Long Chen stood within Tian Xiezi's barrier, but the laws here could not restrain him, because Long Chen had also entered the fourth step of the Tongming Realm, mastering the power of life and death.
"Whoosh."
Long Chen's Dragon Bone Evil Moon slashed backward, tearing open a large gap in the barrier. Meng Qi and the others understood Long Chen's meaning and immediately withdrew from the gap.
Ye Lingshan and the others also stopped their attack, standing in the void with Meng Qi and the others, staring at the barrier before them.
Meng Qi glanced at her bone beast and shook her head. The beast's power had been nearly depleted, but it could still be summoned again. Meng Qi put it away, and everyone's eyes turned to the two figures in the void.
Inside the barrier, Long Chen and Tian Xiezi exchanged glances. Long Chen said calmly, "There's nothing strange about it."
When you see me summon the power of thunder, it's no longer me, but a thunder clone.
That's why my attacks are mainly ranged—on one hand, I don't have the strength to fight you head-on, and on the other, I'm afraid you'll notice something's wrong.
How about it? Isn't it great to fight alone against a group of pride? I even felt a bit reluctant to end the battle so quickly, because I hadn't fully enjoyed that feeling of being the one with absolute supremacy? Long
Chen knew Tian Xiezi was full of doubts. Tian Xiezi had been blinded by his own power, thinking he could crush everyone with absolute strength.
Under the assault of Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Yue Zifeng, Aman, and others, Long Chen's performance was overlooked.
While everyone was besieging Tian Xiezi, Long Chen had already entered the Life-and-Death Spring, rapidly absorbing its power. Using the spring's power, he activated the already balanced Life-and-Death force within his body.
If it were someone else, they would need to enter an ethereal state, but Long Chen didn't need to. The Spring of Life and Death itself is the place where the power of life and death circulates through reincarnation. It possesses the profound meaning of life and death cycles, and with its power, one can quickly control the power of reincarnation.
For other geniuses, even without being disturbed, comprehending the power of reincarnation would take several days. But Long Chen's spiritual realm far surpassed his cultivation. With the Life-and-Death Spring as a benchmark, he comprehended the method of life-and-death reincarnation in a short time.
Although he had only just stepped in and hadn't had time to study it in detail yet, this already filled Long Chen with confidence.
That thunder clone was deliberately left inside the barrier by Long Chen. Without this clone connecting his soul, he would never have been able to find the barrier's node.
If you can't find a node, breaking through the barrier from the outside is very difficult. Finding the node is much easier, and once inside the barrier, breaking through from the inside out is much easier.
Long Chen let everyone else go, leaving him alone inside the barrier, intending to settle things with Tian Xiezi once and for all.
Tian Xiezi's gaze was intimidating, his eyes cold, and the sense of unease in his heart grew even stronger—he even felt a sense of fear.
He didn't know whether this fear came from the shadow left by repeated defeats at Long Chen's hands, or from his perception of death.
"You seem confident, but let me tell you, your stupidity comes from your confidence.
You have just advanced to reincarnation, can only control a superficial power of reincarnation, and you haven't even awakened your true name of the phenomenon... Oh, right, I forgot—you're not a Yantian practitioner at all, so you can't awaken the phenomenon.
If you had escaped with them just now, and cooperated with them, maybe you still had a chance to defeat me. But you were too foolish. Staying inside my vision barrier would mean you would die from your own confidence. Tian Xiezi looked at Long Chen, and the blood-red war spear appeared in his hand once again.
"Do you know how many of my powerful opponents died? Let me tell you, they all died from talking too much.
If you weren't too arrogant, wanting to make a brilliant counterattack, to be a hero who fought against overwhelming odds, deliberately showing your dominance, not to spout nonsense, and instead to go all out and kill me, maybe you wouldn't die today.
You're far too arrogant—so conceited it's laughable. I can tell you that even if I, Long Chen, don't advance to the fourth step of Tongming and don't control the power of reincarnation, you'll still return defeated today.
However, although you may fail, we probably don't have the ability to keep you. You can still cling to life for a while. Remember, you died from talking too much. Long Chen shook his head and said.
"Nonsense!"
Tian Xiezi was furious. The phenomenon behind him trembled, the divine statue glowed, and the protective divine light of the entire barrier flared up. A violent force pressed toward Long Chen, a terrifying force several times greater than the power of those who imprisoned Mengqi and the others, enough to crush a person to dust.
Long Chen stood there, the terrifying pressure around him surging like a tide. His robe fluttered without wind, and the divine ring behind him lit up.
However, this time Long Chen's divine ring lit up, unlike before. Inside the ring, a new star map appeared, with countless stars shining up like a vast sky—mysterious and beautiful.
If you count carefully, you'll find that there are a total of 108,000 stars twinkling on the star map.
Those 108,000 stars were exactly the ones inside Long Chen's body, and at this moment, they were reflected within his divine ring.
As the stars trembled, five-colored light blossomed back and forth on the divine ring, the divine light passing through the barrier, illuminating the entire world in a dazzling array of colors.
No one had ever seen that sight, as if a five-colored rainbow had given birth to a dazzling starry sky, full of mystery and awe.
"Your anger comes from your fear; your roar is meant to cheer yourself up. Your ruthlessness is merely a mask for the deep fear of death deep inside.
Fearless and fearless, returning to the embrace of the evil god after death—such nonsense—even you, the Son of God, probably wouldn't believe it.
So you fear death, you fear death. The evil path is just a bunch of self-deceiving fools. All their ferocity is just a way to cover up the cowardice in your heart. As Long Chen's divine ring rotated, he dissipated the terrifying pressure into nothingness.
At this moment, Long Chen slowly mobilized the power of life and death. He only knew that he was now controlling a power he had never imagined, but he himself did not know what this power was.
When he summoned the divine ring, the 108,000 stars within him seemed to come alive in an instant, releasing their power freely, connecting with each other to form a mysterious star map.
Previously, the hundred and eight thousand stars seemed to have been asleep, and the power Long Chen could extract was very limited. But now, under the summons of the power of life and death, they had all awakened.
Now, Long Chen could finally control the power of one hundred eight thousand stars. Although he had no visions, the power of these stars slowly poured into his body. In that instant, he felt he possessed the power to destroy heaven and earth.
However, Long Chen still didn't dare to unleash this power. His body needed to adapt gradually, and he feared he couldn't handle it.
No wonder Tian Xiezi dared to come to Long Chen alone to cause trouble, treating everyone as nothing. This is the level barrier of the fourth step of the Tongming Realm, and the gap between the third and fourth steps is simply too great.
"Nonsense!"
Tian Xiezi roared. Long Chen's words struck a chord deep in his heart. He was truly afraid, because his fear was growing deeper and more uneasy, and he even felt the urge to run away immediately.
But he was unwilling to accept it. Long Chen had just stepped into the fourth step of Tongming, just mastered the power of reincarnation, and hadn't fully adapted yet. This might be his last chance to kill Long Chen.
He regretted it now—regretted not having gone all out to kill Long Chen right away. If he had done that, Long Chen might already be dead. Even if everyone protected him, they couldn't save his life.
Unfortunately, there aren't so many ways or perks in this world, and even less regret medicine.
Now, every word Long Chen spoke was like a poisoned arrow piercing his heart, trampling on his dignity and insulting his faith. He roared, unleashing his full power in the world, trying to crush Long Chen.
"Boom boom boom... As
space rippled, cracks began to appear around Long Chen's divine ring, but it remained unaffected and continued to rotate slowly.
"Do you want paper?" Seeing how you hold it in, it feels like you're about to poop. Long Chen looked at Tian Xiezi's twisted face, his face purple from the full-power outburst, and said with some sympathy.
"Pfft!"
Tian Xiezi suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. Overwhelmed by rage, his breath became chaotic because of a single sentence from Long Chen. With that mouthful of blood, all the power he had gathered dispersed.
"A boss is a boss—one word and he can defeat the enemy. Tell me, among all the heroes in the world, who can do that?" Guo Ran clenched his fists, his face full of admiration. That sentence was so powerful.
Meng Qi, Chu Yao, and the others all looked strange. They exchanged glances and couldn't help but shake their heads. Long Chen just likes to play around, never caring about his own status, and lacks the poise expected of a master.
"Long Chen, I'm going all out with you."
Tian Xiezi spat blood wildly, suddenly howling toward the sky, his black hair flying, his eyes filled with madness.
"Boom!"
The statue behind Tian Xiezi exploded in an instant, transforming into endless blood-red runes that enveloped his body, making him seem to be wrapped in blood-red armor.
In that instant, divine power surged, shaking the heavens. Tian Xiezi actually possessed a godlike aura, inspiring awe. Some weaker righteous disciples were even forced to kneel and crawl on their knees by that aura.
"This is divine power burning. Tian Xiezi ignited the divine essence possessed by the Divine Son. Is he ready to fight Senior Brother Long Chen to the bitter end?" Someone cried out in surprise, actually recognizing Tian Xiezi's move.
At this moment, Tian Xiezi's divine power surged into him, divine flames burning like a true god awakening, raising the bone spear in his hand.
"Evil King Nether Thorn!"
Tian Xiezi roared, thrusting his blood-red bone spear. The phenomenon behind Tian Xiezi twisted instantly, and with this spear, he drained all the power of the phenomenon.
"Everyone hide in the Spring of Life and Death!"
Mengqi suddenly shouted, and everyone rushed into the spring. The spring of life and death rippled like dumplings.
"Die!"
Tian Xiezi roared, stabbing his spear at Long Chen. The terrifying power of this strike changed the color of heaven and earth.
"Whoosh"
The dragon bone Xie Yue on Long Chen's shoulder casually stepped forward, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth:
"I'm afraid this great wish of yours will never come true."