Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Long Chen also had the heart of an expert. Furthermore, he also longed to know the secrets of his origin. He needed to get stronger at all costs!

  So no matter what secrets were hidden in the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, he couldn’t stop cultivating it. It was his only path.

  Without the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, he would have already died within the imperial capital. It could be said that the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art had given him his life, and he needed to have full confidence in it.

  The divine ring behind him disappeared and he slowly opened his eyes. The day had just begun to lighten.

  He smiled in satisfaction. After a night’s work, those sprouts had grown to a height of fifteen hundred meters, which was half the height of the fully matured trees.

  These trees would become his greatest guarantee in the future. Furthermore, outside of these trees, he had also obtained over one hundred and seventy Qilin Fruits and four hundred Meridian Opening Spirit Cliff Fruits. That was because the other medicinal ingredients would also mature along with the primal chaos space’s circulation. This night’s work had been equivalent to centuries of growth.

  Just as Long Chen was delighted by his harvests, his expression suddenly changed and he looked into the distance.

  Chapter 538 Heavenly Tribulation Descends Again

  “This is Yin Wushang’s aura!” Long Chen’s expression changed, as he sensed a powerful killing intent that was very familiar. “How did he find me so quickly?”

  Long Chen couldn’t help being startled. He had left behind countless misleading paths behind him. Even if there were people chasing after him, it should have taken them several days.

  But in just one night, Yin Wushang was already close enough for him to sense. Based on his feeling of danger, the two of them were definitely not that far apart.

  “I can’t fight him in my current state. Time to slip away.” Long Chen began rushing through the mountain forests. Although he had confidence in himself, in front of a Celestial, he could only run right now.

  Unless he managed to advance to Meridian Opening, he didn’t have the ability to fight him. Furthermore, with Yin Wushang’s ridiculous Cry of the Heavenly Daos, he still wouldn’t have a chance of beating him.

  Of course, if he could just condense the third star—the Life Fate Star—and bring out the Three Star Battle Armor, then he would be able to resist at least a portion of the Heavenly Daos’ energy.

  When he had fought with Yin Wushang, he had noticed that the Two Star Battle Armor was able to resist the Heavenly Daos’ energy slightly.

  He finally understood why the Heavenly Daos would reject him. The power of the Nine Stars clashed with this world’s Heavenly Daos. They were like water and fire.

  However, his current Nine Stars’ energy was too weak and was not enough to resist the Heavenly Daos.

  Unfortunately, right now, the only thing he knew about the third star was its name and that it would be located at the center of his right foot. The pill formula for it had yet to appear in his mind, and so he was unable to even refine the Life Fate Pills, let alone condense the star.

  “Something’s wrong. I’m going in such a winding path, but they’re still getting closer?”

  Long Chen’s expression turned slightly darker. After rushing as fast as he could, he realized the sensation of danger wasn’t fading but growing stronger instead. In other words, Yin Wushang was quickly approaching.

  “I know, it has to be from the Heavenly Dao’s injuries!” Long Chen suddenly stopped. After recovering to eighty percent, he had focused completely on urging on the primal chaos bead so that the trees would grow. He hadn’t completely healed himself.

  Thinking of a certain possibility, he hastily urged on the primal chaos space. Thirty-six immense trees had their life energy extracted for his use.

  In just a few breaths’ time, the injuries on Long Chen’s body completely recovered as the remaining will of the Heavenly Daos on his body was erased.

  Long Chen smiled mischievously and then disappeared from his current location.

  …

  Yin Wushang had been leading the Yin family’s elite experts through a thick forest. Every so often, he would pause and sense for something before continuing.

  But this time when he stopped, his expression became shocked, as he realized he could no longer sense Long Chen’s position.

  “Bastard, how is that possible?!” Yin Wushang couldn’t help raging. After being injured by the Heavenly Daos, their will had remained on Long Chen’s body. As a Celestial, Yin Wushang was capable of using his sharp senses to locate him.

  That was also why Yin Wushang had refused to leave. After his injuries had recovered enough, he had immediately begun chasing.

  Now that the sensation of the Heavenly Daos had disappeared out of nowhere, he was startled and infuriated. There were only two possibilities.

  One was that Long Chen was dead, perhaps eaten by a Magical Beast. Then, with his soul dissipating, the will of the Heavenly Daos would have nothing to adhere to and would also fade.

  The other possibility was that Long Chen had somehow managed to erase the will of the Heavenly Daos on his body and completely recover.

  With Yin Wushang’s understanding of Long Chen, he didn’t believe Long Chen would die so easily. The odds of the second possibility were extremely high.

  In his fury, Yin Wushang smashed apart a large tree in front of him, startling all those elites behind him. They didn’t dare utter a sound as they trembled. They knew that Yin Wushang was on the verge of going berserk.

  Even in this kind of situation, Long Chen had still managed to escape. That made Yin Wushang feel like he might explode. This was the first time he felt so stifled.

  However, even if he was unwilling, he wasn’t a fool. He knew that with Long Chen’s sly nature, catching up to him within this thick forest was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

  “Junior master, what should we do now?” Seeing that no one else dared say anything, Yin Qing opened her mouth.

  Yin Wushang’s expression was frighteningly dark, but as the Yin family’s junior master, he still had to be extremely steady. He quickly calmed himself down and thought about it.

  “It’s indisputable that Long Chen has already managed to escape. We should go back. At the same time, alert the spies we have in the secular world. I want to find out everything about Long Chen, including his origin and what family he has!”

  “Junior master, that’s a grave taboo!” cried a late Xiantian elder.

  The cultivation world’s iron rule was that the path of cultivation was a struggle for experts. But this bloody struggle could not be permitted to reach the ordinary mortals.

  If anyone decided to take out their anger on a cultivator’s family, that would be an immense taboo. If the expert’s family were also cultivators, then that would be alright. But if they weren’t, then whoever attacked them would become targeted by the entire cultivation world.

  There were countless records of this happening, and those violators had all been exterminated. Immense existences like the Yin family were also amongst them.

  “Idiot, I just said investigate, not target them. I just want to know Long Chen’s origins, understand?!” raged Yin Wushang.

  “Yes, this subordinate knows his mistake!” The elder hastily bowed.

  “Let’s go.” Yin Wushang brought them all out of the forest.

  …

  After a full three days, Long Chen managed to get out of the forest. He had no idea just how far he had gone, but a grassland now appeared before him.

  The forest had been very oppressive, as there was no sunlight. In fact, he couldn’t even see the sky. Now that he suddenly saw the vast sky again, he couldn’t help but sigh, his mood immediately elevating.

  He finally felt that the sensation of danger had completely disappeared. He had finally regained his freedom.

  “Hehe, Yin family, right? Let me just investigate where your old rat’
s nest is.”

  Long Chen laughed sinisterly. He was prepared to undergo the same scene as what had happened in the Wind Spirit Pavilion.

  “Fuck, what’s going on?!”

  Long Chen’s expression suddenly changed. Just now, the sky had been completely empty with nary a cloud. The blue sky had been incredibly refreshing. But without realizing it, the entire sky had darkened.

  “Damnit, you just couldn’t wait a while?!” Long Chen suddenly stood up and cursed at the sky.

  He now realized he was unable to accomplish his plan. The heavenly tribulation was about to descend right now, and it was even more terrifying than last time.

  Back when he had been in the monastery, after he had finished undergoing complete tempering, his spiritual qi had almost reached a certain limit.

  Now, the continuous battles, especially the battle with Yin Wushang, had silently pushed him through an opening in the next barrier.

  At this time, before Long Chen even went to attack the barrier, the barrier had already become weak. Unconsciously, he had pierced through it, drawing down heavenly tribulation.

  That startled and infuriated Long Chen. This was definitely bullying. He had just been thinking of using this heavenly tribulation to get revenge on the Yin family. Were the heavens protecting their Celestial?

  Thunder clouds condensed up in the sky. The entire world darkened as endless lightning appeared in the boundless clouds. A terrifying pressure descended.

  The entire sky seemed to become an inverted vortex, while Long Chen was like an ant on the bottom.

  When those surging thunder clouds suddenly stopped moving, the entire world trembled and rain of lightning descended.

  Wherever the lightning touched the ground, the ground would crumble. Under the bath of lightning, Long Chen’s eyes shone like the stars, and his black hair flew in the wind. A berserk aura soared out of him to face the heavenly tribulation. He didn’t seem the slightest bit afraid.

  “Come. Let me see how you try and exterminate me!”

  The response to Long Chen’s goading was an even stronger tempest of lightning. But Long Chen simply allowed that lightning to land on his body.

  The lightning snake tattoo on his left arm lit up and began to crazily devour the thunderforce invading his body. It was like a starving Magical Beast that finally saw food.

  Long Chen knew that each time, the first wave of lightning was the weakest. He had to take advantage of that chance to absorb more thunderforce. Later when the lightning grew stronger and more berserk, it would be impossible to absorb, and he could only resist it.

  Even this gentlest lightning was enough to easily exterminate Xiantian experts.

  That was because for ordinary cultivators, their first lightning tribulation would come when they advanced to the Xiantian realm. They would use the heavenly tribulation as a baptism to expel impurities from their body and then transform their Houtian qi to Xiantian qi.

  For those ordinary cultivators, their Xiantian heavenly tribulation would only be ten percent destructive. The other ninety percent of it was life energy used to cleanse them. If you were unable to even withstand that ten percent of destructive will, then that meant you were truly trash and you were just a waste of this world’s energy.

  Long Chen’s tribulations were completely destructive in nature without the slightest bit of life energy. That was why those Xiantian experts from the Wind Spirit Pavilion were only able to endure for a few breaths’ time.

  Standing on the ground, Long Chen was doing his best to absorb as much thunderforce as he could. His entire skeleton was currently shining, emitting a powerful pressure.

  He was borrowing this thunderforce to once more temper his bones, allowing his skeleton to reach a flawless level.

  After all, just using medicinal pills to temper the bones was unable to make them reach the level of perfection. Medicinal pills contained quite a bit of pill toxin which would hide within the bones.

  Long Chen was borrowing the heavenly tribulation’s berserk energy to expel that pill toxin.

  If it wasn’t for this heavenly tribulation, Long Chen would require a long time to expel that pill toxin. This saved him at least several months of work.

  As time passed, the lightning became thicker, stronger, and more terrifying. However, Long Chen was still focused on absorbing it. Now that he had undergone complete tempering, he didn’t fear this level of lightning. On the other hand, the lightning serpent tattoo on his arm was growing increasingly bright.

  BOOM!

  Suddenly, the void shook intensely, and the rain of lightning disappeared. The thunder clouds parted and nine three-hundred-meter lightning serpents appeared.

  Chapter 539 Lightning Monster

  When the nine three-hundred-meter lightning pythons bore their way out of the clouds, all of heaven and earth seemed to freeze.

  The nine pythons were like living creatures, and they emitted a roar before charging at Long Chen.

  The world rumbled and Long Chen felt all his hair stand on end. These nine pythons were too terrifying.

  A lightning spear appeared in his hand, and he directly charged at the closest python.

  BOOM! Lightning erupted, the light completely blinding. Long Chen was blown back, but the lightning python was also forced back.

  However, the other lightning pythons now swarmed over him. Long Chen roared and began a fierce fight with them, repeatedly brandishing his lightning spear.

  Explosions echoed out continuously, and lightning flashed in waves. The incredible rumbling sounded like the end of the world was coming.

  Those lightning pythons were shockingly powerful; each one of their blows was capable of obliterating mountains. The only thing that gladdened Long Chen was that his own thunderforce wasn’t any weaker. They came from the same source, and so he was barely able to resist.

  Being swarmed by nine lightning pythons, his lightning spear rapidly swung through the air, forcing them away.

  Long Chen smashed two of them away when another one struck him in the back with its tail. His clothes immediately exploded and a bloody line appeared on his back.

  He was alarmed to find that these lightning pythons almost seemed to be alive, and they were extremely difficult to deal with.

  BOOM! Being surrounded by nine of them, he couldn’t avoid being struck again.

  “Divine ring!” With a roar, a powerful aura soared out of Long Chen, an aura that pierced straight through the tribulation clouds.

  With the support of his divine ring, his strength soared. He ruthlessly smashed his spear forward.

  BOOM!

  A lightning python was actually blown in two. After being destroyed, it actually transformed into a sky full of lightning runes.

  Without waiting for Long Chen to do anything, the lightning serpent tattoo on his arm lit up and actually left his arm, charging at those runes.

  The lightning serpent began to crazily devour those runes as if they were a feast.

  In just a moment’s work, the half-a-foot-long serpent grew to double its size, and it was still devouring more.

  Right now, Long Chen had no time to deal with what was happening with the lightning serpent. He had to focus completely on the lightning pythons.

  BOOM!

  Another lightning python was pierced apart, turning into lightning runes. With the support of his divine ring, Long Chen felt as if he was no longer being completely suppressed by the Heavenly Daos.

  He finally had a slight amount of power to resist. It wasn’t like before when he was constantly beaten.

  When he reached that point in his thoughts, Long Chen suddenly raised his head and roared at the heavens, fully releasing the fury in his heart.

  The spear in his hand began to attack even more crazily. Those previously incomparably terrifying lightning pythons were now unable to pose any threat to him, and they were blown apart one by one.

  Bang!

  Suddenly, Long Chen’s arm shook intensely, and his
qi and blood surged within him, shocking him out of his fury.

  He suddenly laughed involuntarily. The nine lightning pythons had already been destroyed. Just now, he had accidentally struck his own lightning serpent.

  Right now, the lightning serpent had already grown to a length of thirty meters. He had accidentally assumed it was an enemy just now. That was equivalent to striking himself.

  Right now, the lightning serpent was still frantically devouring all the lightning runes. When they were all consumed, it returned to Long Chen’s arm, becoming a simple tattoo again.

  When it returned to his arm, Long Chen’s entire body trembled because he sensed the berserk thunderforce in his arm had multiplied by dozens of times.

  The lightning spear in his hand suddenly blossomed with light as endless lightning runes poured into it.

  “With the increase in thunderforce, even the lightning spears condensed from it are this terrifying.” Long Chen couldn’t help being delighted.

  RUMBLE…!

  Suddenly, heaven and earth trembled. Long Chen staggered on the ground, hastily looking up.

  The thousands of miles of clouds were suddenly rapidly compressing into a single point.

  “Is this the final attack? Then let me see just how powerful you are.”

  Long Chen pointed his lightning spear up at the sky. He knew that the final attack of the heavenly tribulation was always the most terrifying.

  However, the lightning serpent on his arm seemed to understand his thoughts. It consumed those lightning runes to strengthen itself and give Long Chen even stronger thunderforce, increasing his confidence.

  BUZZ…

  The void was trembling as the black clouds in the sky continuously compressed. In the end, it formed a three-hundred-meter black ball.

  That black ball was pulsing like a heart, and with each contraction, the world quivered with it.

  Long Chen’s heart sank because he sensed a terrifying aura growing within that black ball. That feeling made him numb.

  Suddenly, the tribulation clouds in the sky disappeared, and the sky returned to a sunny state. That kind of weather was something that would normally make a person extremely content.