to work.” Long Chen kicked Guo Ran in the butt. Even at this time, he was competing over such useless things.
Liu Ruyan, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, and the others were all fighting with their full power. They were using their strongest area attacks. Guo Ran shot arrows whenever he saw a good chance, alleviating quite a bit of pressure on them.
Li Qi and Song Mingyuan controlled the terrain of the battlefield. As soon as a dangerous situation appeared, they would work together, causing the ground to crumble along with a portion of the devil creatures. They staggered the Golden Claw Blood Devils, if dozens of them charged at once, it would be dangerous.
With Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, Liu Ruyan, Cloud, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan working together, the majority of the Golden Claw Blood Devils were stopped and killed. Only a small portion of them managed to get by them and reach the second line, the Dragonblood warriors.
Gu Yang was there, picking off the Golden Claw Blood Devils. Some of them still managed to charge into the regular Dragonblood warriors. However, they were easily killed by three Dragonblood warriors working together. The Dragonblood warriors were incredibly powerful now.
As for the ordinary blood-colored devil creatures, they were like cabbage rolling toward them. They were killed without the slightest effort. The Dragonblood warriors were unstoppable.
This scene fired up the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples. Those powerful blood-colored devil creatures were nothing in front of them. Even the Golden Claw Blood Devils could be instantly killed by them.
This was a real fight. Compared to the Dragonblood Legion, their fighting was child’s play. Affected by that sight, the Dao Sect’s disciples grew more confident and began to fight like them. Even if they died, being able to fight in such a battle meant that they hadn’t wasted their lives.
Hua Shiyu, Zhao Ziyan, Wang Zhen, Mu Qingxuan, Su Mo, and the other Empyreans were fighting with the Dragonblood warriors, helping them defend the second line. Even when the Golden Claw Blood Devils managed to get in, the defensive line didn’t shake at all.
The Dao Sect’s disciples worked with the forts to attack the blood-colored devil creatures that got close. It was incredibly easy for them.
The Empyreans fighting alongside the Dragonblood warriors couldn’t help but feel a kind of regret. They regretted not running into Long Chen earlier. Although the Dragonblood warriors were just rank nine Celestials, their combat power and killing efficiency were many times greater than theirs.
This kind of life and death battle could rapidly mature and strengthen people. If they had the Dragonblood warriors’ killing power or combat experience, perhaps they could have also charged forward to the front to fight alongside Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, and the others, handling a whole region on their own.
Although they also had an urge to compete for the Devil Slaughter Rankings, they knew inside that they didn’t have that power. Without the power to kill the Golden Claw Blood Devils in one attack, it was too dangerous. If they were attacked by three Golden Claw Blood Devils at once, they might lose their lives.
What inspired them the most was that Long Chen was just standing on the platform, overlooking the battlefield with a calm expression. That not only increased their confidence, but it also raised their expectations. They even hoped that the devil creatures would get a bit stronger so that they could witness Long Chen’s attacks.
To use the Dragonblood warriors’ words, only when they saw the boss fighting was it a real fight. They were just fighting a small scuffle in comparison.
If Long Chen knew what those people were thinking, he would definitely be caught between laughter and tears. A life and death battle was not a show.
Long Chen was currently looking at his jade plate, keeping track of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Leng Yueyan had now taken first place, with Dong Mingyu following in second.
They were both at twenty billion kill points, and their names were constantly flashing as they overtook each other. Dong Mingyu would be first place for a moment, then it would be Leng Yueyan. There had never been such intense competition for first place.
Third was an expert from the Xuan Beasts. When he saw that name, Long Chen shook his head. True Immortal Jiaoqi.
In front of his name was a Xuan character. This person was from the Xuan Beasts. However, for him to dare to call himself True Immortal, he was definitely too arrogant. It was said that the titles of True Immortals, Heavenly Immortals, and such were given to people on the verge of ascending back in the immortal era. Only
experts that had touched upon the barrier to godhood or immortality would be given such a name.
This was the Devil Abyss, and those that could enter were only at the Soul Transformation realm. For someone in the Soul Transformation realm to dare to call themself True Immortal, it was unknown if he was just too arrogant or trying to insult the human race.
“He’s probably just another idiot.” Long Chen’s lips curled into a sneer. Just from this name, he knew that this fellow was another idiot who considered everyone else beneath him. A normal person wouldn’t give themselves such a name.
Long Chen continued looking. He smiled. Mo Nian was quite powerful. He was ranked fourth, and his kill points were close behind True Immortal Jiaoqi. True Immortal Jiaoqi was at fourteen billion seven hundred million kill points, while Mo Nian was at fourteen billion five hundred million kill points.
“Work hard. Beat that idiot.”
Long Chen cheered for Mo Nian before continuing to look. Fifth was someone from the Central Xuan Region called Zhao Xuehan. This name was rather genderless so he couldn’t tell if they were a man or woman.
Whoever it was, their kill points were at twelve and a half billion. There was quite a distance from Mo Nian and True Immortal Jiaoqi. Catching up would be difficult.
Right now, first and second place were constantly changing, while everyone else had been thrown into the distance.
Mo Nian and True Immortal Jiaoqi were already very far from them, while fifth place was also very far from the two of them. At this time, a person’s true power was shown. There were no longer any tricks available.
When Long Chen saw sixth place, he couldn’t help being startled. How had he appeared again?
Chapter 1699 Gate to the Devil World
“Hu Feng.”
This name had appeared once again. He had previously managed to threaten Xia Chen’s position, but not long after, he had silently vanished from the rankings.
Long Chen felt it was somewhat inconceivable for his name to reappear at such a time. Logically, the people dominating the rankings now had to be people skilled in killing single targets very quickly. Area or group attacks were not very effective at this time, as the Golden Claw Blood Devils were too strong to be killed that way.