Chapter 109 - Mid Human Core Realm!

The Burning Devil Sun Fist had hit the Flaming Golden Lion directly. The tsunami of power shattered its skull instantly!

The Flaming Golden Lion let out an earth-shaking roar of agony, and then its enormous body crashed into the ground and the ordeal finally ended.

Long Chen was greatly emotional after he killed the lion. He quickly extracted a red demonic core approximately the size of a fist from its head, then took out a Soul Collecting Bead to collect its Beast Soul. “I’m going to make a fortune with these two things ...”

The Flaming Golden Lion was a Category Three Black-tier demonic beast, so its demonic core and Beast Soul should be able to fetch a high number of contribution points.

Long Chen dared not visit the Dawn Trading Alliance right now. He had just completed the Blazing Thunder Body, and if he were found out, he would be in trouble. That was why he could only purchase items through the Lingwu family’s Treasure Pavilion, and in order to do that, he needed contribution points first!

While he was extracting the Beast Soul, he thought about how he wanted to use Blood Transmutation on the Flaming Golden Lion. However, that was when a group of people appeared on the horizon. They were charging towards him at high speed.

Long Chen knew that his fight against the Flaming Golden Lion had caused too big of a commotion, and these people must’ve heard them. They were all elites, so they moved extremely fast. He had just finished extracting the Beast Soul when three teenagers under twenty years old surrounded him in an intimidating manner.

The rest of their squad subsequently arrived.

When they saw his face, they were all stunned for a moment because they didn’t know which hall Long Chen belonged to.

The three teenagers who arrived first were late Human Core Realm experts.

These were true prodigies who had reached high cultivation levels at a young age. Long Chen stored the Soul Collecting Bead in his Universe Pouch, then he looked at them in amusement. He said mildly, “Why are you all watching me like that? Is it because you’re swooning over my good looks?”

The three teenagers froze. One of them questioned coldly, “Which hall are you from? Why haven’t I seen you before?”

“I should be asking you guys—who are you and why haven’t

I

seen

you guys before

?”

Long Chen had actually seen them before at the Heavenly Martial Palace, but he never found out which hall they were from.

“We are from the Turquoise Vanguard Hall. Did you kill the Flaming Golden Lion?”

Long Chen was currently in his post-Dragon Soul Transformation form and had both a regal and vicious air about him. However, to them, his aura wasn’t extremely powerful and he didn’t seem strong enough to kill a Flaming Golden Lion.

“Are you kidding me?” Long Chen joked. “How could I kill such a huge beast? But finder’s keepers. The demonic core and Beast Soul are mine. Do you guys plan to rob me?”

The three elites of the Turquoise Vanguard Hall looked at each other and saw the tempted look in each other’s eyes. Although they were cautious of the way Long Chen didn’t seem to fear them, it still wasn’t enough to cancel out their greed. “Attack!”

All three of them moved instantly and closed in on Long Chen. “You guys are actually going to rob me?”

Long Chen was well aware that they were pining after the carcass the moment they appeared. In their eyes, he was just a junior who had gotten lucky. They should be able to finish him in two or three moves!

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

These three were all late Human Core Realm experts. Although none of them could defeat a Flaming Golden Lion, they were much more powerful than one when they teamed up.

Long Chen did not plan to fight them directly. Under everyone’s astonishment, he broke the lion’s belly open and slipped inside!

The heavy Flaming Golden Lion suddenly began to move, and it was quickly running away!

“Think you can run?!”

All three young elites’ expressions changed, and they hurried after Long Chen. The carcass wasn’t moving as fast as they were, but as they gave chase, the carcass seemed to be ... withering?

In the blink of an eye, the Flaming Golden Lion carcass dried up, greatly shocking the three young elites. “What’s going on? Why is this happening?”

They ran forward and reached out, grabbing at the dried carcass. That was when the carcass suddenly exploded, sending dried flesh and blood in all directions. Most of it hit the three young elites!

The dried pieces of flesh looked harmless, but they contained great power. All three were stopped in their tracks from the vibrations!

A ray of blood-red light shot up into the sky, and Long Chen appeared in front of them once again. In comparison to before, his eyes were now even redder, his gaze sharper. He was a lot stronger!

“You brat! Finally willing to show yourself? Hand over the Flaming Golden Lion’s demonic core and Beast Soul, then I’ll show you mercy!”

Long Chen couldn’t care less about what he said. He just smiled.

He had finally suppressed the boiling blood and Qi within him. Right now, the Human Core in his dantian had shrunken a bit, but it was more condensed.

If the volume of his Human Core was previously nine units, now it would be eight units. Long Chen knew that its volume would continue to decrease if he worked harder. When he reached the late Heavenly Core Realm, it would probably be the size of a soybean. Cultivation at the Human Core Realm progressed by strengthening the Human Core and condensing it. This was accomplished by gathering Qi in the dantian and having it batter the core. Once there was enough Qi crashing onto the core, Long Chen could quickly advance to the next level.

He had been trapped at the initial Human Core Realm for the past few days. Absorbing numerous Category Two Black-tier demonic beasts didn’t have a great effect, but their blood essence had accumulated. At that point, he was not far from the mid Human Core Realm. Once he cultivated the Flaming Golden Lion’s blood essence and generated a huge amount of blood-red Qi, it all crashed into the dantian at the same time and caused his Human Core to condense, resulting in a breakthrough. Long Chen’s Qi skyrocketed!

“Is this the power of the mid Human Core Realm ...”

When he first entered the initial Human Core Realm, he could defeat a Category Three Black-tier Flaming Golden Lion. Now, his strength had increased once more. At this point, the people in front of him were nothing to him. “I wonder how surprised Feng Wutian will be when he meets me again!”

Long Chen was looking forward to that.

He had successfully attained the mid Human Core Realm and become a Blazing Thunder Warrior, so his main objectives could be considered complete. After this, it was time for his last sprint to see if he could get Yang Lingqing the Supreme Purity Sword and its combat technique!

From the three late Human Core Realm teenagers’ perspective, Long Chen seemed to have suddenly become stronger, though he was only at the mid Human Core Realm.

Anyone amongst them was able to kill him. However, their elders had reminded them not to cause too much conflict during this training exercise, and it was best not to kill anyone.

That was why one of them threatened coldly, “You brat, I’m giving you one last chance. If you still don’t know what’s good for you, don’t you blame us for your death!”

“I’m counting to three. After three, if you still don’t hand over the demonic core and the Soul Collecting Bead, we won’t show you any mercy just because you’re also a Lingwu family member!”

Long Chen felt the surging energy within his body reach its peak, as if it didn’t belong to him at all. He had the impulse to experiment with it. “Hey, you three stupid donkeys! When I’m done with you, all your teeth will be on the ground! And your butts will be sore!” he said coolly.

All three teenagers were furious and about to attack when a bout of fireworks bloomed in the sky not far away.

Rumble!

All three froze, then looked at each other anxiously. “The Heart Eater has appeared!”

“What now?”

They should be heading over as fast as possible, but Long Chen ....

But they knew their priorities. Long Chen may have insulted them, but as long as he remained in the Lingwu family, there would be a chance to take their revenge. Therefore, they immediately made the decision to lead the rest of their hall’s disciples to rush towards the place with the fireworks! “Everyone, follow me!”

After they glared threateningly at Long Chen, the three Turquoise Vanguard Hall brats ran in front of the group once more.

The rest of the Turquoise Vanguard Hall disciples were mostly at the mid Human Core Realm. They all ran as fast as they could to catch up. Only a young teenager of about thirteen years old, who was at the initial Human Core Realm, was tragically left behind ...

He was running with all his might, trying to keep up with the group. But now that the Heart Eater had appeared, did anyone have the time to worry about him? Therefore, he was quickly left behind.

Has the Heart Eater appeared already? I should go check it out ...

Long Chen smirked and quickly caught up to the teenager who was left behind. When he saw Long Chen running next to himself, he was startled and tried to threaten him. “Don’t you dare touch me, or Senior Li, Senior Zhang, and Senior Wang will kill you!”

“Are you talking about the guys who tried to rob me?” Long Chen grinned.

“That’s nonsense! They only want your stuff because you’re too weak and you don’t have the right to own it!” defended the teenager arrogantly.

“Is that so? Then do you believe me when I say that I can make those three seniors stay here so they won’t get to see the Heart Eater?”

The young teenager froze, then he burst into a snicker. “Are you daydreaming? My three seniors are powerful late Human Core Realm cultivators from the Turquoise Vanguard Hall. How dare you tell such lies when all you have is that pathetic dead cat trick!”

“Wait and see if that was really a lie ...”

Long Chen grinned mysteriously, then, under the teenager’s shocked gaze, he sprinted off a hundred times faster than before. He was running at a speed far faster than a mid Human Core Realm expert should’ve been capable of, charging towards the very front of the group like the wind!