Chapter 921 – Shifting Galaxies

Long Chen did not plan to waste the Shield Talisman on the Fire Beast Soul Talisman’s attack.

Boom!

A loud explosion.

Essence surged within his body and started to boil in his nine meridian points. A regal aura rose within him and spread to his surroundings. This was the aura of the Ten Thousand Nations Territory’s guardian. The Emperor’s Manual was the combat technique used to guard the territory. Long Chen unleashed the attack.

The aura in his body surged even more than the previous time he used Emperor’s Arrival. A destructive energy erupted from him and rumbled. When he stomped on the ground, even the space around him trembled.

Power surged through his nine meridian points. All his strength gathered in the Yang Emperor Vanquisher on his right hand. It lit up with golden light, then vibrated with a low hum. Long Chen punched in the direction of the Fire Beast Soul Talisman. The silhouette of an emperor appeared behind him. He mirrored Long Chen’s stance and also punched. Compared to Emperor’s Arrival, this move had an additional layer of destructive force!

Emperor’s Arrival was the Fist of Justice and emphasized on aura. Shifting Galaxies was the Fist of Destruction, and it emphasized on destructive power!

In the Ten Thousand Nations Territory, this fist technique was once said to make the galaxy tremble in the sky.

When Long Chen punched, the trembling real fist seal was coupled with an illusory fist seal. Both of them vibrated with power and flew at the feral beast that emerged from the Fire Beast Soul Talisman. There was an earth-trembling collision. The punch, which was both real and illusory at the same time, was able to shatter the talisman into pieces!

Awooo!

The beast soul within the Fire Beast Soul Talisman was destroyed!

The talisman was quite a powerful one, so it was able to block the brunt of Long Chen’s attack. Despite that, Long Chen’s punch sent Song Yuchun flying. Blood sprayed out of his mouth once more, and the red blood formed a beautiful arc in the air.

Slam!

Song Yuchun crashed into the ground and fainted.

The arena was silent.

Just when everyone thought Long Chen was about to lose, he had turned the tables once more. He had defeated Song Yuchun with his own strength. It was not clear how severe Song Yuchun’s injuries were.

“Chun’er!” Song Yang immediately rushed to Song Yuchun’s side and sensed his condition with an outstretched hand. His injuries were not severe.

Long Chen was no idiot. If he had killed Song Yuchun, Song Yang would secretly kill him once he joined the Underworld Army. It was sufficient to teach Song Yuchun a lesson. To Song Yuchun, this defeat was worse than death.

To prevent Song Yang from attacking Long Chen, Qin Xiong floated between them.

While Song Yang was inspecting Song Yuchun’s injuries, other people praised Long Chen’s performance.

“He used his attack to directly shatter the Fire Beast Soul Talisman’s attack. Long Chen is the only person here who can do this, other than Ye Xuan, of course.”

“There are probably other people hiding their true capabilities. I think there are people at the Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage in this event, but they are just hiding it.”

“Even if there are, their combat abilities are similar to Long Chen’s level. Long Chen’s combat abilities aren’t only at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage, I think. He should be at the Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage.”

They only underestimated him because they saw that he was at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage. Now they believed that Long Chen had hidden his actual strength to manipulate other people’s impressions of him. In reality, there were also other people using the same tactic to mislead others.

Thousands of people looked at Long Chen. The fight was over, so Long Chen gradually deactivated his Dragon Soul Transformation.

Everyone was speechless looking at him.

“The results of this duel are obvious. Long Chen is the winner. Everyone who is irrelevant, please leave the pit quickly. Next duel, Fighter 397, Xie Xue. Fighter 452, Jiang Kongkong!”

Qin Xiong’s icy voice echoed across the pit.

The irrelevant person he referred to was clearly Song Yang.

When Song Yang saw that his grandson was only unconscious but not severely injured, his anger dampened a little. His grandson was the one who was weaker than his opponent, so he could not argue against that. Though he had to admit that Long Chen was very strong.

He glanced at Long Chen coldly, then left with his grandson in his arms.

Long Chen returned to his seat. It was finally done. He felt much lighter.

After Long Chen left quietly, the gazes that watched him were different compared to before. It started from contempt in the beginning to respect now.

The duel between Long Chen and Song Yuchun was considered the brightest moment of this event, though the subsequent duels still had to go on. There would be a total of one hundred duels. After one day, the duels were finally over and one hundred winners were declared. They all stood in the pit while the soldiers directed the rest of the people to leave.

The arena, which was initially filled with many people, was quickly emptied.

Many people left unwillingly, as they had gotten so close to their dream. Unfortunately, they had no choice but to go. The most tragic cases were the ones who had passed the first round but lost the second round due to a mistake.

Hundreds of Underworld Soldiers in Underworld Armor gathered around the one hundred recruits. These soldiers radiated powerful auras, and there were Sergeants and Hundred-Sergeants among them. Long Chen’s current strength was equivalent to a Sergeant.

Within the five hundred thousand Underworld Soldiers, he was considered one of the lowest-ranked.

The four Thousand-Sergeants and one Ten Thousand-Sergeant stood before the hundred recruits. Qin Xiong’s gaze swept across them. Many of them were injured, but under Qin Xiong’s arrangements, they received excellent medicine for treatment, namely Revitalization Pills.

“First of all, congratulations on your enrolment into the Underworld Army.”

Qin Xiong paused, then he continued, “I will not waste your time with nonsense. Other people will brief you on the things you need to take note of and all sorts of other knowledge when the time comes. The hundred of you will be divided into four groups of twenty-five people. Each group will be led by a Thousand-Sergeant.”

After he finished, the group started to eye the four Thousand-Sergeants.

“What arrangements will be made for Ye Xuan?” asked Qi Bing, one of the examiners.

Ye Xuan was as strong as a Thousand-Sergeant. Anyone who had Ye Xuan under them would see a great boost to their team.

Qin Xiong thought for a moment and said, “Ye Xuan will be my bodyguard. He will not be with you all. As for the rest, you may choose whoever you want.”

Then he smiled at Ye Xuan, who stepped out of the group. Ye Xuan had already thought about this and discussed it with Qin Xiong beforehand.

He would start his journey in the Underworld Army as Qin Xiong’s bodyguard.

Ye Xuan’s only goal was the Underworld Battlefield.

As for positions like Sergeants and Hundred Sergeants—he did not care about rank at all.

The remaining people automatically divided themselves into four groups. Long Chen merely entered one of the groups because they could freely move around. He sensed a pair of eyes watching him—Song Yang, who then stood in front of him and pretended not to see him. Song Yang said, “In that case, this group will be mine.”

Everyone could clearly see that Long Chen was in the group.

Song Yang was implying that he would never let Long Chen live peacefully in the Underworld Army.

He had gotten this role as the examiner with great difficulty, and it was all to let Song Yuchun join the Underworld Army. However, his plan was foiled by Long Chen. If Song Yuchun came against next month, he would surely not be able to join Song Yang’s team.

If he was assigned to other Thousand Sergeants, it would be difficult to keep him safe, not to mention ensure his rank progression.

Even though Long Chen had spared Song Yuchun, Song Yang was very uncomfortable with how things turned out.

Everyone saw through Song Yang’s plans.

Qin Xiong looked displeased. He looked like he was about to object, but Ye Xuan pulled him back and said, “Don’t worry about him. I sense that he’s actually very strong.”

Long Chen had saved Ye Xuan from a Second Divine Martial Stage murderer. Therefore, Ye Xuan believed that Long Chen was strong. He suspected that Long Chen was even stronger than what he had shown today, but that was actually his own overthinking.

“Song Yang, I’ll remember what happened today. I’d better not receive any negative news about this.” Although Qin Xiong did not object, he still warned Song Yang.

“Of course,” said Song Yang mildly.

Very soon, the other three examiners also chose their own groups of twenty-five and brought them back to their training camps. After bidding Ye Xuan farewell, Long Chen left with the other people in Song Yang’s group without another word. They walked through one of the small tunnels exiting the arena and arrived at their training camp.

The arena was actually a large entrance to the training camp of the Underworld Army.

Underworld City was unimaginably huge, and the Underworld Training Camp took up one-fifth of the city. It contained five hundred thousand Underworld Soldiers, which was a huge number.

Long Chen’s group of twenty-five was just a small pebble tossed into the ocean of five hundred thousand people. After emerging from the arena, they were officially on the Underworld Army’s territory. The camps were divided into sections led by individual Thousand-Sergeants, and the whole training camp area was divided into hundreds of Thousand-Sergeant Camps. Every Thousand-Sergeant Camp was led by a Thousand-Sergeant at the Divine Martial Realm, and Song Yang’s camp was known as Camp Wolf.

From today onwards, Long Chen would be a member of Camp Wolf.

They passed all types of sealed-off camps along the way.

They could faintly hear shouts from military training.

The training grounds were vast and Long Chen saw neatly arranged courtyards and structures with red bricks and green roofs. Every camp was surrounded by walls that were tens of meters tall.