Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Sorry, but senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you are now an outer sect disciple and must complete the missions given by the outer sect.” At this time, a group of disciples walked over, a new set of robes in their hands.
“What? That’s unacceptable! They can’t demote our boss to an outer sect disciple!” raged the Dragonblood warriors.
“Being demoted to the outer sect is already kind of the Dao Sect. Such trash should be directly expelled-”
PFFT!
A disciple had been in the midst of sneering when a lightning arrow pierced his chest, forming a large hole. He was almost directly killed, causing everyone to jump.
“Keep farting.” Long Chen icily stared at that person. “You’re the most useless trash. Other than spouting crap, you don’t have the slightest ability. If you keep going, I’ll make it so you can’t spout anything for the rest of your life.”
Everyone was startled. Long Chen was too violent, attacking without saying a word. But then thinking about how he even dared to beat a teacher, it seemed there really was nothing he didn’t dare to do.
“All of you should go back and do what you need to do. Just do what you normally do. What I’m doing is just a formality, and I’ll be back quickly.” Long Chen changed into outer sect robes and handed his old robes to a Dragonblood warrior. He had him bring a message back to everyone, telling them not to worry.
Seeing Long Chen’s figure disappearing from their sight, all the inner sect disciples were deeply shaken. This person was too coarse and wild.
Long Chen followed the group of outer sect disciples to a small transportation formation.
The Xuantian Dao Sect was just that large. Outer sect disciples worked on the edges of the sect, so they needed to use transportation formations to get around. Otherwise, it would waste far too much time.
Arriving at the outer regions, Long Chen clearly sensed the spiritual qi grow sparser. Furthermore, he saw many more people, male and female, young and old. It was like he had arrived at an ordinary city.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you might be unaware of this, but the outer sect is completely different from the inner sect. We are not the true backbone of the sect. In fact, we’re like an army of hired workers. Outer sect disciples have to handle missions to get their cultivation resources, and the outer sect is practically not a sect, but a land of cities. The workers make up most of the numbers, and there are also descendants of generations of outer sect disciples and workers. So the outer sect is a very chaotic place,” explained one of the disciples.
“You can marry and have children here?” Long Chen was startled.
“Yes, the absolute majority of people here are from the four outer regions. Their talent is limited and they can’t enter the inner sect. In fact, some are unable to even qualify as outer sect disciples. But they’re also unwilling to leave, so they stay behind as workers. They pass their days by doing odd jobs or perhaps adventuring. As for the Dao Sect, it gives them a few resources as a reward. In any case, they won’t starve to death, but they won’t eat enough to get full. I’m not afraid of senior apprentice-brother Long Chen laughing at me, so I’ll tell you that our ancestors were just workers,” said one of them with a bitter smile.
Long Chen shook his head. “Those who work for their food are all worthy of respect. On the other hand, those people who reap without sowing, relying entirely on their reincarnation arts to live, but still look down on others, are the idiots that should be laughed at.”
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen is as amiable and easy-going as the stories say.”
“You also know of me?” Long Chen was surprised.
“In the entire Xuantian Dao Sect, there are few people that don’t know of you. You come from the wilds, you led a group of the least-talented disciples through a life and death battle in the inner sect trial, you sacrificed your core disciple spot to save them, and you even risked your life to fight against a peak heavenly genius. In the outer sect, you are like a god. We, who are the descendants of people from the four outer regions, all view you as a model. You are our pride,” said one of them emotionally.
Long Chen hadn’t expected to get such a welcome in the outer sect. These outer sect disciples worshipped him.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, the powers in the outer sect are complicated, so you have to be careful.”
“What are you talking about?”
“There are too many people in the outer sect, and the outer sect disciples only take up one in ten thousand of them. There’s another portion that are workers, and another portion that are just commoners. Workers only get a hundred years of low rations. After a hundred years, they become commoners and need to think of other ways to survive. The Xuantian Dao Sect created many opportunities for the commoners to make a living, for example, planting medicinal ingredients, raising Magical Beasts, etc. The sect will allow them to survive. But as you know, wherever there is profit, there will be… Well, you understand!” said a disciple.
Long Chen understood. He felt like the outer sect was practically not even a place of cultivation. Outer sect disciples were the people with the highest income here, and from this disciple’s tone, it seemed there were many complicated twists and turns for the people here.
As they continued forward, Long Chen continued to ask many things about the outer sect. They explained everything they knew without holding anything back.
They quickly arrived at a city hundreds of miles wide. The streets were extremely lively, and Long Chen felt like he had returned to the Phoenix Cry capital. He felt an extremely familiar feeling.
“The law enforcer squad’s coming! Run!”
Long Chen and the outer sect disciples had only just walked onto a large street when they saw the street vendors hastily putting their things in their spatial rings and running in fright.
From the front, a group of large people with short cudgels charging over. They were muscular, but they were also so fat that they looked like they might burst. Whenever they saw anyone, they would beat them. Those people didn’t dare to fight back, and only miserably fled. Some who fled too slow were beaten black and blue, blood covering their heads.
Long Chen looked and sensed that those people’s cultivation bases weren’t high. Some of these people had cultivation bases below the Bone Forging realm. As for the people beating them, they were all at the Xiantian realm. Although they weren’t Celestials, beating these peddlers was easy for them. They were extremely tyrannical.
Once the peddlers were beaten to the ground by those people, the latter would reach for the spatial rings in their hands. Some people who refused to let go were once more beaten until they fell unconscious.
“What is this, robbery?” Long Chen was dumbfounded.
“No, this is the law enforcer squad’s way of enforcing the law.” Those disciples had seen this so many times that it was just a common occurrence.
“Why are they beating them? And to beat them so badly, is there some great enmity between them?” Long Chen didn’t understand.
“These people are all pitiful. They are unable to pay the expensive rent inside the city, and so they can only stealthily set up stalls on the streets in other places to make some money. But these law enforcers are tasked with handling them. To put it bluntly, without paying the protection fee, you have to be prepared to be beaten to death.
“The law enforcers don’t usually come out. They’ll only come when the merchants in the city report to them. The peddlers here infringe on the merchants’ profit, and the merchants paid the fee. So the peddlers end up being violently kicked out,” answered one of the disciples helplessly.
“How is this kicking them out? They’re just taking their money. Are they going to hand it over to higher authorities?” asked Long Chen.
“Probably not. These peddlers are all poor, so what they have isn’t worth much money. They’ll probably keep it for themselves,” said that disciple.
Long Chen nodded. H
e had long since activated a photographic jade to record the scene of these heroic law enforcers. He had never seen such a ‘heroic’ squad.
“Brat, are you looking to die?”
Seeing Long Chen recording them, one of the law enforcers suddenly roared and charged at Long Chen.
Chapter 1047 Stuck Flatbread
One of the law enforcers charged over, stopping when he was right in front of Long Chen. Waving his cudgel at Long Chen’s nose, he roared, “Are you looking to die?”
“This person is-” One of the disciples hastily tried to explain.
“Shut up! You outer sect disciples, just properly eat your dog food. Meddlers are asking for it!” cursed the law enforcer, not caring at all about their outer sect disciple robes. He directly moved to snatch Long Chen’s photographic jade.
As a result, Long Chen gave him a slap in the face that sent him flying into a distant wall. The immense power caused him to flatten like a painting. Blood flew everywhere.
“Bastard, how dare you attack the Law Enforcement Hall’s disciples?! You-”
Long Chen’s attack immediately drew the ire of the other law enforcers, and they all charged at him.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you can’t! They have a powerful back-”
Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow…
But Long Chen didn’t care. He gave one slap for each of them. They all shot back like shooting stars and crashed against the wall. They looked like piles of dung that had been tossed into the wall.
“Fuck, I hate people who point at my nose when they talk to me.”
Long Chen patted his hands. Looking at the human-shaped paintings on the wall, he spat on the ground.
The outer sect disciples were all appalled. They knew that these law enforcers couldn’t be provoked.
“Arrogant brat, you dare to strike me? Just wait-”
One of the bricks embedded in the ground shot towards the speaker. It struck him dead-on and he vomited blood. That brick almost smashed him in two.
“Do you want to try saying that again?” said Long Chen coldly.
These people were too arrogant. Some insignificant Xiantian disciples dared to curse him in the face? Those guts really were heaven-defying. If Long Chen didn’t put them in their place, he wouldn’t be Long Chen.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen…”
“It’s fine. I want to see just how amazing they are to dare curse me in the nose.” Long Chen waved his hand. The most irritating people were those who were even wilder than him.
Originally, he hadn’t been thinking about provoking trouble. But these fellows had gone too far. Long Chen intentionally took out a photographic jade as bait, and the result was to be expected.
“Who dares to attack my Law Enforcement Hall’s disciples? Do you want your entire family to be kicked out of the Xuantian Dao Sect?” At this time, another group of people rushed over.
This group was stronger than the first group. Their cultivation bases had reached Sea Expansion, but they were wearing ordinary robes instead of law enforcer robes.
“Brat, are you looking for trouble?” shouted the large man at the front. He waved his cudgel at Long Chen.
Long Chen didn’t say a word. His reply was a slap in the face. Following the first group, that large man became a painting on the wall.
After the first one, Long Chen didn’t pause. The rest of the people following the large man were all slapped into the wall. They slammed in so hard that they couldn’t be extracted.
The few outer sect disciples beside Long Chen were all dumbfounded. This was too domineering.
They were unaware that Long Chen had been demoted into an outer sect disciple because he had beaten up a teacher. All they had received were orders to welcome a disciple, and they hadn’t expected that the disciple they were to welcome would be Long Chen.
If they had known the reason for his demotion, they wouldn’t be so shocked now. If he even dared to beat a teacher, then these little fellows were nothing.
They were currently just past the city gates, and Long Chen was already using people to create graffiti on the wall. The uproar brought more and more spectators. When people heard that it was Long Chen, the entire city became chaotic as people surged over.
It was just like what that outer sect disciple had said. There was basically no one that didn’t know Long Chen in the outer sect. They had all heard his great name.
That was because in previous generations, the four regions’ disciples were just green leaves to set off the Central Plains’ heavenly geniuses.
For generations, the people living here had hoped for a supreme expert to appear amongst the four regions to fight against those people who looked down on them.
So when Long Chen led over ten thousand of the four regions’ weakest disciples to pass the inner sect trial and almost killed the Central Plains’ peak genius Que Xinyan, his heroic name had shaken all their hearts. These people all hoped for him to vent their anger.
Now in front of this sea of people, Long Chen stood with his hands clasped behind his back, and there were several dozen people who had been slapped into the wall so hard that they looked like flatbread. They obediently lay there, their blood slowly dripping down the wall. Those people’s bones had all been broken, and they were unable to move.
“This group of murderers also ended up with such a day. Retribution has finally come.”
Looking at the law enforcers’ miserable state, not even one person felt the slightest pity. The only thing they felt was hatred. In their eyes, these people were fiends who didn’t shrink from any crime.
Just at this time, the crowd parted as if fleeing from demons as another group of people appeared.
These people were wearing the Law Enforcement Hall’s robes. They wore square hats with blue lining on the edges. That was the specific color of the Law Enforcement Hall.
The person leading them was a rank three Celestial whose cultivation base had reached late Sea Expansion. As soon as he arrived he shouted, “Who was it that attacked people in my territory? You no longer want your life, is that it?”
Long Chen frowned. He almost couldn’t believe it. These swaggering people were from the Law Enforcement Hall? Their robes were a mess, and their hats were askew.
As for the person at the front, he was clearly drunk. His gaze was as unsteady as his steps. Even for someone as experienced as Long Chen, this was his first time seeing such a thing.
“Brat, were you trying to cause trouble? You want to die?!” he shouted at Long Chen.
The group behind him wasn’t small, but it wasn’t large either. They all seemed drunk. It was very likely they had been drinking when they had been drawn over by the disturbance. Everyone felt resentful that these were their supposed law enforcers.
A mid Sea Expansion law enforcer walked right in front of Long Chen and raised his hand. “Big brother, why waste so many words with him? Just kill him.”
Just as he was about to strike, Long Chen’s hand struck like lightning on his face. With a resounding sound, that person smashed into the wall as well.
“Brat-”
The fellow leading this group was just about to attack when Long Chen grabbed his hair. Pulling, Long Chen smashed his kneecap up.
Long Chen’s hard kneecap viciously smashed against the fellow’s nose. This one attack caused him to faint. Long Chen gave him another kick, adding another human flatbread to the wall.
This flatbread was different from the others. He covered a greater area, and other than blood, some shiny white stuff also came out of him. Many people didn’t even know what it was.
“Fuck, he probably hasn’t cultivated for many years. Even his lard was squeezed out.” Long Chen was disgusted. He was finally amazed. Even amongst cultivators, there were people who could get astoundingly fat. It seemed the Law Enforcement Hall was quite the cushy place.
Without another word, Long Chen charged at the other stunned law enforcers. After giving them a kic
k each, they landed on the wall.
More human flatbread appeared on the wall. Fortunately, the wall was supported by powerful runes and didn’t collapse. However, this large wall now had a stunning and funny scene on it. Around a hundred people were stuck on it, incapable of moving.
“Good!”
Following one person, countless people began to cheer, and the cheering came in loud waves. Their voices were all emotional.
“Are these people all so disliked?” asked Long Chen.
“Of course. They have the insignia of the Law Enforcement Hall, and so they’re capable of committing all kinds of crimes. People have long since grown tired of their bullying. Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you’ve helped us vent some pent-up frustration. These people also often bully us outer sect disciples, but we can’t offend them, so we can only endure,” explained a disciple.
A comparatively more mature disciple said, “However, senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you might have vented some anger for us, but now it’ll be troublesome for you.”
“It’s fine. I’m not afraid of trouble.” If it was people from the Law Enforcement Hall, Long Chen didn’t care about beating them to death.
Within the Xuantian Dao Sect‘s northwestern region, there was a small lake that was as flat as a mirror. The scenery was beautiful, and there was a person sitting by the lake, fishing.
This person was the one with the highest authority in the Xuantian Dao Sect, the Xuan Master. Beside him, the Elder Hall Master bowed.
“Xuan Master, you called for me?”
The Xuan Master nodded. “How do you feel about Long Chen?”
Liu Cang was surprised. After thinking about it for a moment, he said, “He’s a very contradictory person. Sometimes smart, sometimes foolish, sometimes crafty like a fox, sometimes fierce like a tiger, there’s no way to explain him. But there is one thing that is certain: as long as this person doesn’t fall, he will definitely become a supreme expert.”
“What an appropriate evaluation. Truly worthy of my Dao Sect’s pillar, the Elder Hall Master. Your vision is as sharp as ever. Regretfully, the Law Enforcement Hall Master is blinded by greed and power. He lost his transcendent heart long ago, and sooner or later, he’ll pay the consequences,” said the Xuan Master.