Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  When that wind blade fell, those law enforcers were all forced back into the distance. But that wind blade still didn’t stop and slammed into a huge stone wall. A huge crack appeared in the stone wall where the wind blade struck it.

  Those people were completely pale and stunned. They didn’t know whether it would be best for them to continue foolishly standing there or to go up to arrest them.

  BOOM!

  Another huge explosion rang out, and huge cracks appeared on the ground. A terrifying qi wave spread out, web-like cracks appearing in the ground as it advanced.

  Everyone looked in shock to see that a three hundred meter ring of light had appeared over Long Chen’s back. He was still standing in his punching posture.

  And facing him was senior apprentice-brother Wu. He was completely shocked, as Long Chen’s punch had completely received his full-strength attack.

  “No way! How is he so powerful, able to use a punch to resist a mid Tendon Transformation senior disciple?!”

  “And he’s still only in the late Blood Condensation realm! Wait, I remember now! Wasn’t there some amazing monster who appeared in the central area? It’s definitely him, Long Chen!” Someone finally recognized Long Chen.

  “What is that ring of light? Is it a Battle Skill or some cultivation technique? How can it be so powerful, allowing him to explode with such might?”

  Everyone looked at Long Chen with shock, including those two core disciples.

  The entire crowd was deathly silent. Looking at Long Chen and Tang Wan-er, a great feeling of reverence filled them. That was what a powerful expert who didn’t fear heaven or earth was like.

  “Using violence to resist the law, damaging public property; even if I kill you, no one will be able to say anything,” snorted senior apprentice-brother Wu coldly. His chain slowly rose into the air. He was clearly about to use an even greater strength to subdue Long Chen.

  “Idiot, that last attack was created by you and me. You really know how to push away blame,” snorted Long Chen.

  “You still dare quibble? This time, I’ll let you know how to be an obedient person!”

  Senior apprentice-brother Wu no longer reserved anything. His chain quivered violently, charging at Long Chen with berserk energy.

  Have I not made enough of a ruckus? Why isn’t anyone coming out to stop this?! Looks like you really are forcing me to bring down the house! raged Long Chen.

  Although Long Chen had managed to receive his previous attack, pain radiated from his fist from how powerful that attack had been. Even his arm was shaken and his organs had also been slightly injured.

  He finally learned just how great the distance was between him and the Tendon Transformation realm. A random attack from a Tendon Transformation expert was able to injure him. He was definitely not a match for him.

  Seeing an even stronger attack coming now, Long Chen was infuriated. That bastard wasn’t trying to capture him, but to either heavily injure or kill him!

  Long Chen’s fury erupted. It seemed wherever there were people there would be conflict. Wanting to keep the peace was just a dream.

  Trouble would always find you. If you tried to compromise, there would be even more people coming to rise over you and you’d never be able to change your fate.

  Long Chen took a deep breath. His FengFu Star suddenly became silent. Strange energy began to circulate within his body. It was time for him to summon out his FengFu Battle Armor.

  “Stop!”

  Just as he was about to summon it, a dignified roar rang out, shaking everyone’s eardrums.

  People turned to see that a gray-robed senior had appeared in front of the Xuantian pavilion at someone unknown time. He was currently angrily looking at them.

  “Are you guys trying to rebel? To cause trouble in front of the Xuantian pavilion, what kind of place do you think this is?!” roared that Elder angrily.

  Long Chen immediately recognized him as one of the sixteen Elders who had been activating the stone pillars’ energy back during the final trial.

  Long Chen was about to say something when senior apprentice-brother Wu rushed to say, “Reporting to Elder Sun, this person looked down on the monastery’s rules, injuring another in a fighting-prohibited region. Disciple went to arrest him but he violently resisted. Everything is all his fault Elder.”

  That Elder Sun icily glanced at Long Chen and snorted, “Can someone so violent and impertinent become a genius? If such a person doesn’t suffer a bit, it’s impossible for them to mature. Cane him eighty times and imprison him for a month.”

  Chapter 185 Strict, Impartial, Incorruptible

  Long Chen’s expression changed, but before he could say anything, Elder Sun waved his hand. “Bring him away.”

  Senior apprentice-brother Wu icily laughed and was just about to go over to chain him up.

  Long Chen angrily cursed at Elder Sun, “You old bastard, are you blind or have your eyes grown dim with age?

  “With your powerful spiritual energy, how could you possibly not be able to tell that where I was standing just now was clearly three hundred and one meters away from the pavilion door?

  “You’re clearing being unjust, but even a person like you is able to become an Elder? The Xuantian Monastery really is blind!”

  Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength was extremely powerful, and he had long since noticed there was someone watching from the side. He knew that the person observing this all was definitely at the Elder power level.

  And that was why Long Chen had dared to fight just now. However, he really hadn’t expected that this Elder would forcibly suppress him before even determining what was true. That caused his anger to burst out.

  Long Chen’s cursing completely appalled everyone. Was he crazy? First, he fought someone in the same generation, then he fought his senior apprentice-brothers, and now he even dared point at an Elder and curse him. That was completely insane.

  “How brazen!” Elder Sun angrily shouted. A powerful pressure immediately locked Long Chen in place, crushing on him like a huge mountain.

  Even Tang Wan-er who was beside him was implicated. Under that pressure, she was unable to move and even breathing was difficult.

  She was just enduring slight fallout. The focus of that pressure was on Long Chen. Who knew how much pressure he was under.

  Long Chen coughed out a mouthful of blood. His bones were crackling under that pressure. It seemed as if his entire body’s bones could break at any moment.

  That bastard was actually planning on using that pressure to force him to kneel. A dense killing intent surfaced from Long Chen’s eyes.

  He bitterly supported himself. Even if he was crushed to death, he definitely wouldn’t bend his knees.

  He also swore to himself that this old ghost better not let him get an opportunity, or today’s humiliation would be returned to him a hundred times.

  As Long Chen was bitterly enduring and feeling as if his bones were about to break, a clear voice rang out.

  “Elder Sun, what are you doing?”

  As soon as that voice rang out, Elder Sun was greatly startled and hastily withdrew his pressure. At some point, Elder Tu Fang had appeared.

  As soon as that pressure disappeared, Long Chen would have collapsed to the ground if Tang Wan-er hadn’t helped him stay standing.

  Long Chen was once again leaning on Tang Wan-er’s beautiful body, but it most definitely wasn’t him intentionally taking advantage of her. He was simply completely worn-out. The pressure of an Elder-level expert was too frightening.

  Tang Wan-er’s face was red, but she still held Long Chen up. She had no misgivings about that. A deep hatred of Elder Sun filled her heart.

  “Reporting to Elder Tu Fang, Long Chen was making trouble in front of me, refusing to comply with the law enforcers, even violently resisting, and damaging the surrounding structures. Due to lack of a better choice, I was trying to capture him in order to prevent him from causing greater destruction,” said Elder Su
n respectfully.

  Although they were both Elders, Tu Fang was the one with the highest authority within the monastery, the Enforcement Elder.

  “Oh? There was such a thing? What do you say, Long Chen?” Tu Fang turned to look at Long Chen.

  “Elder Tu Fang, with your discerning eyes, I’m sure I don’t need to explain such an obvious thing.” Long Chen pointed to a footprint in the ground.

  That was the spot where he had provoked that cheating law enforcer who had faked his measurement, putting Long Chen within the fighting-prohibited region. He had long since set up that proof there, leaving two clear footprints on the stone slab.

  Seeing that footprint, both that law enforcer and senior apprentice-brother Wu’s expressions sank.

  They had never expected Long Chen to have left behind such evidence in secret. Their faces turned pale.

  “Elder Tu Fang, don’t believe a word from this brat. He purposely left that after you arrived in order to fake the evidence,” lied senior apprentice-brother Wu hastily.

  “You can easily ask any of the observers to see if it’s fake. Other than fighting with you after, I never stepped near that place again.”

  Long Chen cupped his fists to the surrounding people. “Fellow apprentice brothers and sisters, we’re all newcomers. But now you’ve all seen these law enforcers abuse their power to oppress us newcomers.

  “You don’t need to lie. Just tell the truth of what you saw. With the Enforcement Elder right here, tell the truth about how these dregs use their cultivation base and authority to abuse their fellow disciples.

  “Are you alright with being abused by the bottom feeders of the previous generation?”

  As soon as he finished speaking, there were immediately people who walked out. “I will testify that this footprint was exactly where Long Chen was standing the entire time.”

  “Right, this powerful law enforcer used his iron chain and his powerful mid Tendon Transformation cultivation base to force him back from there.”

  “It really is laughable. Sometimes, I really doubt our senior apprentice-brothers’ intelligence. Before fighting, Long Chen was clearly purposely standing there motionlessly. As for why, can you still not tell?”

  Naturally, these newcomers all possessed their own pride. In the past few days, they had been pushed around arrogantly by these law enforcers, causing them to feel some dislike for them.

  It wasn’t that Long Chen had some amazing skill in inciting people’s passions. The main thing was that they were already feeling displeasure towards these law enforcers, so they naturally wouldn’t give up a chance to complain.

  Hearing everyone’s ridicule, senior apprentice-brother Wu’s expression became exceedingly ugly. He angrily glared at those people who were testifying.

  “Elder Tu Fang, look at that fellow’s gaze. He’s clearly preparing to get revenge on us who are just speaking the truth. Please deliver justice, Elder Tu Fang! This narrow-minded fellow is hatefully glaring at us. How could it be just to have such a person be a law enforcer? That’s just a nightmare for us newcomers!” a person immediately reported him.

  Senior apprentice-brother Wu’s face turned green from rage. Veins pulsed on his forehead. But he didn’t dare raise his head to look at that person, simply doing his best to remember that person’s voice.

  He cursed inside, “You new brats, just wait! We’ll have plenty of time together!

  He had also been a newcomer once. Back then, he had also been put into his place by the previous generation’s senior apprentice-brothers.

  Now it had finally come to his turn to do the same, but the result was completely different. This group of brats was actually brazen enough to resist!

  Tu Fang looked at the footprint and icily asked, “Who measured the distance?”

  That law enforcer with the handprint on his face immediately became ashen. He took a step forward, reporting, “Me…”

  “As a law enforcer, you actually publically defrauded others, entrapping those of your same sect. Gather your things and return to your family,” sighed Elder Tu Fang.

  Everyone was shocked. Just like that, one of their senior apprentice-brothers would be expelled? That was too severe!

  “Elder, I…” That person was completely shocked.

  “No need to say anything. As a member of the Righteous path, you should act openly and upright. But your action just now is a grave offense.

  “This is different from breaking the monastery’s rules. Your conduct has already crossed into the Corrupt path. The monastery cannot accept someone like you. If the monastery is still within your heart, reflect upon yourself once you return home on how to be an upright cultivator,” said Tu Fang.

  That person sighed. He wanted to say something, but after stealthily glancing at senior apprentice-brother Wu, he nodded and left.

  “Wu Qi, you just came out of imprisonment less than a month ago. It seems you didn’t properly reflect during that time,” said Tu Fang icily.

  “Disciple accepts his mistake. Disciple was misled by others, causing him to act this way. Please give me your punishment, Elder.” Senior apprentice-brother Wu hastily admitted that he was wrong.

  “You were not misled by anyone. I know, and you also know that. But according to the monastery’s rules, there isn’t enough proof, which is your luck.

  “Of course, luck is also a kind of strength. So I won’t expel you. Although I suspect that you used the authority which the monastery bestowed upon you for personal vengeance, there is no proof. So you are very fortuitous.

  “You did not personally go measure the distance before rashly taking action. You failed your obligations, so all the damage that was caused here today is your fault.

  “Go to the Law Enforcement Hall. Receive five hundred canes and be imprisoned for a half a month,” ordered Tu Fang.

  When senior apprentice-brother Wu heard five hundred canes, he almost fainted. That was no walking cane, but a special cane made of golden wood! There was even poison on top of it. A light tap would generate enough pain to cause a person to cry.

  Usually, the most severe punishment would only be two hundred canes! For it to be five hundred canes now, if he didn’t die, he would definitely at least shed a layer of skin.

  But he knew that the Law Enforcement Elder Tu Fang was like a mountain. If he didn’t accept this, he would increase his punishment. He could only clench his teeth and lower his head.

  “Elder Sun.” Tu Fang looked at Elder Sun with a somewhat complicated expression.

  “Yes.” Elder Sun’s heart shook slightly. He had a bad feeling.

  “Go face the back of a mountain for seven days. I will find someone to take your place here,” said Tu Fang.

  “Yes.”

  Elder Sun assented. Without saying anything else, he simply left.

  This time, everyone, including Long Chen and Tang Wan-er, were flabbergasted. Elder Tu Fang really was a strict and impartial person, worthy of being the number one Elder of the monastery.

  Elder Sun hadn’t dared to say the slightest bit in the face of his punishment. Elder Tu Fang hadn’t even had to give him a reason.

  This kind of incorruptible character was definitely something that everyone, including Long Chen, admired deeply.

  “Many thanks, Elder for distinguishing right from wrong. So I won’t bother you about your previous deceit against me.” Long Chen cupped his fists.

  “Haha, then thank you.” Tu Fang naturally knew Long Chen was talking about how he had tricked Chu Yao into going to the Skywood Palace.

  At that time, there had also been no way around it for him. The Xuantian Monastery and the Skywood Palace had a friendly relationship. If he didn’t help Hua Yu say anything, that wouldn’t be excusable.

  Originally, Tu Fang had been feeling quite guilty about that. He had been thinking that once Long Chen arrived at the monastery, he would perhaps give him some further help in cultivating to make it up to him.

  But once he learned tha
t Long Chen was a Divergent, that idea completely died. And due to his upright character, that matter truly was like a fish bone in his throat, causing him to feel extremely uncomfortable.

  He hadn’t expected Long Chen to just directly brush the matter away now. That definitely relaxed him greatly. He appreciated that Long Chen was a sensible youth.

  Since the matter had already passed and he and Chu Yao had already gone to different places, even if he decided to make this into a bigger issue, that already had no meaning.

  Seeing Long Chen dared to speak like this to Elder Tu Fang and for the usually serious Elder Tu Fang who never laughed to actually cheerfully accept his thanks, everyone was completely stunned. This world really was crazy.

  “Ok, everyone can proceed with their day.”

  Elder Tu Fang waved his hand and left just like that. The stunned crowd could only look foolishly at Long Chen.

  Chapter 186 Receiving Rations

  In the Xuantian Monastery, an immortal cave had been built into the front of Skywood Mountain. From that place, one could look over the entire Xuantian Monastery, scenery that stretched thousands of miles.

  Within the immortal cave, Tu Fang respectfully greeted Ling Yunzi. “Sect leader.”

  Ling Yunzi stood at the front of the immortal cave, looking over the Xuantian Monastery. “How is the situation lately?”

  “The current state is excellent, beyond our predictions. This time there were a total of seventeen core disciples who passed,” said Tu Fang excitedly.

  Normally, only two or three core disciples would manage to pass each time. Even within all of their history, the greatest they had ever had at once was six core disciples. So it really was exciting for them to have so many this time.

  “Furthermore, there are four who have revived their ancestral marks,” said Tu Fang.

  “Oh, that is some good news.” Ling Yunzi’s eyes brightened. That news also made him very happy.

  By awakening their ancestral mark, their cultivation speed would be much faster, surpassing their peers. They were definitely geniuses amongst geniuses.