“Bukankah ini berarti Long Chen dan Mo Nian benar?”
“Jadi, Long Chen dan Mo Nian-lah yang berusaha menghentikan semua ini dan menyelamatkan semua orang? Tapi benarkah mereka sebaik itu?”
“Xu Xin-er sedang membalas Lian Wuying dan yang lainnya karena hanya diam melihat Xu Yifeng tewas. Perkataannya terdengar lebih masuk akal.”
Tak terhitung banyaknya ahli mulai berbisik-bisik membahas hal itu. Ras manusia khususnya langsung gempar.
Sebelumnya, para dalang telah mendorong para ahli ras manusia untuk menyerang Long Chen dan yang lainnya. Karena berada paling dekat, para ahli ras manusia menderita kerugian paling besar. Setelah itu, mereka terjebak di tengah ketika para ahli dari ras lain tiba, dan para ahli tersebut juga membantai mereka tanpa pandang bulu.
Kini, dari ratusan juta ahli, hanya tersisa beberapa ratus ribu. Mereka tercengang, dan keterkejutan mereka segera berubah menjadi amarah.
“Bajingan sialan, siapa yang tadi berteriak?! Akan kubunuh kau!”
Mereka tidak menyalahkan diri sendiri karena bertindak bodoh, melainkan menyalahkan orang-orang yang telah menghasut mereka. Namun, di medan pertempuran yang kacau ini, bagaimana mereka bisa tahu siapa yang tadi berteriak?
“Jangan percaya kepadanya! Dia berada di pihak Long Chen! Dia sedang berusaha membantunya keluar dari kesulitannya!”
Namun, begitu orang itu berteriak, dia langsung merasa ada yang tidak beres karena tatapan penuh cemooh dari segala penjuru tertuju kepadanya. Mana mungkin dia meneriakkan sesuatu yang sebodoh itu?
Long Chen dan Xu Xin-er berada di pihak yang sama? Jadi, dialah yang membunuh Xu Yifeng? Apa orang bodoh ini tidak melihat Xu Xin-er hampir saja mengorbankan nyawanya untuk menyerang Long Chen? Itulah satu-satunya alasan dia memberi tahu semua orang tentang hal ini. Dia tidak ingin musuh-musuhnya mendapatkan keuntungan.
Ekspresi Lian Wuying, Ye Wuchen, entitas Jalur Hantu, dan yang lainnya muram. Mereka tampak ingin mencabik-cabik Xu Xin-er. Namun, tiga monster mengerikan di sekeliling Xu Xin-er menghentikan mereka. Kecuali mereka menyerang bersama-sama, ketiga monster itu mungkin mampu membunuh mereka jika mereka bertindak gegabah.
Selain itu, meskipun membenci Xu Xin-er, mereka semua adalah ahli puncak yang memiliki harga diri masing-masing. Mereka tidak pernah merendahkan diri untuk bekerja sama dengan sesama ahli di tingkat yang sama.
“Kalau kau tidak ingin orang lain mendapatkan keuntungan, kenapa tidak menghancurkan upacaranya saja? Dengan begitu, tidak ada seorang pun yang akan memperoleh keberuntungan karma. Bukankah itu lebih baik?” tanya Long Chen ringan.
“Hahahaha!”
Xu Xin-er tertawa. “Long Chen, kau menganggapku bodoh? Kau ingin memanfaatkanku? Dasar tolol, apa kau pikir menghancurkan tiga pilar cahaya akan menghentikan upacara ini?! Begitu upacara dimulai, ia tidak bisa dihentikan! Bahkan jika kau menghancurkan semua pilar cahaya, itu tetap tidak berguna. Energi jiwa darah sudah cukup untuk mengaktifkan upacara. Apa kau tidak menyadari bahwa pilar-pilar cahaya yang hancur itu telah muncul kembali?”
Long Chen tertegun. Saat menoleh ke arah pilar-pilar cahaya yang telah dihancurkan, dia terkejut melihat bahwa pilar-pilar itu benar-benar muncul kembali.
Namun, pilar-pilar cahaya itu berbeda dari sebelumnya. Cahayanya sangat redup, dengan lapisan tipis cahaya darah di permukaannya. Jika tidak diperhatikan dengan saksama, hal itu tidak akan terlihat.
“Jika pilar-pilar cahaya itu tidak cukup, kekurangannya bisa digantikan dengan nyawa manusia. Selama cukup banyak orang dibunuh, bahkan jika kau menghancurkan semua pilar cahaya, upacara pengorbanan ini tetap akan berlangsung. Tentu saja, menghancurkan tiga pilar berarti lebih banyak nyawa yang harus dikorbankan. Jika kau menghancurkan semuanya, sembilan puluh sembilan persen orang di sini harus kehilangan nyawa. Ini adalah jebakan maut tanpa jalan keluar. Sampai mutiara keberuntungan karma meledak, penghalang arena bela diri tidak akan menghilang, dan semua orang akan terperangkap di sini sampai mati. Semua perjuangan kalian sia-sia. Jika kau tidak menghancurkan tiga pilar cahaya itu, mungkin mutiara keberuntungan karma sudah aktif sekarang,” kata Xu Xin-er dingin.
Hati Long Chen bergetar. Pencarian jiwanya tidak memberinya informasi ini. Sepertinya Xu Xin-er mengetahui lebih banyak daripada kakaknya. Long Chen tidak tahu apakah itu karena Xu Yifeng tidak repot-repot mengingat informasi tersebut, atau karena kepala keluarga memang terlalu memanjakan Xu Xin-er hingga memberinya akses pada pengetahuan khusus.
“Long Chen, mungkin wanita ini berkata jujur,” kirim Mo Nian melalui transmisi spiritual. Pertarungannya melawan Yan Wuji telah menemui jalan buntu.
Mo Nian merasa lesu. Selama ini dia terus mengawasi seluruh arena bela diri, tetapi tampaknya benar seperti yang dikatakan Xu Xin-er—memang tidak ada jalan keluar.
Suasana di dalam arena bela diri kini tegang, tetapi orang-orang di luar bahkan lebih terkejut. Mereka saling memandang dengan waspada. Akhirnya, mereka memahami bahwa arena bela diri ini hanyalah sebuah upacara pengorbanan.
Semua orang di dalamnya diperlakukan sebagai domba kurban. Konvensi Raja Sage kali ini ternyata adalah jebakan, jebakan yang benar-benar besar.
Namun, mereka tidak berdaya melakukan apa pun dari luar. Menyerang penghalang dengan paksa hanya akan menyebabkan kematian mereka sendiri. Karena itu, banyak ahli panik seperti semut di atas tungku panas, tidak tahu harus berbuat apa.
Lagipula, tidak banyak faksi yang mengetahui rahasia ini. Kini setelah menyadari bahwa mereka semua telah dimanfaatkan, mereka murka, tetapi juga merasa sangat tak berdaya.
Di sisi lain, pihak Akademi High Firmament menghela napas lega ketika melihat pertempuran berhenti. Hampir semua senior mereka berkeringat dingin karena cemas memikirkan para murid akademi.
Pertempuran tadi benar-benar mengerikan. Pihak Legiun Dragonblood bertarung melawan hampir separuh entitas di arena bela diri. Itu adalah kekuatan yang sangat besar. Untungnya, mereka berhasil bertahan.
Setelah melewati keterkejutan sesaat, mereka tidak bisa menahan diri untuk memuji Legiun Dragonblood. Kekuatan tempur mereka sungguh mengejutkan. Dari yang terkuat hingga yang terlemah, semuanya adalah ahli di antara para ahli dan elit di antara para elit.
Yang paling mengejutkan adalah kerja sama mereka yang nyaris tanpa cela. Seolah-olah ribuan orang itu memiliki satu hati, sehingga seluruh kekuatan mereka dapat dipusatkan dengan sempurna. Jika bekerja bersama, daya bunuh mereka bahkan bisa membuat para Venerate Surga bawaan gemetar.
Dengan terhentinya pertarungan, para ahli di luar menghela napas lega. Perhatian mereka pun beralih kepada Long Chen dan Xu Xin-er. Tindakan mereka berikutnya akan memengaruhi seluruh arena bela diri.
“Apa tujuanmu memberitahuku semua ini? Kelihatannya kau sedang membantuku. Jangan-jangan sejak awal kau memang tidak menyukai Xu Yifeng, lalu berterima kasih kepadaku karena telah menyingkirkannya?” tanya Long Chen penasaran.
Xu Xin-er mengertakkan gigi dengan marah. “Berterima kasih kepadamu?! Aku ingin mencabik-cabikmu dan meminum darahmu! Aku memberitahumu semua ini untuk mengakhiri pertempuran sia-sia yang menguras tenaga ini. Mari kita langsung menuju hidangan utama.”
“Oh? Hidangan utama apa?”
Chapter 4250 Using Lives to Make Up for the Pillars
“Doesn’t this mean that Long Chen and Mo Nian were right?”
“Is this to say that Long Chen and Mo Nian were the ones trying to stop this and save everyone? But are they really that kindhearted?”
“Xu Xin-er is retaliating against Lian Wuying and the others for just watching as Xu Yifeng died. She seems more believable.”
Countless experts began to discuss this amongst themselves. The human race in particular was in an uproar.
Previously, the schemers had encouraged the human race’s experts to attack Long Chen and the others. As the human race’s experts had been the closest, they had taken the most hideous losses. Furthermore, they were then caught in the middle when the other races’ experts arrived, and those experts also killed them indiscriminately.
Now, from hundreds of millions of experts, they were reduced to a few hundred thousand. Those people were dumbfounded, their shock quickly transforming into fury.
“You fucking bastards, who was the one shouting just now?! I’ll kill you!”
These people didn’t blame themselves for being brainless, but they blamed those people who had been encouraging them. But in this chaotic battlefield, how could they know who was shouting?
“Everyone, don’t believe her! She’s on Long Chen’s side! She’s trying to help him out of his predicament!”
However, as soon as this person shouted, he sensed something off as countless scornful gazes turned his way. How could he possibly shout something so brainless?
Long Chen and Xu Xin-er were on the same side? So he killed Xu Yifeng? Did this idiot not see Xu Xin-er about to throw her life against Long Chen? That was the only reason why she had told everyone this. She didn’t want her enemies to get the upper hand.
Lian Wuying, Ye Wuchen, the Ghost Dao lifeform, and others had gloomy expressions, looking as if they wanted to tear Xu Xin-er apart. However, those three terrifying monsters around Xu Xin-er stopped them. Unless they all went together, those three monsters might have the ability to kill them if they made any rash moves.
Moreover, although they hated Xu Xin-er, they were also peak experts with their own pride. They had never lowered themselves to working together with their peers.
“If you don’t want others to get the upper hand, why not break the ceremony? Then no one will get a share of karmic luck. Wouldn’t that be better?” asked Long Chen lightly.
“Hahahaha!”
Xu Xin-er laughed. “Long Chen, do you take me for a fool? Do you want to use me? You idiot, did you think destroying three light pillars would stop the ceremony?! Once the ceremony starts, it cannot be stopped! Even if you break all the light pillars, it’s useless. Blood soul energy is enough to activate the ceremony. Have you not noticed that the broken light pillars have reappeared?”
Long Chen was startled. Looking in the direction of the broken light pillars, he was shocked to see that they really had reappeared.
However, those light pillars were different from before. They were very dim and had a faint layer of blood light on top of them. Without looking closely, it wouldn’t have been noticeable.
“If the light pillars aren’t enough, that can be made up for with people’s lives. As long as enough people are killed, even if you destroy all the light pillars, the sacrificial ceremony will still go through. Of course, breaking three of the pillars means that more lives have to be sacrificed. If you were to break them all, ninety-nine percent of the people here would need to lose their lives. This is a death trap with no way out. Until the karmic luck bead explodes, the martial stage’s barrier will not disappear, and everyone will be trapped here until they die. All your struggling is useless. If you hadn’t destroyed those three light pillars, the karmic luck bead might have already activated,” said Xu Xin-er coldly.
Long Chen’s heart shook. His soulsearch hadn't provided him with this information, so it seemed that Xu Xin-er knew more than her brother. Long Chen didn’t know if that was because Xu Yifeng hadn’t bothered memorizing this information or if the family head simply pampered Xu Xin-er, resulting in him giving her access to exclusive knowledge.
“Long Chen, this woman might be telling the truth,” transmitted Mo Nian. His battle with Yan Wuji had reached a stalemate.
Mo Nian was dispirited. He had been keeping an eye on the entire martial stage all this time, but it seemed that just as Xu Xin-er said, there was no way out.
The atmosphere inside of the martial stage was tense now, but the people outside were even more shocked, eyeing each other warily. They finally understood that this martial stage was only a sacrificial ceremony.
Everyone inside was treated as a sacrificial lamb. The current Sage King Convention was a trap, an absolutely enormous trap.
However, they were powerless to do anything from outside. Forcibly attacking the barrier would only cause their own deaths. Hence, a lot of experts panicked like ants in a boiling pot, not knowing what to do.
After all, not many factions had known of this secret. And now that they all realized that they had been used, they were enraged but also felt profoundly helpless.
On the other hand, the High Firmament Academy’s side sighed with relief upon seeing the battle come to a pause. Almost all of the seniors had sweaty palms out of worry for the academy’s disciples.
Just now, that battle had really been frightening. The Dragonblood Legion’s side had been fighting against half of the lifeforms on the martial stage. That was an overwhelming force. Fortunately, they had managed to endure it.
After a moment of shock, they couldn’t help praising the Dragonblood Legion. Their combat power was absolutely astonishing. From top to bottom, they were experts amongst experts, elites amongst elites.
Most shocking of all was that their cooperation was practically flawless. It was like thousands of them had the same heart, so all their power was perfectly concentrated. If they worked together, their killing power could even make innate Heaven Venerates quiver.
With the fighting paused, the experts outside sighed with relief, and their attention switched to Long Chen and Xu Xin-er. Their next actions would affect the entire martial stage.
“What is your goal in telling me this? It seems that you are helping me. It couldn’t be that you disliked Xu Yifeng from the start, so you’re grateful to me for getting rid of him, right?” asked Long Chen curiously.
Xu Xin-er gritted her teeth furiously. “Grateful to you?! I want to tear you apart and drink your blood! I’m telling you this to end this senseless battle of attrition. Let’s get to the main course.”
“Oh? What main course?” asked Long Chen.
“Using some worthless lives to activate the karmic luck bead is essentially meaningless. Instead, I’m going to use all of your allies to activate the karmic luck bead. I want you to watch as everyone beside you dies one by one,” said Xu Xin-er sinisterly.
“With your power, this grand aspiration will probably never become reality,” said Long Chen indifferently.
“Is that so? I don’t think so. The useless trash no longer wants to keep fighting and lose their lives. Now, they want the karmic luck as well. But if we slaughter your side, it’ll be enough. We only need the peak experts to make their moves, and all of you will be killed,” declared Xu Xin-er.
“Will they listen to your orders?” asked Long Chen.
“Of course not, but they have no other choice. Otherwise, we’ll just be wasting time. Your people just went through a large battle and are exhausted. If the peak experts attack now, they won’t stand a chance. Well, if they want to give your people some time to recover instead, I can’t do anything about it. We’ll just see whose patience is greater.” Xu Xin-er turned to Lian Wuying and the others. “You think you can just take advantage of the situation without putting in any work?”
Lian Wuying and the others’ expressions were dark. They didn’t reply.
Acting as if victory was in her grasp, Xu Xin-er turned back to Long Chen. “You killed my brother, so I will let you watch as your family is killed one by one in front of you. I won’t kill you right now, but I won’t let you assist them. I’ll show you what despair is, what it’s called to feel powerless.”
Suddenly, Xu Xin-er’s three beasts moved, surrounding Long Chen in their midst.
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