None of them had any idea what Long Chen was trying to achieve.
“Hey, do you know how strong he is?”
The skinny man hesitated. “He fought against me for four hours before defeating me. I don’t think we would all lose if we attacked him at the same time.”
They were relieved when they heard that.
“Fine, we agree.”
“Then let’s start.”
Long Chen turned into golden lightning and charged towards them the moment he said that.
Everyone was shocked by Long Chen’s speed. He wasn’t just slightly faster, but insanely fast!
Long Chen knocked away one of the cultivators at the very start of the battle.
“Scatter!”Everyone shouted when they learned that there was no point in congregating in one spot. They scattered but then realized that Long Chen was gone!
One of the burly men said, “That brat is too mysterious. What’s going on?”
Just then, he felt danger coming from behind him. The flash of golden lightning was right on his back!
“Shifting Galaxies!”
The burly cultivator reacted and punched hastily. He was someone who specialized in strength. Even though his punch was hasty and his stance was sloppy, he was still confident in his strength.
But he was wrong. Long Chen’s punch broke the man’s arms. The power of the Emperor’s Manual surged into his body and he sprayed blood as he flew backwards. He had lost in an instant.
The burly man’s vision was swimming, but now he could see where Long Chen was. Unfortunately, he could no longer move because Long Chen’s essence had severed several of his tendons. It would take some time for him to recover.
“Number one.”
Long Chen raised his head confidently, and the other nine cultivators were so stunned that they couldn’t react. They looked at the burly man lying on the ground and hesitated.
They couldn’t believe that Long Chen could defeat someone at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage in a single punch.
“Oi, is this the guy that fought with you for four hours? Are you sure?” The rest of the cultivators were glaring at the skinny guy. Long Chen was clearly different from what he had described. They had truly encountered a tricky enemy.
Long Chen’s eyes were also different now.
His performance far exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Long Chen taunted them when he saw that they were wary of him. “Come at me. Why aren’t you attacking now? The battle is just starting.”
His smile was somehow very scary to them right now.
One of them tried to rally the others.
“Everyone, fight back together, but be careful! We are all at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage and there are nine of us. It’s impossible for us to lose!”
They each launched their techniques, most of them being Divine-tier martial techniques, at Long Chen at the same time. Some of them even used talismans.
The numerous techniques blanketed the sky and covered the earth.
“Idiots.”
Long Chen chuckled and retreated as swiftly as lightning. Everyone’s attacks missed as none of them could match his speed!
He only advanced when all of their techniques had been released. The golden lightning pierced through the crowd in an instant.
“Scatter!”
They scattered like birds in the wind.
“Are you running away?”
Long Chen laughed. Those at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage were no longer a threat to him due to his substantial growth.
Fighting against ten cultivators at the same time was actually a difficult feat, but Long Chen was too fast for them to touch, so he was having a fairly easy time.
He activated the True Martial Overlord Soul at this point.
After activating it, he was no longer in a hurry to finish them. He fought against them one by one to train himself. There were several balls of blood essence in his Primordial Realm that granted him a lot of essence to continue fighting in a battle of attrition.
In the eyes of the other cultivators, Long Chen had transformed from a weakling to a demon.
He wasn’t even at the Divine Martial Realm, yet he was somehow able to toy with them! He was like a weird monster!
“We can’t win against him! Retreat!”
Long Chen defeated two more cultivators after two hours. Only then did one of them shout to retreat.
They scattered in different directions. They thought Long Chen wouldn’t be able to catch all of them if they each went their own way.
But they were wrong. In just a few minutes, all ten of them were whining in pain as they collapsed in front of Long Chen.
Long Chen smiled and circled around them. His smile was their biggest nightmare at this point.
“Time to pay up and follow the condition of your bet. If not, I will kill all of you.”
Usually, those who lost in the Underworld Battlefield would lose their lives too.
Long Chen had chosen to spare them, but he had crippled them temporarily. This could be considered too merciful for people like them.
They were afraid of Long Chen, but somehow they trusted his words. They frowned while they lay down on the ground. They looked at each and chose one of them to talk for the others. “A million Emperor Crystals is a bit too much. It would make us go bankrupt. Can we negotiate?”
“Sure. One life for every hundred thousand Emperor Crystals. I can start from you.”
All of them fell silent.
“Hey, let’s just pool our money together and pay. We lost today, but at least we can keep our lives. We can earn our money back some other time.”
“Alright …”
They all groaned, but they were more afraid of Long Chen.
They took out all the money they had, but it only totalled to a little over five hundred thousand. They looked at each other, then one of them said, “Let’s just give him Divine Crystals. One is equivalent to a hundred thousand Emperor Crystals.”
They then took out five Divine Crystals.
They were completely white and filled with Royal Qi. The Royal Qi was denser than what was contained in the Emperor Crystals. Long Chen was standing quite a distance away, but he could still feel the refreshing air hit his face.
One would attain a lot of benefits by just cultivating beside a Divine Crystal.
Long Chen took the crystals before reminding them, “I took the money, but are you forgetting something?”
They were frustrated, but there was nothing they could do but fulfill the conditions of the bet. They preferred to be alive after all.
“Let’s not burn any bridges and let us live in dignity. Please let us go.”
“I’ve already spared your life. The rest is just part of the bet.”
They frowned, then each of them called Long Chen “grandfather.” Long Chen left with satisfaction after seeing the anger in their eyes. He wasn’t afraid of them taking revenge on him, since he was getting stronger by the day.
His cultivation speed was like a rocket shooting to the stars.
Long Chen had comprehended a deeper layer of the Heavenly Martial Realm after this fight.
He followed the path of the river and fought numerous times, including someone at the Divine Martial Realm. However, a brief testing revealed that Long Chen couldn’t win against an opponent at that level yet. Even if he could, he would’ve had to burn a lot of resources to do so, so he chose not to continue to fight.
Another four months passed, and Long Chen was finally at the peak of the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage. Just a little longer and he would advance into the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage.
Long Chen needed a fateful encounter to help him advance, and there was one just in front of him right now.
There were dozens of cultivators at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage in front of him. They belonged to a group much larger than the ten cultivators he had fought before. This particular group was known as the Bloody Underworld Group. They were an organization composed of seventy-five experts at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage. Some of them were even from the other cities. Those below the Divine Martial Realm scattered at the mention of their name. Even those at the Divine Martial Realm would dare not provoke them.
Long Chen defeated ten of them before everyone from the Bloody Underworld Group surrounded him. They didn’t leave any gaps because they were afraid that Long Chen would escape, thereby tarnishing their reputation.
“You crazy bastard. I’ve heard of you before. You came here half a year ago and defeated a lot of people at the Heavenly Martial Realm. You are called the strongest beneath the Divine Martial Realm, but to think you would provoke us first …”
The person talking was naturally one the leaders of the Bloody Underworld Group. There were eight leaders, and all of them were considered some of the strongest Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivators.
The leader paused before continuing, “I don’t believe in rumors, so let’s see if you truly are what they say.”
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