Chapter 6372 Pursuit
“It’s all your fault! What were you in such a rush for?! You scared him off!” Long Chen cursed furiously as Cang Lu vanished.
Cang Lu was truly powerful, with countless trump cards he had yet to use. That was why Long Chen had told Evilmoon not to press him too hard. They needed to wear him down slowly—like boiling a frog—until he no longer had the strength to escape.
From the very first exchange, Long Chen had sensed how slim his chances of killing Cang Lu really were. But he refused to accept that. There had to be an opening, a chance to finish Cang Lu.
Long Chen had planned every slap, every provocation—just to make Cang Lu burn with rage and goad him into risking everything to kill Long Chen.
However, just as Long Chen was about to succeed, Evilmoon became greedy. Afraid that they would exhaust too much of Cang Lu’s dark energy, it leaped ahead at the critical moment.
Thus, seeing that he couldn’t kill Long Chen and that he would die here if he wasn’t careful, Cang Lu wasn’t foolish enough to stick around.
“Let’s chase him. I’ve absorbed so much of his dark energy, there’s no way he can escape,” said Evilmoon, sounding guilty but eager to redeem itself.
BOOM!
Countless petals exploded around Long Chen, tearing through space. In an instant, he was gone.
“Brother San...”
Mu Qingyun’s heart clenched when she saw Long Chen vanish. But she quickly forced herself to calm down. If she went with him, she would only drag him down.
At this moment, sharp auras started to approach her silently, surrounding her.
When Mu Qingyun noticed them, she eyed them with a sneer. Then, she slowly grabbed the hilt of her sword. The sound of steel being drawn cut through the air. With a flash, she launched the first strike.
...
An incense stick’s time later, Mu Qingyun slid her sword back into its sheath. The ground around her was strewn with corpses, the blood of countless outsiders soaking the earth.
These enemies had planned to capture her the moment Long Chen left, hoping to use her as a hostage. But their plot had collapsed before it even started. Mu Qingyun’s sword cut them down, and every attempt to surround her was smashed with a single stroke. In the end, these idiots took hideous losses.
When the survivors realized they couldn’t defeat her, they scattered like frightened birds, fleeing without a trace.
Mu Qingyun stood alone, the wind tugging at her hair. Her robes were stained red like roses in full bloom. After surveying the battlefield, she looked at her sword in silence. Only now did she realize how much she had transformed in this short time.
“Brother San, I won’t make you lose face!” Mu Qingyun promised.
Her gaze lingered on the horizon for a long moment before she, too, disappeared.
Once she left, several figures came out of their hiding places slowly. They were the experts of the nine heavens.
They had originally come here to absorb Grand Dao qi, but instead they had witnessed a battle that shattered their worldviews.
“I didn’t expect that little girl to be a master of the Sword Dao. Her sword arts are absolutely terrifying, but I’ve never heard of her!” exclaimed one of them.
Some of them had wanted to help when she was surrounded. But that thought had never made it into action. Most of these experts weren’t even human, and their relationship with the human race was complicated at best.
“Any random person by Long Chen’s side is a monster,” someone sighed. “No wonder the Dragonblood Legion is called the strongest legion in the nine heavens and ten lands.”
“I hear Long Chen personally founded the Dragonblood Legion and raised them. Each is a terrifying genius in their own right. Maybe, just maybe, this time we’ll finally be able to stand against the experts from the other world.”
“Long Chen... the human race... are they really rising again? Last time, it was the Nine Star Master who unified the nine heavens. And Long Chen... he’s a nine star heir...”
Their voices trailed off, leaving only complicated silence. Was Long Chen a blessing to the human race...or a looming disaster?
...
“Kill!”
Furious roars shook the heavens. A squad of thousands of human experts battled endless evil spirits in a vast basin. From a giant cave at its center, the evil spirits poured forth in an unending tide.
The humans wore the same robes, marking them as a single faction—the Four Cardinal Alliance. Among them was one of their peerless geniuses, Su Yu.
“Senior Apprentice-sister Su Yu, there are too many of them. We’ll all die here if we keep fighting like this. We have to sacrifice some of our people to draw their attention, so the rest can escape,” roared a burly man in black armor.
With a giant hatchet, he threw himself into a group of evil spirits.
Su Yu had immediately gathered the experts nearest her upon entering the heaven region’s battlefield, forming them into a squad to search for treasure.
Their fortune was decent. Although they encountered frequent battles, they never ran into truly terrifying experts. Over time, their numbers grew from just a few hundred to more than six thousand.
The greatest stroke of luck came in the Heaven’s Spine Mountain Range, where they discovered a divine lake left behind by the ancestors of the human race. Bathed in its blessing and baptized by its divine essence, they condensed hundreds of Sovereign flames. In their squad, over eight hundred cultivators had managed to condense over nine hundred Sovereign flames.
Su Yu herself had condensed 997 Sovereign flames—an achievement she would never have dared to dream of before entering the heaven region’s battlefield.
However, this opportunity brought a crisis as well. After draining the divine pool, they uncovered a cave.
Inside swarmed endless evil spirits, ferocious beyond compare. Even with their newfound power, they were quickly overwhelmed and forced to flee. Unfortunately, once they were outside, they found themselves trapped once again—the surrounding land was already crawling with evil spirits.
“Su Yu, I’ll stay behind to bait them. You must lead our strongest brothers and sisters out! You can’t be allowed to die here!” shouted the burly man again.
He possessed 996 Sovereign flames, which at this moment turned blood-red as he burned his essence blood.
After clashing with the evil spirits for so long, he knew burning essence blood was the surest way to draw them. As expected, they immediately swarmed toward him.
“Squad leader Yang, stop!” Su Yu cried.
She knew once the evil spirits caught the scent of this man’s essence blood, they would go mad and surround him. If that happened, he would likely die.
At that moment, several of the weaker members of the Four Cardinal Alliance also ignited their essence blood. Their Sovereign flames burned crimson.
“Stop this at once! We still have a chance!” Su Yu shouted, tears spilling down her cheeks.
She cursed herself for being too weak, for being too foolish. If only she had Long Chen’s cunning or his strength, perhaps they would never have fallen into this plight.
BOOM!
As if in answer to her thoughts, a thunderous explosion shook the battlefield. A violent ripple spread through the air, blowing apart the evil spirits above their heads.
“Defend!” Su Yu screamed and raised a barrier.
BOOM!
It was like a meteorite had crashed down. The impact smashed her into the ground, the earth cracking beneath her body.
Ignoring her injuries, she looked up to see two figures flying through the air.
“Long Chen!”
Su Yu’s jaw fell open. She could hardly believe her eyes. Just as she had thought of Long Chen, he had appeared. Was she dreaming?
She recognized Long Chen instantly. But beside Long Chen was a haggard man wielding a halberd, sent hurtling back by a single slash of Long Chen’s saber. The devastating ripple had come from that blow.
At this point, Su Yu still hadn’t snapped out of her daydream. But then...
“Hurry up and call me daddy!”
Long Chen’s arrogant roar shattered the last of her doubts. This was no illusion. Evilmoon once again slashed down in Long Chen’s hands.