Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 759

The Nam Seong Lord and his group seemed quite surprised to be discovered.

“Hwanyeom! It was that old monster Hwan who was eavesdropping on our conversation in Nagilseong,” Huang Liang Young Lord said, glancing at the moth on the boy’s shoulder.

“Brother Huang Liang, are you just realizing that now? I thought you knew all along.”

“I figured he was hiding in a hole like an old rat, waiting for the Great Heavenly Tribulation. But for him to appear here, has he finished preparing for the Great Heavenly Tribulation?”

“If I were confident in overcoming the Great Heavenly Tribulation [a catastrophic event that tests a cultivator’s strength] that occurs once every three thousand years, would I have come here? I’ve been wandering around the early stage of the Void Refinement realm [a high level of cultivation] for ten thousand years. I barely survived the last Great Heavenly Tribulation, and there’s no hope for the next one. It’s better to wander around and look for opportunities. Cultivator Huang Liang, you’ve only just reached the Void Refinement stage and have only experienced one Great Heavenly Tribulation, so you wouldn’t have such worries.”

The mid-Void Refinement stage demon cultivator sighed deeply. When the opponent mentioned the Great Heavenly Tribulation, Huang Liang Young Lord’s face also changed slightly. The terrifying experience of his first Great Heavenly Tribulation still made him tremble at the mere thought of it.

“If you’re looking for opportunities, you should go to the Land of Myriad Desolations. What are you doing here? Even if it’s an excuse, you should tell a believable story…”

Huang Liang Young Lord moved his lips and unexpectedly began to converse through telepathy.

“I’m truly wronged this time. The reason I went to Nagilseong was actually to ask the cultivator to go to the Land of Myriad Desolations with me. I just happened to get involved in the Spirit Race’s affairs. I’m also an elder of the Gyeongseo Clan, so I couldn’t just ignore it, could I?”

The boy smiled faintly and replied in the same way through telepathy.

“Go to the Land of Myriad Desolations together?”

“That’s right. Although we are of the Human and Demon races, our divine abilities are actually interconnected. If we unite, our chances of survival in the Land of Myriad Desolations will be higher, won’t they? I can only feel at ease with someone like Cultivator Huang Liang. To be honest, there aren’t any other elders of my clan that I want to accompany me.

I heard that your second Great Heavenly Tribulation is just around the corner. You must find a treasure to overcome the tribulation this time to survive! Even if your cultivation doesn’t improve, the tribulation will only become stronger day by day.”

“Since Brother Hwan has said so much, I won’t lie either. I’m not sure if my chances of surviving the second tribulation are even half. I lost quite a few treasures during the last tribulation…”

Huang Liang Young Lord stood on the jade boat, pondered for a moment, and then raised his head.

“That’s fortunate. My chances of surviving this tribulation are less than a quarter. So, what should we do? Would you like to go to the Land of Myriad Desolations with me?”

The boy sent a telepathic message in a serious tone. However, Huang Liang Young Lord was hesitant about the formal request.

After a long while, he frowned and asked,

“If we two join forces and go to the Land of Myriad Desolations, what should we do about the Spirit Race’s affairs?”

“It’s simple. Let’s combine our strength to deal with the Spirit Race first and find the traitor among them. If we can divide the items he possesses, we will, and if not, we can compete and the winner takes all.”

The boy Hwan answered smoothly, as if he had already thought it through.

“No, you’re not even trying to hide your intentions! I reached the Void Refinement stage thousands of years later than you, how can I win?”

“Then what do you want to do, Brother Huang Liang?”

“Let’s check the items first and then talk. The one who takes them will pay a corresponding price.”

Huang Liang Young Lord stroked his beard.

“Let’s do that. Let the Human and Demon races work together to deal with the Spirit Race first.”

A fierce look appeared on the boy Hwan’s face, and Huang Liang Young Lord nodded in agreement. Huang Liang Young Lord explained the situation to Nam Seong Lord and the others.

Since they had been discovered by a Void Refinement stage demon cultivator, the others had no choice but to agree. Thus, Nam Seong Lord immediately clapped his hands together and shot a huge blue fireball into the sky.

Bang!

The moment the blue fireball exploded, various colored lights flew out from the bushes, and human cultivators and soft-bodied creatures using spirit tools to fly appeared in droves.

Since Huang Liang Young Lord had given a loud order, the humans had heard the news that they would join forces with the demons to deal with the Spirit Race first.

Although they were surprised, the people gathered here were not ordinary, so there was no major commotion.

As demonic energy surged and ferocious demon beasts and a dozen or so demon cultivators in fiery forms appeared, the humans also activated their magical treasures and spirit tools, and spiritual energy tore through the sky.

The green-skirted woman and Huang Seokgong, who were facing them, had felt uneasy since the boy Hwan and Huang Liang Young Lord had been whispering to each other.

They exchanged cold glances silently and immediately turned around to retreat.

Then, the wooden birds and stone statues behind them made thumping sounds and quickly retreated into the valley. Surprisingly, the Spirit Race retreated without even fighting.

This time, the humans and demons were flustered and paused.

‘Are the Spirit Race running away because they can’t handle it?’

Uwaaa!

As the Spirit Race retreated, the morale of the humans and demons rose rapidly, and they pushed forward, destroying over a hundred puppets that had fallen behind.

In an instant, some of the humans and demons entered the entrance of the Chaos Valley.

But there was really no counterattack.

The boy Hwan and Huang Liang Young Lord were even more suspicious of this situation. Having directly engaged in large-scale battles with the Spirit Race, they knew how brave and ferocious their opponents were.

“This is strange. Stop them quickly. There’s something wrong,” the boy Hwan warned Huang Liang Young Lord quickly with a stern face.

“It seems there is definitely a problem!” Huang Liang Young Lord agreed, took a deep breath, and then whistled loudly to signal them to return. But then, a flash of blood-red light appeared above the valley entrance, and a thunderous sound was heard as a blood-red lotus tens of feet in size condensed.

The crimson lotus emitted a pungent stench of blood and rotated in the air.

“Oh no, Lord Wukcheon!” The boy Hwan shouted as soon as he saw the blood-red lotus. Huang Liang Young Lord had never seen the blood-red lotus before, but he had heard of Wukcheon, who was famous as one of the eight great lords of the Spirit Race.

Before they could even react, the blood-red lotus poured down from the sky, turning into blood and falling. Those who touched the blood, regardless of whether they were demons or humans, turned into blue smoke and died on the spot.

Neither protective demonic energy nor defensive magical treasures could stop the blood. In the blink of an eye, the humans and demons lost half of their forces that had entered the valley.

Fortunately, the survivors, pale with fear at the vicious blood, were running away desperately even before Huang Liang Young Lord called them back.

The stream of blood, which had turned into a sea of blood, was not satisfied even after killing countless people and demon beasts, and quickly chased after those who were running away from the valley entrance.

At this, the boy Hwan and Huang Liang Young Lord did not sit idly by and quickly moved.

The boy opened his mouth and blew out a gust of gray demonic energy, which transformed into a gray snake of wind as it flew, covering the sea of blood.

Huang Liang Young Lord snorted and flicked his sleeve, causing a golden Eight Trigrams Mirror [a mystical mirror with symbols] to float in front of his chest. As he formed a hand seal, a thick golden pillar of light shot out.

Kwakwakwang!

The snake of wind and the pillar of light blocked the oncoming blood, causing a loud roar. This blocked the blood from flowing out further.

“Heh heh, I didn’t expect to encounter equal beings from both sides in such a remote place.”

The blood flowed backward, reforming into the shape of a lotus, and a Spirit Race man wearing a dark blue robe stood on top of it as light flashed. It was Wukcheon, the sharp-eyed lord of the Gilyeong Race.

As the opponent withdrew his magic, the boy Hwan and Huang Liang Young Lord exchanged glances and withdrew their divine abilities. At the same time, the gray wind and golden light streaks dissipated.

The expressions of the two as they looked at Wukcheon were not good.

“Wukcheon! For a lord to come out and slaughter his juniors, aren’t you afraid that we will retaliate against the Spirit Race in the same way?” Huang Liang Young Lord said, seeing that only about a hundred people had barely escaped. The two Nascent Soul stage [a high level of cultivation] cultivators who had come with him were also nowhere to be seen.

“Isn’t it okay for beings below the Nascent Soul stage? Surely you don’t intend to start a war with our race over such a trivial matter? And you two also seem to be intimidating us with your juniors,” Wukcheon said without hesitation, as if he had nothing to fear. As soon as he finished speaking, other small figures such as Cheolin and Gwanghwa appeared behind him.

The boy Hwan and Huang Liang Young Lord both felt a chill in their hearts at the appearance of so many Spirit Race members, and they began to calculate their chances of victory.

However, after a while, they came to a conclusion that was somewhat reassuring. Although they had lost many cultivators a moment ago, the combined forces of the two races were still superior overall.

Huang Liang Young Lord was about to say something with a sneer when the boy, who had been rolling his eyes, noticed something and shouted,

“The Water Tribe of the Five Elements Spirit Race is not here! They are stalling for time.”

At the boy Hwan’s words, Huang Liang Young Lord also realized it in a flash. Huang Liang Young Lord waved his hand with a pale face, and golden light streaks shot out from the mirror floating in front of his chest.

The boy Hwan also used his magic and released a wind imbued with demonic energy again. Then, the demons and humans behind them also charged forward to attack, following the orders of the bow-wielding woman and Nam Seong Lord.

Even so, the Spirit Race showed no fear. As lights and sword energy flew about, stone statues and jade-colored wooden birds poured out of the valley again. As the wooden birds flapped their wings, green arrows rained down like a storm.

And as the stone statues spread their hands, thick yellow light masses fell. As the two sides clashed fiercely, the blood-red lotus transformed into blood and rose upwards.

Huang Liang Young Lord and the boy Hwan also soared upwards, chasing after it.

The three were similar in terms of cultivation, but in Wukcheon’s case, as a lord of the Spirit Race, no one knew how many years he had spent in the Spirit Realm. Therefore, his combat experience and the power of the divine abilities he knew were naturally superior to Huang Liang Young Lord and the boy Hwan.

If they had fought one-on-one, one of the human or demon races would have surely been defeated. But since the two had secretly agreed to join forces and attack together, they were able to gain an advantage over Wukcheon.

Endless explosions and lights poured out as the river of blood, gray wind, and golden pillars of light intertwined high in the sky.

A blue light streak flashed, and a large sword appeared, cutting down over a dozen stone statue giants blocking the way in one fell swoop.

However, the Spirit Race did not stand idly by and mercilessly slashed at the humans and demons with a huge crimson hand.

Several cultivators failed to dodge and were scattered into ashes by the sharp claws.

“Damn it!”

One of the humans who saw this was enraged.

He formed a hand seal with both hands, then greatly inflated his body and transformed into a giant, swinging his pitch-black fist and charging forward. The giant Geun, a top-tier soft-bodied cultivator, had activated a secret soft-body technique to attack.

The wind from his fist, like black serpents, was so eerie that even the Spirit Race and puppets had to avoid it. However, a silver figure from the Spirit Race also let out a shout and began to grow larger.

It was a Gold Spirit Race member called Cheolin, who was a head taller than the black giant.

Thump! Thump!

The ground shook, and the silver figure strode out and threw a silver fist at the black giant. The black giant also did not back down and threw punches at his opponent.

Pow! Thud!

Every time their fists collided, an earth-shattering sound rang out. The sound was so loud that it was deafening, and the humans and demons fighting nearby had to move away.

On the other side, the remaining Spirit Race members and high-level human and demon cultivators were each displaying their abilities.

But then, a black fire phoenix suddenly emerged from the demon beast horde.

As the fire phoenix flew through the sky engulfed in flames, a hundred wooden birds turned into ashes and scattered.

And the next moment, the black phoenix’s form blurred and disappeared into the void, then reappeared at the entrance of the Chaos Valley and transformed into a woman dressed in a bow-wielding attire.

This Black Wind Tribe demon cultivator flew straight into the Chaos Valley without looking back.

‘I have to stop her!’

Nam Seong Lord was startled when he saw this and scattered over a hundred sword energies at the stone statue group blocking his path.

As the stone statues were cut down and a passage was created, a blue light streak shot through and entered the Chaos Valley.

Seeing this, the surrounding human and demon cultivators also followed behind, flying their lights and entering the valley.