Long Chen menancapkan Evilmoon ke dada Elder keluarga ilahi. Saat ini, rune-rune hitam menyala di permukaan Evilmoon, dipenuhi kekuatan ledakan yang siap meledak kapan saja.
Meskipun Elder itu adalah ahli Heaven Merging, nyawanya tetap berada di tangan Long Chen.
Tujuh Elder lain hanya beberapa kaki dari Long Chen, tapi mereka berhenti mendadak, tidak berani menyerang.
Meski mereka membenci Long Chen, mereka tahu bahwa ia gila. Ia bahkan membunuh Tunas Sovereign, sehingga ia tidak akan takut membunuh salah satu Elder Heaven Merging mereka.
Sebenarnya, Elder ini milik keluarga Zhao, sehingga ia secara alami membenci Long Chen ke tulang punggung. Pihak mereka sejak awal sangat enggan mengundang Long Chen untuk berdiskusi di sini.
Namun, ia tak pernah membayangkan bahwa Long Chen bisa mengabaikan tekanan garis darahnya dengan Azure Dragon Battle Armor. Ia juga yang paling tidak beruntung berdiri paling dekat dengan Long Chen.
“Pergi!” Long Chen menggeram ke para Elder lain. Lalu ia memutar Elder yang tidak beruntung itu, memaksa para Elder mundur.
“Long Chen, cepat lepaskan Elder Zhao Xing!” geram para Elder.
Dalam jawaban, Long Chen menampar Elder itu tiga puluh enam kali, dan ini terjadi dalam sekejap. Tidak ada yang mampu menampar seseorang dengan mulus seperti itu, bahkan Sovereign pun.
Setelah semua tamparan, Elder itu jatuh pingsan, dan kepalanya tidak lagi dalam bentuk yang wajar. Wajahnya tidak lagi bisa dikenali.
Di sisi lain, niat membunuh Long Chen semakin tinggi. Menghina ia sebagai setengah darah berarti menghina orang tuanya. Setelah selesai menampar, daripada meredakan amarahnya, cahaya Evilmoon tiba-tiba bertambah terang.
“Berhenti!”
Para Elder mengira pertarungan akan berakhir dengan negosiasi setelah tamparan Long Chen selesai, tapi Long Chen benar-benar melanggar konvensi. Ia akan membunuh sandiwananya.
Tiba-tiba, ruang bergetar. Tepat saat kekuatan Evilmoon meledak, Elder itu lenyap.
Semua orang terkejut dan menoleh ke depan alun-alun untuk melihat kelompok baru orang. Pemimpin mereka adalah pria paruh baya berwajah persegi berjubah violet-emas. Ia mengenakan mahkota dan ikat pinggang giok. Rune ilahi berkedip di matanya setiap kali berkedip.
Ketika ia tiba, terasa seolah ruang-waktu telah dikendalikan. Seperti semua fluktuasi di langit dan bumi hanya ada untuknya. Hukum dunia seolah berputar mengikuti dirinya.
Ini adalah ahli mengerikan yang tak bisa digambarkan dengan kata-kata sederhana. Ia sedang memegang Elder yang akan dibunuh Long Chen.
“Selamat datang, Lord Venerate!”
Semua Elder membungkuk ke arahnya. Ini adalah Lord Venerate keluarga ilahi.
Di sampingnya adalah beberapa puluh orang yang datang bersamanya. Di antara mereka ada Feng Fei, Long Aotian, Ye Liangchen, dan Jiang Wuchen.
Pada saat ini, Feng Fei memandang Long Chen dengan ekspresi tak berubah. Bukan ekspresi kebencian, dan juga bukan ekspresi ramah. Ia masih Feng Fei yang arogan.
Sedangkan Long Aotian, ia lebih dingin, hanya memandang Long Chen dengan tak acuh. Ekspresinya tak mengungkap apa pun, tapi ada kejanguan di matanya. Aksi Long Chen kali ini sangat tidak memuaskan baginya. Ia dikirim untuk membantu Long Chen, tapi Long Chen memperlakukannya sebagai musuh.
Selain itu, untuk beberapa alasan, Long Aotian merasa gelisah ketika ada Long Chen, dan ini membuatnya semakin membenci Long Chen. Meski keluarga Long ingin ia memiliki hubungan baik dengan Long Chen dan menariknya ke pihak mereka, Long Aotian sangat tidak senang dengan perintah itu, terutama mengingat Long Chen telah merendahkan wajah keluarga ilahi.
Namun, karena Long Aotian berdiri di pihak keluarga Long, ia tidak bisa mendorong Long Chen. Jadi ia tidak menunjukkan kebaikan atau kebencian terhadap Long Chen.
Sedangkan Ye Liangchen dan Jiang Wuchen, pandangan mereka tajam seperti pedang. Mereka jelas penuh permusuhan terhadap Long Chen, terutama Ye Liangchen yang tidak menyembunyikan niat membunuhnya.
Kali ini, ia tidak bisa melepaskan kekuatan penuhnya, sehingga membiarkan Long Chen mengambil sorotan. Pertarungan itu memungkinkan nama Long Chen semakin megah.
Para ahli selalu menginjak-injak mayat dan martabat orang lain untuk maju. Tapi tidak ada yang mau menjadi langkah kaki orang lain, terutama orang-orang seperti Ye Liangchen dan Jiang Wuchen.
Terutama bagi Ye Liangchen, ia terperangkap oleh Huo Linger dan bahkan tidak bisa bertarung langsung melawan Long Chen adalah penghinaan. Di dunia luar, terasa seolah ia dan Jiang Wuchen bergabung tapi masih tidak bisa menandingi Long Chen. Itu membuatnya gila.
Keluarga Ye telah mengorbankan segalanya untuk memaksa Aliansi Bela Diri Surgawi membayar, tapi Lord Saint menekan hal itu, sehingga Ye Liangchen tidak punya pilihan selain sementara menekan amarahnya.
“Lord Venerate, Elder Zhao Xing hanya terlalu marah sejenak. Kata-katanya agak emosional. Tapi Long Chen…” keluarga Zhao segera berpidato untuk kasih sayang Elder Zhao Xing. Sebenarnya, bahkan kepala keluarga pun tidak bisa mengkhianati Heaven Executioner, karena menjadi targetnya adalah menakutkan. Takutnya terhadapnya bahkan melampaui takutnya terhadap Lord Venerate. Oleh karena itu, kepala keluarga Zhao hanya berpidato setelah Heaven Executioner hilang. Sedangkan eksekusi kuburan itu adalah hukuman kematian paling manusiawi dari keluarga ilahi. Seorang orang akan dihukum dengan jiwa perlahan padam di dalamnya. Mereka akan jatuh pingsan dan tidak merasakan sedikit pun rasa sakit.
“Elder Zhao Xing mengabaikan perintah Lord Saint. Kematian terlalu mudah baginya. Yang mengumpat Long Chen sebelumnya bisa pergi melihat Heaven Executioner sendiri untuk hukuman cambuk,” kata Lord Venerate dengan melambai, mengabaikan permohonan kepala keluarga Zhao.
Para orang yang mengumpat Long Chen sebelumnya semua menjadi pucat. Mereka tidak berani berkata apa pun, sehingga mereka pergi tanpa kata lagi.
Ekspresi para Elder juga berubah. Lord Venerate benar-benar marah. Ia telah membunuh satu Elder dan menghukum puluhan lainnya. Jadi semua diam.
Beberapa orang merasa lega karena mereka tidak berkata apa pun. Seperti yang diharapkan, bencana datang dari mulut.
Pada saat ini, ekspresi kepala keluarga Zhao agak buruk, tapi ia hanya bisa duduk kembali. Lalu ia memandang Long Chen dengan kebencian yang hampir menjadi padat.
“Apakah kau ada keluhan atas cara aku menangani hal ini?” Lord Venerate menoleh ke Long Chen, berbicara dengan kejujuran yang mengejutkan semua orang.
Long Chen memasukkan Evilmoon dan tersenyum. “Bagus. Pertama menunjukkan kekuatan, lalu membunuh ayam untuk mengingatkan monyet. Tidak hanya itu, kau juga membunuh dua burung dengan satu batu. Bagaimana aku bisa punya keluhan apa pun?”
Bagaimana Long Chen tidak melihat melalui maksud Lord Venerate? Lord Venerate sejak awal pasti sudah ada di sini. Mengapa ia menunggu sampai Long Chen hampir membunuh Elder itu?
Karena jika Long Chen membunuhnya, akan merendahkan wajah keluarga ilahi. Tapi dengan melakukannya sendiri, ia memberi tunjukkan kekuatan, bukan ke Long Chen, tapi ke para Elder keluarga ilahi. Sebenarnya, ia juga menggunakan Long Chen.
Deputy Elder keluarga Long menggelengkan kepala. Long Chen masih terlalu muda. Bagaimana ia bisa langsung mengatakan kata-kata seperti itu? Bukan justru memprovokasi Lord Venerate?
Namun, secara tidak terduga, Lord Venerate tersenyum. “Asalkan kau bisa melihat kesungguhan hatiku, maka itu sudah cukup. Mengapa kita tidak punya obrolan yang wajar sekarang?”
Long Chen had Evilmoon stabbing through the elder of the divine families’ chest. Right now, black runes lit up on top of Evilmoon, filled with explosive power ready to be unleashed at any moment.
Even if that elder was a Heaven Merging expert, his life was still in Long Chen’s hands.
Seven other elders were just a few feet away from Long Chen, but they came to a sudden stop, not daring to attack.
Although they detested Long Chen, they knew that he was a madman. He had even killed a Sovereign sprout, so he wouldn’t be afraid of killing one of their Heaven Merging Elders.
In fact, this Elder belonged to the Zhao family, so he naturally hated Long Chen to the bone. Their side had been extremely unwilling from the start to have Long Chen be invited here to chat.
However, he had never dreamed that Long Chen would be able to ignore their bloodline pressure with the Azure Dragon Battle Armor. He was also the unlucky one to be standing closest to Long Chen.
“Scram!” Long Chen barked at the other elders. He then spun the unlucky elder around, forcing those elders back.
“Long Chen, hurry and release Elder Zhao Xing!” roared those elders.
In response, Long Chen slapped the elder in his hand thirty-six times, and this happened in the blink of an eye. No one else was capable of face-slapping someone so smoothly, not even a Sovereign.
After all the slaps, that Elder fell unconscious, and his head was no longer in a proper form. His face was no longer recognizable.
On the other hand, Long Chen’s killing intent was soaring. Calling him a half-breed was insulting his parents. After finishing his slaps, rather than sating his fury, Evilmoon’s light suddenly grew.
“Stop!”
The various elders had thought that things would turn to negotiations once Long Chen’s slaps were done, but Long Chen was going completely off conventional reasoning. He was going to kill his hostage.
Suddenly, space twisted. Just as Evilmoon’s power erupted, the elder vanished.
Everyone was startled and turned to the front of the plaza to see a new group of people. Their leader was a square-faced middle-aged man in violet-gold robes. He wore a crown and a jade belt. Divine runes flickered within his eyes whenever he blinked.
When he arrived, it felt like spacetime had been taken control over. It was as if all fluctuations within heaven and earth existed only for him. The world’s laws seemed to revolve around him.
This was a terrifying expert that could not be described with simple words. He was holding the Elder that Long Chen had been about to kill.
“Greetings, Lord Venerate!”
All the elders bowed toward him. This was the divine families’ Lord Venerate.
Beside him were a few dozen people who had come with him. Amongst them were Feng Fei, Long Aotian, Ye Liangchen, and Jiang Wuchen.
At this moment, Feng Fei was looking at Long Chen expressionlessly. It wasn’t an expression of hatred, nor was it one of friendliness. She was still the same arrogant Feng Fei.
As for Long Aotian, he was rather cold, simply staring at Long Chen indifferently. His expression didn’t reveal anything, but there was an iciness in his eyes. Long Chen’s actions last time had been extremely unsatisfactory to him. He had been sent to help Long Chen, but Long Chen had treated him as an enemy.
Furthermore, for some reason, Long Aotian felt uneasy when it came to Long Chen, and this made him dislike Long Chen even more. Although the Long family wished for him to have a good relationship with Long Chen and pull him to their side, Long Aotian was extremely displeased with those orders, especially considering that Long Chen had cost the divine families their face.
However, since Long Aotian stood on the side of the Long family, he couldn’t push Long Chen away. So he didn’t display kindness or malice toward Long Chen.
As for Ye Liangchen and Jiang Wuchen, their gazes were as sharp as swords. They were clearly overflowing with hostility toward Long Chen, especially Ye Liangchen who didn’t bother to conceal his killing intent.
Last time, he hadn’t been able to unleash his full power, allowing Long Chen to take the spotlight. That battle had allowed Long Chen’s fame to soar.
Experts always trampled over other people’s corpses and dignity to advance. But no one was willing to be someone else’s stepping stone, especially not people like Ye Liangchen and Jiang Wuchen.
For Ye Liangchen in particular, being trapped by Huo Linger and not even managing to have a direct clash against Long Chen was a humiliation. In the outside world, it appeared as if he and Jiang Wuchen had joined hands and still hadn’t managed to match Long Chen. That drove him crazy.
The Ye family had gone all-out to force the Martial Heaven Alliance to pay, but the Lord Saint had suppressed things, so Ye Liangchen had no other choice but to temporarily suppress his anger.
“Heaven Executioner, this person has violated the divine families’ taboos and lost our face. You should know what to do,” said the Lord Venerate. His voice was deep and powerful.
“Disciple understands. I will immediately activate the execution coffin.” A person behind the Lord Venerate stepped up.
This person’s skin was pale, and his voice was soft, almost like a woman’s. Moreover, his body was slender, and his aura was also on the Yin side. As soon as he spoke, Long Chen trembled. He stared in shock at that man.
The man was reaching out to grab the Elder when he sensed Long Chen’s reaction, so he turned to look at him. His gaze was sinister like a viper’s.
Furthermore, his aura was completely bizarre. He was like a spirit from the underworld coming to reap people’s lives.
Long Chen’s heart pounded wildly. It was him, definitely him. This voice and his slender hands were identical. Long Chen had seen that pair of cruel hands take away his Spirit Blood, Spirit Root, and Spirit Bone. He had seen it in Future Lake back then, and he would never be able to forget it.
“Long Chen, calm down!” Evilmoon’s voice resounded through Long Chen’s mind, waking him up from his shock and fury.
“What? Do you know me?” asked the strange man.
Long Chen suppressed his fury and coldly said, “Yes, of course I know the divine families’ executioner. I’ve long since heard that you are a bloody and merciless killer. Ye Yaochen brought you up when I was in front of the Yin Yang World. However, I didn’t expect that this existence which inspires terror in people was actually someone who was not a man or woman.”
At this moment, every expert present sucked in a cold gasp of air. They stared at the Heaven Executioner, waiting for his reaction.
The Heaven Executioner. This wasn’t a name but a title. It was the highest level of authority within the divine families’ law enforcement division.
The Heaven Executioner was an existence almost all members of the divine families were terrified of. He was called cold-blooded, merciless, and incomparably cruel because he had an almost perverted desire for torture. All those who had fallen into his hands regretted being born in this world.
The Heaven Executioner had strange desires when it came to the human body, especially to those with special abilities. It was said that his private room was filled with people’s organs. Those people that the divine families had executed were all ‘studied’ by him.
Other than a few people that could be counted, everyone in the divine families was afraid of this fiendish existence. Hence, for Long Chen to call him not a man or woman stunned them all. At the same time, quite a few people felt some admiration that he would dare to say the words that they did not dare to say.
“Little fellow, I’m very interested in you.”
The Heaven Executioner smiled. He whisked away the Elder and vanished.
“Lord Venerate, Elder Zhao Xing was simply overwhelmed by a moment of anger. His words were a bit emotional. But Long Chen…” The Zhao family head immediately spoke up for Elder Zhao Xing’s mercy. In fact, even the family heads couldn’t offend the Heaven Executioner, because being targeted by him was frightening. Their fear for him even surpassed their fear for the Lord Venerate. Therefore, the Zhao family head only spoke up once the Heaven Executioner was gone. As for the execution coffin, it was the divine families’ most humane death sentence. A person would have their soul slowly extinguished inside. They would fall unconscious and not feel the slightest pain.
“Elder Zhao Xing ignored the orders of the Lord Saint. Death is too easy for him. The ones who previously insulted Long Chen can go see the Heaven Executioner themselves for the flogging punishment.” The Lord Venerate waved his hand, disregarding the Zhao family head’s pleading.
The people who had previously insulted Long Chen all turned ashen. They didn’t dare to say anything though, so they left without another word.
The other Elders’ expressions also changed. The Lord Venerate was truly enraged. He had killed one Elder and punished dozens of others. Hence, everyone was silent.
Quite a few people rejoiced that they hadn’t said anything. As expected, calamity came from the mouth.
At this moment, the Zhao family head’s expression was ugly, but she could only sit back down. She then glared at Long Chen with rancor that almost turned solid.
“Do you have any complaints about how I handled things?” The Lord Venerate turned to Long Chen, speaking surprisingly politely. This shocked everyone.
Long Chen put away Evilmoon and smiled. “Nice job. First a show of might, and then killing the chicken to warn the monkey. Not only that, you’re also killing two birds with one stone. How could I have any complaints?”
How could Long Chen not see through the Lord Venerate’s intentions? The Lord Venerate had to have been here from the start. Why had he waited until Long Chen had been about to kill that elder?
It was because if Long Chen killed him, it would lose the face of the divine families. But by doing it himself, he gave a show of power, not to Long Chen, but to the other Elders of the divine families. Essentially, he had also used Long Chen.
The Long family’s Deputy Elder shook his head. Long Chen was still too young. How could he directly say such words? Was this not provoking the Lord Venerate?
However, unexpectedly, the Lord Venerate smiled. “As long as you can see my sincerity, then it's fine. Why don’t we have a proper conversation now?”
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