A five-vein Heaven Saint stood before Long Chen, exuding an immense aura that marked him as a true powerhouse. He was truly powerful, or he wouldn’t have been able to block Long Chen’s lightning sphere.


    Yet, before the dissipating lightning could scatter, a hand shimmering with starlight mercilessly pped this expert’s face. The strike was so sudden that even his senses failed to detect any danger beforehand.


    The force of the p sent him flying through the air like a meteor. The experts behind him were caught in the impact, their bodies blown apart as he crashed into them.


    After sending him flying, Long Chen shot after with a lightning spear in his hand.


    Thunder roared as countless lightning runes coalesced into the spear, radiating a power that made heaven and earth tremble.


    “Wild Lightning Battle Soul Spear!” Long Chen bellowed, hurling the weapon with unrestrained fury.


    This was a simple technique, but Long Chen’s thunderforce had reached a shocking level. So, even the most straightforward move became devastating under hismand.


    Long Chen’sbo was very smooth. He had used a p with no killing intent behind it to knock his enemy off bnce and thenunched his killing blow.


    “Nine Underworld Blood sh!” roared the five-vein Heaven Saint, opting to counterattack rather than defend.<em>BOOM!</em>


    The lightning spear shed with the golden trident in a cataclysmic explosion. Long Chen staggered back a few steps, gritting his teeth, while the Heaven Saint coughed up blood.


    Long Chen’s heart shook. This opponent, though also a five-vein Heaven Saint, was far stronger than the ones he and Mo Nian had encountered earlier.


    Long Chen had clearly taken the advantage, but his full-power attack still couldn’t deal a serious injury to this guy. He had underestimated the ck Rock Nine Underworld Python race.


    With a sh, lightning wings appeared on Long Chen’s back, and he teleported right beside his target.


    The Heaven Saint swung his trident in panic, trying to ward him off. But to his horror, the blow passed through an afterimage.


    “Shit!”


    Before he could react, a lightning spear pierced his back, erupting from his chest. His vaunted scale armor failed to withstand its force.


    “Die,” Long Chen spat coldly, detonating the spear.


    The five-vein Heaven Saint of the ck Rock Nine Underworld Python then copsed, his body reduced to ashes.


    “Damn human, you’ll pay for that!”


    Angry roars echoed as over ten powerful auras surged toward Long Chen. A group of five-vein Heaven Saints was bearing down on him from the edge of the astralke.


    “Fuck, do you think I’m afraid of you?!” Long Chen snarled, his fury zing.


    The astralke was right there, yet these pests refused to let him reach it.


    <em>BOOM!</em>


    Long Chen charged forward with a lightning spear, his wrath manifesting in raw destruction.


    He tore through the blockade, killing one of them outright, but the effort came at a cost. In order to get past them, Long Chen had to endure a sh to his back. Even the Starry Sky Battle Robe couldn’t effectively block the might of a five-vein Heaven Saint.


    Just as Long Chen was about to reach the astralke, huge waves exploded out of it. A colossal tail surged forth, whipping toward him with terrifying speed.


    A suffocating aura apanied the attack, and six heaven veins swirled around its owner. Long Chen’s eyes widened in shock.


    “A six-vein Heaven Saint?!”


    Worse, this wasn’t a newly advanced one. Their Blood Qi and heaven vein dragon qi had merged seamlessly. So, the ck Rock Nine Underworld Python race actually hid such a terrifying expert.


    “Thousand Lightning Shield!”


    Long Chen formed hand seals, and a massive lightning shield materialized in front of him. It split into a thousand thinyers, each shimmering with crackling energy.


    The tail’s devastating power shattered one shield after another. But in the end, twenty-three shields remained intact, halting the attackpletely.


    <em>BOOM!</em>


    The astralke surged violently as a monstrous python’s head emerged. Its sheer size dwarfed everything around it, and its icy, vertical pupils locked onto Long Chen with predatory intent.


    The python opened its jaws, releasing a bolt of blood-colored divine light that tore through the air. n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Long Chen’s instincts screamed danger. In response, his lightning wings red, and he vanished.


    An enormous hole was left in the ground, its edges unnervingly clean. Everything within it had been erased from existence.


    Long Chen felt a chill creep up his spine. He had seen such power before—it was an annihtion technique like the one in Cloud’s arsenal. A single misstep would have spelled his end.


    “Damn human, do you only know how to run like a coward?!”


    An icy voice rang out as the python’s massive form disappeared, reced by a ck-robed woman.


    Her vertical pupils gleamed with malice, and just looking at her would make a person feel like a poisonous fang was hanging right over their throat.


    To block Long Chen, she had returned to her human form, but six heaven veins were still swirling around her, along with a transparent fluctuation. She had started condensing her seventh heaven vein.


    “You aren’t pretty enough to have such a foul mouth. The ck Rock Nine Underworld Pythons are really easy to hate,” sneered Long Chen.


    As Long Chen spoke, thunderforce surged around him, forming crackling lightning chains that subtly burrowed into the earth, stretching toward the astralke.


    “Report your name! I, Yan Tong, don’t kill nameless trash,” the woman dered coldly, summoning a pitch-ck broadsword.


    Around them, tens of millions of experts from various races closed in, their eyes filled with hostility.


    Before Long Chen could respond, a familiar voice roared with fury.


    “Long Chen, you bastard! Let’s see where you will run this time!”