Chapter 6730 Another Golden Virtue Lotus
Once Long Chen mentioned the spoils of the battlefield, everyone was reinvigorated.
The Starry River warriors had been sprawled on the ground in exhaustion, but they gritted their teeth and forced themselves back up.
Perhaps it was the result of years spent being hunted across the nine heavens and living in constant poverty, but they now felt as if there were treasures all over the battlefield.
The outsider devils mostly didn’t use weapons. After all, their physical bodies were strong enough to serve that purpose. Only higher-level devils like the Golden Wing Heaven Devils wielded weapons.
The devils lacked the ability to forge new weapons, meaning most of their equipment had been taken from the human race.
Seeing all the damaged weapons, the Starry River warriors thought about bringing them back and repairing them. At worst, they could be melted down into precious materials. Every piece was valuable for the Starry River warriors.
The Starry River warriors had been poor in the nine heavens and mocked like beggars in the Starry River Palace. Although that all changed when Long Chen arrived, their new wealth had largely come from him.
But that changed today.
Every spoil they claimed on this battlefield was theirs. They had fought and risked their lives for it.
These spoils were not simply resources to them. They marked a turning point in their lives. As this was their first time looting a battlefield of such scale, many of their eyes gleamed with greed.
However, they were all tactful and didn’t touch the treasury beneath the altar. They spread throughout the battlefield.
Hundreds of Starry River warriors used hammers to break down the crumbling buildings, harvesting the materials they were made of.
This scene made Long Chen sigh.
As expected, the power of wealth was limitless. Just moments ago, they had looked as if they would not be able to move for hours. Now, they worked tirelessly.
“Lord Long Chen, are you alright?!” Xue Ying asked as she rushed over to him.
After all, Long Chen was frighteningly pale. Even his eyes had lost their luster.
Long Chen squeezed out a smile and waved her off, but he lacked the strength to say anything.
His gaze shifted to Qu Yingying, still unconscious in Xue Ying’s arms. Long Chen sighed inwardly.
Qu Yingying’s Primal Chaos Astral Body was truly incredible.
It was a shame Long Chen had not known just how powerful Qu Yingying was beforehand. Had he made better use of her strength, he would not have pushed himself to this extent. He had severely underestimated her.
Qu Yingying was still unconscious as she had overdrafted herself severely. Her fragile state was painful to see.
Just then, Li Canghao appeared by Long Chen’s side, his expression a bit conflicted.
“Long Chen, you really are something.”
Li Canghao disliked Long Chen’s bossiness and found his attitude toward him irritating. But Long Chen’s power, intelligence, and precise grasp of the battlefield was something he had never witnessed before.
What impressed Li Canghao most was Long Chen’s accuracy in predicting the flow of events. From the very beginning, Long Chen had instructed him to conceal himself within space.
Several times, he had almost ignored Long Chen’s orders and joined in, but he had managed to hold himself back.
Just thinking about what would have happened if he hadn’t listened made him shudder. If he had exposed himself early, he would never have landed the decisive strike on that terrifying spider. Then, they would not have been able to inflict a critical wound on it.
That black spider was absolutely terrifying.
Facing it head-on, Li Canghao was uncertain whether he could defeat it at all. One mistake could have led to devastating casualties. Worse still, if it chose to retreat, he would have been powerless to stop it.
Even Li Canghao had to admit that Long Chen’s grasp over the situation was amazing.
After all, this was Long Chen’s second visit to the Devil Slaying Battlefield. To foresee so many unknown variables was nothing short of frightening.
Fortunately, Long Chen was on the Starry River Palace’s side. Otherwise, the palace would not merely have lost its chance to rise. It could have been personally destroyed by him.
Thinking of that, Li Canghao was deeply shaken. At the same time, he was rather pleased with himself. This meant he had made the correct choice.
“How much of your astral energy do you have left?” asked Long Chen suddenly.
“I’d say thirty percent. Don’t worry, with the Starry River Silk here, we don’t need to fear any sudden attacks,” replied Li Canghao.
He thought that Long Chen was worried about the disturbance here drawing over other powerful existences.
In truth, there was little to fear. Even in his weakened state, Long Chen still had Cang Lu.
While Cang Lu had struggled against the black spider, he was more than strong enough to deal with anyone else. An average acquired Divine Sovereign was an ant in front of him.
“Send me to that spatial crack. There seems to be something calling me,” Long Chen said, forcing himself up.
“Alright.” Li Canghao nodded, not even minding Long Chen’s lack of proper etiquette toward him.
The two of them appeared in front of the spatial crack. It was like a giant scar that the world could not heal. Destructive qi continuously gushed out of it.
That destructive qi was suffocating, like some kind of toxin that continuously corroded the laws of the world.
The altar here was constantly absorbing this destructive qi and condensing it into that black liquid. The black liquid was what nourished the heart.
Now, the heart was destroyed, and the pool of black liquid was gone. With no vessel to contain it, the destructive qi drifted aimlessly through the air.
“Over there...”
Long Chen pointed toward the spatial crack.
In response, Li Canghao waved his hand and sent a ray of starlight over.
The starlight dimmed rapidly the moment it entered the crack, vanishing before it reached the location Long Chen indicated.
Li Canghao’s expression changed slightly.
Forming a one-handed seal, he commanded his heaven-earth law manifestation to raise its arm. A thick pillar of light shot toward the crack.
Only then did Li Canghao grasp how terrifying the spatial crack truly was. It was no wonder that even the countless experts of the primal chaos era had failed to seal it.
As the pillar of light fell on the location Long Chen indicated, a curious scene appeared. Countless chains were revealed, looking like threads trying to bind the crack closed.
Regrettably, while these chains could prevent the crack from opening further, they were powerless to close it.
Amidst those chains was a faint lotus divine diagram, and it was blocking almost the entire crack.
The faintest glimmer of light came from it, like a candle on the verge of going out. That twinkling light was like its final goodbye to this world.
“Another Golden Virtue Lotus... but it’s completely dead. There’s no saving it,” Long Chen sighed.
Yun Chi [1] had once shown him the seed of another Golden Virtue Lotus. Now, he was looking at a complete flower.
Regrettably, the golden lotus seed in Long Chen showed no reaction even at this close distance. That showed that this Golden Virtue Lotus had completely died.
It sealed nearly the entire spatial crack, leaving only tiny openings through which destructive qi continued to seep.
Without the Golden Virtue Lotus, this crack would have expanded into a gaping hole, and the outsider devils would have been able to charge through unchecked.
The Golden Virtue Lotus seemed to sense Long Chen’s presence and swayed gently.
Li Canghao’s pillar of light faded, but just as it did, countless stars appeared on the Golden Virtue Lotus, causing Long Chen’s heart to skip a beat.
1. the white-robed Preservation Heavenly Dao's heir from Chapter 6589. ☜