Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Long Chen’s voice had his Spiritual Strength entwined in it. Others were only able to see Long Chen’s lips moving, but they were unable to clearly hear what he was saying.

  “Ok. What should I do boss?” Guo Ran immediately became confident and began to act arrogantly again.

  “Bend your knees slightly and clasp your hands over your chest. Lean forward slightly.”

  Guo Ran listened obediently and quickly entered an extremely eye-catching posture. His butt was sticking out highly, and it was pointed at the Righteous and Corrupt disciples. He even wiggled it ‘seductively’ a couple of times.

  Whether it was the Righteous or Corrupt disciples, they were all clenching their teeth painfully, thinking that the two of them were intentionally humiliating them.

  “Get going.”

  Just as Guo Ran was feeling incredibly refreshed by how those people were turning purple from rage, Long Chen kicked him right in the butt.

  “Ah, what the fuck!”

  Guo Ran was kicked flying towards the passageway by Long Chen. He turned green from fear.

  But then Guo Ran quickly realized that Long Chen’s kick had been controlled perfectly, and the path he was flying was the exact center of the passageway. He wouldn’t touch any of the steps or walls.

  He shot down extremely fast, reaching the end of the passageway in just an instant. He landed on the bottom extremely easily.

  When everyone had seen Long Chen kick Guo Ran into the passage, they had thought Long Chen was trying to kill Guo Ran.

  But then when they saw Guo Ran’s flight path, their eyes all lit up. This was also a method?

  The reason none of them had thought of this was because they didn’t have Long Chen’s powerful Spiritual Strength. None of them had any idea about how deep this passageway was. But since they didn’t hear any scream from Guo Ran, it seemed he had managed to pass safely.

  Suddenly, a figure stamped on the ground and shot forward, also rushing down the passageway. This figure was moving even faster than Guo Ran had.

  “It’s Long Chen!”

  “Haha, you want to pass? Die!”

  Suddenly, the two Righteous Chosen attacked at the same time, shooting out over ten throwing knives at Long Chen.

  Long Chen was infuriated. These despicable bastards really wanted him to kill them. Seeing those throwing knives coming at him, he raised his arms.

  His hands were like lightning, and he surprisingly managed to catch every single one of those knives. At the same time, he borrowed their power to shoot down faster.

  “Everyone attack!” Those two Chosen hadn’t expected Long Chen to have such precise control.

  As long as one of their knives had managed to touch the walls, that would have activated the mechanisms, and Long Chen would have definitely died.

  In truth, before the two of them had even said anything, people had already taken action to throw down knives, daggers, pellets, and other weapons at Long Chen.

  Some of the Righteous disciples who had been hesitating now also went to attack as well. Even the Corrupt experts were attacking. Everyone was shooting down a rain of weapons.

  Long Chen was startled, furious, and worried. There was no way he could dodge this many attacks, let alone catch them all.

  And most importantly, the majority of them weren’t aimed at him this time, but for the walls beside him.

  In the face of this many attacks, even Long Chen’s expression changed. He wasn’t afraid of these attacks but the result of them.

  However, Long Chen didn’t just watch as those attacks fell. His aura completely exploded, and he slashed out his saber.

  A terrifying wave of qi sent those weapons flying. Those were all ‘concealed weapons’ used for surprise attacks. They were typically only seen in the secular world, as cultivators rarely used them.

  Cultivators cared more about strength. They looked down on concealed weapons. So the power of these concealed weapons wasn’t very high.

  However, they hadn’t had any extravagant hopes of these weapons killing Long Chen or even injuring him. The result they wanted had already happened.

  As expected, the wave of qi and broken weapons shook the passageway. Long Chen was already more than halfway down at this point when suddenly countless stone holes opened on the wall, releasing steel arms.

  Those arms all held a hammer that was the size of a small desk. They crazily smashed down repeatedly, releasing ear-piercing explosions.

  “Haha, Long Chen, this time you were surprisingly good!” Quite a few Righteous disciples laughed heartily when they saw those mechanisms activate. Those hammers possessed the power to pound a person to mincemeat.

  As for Guo Ran, he was filled with fury and hatred when he saw Long Chen being harmed by so many people.

  “Hysterical Autumn Wind Dance.”

  A golden saber appeared in Long Chen’s hand, and Saber Qi appeared everywhere, surging out of the passageway.

  The ear-piercing explosions from the hammers caused the entire tomb to shake. Occasionally, rubble from the ceiling would collapse down, causing everyone to scatter. They worried the entire tomb would come crashing down.

  At this time, not only were they shocked at how terrifying the ancient tomb’s mechanisms were, but they were also shocked by Long Chen’s combat ability.

  The explosive sound coming from the passageway meant Long Chen had yet to die at this time and was still struggling.

  Suddenly, the passageway returned to calm. Only then did everyone come back to see that all the steel arms had returned within the walls.

  “Did he die?”

  “There’s no corpse. Was he torn to pieces?”

  “There are bloodstains on the walls. He should be dead, right?” They all saw the blood on the walls. That should be Long Chen’s.

  But there wasn’t much blood on the walls. If Long Chen really had been smashed to pieces, there should have been much more.

  They couldn’t see the bottom of the passageway, so they had no idea whether his corpse was lying there or not.

  At this time, someone threw down a lightstone. It was a special ore that could emit a bright light for a short period of time once activated. But after it used up all its energy, it couldn’t be used again, so it would be turned to garbage. In the outside world, it had quite a high price.

  When people had entered the lounge, there had been three people who had used that ore to light up the entire lounge.

  At this time, in order to confirm Long Chen’s death, they had no choice but to endure the pain and throw another one down. That immediately lit up the entire passageway.

  “Oh? So this passageway is only a thousand meters deep.” Previously, they had all thought that it was extremely deep, as they hadn’t been able to see the bottom.

  “I don’t see Long Chen’s corpse.” Other than the bloodstains, there was no sign of Long Chen’s passing.

  They could see the floor at the bottom, but due to how narrow the passageway was, they couldn’t see it very clearly.

  “Boss, how could you die here?! Those damnable sons of bitches, they should all be struck by heavenly lightning right now. They should all die…!”

  Guo Ran’s sobbing rang out from within the passageway, delighting all of them. Long Chen’s death caused them all to sigh a breath of relief.

  “For an amazing hero like boss to die here so tragically, how am I supposed to keep on living…” Guo Ran’s voice was extremely mournful, and just listening to it could fill a person with grief.

  “Hey, that’s good enough. Why are you crying like that? Even I’m starting to think I’m dead,” whispered Long Chen.

  Long Chen’s right shoulder had been gravely injured, with even his bone sticking out. That was an injury caused by one of the hammers.

  Just thinking of those huge hammers gave Long Chen some fear. If such a hammer had landed on his head, would he even have a life left?

  When he had passed through the huge hammers, he had also used t
hem to send himself straight through the last layers of mechanisms to reach the bottom.

  If he were to have activated the final mechanisms, Long Chen estimated that he would definitely have died. When he had charged through those huge hammers, Devil Decapitator hadn’t been able to bear it, and several large nicks had been smashed into it, causing Long Chen endless pain. Those hammers had been too terrifying.

  At the same time, he felt incredible hate for those people outside. Compared to the Corrupt disciples, Long Chen hated the Righteous disciples far more.

  He hadn’t expected that it would be his fellow Righteous disciples who would instigate this attack on him. Furthermore, every one of them had helped. That caused Long Chen’s killing intent to boil.

  “Boss, only by crying like this can I make it seem like you’re really dead. How else are we going to trick them to enter?” Guo Ran smiled sinisterly.

  Just as he said that, another figure jumped in using the same method as Long Chen.

  Chapter 328 Play You All to Death

  Guo Ran’s smile practically glowed as he took out an iron bead. He randomly tossed it into the passageway.

  A miserable scream rang out. That fellow had only gotten halfway down when Guo Ran’s bead struck the wall.

  Countless pikes had instantly pierced countless holes into that person’s body. He had died immediately after screaming.

  “Bastard!”

  Both the Righteous and Corrupt disciples were infuriated. Guo Ran had actually followed their example, using the same method they had used against Long Chen on them. Now it was their turn to suffer.

  “Go fuck yourselves! You caused my boss to die! Don’t even think about getting any of the treasures out of here!” Guo Ran sneered.

  Long Chen had already consumed a healing pill and was currently recovering from his injury. It was an injury that looked frightening, but in truth, it was just an outer wound that would quickly recover.

  “Little brat, even if we can’t obtain it, do you think you can keep those treasures? We’ll just guard here. Ask yourself, how do you plan on ever leaving?” said one of them disdainfully.

  “Hehe, who cares if I can’t leave? If you have the ability, then go ahead and waste time with grandpa Guo here! At most you’ll only have to wait a year without searching for any other opportunities!” mocked Guo Ran.

  That immediately caused a chill in their hearts. If Guo Ran really did plan on being obstinate, then with these terrifying mechanisms, there was no way for them to pass through.

  This tomb had been preserved extremely perfectly. Some disciples had already found some precious ores.

  Those precious ores seemed to have been treated as just trash by the tomb’s owner. They had just been randomly left lying around. In other words, there was definitely an even greater treasure beyond this passageway.

  But with Guo Ran guarding it, even Chosen would probably die. None of them were willing to risk it.

  Furthermore, the people present were split into two parties, each harboring their own ulterior motives. There was no way they could work together to handle Guo Ran.

  “Little fellow, let’s discuss this. Long Chen raped and killed an innocent woman and is despised by the entire Righteous path. Now that he’s already dead, the punishment for all his crimes has solely landed on his shoulders. I, Zhao Mingshan, will use the seventeenth monastery’s name to swear that as long as you let us pass, we will testify that you are innocent so that you don’t receive any injustice.”

  The person speaking was a Chosen from the seventeenth monastery. His status was quite high, so his words did have weight.

  “... Really?” Guo Ran’s voice was clearly trembling.

  “Of course. I, Zhao Mingshan, swear not to investigate any of your previous crimes and will also help you testify that everything was done only by Long Chen. Everything you personally did was all because Long Chen forced you to do.” Zhao Mingshan’s voice clearly held some excitement now.

  Guo Ran sneered inside, “Even now, you want to play these word games with me? You won’t investigate ‘my crimes’ at that time, but you can just throw me to the Corrupt disciples to kill me instead.”

  “Then I’m relieved.” Guo Ran hesitated before saying this. He looked at Long Chen. Seeing the wound was quickly healing, he purposely stalled for some time.

  He didn’t dare mess around as Long Chen focused on healing. He decided to stall for as long as he could. In any case, playing around with them was more fun than just waiting around.

  “Are you looking down on me? How could, Zhao Mingshan, a grand Chosen, possibly try to trick an ordinary disciple?” Zhao Mingshan’s voice contained some offended anger.

  Guo Ran was silent in response to that, seeming to hesitate. Zhao Mingshan looked at one of the core disciples.

  That core disciple nodded and jumped into the passageway.

  Suddenly, a scream rang out. That Righteous disciple had been stabbed to death by the flying pikes.

  Guo Ran was stunned. He had yet to even throw out a bead. How had he died?

  “You… what are you doing?!”

  Zhao Mingshan was furious. He was glaring at the Corrupt disciples’ Chosen.

  It had been one of the Corrupt disciples that had shot out an attack to activate the mechanisms, killing that core disciple.

  “What do you think?” the Corrupt Chosen indifferently replied. “If your disciples pass, then all the benefits will be taken by you. What about us?”

  The Righteous disciples were infuriated. At the same time, they also understood they had run into a thorny problem. Obviously, the Corrupt disciples wouldn’t let them do as they wished.

  “What do you want? Do you think I’ll let your disciples go down first?” raged Zhao Mingshan.

  “How about this: we’ll send our disciples in one by one. We’ll also make sure their cultivation bases are similar, so that neither party suffers,” suggested the Corrupt Chosen.

  “Keep dreaming! It was us Righteous disciples who discovered this passageway and who found the way to enter! Why should we have to split it evenly with you?!” a Favored from the Righteous path cursed back.

  “Long Chen is a Righteous disciple? Hehe, how come I can’t tell? So a Righteous disciple died to the hands of Righteous disciples? It seems the Righteous path really doesn’t care about face anymore,” sneered the Corrupt Chosen.

  That person’s words immediately caused the Righteous disciples’ faces to burn as if they had been slapped. Their enemies were now laughing at them for the internal strife within the Righteous path.

  “Long Chen is a traitor of our Righteous path. Our killing of him was just cleaning up our path. But no matter what, Long Chen is still a disciple of our Righteous path, and so his accomplishments are the Righteous path’s accomplishments,” quibbled Zhao Mingshan.

  “Haha, I really have to admire you Righteous disciples. You’re clearly being contemptible and shameless, and yet you still try to act devoted to righteousness.

  “Even if us Corrupt disciples tried for ten thousand years, we still wouldn’t be able to do something like that. Of course, it’s beneath our dignity to learn such garbage.

  “Right now, I won’t talk reason with you. Let me just say this: if you don’t consent, then let’s start fighting. The one alive at the end will decide who gets the treasure.”

  The Corrupt Chosen’s expression was icy, and the disciples behind him all took out their weapons and released their auras. They seemed like hungry, bloodthirsty wolves as they stared tightly at the Righteous disciples.

  “Do you think we Righteous disciples fear you? All you’re doing right now is causing both parties to be injured. There’s no meaning behind that,” raged the Chosen beside Zhao Mingshan.

  The Righteous disciples were filled with fury, but at the same time, it was impossible for them to conceal their panic.

  The Corrupt disciples were different from Righteous disciples. Being savage was their nature, and they were not afraid
of death. If they really fought, it would be an extremely bitter fight.

  Everyone had gone into the Jiuli secret realm in search of opportunities. They all knew that if they could find a heaven-defying opportunity in the secret realm, they would immediately be able to soar to the heavens, their radiance lighting up the world.

  So they didn’t want to fight here. Even though one of their comrades had died, as long as they weren’t closely related, they would still choose to ignore it.

  And that was why the Righteous path was just like a pack of loose sand. Although there were many of them, they rarely fought back, causing them to be suppressed by the Corrupt path.

  Furthermore, in Zhao Mingshan’s eyes, this kind of fight had no meaning. No matter who won, they would still have to pass through this terrifying passageway in the end. Guo Ran was still blocking them.

  But the Corrupt Chosen didn’t care the slightest bit about this reasoning. His attitude was simple. Either listen to him or have a decisive fight.

  “Senior apprentice-brother Zhao, fighting here isn’t smart. It’d be better to do what they say. It won’t be too late to fight once we find the real treasure,” advised someone quietly.

  Zhao Mingshan had a stomach full of anger. Their side had two Chosen, so they definitely suppressed their opponents in terms of total strength. But they all knew how vicious Corrupt disciples were. Even if the two of them were able to kill the Corrupt Chosen in the end, he would likely leave them with heavy injuries in his final moments, and perhaps even drag them down with him.

  That was also why the Corrupt disciples were so unbridled. The Righteous disciples had always had to endure everything since their two Chosen didn’t want to fight.

  “Fine, we’ll take a step back. Both of us will send one disciple down at a time. But you have to swear that before we see the true treasure, none of you will start a fight.” Zhao Mingshan finally compromised.

  “No problem.”

  The Corrupt Chosen was smiling indifferently. But his eyes were filled with ridicule.

  Zhao Mingshan was furious, but before seeing the true treasure, he didn’t want to go all-out. Who knew whether that treasure would be worth suffering losses?