Chapter 1663 (1/2)

Chapter 1663: Netherpa.s.sage vs. Netherpa.s.sage

It happened too suddenly, so suddenly that everyone was dazed. It felt like time was moving slow as they witnessed one of the most shocking sights of their lives.

Long Chen’s palm slapped across the middle-aged man’s face, and that dignified man was forced back several steps by the immense power. As for Long Chen, he used that force to retreat.

Just as they separated, a powerful bolt of Sword Qi slashed through the s.p.a.ce where the middle-aged man had just been. It was like a celestial blade, a blade of the starry sky. This attack had been to prevent the middle-aged man’s attack. However, it was one step too late, as the middle-aged man had already been slapped back.

Long Chen retreated a dozen steps, each of his steps causing the ground to crumble beneath him. Although he was the one who had slapped the middle-aged man, the resulting backlash was still difficult for him to bear.

His left hand concealed a nail, which he silently put away. That was what he had originally prepared before he had sensed the Sword Qi.

A life and death domain might be able to restrict everyone else, but it wasn’t able to restrict him. He didn’t know if it was because he had entered Purgatory, but this kind of life and death energy couldn’t bind him.

Before, just to prepare himself, Long Chen had asked the old patriarch, a Netherpa.s.sage expert, to use his life and death domain against him. At that time, Long Chen hadn’t been able to move a finger.

However, it was different this time. He didn’t know why, but this life and death energy wasn’t able to bind him in his place. Therefore, Long Chen had acted like he was completely bound, just waiting for the middle-aged man to approach carelessly.

The middle-aged man was truly terrifying. Long Chen had prepared the nail from the Gates of h.e.l.l, however, just as he had been about to use it, he had changed ideas and switched to the slap that he was most proficient in.

Long Chen stabilized himself and looked up to see a woman standing in the air. Her sword was still s.h.i.+ning with divine light. That attack had come from her.

“Greetings, alliance head!”

Long Chen smiled when he saw that woman and respectfully bowed. She was the head of the Martial Heaven Alliance, Qu Jianying. She had attacked to force back the middle-aged man and save Long Chen.

However, Qu Jianying’s current expression was very strange. She had been planning to save Long Chen, but Long Chen’s slap was outside her expectations.

“DIE!” That middle-aged man’s dignified face immediately became filled with killing intent, and he pointed a finger.

A black and white spear shot out of it, prying apart the void. It was as if all the cosmos’s energy was concentrated within this spear, and the laws of life and death revolved around it. This middle-aged man was finally infuriated.

“Alliance head, someone is trying to kill your disciple! You must stand up for your disciple!”

Long Chen immediately dodged behind Qu Jianying. He knew that this middle-aged man had gone completely crazy. His current cultivation base was too low to block a Netherpa.s.sage expert’s attack.

Qu Jianying was startled but also found it funny that Long Chen was such a madman. This slap might just shake the Martial Heaven Continent.

However, at the moment, she had no choice but to focus her attention on the middle-aged man. She also attacked, slas.h.i.+ng her sword that also had white and black energy intertwining over it.

The attacks of two Netherpa.s.sage experts collided. The explosion of life and death energy caused a huge ripple to spread.

Long Chen felt a slight pain in his soul, but it quickly went away. However, in the distance, Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others all let out a pained groan and fell from the sky.

Their Yuan Spirits were in intense pain like they were being torn apart. The other experts were no better off, and they all fell from the sky as well, holding their heads and wailing. Their Yuan Spirits had been severely injured.

“A clash of life and death energy causes shockwaves that are very damaging to Yuan Spirits. Fortunately, their Yuan Spirits are strong enough; ordinary Soul Transformation experts would have been killed,” said the palace master. She and the other Elders of the Skywood Divine Palace were watching from a distance.

“Palace master, those two are…” asked a young Elder. She didn’t recognize those two and was very curious.

“They’re both figures that can shake heaven and earth, people with the greatest authority in this world. One is the head of the Martial Heaven Alliance, Qu Jianying. As for the other, he’s the head of the ancient family alliance, Di Long. This will be troublesome. I didn’t expect the Jade Lake Pageant to disturb two extraordinary existences like them. I don’t know how this matter can be settled. If the two of them were to really start fighting, the entire Martial Heaven Continent might become covered in a rain of blood,” said the palace master worriedly.

“Ah? Then you mean Long Chen has just slapped the head of the ancient family alliance?!” exclaimed the young Elder before covering her mouth.