Seeing Long Chen's murderous expression, Guo Ran and the others looked helpless:
"Well, it's over before it even started. I guess there's nothing left for us."
"This bastard, why is his mouth so foul? We missed out on a great opportunity for nothing. A Dragonblood warrior muttered involuntarily.
If you dare insult the boss's woman, the boss won't fight you to the death. The Dragonblood warriors finally encountered a Celestial Venerable of equal strength and wanted to have a fierce battle with him.
But with things developing this far, they couldn't argue with the boss; all they could do was scold the old guy for being talkative.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, a pair of golden wings appeared behind Long Chen—those were the Kunpeng wings. The moment the wings appeared, Long Chen's figure abruptly vanished.
The Ninth Elder was shocked. As a Heavenly Venerable, he possessed the power to control heaven and earth. Wherever his soul reached, heaven and earth were under his control—no one could hide before him.
But Long Chen had disappeared. The first thing that came to his mind wasn't that Long Chen could become invisible, but that his speed was so fast that even his divine sense couldn't catch up.
The Ninth Elder suddenly roared angrily, thrusting his spear fiercely forward.
With a loud explosion, the Minghong Blade struck the spear, and only then did the sound of the blade being drawn rang out.
"So fast!"
Guo Ran and the others were shocked, their voices in order thrown into chaos. The scene before them was distorted, and time and space were disrupted.
"Pfft!"
Relying on years of combat experience, the Ninth Elder blocked Long Chen's strike, but was shaken so hard that blood spurted wildly.
"Smack!"
Suddenly, a figure flashed, and the Ninth Elder spun around, a mouthful of yellow teeth scattering into the void.
They couldn't see the movements clearly, but hearing the familiar voice and posture, Guo Ran and the others knew the Ninth Elder had taken a big slap.
"Boss, you're even faster." Xia Chen said.
Back in the Vermilion Bird Empire, Long Chen had also used the Kunpeng Wings, but not at such speed.
It turned out that on the Kunpeng's wings, countless runes needed to be fused bit by bit, and the wings grew according to their master's strength.
The Kunpeng clan is renowned alongside the Dragon clan, not just empty fame, but genuine talent.
These wings from Kuntu were extremely powerful themselves. When Long Chen obtained them, they hadn't fully matured, and only a very small portion of the runes had been activated.
So although Long Chen obtained the Kunpeng wings of the Realm King and Divine Sovereign realms, he still used these Immortal King wings. After activating all the runes on the wings, he would refine the other two pairs.
While refining pills on the ghost ship, perhaps influenced by the Qiankun Cauldron, the Kunpeng wings actually began to merge with him on their own initiative, rather than passively refining them.
As they neared shore, the Kunpeng wings had fully fused, allowing Long Chen to harness all the power of the wings.
It should be noted that even Kunpeng experts at the Divine Venerable realm can at most control part of the runes of the Immortal King wings and cannot fully fuse them.
The Kunpeng clan is a very special race; before reaching a certain realm, they already have some life runes on their bodies.
However, more than half of these runes cannot be activated, which is related to personal talent and bloodline.
Unlike other races, other races automatically develop their natal runes upon reaching a certain level. Once a natal rune appears, they naturally gain control over this divine ability.
But the Kunpeng clan is different. When you reach the Immortal King realm, your natal runes will be increased, and at the Realm King realm, even more.
But once the runes were released, whether they could be used depended on individual skill. In the Kunpeng clan, no one could fully activate all the runes on their body. Activating even half of them was already a peerless genius.
Kuntu was valued by the Kunpeng clan; the runes on his wings had only activated forty percent, the runes on his body had activated thirty percent, and the soul runes had only activated twenty percent.
Although the Kunpeng clan's runes seem to be of little use, legend has it that every so often, a peerless genius appears in the Kunpeng clan, activating all the runes and sweeping across the nine heavens. Unfortunately, legends are just legends—countless years have passed, and the Kunpeng clan's legend has yet to appear.
Long Chen didn't know these legends, nor did he understand the Kunpeng clan. All he knew was that the Kunpeng wings were extremely useful. Now that all the runes on these wings were activated, his speed had reached its peak.
"Smack!"
The Ninth Elder was sent flying by a slap, spinning like a top. Suddenly, there was another explosion—it had been turning from right to left, but suddenly it changed to turning from left to right.
However, due to the tremendous inertia, his lower body kept turning left, while his upper body turned right, and his body twisted into a twisted twist in an instant.
The Ninth Elder was slapped twice in a row, completely stunned, his head spinning and unable to tell east from west.
"Smack smack... Long
Chen waved his large hand, creating a cloud of illusions. His mouth stomped as if it cost nothing, cursing as he went:
"I made you stingy, arrogant, repay kindness, and ...."
The Ninth Elder was struck and sent flying like a top, but he remained under Long Chen's control. After Long Chen slapped him more than a dozen times in one breath, the Ninth Elder immediately fell silent.
"Could it be dead?"
Xia Chen and the others were stunned.
"He probably isn't dead, just fainted from anger. The boss slaps him and never kills anyone." Guo Ran said.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the dizzy Ninth Elder was woken up again, but just as he woke up, he was knocked out again.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, Long Chen retreated. The Ninth Elder was still spinning in midair. As he gradually stopped, Guo Ran and the others cried out in surprise.
"Is this really him?"
They could no longer recognize the original Ninth Elder. At this moment, his face was swollen like a pig's head, almost wider than his shoulders. His face had swelled and deformed, and his skin had swollen to the extreme, as if it might burst at any moment.
On his thin shoulders, he carried an enormous head. The sight was both shocking and amusing. Guo Ran and the others were amazed—this must have reached their limit.
"Boss, your control of the heat and the power is truly masterful. One point less than the limit, but one more point and you can smash it down. It's truly unparalleled." Guo Ran carefully examined the Ninth Elder's head, his face full of admiration, and flattered him repeatedly.
"Just you wait..."
Only then did the Ninth Elder snap out of his dizziness. Seeing himself beaten into a state of ambush, he trembled with anger, tears streaming uncontrollably.
A dignified Heavenly Venerable expert was actually beaten to tears. Guo Ran and the others were all stunned, which was truly eye-opening.
"Run
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Just then, terrified cries came from Uncle Huai's side. The Seventh and Eighth Elders actually ran off in panic. No one knew what tricks Uncle Huai had used to frighten them.
"Puff puff"
Just as the two escaped, a towering locust tree suddenly appeared, covering the sky. Endless branches, like sharp swords, pierced through their bodies.