Chapter 862: 862
Yue Xiaoqian didnât even look . Her sword slashed out behind, cutting the figure in two . It rapidly merged with the ground .
âThe shadow ghouls are getting stronger and stronger, as well as more berserk . Injuring them isnât difficult, but killing them would exhaust quite a bit of soul energy . Itâs not really worth it,â said Yue Xiaoqian .
âThen itâs fine . You save your energy . If any shadow ghouls appear, just leave them to me . â Long Chen smiled .
As expected, they had only gone a few more miles when another figure shot at them from a crack in the ground .
A bolt of lightning flew by and struck it, turning it into smoke . That shadow ghoul was killed in one attack .
âWhat terrifying thunderforce . It even contains an aura of annihilation . Thatâs something only heavenly tribulation lightning could possess . Is your lightningâŠâ Yue Xiaoqian was shocked .
âNothing can be hidden from you . Yes, my thunderforce was gathered from tribulation lightning . â Long Chen found that Yue Xiaoqian was too learned . There was nothing she didnât know .
âHow is that possible? How could a human control heavenly tribulation lightning?â Yue Xiaoqian still found this hard to believe .
Long Chen explained how he had encountered tribulation in his first advancement and onwards . He also told her how he had raised Lei Long .
After her initial disbelief, she gradually came to accept this power that was beyond her understanding . This was her first time hearing that someone could control heavenly tribulation lightning .
The two of them continued . More and more shadow ghouls appeared, and each time, they would be killed in one shot by the pointing of Long Chenâs finger .
They saw quite a few more corpses on the way . They had all been killed by shadow ghouls . These shadow ghouls were also getting stronger .
But no matter how strong the shadow ghouls became, they were still weeds in front of Long Chen . His thunderforce was their bane .
âThereâs an opening below . Letâs go take a look . â Yue Xiaoqian pointed downwards . Long Chen looked and saw that the huge wall was concealing the fact that there was an opening here .
Yue Xiaoqian was just about to slash the wall apart when Long Chen stopped her . He simply grabbed and lifted it . The huge wall that was millions of pounds was easily lifted .
âWe should do our best not to leave any marks, or others will find us . â
This entrance was an underground entrance to some construction . Long Chen replaced the wall so that everything looked normal . That way it wouldnât be likely for others to follow them .
âDo you want to go in front, or should I?â asked Yue Xiaoqian .
âYou should stay in front . This place is too dark, so Iâll activate my thunderforce . â Long Chen became covered in violet lightning . Those were his lightning runes . It was like he was wearing clothes made of lightning, making the underground room as bright as if it were daytime .
As they continued onwards, they saw that this passage continued at a slight tilt downwards . They hadnât gotten far before a huge mouse suddenly attacked Long Chen .
The mouseâs fur ended in black, sharp points that made it look like a porcupine . Its eyes were scarlet, and its long tail was sharp like a blade .
âCareful . This is a Rockthorn Mouse and its quills are poisonous,â warned Yue Xiaoqian .
Bang! Long Chenâs broadsword slammed into the mouse . But it actually blocked it with its teeth . Sparks flew when they collided . The three-meter-long mouse slammed into a wall .
It let out a strange cry . Suddenly, it raised its tail and swung it at them . The end of its tail opened, and countless needle-like quills flew toward Long Chen .
Long Chenâs broadsword blocked all of them easily . They were clearly grown out of flesh, but they were harder than metal .
Long Chen unsheathed Flying Rainbow . Cold light flashed as that mouseâs head was severed .
Flying Rainbow was exceptionally sharp, so it was much easier to kill this kind of Magical Beast with it .
Long Chen picked up one of its quills . The quill was five inches long and around two hundred grams . There were little holes in its tip that were almost impossible to see with the naked eye .
âThose holes hide its poison . The Rockthorn Mouse is extremely special . It doesnât have a poison sac . Instead, its quills are what store its poison . Although itâs just a sixth rank Magical Beast, its poison quills are very sharp and can easily pierce a seventh rank Magical Beastâs hide . Even if it canât poison a seventh rank Magical Beast to death, it can poison it half to death,â said Yue Xiaoqian .
Long Chenâs eyes brightened . If it was this strong, then it was something good .
âLong Chen, what are you doing?â
âIâm gathering all these quills as they are natural weapons for Guo Ran . Iâm sure heâll faint from joy when he sees them,â laughed Long Chen as he gathered them . These were the things that Guo Ran liked the most .
As for the Rockthorn Mouseâs corpse, he tossed it into the primal chaos space . But he didnât put it in the black soil yet . He needed to keep a few corpses in reserve for when he was running out of life energy . Then he could use the corpses .
Once Yue Xiaoqian learned that he had a use for these quills, she helped him . The two of them began a slaughter of the Rockthorn Mice that lived here . This seemed to be their nest . Long Chen actually killed over a thousand of them, and he had a mountain of their corpses .
Each one of them had over a hundred quills on their tails . So now he had over a hundred thousand of them .
âWait a moment . Long Chen, weâve entered a different channel now . There are murals here!â said Yue Xiaoqian .
Long Chen looked toward the wall . As expected, there were stone carvings . Long Chen couldnât help being shocked . The carvings from such ancient times were extremely valuable . They might even be able to peer into some secrets of that era .
âXiaoqian, what does this say?â Long Chen saw that whatever was carved was unclear . But there was a large mass of words . Long Chen could occasionally recognize a few characters, but he couldnât comprehend it .
âThis is the introduction of the trial . It clearly indicates Qi Wu . In todayâs language, it means that a steel body must also be flexible . A strong body has a strong soul, a strong soul has a weak-â explained Yue Xiaoqian .
âCough, Xiaoqian, could you explain it in simpler terms?â coughed Long Chen .
Yue Xiaoqian smiled . âTo put it simpler, this should be a trial for the soul and will . It has high requirements for Spiritual Strength, so this should be a trial suited to soul cultivators . Only those with strong enough Spiritual Strength can handle the shadow ghouls here . However, everything has changed now that itâs broken down . If this was a trial only for people with powerful souls, those Rockthorn Mice shouldnât have appeared . â
Her guess was truly reasonable . If this was a trial of Spiritual Strength, in other words, a trial for soul cultivators, having soul cultivators face physical attacks was simply murder .
âOh, why are the people in this mural so strange? They have a pair of bat-like wings?â As the two of them advanced, Long Chen saw a mural that was filled with those strange people .
âThose arenât people . Those are winged devils, the same as the skeletons we saw in the Jiuli secret realm . Do you see that protuberance on their foreheads? Thatâs where their devil core is . Theyâre a mixed existence formed between depraved humans and the devil race . Theyâve inherited the devil raceâs fierceness and evil desires, while maintaining a portion of the human raceâs intelligence,â sighed Yue Xiaoqian .
Long Chen was startled . These were members of the devil race? If she hadnât said it, he would have thought they were members of the ancient races .
âThe human race is that strong? They can not only integrate with Xuan Beasts but also with the devil race?â Long Chen didnât know whether to laugh or cry .
Yue Xiaoqian looked at him helplessly . âHumans are the most complicated existence in this world . Their entire existence is a contradiction . They are sometimes kind, sometimes evil; sometimes noble, sometimes depraved; sometimes like a heavenly immortal, sometimes like a demonic devil . Humans are the ones least able to resist temptation, or perhaps itâs that their desires have no end . They like to take risks, have no respect for anything, and as a result⊠the human race has ended up in their current plight . â
âWas the human race very powerful before?â asked Long Chen .
âPowerful? They couldnât even be described as just powerful . Humans are the spirit of all things . Each human is a spiritual being, their own existence . They possess the pinnacle of the cosmosâs truth, the rulers of the world . Regretfully, the current human raceâs bloodline is no longer pure, and they have fallen to the point of extinction . And yet, they still donât seem aware of it and only know how to fight amongst themselves . â Yue Xiaoqian shook her head with pity for the changing of the times .
Long Chen wanted to say that this was a good thing . If the human race fought to the point of extinction, there would be no one to make things hard for her original devil race . But then thinking of his own status, he swallowed his words back down .
Continuing to examine the murals, he saw that it was a story . Each mural was linked to the next .
At the next mural, a large group of humans had appeared and an immense battle was fought between them and the winged devils . It was a miserable battle, with corpses littering the bloodstained ground .
The human race was losing miserably, with heavy casualties . Those winged devils had powerful runes on their wings . Although these were just static images, Long Chen could feel just how fast they had to be .
Furthermore, their bodies were muscular like bulls . Their flesh bulged with explosive power . They were clearly both powerful and fast . The humans werenât their match .
Thinking of Yue Xiaoqianâs words, Long Chen couldnât help feeling it was satirical . The human race was the ancestor of the winged devils, but now the winged devils were mercilessly slaughtering them .
There were several consecutive murals of the winged devils slaughtering the humans . Towards the end, a group of people appeared . They formed hand seals, and illusory figures appeared behind their bodies .
Those figures held blades, swords, towers, bells . From their hand seals, they should be using a kind of soul art .
Once that soul art was activated, the bloodthirsty winged devils became immobile, unable to move an inch .
âThe winged devils are afraid of soul arts?â asked Long Chen .
âLiving ones are afraid of soul arts, but dead ones that have revived arenât . Otherwise, we wouldnât have had it so hard back then . â Thinking of their previous cooperation against the winged devil skeletons, Yue Xiaoqian smiled in reminiscence . She held Long Chenâs arm .
âWhat⊠what is going on here?!â Long Chen didnât notice Yue Xiaoqianâs gentle movements . Looking at the next mural, he was filled with disbelief .
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