"Clang!"
Dozens of long swords were sheathed, and the sounds of swords being drawn and sheathed were almost identical, only stretched out.
The Dragonblood warriors' faces showed no emotion, as if they had done a trivial matter. More than twenty Dual Extreme Supreme experts were instantly wiped out.
"Courting death!"
Ye Wenxuan was furious. At first, he didn't take Long Chen and the others seriously at all. After all, Long Chen and the others didn't have the aura of Nie Yingtian's Heavenly Dao—they were clearly outsiders.
Even though Long Chen and the others arrived on a ghost ship, he didn't consider them formidable figures. He had thought that with more than twenty Dual Extreme Supreme experts, just scaring them would be enough to intimidate them.
Not only did he think this way, but the twenty-some strong warriors thought the same. And the Dragonblood Warrior didn't intimidate them; if he didn't act, it would be deadly.
In a rage, Ye Wenxuan struck like lightning, his claws hooked, aiming straight for Long Chen's throat. At the instant of his strike, the phenomenon was pushed open, and the overwhelming pressure made the Heavenly Dao roar.
It must be said, Ye Wenxuan is extremely powerful, and because he is a native of Nieying Heaven, his body is united with the Dao, and every gesture he makes receives the blessing of the Heavenly Dao.
But outsiders are different, because the laws between heavens and earth are different. To establish oneself in Nieying Heaven, one must obtain the recognition of Nieying Heaven's laws.
For a powerful cultivator from beyond the heavens, it would take at least about half a year at the earliest to gain Nie Yingtian's approval. Only after gaining his approval could they borrow the power of the Heavenly Dao.
That's why, when outsiders first arrive, everything is so tough—they get bullied by the locals.
Without the support of the Heavenly Dao, spells cannot resonate with the Heavenly Dao, and their attack power naturally drops significantly. Newcomers are essentially losing half of their cultivation, so any strong cultivator here must behave obediently.
"Boom!"
Ye Wenxuan struck, but Long Chen didn't move, but a massive metal hand grabbed his wrist.
Then Ye Wenxuan looked at Guo Ran, whose entire body was covered in armor. At the same time, his wrist ached sharply, as if it might be crushed.
"Let go!"
Ye Wenxuan kicked Guo Ran hard in the abdomen. This was a normal counterattack, but the abdomen was a vital spot. If it were someone else, they would naturally shrink back to dodge. At the moment of dodging, their palm would naturally loosen. Even if they didn't, their force would be dispersed, making it easy to break free.
But Ye Wenxuan miscalculated. Guo Ran was completely clad in armor, with no blind spots on his body, so there was no such thing as a vital spot—there was no need to dodge.
Not only did he need to dodge, but at the very moment Ye Wenxuan kicked him, sharp spikes sprouted from under Guo Ran's lower abdomen, gleaming coldly like a hedgehog.
Then, unable to bear Long Chen and the others staring directly, Ye Wenxuan kicked the ground up, instantly piercing both his calf and the sole of his foot.
"Ah..."
Ye Wenxuan screamed in agony, like a pig being slaughtered. The spikes on Guo Ran's body were passive defense, poisoned on them.
If it were just poison, it would be one thing, but there was also rust scraped off from the ghost ship. Xia Chen had carved this rust onto the tip of a needle using a formation. If it was pierced, it would be finished.
Ye Wenxuan's flesh-and-blood calf rotted in an instant, and the most terrifying part was the rotting flesh spreading endlessly.
"Let Wenxuan go, or you'll all die."
At that moment, the void exploded, and the Celestial Venerable finally appeared.
It was a middle-aged man dressed in a gold-threaded white robe, looking about forty years old, pale and beardless, now glaring at Long Chen with a face full of anger.
"We all have to die? Heh, then I want to see how we died. A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Long Chen's mouth.
Long Chen knew that Ye Wenxuan and the others were deliberately provoking them, which was actually a test, but such a method was extremely insulting.
Leaving aside whether Long Chen helped them or not, even if they had no connection, testing like this was clearly a slap in the face.
Long Chen had always been used to slapping others in the face, but if someone wanted to slap him, that was not allowed—he definitely couldn't let their bad habits be tolerated.
Long Chen knew that Ye Wenxuan seemed to have quite a status, and had planned to just teach him a lesson and be done with it.
Normally, when the mastermind comes out at this moment, they should first apologize, saying the child is immature, and for his sake, everyone should just let it go.
Long Chen wouldn't do anything to anyone. They had known each other through fighting. Although they might not become friends, at least it wouldn't escalate the situation too much.
But this guy, as soon as he came out, acted all cocky, saying they all had to die, Long Chen's anger flared up instantly.
"Ignorant brat, since you don't know how to show mercy, then just go die!"
The Heavenly Venerable was furious, pointing his finger. A beam of divine light shot straight toward Guo Ran's brow, almost appearing before reaching right in front of his brow.
"Boom!"
Long Chen was prepared. He drew his Minghong Blade and slashed down at the divine light. With a loud explosion, Long Chen groaned and was sent flying backward. As his blood and energy surged, he nearly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Long Chen was instantly furious. This guy was extremely arrogant, actually resorting to murder.
"Uncle Huai, kill him!"
Long Chen was completely furious. As fellow humans, they were arrogant and unreasonable, making things difficult everywhere, ruthlessly killing. Even other races might not make things so difficult for them, right?
Seeing Long Chen shatter his own wind with a single strike, the Heavenly Venerable was shocked. He hadn't held back at all—Long Chen, a mere Immortal King, had actually blocked it.
At the very moment Long Chen blocked that strike, murderous intent surged in his eyes—such a person absolutely could not be allowed to live.
The phenomenon behind him was stretched open, just as he was about to strike Long Chen deadly when, suddenly, a wooden spear appeared out of thin air on the ground, thrusting down from behind him.
"Pfft!"
The wooden spear appeared out of thin air, silent and invisible. The Celestial Venerable expert had no idea there was a terrifying expert hidden here. Just as he tried to dodge, it was too late—his body was pierced through.
At the moment his body was pierced, he was horrified to find the energy inside him rapidly draining away.
The Heavenly Venerable's face changed dramatically. Suddenly, he formed hand seals and spat out a mouthful of blood, which transformed into a strange totem in the air.
"Holy Light Blood Escape"—
the Heavenly Venerable's body trembled violently, and he forcibly pulled himself out of the wooden spear, burrowing into the blood-red totem.
The moment he left the wooden spear, you could see the flesh and organs on his chest being pulled out.
It turned out the wooden spear had pierced his body and quickly took root inside him. That person was ruthless and decisively abandoned part of his flesh and blood to escape the spear's control.
"Just you wait, our Ye family won't let you off."
The Heavenly Venerable expert dove into the blood-red pattern and instantly disappeared, but his—The roar echoed through heaven and earth.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the blood-red pattern exploded with a roar, covering Long Chen and the others. Uncle Huai's expression changed:
"Not good, he left a tracking mark on us."