With Bai Xiaole’s problem resolved, Bai Zhantang and his wife felt a heavy weight fall off their shoulders. However, Bai Xiaole was still in slumber and couldn’t be disturbed. Only when he woke naturally would they know the exact situation.
Hence, Long Chen returned to the Divine Scripture Pavilion. When Bai Xiaole woke up on the third day, the Three Flower Pupils were finally fully manifested within his eyes.
After awakening, Bai Xiaole seemed to have been enlightened. He was constantly forming hand seals and summoning one spatial art after another.
Bai Xiaole asked Luo Bing, Luo Ning, Mu Qingyun, and the others to exchange blows with him. They were shocked to find that after awakening the Three Flower Pupils, Bai Xiaole’s divine abilities were practically heaven-defying. With a single look, space was torn apart. Hence, they hastily called a stop to the fight, afraid that he might accidentally kill them.
Based on Luo Bing’s calculation, when Bai Xiaole fully mastered his eye arts, his combat power might not be much lower than Bai Shishi’s.
After awakening the Three Flower Pupils, Bai Xiaole went on a rampage, challenging everyone to a battle to test out his new abilities. But it wasn’t more than a few days before someone beat him black and blue, and he came crying to Long Chen.
When Long Chen asked him what had happened, he had an urge to slap him. Bai Xiaole really thought that he was unrivaled after awakening the Three Flower Pupils. He actually went to find Bai Zhantang for revenge. As a result, he was given another beating quickly and easily.
Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to deal with that. He had spent these days memorizing everything he could in the Divine Scripture Pavilion. He had a splitting headache and needed to digest this new information.
After two days, his headache diminished and after a few days of calmness, his aura stabilized. After thinking about it, he decided that he should raise his realm again. That way, he could raise his realm and then stabilize it while reading books.
However, on the next day, Bai Xiaole returned to him. He was truly tenacious. After being beaten so badly by his father, he refused to give up and challenged his father again. Of course, the result was just as miserable as the last time.
“Boss, you have to help me get revenge! He’s too arrogant! He said that even if we joined together, we wouldn’t be able to overcome a single finger from him! How can we endure such a thing!” cried out Bai Xiaole.
Long Chen suddenly had a thought. He said, “Go ask your father if he dares to have a fight where he doesn’t use his realm to suppress others, and we all purely use your physical bodies and fighting skills.”
“Alright!” Bai Xiaole was delighted and immediately ran off. He returned just a short moment later.
“Boss, that arrogant fellow said that no matter what kind of method we use, he’ll accept!”
Hearing that, Long Chen was delighted. He had precisely been thinking about a problem that he couldn’t resolve normally. Now it was perfect.
“Let’s go. Ah, wait a moment, I’m changing clothes.”
After two hours, Long Chen and Bai Xiaole returned with battered faces. Long Chen’s chest even had specks of blood on it, and the clothes he had switched into were destroyed.
One of Bai Xiaole’s eyes was swollen shut, and his mouth was deformed. But his chest was sticking up as if he had won.
Seeing the two of them in this state, Luo Bing and the others jumped in shock. Just who was able to beat Long Chen considering how strong he was?
“Boss really is the boss! We ended up in a draw this time. Next time, we’ll definitely have the advantage!” Bai Xiaole cried out excitedly.
When Luo Bing and the others heard their stories, they were shocked. Only then did they learn that the two of them had gone to challenge the master of the Battle God Palace. Two against one, they had still been beaten.
Bai Xiaole really knew how to cause trouble. How did he even get someone as smart as Long Chen drawn into this mess?
That was the master of the Battle God Palace, someone at the peak of the academy. Long Chen and Bai Xiaole had challenged him to a fight? Were they not asking for a beating?
…
“Peh, those two brats.”
Bai Zhantang spat out some blood, cursing. He sat alone at the top of a mountain, which was now a complete mess from their battle.
He had two large lumps on his head, and his lips were split open. Moreover, his nose was still bleeding. His state was just as bad as Long Chen and Bai Xiaole’s.
If the Battle God Palace’s experts were to see this, they definitely wouldn’t believe it. The undefeatable existence in their hearts had actually been turned into this state.
“Hahaha!”
Just at this moment, two beautiful women walked over. They were Bai Xiaole and Bai Shishi’s mothers.
“Our mighty palace master was actually beaten into this state by two babies. That would definitely cause quite a few people to collapse if they learned of it,” laughed Bai Xiaole’s mother.
Bai Zhantang glared at her. “Wasn’t it all your idea? I only ended up like this because I suppressed my cultivation base.”
“Wasn’t this very fair? You cultivate the Heavenly Vajra Unbreaking Body. Even if you suppress your cultivation base, you should be far stronger than two amateurs in the Divine Flame realm,” said Bai Shishi’s mother, also laughing.
“That Long Chen is a monster. His power is immense. But most hateful of all, when he attacks, a trace of his divine flame power leaks out, ruining my defenses. That wasn’t fair at all!” raged Bai Zhantang.
“He’s been rapidly increasing his cultivation base, so he can’t stop his divine flame energy from leaking. It’s the result of a lack of control, not intentional. Didn’t he gradually manage to control it in the end so that it stopped leaking? Don’t get angry. Long Chen helped Bai Xiaole activate his Three Flower Pupils, so you no longer need to use such violent means to store energy in his body. We owe him a huge debt. Long Chen wants to rapidly increase his realm, and by sparring with him, you’re helping him consolidate his realm much faster. It can count as returning the favor. Bai Xiaole also needs more combat experience after awakening his eye arts since Long Chen wants to bring him to the Nine Prefecture Convention. Helping him get stronger is helping your son. What, are you not happy about that?” demanded Bai Xiaole’s mother.
“Of course I’m happy with that. But that bastard Long Chen’s fighting style is completely sinister! It’s completely against the norm. There were several times when I even misjudged his moves. Ah, it really pisses me off,” cursed Bai Zhantang. He had never encountered such a difficult opponent.
Close-range combat was his specialty, but he hadn’t expected to encounter an entirely new fighting style in Long Chen. Adding on Bai Xiaole interfering with his eye arts, Bai Zhantang ended up falling for their tricks several times, infuriating him.
“Ah, if you have to suffer a bit, then just endure it. Why quibble with children? One is your own son, while the other is your future son-in-law,” said Bai Shishi’s mother profoundly.
“What? That bastard dares to have intentions on my daughter?! I’ll kill him!”
Long Chen had activated the palace hall’s formation. Even if the people in front of him were ten times stronger than they were, they would still be instantly wiped out.
Those experts’ expressions changed. In that instant, all their lives were held in Long Chen’s hands.
Those sharp swords hovered in the air. With just a single move from Long Chen, all of them would die.
Long Chen stood and coldly said, “I said that you’re nothing more than ants beneath Lord Brahma. Even if I kill you, Lord Brahma won’t wage war against the High Firmament Academy. If you don’t believe it, then stand up. I’ll kill one just to show everyone. We can treat it as an experiment, alright?”
An experiment? An experiment with their lives? Anyone who wasn’t tired of living yet would naturally refuse such an experiment. Their expressions were ugly, but no one dared to make a sound.
Luo Bing and the others were standing behind Long Chen and couldn’t help finding it funny. As expected, evil people were best handled by even more evil people.
Only once he saw that they didn’t dare to even fart did he slowly say, “You ants really are funny. You conspired to kill my academy’s heavenly geniuses, and when your plan was ruined, despite only having yourselves to blame, you actually had the shamelessness to come demand an explanation from the High Firmament Academy. My guess is that there was someone behind the scenes directing you for the strategy in the Jialin Immortal Land. But your current actions are the result of your own intelligence. None of you understand the High Firmament Academy. You don’t know just how powerful the High Firmament Academy is. A wily fox wouldn’t order a bunch of rabbits to demand an explanation from a tiger. Based on your expressions, I can see that I’m right. Then let me just brazenly guess that amongst your rabbits, the ringleader is this one.”
Long Chen pointed at the expert from the Chu family, infuriating him.
“You… you go too far!”
“No, no, compared to you conspiring to kill our disciples and then demanding an explanation from us, how could anyone dare to say that we’re going too far?” Long Chen laughed indifferently.
Heaven Master Yun Yang and the others nodded inside. If they weren’t completely sure about Long Chen’s age, they really would suspect he was an old demon inside a youngster’s shell. He was in complete control over everyone here, and every word struck them in their vitals. From their subtle changes in expressions, it was possible to tell that his guesses were definitely correct.
Although these higher-ups had also expected such a thing, they definitely wouldn’t be able to act as confidently as Long Chen did about it. Just from this display, they felt that Long Chen would do even better than any of them in the Nine Prefecture Convention. Picking him was the wisest choice.
“You…”
“Shut up!”
Long Chen shouted suddenly, “I don’t have time to argue with you. You should bless your luck that I am not the dean, or ants like you would have been wiped out. Actually, I’d have wiped out your sects already. Lord Brahma’s subordinates actually dare to fart in front of me? Who gave you that courage?!”
Long Chen walked up to them, pacing in front of them, pointing at their noses and cursing.
“All of you are like dogs, your heads packed with shit. You have faith in Lord Brahma, but Lord Brahma treats you like pawns-”
“You shut-”
“You shut up!” Long Chen slapped the expert from the Chu family, interrupting and finishing his words.
“Courting death!”
That expert’s fury soared, but just as his aura rose, dozens of sharp swords pierced his body.
Blood speckled the palace. That expert instantly turned still, not daring to move.
“An ant trying to shake a tree. How laughable. The formation here is able to instantly wipe you out a thousand times. I thought that the Chu family relied on sinister schemes to survive? Why would they produce an idiot like you?” asked Long Chen. At the same time, he sighed in amazement inside over how powerful the academy’s formations were.
Bai Shishi had told him that he couldn’t imagine just how powerful the academy’s foundation was. Now, through some clues, he finally saw through a corner of this immense existence. It was truly far stronger than he had expected. However, it had been constantly concealing its power.
Long Chen walked over to the Chu family’s expert. Just as he was about to slap him a few times, his heart skipped a beat.
“This aura…”
From this expert, Long Chen sensed the slightest trace of a barely discernible aura. That aura was incredibly familiar to him.
“It’s the aura of the primal chaos bead!”
Long Chen instantly thought of Long Aotian. He hadn’t killed the latter on the Martial Heaven Continent. Instead, he had fed him a poison pill to serve as a marker so that he could lead Long Chen to the Long family.
When this Chu family’s expert’s blood splashed, Long Chen sensed the aura of the primal chaos bead. That was the marker he had placed on Long Aotian.
“So Long Aotian is likely in the Chu family. Perhaps he is still staying there for a while.”
Perhaps the Chu family people could counter the poison pill. But they were definitely unable to expel the power of the black soil. It seemed that they had used multiple experts to dilute the power of the black soil.
As long as the people to absorb it were strong enough and they had enough numbers, the black soil’s power would no longer have any effect. The bindings on Long Aotian had actually been undone like this. No wonder Long Chen had been unable to sense what direction Long Aotian was in despite raising his cultivation base.
This expert in front of him had definitely helped Long Aotian dispel the poison pill. Long Chen had not expected Long Aotian to be viewed so highly by the Chu family.
“Interesting.”
Long Chen smiled sinisterly. He hadn’t expected to find a trail toward Long Aotian today.
It seemed that he had underestimated Long Aotian. For him to be viewed so importantly, it couldn’t just be due to his status. Perhaps his body had some unknown secret. However, he didn’t know if Long Aotian would be attending the Nine Prefecture Convention.
Long Chen then waved his hands, and those swords retracted from the Chu family’s expert’s body. His blood once more splattered the palace hall.
“This is a diplomatic exchange. Killing ants would make others say that we’re bullying the weak, so I will simply give you a warning this time. A person can be stupid, but do your best to leave a way out for your descendants at least, or you will very likely follow the footsteps of the Golden Bell Gate. The Golden Bell Gate was destroyed, but whoever is directing you didn’t even say a word. Yet you had the guts to run over here and be stupid. You really are tired of life. Furthermore, you have your own competitors in your own powers for your positions. I’m sure you’re the ones who know the most about that. When you go back, you should think about why you were the ones sent here, and not them. Using your lives to test the attitude of the academy, haha, it seems your higher-ups really value you,” laughed Long Chen.
His last words caused their expressions to change. They seemed to think of something.
“Scram.” Long Chen lazily waved his hand. As a result, those people hastily slipped away like a pack of beaten dogs, not even daring to raise their heads.
“Well done.” Once those people left, Heaven Master Yun Yang and the others clapped for Long Chen. He had handled things perfectly. He had given them a vicious lesson but also knew not to go too far.
“Junior was just messing around.” Long Chen said some courteous words. He was about to say something to Heaven Master Yun Yang when another Elder suddenly ran in and handed a golden card to Heaven Master Yun Yang.
Looking at the card, he smiled slightly and handed it to Long Chen. “The invitation card to the Nine Prefecture Convention has arrived. The High Firmament Academy’s instructor corps will be depending on you to win us some face.”
