Chapter 472 (1/2)

Chapter 472

While Long Chen was in seclusion, the Righteous and Corrupt paths of the seven prefectures were all deeply shaken .

When the Jiuli secret realm had closed, thousands of disciples had come out . The news of Long Chen battling the peak experts of the Righteous and Corrupt paths rapidly spread .

The most shocking information was how in that final clash, those peak experts had been blown away like dried up sticks by him . Everyone thought Long Chen would be the hope of the Righteous path, a chance for them to soar in power .

At the same time, there were many people that denounced the Pill Tower . They had stuck their hands into the Righteous and Corrupt struggles, and it had been unfair to the Righteous path . They hoped for the Pill Tower to give them an adequate explanation .

However, no response came from the Pill Tower . From some backchannels, it was learned that Huo Wufang had apparently been sent back to the Pill Tower half-alive .

Every single bone in his body had been broken . The Pill Tower had immediately taken action to heal him . However, that healing had been so painful that Huo Wufang would have preferred to die .

Back then, Long Chen hadn’t killed him . Instead, he had fed him a medicinal pill . That medicinal pill had actually been what had managed to keep Huo Wufang alive .

However, within that medicinal pill had also been a strong poison . It was a kind of poison that would seep into his bones, and as soon as something tried to heal those bones, it would activate the poison .

That poison targeted only the nerves, and it wouldn’t kill him . Instead, it would just make him feel so much pain that he would wish himself dead . Long Chen hated Huo Wufang to the max, and all he wanted was for Huo Wufang to suffer endless pain .

Although Huo Wufang liked to act incomparably arrogant, in truth, such people were all weak and cowardly inside . In the face of death, they would do anything to survive .

It was precisely because Long Chen had known what kind of person Huo Wufang was that he had forced him to consume this medicinal pill he had personally refined . It was all to make him be filled with enough pain to want to die, all while knowing he wouldn’t even have the courage to kill himself .

Huo Wufang had been sent to his Huo family on the very day he had returned from the secret realm . However, whether or not he had been healed was something no one knew .

As for the Righteous path’s questions, the Pill Tower still hadn’t given an explanation . In comparison to the Pill Tower’s silence, there were quite a few sects that had flown into a rage because they had lost too many of their elite disciples . Those were people Long Chen had killed . Some sects hadn’t had a single one of their disciples return .

In comparison, the smaller sects ended up benefiting greatly . Their disciples had not only survived, but had brought back a large harvest of spatial rings . The treasures in those spatial rings were several decades worth of resources to them .

However, those smaller sects had also become completely silent .

Their disciples that had come back and were filled with gratefulness towards Long Chen had been sternly warned not to run their mouths . Some of the more stubborn ones had even been imprisoned .

One reason was that their sects were too small . If news of their gains spread, it would provoke jealousy from others . The other reason was that Long Chen had become everyone’s target now . Who dared get closer to him now?

The Righteous path was in an unstable condition, with wild undercurrents were flowing behind the scenes . But the Corrupt path was in an even more chaotic state . Long Chen had almost completely annihilated the Corrupt path’s top geniuses of the seven prefectures . Of their peak experts, only Yin Luo had returned, and only half of him at that .

If there hadn’t been a powerful healer present then, perhaps he would have already died .

There had been more than a hundred thousand Corrupt disciples that entered the secret realm . But less than a thousand of them had returned . That was completely unacceptable . It was a huge blow to their core strength .

Nowadays, Long Chen was cla.s.sified as a must-kill figure to the Corrupt path . Any names that had been placed on their must-kill list would be hunted down with the Corrupt path’s full strength .

Within a hidden hall, there was a stone stele over thirty meters tall . It was engraved with tens of thousands of names . Furthermore, a red ‘X’ had been slashed on top of each of those names . That meant they were already dead .

There was only one name without an X over it, and it was one that had only just been carved, making it extremely eye-catching . That name was: Long Chen .

…

BOOM!

A mountain collapsed as a wave of qi soared into the sky . Rays of light were s.h.i.+ning from Long Chen’s body . Two stars were s.h.i.+ning within his eyes, and his aura could frighten even the heavens .

Now, both those stars were equally bright . Furthermore, as those two stars slowly rotated, they released a volcanic power .

“It’s finally completely condensed!” Long Chen raised his head and laughed uproariously . His voice sounded like the roar of a G.o.d, shaking the land .

“After obtaining the primal chaos bead, even my cultivation base can rapidly advance . ” Long Chen clenched a fist, excitedly sensing the surging spiritual qi in his body .

Long Chen had spent all his time refining Alioth Pill . Not only had his Alioth Star become completely condensed, he had even advanced three cultivation levels, reaching the twelfth Heavenstage of Tendon Transformation .

He was just one level away from the thirteenth Heavenstage and undergoing the heavenly tribulation . Then he would be in Bone Forging .

Long Chen sighed, muttering to himself, “With both stars fully condensed, my combat strength should have increased by over ten times . I should be able to dominate the Bone Forging realm, and I don’t have to fear Meridian Opening experts . But I still am not an equal opponent for Xiantian experts . The barrier between the Xiantian and Houtian realms is just too great . ”