Chapter 938 - Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage

When Ye Xuan finished cultivating the Underworld Qi, Su Mo had made an appearancec. At that time, Long Chen had noticed that one of Su Mo’s men appeared to be the one who had tried to kill Ye Xuan.

Since he considered Ye Xuan a friend, Long Chen paid special attention to him.

For the next few days, Long Chen realized that cultivating in the Heavenly Martial Realm wasn’t as simple as it had seemed even though he had the True Martial Overlord Soul. But compared to the others who took tens of years to cultivate, the rate of his progression was nothing short of a miracle.

The True Martial Overlord Soul wasn’t something he could use all the time. He could only activate it for four hours a day before he would feel tired. He spent most of his time fighting against Underworld Beasts or studying the Heavenly Martial Fist Manual to try and breakthrough on his own.

His growth was naturally fast.

In just a little over two months, he had fought against sixty people, and most of them had been at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage. He even killed more than a hundred Underworld Beasts at the Category Eight Emperor-tier.

Thanks to the True Martial Overlord Soul, Long Chen’s cultivation improved significantly, allowing him to reach the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage. Even though he was still quite far away from the Divine Martial Realm, there were very few people at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage who could challenge him now.

Among the sixty people he had fought against, he had only killed two of them. Usually, he would take seventy-five percent of the loser’s fortune after beating them. Soon, he had accumulated around three million Emperor Crystals. But the more he had, the more the Golden Thunder Beast ate.

He was soon left with only a million Emperor Crystals.

This was his emergency money. He would only use it when the Golden Thunder Beast had exhausted all of its strength.

After feeding it two million Emperor Crystals, the Golden Thunder Beast in his body doubled in size, though it could still stay in Long Chen’s left arm. Sometimes it would even come out to play, but it scorched the ground black every time it did.

Due to how strong it was, Long Chen’s left arm let out golden lightning intermittently, which made him look cool.

But the biggest benefit was how the Hell Soul Lightning tempered his body.

While it gave him a minor improvement in strength, most of the benefits came in the form of increasing his speed. He had been nurturing it for the past two months, and while it didn’t affect his cultivation, his speed has been increasing very quickly. Long Chen estimated that with his speed right now, no Heavenly Martial Realm cultivator would be able to catch him. He could maybe even be able to defeat someone at the First Divine Martial Stage.

The profits he had reaped over the past two months was massive.

If he continued, he would grow stronger as his cultivation improved like a rolling snowball.

I should be able to reach the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage in half a year, and the Eighth or Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage in one year. It will be much easier for me to reach the Divine Martial Realm afterward.

A year had passed since he reached the Three Royal Territories.

Long Chen was filled with hope.

One day, he was soaking his feet in the Underworld Blood River. A corpse would sometimes bob up out of the water before sinking back in. Long Chen was grateful that it wasn’t him.

The Underworld Blood River let off a rotting stench. Sometimes, a small Underworld Beast popped its head out and dove back in when it saw Long Chen.

A strong corrosive wind blew past him.

“That’s him!” someone shouted. Then several armored cultivators approached Long Chen from the back. There were several middle-aged and old men in the group. They were elites. Based on their bloodlust and stench, Long Chen knew that they had killed a lot of people.

The bloodlust and cruelness radiating from their eyes wasn’t something a regular person could emulate.

It was extremely difficult for someone to survive with their own strength here. That was why many people formed groups. As long as they don’t encounter someone at the Divine Martial Realm, groups like them would be able to defeat and plunder their opponents’ money easily.

The one leading the group was a skinny man.

He was glaring at Long Chen as he shouted, “That’s the crazy bastard that toyed with me for four hours and humiliated me! Everyone, I have to thank you for helping me today. That bastard is very fast! Surround him and stop him from escaping!”

There were actually ten Hundred-Sergeants in the group.

Hundred-Sergeants were looked up to in Underworld City. There were only five thousand of them; to think ten of them had gathered in a singular group!

The Underworld Battlefield was huge and Long Chen was still in the vicinity of Underworld City’s entrance. He didn’t know how long it would take for him to reach the exits of the other cities.

“Everyone, surround and kill him!”

They surrounded Long Chen, assuming that he would try to escape, but surprisingly, he did not move. They all stood ten meters away from him in a circle. Only then did Long Chen stand up slowly.

He looked at the skinny man and said slowly, “Didn’t I let you go yesterday? I won’t let you go today.”

“Bullshit! If you hadn’t dodged my attacks yesterday, you wouldn’t have been able to win against me! I brought ten of my brothers at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage today to skin you alive!”

Everyone wanted to pounce on Long Chen already.

They were looking down on him because they could clearly tell that Long Chen was only at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage.

The others glared at him.

“Only those at the Divine Martial Stage can touch our brother here.”

“Brat, we heard you were slick. Kowtow and apologize, and we might let you go today.”

There was indeed no one below the Divine Martial Realm who could go up against all ten of them, especially not a lone cultivator.

They worked together and live prosperously here in the Underworld Battlefield. Everyone had their unique way of fighting here.

Ten people at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage was more than enough to make Long Chen feel pressured, but due to the tempering of the Golden Thunder Beast, his body was so tough that he no longer feared the domain of a cultivator at the Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage.

Everyone was still waiting for Long Chen to kneel and beg for forgiveness.

But Long Chen looked at them lazily and chuckled. “This is the Underworld Battlefield. Your words mean little here. Why don’t we bet something instead?”

The ten cultivators thought that they had all misheard him, but apparently, Long Chen was being serious.

“You want to make a bet with us?”

“Stop stalling and kneel down to us. Let us piss on you and then call us your grandfathers. Then we will let you go.”

“Haha, not bad! We all get to piss on him and make him call us grandfather. We will let you go afterwards.”

The skinny man chuckled and agreed to that proposal.

But Long Chen wasn’t afraid of them. To him, their pressure was meaningless. He said, “Since you like to play like that, I will agree to it. If I win against all ten of you, you will each give me a million Emperor Crystals and call me grandfather. If I lose, I will pay each of you a million Emperor Crystals and call you grandfather instead. Don’t you think this is more exciting?”

All ten cultivators were stunned by his proposal. They looked at Long Chen as if he was crazy, then they all laughed. They thought they had come across an idiot!

Long Chen laughed with them too. All eleven of them were laughing at the same time.

But they soon stopped laughing and looked at Long Chen like he was an idiot once more. The more Long Chen laughed, the more they frowned.

“Everyone, stop wasting time and kill him!”

They were going to attack, but Long Chen stopped them. “I really do have a million Emperor Crystals. Do you all dare to accept my bet? To think that all ten of you are spineless cowards. You do not deserve to live.”

Long Chen’s taunt made them angry.

“Hey, are you telling the truth?”

“If you lose, you will have to kneel, let us piss on you, call us your grandfathers, and then pay us a million Emperor Crystals?”

“Of course. I will not go back on my word. But if you lose, you will have to call me grandfather and pay me a million Emperor Crystals instead.”