Chapter 519: The Tower of Eternity Descends (II)
Therefore, it baited the twelve Specter Kings to approach, and the instant they came into contact with the Tower of Eternity, it unleashed its most basic power, the pure might of a supra-divine tool.
The Specter Kings were indeed powerful, but compared to the full power blow of a supra-divine tool, how could they compare? It directly resulted in them shattering.
The instant the twelve specters were broken into pieces, Saminaga shouted in great despair. At this time, he thoroughly understood that this golden pagoda wasn’t anything he could resist against. If this went on, he would not only sustain injuries, but possibly even be consumed due to the massive death force he possessed.
In the midst of a frantic shout, Saminaga spurted out a mouthful of blood, and immediately, the distant Demon God of Death’s Pillar erupted with an incomparable brilliance.
The frightful gray energy in the sky transformed into a gigantic, sinister, Fiend shape that frantically rushed towards the Tower of Eternity and fully absorbed the rest of the Domain of Death which was forcefully recalled.
This sinister Fiend was the root of Saminaga’s power, as well as the root of the whole Fiend Clan’s power, not limited to the death attribute.
At the very moment, Saminaga was letting out extremely bizarre shrills, and in the demon camp located downwards, a myriad of hissing sounds could be heard. Countless black lights shot up from there towards Saminaga’s direction.
Including Valefor, the other demon gods a formed up behind him, each of them transmitting the power of his own demon god pillar.
The demon god pillars emitted different radiances, each of them originating from their own clan’s original incarnation. Seven great shadows spread their brilliance in the sky, and its greatest attack erupted to bombard the Tower of Eternity.
The seven great demon gods’ joint attack created a spectacular scene, of a kind that was unseen for several years. Even as the wielder of the Divine Throne of Order and Law, the Divine Knight Long Tianying was caused to drop down from the sky by the shock.
Saminaga was already fighting as if his life depended of it. His previous shrill drew support from the whole Fiend Clan’s power, originating from his Fiend Blood Link bloodline magic. Through this spell, he was able to instantly transfer a part of each of his clansmen’s strength to launch his ultimate blow.
In this Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass’ demon camp could be said to be the root of the Fiend Clan’s forces. The boost they gave to Saminaga was as great as one may well imagine. Adding to that the amplification from the demon god pillars, it enabled Saminaga to use his strongest attack ever launched.
He had no other choice but to fight at all costs. In case the Domain of Death ended up completely swallowed, the twelve Specter Kings would be fully absorbed by the Tower of Eternity. Then, Saminaga’s cultivation would be reduced by half. To say nothing of the internal wounds induced, he would never be able to keep the fourth demon god’s seat due to that.
So, he would rather use his bloodline magic to transfer power from his clansmen, and weaken them greatly, to try the utmost to preserve his own domain.
The united attack of the seven great demon gods was really terrifying. This was already far beyond the power of a forbidden spell.
The incandescent heat surrounding the Tower of Eternity twisted frantically, but didn’t show the slightest resistance to the seven demon gods’ act of joining their forces. It just continued to swallow all the death force it could swallow, including the remnants of the twelve Specter Kings.
Quickly, a brilliance with the power of seven forbidden spells came to bombard the Tower of Eternity. Watching from afar, Long Tianying had even lost his ability to breath. To his great shock, he saw that Long Haochen was precisely inside that golden pagoda! And the pagoda itself didn’t seem material at all, solely formed of energy.
But he was just a single person. Even if the strength of a Divine Knight was even greater, he couldn’t possibly resist the joint attack launched by seven great demon gods including Saminaga and Valefor. The terrible pressure and fluctuations of spiritual energy made him unable to even approach the area.
But Long Tianying immediately dropped his jaw.
Right when the seven brilliances were about to bombard the Tower of Eternity, the incandescent colored light suddenly disappeared at the speed of light and without suffering the influence of the seven great demon gods’ power in the slightest.
In the midst of the disappearing white light, that pagoda and Long Haochen both totally disappeared.
The joint full power force of the seven demon gods was was redirected into the air, guided to a high altitude.
Their joint force was certainly terrifying: it bore the full original power of the demon god pillars! The whole sky almost instantly became seven-colored, and remained that way for a long time. One could clearly see that all the clouds in an area of a thousand miles had disappeared in an instant. Only the seven-colored glint was glittering unceasingly.
The seven demon gods groaned at the same time, especially Saminaga who spurted out another mouthful of gray blood, his face looking as pale as paper. But this time, he didn’t dare take a rest, and moved both his hands extremely frantically, absorbing the broken pieces of the Domain of Death and the leftover fragments of the twelve Specter Kings.
This time, Saminaga didn’t even have any tears left to shed. Over 40% of his Domain of Death had been swallowed in this very short time, and the twelve Specter Kings were not only in pieces, but the souls of seven of them had already been taken away. And this was after the seven great demon gods promptly utilized their full power to strike the last blow. Otherwise, with just a bit more time, the Tower of Eternity would not have left him the slightest trace.
Even Valefor who coveted the seat of the fourth demon god didn’t have the mood to take delight in Saminaga’s misfortune. He wasn’t any less shocked than Saminaga.
That was a Gold Foundation Knight! And furthermore, the divine tool he was using before should be a shield. Just how did it become a pagoda? Could this Gold Foundation Knight actually have two divine tools in his posession? And furthermore, this was already beyond considering an ordinary divine tool. It was just too terrifying the way it overwhelmed Saminaga!
Ever since the start of the Holy War, this was the first time the Demonic Bear Demon God Valefor felt such a threat from the humans. He never expected the Knight Temple to have such a powerful trump card in reserve. After attacking their camp by surprise, they even managed to plot against Saminaga!
Saminaga lost a huge deal of power this time. Perhaps even fifty years wouldn’t suffice to restore his prior peak.
He was now filled to the brim with pity. The expressions on all the demon gods on stage were unsightly to the extreme, but they didn’t execute the slightest action.
The power they put in the prior attack came with an immense consumption for them. How about the Knight Temple? What did they lose in the previous raid?
Even if unwilling to admit it, the seven great demon gods did have to admit that the knights had zero losses. Right, not the slightest loss. The seven great demon gods all acted personally, but not a single enemy was left.
From this situation, only God knew what other trump cards the Knight Temple could have in reserve. They were demon gods, and not expendable soldiers. Their fright far exceeded their feelings of rage. No one wanted to be the next to suffer Saminaga’s fate. Therefore, they only stared blindly at the sky, seeing the wielder of the Divine Throne of Law and Order and supreme commander of the Knight Temple, Long Tianying, return back to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.
But how could these seven demon gods know that at the very moment, the Knight Temple’s powerhouses weren’t any less shocked than them. Including Long Tianying, no one knew what had just happened.
The lower graded knights were all acclaiming in great ecstasy. Everyone could see the great loss suffered by the demon side. However, the higher ranked knights were only filled with shock, amazement, and incomprehension. They all saw that golden pagoda, but who knew what it could be? No one had even heard about the existence of such a powerful divine tool in the Knight Temple.
Everyone was filled with questions, and Long Tianying was the same. But he was even more worried about Long Haochen’s safety. To mobilize such a terrifying power, just what could be the huge cost he had to pay? It could very possibly be at the cost of his life.
But if the Tower of Eternity hadn’t chosen to escape rather than bear the last hit from the seven demon gods, Long Tianying would be even more worried.
And did Long Haochen have a real cost to pay? Right, this came with a cost, the cost of his spiritual energy becoming in total turmoil.
With a flash of bright light, Long Haochen directly appeared in the first floor of the Tower of Eternity, and sat crosslegged out of subconscious mind.
Cliques of white lights were frantically leaping up around his body, and a terrifyingly massive light elemental spiritual energy was rushing out from his body at an astonishing speed.
Even if Long Haochen was even more unwilling to receive the assistance from the Tower of Eternity, he had no other choice by now. The Tower of Eternity had totally suppressed Saminaga without issue, to speak nothing of him, who was still at the eighth step.
The current Long Haochen felt as if his body was burning like a raging inferno. The five spiritual cavities inside him were trembling frighteningly. And the light elemental spiritual energy coming from outside was extremely pure, but some aura of death was mixed in, coming pouring into his body. It needed the active filter from his five spiritual cavities to dispel all the aura of death.
On this aspect, Long Haochen was incomparably decisive. This light elemental spiritual energy was directly usable because of its overwhelming purity;the Tower of Eternity was after all created by the previous Scion of Light, Elux. The purity of his light element was absolutely no lower than Long Haochen’s.
But Long Haochen didn’t let the slightest shred of deathly aura invade his living space.
Chapter 520: The Tower of Eternity Descends! (III)
His encounter with the Divine Snail of Sun and Moon was really important. The advices he obtained were even more tremendously helpful than the Divine Snail Shield.
The need to be strict with himself was, as a Scion of Light, one of the most important lessons he could learn. Obtaining a divine tool only increased his strength, but without a strict behavior, the Scion of Light could also become contaminated and walk on a wrong route.
Therefore, no matter what kind of force Long Haochen obtained, the most important remained for him to keep his own heart pure, and not let himself be contaminated by anything. Naturally, this implied that he couldn’t let this deathly aura pollute his body. He had not the slightest desire to accept the inheritance of the Slumbering Calamity Elux either.
A massive flow of spiritual energy came pouring in, and caused Long Haochen’s amazement because it was all pure, yet not highly concentrated, light essence. In other words, this spiritual energy was like the one already contained in him, and blended with him to perfectly become part of his strength.
He had met with such a situation before as well, but it wasn’t as intense and massive. He faintly came to understand that this should be one of the benefits provided to him due to the Tower of Eternity’s great harvest.
After the projection of the Tower of Eternity appeared, Long Haochen also had a foolish look on his face. A red-hot feeling immediately filled his whole body with burning sensations, as if putting him in a half-unconscious state.
But his mental force remained far stronger than ordinary people, and so, he could perceive some of the external changes even in this situation.
In his mind, the Tower of Eternity was like a living being, and not simply a building or a divine tool. In his struggle with Elux, Saminaga had simply been led by his nose all along. This was especially true in the way that the tower caught the twelve Specter Kings.
Long Haochen felt a palpable greed from the Tower of Eternity. The whole area around the tower frantically swallowed the power of Saminaga’s domain as well as the innumerable specters inside. And to Saminaga’s despair, his all-out effort was totally fruitless. The Tower of Eternity just brought Long Haochen away, and even the fragments of scattered Specter Kings seemed to have become adamant to follow him back.
Because of his close relation with the Tower of Eternity, Long Haochen’s grasp of the situation was a lot deeper than Saminaga or Long Tianying.
When the seven great demon gods joined hands to attack the Tower of Eternity, Long Haochen could sense a great disdain emerging from the Tower of Eternity. But it still didn’t choose to meet it head on. From this, Long Haochen was certain that the Tower of Eternity had the capability to resist that attack, but without a doubt, it would have had a massive cost to pay for that. So, the Tower of Eternity directly brought Long Haochen away, and not because of being unable to resist their force, but because it was not worth it.
In other words, if the Tower of Eternity wanted to resist such an attack, it would need to consume a lot of its energy. And this consumption would be a lot greater than what he could gain afterwards. Therefore, for the sake of getting benefits, the Tower of Eternity deemed it unnecessary to clash, and took the easy way of bringing Long Haochen to leave through space. The lock of the seven great demon gods left him without other choices.
Long Haochen had a chill when thinking about this performance of the Tower of Eternity. It was just way too rational, and totally based on the notion of profit, without consideration for the rest. And Long Haochen clearly perceived that the Tower of Eternity could at any time unleash power that was way beyond his capability. But in past battles, the Tower of Eternity only really helped him once, at the time he was on the edge of death, and only gave a minimal assistance.
The last time Long Haochen and Cai’er were confronted with danger and he gave his all to protect her, the Tower of Eternity hadn’t made the slightest move. But this time, he just activated the teleporting ability, yet the Tower of Eternity chose instead to appear and come to his aid just because it sensed an immense benefit.
This felt hard to bear for the kind-hearted Long Haochen. Today, the appearance of the Tower of Eternity gave him an increased understanding regarding this supra-divine tool. He faintly realized that even the soul memories left by Elux were unable to fully control the supra-divine tool in question, which completely had its own knowledge and judgement. In other words, even if he really ends up obtaining Elux’s inheritance, making an unprofitable or too costly choice from the point of view of the Tower of Eternity would end up being refused by it.
If Long Haochen was someone that could be driven by lust, he would surely find the Tower of Eternity to be a twin-edged sword, though full of benefits to him.
Using it was very simple, and only required him to maintain a win-win situation for the Tower of Eternity and himself.
But Long Haochen absolutely didn’t have such thoughts. He had no desire to maintain a win-win situation. This supra-divine tool was fully relying on the energy of death to strengthen itself, and Long Haochen was unable to approve its greediness.
Today, although the Tower of Eternity grievously wounded Saminaga, and greatly intimidated the seven great demon gods, importantly, it also reinforced Long Haochen’s rejection of it, and reinforced his resolution to refuse Elux’s favors.
Thanks to his great mental control, Long Haochen arranged the spiritual energy in his body in the shape of a large net to absolutely stop any deathly aura from penetrating his spiritual energy. Only through a perfect filtering of the spiritual energy could he perfectly integrate the spiritual energy into his spiritual cavities.
This inevitably made it take more effort to integrate the spiritual energy, but preserving the purity of his spiritual energy was more important by far.
Long Haochen came to the vague realization that his butt was gradually feeling signs of a disturbance due to spiritual energy, which was the sign of the expansion of another spiritual cavity here.
Chest, abdomen, the space in the midst of his eyebrows, and another in each arm were the five spiritual cavities that he had already opened, and these five supported his trunk and arms.
Only, Long Haochen didn’t expect that the process would continue so soon after he opened the arms’ cavities.
Insight and perception all came fast and also leave fast. Hence Long Haochen would not let go of such a good opportunity. While absorbing the spiritual energy that came from outside, he paid careful attention to the stirred undulations. Even if he didn’t manage to break through, this experience would be very advantageous for his future series of breakthroughs.
Time passed, minutes after minutes, and noticeably, on the first floor of the Tower of Eternity, a series of golden glows of light continuously shifted from the surroundings to Long Haochen’s direction, and continuously blended into his body. A part of it was rejected while a part was absorbed, and at the same time, a faintly discernible brilliant light started to shine on his body.
If at that time, Long Haochen had chosen to go for a deep meditation, he would very possibly have constructed in a spurt of inspiration his sixth and his seventh spiritual cavity. But unfortunately, he didn’t have such plans for now. Thus, after the Tower of Eternity terminated its transfer of spiritual energy, he awoke from the state of cultivation.
Taking a deep breath, his body started to float naturally. Long Haochen couldn’t help but exude a pleasant surprise, but after that felt an air of unwillingness.
He indeed didn’t want to receive the help of the Tower of Eternity, because he didn’t want to owe it anything. He went so far as to make the decision not to set foot onto the third floor of the Tower of Eternity. But, he was unable to deny that he could obtain extreme benefits from the Tower of Eternity.
After breaking through the eighth step, although Long Haochen never stopped cultivating, to fill the spiritual cavities on his arms was not the matter of an instant. Even as the Scion of Light wielding the special physique of a god’s chosen one, and therefore absorbing light essence much more rapidly than ordinary cultivators, amassing these 20,000 spiritual energy needed the time of about two years.
After all, the measure of spiritual energy is not a simple number. For instance, gathering a bit of spiritual energy for a knight of the seventh step is totally different from gathering a bit of spiritual energy for a knight of the eighth step, since the latter is much more concentrated.
In other words, the same notion of spiritual energy differs totally between the seventh and the eighth step. It can perhaps be the same in total volume and elemental contents, but the concentration will very clearly affect the wielded power in the battlefield. And that is one of the great strengths of Spiritual Highland.
After reaching the eighth step, Long Haochen had a total of five spiritual cavities, and the speed of increasing his spiritual energy actually became slower than before, because he needed a time of adaptation.
But this time, or to be more precise, after the end of this session of cultivation, to his nice surprise, the two spiritual cavities on his arms became full at one third. Without need for any further effort, this time the Tower of Eternity brought him no less than 5,000 units of the purest spiritual energy. And this was after he filtered out a great part of it, otherwise this count would be even higher.
Long Haochen’s current total spiritual energy was already nearing 37,000, which was quite a qualitative leap compared to before.
Turning back, Long Haochen gave the sculpture standing in the midst of the first floor a complex look. After calming himself down, he immediately teleported back. He didn’t want to let himself feel any attachment for this place. Every time he recalled the events of the past, when the Slumbering Calamity relied on this supra-divine tool to slaughter an unthinkable count of humans, he felt great grief rise within himself.
With a glint of bright light, when Long Haochen reappeared in the night sky, it had become totally quiet. By chance, the flash of light disappeared instantly, and because Long Haochen didn’t spread his wings, his body started to fall almost instantly.
Chapter 521: The hope of reforming the Demon Hunt Squad
Falling down, Long Haochen pressed down both his hands and took a deep breath, causing his figure to float like a feather.
The time was already close to daybreak, but the sky was still dusky. His light elemental spiritual energy would really look conspicuous and inevitably make him overly obvious, therefore causing issues to arise. So instead he used very challenging methods to control his own fall.
This was all to avoid getting found out by the demons, the main reason being that he didn’t wish for them to know that he would need to return to the original location after teleporting to the Tower of Eternity. If this secret was made known to the enemies, strategies will easily be planned to counter him, so Long Haochen preferred to be more prudent.
Luckily, he wasn’t too high in the sky. His distance to the ground was roughly four hundred meters, therefore a series of acrobatics and propelling movements enabled him to lower his falling speed. When he was on the eve of reaching the ground, he then assumed a curling position, and put all his strength in his feet to perform a kick.
As a matter of fact, his current external spiritual energy was already over 20,000, making this full powered kick able to cause a huge shockwave and reduce his falling speed.
His body landed onto the ground in an oblique posture, and after a series of rolls, he was propelled forward. The Gold Foundation Armor on him having also helped to neutralize a great amount of the pressure from the fall, Long Haochen stabilized after the series of rolls, jumped forward and rushed toward the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.
His powerful mental capacity showed its prowess in this situation as well, helping to conceal his figure as far as possible during the whole way to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass. It was only as he arrived close that defenders from the Knight Temple found out about his return.
A misunderstanding would naturally not arise: the Gold Foundation Armor on him was a symbol of his status, and moreover, he was the only Gold Foundation Knight that hadn’t yet returned.
Thus, when Long Haochen arrived in the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, high surges of acclamations and countless looks of respects were awaiting him.
Large areas of knights were watching Long Haochen with passionate eyes, violently beating the chest of their own armors with their fist as an indication that their respect for Long Haochen was of the greatest order.
This was their tribute to the newly appointed Saint Knight Head. Even the Divine Knight Long Tianying didn’t figure out how Long Haochen severely wounded Saminaga, to say nothing about the ordinary soldiers. In their eyes, this powerful Saint Knight Head had defeated the other party’s strongest demon god, and without being a Divine Knight. Therefore, in their eyes, it was as if the prefix ‘provisional’ before his full title never existed. At the same time, this gave them an even greater confidence regarding this Holy War.
When Long Haochen stood in front of Long Tianying, his grandfather suddenly realized that he had no idea of what he should say. He was able to feel that Long Haochen was totally alright, and should have escaped to another plane, but just how did he accomplish that?
There certainly existed some abilities that could shatter space for a short time after reaching the ninth step, but they required a very tranquil and stable environment to be used. But what about when Haochen passed through space? At that time, seven demon gods were joining hands against him, so who knew to what extent space was in havoc. But even in these circumstances, Long Haochen just crossed space; Long Tianying hadn’t the slightest idea of how to explain this mystery.
And Long Haochen was gone for so long, which was to say that he surely was at fixed spatial coordinates, otherwise, if he travelled back and forth in another space, he would forever have become unable to come back.
“Grandpa.” Long Haochen performed a knight salute to Long Tianying. His attitude became a lot warmer than before: at the time he was attacked by Saminaga, he sensed how Long Tianying was trying hard to rescue him. And before teleporting away, he saw Long Tianying with his own eyes. How could his approval toward his own grandfather not rise from that?
Long Tianying had a bitter smile on his face, “I don’t know what I should say right now. What was that pagoda that appeared and surrounded you at that time?”
After pondering for a short time, Long Haochen replied, “I don’t want to hide anything from you, but that’s a secret I am not allowed to tell. I can only tell you that it can actually only restrict the Demon God of Death Saminaga and no one else. And I am unable to control it as well. It just appeared on its own. I am connected spatially to it, and it was the one that teleported me away.”
To Long Haochen’s surprise, Long Tianying actually didn’t keep questioning him. His look became gentle, “Is your body all right? Saminaga didn’t injure you?”
Long Haochen shook his head, “I am all right, and can return to the battlefield at anytime. Grandpa, the sun will rise soon anyway. The demons will probably be launching a retaliatory attack. I have already made my preparations for battle, and am waiting for your orders.”
Looking at him, Long Tianying became silent, then couldn’t help but show a little anger, “What order is there to give? Your judgement is wrong. I can tell you with certainty that today, we can be at 70% sure that demons won’t come to attack. Didn’t you see on your way back? Saminaga’s pillar has already lost all its light. This time, you inflicted him with extremely serious damage: his Domain of Death was torn to shreds by your pagoda. Tell me what’s good with you? Your grandpa Yang and I have already told you to keep your strength concealed to avoid exposing your identity. You kept concealed your abilities they knew about, but relied on the ones unknown to them to gain the spotlight right away.
“Given that you have two divine tools on you, how could the demons not follow you closely? I estimate that before long, the Demon God Emperor will know about your existence. Yet, how do you want me to keep sending you to the battlefield? You also said that that pagoda could only counter Saminaga. If the other demon gods launch another attack against you, what’s to be done if you have an accident?”
Although Long Tianying got angry, Long Haochen felt instead his heart warming up. He could clearly feel the concern and worries in his grandfather’s voice.
“Grandpa, then I will just be defending the city and no more. Even if the demon gods want to get rid of me while I am on the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, they would have to ponder over the issue beforehand. We may know that the pagoda can only counter Saminaga, but they don’t! I think that the demon gods won’t dare take such a risk. They should have learned their lesson from Saminaga’s experience. And that was really not my fault! Gold cannot be prevented from shining. And you should not want your grandson to be totally inconspicuous in the battlefield right?”
At that time, Long Haochen couldn’t help but show a smile on his face, looking at Long Tianying quite shamelessly.
Long Tianying also couldn’t help but reveal a smile in response. He didn’t smile a lot, but seeing this grandson before his eyes, he had really no way to keep restraining his joy.
After this time of worry, he had to recognize the great points of his grandson. In fact, the slightest flaw could not be seen on Long Haochen. At an age below twenty, he had already reached the eighth step, and had two divine tools in his hand. Although he was not yet able to utilize them fully, considering his age and pace of progress, it really looked like he would be able to contend against the demon gods in a few years! He would surely become a great hero and leader that will create a new page on humans’ history.
Taking a deep breath, Long Tianying replied, “This time, we have totally filled these demons with fear. From our estimate, among the three Demon God Legions, almost all the Hell Demons should be dead, so, without any magic offense, the Demon Emperor Legions are like toothless tigers. And that’s nothing compared to how Saminaga is now heavily wounded. He is the strongest of the demon gods outside, and as you said, they shouldn’t dare act blindly without thinking after this. They will only maintain the previous situation, and as long as no reinforcement comes, they shouldn’t dare launch a decisive battle against us. For this reason, I don’t plan on letting you keep appearing on the battlefield.”
“What?” Long Haochen was immediately in high distress, “Grandpa, you can’t do that! Grandpa Yang and you should respect your engagements.
“If you don’t let me appear in the battlefield, how am I supposed to gather those ten million contribution points? I have to reform our team, to make a slaughter on the demon rear.”
Long Tianying stood up and slowly walked to Long Haochen’s front, with an indignant look on his face. His robust figure really looked imposing, and in front of Long Haochen, he gave off the same feeling as an unwavering mountain.
“Haochen, don’t worry. I don’t share the same thoughts as your Grandpa Yang. You are my blood-related grandson, and my one and only grandson. You are the Scion of Light, a god’s chosen one, and humanity’s future hope. If you remain in safety under my wing, when will you become the humans’ leader and the leader that will annihilate demons? You need to keep tempering yourself, and rise through hardships, just like you did before. I believe that you have the ability to defend yourself, and to create even more miracles. So your grandpa won’t stop you from going to the battlefield. After two days of war, you made the enemies cower in fear one after another, making them lose the opportunity to recover a large amount of corpses, and severely wounding Saminaga. This will cause the demon army’s momentum to crumble. I will record these two accomplishments. As the head of the Knight Temple, I have the authority to award you with enough contribution points. So I decided to reward you with 500,000 contribution points, as a prize for having turned the tides of the war in these two days. ”
“500,000?” Long Haochen was shocked, but also happy, and couldn’t help but worry, “Grandfather, are you sure this doesn’t count as favoritism?”
“Nonsense!” Long Tianying raised his hand to tap on Long Haochen’s head, scolding him with a smile, “Ask around in our Knight Temple, and you’ll see that no one ignores that your grandfather is the most strict and impartial Divine Knight! I am the wielder of the Divine Throne of Order and Law, if I cannot even make a fair decision, how could I keep the approval of the Divine Throne? Be at ease, if anything the reward I bestowed upon you is rather low. Just think, if you didn’t stay to the rear, how many of the fifty Mythril Foundation Knight that were with you would have returned alive? It is all because you spared no cost to risk your life to cover their back, and deserves these 500,000 contribution points. You gained this for your display of bravery and self-sacrifice. Although I am very angry that you disregarded your own safety mole that, I can say as your grandfather and the head of the Knight Temple that you are my pride, my grandson who did not abandon his fellow soldiers at that time of danger, and used your actions to prove your bravery.”
Seeing his grandfather so moved, Long Haochen’s eyes started to moisten in spite of the situation. Despite his strength and willpower, he was still no more than a twenty year old boy. The gain of his grandfather’s approval was really an important thing in his eyes.
Long Tianying took a deep breath to calm down his moodiness, then continued, “You did very well, but you really cannot remain here. Your light should be shining where it is needed. And our Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass has already no trouble defending strongly its position, plus you’d be no more but a target here. So after thinking thoroughly, I came to the decision of giving you a last mission. After completing it, you will be considered having gathered ten million contribution points, and will be allowed reform your Demon Hunt Squad. I should also be telling you that this time, your grandpa Yang has returned to the Alliance to discuss a plan that could make full use of your ability to destroy demon god pillars. The Alliance believes that this is how your strength will develop the best.”
Hearing about the opportunity of reforming his Demon Hunt Squad, Long Haochen nearly hopped in excitement, “Grandpa, please announce the contents of the million. No matter what, I will definitely complete it.”
Long Tianying replied, “Don’t place your hopes so high. How could a mission equivalent to ten million contribution points be so simple? You can rest first, you will be leaving for the sake of completing this mission tomorrow. This mission is not complicated, and you will be able to accomplish it single-handedly. With the status as Saint Knight Head, you will have to join the defense of every of the five Temples’ defensive forts, and accumulate at least a million contribution points in every of them, or make a great accomplishment of yesterday’s degree. After you finish that for every of the five defensive forts, you will automatically be gathered with your other comrades. At that time, all of you will be sure to receive a new mission from the Alliance. Understood?”
Happiness always comes all of a sudden. For a moment, Long Haochen was unable to show any reaction.
Leaving for the other five Temples to participate in their battles, and reunite with his comrades one after another was without a doubt a much simpler mission than the one consisting on simply gathering ten million contribution points. And moreover, being able to join his other comrades one by one was more than he could wish. For a moment, Long Haochen was somewhat speechless due to excitement.
Long Tianying smiled in reaction, “Is it the idea of heading to the Exorcist Mountain Pass to see your girlfriend that makes you so happy?”
Right, wasn’t the Exorcist Mountain Pass controlled by the Assassin Temple the closest to there? This was the place where Cai’er was!
Chapter 522: Surprise attack! Cai’er’s crisis (I)
His grandfather’s remark lifted Long Haochen’s mood momentarily. He didn’t try to conceal his current feelings and nodded strongly in response.
Long Tiangying gave a light sigh, “You youngsters really had a hard time. If not for the demons, your grandpa would be in favor of your wedding. Treat her well, old Sheng Yue really doesn’t have a good temper.”
In terms of seniority in their own Temple, Sheng Yue actually rated higher than Long Tianying. But in terms of cultivation, Long Tianying was definitely stronger in addition to possessing a Divine Throne.
Long Haochen nodded repeatedly, “Grandpa, can I depart right now?!”
Long Tianying unhappily replied, “You cannot. Wanting to see your wife is one thing, but don’t you want to keep your grandfather company a bit longer? Until you depart tomorrow, just stay with me.”
At this reply, Long Haochen’s surging feelings calmed down gradually, “Grandpa, I…”
Long Tianying waved his hands to him, “I understand. At your own age, who knows how much more rebellious than you I was. You are already doing very well, but keep in mind that I really care about your safety. You are my one and only grandson. You have to take good care of yourself; not only for the Alliance but also for me. If the Alliance loses you, it will be the loss of a great talent, but if I lose you, it will be the loss of my precious kin. Do you understand?”
Long Haochen remained silent, and slowly approached him, giving Long Tianying a very big hug.
Long Tianying had a smile on his face. After so many years, it was the first time he showed such a sincere smile. He finally realized now that he really had a grandson of his own.
Precisely as Long Tianying expected it, after the sun rose, the demons didn’t launch an attack. But the demon camp was greatly busy, transferring the heavily wounded troops from the Demon Emperor Legions while helping the dying and healing the injured.
But of course, those three forbidden spells weren’t totally devoid of benefits for them. At least, the non-carbonized corpses were treated as food, and their armies were served a good meal, with the Demon Emperor Legions as the special ingredient…
Because of Saminaga’s serious injuries, he immediately entered seclusion inside his demon god pillar, and the authority over the demon armies returned to Valefor.
But at this time, Valefor didn’t dare keep applying pressure to the Fiends, and the reason why he didn’t immediately give the order to attack was because they had obtained a sufficient amount of food, and more importantly because of the current state of weakness of the Fiends.
Saminaga transferred all the deep strength of all his clansmen to launch a terrible strike and put them in an extremely weak state. And in fact, the air force of the demon armies was almost exclusively formed of Fiends. Under such circumstances, how could they launch the attack against the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass?
Through this battle against Long Tianying and Long Haochen, Valefor fully recognized the powerful assets the humans had, and therefore didn’t dare act rashly. At least, they needed a time of rest and reorganization.
One day later, at sunset, two figures came out soundlessly from the Dragon Resisting Mountain, making sure of their direction. Then, they headed southward under the raging wind and snow.
Neither Saminaga nor Valefor knew about it, but the Saint Knight Head from the Knight Temple who brought them countless ‘surprises’ was already gone. At this time, the Dragon Resisting Mountain had Long Tianying as the only Divine Knight present to take watch.
Of course, the Knight Temple’s real trump card was not Long Haochen! Since Long Tianying dared keep the current troop arrangement against the demon armies, he naturally had ability of his own.
Exiting the Knight Temple, Long Haochen and Han Yu were in high spirits since they were finally able to reunite with the others. Long Haochen understood that although on the surface, his grandfather was assigning him a mission, in actual fact, given that Long Tianying didn’t even check his current amount of contribution points, Tianying had no way to know in the end whether he would really obtain a million contribution points at each defensive fort.
Therefore, after departing from the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, it could be said they just have to reunite with all their comrades.
Everyone was separated for a year and a half already, and his longing for reuniting with them already surpassed everything else by far. Moreover, the first one they were proceeding to was the Exorcist Mountain Pass occupied by the Assassin Temple, the place where Cai’er was!
Long Haochen obviously realized that he had difficulty calming himself down. The strong excitement even caused the spiritual energy in him to fluctuate irregularly, influencing to some extent his absorption of the external spiritual energy.
Even so, he was unable to control his emotions.
Cai’er, are you still well? It has been a year and a half, have your memories recovered already? Can you now remember me? Thinking to this point, Long Haochen was really wishing to grow some wings to rapidly fly to her location.
They left the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, and although they were heading to the southern Exorcist Mountain Pass, they had to head to the southwest if they wanted to go through the Temple Alliance’s territory. After all, the demon armies were glaring at their frontiers like tigers eyeing their prey, and they didn’t want to encounter troubles. By going through the territory of the Temple Alliance, with the Exorcist Mountain Pass serving as the natural barrier, they could put their whole energy to hurrying their trip, and proceed quickly to the Exorcist Mountain Pass.
Given Star King’s strength, it was absolutely no issue for him to carry two people, not to mention that Han Yu’s body was also of light attribute, his innate internal spiritual energy reaching eighty. Therefore, Star King’s affinity to him was second only to Long Haochen. With Long Haochen supplying him directly with spiritual energy, he was flying toward the Exorcist Mountain Pass at his fastest speed.
Exorcist Mountain Pass.
The Holy War had been going on for a year and a half, and the war was becoming increasingly bitter. Within the Six Great Temples, the one that had the hardest time with the demon offenses was the Southern Mountain Pass, but the second one was the Exorcist Mountain Pass.
Every human defensive fort was under the watch of one Temple, and when comparing the Assassin Temple and the Knight Temple, although a gap existed in their global strengths, this gap was actually not very wide. Yet the Exorcist Mountain Pass had a tough time, and that was because of their own specialities.
Although the knights couldn’t use their mounts in situations of defense, they were after all heavy armored warriors or heavy infantry, and were like a metallic barrier protecting the city.
But the assassins are not capable of that. In terms of offensive potential, assassins surpass knights by far. But in defensive power, they are also much inferior. They were specialized in concealment, assassinations, and taking a head in the midst of countless enemies. However, continuous attacks and defenses are not their strong points, especially in such defensive battles.
For this reason, the Assassin Temple encountered catastrophic losses in this war. If not for the Brilliant Angel Knight Regiment standing on guard inside the Exorcist Mountain Pass, it would have perhaps been already broken a few times through. The Knight Temple gave a considerable assistance to the Assassin Temple, but the Holy War was taking place on six fronts simultaneously. Therefore, each Temple had to ensure its own defense before it could afford to help the other ones.
Amongst the seventy-two demon gods, the top three demon gods and their clans had yet to appear in the Holy War, and the fourth and sixth were assigned to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass. With the Knight Temple having to endure such a massive pressure, it lacked the strength to help the Assassin Temple.
Since a year and a half ago, the casualties amongst the Assassin Temple’s high class warriors already reached one third. Under Sheng Yue’s lead, almost everyone was injured. Some of the powerhouses belonging to the older generation of the Assassin Temple were also thrown on the battlefield one after another, to fight the enemies to the death. Almost every time they repelled a demon assault, the Assassin Temple had to expend a massive cost.
At the current time, the head of the Assassin Temple, Sheng Yue, was standing on guard in the Exorcist Mountain Pass, which is a natural stronghold as well. It had no need to envy to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass: its position inside the mountain range it stood in meant there was no need to fear a demon encirclement. It was sufficient to block the demon armies coming from one direction , but compared to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, its natural defenses were a bit lacking. It did not have the same kind of vile environmental conditions, and was not so highly elevated either.
The walls of the Exorcist Mountain’s fortress had already disappeared, the war having mostly destroyed them. The mages that were still unleashing magic were fewer than fifty, and they were the last bits of magic force the Exorcist Mountain Pass had left. Almost all the powerhouses from the Assassin Temple were standing in front of the enemies, defending the fortress. They had even forgotten for how long they had been defending this position. But by chance, just like the Exorcist Mountain Pass had sustained severe damage, the same went for the attacking demons. In recent months, their frequency of attack was not as high as before.
Cai’er was currently near the Exorcist Mountain Pass’ fortress, clad in black, and without external armor. Her eyes were ice-cold, and after a year and a half had passed, she had already become a grown woman. Her build was more slender, well proportioned, and one could see on her almost any asset a female body could have.
Compared to the time she separated with Long Haochen and the others, the current Cai’er was much colder. Although it was by far incomparable to the time before her loss of memories, at least the battle before her eyes was now insufficient to instill feelings of terror in her.
Sheng Lingxin and Sheng Yue were on the other side, their complexion visibly very pale. Thick bandages could be seen wrapped around their right arms: in the Exorcist Mountain Pass, they didn’t have even one priestso they could only rely on doctors to treat the injured. One could well imagine the criticality of the situation.
“Great-grandfather, shall I go?” Cao’er suddenly turned back to ask Sheng Yue.
The demons were already attacking the fortress, and both sides were immersed in desperate close quarters battles. It could be seen from this that the current Exorcist Mountain Pass’ defensive battle was at its critical point, otherwise how would they have let the enemies come close to the fortress?
The main forces of demons attacking the Exorcist Mountain Pass was formed of Demonic Birds, Dual-Headed Demonic Vultures, Blazing Demons, Demonic Wolves, as well as a huge volume of Dual Bladed Demons and Demonic Eye Soldiers.
Against such a formation, although they had way fewer powerhouses allocated when compared to the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, they won in the numbers. And just for these reasons, they had plenty of corpses to serve as food.
Chapter 523: Surprise attack! Cai’er’s crisis (II)
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Among them, the Demonic Birds and Dual-Headed Demon Vultures formed their aerial forces, the Demonic Wolves led the Dual Bladed Demons on the front, and the Blazing Demons and Demonic Eye Soldiers formed the rear.
On the other side was a mix of assassins, warriors and knights, with the knights and warriors standing in the front and the assassins putting all their strength on killing or injuring the enemies.
But through the course of the long Holy War, a large amount of mages and priests died at the enemies’ hands, and the remaining soldiers were having an extremely difficult time resisting the demons. In particular, the attacks from the Demonic Eye Soldiers and Blazing Demons inflicted extreme wounds to the soldiers. Therefore, many times the Assassin Temple had to organize suicide squads to deal with them. But the demon gods commanding the other side were no easy people either, and had made their preparations on how to respond long ago, forming a specialized unit formed of various powerhouses to target these suicide squads.
Just like in the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, the powerhouses of the ninth step of both sides wouldn’t rashly join the battle. They were mainly restraining each other and serving as mutual deterrents, but in such a murderous Holy War, this was extremely prejudicial to the side of the Exorcist Mountain Pass which was already close to collapse.
However, the Demon God Emperor gave the demon armies the order for a prolonged war to exhaust the accumulated human forces, and to avoid by all cost to invade the territory of the Alliance rashly. This was because he didn’t wish for the human world to be thoroughly destroyed. But this evidently didn’t stop their destruction of the forts and damage to the human armies. Compared to their own troops, the demons visibly preferred having the much cleaner humans as food.
Sheng Yue nodded to Cai’er, “Pay attention to your own safety.”
“Yeah.” Cai’er replied that way, and her figure flickered, shifting from the area high in the Exorcist Mountain Pass to the battlefield below.
After such a long time passed, she had adapted herself to this place since long ago, and adapted to a lot of matters after her loss of memories.
A pitch-black ray streaked across the sky, and carried along a freezing atmosphere, causing the nearby temperature to drop greatly.
The black-clad Cai’er had her purple hair fluttering. The immense Sickle of the God of Death appeared soundlessly in her hand, and a dense, dark colored light burst forth from within it. It unleashed an immense black colored blade projection as her figure appeared from nowhere.
The Dual Bladed Demons that were frantically climbing on the walls of the Exorcist Mountain Pass were cut down as if they were wheat, and every enemy that entered into contact with that black colored blade edge were instantly reduced to pieces. Her intense murderous spirit extended, as large areas of lower ranked demons were directly cut up by her Sickle of the God of Death.
Cai’er’s awakening as a god’s chosen one differed greatly from Long Haochen’s. The latter’s was as the Scion of Light, and provided a general boost, including the blessing of the Goddess of Light. As for his affinity with the light element, it was raised to a whole new level. But Cai’er wasn’t the same. After awakening as a god’s chosen one, her greatest gain was the transformation of the Dagger of Samsara in her hand into the Scythe of the God of Death.
Since childhood, she had been united with the Dagger of Samsara, going through a lot of pain and torment. This way did she gradually become one with the divine tool, a process which could be said to encompass Cai’er’s whole training process. Therefore, the degree of her union with the Dagger of Samsara surpassed the one between Long Haochen and his few divine tools by far.
In terms of personal boosts, Cai’er’s awakening was not comparable with Long Haochen’s, but in the aspect of the divine power bestowed, Long Haochen’s awakening was the one falling far behind.
In front of the doors of the city, which were bright red with blood, the purple haired Cai’er swept everything around her as she appeared. After losing her memories she didn’t give out the same feeling of total coldness compared to before, but instead, at every use of the Sickle of the Goddess of Death she seemed to have that temperament back in her.
The killing intent materialized outside Cai’er’s body rushed forth, causing both the powerhouses from both the demon and allied sides to step back unconsciously. With Cai’er in the center, an empty area was created with a diameter of ten meters.
She was expressionless, an absolute beauty whose eyes were filled with unlimited murderous spirit.
For a while after she returned to the Exorcist Mountain Pass, Cai’er was actually extremely reluctant at the idea of causing slaughters. After all, after her loss of memories, she had the mindset of a young girl. How could it be so easy to make her accept the idea of causing slaughters? Even with the influence of the Sickle of the God of Death, she was, deep inside, really against that idea.
Therefore, Sheng Yue specifically made her stay in the camps for the wounded for a long time, assigning her some simple, assistive work after her daily cultivation.
There, Cai’er saw far too many atrocities that she would never be able to forget. The first time she came, she saw a soldier that lost both his legs and one arm, and pierced his own heart with a dagger wielded by his last remaining arm. The suicide note he left was delivered personally by Cai’er to Sheng Yue.
The content of this note was:?Niuniu, Doudou, papa loves the two of you. However, I cannot accompany you anymore. The abominable demons are attempting to invade our homeland, so papa is defending our Alliance with his own life, alongside his comrades. The Alliance is everyone’s home, an honorable place for papa to die. But papa really hates to part with the two of you, and deeply wishes to see your mother and the two of you! Papa really wants to return to those times, letting the two of you sit on my legs, as I embrace you, giving kisses on your little cheeks, and feel your snivel flow on papa’s face. Papa is thinking of you, but cannot last any longer. I wish I could hear mama’s voice… Papa’s compensation payment should help to support you as you grow up. You have to remember that papa’s death was for the sake of the Alliance’s fight, humanity’s fight. Papa hopes he can become your hope. If one day, the Alliance needs you, papa hopes you could?pick up?weapons?and stand courageously in front of the enemies on the Exorcist Mountain Pass. —Your father that loves you forever.
After she finished reading the note, Cai’er remained lifeless for half an hour. After that, all the fear that was in her eyes and heart disappeared. In the camps for the wounded, she didn’t fear getting dirty or tired, and did her best to help the wounded. This lasted for a period of three months.
Three months later, Sheng Yue went looking for Cai’er with a copy of that suicide note in his hand. He told Cai’er that the compensation payment was sent along with the original suicide note.
That instant, Cai’er threw herself at her great-grandfather’s arms, unable to hold her tears.
Sheng Yue only told her calmly that the ordinary soldiers were all defending the human territory with their blood and life, willing to pay the cost of their life to defend their families, and chose to kill themselves rather than becoming a burden for the Alliance. As the Saint Daughter of Samsara, an incomparably gifted person, could she only stay in these camps for the wounded?
To kill an enemy means that there is one less enemy to attack their side, which means there will be less wounded and deceased. She should instead use her strength in the battlefield. As long as the demons are here, the tragedies won’t be over.
As Cai’er stood at the head of the Exorcist Mountain Pass, the fear filling her heart was completely transformed into hatred and disgust, and the murderous spirit in the Sickle of the God of Death descended once again.
As the thunderous black figure rushed out, a large amount of low-ranked demons were smashed to pieces.
Cai’er was just like a black phantom, appearing wherever the enemies are the most dense and the situation the most dangerous. Everywhere she passed, the Sickle of the God of Death swept everything before her. Who knew how many demons died in her hands.
Clang.?The Sickle of the God of Death was swept horizontally, appearing the same as a dark-golden electric light. Cai’er’s body then finally came to a stop, focusing her eyes on a powerful Birdy Demon letting out a dark golden luster.
This Golden Birdy reached at least the seventh step in cultivation. Pointing his sharp spear at Cai’er, he was totally surrounded by light. Flapping the wings on his back, he hoveredclose to the Exorcist Mountain Pass.
An ice-cold chilliness flashed through Cai’er’s eyes, and the next instant, she disappeared.
The terrifying killing intent caused the surroundings to darken, and that Dark Golden Birdy Demon almost immediately thrust its spear at his back.
Ding!
Bam-dam.
This dark golden spear quite close to the power of a human Legendary Weapon. But against the pitch-black blade’s edge, it was sliced like tofu, and the pitch-black scythe made its way into his shoulder, cutting the whole body in two. Only then did Cai’er’s figure reappear.
Besides being at the seventh step as well, the Birdy Demon was no threat in her eyes. Her offensive power was enormous, to the extent that Long Haochen was no match while still at the seventh step, let alone those demons.
The instant right after she beheaded this Birdy Demon, she felt suddenly an ineffable sense of danger, and turned her posture towards the demon camp’s direction.
At least hundreds of light rays suddenly condensed from that direction, shooting straight at Cai’er’s direction. These light rays covered an enormous scope, to the extent that even with Cai’er’s speed, she couldn’t make it in time to dodge.
Not only that, but outside from these light rays also came many immense fireballs falling like a torrent.
Quite obviously, that Birdy Demon was just a bait. After being baited out from the Exorcist Mountain Pass’ scope, she suffered a surprise attack, coming from the union between Demonic Eye Soldiers and Blazing Devils. There were at least two hundred which attacked right after Cai’er appeared.
Cai’er had already rampaged quite a few times in the area of Exorcist City, and everytime she appeared, the demons suffered immense damage. The count of powerhouses of the sixth step or above that died in her hands was already close to a hundred, including three that were at the eighth step. Such a damage attracted the demons’ attention a long time ago, and at the same time, gave her great military glory.
In front of these aggregated darkness elemental attacks, Cai’er didn’t show the slightest panic. Assuming a crouch, she was immediately surrounded by a hazy black fog.
The Sickle of the God of Death was raised high above her head and made a sudden hacking motion.
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