Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Bastard, release my father!” Long Chen wanted to rush over, but his body refused to listen to his orders. He was unable to move.
“Haha, is it painful? Excellent, that’s good. This is still just the start. Let’s take it slow.” The white-robed man crazily laughed, filled with insane joy.
“Chen-er, men have no need to worry about life and death if they have lived their life without regret or guilt. You don’t need to feel bad.” Long Tianxiao might have his neck in his hand and have no way to resist, but he didn’t feel the slightest bit of fear.
Long Chen’s anger soared and endless killing intent spread from him. But he was still helpless.
What he didn’t know was that the moment that the killing intent in his heart became the densest, his FengFu Star on the bottom of his foot began to crazily revolve.
The angrier he got, the more violently his FengFu Star revolved. When his anger reached its peak, his FengFu Star suddenly paused.
“You’re not afraid of death? Good, then we’ll start with you. You can die now.” The white-robed man coldly laughed and began to apply some force on Long Tianxiao’s neck.
“Fucking go to hell!”
An angry roar rang out like a thunderclap, sounding as if it had come from above the very heavens. Everyone present heard that booming roar shake their ears.
The white-robed man was the closest and received it head-on. His head buzzed and he felt as if his brain had turned to mush.
Suddenly, he felt intense pain as he was sent flying. Only when he landed on the ground did he awaken from his stupor and look forward in shock.
At this very instant, the originally sunny sky became covered by black clouds and countless thunderbolts flashed within them. The clouds spread thousands of miles. The scene appeared as if the end of the world had come.
At the same time, he saw that lonely figure. A faint halo of light appeared over his body and a terrifying aura continuously dashed against heaven and earth.
“What is this?!” The white-robed man was completely astonished. He could clearly see that that figure was Long Chen, but the current Long Chen seemed like an awakened demon king or a descended divine god. A terrifying pressure was constantly emitted from his body, causing people to tremble.
The FengFu Star on the bottom of Long Chen’s foot began to crack. The outer layer completely shed off like a mud-covered pearl. The light from within was finally being released.
After the outer layer fell, a bright, true star appeared from within. Inside that star were some indistinct mountains, plains, rivers, and even expansive oceans.[1]
After that star appeared, Long Chen’s dried up spiritual qi was completely replenished. With that, he had sent the white-robed man flying with a single punch, saving Long Tianxiao.
He sent his father into a further location from their battlefield. That was something he did instinctively because he could sense that a terrifying thing was most likely about to occur.
Long Chen slowly closed his eyes. As if talking in his sleep, he said a single sentence:
“First of the Nine Stars, FengFu Battle Armor - Appear!”
When he opened his eyes once more, a star had appeared in his eyes.
When that star appeared, all of heaven and earth raged. An earthquake shook the land, causing those spectators who were several miles away to fall to the ground and flee in fear. It was as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth was breaking apart.
An endlessly violent aura was constantly charging out of Long Chen’s body. The heavens shook as countless pieces of crushed rocks began to float around him.
Those broken stone pieces which had begun to hover around him all turned to dust under some incredible pressure. Long Tianxiao and the others all looked at Long Chen in shock. Was this the same Long Chen that they knew?
The current him appeared just like a demon king yet also like a divine god. All things would be forced to acknowledge their allegiance to him.
Long Chen suddenly disappeared from his original location, appearing in front of the white-robed man in a single blink, punching out.
Although the white-robed man was watching Long Chen in complete shock, seeing him disappear so suddenly, he also punched forward instinctively.
The sounds of bones breaking rang out. After colliding with Long Chen’s punch, the white-robed man’s entire arm was crushed.
With just a single punch, Long Chen could shatter the white-robed man’s arm. Without a single pause, he spun and viciously kicked with his right leg.
Long Chen’s leg ruthlessly slammed into his nose, causing many of his facial bones to break. He was sent flying back.
But as soon as that white-robed man was sent flying, Long Chen had already appeared in midair like some phantom. Raising his right hand, he viciously smashed it down.
The white-robed man’s body was like a shooting star as he smashed into the ground. The hard surface of the ground became like water, and a huge wave spread out.
A three-hundred-meter crater had been smashed into the ground. Within that crater was a charred figure who no longer resembled a human.
All his bones had been broken and crushed. He was practically in a ‘U’ shape now. But most horrifying of all was that he still hadn’t died and was still frantically gasping for breath.
“Ants shouldn’t struggle? Then why are you still struggling? Ants should suffer and die? Ok, I’ll help you with that.”
Long Chen walked to the front of the huge hole. Looking at the white-robed man lying at the bottom, a pile of needles appeared in his hands.
“Feel what suffering is.” Long Chen threw over a dozen needles straight at him.
The needles went straight through his skin. The white-robed man’s eyes almost shot out of his head.
“AHHH!!!” His miserable scream was so loud that even those miles away could hear it. It was a cry filled with pain, causing people to shudder with fear.
“You’re the real ant. My brother received these Bone Eroding Needles without letting out a single cry. You’re just a piece of trash.” Long Chen looked at the white-robed man icily.
His miserable cries never ended. Long Chen’s eyes were filled with iciness, but at the same time, he felt the thrill of revenge filling him.
He hated being powerless, he hated others standing high above him, and he hated being used. He swore to himself that he would become stronger so that he wouldn’t let anyone else ever humiliate him like this again.
Suddenly, that star in Long Chen’s eye began to fade slowly, and Long Chen immediately felt his exhaustion return to him. He fell down.
Long Chen didn’t fall onto the cold ground, but into a soft embrace. A faint, delicate fragrance caused him to feel incomparably warm.
“Long Chen.” Chu Yao hugged the extremely weak Long Chen. Joyful tears filled her eyes. After all the twists and turns, the rain had finally cleared, leaving them with a new beginning.
“Lying in your embrace is really comfortable. Maybe I’ll take a nap.” Long Chen closed his eyes wearily.
Chu Yao’s pretty face turned red, and Long Chen felt that something was a bit strange. Opening his eyes to glance around, he saw that his father, mother, Shi Feng, and all the others were looking at him strangely. Chu Yao’s face turned even redder.
Long Chen awkwardly laughed and did his best to stand up. If he wanted to take advantage of Chu Yao in front of this many people, he probably would have to thicken his face some more.
The white-robed man at the bottom of the hole was no longer screaming. Even a Tendon Transformation expert was unable to endure the pain of the Bone Eroding Needles, and he had now died.
Looking at his needle-covered, charred corpse, everyone relaxed. This monstrously powerful person had finally died.
It was just at this moment that a disturbance occurred where Long Tianxiao was. An officer had run over to Long Tianxiao and bowed. “Reporting to Marquis, we had captured the Grand Xia’s spies, but they seized the seventh prince. We beg
Marquis to make a decision.”
That officer was extremely bright, knowing when to be flexible and take advantage of the situation. Now that Long Chen’s battlefield had finally reached a conclusion, he immediately ran over.
Chu Yao’s expression changed. Her little brother! Long Chen said, “Let’s go over.”
The layers of soldiers parted ways to let them through. Long Chen saw two familiar people and couldn’t help but have a cold smile appear on his lips.
Those two were precisely Zhou Yaoyang and Xia Baichi. Zhou Yaoyang held a longsword in his hand and closely held it against Chu Feng’s neck. Seeing Long Chen’s arrival, Xia Baichi nervously said, “Long Chen, if you don’t want there to be any problems, then hurry up and let us leave, otherwise…”
“Go ahead and kill.” Long Chen smiled slightly.
[1] The character for ‘star’ can also mean any heavenly body, as it was just used for anything they saw in the sky. For example, Mars is called the red star.
Chapter 111 Dreamland
Long Chen’s words gave everyone a shock. Chu Yao’s face was the palest. However, only Chu Feng’s expression didn’t change from the start as he calmly looked at Long Chen.
Xia Baichi couldn’t believe her eyes. “You want me to kill hi-”
A longsword stabbed through a body and blood slowly trickled out. Xia Baichi hadn’t even finished speaking.
Looking down in disbelief, she saw a longsword had appeared through her stomach. She was at a complete loss.
“What... why?”
Xia Baichi collapsed onto the ground, dead. Even in her last moments, she still didn’t comprehend why he would kill her.
Zhou Yaoyang was staring ahead blankly. The longsword in his hand was still stuck in Xia Baichi’s corpse.
Long Chen smiled slightly. His vision truly had been far-reaching in this case. Back then, Long Chen had played a trick on Zhou Yaoyang and made it so that he couldn’t sleep soundly at night and he was tormented into a life worse than death while he was awake.
In the end, Zhou Yaoyang had apologized and knelt to Long Chen to beg for his forgiveness. Long Chen truly had been thinking of letting him off, but the resentment that was hidden deep in Zhao Yaoyang’s eyes hadn’t escaped his senses. And so he had given him a special medicinal pill.
The medicinal pill which he had given Zhou Yaoyang’s father also had something special which Long Chen had applied on it, and that was why countless Heart Devouring Ants had appeared and eaten him alive.
As for the medicinal pill which he had given Zhou Yaoyang, Long Chen had added Soul Bewitching Grass into it. The effect would normally hide inside the body, but just by drawing out a strand of his Spiritual Strength, he was able to turn him into a puppet that could only follow his orders.
“Finish yourself off too,” ordered Long Chen indifferently.
Zhou Yaoyang didn’t even pause. The longsword in his hand directly cut across his neck. Blood splattered everywhere as he immediately died.
Every single person present felt a chill run through them. That was too bizarre, too frightening. With just a single sentence, he could force someone to commit suicide without hesitation. That was practically demonic sorcery.
Long Chen didn’t pay the slightest attention to those soldiers’ fear. Ordering some of the officials, two stretchers were quickly built to carry Little Snow and Wilde back to their estate.
Little Snow’s injuries were extremely heavy. Many of his internal organs had ruptured. But as long as he was alive, it wouldn’t cause any troubles for Long Chen. Furthermore, Little Snow was a Magical Beast, so his recovery rate was already shocking on its own. After giving Little Snow some medicinal pills, he then examined Wilde again.
He noticed that Wilde’s cells were still in their suspended animation state. It appeared that the Bone Eroding Needles had truly harmed Wilde’s body. Despite the great amount of life energy that was nourishing his body, his cells still needed to be awoken slowly. It would require a bit more time before he could heal.
As for the many wounds covering Shi Feng and the others, the lucky thing was that none of them were too severe. Even the one who had been the most injured still managed to stay alive.
After putting everything in order, Long Chen was finally unable to continue enduring and entered a deep slumber.
The battle this time had been the most intense battle in his life. If his willpower wasn’t so strong, he would have long since fainted.
Now that everything had ended, he finally relaxed. He was so deeply asleep that it was practically like he was in a coma.
Long Chen began to dream that his body was floating upwards. He didn’t know how long or how far he had floated, but when he finally opened his eyes, he saw that he was in an endless void filled with millions upon millions of twinkling stars.
BOOM! The void suddenly exploded open. A fist caused the entire void to collapse.
That world around him shattered like a mirror. Long Chen was astonished. Looking along the fist, he followed it up to see its owner.
Seeing that figure, Long Chen almost cried out in shock. That was because that figure had a divine ring behind his back just like him.
But that divine ring was far greater than his own. Long Chen’s divine ring could only grow up to three hundred meters, but the divine ring here was basically endless, filling the entire universe.
Suddenly, an angry roar caused all the stars in the distance to flicker. A huge, ferocious beast that was even larger than a mountain appeared.
It had three heads and nine tails. It was a mythical beast that was covered completely in black fur. The pressure being emitted from it caused the heavens to tremble and made even Long Chen feel as if he were about to be crushed.
A black light shot out of that ferocious beast. Any of the stars in its path exploded and faded away. It was shooting straight towards that person with the divine ring.
The person’s divine ring trembled, and a palm shot out to meet the black light. Long Chen only managed to see a wave of ripples fill the void.
When the ripples faded, the void shook and countless stars exploded into nothingness, appearing like fireworks. That scene appeared like nothing more than the apocalypse.
Long Chen could only watch on stupefied as that man with the divine ring fought with that huge, ferocious beast. The void collapsed wherever they collided. That kind of power was enough to destroy the entire world.
Long Chen was scared stupid by this fight. With just a wave of a hand, they were able to destroy countless stars, collapse the heavens, and shatter the land. Just what kind of monsters could fight on this level?!
From a small gap in the space, Long Chen suddenly saw that there was someone else behind the man, but he was unable to see them clearly.
Long Chen was unable to change his vantage point, so he couldn’t tell just who that figure was. He couldn’t tell if it was even a man or woman, but he could sense that that figure was familiar and amiable with him. Long Chen tried his utmost to gaze into the distance to see who it was.
But suddenly, the man who was fighting turned his head. Long Chen’s gaze blurred, and he couldn’t tell any of that man’s features except for his eyes.
That pair of eyes were exceedingly deep. Within the pupils were nine flickering stars that possessed great vicissitudes.
Long Chen’s heart jumped wildly. The divine ring and those stars… weren’t those things that could only be formed with the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art?
“Time is running out.”
A divine voice rang out in Long Chen’s mind. The void world around him completely disappeared.
Long Chen suddenly sat up, his whole body covered in sweat, gasping for breath.
He could clearly remember everything from that dream, down to the smallest detail. For it to be so clearly imprinted in his mind, it was definitely no ordinary dream.
“Time’s running out? What does that mean? Is it his time that’s running out, or my time?
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sp; “Just who was that? The void was destroyed with a single blow, tearing apart countless stars… just what kind of realm has he reached?
“And that mysterious beast, what was it? The aura was so strange, and seems to be filled with death. But it was clearly alive…
“And just who was that figure behind the man? Why do I feel like it was a friend I know?
“What is going on?”
Questions ran amok in his head. Back when Xiao Hua had saved him and he had been unconscious, he had clearly heard a voice.
“You must awaken. You have far too many missions that are waiting for you to finish.
“You must become stronger. You have far too many enemies waiting for you to slaughter.
“Your destiny is to overturn heaven and earth. All gods and devils can only crawl under your foot. Long Chen, quickly awaken.”
Those three lines continued to run through Long Chen’s mind. Those sentences seemed to be closely related to the scene he had just seen in his dream.
But this was clearly an incomplete jigsaw puzzle. It was impossible to get any of the pieces to fit together, let alone figure out what the full picture was.
Long Chen rubbed his head, feeling as if his head was about to explode. There was no way for him to comprehend it, so he just directly gave up on trying to figure it out.
But there was one thing he was sure of. Those memories, which had suddenly appeared in his head back then, were definitely no coincidence.
His Spirit Root had been stolen, turning his Dantian into an empty wasteland. But the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art specifically did not require a Dantian.
Back when Long Chen had condensed the tenth cyclone in his Dantian, he had begun to suspect that the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art had been specifically tailor-made for him.
When that tenth cyclone had been condensed, he had noticed that spiritual qi had raged and dashed around his Dantian.
If his Dantian had already possessed spiritual qi, it would have been like lighting a fuse, and those ten cyclones would have all exploded. Perhaps even he himself would have exploded, leaving him dead without a corpse.
Long Chen wasn’t a big believer in coincidences or luck. After all, he had never been lucky while growing up. Only by putting in much more effort than others could he achieve his goals.