Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  But it wasn’t too late. Spreading out his Spiritual Strength, Long Chen began to gather both medicinal herbs and wind spirit stones.

  Eventually, he entered a side path. Long Chen saw some marks that showed at least one other person had recently come in this direction.

  “This person probably didn’t even recognize some of these medicinal ingredients and didn’t notice these wind spirit stones.”

  Long Chen found a total of eight wind spirit stones. Although he also noticed that there were several parts of the ground that had just been excavated, he still found more than ten precious herbs. Whoever had gone by probably hadn’t recognized them.

  Long Chen once more buried a Spirit Guide Pill and began to go in another direction. He’d rather not collect other people’s leftovers.

  As he entered deeper, he found more and more precious herbs. Over ten thousand herbs had filled the majority of his life ring. That made Long Chen as happy as a beggar who had found a treasure house.

  After three days, even Long Chen didn’t know how many valleys he had walked through. In any case, he had found over a hundred types of rare herbs that had completely filled his life ring. He had no choice but to move some of the lower value herbs into a spatial ring.

  Within a spatial ring, those herbs would quickly die. That caused Long Chen some pain.

  When it was still alive, the price of a medicinal ingredient would be at least twice what it would be if it were dead.

  That was because many large sects had their own medicinal fields. These precious herbs could be sold to them as seedlings.

  Those sects would pay several times the price for living herbs they didn’t have so they could grow them in their sects.

  That was an investment. Although they’d lose out at first, as time passed, perhaps in dozens or hundreds of years, that herb would begin to flourish and multiply. Then they would continue making a profit forever. It could be said to be a small investment for a huge profit.

  That was why rare herbs were priceless treasures in the outside world. Each time such a rare herb appeared in the world, it would cause a clamor amongst the large sects.

  Unfortunately, Long Chen had no way around this. His life ring’s space was limited and couldn’t store that many herbs. Placing some of his precious herbs into a spatial ring, Long Chen’s heart dripped blood.

  Over these days, Long Chen had not only obtained rare herbs, but he had also obtained one hundred and thirty wind spirit stones. That was a shocking number. As he continued forward, he had found that the quality of the wind spirit stones had continuously increased.

  “Huh? What is this wind energy?” Long Chen suddenly stopped with a perplexed expression. He could feel the wind, but the mist wasn’t moving at all. That was extremely bizarre.

  Another wind spirit stone shot out of the mist at Long Chen. Long Chen raised his hand and caught it. When the wind spirit stone collided with his hand, his hand was forced back slightly.

  “How powerful!” Long Chen was slightly surprised. Since advancing to Tendon Transformation, his physical strength had reached an abnormally powerful level. Even a full blow attack from a core disciple was unable to make his hand twitch in the slightest. It could be seen how much force had been behind this wind spirit stone.

  Long Chen was pleasantly surprised to sense that the energy within this particular wind spirit stone was several times purer than the ones he had obtained before.

  Even just by holding it, the air around it cleared up. That was how powerful the energy inside it was.

  “There’s definitely something odd up ahead.”

  Long Chen put away the wind spirit stone and continued forward. The further he went, the stronger the wind became.

  The light breeze became stronger, eventually becoming a whistling gale that made it hard for Long Chen to even keep his eyes open.

  There was no longer any vegetation around the mountain valleys. But Long Chen was pleasantly surprised to see quite a few spirit stones lying on the ground.

  There were dozens of them in view. Long Chen was ecstatic and began to crazily absorb them into his spatial ring.

  “I’ve definitely struck gold this time!”

  His divine sense spread out, and he found that there were hundreds of wind spirit stones within the range of his divine sense. That almost made Long Chen shout excitedly.

  The forceful wind energy contained in these stones also had very broad uses as energy stores in addition to being useful to wind attribute experts.

  These were the best sources of energy for flying instruments. However, only those who were stupidly rich possessed flying instruments that were powered by wind spirit stones.

  Even the Xuantian Supermonastery wasn’t that powerful. They definitely wouldn’t use such precious stones on a transportation tool.

  In this area, Long Chen gathered over eight thousand wind spirit stones in just half a day. By now, he almost felt as if he were dreaming.

  But although he was excited, as he continued forward, the wind grew stronger, and he was forced to use his spiritual qi to protect his body.

  These terrifying gales could easily destroy city walls. Due to the continuous wind in this region, the ground was completely bare and sleek like a mirror. Even the two sides of the valley were completely bare. At this point, nothing was able to stay on the ground or walls. There were no longer any spirit stones here.

  However, Long Chen still continued forward. He wanted to see just what was going on. Where was all this wind coming from?

  Several miles in, Long Chen wasn’t even able to stay standing on his own in the face of this wind. He had no choice but to take out Devil Decapitator. He borrowed its weight and power to keep himself steady.

  Another mile in and the wind was like blades, cutting apart Long Chen’s robes. Even with his powerful physical body, Long Chen still felt great pain from this wind.

  However, at this point, he saw a certain scene. Even with his fearless nature, his expression still changed.

  At the end of a valley was an open space around thirty miles wide. At the center, there was a mountain around three hundred meters high.

  This mountain looked like a stalagmite, shooting out of the ground like a bamboo shoot. What was terrifying about it was that it was made of countless wind spirit stones.

  It looked as if countless wind spirit stones had been piled up here and then half-melted to form a solid body, appearing incredibly bizarre.

  The most eye-attracting thing was that there was a large, shining entity at the top of it that was releasing all the gale winds.

  The instant he saw that entity, Long Chen stopped breathing. That was a huge wind spirit stone.

  Other than its size, the only thing different about this huge wind spirit stone was that it was completely translucent, looking just like a diamond. Terrifying wind energy was being released by it.

  It had to be at least the size of a table. Even from miles away, Long Chen still felt an intense pressure. This thing was extremely dangerous.

  Long Chen suspected that if he were to even approach it, he might be turned to pulp by that terrifying energy.

  “Are you serious…”

  He couldn’t help but feel depressed inside. To be able to see a treasure like this but not be able to obtain it, that was definitely a torment.

  However, it was definitely too terrifying. With his current strength, there was no way he could obtain it.

  But to just give up on it was definitely not Long Chen’s style. How could he allow a treasure to be left so lonely here? That would definitely be blasphemy, and Long Chen wouldn’t allow that to happen.

  He slowly approached it. However, when he was just a mile away, the pressure had increased to an unbearable level.

  Taking a deep breath, Long Chen decided not to press it any further. He turned around, but on the way, something caught his gaze.

  “Huh? There’s another mountain here?”

  Long Chen was stunned. Behind the
mountain of wind spirit stones, there was another smaller mountain.

  But when Long Chen saw what that small mountain was, his face instantly turned as pale as paper.

  Chapter 344 Barbaric Wind Beast

  That was no mountain, but a huge head. It was around a hundred meters tall and was dirt-yellow, which caused it to look like a small mountain.

  Looking behind that head, Long Chen saw that its body had to be at least a mile long, and its huge body was covered in scales.

  Each scale was the size of a round table, and they were covered in cyan vein lines. Long Chen could sense a powerful wind energy coming from those scales.

  “A body like a lizard, scales like a python, four pillar-like legs, and six toes on each foot. Is this the legendary Barbaric Wind Beast?”

  Long Chen’s heart shook. Such a beast only existed within ancient texts. It had already gone extinct in the outside world. But he had ended up running into it here.

  It was said the Barbaric Wind Beast was an extremely rare wind attribute Magical Beast that had great control over wind energy. It was said to be an overlord amongst Magical Beasts that was unrivaled within the same realm.

  “It still hasn’t formed a heaven-mark, so it hasn’t reached the Xiantian realm. Most likely it has reached the fifth rank.”

  When Magical Beasts reached the Xiantian realm, in other words, the sixth rank, a very clear mark would appear on their foreheads. That was called a heaven-mark, and it was easily distinguishable.

  As for this Barbaric Wind Beast, it hadn’t reached the Xiantian realm, but just looking at its terrifying form, it had to have reached the fifth rank. That was a monster on the same level as Meridian Opening realm experts.

  However, this level of Magical Beast was something that would cause a headache even for Xiantian experts. There was zero chance that someone like Long Chen could handle it.

  Although he was confident in his strength, that wasn’t stupid arrogance. He didn’t have the slightest urge to try and provoke this fifth rank Barbaric Wind Beast.

  He saw that this Barbaric Wind Beast was in some kind of special state. It seemed it was ignoring everything happening around it.

  “It’s absorbing the wind energy to cultivate!” Long Chen suddenly realized why it hadn’t done anything to him. At the same time, he sighed regretfully. With such a powerful beast guarding it, it seemed there really was no hope of him obtaining that huge wind spirit stone. He could only give up.

  In order to not alarm it, Long Chen withdrew as quietly as he could. Only when the mountain of wind spirit stones blocked its vision of him did Long Chen finally sigh with relief.

  “A man who is never content is like a snake that tries to swallow an elephant. I’ve already obtained this many wind spirit stones. It should be enough.” Long Chen consoled himself. “But is it really enough?” Long Chen couldn’t help but feel greed towards that huge wind spirit stone.

  “Fuck, stop trying to tempt me! I won’t look at you” Long Chen directly closed his eyes. You wouldn’t want what you couldn’t see.

  But even after closing his eyes, his divine sense still probed that wind spirit stone. In fact, his divine sense allowed him to ‘see’ it even more clearly than his eyes. That huge wind spirit stone possessed an incredible destructive energy.

  “Ah… you really are trying to make me go crazy. Long Chen, you blockhead, if you provoke this Barbaric Wind Beast, you’ll definitely die. You definitely can’t do something so stupid!”

  Long Chen was practically roaring inside his head. Finally, it was with his greatest willpower that he managed to withdraw down his original path.

  After several miles, he reached the valley he had come in from. As long as he went through here, he would lose sight of the wind spirit stone.

  But it seemed Long Chen had been bespelled, and an irresistible force pulled him to a stop. He couldn’t help but turn back to look.

  “Greed is a sin. Greed is a sin. Greed is a sin. Important things have to be said three times.”

  Long Chen sighed. With supreme willpower, he started going down another path. Since he couldn’t fight for that huge wind spirit stone, then he’d go searching for some more of the smaller wind spirit stones.

  Perhaps the heavens had heard Long Chen’s complaints, or perhaps it was just that it had been too long since people had come here. After just a couple dozen miles, Long Chen obtained over ten thousand wind spirit stones. That consoled him slightly.

  “Huh? There are people ahead.” Long Chen had gone down two mountain valleys when he sensed an anomaly. Although his line of sight did not extend even three hundred meters here, his divine sense had a range of over a mile. He managed to sense three figures slowly advancing.

  “It’s Zhao Mingshan!” Killing intent suddenly filled Long Chen.

  Of those three people, one was Zhao Mingshan, while the other one was also the other Chosen who had attacked Long Chen in the ancient tomb.

  As for the third person, he was an extremely handsome young man wearing white robes.

  Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked. That person’s aura was extremely powerful. His cultivation base had reached the ninth Heavenstage of Tendon Transformation, and each of his movements contained the mannerisms of an expert.

  “This fellow is extremely strong.” Long Chen sensed a great deal of pressure from this person. Apart from Yin Luo, he had rarely ever encountered such a thing. That was enough to prove that this fellow was extremely powerful.

  For some unknown reason, Long Chen felt as if he were somewhat familiar. But he was sure he hadn’t seen this person before.

  These three were carefully advancing, searching for medicinal herbs. But Long Chen noticed that they completely ignored a wind spirit stone that lay in the underbrush. He sneered. They really were idiots.

  “Brother Tianfeng, this time it’s all thanks to you. Otherwise, the two of us wouldn’t dare to enter the Misty Mountain Valleys,” said Zhao Mingshan gratefully. The other Chosen also nodded, trying to curry favor.

  “It’s nothing. You’re both allied with my first monastery, and we keep watch over and defend one another. There’s no need for words of politeness,” said the handsome man lightly.

  “As expected, brother Tianfeng is generous and open-minded! Just this kind of bearing is enough to completely convince me that brother Tianfeng is a model example of our Righteous path!” flattered Zhao Mingshan.

  Just listening to that made Long Chen’s hair stand on end. He had seen shameless people but never someone this shameless. He was actually able to say such boot-licking words out loud?

  At the same time, Long Chen became even more curious towards this man’s identity. So he belonged to the first monastery. The first monastery was truly extremely powerful.

  As he used his divine sense to examine him, Long Chen found him to be more and more familiar. Suddenly, Long Chen clapped himself on the leg, finally realizing why he seemed so similar. He was seventy percent similar to the monasteries’ number one expert, Han Tianyu.

  “The Han family’s two genius brothers are the envy of who knows how many families. With brother Tianfeng and your big brother Tianyu’s talent, the fact that you came to our supermonastery is a blessing for the supermonastery,” exclaimed the other Chosen in admiration.

  As Long Chen had thought, this was Han Tianyu’s little brother. No wonder they seemed so similar. A pair of Chosen brothers was definitely an amazing thing for the first monastery.

  Han Tianfeng was a year younger than his brother Han Tianyu. His talent was just a hair lacking in comparison to his big brother. His name was famous within the first monastery.

  “The most amazing thing is that brother Tianfeng had the ability to enter the Misty Mountain Valleys all on his own but still brought us two inconveniences with him to share in the wealth. That truly makes me incredibly moved. Once we leave, this junior brother will definitely give half the precious herbs I gather to brother Tianfeng. Please brother Tianfeng, don’t refuse.
” Zhao Mingshan continued to boot-lick.

  Before entering the secret realm, Han Tianfeng had accidentally obtained a tool that looked similar to a chessboard.

  It was able to record a person’s path as they traveled. It was most likely a measuring tool from ancient times, and such a thing had practically already disappeared from the outside world.

  The first thing Han Tianfeng had thought of after obtaining this treasure was the Misty Mountain Valleys. The Misty Mountain Valleys had now become a treasure house for him.

  However, before he had entered the valleys, he had been delayed by a couple of things. When he arrived, he had coincidentally run into these two.

  After Zhao Mingshan said he would give Han Tianfeng half his gains from here, the other Chosen also hastily said the same thing, causing some admiration to appear on Han Tianfeng’s face. However, he feigned being displeased. “By saying that, are you looking down on me? I brought you two in because I look favorably upon your talent and want to be friends. How could I covet your treasures?”

  “We know that brother Tianfeng is a heroic figure of our generation, and these medicinal herbs are probably nothing to you. However, if you refuse to take them, then the two of us will really be unable to set our minds at ease. So please brother, let us feel better about ourselves and reluctantly take them,” said Zhao Mingshan sincerely.

  Only then did Han Tianfeng sigh, “Ah, you two, is it worth all this bother? I suppose I have no choice but to be shameless and accept them. But remember, I also have my bottom line. I will accept at most half! If you give me more, this brother of yours will end up becoming hostile.”

  “No, no, we definitely won’t do that! As expected, brother Tianfeng is loyal to his friends! We really admire you,” said the two of them hastily.

  Their alliance with the first monastery was a secret one. However, before entering the secret realm, their Elders had all told them that no matter what time it was, they had to place their priority on maintaining a good relationship with the first monastery. They definitely could not offend them.

  Zhao Mingshan and this other Chosen were both very astute. Although doing this was slightly painful, if Han Tianfeng had not brought them in with him, they wouldn’t have been able to obtain anything at all. They were at least keeping half the precious herbs they gathered for free.