My gorgeous wife Chapter 2349 - 2317: Hack and Chop Alive

Black and White Chen Household!

That was a colossal existence that had dominated the continent for tens of millions of years.

But now, even that titan, as one ancestor after another vanished from the continent and went to stronger Powerful Being Planes, had collapsed.

Though the Purple Star Empire that shattered the Black and White Empire took the Big Head, how deep was the accumulation of the Black and White Empire over so many years?

No one could guess.

But even if they couldn’t guess, it didn’t stop these people from being greedy.

Thus, after the fall of the Black and White Empire, the Chen family disciples scattered, and were hunted by experts from across the continent.

This was a Slaughter feast on a continental scale. All the strong had gone bloodshot in the eyes, and all for one thing: to obtain the vast accumulation of the Black and White Empire’s Chen Family over tens of millions of years.

This was also why even the core disciples of the Chen Family had no choice but to retreat into the ancestral shrine that had been almost unknown since the founding of the nation.

"You’re a Chen family disciple?" A cultivator with a wax-yellow face stared at Li Chen with the eyes of a hunter sizing up his prey, his greed completely undisguised.

"Chen Family?" Li Chen shook his head. "I have nothing to do with them."

"Whether you’re related or not isn’t up to you." Another man spoke. "Right now you have two choices. One, tell us where the other Members of the Chen Family are hiding. Two... we’ll help you say it!"

The few men stared at Li Chen with naked greed, their eyes scarlet, like starving beggars seeing a sumptuous meal.

Li Chen shook his head.

"You can’t help me."

"Really?" One of them sneered.

"Get him!"

A group of cultivators lunged at Li Chen at once.

The Black and White Chen Household, a terrifying clan that had accumulated power for tens of millions of years—its ordinary disciples without any Cultivation couldn’t be underestimated either. That seemingly ordinary Chen family disciple with no Cultivation at all might be carrying a Killing Weapon that could wipe out an Earth-level Expert.

Having roamed the Jianghu for many years, they believed they wouldn’t overturn in a gutter in a place like this.

But clearly, they didn’t know that what lay before them wasn’t some gutter.

It was a vast Wangyang ocean.

"Boom!!"

The cultivators besieging Li Chen felt their ears roar in the same instant, as if thunder exploded in their heads. In a flash they foamed at the mouth and collapsed to the ground.

After quite a while, they barely recovered a sliver of awareness, but they still couldn’t control their bodies at all. Forget attacking—they couldn’t even stand, and could only sprawl weakly on the ground.

"Just now... what was that?" Among them, the Earth-Level Black Rope cultivator with the strongest Cultivation forced out the words.

Li Chen didn’t answer.

He just casually picked up a broadsword one of them had dropped.

It was only an ordinary Fine Iron Broadsword, yet Li Chen felt strained lifting it.

Right now this body was even weaker than when he had been a mere mortal.

He raised the broadsword, then slowly walked up to that Black Rope cultivator.

"W-What are you doing?!" Seeing Li Chen’s movements, the man panicked. He had been the one to suggest Li Chen might be a Chen family disciple and to make a move on him.

Yet now he realized he was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, only able to lie on the ground, not moving at all.

Li Chen still didn’t speak.

He merely struggled to lift the broadsword.

Then brought it down.

"Crack!"

"Aaargh!!!"

That stroke didn’t kill the Black Rope cultivator. After all, in terms of physique, a Black Rope cultivator had already begun to step out of the mortal category.

Even without the protection of True Qi, his Physical Body was countless times tougher than a normal person’s.

Li Chen swung with the blade with all his strength, and only left a not-so-deep, not-so-shallow wound on the man’s neck.

But the agony and terror were enough to drive him nearly mad.

Ignoring his screams, and under the horrified gazes of the other cultivators, Li Chen raised the broadsword again.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Cra—ck..."

One stroke, then another.

After hacking more than twenty times in total, the Black Rope cultivator’s voice cut off, and his head was finally chopped off by Li Chen.

But, after hacking off that head, Li Chen was also panting from the exertion.

The others around, though they still couldn’t move, now looked at Li Chen with deep, bone-chilling fear in their eyes.

If Li Chen had simply directly caused Soul Annihilation for this man, it wouldn’t have felt like much.

But to carve a living man’s head off his neck one stroke at a time—the visual impact instilled far greater terror.

Looking at the irregular wounds all over the corpse’s neck, the remaining few felt a chill all over their bodies.

"Your expressions just now were easy to read. No matter what I said, you would have killed me." Li Chen tossed aside the broadsword and spoke calmly. "In other words, in your minds I was already a must-kill target."

"Since you intend to kill, you’d better be prepared to bear the consequences."

"I...I still don’t want to die!"

"My lord, it was we who failed to recognize the mountain before us. Please spare my life—I’m willing to pay any price!"

"My lord, Xue Ai... the one you just hacked apart... has nothing to do with us. I was only misled by him. Please, my lord, investigate clearly!"

Li Chen’s gaze swept over the group, without any fluctuation.

They were nothing more than ordinary Jianghu people with a heavy Jianghu aura about them.

The Jianghu sounded complicated, but thinking about it now, it was actually simple.

"It’s just everyone struggling for their own path to survival." Li Chen shook his head.

"I can choose not to kill you, but you must hand over your Soul Blood and acknowledge me as master."

"Soul Blood?"

"Acknowledge master?"

Clearly, at their level of Cultivation, they hadn’t reached the point of touching such advanced concepts.

"If you don’t understand, it’s fine. Just do as I say. If you’re unwilling, then die." When Li Chen spoke of ’death’ and killing, his expression was calm to the point of indifference, as if he were talking about eating or drinking water.

Precisely because of that, the cultivators felt colder and colder all over as they looked at this white-haired youth.

Just what kind of monster was this?

He clearly had no Cultivation at all, his strength was pathetically weak, yet he could subdue all of them in an instant.

"Alright, do as I say. Split open your brow, use the Soul as a guide, condense Blood into Soul..."

Once Li Chen collected a few drops of Soul Blood, the men immediately gained an understanding in their hearts.

The white-haired youth before them was their master.

As long as he wished it, he could annihilate them with a thought at any moment, no matter how far they fled.

"Master!" They bowed respectfully.

"Enough, get up." Li Chen waved his hand. "First, take me out of this mountain range. Then find me a larger city to stay in."

"Yes, Master!" they answered in unison.

"Oh, right." Li Chen thought for a moment and added, "Best to find a city you’re familiar with, because once we go in, I’ll need you to help me look for some things."

"Once those things are found, I might consider setting you free."

The group was taken aback, then looked at each other with joy flashing in their eyes. If they could live freely, who would want a master hanging over their heads?

Li Chen’s words were equivalent to giving them a goal to strive toward.

"This Subordinate will spare no effort!"