Chapter 7116 The Frog and the Toad

Li Mingdao had thought that he could use his superior movement art to instantly appear in front of Long Chen and catch him off guard.

Naturally, he had no idea that the movement art he was so proud of was nothing more than a joke in front of Long Chen’s Star Cloud Steps. In fact, the moment he moved, Long Chen could accurately predict not just when and where he would appear, but exactly where his face would be.

Thus, Li Mingdao was sent flying by a slap in the face. When he finally stabilized himself, countless people cried out in shock. Half of his handsome face was now split open and covered in blood. It was a gruesome sight. Even worse, as Li Mingdao circulated his energy to heal the wound, every time his skin started fusing back together, a strange energy caused it to split apart once more.

This seemingly casual slap from Long Chen contained terrifying law power, and that was preventing Li Mingdao from healing. The latter had been enraged from the get-go, but this slap instantly made him sober up. His opponent was clearly not someone he could toy with.

Killing intent blazed within his eyes. He drew the sword at his waist and pointed it at Long Chen. “Brat, now you’re definitely dead. Tell me your name and background. The Immortal Ascension Gate’s Li Mingdao doesn’t kill nameless fellows!”

Long Chen’s slap had woken Li Mingdao up. He realized that this person in front of him was in no way as powerless as he appeared at first glance. Thus, his challenge was in order to extract information—was this unknown man someone he could provoke?

Meanwhile, Long Chen was struck by a sudden thought and raised his head towards the sky. “The limitless mountain before the limitless palace, the limitless pine outside the limitless gate. The dreams of heavenly geniuses come to an end in front of Mo Nian. The one before you is the terror of demons, the bane of geniuses, the one and only Mo Nian!”

Miao Yin was startled by this response. Was that really his name? She had actually heard some rumors before, rumors of one particular person who liked to slap people in the face, and had a one hundred percent success rate. Was there someone else with such a divine ability?

When she heard Long Chen call himself Mo Nian, Zi Yan covered her mouth and turned away to cover up her laughter. It seems that the young scoundrel really was back.

“What limitless mountain? I’ve never heard of any such thing! Since you’ve insulted me today, I will kill you!”

A silver moon appeared beneath Li Mingdao’s feet. Thousands of silver swords condensed in front of him, radiating an aura characteristic of the Sword Dao.

Li Mingdao was now standing on top of a ring of silver swords. His essence rune was burning on his forehead. The will of the Sword Dao surged, and the wound on his face rapidly healed. The law power preventing him from healing had been eliminated by the sheer force of his aura. With that, Li Mingdao once more appeared suave and domineering.

When they felt the pressure he gave off, the people on Miao Yin’s battleship shivered.

“Li Mingdao is a famous genius from the Immortal Ascension Gate’s Sword Pavilion! He’s actually reached such a level in the Sword Dao...”

“His sword-intent alone is enough to make someone’s will collapse. If the mistress hadn’t played the Heavenly Soul Forging Song for us, we wouldn’t be able to move under this pressure.”

“But he’s just one of the Immortal Ascension Gate’s geniuses. He has no qualifications to pursue our mistress.”

“Right, even their junior gate master wouldn’t be qualified!”

As Miao Yin’s subordinates, all of them detested Li Mingdao. They were the ones who knew best just how powerful their mistress was. Li Mingdao was not even worthy to hold her shoes.

“Both of them are too arrogant. One is a toad lusting after a swan, the other one is a frog on the bottom of a well. Hmph, it’s only right for these two dumb croakers to fight it out between themselves!”

As far as Miao Yin’s side was concerned, both Long Chen and Li Mingdao were enemies. That was especially true for Long Chen. Their mistress had kindly extended an invitation to him, but he had refused her good intentions, and he even dared to try and capture her to be his maid. That was even more enraging than Li Mingdao.

Li Mingdao’s sword suddenly quivered. Sword Qi streaked through the air, transforming into a beautiful spinning sword.

“Any last words?!”

Long Chen stared at him as if he had three heads. “Even at this time, you don’t realize the power difference? You’re really an idiot. She doesn’t even think you’re worth looking at, but you came anyway. Stop showing off and fuck off.”

Both sides were stunned by Long Chen’s words. This black-robed fellow’s tongue really was sharp.

As expected, Li Mingdao was outraged. His entire face twisted with fury. It felt like he had just been slapped in the face again.

“You little bastard, no one can save you now! I’ll make sure you suffer a fate worse than death!” Li Mingdao roared and suddenly attacked. Sword-light rained down from under his feet.

However, this torrent of flying swords failed to touch Long Chen. He moved through them like a phantom. Compared to Evilmoon’s petals, Li Mingdao’s sword torrent was clearly lacking in every respect. This seemingly unstoppable assault actually had plenty of openings for Long Chen to move through.

Everyone was startled to see this. Long Chen was able to easily move around even under such a concentrated assault. Furthermore, he looked so relaxed that he left them gobsmacked.

As he dodged, Long Chen didn’t forget to say, “You had so many options, but you decided to take up the sword. And instead of properly training in the sword, you’re doing nothing but polishing your own sword. It’s no wonder that girl doesn’t like you. You’re really worthless!”[1]

People eyed the shiny silver swords raining down from under Li Mingdao’s feet, and their expressions grew rather odd. Even if this black-robed man’s power wasn’t anything to write home about, just his cursing ability was enough to cause deaths by the thousands.

Zi Yan laughed unrestrainedly. This display really reminded her of the way Long Chen used to be back on the Martial Heaven Continent. At that time, Long Chen was able to curse a person to death. It seemed that, even after ascending to the immortal world, his skill in this regard had not regressed one bit.

Li Mingdao’s face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. The reason he was using this move was to test out Long Chen while also avoiding an accidental instant-kill. After all, he now wanted Long Chen to suffer. However, this probing blow of his ended up becoming the subject of Long Chen’s mockery.

His eyes turned scarlet.

“Mo Nian, you rat bastard, I’ll kill you for sure!”

As expected, Li Mingdao instantly lost control and went berserk. The swords transformed into motes of light and returned to him, where they were absorbed into his sword. The sword buzzed; its runes ignited, and tears suddenly spread through the void around it. It was as if this world’s laws were collapsing in front of this sword.

“Sword law—Cloud Piercer!”

Li Mingdao formed a sword seal. His sword rapidly spun and suddenly pierced through the void. It left a blazing tail behind it, like a meteor, as it shot towards Long Chen.

1. The line about “polishing your own sword” is an untranslatable wordplay in the raws. The word “silver sword” (银剑 yínjiàn) is a perfect homonym for 淫贱 (yínjiàn), which means immoral/lewd and lazy. ☜

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