Chapter 1549 - 1546: The Outer Border Army’s Preparations

Chapter 1549: Chapter 1546: The Outer Border Army’s Preparations

The seventh layer of the Demon Exorcism Technique, Tathagata’s Call, compared to the sixth layer, Boundless Sea of Dharma, is not just an increase in level, but also marks a turning point in overall strength.

With the Celestial Dao turning into the Extreme Dao, Chen Tianlong’s physique changed from that of an ordinary person into that of an Immortal.

Although he didn’t gain the legendary ability to live forever, living to a hundred and fifty is definitely possible. As for whether he can keep extending that, it will depend on his personal cultivation, and the extent of his later cultivation.

Once he figured all this out, Chen Tianlong tried to continue circulating the Demon Exorcism Technique cultivation technique. Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour, the leaking Powerful Qi gradually slowed, and finally stopped. In its place, pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged in from all directions.

Chen Tianlong was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted. This had to be the effect of the final layer of the Demon Exorcism Technique, Tathagata’s Call. Just from the name you could tell how fierce it was.

You could say it was a direct, full-body baptism for Chen Tianlong, body and soul. Past viruses and all harmful substances hidden inside his body were completely expelled in this baptism, then replaced with fresh Powerful Qi.

This also destined Chen Tianlong’s Extreme Dao to be different from others. With the purification and baptism of the Demon Exorcism Technique and the Bone Marrow Cleansing and Bone Cutting cultivation technique, both his physique and his Powerful Qi were the purest. So no matter what he cultivates, or when he levels up and breaks through, or unleashes attacks, the hit rate and everything else are pushed to the absolute limit.

Same realm, yet his attack power is far higher than others. This is Chen Tianlong’s trump card, his hidden ace.

Chen Tianlong continued to run his cultivation technique at high speed. Tathagata’s Call was the ultimate move of the Demon Exorcism Technique; it wasn’t something you could break through so easily. So Chen Tianlong had no intention of stopping, and kept it running continuously.

However, with this Extreme Dao strength as his foundation propping him up, Chen Tianlong no longer worried about anything going wrong.

The Demon Exorcism Technique wasn’t as hard to break through as the Nine Yang Celestial Dragon Technique. As long as you had the Extreme Dao foundation, plus enough Powerful Qi and stamina to ram your way up, you could do it. Obviously, Chen Tianlong met all these conditions. What remained now was a matter of time.

Night grew deeper and deeper, yet Chen Tianlong didn’t rest, running his cultivation technique at high speed the whole time. ℯ

At this moment, his body was already in a state of high heat; roughly before dawn he’d be able to break through.

The night passed without event. In the morning, the air was still fresh and slightly chilly. Although it was already June, on Kunlun Mountain the altitude was fairly high, the ravine air was clean, and the birds chirped non-stop.

"Hu....."

Chen Tianlong let out a long breath of relief. Finally, at the break of dawn, he broke through the seventh layer of the Demon Exorcism Technique, Tathagata’s Call.

At that moment, he felt his whole body shrouded in a layer of Immortal Qi. His body and mind were extremely relaxed, carrying a kind of ethereal, immortal grace. Little did he know, his appearance had already become eternally youthful in that instant.

Precisely because of the Demon Exorcism Technique, it made Chen Tianlong gain eternal youth early. Other Extreme Dao cultivators need to reach the Late Stage of the Extreme Dao before they have this ability.

Chen Tianlong’s special physique and the three Heaven-defying Techniques he had already learned destined him to be different from everyone else.

"Hehe, finally broke through. From now on, all those Demons and Monsters can roll off to the side for me." Chen Tianlong thought to himself. Before, he didn’t dare say such things. Now, he already counted as the number one of the Celestial Dao Seven Stars, with no one in the Mortal Realm able to stop him.

The Demon Exorcism Technique was broken through, but he hadn’t slept for a whole day and night. Even though his spirit was still quite good, his body had to rest properly and be nursed.

Chen Tianlong knew Kuang Chenggong would very soon bring troops to encircle and wipe out this place. As for exactly when, he wasn’t sure either, but it wouldn’t be long.

Sure enough, these past few days Kuang Chenggong was busy deploying troops. The reason he transferred the hundred and fifty thousand Outer Border Army back to defend the city was because he was preparing to attack Kunlun Mountain.

Kuang Chenggong felt that if Chen Tianlong wanted to deal with him, the first step would definitely be to gather the disciples of the Kunlun Sect under his command, then borrow the Outer Border Army to besiege his city. So he had to pull the main force back into the city, then draw thirty thousand from the original fifty-thousand city guard army to prepare to besiege Chen Tianlong and the others.

Chen Tianlong was already at the Extreme Dao now. If he allowed Chen Tianlong to keep developing, Kuang Chenggong was very sure this brat would soon surpass him. Whether in cultivation techniques or physique, Kuang Chenggong had already learned that Chen Tianlong wasn’t an ordinary person, but a prodigy. If he let Chen Tianlong go this time, it would be like letting a tiger return to the mountain, with endless trouble down the road.

Therefore, Kuang Chenggong had no patience to wait any longer. His own strength was already at the peak of the Extreme Dao Initial Stage, while Chen Tianlong was only at the Extreme Dao Initial Stage. As long as he settled Chen Tianlong, everything else would be easy. So this time he didn’t plan to bring that many troops, only picking thirty thousand elite soldiers to go.

On the other side, Kuang Chenggong also worried that once he led troops out, enemies might launch a surprise attack in the Capital City. That would be a disaster. So he left a hundred and seventy thousand troops in the city, guarded by the three Grand Generals Kuang Ba, Kuang Feng, and Kuang Yun.

Although these three Grand Generals weren’t at the Extreme Dao, with Kuang Chenggong’s help, all three had already been upgraded to the Great Perfection Limit of the Celestial Dao Seven Stars.

Meanwhile, the few generals in Ancient Celestial Dragon’s troops—Chen Yun and Zhang Hu, as well as Zhao Zhuo—had likewise reached the Great Perfection Limit of the Celestial Dao Seven Stars. This was thanks to Ancient Celestial Dragon’s connections. He’d managed to gather Qi Gathering Pills from all over the country and spent them all on these three Grand Generals. Only after they became strong could they lead the soldiers to fight more bravely.

At this time, Kuang Chenggong was already leading thirty thousand elite soldiers, hurrying toward the Kunlun Sect. And Ancient Celestial Dragon’s men also found it very strange: logically, at a time like this, Kuang Chenggong shouldn’t leave the city, yet he was taking tens of thousands of troops and rushing north.

"Report, Li Ancient Celestial Dragon, Kuang Chenggong is leading thirty thousand elite troops north. What should we do?" Zhao Zhuo hurried in to pay respects to Ancient Celestial Dragon and asked.

After hearing this, Ancient Celestial Dragon frowned as well. Why was Kuang Chenggong sending troops north? Was he going to encircle them from the rear? But suddenly Ancient Celestial Dragon thought this was unlikely, because their army was already eighty thousand strong now, and outside they’d made full preparations and set up all kinds of ambushes. With Kuang Chenggong’s style, he wouldn’t risk personally leading troops out to attack.

"Send scouts to take a look. What exactly is Kuang Chenggong taking his army out there to do?" Ancient Celestial Dragon immediately ordered.

"Yes, Leader Gu." Zhao Zhuo accepted the order, turned, and left.

After Zhao Zhuo left, Lord Xu slowly walked over and said, "Leader, we don’t know where Chen Tianlong has gone these days, but his greatest enemy right now is Kuang Chenggong. This time Kuang Chenggong is leading an army out—could it be related to Chen Tianlong?"

"Chen Tianlong? Oh, I almost forgot. That little guy went off and never came back. The things he promised me—he still hasn’t come back properly to fight alongside me." Ancient Celestial Dragon sounded like he was complaining, but in truth he missed him very much.

"Mm, I think it’s quite possible that Chen Tianlong is there. How about we send people to secretly follow along? If Chen Tianlong is there, we must send troops to rescue him, otherwise he might be in danger."

Lord Xu had considered this point. Thirty thousand elite soldiers were no joke. Even if Chen Tianlong was formidable, it would still be hard to withstand the encirclement and attacks of so many soldiers.