by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Meng Qi looked from Long Chen to the furious True Immortal Jiaoqi. Clenching her teeth, she had Cloud run.
Cloud spread her wings. A golden light shot from her mouth.
BOOM!
The exterior had looked calm, but when Cloud’s attack flew out, it struck something and shattered into a million pieces.
A giant barrier appeared in the sky, covering the entire nest.
“Fools, this nest is protected by a formation! You won’t be able to escape! If you’re smart, you’ll immediately hand over the Blue Eye Peacock’s essence blood!” roared True Immortal Jiaoqi.
In just a few more seconds, he would be able to reach Cloud. He couldn’t be the slightest bit careless at this moment. Other than him, there was also Long Chen and Xie Luo present.
Xie Luo was currently trying to gather the corpse, but the Blue Eye Peacock’s corpse was shining brightly, and Xie Luo was having trouble approaching it. He was unleashing his full power just to gather it.
If Xie Luo obtained the corpse while Long Chen obtained the feather, then their next move would be to come here. Long Chen would protect Meng Qi, while Xie Luo would also fight against him over the essence blood. So True Immortal Jiaoqi had to get the essence blood right this instant.
Cloud didn’t panic at all upon seeing her attack shatter. Instead, she sent a message to Long Chen. “Big brother Long Chen, be careful.”
Buzz.
Suddenly, all of Cloud’s feathers blazed with light. She opened her mouth, shooting out a black circle. When that circle appeared, the world dimmed.
“Damnit, it’s the Heaven Swallowing Voidbreaker!” True Immortal Jiaoqi cursed. He suddenly raised the qilin halberd. Attacking at this distance would definitely cause the attack power to drop and make it easier to dodge, but he had no choice.
A giant halberd-image appeared in the sky, slashing down at Cloud.
However, True Immortal Jiaoqi was still just slightly too slow. The black circle that Cloud had spat out struck the barrier, causing a black ripple to spread. It formed a giant fluctuating gate.
Cloud and Meng Qi charged through that fluctuating gate. It was like they had entered water, and they vanished just like that.
Once they vanished, the barrier returned to normal. True Immortal Jiaoqi’s attack struck the barrier, but his attack didn’t cause the slightest ripple.
“Damnit!” True Immortal Jiaoqi roared. He clenched his teeth furiously.
This barrier was too powerful to break. However, the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow race had a very monstrous innate divine ability that could construct a spatial channel.
The spatial channel couldn’t lead very far, at most a few hundred miles, but it could cause a spacetime displacement, allowing Cloud to slip past normal restrictions. No ordinary barriers were able to hold her.
This was also another reason why the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrows were able to continue surviving in the outside world despite being surrounded several times.
This kind of divine ability was something only those at the eleventh rank were capable of using, and yet Cloud had used it at the tenth rank.
Suddenly, rumbling sounds rang out. In the distance, Long Chen had a twisting spatial portal open behind him. The giant feather was currently entering the spatial portal.
“Bastard, once I capture you, they’ll be forced to hand over the essence blood!”
True Immortal Jiaoqi suddenly charged at Long Chen. Long Chen was busy gathering the feather, but it possessed its own terrifying will. Long Chen had also used up too much of his Spiritual Strength, resulting in him feeling even greater pressure.
Fortunately, his will was strong enough. The divine ring rumbled. No matter how ferocious the master of the feather had been while they had been alive, this feather still had to submit in front of Long Chen’s will.
Even though the feather itself knew it had no choice, it was still fighting back.
“Fuck, so you refuse to give me face?!” Long Chen roared. He gave up pulling it into his spiritual space. Instead, a large black hole appeared behind his back.
When that black hole appeared, the feather immediately stopped resisting. It quivered in terror, allowing Long Chen to put it away instantly.
Once it was pulled into the primal chaos space, it didn’t dare to move. It didn’t even dare to release its aura.
Originally, Long Chen hadn’t wanted to pull the feather into the primal chaos space. That was because even he couldn’t control the primal chaos space.
For example, when he had subdued the dragon teeth, he hadn’t pulled them into the primal chaos space. While he was the master of the primal chaos space, he couldn’t control it. Anything that dared to go against his will would be annihilated by the primal chaos bead.
The primal chaos bead had its own will, and it wasn’t something that Long Chen could control. If the feather had continued resisting, the primal chaos bead would have destroyed it, wasting this treasure.
If he hadn’t been pressed for time by True Immortal Jiaoqi, Long Chen wouldn’t have taken this risk. However, things had worked out. As soon as the primal chaos bead revealed its power, the feather immediately turned still.
“Brother Xie Luo, I’m done, but you’re not. Let me come help you.”
Long Chen laughed. Ignoring the furious True Immortal Jiaoqi, he charged at Xie Luo, or more accurately, the Blue Eye Peacock’s corpse.
Chapter 1835 Plucking a Bird’s Feathers
Xie Luo was doing his best to gather the corpse of the Blue Eye Peacock. However, he didn’t have a primal chaos bead. Only Life Star experts could condense their own astral space.
As for spatial rings, there was no way ordinary ones could contain this corpse with its ferocious will. Although the Blue Eye Peacock had long since died, it still had a remnant will that made it difficult to force it into anything.
Xie Luo was trying to pull it into his spiritual space, but it was difficult. He had already used a secret technique of the Corrupt path to seal the Blue Eye Peacock’s crystal core, but he was still unable to move it quickly.
Seeing Long Chen was coming to cause trouble, Xie Luo was enraged. “Long Chen, you dare?!”
“Haha, there’s nothing I don’t dare to do in this world.” Long Chen laughed. Instead of attacking Xie Luo, he jumped onto the Blue Eye Peacock’s back and pulled on one of its giant feathers.
Long Chen directly plucked off the giant feather. That feather looked almost identical to the feather he had obtained before. It was bright and multicolored and still retained a powerful aura.
This feather was also a true feather. Most Blue Eye Peacocks only had a single true feather, but this one’s cultivation base had already reached the peak of the twelfth rank, and it had borne nine true feathers.
It was just that of those nine true feathers, only one was the original true feather. That was the true feather that had accompanied it from the day it had been born.
Inside were its inherited divine abilities, making it also called the inheritance true feather. The other eight true feathers were born later, and those feathers were what this Blue Eye Peacock had been planning on relying on to advance to the thirteenth rank.
According to reason, having already reached the Samsara realm, this Blue Eye Peacock should have reached the realm of being almost undying. Even if it failed its breakthrough, it could undergo nirvanic rebirth. It wouldn’t die here, especially not with its essence blood and original true feather separated from it. That was very strange.
Long Chen didn’t have time to consider those things though. He also didn’t know what these nine true feathers represented, but his intuition told him that these eight feathers on the corpse were definite treasures.
“Bastard!” Xie Luo roared. This corpse’s feathers were very important. A portion of the Blue Eye Peacock’s power resided within its true feathers. Their divine marks were the foundation for its divine abilities.
“Don’t be so emotional. It’s jus
t plucking a few feathers.”
Long Chen was as quick as lightning, plucking the remaining seven true feathers in an instant. His efficiency sparked disbelief as he gathered the full set.
It was unknown if it was because there was the original true feather in his primal chaos space, but those true feathers didn’t resist when he plucked them. Just like that, they were gathered into his primal chaos space.
Once the eight true feathers were plucked, the Blue Eye Peacock dimmed. Its feathers lost their original splendor. It no longer looked as divine as before, and its aura weakened by over fifty percent.
“Die!”
An ancient halberd came piercing toward Long Chen’s back. True Immortal Jiaoqi had arrived.
To handle this attack, Long Chen’s golden dragon tooth smashed into True Immortal Jiaoqi’s halberd. A terrifying explosion erupted.
Long Chen’s hand split open, and blood poured out. Even having already summoned the Green Dragon Battle Armor, he was still injured and sent flying.
With Long Chen and True Immortal Jiaoqi exchanging a fierce blow, the Blue Eye Peacock’s corpse was blown into the air.
That delighted Xie Luo. Before this, it had been impossible for him to budge the corpse at all. In the air, it could be easily pulled into his spiritual space. However, he was also infuriated because he knew the reason that it was blown into the air was because Long Chen had plucked its eight true feathers.
In other words, having lost its eight true feathers, this corpse’s power had sharply fallen.
Xie Luo formed a hand seal, causing the Blue Eye Peacock to fly to him. Then, a blood-colored gate appeared behind him. That was his spiritual space.
“Don’t be in a rush. Let me help.”
Long Chen couldn’t snatch the corpse any longer, having been blown back by True Immortal Jiaoqi. So he kindly shot a ball of black flames at it.
BOOM!
The black flames exploded on the Blue Eye Peacock, unleashing a wave that enveloped it.
The berserk energy caused the entire nest to shake. Long Chen was actually using the Black Illusion Dragon Flame.
The eruption of the flame sphere brought with it a wave of powerful Spiritual Strength that caused Xie Luo’s spiritual space to almost collapse.
The shocking thing was that the Blue Eye Peacock was actually ignited by the black flames. Its feathers were burned to ash.
That shocked even Long Chen. Originally, he had just been planning on irritating Xie Luo with this. It had merely been a probing blow.
Who would have thought that the legendary Blue Eye Peacock would be unable to resist the Black Illusion Dragon Flame? Its feathers were all incinerated.
What they were unaware of was that the runes on those feathers were all linked to the nine true feathers. With the nine true feathers gone, the remaining feathers had lost their defensive power.
As for the Black Illusion Dragon Flame, its power was definitely terrifying considering it was ranked second on the Earth Flame Rankings.
“Long Chen, I will skin you alive!” Flames almost spurted out of Xie Luo’s eyes. The Blue Eye Peacock had lost all of its feathers now. Many of its divine abilities had just been lost, and its value had dropped.
“Wow, the Corrupt path’s people are so ungrateful. I kindly plucked your chicken for you, so you can cook it easier, but instead of thanking me, you threaten me! The Corrupt path is truly contemptible.” Long Chen shook his head.
At this time, True Immortal Jiaoqi was blocking his retreat path. His entire body was shining like gold. He trapped Long Chen between himself and Xie Luo.
He knew that Xie Luo was even angrier than he was. Although he was also enemies with Xie Luo, in comparison, Long Chen was his true target.
If the two of them joined hands, there would definitely be no chance of Long Chen escaping. Capturing Long Chen related to obtaining the Blue Eye Peacock essence blood.
The Blue Eye Peacock looked like a roasted chicken, and Xie Luo looked like he was about to go crazy. The reason he so adamantly wanted this corpse was because he had a method to control it and activate the Blue Eye Peacock’s divine abilities. Although they wouldn’t be as powerful as when it was alive, he was confident in restoring seventy percent of its power.
To have a peak twelfth rank Magical Beast fighting for him, who would dare to resist?
That beautiful dream had been ruined. Even if he did refine the corpse into a puppet now, he wouldn’t be able to fly through the air on it like a divine steed. If he did, he didn’t know how many people would laugh at him.
Xie Luo put the Blue Eye Peacock’s corpse into his spiritual space. Without the feathers, taking it was much easier.
Blood runes began to revolve in Xie Luo’s eyes. A blood-colored figure condensed behind him. The sound of mournful wails shook the room.
That blood-colored figure was sinister and terrifying. Looking carefully, it looked like a conglomeration of millions of lifeforms screaming and struggling in pain. When it appeared, the world also turned blood-colored.
Xie Luo was truly furious. In all his years, no one had dared to treat him like this. His killing intent soared.
“I need Long Chen’s life. If we cooperate, we have to catch him alive, so I can search him for the essence blood. The rest of his belongings will be yours!” shouted True Immortal Jiaoqi. To prevent the off-chance of failure, he chose to join hands with Xie Luo.
“Scram! Who do you think you are to cooperate with me? I’ll kill Long Chen and refine him into a puppet so he’ll be my eternal slave.”
At the same time as Xie Luo shouted, the millions of devilish ghouls behind him also roared furiously.
BOOM!
Xie Luo’s blood-red saber suddenly pointed toward the sky. As a result, his saber-image struck the barrier around the nest and caused it to quiver intensely. It then hacked down at Long Chen.
Long Chen took a deep breath. His expression was serious. He put away the dragon tooth and took out Evilmoon.
Evilmoon was in slumber and unable to help him. However, it was the weapon he was most used to using. Without a hilt, the dragon teeth weren’t capable of unleashing his power.
Even if Evilmoon was unable to help him, just its hardness and weight were enough.
“Five Star Battle Armor!”
The power of his 108,000 stars erupted. Facing both Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi, Long Chen couldn’t hold back.
A black saber-image crashed into the blood-red saber-image. The entire nest quivered. Black and red energy appeared at the top of the nest.
The experts within the nest were shaken. Although they didn’t know what was going on, they felt terrifying auras rising.
“There are peak experts fighting! Hurry! Let’s see just who is so terrifying!”
Chapter 1836 Each Harboring Sinister Intentions
Black and red light collided against each other. When Long Chen’s Evilmoon met Xie Luo’s blood-colored saber, the entire world suddenly dimmed.
When Long Chen received Xie Luo’s attack, he found that Xie Luo was also physically powerful, only a bit weaker than True Immortal Jiaoqi. Just as he was about to circulate his energy to force Xie Luo back, his heart shook. Lightning flashed.
BOOM!
A lightning barrier enveloped Long Chen, blocking a wave of bone needles. Xie Luo had also launched his bone needle attack silently, and Long Chen had almost fallen for it. Long Chen unleashed a burst of power, forcing back Xie Luo.
Xie Luo hadn’t expected Long Chen’s reaction speed to be so fast. He had launched an attack with his saber and his bone needles at almost the same time, but the light from his saber covered the bone needles.
As for his furious expression from before, half of it was real, but half of it was fake. He had also wanted to capture Long Chen alive, not just for the true feathers but also to force Meng Qi to hand over the essence blood.
Unfortunately, Long Chen’s reaction speed was too fast. He had clearly had his attention focused on h
is saber but had still managed to force back the bone needles with a quick defense.
Long Chen had just forced back Xie Luo when a golden halberd stabbed toward Long Chen.
“Let’s see just which one of us is stronger.” Long Chen met the halberd with another slash of his saber.
BOOM!
When Long Chen collided with True Immortal Jiaoqi’s halberd, he felt like he had been struck by a star. He almost coughed up blood.
Long Chen was startled. When True Immortal Jiaoqi was using his full power, he was actually so powerful. Long Chen was blown back.
On the other hand, True Immortal Jiaoqi was only forced back a dozen steps. With each step, cracks appeared in the nest. Even this tough nest was unable to bear their power.
True Immortal Jiaoqi stamped his foot on the ground, causing part of the nest to actually shatter. Only then did he manage to stabilize himself.
When he looked back up, he saw that Xie Luo had already shot after Long Chen.
Long Chen repeatedly blocked Xie Luo’s attacks seventeen times, while lightning spurted out of his body, blocking the bone needles.
The bone needles possessed both poison and curse energy. Once struck, it would gravely affect Long Chen’s combat power. Then the battle would essentially be over.
“Good, I didn’t think your body was so powerful. Your corpse is just as valuable as the Blue Eye Peacock’s.” Xie Luo smiled sinisterly as he attacked with his saber.
Xie Luo possessed a rare evil spirit body, which gave him an unmatched skill in controlling corpses. He was very interested in all powerful corpses. He could refine them into corpse puppets to be his subordinates.
Xie Luo found that Long Chen’s value as a corpse was extremely great. His physical body wouldn’t lose to True Immortal Jiaoqi who was from the Xuan Beasts. If he was refined into a puppet, he would be a fearless undying existence with amazing killing power.
“You’re thinking too far,” said Long Chen indifferently as he continued blocking with Evilmoon. His divine sense was also locked onto True Immortal Jiaoqi.