by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Long Chen, are they stronger than you?”
“I can’t say. Neither of them exposed their true power or trump cards. However, I did the same, so we can’t say who’s stronger or weaker. But you don’t need to worry, I definitely wouldn’t fear fighting either one of them. I’ll probably just be at a disadvantage in a two against one.”
The two of them were truly powerful, and none of them had wished to expose their trump cards. Those were the tools they would need to kill their opponents. The two of them were definitely the most powerful opponents Long Chen had seen so far.
“You don’t need to worry about them. Now you have the true feathers, and Cloud’s power will definitely soar once she finishes refining the essence blood. You’ll then definitely be able to fight people like them. Even if you can’t beat them, you should be able to escape,” comforted Long Chen.
“Speaking of which, what about everyone else? How are they doing?” asked Long Chen.
Chapter 1840 Returning to the Mysterious Mountain Range
Only now did Long Chen have time to ask about the Dragonblood Legion. Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, and the others had finally come out of seclusion, with their manifestations reaching an initial awakening level.
With that, their control over Heavenly Dao energy had reached a whole new level. With the help of the blood essence stones and blood soul stones, their physical bodies and souls had also grown much stronger.
Not long after they came out of their seclusion, they rushed over to the Yin Yang World. Before Long Chen had entered, Qu Jianying had sent the Xuantian Dao Sect a message that all Dragonblood warriors were to charge into the Yin Yang World.
By the time they arrived, the gate to the Yin Yang World had been fully opened, and it did not require Netherpassage experts to exhaust their life and death energy to send them in.
However, even before they entered the Yin Yang World, the Dragonblood Legion had ended up having a fight with a group of experts from the ancient family alliance.
When Long Chen had slain Xiang Yunfei, the ancient family alliance had broken ties with the Martial Heaven Alliance. Although they had yet to express any hostility, it was very heavily implied.
At that time, the ancient family alliance had had a group of dozens of Empyreans, as well as experts from the ancient races that had come. They had blocked the path of the Dragonblood Legion, telling them to scram, even yelling obscenities at Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others.
The furious Tang Wan-er had been the first to attack. She had directly slain one of the Empyreans of the ancient family alliance.
As a result, a huge battle erupted. Hundreds of powerful experts had tried to kill the Dragonblood Legion.
Under Xia Chen’s orders, the Dragonblood Legion had instantly surrounded those people. In just a few seconds, they had been slain.
From start to finish, it had just been a few breaths’ time. Those experts that had provoked the Dragonblood Legion were all slaughtered.
The other experts that had been present at that time were all pale with horror. That was because the ones that had slain those powerful experts were the ordinary warriors of the Dragonblood Legion.
Chu Yao, Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Gu Yang, Yue Zifeng, and the others hadn’t attacked. Just the ordinary Dragonblood warriors were able to kill those attackers, including the dozens of Empyreans.
Those powerful Empyreans appeared to be weaklings in front of the Dragonblood warriors. They couldn’t even resist.
Through Xia Chen’s arrival and training, the Dragonblood Legion had truly become extremely terrifying.
These experts had wanted to take advantage of the Dragonblood Legion since they didn’t have many Empyreans and Long Chen wasn’t present, destroying the name of the unrivaled legion.
However, unexpectedly, these people had ended up being a training opportunity for the Dragonblood Legion and were annihilated.
Other than Guo Ran and Xia Chen, everyone was shocked by their power, including the Dragonblood warriors themselves. They hadn’t expected their new formation to be so powerful. Guo Ran and Xia Chen had cheered excitedly, especially Guo Ran.
Countless people had witnessed that brief fight, and others who had thought about fighting them immediately retreated with dismay.
Upon entering the Yin Yang World, Guo Ran decided not to have everyone split up so that they wouldn’t encounter any of the peak experts present.
As long as the Dragonblood Legion didn’t spread out, they wouldn’t need to fear any experts. Such a terrifying legion was enough to sweep through the Yin Yang World.
However, of their top experts, several had left. Yue Zifeng had left on his own. No one had ever managed to figure out his true power. The Dragonblood warriors all thought that Yue Zifeng was the strongest existence in the Dragonblood Legion after Long Chen.
Once Yue Zifeng left, Meng Qi had also chosen to depart. She had Cloud, and she herself was a powerful soul cultivator. Adding on Cloud’s power and speed, she would be able to escape alive no matter who her enemy was.
It was just that having entered the nest, there had been nowhere for her to go. The twisting paths meant that Cloud couldn’t take advantage of her speed.
Since Meng Qi had wanted to go, Chu Yao also chose to leave. Liu Ruyan had said that she sensed something in the Yin Yang World calling out to her, so she wanted to search for it.
Thus, the Dragonblood Legion was currently being led by Tang Wan-er, Xia Chen, Guo Ran, Gu Yang, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan. Although it was a bit inconvenient for over ten thousand people to be traveling together, it was safe. With so many people, they definitely wouldn’t overlook anything while searching through the Yin Yang World.
As for whether they could find any treasures, that was entirely up to luck. Even if they couldn’t find any treasures, considering Guo Ran’s nature, conveniently plundering others was definitely possible.
Long Chen truly understood Guo Ran far too well. If he couldn’t find any treasures, he would definitely send a small group of the Dragonblood warriors out to cause some trouble and parade themselves around, baiting their enemies to attack them. Then the entire legion would come crashing down on them, and if they didn’t hand over their treasures, Guo Ran would teach them why flowers were red.
Long Chen nodded once Meng Qi had finished speaking. Yue Zifeng and Chu Yao should be fine on their own. If Meng Qi hadn’t been unlucky and encountered True Immortal Jiaoqi, she also would have been fine.
As long as they didn’t encounter experts on the level of True Immortal Jiaoqi and Xie Luo, they would definitely be safe. Encountering experts on that level wasn’t so easy.
Opportunity existed within danger. Without taking risks, there was no way of gaining anything. Taking risks was in itself a kind of cultivation.
“Long Chen, do you feel like that nest was very strange?” asked Meng Qi suddenly. “While soothing the Blue Eye Peacock’s original true feather, I used a secret art from the Myriad Spirit Diagram that can quickly soothe souls. However, the will of the Blue Eye Peacock’s will contains endless grievance and resentment. It seems it died in an extremely miserable way, causing its will to be very fierce. It took me a long time to calm it down. Through its will, I could almost see how it was cruelly slain, its essence blood extracted, and its true feathers plucked.”
Meng Qi’s own voice contained a bitter tone. Although she hadn’t managed to see the complete scene, she had managed to glimpse some memories of the Blue Eye Peacock right before its death.
The original true feather in Meng Qi’s spiritual space buzzed as if resonating with Meng Qi’s words and emotions.
Meng Qi once more used her Spiritual Strength to comfort it. This original true feather might not contain its own intelligence, but it contained a portion of the Blue Eye Peacock’s will from right before its death.
“It truly was very strange. When I broke the nest, black hands came out of the ground and killed the experts present. According to you, that Blue Eye Peacock in the nest
was slain by others, and its essence blood, corpse, and original true feather were deliberately separated…” Long Chen suddenly slapped his leg and exclaimed, “Wait, it seems there were some faint fluctuations at the top of those three spots. Most likely, it was the formation supporting those three things. The hands didn’t come out because I broke the nest, but because I broke the barrier.”
Long Chen nodded with comprehension. He had felt that the nest was very strange, but he hadn’t managed to figure it out. But through Meng Qi’s reminder, he was sure that this place was artificially made.
“It’s too bad Xia Chen isn’t here. With his understanding of formations, he might be able to see some clues,” said Meng Qi.
“This formation was most likely absorbing heaven and earth’s energy to support the corpse, essence blood, and true original feather. That appearance… it was like… raising pigs…”
Meng Qi and Long Chen’s expressions suddenly changed. If their guess was correct, then this Yin Yang World was not a masterless world. They were stealing treasures that others were nourishing and raising. If the master of those treasures were to learn of their actions, what would occur?
“Is the Yin Yang World really the land of some major figures?” Meng Qi’s voice quivered slightly. If that really was true, how terrifying did the master of the Yin Yang World have to be?
“Let’s not bother with that so much. Perhaps the master already died a long time ago. Even if they haven’t, we should still take these things. It’s always the most daring people who have the most gains. I’ve even dared to take the things of a Yama King, so who cares? Come, I’ll bring you to a good place,” said Long Chen with a smile.
“Where? Are we not going to regroup with the Dragonblood Legion?” asked Meng Qi.
“They have Guo Ran leading them, so they’ll be fine. Furthermore, they also have a formation grandmaster like Xia Chen present. I’m not worried about them.” Long Chen began to fly away with Meng Qi. With Cloud refining the essence blood, they could only fly themselves. “I found a mysterious place previously. Let’s go see if we can get anything from there.”
They quickly arrived at an unending mountain range. When Meng Qi saw those terrifying twelfth rank Magical Beasts spread throughout this territory, she shivered.
“What are you thinking of doing?!”
“Just picking out a couple steeds for you.”
“Don’t joke around! With my Spiritual Strength, there’s no way I can suppress a twelfth rank Magical Beast! It’s definitely impossible before breaking through to the Life Star realm!”
“We’ll just try. I happen to be the king of these beasts. When they see me, they don’t even dare to make a sound. Even if I kick them, they won’t say anything.” Long Chen patted his chest confidently.
Meng Qi definitely didn’t believe such nonsense, but as Long Chen led her deeper, she saw more and more twelfth rank Magical Beasts standing even closer to each other. She felt like she was going crazy.
If they were to startle these Magical Beasts, not even ten thousand lives would be enough to escape from here alive.
The most unbelievable thing was that Long Chen actually brought her to a giant snow wolf. He actually brought her right in front of its face.
“What are you doing?!” Meng Qi was pale with fright.
Long Chen jumped onto the wolf’s back, and Meng Qi felt like her heart had stopped beating.
“It’s fine. This is my old friend.”
This was the wolf that Long Chen had encountered before. Seeing Long Chen return with another person, it glanced at him for a moment before closing its eyes again.
Long Chen brought the stunned Meng Qi up the wolf’s head. He patted its head.
“Brother, can you stand for me? We’re not high enough to see the amazing scenery.”
Chapter 1841 The Giant Egg at the Bottom of the Lake
The wolf, which had previously ignored Long Chen, bared its fangs at him now for giving it an order.
However, it had just expressed its anger when Long Chen tossed out a medicinal pill that entered its mouth.
The wolf’s anger instantly vanished. After hesitating, it decided to stand.
Once it stood, they had a higher vantage point, and Meng Qi finally saw the circular mountain in the distance.
When she saw that the mountain was surrounded by countless powerful twelfth rank Magical Beasts, she sucked in a cold gasp of air just like Long Chen had done.
“What is going on?” she asked.
“I’m not sure. But look, under the wolf is a cave. There’s a special aura coming out of it,” said Long Chen.
“This… is the aura of primordial life,” said Meng Qi with a strange expression after sensing the air coming out of the cave.
The wolf seemed to be somewhat alarmed to see Long Chen and Meng Qi eyeing the cave, so it knelt down once more, staring at them.
Meng Qi had already jumped off of it, but the wolf stubbornly blocked the cave, no longer letting the two of them look.
“What is this primordial life aura?” asked Long Chen.
Meng Qi said, “It refers to the energy of a mother’s amniotic fluid. It’s the fluid which births life. Humans, Magical Beasts, Xuan Beasts, they all rely on this primordial life fluid to grow in the womb.
“But why would such an aura be here?”
Meng Qi shook her head, indicating that she didn’t know either. However, this primordial life fluid which she had sensed was incredibly grand. She had never sensed such terrifying fluctuations.
“Come. Let’s go sneak a peek,” said Long Chen.
“Sneak… a peek?”
Meng Qi looked at the distant concentrated twelfth rank Magical Beasts.
“It’s fine, they just guard their own territory. We don’t look like threats, so they won’t bother us. Furthermore, because there are so many of them around, they won’t make any moves until they have to. Perhaps there’s a treasure in that circular mountain, so I feel like we should risk it.” Long Chen smiled.
“Even at this time, you can still smile? No wonder others call you a monster,” sighed Meng Qi. But that smile loosened her tense nerves.
Meng Qi couldn’t help sighing. If she could advance to the Life Star realm here, she would definitely have a chance to gather a few powerful housepets with this many twelfth rank Magical Beasts obediently lying here.
However, the patriarch and Li Tianxuan had harshly warned all of them before entering the Yin Yang World that they could not make that breakthrough within this world. Otherwise, their cultivation bases would stagnate and they would never be able to advance again.
Meng Qi currently only had Cloud, and she had never had a chance to gather stronger housepets. Ordinary tenth rank Magical Beasts weren’t worth the effort for her.
Long Chen brought Meng Qi forward carefully. They didn’t intentionally suppress their auras because that would only raise the guards of the Magical Beasts.
They simply walked over, passing by the Magical Beasts. Some of them looked coldly at them. Only a few unfriendly ones stood and raised their hackles at them in warning. However, even they didn’t attack.
When they encountered those bad-tempered Magical Beasts, Long Chen would make a slight detour around them, indicating he was harmless. After doing that, those Magical Beasts didn’t bother him.
As they went further in, the Magical Beasts grew more concentrated. Some of them were extremely tense, making it so Long Chen had to carefully bypass them.
He found that the further he went, the stronger the auras of the Magical Beasts grew. However, the stronger they were, the better their temper was.
Perhaps it was because they were so strong that they viewed the two of them as ants, so they weren’t wary when they passed by.
Both of them quickly arrived at the circular mountain. There was no longer any way forward unless they crawled on top of the bodies of the Magical Beasts because they were standing side by side.
“Now what?” whispere
d Meng Qi.
The two of them didn’t dare to fly here. If they were in the air and those Magical Beasts attacked, they wouldn’t have a chance to dodge. But while they were on the ground, these Magical Beasts seemed to be restraining each other and wouldn’t easily attack.
“There’s a Silver Horn Bull over there. That kind of Magical Beast has a slightly better temper. Maybe we can test going over with it.” Long Chen pulled Meng Qi past a black gorilla to the bull.
The Silver Horn Bull’s horn was gigantic and flickered with divine light. It seemed to be absorbing something through that horn.
Long Chen and Meng Qi quietly climbed up its body. The Silver Horn Bull didn’t react at all.
Standing on top of its head, they looked inside the circular mountain.
This was actually a giant volcano, and there was dense immortal mist covering it. An endless flow of life energy flowed out of it. Just taking a breath here would fully refresh someone.
These Magical Beasts were all quietly lying here in meditation, greedily absorbing the immortal mist flowing out of the volcano.
Unfortunately, the mist blocked their sight as well as their divine sense. They couldn’t see the situation within.
“Let’s go down.”
Long Chen carefully slid down the Silver Horn Bull’s ear. Suddenly, its giant eye slowly opened, making Meng Qi jump.
However, after looking around, it lazily closed its eyes again. It had clearly noticed them yet didn’t care.
Seeing Long Chen continue sliding out as if nothing had happened, Meng Qi sighed. It took big guts to follow Long Chen in his adventuring. Anyone with a weak heart would have been frightened to death.
“Not good.”
Long Chen and Meng Qi suddenly found that they were unable to sustain flight within this region. After sliding off the bull’s ear, they couldn’t float in the air. They began to involuntarily descend down the volcano.