Chapter 364 - Pyro Passageways

Chapter 364 - Pyro Passageways

The training exercise officially began five days later.

Xiaolang had been excited about it. Long Chen sensed that Xiaolang had somehow become quite naive after he entered the body of the Sun Devouring Wolf, as if he had become a child. It was only when problems came looking for them that Xiaolang became serious.

He had been following Long Chen all morning. When they left their residence, Zhao Qingyun was waiting for Long Chen outside.

“Did you talk to Murong Yu?” Zhao Qingyun asked while they were heading towards the passageways.

“Don’t worry. I won’t lose to them even if I’m all alone.” Long Chen was confident in his strength.

Zhao Qingyun nodded. “I was more worried that Yang Danfeng would team up with Murong Yu to avenge Yang Jun. It would be hard for you to deal with both of them.”

“No, that won’t happen.” Long Chen was certain of himself. Yang Danfeng had pledged himself to Murong Yu, but the latter didn’t even want to be associated with him.

“Then that’s fine. Remember, the more Fire Essences you get, the better. The Demon Seed Planting Technique is an incredible technique,” Zhao Qingyun reminded him again.

Long Chen nodded.

“Wait, what if I obtain more Fire Essences than the both of them? Can I get both stages of the Demon Seed Planting Technique?” Long Chen asked inquisitively.

The first stage allowed the user to double their Qi and the second stage quadrupled it. Long Chen’s Dragon Soul Transformation allowed him to increase the quality of his Qi by ten times. Does this mean that I can increase the quality by forty times?! New novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

Increasing his Qi by forty times was a horrifying concept. That meant that Long Chen would be even stronger than a Seventh River Stage cultivator once he used the Demon Seed Planting Technique.

It was indeed a good technique.

However, no technique would surpass their own innate quality. For example, Divine Fire Clone was an advanced Earth-tier technique. The strongest each clone could become was around the Eighth River Stage. If Long Chen became much more powerful, the clones would still remain at the Eighth River Stage.

This was the same for the Demon Seed Planting Technique. Long Chen could use it as long as he was weaker than Zhao Qingyun. Any stronger than that and it would be useless.

Long Chen’s question stunned Zhao Qingyun for a moment.

“Something like that has never happened before, but do you want both stages of the Demon Seed Planting Technique?”

Long Chen nodded. “Who doesn’t want to become stronger through secret techniques?”

Everyone was shocked by his question.

A mere Sixth River Stage cultivator wanted to collect more Fire Essences than two Eighth River Stage cultivators? The two Eighth River Stage Cultivators were also the two strongest youths next to Lin Zichen that had learned two Heaven-tier martial techniques!

“Are you joking? What can you do with the two stages at your cultivation level?” Yang Danfeng scoffed. He was confident in himself and thought Long Chen’s greed was hilarious.

The Three Demon Elders looked at each other.

Long Chen looked around and stated clearly, “The objective of the training exercise is to obtain more Fire Essences than the others. Those who obtain more are stronger than the rest. If I can get more than those two, doesn’t that mean I’m stronger than them? If they can compete for the second stage, why can’t I?”

“Idiot.” The others shook their heads.

“Stop messing around!” The First Demon Elder shook his head and looked at Zhao Qingyun. “Palace Master, what do you think we should do?”

“I will go with whatever you think is fair.”

Zhao Qingyun tossed the question back to the First Demon Elder. The First Demon Elder knew that the Palace Master was pressuring him. If he didn’t allow it, that meant the three Demon Elders were not confident in their disciples. But he was worried that Long Chen would create another miracle if he did.

“Looks like the three Demon Elders are not confident in their disciples. That’s fine, then. I’m sure everyone would think it unfair if I obtained the two stages at once.” Long Chen taunted all of them.

“Stop blabbering. Since the Palace Master told me to decide, we will agree to what you have proposed. My disciples welcome the challenge.” The First Demon Elder had no choice but to agree. If he declined, he would be laughed at by the others.

Zhao Qingyun had basically forced them to accept by giving the choice to the three Demon Elders rather than making the decision himself.

Long Chen was happy with the result.

“What are you getting happy about? You can’t even surpass Yang Jun, much less us,” Yang Danfeng said through gritted teeth.

Zhao Qingyun led them into the cave. It was a crimson cave that had a surprisingly high temperature even though there was no fire. The cave was filled with red rocks.

As they made their way deeper, Long Chen soon saw the end of the cave. There was a set of heavy iron doors blocking their way. They were rusty, as if they had been there since the start of time.

“Past these doors are the Pyro Passageways. There are ten corridors leading to ten different locations down there. I suggest that if you don’t want to search for Fire Essences on your own, you should quickly move around and team up with someone,” Zhao Qingyun explained to the disciples, but he was secretly advising Long Chen. Now that Long Chen had made everyone his enemies, it was possible that they would all band together to take him down.

Long Chen understood what he meant.

Zhao Qingyun gripped the iron doors and used all of his strength to pull them open. The sound of screeching metal filled the cave.