Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k

  This wind blade sword in Tang Wan-er’s hand was causing space to twist slightly. The pressure coming from it was much greater.

  Long Chen nodded. This kind of technical method was something that he could definitely learn. Although he had no wind energy, his flame energy could also copy that.

  Although he had a Pill God’s memories, those memories were not complete. He had some techniques to refine medicinal pills as well as knowledge of medicinal ingredients and other things relating to alchemy. Everything else was completely gone.

  So if Long Chen wanted to learn to control his flame, that would require him to grope around on his own. He hoped to maybe learn a bit from Tang Wan-er’s control over her wind blades.

  “Last time I saw that there were some lines within your wind blades. What are those?” asked Long Chen.

  “That’s my family’s ancestral rune. Only my family’s main bloodline’s disciples can use that kind of technique.” As Tang Wan-er spoke, her wind blade gradually grew larger, becoming three meters long. That terrifying aura cut apart space, causing it to constantly tremble. At the same time, violent wind surged from it, continuously making people feel as if blades were scraping across their face.

  Then the wind blade in her hand disappeared, and everything returned to calm. She explained, “Using such a wind blade uses up my body’s core energy, so I can’t maintain it for too long. Otherwise, it will affect my combat strength during the core disciple trial.”

  Core energy was extremely powerful, but it would only recover slowly. So Tang Wan-er could only show such a wind blade to Long Chen for a moment.

  Long Chen nodded and became lost in thought. With Tang Wan-er’s display this time, he had completely seen through the intricacies of her wind blades.

  But all those intricacies were nothing compared to that final part. Those faint lines that had appeared within the wind blade had caused the wind blade’s strength to explode by ten times. That was the most terrifying part of her technique.

  Back when he had fought against Qi Xin, Qi Xin had also used such a method to send Long Chen flying. That kind of force was practically unstoppable.

  He raised his hand, and a flame appeared over his hand, surprising both Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu. They looked closely at Long Chen, wanting to see what he was planning.

  After appearing, that flame slowly began to be compressed into a crescent moon shape, the same shape as Tang Wan-er’s wind blades. But within Long Chen’s hand, it was unable to revolve.

  Long Chen shook his head. That flame blade immediately turned to become a fist-sized ball. That flame ball quickly grew larger, becoming a meter in diameter. Terrifying heat waves constantly roasted the air.

  This large flame ball then began to quickly circulate within Long Chen’s hand, the terrifying energy within it simply bouncing around.

  “What powerful Spiritual Strength!” Tang Wan-er was shocked. She hadn’t thought that Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength was so great that it was like a boundless ocean. If it hadn’t been powerful enough, compressing his flame into such a ball would have definitely caused an explosion.

  The ball of flame then faded away. Long Chen dejectedly shook his head.

  He wanted to see if he could condense runes like Tang Wan-er, but he had failed. Although he had copied her circulation method, he was unable to condense those lines.

  “Long Chen, there’s nothing you can do about this. First of all, your flame’s level isn’t high. Second of all, that isn’t your core flame. It is impossible for it to condense a rune.

  “That rune is deeply imprinted into my bloodline. Even if outsiders copy the technique, it’s completely useless. It’s as if you copied how to cook a recipe but then realized you didn’t even have a pan to cook with. It’s futile,” consoled Tang Wan-er.

  She had seen through Long Chen’s thinking. He had wanted to copy her technique and imitate it with his flame, but Long Chen wasn’t the same as her.

  She had immediately seen that his flame was a beast flame and not his original flame. So to summon a rune was impossible.

  Her family’s inheritance stretched back countless years. Powerful experts had come from her ancestors who had somehow added in wind energy into their bloodline. That was how her bloodline inheritance came to possess such power.

  “Although I’m still a bit unconvinced, you’re completely correct. Ah, this is just my fate.” Long Chen smiled bitterly. For an idea to be crushed just like that really was irritating.

  Furthermore, he cultivated the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. The most powerful part of him was his physical body. There was no way he could put his focus on becoming a pill cultivator. And so he could only drop this subject.

  “Don’t get dejected. There are many techniques within the monastery. As long as you work hard, you’ll definitely be able to find a way to control your flame better,” consoled Tang Wan-er.

  “Thank you sister Wan-er for your consolation. But if you give me a hug, I’m sure the wound on my heart will completely disappear,” Long Chen said expectantly.

  “Ugh, scram!” Tang Wan-er immediately scolded Long Chen.

  She even scolded herself for being stupid enough to worry about a shameless fool like Long Chen.

  Long Chen laughed. Teasing a beauty alleviated a great deal of his dejection.

  Although it was impossible for him to condense a rune, by following Tang Wan-er’s controlling method, he could still increase his Pill Flame’s power by a bit. That was at least something.

  Furthermore, Long Chen wasn’t really discouraged. His current beast flame was from a Flame Leopard. That was just a second rank Magical Beast and wasn’t that powerful.

  Once he refined the Flame Salamander’s Neidan, his beast flame would be completely upgraded. At that time, if he tried again, it wasn’t certain that he would still fail.

  Collecting his thoughts, he asked them why they had suddenly formed an alliance.

  Tang Wan-er told Long Chen that once they entered the monastery, the resources they would offer them were limited. If they wanted to obtain more resources, that would require them to win struggles against others.

  This struggle relied on power. In accordance with the monastery’s rules, the monastery would not care how you struggled for your resources.

  So once you entered the monastery, the struggle and competition became exceptionally intense. Cultivation was a cruel world. If you didn’t step over others, you would end up stepped on by others. That was a reality that was unavoidable.

  Tang Wan-er had been the first to arrive at the Profound Spirit Fruit. But at that time it hadn’t ripened yet and so she could only wait. The second to arrive had been Lei Qianshang.

  The two of them had directly begun to fight. With Lei Qianshang’s temperament, having suffered a previous loss to her, he had wanted to get revenge. At the same time, he had wanted to prove his strength to Tang Wan-er.

  As they had fought, everyone else had gathered. Tang Wan-er had been the one to propose an alliance with Ye Zhiqiu. Their alliance would be one in which they would help each other attack and defend during battles. And Ye Zhiqiu had assented.

  After all, the competition would only become more intense in the future. As an icy person, it was difficult for Ye Zhiqiu to get close to others. She was only slightly closer to Tang Wan-er. Naturally, she wouldn’t refuse. That was how the two of them had joined hands against the other three.

  At that time, Yue Zifeng had been the last to arrive. By the time he had, Lei Qianshang and Qi Xin had already begun working hand in hand.

  As for Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu, they didn’t really want to form an alliance with Yue Zifeng. Thus, Yue Zifeng was pulled into Lei Qianshang’s group.

  But Tang Wan-er also said that Yue Zifeng was an extremely proud person. Although he had temporarily joined their group, he hadn’t used his full strength when fighting. Otherwise, they would have found it extremely difficult to endure.

  Long Chen recalled how Yue Zifeng had left
completely calmly and freely. That truly was the manner of an expert. That was a great difference from Lei Qianshang and Qi Xin.

  Only those with broader hearts who could accept both wins and losses could walk further on the martial path.

  Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu solemnly warned him that he had to be careful of Lei Qianshang and Qi Xin. Both of them were already completely filled with hate towards Long Chen.

  Although they probably wouldn’t dare to kill him, if they had the chance, they would definitely heavily injure him, maybe even crippling him. That was because the monastery’s rules were not completely perfect, and there were still loopholes.

  Otherwise, Long Chen also wouldn’t have been able to get away with killing Zhao Wu as if nothing had happened.

  The monastery’s rules were mostly favorable for the stronger party. Losers would only be able to go off and cry by themselves about their own lack of power. That was the cruelty within the monastery.

  After they had pretty much eaten their fill, Tang Wan-er said, “Let’s go to the final trial location. Since there’s not that much time left, let’s just stay together.”

  Long Chen naturally wouldn’t refuse such an alluring proposal. With two beauties beside him, who knew just how many people would die of envy along their journey.

  Chapter 159 Sent Flying With a Single Kick

  As he had expected, on their way, Long Chen became the complete focus.

  But of course, when others looked at Long Chen, their gazes were not filled with the same loving and worshipful expressions they had when they looked at Ye Zhiqiu and Tang Wan-er. Instead, those gazes were filled with both hatred and jealousy.

  “Who is that guy? How is he walking with the two beauties? Did you see that look in his eyes? That’s definitely a provocation! No, it’s unbearable, I definitely have to have a fight with him. I’ll definitely beat him up.” One dark-faced man angrily raged, obviously unable to control his own jealousy.

  “We’ll support you, but before you go, leave behind your spatial ring as well as anything valuable. You might also want to leave behind a final will and some parting words,” said one tall, slender man beside him lightly.

  “What do you mean?” asked the dark-faced man.

  “I mean if you go, don’t think about returning alive. That’s the person who burned Zhao Wu alive. Do you think you’re stronger than Zhao Wu?”

  “So you mean… he’s Long Chen?”

  “Do you need me to say it? Other than him, who else could walk that closely with Tang Wan-er? Hey, since you said you were going to fight him, hurry up. Your brothers are all waiting for you to beat him up,” mocked another person by his side.

  That dark-faced man immediately awkwardly blushed. But since his face was so dark, no one could tell.

  “Cough, how could I not recognize Long Chen? I was just making a joke for everyone. Haha, look, I can’t believe you guys believed me,” laughed the dark-faced man.

  “Boring.”

  “Cocky.”

  “Disdainful.”

  Everyone around him mocked him. That person gloomily walked to the back, not wanting to be ridiculed. He naturally didn’t dare to go and fight against Long Chen anymore.

  As Long Chen’s group of three continued forward, Long Chen noticed that more and more people were gathering here. After he counted, he saw that there were actually over ten thousand people.

  “No need to wonder about it. Not all of these people have gathered all the tiles. Since they came from so far, they probably want to see what the final trial is like.” Tang Wan-er explained when she saw Long Chen’s confusion.

  Although the trial region was extremely large with countless opportunities, after this much time had passed, everyone had basically already collected whatever they could.

  Some opportunities had powerful Magical Beasts guarding them. If they didn’t handle that properly, it would be easy for them to lose their life. No one wanted to risk that danger, and so they just followed the flow of the crowd.

  Even if they hadn’t passed this trial, getting to see more of the world was also good. Once they returned home, they would still have something to talk about.

  This final trial location was on the edge of the trial region, and there were no more good opportunities to be obtained here. They could only continue forward sullenly.

  As they continued forward, there were also some people who began to join Long Chen’s group. Those people were naturally from Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu’s factions.

  Long Chen had once quietly asked Tang Wan-er just what was so good about becoming a core disciple.

  She had told him that after becoming a core disciple, not only would she be able to make her own faction, each month she would receive a fixed ration of cultivation resources.

  Furthermore, it was possible to obtain even more cultivation resources by completing the sect’s missions. Each month the sect would test their powers, and the stronger factions would have the priority missions.

  All those rewards would only be given to her. In other words, Tang Wan-er had complete authority on how to divide those rewards.

  What made Long Chen extremely worried was that he had frequently been beaten by Tang Wan-er. Would this boss of his make life hard for him?

  Tang Wan-er hadn’t replied when he had asked that, only laughing at him. She had winked at him, meaning he should understand from his own experience.

  Following her explanation, Long Chen finally understood how important a faction’s power was. The sect only gave out a certain amount of missions. If they wanted to enjoy more cultivation resources, they would need to rely on those missions.

  But with limited missions, they would need to struggle just for those missions. Without a powerful faction to rely on, you really could only starve to death.

  “Boss!” Suddenly, a startled cry rang from the side. Turning his head, Long Chen saw that it was Guo Ran.

  “Not bad, I really didn’t need to worry about you!” Long Chen was much more at ease after seeing Guo Ran.

  “Greetings sister Wan-er, greetings sister Zhiqiu.” Guo Ran noticed a bit late who was beside him. He hastily greeted the two beauties respectfully.

  Ye Zhiqiu only lightly nodded. Tang Wan-er glanced at Long Chen and then told Guo Ran, “You’re definitely much better than your boss. Pay attention not to learn bad things from him in the future.”

  “Yes, yes, yes, junior brother will remember sister Wan-er’s priceless words. Please be at ease sister, this junior brother will not be infected-”

  Pow.

  Guo Ran had still been going on when Long Chen hit him on the head and scolded, “Whose side are you on?”

  Tang Wan-er laughed and said to Long Chen, “You guys can catch up. I’m going to look ahead and collect everyone.”

  She waved goodbye to Long Chen and quickly brought away Ye Zhiqiu. The final trial was about to begin. Everyone in their factions needed to be gathered.

  Seeing the two of them had left, Guo Ran gave Long Chen a thumbs-up. “Boss, I really admire you. In all the information gathered, you are the only one who has ever killed someone during the trial. Furthermore, you even managed to continue the trial! Boss, you are definitely the number one person here.”

  “Ah, don’t blindly mess around. Did you collect all the tiles?” asked Long Chen.

  “Hehe, easily.” Right in front of Long Chen, Guo Ran took off his boot and used a knife to cut open the sole, revealing two tiles in front of Long Chen’s dumbfounded expression.

  He then cut open the other shoe, forming a perfect set. Guo Ran proudly said, “I got one in a fight and bought the other two. Hehe, once I gathered them I placed them in here. I met many people who wanted to rob me, but no one noticed where I put them. Look boss, I definitely paid a worthy price for this set.”

  “Yeah, ok. Please put them away. I don’t want to get your foot fungus.” Long Chen hastily took a few steps back. Perhaps this kind of method was something only someone like Guo Ran could have
done.

  But no matter what, Guo Ran had relied on his own strength to collect a full set, which he admired. That was because his set had just been given to him by Tang Wan-er.

  “Let’s go. Put your tablet together. With me here, no one would dare steal your things,” laughed Long Chen.

  Guo Ran put together the tiles. Because it couldn’t be put in a spatial ring, he stuffed it in his robes.

  “Boss, I heard you were struck by Lei Qianshang’s thunderseed. Are you alright?”

  “I’m fine.”

  Guo Ran was about to say more when someone walked over. Looking over Long Chen, he icily said, “You are Long Chen?”

  Long Chen frowned slightly. This person held his head high, looking down on him. It was quite irritating.

  “Do you need something?”

  “I heard you’re very skilled, rumored to be the number one person below the monster-class. I want to test that out to see if you really are worthy of that reputation.” That person struck his chest icily.

  “Ah, just fuck off then. I, Long Chen, am not someone just anyone has the qualification to appraise.” Long Chen disdained this kind of provocation the most. Couldn’t you just conserve your energy for the final trial? Do you need to waste my time?

  Long Chen didn’t even stop walking as he spoke, not even placing this person in his eyes despite the fact that he was quite strong.

  That person narrowed his eyes and pointed at Long Chen. “I don’t have the qualifications? Receive one of my punches before boasting so shamelessly!”

  That person shouted, and his aura suddenly exploded, shaking the air. That immediately drew everyone’s attention.

  “What a powerful aura!” That person’s aura rose extremely quickly, reaching its peak in just a couple of breaths.

  “Take this!” Light exploded from his fist as he smashed it at Long Chen.

  “Boss, careful, he’s-” shouted Guo Ran hastily.

  BOOM!

  An explosion rang out before Guo Ran could say his name. People could feel the earth shake.

  One of them was sent flying into the air like a cannonball, reaching a height of hundreds of meters before slowing down, then quickly speeding up before crashing into the ground.