Chapter 59: Dog's Luck

## Chapter 59 Dog Shit Luck

Boom! Rumble!

From every direction, powerful cultivators descended upon the mountain range. Without a word, battle erupted. Two towering peaks crumbled on the spot, and Ye Chen, caught within the chaos, once again faced peril.

"Motherf*cker! Are they doing this on purpose?" Ye Chen cursed, scrambling out of the rubble. The black-haired elder, the target of this fury, had fled into this very mountain range, dragging Ye Chen into the calamity.

"Hand over the Heaven Seclusion Pill!" A stern shout echoed from the void, sending a shiver down Ye Chen's spine as he scurried to hide behind a rock wall.

"If you have the ability, come and take it!" The black-haired elder roared, his Empty Nether realm aura surging skyward. The Eight Trigrams Plate above his head once again blazed with dazzling divine light.

This was a mighty individual, his cultivation nearing the Quasi-Heaven realm. In a one-on-one fight, he would fear no one here. Alas, he faced not just one Empty Nether realm expert, but a multitude. The outcome of such a battle was not difficult to imagine.

"Seeking death!" The powerful cultivators from all four directions moved. Sword shadows, palm strikes, and spiritual artifacts filled the heavens, raining down upon him.

Seeing the situation, the black-haired elder controlled the Eight Trigrams Plate, causing it to expand rapidly, shielding him from harm.

Boom! Boom!

The attacks from all directions slammed into the Eight Trigrams Plate.

Crack! Bang!

With two consecutive sounds, the Eight Trigrams Plate exploded on the spot. The black-haired elder also suffered a brutal backlash, his body a mess of blood and shattered bones.

"I shall return!" he roared, his voice laced with fury, and pointed a finger at the void.

Immediately, a vortex appeared, swallowing him whole.

"Trying to escape?" A fierce, burly barbarian sneered, swinging his massive saber. A five-zhang-long saber light cleaved through the air, cutting off the black-haired elder's retreat.

Injured, the black-haired elder tumbled out of the vortex. Before he could regain his balance, the sky-splitting attacks arrived.

Ah... !

His furious roar pierced the heavens, filled with unwillingness, yet he could not escape his fate of being utterly annihilated.

After his death, his storage bag also exploded, its contents scattering throughout the void, each object shimmering with light as they fell.

"Heaven Seclusion Pill!" Someone spotted the jade box containing the Heaven Seclusion Pill and immediately stretched out a large hand.

Buzz!

Before that person could even touch the jade box, a sword light from the side severed their arm.

The jade box became ownerless, and the Heaven Seclusion Pill it held drove everyone insane. The melee intensified, blood raining down from the sky. Empty Nether realm experts frequently plummeted from the void, transforming into blood-red flowers upon impact.

Below, Ye Chen watched, his heart pounding.

These were all ruthless Empty Nether realm cultivators. The battle scene truly shook the mountains and shattered the earth. Any one of them could easily obliterate him with a mere breath.

Just then, a streak of light fell from the void. Upon closer inspection, it was a large saber. With a clang, it embedded itself in the giant stone before Ye Chen. It was still stained with blood, likely another item from the black-haired elder's storage bag.

In the midst of the desperate struggle for the Heaven Seclusion Pill, the battle was incredibly fierce. Who would care about the scattered treasures?

Ye Chen glanced around, then stepped forward and pulled out the large saber.

The saber's quality was not low. A spiritual artifact collected by an Empty Nether realm expert was naturally formidable. Without even infusing true qi, it emitted a radiant blade light, possessing a power that seemed capable of cleaving through anything. It was undoubtedly an extraordinarily overbearing spiritual artifact.

"An unexpected windfall," Ye Chen chuckled. He was about to place the large saber into his storage bag.

However, at that very instant, his gaze fell upon a spirit bead inlaid on the saber, roughly the size of an adult's fingernail.

Ye Chen moved closer for a look, his expression starting in surprise. Inside the spirit bead was half of a purple spiritual pill. Although sealed within the bead, he could vaguely smell a hint of overflowing medicinal fragrance.

"Heaven Seclusion Pill," he mumbled subconsciously, his breath suddenly quickening. Having seen the Heaven Seclusion Pill in the Hidden Dragon Pavilion, he recognized it at a glance.

Instantly, he seemed to understand something.

The black-haired elder had divided the Heaven Seclusion Pill in two. Half was sealed within the spirit bead and inlaid on this large saber. As for the other half, perhaps only the black-haired elder knew, or perhaps it had already been safely taken away by his companion.

Ye Chen couldn't help but admire the black-haired elder's cautiousness.

Only, he never expected to be targeted and cornered here, shedding blood in the skies above.

"Half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill is here. Then, in the jade box they're fighting over, does it truly contain the other half?" he murmured softly, his gaze involuntarily turning towards the void.

The powerful cultivators in the sky were still battling fiercely for the jade box, blood raining down like water. From time to time, Empty Nether realm experts fell from the void. The fierce scene, a canvas of blood, made Ye Chen's face turn pale once more.

He quickly stashed the large saber and stumbled towards the outer reaches of the mountain range.

Obtaining half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill was already a stroke of immense luck. He had absolutely no ambition to snatch the other half.

His departure didn't attract much attention from the powerful cultivators. A Condensing Qi realm cultivator was merely an ant in their eyes. Their target was the Heaven Seclusion Pill. Even if Ye Chen possessed a strange treasure, they wouldn't bother to snatch it.

Escaping the great mountain, Ye Chen hastily took out a Heaven Travel Charm, affixed it to his body, and instantly shot away.

Boom! Rumble!

Not long after he left, the entire mountain range erupted with earth-shattering roars. Dozens of large mountains instantly collapsed.

Then, many figures in disarray flew out from within, each with a ashen face.

"Damn it, how could the jade box contain a Nine Heavens Shock Thunder Charm?" a blood-soaked old man said coldly.

"That jade box didn't contain the Heaven Seclusion Pill at all," someone with keen eyesight seemed to have seen through some clues. "We've all been played. The true Heaven Seclusion Pill might have been sent away early."

"We fought for half the night and got absolutely nothing."

"This is great. We don't even know whose hands the Heaven Seclusion Pill is in. Finding it now is like searching for a needle in a haystack."

"Truly a clever scheme." Many powerful cultivators gnashed their teeth. They never expected the black-haired elder to pull such a switch, taking away the Heaven Seclusion Pill and leaving behind a Nine Heavens Shock Thunder Charm ready to explode.

...

"What? The whereabouts of the other half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill are unknown?" Under the night curtain, an icy voice echoed in a grand hall.

"Intelligence reports that the Third Elder was cornered in the mountain range and perished, body and soul extinguished. And the half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill he was escorting... its whereabouts are also unknown."

"Bastard!"

"Investigate! Investigate for me! Search the entire Great Chu! Find that half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill, even if you have to turn the land upside down! I will make them understand the consequences of provoking my Bloodthirsty Hall!"

...

Late at night, Ye Chen, dragging his injured body, climbed into a mountain cave.

Spirit liquid was immediately taken out. After gulping down a large amount, the Barbarian Wasteland Refining Body art immediately began operating, repairing the broken bones and meridians within his body.

He sat there for an entire day and night.

It wasn't until the night of the second day, as he expelled a stream of turbid qi, that he opened his eyes.

At this moment, there were no signs of injury on his body. His pale face had become rosy, and he was full of spirit, feeling extremely comfortable.

He twisted his somewhat stiff body, then took out the large saber.

Without a second thought, he dug out the spirit bead embedded in it, but did not crush it. This spirit bead was used to seal half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill. If crushed, with time, the efficacy of the Heaven Seclusion Pill would certainly dissipate.

"I really walked into some dog shit luck," Ye Chen's eyes shone brightly as he stared at the half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill sealed within the spirit bead, his breath involuntarily quickening.

Heaven Seclusion Pill. This was the genuine Heaven Seclusion Pill.

At the auction, various forces fought for it until their heads bled, bidding out a sky-high price of ten million. After the auction ended, powerful cultivators from all directions fought over it again, many perishing because of it.

At this moment, holding half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill in his hand, Ye Chen had a surreal feeling.

One must know the value of the Heaven Seclusion Pill. It was highly likely to change the future pattern of Great Chu. Although the Heaven Seclusion Pill in his hand was only half, it was still enough to change the fates of far too many people.

"Why do I feel like holding this half of the Heaven Seclusion Pill is related to the future of the entire Great Chu!" Ye Chen muttered softly, rubbing his chin.

Hm?

Just then, a sound came from outside the cave, causing him to hastily put away the Heaven Seclusion Pill and move to the mouth of the cave to look out.

What he saw made his brows furrow involuntarily.

Far away from the cave, he could vaguely discern a beautiful figure, covering her left shoulder with her right hand, walking with a stumble. She was seriously injured, and from the looks of it, she was being pursued.

That female... upon closer inspection, wasn't it precisely Ji Ning Frost from the Heng Yue Sect?

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