Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  And so Elder Sun really didn’t have much of a choice. He looked from that black stone to the list.

  “Fine, I agree. But you have to swear that once I obtain those things, you have to hand over what’s in your hand right now.” Elder Sun gritted his teeth.

  This time the quantity of medicinal ingredients on the list was a bit lower than before. However, their quality was also of a level higher. He knew that the price this time wouldn’t be much lower than the last time. In fact, it might even be a bit higher.

  And so if he did agree, then all his lifetime savings would be gone. But if he refused, then half of his savings would have disappeared for nothing. He was unwilling for that to happen.

  “Fine, I, Long Chen, swear that if Elder Sun can gather everything on this list without one missing, I will definitely hand over what is in my hand to Elder Sun. If I violate this oath, let me be struck by heavenly lightning,” swore Long Chen.

  The heavenly lightning oath was an extremely poisonous oath amongst people. If you broke it, your soul would scatter and you would never reincarnate.

  Only after Long Chen swore this oath did Elder Sun let out a breath of relief. He took the list and left.

  But as he left, his expression was incredibly ugly, so gloomy that he looked like someone who had just heard the news that his parents had died.

  “Long Chen, what are you doing?” Tang Wan-er had forgotten her embarrassment now.

  Just now, Elder Sun had been on the verge of going out of control. In fact, Tang Wan-er had almost reflexively attacked first.

  Qing Yu was also terribly frightened. She wasn’t a Favored and was just an ordinary inner disciple. There was no way for her to resist Elder Sun’s pressure, and so she was a bit pale.

  “It’s nothing. That old fellow wants me as master. But how could there be such a good thing? Does he think I’ll take just any apprentice?

  “So I gave him some missions. If he pleases me, I’ll give him a taste of my amazingness and permit him to call himself my apprentice.

  “But who would have thought this bastard only just made some achievements before wanting more from me? How absurd.” Long Chen managed to spout a bunch of rubbish as soon as he opened his mouth.

  Tang Wan-er thought of what he had done and suspiciously glanced at that black zirconium. Suddenly, she realized what he was doing.

  “No wonder you were laughing so wickedly back then! Just like I thought, Long Chen, you’re really trying to cheat Elder Sun! Are you not afraid of his reprisal?” Tang Wan-er was extremely worried.

  She knew Long Chen’s temperament. He was someone who would cheat someone until they were dead. Qi Xin was a good example.

  “Ugh, calling it cheating makes it sound so unpleasant. This is clearly just an equal trade. I’m passing on my cultivation technique to him. How is that cheating?” Long Chen shook his head righteously.

  “As if I’d believe you. Your expression completely sells you out. It’s written all over your face: you’re definitely being a cheater!” exclaimed Tang Wan-er.

  “No way, it’s that obvious?”

  Long Chen put on a shocked expression, causing Tang Wan-er and Qing Yu to laugh. Some of their worry faded. Tang Wan-er scolded, “Don’t mess around. This is serious.”

  Long Chen was somewhat wronged. “I am talking seriously.”

  “You’re really planning on handing over your complete cultivation technique to him?” asked Tang Wan-er curiously.

  “Of course.”

  “I don’t believe you.”

  “I really am planning on handing over my complete cultivation technique to him. However, we’ll see if he has that sort of fate.”

  Seeing how enigmatic Long Chen was acting, Tang Wan-er was a bit irritated. She reminded him, “Let me warn you: don’t play with fire. It’s very dangerous.”

  Looking at Tang Wan-er’s pretty face, Long Chen winked. “Then let me warn you: don’t play with fire. It’s very dangerous.”

  The same words, but completely different meanings. That flirtation in Long Chen’s words was obvious, and Tang Wan-er immediately became as red as an apple when she thought of their kiss. She quickly hid herself back in her room, tightly locking the door.

  “Let me warn you: don’t play with fire. It’s very dangerous.” Qing Yu solemnly warned Long Chen.

  Long Chen immediately began to sweat. This time it seemed he had ended up jumping into his own trap. He hastily said, “Yes, I will carefully follow sister Qing Yu’s instructions!”

  In the following two days, Long Chen continued to refine medicinal powders. During this time, the entire monastery was deathly silent.

  Whether it was the new disciples or the old disciples, they were all in seclusion. They probably wouldn’t come out for a whole month.

  They had to properly absorb the benefits from their experience in this battle. That would solidify their foundation as well as temper their Dao-hearts.

  After those two days, Elder Sun returned.

  Chapter 281 Cheated Once, Cheated Twice

  This time, Long Chen and Elder Sun decided to go to a small valley a bit further from the monastery for their transaction.

  Long Chen noticed that Elder Sun seemed to have lost a great deal of weight. He hastily congratulated Elder Sun on his weight loss.

  Elder Sun didn’t say a single thing. Throwing a spatial ring to Long Chen, his eyes were completely red, looking like they might spit flames at any moment.

  Elder Sun really was pained enough to die. Long Chen had requested only extremely precious medicinal ingredients, and there had even been requirements on their age. Although in terms of quantity it had been only a third of the first list, its price had been even greater than the last time.

  To obtain these medicinal ingredients, he had used up the rest of all his merit points that he had saved for decades.

  Elder Sun even suspected that Long Chen knew precisely how many merit points he had had. These two sets had cost him practically everything. Of his tens of thousands of merit points, less than five hundred remained now.

  His heart was practically dripping blood. If Long Chen dared trick him again, he wouldn’t care about any price to kill Long Chen.

  Seeing the piles of medicinal ingredients in the spatial ring, Long Chen smiled brightly. He immediately handed over a black zirconium.

  Elder Sun received and saw there was another ancient character on the back: Superior.[1]

  “How domineering!”

  Elder Sun delighted. But then when he flipped it over, his expression changed and he roared, “Why is there nothing on here?!”

  This black zirconium only had a single character written on its back. There wasn’t the slightest thing written on the front.

  Originally, Long Chen had been planning on putting something there, but he hadn’t had the time. Back in Phoenix Cry, he had gone to the Huayun Pavilion and bought four black zirconiums.

  Although black zirconium was ancient, it wasn’t very valuable. Long Chen had bought them just to cheat Elder Sun.

  That old fellow had targeted him several times for his Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. The last time, he had even drawn over a Corrupt Elder to kill him. If it hadn’t been for Chu Yao’s help at the end, he would have died.

  Although Tu Fang had then planned on punishing him for Long Chen, Long Chen knew that the worst punishment Tu Fang could give was to expel him from the monastery.

  Just being expelled from the monastery was far from enough to allay Long Chen’s hatred. If he wanted his technique, then he could have it.

  Long Chen had drawn in the meridian circulation method of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. Originally, he had been planning on splitting the full diagram over four rocks.

  It was said that black zirconium was something that required the carver to be at least at the Xiantian realm.

  However, that wasn’t a problem for Long Chen. Although he couldn’t directly carve anything onto black zirconium, he could draw onto it.

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bsp; Long Chen had used an extremely bizarre pill formula in his Pill Sovereign memories to make a mysterious stone-rotting extract.

  This stone-rotting extract came from ancient times. Large sects had huge stone steles and monuments. Some were so large they were thousands of meters high.

  In order to carve words into them, it not only required a great deal of power, but it also required a powerful tool.

  But not only that. The carver couldn’t make a single mistake when carving. A single monument might require tens of thousands of words. If the carver made a mistake, wouldn’t the entire monument be ruined? It wasn’t as if the carvers were gods. No one would do something so foolish.

  So the ancient era’s tablets were not directly carved. The characters were first drawn on, and after making sure there were no mistakes, they would use stone-rotting extract to soften the rock.

  Stone-rotting extract was extremely miraculous. Its corrosive nature wasn’t permanent. It would only soften the rock for a moment. Once it was removed, the rock would return to its original hardness.

  And most interesting of all, rocks that had been softened with stone-rotting extract would all possess an ancient aura.

  When Long Chen had drawn on these black zirconiums, he had kept his divine ring released, letting its aura permeate into his strokes. That was to make it possible to sense the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s aura from these rocks.

  After he managed to complete one of those ‘ancient treasures’, Long Chen would then polish it up, soaking the new carvings with medicinal liquid until it was impossible to tell that those lines were newly added.

  Long Chen had really put in a lot of effort for this plot. After he had finished the first piece, he had gone straight to Elder Sun to offer him the bait.

  However, he hadn’t expected Elder Sun to be so efficient. He had only just finished the second stone before he returned.

  The day Elder Sun came to rage at Long Chen about the diagram being incomplete, Long Chen had only managed to carve a single word on the back of the third stone.

  Originally, Long Chen had been planning on immediately going to finish the carving that very day, but in the end, he had changed his mind.

  “That’s because there was never supposed to be anything carved there.” Long Chen shook his head.

  “What do you mean?” raged Elder Sun, tightly clenching his fists.

  “What I mean is that the front of this stone was always blank, and that it is supposed to be blank.”

  “Nonsense! You said that your cultivation technique was split into an upper, middle, and lower portion! You said you’d hand over the middle portion once I got all these medicinal ingredients! Did you forget your oath?”

  “Looks like you really are getting old. Then according to how you put it, then yes, the cultivation technique is split into an upper, middle, and lower portion. But when did I ever say that I would give you the middle portion? All I swore was that I would hand over what was in my hand back then. And yes, this is precisely what I was holding back then.”

  Back then, Long Chen really had been holding this half-finished product. It was simply that Elder Sun had assumed it to be the middle portion.

  Realizing he had been defrauded again, Elder Sun was no longer able to hold back. He shot forward, a claw reaching at Long Chen.

  “Little bastard, die!”

  Long Chen had long since been prepared for this. He summoned out his divine ring, and a star appeared in his eyes, his aura exploding.

  BOOM!

  Devil Decapitator slashed onto Elder Sun’s hand. The ground beneath their feet split. The two of them were both sent flying back. Neither of them had had any advantage just now.

  Long Chen was delighted to find that although his cultivation base hadn’t grown, his physical body had grown quite a bit stronger after experiencing that huge battle.

  Long Chen pointed Devil Decapitator at Elder Sun. “You should give up. First of all, you can’t kill me, so this is futile. Secondly, if we continue fighting, all that will do is draw other monastery Elders over. You won’t have a chance.”

  He didn’t have Chu Yao’s assistance and his spiritual qi would be limited, making it so he couldn’t fight for long. But even if he couldn’t defeat Elder Sun, couldn’t he simply run? Furthermore, this place wasn’t far from the monastery. If the two of them really went all-out fighting, that would definitely attract the monastery’s attention.

  At that time, Long Chen would still be safe. Even if this whole matter was reported to the sect leader, the cause of all of this was still Elder Sun’s greed for Long Chen’s cultivation technique. It was very likely that the final result would be that Elder Sun would be expelled from the monastery without gaining anything.

  Even if it came to light that Long Chen had baited him, he had still baited him honestly. Furthermore, both the sect leader and Tu Fang were clearly on Long Chen’s side. Elder Sun could forget about getting anything like that.

  “Long Chen, just what do you want to hand over your entire cultivation technique to me?” Elder Sun did his best to calm down.

  “The prescription has already been prepared. All you need to do is gather all the medicines on this list.” Long Chen sent a piece of paper floating towards Elder Sun.

  When Elder Sun saw that page, he immediately coughed up blood. That was the third ‘prescription’ page.

  Elder Sun grabbed it and didn’t even glance at the medicinal ingredients on the sheet before tearing it to pieces.

  “Do you think I’m an idiot? You think I’ll be cheated by you again and again?” raged Elder Sun.

  “Young people shouldn’t get angry so easily. Stay calm, stay cool headed! This time I swear that if you can obtain all the medicinal ingredients on that list, I will definitely hand over my entire cultivation technique to you! Did you hear? The whole thing!” Another page appeared in Long Chen’s hand and he sent it flying to Elder Sun.

  It was as if he had long since known that Elder Sun would go crazy. This second page was the exact same as the first one Elder Sun had torn up.

  Elder Sun took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the urge to tear this page to pieces again. His hands trembled as he took that page.

  The reason he used both hands to receive that page wasn’t because of any respectful two-handed etiquette, but because his hands were trembling too hard.

  “Bastard, I really will kill you! The Qilin Fruit went extinct in ancient times! Let alone the monastery, not even the supermonastery could possibly have it! You’re clearly doing this on purpose!”

  “So it really is like that…” Long Chen was disappointed. As he had thought, the Alioth Pill’s main medicinal ingredient, the Qilin Fruit, was the most difficult one to find.

  “Fine, then you don’t need to get the Qilin Fruit. Just gather the other six medicinal ingredients.”

  “I can’t buy these. I’m broke.”

  “Well then, I can only regretfully tell you that our trade is over.” Long Chen shook his head with great regret.

  “You…!”

  “Don’t try acting like you’re suffering such a loss. I, Long Chen, will swear to the heavens to hand over my cultivation technique.

  “There are a total of four stones that my cultivation technique is split over. I don’t know why one of them was just nothing, but my guess is that this stone was required in order for the cultivation technique’s name to be complete.

  “Your luck was just bad that day. I just randomly took out that one, and you actually said you had to have it, so I also couldn’t say anything.

  “But even so, you won’t lose out. You’ve already obtained the majority of the cultivation technique. Perhaps with your schemes and plotting, you can figure out the whole thing one day.

  “If one day isn’t enough, then try a year. If a year isn’t enough, try a lifetime. If you can’t figure it out, you can leave it to your descendants to figure it out. In any case, you’ll definitely never be bored. You can just treat those ston
es as toys for your children.”

  Listening to Long Chen’s ridicule, Elder Sun was about to explode. Looking at that page, he took a deep breath.

  “You swear that you’ll hand over your complete cultivation technique without hiding the slightest bit?”

  “I swear,” said Long Chen solemnly.

  “Fine, then I’ll believe you one last time. If you dare trick me again, then even if I die, I’ll definitely bring you down with me.” Elder Sun clenched his teeth.

  “Then don’t worry, I really don’t feel like dying with an idiot like you.”

  Over the next few days, Long Chen really was busy. He had to abide by his promise and finish carving the rest of his cultivation technique.

  But this time Elder Sun was much slower. It was only ten days later that he came to find Long Chen again.

  [1] Sha

  Chapter 282 Superior Must Kill Rebel

  “Long Chen, if you’re tricking me again, I’ll definitely kill you!”

  At this time, Elder Sun’s eyes were completely red, and he looked incredibly gloomy. He almost looked like a corpse that had been revived due to his unresolved resentment.

  Long Chen had only listed seven ingredients for him to find this time, and one of those, the Qilin Fruit, had been removed.

  But those remaining six ingredients were incredibly ancient, ingredients that were rarely seen. Even the Xuantian Supermonastery, a sect that had existed for tens of thousands of years, only had a small amount of them.

  And due to how few they had, the price was incredibly high. Those six types of ingredients had cost pretty much the same as the ones on the last list.

  Elder Sun had already ended up using all of his merit points. But in order to gain the complete cultivation technique from Long Chen, he actually sold off all his secret tomes, precious treasures, and medicinal pills to other Elders.

  Even his main sword was sold off. Other than his immortal cave, he basically didn’t own anything. Only by selling everything he owned did he manage to gather everything on Long Chen’s list.

  Elder Sun was filled with hatred and resentment. He had sold off everything just for Long Chen’s cultivation technique.