Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  If Long Chen was killed by the Bloodkill Hall, he would become a stain on the ancient races’ pride that they would never be able to wash away.

  Having sensed the battle, the three of them had rushed over. The eagle-eyed expert was the fastest, but he had still been one step too late.

  He wanted to chase, but he had already lost Long Chen’s tracks. He couldn’t sense which direction he had gone, so he was filled with fury.

  He had just been a bit away from being able to report a successfully accomplished mission. But just that little bit allowed Long Chen to escape.

  The three of them looked at each other, and one of them sneered, “The acclaimed unrivaled assassins who can kill anyone below rank nine Celestials ended up like this? The Bloodkill Hall really knows how to brag.”

  “What do you think you’re doing?” demanded the Bloodkill Hall’s assassin.

  “What am I doing? Before entering, your bragging was capable of shaking the heavens. Didn’t you say that as long as you saw Long Chen, there would be no chance of him escaping, and so you refused to exchange communication devices with us? But instead, you were almost killed by Long Chen. Is the intelligence of the Bloodkill Hall’s disciples so low? You don’t even understand what I’m saying?” sneered the ancient race expert.

  In truth, before entering this world, the Pill Tower’s experts had told everyone to keep a communication device in case they noticed Long Chen and weren’t sure they could kill him. They could release a signal in secret if they found him, and then everyone could gather to kill him.

  But the Bloodkill Hall’s experts were extremely prideful, and they were not in the habit of working together with others.

  Their arrogance had dissatisfied the ancient races’ experts, and they had almost started fighting right there. So now seeing the Bloodkill Hall’s experts in such a miserable state, if they didn’t throw some stones at them while they were down, the ancient races’ experts would feel like they were letting them down, considering their braggart words back then.

  “Hmph, you have no qualifications to mock us. At least we managed to find Long Chen and exchange blows with him. But you? You weren’t even able to touch a single strand of Long Chen’s hair. You saw his shadow, but so what? The Giant Eagle race claimed to be unrivaled in speed was unable to even catch him, but has the face to mock others?” sneered the Bloodkill Hall’s assassin.

  “Shameful things, you’re asking for it!” The elephant race expert roared, and his aura exploded, giving off a berserk pressure.

  The two assassins’ expressions sank. As the reapers who moved in the dark, their greatest taboo was when people called them shameful. “Human beast hybrids, you’re the ones asking for it!”

  “Kill them!”

  The assassins’ cursing infuriated the three ancient race experts, and the eagle-eyed expert took the lead in attacking.

  But the two assassins ended up using some unknown movement ability to escape their blockade in an instant. When they saw them again, they were already a hundred miles away, disappearing in just a few blinks.

  “Let’s chase and cut them down!” roared the elephant race expert. Being called human beast hybrids was an insult to all the ancient races. It was a blasphemy to their ancestors.

  But the giant eagle race expert stopped them. “We’ll handle the two of them later. Those shameful pieces of trash, they are skilled in running, and our chances of catching up to them are basically zero. Don’t waste time on them. In truth, the two of them are very powerful, and the fact that Long Chen was able to injure them like this means we can’t be careless. Split up and search for him, and warn the other disciples to keep their signals ready. Our mission is to kill long Chen before the Bloodkill Hall.”

  The two of them nodded, and the three of them split up in search of Long Chen.

  …

  Long Chen fled as quickly as possible, sighing regretfully. These two fur boots had truly helped him out. They had the ability of contracting the land between his steps, increasing his speed. He traveled through the air easily, and his close-range fighting ability would become even stronger as well.

  “Fuck, those two twin assassins are way too ridiculous. Both of them are rank eight Celestials? How the hell did that manage to happen?”

  Long Chen was speechless inside. If he had been fighting just one of them, he wouldn’t be afraid. Even without using the arm protector or the boots, he’d be able to kill them.

  But when the two worked together, their combat abilities multiplied, and their seamless cooperation and crafty tricks were very difficult to deal with.

  They had made his movements a mess, and if he hadn’t used the arm protector and boots to heavily injure one, he wouldn’t have even had a chance to use the fourth form of Split the Heavens.

  Most disheartening of all, despite using those two hidden treasures, he still hadn’t been able to kill them. Furthermore, he could vaguely sense that the two of them still had many trump cards that they hadn’t used.

  He only had this one chance to cut them down, but he hadn’t succeeded. Next time, they definitely wouldn’t give him such a good opportunity.

  In their first fight, those assassins had completely suppressed him. Now that they had experience in fighting him and had forced out his trump cards, it would be even more dangerous.

  As for those three auras that had appeared at the end, they had also been extremely terrifying. Their auras had caused his scalp to turn numb. That meant they had the power to push him to the brink of death.

  Long Chen was now sure that he was being targeted within the Four Nations Ancient Remnant. Someone had set up a death trap for him.

  These people were different from Li Wanji or Xia Youluo. They were true experts, and their cultivation bases were piled up from the lives of countless experts.

  Although they were both in the late Foundation Forging realm and also rank eight Celestials, in terms of combat power, these people were many times stronger than Li Wanji.

  Long Chen’s heart felt a bit heavy now. Before he could even think of coming up with a way to handle those twin assassins, another three more terrifying ancient race experts arrived. Now there were five rank eight Celestials after him, and he didn’t dare to go head-on against them.

  What worried him the most was a certain bad feeling he had. There was no way the Grand Xia would have let those people in, so they had to have entered from either the Grand Han, Grand Zhou, or Grand Chu. Regardless of which ancient nation they had come from, his main worry was their goal.

  One nation had brought in enough people to exterminate the elites of all the other three ancient nations. If that nation was cooperating with the Bloodkill Hall and ancient races, then their goal was even more worrisome.

  Long Chen knew that in accordance with the four nations’ agreement, each nation was permitted to allow at most one outsider disciple to enter the Four Nations Ancient Remnant. Furthermore, their cultivation base could not surpass the average cultivation base of all the disciples.

  Long Chen’s cultivation base was only at the fourth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging, while the experts that entered the Four Nations Ancient Remnant were at least at the eighth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging. Over half were at the ninth Heavenstage, and a portion of those people had reached the peak of that realm.

  So the Grand Xia hadn’t broken the terms by doing this, but others had clearly gone against their treaty, making Long Chen feel a sense of dread. He hoped he hadn’t brought the Grand Xia trouble.

  Long Chen was rushing away quickly in hopes of finding a good place to rest when Huo Long suddenly gave him a warning of danger.

  Heaven and earth suddenly shook as flames filled the air. Everything within thousands of miles was locked down by flame chains. Long Chen instantly became a fish caught in a net.

  Chapter 1208 Dan Chu

  These countless flame chains had appeared without any warning, sealing all of heaven and earth. Long Chen had instantly stopped upon s
ensing the danger, but he was already trapped.

  This had happened far too suddenly, as if it had been set up perfectly right for him. But Long Chen hadn’t sensed the slightest danger.

  Long Chen was extremely confident in the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. Other than those twin assassins who were able to absorb each other’s killing intent, any evil intentions toward him would be sensed. But something like the twin assassins was far too rare.

  Long Chen quickly came up with a hypothesis that perhaps the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was only most sensitive to killing intent. Perhaps because his opponent didn’t want to kill him, they had managed to elude the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s senses.

  As for Huo Long, by the time it sensed the danger, it was too late. Violet flames had filled the world around him, and there was nowhere to run.

  A flame appeared in the air, condensing into an extremely young, long-haired man. His complexion was fair, and his eyes were electric. Violet flame runes were leaping in his eyes. Long Chen sensed extremely terrifying energy coming from him.

  Just at this moment, Huo Long began to grow agitated. It told him that this man controlled an incredibly powerful Earth Flame.

  Earth Flames had sharp senses toward each other, as well as an innate hostility. They all devoured each other to grow.

  But what shocked Long Chen was that Huo Long was afraid of this violet flame. In other words, this flame had surpassed the realm that Huo Long could handle.

  “Long Chen, I didn’t expect you to fall into my hands.” The man in violet flames looked at Long Chen with a faint smile.

  He was standing in the air, looking at him as if he was prey that was stuck in a trap and had nowhere to go. He was the hunter, in complete control.

  “You are from the Pill Tower?” asked Long Chen.

  Long Chen sensed the specific aura and spiritual fluctuations of an alchemist. There was no doubt that this person was an alchemist, and for him to be so young and possess such a cultivation base already, as well as such a terrifying Earth Flame, he had to be from the Pill Tower.

  “My name is Dan Chu.” The man indifferently looked at Long Chen, not exactly answering his question.

  Long Chen’s pupils shrank slightly. He suddenly recalled that he had heard this name before. “The one claimed to be the Seven Star Tower’s number one alchemist genius is you?”

  The Seven Star Tower was one of the Central Plains’ nine Pill Towers. They went from the One Star Tower to the Nine Star Tower.

  The Central Plains was just too huge, and there needed to be nine Pill Towers spread throughout its territory. Each one of them was in charge of one area. The nine Pill Towers rarely had any dealings with each other because they were so far apart. They all simply followed Pill Valley’s instructions.

  As for the Seven Star Tower, it was located in the eastern region of the Central Plains. It had countless experts of the Pill Dao, and they were in charge of the medicinal pill supply within this region.

  During his interactions with the Xuantian Dao Sect’s Alchemy Pavilion, he had heard Dan Chu’s name. He was the Seven Star Tower’s top genius, with unrivaled pill arts and terrifying combat powers.

  “Since you know my name, there’s no need for me to do anything. Allow yourself to be captured. There’s no point in struggling,” said Dan Chu coldly, his hands clasped behind his back. “Originally, with my status, capturing you like this isn’t even a win for me. But my time is precious, and I don’t have time for you to recover. Allowing yourself to be captured is your only option.”

  The flames around Dan Chu were constantly leaping, making him look like a flame god looking down on Long Chen.

  “Hahahaha!” Long Chen couldn’t help but laugh as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world. “If these words came from those two assassins or the three idiots of the ancient races, perhaps I’d be able to accept them. But from you? Perhaps you might not believe me when I say this, but I happen to be the true ancestor of you children playing with fire!”

  Right now, Long Chen’s spiritual yuan had been exhausted. Any other rank eight Celestial might have the power to kill him. But only this person was an exception.

  “Contemptible little brat, be suppressed!”

  Dan Chu’s expression sank. As an alchemy genius and a possessor of a terrifying Earth Flame, he had never encountered someone who was a match for him in the same realm whether it was in the Pill Dao or Martial Dao.

  Long Chen’s shameless boast as the ancestor of playing with fire was the greatest disrespect to the entire Pill Dao.

  Dan Chu waved his hand, and flame runes fell from the sky like a river of stars, enveloping Long Chen.

  Right now, the entire world was filled with flames. As Dan Chu attacked, the chains didn’t show the slightest sign of weakening or budging. This was to prevent Long Chen from escaping.

  Long Chen formed hand seals, forming a flame barrier around himself that blocked these violet flames. But Long Chen’s expression quickly changed. He found these violet flames were capable of burning anything. They were even starting to incinerate his flames.

  “Hmph, my Soul Devouring Violet Flame is ranked thirty-sixth on the Earth Flame Rankings. As for your Earth Flame, it probably can’t even enter the top fifty. Just what are you supposed to take out to fight me?” sneered Dan Chu. In his eyes, Long Chen’s struggle was like a bug trying to stop a carriage.

  Long Chen’s spiritual yuan was low right now, and this would only cause his spiritual yuan to run out faster.

  “Don’t try to use your own little experience to judge other people’s strength. That will only show how stupid you are,” sneered Long Chen, feigning calm.

  But his voice was clearly lacking confidence. He was clearly forcing himself, and he was even starting to sweat. His Earth Flame was fundamentally unable to contend against the Soul Devouring Violet Flame.

  Within the Xuantian Dao Sect, Long Chen had obtained multiple Earth Flames that Huo Long had devoured, allowing it to grow. But it truly was as Dan Chu said, there was no way its power would allow it to enter the top fifty on the Earth Flame Rankings. It probably wouldn’t even be able to enter the top sixty.

  The difference between the two was too great. Continuing like this was hopeless for Long Chen.

  “Long Chen, I’ll give you one chance. Hand over your treasure that allows you to raise other people’s Celestial ranks and I will allow you to become my follower. You’ll receive a hundred times better treatment than if you stayed in your Xuantian Dao Sect,” said Dan Chu upon seeing Long Chen bitterly enduring. His spiritual yuan was rapidly running out.

  Long Chen’s heart shook. So others had already set their sights on his treasures.

  “I don’t have any such treasure, nor do I have any secrets. All your little schemes were useless. Don’t even think about obtaining anything,” said Long Chen through clenched teeth.

  In truth, Long Chen’s mind was rapidly working. Just who had exposed this secret? According to reason, the Xuan Master had already taken responsibility for the raising of the Dragonblood Legion’s Celestial ranks.

  That should make it so people didn’t suspect him. And even if there were suspicions, they should only be suspicions. But Dan Chu’s tone showed that he was completely sure of this. That puzzled Long Chen.

  That was why Long Chen was being ambiguous. With his last sentence, he even ended up contradicting himself.

  “Hmph, you refuse to admit it? Xuan Jizi assured the Tower Master with his own head that you have some kind of amazing treasure. If you hand it over right now, it won’t be too late. My promise to you will still hold.”

  As Dan Chu said this, he sent more violet flames to wrap around Long Chen, not giving him any breathing room. He rapidly exhausted Long Chen’s spiritual yuan, not giving him time to think, forcing him to make a decision.

  Long Chen immediately understood. So it was that bastard Xuan Jizi. It was this fellow’s scheming that had incited the Pill Tower to target him.

>   Thinking of this, he also realized that everything happening within the Four Nations Ancient Remnant would also be under the control of the Pill Tower.

  Without the Pill Tower’s support, the Grand Han definitely wouldn’t have had the guts to so publicly break the treaty between the four nations. Now they had Pill Valley’s support and were working together with the Bloodkill Hall and the ancient races.

  He had long since heard that amongst the four nations, the Grand Xia had the worst relationship with the Pill Tower. The biggest reason for this was the Wine God Palace.

  As for the nation with the best relationship with Pill Tower, it would have to be the Grand Han. Then based on various indications that the Grand Han had run into a wall with the Wine God Palace and had to entirely throw themselves to the Pill Tower, everything logically fell into place.

  Seeing Long Chen was still bitterly enduring, Dan Chu was a bit shocked. Long Chen’s tenacity was greater than he had imagined. Even after this long, he was still enduring.

  “Your struggle has no meaning. I don’t mind telling you that this time, the Grand Han is preparing to devour the elites of all the other three nations. With Xuan Jizi’s help, the other three nations’ elites have lost their connection to their dragon veins. In other words, the Grand Xia, Grand Zhou, and Grand Chu’s princes will be unable to draw out their dragon vein energy to support themselves in battle, making them much weaker than normal. Perhaps they’ve already died to the Grand Han’s experts. No one will come to save you,” said Dan Chu indifferently.

  This was a mental tactic. He hoped to use this to break Long Chen’s defenses and have him hand over his treasures and secrets.

  People were all greedy. Dan Chu hoped to get Long Chen’s treasures and secrets for himself. If he could, he didn’t want to give them to the Tower Master, Dan Teng.

  “Hmph, is the Grand Han not afraid of the other three nations learning the truth and joining hands to destroy them?” asked Long Chen coldly.

  “Learning the truth? Once they’re killed, due to the lost connection with their dragon veins, not even their emperors will know who did it. The truth is, some mysterious lifeforms appeared in the Four Nations Ancient Remnant this time, and they slaughtered the four nations’ experts. Three of those nations’ elites were all killed, while the Grand Han also took heavy losses, with only a few imperial disciples managing to escape. What do you think about this truth?” sneered Dan Chu.