Alchemy Master

Chapter 1162, Qing Luan Arrives

Translator: Silavin

Dual cultivation of both Spiritual Energy and Martial Arts.

It seemed to rouse in Chen Xun a memory long since sealed away beneath the dust of years.

In their youth, they had once heard a terrifying legend.

In a certain era, several of the Top Tier Races had been wiped out, one after another.

Rumour had it that it was the doing of a supremely powerful expert as mad as a Demon, an existence who towered above all others. In that person’s hands, more than one Supreme Expert had met their end!

And that expert had been a dual cultivator of both Spiritual Energy and Martial Arts!

No one knew how many ages had passed, yet Chen Xun still remembered the name the world had given to that terrifying expert, the name by which people called him… the Demon Subduing Great Saint!

The Demon Subduing Great Saint, an expert whom countless Races had been forced to take seriously, had not come from any of the Myriad Races, but rather from the Race those very Races kept as livestock, reared for slaughter, the Human Race!

According to legend, in those days, several of the Top Tier Races had already laid meticulous plans, preparing to swallow up the last remaining territory of the Human Race in a single decisive stroke.

And it was precisely at that moment that a being of such monstrous and terrifying quality had emerged from within the Human Race!

Those several colluding Top Tier Races, within the span of a mere few years, had vanished from the continent!

And lurking behind their disappearance, in every case, was the shadow of that terrifying existence.

Dual cultivation of both Spiritual Energy and Martial Arts, only the Human Race, the most spiritually gifted of all living beings, was capable of achieving it!

And now, the identity of that young man below was almost on the tip of Chen Xun’s tongue.

“The Human Race has actually produced a monster of this calibre. *Heh heh…* What a great tonic that would make!”

Even as a Supreme Expert, there was a flicker of something strange in Chen Xun’s gaze as he looked down at Qin Yichen.

“His identity had not been confirmed. Rumour has it that ‘those places’ have also been known to produce those capable of cultivating both Spiritual Energy and Martial Arts…”

Mo Sheng frowned slightly and murmured.

Hearing this, Chen Xun’s pupils contracted sharply, as though some dreadful existence had crossed his mind, and a trace of fear flashed across his face.

He, who had moments ago barely been able to restrain himself from seizing Qin Yichen on the spot, suppressed that impulse at once.

If that young man was not from the Human Race, but from one of those places, and he were to act rashly, it might well bring catastrophe raining down upon him!

…

And at this moment, down in the Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range, the atmosphere was suffocatingly oppressive.

Over two thousand experts formed a tight encirclement around a single figure, yet beneath that encirclement, not one of them made a move.

And that encircled fellow, as though utterly indifferent to his situation, had actually swallowed a few Pills and sat himself down cross-legged on the spot!

…The silence was spectacular, considering the situation.

This bizarre atmosphere was undeniably absurdly ridiculous.

So many experts, that a single casual strike from any one of them would have been enough to obliterate a Saint, yet here they all stood, frozen solid, cowed by one young man whose aura was completely unstable!

Still, each time someone’s gaze drifted to those corpses on the ground, not one of them with a body left intact, everyone present could not help but feel a creeping numbness spreading through them.

That was precisely why they had stopped. No one knew if once they made their move, whether the next one to join that pile of broken remains might be themselves.

“Brother Qin, I, Qing Luan have arrived late!” And in the midst of this frozen standoff, suddenly, a great booming shout rang out across Heaven.

Immediately after, from deep within the Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range, a rumbling sound like rolling thunder came surging forward.

“Qing Luan?!”

“Qing Luan of the Heaven Devouring Green Marten Race!”

“Has he not already passed through the Silent Forest? Why is he here?”

Hearing that voice, the expressions of countless experts changed in an instant, and gaze after gaze turned instinctively towards the direction from which the sound had come.

Very soon, at the far edge of their field of vision, they saw a young man in green robes, accompanied by four followers, shooting through the air towards them at great speed.

When Qin Yichen heard that voice, a flicker of surprise passed through his eyes.

Evidently, he too had not expected that Qing Luan would choose to step forward at this particular moment!

One had to understand, the Races currently participating in the siege numbered no fewer than several hundred. Though the Heaven Devouring Green Marten Race behind Qing Luan was a Top Tier Race, even a Top Tier Race could not single-handedly stand against so many Races at once!

Furthermore, rumour had it that this coalition had seen the Golden Flame Race openly declare their position!

Which meant that Qing Luan was prepared to make an enemy of Jin Mi, and openly break ties with him!

Though Qin Yichen was of tremendous use to the Heaven Devouring Green Marten Race, choosing to stand in opposition to the Golden Flame Race at this juncture was by no means a wise course of action for them!

Facing several thousand pairs of eyes, the experts following behind Qing Luan visibly began to show signs of apprehension.

Clearly, they too had not anticipated that what they would be walking into was a situation of this magnitude!

And when they caught sight of that figure drenched in blood from head to toe, and that heap of shattered limbs and broken remains, the colour of their eyes deepened with thick, undisguised disbelief.

All of this…

Had that one person really caused all of this?

How on earth had he managed to do it!?

“Ha ha ha! Well fought, Brother Qin!”

After his gaze swept over the pile of bodies below, Qing Luan let out a mighty laugh, and under the watch of several thousand pairs of eyes, he walked straight towards Qin Yichen.

Facing Qing Luan, the numerous experts who had until moments ago been projecting terrifying auras seemed afraid to provoke the latter and could not help but rein in their auras involuntarily.

Meanwhile, Qing Luan strode directly through the midst of several thousand experts, his expression not changing in the slightest.

[What a bearing! Worthy indeed of being a Top Tier Race’s greatest prodigy!] Seeing Qing Luan’s bearing, even Qin Yichen could not help but sigh inwardly.

To achieve this much through presence alone was no small thing. It seemed Qing Luan’s fearsome reputation was no exaggeration.

Yet when Qing Luan drew close, Qin Yichen clearly saw a thin bead of cold sweat slide down the latter’s cheek.

Clearly, even if those several thousand experts had not deliberately directed the pressure of their aura at Qing Luan, the sheer oppressive weight of so many was still an enormous psychological strain.

Were there only one or two hundred experts, Qing Luan would have felt no fear at all, but with numbers around ten times that, even he found it a considerable headache.

“Can you still walk?” Looking at the figure soaked through with blood, the shock in Qing Luan’s eyes was impossible to conceal.

The devastation laid out below told him that Qin Yichen must have endured a ferocious battle just before his arrival. Only, even he could not imagine just how savage Qin Yichen must have been, to have single-handedly dealt with this many experts!

Hearing Qing Luan’s question, Qin Yichen gave a nod, then shook his head.

“Do not worry, I will get you out of here!” Qing Luan murmured quietly, and his voice was filled with an unwavering certainty.

The more extraordinary Qin Yichen proved himself to be, the more Qing Luan felt compelled to protect him!

On the strength of that battle alone, a battle that defied all imagination, Qing Luan had already made up his mind about Qin Yichen. As long as he grew and reached his full potential, he would without question become a towering pillar of a figure in the days to come!