“Long Chen!”

Seeing Long Chen stop running and turn back to attack, Li Yixuan sank into despair.

She wasn’t afraid of death. The Full Moon Sect’s disciples were all ready to die if their deaths could have meaning. After all, who can live forever in this world? Your life might be longer, or it might be shorter. But in the end, don’t all of us return to the yellow earth all the same?

However, their deaths couldn’t be for nothing. They had to live up to their ancestors’ great deeds; when they reunited in the afterlife, they had to be able to stand proud in front of those great people. And when future generations talked about their sacrifice, they had to be able to do it with pride.

By not running away, Long Chen made their sacrifice meaningless. What future generations would there be to talk about them?

The Devil Venerate was also surprised by the Full Moon Sect’s power. This made sense; Huang Quan was already dead, and had no way of telling it that the Full Moon Sect had such a powerful trump card.

Once Long Chen escaped its sphere of control, he was no longer suppressed. His three bloodlines were fully unleashed into one attack.

BOOM!

A cataclysmic explosion shook the world. This world-cleaving saber actually blasted apart all nine of the Devil Venerate’s tails, and also caused a terrifying wave of qi to blanket the entire sky. With the destruction of the nine tails, the Devil Venerate’s domain also disappeared. In addition, its aura rapidly plummeted.

Suddenly, its body began to violently shudder.

“Trying to run? Keep dreaming! Four stars, Devil Prison!” Long Chen roared, and four astral pillars soared into the sky, turning into a cage that locked the Devil Venerate within. Starlight blazed, and the Devil Venerate found that it was entirely unable to move!

“You’re the one who’s dreaming!” roared the Devil Venerate. Devil flames exploded out of its body. Suddenly, nine illusory tails appeared on its back.

It wanted to reform its tails. Clearly, most of its power was concentrated within those tails, and if it wanted to break free of this prison, it had to recover them. Their power was immediately evident from the fact that even the appearance of these illusory tails caused the four astral pillars to crack! The tails weren’t even solid, but were already giving it enormous power. The Devil Venerate was truly a terrifying existence. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

“Starry River Demon Suppressing Bell!”

Of course, Long Chen had no intention of giving it time to reform its tails. Astral energy condensed, and the sound of a bell echoed seven times. A giant astral bell covered the four astral pillars.

“Explode!” he shouted, and the bell and the pillars all detonated in one go. The sheer power of the explosion blasted a massive hole in space—but, unexpectedly, this terrifying attack only caused the Devil Venerate’s illusory tails to explode once more. It spat out a mouthful of blood, but it seemed otherwise uninjured.

“You’re no ordinary nine star heir! Your will... is very similar to his...”

The Devil Venerate was startled. When it looked at Long Chen, there was now a hint of fear in its eyes. It seemed to be recalling something, and that memory was certainly not pleasant.

But then, determination appeared in its eyes. It suppressed its fear and roared threateningly, “Count yourself lucky today! But just you wait! When I come back, I’ll turn you to dust!”

Ripples of power spread from its claws. Strange formation runes appeared in the surrounding space. Heaven and earth began to twist.

It was fleeing. It had no choice but to flee. From the start, things had not been going well for it. It had been forcibly awoken from its slumber; its law power and karmic luck had yet to merge; its body was incomplete. Nothing was right. To add to that, Long Chen had forced it to merge law power and karmic luck for this technique, resulting in it injuring its host body almost beyond repair. If it didn’t quickly heal, the consequences would be unbearable.

“You’re not going anywhere! Purgatory Eyes!”

Suddenly, Long Chen’s eyes turned pitch-black. Two black eyes opened in the sky.

The look in these eyes was like the gaze of a god of death looking down upon mere mortals. The Devil Venerate was shocked to sense it was locked down by some terrifying law power.

“This is... impossible!”

The Devil Venerate grew frantic. It roared and struggled with all its might. The surrounding space exploded, and even the pitch-black eyes in the sky cracked. It was simply too powerful! Even in its injured state, the Purgatory Eyes were unable to fully bind it!

Sharp pain wracked Long Chen’s eyes, and tears of blood streamed down his face. But he refused to give up. They could not let it go like this, or it would be a major problem in the future.

“You cannot bind me!” roared the Devil Venerate. Flames raged around its body, and it squeezed out all its power to the point where this body began to crack.

Just then, two formation discs appeared in the sky, one in front of the Devil Venerate and one behind.

“Damn!” it roared. These two formation discs had instantly locked it down the moment they appeared!

The Full Moon Sect’s disciples split up, keeping control over the two formation discs. They had already used the discs twice, and both they and the discs had already reached their limit. All of the disciples were pale and on the verge of collapse.

There was no way around it; their enemy was absolutely terrifying. Whether it was actual energy consumption or mental exhaustion, they were far beyond their limits.

In addition, they were elites by sect standards, but they had grown up in the peaceful Heavenly Magnificence Divine Prefecture. How could they have possibly strengthened their wills? Even just the fact that they dared to resist against a being of such magnitude, a terrifying existence they couldn’t possibly fight even at their best, was already amazingly courageous on their part. Lesser people wouldn’t even have been able to summon the will to move. They would have only been able to sit there and wait to be slaughtered.

“All of you will die!”

The Devil Venerate struggled crazily, and with its every move, the Full Moon Sect’s disciples fell from the sky in droves. However, even as some fell to exhaustion, others persevered. This moment would decide their life or death. They had to endure.

It had turned into a battle of attrition. Both sides were trying to drain the other’s power just a little faster. Meanwhile, Long Chen’s eyes felt like needles were stabbing them, but his expression was calm. He knew that every single breath that they endured increased their odds of victory.

BANG!

After an incense stick’s worth of time, one of the formation discs turned dim. All of the disciples supporting it had gone past their limits, and the few who had lasted thus far fell unconscious at the same time.

On the other side, Li Yixuan was still working with a few thousand disciples to keep their formation disc up and keep the Devil Venerate contained. Neither side had any chance of retreat.

After a couple of breaths, Li Yixuan and the others also couldn’t endure, and their formation disc darkened as well. A hundred or so of them were still conscious, but they no longer had the power to maintain the formation disc active. From now, they could only watch.

The Full Moon Sect had gambled everything on this battle. If Long Chen still lost, all of them would die, and their story would be buried in the sands of time.

The void shuddered violently. Those two eyes continued to lock down the Devil Venerate, but at the same time, ripples of blood-colored light continued to surge out of its body. Evidently, it had not given up.

BOOM!

Suddenly, its body collapsed. It could no longer endure! And in a blink, lightning filled the sky. Countless bolts of lightning shot through the air, forming a massive net.

Long Chen snorted. “Did I say you could go?!”

A translucent figure was tightly bound by the wild lightning net.