Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  The five Sea Expansion experts were also within the range of the Cry of the Heavenly Daos, icily looking at Long Chen. “You’re wasting your time.”

  “Is that so?”

  RUMBLE!

  Endless lightning arrows suddenly rained down from the sky. Each one of them was a foot thick and three meters long.

  Miserable screams rang out. The lightning arrows went straight through the Cry of the Heavenly Daos, killing any Xiantian experts they encountered. Many people’s bodies directly turned to dust.

  “What’s going on?! The Heavenly Daos no longer care about Celestials?!” cried one of the Sea Expansion experts in panic.

  “This heavenly tribulation is different from other tribulations! It’s ignoring our Heavenly Dao runes. We can still endure, but those ordinary disciples will all die! Long Chen needs to be killed!” cried one of the Celestials.

  They were horrified to see that their Heavenly Dao manifestations, which had never failed before, now had no more effect. Heavenly tribulation was part of the Heavenly Daos, and Celestials were the favorites of the heavens. Within their manifestations, they wouldn’t be attacked by heavenly tribulation. This was common knowledge.

  But that common knowledge was completely overturned today. This lightning not only ignored their manifestations, but it also easily killed Xiantian experts.

  Even the comparatively stronger Corrupt disciples were only able to endure being struck a few times. In the face of heavenly tribulation, all people were terrified.

  Long Chen watched these panicking disciples with a cold smile. In order to kill me, the heavens don’t even mind killing their bastards.

  Originally, Long Chen really had thought that Heavenly Dao runes could resist the heavenly tribulation. He had even been planning on charging into their midst to see what effect that would cause. But now he found his tribulation didn’t show mercy to anyone.

  “Die!”

  Suddenly, a large hand passed through space and slammed toward Long Chen. This was not a true hand, but it was no different from a solid hand.

  This was an attack from a Sea Expansion expert formed from natural energy. Its power was truly immense.

  Three stars appeared in Long Chen’s eyes, and Blooddrinker released a blood-red glow as it slashed at the hand.

  “Split the Heavens!”

  BOOM!

  The huge attack erupted into dazzling light. Heaven and earth lost all their color. Even the lightning arrows in the sky were blown apart.

  Long Chen was sent flying back, his arms numb. Blooddrinker had almost blown out of his hand.

  “As expected, without the green dragon energy, I’m not a match for these bastards. I can’t fight with them head-on.” Long Chen wiped off a trace of blood from his mouth and retreated.

  “What, he actually blocked it?!” The Sea Expansion expert was startled. He had thought Long Chen would definitely die from his attack.

  “The heavenly tribulation is getting stronger! Kill him quickly!” Gui Zong’s expression suddenly changed, because he found that the lightning arrows were growing even stronger and more numerous.

  It was still no problem for the Celestials, but the ordinary disciples were dying faster and faster.

  These were the Corrupt path’s elite disciples. Each one of their deaths caused him pain. If they still didn’t kill Long Chen, then all these disciples would die.

  “Elimination Cloud Palm!”

  “Overflowing Rain Slash!”

  The five Sea Expansion experts all attacked, and huge images attacked Long Chen.

  Explosions rang out. Long Chen didn’t dare take them head-on. He flashed left and right, doing his best to get away. But the scope of their attacks was too large, and he had no choice but to block a portion of them.

  Blocking one attack, Long Chen’s shoulder broke and his entire arm almost shattered, causing him to clench his teeth in pain.

  “Damnit, how miserable. If I could still use the green dragon energy, I could directly kill these bastards.”

  Long Chen cursed inside. But the green dragon energy was something he no longer had. He had to rely on himself.

  At the same time, Long Chen came to a realization. He couldn’t depend too much on outer force, or it would become a habit. He had to rely on himself.

  However, right now, the difference was too great. He had no way to fight Sea Expansion experts head-on.

  Originally, his trump card had been Shui Wuhen. But who would have expected the Corrupt path to actually send nine Celestials and five Sea Expansion experts to kill him, a rookie in the Meridian Opening realm? This was absolutely bullying.

  “Fuck, how is the power still so weak? Are you going to wait forever?!” Long Chen suddenly cursed at the sky.

  He was cursing these damn heavens, but the five Sea Expansion experts thought it was a curse at them, and they turned green with rage.

  “You little bastard!”

  “If you have any guts, don’t dodge this one!”

  “Don’t get caught by this old man, or I’ll definitely make you live a life worse than death!”

  …

  The five Sea Expansion experts furiously attacked. Long Chen could only dodge as best as he could, appearing extremely miserable.

  Long Chen was so furious he wanted to curse their mothers. He had an urge to explain that he hadn’t been cursing them, but then he felt such an explanation was something even he wouldn’t believe.

  Suddenly, the sky rumbled. Countless lightning pythons appeared in the black clouds.

  “What?!”

  The Sea Expansion experts immediately became flabbergasted. They saw those countless lightning pythons charge straight down upon them.

  “Everyone, gather together! Experts on the outside, protect the disciples within!” Their expressions completely changed, and they no longer even bothered with Long Chen anymore. They hurriedly went to protect their disciples.

  Before the tribulation, there had been less than forty thousand disciples left. But the lightning arrows decimated them down to twenty thousand.

  The five Sea Expansion experts and six Celestials were going all-out to protect these disciples, hoping to help them endure the heavenly tribulation.

  As for Long Chen? Long Chen was the main target of the tribulation, and there was no way he could run. They directly ignored him. Saving their people was more important.

  These lightning pythons were too terrifying. Each of them was dozens of meters long, and their thunderforce could easily kill Xiantian disciples.

  If they didn’t protect them, then other than the Celestials, not one of their disciples would remain.

  If eighty thousand disciples were all killed, it would be an extremely terrifying blow to the Eastern Wasteland’s Corrupt path.

  The five Sea Expansion experts had been in the midst of helping everyone block these lightning pythons when they looked over at Long Chen, wanting to see how he was handling the tribulation.

  After all, this tribulation had already surpassed the scope of their understanding. Although it wasn’t as strong as their Sea Expansion tribulation, its scope had been hundreds of times greater. Even after living this many years, they had never seen such tribulation. Let alone seeing it, they hadn’t even heard of such a thing.

  When they saw Long Chen, they almost coughed up blood. This bastard was definitely doing this on purpose.

  Chapter 644 Someone From the Huo Family

  Long Chen was sitting leisurely. A lightning python was coiled around him, protecting him from the lightning. It crazily devoured any lightning pythons that came toward him.

  Furthermore, Long Chen had even taken out a table. He sat in a chair, occasionally sipping some hot tea. His legs were crossed as if he was just watching a show.

  “AHHH! Fucking hell!” Gui Zong roared furiously. Long Chen was the one who had brought on this disaster, but he was going through it so leisurely, while they were practically working themselves to their deaths to protect their peo
ple. This was too infuriating.

  “Gui Zong, be careful! Don’t release your aura!” warned one of the Corrupt experts.

  With that person’s reminder, Gui Zong’s expression changed. He hastily suppressed his fury, focusing on blocking the lightning pythons.

  “Oh? How fishy.”

  Long Chen gulped down some Queen Bee Honey, narrowing his eyes. It was no wonder he had felt it was odd. Just now, he had been chased down miserably and hadn’t had time to ponder it, but now he realized the truth.

  According to reason, heavenly tribulation would set its power according to whoever was strongest within its scope.

  There were clearly five Sea Expansion experts here. According to reason, that should have brought on a furious torrent of lightning.

  But Long Chen found that the heavenly tribulation was acting according to its old order. That meant it was still matching its power to Long Chen. Could it be that the heavens truly were blind and couldn’t see these five Sea Expansion bastards?

  “I get it. This is how you cheat the heavens.”

  Long Chen suddenly clapped himself on the leg, realizing the crux of the matter. These five wiley foxes definitely knew how to fool the Heavenly Daos.

  It was the same with how he had helped Little Snow undergo tribulation. He hadn’t released his aura during the tribulation, which had caused it to be duped.

  It was no wonder he had felt these old fellows’ attacks had been a bit strange. Those attacks had been powerful, but they lacked a certain kind of energy. It was like they had form, but no power. That was because they were afraid of being sensed by the Heavenly Daos.

  Hehe, interesting. But do you think that just enduring this one wave of attacks will mean passing the tribulation? Long Chen smiled sinisterly. He lazily stretched.

  Long Chen ignored the lightning pythons. In just the first wave of the tribulation, the lightning arrows, he had absorbed quite a bit of thunderforce.

  The lightning python, which had exhausted all of its energy, had quickly recovered by eating the thunderforce Long Chen had absorbed for it.

  Now it was still in a weak state, but it still managed to come out of Long Chen’s body and devour the lightning crashing down around him.

  The heavenly tribulation’s lightning pythons were merely dozens of meters long, while Long Chen’s lightning python was over twenty-five hundred meters. These lightning pythons weren’t even enough for it to feed on.

  If Long Chen didn’t need it to protect him, it would have already flown out to devour as many as possible.

  “Calling you lightning python is kind of boring. I feel like there will sooner or later come a day when you become a dragon. How about I call you lightning dragon? Since my surname is Long, we can share that character. I’ll call you Lei Long for lightning dragon and the fire serpent Huo Long for fire dragon,” laughed Long Chen.

  What excited Long Chen was that Lei Long actually let out a loud roar. From that roar, Long Chen sensed the lightning python had grown even closer to him emotionally.

  Long Chen rubbed the blue flame tattoo on his right arm. Huo Long was still in slumber. That attack just now had used up all of its power. Huo Long was much weaker than Lei Long.

  Lei Long had always had food to eat, but Huo Long only had Long Chen’s Pill Flame to snack on. It had been in a hungry state since the beginning.

  It couldn’t be said that the Earth Flame wasn’t powerful, but simply that Long Chen hadn’t given it enough food for it to mature. That made Long Chen feel guilty. He had to think of a way to increase Huo Long’s power.

  Seeing the bustling figures in the distance, Long Chen smiled ‘apologetically’, shouting, “Corrupt brothers, people must be brave. Perseverance is victory. The heavens are nothing, and lives are just dogshit! This great heavenly tribulation is something we only managed to receive after hundreds of reincarnations. Our slogan is: don’t give up, don’t look back, cheer on, stand firm! I look favorably on you!”

  Long Chen’s impassioned cry rang out in every single one of the Corrupt experts’ ears. Gui Zong clearly knew that he was doing it on purpose, but his fury still soared, and he actually vomited a mouthful of blood.

  “Careful! Don’t release your aura!” cried one of the Corrupt experts. If Gui Zong released his aura in his fury, all their disciples would be done for.

  “Aiya, Gui Zong, you’re coughing up blood! Hurry and rest!” cried Long Chen with concern.

  Gui Zong once more vomited blood. His aura was like a volcano that had been suppressed for countless years and might erupt at any moment.

  “Gui Zong, shut your ears and calm yourself!” cried an elder. He threw a medicinal pill at Gui Zong. This was the only mid Sea Expansion elder.

  Gui Zong consumed the medicinal pill and felt his spiritual yuan, which had been on the verge of erupting, finally calm down.

  “Many thanks Huo-” thanked Gui Zong.

  “Focus on the lightning pythons!” said the elder coldly, cutting off his words.

  Gui Zong trembled and immediately shut his mouth. At the same time, he cut off his sensation of sound.

  Long Chen’s gaze shifted, and he icily said, “Huo? So you were actually someone from the Pill Tower’s Huo family! Hm, the color of your face doesn’t match your neck. This kind of appearance-changing technique is far too lacking.

  “Hehe, I know. You must have applied face-changing medicinal water. There was no problem before, but your mixture contained the Ninewood Poplar’s flower. Ninewood Poplar is extremely weak to thunderforce. Even just getting infected by a trace of its aura will cause it to break down. It’s no wonder your face has become so ugly.”

  The elder’s expression didn’t change, but he was incomparably shocked inside. This face-changing liquid he had used was an extremely particular formula. Even the people closest to him wouldn’t be able to tell who he was.

  But Long Chen had managed to see through him. And his words were entirely right. This formula truly did contain the Ninewood Poplar’s flower.

  Ninewood Poplar was most afraid of lightning. It was unable to survive outdoors, and only grew in covered places like caves. It was an extremely unknown kind of medicinal ingredient.

  Although he couldn’t see his own face, he knew he was exposed. But he still didn’t say anything.

  “Tell me, how could your Huo family be so shameless? You’re part of the Pill Tower, the representative of Pill Valley. But again and again, you participate in the struggle between the Righteous and Corrupt paths. Are you really not afraid of Pill Valley’s investigation?” asked Long Chen.

  “Hmph, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

  “Keep acting. Just how long can you keep acting? The Huayun Sect already has the Meridian Opening Pill-” Long Chen hastily shut his mouth.

  “You… you know about the Meridian Opening Pills?! Speak, where did the Huayun Sect obtain the Meridian Opening Pill’s formula?!” raged the elder.

  But then seeing Long Chen’s sinister smile, he immediately realized he had fallen for a trap.

  “Hehe, as expected. The Huayun Sect’s Meridian Opening Pills haven’t been revealed to the outside world yet, because the Huayun Sect always sets things up in the best way possible, and they have to make all kinds of preparations.

  “However, there are some people aware of it in the Huayun Sect. Considering how classified this secret is, who else could you be but someone from the Pill Tower? Who do you think you were trying to trick? Wasn’t it your spies in the Huayun Sect that told you this?” sneered Long Chen.

  Considering how enormous both parties were, it only made sense for them to have spies between them. Long Chen had intentionally acted as if his tongue had slipped, and as a result, this old fellow really had taken the bait and exposed himself.

  “Brother Huo, there’s nothing to worry about. Even if Long Chen could grow wings, he can’t fly away today!” said one of the Corrupt Sea Expansion experts. He no longer bothered trying to cover it up.


  The expert from the Huo family didn’t say anything. He simply helped the Corrupt experts block the lightning pythons. It went without saying that Sea Expansion experts were incredibly powerful. Long Chen didn’t know how they were doing it, but each wave of their hands released powerful astral winds that caused the lightning pythons to explode. They didn’t even have to use their true strength.

  “Is Huo Wufang still alive?” Long Chen asked suddenly.

  “Long Chen, your mouth is truly detestable!” raged the Huo family expert.

  “Oh, it seems Huo Wufang has a close relationship to you. If you aren’t his daddy, then he’s your father.” Long Chen suddenly realized he had misspoken, and corrected himself. “If you aren’t his daddy, then you’re his father.”

  “Long Chen, when this heavenly tribulation is over, I’ll definitely make you live a life worse than death, one you’ll beg me to end!” Killing intent erupted from the Huo family elder. He was clearly truly infuriated.

  “Alright, then I’ll wait for you.”

  Long Chen smiled slightly, no longer saying anything. This elder had not been able to control his fury when he had mentioned Huo Wufang, meaning the two had to be closely related.

  That made this matter extremely clear: everything that had occurred had been urged on by the Pill Tower’s Huo family from behind the scenes. As for Long Chen, he was someone the Zhou family, the Corrupt path, and the Huo family wanted dead.

  Only the Huo family could use their status as part of the Pill Tower to give some pressure to the Xuantian Dao Sect. The Xuantian Dao Sect would also not wish to offend the Pill Tower over one disciple.

  Sending a disciple to serve a penal sentence for three months in order to give face to the Pill Tower was worth it. To the Xuantian Dao Sect, this was just a minor matter. Furthermore, the four families had all been given benefits by the Pill Tower. The Shui family also considered this a small matter, and so there was no need to offend the Pill Tower. Even Shui Wuhen hadn’t had any solutions.

  As for the Corrupt path, they were the ones who had killed all the Righteous disciples and stolen all the ore. In the end, all the guilt would be placed on them.