Chapter 1616 (1/2)

Chapter 1616: Terrifying Nail

“What pageant?” Long Chen was dumbfounded.

“You can see for yourself. This is the letter sister Chu Yao sent.” Guo Ran hastily handed a letter over.

Long Chen opened it and saw Chu Yao’s graceful handwriting. The general meaning was that the three of them were very happy in the Skywood Divine Palace, and they were accompanying Chu Yao’s master and getting her cultivation pointers.

Originally, they had planned on returning after a few days, but the Skywood Divine Palace’s Jade Lake Pageant was about to start. That pageant was a heaven-sent opportunity for soul cultivators.

The three of them were planning on partic.i.p.ating, and they also wanted Long Chen to come too. Chu Yao vaguely hinted that there was something inside that could change Tang Wan-er’s life.

However, the Jade Lake Pageant was something that would gather all the elites of the Southern Xuan Region. Even soul cultivators from other regions would come. Chu Yao and Meng Qi alone didn’t feel any guarantee in getting what Tang Wan-er needed, so they hoped Long Chen could come too.

This letter was written a month ago, but he had been in seclusion in the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect. Although Guo Ran had personally taken a trip to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect to tell the seven bosses to notify Long Chen about this as soon as he came out, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s men really were coa.r.s.e. Guo Ran’s words had gone in one ear and out the other.

“There are still three days, so there’s no rush,” said Guo Ran.

“No rush my a.s.s! Going to the Southern Xuan Region means pa.s.sing through the Ancient Battlefield! Ugh, I have to get going right now. When the Xuan Master asks where I went, you tell him.” Long Chen directly set off for the transportation formation.

Looking at Long Chen’s departing back, Yue Zifeng shook his head. “Boss is the busiest one in the Dragonblood Legion. He’s so busy that he doesn’t even have time to cultivate. We’ll have to work hard so that we don’t hold him back. At that time, he won’t have to be so tired.”

Guo Ran, Gu Yang, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan nodded. Long Chen had done so much for the Dragonblood Legion. They had to work hard.

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Long Chen’s flying boat sped through the air like lightning. He was at top speed.

In the beginning, he could go through transportation formations to the border of the Southern Xuan Region. However, there was no transportation formation through the barrier. He had to use a flying boat.

While he sat in the flying boat, Long Chen finally had the time to look through his gains this time.

There was a ma.s.s of chains. He counted over eight thousand, while he had over six thousand of the triangular blades. He hadn’t come up with any concrete plans on how to use them, but since they came from Purgatory, and based on the intense aura of death they emitted, they had to be useful.

He had three blood essence stones containing terrifying blood essence energy. Compared to the Alldevil monster’s essence blood he had obtained back then, the blood essence stones contained many, many times the amount of energy.

According to Xie Qianqian’s hypothesis, the blood essence stones were probably condensed of the purest, refined essence blood of the experts that failed to pa.s.s through the nine springs. A single blood essence stone might contain the merged essence blood of millions and millions of lifeforms.

He had six blood soul stones as well, while he didn’t have even one life spirit stone. Those had gone to Xie Qianqian, while the rest had gone to him.

The six blood soul stones should be formed in a similar way to the blood essence stones. However, one condensed essence blood, while the other condensed soul essence.

Xie Qianqian had said that blood essence stones were priceless treasures and could be used to upgrade the Yuan Spirit. That really did make them priceless treasures for Long Chen. He could use them to upgrade the Dragonblood warriors’ Yuan Spirits.

Other than those, he had a lake of death spirit water. That was definitely a treasure for scheming against others. Who could block such a terrifying thing?

However, the thing that excited him the most was a three-inch black nail.

If Long Chen didn’t recognize its aura, he wouldn’t believe that this little nail was the huge nail he had taken from the Gates of h.e.l.l.

He didn’t know if it was because he himself was small when he entered the Netherworld, which made everything look big, or if the nail had suddenly shrunk once he had taken it.

The three-inch nail had eight corners. The back of it wasn’t large, but its front was incomparably sharp, sharper than the tip of a sword. On the surface, it looked like a normal nail. No fluctuations or aura were coming from it.

“Did it change after I brought it back? Why don’t I sense the slightest energy from it?” Long Chen was dumbfounded. He lightly touched it.

His fingertip brushed over the tip of the nail ever so slightly, and Long Chen felt a burst of intense pain. The slightest, almost imperceptible, hole appeared in his finger. This seemingly unremarkable nail was so sharp that it easily pierced his body. It had to be known that his current physical body was so strong that even Ancestral items would have great difficulty harming him

The thing that shocked him was that in that instant, his whole body stiffened. He was unable to move at all. Not only was his body frozen, but even his soul had the same condition.

Suddenly, a black light flashed, and a saber cut off Long Chen’s finger. That finger had started to turn black. Blood covered his hand.

Only once his finger was severed did Long Chen manage to let out a startled cry and regain his mobility. His face was pale. This time, he really was frightened. This was the closest he had ever felt to death.

His finger fell to the ground. It was pitch-black like a lump of coal.