Chapter 1210
hapter 1210 The Chicken Flies Away, the Eggs Break
The saber-image was like blood cutting through the air . A sensation of death caused all of Dan Chu’s hair to stand on end .
“Raging Flame Heaven Raising s.h.i.+eld!” roared Dan Chu, a violet flame s.h.i.+eld condensing before him .
BOOM! A heaven-shaking explosion erupted, and flame waves spread in every direction . Long Chen was actually sent flying .
Long Chen was shocked . What terrifying flame energy, what a powerful flame magical art, and what refined control! There were rapid fluctuations coming from the s.h.i.+eld that had caused him to rebound .
“Be suppressed!” Dan Chu’s expression was dark . Upon forming hand seals, the surrounding flame prison unleashed countless flame serpents .
Those flame serpents shot toward Long Chen, but just as he unleashed this move, Dan Chu’s expression changed . In his fury, he had forgotten that Long Chen still had his powerful flame dragon .
The huge flame dragon roared and devoured tens of thousands of the flame serpents in one gulp .
Those flame serpents were all three thousand meters long, while the flame dragon was thirty thousand meters long . But Huo Long had awakened an innate ability, and its mouth was like a black hole, twisting s.p.a.ce, allowing it to devour all those flame serpents in one gulp .
“You really are courting death!” Dan Chu’s expression sank . He was just about to control the devoured flame serpents to attack the flame dragon from the inside when he suddenly sensed that they had disappeared .
At the same time, he was infuriated to find that yet another portion of his flame energy had been consumed . He was unable to sense it .
Then when he thought about it, it was completely bizarre that this flame dragon was capable of devouring his energy . Those flame serpents contained his Spiritual Strength . They should have exploded and destroyed the flame dragon once they were consumed .
But once something was devoured by Huo Long, Long Chen could instantly draw it into the primal chaos s.p.a.ce . And the primal chaos s.p.a.ce had never disappointed him .
The flame serpents had all of Dan Chu’s Spiritual Strength erased from them when they entered the primal chaos s.p.a.ce . Becoming ownerless objects, they were easily devoured by Huo Long .
But these flames were too powerful, and Huo Long was unable to instantly refine them . It returned to Long Chen’s arm .
Long Chen sensed his spiritual yuan rising once more . Huo Long’s gulp hadn’t just devoured the flame energy, it had also devoured a large amount of spiritual yuan, allowing Long Chen to recover even more .
“As expected, you have to have some treasure on you! Hand it over!” Dan Chu suddenly spread his hands, and a golden spear appeared between them .
Shockingly, this golden spear was not a true martial item, but formed of flames . Dan Chu was actually in control of a kind of golden flame as well .
The spear pierced toward Long Chen, causing s.p.a.ce to release explosive sounds . Heaven and earth shook .
BOOM! Blooddrinker slashed onto the spear, surprisingly causing a metallic clas.h.i.+ng sound . Then s.p.a.ce exploded .
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d, you actually stole my spiritual yuan as well!” This attack caused both sides to be blown back . Dan Chu was shocked and infuriated . He sensed his own aura within the spiritual yuan Long Chen was releasing . He was shocked that Long Chen had such a bizarre technique and furious that he had actually been duped . If he had gone all-out at the beginning, he’d have easily handled him .
But after Long Chen’s stalling tactic, a great deal of his spiritual yuan had been stolen . Moreover, after Huo Long had devoured his flame serpents, he had forty percent of his spiritual yuan stolen by it .
For Long Chen to use his own spiritual yuan against him made him want to explode . Thinking of Long Chen’s act and how he had fallen for it, he knew Long Chen had to have been laughing at him inside for being an idiot .
“DIE!” Dan Chu roared, runes lighting up all over his body . The manifestation of a rank eight Celestial appeared, and raging flames wrapped around him, turning him into a flaming battle G.o.d .
“Divine ring, Battle Armor, Flame Support!”
Long Chen also unleashed his power . His divine ring manifested and four stars appeared in his eyes . At the same time, flames also wrapped around Long Chen . This was a flame technique he had learned from the Xuantian Catalog .
When fighting against normal people, it didn’t have too much use . But it was a must-have technique for fighting alchemists . Without the protection of his own flames, there was no way to fight in close range without being roasted .
Seeing the flames around Long Chen, Dan Chu almost coughed up blood . Those were violet flames that looked almost identical to his own flame . The fluctuations were just somewhat weaker .
Long Chen hadn’t just stolen his spiritual yuan, he had also stolen the power of his Earth Flame . Previously, Long Chen’s Earth Flame had been trash in Dan Chu’s eyes, but now, it was only somewhat weaker than his . He felt like he was about to go crazy .
“You shameless little thief!” Dan Chu could no longer remain calm . His expression was twisted in anger .
“Idiot, if I’m a little thief, then you’re a big thief . What’s the difference? You’re allowed to forcibly take what’s mine, but I can’t sneakily take what’s yours? Is your head only full of s.h.i.+t?” taunted Long Chen .
Although Long Chen was insulting him, inside, he was extremely shocked . This Soul Devouring Violet Flame was truly worthy of being ranked thirty-sixth on the Earth Flame Rankings . It was incredibly powerful . While this Earth Flame raged, Long Chen could sense it burning at the very heavens . He felt the world’s energy being extracted by the flame and converted to his spiritual yuan .
With the divine ring and the Soul Devouring Violet Flame’s power, he would be able to recover his spiritual yuan at a shocking pace . He estimated that instead of taking several days like before, he would only need a few hours to fully recover .
What Long Chen didn’t know was that this Soul Devouring Violet Flame was a treasure countless alchemists would long for . Other than just its immense power, it also had an innate ability to devour heaven and earth’s energy, allowing alchemists to recover their spiritual yuan and Spiritual Strength very quickly .
With the Soul Devouring Violet Flame, alchemists wouldn’t need to worry about running out of spiritual yuan or Spiritual Strength for alchemy . Furthermore, they wouldn’t need to be afraid of a long fight if they had it .
“Shameless little thief, die!” Dan Chu was growing insane from anger . He was the one most aware of the Soul Devouring Violet Flame’s power . Long Chen’s almost exhausted spiritual yuan was growing stronger and stronger . This had all been stolen from Dan Chu .
BOOM!
Dan Chu’s golden spear smashed toward Long Chen . Violet flames appeared on Blooddrinker as Long Chen slashed it at the spear .
s.p.a.ce exploded and wildly twisted . Their weapons were tightly locked against each other .
“This is your true core flame? It’s not bad . ” Blocking the golden spear and unleas.h.i.+ng all his power, Long Chen could sense a mountain-toppling power coming from it .
This golden spear was like real metal, yet also not . It was a kind of flame that had been condensed to the pinnacle . It was extremely strange .
This spear seemed to be hiding a volcano . Endless power was pouring out of it .
With Long Chen’s immense power, to not be able to send an alchemist flying showed that this golden flame was definitely not ordinary .
“You despicable little thief, you have no qualification to ask what it is!” roared Dan Chu . He suddenly sent a kick at Long Chen’s stomach . Flames formed a sharp point on his foot . If struck, Long Chen would be left with a hole in his abdomen .
Long Chen sneered . With just a glance, he could tell that this fellow had no combat experience . Just as Dan Chu’s foot was about to touch him, he fiercely pushed his saber forward .
Originally they were equally matched, but because Dan Chu had sent out a kick, it caused his upper body to lose strength . As a result, Long Chen could push him away, and his kick missed .
“Idiot, I admire your courage to fight close range against me . ” As Dan Chu’s foot flew by Long Chen’s chest, Long Chen’s foot made a graceful arc through the air to land almost perfectly on Dan Chu’s exposed crotch .
Bang!
The sound of something like an egg exploding rang out . Dan Chu shot back like a shooting star . At the same time, he let out a mournful shriek . Slamming into his own prison, an explosive sound rang out .
That place was the root of carrying on a cultivator’s ancestral line . This place could not be strengthened through cultivation unless you no longer cared about having progeny .
Human cultivation allowed one to escape from old age and death, to become a G.o.d or immortal . In itself, cultivation was fundamentally a way to change the restrictions of the world .
Reproduction was the essence of the Human Dao, while cultivation was fundamentally a process of comprehending the Heavenly Daos and escaping the Human Dao .
During this process, the only thing maintained of the Human Dao was the root of reproduction . Unless someone felt that they were just on the verge of becoming a G.o.d or immortal, they wouldn’t abandon that reproductive ability .
Doing such a thing would require the courage of cutting off all the paths of retreat . But if they failed in the end, they would never get another son capable of carrying on their inheritance .
As for cultivators who didn’t become a G.o.d or immortal, once they reached their limit, they could continue leaving behind future generations, pa.s.sing on their own powerful bloodlines . Then their descendants would be essentially standing on their shoulders as they cultivated .
Those descendants would have better starting points than others and would reach the peak of the martial path easier . Their accomplishments could surpa.s.s their ancestors before they once more pa.s.sed on their bloodlines . In the end, someone might be able to become a G.o.d or immortal .
That was why basically all cultivators would keep their reproductive abilities in contrast to their cultivation, which was why that spot was a fatal weak point for almost all male cultivators .
This kick caused Dan Chu to lose the chicken and lose his eggs[1] . Even his pubic bone was almost broken by this kick . Without his Pill Flame protecting himself, he would have exploded from the impact .
Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked that he hadn’t killed him . Just now, he had even used his King item boots .
But then seeing Dan Chu’s broken robes had exposed a golden soft armor on his body, he suddenly realized that he wasn’t the only one who possessed special King items .
Without giving him any time to breathe, Long Chen shot after Dan Chu .
[1] This is an expression 鸡飞蛋打, literally meaning the chicken flies away and the eggs are broken . It means to lose everything . But in this case, the eggs are his t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es, and the chicken is his p.e.n.i.s, as it’s slang for p.e.n.i.s .