Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  In the past, everyone had told them that Corrupt disciples were savage, cruel, terrifying, and were dauntless in the face of death. But now, because of them, they were fleeing like rats. That was an absolute honor for them.

  With this honor in front of them, even their lives didn’t seem as important. They all charged out recklessly to kill them.

  What they didn’t know was that they had long since reached their limit. They were relying solely on their willpower to keep fighting.

  There were dozens of core disciples who were so completely focused on killing that they hadn’t even realized a faint mark that had appeared on their foreheads. That mark was constantly sending energy into their bodies, allowing them to continue.

  They might not have noticed that, but the Elders watching all saw it. They were completely shocked, and quite a few of them even began to cry.

  Those Elders mostly came from smaller sects. Those core disciples were perhaps their own family members. Back when they had seen the Xuantian Monastery’s core disciples who had awakened their ancestral marks and how powerful they were, they had been filled with shock and envy. Now their own family’s disciples had awakened their ancestral marks. How could they not go crazy with joy?

  The entire battlefield became a complete mess because of Long Chen’s words. Fierce battles reigniting everywhere.

  The Corrupt path’s Elders and senior disciples wanted to go save their new disciples, but the Righteous path’s people naturally wouldn’t allow that to happen so easily.

  “Long Chen, where do you want to stop?” Gui Yan was alarmed and infuriated, yet he was also helpless. He could only clench his teeth.

  That was because he saw that if this massacre continued and if their experts were unable to break through the Righteous path’s blockade, then this entire new generation of Corrupt disciples would be completely slaughtered within an hour.

  “Have all your disciples hand over their spatial rings so we can take our brothers’ heads back,” said Long Chen

  These Corrupt disciples had done it differently than their Righteous disciples. They were only out for their own selfish profit, and so the first thing they did after killing a Righteous disciple was to cut off their head and place it in their spatial ring.

  They weren’t like the Righteous disciples who waited until the end of the battle to sweep through the profits. They refused to divide their gains evenly with others; after all, Righteous disciples’ heads could be exchanged for generous rewards for them.

  There were definitely many heads from Righteous disciples in the Corrupt disciples’ spatial rings.

  And that was why these Righteous disciples had listened to Long Chen’s call and were fighting so recklessly now, despite being exhausted.

  Everyone had brothers, everyone had companions. Once a companion died, although there was no way to revive them, they had to at least snatch back their heads.

  “What nonsense. Our disciples’ spatial rings also contain all of the treasures they’ve gathered over the years. How could we possibly give them to you? We’ll only give you the heads.” Gui Yan was incredibly infuriated. But in the end, he still compromised, agreeing to hand over the Righteous disciples’ heads.

  “Nonsense must be your strong point. Don’t think everyone is as stupid as you. They have to hand over all their spatial rings, or how could we know whether or not you’ve secretly kept some heads? Do you think I’m an idiot like you?” Long Chen coldly snorted, not yielding a single step.

  “This is too much! You’re committing a grave violation against the rules!” Gui Yan was so pissed off that he was quivering from rage.

  Long Chen disdainfully snorted, “So what if it’s too much? What are you going to do about it? Those so-called rules are just game rules that the weak gave to the strong. Don’t try to play any word games with me, as that’ll really piss me off.

  “If there were really rules, then how come the time and location of all the Righteous and Corrupt battles are always chosen by you guys?

  “If there were really rules, for what reason must we always passively defend against your beatings? For what reason do those helpless commoners have to be massacred arbitrarily by you guys? Fuck your granny, can you fucking give me a single explanation?”

  When Long Chen thought of those innocent commoners that had been slaughtered helplessly by them, his eyes turned completely red. He pointed at Gui Yan and roared, “Isn’t it just because you were stronger and you felt yourselves the dictators of the rules? When we were weak, you talked with your fists, and when we’re strong, you want to talk about rules with me? Go shit yourself, you old shithead!”

  The Righteous path’s experts all felt years of suppressed anger relieve itself as Long Chen cursed. Long Chen’s cursing really was extremely satisfying to them.

  Gui Yan began to fume, wanting to bite Long Chen to death. But with Tu Fang keeping a close eye on him, he didn’t dare make a move.

  “I’ll agree to let you examine our disciples’ spatial rings. We definitely won’t hide any heads.”

  Gui Yan finally had no choice but to swallow his anger. He couldn’t let all of his disciples be completely slaughtered. But Long Chen’s reply really almost made him explode.

  Chapter 266 End of the Great Battle

  “Sorry, my shop hasn’t been doing too well lately, and I really can’t lower my price like that. How about this? I’m not that unreasonable. I’ll give you three hours to slowly consider whether or not you want to take my price! Don’t worry, I’m not impatient!” said Long Chen.

  Gui Yan almost fainted from rage. His disciples wouldn’t even be able to last an hour, let alone three!

  This was clearly him refusing to let them off! Now there were less than five hundred Corrupt disciples left.

  As for the Righteous disciples facing them, they were still fighting strongly and their numbers were barely dropping by now.

  “Fine, I agree to your conditions! Hurry up and stop!” roared Gui Yan furiously.

  Hearing Gui Yan’s voice, the Corrupt disciples sighed in relief, lowering their weapons.

  However, those Righteous disciples still didn’t stop. In just an instant, over ten Corrupt disciples were cut down, their expressions filled with bewilderment, a single thought floating in their minds: isn’t it already over? Why’d you still kill me?

  “I’m sorry, what did you say? I couldn’t hear it.” Long Chen tilted his head to him.

  “Bastard, I said I agreed to your terms! Stop!” Gui Yan’s anger soared, his hair standing on end, his face green from fury. His angry roar caused the entire battlefield to shake.

  “Oh, now I can hear you. Ah, so sorry. Brothers, stop attacking and fall back.” Only then did Long Chen shout out his orders. In reality, he also wished to completely exterminate all of these Corrupt disciples.

  But that would not be strategically smart. These Corrupt disciples were Gui Yan’s final hope. If they were completely killed, Gui Yan really wouldn’t have any misgivings and would go completely crazy. And in his craziness, it would not be possible for Tu Fang to completely block him.

  Once Gui Yan went completely crazy, just the aftershocks of his attacks would be able to slaughter these junior disciples. Thus, killing all the remaining Corrupt disciples wasn’t worth it.

  Long Chen knew that it was what Gui Yan had to be thinking, and so he only angered him to the perfect point. These remaining five hundred people would be left behind as a slight hope for the Corrupt path.

  After all, after experiencing such a huge battle, these remaining disciples were all elites amongst elites. There was still a chance for them to rise again.

  So, Long Chen was leaving them alive to prevent Gui Yan from going crazy, keeping more of the Righteous disciples alive.

  As for whether there really was a chance of them rising again, Long Chen didn’t really care. In any case, his goal had been achieved.

  On the battlefield, he would be an undefeatable warrior going all-out to kill his
opponents. But as a leader, he had to retain his calm, making sure to calculate everything.

  That was why he preferred to battle rather than to scheme. It was much more satisfying for him to resolve his problems with his fists rather than with his head.

  Following Long Chen’s voice, the Righteous path’s disciples withdrew to stand by Long Chen.

  Only then did the Corrupt disciples completely relax. Over half their number collapsed on the ground panting, while another portion of them simply fainted.

  Their bodies and mental strength had been pushed to the absolute limit during that battle.

  Following the ceasing of the junior disciples’ battle, the senior disciples and Elders also stopped.

  Tang Wan-er supported a pale Chu Yao over to Long Chen. Long Chen was extremely distressed to see her like that.

  “Sorry, I was too much of a spendthrift. I ended up spending everything before it was over.” Long Chen’s last attack had used up all of Chu Yao’s spiritual qi. If he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have been able to block Yin Luo’s final attack that had contained natural energy as well.

  And so Chu Yao had not only used up all of her spiritual energy, but her mind had also received an acute impact at the end.

  Looking at Long Chen, Chu Yao felt a burst of warmth in her heart. Long Chen was still the same Long Chen to her. No matter where he went, he was always the star, radiating a light that not even Favored were able to conceal.

  In her heart, Long Chen was a true hero. No matter how strong she became, Long Chen still didn’t fall behind at all. Under his lead, the entire battlefield had reversed perfectly.

  She gently tidied Long Chen up a bit, fixing his disheveled hair. Her eyes were filled with pride for him.

  Tu Fang led a bunch of Elder and senior disciples over to this side as well.

  But when Long Chen looked at the crowd, his expression suddenly changed. “Where’s Wilde?!”

  Wilde’s giant figure was nowhere to be seen, giving him a fright.

  “Calm down, he’s just sleeping,” laughed Tang Wan-er. She pointed, showing him the scene of eight disciples carrying a huge wooden bed. Wilde was snoring loudly on top of it.

  Wilde had managed to kill the hatchet-wielding Favored, but immediately after that, the red light faded from his body and he just fell asleep. No matter what they did, he wouldn’t wake up.

  Although Long Chen didn’t know what exactly was going on, it was obvious that it had to do with that abnormal state which Wilde had been in. It was as if something had awoken within Wilde while he had been fighting. Long Chen didn’t know what it was, but as long as Wilde was ok, it was fine.

  Looking over everyone, Long Chen’s heart sank.

  As he had expected, the fighting had been extremely cruel. It was impossible for everyone to survive. Of their original three thousand Righteous disciples, only a thousand remained.

  The monastery had come into this battle with over seventeen hundred disciples. But now, they numbered less than eight hundred.

  Although he had long since anticipated such a bitter result, the number of casualties was even greater than what he had thought.

  That number represented the lives of his friends, brothers, and comrades. Long Chen saw that many familiar faces had disappeared, forever gone from this world.

  That caused Long Chen such pain and anger that he angrily roared at the Corrupt path’s experts, “What are you bastards still waiting for? Hurry up and hand over all your spatial rings! If anyone dares try to hide any, we’ll immediately start fighting again, not resting until you are dead!”

  Long Chen had been mostly calm this entire time. But his eyes had turned completely red after he had looked over everyone who had returned and everyone who had not. How could the Righteous disciples not know what Long Chen was thinking?

  Whether it was the monastery’s disciples or the other Righteous disciples, they all felt that Long Chen was a true, one-hundred-percent man. Despite being so powerful, he didn’t have any of that lofty, solitary mannerism of an expert. Instead, he was someone who treated each of his friends like a brother.

  Despite Long Chen doing his best to cover up his pain, everyone could tell how deeply affected he was inside.

  “No rest until death!”

  “No rest until death!”

  “No rest until death!”

  The Righteous disciples, who had only just calmed down, once more erupted in anger. Clenching their weapons tightly, they seemed like a pack of ferocious animals, viciously glaring at the Corrupt disciples.

  Gui Yan had actually been intent on bargaining the price down when he saw that the battle had calmed down, but now seeing that the slightest spark might cause a final, all-out massacre, he hastily ordered the Corrupt disciples to hand over their spatial rings.

  Those Corrupt disciples all sighed sorrowfully. The rules of the world had changed now. These Righteous disciples definitely far, far surpassed the Corrupt disciples in terms of fierceness.

  Only once all of the Corrupt disciples handed over their spatial rings did the Righteous disciples finally calm down slightly.

  “All of you just wait. This isn’t over!” Gui Yan viciously glared at Long Chen before bringing the Corrupt disciples away. Their originally grand and vast army had truly been decimated this time.

  Of over twenty thousand new disciples, they only managed to leave with five hundred alive. This was an unprecedented defeat for them.

  “Long Chen, you should keep this golden spear!” Song Mingyuan and Luo Cang walked over, carrying Yin Luo’s golden spear.

  Long Chen knew that this was a spirit weapon and was extremely powerful. But in terms of heaviness, it was slightly lower than Devil Decapitator. Furthermore, he was unaccustomed to using a spear.

  He said to Mo Nian, “How about you take this as your spoils of war? You’ll be able to justify yourself with this once you return.”

  From what Mo Nian had said, Long Chen knew that he had actually run away from home in hopes of defeating Yin Luo. Unfortunately, Yin Luo was just too powerful. Even with the two of them joining hands, they were unable to kill him.

  And in truth, it wasn’t just the two of them joining hands, but three. If it hadn’t been for Chu Yao, Long Chen and Mo Nian would both have died under Yin Luo’s final attack containing natural energy.

  Even with the three of them working together, they were still unable to make him stay behind. Mo Nian and Long Chen felt a bit helpless about that. They had no choice but to admit that Yin Luo was too powerful.

  “I already have my spoils of war. What could be better than this?” Mo Nian was no longer as indifferent as before. Holding Yin Luo’s severed leg, he proudly stroked it a couple of times.

  Everyone shivered in repulsion. He was looking at that leg like it was a tender, lovable leg of a beauty that had enchanted him.

  Weighing this spear, Long Chen sensed that it was thirty percent lighter than Devil Decapitator. If he hadn’t had a weapon advantage during his fight with Yin Luo, it might not have been possible for Long Chen to force him back.

  Sinking into thought for a moment, he thought to himself that there was no one else within this new generation of disciples who was capable of wielding it. But then he realized that there was one person.

  “Gu Yang!” shouted Long Chen.

  Gu Yang walked over from out of the crowd. His broken arms and other injuries had already been healed by the Skywood Palace’s experts. Other than his spiritual qi being exhausted, he was completely fine.

  “You’re also specialized in strength. You can have this spear. Try it.” Long Chen held out the spear to Gu Yang.

  Gu Yang’s eyes reddened slightly. He wanted to take it, and yet he also didn’t dare to take it. “Long Chen… I…”

  “Stop wasting words and take it. This thing’s too heavy and my arm’s getting sore.” Long Chen straightforwardly pushed the spear into Gu Yang’s arms.

  Gu Yang stumbled back several steps from its incredible weight
before being able to stabilize himself.

  Gu Yang was incredibly moved. Even in his entire family, they only had a single treasure on the same level as this spear. But Long Chen had simply given it to him.

  He had once forced Long Chen into a land of absolute death, and yet Long Chen didn’t hold the slightest grudge anymore. Even with Gu Yang’s haughty nature, his eyes brimmed with tears. “Long Chen, I…”

  “You don’t need to say anything about giving your heart to me. I’m sure you already know what kind of man I am. I only like beautiful women.” Long Chen hastily shook his head, not wanting to hear Gu Yang’s emotional words.

  Everyone couldn’t help but laugh. Tang Wan-er blushed, stealthily glancing at Chu Yao. She saw that Chu Yao was just laughing without the slightest anger.

  “Since the battle’s over, I should also return.” Mo Nian walked over to Long Chen.

  Chapter 267 Condemnation

  Long Chen was startled. “Why are you in such a rush? Didn’t you say you wanted to get a drink first?”

  A peerless genius like Mo Nian was fated to be lonely. The feeling of being peerless was not as great as everyone thought.

  Within the same generation, it was almost impossible to have a single good friend. That kind of feeling was not a pleasant one.

  Both chickens and eagles grow up from being chicks. But as time passes, the eagle is destined to spread its wings and soar into the sky.

  That was why although he had been extremely unwilling, he had had no choice but to leave behind Shi Feng, fatty Yu, Shou Hou, and the others back in Phoenix Cry. They were destined to not be able to stay together forever.

  Cultivation was a path of no retreat. Once you stepped onto that path, you had no choice but to continue advancing. There was no chance to turn back.

  But if you could have a couple of genuine brothers with you on this path, then it would definitely be much more enjoyable.

  However, such people were really just too hard to find. If the only ones beside Long Chen were weaklings, there was no way he could take care of them forever.