Chapter 7255 Bloodletting

BOOM!

Majestic Sword Qi split open heaven and earth alike. The very laws of the world vanished, and everything in existence was annihilated. In front of this terrifying edge, nothing could put up even as much resistance as air.

That immense hand was instantly blown apart, and, to people’s shock, the Sword Qi seemed utterly unaffected. It continued forward like an unstoppable tsunami, obliterating everything in its path, whether buildings or people.

BOOM!

Finally, a terrifying aura appeared, as if a beast slumbering underground had been startled awake. The ground split open, and two figures appeared. One was an old man, while the other was a black cocoon.

Long Chen’s eyes narrowed when he saw that cocoon. Inside was a merger of dark energy and Yan Xu power!

“Heavens, this is the Dark Line’s aura... The Cult of Mara is in cahoots with the outsider devils!”

A startled cry rang out. While many people didn’t recognize Yan Xu’s aura, the fluctuations of dark energy were very clear. After all, the Dark Master had commanded many races, and most of the experts of the nine heavens and ten lands had fought against one of these races at some point. Some members of these races had been taken prisoners and were still being studied for weaknesses.

Nobody knew what the cocoon was, but the way this situation appeared, it was fairly clear evidence that the infamous Cult of Mara had abandoned the nine heavens and cast their lot with the outsider devils.

That elder couldn’t be bothered with everyone’s startled cries and curses. His expression was grave. He hastily formed hand seals, and a giant illusory image appeared behind him—a fiendish skull that radiated tremendous Grand Dao Power.

Long Chen was the first one impacted. His whole body hurt, and it felt like he was about to be crushed to pieces. However, he didn’t try to get out of the way. The nine-leaf golden lotus appeared in his divine ring, and its light made it so that the pressure was no longer so great.

After all, the elder’s target was not Long Chen. He was constantly forming hand seals and retracted the power of his domain into giant black gates that had appeared in front of him at some point.

There were nine gates, and they all had a fiendish skull embedded into them. Just looking at the gates made the spectators feel as if their souls were about to be sucked inside, and the power they exuded was enough to make people despair.

Even someone as powerful as Long Chen felt hopeless in front of those gates. He had a feeling that even a full-power blow from him would not leave the slightest mark on them.

This was the power of a Heavenly Sovereign! Long Chen could slay half-step Heavenly Sovereigns, but he was still an ant in front of a true Heavenly Sovereign.

However, in front of everyone’s shocked gazes, these immensely powerful gates were instantly blown apart by the Sword Qi. When the final gate was destroyed, that Heavenly Sovereign roared and took out a black soul-banner. Grand Dao power erupted out of it, shaking heaven and earth, and the entire world darkened. A maggot-like rune on the banner flashed, and a strange formation spread out.

The Sword Qi met the giant banner and turned it to shreds, but the banner also absorbed most of the force of the blow. Unfortunately for the Heavenly Sovereign elder, even the leftover force was not something he could casually bear. The moment it struck him, blood sprayed from his mouth. That skull behind him instantly disappeared as well, and his aura plummeted.

The elder’s expression changed. He grabbed the cocoon beside him and turned to flee. However, just as he turned around, Long Chen, who had been eagerly waiting for this moment, appeared in front of him.

POW!

This elder had clearly never imagined that someone he viewed as an ant would take this chance not to flee, but to block him head-on. More importantly, this slap contained Long Chen’s full astral power. Even as a Heavenly Sovereign, he was left dazed.

The next moment, the elder suddenly felt his throat tighten, and then something sharp pierced his back. A tiny Evilmoon had stabbed through his defenses and through his heart.

“Don’t panic. Don’t struggle. Relax. It’s normal to be light-headed...”

As it turned out, Long Chen had already firmly grabbed the elder by the throat, and while comforting him, stabbed him seventeen more times. The blood of a Heavenly Sovereign was spraying through the air! Furthermore, a basin had appeared beneath them at some point and it was collecting all that blood!

This stunning turn of events shocked even Zi Yan, Miao Yin, and the palace master. That was a Heavenly Sovereign! How did Long Chen dare to do this? He was... bleeding a Heavenly Sovereign?!

“Die!” the elder suddenly roared. As it turned out, being stabbed eighteen times was not a particularly pleasant experience. Divine light surged out of him. If this divine light struck him, then even Long Chen’s tough physical body would be ripped apart.

However, by the time he would’ve been in danger, Long Chen had already appeared by Zi Yan’s side. He was holding the basin, now full of a Heavenly Sovereign’s essence blood!

This essence blood was shining brightly. Terrifying Grand Dao power fluctuations came from it, making countless people envious. This was the essence blood of a Heavenly Sovereign, and it was heart blood at that! This was the best kind of essence blood; even a single drop could drive countless peak Divine Sovereigns crazy. Just one drop could give them a good chance to feel the threshold to the Heavenly Sovereign realm!

Seeing Long Chen hold a full basin of something others measured in fractions of a droplet, the spectators felt dizzy. They now understood more about why Long Chen was so strong: it was because no matter how dangerous it was, he did not miss any opportunity.

“Brat, get back here and die!” roared the elder. He was about to charge over to reclaim his blood when he spat out more blood.

If this elder had not sacrificed his Heavenly Sovereign Dao Weapon, the palace master’s attack would have definitely taken his life. Even though he survived, he was critically injured. Long Chen had accurately realized this and capitalized on the elder’s diminished perception and growing sense of fear to strike.

Losing that much of his most precious essence blood drove him mad. When he tried to circulate his Grand Dao power in this state, it only worsened his condition.

Naturally, Long Chen did not miss the opportunity to twist the knife. “Hey, don’t be so impatient! You can see for yourself that my basin’s full. Just wait a moment and I’ll switch it out for a new one...”

“Long Chen! Just you wait!”

The elder let out a furious roar. He grabbed the black cocoon and vanished. All that remained of him was his furious roar echoing through the air.

“Palace Master, why not kill him?” Long Ziwei couldn’t help asking. The palace master hadn’t even tried to stop that elder. This was clearly a golden opportunity to get rid of a thorny problem.

There was no need for the palace master to reply. Long Chen immediately scolded him. “If we pushed him to that point, he might have self-detonated, and in that case, there would’ve been fewer than ten people left alive. Do you think you’d be one of them?”

Long Ziwei immediately understood and laughed awkwardly. “It’s not my fault! When you got so much blood out of him, I forgot how terrifying a Heavenly Sovereign is.”

It went without saying that Long Ziwei was quite skilled when it came to bootlicking. Furthermore, the way that Long Chen had stabbed a Heavenly Sovereign over and over again really did give people a misperception that a Heavenly Sovereign wasn’t that strong. They completely forgot about that terrifying pressure they had felt just moments before.

Just then, the many hidden experts in the vicinity began to come forward.

“Congratulations, Dean Long Chen. You’ve rid the nine heavens of another scourge! Truly admirable!”