Chapter 587 – Battle Clan Territory

The Battle clan lived in a vast, mountainous forest. After rushing for twenty-five kilometers, Long Chen could see the boundless patch of forest ahead. He traveled along treacherous mountain roads with shorter trees around him. Tall trees were rare.

“Big Brother, there are Martial Alliance people up ahead.” Mo Xiaolang relied on his sharp olfactory senses to quickly sense the presence of Martial Alliance members.

They had just crossed over a mountain when Xiaolang alerted him. Long Chen quickly looked ahead and lo and behold, a group of Martial Alliance enforcers were standing in between the trees. Enforcers wore golden-yellow uniforms with a giant “martial” character on their chests. They were completely blocking the path leading towards the Battle clan by standing in a row.

There were more than a hundred of them, all at the Heavenly Passage Realm. Long Chen postulated that the rest of the paths leading to the Battle clan were probably blocked too. Their objective was probably to stop any Battle clan members from exiting, or any outsiders from entering before ramping up their operations. Perhaps they wanted the Battle clan to surrender and pledge loyalty to the Martial Alliance like the Ancient Demon Domain and the Huangfu family had done.

Long Chen guessed that with the Battle clan’s temper, the likelihood of a large-scale conflict was quite large.

The Battle clan was located behind this patch of forest.

“Big Brother, shall we enter?” Mo Xiaolang asked innocently with sparkling eyes.

“Nonsense!” Long Chen laughed. They were all Heavenly Passage Realm cultivators, and the only Earthly Martial Realm cultivator present was still resting. He was only at the First Earthly Martial Stage too, so Long Chen did not take him seriously.

Xiaolang couldn’t fight in human form, but he could still travel quickly. Turning into the Sun Devouring Wolf to fight these people was unnecessary.

So Long Chen said, “Let me do it! Just follow me!”

Then he charged at the Martial Alliance blockade like a gust of wind. Mo Xiaolang’s eyes lit up and he quickly hurried behind Long Chen. He could run as fast as Long Chen, and when he ran, his back was bent so he looked very similar to a wolf-type beast!

The Enforcers quickly noticed the duo and sounded the alarm. The crowd of one hundred people stood in formation, blocking Long Chen’s path. The Earthly Martial Realm cultivator who was resting with his eyes closed was already standing at the very front. He glared coldly at the charging Long Chen and roared, “Who are you? The Martial Alliance is working here, and the path leading to the Battle clan has been sealed off. If you take one more step, we will kill you!”

Not many people from the Divine Martial Empire would dare disobey the commands of the Martial Alliance. But when the cultivator saw that Long Chen was not going to slow down after his declaration, his gaze darkened and he roared, “It’s an enemy ambush! Kill him!”

Everyone grew anxious with his command and spread out to charge at Long Chen. At least five of the enforcers in front were at the Ninth Passage Stage! But cultivators at that level would find it difficult to cause Long Chen any harm. Very quickly, Long Chen collided with them, but their abilities were on very different levels. Long Chen could basically kill one person with one strike!

When both sides came into contact, bodies flew in the air one after another. Everyone was frightened by the tragic sight!

“Everyone, be careful! He’s at the Earthly Martial Realm!” They had not seen Long Chen’s face clearly yet because he was moving too fast. Before they could tell who he was, he had already killed many people!

Whoosh!

There came the sound of heavy panting.

“Everyone, stay back! Let me handle this Earthly Martial Realm cultivator!” the Earthly Martial Realm enforcer roared. Everyone retreated to form a gigantic circle around Long Chen, with the enforcer standing directly in front of him!

“You think you can stop me?” Long Chen laughed and turned into an illusion. Then he appeared in front of the enforcer in the blink of an eye.

“Ground Punch Technique!” the enforcer roared as he threw a punch at Long Chen’s face. Even the ground trembled when he threw the powerful punch. It was clear that this punching technique was connected to the essence of the earth!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Consecutive booms rang in Long Chen’s ears like dull thunder. Admittedly, this enforcer had already completely mastered this King-tier technique. He was a middle-aged man who had spent many years studying his technique, so achieving this level of mastery was not surprising!

However, it was nothing compared to Long Chen’s extraordinary talent!

Whoosh!

The powerful punch landed on Long Chen’s chest. The enforcer did not know why it was so easy to hit Long Chen, but in reality, Long Chen had not been hit at all!

When he was about to come into contact with his enemy’s chest, it was like a gust of wind had blown Long Chen away! It was very strange!

“What?” The Enforcer was both shocked and terrified. He was very knowledgeable, so he knew that this was a terrifying body combat technique and what this meant. With a panicked look on his face, he gasped!

“Isn’t this the Huang–” Before he finished, he saw a blood-red glint coming from a claw. It landed on his neck and caused his head to fly off. No one could believe what just happened!

At the very last moment, he had seen Long Chen’s face clearly.

Long Chen’s appearance was recorded in the Martial Alliance’s system, so this Enforcer, who was a Martial King, knew who Long Chen was. However, why did Long Chen have the Huangfu family’s Willow Step? He died with this question in mind.

He would bring this question down to hell.

“Xiaolang, let’s go!” After Long Chen killed the Martial King, everyone else was still stunned. They only reacted after a long pause, and they all shouted in terror!

“Report this to the Martial Saint now! Tell the two Martial Emperors!” Many people scrambled to get reinforcements while the rest remained. They looked at the Martial King’s body, then at themselves.

“Who was that? He killed a Martial King in just one short fight. He must be a Martial Saint-level master.”

“I got a brief glimpse of his face just now. He looked very young. Are there any teenagers other than Martial Emperor Zhao who are this strong?”

The crowd was left confused.

At this point, Long Chen had already disappeared into the forest with Mo Xiaolang.

Long Chen had easily broken free from their encirclement to enter the Battle clan’s territory. The mountainous roads here were treacherous, but Long Chen and Xiaolang ran through them with ease.

When Long Chen started fighting the Martial Alliance, informants reported it to the Battle clan. The moment Long Chen arrived in their territory, several tall and muscular men came up to him and asked, “Young man, may I ask who you are?”

“I am a good friend of your clan leader, Lei Zhen. My name is Long Chen. I don’t know if you’ve heard of me?” Long Chen quickly stopped and spoke respectfully to the large men, who had similar figures to Lei Zhen.

The men looked overjoyed and said, “Are you the Long Chen who killed the Void Martial Saint? Our clan leader and his siblings talk about you every day! It’s amazing that you’re here. I’ll bring you to meet them now. Yantou, pass this message!”

The leading man gave a cheerful smile.

In reality, they had been sullen for many days. A smile was very rare. However, when they turned to look at Long Chen’s back, they looked sad once more, as if they had not seen the person they were looking for yet.

One of the men nodded and rushed off to pass the message. Long Chen and Mo Xiaolang followed the leader towards a deeper part of the territory.

Along the way, the man started to tell Long Chen about the Battle clan. Long Chen learned that the whole clan consisted of Beast Warriors, and most of them were very strong too. They were usually stronger than normal cultivators at the same level. Furthermore, they also tamed beasts, and many beasts in this region were close friends with the Battle clan!

In fact, when the beasts died, they were willing to offer their Beast Souls to them so they could continue fighting for the Battle clan. Along the way, Long Chen saw many resting beasts. Many of them were of the thunder element, and Long Chen even saw the same beast that Lei Zhen had, the Thunder Bat Dragon!

Golden Lightning Stallions were everywhere.

When the demonic beasts saw Xiaolang, they all had terror in their eyes. They lowered their heads to show that they were loyal to him.

The men were telling Long Chen about the culture of the Battle clan, but when they saw this, they started to study Mo Xiaolang carefully.

“You’re an interesting person; you make these demonic beasts afraid ...” said the men, who were puzzled.

Xiaolang radiated the aura of a demonic beast, but his aura is much fainter than that of other King-tier demonic beasts. That was why these Heavenly Passage Realm cultivators did not notice that his original form was a demonic beast.

“This brother of mine is interesting, of course! As for why, you all will understand in the future,” said Long Chen with a laugh, patting Xiaolang’s shoulder.

Very soon, they emerged from the mountainous forest into a true forest. Although the path was still treacherous and littered with boulders, the trees were much taller and larger from here onwards. There were many strange-looking trees that made this dense forest frightening.

“This is the base camp of the Battle clan. Many generations of clan members have lived here. We do not fight with anyone else, and we mind our own business. We only ally with demonic beasts! The Martial Alliance bastards just would not stop bugging us!” There was rage in the men’s eyes.

They clenched their fists tightly. It was clear that they were very angry!