「Melihat caramu menjorokkan bokong seperti itu, jelas kau butuh mengeluarkan beberapa gumpal kotoran. Kau mau main permainan ini denganku? Terus bicara, nanti kutimpukkan kotoran itu balik ke mulutmu.」Long Chen sudah lama memperhatikan bahwa orang ini memang tidak tahu aturan, jadi ia sudah menyiapkan sebilah pedang petir khusus untuknya.
Akibatnya, pedang petir itu menembus mulut orang itu, menghancurkan rahangnya. Tubuhnya hangus terbakar petir dan ia pingsan.
Sekarang, orang-orang itu bahkan tak berani mengeluarkan suara, hanya menambahkan tubuh hangus itu ke dalam rombongan yang mereka seret pergi. Mereka datang dengan angkuh dan pergi dengan mengenaskan.
「Aku tidak mengerti. Kalian semua anak-anak, ya? Kenapa main permainan provokasi murahan begini? Siapa yang punya banyak waktu luang begitu? Kenapa tidak berkultivasi? Membuang waktu berharga untuk hal seperti ini, kalian benar-benar beruntung.」Long Chen memandang Yu Qianxue dengan tatapan pasrah.
Baru sedikit pulih setelah melihat cara Long Chen yang kejam, ia mendengus. 「Jangan bersikap sok bijak seolah kau lebih dewasa. Ini dunia yang penuh pertarungan tanpa henti. Tempat mana yang tidak punya perkelahian internal seperti ini? Begitulah cara menunjukkan nilai dirimu, melalui persaingan terus-menerus. Kalau tidak, bagaimana kau tahu kau unggul atau rendah? Hidup ini panggung, dan kalau kau tidak tahu cara memamerkan kekuatanmu, kau hanya akan menjalani hidup biasa-biasa saja.」
「Hidup biasa-biasa saja?」Long Chen tersenyum pahit. 「Andai saja aku bisa hidup biasa-biasa saja.」
「Kalau kau anggota keluarga kekaisaran, kau pasti sudah lama diusir karena tidak punya ambisi. Sebagai murid kekaisaran, pewaris garis darah Jiuli, dan pengikut Vermilion Bird, kau tidak boleh mengatakan hal tak berguna seperti itu. Para murid kekaisaran harus bekerja keras demi melindungi takhta dan rakyat,」kata Yu Qianxue.
「Logikanya tidak salah, tapi persaingan kekanak-kanakan seperti itu tak bisa melahirkan ahli sejati. Bunga rumah kaca mungkin terlihat indah, tapi satu embun beku akan menghabiskan semuanya,」kata Long Chen dengan nada meremehkan.
「Omong kosong apa itu. Kau merendahkan keluarga kekaisaranku?!」tuntut Yu Qianxue.
「Anggap saja begitu. Aku tak mau repot menjelaskannya karena kalian tak akan mengerti. Aku katakan sejujurnya. Sebagai orang, kau tidak buruk. Bahkan bisa dibilang kau ini teman. Tapi aku tidak mau kau memanfaatkanku. Aku tidak tertarik terseret ke dalam pertarungan antar pangeran dan putri. Salah langkah sedikit, darah keluarga kekaisaranmu akan mengalir seperti sungai. Tujuanku sekarang cuma menikahi Qingxuan. Aku tidak mau tersedot ke urusan kalian kalau-kalau aku tak bisa menahan diri,」kata Long Chen dengan tulus.
Kalau ini berlanjut, saat emosinya meledak, ia akan membantai beberapa pangeran dan putri, dan setelah itu tak ada lagi cara melamar. Ia akan menjadi musuh keluarga kekaisaran.
Sebenarnya Long Chen ingin menghindari menonjol di Kekaisaran Vermilion Bird. Ia hanya ingin beberapa hari damai tanpa harus terus bertarung dan membunuh. Tapi melihat keadaannya sekarang, ia akan kembali terseret ke dalam pertarungan.
「Perkataanmu sangat arogan. Kau pikir kau bisa membuat darah keluarga kekaisaran mengalir seperti sungai? Haha!」Yu Qianxue mencibir.
Long Chen memandangnya dan ikut tertawa, tak berkata apa-apa lagi. Kadang, kenaifan juga semacam kekuatan. Ia berharap bisa naif, tapi ia tak punya kesempatan itu.
Yu Qianxue lalu membawa Long Chen melewati lorong panjang. Di jalan, mereka melihat cukup banyak murid kekaisaran. Semuanya menatapnya, jelas sudah mendengar tentang dirinya.
Namun, tatapan mereka sebagian besar dingin atau meremehkan, bahkan bermusuhan. Tidak banyak wajah ramah di sini.
Pasalnya para murid kekaisaran terbagi ke dalam faksi dan cabang. Murid-murid ini semua sudah memilih pihaknya sendiri, memilih pangeran atau putri yang mereka dukung.
Sebenarnya, ini bisa dianggap ujian lain bagi para murid ini, ujian atas penilaian mereka.
Mengingat sifat Yu Qianxue yang menyendiri dan kurang pandai menarik hati orang, selain dirinya sendiri yang memiliki kekuatan luar biasa, ia tak punya keunggulan lain.
Jadi, selain beberapa pengawal dan ajudan, ia tak punya dukungan murid kekaisaran mana pun. Di bidang ini, ia bahkan lebih buruk dari Zhu Yifeng, yang punya dua murid kekaisaran bersedia mendukungnya. Bahkan, mereka sangat dekat dengannya. Adapun Yu Qianxue, ia tidak punya siapa-siapa.
Long Chen, Zhu Yifeng, dan Yu Qianxue tiba di sebuah gerbang dan melihat lebih banyak orang yang bertugas memeriksa lempeng status di sini. Mereka bahkan mencatat Long Chen dan yang lainnya sebelum membuka gerbang.
Detik berikutnya, aura yang mengejutkan karena kekunoannya keluar dari gerbang. Ini plaza raksasa dengan segala macam peralatan di dalamnya.
Sebagai tempat untuk menguji kekuatan tubuh fisik dan melatih tenaga seseorang, ada berbagai peralatan di sini dengan tanda naga terukir di atasnya. Semuanya memberi kesan berat. Ini semua benda yang sangat kuno.
「Ini arena uji kekuatan naga khusus Kekaisaran Vermilion Bird, dan hanya kultivator dengan tubuh fisik terkuat yang berlatih di sini. Selain itu, satuan berat di sini diukur dengan kekuatan naga. Satu kekuatan naga adalah kekuatan penuh seekor raja naga, atau tiga ratus ribu Jun. Satu Jun sama dengan tiga ratus ribu Shi, dan satu Shi sama dengan tiga ratus ribu kati. Kati di sini setara dengan kati di dunia fana. Sebagai ascender dari dunia fana, kau seharusnya paham secara garis besar, kan?」jelas Yu Qianxue.
「Paham secara garis besar? Kau menanyaiku berapa kati satu kekuatan naga itu?」Long Chen memutar matanya. Mungkin Xia Chen dan Guo Ran bisa langsung menghitungnya, tapi ia tak mau repot.
Satuan berat dunia abadi sebagian besar diukur dengan Shi, dan standar Shi didasarkan pada granit ametis. Kepadatannya tinggi, mudah dipotong, dan sangat umum. Itu material yang bisa ditemukan hampir di mana saja di sembilan langit dan sepuluh tanah. Satu kaki persegi granit ametis beratnya tiga ratus ribu kati.
Jadi, di dunia abadi, satu Shi sama dengan tiga ratus ribu kati. Sebaliknya, di dunia fana, satu Jun sama dengan tiga ratus ribu kati. Satuan ukurannya sudah berubah.
Satu kekuatan naga sama dengan tiga ratus ribu Jun dunia abadi? Tak mungkin menghitung berapa banyak kati dunia abadi itu jadinya.
Saat Long Chen dan yang lainnya tiba, ada ratusan ahli berlatih di sini. Semuanya bertubuh besar dan kuat. Khususnya, mereka melihat seseorang sedang melatih kuda-kuda dengan tongkat pendek. Namun, urat-urat menonjol di keningnya. Sepertinya apa pun tongkat itu, beratnya luar biasa.
「Kakak, tongkat-tongkat itu beratnya satu kekuatan naga. Itu yang paling ringan di sini. Baginya bisa menahan kuda-kuda selama beberapa tarikan napas saja sudah sangat mengesankan. Aku tidak bisa melakukannya. Paling lama aku bertahan satu tarikan napas. Lebih dari itu, tubuhku tak akan sanggup menahannya. Tekanan menahannya akan merobek mer
Chapter 3975 Dragon Power Test
“Seeing how you’re holding out your butt, I can tell that you must need to spit out a few balls of dung. You want to play this game with me? Keep talking and I’ll feed that dung back to you.” Long Chen had long since noted that this fellow was not obedient, so he had already prepared a lightning sword just for him.
As a result, this lightning sword pierced this fellow’s mouth, shattering his jaw. He was fried black by the lightning and passed out.
Now, those people didn’t even dare to make a sound, only adding this charred person to the people that they were dragging away. They came tyrannically and left wretchedly.
“I don’t understand. Are you all children? Why do you play such low-grade provocation games? Who has so much free time? Why not cultivate? Wasting precious time on such things, you must truly be blessed.” Long Chen looked at Yu Qianxue helplessly.
Barely recovered after seeing Long Chen’s ruthless means, she snorted. “Don’t act so wise like you’re more mature. This is a world with constant fighting. Which place doesn’t have this kind of in-fighting? That’s how you show your value, through constant competition. How else do you know if you are outstanding or inferior? Life is a stage, and if you don’t know how to show off your power, you can only live an ordinary life.”
“An ordinary life?” Long Chen bitterly smiled. “I wish I could live an ordinary life.”
“If you were a member of the imperial family, you would have been banished a long time ago for lacking any ambition. As an imperial disciple, an heir to the Jiuli bloodline, and a follower of the Vermilion Bird, you cannot say such a worthless thing. The imperial disciples have to work hard in order to protect the throne and the people,” said Yu Qianxue.
“The logic’s not bad, but such childish competition cannot create true experts. Greenhouse flowers might look nice, but a single frost will wipe them all out,” said Long Chen disdainfully.
“What nonsense. Are you looking down on my imperial family?!” demanded Yu Qianxue.
“You can treat it as such. I can’t be bothered to explain it to you since none of you would understand. I’ll tell you the truth. As a person, you aren’t terrible. In fact, I can just barely count you as a friend. But I don’t want you to use me. I have no interest in being drawn into the fight between the princes and princesses. One mistake and your imperial family’s blood will flow like a river. My current goal is only to marry Qingxuan. I don’t want to get sucked into your affairs in case I can’t hold myself back,” said Long Chen sincerely.
If this continued, when his temper erupted, he would slaughter a few princes and princesses, and then there would be no way to propose. He would be the enemy of the imperial family.
Long Chen actually wanted to avoid standing out in the Vermilion Bird Empire. He just wanted a few days of peace where he didn’t have to constantly fight and kill. But based on the current trend, he was going to be drawn into a fight again.
“Your words are very arrogant. You think you can make the blood of the imperial blood flow like a river? Haha!” Yu Qianxue sneered.
Long Chen looked at her and also laughed, not saying anything else. Sometimes, naivety was also a kind of power. He wished he could be naive, but he didn’t have that chance.
Yu Qianxue then brought Long Chen down a long passageway. On the way, they saw quite a few imperial disciples. They all stared at him, clearly having heard of him.
However, their gazes were mostly icy or contemptuous, even hostile. There weren’t many friendly faces here.
It was because the imperial disciples were split into factions and branches. These disciples had all chosen their own sides, picking the prince or princess that they supported.
In truth, this could be considered another trial for these disciples, a test of their judgment.
Considering Yu Qianxue’s aloofness and lack of skill in winning people over, other than herself possessing immense power, she had no other strong points.
Thus, other than some guards and aides, she didn’t have the support of any imperial disciples. In this area, she was even worse than Zhu Yifeng, who had two imperial disciples willing to support him. In fact, they were very close to him. As for Yu Qianxue, she had no one.
Long Chen, Zhu Yifeng, and Yu Qianxue arrived at a gate and saw more people in charge of inspecting status plates here. They even made a record of Long Chen and the others before opening the gate.
The next moment, a shockingly ancient aura came out of the gate. This was a giant plaza with all kinds of equipment inside.
As a place for testing the strength of the physical body and training one’s power, there were various pieces of equipment here with dragon marks carved into them. They gave off a heavy feeling. These were all incredibly old items.
“This is the Vermilion Bird Empire’s special dragon power testing grounds, and only cultivators with the strongest physical bodies train here. Also, the units of weight here are measured in dragon power. A single dragon power is the full power of a dragon king or three hundred thousand Jun. One Jun is three hundred thousand Shi, and one Shi is three hundred thousand catties. The catty here is equivalent to the mortal world’s catty. As an ascender from the mortal world, you should have a general understanding of it, right?” explained Yu Qianxue.
“A general understanding? Are you asking me how many catties a dragon force is?” Long Chen rolled his eyes. Probably Xia Chen and Guo Ran would be able to instantly calculate it, but he couldn’t be bothered.
The immortal world’s weights were mostly counted with Shi, and the Shi standard was based on the amethyst granite. It had high density, was easy to cut, and was very common. It was a material that could be found almost everywhere within the nine heavens and ten lands. One square foot of amethyst granite was three hundred thousand catties.
So, in the immortal world, one Shi was three hundred thousand catties. But on the other hand, in the mortal world, one Jun was three hundred thousand catties. The measurement units had changed.
A single dragon force was equal to three hundred thousand of the immortal world’s Juns? It would be impossible to count just how many of the immortal world’s catties that would be.
When Long Chen and the others arrived, there were hundreds of experts training here. All of them were large, physically strong cultivators. In particular, they saw one practicing the horse stance with a short rod. However, veins were throbbing on his forehead. It seemed that whatever that rod was, it was incredibly heavy.
“Big brother, those rods have the weight of a single dragon power. It is the lightest weight here. For him to be able to hold the horse stance for several breaths is already very impressive. I can’t do that. At best, I can hold it for a single breath. Any more, and my body wouldn’t be able to endure it. The strain of holding it would tear apart my meridians. For him to be able to last this long, his maximum lift is probably around three dragon powers. His physical body can be counted as extremely powerful,” said Zhu Yifeng.
Long Chen asked Yu Qianxue, “What is your maximum?”
Yu Qianxue indifferently said, “The imperial family doesn’t focus on the physical body, so I have only reached ten dragon powers. I look forward to seeing how many dragon powers you can lift.”
Although her tone was flat, anyone could hear her pride. Perhaps in the entire Vermilion Bird Empire, the number of women possessing ten dragon powers could be counted on one hand.
“Big brother, you haven’t tested it before, so just try one dragon power first. It’s frighteningly heavy. You can easily get injured if you aren't careful.” Zhu Yifeng kindly advised Long Chen, feeling worried that for his own pride, Long Chen would directly challenge ten dragon powers. If he was injured from the attempt, it would be embarrassing. Hence, he gave Long Chen a step down from that.
Hearing this, Long Chen patted his shoulder. This child really wasn’t bad. To be able to still possess a kind heart while growing up in such an emotionless environment was truly rare.
Long Chen then looked at that rod with a hint of anticipation in his eyes. After so many years, he finally had a chance to test his power. He slowly reached out his hand.
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