HPDBC Chapter 423 Harsh Denouncement
Chapter 423 Harsh Denouncement
chapter 423 harsh denouncement
translator: borntobe
news of the battle on compass mountain, as well as the news of long chen killing monastery disciples in the canyon, resounded throughout the entire secret realm.
quite a few people ran over to confirm its veracity. seeing the ghastly corpses, they were all horrified.
at the same time, countless criticizers spoke out against long chen, believing long chen to have a vicious heart and ruthless methods. having slaughtered members of the same path, he was guilty of terrible crimes.
however, such words could only be said behind his back. that was because after those two huge battles, no one dared run out and provoke long chen again.
they could only express their own sense of righteousness behind his back. no matter how great the rewards offered were, no one was willing to go and find trouble for long chen again.
as for that hand behind the curtain that had been constantly urging people on, it had become powerless. one reason was that the matter of someone deliberately targeting long chen had already become common knowledge. as cultivators, just how many people were so stupid? the majority of people had already seen through what had happened.
the other reason was that while some subordinates were busy trying to instigate people to target long chen, most people had already entered seclusion now. so just who would bother with them?
just how many of them truly cared about who was good and who was bad? those subordinates were just wasting their time. in just a few months, the secret realm’s exit would finally open.
at that time, there would be a huge battle between the righteous and corrupt paths. those with weak cultivation bases would all die within the secret realm.
these people all considered the first monastery, as well as long chen, to be acting idiotically.
before that huge battle, they were actually busy with inner strife. if that wasn’t idiotic, then what was? so most of the righteous path’s experts were all just sneering at yin wushuang’s attempt to spread her propaganda.
as for the corrupt path’s experts, they had long since vanished into seclusion. they were focused on that final battle.
they didn’t like inner strife. if the righteous path wanted to fight amongst themselves, then that was fine. they would focus on increasing their strength, and when the time came, they would slaughter the righteous disciples. in the end, wouldn’t those treasures that the righteous disciples had risked their lives for end up in their pockets anyway?
yin wushuang had a group of people spreading her propaganda, but everyone was already in seclusion. just who were they spreading that propaganda to? it wasn’t as if they could just shout as loudly as possible all day. if they ended up disturbing an expert’s seclusion, they would probably be killed directly.
after trying to instigate more people for two days without any results, yin wushuang could only helplessly give up. her people all went into seclusion.
so this was the calmest time of the jiuli secret realm. other than some brazen experts or some criminals fleeing deeper into the secret realm, essentially everyone had entered seclusion and begun tempering their bones.
as for those disciples who had come from humble origins and didn’t have bone tempering pills to use, the only thing they could do was focus on increasing their cultivation base, wanting to use their realm to make up for their lack of tempered bones.
although that wasn’t very effective, it was better than doing nothing. that final battle would have to do with everyone’s life and death. no matter how many treasures they had gained in the secret realm, if they couldn’t leave, it would still be useless.
during this time, long chen was still focusing day and night on refining pills. at this time, the only person guarding them was guo ran.
he had seen many bone tempering pills in other people’s storage rings. these were made with an inferior formula that was unable to fully bring out the medicinal energy.
however, according to his deduction, the difference between the two shouldn’t have been so large. after an investigation, long chen had discovered a certain secret.
that secret made long chen sneer inside. he had found out that the outside world’s bone tempering pills had had something deliberately done to them to make their medicinal effect lower.
in the beginning, he had thought that whoever had done this must have some mental disorder. what was the point of turning good medicinal pills into trash?
but after thinking about it, he realized that the person who had done this was most likely the seller of these pills. by not changing the price of the pill, but reducing its effect by fifty percent, those who wanted to temper more bones would have to purchase an exorbitant amount of bone tempering pills. this was definitely conning people.
it was no wonder that the bone tempering pill had conned so many geniuses to death. this was definitely done by some immoral merchant behind the scenes.
furthermore, he had found out that this was true of both the righteous and corrupt path.
all the bone tempering pills had had their effect cut in half. however, it was impossible to notice this. you couldn’t tell from either looking at it or even from consuming it.
it was only possible for long chen with his pill god memories. he was able to tell something was wrong because according to the medicinal pill’s formula, tier, and quality, the medicinal effect did not match.
all the bone tempering pills sold outside were the same. that was because a certain existence had monopolized the bone tempering pill market. all sects could only get them from the pill tower.
and thus, long chen had come up with a certain conclusion: under the outer semblance of being a holy land, the pill tower was actually a bunch of shady wolves.
but at the very least, they were fair about it. they conned both the righteous and corrupt path equally. otherwise, if they only conned the righteous path but not the corrupt path, the righteous path would definitely be doomed.
when he thought of that, long chen realized a certain something. with the righteous path and corrupt path constantly fighting, and the pill tower taking a neutral position, selling medicinal pills to everyone, then wouldn’t the party benefiting the most be the pill tower? neither the righteous nor corrupt path dared to offend them for fear of losing access to medicinal pills. that really was comical.
“sixteen bones? wouldn’t that be the level of the sect leader? heavens! then wouldn’t we be able to sweep through the entire secret realm?” guo ran was filled with disbelief.
each extra bone you tempered would greatly increase the amount of energy that could be stored within the bones. that would make a person incredibly strong. tempering sixteen bones was practically something he had only heard of in legend.
“don’t get excited too early. i said that under the normal bone tempering process, you would be able to temper sixteen bones. but since we’ve all chosen complete tempering, these pills can at most let us temper four bones,” said long chen.
“wh-what?!” guo ran stuttered. the difference between four bones and sixteen bones was far too great.
“there’s no way around it. to undergo complete tempering, each time you temper one bone, you also have to go through every single bone in your body. that’s the only way to make sure every bone gets tempered.
“the previous bone connecting pills you consumed created energy channels within every single one of your bones.
“pretend the bone you’re attempting to temper is a beggar, and you’re trying to feed it some bread. but in order to feed that beggar, you first have to feed the two hundred and five beggars that are in front of it. you need to make your rounds through each of them before getting to that last one. do you understand?” smiled long chen.