Chapter 762

== Surprise ==
Those were 4 Evil Path experts at Ancestor-level.
"Wait a moment! I, Long Chen, am a grand and heroic figure. How can I just allow myself to be taken without a struggle? You have to first agree to one of my conditions," said Long Chen.
"My condition is extremely simple. Kneel on the ground and call me daddy. Then I'll immediately leave with you!" Long Chen suddenly laughed.
"Bastard, you dare to trick us?!" The four of them all realized Long Chen was playing around with them. He had never had any intentions of discussing things with them.
"Tricking you? You're right. I'll tell you the truth now. I am also a Foundation Forging expert, so come and test your daddy Long's true power!"
BOOM!
Long Chen's aura erupted and his divine ring appeared. A powerful pillar of qi soared into the sky. The four of them jumped.
Long Chen was also a Foundation Forging expert? Even if he beat them to death, they wouldn't believe such a thing. They all watched with rapt attention, wanting to see whether Long Chen was just trying to act mystical or whether he really had any power.
But suddenly, a formation under Long Chen's feet lit up. Spatial power erupted, and the four Corrupt experts suddenly found that they were unable to move.
Buzz!
The world around them twisted. They were horrified to find that they had appeared on a large platform. Countless figures were watching them like they were rare species.
"Welcome to the Xuantian Dao Sect. It really was rude for us to not welcome you at the door." The vice sect master stood in the air, smiling lightly at the four of them.
"What?!"
Their expressions completely changed. They looked around and saw a sea of people around them. They were the Xuantian Dao Sect's disciples.
== The Trap ==
Everything had already been prepared by Long Chen. He had felt that his trip to the Spirit World wouldn't be so simple. Therefore, he had borrowed a transportation formation disc from the vice sect master.
It had to be known that the Xuantian Dao Sect had only had two such large-scale transportation formation discs. At first, the vice sect master hadn't even wanted to lend it to him. But Long Chen guaranteed that either he wouldn't use it, or in the case if he did, he would rake in an unimaginable profit.
If he didn't use the disc, then it wouldn't use up any of its energy, so there would be no loss. Furthermore, Shui Wuhen had also spoken up for him, allowing him to finally obtain it.
As soon as they arrived in this world, he had crushed a jade seal. That seal had activated the formation disc as well as the photographic jades on the mountain peaks.
Long Chen estimated that if they really did target him this time, there would be some big fish. So he had set up those special photographic jades to project their images on the Xuantian Platform.
The Xuantian Platform was the center of the Xuantian Plaza. When the projection had appeared, the disciples there had all been startled. Long Chen was actually surrounded by four Corrupt Ancestor experts.
As for when Long Chen had crushed the World Piercing Jade Talisman in his panic, he had also crushed the jade seal he had used to activate everything. Furthermore, when the jade seal was crushed, the vice sect master received a message. He had rushed over to the Xuantian Plaza to see everything.
He had hastily ordered the activation of the grand formation, as well as activating the trapping formation and killing formation on the Xuantian Platform.
Then he watched as Long Chen calmly talked nonsense with them. He knew Long Chen was stalling for them to set up the formations. But in truth, he had already finished the preparations in just a few breaths' time.
Then when the formation disc was activated, Long Chen released his powerful aura to conceal the fluctuations. As a result, the four of them really cooperated with him perfectly.
Long Chen and Meng Qi were by the vice sect master's side. He had activated the formation to pull them out as soon as they had appeared.
== Catching Turtle in Jar (瓮中捉鳖) ==
"Hehe, you really are idiots. Do you know how united our Righteous path is? Did you really think we would harm ourselves? It seems you still don't understand what happened within the chaos region! You idiots really never learn, no matter how many times you're tricked." Long Chen laughed with a pleased expression.
The four Corrupt experts were completely enraged. His words made them suspect that what had happened within the chaos region had all been planned by the Righteous path. Now, they had been tricked once more.
"You bastard Zhou Tianyi, even as ghosts, we won't let you off!" roared one of the Corrupt experts as he began to crazily attack the formation. Zhou Tianyi turned pale and sat on the ground.
The Xuantian Platform was merely a mile wide. It was usually used by the higher-ups as a place to lecture on the Dao. Many disciples hadn't known that the Xuantian Platform was so powerful.
The entire Xuantian Platform was covered in runes. They formed a powerful defensive barrier that trapped the four of them. No matter how they tried, they were unable to break through it.
"Activate the killing formation!" ordered the vice sect master.
Countless flying swords condensed in the air and shot toward the four of them.
One of them punched out, destroying a dozen flying swords. That caused the monastery head experts' expressions to change. Just one of those flying swords would have the power to kill them, but these Corrupt experts were able to destroy a dozen of them with a single punch.
Suddenly, one of the Corrupt experts took out a soul banner. But he found that he was unable to activate this Treasure item. An invisible energy here blocked his connection to it.
"Sorry, the rules here are that no one can use weapons above the Enchanted level on the Xuantian Plaza!" said the vice sect master. His normally stern face was lit up in a smile.
It had to be known that the deed of killing four Corrupt Foundation Forging experts along with gathering their corpses and souls would be greatly rewarded by the head sect.
In all his years running the Xuantian Dao Sect, the number of Corrupt Foundation Forging experts they had cut down was pitifully low. Now four had come at once. If he didn't care about his status, the vice sect master would probably be dancing in delight. This was definitely the Eastern Wasteland's branch sect's greatest battle achievement.
The disciples watched in shock as the four of them struggled desperately. Finally, after two hours, they were killed by the formation.
Once they were killed, runes lit up on the formation and gathered their souls and corpses. It would be possible to see some of their secrets through their souls.
The vice sect master's smile then disappeared as he turned to look at Zhou Tianyi icily.
"Zhou Tianyi, you better give me a satisfactory explanation this time!"
== Notes ==
* 瓮中捉鳖 is a Chinese chengyu roughly meaning to trap something and then easily kill it. It is related to an ancient Chinese fortress formation that traps incoming enemy soldiers in an internal space that makes them sitting ducks to arrow fire.
* Also cf 瓮城 or 'barbican'.