Chapter 7056: Regret and Choice |
“It’s the Zither Sect, Painting Sect, and Chess Sect!”
Startled cries rang out. Of course, other than a few select higher-ups in the Jiuli race, no one knew what was going on.
The three sects’ troops only numbered a few thousand people in total. The ones from the Zither Sect were cloaked in black qi. Illusory figures filled the air around them. At the front, Long Chen spotted the Zither Sect’s Cao Yuyang, the Chess Sect’s Xie Lingyun, and the Painting Sect’s Luo Tianxiang. However, the leader was not any one of them. It was a woman with a body like a pig and a head like a toad.
She was the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither’s item-spirit. Her sharp eyes were filled with rancor and killing intent. That expression made it clear that even tearing Long Chen into a million pieces would not quell the hatred in her heart.
“Jiang Li, Jiang Li… you really are a fool.”
Long Chen slowly stood up from his chair and stretched his back lazily.
“Lord Brahma wants the Jiuli Tower, while the Zither Sect wants me so they can extort the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither from my wife. As for the Chess Sect and Painting Sect, they want a portion of the benefits of the Jiuli Tower as well as control over the divine capital. All of them are strong, and all of them are schemers. So how in the hell did you think you’d outwit all of them all by yourself?”
The Jiuli race’s experts were enraged by what he was saying. They did not dare to believe their ears. But at the same time, although they hated Long Chen’s guts, they knew he had no reason to lie at this point, and given this whole situation, Jiang Li looked awfully suspicious.
No one had thought that the higher-ups would actually collude with Lord Brahma, the Zither Sect, the Painting Sect, and the Chess Sect to kill Long Chen. Lord Brahma was a vicious wolf; his ambitions stretched towards all the nine heavens and ten lands. Everyone knew that. For Jiang Li to collaborate with him and invite his forces in was practically the epitome of foolishness!
In other words, in order to kill Long Chen, the realm lord and the elders had placed the entire Jiuli Divine Realm into the depths of despair. Seeing the Jiuli Tower flashing chaotically, as well as the three sects’ people surging with killing intent, despair filled the Jiuli race experts’ hearts. The one thought in their minds was that the Jiuli Divine Realm was done for…
That incredibly ugly woman was what made them lose all hope. Her aura was not at all weaker than the Jiuli Tower’s. Although they had not seen the Heavenly Devil Zither before, anyone with half a brain could tell just who she was. They were well aware that Long Chen had charged into the Zither Sect, and many of them knew about the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither and her plan to merge with the old Heavenly Devil Zither.
Since they could tell who this woman was, their despair was justified.
Authority over the Jiuli Tower was in a deadlock between Jiang Li and Long Can. In other words, the Jiuli tower would not be able to protect them. In addition, the grand formations had already been broken by the traitors. The Jiuli Divine Realm had become a prison, and the experts of the three sects were now vicious beasts descending upon caged sheep.
Once the fighting started, the Jiuli Divine Realm would be destroyed, and the Jiuli race would fall. Although the Jiuli race was spread throughout the nine heavens and ten lands, the Jiuli Divine Realm was their core. In this great era, without the Jiuli Divine Realm or the Jiuli Tower, any remnants of the Jiuli race would have great difficulty surviving.
The experts here all started to feel resentful. How could they not?
“Worthless leaders have brought the Jiuli race to its knees. How am I supposed to accept this?” sighed a man.
Indeed, just how were they supposed to accept it? One foolish decision of Jiang Li’s had just buried the future of the entire Jiuli race.
“Worthless leaders? Before you curse them, curse yourself first. We were the ones who were weak. We knew our leaders were foolish, but we didn’t dare to rebel. Every single one of us just watched as the Jiuli race walked itself into this pit. We are all sinners,” said an elderly man.
“If we had Long Chen’s daring, perhaps the Jiuli race wouldn’t have reached this point!”
When this third person spoke, it caused huge waves in other people’ hearts.
They suddenly thought of Long Chen. It seemed that throughout the entire Jiuli race, he was the only one who dared to wield a butcher’s blade against the higher-ups. In the past, they had felt that this was a despicable thing to do. He was vicious towards his own family; his hands were stained with the blood of the Jiuli race. But now that they were faced with this situation, they were forced to remember exactly why Long Chen had done such a thing. Was it really because Long Chen was a bloodthirsty murderer?
If that was all, then why was it that Long Chen had become the High Firmament Academy’s youngest dean in history? Why had he become the highest authority in the dragon race? Why were so many people, so many forces willing to follow him to death?
People looked from Jiang Li, who was gnashing his teeth in anger and frustration, to Long Chen, who looked as calm as ever. And as they saw his demeanor, they all sank into silence.
When facing death, a person’s mind could suddenly go through a moment of clarity. With their preconceived biases thrown out, they could suddenly see many things clearly.
“He gave the Jiuli race many chances, but the Jiuli race always betrayed him!”
“It seems that the rumors about that girl really are true!” cried one female disciple.
“That girl” in the rumors she spoke of was none other than Long Tianrui.
The matters of Jiuli City could not possibly be kept secret, least of all from the Jiuli race. Thus, the story of Long Tianrui had long since been leaked to the disciples. Although the higher-ups harshly warned them not to spread rumors, the more they suppressed it, the more curious the disciples became. Although it couldn’t be said that everyone knew it, at the very least, the majority of the female disciples had heard of this matter.
It could be said that the destruction of Jiuli City was caused by Long Tianrui’s death. Even after that, Long Chen still gave Jiuli City a chance, but Jiuli City still betrayed him, resulting in him destroying it.
Thinking back to the causes of everything, they felt that if they also had Long Chen’s courage, perhaps the Jiuli race would not have walked right to their doom. But that was not the reality that they were living. Right now, all of them had become lambs for slaughter. The air was thick with despair.
Even so, Long Chen seemed calm. Facing the experts of the three races, he showed no fear at all. Ignoring everything else, just this kind of bearing was something that no person in the Jiuli Divine Realm could display.
Suddenly, Long Chen felt a strange sensation from his Supreme Blood. He then heard a man’s voice in his mind.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, myself and a hundred thousand disciples will form the Jiuli Soul-Burning Formation in a bit! By sacrificing our lives, we can carve open a path in their grand formation and help you escape the Jiuli Divine Realm! Get ready!”
Whoever this man was, he was using the Jiuli bloodline’s secret art to communicate with Long Chen, and Long Chen was actually unable to confirm who it was.
This message was rather moving to Long Chen. A hundred thousand disciples were willing to sacrifice their lives to help him escape. Considering that their grand formation had already been broken, these hundred thousand disciples were probably the greatest elites of the Jiuli race, or they wouldn’t be capable of such a thing.
“Senior Long Chen, get ready!” The voice rang out once more in his mind, but this time, Long Chen managed to spot the speaker. It was a fair-faced man who looked like a scholar. His aura was somewhat weak, and he was completely inconspicuous amongst the crowd. But this was not because he was actually weak; rather, he had a variant bloodline that allowed him to escape the detection of the Heavenly Devil Zither, Long Can, Jiang Li, and the others.
His gaze was determined. He had secretly communicated with a hundred thousand elite disciples, and they had all chosen to sacrifice their lives to help Long Chen escape. They knew what kind of person Long Chen was, and they knew that, as long as Long Chen could escape, he would definitely treat the remnants of the Jiuli race well.
The Jiuli race would not be destroyed as long as Long Chen lived. So rather than dying like sheep, fighting an unwinnable battle, they would rather use their lives to give their kin a chance to live.
Suddenly, Long Chen turned towards the Heavenly Devil Zither and the others.
“Careful, someone is trying to use the formation to help me escape the Jiuli Divine Realm!”
The scholarly man was just about to form hand seals when Long Chen’s announcement almost made him cough up blood.
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