Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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That addition had allowed the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect to tell how many people were on that particular flying boat and its position. That was what had resulted in their accurate sneak attack.
Su Mo and Mu Qingxuan had been leading the largest group, and they weren’t the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s ultimate goal, so they had instead chosen to attack the Ten Thousand Insect Guild, Heaven Female Alliance, and Dragonblood Legion.
Afterward, Long Chen couldn’t help sighing emotionally. A thousand calculations could still end up off. The slightest hole resulted in Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s plans going out of control.
Thereafter, Long Chen had investigated all of Xuantian City. Anything that wasn’t necessary had been tossed out into the sea by Cloud, and only then did he feel more at ease.
“Gao Xianyang sent me to say that the beast tide is about to erupt. As fellow members of the Xuantian Dao Sect, we should all work together…” probed Fan Song.
“He’s worried about there being no portion for him when the contributions of each person are evaluated.” Long Chen shook his head.
“Cough, well, we’re all fellow disciples and occasional fighting is normal. But at a critical time, we should be united,” said Fan Song. He felt very awkward.
“Yes, that is correct. If he is obedient and listens to directions, I won’t toss him out. But if he wants to fight against me over leadership, I’ll kick him out immediately. If he causes any trouble at a critical time, I will kill him,” said Long Chen coldly.
“Yes, I will tell him what you said.” Fan Song’s heart shook. Long Chen was no longer his old self. If he wanted to kill Gao Xianyang, then with that many experts under his command, not even ten lives would be enough.
“Other than that, did you sense anything suspicious while you were out hunting?” Long Chen looked Fan Song in the eye.
“No.” Fan Song shook his head.
“Then you can go.” Long Chen nodded and smiled.
Fan Song had only just gotten up from a bow and turned to leave when Long Chen added, “When you go back, you should consider whether your loyalties lie with Gao Xianyang, the Law Enforcement Hall, or the Xuantian Dao Sect.”
Fan Song shook slightly before he left.
The next day, Fan Song returned and told him that Gao Xianyang had agreed to Long Chen’s requests. He would listen to his orders.
Long Chen smiled. He seemed to understand something, but he didn’t say anything.
“You can decide some things after you think them through.” Long Chen looked at Fan Song, who was simply standing there without moving, seeming to be struggling with himself.
Fan Song clenched his teeth. He finally said, “While we were out at sea, Gao Xianyang went deep into the sea on his own to investigate the movements of the sea demons. He was once gone for a day and night.”
Long Chen nodded. “Good. I’m glad you still know you are a disciple of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Go, and be careful.”
Fan Song nodded and thanked Long Chen before leaving.
Alone in his room, Long Chen looked at where the sea met the land through the window. He muttered to himself, “Gone for a day and night? That’s normal.”
Time passed day by day. Suddenly, the day came when the sea began to rise and huge waves crashed onto the land.
“Everyone gather! The beast tide is erupting! Brothers, the chance to get rich has come!” shouted Gu Yang. The first half of his words had dignity, but the latter half didn’t.
However, this shout caused the tense atmosphere to relax a great deal. All the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples gathered.
Almost three hundred thousand disciples rushed over to the shore. Once they were there, they saw that the water was rolling like it was boiling. Huge waves continuously crashed against the shore, and the water level continuously rose.
Ear-piercing cries began to ring out from the depths of the sea. The land was quivering, causing these disciples’ expressions to change. They had never seen such a terrifying phenomenon.
“Everyone, don’t panic. This is the result of millions and millions of sea demons charging out from the depths of the sea. It’s very normal,” explained Long Chen. “Prepare yourselves. Form up your formations. The Dragonblood Legion will take the center, Hua Shiyu and Su Mo will lead the two wings, while Gao Xianyang’s people will take the tail. Get ready to attack!”
The Dragonblood Legion charged forward, looking like the head of an arrow.
Hua Shiyu and Su Mo led their armies to act as the two wings, while Gao Xianyang brought up the rear. Gao Xianyang looked gloomily at Long Chen, but he obediently acted as the rear.
BOOM! The sea exploded and countless huge figures charged out, rushing at them.
There were all kinds of sea demons. They were like small mountains coming at them, each one of them bringing the stench of blood.
“Kill! Let these sea demons know what true power is!” roared a Dragonmark warrior upon seeing this endless tide of sea demons.
“They are only sixth rank sea demons. What’s there to be so excited about?” Another Dragonmark warrior rolled his eyes at him.
Although these sea demons were large, they were just at the sixth rank. The disciples could annihilate masses of them with a wave of their hands. Thus, they weren’t even a challenge. Shouting so excitedly was making a fuss out of nothing.
But the Dragonblood warriors reflexively entered their combat state. As long as they were with Long Chen and a battle started, their blood would start to boil out of their control.
With everyone gathered in front of the sea, attacks continuously landed amongst the sea demons, killing them rapidly. Their blood dyed the sea red.
Seeing the essence blood of these sea demons be absorbed so quickly by the sea, Long Chen couldn’t help but wonder.
The Grand Dao was formless, the Grand Dao was emotionless. In front of the Grand Dao, all lives might look free, but in reality, they were silently controlled by the Heavenly Daos.
These low-ranking sea demons proliferated in huge numbers, threatening the benefits of the high-ranking sea demons. It was unknown what technique they were using, but those high-ranking sea demons were controlling these mindless sea demons to attack the human race.
Once they were killed, their essence blood would flow into the sea, strengthening the spiritual qi in it. Perhaps this was the goal of the rulers of the sea.
The ones to benefit from this essence blood were the high-ranking sea demons. But what about the human race? Who was benefiting there from this battle? Who agreed with the rulers of the sea demons to fight like this?
This bloody slaughter had no mercy on either side. Pity and compassion weren’t worth a single copper coin in front of it.
Although a sea demon was also a living being, if the humans didn’t kill them, they would break out of their blockade and kill the innocent creatures on the continent.
Slaughter was cruel. It was barbarous and brutal. But sometimes, slaughter was the only way to resolve problems.
In this world, there was no absolute truth that everyone believed in. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be all kinds of beliefs. Even gods would have different opinions and fight.
So when there was no way to reason things out, any lifeform with intelligence would instinctively start fighting.
There were too many sea demons attacking. Since they were all sixth rank sea demons, no one went to gather their Neidans. One reason was because they were too busy, and the other reason was that they looked down on their Neidans.
In the Eastern Wasteland, a good sixth rank sea demon’s Neidan could be exchanged for a whole city. But here, Neidans were everywhere, and nobody could be bothered to pick them up.
On the shore, the Ten Thousand Insect Guild’s disciples were killing any sea demons that slipped through, completely blocking them from proceeding.
What shocked people was that the beast tide this time was crazy. The disciples slaughtered into the third day before seventh and eighth
rank sea demons appeared.
At this time, the sea demon corpses had piled into mountains. Long Chen placed himself in charge of gathering these corpses. With a wave of his hand, the corpses entered the primal chaos space, falling into the black soil.
The primal chaos space was three hundred thousand miles wide now, and the black soil was three thousand miles wide. It was like a huge gaping mouth, crazily devouring the corpses. At this moment, life energy filled the entire primal chaos space.
Chapter 1160 Divine Life Elixir
As more and more sea demon corpses piled in the primal chaos space, they were all devoured by the black soil and released boundless life energy.
This life energy had nowhere to go. The Iron Spruce Oaks had grown to their peak and couldn’t absorb any more life energy. Hence, the surplus ended up condensing into a faint mist.
“This mist contains life energy!” Long Chen was surprised to sense the life energy fluctuations within the mist. He quickly gathered more corpses.
Eventually, ninth rank sea demons began to appear, increasing the pressure. Ninth rank sea demons had powerful defenses and attacks, and their numbers were insane.
“Retreat to the first defensive line!” shouted Long Chen. Everyone fell back to the cliffside. The cliff was three hundred meters high, and the water was unable to creep over it. However, to a ninth rank sea demon, such a cliff was nothing more than a small stair.
Once the disciples were there, they changed formations, forming a line. They attacked the ninth rank sea demons. Each faction had a group of people focused on gathering the Neidans.
Ninth rank sea demon’s Neidans were good things that couldn’t be wasted. But no one went for their corpses.
However, the bodies of ninth rank sea demons were too huge, and that would affect the battle. Long Chen was constantly gathering them.
Seeing Long Chen constantly working to clean up the corpses, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples were filled with admiration. Despite being a peerless expert and a leader of hundreds of thousands of disciples, he actually took it upon himself to do the work of cleaning up after everyone. There probably wasn’t a single heavenly genius capable of being as low key as that.
“Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, how could such work be left for you? Let me handle it.” Some of the disciples couldn’t bear to see a peerless expert like Long Chen cleaning up after them. Their faces burned, and they started helping.
“Hey, stop! Don’t worry about it, I’ll handle this. Your spatial rings are limited and will fill up quickly, plus you’d have to go out far to get the corpses. But don’t worry, I prepared a large number of storage devices before this, so it’s best if I do it.”
Long Chen immediately stopped them from helping. These corpses were his treasures! He couldn’t give them to others.
“Then senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, how about you hand the storage devices to me? For you to personally do such a thing… is a bit unsuitable,” said a disciple.
“How is it unsuitable? You’re spilling blood and risking your lives to kill these sea demons. Why can’t I pick up a bit of trash? Go, get back to work.” Long Chen flapped his hand at them.
Those disciples were all filled with admiration. Quite a few people stealthily glanced at Gao Xianyang in the distance, comparing him to Long Chen. His hands were clasped behind his back as he arrogantly looked over the battlefield, not helping at all. Thus, a contemptuous expression appeared on quite a few people’s faces.
Long Chen was the number one disciple of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Such an amazing figure was personally cleaning up the battlefield. Did Gao Xianyang not feel embarrassed to act so arrogant?
In comparison, they all liked Long Chen’s way of deeply reserving himself. This was why people with real skills liked to be low key. They had the power to stand out at any moment.
In reality, how was Long Chen being low key? He was happily profiting. With this many corpses entering his primal chaos space, the mist in the air grew even denser.
After a few hours, the sea demons became even more berserk. Mid ninth rank sea demons also appeared, increasing the pressure on the disciples.
They once more fell back, arriving at the center of the funnel terrain that Li Qi and Song Mingyuan had made. Their defensive zone had shrunk a great deal here, making the defensive line stronger.
“Guo Ran, there are too many ninth rank sea demons. Clean them up a bit,” shouted Long Chen.
“Alright, boss! I swept through- cough, don’t kick me, I’m going!” Guo Ran had been about to shout his slogan when Long Chen raised his foot. Guo Ran immediately shot off.
Using a huge crossbow, Guo Ran shot a dozen arrows out at the sea demons. Huge explosions rang out as blood and flesh flew through the air. Huge holes a hundred miles wide appeared in the encroaching sea demon army.
Seeing all the ninth rank sea demons in those areas being killed instantly, the disciples were stunned. Although they had seen how powerful Guo Ran’s exploding arrows could be, their power was now absolutely horrifying.
A dozen arrows emptied a great portion of the battlefield. Long Chen waved a hand and gathered their broken corpses.
While he extracted the corpses, he also pulled out their Neidans. The corpses landed in the black soil while he kept the Neidans stored away.
As more time passed, more sea demons appeared. Now, there were no longer any sea demons below the ninth rank. The battlefield was pitch-black with huge sea demons.
Late ninth rank ones had appeared as well. Meng Qi had summoned thirty-six housepets to assist in the battle, and she finally let Cloud, who had been impatient from the start, start killing the ninth rank sea demons. It had already advanced to the mid eighth rank, and killing these sea demons was incredibly easy for it. Even mid ninth rank sea demons could be killed in one blow.
Wang Zhen had also revealed his terrifying power. Thirteen thousand ninth rank insects had appeared. They charged through the sea demon army, completely unstoppable.
Hua Shiyu was surrounded by flower petals. The powerful armor of the sea demons was as weak as tofu in front of her. They were killed in droves.
Tang Wan-er had also summoned a sea of wind blades. Just like Hua Shiyu, she unleashed large-scale death on the sea demons.
Because there were too many sea demons, even Yue Zifeng, Gu Yang, Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and the others were forced to participate. With even rank six Celestials attacking, the sea demons were annihilated as quickly as they came.
Fan Song was scared witless. Even his old opponents, Hua Shiyu and Wang Zhen, were releasing shocking battle prowess. They could now annihilate him instantly.
As for Gao Xianyang and Hu Guishan, they were shocked, furious, and envious. Even their eyes turned red from envy. They were completely unable to understand how they had become so powerful.
If Long Chen was powerful, that was fine. After all, he was a monster. But now every person by Long Chen’s side was also terrifying. Even Wang Zhen and Hua Shiyu were stunning.
At this time, Gao Xianyang also attacked. Sword Qi swept out. His killing power was also amazing, but when compared to the likes of Tang Wan-er, Hua Shiyu, and Wang Zhen, it was lackluster.
Those disciples following Gao Xianyang had somewhat odd expressions, but in the midst of this fierce battle, they didn’t deliberately display them.
However, Gao Xianyang’s gaze was icy-cold. Looking at Long Chen and the others, his expression was extremely gloomy.
Long Chen didn’t pay attention to the changes in Gao Xianyang’s expression. He was busy gathering the sea demons corpses. The mist in the primal chaos space grew so dense that he practically couldn’t see his hand if he stuck it in front of his face.
This mist was a condensed version of life energy. As more corpses were devoured by the black soil, it grew denser, until…
Drip.
Suddenly, a light sound rang within the primal chaos space and immediately drew Long Chen’s attention. He hastily went in to search
for the source of the sound and saw a little sapling beside the Heavenly Dao Tree that was only a foot tall.
This little sapling had appeared without him sensing anything. It had no branches. Instead, its crown abruptly split into three leaves.
The leaves were the size of a palm and emerald green. They shone softly, giving him a comfortable feeling. It was like looking at them could allow a person to forget all their struggles.
There were veins on the leaves that looked just like ordinary leaves, and yet they contained some kind of ineffable Dao charm.
Drip.
Just at this moment, the dewdrops atop one of the leaves drew together and fell to the ground.
When the drop fell to the ground, it was rapidly absorbed, filling the primal chaos space with life energy.
Drip.
Another drop condensed. Long Chen reached out his hand and caught it.
“This… this is… divine life elixir?” Long Chen was filled with shock as he sensed the life energy in the drop.
This drop was practically the same as the miraculous healing liquid that the Spirit World’s expert had given him all those years ago. But the life energy within this one was many times stronger.
“I’ve become able to condense divine life elixir?” Long Chen’s heart pounded. He quickly took out three jade bottles and placed them below the sapling, gathering the divine life elixir that fell from its leaves.
Long Chen suddenly understood what was going on. When the primal chaos space’s life energy accumulated to a certain level of saturation, it would give birth to this small tree to release the divine life elixir.
This process was slow. He saw that condensing one drop took a few breaths, and after gathering three drops, no more came.
“Hm? Is there not enough energy?” Long Chen suddenly thought of the crux of the problem.
“Boss, the line’s getting shaky!”
Suddenly, Guo Ran’s cry drew him out of his contemplation. His mind exited the primal chaos space and returned to reality. Seeing the scene in front of him, he jumped in shock.
At some unknown point, the ninth rank sea demons had begun coming in literal waves. They stacked on top of each other, forming a true beast tide. It was impossible to see the land any longer, as it was drowned out by the beast tide.