Chapter 5641 Crystal Monster
Long Chen had never expected Hou Tianwu to be so reckless. Even in such dire circumstances, he was still obsessed with the secrets of the nine star line. As countless experts charged toward the Hidden Dragon Legion, Long Chen’s killing intent erupted. Without hesitation, he swung his saber at Hou Tianwu.
“It seems that these women are very important to you!” sneered Hou Tianwu.
Hou Tianwu’s sinister grin widened as he saw Long Chen go berserk. He believed he had discovered Long Chen’s weakness and intended to exploit it. Yet, he didn’t dare to be careless. His bloodline power surged, and his golden staff buzzed with energy as he smashed it toward Evilmoon.
However, as Hou Tianwu unleashed his attack, he sensed something was off. Long Chen’s saber strike looked powerful, yet it lacked the deadly aura he expected.
“You cheater!” Hou Tianwu roared, realizing too late that Long Chen had tricked him.
The saber strike was a feint. Under its cover, the slash changed into a precise thrust aimed at Hou Tianwu’s stomach.
“You’re just stupid,” responded Long Chen.
Hou Tianwu hastily twisted his staff to block the thrust but miscalculated. Long Chen’s strike appeared fast but was deceptively slow. As a result, Hou Tianwu’s hurried block overshot, and just as his staff missed its mark, Evilmoon suddenly accelerated.
This simple attack from Long Chen looked ordinary, but it was actually a manifestation of all his life’s experience. Tricking an expert of this caliber was incredibly difficult, but Long Chen still managed to do so.
A cold light flashed on Evilmoon’s tip, and it instantly pierced through Hou Tianwu’s chest, leaving a gaping, bloody wound. Blood sprayed from Hou Tianwu’s mouth as he was sent flying.
“Back?!”
The sudden turn of events caused everyone from the Heaven Demon Alliance to jump in shock. In an instant, Hou Tianwu had suffered a grievous injury.
Yet, Long Chen was sighing. Hou Tianwu was too strong. The moment that Evilmoon pierced his body, his bloodline power erupted, forming a sealing power.
To not give Hou Tianwu any chance to seal Evilmoon, Long Chen couldn’t allow Evilmoon to pierce any deeper and had to detonate its power prematurely.
While Long Chen couldn’t deal a fatal wound to Hou Tianwu, this level of injury was good enough. Hou Tianwu’s ribcage was shattered, and his aura wavered precariously.
“Waning Moon Heaven Shaking Slash!”
Seizing the opportunity, Long Chen unleashed a devastating crescent slash. The saber’s radiance filled the battlefield, descending upon Hou Tianwu with unstoppable force.
Caught off guard, Hou Tianwu spat out golden blood onto his staff, igniting its runes. It suddenly expanded, becoming an enormous heavenly pillar.
In front of this enormous staff, Long Chen looked as tiny as an ant.
BOOM!
Evilmoon smashed into the golden staff, unleashing colossal shockwaves. As a result, the staff’s runes dimmed and crumbled as its divine aura dissipated.
Behind it, Hou Tianwu spat out more blood. He had used his essence blood to forcibly awaken his staff’s power, but Long Chen’s attack still injured him and seriously damaged his staff.
The staff shrank back down and fell from the sky, becoming rusty iron in front of Long Chen. Though the staff absorbed the brunt of the attack, its connection to Hou Tianwu left him gravely injured. His essence blood was severely depleted, and his aura fell significantly.
Long Chen closed the distance in an instant, ready to finish Hou Tianwu. The latter felt incredibly sullen at the moment. He had an arsenal of amazing divine abilities that he had yet to unleash, but Long Chen had seized one opening to take the upper hand.
Hou Tianwu could only watch as Evilmoon descended like a grim reaper’s scythe. However, just before the strike landed, an enormous tortoise shell materialized, intercepting the attack. A bald man from the Divine Tortoise race emerged, radiating immense power. He was another sealed expert from the primal chaos era.
With his five core veins, his aura wasn’t much weaker than Hou Tianwu’s.
The Divine tortoise race had always relied on their thick reserves of bloodline power to build up an unbreakable defense. However, even going all-out to defend, this damn tortoise couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
Blood sprayed from his mouth as he staggered back, yet his intervention bought Hou Tianwu precious time to recover. On the other side, Long Chen was forced to retreat momentarily due to the backlash.
Long Chen had no time to feel angry. Using his left foot as a pivot, he spun in another direction. Like a phantom, Long Chen went around this expert of the Divine Tortoise race, causing afterimages to appear in his wake.
Long Chen was ninety percent confident he could kill Hou Tianwu, so he just ignored this expert of the Divine Tortoise race. His target was Hou Tianwu.
Long Chen wanted to kill Hou Tianwu because he was the leader of the Heaven Demon Alliance. Eliminating him would basically decapitate the Heaven Demon Alliance, and that was the best way to resolve this problem.
At this moment, the Heavenly Demon Golden Monkey race was leading the Heaven Demon Alliance’s assault on Tang Wan-er and the others. However, Tang Wan-er wasn’t counterattacking. Forming hand seals, she summoned a giant barrier around everyone and the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest.
At the same time, the thirty million disciples of the Wind God Sea Pavilion also formed hand seals and chanted, pouring their energy into the barrier.
Thanks to Tang Wan-er, they could pool their power into the barrier. Countless attacks fell on the barrier but simply bounced off without even managing to cause a ripple. There was no sign that it would break.
“Don’t stop! We have numbers. We can exhaust them!” shouted one of the top experts of the Heavenly Demon Golden Monkey race.
As they assaulted the barrier, they felt extremely anxious. After all, Long Chen was far more formidable than they had given him credit for. If they couldn’t capture Tang Wan-er and the others, they wouldn’t be able to quell Hou Tianwu’s rage.
Seeing the situation, Tang Wan-er also felt anxious. More and more experts gathered, and Long Chen was caught in a fierce battle.
She wanted nothing more than to rush to his side. However, she had to protect the Wind God Sea Pavilion’s disciples and ensure the Dragonblood warriors within the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest remained undisturbed, leaving her with no choice but to grit her teeth and persevere. Helplessly, she could only watch as Long Chen fought bitterly.
Amidst the chaos, Long Chen bypassed the expert of the Divine Tortoise race and attacked Hou Tianwu from a strange angle. The strike left no room for Hou Tianwu to recover.
But all of a sudden, a golden claw tore through the void toward Long Chen, shattering the laws of the world itself. It was a devastating strike from a Golden Great Peng.
This Golden Great Peng was another expert with five condensed core veins. It had taken its true form and concentrated all of its power into this claw.
Fury surged within Long Chen. Time and again, his chance to finish Hou Tianwu was thwarted. He hadn’t seen these experts before, which could only mean one thing: they had been hiding in plain sight, waiting for the right moment to strike. Now, their presence was a direct challenge to him.
Against an expert on this level, Long Chen had no choice but to give up pursuing Hou Tianwu. With a slash of Evilmoon, divine light flashed, severing the golden claw in a single stroke. Golden blood rained from the sky as the Golden Great Peng let out a screech of agony, retreating hastily.
Long Chen didn’t waste his time to pursue it. With starlight flowing under his feet, he shot after Hou Tianwu.
At this moment, Hou Tianwu had retrieved his golden staff, and the bloody hole in his chest had also healed. A heavy weight settled in Long Chen’s heart. Whatever secret art Hou Tianwu had employed, it had restored him and his weapon to full power.
Even so, there was no turning back. Long Chen had to eliminate Hou Tianwu, and he had to do it fast.
“You want to kill me? Keep dreaming! Bloodline summons, demonic ancestor!” Hou Tianwu bellowed, tossing his golden staff into the air.
After that, his hands came together in a forceful clap, igniting his bloodline. A pillar of light surged into the staff, which began to spin in the air rapidly.
Above it, a whirlpool emerged in the void, expanding at an alarming rate. A grand and desolate aura flowed from within, as though a being from the primal chaos era was about to emerge.
Long Chen’s instincts screamed danger. Whatever Hou Tianwu was summoning could not be allowed to manifest. Yet, just as the whirlpool seemed to solidify into a spacetime gate, it wavered. The rotation of the staff slowed, and the whirlpool started to shrink.
Hou Tianwu’s expression grew unbearably ugly.
With a thunderous crash, Long Chen’s attack descended upon Hou Tianwu. The golden staff flew back to Hou Tianwu’s hands, but it was too late to switch techniques. Forced to defend, Hou Tianwu intercepted the blow.
Clearly, this technique was a failure. As Hou Tianwu had received consecutive injuries and lost his precious essence blood, he no longer had the ability to use this technique.
BOOM!
The clash shattered Hou Tianwu’s hands, sending shards of bone and flesh flying. The force of the impact drove his golden staff into his face and crushed his jaw. He let out a bloody groan as the impact hurled him backward, blood spraying in his wake.
“Hahaha!”
Just then, thunderous laughter rang throughout heaven and earth. Emerging from the shadows was a monstrous figure, its body covered in glistening crystals that shimmered ominously under the light.
Long Chen’s pupils contracted sharply upon seeing the creature. This was no ordinary enemy—it was something far worse.