Chapter 1660 (1/2)

Chapter 1660: The Southern Xuan Region Explodes

“What happened?” asked Long Chen.

“I should be the one asking you! Just now, practically all the leaders of the top sects in the Southern Xuan Region rushed over to the Skywood Divine Palace. They looked like they wanted to destroy the Skywood Divine Palace right there and then! Even the Southern Xuan Region’s ancient family alliance’s branch master came, as well as the Martial Heaven Alliance’s branch master! All those large figures that haven’t appeared in so many years have come. The palace master immediately sensed something was wrong and secretly told me to wait here for you so that you could run through the transportation formation. Eh? Why is it only just the few of you? Where are the others?” asked the Elder.

Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the Pill Fairy instantly understood that once those disciples had been annihilated, their corresponding soul jade tablets had shattered, startling their sects.

Most sects would keep soul jade tablets of their core disciples. Using one drop of essence blood as a spiritual mark, it would shatter when that person died. The sects used this method to keep track of their disciples’ life and death.

“Could it be…” Seeing Chu Yao and the others’ expressions, the Elder was alarmed. She thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.

“Elder Luo, activate the transportation formation. Let’s go,” said Chu Yao.

Clearly, the palace master had guessed what had happened and wanted to send Long Chen away secretly. Long Chen had annihilated the Southern Xuan Region’s experts. That had included Han Feifei, w.a.n.g Shan, as well as countless famous heavenly geniuses. This was a major affair. If Long Chen walked out through the front gate, he would probably be torn to pieces by those ancient monsters.

“Good. Don’t move. I’ll activate the transportation jade talisman. It’ll bring you outside the Skywood Divine Palace through the formation.” The Elder nodded, seeming to understand something. She took out a jade talisman.

“No need. I’ll go through the main gates.” Long Chen stopped the Elder from crus.h.i.+ng the talisman.

“Long Chen…!” exclaimed Chu Yao.

“I might not look for trouble, but I’m not afraid of one. Since I dared to do what I did, I dare to bear the responsibility for my actions. I won’t let someone else take the blame. It hasn’t happened in the past, and it won’t happen in the future.” Long Chen shook his head and walked through the huge gate of light. That was the entrance they had used to enter here.

Long Chen vanished from their sight when he walked through. Elder Luo was stunned. She had never expected Long Chen to be so crazy as to not even listen to the palace master’s arrangements.

“Let’s go. Don’t you know Long Chen’s temperament? Other than when we ask him to show tolerance, when has he ever conceded to anyone?” Meng Qi seemed to have predicted this result and pulled Chu Yao through the gate with her.

Tang Wan-er, Liu Ruyan, and Cloud followed suit. The Pill Fairy watched as they vanished. She stood there quietly.

“Pill Fairy, you…” Elder Luo was still dumbfounded. The palace master had sent her to bring Long Chen and the others away secretly. However, before she could even understand what was happening, the only one left in front of her was the Pill Fairy.

“I’ll have to trouble Elder Luo to send me away. Too much enmity and grievance exist between us to be together. Maybe in the next life…” The Pill Fairy’s eyes were filled with sadness.

…

s.p.a.ce twisted, and Long Chen appeared in a plaza. As soon as he appeared, he saw a group of people overflowing with killing intent.

“Long Chen!”

The Skywood Divine Palace’s master had been trying to placate these experts when Long Chen and the others appeared. Her calm expression stiffened.

These people were the top figures of the Southern Xuan Region. They had come to the Skywood Divine Palace for one purpose: to find out how their disciples had died inside.

However, when they had arrived, they were shocked to find others just like them charging over. When asked, they found that their talented disciples had also died in the Skywood Divine Palace.

It had to be known that the Jade Lake Pageant was not something with a high mortality rate. Their disciples mostly depended on luck and destiny to find suitable treasures inside the Jade Lake Sacred Land. There were no death traps.

Some disciples had died there before. Since there were many cases of people killing others for treasures, a few disciples dying was normal. They had to have died to other people.

So these sect leaders had come to investigate who had slain their disciples, only to find that over eighty percent of the Southern Xuan Region’s top sect leaders had come. In other words, their disciples had also died.

Furthermore, even the Southern Xuan Region’s ancient family alliance and Martial Heaven Alliance’s branch masters had come. Even the ruler of the Earth Spirit City, the w.a.n.g family’s master, had come. That person was the father of w.a.n.g Shan and w.a.n.g Hai.

Han Feifei, w.a.n.g Shan, w.a.n.g Hai, and dozens of other Empyreans had all died in the Jade Lake Sacred Land. This time, all the Southern Xuan Region’s experts charged out, demanding that the Skywood Divine Palace’s master gave them an explanation.

The palace master had no idea what had happened. The Jade Lake Sacred Land was a minor world isolated from them. Even she had no way to see what was happening inside.

However, as soon as she had seen this many experts arrive, she had felt that something was wrong. The first thing she had thought of was Long Chen.

There was no death trap in the Jade Lake Sacred Land. Even if there was, it wasn’t one that would annihilate everyone.

That made her heart clench. Thinking of how Long Chen had slaughtered practically all the Eastern Xuan Region’s heavenly geniuses in the battle of the Grand Han, she guessed it had something to do with him.

Thinking of that, she had immediately felt a chill. In order to placate these experts, she could only say that an accident must have occurred in the Jade Lake Sacred Land and that she would immediately investigate.