by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Long Chen suddenly recalled the Mammoth Primordial Spirit Beasts that Xiang Yunfei had summoned. If he could subdue these lightning beasts, wouldn’t this paragon art have the same ability?
However, his shouting was ineffective. These lightning beasts couldn’t understand him, and they continued to attack fiercely.
The most irritating thing was that after destroying them, they would quickly reform and attack once more. It seemed that they had undying bodies.
To be sure he hadn’t misread the situation, he hunted down a certain lightning leopard, killing it seven times in a row. It always recovered to full power in a short moment.
However, he also realized that these lightning beasts were most likely connected to this world. Within this special world, these lightning beasts would never die.
He couldn’t be bothered with them. He charged past, wanting to see this world. What was going on here? Where was the paragon art?
Wherever he went, the void would erupt and slumbering lightning beasts would be startled awake and attack.
More and more of them appeared until there was a sea of lightning beasts chasing Long Chen. This sea was constantly growing larger.
“Fuck, what is going on?! Is this world a giant hornet’s nest?!”
Long Chen turned back and his scalp turned numb. Against this many lightning beasts, even if they couldn’t kill him, they could exhaust him to death.
As Long Chen fled, he found that the lightning beasts were endless. After six hours, he didn’t even know how many tens of thousands of miles he had traveled. In any case, the lightning beasts filled this world.
“Well, there are already so many, so getting a few more shouldn’t be a problem. Let’s see just how big this world is.”
Clenching his teeth, Long Chen ignored the mass of lightning beasts behind him and continued forward.
He flew for three days and three nights. Although there was no way to determine day and night here, he knew it had been at least seventy-two hours.
At this moment, he finally noticed something odd. In the distance, there was a giant pillar of light.
He was delighted to see that, and he rushed over. However, when he got closer, he realized this was no pillar of light but a strange hourglass-like object.
A vast body of water had appeared here, and there was also a vast body of water above. They were mixing, with the water above flowing down and the water down flowing up. It formed a marvelous cycle.
“What pure lightning energy!”
Long Chen was stunned by this discovery. This sea of water was so large that it was impossible to describe. Even after flying for several hours, he hadn’t reached an end. There were terrifying lightning fluctuations coming from it, and it was actually entirely composed of the purest lightning essence. At this moment, he felt Lei Long roar within him. It felt a fatal attraction to this lightning sea.
“Oh? Those lightning beasts have stopped?”
Long Chen suddenly found that the lighting beasts had stopped. They were just roaring at a certain distance.
All of a sudden, a giant head stretched out of the lightning sea. Following it, an enormous body appeared within it. A terrifying pressure shook this world. It was actually a giant drake.
A claw larger than a mountain smashed toward Long Chen. Even before it arrived, Long Chen felt like he was being crushed. He felt like he couldn’t even move.
BOOM!
Long Chen immediately summoned the divine ring and Five Star Battle Armor. Lightning also appeared around him, and he slashed a lightning blade at the giant claw.
Long Chen was sent flying, his entire body feeling like it was about to collapse. This drake was too powerful. Even Netherpassage experts wouldn’t be able to take it lightly.
“Hey, I’m not here to fight! I came to learn the paragon art!” shouted Long Chen upon seeing the drake attack again.
Unexpectedly, the giant drake really did stop. It coldly stared at Long Chen.
“Our Morning Dao Lightning Field’s contract with the human race has already come to an end. We no longer have any association, so scram.” The giant drake was actually able to speak human words, but its voice was filled with contempt.
“It couldn’t be such a con, right? If the contract is up, let’s start a new contract. You wouldn’t make me take the whole trip here for nothing, right?” Long Chen naturally wouldn’t leave just like that. What kind of joke was this supposed to be? He had nowhere to go.
“Hmph, if you want to continue the contract, then fine. As long as you can place your spiritual seal on the core of this world, you can take away the paragon art’s rune,” said the giant drake.
This old drake had to have lived for countless years, or there would have been no way it could speak so smoothly and even fill it with such emotion. Of course, that emotion was disdain.
Long Chen looked at the giant hourglass and truly did see an image at the center of it. That was most likely the paragon art’s rune.
“Then I won’t stand on courtesy.”
Holding a lightning blade, Long Chen took a single step and seemed to teleport, lightning flickering around his body.
Chapter 1797 Despair
Long Chen actually used the Celestial Lightning Body Blink to flash by the giant drake.
“Childish.”
The giant drake snorted with disdain. Its giant tail suddenly slammed into the lightning sea.
A huge wave erupted from the lightning sea, blocking Long Chen’s path.
“Split the Heavens 6!”
As if he had long since expected such resistance, Long Chen slashed with his lightning blade. A giant cut appeared in the huge wave, and without hesitation, Long Chen charged through.
Long Chen was thankful that Split the Heavens had such immense penetrative power. Even this kind of giant attack could be easily pierced by it.
Once he was past the wave, he heard the giant drake’s roar. Clearly, it hadn’t expected Long Chen to have such power. It gave chase.
Its body was huge, but it was incredibly quick. However, Long Chen was also fast. Now that he was ahead, the drake couldn’t catch up.
Suddenly, the lightning sea erupted, and one giant drake after another appeared out of it, blocking Long Chen. When they opened their mouths, swords of lightning pierced through the air at him.
Each of the lightning swords was like a long mountain range. Booming sounds echoed through the air.
Seeing these attacks, Long Chen summoned lightning wings on his back. His speed increased again, and he shot past the lightning swords.
At this time, Long Chen was surprised to see nine of these giant drakes. They were all attacking him at the same time.
Long Chen’s heart pounded hard. At this time, the elder’s words resurfaced in his mind. Other inheritances had a ninety percent chance of failure, but this place had 99.99%.
To be blocked by nine powerful drakes comparable to Netherpassage experts, let alone Long Chen, even Netherpassage experts would have to submit.
If it was just one, perhaps Long Chen would have some urge to fight. But with nine of them, taking them head-on would be suicide.
Based on that drake’s words, as long as he could obtain that paragon art rune, he would be able to establish a new contract. In other words, if he obtained it, he would pass. These drakes wouldn’t be able to attack him any longer.
He pushed the Celestial Lightning Body Blink to its peak. He was like a phantom flitting through their attacks.
The nine drakes were launching a furious barrage of attacks. It was like nine giants were attacking a mosquito, but this mosquito was too fast. They couldn’t hit Long Chen, and it made them roar furiously.
Huge waves surged out of the lightning sea as they did everything in their power to stop Long Chen.
However, the sixth form of Split the Heavens pierced the waves easily. Rather than stopping Long Chen, the waves ended up hindering their own speed. Long Chen was rapidly approaching the core.
As he got closer to the core, he became even more shocked. This place that looked like an hourglass was where two sources of lightning energy were intermingling. Both sides looked identical.
The lightning energy formed a mysterious cycle. At the core, there was a giant image that looked like a gate with a pair of wings and a spear.
Long Chen had no time to examine the two sources of lightning, nor did he have time to carefully look at this rune. He charged toward it.
The nine drakes were unable to stop him. He was too fast and nimble, infuriating them.
Just as Long Chen was starting to smile, he suddenly felt his heart drop. An intense sensation of danger welled up from within him.
His intuition built up from years of walking the line between life and death made him stop and retreat at full speed.
BOOM!
Just as he retreated, a silver claw smashed down from the sky, crashing down right where he had been.
Another giant drake had appeared. Its entire body was silver, and it had come out of the lightning source in the sky. It was dazzling, looking as if it had been made entirely from silver.
Long Chen’s hair rose. He felt a fatal threat from this silver drake. His intuition told him that its power far surpassed his imagination.
The silver drake coldly looked at Long Chen. “Human, this Morning Dao Lightning Field’s contract with the human race is done. We will no longer be your subordinates, and you are no longer qualified to enslave us. Go back and tell your elders that eight thousand years ago, our contract reached an end. Both sides can now walk their own paths. If any of you get any ideas about this Morning Dao Lightning Field, don’t blame us for not being polite.”
“What? That elder didn’t tell me any of this before I entered. Now I can’t even obtain the paragon art, and I can’t go back. This… this is a giant con!” Long Chen was speechless.
Although Long Chen was already used to his bad luck, this was too much, wasn’t it? It was his own allies that had sent him here to his death, and they hadn’t even given him a way out.
“Then you can just die here.”
The nine drakes lined up behind Long Chen, while in front of him was the unimaginably terrifying silver drake.
“Sorry, I can’t die yet. Can I ask, if I obtain that paragon art rune, will you stop trying to kill me?”
“That’s correct. As long as you can obtain the rune’s recognition, you will obtain the recognition of the Morning Dao Lightning Field. We naturally wouldn’t be able to kill you. However, don’t be so conceited. After being enslaved once by your human race, I won’t give you a chance. If you try anything, I will immediately kill you.” A vast aura from the silver drake locked onto Long Chen.
Thunderforce gathered from every direction, and this world became enveloped by silver lightning runes. Long Chen was caught in a terrifying domain.
Berserk silver lightning surrounded Long Chen. Each lightning rune was like a sharp blade, possessing enough power to destroy a mountain.
Long Chen was in a sea of millions and millions of those silver runes. It seemed like as long as the silver drake wished it, he would be blown apart. That was an absolute power that could not be resisted. The difference between them… was too immense.
“Die or scram. You choose,” said the silver drake coldly.
“I choose neither. I choose that rune.”
Lightning exploded out of Long Chen. It was sacred and divine.
Those silver lightning runes, which had originally locked down this area securely, suddenly fled like frightened rabbits.
Divine lightning. It was god amongst lightning, so all other lightning had to make way for it. As soon as Long Chen summoned this divine lightning, he broke the silver drake’s domain. He vanished, and in three blinks, he appeared in front of the paragon art rune.
However, he had just gotten there when a giant tail whipped toward him. As a result, Long Chen felt like a hammer had struck his body. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, and his bones shattered.
Long Chen did his best to stabilize himself in the air, but his heart turned cold. Even though his divine lightning had shattered the silver drake’s domain, the difference between them was too great.
Furthermore, the silver drake’s body was gigantic. There was no way for him to dodge it.
Taking a deep breath, Long Chen summoned Lei Long. His primal chaos space hadn’t recovered yet, and if he was injured again, it would be dangerous.
At the same time, Long Chen prepared the Heaven Flipping Seal. He was planning on having Lei Long entangle the silver drake and then smash it with the Heaven Flipping Seal. That was his final trump card. If it failed, he would be doomed.
His eyes were locked on the silver drake. He didn’t have much confidence even in this final trump card. The silver drake was too powerful. Compared to it, he was like a speck of dust.
“Wait a moment!”
Just as Long Chen was preparing to attack, the silver drake suddenly spoke.
“Tell me, how did you raise this lightning beast of yours?”
How had he raised it? Long Chen suddenly had a thought.
However, his expression didn’t change. “It’s just an ordinary lightning beast. But each time I undergo tribulation, I use the lightning to feed it. In my last tribulation, it helped me through my lightning tribulation by devouring a divine lightning rune. So it possesses the power of divine lightning. What? Do you want it? Just give up. I won’t let you devour it no matter what.”
The silver drake ignored Long Chen’s threat. Instead, it quietly looked at Lei Long. After a moment, it said, “I’m willing to go through a business transaction with you. I can let you obtain the paragon art rune, but you must satisfy one of my conditions.”
Chapter 1798 Utmost Conning Effort
“What condition?”
Long Chen smiled. His chance had come.
“This lightning dragon of yours possesses a kind of energy I want. I don’t need to devour it. I just need eighty percent of its energy…”
“Don’t even think about it.” Long Chen directly refused.
The silver drake was enraged. “Do you believe me when I say I can just kill you and devour it?” All its scales lit up, and thunderforce boomed. A terrifying energy once more locked onto Long Chen.
“I don’t believe you. One, it’s hard to say if you could even kill me. Two, even if you kill me, Lei Long will explode and erase its divine nature before its death, so you won’t obtain anything. Three, and this is the most important thing, Lei Long is not my subordinate but a companion I can entrust my life to. I told you not to get any ideas about it. Although you’re powerful, I naturally have my own trump cards since I dared to come here,” said Long Chen indifferently.
“Hmph, arrogant human, since you’re so foolish, I can only kill you!” The silver drake raised its claw.
“Hey, wait a moment. I’m not done talking!” Long Chen hastily waved his hands.
“What else is there to say?” The silver drake’s claw stopped in the air.
“Lei Long is my companion, so this condition of yours is no good. However, hehe, I have an even better condition for you.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Well, can you first shrink down a bit? I can’t even see your whole body, and it’s very awkward for me,” probed Long Chen.
The silver drake was truly too big. It was so big that he had a headache just trying to see it. Not being able to see its expression was also difficult.
The silver drake hesitated, but then it really did shrink down to thirty thousand meters, practically identical to Lei Long.
However, once it shrank, Long Chen felt like he shouldn’t have asked. With its power compressed, the spatial fluctuations in the surroundings grew more intense as if the void was about to explode from the pressure. Long Chen almost coughed up blood.
So in its small state, the silver drake was even more terrifying. But he couldn’t just ask it to get bigger now.
“Cough, then I’ll get to the point. I have some business to discuss with you. It could be said that if this business takes off, it will completely change your life. I won’t hide the truth from you. I am a reincarnation of a god, and each time my power increases, I draw divine lightning that tempers me. Other people’s tribulations are a drizzle, while my tribulation is a true shower. It’s just that using divine lightning as a shower is a waste. That’s why I always save a bit for Lei Long. You’ve also seen how fat and mighty Lei Long is. My intention is to have you cooperate with me. When I go through my tribulations, I will split a portion of my divine lightning with you. I should put it this way to you: each time I undergo tribulation, the power of the divine lightning and its purity will be ten times greater than before, maybe even a hundred times greater. If you devour my companion’s little bit of energy, it won’t even be a snack. I can see that although you are powerful, your body is lacking that divine nature, so you are unable to become a true dragon. But if you cooperate with me, I’ll constantly give you divine lightning and help you become a true dragon. How is that?”
“Can I trust those words?” The silver drake was definitely moved by this offer.
The silver drake’s outer appearance wasn’t that different from a true dragon. It was only lacking the dragon horn. However, without the dragon horn, a drake would forever just be a larger serpent. The term drake was just in recognition of its power. It was not a true dragon.
“What reason do I have to trick you? This cooperation is mutually beneficial. That’s a true cooperation.” Long Chen smiled.
“How do you want to cooperate?” That sinister smile of Long Chen ended up raising the silver drake’s guard.
“It’s very simple. Give me the paragon art. That’s a must because I need it to live longer and go through more tribulations. Otherwise, if I died before my cultivation base broke through, what would you do? Second, if I encounter some kind of amazing existence in the outside world, you have to help me handle it because if I die, it will interfere with your growth.”