Chapter 7249 Ruthless Devil Slaughter

A single zither string flew through the air. It seemed to split heaven and earth, and at the same time, it actually did split the hall master’s head from his body.

The moment their hall master was slain, the members of the Assassin Hall instantly lost their confidence and fled in every direction. They were already being slaughtered. The only reason they hadn’t fled before was not any kind of bravery, but rather that they didn’t dare to as long as the hall master was still alive. Now that he was dead, no one would be able to punish them for fleeing.

None of them specialized in frontal clashes. With their formations in ruins and their karmic luck sealed away, staying here would only result in being massacred.

Unfortunately, the entire perimeter was locked down by the eight High Firmament Flags. Although the karmic luck challenge made it so that the first academy’s karmic luck also couldn’t be mobilized, these were still Heavenly Sovereign Dao Weapons. They were still usable, and it was no problem for them to lock down this battlefield.

Thus, the result was a bloodbath. In just a short while, all the Assassin Hall’s experts were slain, including disciples who had been trying to hide in secret rooms and pathways. After all, having undergone the baptism of the battlefield, the academy’s disciples all had sharp senses. They thoroughly checked the Assassin Hall and left no stone unturned until they confirmed that there was not a single survivor.

Miao Yin ordered people to salvage and sort through whatever was left over, while most of the army was resting. Meanwhile, Long Chen had gone to the only place that had yet to be destroyed in the Assassin Hall, the heart of the Assassin Hall—their karmic luck divine pool.

This place was locked down by the laws of the Heavenly Daos. No one from the Cult of Mara could touch it. But for the same reason, neither could anybody else.

Long Chen reached out a hand. Grand Dao runes appeared on top of the karmic luck divine pool, forming a barrier. This barrier was what had protected it from everyone’s attacks.

“What is the young master thinking of doing?” Miao Yin was dumbfounded by Long Chen’s actions, and looked towards Zi Yan.

Zi Yan smiled slightly. “Rules exist to limit the weak. The strong are the ones who make the rules.”

Miao Yin was even more confused by this answer.

Just then, a nine-leaf golden lotus appeared behind Long Chen. With an explosive sound, the barrier was blasted apart. As if it had a mind of its own, the karmic luck immediately tried to fly off, but Long Chen’s divine ring appeared, and all the karmic luck within the pool was rapidly sucked inside. In practically the blink of an eye, the entire contents of the karmic luck divine pool vanished into the primal chaos space.

This karmic luck had the Cult of Mara’s mark on it. If he were to forcibly use the laws of the primal chaos space to erase this mark, most of the energy would disappear with it. Thus, Long Chen was in no rush to absorb it. He was quite content to simply store it for the day that the Cult of Mara was destroyed.

“Brothers, sisters, I won’t stand on courtesy. I humbly accept this karmic luck!” Long Chen smiled at everyone.

Long Ziwei chuckled. “Boss, you gave us the karmic luck dragon manifestation of the Silver Fox race. Naturally, you can take the Cult of Mara’s karmic luck. Actually, with it sealed off like this, even if you gave it to us, we wouldn’t be able to use it.”

Although Long Ziwei didn’t look that sharp, he had his moments. He was afraid others might feel wronged by the sight of Long Chen monopolizing this karmic luck, so he used this opportunity to tell everyone that Long Chen had already given them the best stuff, while this karmic luck wasn’t something that they could touch.

Of course, he was aware that it was a bit superfluous for him to say such a thing. No one would argue against Long Chen’s decisions here. But he still felt that it should be said.

“Young Master, now that we’ve crushed one of the Cult of Mara’s secret strongholds, they will quickly respond. What is our next step?” asked Miao YIn.

Long Chen looked at the first academy’s army. He solemnly said, “The karmic luck challenge has already been initiated. Although it is a challenge between our first academy against the Cult of Mara, the Cult of Mara’s karmic luck far exceeds that of the first academy, so it won’t be long before it begins to affect the other branch academies, and even the head academy. When that happens, we will lose our greatest defense and become targeted by everyone. Thus, we have no time to rest; we must eliminate all the strongholds in one go! The problem is that I am unable to move all of you with my power. Well, at any rate, I can’t do another teleportation like this for a while. Miao Yin...”

Long Chen gave the floor to Miao Yin, who immediately understood. She waved her hand, and a map appeared in front of everyone.

She explained, “The Cult of Mara is reported to have thirty-six strongholds, but I only have limited information on them. I have the exact locations of twenty-three of them, and five with a general location. As for the other eight, I have no information on them...”

Miao Yin quickly gave an introduction and showed them the markings on the map. Afterwards, Long Chen said, “As I am the initiator of the karmic luck challenge, and adding on the fact that I just seized this karmic luck from the Assassin Hall, I can sense the location of their strongholds. Leave the ones you don’t know to me. Miao Yin and Zi Yan, come up with a plan to eliminate all their strongholds. You only need to slaughter them; leave their karmic luck divine pools to me. Also, I will give you some of Evilmoon’s blades. Just toss them onto the battlefields.”

As long as one of Evilmoon’s blades was present, he would be able to accurately sense its location and use the Star Cloud Steps to move there. Since it was just him, he would have more than enough astral energy and Heaven-Earth power to do so.

It went without saying that Miao Yin was a talented commander; in just a few minutes, she had made a plan for them to sweep through the Cult of Mara’s strongholds. The sequence was perfect. Even the flying time between strongholds and rest time was factored in, as well as emergency protocols in case something unexpected happened. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Long Chen looked it over and didn’t find anything she had missed. He warned them of a few things and they immediately split up into three directions according to the plan.

Long Chen believed that news of this karmic luck challenge would quickly spread. But the major factions wouldn’t be able to immediately make a move once they received word; they would have to verify the veracity of the information first. After all, this was a truly shocking piece of news. Then, even if they wanted to attack the High Firmament Academy, they would have to discuss the details first. Meanwhile, Long Chen was planning on crushing the Cult of Mara at the speed of lightning.

The Cult of Mara had been a tumor on the nine heavens and ten lands for long enough. It was time to remove it. This would also definitely intimidate any other factions thinking of making a move on the High Firmament Academy.

A moment later, a blood-colored barrier was cleanly sliced open, and a hidden world was revealed before Long Chen. With a wave of his hand, a giant flame lotus illuminated this world.

“World Extermination Flame Lotus!”