Chapter 6864 Devil Hunting Legion’s Bai Shu
“It’s the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning’s devil hunting legion!”
Xin Yu, Chi Yutong, and the other divine sons and divine daughters cried out in shock. These people were wearing black armor and divine weapons.
“Their devil hunting legion always dominates the tenth place of the Devil Hunting Rankings!”
The Devil Hunting Rankings was a holy ranking in the Heavenly Magnificence Divine Prefecture. The various sects and clans were ranked by their devil hunting points.
This ranking had existed since ancient times. The points were continuously accumulated to the present. They were a symbol of a sect’s status and strength.
The Flame God Sect’s devil hunting legion’s power could not be underestimated, but the Flame God Palace was still ranked outside the top five hundred.
It was not that Chi Yutong was too weak. It was simply that the Flame God Palace had declined too heavily, resulting in successive generations being unable to maintain their ranking.
By Chi Yutong’s generation, she worked hard to hunt down higher level devils, racking up points. She had managed to pull them out of the top thousand to rank 531.
Furthermore, the points from her last hunt had yet to be tallied. She estimated that there was a chance they could get into the top five hundred this time.
But the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning’s devil hunting legion was famous, and possessed terrifying power.
Every three years, the Heavenly Magnificence Divine Prefecture would hold a devil hunting competition. Only the top hundred were allowed to participate.
The Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning was always able to get a decent result at these competitions. That showed that they did not rely on their past glory to stay rank ten. They truly had the power to keep this rank.
This time, thirty of them had shown up. Every single one of them possessed a powerful aura.
In particular, their leader wore blood-red armor. His spear still had fresh devil blood on it. That blood gave these disciples a suffocating feeling.
“It’s Bai Shu, the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning’s number two expert! The only one able to suppress him is Mo Jiang. Don’t tell me that the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning is planning on suppressing Long Chen through brute force?!”
Xin Yu and Chi Yutong both knew that things would not end well today once they saw Bai Shu.
However, Long Chen didn’t even look at Bai Shu or the others. Looking at the violet-robe master, he said, “From your tone, it seems like you understand the Dao? Then I’d like to hear your understanding of it.”
That violet-robe master was confident now that the devil hunting legion had come. He coldly said, “The Dao is a path. The Dao is the pinnacle of simplicity. That is my explanation of the Dao. To cultivate the Dao is the cultivation path. What is laughable is that you don’t even understand such a simple thing. To cultivate the Dao is the path of long life, the path of breaking free. Everyone calls them paths. There are even sayings that there are three thousand Grand Daos and a hundred thousand Minor Daos. You don’t even know these things, yet you dare to lecture others. You are truly a frog at the bottom of a well speaking of the ocean, a summer bug discussing ice.”
The violet-robe master was confident when it came to these things. He had practically memorized all these things.
“If the Dao is a path, where does the path lead?” asked Long Chen.
The violet-robe master answered, “Whatever you cultivate is where the path leads.”
“If I want to climb a mountain, I have to create a path. But my goal is the peak of the mountain, not the path up the mountain. Your understanding of the Dao is unconvincing.” Long Chen shook his head.
People pondered Long Chen’s words. The violet-robe master’s seemingly reasonable explanation of the Dao was suddenly filled with holes.
The violet-robe master snorted. “Hmph, then what do you say is the Dao?”
“I don’t know.”
“If you don’t know, how can you say that my explanation is unconvincing?”
“Because you said the Dao is a path. If it is a path, it is just a direction. If it’s just a direction, then it is once more categorized as a technique, not the Dao.”
Seemingly not expecting Long Chen to be so troublesome, the violet-robe master gave up arguing. “You’re spouting nonsense!”
Long Chen shook his head. “According to your explanation that the Dao is a path, then even false paths would be the Dao. In that case, even spouting nonsense would be the Dao.”
The violet-robe master sputtered. “You...”
“Since we’re both spouting nonsense and we’re both bringing people down false paths, neither of us can convince the other!”
The violet-robe master furiously pointed at Long Chen. “Devil hunting legion, capture this arrogant bastard!”
Bai Shu immediately raised his spear towards Long Chen. “I’ve long since found you an eyesore. For you to dare strike a white-robe master, you will pay the price for your arrogance. Come, bring out your full power. I will see if your fists are as tough as your tongue.”
Chi Yutong, Xin Yu, and Yan Li stood at the same time. In front of everyone’s gazes, they stood beside Long Chen.
Clearly, they were expressing that they would go to war with the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning over this matter.
“Have the Spirit Heart Sect and Flame God Sect gone crazy?! Their sects aren’t weak, but there’s still a huge gap between them and the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning!”
This action would harm their sects. The Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning did not just have plenty of talented people inside, they also had disciples in the sects of practically every sect in the divine prefecture.
Many of those disciples had studied there. Their network was extremely terrifying.
If they really did offend the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning, there was no need for the actual palace to do anything. They could just mobilize the sects connected to it, and that would crush them.
“Divine daughter Xin Yu, divine daughter Yutong, are you really planning on standing with him? You wish to declare war on the Heavenly Magnificence Palace of Learning?” Bai Shu narrowed his eyes.
Although his expression was cold and apathetic, quite a few people sensed the flames of jealousy in his eyes when the two divine daughters stood by Long Chen.
“I heard that Bai Shu tried to get into a relationship with Chi Yutong, but he was mercilessly rejected. Now it seems that he’s intent on killing Long Chen,” whispered someone.
“There was such a thing?”
“It was a rumor. But from his jealous expression, it seems true.”
“Long Chen did seem like the real master when discussing the Dao. I wonder if he has the power to fight Bai Shu?”
The various experts quietly whispered amongst themselves. That woman called Liu Piaopiao as well as a few others who had expressed good intentions towards Long Chen were all silent.
They had all wanted to form a good relationship with Long Chen before. But ever since ancient times, while there were plenty of people who wanted to suck up, there were never that many willing to help out in times of trouble.
“Boss, let me deal with him!” Yan Li stepped forward.
“You aren’t a match for him. Let me!” Xin Yu pulled Yan Li back and took his place.