Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Scram. If I didn’t say anything, why would you say something? If they want to fight, let them fight,” said the Seventh Boss.
He had clearly been a great distance from him, and yet when he sent out his kick, he magically appeared beside Feng Xinglie.
The Seventh Boss knew Feng Xinglie was worried about something happening, but that was a slap in his face. It was saying he wouldn’t be able to handle it if they continued fighting.
Long Chen took out Blooddrinker in response to Chang Hao’s action. He knew what Chang Hao wanted to do, and he was using his own actions to reply.
“After all, we aren’t enemies, so there’s no way for us to truly fight a life and death battle. Let’s determine victory or defeat in one move.” Chang Hao’s battle intent soared.
The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s strongest attack was Split the Heavens. That was their true trump card.
Even after this intense of a fight, they were still even. And since they couldn’t truly fight to the death, there was no way they could use any move they wanted.
But they were also unwilling to end things just like this. So Chang Hao took out his martial weapon. If they were unable to determine a victory through their fists, then they could have one final exchange.
“Come. I also want to experience the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s unique skill.” Long Chen raised Blooddrinker. Blood-red light began to shine from it.
“Be careful.” Chang Hao slowly raised his broadsword. An incomparably fierce aura locked onto Long Chen.
In that instant, Long Chen could clearly sense the change in Chang Hao’s body. From his first acupuncture point, his energy began to superimpose.
Furthermore, Long Chen sensed that when Chang Hao activated his acupuncture points, his Dantian, which was unleashing a volcanic eruption of energy, suddenly became calm.
That calm was a hair-raising calm. It was like a python that had coiled up as tightly as possible right before it launched a fatal blow.
Long Chen didn’t tarry. His four qi seas and 108,000 immortal platforms circulated, pouring endless energy through his acupuncture points.
The Seventh Boss looked at Long Chen with some shock. He could sense that Long Chen was using Split the Heavens, but it was different from the original version.
Their weapons began to shine, and huge blade-images tore into the sky. That scene was shocking.
The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s disciples all felt their hearts pounding. This power was too great. With how much energy had been accumulated, it could only be unleashed now. If it was interrupted, there was no way to pull it back, and the user would probably die right there and then.
They looked toward the Seventh Boss and saw his expression was still calm. He had no intention of stopping them.
“Split the Heavens 4!”
Long Chen and Chang Hao slashed their huge blades down. It was like the attack of a god, filled with a world-destroying pressure.
BOOM! Space caved in and a terrifying shockwave erupted, blowing back Long Chen and Chang Hao. They both vomited blood, their skin splitting and becoming covered in blood.
At this time, the Seventh Boss waved his hand and it was like an invisible hand had appeared in the air. Their clashing energy was scattered without unleashing even a ripple.
Only once that pressure was dissipated did the disciples sigh with relief. If the Seventh Boss had allowed that energy to run rampant, they would all have been sent flying and heavily injured. Who lived and who died would be up to the mood of the heavens.
Long Chen and Chang Hao continued to hack up blood. They felt like all their bones had been broken. That collision of power had been too terrifying, and they themselves hadn’t been able to bear it.
When Chang Hao unleashed the fourth form of Split the Heavens, the spiritual yuan in his Dantian had begun to ignite, pouring through his thirty-six acupuncture points a second time. In that instant, Long Chen had smelled the scent of death.
This attack had had the power to kill him. Under that threat, there had been no way for him to hold back. He had poured in all the energy of his immortal platforms into his attack.
Even though he had strengthened his body, he was barely able to handle the impact of using up all that energy. But with all his energy sent into this attack, just like Chang Hao, he hadn’t had any spiritual yuan left over to defend himself. As a result, he was almost killed.
Just at this moment, a large hand slammed toward Long Chen’s chest. Long Chen’s hair stood on end. He sensed that if this palm landed, all his bones would be shattered.
Long Chen slashed his saber at his attacker’s throat. That slash was crafty, vicious, and quick.
“Not a bad reaction,” said his attacker. That person was actually the Seventh Boss, shocking Long Chen.
The Seventh Boss raised a single finger and flicked Blooddrinker away. It flew out of Long Chen’s grasp, turning into a blood-colored light that flew into the distance.
BOOM!
Despite Long Chen doing his best to dodge that hand, he was shocked to sense all his bones shatter, and then his vision darkened and he lost consciousness.
Long Chen lay limply in the Seventh Boss’s hold. Then the Seventh Boss disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was in front of a three-hundred-meter pool. That water looked like it had mist within it, and multi-colored light shone from it. It contained a powerful and sacred spiritual air.
Long Chen was tossed into the pool, quickly sinking to the bottom. All the pool’s water began to bubble like it was boiling, and mist began to rise from it.
All his bones were broken, and he was out of physical strength as well. Now, within this pool, endless energy poured into his empty body.
It was like Long Chen was a riverbed that had been dry for countless years and was finally receiving nourishment. He greedily absorbed this energy.
Long Chen was unconscious and had no idea that this was the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s precious and mysterious Heaven Earth Divine Pool.
This pool was a marvel of the world. It contained the purest and most primal energy of the world, and it could greatly strengthen a person’s body.
In the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, inner sect disciples would have one chance to bathe within this divine pool once they reached the Foundation Forging realm.
In order to make it the most effective, experts would first break the disciple’s bones before they entered. Then the divine pool’s energy would reforge their skeleton and make them even stronger.
Furthermore, the person who attacked had to be a supreme expert capable of shattering the disciple’s skeleton in one blow. That energy had to be extremely well controlled.
At the bottom of the pool, Long Chen began to suck in the energy faster and faster. In the end, it felt like his body had awakened and begun to crazily absorb energy.
A whirlpool formed within the pool as energy poured into his body.
“What a powerful physical body. The divine pool probably doesn’t have enough energy.” The Seventh Boss’s expression changed. He hadn’t expected Long Chen to absorb this much energy. This was just the start, and he had already absorbed ten times the energy of ordinary disciples. If this continued…
“Open the divine spring. Let him absorb as much as he wants.”
Just as the Seventh Boss was hesitating over what to do, an ancient and commanding voice rang out.
Chapter 1244 Continuous Advancement
“Old man!”
The Seventh Boss looked in a distant direction. It was as if he was peering through space to see the elder sitting at the peak of the mountain.
“But there’s not much left of the divine spring. At best, it can last us a thousand years. If…” The Seventh Boss was hesitant.
“Where did so much bullshit come from? No matter how poor my Heaven Splitting Battle Sect becomes, do you think I’ll allow my children to starve? Open the divine spring, and let him absorb as much as possible. This is his good fo
rtune. Since I’ve accepted him as a disciple of my Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, he is part of my family. You think I can mistreat him? If the heavens want my Heaven Splitting Battle Sect to die, do you think a thousand years is enough to turn things around? Truly foolish to the peak. If you’re doomed to die, no one can stop it, and if you’re not doomed to die, there will always be a chance to turn things around. Don’t you think your fears are groundless? Is your skin itchy after not being beaten for a few centuries?”
“Fine, your fist is the strongest, so I can’t outargue you,” said the Seventh Boss helplessly. He reached out and pressed down on a formation disc beside him.
The Heaven Earth Divine Pool trembled, and then its bottom slowly opened. There was actually a divine spring below it that was slowly bubbling up.
The water had already sunk greatly through Long Chen’s crazy absorption, and now it was finally slowly rising.
But the speed of its rising was very slow because Long Chen had formed a huge whirlpool that was crazily absorbing the energy.
This divine spring water was the purest energy of the world. It was the most important thing the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect used to raise its disciples.
The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect had declined from its former splendor, and the divine spring did not receive enough nourishment. It had been slowly drying up over all this time. Now, all that remained was this final reserve.
Lying within the pool, Long Chen felt himself to be a legendary heaven devouring beast. He crazily absorbed that energy, nourishing his body.
Back in the Four Nations Ancient Remnant, he had used medicinal pills to temper his body, allowing it to reach a kind of peak.
But this was different. The Seventh Boss had beaten Long Chen’s body into its weakest state. This was like a complete rebirth, and there was an immense difference between this and how he had upgraded his body himself.
Suddenly, an explosive sound came from the pool, and a domineering pressure spread from Long Chen’s body, causing the lake to shake.
“He advanced?”
Although Long Chen was still unconscious, he had absorbed so much energy that he had stepped into the sixth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging.
The Seventh Boss waved his hand, and an invisible energy sealed this space, preventing his advancement from causing too much of a disturbance. If the liquid in the Heaven Earth Divine Pool left the pool, it would quickly evaporate into nothingness.
BOOM!
In less than an incense stick’s worth of time, another explosive sound rang out as Long Chen advanced once more. This time, the eruption was twice as strong as the last one, and he reached the seventh Heavenstage.
The aura Long Chen was releasing now was even stronger, over ten times greater than before, because the seventh Heavenstage was the barrier between the mid and the late stages. Although they were just one Heavenstage apart, his power went through a heaven-toppling transformation.
“Long Chen’s foundation has been accumulating for too long. Even after continuous breakthroughs, his foundation hasn’t been shaken at all. And this aura is so powerful that it has already surpassed Kings. In the future, he will be an amazing monster,” praised the Seventh Boss.
Long Chen finally woke from his unconscious state through this advancement. Sensing his newfound energy, he felt like he had been reborn, and he raised his head and laughed.
“Haha- pfft!”
Long Chen flew out of the divine pool and had only managed to laugh for an instant when the Seventh Boss slammed his palm out, once more shattering Long Chen’s bones and tossing him into the pool.
The huge whirlpool once more formed, and this time it was even greater than before. The speed of his absorption had increased.
Long Chen was once more unconscious. It felt like he had returned to the state of a fetus in a mother’s womb. He was naturally absorbing the pool’s energy without having to do anything. This was the kind of absorption that was closest to the Heavenly Daos.
If Long Chen’s body had been mud before, then through this tempering, it had been promoted to the level of stone. It was like the difference between heaven and earth.
Looking at Long Chen lying at the bottom of the pool, the Seventh Boss was filled with shock. The amount of energy he had absorbed in just this one go had already surpassed Chang Hao.
Each disciple would be knocked unconscious and tossed in three times in a row, and Long Chen had already absorbed more energy than Chang Hao had in total. And his second run was even more shocking.
The Heaven Earth Divine Pool’s tempering would give more energy to a person based on how strong the physical body and how great the potential they had. That was because the divine pool poured in energy in an attempt to excavate a person’s natural potential.
“He’s practically a demon.” The Seventh Boss shook his head. The power of Long Chen’s body had far surpassed his expectations.
“Whether or not he is a demon, he is still my family’s child. There’s nothing to feel begrudged over. Don’t be stingy, and continue opening the Heaven Earth Divine Spring.” The old man’s voice once more rang out.
The Seventh Boss helplessly waved his hand and touched a stone pillar. Its runes lit up, and another divine spring was opened up. More and more water was pouring out from below, and all that energy was being absorbed by Long Chen.
After two hours, Long Chen suddenly opened his eyes, a brilliant light shining within them.
His energy once more erupted, and a hurricane formed around him as he entered the eighth Heavenstage.
The Seventh Boss waved his hand, stopping the water from escaping. He also once more sent out a palm, sealing all of Long Chen’s escape routes.
“Again?”
Long Chen suddenly unleashed Lei Long and Huo Long. “Double Dragon Destruction!”
When he unleashed the lightning dragon and flame dragon, Long Chen clearly felt they were now mismatched. Lei Long’s power was now weaker than Huo Long’s by too much, making it so they no longer had their old combined power.
“An insignificant technique.” The Seventh Boss smiled and smashed them apart with a single fist. But once he destroyed the two dragons, his smile also vanished because Long Chen’s hands had caught his fist.
Then using a strange move, he fiercely spun, his head facing down while one of his legs came from above. The Seventh Boss was a powerful expert in his own right with plentiful battle experience, but he had never seen such a strange move. Startled, he didn’t know what Long Chen was doing.
“Take this!”
But this spin was only to draw his attention. Long Chen’s other foot viciously slammed into the Seventh Boss’s nose.
The Seventh Boss felt a burst of pain and involuntarily teared up.
Enraged, he roared, “Little bastard, you’re asking for a beating!”
Light appeared on the Seventh Boss’s fist, and Long Chen’s sleeves were instantly blown apart along with his hands.
The Seventh Boss’s foot landed squarely on Long Chen’s chest, causing him to vomit blood. His bones once more shattered, and he fell into the pool.
“Fuck, how painful.” The Seventh Boss held his nose and cursed, his tears streaming out from how vicious that kick had been.
“Hahahaha…”
The old man’s laughter rang out. He clearly felt it was funny that the Seventh Boss would suffer like this.
“What are you laughing about?! I was just careless!” roared the Seventh Boss.
He had only just finished cursing when an invisible hand appeared and slammed into him. At the same time, the old man’s cursing rang out. “Who do you think you’re quibbling with?!”
The Seventh Boss hastily raised his arms. Runes appeared on his fists, but he was still blown away by that invisible hand, tumbling back into the distance. When he crawled up, he was covered in dust, looking miserable.
“Old man, just you wait. Sooner or later, I’ll make you kneel before me!” roared the Seventh Boss.
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“With just your little ability, you should give up that thought. I probably won’t be able to live to see such a day,” said the old man disdainfully.
Just at this moment, green scales appeared on Long Chen’s body. Those scales had small whirlpools form above them, and they also greedily absorbed the divine pool’s energy.
“Old man, these scales seem like dragon scales. That aura is very similar,” said the Seventh Boss with surprise.
Long Chen had summoned the Green Dragon Battle Armor before, but because of Long Chen’s aura obscuring it, the Seventh Boss hadn’t cared too much about it. He had thought it to be a kind of secret art.
“They don’t seem like dragon scales, they are truly dragon scales. Furthermore, they are the scales of the dragon with the noblest bloodline, the true dragon. For his scales to be green, it should be the scales of a true dragon’s first level. Even in the immortal era when the dragon race was still around, true dragons were rare. Now, these dragon scales are helping him strengthen his body. That means Long Chen should have received the dragon race’s approval. This little fellow has had some good fortune,” said the old man.
“But isn’t the dragon race extinct? How could he receive their approval?”
“Fool, if the books say they’re extinct, does that mean they’re definitely extinct? Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You can’t see gods anymore, but can you say gods no longer exist?” said the old man irritably.
“Fine. Like I said, your fist is stronger, so I can’t outargue you,” said the Seventh Boss helplessly.
“Do you believe me when I say I’ll slap you right now if you speak like that to me?” raged the old man.
Just at this moment, a strange sound came from the divine pool. The Seventh Boss hastily looked over, and his pupils involuntarily shrank.
Chapter 1245 Ninth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging
The water of the divine pool had run out. Long Chen had sucked two of the divine springs’ water dry.
“Old man…” The Seventh Both hesitated.