Chapter 208 - Final Victory

“Nine ... Nine flashes?” Even Dongfang Xuanyu’s jaw dropped, completely shocked. When she recalled the times she mocked Long Chen, they felt like a tight slap across her face ...

Dongfang Tianxing was also in a daze after hearing his mother.

The rest of the Eastern Azure Dragon family were almost as shocked as Dongfang Xuanyu. They previously looked down on Long Chen, and now they saw that he had mastered the entirety of the Nine Dragon Flashes. “It looks like Xuanxiao has found a true martial technique prodigy. How can Long Chen be this special ...”

In contrast, Dongfang Xuanxiao was filled with pride. He knew that Long Chen would surprise him, but the surprise was larger than expected.

He had many things he wanted to say, but he was speechless after he saw Long Chen use his final flash to successfully dodge Dongfang Tianyu’s Tyrant Slash.

However, would Long Chen stop creating miracles after dodging the Tyrant Slash?

It’s down to the deciding moment

, Long Chen thought to himself. As the cloud of dust flew in the air, Long Chen’s finger suddenly shone with starlight. The shining light suddenly charged towards Dongfang Tianyu, who had just exhausted a lot of energy from the attack and was in a state of shock!

“Sword Devil Finger!”

The advantage of this technique was its speed. Long Chen had only just lifted his finger when the sword light hit Dongfang Tianyu’s body!

“No!”

At the very last moment, Dongfang Tianyu had no choice but to throw the Sun Halberd away and block instinctively. The sharp sword light blasted his sleeves, and the Sword Devil Finger turned into countless sword shadows that stabbed into his body, slashing his internal organs!

Dense patches of cuts were carved into his body, all gushing out blood as Dongfang Tianyu was thrown backwards. He looked terrifying, or more specifically, pitiful!

With a shriek, Dongfang Tianyu was thrown back into the air.

Slam!

He hit the ground hard, throwing another cloud of dust into the air! His blood formed a pool beneath him!

Long Chen caught his Sun Halberd and tossed it, so it stabbed on the ground right between his legs, just five centimeters from his crotch. That was enough to make the rest of his family draw in a sharp breath!

If we weren’t in the Eastern Azure Dragon family, I would’ve broken your balls,

thought Long Chen.

The dust around him finally settled, and Long Chen returned to his original form. The battle had ended. He stood tall with a hint of pride in his eyes as they watched him.

Not far from his feet, the bleeding Dongfang Tianyu was already unconscious. The scene that had just unfolded kept replaying in all of their minds. They realized that no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t forget the look of arrogance and refusal to submit in his eyes!

He was like a wild wolf after killing its prey, baring its teeth in front of the people who wanted to kill him but couldn’t!

“Tianyu ... lost?” Dongfang Xuanyu, who had watched Dongfang Tianyu grow up, felt her heart clench in pain when she saw him in this state. She glared at Long Chen with violence in her eyes.

Dongfang Xuanfeng was stationed outside for the event. If he saw Dongfang Tianyu’s tragic state, the killing intent in his heart would be no less intense than Dongfang Xuanyu’s.

There was one other person who caught Long Chen’s eye—Dongfang Tianchen. While everyone was still in shock, he walked silently to Dongfang Tianyu and treated his wounds. The proliferation of cuts on his body were just external injuries, so the bleeding was easily stopped. However, his internal organs, which were hurt by the sword Qi, would likely take a long time to heal.

Long Chen saw danger in Dongfang Tianchen’s cool eyes.

The only eyes that were different from the rest, that contained warmth, were Dongfang Xuanxiao’s. There were many emotions within them—praise, pride, warmth, arrogance. They Long Chen had turned the tides today in such a dramatic manner was beyond his expectations.

Everyone had no choice but to accept the reality that Long Chen had beaten Dongfang Tianyu and had won the right to study the Azure Dragon Combat Technique!

They felt like they were dreaming. Was an outsider really going to study the Azure Dragon Combat Technique?

Although the inner family did recruit from the outer families, in reality, who would truly accept someone without the Azure Dragon blood to truly become one of them, even getting to study the highest-level secret scripture?

After a brief silence, everyone started to think about this question. Dongfang Xuanyu was the first to wake up, saying righteously, “Father, Elders, I feel like it is inappropriate for Long Chen to study the Azure Dragon Combat Technique. Long Chen is not truly a member of our clan, so how could he study our most secret scripture? What if he is traitorous? What if he leaks it? What will we do?”

Dongfang Xuanyu had hit the nail on the head. Everyone started to chime in, wanting the Patriarch to change his mind.

“Tianchen, take Tianyu back to rest.” They couldn’t tell what the Patriarch was thinking, as all he did was instruct Tianchen in a mild tone. After Dongfang Tianchen brought Dongfang Tianyu away, he finally dealt with Long Chen’s matter.

Long Chen and Xuanxiao stood on one side, while the rest were on the other. Dongfang Xuanyun, who had a good relationship with Dongfang Xuanxiao, hesitated, then he chose to stay next to the Patriarch.

“Father, please reconsider this. That brat Long Chen is vicious, violent, and evil-hearted to have attacked Xiao Yu so violently! He has injured a member of our family, yet he gets the right to study the Azure Dragon Combat Technique. I think our whole clan would be upset by this too, right?” Dongfang Xuanyu was almost crying by now.

“Xuanxiao, why aren’t you saying anything?” The Azure Dragon Patriarch didn’t listen to Dongfang Xuanyu, but rather stared at Dongfang Xuanxiao.

“The rules have long been set, and Long Chen has pledged his loyalty to us and entered our clan. I hope you’ll deal with the matter according to the rules, and not be swayed by the shallow views of women,” said Dongfang Xuanxiao mildly.

“What did you say?” Dongfang Xuanxiao’s words were obviously targeted at Dongfang Xuanyu, who raged in response. But there were elders present, and it was inappropriate for her to yell at him, so she said coldly, “Xuanxiao, don’t you think that you’re being disrespectful? I have done my best to contribute to our family all these years, how could you say they’re just ‘views of women?’”

Dongfang Xuanxiao pursed his lips and ignored her.

Long Chen was standing next to his stepfather, observing the situation. He thought the Azure Dragon Halberd would be his after defeating Dongfang Tianyu. He hadn’t expected conflict to arise within the family. It looked like the Azure Dragon Halberd was hanging in limbo.

The situation doesn’t look good.

Long Chen was worried when he saw them strongly discriminate against him as an outsider.

The few elders discussed for a while and then leaned towards the Patriarch’s ear and said, “Big Brother, why don’t we forget about the Azure Dragon Halberd and reward Long Chen with an excellent advanced Black-tier martial technique? And throw in another advanced Black-tier divine weapon? What do you think?”

The elder had whispered, but everyone could hear him.

This is hopeless.

Long Chen had worked so hard for this, yet it was all for nothing. It was impossible for him to not be mad. But these were all masters, so as a weak mid Earthly Core Realm cultivator, how could he have the right to speak here?

Even Dongfang Xuanxiao’s brows were deeply furrowed.

“What are you talking about?” Under everyone’s anxious gazes, the Patriarch suddenly smiled. “The Eastern Azure Dragon family is a huge clan in Yuanling County. Huge clans naturally operate according to set rules. After what you all said just now, aren’t you afraid that we’ll become a joke to other clans if this gets out? We’re the Eastern Azure Dragon family! How could we be so petty?”

When the Patriarch said this, Long Chen was stunned. What was going on? He knew that although the Patriarch’s decision was appropriate, he was definitely favoring Long Chen.

But Long Chen was willing to believe that it was due to Dongfang Xuanxiao, because that’s who the Azure Dragon Patriarch’s eyes were on when he gave his verdict.

“Patriarch, please reconsider this!”

“That’s enough!” scolded the Patriarch sternly, and they trembled, not daring to speak. Even the few elders did not dare disobey him. Long Chen could now see that the Patriarch was the sole leader of the gigantic Eastern Azure Dragon family. He was the only Heavenly River Realm master here after all, so it made sense that he held this amount of power.

“I have made my decision. I hereby announce that the winner of the Azure Dragon Halberd tournament is Long Chen! He shall receive the right to use the Azure Dragon Halberd for ten days, and the right to study the Azure Dragon Combat Technique! Long Chen, come here!”

Dongfang Xuanxiao once told Long Chen that the current owner of the Azure Dragon Halberd was the Patriarch. If he won, the Patriarch would condense a blade of his Qi into a seed and plant it in Long Chen’s body. With the Qi seed, Long Chen would get to use the halberd for ten days and it would treat him as its owner. After ten days, the Qi seed would disappear and the halberd would return to the multicolored cauldron within the ancestral mausoleum.

The Patriarch was about to plant the Qi seed.