Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  So despite seeing how fierce and sinister this Mandara Body Tempering Pill was, Long Chen had no choice but to steel his heart and swallow it.

  BOOM!

  Long Chen had only just consumed it when he felt like a volcano had exploded within him. Boundless medicinal energy was pouring throughout his body.

  It was like a scorpion hive had exploded, and millions of scorpions were rampaging in his body.

  Long Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood. It was black as ink and released a strong fishy smell.

  “How toxic!” Long Chen cursed inside. His whole body became black, and pain wracked his entire body.

  The Blazing Dragon Cauldron unleashed a ray of light that was about to envelop him, but Long Chen stopped it. “Don’t. I can endure it.”

  Long Chen was a bit moved. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron was actually worried about him being poisoned to death and wanted to help him. It was willing to even use its little remaining core energy to remove the poison from his body. That was a big sacrifice.

  But Long Chen needed this poison to circulate around every inch of his body. He couldn’t counterattack. He needed to open every bit of his body so that the poison could infect every cell.

  Even though he considered himself to have a pretty good tolerance for pain, he almost couldn’t bear it. The veins on his forehead popped up, and his eyes bulged out. He felt like his body was about to explode.

  But he obstinately clenched his teeth and endured the pain. Blood dripped out from how hard he clenched his teeth.

  The Mandara Body Tempering Pill had the greatest effect the first time. He had to use this chance to violently stimulate his body’s potential.

  The more his body felt like it was about to die, the greater his body would work to grow under the threat of the poison.

  Long Chen was confident in his body. It could definitely endure this. The only question was whether he could endure the torment of the pain or not.

  After several breaths, Long Chen was laying on the ground, twitching. But he did his best not to scream or to roll around.

  Any movements would waste energy. What he needed to do was to focus all his strength on enduring the pain. He couldn’t waste any.

  Twenty hours passed before the pain gradually faded. Long Chen was lying there like a dead dog. He rested for two incense sticks’ worth of time before getting up and sitting.

  “The poison has faded. Looks like the antitoxin pills I prepared were for nothing. My body’s even stronger than I expected.” Long Chen put away a white pill. Afraid of dying, he had prepared this antitoxin pill, but he hadn’t needed it in the end.

  “Blazing Dragon Cauldron, let’s continue and refine a few more.”

  Long Chen summoned the Blazing Dragon Cauldron back to his side and started refining the Mandara Body Tempering Pills once more. He took advantage of this time when the poison hadn’t been completely expelled from his body to consume another one, multiplying its effect.

  Normally, people would have to wait until the poison was completely expelled before continuing, or the superimposition of the poison would kill them.

  But Long Chen found that his body was even stronger than he had expected. In order to let his body get as strong as possible, he had to push it.

  Only by strengthening his body to the limit would he be able to unleash the full power of his immortal platforms, and only then could he increase his cultivation base without worry.

  As a result, Long Chen refined one, and then ate one, over and over. After five Mandara Body Tempering Pills, Long Chen had gone through the same torture five times. By this time, his body had already formed a resistance against the Mandara Body Tempering Pill, and it could no longer stimulate his body.

  Following this, Long Chen drank a mouthful of the divine life elixir, instantly expelling the remaining poison. He immediately felt refreshed, as if every one of his cells had been cleansed. He felt full of power.

  Letting out a punch, space rumbled and twisted. Long Chen had a feeling that he could destroy heaven and earth.

  Although that was bragging, he did believe that with the current power of his physical body, he could instantly kill a rank seven Celestial with a punch.

  He beat his chest a few times, causing loud rumbling to ring out. There was almost a metallic ringing sound echoing throughout the room.

  “Hehe, I didn’t poison myself in vain.” Long Chen smiled. He was extremely satisfied with the effect of the Mandara Body Tempering Pill.

  “Whether or not I can advance to the fifth Heavenstage will be up to you three.” Long Chen took out the three drops of yuan spirit divine elixir. He swallowed them into his stomach.

  …

  Time passed day by day. The Four Nations Ancient Remnant was in chaos as the Grand Xia, Grand Zhou, and Grand Chu’s experts were slaughtered.

  At first, they had all been suspicious of each other. But in the end, one of the experts of the Grand Xia managed to slaughter his way out of the encirclement of his enemies, spreading the news that the Grand Han was slaughtering the other nations’ experts, infuriating and shocking them. They all used secret communication methods to gather together.

  By the time the three nations’ experts gathered, they found that over half of them had already been killed.

  The Grand Xia’s crown prince, Xia Yunfeng, immediately felt like something was wrong. He brought the remaining elites of the Grand Xia toward the transportation point.

  “You guys go first. I need to search for Youluo.” Xia Yunchong cared too much about his little sister. He refused to leave the secret gathering point before seeing her.

  Not only was Xia Youluo missing, even Long Chen hadn’t sent any word. Long Chen was also carrying one of the Grand Xia’s jade plates, and as long as he was alive, he should have received word to gather.

  But in truth, Long Chen was within the inheritance palace, and he was isolated from all news. The jade plate didn’t sense anything.

  “Don’t cause trouble. The signal was already released, so if they were still alive, they’d have definitely gathered with us. And if they’re dead, what’s the point of staying behind?” shouted Xia Yunfeng gravely. “This is no small matter! Since the Grand Han dares to attack us, the Grand Chu, and Grand Zhou at the same time, they clearly started preparing a long time ago! The Four Nations Ancient Remnant is just a trap. What we need to do is leave alive. Sacrificing ourselves will only make things worse. Right now, we’re surrounded by enemies, and it’s very unfavorable for us. It’s almost time for the exit to open, so we have to test our luck and see if we can escape before our enemies seal us off. Otherwise, we’ll all die.”

  Xia Yunchong shook his head. “I am different from you. You are the crown prince, while I’m not. Imperial brother, I respect you, but sorry, I can’t listen to you. I must find Youluo and Long Chen. If they’re alive, I want to see them alive, and if they’re dead, I want to see their corpses.”

  Xia Yunfeng coldly ordered, “Don’t be so willful! Right now, I’m using my status as crown prince to order you to leave.”

  Xia Yunfeng and Xia Yunchong were different. The former relied more on his intelligence than his martial might. As soon as he had learned that the Grand Han’s experts were openly slaughtering the other three nations’ experts, his sharp intuition had told him something was wrong.

  Since Long Chen and Xia Youluo hadn’t returned, that only meant that they were dead. If even experts on the level of Long Chen and Xia Youluo hadn’t managed to release a distress signal before dying, then their enemies had to be truly terrifying.

  Either they hadn’t had time to release the distress call or they had felt like releasing the distress call would only cause more people to die with them.

  Either way, it didn’t bode well. Xia Yunfeng was ashen as he furiously scolded Xia Yunchong.

  Right now, Xia Yunchong’s actions were foolish in his eyes. Not only were his actions useless, but they would also cause him to forfeit his life. He would then lose a
ny chance of getting revenge for Long Chen and Xia Youluo.

  “Hahaha, truly worthy of being the Grand Xia’s wise crown prince. Unfortunately, even if you were smarter, you still wouldn’t be able to escape my palm.”

  Suddenly, a cold cry rang out. Han Wenjun appeared in the distance along with a group of Grand Han’s experts. They numbered twenty-eight hundred, while the Grand Xia’s side had less than a thousand people now.

  “Bastard, release Youluo!”

  When Xia Yunchong saw Han Wenjun holding a maiden in his hand, his eyes almost tore out of their sockets.

  Chapter 1218 Despicably Shameless

  Han Wenjun was holding Xia Youluo in his hand. Xia Youluo was pale, her eyes red. There was a red handprint on the corner of her mouth.

  Blood slowly dripped out of her lips and onto her clothes. She no longer had that arrogant appearance she had before. Seeing this, all the Grand Xia’s experts began to burn with killing intent.

  “Release princess Youluo, or we’ll slaughter all of you!” This time, even Xia Yunfeng wasn’t able to keep his calm.

  Xia Youluo had always been the pride of the Grand Xia’s people. Everyone adored her and they collectively pampered her. Let alone beating or scolding her, they weren’t even willing to say a few harsh words to her.

  Seeing her bleeding, Xia Yunchong clenched his teeth. He had an urge to charge forward right now and kill these sanctimonious Grand Han bastards.

  “Big brother…” Xia Youluo’s cultivation base was sealed right now. She looked like her soul had left her body. But when she heard that familiar voice, she opened her eyes. Seeing her brothers, she let out a hoarse cry, tears streaming down her face.

  She was full of remorse now. When she had encountered Han Wenjun, he had suddenly captured her. At that time, Han Wenjun had revealed his ugly side.

  She had never imagined that the perfect man she had once worshipped was actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  When she asked why he was doing this, his reply made her heart turn to ice.

  Han Wenjun’s goal was strikingly similar to those words Long Chen had said when he had been scolding her. Everything was the Grand Han’s sinister scheme.

  Thinking of how she had once defended Han Wenjun and fought against Long Chen, she almost died of embarrassment. Now she had become a hostage Han Wenjun was using to threaten his people.

  Xia Youluo had tried several times to stealthily kill herself, but she hadn’t succeeded. Each time she was stopped by Li Wanji. With her cultivation base sealed, she didn’t even have the power to commit suicide.

  Hatred filled her heart. Long Chen had been right. She had felt her life was boring, and so she had made up her own fantasies of the outside world. She had imagined the outside world to be perfect and beautiful, while everything around her was dull.

  Realizing this now was too late. Looking at the sneering Han Wenjun and the others, for some unknown reason, she suddenly thought of a scoundrel face that always had a naughty smile on it.

  “Han Wenjun, Long Chen definitely won’t let you off!” With tears in her eyes, she didn’t know why, but she didn’t cry out her big brother’s name, nor did she call out for her father. Instead, she called out Long Chen’s name.

  Perhaps in her mind, that fellow who was never proper but had huge guts was more dependable, more worthy of her trust.

  Suddenly, Li Wanji slapped her across the face. “Slut, shut up!”

  This slap was not only a slap across Xia Youluo’s tender face, but a slap across the Grand Xia’s experts’ hearts.

  “DIE!” Xia Yunchong was the first to roar and charge at Li Wanji. A terrifying pressure erupted into the air, and his undefeatable will locked onto Li Wanji.

  In that instant, Li Wanji felt herself to be an insignificant ant in the face of an angry lion. She felt like she was about to be torn to pieces the next second.

  The most terrifying thing was that when this will locked onto her, she couldn’t even form a desire to resist. The only thing she thought to do was to run.

  “Let me experience your Undefeatable Dao.” Suddenly, one of the Three Monarchs, Han Bijun, smashed a fist at Xia Yunchong.

  BOOM!

  Their fists collided and a powerful windstorm erupted. Han Bijun was shocked as he was sent flying. He wasn’t Xia Yunchong’s match.

  “All of you can die!” Xia Yunchong seemed insane. His roar was like thunder, shaking their eardrums. His undefeatable will was crushing their hearts.

  The Grand Han’s experts were all shocked. They had long since heard that the number one warrior of the Grand Han, Xia Yunchong, cultivated the Undefeatable Dao and was unrivaled in the same realm. Now that they saw it, they finally understood the terror of those who cultivated this Dao.

  In Xia Yunchong’s fury, he directly summoned his rank eight Celestial manifestation. Within this manifestation was a faint image of a dragon, the support of the dragon vein.

  Normally, this illusory figure would unleash blinding light. But now, it was faint because its connection to the Grand Xia’s dragon vein had been severed.

  “I want to try it as well.” Seeing that Han Bijun was unable to stop him, Han Qijun joined in. Both of them unleashed their manifestations which had dragon images in them as well.

  The three of them fought intensely while everyone else backed up, shocked by their power. They were shocked to find that even Han Bijun and Han Qijun were still forced to fall back by Xia Yunchong.

  “Imperial brother, let’s go kill them!” One of the other Grand Xia’s princes couldn’t help but stealthily give a suggestion to Xia Yunfeng.

  “We can’t. Youluo is in their hands. Our hands are tied.” Xia Yunfeng’s head was rapidly working as he tried to come up with a solution. But he couldn’t.

  There was one question he didn’t know the answer to. The Grand Han clearly wasn’t strong enough, so how could they dare to fearlessly sneak attack the other three nations?

  If Xia Youluo wasn’t in their hands and their two sides were to fight right at this moment, the Grand Han wouldn’t be able to get any advantage over them. That was what made him the most uneasy.

  “Rising Dragon Fist!”

  Suddenly, the roaring of a dragon could be heard. Xia Yunchong’s fist unleashed an illusory dragon that sent Han Qijun and Han Bijun flying. They were both shocked. The two of them were also supported by their dragon vein, and they were also rank eight Celestials. But even working together, they were not Xia Yunchong’s match.

  Xia Yunchong was like an angry lion, unleashing boundless killing intent. Standing in the air, he was like an undefeatable battle god, looking down on all of them. He once more let out a punch.

  Just at this moment, Li Wanji flew in front of the two of them. It wasn’t that she was powerful enough to block Xia Yunchong, but that she held a protective talisman in her hand.

  Xia Yunchong hastily retracted his fist and retreated, glaring at Li Wanji. His killing intent was soaring.

  Li Wanji was holding Xia Youluo’s neck. Xia Youluo wanted to struggle, but she was powerless to do so with her cultivation base sealed. She could only be carried by Li Wanji.

  A clapping sound rang out and Han Wenjun walked out, praising, “Truly worthy of being the Grand Xia’s Undefeatable Dao warrior. This kind of combat power is admirable. However, you might have your Undefeatable Dao, but I have my own undefeatable card. I wonder, which one of them is truly undefeatable? Kneel.”

  Han Wenjun stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Xia Yunchong coldly. Li Wanji tightened her hand over Xia Youluo’s neck, indenting it.

  But Xia Youluo didn’t make a sound. Not even her body twitched. She knew if she expressed any pain, it would only make things harder on Xia Yunchong and the others.

  Seeing Xia Youluo being humiliated like this caused Xia Yunchong and the others’ eyes to almost tear out of their sockets. Xia Youluo was the Grand Xia’s princess, and she had never suffered such a thing before. All of the Grand Xia’s experts want
ed to tear Li Wanji apart.

  Li Wanji simply sneered at them. “Xia Yunchong, are you deaf? Kneel. Or do you want your little sister to die right in front of you?”

  Xia Yunchong trembled from rage. But looking at Xia Youluo caught in Li Wanji’s hand, he finally slowly lowered himself.

  “Yunchong, don’t! You cultivate the Undefeatable Dao! If you submit to others, your Dao-heart will be destroyed!” roared Xia Yunfeng furiously.

  Cultivating the Undefeatable Dao required maintaining an undefeatable Dao-heart. If the Dao-heart was fractured, their cultivation base would forever stop advancing. They would be crippled.

  Li Wanji, Han Wenjun, and the others coldly stared at Xia Yunchong. Seeing that his whole body was trembling, they smiled.

  “Don’t-!”

  Xia Youluo did her best to shout, but Li Wanji increased the force in her hand, causing Xia Youluo to cough up blood.

  “STOP!” Xia Yunchong roared, his voice full of killing intent. He looked like his eyes were about to bleed.

  In front of everyone, Xia Yunchong really knelt on the ground. The Grand Xia’s experts felt their hearts breaking. A generation’s Undefeatable Dao cultivator was crippled just like this.

  “Hahahaha…” Han Wenjun, Han Bijun, Han Qijun, Li Wanji, and the other Grand Han’s experts all laughed, their laughter full of derision and mocking.

  “Undefeatable Dao? What dogshit. Didn’t he still kneel in front of my Grand Han’s experts?”

  “The Grand Xia’s people are all pigs. For them to be called one of the four ancient nations along with my Grand Han is truly an insult.”

  “Do you know? The Grand Zhou and Grand Chu’s experts have already been annihilated. Only your Grand Xia remains. What are you all waiting for? Don’t you think it’s time for you to kneel and beg for mercy?”

  The Grand Han’s side laughed, but their words caused the Grand Xia’s experts’ hearts to shake.

  The Grand Zhou and Grand Chu’s experts had all been annihilated? This news caused Xia Yunfeng’s expression to change. It meant that Grand Han truly did have some unknown trump card.