Chapter 452 - Massacre

After surrounding him and cutting off his escape, a hundred Heavenly Passage Realm cultivators charged at Long Chen. This was Long Chen’s biggest fight yet, but thanks to the hundredth of the Inherited Blood Essence he had absorbed, he was many times stronger than when he faced the Emperor, making him extremely sturdy.

Now he wanted to know how strong he had become.

I’ve already explained myself clearly to them and they still want to come after my life? I’m certain that they know I’m not the Long Chen they are looking for. Aren’t they being too arrogant?

He could endure certain things, but not everything. He had been frustrated about Ling Xi leaving him, so he exploded when the Martial Alliance wanted to kill him.

Hundreds of Heavenly Passage Realm cultivators ganging up on a single Ninth River Stage cultivator. The crowd already knew what was going to happen, but they were unsure if Long Chen would show them a miracle.

All of them were looking forward to the fight.

The Heavenly Passage Realm cultivators were just in front of Long Chen. To them, Long Chen was like a sheep that had run into a pack of wolves. But what happened next proved them wrong. Long Chen was the wolf while everyone else was the sheep.

Long Chen suddenly appeared behind a cultivator and punched him. The cultivator’s clothes exploded from the impact, and he slumped to the ground after spraying blood from his mouth.

Everyone knew that Long Chen had destroyed the man’s organs in one punch.

“One ...” Long Chen counted his victims. His strong body also granted him unparalleled dexterity, so he weaved around the group of people easily like a wolf. The cultivators dropped dead one by one. Even though all of them were at the Heavenly Passage Realm, none of them could survive a single punch from Long Chen as their internal organs were destroyed.

“Impossible!” In just a short breath, dozens of people had fallen to Long Chen’s fist. The others didn’t even manage to catch Long Chen thanks to his illusions from Traceless Demon Shadow. The cultivators didn’t know if they would be next.

The middle-aged man at the Second Passage Stage was stunned. Some of the others at the Second Passage Stage ran over and whispered, “Is this Long Chen the very same one on the bounty board? The one in third place. I think the reward was a hundred royal crystals, right? A single royal crystal is worth thousands of Heavenly Passage Pills.”

“Impossible! That Long Chen is beyond the Heavenly Passage Realm. He’s not that weak, but this Long Chen has a very strong body too. He must have a lot of treasures as well. Maybe he found a ruin in the borders and got stronger from there!”

“What should we do?”

“What else? There’s no way he can beat all two hundred of us. Think about it. He has a technique that allows him to kill cultivators at the Heavenly Passage Realm in one blow; how much stronger would we become if we stole it from him?”

“You are right!”

The people were eager to fight Long Chen. One of them even shouted, “Martial Alliance, stop your work. Come and capture this guy. Whoever kills him will be given a thousand Heavenly Passage Pills.”

A thousand Heavenly Passage Pills were enough for them to reach the Fourth Passage Stage. Most of the time, cultivators didn’t have an issue gathering enough Qi to advance to the next stage, but they had no choice but to stagnate because they lacked Heavenly Passage Pills. That was why everyone went crazy at the prospect of a thousand Heavenly Passage Pills.

“Kill him!” Everyone ran at Long Chen, causing immense pressure to be exerted on the latter’s side. Even though he wouldn’t die to their attacks, it would still hurt since they were using Heaven-tier techniques.

But more than forty people had already died at Long Chen’s hands.

“You are the ones forcing me to commit a massacre ...” Long Chen shook his hand and his eyes turned red. He took out the Demon Emperor Sword and started killing people. His killing speed doubled with it.

He ran past the enemies with the sword. Every time he swung it, he cut a person’s neck or heart and killed them in one go.

A shadow weaved amongst the group of gold, and everyone shouted when they were hit by him. All of them crumpled to the ground without fail. Some of the ones who discovered that something was wrong managed to stay alive by fleeing.

Splat!

The Demon Emperor Sword stabbed through a cultivator’s heart from the back. Blood sprayed like fresh petals when Long Chen pulled his sword out. He then swung it at another cultivator’s neck, killing him.

More and more people died to him, and everyone started realizing how strong Long Chen was. Many of them started running away. Even though a thousand Heavenly Passage Pills was a large reward, it was not worth it to gamble their lives.

“Everyone, retreat! We will take over now!” Several leaders showed up. They were all at the Second Passage Stage. They saw that too many people had died and knew it would be difficult to report back. That was why all five of them surrounded Long Chen while the rest ran off.

This was when Long Chen noticed that the ground was littered with corpses and blood. The other cultivators were running away, and many others escaped through the Universal Transporter. He was now surrounded by only Second Passage Stage cultivators, including the middle-aged man who had ordered the men to kill him.

“I haven’t killed enough.” Long Chen licked his lips and taunted the man. “Are you planning to let me go, or will you die like them?”

Long Chen pointed at the corpses.

The leaders looked at each other and said nothing as they ran at Long Chen. All five of them launched powerful attacks. Even though they were even more powerful than the Sword Emperor, Long Chen had also grown stronger.

“Floating Fist!”

They all released their Heaven-tier martial techniques as they surrounded Long Chen. Even he had to frown when the air trembled from the attacks.

But now that he was stronger, the attacks were nothing but cheap tricks. Even though Long Chen was only at the Heavenly River Realm, he had an advanced Heaven-tier Body Tempering Technique to deal with these enemies.

He held up the Demon Emperor Sword and fought valiantly. He didn’t use any techniques but instead danced with the sword as he advanced towards one of the cultivators. He decided to focus on that man and allowed the others to attack him.

“Die!” The Second Passage Stage cultivators’ attacks were stronger than the hits he had easily tanked from the previous crowd, but Long Chen could endure them. He ran at full speed and appeared in front of the cultivator like lightning. Then he swung the Demon Emperor Sword at his opponent’s neck at a speed that tore through the wind.

At the last moment, the cultivator's eyes were wide with shock, despair, and regret. He tried to block the sword with his arm, but Long Chen cut through it and reached his neck.

Half an arm and a head flew into the air, and blood sprayed everywhere.

The other four were shocked. They had attacked Long Chen after being promised that they would get a reward. They thought there was a limit to how strong Long Chen was, but apparently, enemies at the Second Passage Stage were nothing to him!

“It’s too late to realize this.” Long Chen didn’t stop after he killed the first one. His body was a blur until he appeared behind another cultivator and stabbed him in his heart without any warning.

The second one died instantly.

“Run!” The other three were shocked and overcome with fear. They ran in three different directions in hopes that Long Chen would only be able to chase one of them.

Long Chen’s eyes became even colder when he saw them running. He disappeared and chased after one of them. Ignoring the guy’s shouts, Long Chen covered the man’s eyes and slit his throat. Blood sprayed into the air as the cultivator fell to the ground and died.