Kill the rebels

"Long Chen, if you dare to deceive me again, I will absolutely kill you."

At this moment, Elder Sun's eyes were bloodshot, and his entire being appeared extremely gloomy, like a zombie that had been dead for many years, resurrected with its resentment still lingering.

Although Long Chen only provided seven names this time, the Qilin Fruit had been removed, leaving six.

However, these six types were extremely ancient medicinal herbs, rarely seen outside, and only a large School like the branch academy, which had a Legacy spanning hundreds of thousands of years, possessed some of them.

Because they were too rare, the price was exorbitantly high; the cost of these six medicinal herbs would only be more, not less, than what he had spent last time.

Elder Sun had already exhausted all his contribution points, but in order to obtain the complete Cultivation Technique, he went all out, selling all the Secret Manuals, treasures, and Medicinal Pills he had collected to other Elders.

Even the treasured swords in his possession were all sold. Now, besides his Immortal Cave, he basically had nothing left to sell, finally scraping together the order Long Chen required.

Elder Sun's mind was now filled with resentment. For this Cultivation Technique from Long Chen, he could be said to have lost his entire fortune.

"Rest assured, I, Long Chen, am definitely a person who keeps his promises."

Long Chen checked his spatial ring and discovered that it contained the secondary ingredients for the Yuheng Pill; the Pill Formula for the Yuheng Pill was extremely complex.

It was divided into primary ingredients, secondary ingredients, and auxiliary ingredients. Now, Long Chen only lacked the primary ingredient, the Qilin Fruit, to be able to refine the Yuheng Pill.

After seeing that there were no issues with the age and quantity of the medicinal herbs, Long Chen threw the last piece of Black Zircon in his hand to Elder Sun.

"The transaction is complete. We are even. Farewell." After saying this, Long Chen left, filled with joy, carrying the spatial ring.

It was the same as the other Black Zircons, but the patterns on this one were denser, and on the back of the Black Zircon, a character was engraved — "Must."

"Slaughter," "Rebellion," "Must," "Kill."

"What an overbearing name."

Elder Sun looked at the Black Zircon in his hand, a look of wild joy appearing on his face: It's finally in my hands.

However, after the wild joy, a ruthless glint appeared in his eyes. Looking in the direction where Long Chen had left, he said coldly:

"Long Chen, just you wait. My things are not so easy to take."

After speaking, Elder Sun also disappeared from the spot, returning to his Immortal Cave to Cultivate.

In the following days, the entire branch academy slowly began to regain its vitality. As the Disciples who had been in seclusion came out one after another, the branch academy started to become lively again.

To Tu Fang's surprise, this time after coming out of seclusion, most of the Disciples had advanced by one Rank. Of the eight hundred or so Disciples, more than half had actually advanced to the Fourth Heaven of Tendon Tempering.

And the core Disciples, such as Ye Zhiqiu, Gu Yang, and Song Mingyuan, had even advanced to the Fifth Heaven of Tendon Tempering.

The most terrifying person was Tang Waner, who had unknowingly broken through to the Sixth Heaven of Tendon Tempering, just one step away from advancing to the Late Stage of Tendon Tempering.

Tang Waner was now the person with the highest cultivation among all the new Disciples in the branch academy, though many attributed her rapid improvement to the Dao patterns she had seized.

Because Tang Waner admitted that after absorbing the Dao patterns, she clearly felt that there were no Bottlenecks in her advancement, and her Foundation would not be unstable in the slightest.

What was most terrifying was that after Tang Waner absorbed the Dao patterns, her Wind power began to mutate; the originally milky-white wind blades had now become completely transparent.

Her attacks were as fast as lightning, coming and going without a trace. Before others could even see the wind blades, they had already been struck by them; this was the terror of a Daoist Practitioner.

Some speculated that Tang Waner at this moment was perhaps even more powerful than Yin Luo on the battlefield back then, because Yin Luo's cultivation at that time was only at the Peak of the Early Stage of Tendon Tempering.

And Tang Waner had already entered the Peak of the Middle Stage of Tendon Tempering. However, when someone brought up Yin Luo's final strike that day, everyone fell silent.

Because that final strike of Yin Luo's was too terrifying; Mo Nian and Long Chen had only managed to block it by joining forces.

However, there was one point that everyone agreed upon: the strongest among the young generation of the branch academy were Long Chen and Tang Waner.

As for who was actually stronger between Long Chen and Tang Waner, unless the two of them fought, basically no one knew the final result.

However, wanting to make Long Chen and Tang Waner fight was Heaven-Defyingly difficult; there were few people in the entire branch academy who didn't know about the ambiguous relationship between the two.

However, besides Long Chen and Tang Waner, the person with the strongest combat power had to be Gu Yang. Ever since Long Chen left Yin Luo's long spear to him, his combat power had increased significantly.

Although he couldn't lift that golden long spear at first, after advancing to the Fifth Heaven of Tendon Tempering and activating the runes, he could already barely use this long spear.

Originally, Ye Zhiqiu could barely suppress Gu Yang with her powerful Ice-element power, but because of the advantage of the weapon, the two fought three matches in a row, with Gu Yang winning two out of three, successfully suppressing Ye Zhiqiu.

Now, the core Disciples of the branch academy were basically divided into three Ranks. The first Rank was the Peak position occupied by Long Chen and Tang Waner.

Everyone was too lazy to discuss their combat power, because they were not on the same level, and there was no point in talking about it.

The second Rank was Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yang. Their combat power was significantly stronger than the other core Disciples.

And the third Rank was the general level, because the remaining core Disciples had similar combat power, and determining a winner would likely depend on luck.

Who would be so bored as to calculate that probability? Besides, Long Chen told everyone to try not to spar, because it would dampen their sharpness.

If it were before, they wouldn't have understood Long Chen's meaning, but after experiencing this life-and-death battle, they could thoroughly grasp the meaning behind Long Chen's words.

This great battle made them realize that sparring and actual combat were completely two different concepts; sparring was just some flashy, impractical stuff.

But in combat, there was only one goal: to take the opponent's life upon attacking, because if you couldn't take the other person's life, they would take yours.

Therefore, throughout the history of battles between the Righteous Path and the Evil Path, the Righteous Path had more people, yet they still ended up losing to the Evil Path; that was because they were accustomed to the sparring style of combat.

The Evil Path didn't care about your techniques, your origins, or your identity and background; they would take your life the moment they attacked.

They had just experienced that battle style where whoever was ruthless enough could survive, so Long Chen did not allow them to spar for a short time, just to let them remember that feeling and return to their original combat habits.

After all, when sparring, one couldn't really use lethal force, nor could one treat the opponent as an enemy. Therefore, such sparring not only could not improve their combat power but instead reduced their lethality.

However, those core Disciples were different; they had higher combat comprehension and could well distinguish between different combat styles.

Therefore, Long Chen stipulated that if you could do it, then come; if you couldn't, then honestly stay put and digest the benefits brought by the battle.

Nowadays, Long Chen was a god in the hearts of all the Disciples. They might consider whether or not to listen to the Sect Leader's words, but Long Chen's words were, to them, a divine decree; no one dared not to listen.

Therefore, although everyone had come out of seclusion one after another, most chose to continue consolidating their Realm, or they would gather together to brag and talk about this spectacular battle.

This battle was destined to be remembered in the combat history of the branch academy; it was absolutely a battle that couldn't be more classic.

Even if they separated in the future and returned to their respective Families, they could proudly say to their clansmen that in that great battle, there was a shadow of their brother.

Having just experienced a great battle and improved their strength, besides needing to consolidate their Realm, they did not need to Cultivate in the short term.

Even if Cultivating, it needed to be done with rhythm; only then could they achieve twice the result with half the effort; otherwise, it would be detrimental to their Foundation.

For the past few days, Long Chen had been in his room, continuously refining medicinal powder, day and night. Now that he had the Fire Lizard Blue Flame to assist him, refining medicinal powder was not difficult; the only thing that was unbearable was that it was too boring.

Even with Long Chen's concentration, continuously refining that mountain of medicinal powder made him feel like he was going to vomit.

But there was no other way. Most of these medicinal herbs were ingredients used to refine the Yuheng Pill, although he still hadn't found the Qilin Fruit.

But by preparing them beforehand, once he found the Qilin Fruit in the future, he could refine them frantically, saving a lot of time for later.

He didn't know why, but Long Chen felt that his time was becoming increasingly tight, as if some kind of threat was quietly closing in on him, pressing him until even breathing was somewhat difficult.

Half a month later, Long Chen finally finished refining the mountain of medicinal herbs, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

On the second day after Long Chen came out of seclusion, a Disciple delivered a letter. What Long Chen didn't expect was that it was actually sent by Senior Brother Wan.

The letter said that there was some matter to discuss with Long Chen privately, but the letter didn't mention what the matter was.

A strange expression appeared on Long Chen's face, and he shook his head: This damn IQ is getting lower and lower. Is this the legendary "no lower limit"?

A flame appeared in his hand, burning the letter until it was completely gone. Long Chen rested slightly to let himself recover his somewhat exhausted spirit.

Three hours later, Long Chen arrived at the location agreed upon in Senior Brother Wan's letter, looking at the canyon before him.

Not bad! This place was quite far from the branch academy; even if a battle took place here, the branch academy wouldn't notice. It was a good place for killing and silencing.

"Hahaha, Long Chen, you actually really came." A voice came from far behind Long Chen.

A mocking expression appeared on Long Chen's face. He didn't even turn his head, saying helplessly: "To actually impersonate Senior Brother Wan to ask me out, I find that you are getting more and more childish."

Long Chen slowly turned his head, looking at Elder Sun, who had a smug expression on his face. At this moment, Elder Sun had just walked up to Long Chen.

"Me, childish? Hahaha, aren't you here in response to the appointment anyway?" Elder Sun laughed up at the sky, his old face filled with indescribable excitement.

"The reason I came over is that I wanted to see what kind of medicine you are selling in your gourd; perhaps it could amuse me.

You know, eight or nine out of ten things in life go against one's wishes; I generally don't refuse things that can make me happy," Long Chen said with interest.

"Happy? Hahaha, keep dreaming."

Elder Sun stared at Long Chen, killing intent overflowing from his eyes, and said coldly: "You swindled away my life's savings; do you think I will let you go?

However, I still want to thank you. The Cultivation Technique you gave me is actually real. In order to thank you for your honesty,

I will fulfill your wish and let you die under this powerful Cultivation Technique, hahaha."

"Boom." After Elder Sun finished speaking, he shouted loudly, his entire body's Qi surging, the ground beneath his feet shattering, and a huge vortex of Qi appeared behind him.