Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Then he had used Hua Shiyu to extort the Hua family for their Dao Seeking King Jade. But the Hua family had refused, infuriating Xuan Jizi.

  He said Hua Shiyu would have three tribulations in her life, and her lifespan would not surpass twenty-three. The three tribulations were something Xuan Jizi had read in her fortune, while her limited lifespan was what he himself had decided.

  Those who had his slave-heart Dao-seed within them had their life and death within his hands. In order to make people revere him more, he would occasionally make a divine calculation that someone was imminently about to die.

  But this time, he had run into Long Chen. Xuan Jizi was full of regret over this matter. Just why had he been so stupid as to threaten Long Chen at that time?

  If he had simply allowed Long Chen to remove the slave-heart Dao-seed, then things would have been fine. The Hua family wouldn’t dare to try and blame him for it. Most importantly, there was no proof. No one would have been able to do anything.

  But Long Chen was different. After his failure of calculating Long Chen’s position had cost him half his life, an intense feeling of unease had filled his heart. He felt like things were about to turn sour for him. If Long Chen transmitted this information about him, he would fall from grace. That was why he said that Long Chen was a Heaven-Seizer.

  Long Chen’s growth was truly bizarre and similar to a legendary Heaven-Seizer. Adding in how domineering he was and his vicious methods, Xuan Jizi felt like accusing him of being a Heaven-Seizer was the best option.

  “Just like Daoist Xuan Jizi said, Long Chen is a Heaven-Seizer. We should immediately initiate the Righteous path’s arrest warrant and kill him at all costs,” said Ma Xingkong.

  “No, he had some kind of powerful treasure that shields him from the mysteries of fate. Due to my close friendship with brother Dan Teng, I invited him over from the Pill Tower… you understand!” Xuan Jizi looked at them.

  His meaning was clear. Long Chen definitely had to die, but he didn’t want more people to know of this. Xuan Jizi had already invited the elder from the Pill Tower to be the judge of this matter.

  In other words, whatever benefits could be gained from Long Chen’s body would go to him. They couldn’t even think about fighting over them.

  Ma Xingkong and the ancient race expert immediately nodded with comprehension. It was no wonder the Pill Tower would interfere in this matter.

  Dan Teng smiled toward the two of them. “Although my Pill Tower will carry out this matter, we are still grateful for your assistance. After all, you two already have a well-known relationship to Long Chen and the Xuantian Dao Sect. Furthermore, I, Dan Teng, will swear on the Dan family that whatever benefits I gain, I will not forget the two of you.”

  “Ah, who cares about benefits? As long as you, Dan Teng, say the word, my Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect would not frown to walk into wind or fire.” Ma Xingkong patted his chest sincerely.

  Ma Xingkong could easily tell that Xuan Jizi had tied his fate to Dan Teng. In this world, probably only the Xuantian Dao Sect would be stupid enough to go against the Pill Tower. Others weren’t so stupid. Having a good relationship with the Pill Tower would definitely maximize the benefits for the sect. Furthermore, the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect already had a good relationship with the Pill Tower, so expressing his sincerity toward this matter was a must.

  “I always support this. I hope that brother Dan Teng might be able to help us with medicinal pills in the future,” said the ancient race expert.

  “Don’t worry, once this matter is over, I definitely won’t disappoint you.” Dan Teng was very forthright. In truth, he was a very crafty person, and although his words sounded grand, he didn’t give an exact promise on anything.

  The four of them quickly made an agreement. As long as they put in effort into testifying that Long Chen was a Heaven-Seizer, it would quickly gain momentum. If anyone asked for proof, they could be vague. They wouldn’t say there was proof and they wouldn’t say there wasn’t, but they would be sure once Long Chen was killed.

  If Long Chen was here, he would definitely point at their noses and curse, “Are you stupid? Xuan Jizi already said that he received a backlash when he tried calculating my fate. Now he’s saying that I have a precious treasure shielding me from the readings of fate? If I was screened off, how did he learn anything? And if he didn’t read my fate, what about the backlash?”

  But it had to be said that Xuan Jizi truly had some ability to be able to dupe Dan Teng. And Dan Teng was someone who possessed enough power to make Ma Xingkong and the ancient race expert cooperate.

  “What are we supposed to do when the Martial Heaven Alliance investigates?” asked Ma Xingkong worriedly.

  “There’s no need to fear. The Martial Heaven Alliance might be powerful, always strict, and impartial, but there are many things that they require proof for. It’s very inconvenient for them. We’ll just stall them, saying that we suspect Long Chen is a Heaven-Seizer, but as for the proof, we’ll give it to them later. Since I come from Heavenly Fate Island, they won’t want to offend me. Although I’m one hundred percent certain Long Chen is a Heaven-Seizer, without taking off the treasure shielding him from the readings of fate, I cannot prove anything.

  “My guess is that the Martial Heaven Alliance still won’t be able to do anything to us even if they want to stand up for the Xuantian Dao Sect. After all, there are too many oddities with Long Chen’s growth that no one can explain.

  “In the end, each side will be standing on the side of reason. Although the Xuantian Dao Sect took some losses, compared to you three, those losses are insignificant. All we have to do is maintain our story that we came here to capture Long Chen in order to protect the innocents. If the Xuantian Dao Sect had simply handed him over, none of this would have happened. But instead, they viciously attacked us with their blades. That was clearly wrong, as we had the neutral Pill Tower present who only wanted peace. The Xuantian Dao Sect clearly attacked because they felt guilty. In this way, the Xuantian Dao Sect will be the one with the greater responsibility for this matter. Let’s see if they dare to try anything against us now,” sneered Xuan Jizi.

  Everyone’s eyes brightened. With the way Xuan Jizi had put it, their actions had instantly landed on the side of reason. As long as they maintained that they had ‘invited’ Long Chen over to investigate him, but had instead met a fierce slaughter that felt like the Xuantian Dao Sect had wanted to kill them to keep them quiet, they were most certainly on the right side. After all, four of their powers combined were far stronger than the Xuantian Dao Sect, and so their word counted for more.

  “Fuck, our losses this time are huge. That brute Long Chen and his subordinates are so vicious. Who would believe that he isn’t a Heaven-Seizer?!” Ma Xingkong was filled with hatred as he looked at the few remaining experts by his side.

  The ancient race expert was also filled with hatred. He didn’t know how he was supposed to explain this matter once he got back. Their losses were immense.

  Fortunately, through this matter, he had ended up creating a deeper relationship with the Pill Tower. Hopefully that would make up for the losses.

  …

  A blazing burst of light came from the Xuantian Dao Sect’s Xuantian Tower. It connected with a ray of light in the air and a large group of people in the plaza. The Xuan Master had linked the Reincarnation Mirror with the Xuantian Tower to transport everyone here.

  “Xuan Master, my boss…” shouted Guo Ran.

  “Long Chen will be fine. With the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow’s speed, and considering they don’t have any carrier divine items, it’s impossible for them to catch up,” comforted the Xuan Master.

  In the beginning, the Xuan Master also hadn’t been able to tell it was a Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, but he had realized it after it had devoured a Hall Master-level expert’s Yuan Spirit.

  To have such terrifying power at just the eighth rank, it could only be a legendary Cloud
Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow.

  Furthermore, the powerful pressure it had emitted after advancing to the ninth rank had allowed many of the powerful experts to realize its identity.

  That made the Xuan Master bitterly smile. Long Chen truly hid his trump cards well, and they were each more terrifying than the last. He was truly worthy of being a Heaven-Defier.

  “All inner sect disciples should go back and rest. Starting today, the Xuantian Dao Sect is sealing its borders. No disciples are to go out,” ordered the Xuan Master. The Xuantian Dao Sect had truly stuck itself out this time for Long Chen, and it would most likely cause an immense commotion. They had to be careful now.

  “Xuan Master, what should we do?” asked Liu Cang.

  A bright light appeared in the Xuan Master’s eyes, and he smiled slightly. “That Xuan Jizi is afraid the news that he placed a slave-heart Dao-seed on Hua Shiyu will become public. That’s why he stubbornly insists Long Chen is a Heaven-Seizer, in order to kill the only one who can testify.”

  The Xuan Master had asked Hua Shiyu about this on the way back, and so he was clear on the causes of this matter.

  “So it’s Heavenly Fate Island! We can’t provoke them!” Liu Cang’s expression changed.

  “There is nothing in this world that can’t be provoked. It just depends on how you do it. My guess is they’ve already started crying thief and went to the Martial Heaven Alliance. But that’s fine, they merely have the brains of a three-year-old child. They’re not worth being afraid of,” said the Xuan Master disdainfully.

  However, what happened today caused the Xuan Master to feel a bit of helplessness. His plans had all gone smoothly for many years now, with everything in his control. But when it came to Long Chen, he had miscalculated. He had never expected four great powers to attack together today.

  The Xuan Master looked into the distance. Perhaps he now finally understood why Long Chen didn’t like scheming.

  Chapter 1170 Recovering from Injuries

  Cloud rapidly flew through the air. Long Chen was feeling weaker and weaker, as though his body was about to break down. His head was about to explode.

  This wasn’t due to an injury, but the side effect of the Dragon Tiger Heavenly Explosion Pill. It had given him immense power, but in exchange for that power, he had to pay back a debt.

  Long Chen was in extreme pain. The divine life elixir was unable to alleviate it, as this was no ordinary injury. This could be considered a Dao injury.

  After forcibly extracting energy from heaven and earth, he had to pay it back, and that process was excruciating enough to make someone wish they were dead.

  When he had used the Dragon Tiger Heavenly Explosion Pill, he hadn’t had any energy left in his body. That worsened his current condition. The Heavenly Daos were extracting back their energy from Long Chen, but he didn’t have the energy to be extracted. So now it felt like some strange energy was causing all the cells in his body to wither as it extracted their energy.

  “Damn heavens, this energy was something I obtained through my own abilities, so why should I have to return it?!” Long Chen roared furiously inside. But he had no way to resist the extracting of the Heavenly Daos.

  Pain wracked his body, and he felt like millions of needles were piercing through every inch of his skin. The pain was indescribable.

  This was different from his heavenly tribulations. This was something he couldn't do anything about. He could only clench his teeth and endure. Furthermore, he couldn’t even faint even if he wanted to.

  With Cloud’s speed, they ended up somewhere Long Chen didn’t even know about after rushing for eight hours. He finally had Cloud find a place to descend.

  Long Chen saw that they had appeared on top of a deep valley. He found a random cave and had Cloud guard the outside. Enduring the pain, he began refining pills.

  But due to the pain, he couldn’t focus. He failed three times before finally succeeded with one pill, and it was just a seven-ring high grade pill.

  He immediately swallowed it, and the medicinal energy quickly spread, cutting off his sense of pain. He finally felt a bit better.

  “That price really was crazy. Fortunately I escaped, or wouldn’t I be crushed like a dog now?” Long Chen still felt some lingering fear. The Dragon Tiger Heavenly Explosion Pill’s power had been even greater than he had expected. This was the result of it being nourished for countless years.

  Its power had increased and so had its side effects, but Long Chen could only endure. This medicinal pill only allowed him to block out a portion of the pain.

  With his Pill Sovereign memories, Long Chen knew that this kind of phenomenon was very normal. He couldn’t forcibly use medicinal energy to block the Heavenly Daos from extracting energy from him, or it would just worsen his Dao injury.

  “Cloud, can you find the way back?” Long Chen took out a jade tablet. It indicated his current position, and it also indicated another position, which was the Xuantian Dao Sect.

  This jade tablet was a map containing millions and millions of miles of terrain. However, right now, it was merely able to show an arrow pointing to where the Xuantian Dao Sect lay. The two of them were so far apart it was unable to accurately say where the Xuantian Dao Sect was exactly.

  Cloud let out a bird cry, telling Long Chen that it could use its spiritual connection with Meng Qi to find where she was. It would be easy to get back.

  “Good, then you go back. Tell Meng Qi and the others that I’m safe and fine, but for now, it’s not convenient for me to go back,” said Long Chen.

  Cloud let out a quiet bird cry.

  Long Chen smiled slightly. “Don’t worry, I’ll just recuperate here for a few days, and once I’m recovered, I’m thinking of taking a trip to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect. If I still didn’t go, it would be improper of me.”

  Only then did Cloud spread its wings, vanishing from Long Chen’s sight. Once Cloud was gone, in order to be extra careful, Long Chen flew on his own for over two hours before jumping into a river. Following its flow and concealing his aura, he arrived at the bottom of a waterfall. Creating a cave in the back of the waterfall, he lived there for seven days.

  Long Chen spent those seven days lying on the ground without the slightest energy. He barely had the energy to breathe.

  He didn’t struggle at all. He simply let the Heavenly Daos extract energy from him continuously during this time. Finally, after the seventh day, that feeling disappeared.

  At this moment, an explosive sound came from his body. Each of his cells became like hungry wolves, crazily devouring heaven and earth’s energy.

  Long Chen also took out yuan spirit stones and absorbed their energy. Unfortunately, he didn’t have that many yuan spirit stones left. He only had a couple hundred thousand. Because he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from using them all, he had distributed the rest amongst the others.

  Regretfully, the energy within a couple hundred thousand yuan spirit stones was only enough for him to half-recover.

  Sensing that he had recovered to fifty percent, Long Chen finally sighed with relief. The feeling of being weak wasn’t a good one. Now, even if he did run into enemies, he would have some confidence.

  Long Chen didn’t immediately go out after this. He continued recovering, because it wasn’t just him who needed to recover. Lei Long and Huo Long also needed time, because they had used up all their energy in the last battle.

  …

  Meng Qi and the others had waited anxiously for three days before Cloud finally returned. Hearing that Long Chen was fine raised the spirits of the Dragonblood Legion.

  When the Xuan Master heard that Long Chen was temporarily not coming back, he couldn’t help but shake his head. He understood Long Chen’s intentions. He was worried about causing trouble for the Xuantian Dao Sect, and he didn’t want them to be everyone’s target.

  That made the Xuan Master feel vexed. As the master of his sect, he wasn’t even able to protect his dis
ciple.

  Last time, he had been besieged by four powerful experts, and it had been Long Chen who had consecutively killed the Hall Master-level experts, reversing the tides. If it hadn’t been for that, Liu Cang wouldn’t have been able to come help him, and there would have been no chance for them to get away.

  Through this battle, the Xuan Master realized Long Chen had too many variables about him. He was fundamentally not someone he could control.

  However, knowing that Long Chen was fine allowed him to relax. Considering his methods and intelligence, he shouldn’t end up at a disadvantage in any ordinary circumstances.

  In fact, sometimes it might even be safer for Long Chen to be on his own, because when others provoked him, he could just laugh it off, but when others insulted the people by his side, he would immediately explode.

  “Xuan Master, the Martial Heaven Alliance had issued a summons. I’ll make a trip there tomorrow.” Liu Cang held a golden card in his hand.

  “I’ll go instead. You’re lacking the sharpness to face those shameless fellows.” The Xuan Master shook his head. Liu Cang was a calm and careful man. He was very meticulous with how he handled things, but he was lacking the domineering and aggressive aspect necessary to handle this.

  “But if you personally go, wouldn’t it lower the Xuantian Dao Sect’s prestige?” Liu Cang wasn’t so sure this was the best idea.

  “That’s fine. Don’t we have our own trump cards? First, we’ll slap their face, then we’ll show them our cards.” The Xuan Master smiled faintly.

  Not long after the Xuan Master left the Xuantian Dao Sect, a piece of shocking news spread. The defensive region of the Xuantian Dao Sect in the eastern sea had been the grounds of a Righteous and Corrupt path battle.

  The Xuantian Dao Sect had captured a large number of the Corrupt path’s experts and had even captured one of their sect masters. This news shook the entire Righteous path.

  It had to be known that such a figure from the Corrupt path had not been slain in thousands of years. Furthermore, he had been captured alive this time. The Xuantian Dao Sect shocked countless Righteous sects.