"You were so arrogant just now, but it looks like you're just so-so."
Song Zhongcheng laughed loudly. He slowed down his footsteps, and slowly walked toward Long Chen. To be honest, he had really been scared stiff by Long Chen when he had killed two cultivators at the seventh level of the Heavenly River Tier in quick succession. With his strength at the eighth level of the Heavenly River Tier, the difference between the two was immediately obvious.
"This guy's speed is really too fast."
In the situation just now, Long Chen didn't even have the time to use the Devouring Blood Realm or the divine flame doppelganger. He only felt his vision blur, and then his lower abdomen was directly pierced through. Although this kind of injury wasn't fatal, it was still a serious injury. If Long Chen didn't properly recuperate, it would be difficult for him to fight normally.
However, this wasn't a problem for Long Chen. There was only one thought in his mind, and that was that he still needed to protect Lingxi. Thus, he couldn't fall down for a quarter of an hour.
Huo.
Long Chen clutched the wound in his lower abdomen with one hand and grasped the Blue Dragon Halberd with the other. He stood up in full view of the crowd. Although he was defeated, the blood-red fighting spirit in his eyes made the crowd secretly apprehensive.
"Not dead yet."
Song Zhongcheng laughed mockingly. "Not bad, you actually didn't die after being hit by my Shadow Killing Technique. However, you still won't die under this move. Long Chen, your life will end under this move of mine. I've used this move to kill countless people. Today, you won't be the first, nor will you be the last."
One move.
A move that could make Song Zhongcheng so proud had to be a high-level Earth-level battle technique. Moreover, there was a very high chance that Long Chen would die under this move.
"You can't kill me," Long Chen said coldly as he swallowed all the blood in his mouth.
"Then try." Song Zhongcheng was about to attack.
At this moment, with a low howl, Xiao Lang's huge body suddenly blocked in front of Long Chen. With a light flick of his tail, he immediately swept Long Chen to the door of Lingxi's residence.
Xiao Lang's meaning was very simple. He wanted Long Chen to protect Lingxi and leave Songzhong City to him.
"Xiao Lang."
Long Chen was already prepared to die. He was just about to remind Xiao Lang to take Lingxi and break out of the encirclement. Unexpectedly, Xiao Lang saw through his intentions and directly intervened, escorting Long Chen down. Xiao Lang's intention was very simple. He wanted Long Chen to take Lingxi and run. He would be the one to face today's opponent.
Roar!
Under the morning light, the majestic Sun Devouring Demonic Wolf's black fur was like countless black vortexes, swallowing the light of the sun into its body.
"Come back here, I'll deal with him."
If Xiao Lang sacrificed himself, Long Chen felt that he would never be able to forgive himself. Killing the Ninth Prince was purely a matter between Long Chen and Lingxi. Xiao Lang had already helped them a lot along the way. If Xiao Lang had to sacrifice his life in exchange for a chance for Long Chen to escape, he would rather die than let this happen.
To be honest, the current Xiao Lang was slightly weaker than Long Chen. Moreover, Songzhong City was full of eighth tier Heavenly River Tier cultivators, so Xiao Lang was definitely no match for him.
Right at this moment, surging black flames actually soared up from Xiao Lang's body. Unlike the Netherworld Demonic Ancestral Flames, these flames were blazing and frenzied.
"This … Xiao Lang's strength is rapidly increasing, but this is definitely not normal power. There should be a heavy price to pay."
Long Chen could tell with a single glance that Little Wolf was fighting with its life on the line. When these flames were ignited, Little Wolf's battle prowess became much stronger. Its attacks were direct and direct, and it was able to force Songzhong City, who was at the eighth level of the Heavenly River Tier, into retreat.
This was especially true when the 125 divine flame clones were used. Songzhong City was beaten into a very sorry state. Unfortunately, the foundation of Songzhong City was not damaged.
"What the hell is this?"
Songzhong City had already eaten. When the flames burned, Xiao Lang's battle prowess was already about the same as his.
"This is definitely a method of burning oneself to deal with me. This method is very damaging to one's foundation, and there's a very high chance that one will become a cripple from then on. Moreover, it will be difficult for one to use this method to harm others in one's lifetime. So, as long as I endure for a while, I'll definitely be able to exhaust him to death."
Songzhong Cheng deviously thought to himself. He no longer faced the Wolf Cub's attacks head-on, but instead began to flee in all directions. To an outsider, he truly was in a very sorry state, but only he knew that before long, he wouldn't even need to do anything. This monster would fall on its own.
What Xiao Lang was burning was the Sun Devouring Demonic Wolf's flame of life. This kind of flame would diminish as it burned, until it was completely exhausted. At that time, Xiao Lang would be completely dead.
Long Chen's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
"Xiao Lang."
The emotions in his heart could no longer be described with words. Just because of their friendship, Xiao Lang was willing to go this far for him. To be able to meet such a brother in this life, Long Chen was truly content.
What kind of brother would burn their own life to give you a chance to live?
In Baiyang Town, the relationship between the Yang family ancestor and the head of the Bai family had given Long Chen a vivid lesson. It made him realize that the word "brother" could not be casually spoken out. But now, Long Chen was completely certain that although he and Xiao Lang were not blood brothers, they were closer than blood brothers.
"You are so worthy of me, so how can I, Long Chen, be unworthy of you?"
Seeing Xiao Lang's flame of life diminish little by little, all because he wanted to do his utmost to stop Songzhong City and give Long Chen a chance to live, Long Chen's head was on fire. He felt the blood in his body boil, and endless crimson dragons madly roared in his body.
"Kill!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Suddenly, a scene appeared in his mind. Countless crimson dragons were burning with crimson flames. When these flames appeared, their fighting strength soared crazily. Their length also increased crazily until they blotted out the sun.
At this time, the mysterious dragon jade moved again.
This time, the essence blood actually took the initiative to fly into the dragon jade and fuse into a divine ability cultivation method. Long Chen was overjoyed. Every time the essence blood moved like this, Long Chen would be able to obtain a heaven-defying divine ability. From refining blood into qi, to dragon soul transformation, to devouring the blood world, to blood escape — which one of them was not a heaven-defying divine ability?
"Immemorial Secret Art, Blood Sacrifice."
The words "Blood Sacrifice" suddenly appeared in Long Chen's mind.
At this time, Long Chen's whole body seemed like it was about to explode. He stared fixedly at Xiao Lang's flame of life diminishing, and at this time, he used the newly obtained Immemorial Secret Art, Blood Sacrifice. Suddenly, a wave that made people's hearts palpitate exploded from Long Chen's body and swept toward death.
"Xiao Lang, stop! Leave this bastard to me!"
This earth-shattering roar caused everyone to take a few steps back in fright. Even the people in Songzhong City heard it and looked at Long Chen's current situation in confusion.
Hu.
Suddenly, crimson flames crazily erupted from Long Chen's crimson dragon scales. Long Chen's whole body burned crazily. What shocked Songzhong City was that Long Chen's fighting strength soared crazily. From the fifth layer of the Heavenly River Tier, it immediately soared to the sixth layer of the Heavenly River Tier, and then continued to soar crazily until it reached the peak of the seventh layer of the Heavenly River Tier. Only then did it stop.
With Long Chen's current dragon soul transformation and 10 times the nature of True Qi, Long Chen's current True Qi had already reached the eighth layer of the Heavenly River Tier, and even surpassed Songzhong City in terms of True Qi.
This kind of terrifying increase was much more powerful than Xiao Lang's burning of the flame of life.
However, Long Chen knew that although it was also an increase, this Mystical Power Blood Sacrifice was countless times more powerful than Xiao Lang's burning of life. Xiao Lang's burning of life could only be used once in his life. After burning out, he would naturally die. However, Long Chen's Blood Sacrifice was different. He burned all the True Qi in his whole body, and the extent of the Blood Sacrifice's increase was within a certain range. With Long Chen's current ability, he could at most use the Blood Sacrifice to increase his fighting strength by three layers. Of course, there was a price to pay for the Blood Sacrifice, and that was, after using the Blood Sacrifice, his fighting strength would drop by three layers. Long Chen was now forcibly raised to the seventh layer of the Heavenly River Tier, which meant that after the battle, he would drop back to the third layer of the Heavenly River Tier.
However, with Refining Blood and Transforming Qi, what was there to be afraid of?
Using the Blood Sacrifice together with Refining Blood and Transforming Qi was practically the most heaven-defying combination. In this way, even if Long Chen raised himself to the eighth layer of the Heavenly River Tier, he would only drop back to the second layer of the Heavenly River Tier in the end. As long as there was enough time, he could raise himself to the fifth layer of the Heavenly River Tier again.
Of course, unless it was absolutely necessary, it was best not to use such a heaven-defying method like the Blood Sacrifice. Long Chen even felt that this Blood Sacrifice was even more terrifying than the Refining Blood and Transforming Qi that he had obtained at the beginning. As one of the Ten Great Ancestral Dragons, the Ancient Blood Spirit Dragon was worthy of such a terrifying method.
Because he had used Refining Blood and Transforming Qi excessively, the present Long Chen was already deeply affected by the killing intent of the Ancient Blood Spirit Dragon. If he used the Blood Sacrifice and Transforming Blood and Transforming Qi frequently, he would definitely not have a good result. On the path of cultivation, it was best to be stable.
Of course, at such a critical juncture of life and death, Long Chen could only use the Blood Sacrifice.
Feeling the expansion of Long Chen's strength, Xiao Lang was somewhat puzzled. Long Chen was not a Sun Devouring Demonic Wolf, so how could he burn the flame of life?
"Hurry up and stop."
At Long Chen's shout, Xiao Lang had no choice but to stop burning his life. However, immediately after, an overwhelming feeling of weakness indeed came. This kind of pain caused Xiao Lang to directly faint on the roof. He shrank to the size of a small puppy and was just about to fall off the roof.
Long Chen caught him.
"Xiao Lang …" Looking at the unconscious and weak Xiao Lang in his hands, Long Chen's whole heart convulsed. He gently placed Xiao Lang on the door. Then, his bloodshot eyes were already fixed on Central Pine City.
"The Wei Tribe will all die today."