Chapter 383

384. Chapter 383: Battle Outside the City

The Dragon Emperor paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, his face becoming increasingly ugly.

Finally, he suddenly stopped his steps and looked at him with a crazy expression:

"I know you. If you say this person has an eighty percent chance of being a Fourth Grade Alchemist, then this person must be a Fourth Grade Alchemist."

"Listen to me, we must never let him enter the finals, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."

The Dragon Emperor's gaze sharpened, a faint murderous aura released from his eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Regardless of whether he is a Fourth Grade Alchemist or not, we cannot afford to gamble."

"Now we only have one way, and that is to send a group of Gu Kings to finish him off directly."

"Do it tonight; it cannot be delayed." The Dragon Emperor showed a ruthless expression.

Long Xiaoyao was startled upon hearing this, obviously frightened by the Dragon Emperor's words, and hurriedly said: "Assassinating a contestant directly is probably inappropriate, right? It's easy to give people a handle, and it will have a great impact on my clan's reputation."

"The consequences of this matter could even trigger a full-scale war between the Dragon and Phoenix Clans."

"Moreover, the Feng Clan is not stupid; it's impossible for them not to guard against this move. It's also impossible for us to do it secretly. Once this operation fails, then it will truly be a case of trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice."

The Dragon Emperor shook his head and said seriously: "How could I not understand the consequences you mentioned? But no matter how serious the consequences of this matter are, they are far less serious than the consequences of my clan losing the gamble."

"Of two evils, choose the lesser. Such matters can only be handled by extreme means; we have no other choice."

"Can you really count on my clan's Third Grade alchemy genius to defeat a Fourth Grade Alchemist? Don't be naive! If we act according to the rules, we will definitely lose."

"This matter is settled. How many Gu Kings of ours do you have there!"

Long Xiaoyao thought for a moment and sighed: "All the teleportation arrays nearby have been destroyed by a mysterious person. Currently, the transformation route that the Straw Gu can use to teleport people has only been researched by my clan up to the second transformation. At most, it can only teleport Spirit Gathering Stage Gu Cultivators; it cannot teleport Gu Kings."

"So, the number of Long Clan Gu Kings I can mobilize here in a short time is not many—ten at most."

"If we delay for a few days before taking action, there will be more manpower, and the certainty will be greater."

The Dragon Emperor shook his head immediately and said urgently: "The time for the third round of the competition is very tight; we cannot wait. Do it tonight."

"Ten Gu Kings are already enough. As long as he has no one to protect him, ten Gu Kings attacking together can steadily kill him."

"This matter is settled. You go down and arrange it immediately!"

Long Xiaoyao sighed again. Finally, a sharp gaze was released from his eyes. He finally put away the mirror and left.

In the inn, Long Xuan was working tirelessly to research the Sea-Calming Divine Needle artifact formula.

He had two purposes for researching the Sea-Calming Divine Needle: one was to use the Sea-Calming Divine Needle to attract a stronger thunder tribulation, making the Calamity Gu complete its second transformation.

The second was, if possible, to use this Sea-Calming Divine Needle to trade with the Monkey King for ten-thousand-year monkey wine.

Hearing that ten-thousand-year monkey wine can slightly improve wisdom, it is simply a heaven and earth divine object. He would spare no cost to obtain it; even if he had to pay a greater price, it would be worth it.

However, Geng Metal belongs to a Third Grade alloy. Long Xuan felt that a Third Grade alloy was still a bit lacking; using a Fourth Grade alloy would have the best effect.

A Fourth Grade alloy is the hardest Fourth Grade metal produced by fusing a pile of Fourth Grade metals together. He named it Saint Gold.

At this time, what he was researching was also the Saint Gold formula. If you want to refine the Sea-Calming Divine Needle, you must refine Saint Gold.

However, in this way, he would definitely need to refine artifacts across grades to refine this Fourth Grade Sea-Calming Divine Needle.

He felt that since he could refine pills across grades, then refining artifacts across grades should also be no problem.

However, just when he was engrossed in his research, a deafening loud noise suddenly came from outside, which startled him and completely broke his train of thought.

"What's going on? Could it be that fireballs have fallen from the sky again?"

Long Xuan was shocked. Seeing the firelight outside, he was afraid that another great fire would fall from the sky and accidentally hit the inn, causing him harm, so he hurriedly ran out of the inn.

At this time, the inn was already in chaos. Many guests thought something big had happened and ran out of the inn in a panic, not even having time to put on their clothes.

No one knew how many people were awakened from their dreams. Not long after, the street was already full of people, and the sound of noisy discussion was everywhere.

"What on earth happened? Where did that explosion sound come from just now?"

"It's in the direction of the West City. There's a fire outside the West City. What a great fire. This is definitely not an ordinary fire; it seems to be the legendary Heavenly Fire! Someone is fighting with Heavenly Fire."

"Heavenly Fire? Which ruthless person is fighting outside the city? People who possess Heavenly Fire are all not simple; each one is an existence invincible among their peers in combat power."

After a brief panic, a group of busybodies, seeing that the crisis was not in the city, developed the intention to watch the fun.

On the roofs and city walls, people soon stood full. Many with poor eyesight even ran out of the city for this, intending to watch at close range.

Long Xuan stood on the roof of the inn, using the long-distance vision ability of the Heavenly Mechanism Eye to look in the direction of the firelight.

Others might not be able to see clearly what was happening in the firelight, but with his eyesight, he could easily see the battle happening in the firelight.

It seemed that ten Gu Kings were besieging a mysterious man. But in a ten-against-one situation, these ten people not only failed to kill that person, but instead fell into a great disadvantage and were completely suppressed.

That person was suppressing ten people with his own strength, and not long after, he successfully killed one Gu King.

With the fall of one of the Gu Kings, the coordination of the remaining nine Gu Kings appeared problematic, and they began to be in danger. Defeat was only a matter of time.

Long Xuan's expression changed slightly. Who on earth was this person? Fighting ten of the same rank, he could actually win, and he won very easily.

With such terrifying combat power, he had only felt it from Shi Haojun and Duan Tianwu. Looking at the entire Gu World, there were not many who possessed such exaggerated combat power.

The more Long Xuan looked, the more solemn his expression became.

He had already seen that the person was precisely that Feng Jiu who was competing on the same stage as him. He never expected that this Feng Jiu would have such heaven-defying combat power. He was actually competing on the same stage as such a ruthless person; the pressure was simply immense.

And the people besieging him were all using the Long Clan's abilities. It was not hard to judge that they were all Long Clan Gu Kings.

These Long Clan Gu Kings had good combat power, but even with ten people joining forces, they were far from being Feng Jiu's opponents.

He had already seen that Feng Jiu had been using the Evil Phoenix True Eye to steal the abilities of these ten Long Clan Gu Kings, and after learning them, he would kill them without mercy.

Otherwise, this battle would not have dragged on for so long. Feng Jiu had never taken these ten Gu Kings seriously from beginning to end, just like a cat playing with a mouse, his mouth full of mockery.

"Complete version of the Evil Phoenix True Eye?"

Long Xuan's pupils shrank, showing a look solemn to the extreme.

This Evil Phoenix True Eye could obviously learn any ability, so it was likely the complete version of the Evil Phoenix True Eye.

The complete version of the Evil Phoenix True Eye can learn all the opponent's abilities; the combat power is absolutely invincible. I'm afraid only Long Dan's complete version of the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye can break it.

The Feng Clan actually had the complete version of the Evil Phoenix True Eye. Long Xuan was greatly shocked.

Whether it is the Evil Phoenix True Eye or the Evil Dragon Emperor Eye, the quantity of materials for the complete version is in the millions, and the upper limit is terrifyingly high.

With Feng Jiu having such an eye, the fall of those ten Long Clan Gu Kings was a foregone conclusion.

"Is the Long Clan trying to behead the threatening Feng Clan contestants?"

Long Xuan's heart shook, and he secretly became vigilant.

Since the Long Clan would assassinate Feng Clan contestants, the Feng Clan might also turn around and assassinate Long Clan contestants.

In the following competition, he must never relax his vigilance. The Hundred-Li Talisman in his hand must be held tightly.

Once there is anything wrong, he will immediately tear up the Hundred-Li Talisman and run away. At worst, he won't be the champion. He didn't believe there was nothing in this world that could replenish luck.

Long Xuan took a deep breath and finally jumped off the roof and returned to the inn. The battle had no suspense, and there was no need to continue watching.

Not long after he returned to the inn, the great battle outside the city finally ended. All ten Long Clan Gu Kings were killed by Feng Jiu; not one escaped.

After killing all ten Gu Kings, Feng Jiu's figure flashed and he quickly left here, leaving only a scarred ground and a raging fire that lasted for a long time.

Not long after, one Gu King figure after another appeared here. After looking at the traces left by the battle, they all showed solemn expressions.

Long Xiaoyao's mood was heavy. He dragged his heavy steps to a corpse, wanting to try to save the person with a Fourth Grade healing pill, but after looking at the condition of the corpse, he gave up.

This corpse had completely turned into a dried corpse; there was not a drop of moisture in the flesh. How could a Fourth Grade healing pill save it?

"It's the Nine Nether Nether Fire!"

Long Xiaoyao muttered, his face looking extremely ugly.

The Nine Nether Nether Fire is the thirty-first ranked Heavenly Fire on the Heavenly Fire List. Its ability is that it burns without water.

This is a powerful flame that is not afraid of water. Water overcoming fire is a natural law, but the Nine Nether Nether Fire goes against common sense and can conversely achieve fire overcoming water.

After the Nine Nether Nether Fire flies into the human body, it can instantly burn away the moisture in the human body, but leaves the flesh behind.

People killed by the Nine Nether Nether Fire will all turn into dried corpses that cannot be saved.

And the person who possesses the Nine Nether Nether Fire is the famous Fen Tian Old Ancestor.

At this time, how could he not see that Feng Jiu was an alias for Fen Tian Old Ancestor?

Long Xiaoyao hated inwardly, regretting that he hadn't investigated Feng Jiu's identity clearly. If he had known earlier that Feng Jiu was Fen Tian Old Ancestor, he would never have sent ten Long Clan Gu Kings to their deaths.

Fen Tian Old Ancestor is the tenth-ranked person on the Gu World Wanted List, considered one of the ten strongest demon cultivators in the Demon Path, an existence that even the Gu Emperor City cannot do anything about. How could he easily deal with him by sending ten Gu Kings?

Long Xiaoyao clenched his fists. At this time, how could he not see that this was clearly a trap set by the Feng Clan against the Long Clan?

The Feng Clan had long known that Fen Tian Old Ancestor was a Fourth Grade Alchemist, which is why they dared to propose the heaven-shaking gamble of betting half of their clan luck with the Long Clan. Their Long Clan had fallen into the trap.

At this time, Feng Tiancheng's roar finally echoed in the crowd: "These are clearly the corpses of Long Clan Gu Kings. What on earth does your Long Clan mean, actually daring to assassinate my Feng Clan's alchemy genius!"

"You are too shameless! If you can't win the competition, you use such low-class means. It's a pity you are still the competition organizers!"

Feng Tiancheng pointed at Long Xiaoyao's nose and demanded an explanation. (End of chapter)