Chapter 7049 Father and Son Join Forces
This middle-aged man was Long Zhantian. Long Chen had never expected to see him again here, of all places.
“Dad... were you captured again?”
Long Zhantian snorted. “What do you mean, again? You’re trying to anger me, aren’t you?”
Long Zhantian was a prodigy, but beyond that, he was a man whose pride ran down to the very marrow of his bones. In this life, he had only been captured once, and he had suffered more than enough. And he had allowed that to happen for the sake of his family. There was no way he would let it happen again.
Hearing this, Long Chen relaxed. “As long as you’re fine, everything is well.”
If the Jiuli Divine Realm was using his father’s life to blackmail him, Long Chen really would go crazy.
“That said... If you’re not a prisoner, then why are you here?”
Long Zhantian sighed. “When we parted ways last time, I disguised myself and joined one of the Jiuli race’s branches. After all, I have the blood of the Jiuli race in my veins. I couldn’t bear watching as the Jiuli race rotted...”
Hearing that, Long Chen sighed inside. His father truly cared about bloodline ties. The Long clan had treated him terribly, and the Jiuli race had fallen to this extent, but he still wasn’t able to let go of them.
Long Zhantian continued, “After joining that branch, I used my own power to reach the higher ranks and came into contact with a broken piece of the Jiuli Tower. More specifically, the top of the Jiuli Tower. It acknowledged me, and I became its master. Not long after that, the Jiuli Divine Realm forced that branch to submit to them, and that branch was powerless to resist. After a group of the higher-ups were killed, everyone else gave up and handed over the top of the tower. I simply hid here, and they brought me to the Jiuli Divine Realm without having any idea that I was there. Now I have a chance to take over the entire Jiuli Tower.”
Long Chen was shocked. Although his father made it sound simple, Long Chen knew that he had to have undergone an amazing adventure. If Jiang Li discovered his father at any moment, he would truly be doomed.
Long Zhantian explained, “The Jiuli Tower’s fragments had all produced their own independent wills after being separated for so long. Although Jiang Li controls the most important foundation, he cannot simply erase those other wills. He is waiting for a chance. When the Jiuli race’s karmic luck grows strong enough, he can refine the Jiuli Tower back into one piece and take full control of it. Of course, I am also waiting for that chance. When it happens, I will kill Jiang Li and seize control of the foundation, and then I’ll take control of the entire Jiuli Tower. The person who controls the Jiuli Tower is the person who controls the Jiuli race. The only way for the Jiuli race to escape the control of Lord Brahma is for me to do that.”
“The Jiuli race is under Lord Brahma’s control?” asked Long Chen in disbelief. He had naturally expected them to have dealings with Lord Brahma, but being under his control was another matter altogether.
“Well, they are not fully under control, but they have been badly infiltrated. Jiang Li is full of himself and has no idea that Lord Brahma gave those people a secret art that allows them to escape the eyes of the Jiuli Tower. Those people have managed to infiltrate the very core of our race, and Jiang Li has even used the Jiuli Tower’s precious energy to help them transform by branding the mark of the new era on them.”
As he explained this, Long Zhantian’s expression grew contemptuous. It was obvious that he didn’t give a rat’s ass on Jiang Li’s supposed intelligence.
“So the Jiuli Tower can really help people gain the mark of the new era? I see... But doesn’t that mean that the other primal chaos divine items have a similar ability? Can all of them turn the people of the senior generation into experts of the new era?” asked Long Chen.
Long Zhantian nodded. “In theory, yes. But doing that severely affects the recovery of the primal chaos divine item. Jiang Li was willing to part with a bit of the Jiuli Tower’s core energy in hopes of creating a few triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns. After all, before the new era’s disciples have fully grown up, it will be up to the senior generation to protect the Jiuli race.”
“Triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns?” This was Long Chen’s first time hearing of this. “Does that mean creating another manifestation on top of a double manifestation?”
This time, Long Zhantian shook his head. “It’s not so simple. A double manifestation is only an inner and outer manifestation. Yin and Yang complement each other, forming a resonance with heaven and earth. A double-manifestation Divine Sovereign is on a completely different level compared to an ordinary Divine Sovereign. But a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign is even more terrifying. I only came to know of their existence after arriving at the Jiuli Divine Realm and seeing Jiang Li.
“A triple manifestation requires the new era’s karmic luck and laws as a foundation. With this new manifestation, the man carves a path from inside to outside to link with heaven and earth. These three manifestations also represent the past, present, and future. The connection between them is extremely complex, and every person’s path towards a triple manifestation is different. And when the three manifestations become one, that represents the birth of a true god, the descent of an unmatched Sovereign. This is what it means to be a true Divine Sovereign.”
“Haha, I wonder just how strong a triple manifestation is!” Long Chen clenched his fists. That was the important question.
Long Zhantian smirked. “Don’t worry, you’ll see one soon enough!”
“Oh? Is someone coming after me? Who?” asked Long Chen.
“Long Can!”
“Huh?”
Long Zhantian told Long Chen all about what Jiang Li and the others had discussed in secret. Well, it was a secret from everyone else, but not from him. As Long Zhantian was at the top of the Jiuli Tower, everything that happened inside the Jiuli Tower was within his gaze. He could also do other things—for instance, calling out to Long Chen through the Heaven Hell Gate so that they could meet again.
“Ha, what a bunch of old fogeys!” Although Long Chen had known that those elders didn’t have good intentions, he hadn’t expected them to go to such lengths to kill him. They would draw over not just the Zither Sect, Painting Sect, and Chess Sect, but even a newly awakened triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign!
Suddenly, he realized something. “Wait, that’s not right. Didn’t you say that the Jiuli Divine Realm has already been infiltrated? If Lord Brahma knows that Jiang Li is trying to scheme against him, will he really send Long Can? Even if he can’t stop her, suppressing the information should be easily doable.”
“Lord Brahma could infiltrate the Jiuli race, but can’t the Jiuli race also infiltrate the Brahma line?”
“Eh? Jiang Li managed to do something like that?”
Long Zhantian laughed. “Jiang Li is a fool in some respects, but he is no spring chicken. Moreover, the Jiuli race has countless secret arts. Even Lord Brahma doesn’t know everything about them. How would Jiang Li dare to involve Lord Brahma in his plans if he had no way of controlling the variables?”
Long Chen nodded. It was true that the Jiuli race was one of humanity’s strongest forces. They had countless secret arts. It seemed he had underestimated them.
“So what do you plan to do?” After explaining his side, Long Zhantian wanted to hear what Long Chen was planning.
“I was originally planning on secretly learning all the Jiuli race’s high level divine abilities, then making a run for it. But now it seems that I have to see Long Can,” chuckled Long Chen.
“Oh? It seems you’re quite confident,” remarked Long Zhantian.
“Naturally. I am confident in myself, and I am even more confident in the violet-gold polearm,” said Long Chen.
“In the what now?!”
Long Zhantian’s expression finally changed. He hadn’t expected the violet blood race to give Long Chen the violet-gold polearm! He was well aware that his son had only had a few days of contact with the Violet Abyss.
“As expected of my son! Bold and charismatic, just like his old man! Well, since you have such a trump card, why don’t we join forces to do something bigger?”
