Chapter 472
While Long Chen was in seclusion, the Righteous and Corrupt paths of the seven prefectures were all deeply shaken .
When the Jiuli secret realm had closed, thousands of disciples had come out . The news of Long Chen battling the peak experts of the Righteous and Corrupt paths rapidly spread .
The most shocking information was how in that final clash, those peak experts had been blown away like dried up sticks by him . Everyone thought Long Chen would be the hope of the Righteous path, a chance for them to soar in power .
At the same time, there were many people that denounced the Pill Tower . They had stuck their hands into the Righteous and Corrupt struggles, and it had been unfair to the Righteous path . They hoped for the Pill Tower to give them an adequate explanation .
However, no response came from the Pill Tower . From some backchannels, it was learned that Huo Wufang had apparently been sent back to the Pill Tower half-alive .
Every single bone in his body had been broken . The Pill Tower had immediately taken action to heal him . However, that healing had been so painful that Huo Wufang would have preferred to die .
Back then, Long Chen hadn’t killed him . Instead, he had fed him a medicinal pill . That medicinal pill had actually been what had managed to keep Huo Wufang alive .
However, within that medicinal pill had also been a strong poison . It was a kind of poison that would seep into his bones, and as soon as something tried to heal those bones, it would activate the poison .
That poison targeted only the nerves, and it wouldn’t kill him . Instead, it would just make him feel so much pain that he would wish himself dead . Long Chen hated Huo Wufang to the max, and all he wanted was for Huo Wufang to suffer endless pain .
Although Huo Wufang liked to act incomparably arrogant, in truth, such people were all weak and cowardly inside . In the face of death, they would do anything to survive .
It was precisely because Long Chen had known what kind of person Huo Wufang was that he had forced him to consume this medicinal pill he had personally refined . It was all to make him be filled with enough pain to want to die, all while knowing he wouldn’t even have the courage to kill himself .
Huo Wufang had been sent to his Huo family on the very day he had returned from the secret realm . However, whether or not he had been healed was something no one knew .
As for the Righteous path’s questions, the Pill Tower still hadn’t given an explanation . In comparison to the Pill Tower’s silence, there were quite a few sects that had flown into a rage because they had lost too many of their elite disciples . Those were people Long Chen had killed . Some sects hadn’t had a single one of their disciples return .
In comparison, the smaller sects ended up benefiting greatly . Their disciples had not only survived, but had brought back a large harvest of spatial rings . The treasures in those spatial rings were several decades worth of resources to them .
However, those smaller sects had also become completely silent .
Their disciples that had come back and were filled with gratefulness towards Long Chen had been sternly warned not to run their mouths . Some of the more stubborn ones had even been imprisoned .
One reason was that their sects were too small . If news of their gains spread, it would provoke jealousy from others . The other reason was that Long Chen had become everyone’s target now . Who dared get closer to him now?
The Righteous path was in an unstable condition, with wild undercurrents were flowing behind the scenes . But the Corrupt path was in an even more chaotic state . Long Chen had almost completely annihilated the Corrupt path’s top geniuses of the seven prefectures . Of their peak experts, only Yin Luo had returned, and only half of him at that .
If there hadn’t been a powerful healer present then, perhaps he would have already died .
There had been more than a hundred thousand Corrupt disciples that entered the secret realm . But less than a thousand of them had returned . That was completely unacceptable . It was a huge blow to their core strength .
Nowadays, Long Chen was cla.s.sified as a must-kill figure to the Corrupt path . Any names that had been placed on their must-kill list would be hunted down with the Corrupt path’s full strength .
Within a hidden hall, there was a stone stele over thirty meters tall . It was engraved with tens of thousands of names . Furthermore, a red ‘X’ had been slashed on top of each of those names . That meant they were already dead .
There was only one name without an X over it, and it was one that had only just been carved, making it extremely eye-catching . That name was: Long Chen .
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BOOM!
A mountain collapsed as a wave of qi soared into the sky . Rays of light were s.h.i.+ning from Long Chen’s body . Two stars were s.h.i.+ning within his eyes, and his aura could frighten even the heavens .
Now, both those stars were equally bright . Furthermore, as those two stars slowly rotated, they released a volcanic power .
“It’s finally completely condensed!” Long Chen raised his head and laughed uproariously . His voice sounded like the roar of a G.o.d, shaking the land .
“After obtaining the primal chaos bead, even my cultivation base can rapidly advance . ” Long Chen clenched a fist, excitedly sensing the surging spiritual qi in his body .
Long Chen had spent all his time refining Alioth Pill . Not only had his Alioth Star become completely condensed, he had even advanced three cultivation levels, reaching the twelfth Heavenstage of Tendon Transformation .
He was just one level away from the thirteenth Heavenstage and undergoing the heavenly tribulation . Then he would be in Bone Forging .
Long Chen sighed, muttering to himself, “With both stars fully condensed, my combat strength should have increased by over ten times . I should be able to dominate the Bone Forging realm, and I don’t have to fear Meridian Opening experts . But I still am not an equal opponent for Xiantian experts . The barrier between the Xiantian and Houtian realms is just too great . ”
Xiantian experts were too powerful . Even Luo Bing, who had only just broken through to the Xiantian realm, had already been so powerful .
Currently, his best option would be to flee as far as possible . At the very least, he should wait until he broke through to Meridian Opening before returning .
However, he always felt a bit anxious . He felt as if something was wrong, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t figure it out .
“Ah, whatever . I’ll stealthily inquire what is happening with the supermonastery . ” Long Chen took out some medicinal liquid and applied it over his face .
Looking in a mirror, he made some adjustments, turning himself into the likeness of an ordinary man in his thirties who was slightly yellowed .
He looked as ordinary as possible . If he was thrown into a crowd, it would be impossible for anyone to notice him . Switching out his robes, he began to rush into the distance .
The next day, he found a city . He just happened to be hungry, and so he found a restaurant to eat . Just as he was about to start eating, he heard the large man beside him begin talking to his neighbor . This man’s tongue had already grown loose from drinking .
“Why are you looking at me like that? You think I’m just bragging cause I drank too much?” That man’s voice was clearly slightly displeased .
“Don’t blame me . Even if you said this when you were sober, no one would believe it, let alone now when you’re completely drunk . ” The other man was holding back laughter . He seemed extremely familiar with the large man .
“Tch, if you hadn’t invited me to drink, do you think I’d tell you something this big? Let me tell you, this matter is absolutely true . ” His voice suddenly dropped to a whisper . “There’s no harm in me telling you this . My older sister’s husband’s big brother’s aunt’s fiancé-”
“d.a.m.n, how many relations.h.i.+ps are you going to list?! I’m already lost,” cursed the other man .
“Aiya, just ignore those relations.h.i.+ps . In any case, her fiancé is a disciple from the number one Xuantian Monastery . Three days ago, we were drinking together, and he only told me this because he drank too much . You can’t tell others this, or it will cause a disaster . ” When he reached this point in his story, he even paused his drinking .
He looked around and saw the only one close to him was an ordinary man who had a sickly yellow tint to him . There were not the slightest fluctuations coming from him, so he didn’t seem to be a cultivator . Only then was he at ease .
“You were telling the truth? The first monastery really is planning on killing two Xiantian experts and a group of geniuses?”
Long Chen’s teacup instantly shattered . He suddenly appeared in front of that large man and grabbed his throat .
“Was that the truth?!”
“You…?!”
The two of them both completely startled . These two were both in the Tendon Transformation realm, but when they met Long Chen’s gaze, they immediately felt numb and cold . A sensation of death filled their hearts, and they couldn’t even bring themselves to think about resisting .
“Speak! What happened?!” raged Long Chen .
An incense stick’s time later, those two had both woken up from their drunk state . They were both drenched in sweat, looking like they had just gotten out of a pool .
The larger man told Long Chen everything he knew . Under Long Chen’s interrogation, he didn’t even have the courage to hold back a single thing .
Once Long Chen left, they both collapsed on the table . They had never seen such a terrifying person in their lives .
Long Chen’s expression was gloomy, and killing intent was exploding from him . From that person, he had learned that after he had fled, the first monastery had still taken the advantage .
There had been several more people to join the first monastery, and some of them had wanted to chase after Long Chen . As a result, Ling Yun-zi had become absolutely furious and slaughtered four sect leaders .
That had stunned everyone, even the second monastery’s sect leader . He had only taken action to display his own power and fight for the first monastery ranking .
But Ling Yun-zi was slaughtering sect leaders . That made him feel the situation had turned sour, and he had pulled back .
Due to that, Ling Yun-zi and Cang Ming had been surrounded by everyone, heavily injured and finally captured . As for Tang Wan-er and the others, they were also captured .
It was said that this matter had even alarmed the a.s.sistant monastery head, and in their rage, they had ordered everyone other than Hua Biluo to be imprisoned . The only gratifying thing was that Guo Ran and the others were still alive .
But what infuriated Long Chen was that the first monastery had sent out news that three days from now, they were going to execute all of them .
This fury didn’t cloud Long Chen’s mind . He knew this matter was completely unreasonable and made no sense . First of all, he was the crux of the matter as the main offender . If they were to punish people, they had to punish him, not the other geniuses . Even if there was to be punishment, they should have only punished Ling Yun-zi, and not the others .
Second of all, the cause of all this was very simple . It had all been because the first monastery had targeted him . They had been the root of the trouble, and only then had the situation developed to that point . If they really wanted to target him, then they were lacking an honorable reason . They shouldn’t be proceeding with this so openly without any fear .
Third, the location was wrong . If someone was to punish these people, they should have done it at the supermonastery . Why would they punish them at the first monastery? Something was wrong .
“Good, very good! As expected, they really did hide the truth . Then let me see whether you can hide the truth, or I can hide your lives for all eternity . ” Surging with killing intent, Long Chen rushed towards the first monastery .