Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Previously, that person from the Righteous path had been killed, but they had acted completely indifferent. Now, Long Chen and them had killed the Corrupt experts, and they even sneered at them.

  “The same Righteous path as us? They count as part of the Righteous path? You’re speaking too highly about them. They’re just a bunch of trash.

  “As for the Righteous path, most of it is filled with this kind of trash, cowards who are afraid of the strong but bully the weak, lowlifes who can forget any morality for profit. Inner strife is their speciality, but when it comes to true life and death battles, they only know how to flee and hide.

  “As they hide in terror, they watch others fight, hoping for as many of them to die as possible. That way, they’ll seem so wise.

  “Righteous path? Hehe? What is righteous? What is corrupt? Where is the line between them?

  “That’s all just nonsense. At the very least, the Corrupt path has a firm belief. As for the Righteous path, they don’t believe in anything. In truth, they’re much more frightening than the Corrupt path.

  “So remember, we aren’t a part of the Righteous path, nor are we a part of the Corrupt path. There is no one else who is our companion. The only ones we can rely on are ourselves and the brothers around us,” said Long Chen.

  Long Chen had long since seen through the Righteous path. In front of profit, they were willing to commit any crimes. Human morals? That was nonsense. The Righteous path was even greedier than the Corrupt path.

  That was because they had no beliefs to limit them. They had no bottom line. For their goals, they were willing to do anything.

  For example, back in the Jiuli secret realm, when Long Chen had chased after Yin Luo, there were quite a few Corrupt experts who they had run into, and they had been willing to sacrifice themselves in order to slow him down and give Yin Luo a chance to escape.

  As for Long Chen, he had seen many Righteous experts watching from a distance. They had even taken out photographic jades, wanting to record the moment of his death. Not one of them had come to help. That was the terror of having no beliefs at all.

  The more indifferent a person became, the more selfish they would become, and the more evil an evil person would become. As for the originally good people, either they were killed by these evil people, or, in order to survive, they also became evil themselves. That was the Righteous path. The current Righteous path was a complete mess.

  When it came to total power, the Righteous path should have been able to completely dominate the Corrupt path. And yet, each time they had battles, it was the Righteous path that lost.

  “Fuck, how are there so many idiots?” raged Gu Yang.

  “It’s not that they’re idiots, but that their parents are idiots because that was how their parents taught them. Their ancestors truly passed on the best lessons,” laughed Long Chen.

  “Hehe, there are people to welcome us ahead.”

  After walking for a while, they suddenly saw a mass of people. There had to be hundreds of them. These people were all Xiantian experts, and the two people at the front had even reached half-step Sea Expansion. However, they were both extremely old, and even their beards had turned white.

  Currently, Long Chen and the others had almost arrived at the center of Chaos City. There were countless Righteous experts who were present now.

  But they didn’t stand with Long Chen, instead just watching from their own territory. It seemed they were extremely specialized at being spectators.

  “Haha, wow, for so many of you to come receive us, you really are too courteous!” laughed Long Chen. That attitude made it seem like they weren’t even enemies, but friends.

  “Long… Long Chen?!”

  One of the elders at the front suddenly recognized him, and his voice quivered.

  Now that he said that, all the Corrupt experts’ expressions changed. Chaos City was mostly isolated from the rest of the world. But there was no one in the Corrupt path who didn’t know Long Chen’s name. He was the first person to still be alive even after being number one of their must-kill list for over half a year.

  The Corrupt path was different from the Righteous path. Most of the Corrupt experts who came here had come for tempering, while the Righteous experts here were mostly criminals being punished.

  So they had much more news than the Righteous path. The Righteous path only got news of the outside world once every few years.

  As for Long Chen, his sudden rise had only occurred in the last two years. So the Righteous experts hadn’t even heard of him. The Righteous experts were all dumbfounded. Just what kind of god was Long Chen? Just his name was able to cause such a reaction from the Corrupt experts. Just which side was the Corrupt path?

  “Ah, how unexpected. I didn’t expect to run into old friends here. How rare. You know, I’m used to using my saber to greet my friends. Today, the weather’s not bad. Should we greet each other?” asked Long Chen lightly.

  The two half-step Sea Expansion experts looked at each other, their hearts cold. They had personally seen the photographic jade of Long Chen’s fight with Yin Wushang.

  Celestials were the favorites of heaven and earth. In the Meridian Opening realm, they could dominate the Xiantian realm. Half-step Sea Expansion experts were like weeds in front of them.

  They were only ordinary half-step Sea Expansion experts. If they really fought with Long Chen here, none of them would live to tell the tale.

  No matter how many rabbits you gathered, they wouldn’t be able to bite a tiger to death. This wasn’t a case where numbers would allow them to crush their opponents.

  “We’re leaving!”

  The two elder spat out those words before leaving just like that, causing all the Righteous experts to be dumbfounded.

  Two half-step Sea Expansion experts and over three hundred Xiantian experts were running? What happened to their dignity? What happened to their viciousness? Weren’t Corrupt experts known to be fearless?

  “What, you’re leaving just like this? Hey, wait a moment. Let’s discuss this!” called Gu Yang.

  Gu Yang’s spear was resting on his shoulder. He had long since been prepared for a battle. His aura rose to his peak, and he already felt like his blood was heating up. He wanted a true battle to stimulate him.

  But these opponents had just turned and left. He almost spat out blood.

  The Corrupt experts ignored Gu Yang. They quickly disappeared.

  “Boss, what’s going on? This doesn’t seem to be the style of the Corrupt path,” asked Guo Ran.

  Considering how vicious the Corrupt path was, then even if they had to die, they probably wouldn’t have acted so cowardly. Even if they couldn’t kill Long Chen, they could still focus on the people by his side. Even if they had to all die, they would still do as much damage as possible. That was the style of the Corrupt path.

  “They’re really too courteous. They should be preparing a ‘gift’. It’s fine, they’ll come back sooner or later. Let’s go, we still have stuff to do.”

  They continued walking forward, arriving at the end of the road. If the previous area was just a slum, then this was the truly flourishing part.

  There were many splendid buildings here that were built neatly. There were even some luxurious decorations. Long Chen looked at one of those buildings.

  “Let’s go eat first. Then we’ll make some inquiries.”

  Chapter 627 Calling on Somebody

  This was the only restaurant in Chaos City and one of the three tallest buildings in the city. It had nine floors and was three hundred meters wide. There was no way it could compare to the Immortal Intoxication Building.

  But in this desolate place, it appeared exceptionally grand and luxurious. A refined and courteous attendant brought Long Chen and the others to the top floor.

  Currently, it was just a few hours from the night. It wasn’t really dinnertime yet, and so this entire floor was empty.

  “Your restaurant doesn’t seem very popular. How
do you manage to stay in business?” asked Guo Ran.

  “This is the only restaurant in Chaos City. The people who come here mostly only come to entertain guests. So we don’t have that many customers normally.” The attendant smiled.

  “Bring us a feast and some wine.” Long Chen found a table beside the window from which they could overlook Chaos City.

  “Here we have three kinds of preset feasts. Which one did you want?”

  “Choose the best one.” Long Chen waved his hand.

  “Very well.”

  The attendant was pleasantly surprised. These people didn’t have high cultivation bases, but they spent money so extravagantly.

  The highest class preset meal here cost eighteen middle grade spirit stones. As the attendant for them, he would get three thousand ordinary spirit stones for this.

  A short while later, many delicacies were placed on the table. It went without saying that this restaurant’s owner truly did know what quality was. These dishes were all extremely sumptuous.

  Other than the fine food, there were also three large jugs of excellent wine. But because they still had things to do, they didn’t drink that much.

  After eating, Long Chen suddenly asked the attendant, “How long have you lived in Chaos City?”

  “Eighteen years,” he replied cautiously.

  “For a mid Meridian Opening cultivator to still be alive after eighteen years in Chaos City is quite amazing,” said Long Chen.

  “This little one normally only stays in the restaurant. If I ever went outside, I’d have long since died,” laughed the attendant.

  “Then since you’ve been here for so long, you should know many things that other people don’t, right? I’ll give you an opportunity. If you manage to grab onto it, you won’t need to be a waiter in this restaurant. I’ll give you enough wealth for you to find somewhere to pass the rest of your life in peace.

  “With your talent, it would be very difficult to reach the Xiantian realm. But I can let you achieve that dream,” said Long Chen lightly.

  “Guest… you… you’re joking.”

  “Whether I’m joking or not is something you can decide for yourself. If you feel like it’s a joke, then it’s a joke. If you feel like it’s serious, then it’s serious.”

  Long Chen smiled and threw a ring over to that person. This was the spatial ring of one of the Corrupt experts. Long Chen had already gone through and found nothing he needed. There was merely one Xiantian weapon, some pills, cultivation techniques, and a pile of spirit stones. In total, they were only worth a few hundred middle grade spirit stones.

  To Long Chen, that was nothing. But for this attendant, it was an enormous wealth.

  “If your answers satisfy me, I will also give you a Heaven Advancing Pill.” Long Chen tossed out another huge blow.

  The attendant gulped down his saliva. Long Chen could hear his heart pounding.

  The attendant placed the ring on the table and carefully asked, “What do you want to know?”

  Long Chen’s words were clear: he would only get a reward if his answers satisfied Long Chen. That ring was not his yet.

  Long Chen smiled. He liked dealing with smart people. “I want to know many things. I want to know everything you know about Chaos City. But don’t worry, even if you don’t know what I want to know, I will still give you a reward.”

  Money was always the greatest motivation. The attendant told Long Chen everything he knew.

  Other than the Righteous and Corrupt paths, Chaos City had two other powers present. One of those was the master of the restaurant. But the restaurant’s master was extremely mysterious. In his eighteen years here, he hadn’t seen him once. His guess was that this restaurant was just a minor business for him, and he wasn’t personally in charge of it.

  However, this restaurant’s master was a bit frightening. Neither the Righteous or Corrupt paths dared make any trouble here.

  There was no way for a small attendant to learn about the master’s background. As for the other power, it was the boss of the brothel and gambling house.

  Since ancient times, gambling houses had never been far from brothels. The boss of these two businesses was also extremely powerful. The majority of his customers were from the Corrupt path.

  But even these normally fierce Corrupt experts would become extremely obedient in the brothel and gambling house. Even if someone did cause a disturbance, it would be on a very small scale.

  The attendant had personally seen someone from the gambling house kill someone from the Corrupt path who had caused trouble. But the Corrupt experts had simply taken away that person’s corpse without saying a word.

  The attendant also told Long Chen an extremely important secret: the boss of the brothel and gambling house was a half-step Sea Expansion expert.

  This boss had once entertained some guests here. It was unknown whether he had drunk too much, but he had said that the power behind him was the Pill Tower’s Huo family.

  Hearing that, Long Chen was truly startled. The Pill Tower’s Huo family actually had a connection here?

  But then thinking about it, he thought it was more likely this person was just intentionally trying to intimidate others. Most likely, he had exaggerated his relationship with the Pill Tower in order to protect his business.

  From their current position in the restaurant, they could see two very luxurious buildings. They were a brothel and a gambling house.

  There was no nameplate declaring what to call them. But in Chaos City, there was no one who didn’t know those two buildings.

  Some runaways and even some minor workers often liked to drink themselves into a stupor there. The main thing was that those were the safest places in Chaos City.

  Within the chaos region, it was possible for people to lose their lives at any moment. But with the mines here, people could make a great deal of money.

  A portion of the people would go there in an attempt to get more money, getting more cultivation resources for themselves.

  The majority of these people only had average talent. Most of them were just waiting to die here, and so when they got their salaries, they came here to wildly spend their money, entering a drunken state to gamble and enjoy other pleasures. The attendant said that the gambling house and brothel made a shocking amount of money.

  After this, Long Chen felt like he really had gained quite a bit from this meal. He asked, “Then let me ask you one last question. If you can answer, I’ll immediately give you what I promised.”

  “Please ask.”

  “The Bloodkill Hall’s stronghold should also be in Chaos City, correct? Where is it?” This was Long Chen’s main goal in coming here.

  Long Chen had investigated the Bloodkill Hall before. He knew that they had a stronghold to accept missions here.

  The Bloodkill Hall’s organization was mysterious, and most of its strongholds were completely hidden. No one knew where they were. But there was one known stronghold in Chaos City. That was because the situation here was special.

  After being attacked by the Bloodkill Hall for so many times, Long Chen had grown tired. He was not someone who would be beaten and not fight back. This time, he was preparing to give the Bloodkill Hall a ruthless blow. If they came out to play, then they sooner or later would have to pay a price.

  Looking in the direction the attendant pointed, Long Chen saw a strange building. It looked like a skull that had been half buried. It was an extremely bright white color and easy to recognize.

  “Umm… How about I pay for this meal?” Seeing the immense amount of wealth in the ring as well as the Heaven Advancing Pill, the attendant was incomparably grateful. He quickly offered to pay.

  “It’s fine. You deserve that. What you should be thinking about right now is how you’re going to get out of the chaos region alive. Try to be a bit more low-key.” Long Chen threw out eighteen spirit stones and left the restaurant.

  Guo Ran whispered, “Boss, why didn’t you let sister-in-law Wan
-er come with us this time? It would be nice to have such a powerful helper.”

  “Killing people like this isn’t suitable for them. Even though they’re willing to do it, they don’t like it. What, are you getting afraid?” asked Long Chen.

  “It’s not fear, but more that I feel like the Bloodkill Hall is difficult to deal with. The slightest slip can cause big problems,” said Guo Ran.

  “You’re very correct. As specialized assassins, the Bloodkill Hall’s people are all proficient in killing people in a way that’s impossible to guard against. But you should all remember, the reason an expert can become an expert isn’t just because they’re strong. They also require a strong heart. That heart can be conceited or arrogant, but it can’t be unsure. Your actual strength surpasses your imagination. So no matter what kind of enemies you face, you have to have confidence. You can’t let the pressure get to you just because they’re assassins. The point of a battle is to kill your enemies. You are also killers, so what do you need to be afraid of? You’ve probably killed more people than they ever have,” said Long Chen.

  “Boss, that does sound a bit reasonable. But then, boss, is the real reason you didn’t bring sister-in-law Wan-er because you’re afraid of being outshone by her? The other brothers have also asked which one of you is stronger,” asked Guo Ran.

  Others weren’t aware that Tang Wan-er had become a Celestial, but the Dragonblood Legion’s captains had been told by Long Chen.

  “You really care about a lot of nonsense. If you have that much energy, then focus more on how you’re going to kill your enemies,” said Long Chen.

  “Hehe, I understand, I understand.” Guo Ran nodded.

  “Tch, what do you understand?” Long Chen was speechless. This little fellow really never thought about proper things.

  “Hehe, we’ve arrived. You guys guard the door and keep watch over all sides. Kill any rabbits that slip away. As for Guo Ran, if you don’t have to, then don’t attack. I’ll go in first.”

  Long Chen stepped into the entrance of the Bloodkill Hall’s stronghold. That entrance seemed like the mouth of a skull, appearing incredibly sinister. But today, it was welcoming the arrival of a true killing god.