Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Now that they had entered Devil Spirit Mountain, Long Chen’s sense of crisis grew. It felt like a heavy rock was crushing his heart.

  “Long Chen, the two of us are too dumb for this. Can you explain it more clearly?” Bao Buping scratched his head. They didn’t quite understand.

  It was no wonder the old man hadn’t allowed them to enter Devil Spirit Mountain before. Their heads truly didn’t work too well.

  “What I mean is that those people that escaped only managed to do so because this world’s creatures let them. They intentionally let them out to draw more people here. As for why they would do such a thing, we don’t know yet. There’s no need for you to think about this. All you need to do is follow me. If a single person was able to break out of this formation with Split the Heavens, there should be no problem for the three of us. But since we’ve come, we definitely can’t leave empty-handed. Otherwise, the bosses would look down on us. We have to bring back some good stuff for them.” Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to explain too much to them. In any case, they wouldn’t understand, so there was no point.

  As expected, their eyes began to shine as they thought of the Heaven Splitting Divine Tablet. They were almost able to see the few bosses kneeling on the ground before them as they brought it back, their eyes popping out of their heads, and their mouths opening so widely that they were bigger than the rest of their heads.

  Their blood began to boil. Seeing them enter such a state, Long Chen hastily patted them on the shoulder and said, “Don’t get too excited. This will probably be much more difficult than we thought. To be safe, each one of us should eat an aura concealing pill and apply medicinal powders to conceal our presence. Let’s also change into clothes that match the color of the terrain here.”

  Long Chen took out three medicinal pills. After making these preparations, they stealthily continued onward.

  The mountain range was completely empty here. They didn’t see a single person. But every now and then, they would see bloodstains that had almost lost all their color after the encroachment of time. They were sometimes able to sense the leftover aura of the deceased experts.

  Those stains told them that they could lose their lives at any moment. They definitely couldn’t be careless. So they didn’t go very quickly. Even after over four hours, they had only crossed a dozen mountains.

  But on the way, they had seen quite a few rotted corpses and broken weapons. Long Chen even saw the remnants of an Ancestral item.

  Picking up one of them, he still sensed its terrifying pressure. From its shape, it should have been the fragment of a set of armor.

  Although it was only the size of a chicken’s egg, it was as heavy as a mountain and incredibly hard. Such a terrifying Ancestral item had been destroyed, leaving behind just this small piece. The battle back then must have been horrific.

  “Quick, get down!” Long Chen’s expression suddenly changed and he pulled the two of them into a crack in the rocks. They had only just hidden themselves when a terrifying pressure appeared.

  Chapter 1260 Creatures From Another World

  Long Chen pulled Chang Hao and Bao Buping into a crack in the rocks. He saw a strange figure in the air whistling over.

  It was a humanoid creature with wings. Its size was essentially the same as a human, but it had bat-like wings and its nose was slightly sharper. It had a mouth of sharp teeth, and its eyes glowed. It looked extremely terrifying.

  “A winged devil?”

  Long Chen was startled. This creature was extremely similar to the winged devils he had encountered in the Jiuli secret realm.

  But the winged devils he had encountered in the Jiuli secret realm had been tens to hundreds of meters tall, while this one was much smaller.

  This creature clearly had a protruding spot on its forehead that looked like a closed third eye. There was powerful energy flowing within it.

  But this creature rapidly flew by, and Long Chen also didn’t dare to look too closely for worry of it sensing him.

  Looking in the direction it was flying, it was clear it was going to the entrance they had come from.

  “Probably someone exposed themselves,” whispered Long Chen.

  The three of them stealthily crawled up to a slightly taller mountain. They quickly heard shouting and fierce whistling from the entrance.

  Although they had entered quite a while ago, they hadn’t gotten that far. From here, they were able to still see the black mist.

  In front of the black mist was a man wielding a halberd and fiercely fighting that creature.

  He had done the same thing as many adventurers once they entered Devil Spirit Mountain. The first thing he had done was test his way back, which had activated the formation and drawn over this creature.

  At this time, Bao Buping and Chang Hao looked at Long Chen with admiration. If he hadn’t warned the adventurers not to enter after them within the next six hours, the three of them would very likely have been implicated by this adventurer.

  That adventurer was a Jade Core expert. He was extremely powerful. But shockingly, despite his halberd being a King item, he was unable to do anything to this creature.

  The creature’s wings had countless runes unleashing blinding light, and its sharp claws allowed it to fight the adventurer barehanded.

  Sparks flew and a metallic ringing rang out whenever its claws clashed with the halberd. Its claws and wings were both as hard as King items.

  “This creature doesn’t seem as terrifying as I thought. I could definitely defeat it,” said Bao Buping.

  Although it was powerful, its aura was not in the Jade Core realm. Bao Buping had absolute confidence in easily defeating it.

  “You’re thinking too simply. That adventurer was most likely noticed because he touched the formation. In other words, he definitely caused information to be sent to the creatures overseeing this place. They knew it was just one ordinary adventurer, and that’s not important to them. So they just sent an ordinary expert,” said Long Chen.

  No matter how he looked at it, he felt this creature to be just like the winged devils he had encountered in the Jiuli secret realm. That raised his alarm.

  The winged devils were incredibly powerful. Even after they had died, just their skeletons possessed terrifying combat power. Just how powerful did they have to be when they were alive?

  This winged devil was the same size as an ordinary person. It was likely that it was the lowest level of the winged devils here. It was probably just a regular guard who came to eradicate the invader.

  “AHH!”

  Suddenly, a miserable scream rang out, rousing Long Chen from his thoughts. He saw blood mist erupt as that Jade Core expert was torn apart by the creature.

  After killing him, the creature looked icily around. Carrying the adventurer’s weapon, it flew away on the same path it came from.

  When it was near Long Chen and the others, Bao Buping wanted to attack it, but he was held back by Long Chen.

  Once it flew past, Long Chen said, “This place is too close to the entrance. It’s probably within the area that they monitor. Let’s continue onward and get further away before we decide to do anything.”

  They slowly continued forward. The entrance grew further and further away. Six hours later, another powerful aura flew by, and the three of them hastily hid themselves.

  As expected, another adventurer had entered and immediately tested whether he could return. As a result, he touched the formation, causing him to be sensed.

  This expert struggled a bit before being slain by another creature. In front of it, these Jade Core adventurers had no ability to resist.

  “Long Chen, what should we do?” Bao Buping and Chang Hao stared at the creature.

  Long Chen clenched his teeth. “Bring it down.”

  After killing the adventurer, the creature gathered his weapon and flew away.

  But as it was flying, it suddenly saw a person in front of it. Bao Buping was blocking its path.

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nbsp; “Long Chen wanted me to ask you if you’re a winged devil,” said Bao Buping.

  The creature’s eyes shone with a fierce light. It opened its mouth, revealing a set of sharp teeth. Its mouth actually extended all the way to its ears.

  “Jiejiejie…” The creature laughed sinisterly, a laugh that could cause a person’s blood to turn cold. Its sharp teeth flickered. It looked like a demon and sent a claw at Bao Buping.

  “Jie your father, taste my blade!” Bao Buping snorted and slashed his broadsword.

  Bang! The creature’s claws were shattered by Bao Buping’s attack. It was not a match for Bao Buping.

  It let out a miserable cry, not having expected the Foundation Forging Bao Buping to possess such power.

  The creature’s aura was also on the level of the Foundation Forging realm. Yet, it was able to slay Jade Core experts with ease.

  Therefore, it could be seen how terrifying its power was. But this power wasn’t enough when compared to Bao Buping who was at the ninth Heavenstage of Foundation Forging.

  The creature turned to run, when Sword Qi slashed down from the heavens, landing on its back and causing blood to fly.

  Sensing the fatal danger, the creature hastily folded its wings, blocking Chang Hao’s sudden attack.

  But now its wings were broken by Chang Hao’s attack. At the same time, it let out a howl and began to run. But having lost its wings, its speed fell dramatically.

  A black martial weapon ruthlessly struck its head, causing its body to go limp and fall from the sky.

  “Nice work.” Long Chen grabbed the unconscious creature, flying back toward Bao Buping and Chang Hao.

  He pressed a finger to the creature’s head and sent in his powerful Spiritual Strength.

  “Soulsearch.”

  Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength invaded the creature’s head, rushing into its mind-sea. But suddenly, its head exploded automatically as Long Chen seemed to have touched some kind of restriction.

  Long Chen snorted and his Spiritual Strength enveloped the sky. The creature’s scattering soul was still caught by his Spiritual Strength. Even these fragments could be useful to him.

  “Fuck, we were noticed so quickly.” Long Chen cursed, his expression changing. He sensed danger rapidly approaching. He grabbed the creature’s headless corpse and flung it into the distance, while he fled in the opposite direction.

  The three of them had only just disappeared when over ten similar creatures rushed over, flying toward the headless corpse.

  These experts had terrifying auras. Seeing the headless corpse, their icy eyes were filled with killing intent.

  One of them waved a hand, and they all split up, searching for the killer.

  Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao were hiding under a boulder. Long Chen had dug out a small hole for the three of them to hide in. As for the outside, he had covered their aura with medicinal powders and erased any tracks. Lying within this hole, none of them dared to move.

  They lay there for three whole days. Killing that creature had caused a huge disturbance.

  After three days of hearing them searching, things returned to calm. However, Long Chen knew that probably quite a few more adventurers had entered Devil Spirit Mountain during this time.

  Perhaps the creatures thought that the murderer was one of those adventurers and had already been slain.

  “Now what?” whispered Bao Buping.

  “Let’s wait another two days for the disturbance to completely die out. Now that we’re here, we’re not in a rush,” said Long Chen.

  Although the creature’s head had exploded in the end, Long Chen had used the fragments of its soul to piece together some information. This information was extremely helpful to him. That risk had definitely been worth it.

  After two days, they stealthily crawled out of the ground and continued onward.

  According to that creature’s memories, this location had over ten hidden sentries in charge of defending it. If a person touched the formation, one of them would go kill them.

  Due to its soul exploding, Long Chen wasn’t able to get its complete memories, so he didn’t know the location of those hidden sentries. But he could use his sense of danger to avoid them.

  As they advanced, they saw more and more marks of battle, as well as broken fragments of weapons. They even saw a few broken skeletons.

  Those skeletons were even harder than King items. There were some bloodstains on the ground that still possessed auras that made their hair stand on end despite how much time had passed.

  “A terrifying battle definitely occurred here before. Perhaps this is the battlefield from the dark era,” said Bao Buping nervously.

  The aura that came from the ground here made them feel a chill. There were definitely countless corpses buried here, corpses of heroes slain in battle.

  “Careful!”

  Long Chen suddenly pulled the two of them to the ground. A flash of light appeared overhead.

  Chapter 1261 Mysterious Pit

  A huge light beam swept through the air, shocking Bao Buping and Chang Hao. If Long Chen hadn’t pulled them down, they would have probably been hit.

  But curiously, this light beam didn’t give off any sense of danger. That was what made it so they hadn’t sensed it at all.

  “What is that?” Bao Buping stared closely at the huge light beam.

  Within this light beam was the image of a huge sword. It appeared heavy enough to shake the sky. With its countless runes revolving around it, it had to be a world-shaking divine item.

  Long Chen looked closely at the projection of the sword and then in which direction it was coming from. “As expected, this world’s creatures are up to no good. They’re intentionally projecting the images of divine items toward the Sovereign Blood Seal. That way, the outside world will see the reflections of a few divine items on the Devil Spirit Mountain, and more people will be baited over.”

  Bao Buping and Chang Hao nodded. This light beam was pointed precisely in the direction they had come from.

  “But what’s the point in drawing over more people?” asked Bao Buping.

  “The answer to that question isn’t something we can rush. Just now, when I did a soulsearch of that creature we killed, I didn’t find any answers in those regards. But this light gives us a direction. The projection has to have the true treasure behind it, so… hehe, you understand,” laughed Long Chen.

  “Long Chen, are you saying… we can obtain that treasure?” Bao Buping and Chang Hao’s eyes began to shine.

  “But of course. Otherwise, what would be the point of taking such a huge risk in coming here? But right now, our main goal is still the Heaven Splitting Divine Tablet. Let’s go take a look at it.”

  The three of them carefully crept in the direction of the light. But while the light looked like it had come from very close by, even after two days and tens of thousands of miles of travel, they didn’t see the light’s source.

  On the third day, the light had faded, but they had already determined its direction, so there was no problem.

  The three of them stealthily passed by many sentries. Once, they almost ran into one of them, causing the three of them to immediately find a hole to hide in.

  They wouldn’t have a problem dealing with a group of just ten of these creatures, but if they were exposed, then even more terrifying lifeforms would come to surround them, and they would be doomed.

  On the way, Bao Buping and Chang Hao’s admiration toward Long Chen continued to rise. They realized the only reason the old man had agreed to let them go to Devil Spirit Mountain was because of Long Chen.

  Without Long Chen, then with their characters, they’d probably have just charged their way in, and quickly be surrounded and killed.

  Long Chen brought them along a winding path, avoiding countless dangers. Although they were still surrounded by danger, it could be said that the old man’s theory that power was greater than intelligence was not always true.

 
When just intelligence wasn’t able to solve a problem, you would need to rely on power. But when your power wasn’t enough, intelligence could save your life. Without Long Chen’s intelligence, they’d have definitely long since died. This clash of principles was quite conflicting.

  From the time they saw that light beam, they traveled for a whole week before seeing a distant mountain.

  The mountain was huge and pitch-black. Its circumference was in the tens of thousands of miles, but it wasn’t steep. It was like a huge pile of dirt. However, it was so huge that it was shocking.

  When they saw this mountain, Long Chen, Bao Buping, and Chang Hao felt a suffocating feeling. It was like the mountain was trying to crush them flat.

  When they reached the foot of the mountain, they felt like they were about to cough up blood from looking at the mountain.

  “This mountain is way too sinister. How is it giving off such an evil feeling?” Bao Buping gulped and cursed.

  Just at this moment, the mountain quivered and a majestic aura suddenly soared.

  Chang Hao and Bao Buping suddenly took out two hollow rocks and hid the three of them inside. The rocks were specifically made by Long Chen. When they ran into certain situations, the rocks could save their lives. Their edges had been ground down to be seamless. No one would suspect the rocks were anything but ordinary.

  In an extremely unremarkable part of the rocks were three small holes. The three of them could see outside through them.

  Long Chen saw a set of golden armor slowly rising on the mountain. A ray of light illuminated it, and a huge projection shot into the distance. That direction was Devil Spirit Mountain’s entrance.

  “That’s a terrifying Ancestral item.” Bao Buping stared at the armor enviously.

  But as the armor slowly rose, Long Chen saw a single thin chain binding it.

  “As expected, it was bait, and we’re the fish.” Chang Hao cursed when he saw the chain.

  Clearly, this Ancestral item armor was bait this world’s creatures had put out in order to draw more people over and then kill them.