Chapter 7131 The Devil Lord’s Return
Chapter 7131 The Devil Lord’s Return
The entire academy was thrown into an uproar when they saw Long Chen, especially those who knew him, like Long Ziwei. He almost let out a roar.
“Long Chen...”
Among the crowd was a frail-looking maiden. Tears streamed down her face.
This maiden was one of the very few survivors of the Jiuli City battle, and also someone Long Tianrui viewed as a little sister—Ling Yu.
Back then, Long Tianrui’s death had put Ling Yu in a difficult position. She had risked everything to protect the last few sentimental items that Long Tianrui had left behind. In the end, Long Chen brought her to the High Firmament Academy and helped her activate her innate Dao-runes. However, due to activating these Dao-runes too late, although she now had the power of the Grand Dao, it was difficult to transfer that into fighting capability.
That did not prevent her from doing other things, however; Ling Yu was now a teacher in the academy. She was in charge of guiding the disciples in cultivation. Thanks to her innate Heavenly Dao runes, her comprehension of the Grand Dao was on an even deeper level than a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign. Even though she was very young, she had a high status in the academy, enough for her to be present during the emergency meeting earlier.
She was so emotional upon seeing Long Chen that she was shaking. In her entire life, she had only been truly close to two people. One was Long Tianrui, and the other was Long Chen.
“Weren’t... weren’t you being targeted by Lord Brahma?!” Zhang Kangnian’s eyes widened when he saw Long Chen. He began to sweat.
The experts outside the shuddering barrier were also alarmed to see him. What was going on? The Brahma line had clearly spread word that Lord Brahma was personally keeping an eye on Long Chen. It should have been impossible for him to leave the Primal Chaos World.
They had no idea that this news supposedly released by the Brahma line had actually been manufactured by the Huayun Trading Company. As for the Brahma line, they had not made any move to clear things up. They were more than happy to see Long Chen fighting against other forces. No matter what the result of that fight was, it wouldn’t be a bad thing for the Brahma line.
Suddenly, Tu Jie pointed at Long Chen. “It’s you!!!”
A jade plate in his hand was flashing.
Li Mingdao’s death had enraged the master of the Immortal Ascension Gate to the point where he had invested all his forces into investigating what happened. The higher-ups had distributed these jade tablets to determine the killer.
The gate master, Li Yifu, had shown up as a wisp of divine sense attached to the divine talisman that protected Li Mingdao’s soul. That wisp of his divine sense was annihilated by Long Chen, so Li Yifu did not manage to see what was happening. He knew that Li Mingdao had been slain, but not who the killer was. However, the fact that the talisman had been triggered invoked karma. Thus, it was possible to trace the karma to find the killer.
The jade plate had been infused with Li Yifu’s own karma, so it immediately recognized Long Chen as the killer.
“It’s me?”
Long Chen stood in the air and shrugged. He then tossed the severed arm towards the crowd, where Long Ziwei reached out and caught it.
Long Ziwei felt a sense of pride. Of all the people here, Long Chen gave the “spoils of battle” to him to look after. It was clear that Long Chen trusted him the most.
Long Ziwei was deeply moved. After all, he had basically abandoned his home back then to come to the High Firmament Academy. However, after coming here, the dean ended up being absent all the time. He hadn’t seen Long Chen in a very, very long time. It was a truly painful experience; just as he thought that he had found a powerful backer, this backer disappeared without providing him any support.
Long Chen continued, “Anyway, let’s get down to business. Ever since I became Dean of the first academy, I have not done anything whatsoever to manage the first academy. But even after so long, only this many traitors have appeared?”
Zhao Hongfei smiled bitterly when he heard that. Well, at least you’re self-aware. But how the hell does that help me?
In Long Chen’s absence, Zhao Hongfei had carried out his duties as vice dean day and night. He didn’t get a chance to slack off in the slightest. The dean was off doing whatever he wanted in the world, leaving all the tasks he didn’t feel like doing to others. He didn’t even seem embarrassed about it.
If the question was who suffered the most from his absence, the answer would have to be Zhao Hongfei, without a doubt. Had it not been for the sweeping elder giving him a few pointers back at the start, he would have long since retired.
However, when Long Chen did finally return, despite only being a Sovereign Lord, he was able to stun all the triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns present.
“This is our dean? The one said to be the number one figure of the nine heavens?”
“What a terrifying movement art! Zhang Kangnian wasn’t able to resist at all!”
“But he’s just one person! How is he supposed to face that massive army?”
Everyone quickly calmed down from their initial excitement. The grand formation was broken; the barrier’s power was rapidly weakening and it would soon disappear. Zhang Kangnian had left them no chance to recover. Without the grand formation, even Long Chen’s arrival wouldn’t change the academy’s fate of being destroyed.
Once more than half of the academy’s disciples were killed, the karmic luck dragon manifestation would fade away. The mark of the Heavenly Daos would vanish, and the dragon manifestation’s energy could be absorbed by others. If all the disciples were killed, then the karmic luck dragon manifestation would truly become a masterless item and could be divided freely.
The karmic luck dragon manifestation was fundamentally a kind of natural force, like a Heaven Flame. Right now, it was in an embryonic form; it contained a tremendous amount of karmic luck, but it was not exactly sentient. Basically, it was like a large dragon with the brains of a tiny baby dragon. As it grew, more and more karmic luck would amass within it, and it would awaken a true spirit. If they could protect it, it would continue to grow and turn increasingly corporeal, until it was no different from a living being. It would become the guardian divine beast of the first academy, and it would forever uplift the karmic luck of the first academy.
Right now, however, it was still very vulnerable, and the people attacking the first academy were doing so with both greed and a sense of urgency.
The race for karmic luck was a zero sum game. Once a karmic luck dragon manifestation appeared within a sect and evolved to be fully corporeal, there would be less karmic luck for everyone else. Worse still, if that sect was exterminated and someone else took control over the dragon manifestation, it would not become theirs. It would simply stop gathering karmic luck and slowly fade away, and most of the karmic luck it had gathered would be gone for good.
Thus, the major forces had no intention of letting it grow too much. They had to take control of it now. Since the first academy had rejected their demands of sharing the karmic luck dragon manifestation, they could only seize it through force.
“Fight!”
Zhang Kangnian suddenly roared. He and all the other traitors suddenly unleashed their Blood Qi. Zhang Kangnian instantly summoned his three law manifestations.
Clearly, they knew that the people outside wouldn’t be wasting the effort of saving them even though the barrier was weakened; they would wait for the barrier to completely collapse. All they could do was fight. As long as they captured Long Chen, they would still have a chance. Otherwise, they would be in quite the predicament.
Just as they started moving, a blood-colored halberd streaked through the air, and Zhang Kangnian and his manifestations were simply cut in two.
The black-armored Cang Lu appeared. Black qi surged around him, making him look like a devil climbing up from hell. Bloodfiend Qi burned behind him, causing space to twist, and within this Bloodfiend Qi fire, three blurry manifestations appeared. They looked like immemorial devilish divinities layered on top of each other, and the devil might that came from them made the traitors freeze in terror.
Cang Lu had absorbed an enormous amount of Bloodfiend Qi, and he had finally condensed his own law manifestations. That terrifying aura caused everyone inside and outside the academy to be shaken. A startled cry suddenly came from among the attackers.
“No, wait... that’s... that’s the Bloodfiend Devil Lord!”