Chapter 7246 Karmic Luck War
Chapter 7246 Karmic Luck War
Just as everyone stared in confusion, one young woman who had been blessed by the karmic luck suddenly fell to her knees, weeping.
“This aura! It’s my big brother’s aura! He died in battle... this karmic luck should be his...”
Who knew how many people were glaring at her enviously? Yet she paid them no mind, and neither did she care about the karmic luck. Though this blessing was something others would have given an arm for, she didn’t feel any joy, because she knew that her big brother would never come back.
He had responded to Long Chen’s first call and fought fiercely against the outsider devils. But that battle was on a terrifying scale. Apart from a select few, any single person’s power made no more difference than the presence of one more speck of dust.
From the moment that her big brother entered that battlefield, she was no longer able to sense his aura. The terrifying waves of power blocked her senses. In fact, let alone her, even a proper Heavenly Sovereign may not have been able to accurately pinpoint a single person’s aura in such a chaotic battle.
She had been praying the entire time that he had survived. After all, under Miao Yin’s guidance, the absolute majority had lived. She hoped that her big brother was somewhere among them. However, the fact that the karmic luck dragon manifestation was giving her a reward instantly made her lose her composure. This blessing should have been her big brother's, but it had ended up with her!
At the same time, she realized that the karmic luck dragon manifestation had been observing the battle, and also taking note of the casualties. If it felt some of the fallen warriors should be rewarded, their rewards were now passed to the people closest to them.
Many other cries rang out. These people hadn’t participated in the battle, yet they were now given a blessing from the Heavenly Daos that countless people dreamed of obtaining. But was it a blessing, really? To them, it felt more like a curse. They would have gladly paid any price for it, but those who had paid instead were the people they loved the most, and the price was their lives. They could feel a familiar aura in these blessings, one that made them feel incredible grief.
“Damn it, Long Chen must have known that the karmic luck dragon manifestation would do this! That’s why he made sure to take all the good stuff for himself!”
A flustered curse rang out.
As soon as the words echoed, the speaker had a bad feeling and shut up. However, it was too late. Everyone realized that this was the same voice they all loathed, the same wretched voice that had warned the outsider devils twice!
Just as the speaker was about to flee, the void quivered, and Long Chen appeared among the crowd. Without a moment’s delay, he grabbed a young man by the throat and lifted him up into the air.
When people saw the young man’s robes, startled cries rang out.
“The Cult of Mara!”
The Cult of Mara was an ancient force that traced its history to the primal chaos era. In terms of history and foundation, they were not inferior to the Heaven’s Peer Dao Sect. It belonged to the nine heavens, technically, but there was hardly a single person in the nine heavens who thought positively of them. In fact, their evil deeds had made them even more hated than the outsider devils in the eyes of many.
Most of the people present had wanted to tear this person apart, but they hadn’t expected him to be from the infamous Cult of Mara.
Long Chen was holding him up by the throat, like a little chicken. His grip constricted the young man’s breath such that he couldn’t even speak, but he still used his Spiritual Strength to scream, “I am a core disciple of the Cult of Mara! If you dare—”
With a clench of his hand, Long Chen crushed his throat before he could even finish speaking. As it turned out, Long Chen really did dare.
The next moment, blood mist erupted from the young man’s body. Under the drive of some kind of mysterious power, it spread throughout the entire battlefield, and as it diffused, a group of hidden figures was suddenly revealed to everyone.
Someone immediately recognized them and yelled, “They’re from the Cult of Mara’s Assassin Hall!”
Considering how ancient their legacy was, it was no surprise that the Cult of Mara had countless branches. Among them, the Assassin Hall was particularly famous. They specialized in hunting down experts from different races and extracting the essence from their flesh and blood. Since the Cult of Mara had sent them rather than someone else, it meant that they weren’t here for the karmic luck, but for the bodies of those who died in battle.
Realizing this, everyone was outraged. But no one dared to say anything. They didn’t dare to when considering what kind of terrifying force the Cult of Mara was. If they said something that was perceived as an insult, their entire sect or clan could be exterminated.
“Flag Bearers, lead the battle! Kill every last person from the Cult of Mara!” ordered Long Chen.
“Yes, Dean!”
The High Firmament Academy’s eight million elites were still in peak shape and raring to go. Under the lead of the Banner Envoys, they surrounded the members of the Cult of Mara.
Everyone around them immediately drew back. No one wanted to get sucked into this battle. As for the Assassin Hall experts, they also wanted to flee; after all, there were only a hundred thousand of them. They didn’t have the guts to face eight million hungry wolves. Worse still, they were assassins, and this kind of open combat was their worst nightmare.
To their dismay, they immediately discovered that Long Chen had done something to mark them. They couldn’t hide again, and even if they tried to vanish among the random spectators who were now fleeing, there was a blood-colored shadow following them. Anyone who wasn’t blind could tell where they were. As for the High Firmament Academy’s elites, even less needed to be said; even in the ensuing chaos, they were easily able to track down the assassins.
In individual combat, these assassins would have been completely outmatched anyway, and with the difference in numbers, the situation instantly became a one-sided massacre. There were a few of them who were substantially more powerful than their peers and tried to break through the academy disciples’ enclosure, but they were stopped by the Flag Bearers and killed. In just a few moments, before the fleeing spectators could even distance themselves enough, the battle was already over. The Cult of Mara’s experts were wiped out.
Long Chen waved his hand. The eight Flag Bearers’ High Firmament Flags gathered around the battlefield, locking down the bloody mist that remained of them. Then, the Heavenly Daos began to rumble. A sharp, murderous aura grew, and a gigantic divine rune appeared in the sky.
“What is that... ‘War?’ What is that supposed to mean?”
Some experienced people managed to recognize this ancient character, but they did not understand the meaning behind what was happening.
“Heavens, Long Chen is using those people’s blood to initiate a karmic luck war against the Cult of Mara!” someone suddenly exclaimed in shock.
A karmic luck war driven by blood and witnessed by the heavens!
Once heaven and earth approved such a war, there could be no rest until one side was deemed exterminated. When that happened, their karmic luck would be seized by the victor. During the war, both side’s karmic luck would be locked down by the Heavenly Daos. The disciples of both sides would be unable to use it to either cultivate or support themselves.
When the spectators realized the magnitude of the carnage that would inevitably follow, they couldn’t help gasping. Long Chen truly was daring. He had initiated a war of extermination between the High Firmament Academy and the Cult of Mara, a battle to the death between two overlords that had been present since times immemorial!