Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Previously, he and Yan Mochen had almost started fighting. Now Han Yunshan was even more hostile toward him, directly saying he would personally crush Long Chen. He was truly unlucky.

  However, only a small portion of people actually felt pity for him, and most of those were women. The majority of the others looked at him with delight for his misfortune. They showed contempt for the Eastern Wasteland, and after seeing special elite disciples arise amongst them, they looked forward to seeing the rest be suppressed.

  However, the curious thing was that Han Yunshan possessed such high quality ice energy, but didn’t receive a special elite disciple jade plate.

  “Why is this?” Han Yunshan was a bit dissatisfied. The ice attribute was rare, so he was unconvinced.

  “The ice attribute might be rare in other places, but the Northern Source is the land of ice cultivators, and so it’s not rare there. Similarly, there are plenty of people here with similar constitutions, so you can’t count as special,” said Mu Qingxuan indifferently.

  Her words were polite, but her meaning was clear: don’t think of yourself as so special. In the Central Plains, you are nothing.

  Han Yunshan didn’t dare to argue with her. He returned to his side, but as he passed by the Eastern Wasteland’s people, he received some fiery cheering.

  “Hahahahaha…”

  The Dragonblood warriors didn’t say a thing. They were just looking and laughing at Han Yunshan.

  Han Yunshan was already irritated, and adding on that mocking laughter, his powerful ice energy immediately filled the air.

  “Don’t force me to take action,” warned Mu Qingxuan.

  “Hahahahaha…”

  The Dragonblood warriors continued to laugh. They didn’t use words. Just by laughing, they were successful in infuriating Han Yunshan completely, while he didn’t dare to attack.

  “Idiot, now he’s finally paying a price for his arrogance. It’s so refreshing,” said Guo Ran, enjoying the sight of Han Yunshan grinding his teeth.

  “It’s senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, right?” The registration continued, and an hour later, a maiden from the Northern Source who had just registered came over to Long Chen’s side.

  “Is something the matter?” asked Long Chen.

  “I have a relationship with senior apprentice-sister Zhiqiu and was once saved by her in the Immemorial Path. I don’t want to be ungrateful, so I came to tell you a few things about her,” said the maiden.

  Everyone was delighted to hear this. They precisely wanted to learn how Ye Zhiqiu was recently, because Long Chen had sensed her in the Immemorial Path, but hadn’t actually seen her.

  “Is she still alright?” asked Tang Wan-er.

  “She is very well. She has a very rare innate ice body, and her Spirit Root is also variant. Her talent is unprecedented, and she is claimed to be the top genius of the Northern Source in the past ten thousand years. In the Northern Source’s Chilling Ice Palace, she had countless pursuers and worshippers, but she once said that the person she loved was in the Eastern Wasteland. As long as that person doesn’t die, her love will not perish either. At first, people thought she was just making an excuse to refuse the suitors, but later, she said your name, and even made your image public to make some people give up.

  “However, some continued to pester her, and one of them was senior apprentice-brother Han Yunshan. He was originally sister Zhiqiu’s senior apprentice-brother, but he once insulted you with his words, and as a result, senior apprentice-sister Zhiqiu almost took his life. The palace master had to stop her, and despite that, it wasn’t possible to mediate things. Senior apprentice-sister Zhiqiu said that if he stayed, she would go. As a result, senior apprentice-brother Han Yunshan was expelled from the Chilling Ice Palace. That’s also why he had to join the Xuantian Dao Sect with us, instead of going to the Central Plains’ Divine Ice Palace.”

  “Wow, sister Zhiqiu is so powerful! I really want to see her again. Sometimes, I’ll dream about how she and this scoundrel snatched the Profound Spirit Fruit in the 108th monastery,” said Tang Wan-er.

  Long Chen was also moved. He asked, “How far is the Divine Ice Palace from here? If we have the chance, we’ll definitely go and see her.”

  Long Chen fell into his memories of her. That final smile that bloomed on her face before falling was still etched in his heart. Although he knew Ye Zhiqiu was still alive, without seeing her, his heart was unable to be at ease.

  “Keep dreaming. An ant like you doesn’t have the qualifications to go to the Divine Ice Palace,” called out the distant Han Yunshan. He had clearly been paying attention this entire time. Still, using soul energy to eavesdrop was a taboo.

  “Han Yunshan!” raged Guo Ran.

  “What are you going to do? Bite me?” sneered Han Yunshan.

  “Fuck your mother!” cursed Guo Ran.

  Everyone turned silent. Even the senior disciples in charge of the registration frowned.

  “The trash from the Eastern Wasteland becomes coarser with each passing year,” sneered a disciple from the Northern Source.

  “Guo Ran, ignore them. Once we enter the trial, we’ll teach them why flowers are red.” Long Chen patted Guo Ran on the shoulder.

  “Fine, if boss is handling it, then I’m fine with it.” Guo Ran nodded.

  Guo Ran understood Long Chen’s methods the most. If Long Chen promised to teach them a lesson, he was at ease.

  “Sister, do you know where the Divine Ice Palace is?” asked Meng Qi.

  The maiden shook her head. “I don’t know, because in the Northern Source, the branch Xuantian Dao Sect is only one of the several great powers. Other than the Xuantian Dao Sect and the Chilling Ice Palace, there are several others from the Central Plains that established branch sects in the Northern Source, and they rarely mention anything about the Central Plains.”

  Hearing that, Long Chen and the others sighed. Now they realized why the Eastern Wasteland’s branch sect had dominated their region. It was because other powers didn’t care about a place as destitute as the Eastern Wasteland.

  They were also shocked by how great the difference was between them and the other four outer regions. The disciples coming from there had gone to several different sects, but there were still hundreds of thousands of disciples who came to the Xuantian Dao Sect. That kind of power was truly shocking.

  Compared to the other three regions, the Eastern Wasteland was truly like a rural village.

  “If senior apprentice-brother Long Chen doesn’t have anything left to say, I’ll take my leave.” The maiden bowed slightly.

  “Ah, may I ask your name?” asked Long Chen.

  “I am Bai Ling.”

  Bai Ling? That was a common name, and was the same as the Bai Ling he had encountered in the Huayun Sect. He had heard she had continued to rise with Zheng Wenlong, and she was now his wife. She was no longer constantly rushing around taking risks.

  “Alright, if you have any problems in the future, you can come and find me. If anyone dares to intentionally make things hard on you, I’ll beat their heads until their heads start farting,” promised Long Chen. He intentionally said this for Han Yunshan.

  His meaning was that he could come at him, but he shouldn’t be petty and bully her. In any case, Han Yunshan was someone with his own prestige, so he wouldn’t have many opportunities to target someone like Bai Ling.

  Bai Ling gratefully looked at Long Chen before returning to the Northern Source’s side. But there were clearly quite a few people who retreated as she passed.

  The registration continued. Long Chen was surprised to see two more rank five Celestials appear. However, these two were weaker than the others.

  Long Chen thought about it and guessed that it was the result of others pouring resources into them. They probably should have been stuck as rank four Celestials, but had been forcibly raised to rank five Celestials.

  They clearly weren’t as strong as Zhao Ziyan, Yan Mochen, Wei Changhai, and Han Yunshan. Bu
t they were definitely much stronger than a rank four Celestial.

  “There aren’t many people left. Boss, could they had forgotten you?” wondered Guo Ran as he saw only a few dozen people left.

  “The Eastern Wasteland’s Long Chen.”

  “Boss, let them see what a true heavenly genius is! Show them how foolish it is to be arrogant in front of you!” cheered Guo Ran. The other Dragonblood warriors also cheered in anticipation.

  Long Chen grumbled inside. He knew he was probably about to embarrass himself.

  After registering his identity and race, he arrived in front of a huge stone. The stone released a gentle light that enveloped him, and a fluctuation spread toward his Dantian.

  Chapter 993 Astonishment and Shock

  “What… what is going on?”

  The senior disciple in charge of this examination stared blankly at the stone. After waiting for a long time, none of the expected five colors lit up.

  “Is the equipment broken? No, that’s impossible.” That disciple once more activated it. The light once more examined Long Chen, proving there was no problem. But no color appeared.

  Now, not only he was dumbfounded, but everyone else also.

  “There’s no need to keep trying. I don’t have a Spirit Root.” Long Chen bitterly smiled.

  This tool investigated a person’s Root Qi, but without his Spirit Root, the only thing at the position of his Dantian was the primal chaos bead, and that light didn’t seem to be able to sense it.

  The fact that the primal chaos bead wasn’t exposed made Long Chen much more at ease. That was his greatest secret, and he couldn’t expose it no matter what.

  “That’s impossible. Do you think I’m an idiot? Without Root Qi, how did you condense a Dantian?” asked the stupefied senior disciple.

  “Luo Yan, that question is not in accordance with the rules. We can’t ask such things,” chided Mu Qingxuan. She also didn’t quite believe what she was seeing, but the Xuantian Dao Sect’s rules didn’t allow them to pry into disciples’ personal secrets.

  “But… then… what am I supposed to write down?” asked the senior disciple. He couldn’t possibly write ‘no Dantian’. If the Elders learned of that, they would probably slap him. To cultivate without a Dantian, was that a joke?

  “Hm… just write down that there’s no way to confirm anything,” said Mu Qingxuan. She had also never heard of someone capable of cultivating without a Dantian.

  If she didn’t say anything, Luo Yan wouldn’t dare to write anything. He was afraid of the responsibility. So he only began to write once Mu Qingxuan nodded.

  As a result, the word ‘uncertain’ was written where the quality of Long Chen’s Spirit Root was supposed to go.

  “Tch, he doesn’t even have a Spirit Root. He’s probably another bumpkin who bribed his way in. He’s not even worth dogshit,” sneered some people. Without a Dantian, Long Chen had probably cultivated some kind of unorthodox power. But that was a heretical path, and in the end, he wouldn’t have any accomplishments.

  “Drip a bit of blood on the plate.” The next test was for the density of his Spirit Blood. This was an important statistic as it would say how much potential he had.

  Long Chen helplessly dripped a drop of blood onto the plate, which was very large and had countless ancient marks on it.

  When Long Chen’s blood landed on it, the plate shook intensely, and a faint dragon roar came from it.

  Boom! The ancient plate exploded, shocking everyone.

  “Your… your essence blood isn’t human!” raged the disciple.

  “Ah? What happened?” asked Long Chen.

  “Fuck, I’m going to go crazy! If you didn’t have human essence blood, why didn’t you say so earlier?!” raged that disciple.

  “You didn’t say anything!” Long Chen raged back.

  That disciple immediately had an urge to cry. Looking at the shattered testing plate, tears almost leaked out of his eyes.

  “It’s okay, it’s not your fault. I also have responsibility for this, so I’ll help you pay for this testing plate. Don’t feel bad,” sighed Mu Qingxuan.

  “Senior apprentice-sister Qingxuan, did junior disciple do something wrong?” asked Long Chen.

  Mu Qingxuan shook her head. “You didn’t do anything wrong. We were just careless. Or perhaps it would be better to say we were unlucky. Normally, we should have first asked about your essence blood, and that would avoid this kind of awkward situation. This testing plate is only for testing human Spirit Blood, and it rejects other races’ blood. There is a chance of it exploding, but normally, the testing plate will show signs of rejection first, and we would stop the test so it doesn’t explode. But this time, it just instantly exploded. Furthermore, according to the sect’s rules, if something happens to the equipment as a result of our negligence, the examiner in charge of it must pay the price.”

  “Ah, sorry,” said Long Chen. It was no wonder that disciple looked like his wife had just died. He would probably be broke for a long while.

  Long Chen had clearly seen ancient race disciples use this testing plate without causing problems, so he had felt he would be fine too.

  But in reality, the ancient race experts also contained the human race’s blood. Their blood was special, but the testing plate didn’t reject them.

  “The replacement has arrived. Be careful.” Suddenly, an Elder appeared in the air and took out a new testing plate.

  “Many thanks, Elder. We’ll definitely be careful and not allow such a thing to happen twice.” Mu Qingxuan quickly bowed. Just now, she had alerted the higher-ups to send a new testing plate.

  “You should be Long Chen, correct? Come over and drip a drop of blood on this testing plate. This one is special and is something I brought out for you,” said the Elder.

  Long Chen went forward and dripped his blood on it. The testing plate blossomed with blinding light.

  “What dense essence blood energy! But why is the tier so low?” The Elder was astonished.

  “What tier is it?” asked Long Chen.

  “Low Huang tier.”

  “What?” Long Chen’s eyes almost popped out. His essence blood was a true dragon’s essence blood. How could its tier be so low?

  “Yes, it truly is odd. Such powerful essence blood energy is actually only low Huang tier. Although there’s always some error in any equipment, the error couldn’t possibly be this large. Your Spirit Blood is truly low Huang tier,” said the Elder.

  “Hahaha, as expected, trash. Who knows what dumpster he pulled a drop of essence blood out of? He probably didn’t even find out if it was expired or not before refining it. Fool,” sneered someone.

  Most cultivators’ essence blood was inherited from their ancestors. There were also some who changed their essence blood intentionally, but very few people would refine Magical Beast, demonic beast, or Xuan Beast essence blood.

  A human’s essence blood could be changed, but once someone refined another race’s essence blood, there was no way to change it again. It would become their new, permanent Spirit Blood.

  So unless it was absolutely peak grade, no one would refine a beast’s essence blood. Furthermore, doing so was extremely dangerous. For Long Chen to have such low tier essence blood, the majority thought he was doomed for the rest of his life.

  “Expired?”

  Long Chen suddenly realized what the problem was. The testing plate tested the density of a person’s Spirit Blood, not the energy. They were of different concepts.

  The dragon blood flowing through his veins had come from a dragon scale that had existed for countless years. It had lost a great deal of energy, until the only thing remaining was a trace. Just a trace.

  That trace had been enough to cause him to almost explode, however, it wasn’t a great amount, so the testing tool rated it as the lowest level. Compared to the amount of essence blood a true dragon possessed, this little trace was truly not very dense.

  Looking at the idiots sneering at hi
m, Long Chen thought to himself that they would be much better-behaved once he slapped them a few times.

  This test actually made Long Chen even more confident. With such a thin density of dragon blood, he already possessed such power. Once he obtained the azure dragon reverse scale…

  Long Chen was excited about it, but also worried. The azure dragon scale would contain even purer essence blood, and without enough power, he wouldn’t be able to refine it. If he rashly tried, he would instantly explode.

  “Long Chen, don’t worry. A couple of statistics aren’t enough to determine a person’s potential. Continue to the next test,” said Mu Qingxuan, thinking that his confidence had been given a blow because of his lost expression.

  Long Chen smiled slightly and nodded. This senior apprentice-sister was quite kind, a stark difference compared to the idiots outside.

  He continued onwards. The next test was a gate. He had seen others go through it, but there was no one in charge of this equipment, and he didn’t know what it was used for.

  He had only just gone through when an unprecedented disturbance came from the gate. Its countless runes lit up, and Mu Qingxuan’s expression became ecstatic.

  But that ecstatic expression quickly became that of astonishment, because after the gate’s runes lit up, they turned dark again. Only four runes appeared.

  Seeing those four runes, most people were lost. Those characters weren’t immortal characters, nor were they the current era’s characters.

  “What’s going on?”

  Of everyone present, only Mu Qingxuan had the authority to know what those runes meant: Spirit Bone has been removed.

  Most people didn’t have a Spirit Bone. Those who had Spirit Bones were even rarer than those geniuses with variant Spirit Roots, as it was related to the secret of becoming a god or immortal.

  However, the gate’s runes said that Long Chen had once possessed a Spirit Bone, but now it was gone. Mu Qingxuan was bewildered. Thinking of the oddities with his Spirit Root and Spirit Blood, she thought of many things she hadn’t dared to think before.

  However, she didn’t say anything. Long Chen was unaware that the secret of his excavated Spirit Bone was already exposed. He moved on to the next test.