Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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After crying for forever, Chu Yao finally stopped her sobbing. Long Chen’s chest was already completely wet from her tears.
Her face suddenly turned completely red, and she quickly escaped Long Chen’s embrace. She turned away from him, but inside, she was filled with both happiness and hesitation.
Long Chen awkwardly coughed and asked, “Chu Yao, when did you learn that your Dantian had been tampered with?”
Chu Yao slowly recovered herself and turned back to look at him. “When I was young and before my father, the emperor, entered seclusion, he told me I was this generation’s martial cultivation genius and might even be able to ascend beyond the empire. Before he entered seclusion, I was greatly encouraged to cultivate, and I truly did work hard in the beginning. But when I turned ten, my mother suddenly became sick. She turned gravely ill, and before we could even invite grandmaster Yun Qi, she had already left this world.”
Arriving at this point in her story, her tears once more began to slowly flow out. She seemed to have sunk back into her memories of that time.
“At that time, my little brother and I were still young. But as we grew older, we gradually learned about the palace’s internal struggles. I realized my mother’s death was definitely no accident. But all the evidence had long since disappeared. I was powerless. Then, five years ago, my cultivation base ceased to progress. No matter how hard I tried, I was unable to advance a single step, and my spiritual energy became weaker and weaker. At that time, I realized that the villain who had killed my mother had finally stretched his hand towards me and my brother. From that day onwards, my brother and I started to act bossy and arrogant. We started making headstrong, rash decisions, and from that time, it seems as if everything went back to normal.”
Long Chen felt completely helpless as he listened to her story. The palace’s internal affairs were even crueler than what he had imagined.
“You used such a method to protect you and your brother?” sighed Long Chen.
Chu Yao nodded. “The only family I have left right now is my little brother. I just hope he can stay alive. Although having him act this way is annoying, at least no one will menace him, so it should be a bit safer. Although I don’t know what they did to my Dantian, I know they were afraid I would be a threat to them, and so they restricted my cultivation. Thus, as long as I don’t have the heart to cultivate, no one will have any plans against a weak girl like me. My brother and I will also be able to live without worry.”
Long Chen sighed, “Unfortunately, you’ve underestimated your enemy’s viciousness. Whoever did this was an absolute bastard.”
Hesitating for a moment, Long Chen still decided to tell Chu Yao the situation within her Dantian. Hearing this, anger and indecisiveness flared in her eyes. Her face turned pale and her body shook.
Long Chen supported Chu Yao, saying, “You don’t need to be too worried. Give me some time, and I can unlock the seal within your body.”
“Really?” Chu Yao couldn’t believe this.
“Really,” promised Long Chen.
For some reason, when Chu Yao looked at Long Chen, she was filled with trust. It was a kind of indescribable feeling.
He gave her a sense of complete safety. This kind of feeling was extremely precious and rare within the palace that was full of hidden schemes.
Seeing that she didn’t have any hesitation or doubt toward him, Long Chen sighed, feeling as if another burden had been placed on his shoulders.
“Oh beautiful Chu Yao, can you display some of your magnificent skills for me again? Let this little one study a bit.” Long Chen found that the atmosphere had become a bit depressed, so he joked a bit.
“Scoundrel, you’re clearly mocking me,” she rebuked.
“Oh heavens no, your foundation is extremely strong. It’s just that your Dantian is unable to release enough force. But don’t worry. In just a short time, I’ll help you resolve it,” consoled Long Chen.
Only when she judged Long Chen’s words to be sincere did she once more display a high Mortal class Battle Skill – Breaking Wind Fist.
Long Chen carefully examined her this time, and couldn’t help but feel some shock. Her spiritual energy was constantly being sucked away by those nine spiritual energies, leaving her with perhaps a tenth of the energy.
But even with such a frail energy, Chu Yao’s display was completely perfect without the slightest energy wasted.
He realized her control with spiritual energy had reached an extremely high level. It was much greater than even Blood Condensation experts.
He was not at all miserly with his praise of her, causing her to happily blush.
The nine foreign spiritual energies were actually seeds of spiritual energy. After having absorbed her spiritual energy for so many years, they had already become very powerful.
Long Chen felt that if he were to just break them, it would be too wasteful. That kind of huge energy was enough to allow Chu Yao to break through to the Blood Condensation realm, and her cultivation base would continue climbing afterward.
After learning the Breaking Wind Fist, he suddenly took out a bottle of medicinal liquid. “This is Face Changing Liquid; once you apply it to your face, it will change your appearance for twenty-four hours. It’s very convenient.”
He poured out a few drops and rubbed it over his face. In just an instant, he appeared to become a completely different person, his eyebrows becoming thicker and his skin changing shade.
Chu Yao exclaimed, “Then in the future, I can change my appearance and come out to find you!”
She then also applied it over her face. The medicinal liquid became a thin layer over the face that could be changed at will for a while. Once no more changes were made to it, it would completely set in just a few breaths’ time.
Looking into her mirror and seeing that her face had become extremely ordinary, she couldn’t help jumping in joy.
Pulling Long Chen’s arm, she happily said, “Long Chen, let’s go stroll the streets. I’ve never been allowed to just walk along the streets.”
Amongst princesses, she was one of those unruly types, but she still wouldn’t go too far. She normally couldn’t act like the ordinary poor people and just go as she pleased. So, she naturally couldn’t let go of this chance Long Chen had given her.
Chu Yao intimately held onto his arm. Seeing her excited manner, it would be a lie to say Long Chen wasn’t moved. He straightaway agreed to go with her.
But after agreeing, Long Chen started to regret it. He had clearly underestimated Chu Yao’s desire to stroll the streets.
She practically pulled him through every small alley within the capital. She wanted to see everything and anything, and she even shot question after question at him.
He was quite happy to just smell her scent and feel the joy of her hand wrapped around his arm, but suddenly he stopped, bringing Chu Yao to a small vendor to the side.
Long Chen struck up a fake conversation with the vendor about his wares, but his gaze narrowed towards several people in the distance.
“Xia Changfeng?”
Chapter 29 Long Chen's Shock
There were around seven or eight people in that group, and Long Chen could clearly see that the Grand Xia’s prince Xia Changfeng was amongst them. But what shocked Long Chen the most was that familiar face beside him.
That woman was very slender and fair, but her face always had a faint arrogance on it. It was the crazy woman Long Chen had encountered at the alchemist guild.
Why was she there? And why did she seem so familiar with the Grand Xia’s prince? Long Chen simply couldn’t figure it out.
Their group entered an expensive teahouse just after he noticed them.
“One of those people is the fourth prince.” Chu Yao warned Long Chen as she had also seen those people.
“The fourth prince?” He was supposed to be the most low-key prince. He never participated in the internal fights of the princes. But then why was he with the Grand Xia’s prin
ce?
“He has also changed his appearance, but his finger has a ring mark on it that he forgot to hide. He normally wears a dragon ring with a very distinctive pattern, so I easily recognize it,” said Chu Yao.
As a princess, she might have to act arrogant every day, but she was also very perceptive to the everyday habits of each prince; thus, she was easily able to see through the fourth prince’s disguise.
Long Chen felt a headache coming. Why would the fourth prince disguise himself? He wanted to sneak in and use his divine sense to secretly eavesdrop.
However, the door was guarded by a dozen of the Grand Xia’s elite troops. Doing so would simply be too difficult. It was in the middle of the day, and trying to sneak in would be basically impossible. He gave up on that idea.
“Chu Yao, I’m going to go back and prepare some ingredients that will resolve the foreign spiritual energies in your Dantain,” said Long Chen.
Despite being reluctant to part, she still obediently nodded her head.
Long Chen went directly home. As soon as he walked past the gate, a happy shout rang out.
“Brother Long!”
Wilde was a small giant now, and he excitedly looked at Long Chen.
The current Wilde had become much livelier, and the thing that pleased Long Chen the most was that he was no longer as thin as he had been before.
His bare arms were clearly bigger, and some indistinct veins could be seen beneath the skin.
“Haha, have you been eating properly Wilde?” Long Chen patted his sturdy arm.
“Brother Long, I eat until I’m full every day. I feel like I’ve become very strong now; thus, I want to be with brother Long so that I can protect you.” Wilde slapped his chest confidently, emitting a sound like a thunderous drum.
Long Chen nodded and brought Wilde into his own room. He then used his divine sense to examine Wilde’s body.
“What?!”
Despite nourishing them all this time and feeding them so much, still less than ten percent of Wilde’s cells were active.
And when he examined his four meridians, he noticed they had expanded a little. But most shocking of all was that there was what seemed to be a trace of spiritual qi within his Dantian.
“You learned how to cultivate?” asked Long Chen.
“Brother Long, what is this ‘cultivating’?” asked Wilde with wide eyes.
“Uh, nevermind.”
Long Chen also didn’t feel like trying to explain such a thing. Continuing his examination, he noticed that Wilde’s Dantian was deathly still, but there was still a steady flow of the world’s spiritual qi that was flowing into his Dantian.
“What an abnormal constitution; even without cultivating, it just automatically absorbs energy on its own.”
Long Chen sucked in a breath of cold air; this was something he had never encountered before. Wilde’s Dantian held a huge amount of spiritual qi, which meant that once his body was strong enough, he would be able to automatically absorb spiritual qi from heaven and earth to use.
If other martial artists were to learn of this, they would definitely go crazy. This meant that even when Wilde was sleeping or eating, he would still be incessantly cultivating.
“Wilde, I’m going to teach you a few simple cultivation methods and how to use your Dantian’s qi.”
Due to how unique Wilde’s Dantian was, Long Chen decided not to teach him any Battle Skills. Wilde only had four meridians, which meant that he wouldn’t be able to use any Battle Skills for now.
So Long Chen only taught him how to circulate his spiritual qi to his arms and legs, passively increasing their strength.
But Long Chen had still overestimated Wilde’s ability and comprehension skills. Even something as simple as linking to his Dantian required six hours of Long Chen’s time to explain. Despite having Long Chen’s throat turn raw, Wilde was still mystified.
Long Chen knew he couldn’t get angry. Wilde was listening to him completely innocently, so his belly full of anger was never released.
“Ok, how about this. Until you learn this, I’ll work you to death.” Long Chen helplessly sighed.
“I’m sorry brother Long, I’m just too stupid. I could spend a lifetime without figuring this out.” Wilde dejectedly hung his head.
Wilde truly was too incompetent; he was unable to immerse himself even slightly within his Dantian. He couldn’t even find where his Dantian was.
Long Chen was unwilling to resign himself to this result. Wilde’s physique was so powerful that it was frightening. If he had the assistance of his spiritual qi, the power which he could explode out with would be absolutely terrifying.
Long Chen felt that it was such a waste. He felt like a beggar who had a mountain of gold, yet still relied on begging to pass each day.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s eyes brightened. Placing his hand on Wilde’s back, he said, “Let me help you find your Dantian.”
His Spiritual Strength poured into Wilde’s Dantian. Since Wilde trusted Long Chen completely, there wasn’t the slightest resistance. Long Chen easily merged his Spiritual Strength into Wilde’s Dantian.
Furthermore, even if Wilde had wanted to resist, he didn’t know how to. But at least now Wilde had found the position of his Dantian.
“Now that you’ve found your Dantian, the next step is to immerse into it.”
“Immerse?”
“Use your intent to hook yourself into your Dantian.”
“Intent?”
Long Chen sighed. But he still patiently controlled his temper. “Focus your entire mind onto your Dantian.”
“Oh, then what?”
“Try to make it revolve.”
“Clockwise or counterclockwise?”
“…”
Long Chen was practically speechless. “It doesn’t matter. As long as it circulates, it’s fine.”
Now that he had found its position, Wilde slowly tried to control his Dantian. However, it was as if the Dantian weren’t even his and he was unable to move it at all.
“You’re not focused enough. Close your eyes and try again.”
Finally, under Long Chen’s great expectations, Wilde’s Dantian moved slightly. Although doing just that wasn’t exactly using his Dantian, at least, he had found it and opened the path. Long Chen relaxed slightly.
“Good, next I’ll use my Spiritual Strength to guide your Dantian’s qi for one cycle. Remember how I’m doing this.”
After saying this, Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength circulated into Wilde’s Dantian. When Wilde’s Dantian felt Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength, it was as if it had been provoked and it immediately exploded out.
The originally completely calm Dantian was immediately like an erupting volcano, like angry waves trying to swallow the sky.
“Wilde, can you control your Dantian?” Long Chen started to celebrate, but…
“No, I don’t know what happened.” Wilde was completely shocked at the uprising of the spiritual qi within him.
“Don’t be afraid, remember the path I’m taking.”
Long Chen didn’t feel like telling him the position of each one of his acupuncture points. He wouldn’t be able to remember them anyways, so he skipped that. Having him remember the feeling of where they were was good enough.
Long Chen used his Spiritual Strength to draw Wilde’s Dantian’s qi into his arm. Long Chen wanted to go slowly and circulate it.
How could he have predicted that as soon as Wilde’s qi reached his arm, it became like a wild horse and refused to be controlled by Long Chen anymore? Wild energy surged out.
Wilde felt a great power pass through his arm, so he instinctively punched out.
BOOM!!!
The entire roof was shaken to pieces; smoke and dust exploded out, revealing the starry sky above.
“What a berserk energy!”
Long Chen was extremely alarmed. All this had just been caused by the wind from Wilde’s fist, but it was already so frightening! If someone was hit by th
e actual fist, wouldn’t they be smashed into pulp?
Wilde was also stupefied at his own power. He had never thought he would have such strength.
Long Chen once more examined Wilde’s Dantian and found that the spiritual qi within had basically all been depleted.
“Wilde, go back and rest. Remember what I’ve taught you and train every day. Don’t goof off,” ordered Long Chen solemnly.
Wilde’s comprehension skills were already extremely low. If he was lazy as well, then even a divine immortal would be unable to teach him.
“Don’t worry brother Long, I’ll train like my life depends on it!” Wilde was filled with excitement now.
After Wilde left, Long Chen speechlessly looked at the roofless room. Just what secret was hidden within Wilde’s body?
That fist had even shocked Long Chen. If that long-eyebrowed Blood Condensation expert was hit by it, it was doubtless that he would die.
But right now, ninety percent of Wilde’s cells were still dormant. If they were all awoken, even Long Chen would feel tremendous fear.
But thinking about Wilde’s simple and honest nature, Long Chen shook his head. Wilde was his brother, and the stronger he was, the better. There was no need to worry.
Taking out a piece of paper, he wrote down a list of forty-eight names of medicinal ingredients.
“Starfusing Pill, a second tier medicinal pill. Right now, I have no way of refining an upper grade second tier medicinal pill. Looks like I can only go to grandmaster Yun Qi. But first I need to collect all the medicinal ingredients.”
According to Long Chen’s recollections, the Starfusing Pill should be able to resolve the foreign spiritual energies within Chu Yao’s body, but it had to be an upper grade pill.
The current Long Chen’s Pill Flame was too weak; despite how much talent he had in that regard, it was impossible for him to refine a high grade second tier pill with such a Pill Flame.
The next day, Long Chen left his house. Arriving at the alchemist guild’s storeroom, he handed his list over.
What was outside Long Chen’s expectations was that all the ingredients could be found here except one of the main ingredients, the Starfusing Grass.