Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  The two Elders looked at each other, each seeing the other’s helplessness. They could only open the door for Long Chen again.

  When the door closed again, one of them shook his head and said, “This Long Chen really is a ruthless character. You should tell Zhao Yongchang not to target him anymore; otherwise, the ones to suffer will definitely be you guys.”

  Long Chen didn’t know about that, but he also didn’t care. He was planning on going through every single technique within the Battle Skill Pavilion, as those were things the Dragonblood Legion required.

  Six hours later, Long Chen finally left, perfectly content. Dozens of high grade Battle Skills had been sealed within his mind.

  That was only possible due to how vast his Spiritual Strength was. For an ordinary Bone Forging expert, memorizing two Heaven class Battle Skills would already be not bad.

  Sealing such a technique within the mind required a vast amount of energy. Just relying on memory wasn’t enough. There was simply too much information within those high-class techniques.

  Not only did Battle Skills contain a circulation method, but there were also taboos as well as many principles and theories, and even some experience from seniors.

  It could be said that if a thousand people used the same Battle Skill, it would cause a thousand different effects. A person needed to go through drilling and experience to find out the best way to use a technique.

  Once he left the Battle Skill Pavilion, Long Chen returned the tablet to Shui Wuhen. On his way back, he saw Zhou Qingyi furiously directing people to rebuild the new death-deciding stage.

  Long Chen walked by her grandly and openly, making her even more furious.

  After doing that, seeing how furious Zhou Qingyi was, Long Chen’s mood became much more pleased, and only then did he step into the transportation formation and return to the first monastery.

  The monastery erupted into a clamor because the news that he had killed Han Tianyu had long since arrived.

  It was not easy to calm everyone down and get them to calmly cultivate, but he finally managed to return to his own residence.

  “Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you’ve returned!” He had only just arrived at his yard when a young woman in disciple robes bowed in greeting.

  Chapter 526 Assassins

  “Who are you?”

  Long Chen was startled. His residence was private, and there had never been anyone to disturb him. Why would a female disciple appear here suddenly?

  “I am Xiao Cui. Could it be that you’ve forgotten? A few days ago, Elder Tu Fang had me deliver a message to you.” She laughed.

  “Oh, I remember now. Later, I asked you how old you are, but you refused to tell me.” Long Chen also laughed.

  “A girl’s age is a secret!” Xiao Cui blushed.

  A blood-red saber silently stabbed through Xiao Cui’s chest.

  Xiao Cui looked at Long Chen with terror. “Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen…”

  “Sorry, but I never asked Xiao Cui her age.” Long Chen shook his head apologetically.

  When he had seen her, he really hadn’t realized she was Xiao Cui. Only once she told him did he recall that they had had such an interaction.

  Although he had only interacted with Xiao Cui ever so slightly, he now felt something was off about her, but at the same time, he was unable to say what it was.

  That was why he had tested her just now, and ‘Xiao Cui’ had ended up exposing herself.

  “Now I know what’s wrong. The fragrance coming from you is strong, but you don’t have any of a girl’s body odor. For a man to dress himself up like a girl, it really must have been hard on you.” Long Chen shook his head.

  “You…”

  “It’d be best for you to not make any sudden movements. My saber contains my spiritual qi. If you move, it will immediately cause your body to explode. If I haven’t guessed wrongly, you must be an assassin from the Bloodkill Hall, correct?” asked Long Chen.

  “Hahahaha… To die to someone like you is acceptable.” Xiao Cui’s voice suddenly became that of a man’s. But it didn’t contain the slightest bit of fear.

  “Long Chen, being targeted by my Bloodkill Hall is equivalent to having a Yama King stuck to you. Death will be your final end, haha… pfft!”

  Unexpectedly, the assassin self-destructed, filling the sky with blood.

  “What? Even his blood contains poison. What viciousness.” Long Chen suddenly felt the world spinning around him.

  Just at this moment, another figure popped out of nowhere and stabbed a dagger towards Long Chen’s back.

  He was another assassin who had been patiently waiting this entire time, not releasing the slightest aura or hostility. Even when his companion had been stabbed, he hadn’t released the slightest fluctuation. He only revealed himself when his companion had self-destructed and poisoned Long Chen, flashing into action to kill him with a single blow.

  A blood-red saber seemed to inadvertently and yet also intentionally spin through the air, just happening to slash apart that assassin’s waist, cutting him in two.

  The saber clanged onto the ground. At the same time, Long Chen also fell to the ground.

  A black arrow suddenly shot out of the room at his heart.

  Just as the arrow was about to reach him, Long Chen raised a hand covered in violet light and smashed apart the arrow. At the same time, he also pointed a finger.

  “Lightning Finger.”

  A bolt of lightning shot out of his finger and instantly pierced into the room. The sound of a body exploding rang out.

  Only then did Long Chen crawl up from the ground and pat the dust off his body. Picking up his saber, he looked at the corpses, his expression a bit odd.

  “Looks like I’ve been feeling too secure recently. I actually forgot to activate my divine sense immediately,” he muttered to himself.

  Divine sense was something specific to Long Chen. He had once asked Meng Qi about it, but Meng Qi didn’t know anything about divine sense.

  She could only use her Spiritual Strength to scan for spiritual fluctuations. But the divine sense Long Chen used had the ability to see everything with Spiritual Strength.

  The former could only sense the fluctuations of life and find out their positions, but Long Chen could actually see them.

  These assassins had been extremely skillful, especially the last two. They had completely hidden their spiritual fluctuations so that no one would be able to sense them.

  Even Spiritual Strength wouldn’t be able to sense them. Ordinary experts would definitely have died. That was the most terrifying aspect of assassins.

  But although they could conceal themselves from spiritual perception, they were unable to escape Long Chen’s divine sense. Under the observation of his divine sense, they had nowhere to hide.

  However, he had been afraid of them getting away, so he had put on an act of almost dying. Assassins were only specialized in assassinations and fleeing. He had no assurance in being able to chase one of them down.

  Only once all three were dead and there was no one else around did he get back up.

  The corpse on the ground was the only one that was remotely intact. It had a bronze badge.

  Picking up the badge, he saw a skull had been carved into it, and at the mouth of the skeleton was a bloody dagger.

  The carving was extremely exquisite, almost lifelike. It was extremely bloody, and the carving of the blood dripping from the dagger was extremely chilling. On the other side of the badge was a strange mark, but he was unable to understand its meaning. Perhaps it was a code name, or perhaps it was their level.

  “They were all at the mid Bone Forging realm, so their cultivation bases weren’t high, and their combat abilities weren’t outstanding. But they were specialized in assassinations. They are cold-hearted, emotionless, uncaring about their own lives…”

  Long Chen was lost in thought. The Bloodkill Hall’s assassins had finally arrived. Their abilities truly were p
owerful.

  Somehow, they had managed to sneak their way into the first monastery. That didn’t mean that the monastery’s defenses weren’t good enough, but that these people were too skillful and specialized.

  That first assassin had managed to dress himself into appearing like a woman in such a perfect way that even Long Chen hadn’t seen any flaws.

  If he hadn’t had an odd feeling inside, causing him to test her, he might have ended up being killed.

  These assassins were all madmen, willing to go to any lengths necessary to achieve their goals. They were definitely difficult to handle.

  If they only aimed to kill him, he wouldn’t feel afraid. Even if he was stabbed in his vitals, he had the primal chaos bead and could instantly heal. Unless they managed to instantly chop off his head, he could still recover. However, Long Chen didn’t believe they were capable of that.

  What he was worried about was that these madmen would assassinate the people by his side. Then their chances of succeeding would be extremely high.

  After cleaning up quickly, Long Chen called out Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Guo Ran, Gu Yang, and all the other Dragonblood warriors, telling them that the assassins from the Bloodkill Hall had arrived.

  “Fuck, it’s not like we ever provoked them. Why would they come target us?!” raged Gu Yang.

  “They’re just a bunch of madmen who buy lives with money. There’s no need to get angry. Their target is me, and I can handle them.

  “Today, I called you all out to tell you a few things. First, all of you enter seclusion.

  “No matter what happens, don’t come out. Wait until you finish complete tempering and reach the peak of Bone Forging. At that time, advance to Meridian Opening in one go,” said Long Chen.

  “Advance in one go? Is that going to be alright?” asked Meng Qi worriedly.

  Their cultivation bases were all raised by medicinal pills. Advancing this quickly was a cultivation taboo.

  “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine. The Dragonblood Legion’s power surpasses your imagination. They’re all true warriors who have killed their way out of a sea of blood. Their foundations will be fine.

  “Other than that, although your cultivation bases were rapidly increased with medicinal pills, as long as you have an appropriate cultivation technique, you can still make your foundation even sturdier without battling.” Long Chen smiled.

  “Boss, did you obtain another treasure again?” Guo Ran’s eyes brightened.

  “Yes, I obtained quite a few techniques from the supermonastery this time. Let me tell you a piece of good news: starting today, each of you can start training in a high Heaven class cultivation technique,” said Long Chen.

  “High Heaven class?!”

  Heaven class cultivation techniques were even more precious than Heaven class Battle Skills, and for it to be the high Heaven class, everyone was filled with disbelief.

  “I won’t waste any words, but I guarantee the cultivation technique will completely satisfy you. With this cultivation technique and the assistant of high grade Battle Skills, each of you will have the power to battle across realms.”

  Long Chen transmitted the Mountain Crushing Body Tempering Art to each person, causing each of them to be filled with wild joy.

  Cultivation techniques were the foundation of a person’s cultivation, and the stronger that foundation, the more power they could release. A high Heaven class cultivation technique was something they didn’t even dare dream of obtaining.

  “Sister Qing Yu, you and the other women can’t train in it for now due to your innate constitutions. But that’s fine, because in a bit, I’ll refine some body-strengthening pills for you, and then you can train in it.”

  Within the Dragonblood Legion, there were five women. If their innate constitutions weren’t strong enough, they could make up for it with more work and resources.

  “Other than that, I also have Heaven class Battle Skills, but I don’t want you guys to get distracted, so I won’t distribute them just yet. Everyone should just focus on cultivating. Go into seclusion, and don’t come out until you finish complete tempering. You don’t need to worry about the medicinal pills,” said Long Chen.

  Hearing that he had Heaven class Battle Skills as well, everyone’s eyes shone, and they wished they could immediately reach complete tempering to cultivate those techniques.

  After handling that, Long Chen returned to his own residence. After thinking for a while, he decided to go find Elder Tu Fang and tell him the news that he had been targeted by the Bloodkill Hall.

  That made Tu Fang jump in fright. There were few who ever lived after being targeted by them. He urged Long Chen to go to the supermonastery.

  He declined that suggestion, telling Tu Fang that it would be fine as long as every disciple returned to their own residences.

  After that, Long Chen returned to his residence and quickly completed some work. Then, he simply waited while eating medicinal pills.

  Three days later, a light sound interrupted Long Chen while he was refining pills.

  Chapter 527 The Pill Tower’s Sorrow

  The sound was extremely light, almost imperceptible, but Long Chen smiled. He knew that his guest had arrived.

  Activating his divine sense, he could instantly see everything within several miles. He clearly saw a figure concealed within a corner of his residence.

  That figure was like a lizard, crawling on the wall. Because of the darkness of night, even if someone walked right past them, they wouldn’t notice them.

  Furthermore, that person had concealed their aura perfectly, making themselves appear just like a lifeless rock.

  That person continued to hide for a quarter hour before slowly beginning to wriggle.

  If Long Chen hadn’t been personally watching it, he definitely wouldn’t have believed that there was such a movement technique. The person was like a snake, wriggling themselves forward, looking like they didn’t have any bones in their body. The odd movement didn’t cause any sound.

  “This is what it means to be a professional.”

  Long Chen couldn’t help feeling some praise. That person wriggled their way in, glanced into Long Chen’s room, and began to rush towards the corner.

  His foot had only just touched the ground when he felt something like a thin string, and without hesitation, he turned and fled.

  However, three arrows shot out, and one of them struck him dead-on.

  Realizing he had fallen into a trap, he was about to flee when his body suddenly stiffened, and he collapsed to the ground.

  Long Chen opened the door and walked into his room, putting away the corpse and setting up the mechanism again. Then, patting his hands, he once more began to consume medicinal pills.

  Time passed quickly. Long Chen spent all day consuming pills and setting up his mechanism. In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed, and he had tempered a total of one hundred and twenty-eight bones.

  His cultivation base had also reached the seventh Heavenstage of Bone Forging. During these days, he had also obtained eleven corpses. Without exception, they were all Bone Forging experts with a bronze badge.

  Those assassins had raised Shui Wuhen’s alertness, and she had personally gone to tell Long Chen that these were simply the Bloodkill Hall’s amateurs. The Bloodkill Hall had sent them after Long Chen merely as some tempering.

  Within the Bloodkill Hall, there was a mission distribution system, and assassins could pick their own missions. If a mission was failed too many times, the Bloodkill Hall would increase the rank of the mission.

  Once the mission rank was increased, then higher-ranked assassins would come to kill him. Right now, he was merely encountering the weakest bronze-rank assassins of the Bloodkill Hall.

  The Bloodkill Hall’s assassins were ranked bronze, silver, gold, and dark gold.

  She did tell him one thing that comforted him a great deal. The Bloodkill Hall had their own integrity. They never assassinated anyone of a lower realm than them. W
hat they sought was using their assassination arts to kill those stronger than they were.

  Assassinating targets in the same realm as them was their bottom line. In other words, Long Chen would not encounter any Meridian Opening assassins.

  So he decided to turn down Shui Wuhen’s good intentions and focus on refining and consuming pills. Occasionally, he would go check on the current state of the Dragonblood Legion.

  Long Chen was extremely grateful towards Zheng Wenlong. The medicinal pills had been coming in a steady supply. This time, he had sent him ten million Bone Tempering Pills.

  He had directly told the sender that they didn’t need anymore. This was enough for everyone to undergo complete tempering.

  At the same time, Zheng Wenlong sent Long Chen news that they had already set their plan fully into motion half a month ago. On the same day, all the Huayun Sect’s auction houses announced that the Huayun Sect could also refine Bone Tempering Pills, and that their effect was twice as high as the Pill Tower’s.

  The thing that made Long Chen clap in praise was that the Huayun Sect wasn’t selling them in an auction style, but selling them at a ten percent lower price than the Pill Tower.

  The entire cultivation world was greatly shaken. For countless years, only the Pill Tower had possessed the formula for the Bone Tempering Pills. They had monopolized all the profit. Now, the Huayun Sect had somehow developed their own formula.

  Although the appearance and pill fragrance were all the exact same as the Pill Tower’s, the effect was double. That had caused countless sects to send people to the Huayun Sect. What kind of joke was that? Double the effect for only ninety percent of the cost? Only an idiot wouldn’t go.

  It went without saying that the Huayun Sect truly knew how to do business. They didn’t immediately release too many of the pills. They only gave people a taste to let them see the pill’s effect.

  They first created contracts for the various sects. Once those sects signed, they gained a large down payment for a long-term purchase order. Those contracts were all for at least a hundred years, and some sects even signed thousand-year contracts, which required an immense down payment.