Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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BOOM!
The half-step King’s palm landed. However, what met it wasn’t a saber, but a fist covered in green scales.
Crack!
The half-step King was blown back, his arms broken. He was filled with shock. Long Chen now released a sacred aura with his body completely covered in green scales.
“Nice work, Long Chen!” Ouyang Qiuyu had originally been worried for him, but seeing that he still had such a terrifying trump card, she was put at ease. Although she didn’t recognize this move, she could sense the limitless power within Long Chen’s body.
“Ouyang Qiuyu, today, you’ll die without a grave!”
The other half-step King also attacked now. He clearly recognized Ouyang Qiuyu, and as soon as he attacked, he released his full power. A bone tower appeared in his hands. It was three meters tall, and it was unknown what bone it was made of. Black Qi coiled within it.
As soon as this ancient tower appeared, the world became gloomy and eerie, as if it had been turned into a ghost region. Nine fiendish heads appeared on top of the tower, and opening their mouths, nine black arrows shot out. The black arrows caused strange sounds. It was like the void was being corroded. If struck by one of those arrows, even Treasure items would corrode to nothingness.
Ouyang Qiuyu took out a drum. At first, it was only the size of a palm. But it quickly grew to three hundred meters, releasing endless divine might.
A muffled bang rang out as Ouyang Qiuyu’s hand slapped onto the drum. Countless runes lit up on its skin. It looked like a formation diagram, and an arc of light shot out.
BOOM!
The nine arrows blew apart with the light.
“Hmph, so you’ve also brought the Xuantian Dao Sect’s protective King item, the Heaven Catching Drum,” snorted the half-step King.
“If it wasn’t a King item, how could it block the attack of your Nine Ghost Refining Soul Tower?” said Ouyang Qiuyu coldly.
The Heaven Catching Drum she had taken out was the Xuantian Dao Sect’s protective treasure. Although she wasn’t a King and she didn’t necessarily have the power to possess a King item, she had the status to. And so the head sect had intentionally given her the King item to protect the sect and control its karmic luck.
This was the reason why Ouyang Qiuyu dared to come here without a plan. As for the half-step King she was facing, his bone tower was also a powerful King item. He was pressed for time, and so he didn’t bother with any testing blows. He directly used his King item to attack.
“Then let me see just how much of a King item’s power someone merely at the peak of Foundation Forging can bring out!” sneered the half-step King. His bone tower began to rapidly revolve, and black qi circulated within it. Black figures charged out of it like ghosts, wailing as they charged toward Ouyang Qiuyu.
“Although I’m not a half-step King, it’s no problem for me to hold you back.”
Ouyang Qiuyu repeatedly slammed her palms against the Heaven Catching Drum. Continuous arcs of light shot out of it, shattering the ghost images.
However, the half-step King’s bone tower continued to revolve, causing more ghost figures to fly out in an endless stream. In truth, these ghost images were an extremely terrifying soul art. Not only did they possess a powerful spiritual aspect, but they also contained curse energy. If Ouyang Qiuyu was struck, it would be very troublesome for her.
However, a King item was for Kings. Even half-step Kings found them extremely difficult to use, and they exhausted a huge amount of spiritual yuan.
As for Ouyang Qiuyu, she wasn’t even a half-step King. So the Corrupt elder was intentionally unleashing this barrage of attacks to exhaust Ouyang Qiuyu’s spiritual yuan.
While Ouyang Qiuyu fought this half-step King with King items, Long Chen had summoned the Green Dragon Battle Armor to fight an even more intense battle with the other half-step King.
Half-step Kings were incredibly powerful, and magical arts could be used instantaneously by them. They didn’t need hand seals and could release them at any moment. Magical arts were normal moves to them.
Furthermore, each one of their attacks was incredibly powerful and sharp. As for Long Chen, no matter what attack his opponent used, he would simply let out a punch.
Each attack was a heaven-shaking collision. This was Long Chen’s second time using the Green Dragon Battle Armor, and his control over it was much more refined.
Right now, his blood had been completely transformed by the green dragon essence blood, giving rise to a completely new kind of blood. This blood rumbled within his body, and without him even doing anything, it drew out the power of his four qi seas to strengthen him.
That made him full of energy, like a volcano that had been storing up energy for millions of years and was now finally releasing it all.
Furthermore, he found that with each punch, indescribable energy was released by the Green Dragon Battle Armor that broke apart any magical art he struck.
Even though that was the case, Long Chen had no choice but to admit that half-step Kings were truly powerful. Without the Green Dragon Battle Armor, he wouldn’t have been able to exchange a single blow with them before being heavily injured.
Fortunately, he did have the Green Dragon Battle Armor. Brandishing his fists, he charged forward. As for the half-step King he was facing, he clearly didn’t specialize in close-range combat. His magical arts came out of him in an unending stream.
Those magical arts were unable to display any effect in front of the Green Dragon Battle Armor. Long Chen’s power completely restrained him.
The battlefield was now split into three sections. Ouyang Qiuyu and Long Chen were fighting half-step Kings. Long Chen’s fight was the most intense, while Ouyang Qiuyu and her opponent were both exhausting the other’s spiritual yuan through their King items.
The more chaotic battle was comprised of Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Yue Zifeng, Gu Yang, and Guo Ran fighting Foundation Forging experts. It was also extremely intense.
Down below, the Dragonblood warriors were slaughtering their way through the Corrupt path’s Sea Expansion army. In just an incense stick’s worth of time, their mighty army had lost a third of their number. The Dragonblood Legion was incredibly fierce.
Looking at this imposing scene, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s experts all felt like their hearts had stopped pounding.
They had never seen such a terrifying scene. Sea Expansion experts were truly nothing more than cannon fodder.
Now they understood why Long Chen hadn’t let them enter the battle. With their little power, throwing them into the battle wouldn’t even cause a ripple.
At the same time, they were grateful to Long Chen and Ouyang Qiuyu. They had given them face and let them enter. Now they could say they had participated in the ultimate Righteous and Corrupt battle and testify to its unprecedented scale.
“Three, two, one, release!” Meng Qi suddenly gave everyone a spiritual message.
On Meng Qi and the others’ battlefield, four huge figures suddenly appeared. Roaring shook the heavens.
Chapter 938 The Might of King Items
Four fierce roars shook the land as three Earth Dragons and one Redeye Sacred Blood Phoenix appeared in the air. They launched a sudden attack against the Corrupt experts.
This sudden attack caught them off guard. Furthermore, the four Magical Beasts had long since been accumulating power for an attack.
Three waves of dragon breath and an innate ability from the Redeye Sacred Blood Phoenix instantly killed four Foundation Forging experts.
Their cooperation had been excellent. The four Foundation Forging experts had been standing together, so all the Magical Beasts’ attacks had been concentrated. As a result, the four of them encountered a tragic end.
After this attack, the Earth Dragons fell to the ground, crushing a few Corrupt experts fighting down there. The Redeye Sacred Blood Phoenix flew toward the Sea Expansion elders from the Xuantian Dao Sect.
The Corrupt experts had sent a f
ew hundred people to kill them. But the true feather on the Blood Phoenix’s head rose, and a red light slaughtered those attacks.
The appearance of the four Magical Beasts caused chaos on the battlefield. The Redeye Sacred Blood Phoenix was in charge of protecting the Sea Expansion elders, while the three Earth Dragons slaughtered the Corrupt experts on the ground.
The reason Meng Qi and the others had suddenly released them was because Meng Qi had noticed that Ouyang Qiuyu was starting to get pale as she fought against the half-step King. Using a King item was clearly extremely taxing for her.
As for the half-step King, his expression was twisted into a sinister smile. This meant half-step Kings were truly a step above peak Foundation Forging. So they had to quickly kill the enemies in front of them to help Ouyang Qiuyu.
But the Corrupt experts had also noticed this and they went all-out. Although Meng Qi and the others had managed to kill four Foundation Forging experts in this sudden blow, they were unable to crush the remaining Foundation Forging experts in a blow.
“Long Chen!” shouted Meng Qi.
“Understood.”
Long Chen saw all of this. He had underestimated the power of a half-step King. Fortunately, his opponent didn’t have a King item. But despite that, his magical arts came in an unending stream, and he was capable of using all kinds of bizarre techniques. Long Chen was helpless to do anything to him.
His skill in magical arts was extremely refined, and Long Chen’s own magical arts were too coarse and unrefined to catch him off guard.
Furthermore, that old bastard refused to face Long Chen head-on after being injured. He maintained a distance from him, simply trying to make him run out of energy.
Seeing Ouyang Qiuyu at a disadvantage, Long Chen took a deep breath. Two dragons flew out of his arms.
Lei Long and Huo Long roared, charging at the half-step King. This time, what was being used wasn’t their energy, but their true bodies.
The half-step King was startled by their appearance. He had never seen such powerful lightning or flame energy.
The flame dragon was one thing. After all, there were Earth Flames in this world. But he had never seen anyone capable of controlling the nine heavens’ tribulation lightning. A huge barrier of light appeared in front of him. This was his strongest defense.
When the two dragons crashed onto the barrier, it shook slightly but didn’t break.
“Split the Heavens 2!” A huge saber-image soared into the sky, slashing down with a heaven-destroying power. The half-step King’s expression changed and he formed new hand seals.
BOOM!
The barrier exploded and the saber continued down.
“Hmph, you can’t do anything to me!” snorted the old man. He sensed that Long Chen’s power was strange and restrained his magical arts. To kill him would be very difficult.
But on the other hand, his companion had completely suppressed Ouyang Qiuyu. As long as he killed Ouyang Qiuyu, he would then be able to instantly kill Long Chen with his King item.
The half-step King formed a strange hand seal with his thumb and middle finger touching, and his other fingers clasped. “Corrupt Spirit Shield!”
Black qi condensed, forming a huge shield. A demonic face twisted in savagery appeared on it.
BOOM! Blooddrinker slashed onto the Corrupt Spirit Shield, causing a powerful explosion. Runes blew apart in every direction.
“I told you that you’re helpless to do anything to me!” The half-step King sneered upon blocking Long Chen’s attack. He was extremely confident in his defensive powers.
“What?!” But his smile quickly vanished. The exploding runes had blocked his vision and spiritual perception. When his spiritual perception recovered, he suddenly found that Long Chen wasn’t in front of him. The only thing there was a blood-red saber.
His head buzzed, and his hair stood on end. His energy circulated within him as he prepared to dodge.
“Too late.” An icy voice rang out behind the half-step King. A hand ruthlessly tore through his back and out his chest. That scale-covered hand was dripping with blood, as well as some broken bits of organs.
The half-step King couldn’t move. A berserk energy was wreaking havoc over his body, completely sealing all of his power.
A flash of comprehension appeared in his eyes. He knew he had been duped. The reason Long Chen had released the two dragons was just to block his spiritual perception. However, the one thing he couldn’t understand was how his saber had released an attack on its own, one containing Long Chen’s specific aura. Wasn’t it said only King items were capable of imitating their owner’s aura?
“You really are despicable! I refuse to accept this-!” roared the half-step King.
Long Chen’s arm shook. His dragon blood power erupted, blowing apart his enemy’s body. At that exact moment, a translucent figure shot out of the exploding body and entered Long Chen’s head.
“Hahaha, as long as I possess your body, I can return to my peak! Perhaps I can even advance to the King realm! No, not perhaps, definitely!”
The translucent figure was the half-step King’s soul. He specialized in magical arts, so his Spiritual Strength was powerful. Taking advantage of Long Chen having no defenses, he actually surprised himself at how easily he had entered Long Chen’s mind.
Long Chen was a peerless genius. Once he possessed him and restarted cultivating, he would definitely be able to surpass his old self.
“So you’ve come.” A faint voice rang out.
“Who’s there?!”
The half-step King had only just entered Long Chen’s mind-sea and finally had a chance to look around. Before he could exclaim in shock about how boundless his mind-sea was, he saw a broken bell floating in the center.
“Don’t bother with who I am. Putting it the way Long Chen would, we’re all very busy. Since you’ve sent yourself to me, I won’t stand on courtesy.” After saying this, an irresistible suction force came out of the Eastern Wasteland Bell, pulling the half-step King’s soul toward it.
“NO! Who are you?! Release me!”
No matter how the half-step King struggled, his soul still ended up being sucked into the Eastern Wasteland Bell.
In truth, his little scheme was unable to escape Long Chen. But Long Chen knew the Eastern Wasteland Bell needed the souls of experts.
For this idiot to send himself into his mind-sea was like meat jumping into his mouth. The Eastern Wasteland Bell directly sucked him up.
After killing his half-step King opponent, he grabbed his spatial ring and shot toward Ouyang Qiuyu’s side.
The other half-step King was completely suppressing her with his higher cultivation base. Ouyang Qiuyu wouldn’t be able to hold on for much longer.
The sudden reversal of Long Chen’s battle shocked him. That other half-step King was truly lacking at close-range combat. If it had been him, Long Chen’s attack would have been sensed by him and he wouldn’t have fallen for it.
“Double Dragon Destruction!”
As soon as Long Chen appeared, he unleashed his strongest attack.
“Hmph!” The half-step King snorted, and the ancient tower in front of him rapidly grew. He actually ended up hiding himself within the tower.
BOOM! The two dragons struck the tower, and the half-step King’s expression suddenly changed.
As the master of the bone tower, he immediately sensed something was off. Long Chen’s lightning dragon possessed a power that was extremely damaging to his tower. This one attack had exhausted a third of the tower’s energy.
“Bastard, I’ll go all-out against you!” The half-step King was infuriated. Long Chen’s lightning dragon was too terrifying, and it restrained his corrupt weapon. If he continued like this, just a few more moves from Long Chen would be enough to cripple his bone tower.
Corrupt weapons were essentially all dark and evil existences. They were innately suppressed by thunderforce. And Long Chen’s thunderforce came from tribulation lightning. It
was a supreme Yang existence, and it also contained a destructive will. Even his King item wasn’t able to handle it.
The bone tower began to shine and rapidly revolve. Black qi circulated within, and a terrifying aura erupted from it.
“Not good! Meng Qi, Wan-er! Quick!” Long Chen’s expression changed.
BOOM!
The black qi within the tower suddenly exploded. The wailing of millions of lifeforms filled the air, and a black ripple spread in every direction.
“Die! Heaven Devouring Ghost Qi Wave!”
The half-step King seemed to have become mad. This terrifying attack was causing space to crumble.
The sound of a drum rang out. A huge drum appeared in front of Meng Qi and the others.
“Long Chen!” shouted Tang Wan-er upon seeing that he didn’t have a King item to protect himself.
BOOM!
The black wave flattened the entire minor world.
Chapter 939 Capturing Him Alive
Wherever the black wave went, the ground was flattened. This was a world-destroying power. Mountains crumbled in front of it.
Long Chen held his two arms in front of him to block. He knew this old ghost had despaired. No longer caring about his Corrupt path’s elite disciples, he chose to activate this King item’s power.
Although a half-step King was unable to truly control a King item, they were still able to activate a portion of it. Just that little portion was enough to destroy this minor world.
Long Chen felt like a shooting star had crashed into him. He could clearly hear the sound of his bones breaking from each part of his body. He shot back.
Because he had been so close, Long Chen received the greatest impact. He almost fainted.
As Long Chen was sent flying, the black wave didn’t slow down at all because of his existence. The surrounding mountains were blown apart and buildings were razed. The Corrupt path’s stronghold that had existed for countless years had been instantly destroyed. At the same time, the ripple spread toward everyone else.