Chapter 1399: 1399
Long Chen could no longer recognize this place . The Heaven Devouring Forest’s towering trees had all vanished .
The ground looked like it had been freshly overturned . It was like this entire land had been plowed and was simply left to nature . Wild growth grew everywhere .
The flying boat continued forward, but Long Chen was puzzled . The horde of adventurers he had expected to see rushing in this direction never appeared .
Although he did see a few, they were sparse and isolated, only in small groups of just several people .
“What’s going on? Why would only so few people come for such a good opportunity?” wondered Tang Wan-er .
“Is it that it’s too dangerous, so they don’t dare?” Guo Ran was also suspicious .
“The Heaven Devouring Forest’s name is on the same level as Devil Spirit Mountain, but Devil Spirit Mountain had so many people adventuring inside . It doesn’t make sense . ” Meng Qi shook her head .
According to reason, something this huge would have shaken all the Central Plains’ geniuses, and they would have flocked over . But they didn’t see any large groups . Even groups over ten people were very rare .
Seeing how few adventurers there were, Long Chen thought of Li Tianxuan’s warning . Was this to say that he knew what was going on with the Spirit World?
The flying boat quickly reached the spatial portal at the center of this region . From a distance, it looked like the gaping maw of a giant beast that was patiently waiting for its prey to enter .
The spatial portal was dozens of miles wide, giving off violent spatial fluctuations . The space around it rippled like water .
This was a spatial portal that had existed for countless years, and the spatial channel inside was completely stable . It was like a door to the Spirit World .
However, this place had been the heart of the Heaven Devouring Forest and had always been a forbidden land to human cultivators . If the Heaven Devouring Forest’s tree demons hadn’t suddenly vanished, no one would have known that there was such a spatial portal here .
This spatial portal was opened by the tree demons and was made for them . Human Soul Transformation experts and above would feel a strong sense of expulsion if they tried to enter, and if they forced it, the spatial backlash would kill them .
Long Chen put away the spatial boat . The Dragonblood warriors stood in front of the spatial portal, all of them feeling their spirits rise . Long Chen had said that they were going to return a debt .
Long Chen’s debt was their debt . And they also wanted to take a look at the legendary Spirit World .
“Let’s go . ”
Long Chen led the way . Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er followed right behind him, and then the rest of the Dragonblood warriors . Gu Yang and Guo Ran took the rear .
Buzz .
Space shook, and the scene in front of Long Chen changed . He saw he was standing on top of a mountain . An endless forest stretched beyond the horizon .
“This is the Spirit World? What strong life energy fluctuations!” exclaimed Tang Wan-er .
“But this air also contains something evil . ” For Meng Qi, this was her second trip to the Spirit World . She could sense that this place was different from the last place they had entered from .
Long Chen hadn’t even had a chance to completely capture the scenery around him before a blood-red sword slashed toward him from an odd angle .
Over ten other figures appeared with the sword, attacking Long Chen .
Wind blades suddenly formed in the air, slicing through those people like flying knives .
Tang Wan-er was now a rank nine Celestial, and her control over wind energy had reached the point that she could control it at will . Even without forming hand seals, she could control the surrounding wind .
“They’re from the Corrupt path . ” Meng Qi was surprised .
There were a total of seventeen of them, and sixteen of them were Soul Transformation experts .
These people were all very weak . They were only rank three Celestials . But the shocking thing was that they were Soul Transformation experts . Just how had they entered the Spirit World?
The rest of the Dragonblood Legion now entered . The first thing they saw were the corpses on the ground .
“Sorry, I couldn’t control my energy perfectly . ” Tang Wan-er stuck out her tongue with embarrassment . As a rank nine Celestial, even just a random attack from her contained the might of the Heavenly Daos . These people were too weak . Even their Yuan Spirits were destroyed .
“How strange . They were from the Corrupt path, so they should have recognized Long Chen . Were they trying to get themselves killed by attacking him?” Meng Qi was trying to make sense of what was going on .
If you were to ask who the Corrupt path wanted to kill the most, it would definitely be Long Chen . Whether it was in the Eastern Wasteland or the Central Plains, Long Chen had killed countless of their experts .
That incident on Devil Spirit Mountain had especially been vicious . Long Chen had killed so many of their geniuses . Therefore, now that the Corrupt path as a whole hated Long Chen, how could their people attack and fail to recognize him?
No one could figure that out . Even Long Chen himself couldn’t tell what was going on . He could only vaguely feel just how grave this matter was . Li Tianxuan had clearly known some things and wanted to tell him, but the Xuantian Tower had prevented him from doing so .
“Kill!”
Suddenly, a furious roar came from the distance . Experts from the Corrupt path charged over .
There were dozens of them, but what was shocking was that half of them were Life Star experts .
“You… you’re Long Chen? Hahaha, kill him!” Their leader suddenly recognized Long Chen and began to laugh with delight .
“A rank five Celestial dares to be so arrogant?” Gu Yang flew out, his spear striking like a poisonous snake .
That Life Star expert was startled as this bald fellow made his soul shudder . Feeling that this baldy posed a mortal threat to him, he took out his corrupt weapon, a curved blade with an evil aura coming out of it . He raised it against Gu Yang’s spear .
BOOM!
His corrupt weapon shattered, and he himself was blown apart by Gu Yang’s spear . His Yuan Spirit tried to escape, but it was destroyed by another thrust of Gu Yang’s spear .
A Life Star expert was instantly slain by Gu Yang . Both the Corrupt experts and the Dragonblood warriors were shocked .
However, Long Chen had expected this . These Life Star experts were the weakest existences in their realm .
For rank three Celestials, due to their limited talent, reaching the Jade Core realm would normally be their limit . The limit for rank four Celestials was Soul Transformation, and the limit for rank five Celestials was the Life Star realm .
This so-called limit referred to never being able to advance again after making their breakthrough . In other words, once a rank five Celestial broke through to the Life Star realm, their cultivation bases wouldn’t advance again .
These people’s cultivation bases would be stuck in the state of someone who had just broken through . They couldn’t even count as having reached the first Heavenstage . It was a bit similar to how Liu Cang had used a Life Star Bead to break through .
However, these people were even weaker than Liu Cang, and their weapons were all inferior King items, with half not even having reached the King item level . As for Gu Yang’s spear, it was an Ancestral item Long Chen had brought out of Devil Spirit Mountain .
In the first clash, that curved blade was as weak as paper, and the Life Star expert was slain .
“Kill them all . Meng Qi, see if you can soulsearch them . ” Long Chen waved his hand, giving out his orders .
“Kill!”
Gu Yang felt like his heart was about to burst with joy after killing a Life Star expert in one blow . This feeling of accomplishment was truly stimulating . His spear unleashed a wave of spear-images at the Corrupt experts .
The Dragonblood Legion instantly surrounded those people . Tang Wan-er, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan all attacked . What they found strange was that these Life Star experts were truly weak . They were all killed in just a few exchanges .
As for the Soul Transformation experts, they were even weaker, weaker than ordinary Jade Core disciples . They might not even be a match for the Xuantian Dao Sect’s outer sect Jade Core disciples .
The Dragonblood Legion had never encountered such weak Life Star experts . They were all slain in just a few breaths, dumbfounding the Dragonblood warriors . They were just too weak .
“Boss, what’s going on?” Gu Yang’s excitement vanished . He was just stunned at how weak these people had been .
“How was it, Meng Qi?” Long Chen didn’t reply to him, instead turning to Meng Qi .
Meng Qi’s hands slowly came out of their seal . A rune on her forehead faded, and she opened her eyes, shaking her head . “Their souls were filled with restrictions, and I couldn’t get anything of value from them . They’re the Corrupt path’s weakest existences and aren’t even fighting experts . Normally, they are in charge of gathering information, and thus the Corrupt path doesn’t view them highly . These people’s longevity was coming to an end, so they were sent to kill any disciples that entered from this channel . But there is one piece of important news I obtained . They didn’t enter from this spatial portal . Instead, they entered through other means . ”
“Other means?”
“Yes . Their memories were sealed, but by scouring the fragments of their souls, I was able to piece together that they had entered the Spirit World from a large transportation formation . Furthermore, the number of people that came with them was extremely, extremely great . ” Meng Qi was now worried .
The Corrupt path’s transportation formation could dispatch experts above the Jade Core realm . Meanwhile, the outside world’s experts could only send in Jade Core disciples and below . In this case, the Righteous path’s disciples would be slaughtered if they encountered the Corrupt path here . The scent of a scheme was growing stronger .
The Corrupt path’s experts had entered the Spirit World in force . For the Dragonblood Legion to have also entered, they had essentially stepped into the Corrupt path’s hive .
Long Chen thought about it for a while before shaking his head . “The old man said constantly using brains to resolve problems will cause a person’s body to regress and their guts to shrink . There’s no need to think too much about it . It doesn’t matter what they’re scheming . All we have to do is flip the heavens as usual . When has the Dragonblood Legion ever been afraid?”
Then he raised his hand and summoned the flying boat . “Since they want to play with their secret schemes, we’ll just use an open scheme . Let’s move out!”