Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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Huo Long immediately vanished as Long Chen called it back. The cage now tightened around the flame leopard.
“Twisting Flame Deathblow!”
Chapter 1359 Devouring an Earth Flame Spirit Beast
The flame cage tightened around the flame leopard. It struggled intensely, causing the cage to constantly quiver.
This cage was an extremely powerful technique he had learned in Pill Valley. It was much more complicated than the Raging Flame Prison he had previously learned, and it was also much more terrifying.
Although the cast time was a bit long, it was the best technique to use against a mindless Earth Flame Spirit Beast. While he had been accumulating power, the Earth Flame Spirit Beast hadn’t even known that it should be running.
It crazily struggled. What Long Chen hadn’t expected was that it was making this powerful cage shudder intensely.
“This Earth Flame Spirit Beast is actually so powerful!” Long Chen was shocked. Its power was greater than what he had estimated. His Twisting Flame Deathblow was unable to instantly kill it.
However, the flame cage continued to shrink. Although it was unable to kill it, the Earth Flame Spirit Beast couldn’t budge.
“No, it’s not that the cage isn’t strong enough, but that their energy comes from the same source.”
Whether it was Huo Long or the energy he had gathered with the Nirvana Scripture, they were all flame energy.
Using flame energy to attack an Earth Flame Spirit Beast would naturally have less effect than normal. This was also why fights between flame cultivators were so boring. Their power came from the same source, so unless there was a large power disparity, it would turn into a battle of attrition.
Flame cultivators in the same realm might fight for several days without determining a winner. In the end, it depended on whose spiritual yuan and soul energy was greater. That was why no one was interested in watching flame cultivators fight.
Now Long Chen was in a deadlock against this Earth Flame Spirit Beast. He was unable to kill it, but it was unable to escape his cage.
“Huo Long, come out and eat it,” said Long Chen. Huo Long flew out of Long Chen’s arm and bit down on the flame leopard. Flames danced as it tore off a chunk of it.
This ‘meat’ was actually the flame leopard’s purest flame runes. It crazily struggled and roared, but the cage bound it, making it so it couldn’t even move, let alone strike back at Huo Long.
Seeing this, Huo Long continued to take large bites out of it. As it consumed its energy, Huo Long’s aura grew stronger, while the flame leopard began to shrink and dim.
After a while, Huo Long was no longer able to continue eating more of its energy. It needed a bit of time to digest it.
At this moment, it was possible to see the difference between them. Huo Long had to rest seven times before fully devouring it.
After devouring it, Huo Long’s aura had completely transformed. Flames constantly erupted from it, making one impossible to see its body.
Long Chen knew this was the result of Huo Long not being able to control its new power. It needed some time to get accustomed to it.
“Oh? People arrived this quickly?”
Long Chen suddenly looked into the distance. Intense fluctuations were coming from there. He knew that most likely, someone else was subduing an Earth Flame Spirit Beast.
Long Chen wanted to take a look. Putting away Huo Long, he rushed over.
After just a bit, the fluctuations grew clearer. He quickly saw several figures fighting an Earth Flame Spirit Beast.
It was a scorpion-like beast. Because they were too far, Long Chen wasn’t able to see its unique attributes, so he couldn’t tell what Earth Flame it was.
However, just from the fluctuations, he knew that its ranking wouldn’t be too low. It was at least much stronger than the Berserk Blood Flame he had consumed. Its ranking looked to be around twenty-six or twenty-seven.
Looking toward the three disciples, he was startled by the coincidence. They were all disciples from the Divine Shield Alliance.
Two of them were on the list of people he was supposed to kill. They were Foundation Forging disciples, while the third one was a Jade Core expert.
The Jade Core expert was a rank eight Celestial. The three of them were continuously forming hand seals gravely. A blood-red rune was revolving around the Jade Core disciple’s forehead, and Blood chains were flying out at the Earth Flame Spirit Beast.
The Earth Flame Spirit Beast was currently fighting against countless flame chains, which had traces of blood within it. The Earth Flame Spirit Beast was struggling so fiercely that it looked like the chains would break at any moment.
The three of them were extremely nervous. Capturing such a powerful Earth Flame Spirit Beast was extremely dangerous for them. Therefore, they were completely focused on using their Spiritual Strength to seal this Earth Flame Spirit Beast. If they failed and it broke their seal, their souls would be permanently damaged.
Long Chen could see that it was the rank eight Celestial that was intent on subduing it. The other two were just helping.
The true power was coming from the rank eight Celestial. His manifestation was activated behind him, and his Spirit Blood had condensed in the chains.
His face was pale. Capturing such a powerful Earth Flame Spirit Beast was not easy for him, and he needed to pay a huge price. The majority of his Spirit Blood had already been exhausted.
However, as long as he succeeded in capturing it, it would be worth it. Spirit Blood could be slowly recovered, but such a powerful Earth Flame was priceless to an alchemist.
Although Pill Valley also had Earth Flames of this ranking, they were just Earth Flame seeds. Their power couldn’t compare to these Earth Flame Spirit Beasts.
If he could refine this Earth Flame Spirit Beast into an Earth Flame seed, it would be many times stronger than an ordinary Earth Flame seed. It had to be known that for alchemists, the slightest difference in the power of their Earth Flames could benefit them immensely.
The disciples who had entered the Heaven Dragon Flame Region all came prepared. They had powerful sealing arts that could be backed by the Spirit Blood to capture the Earth Flames.
This kind of sealing art wouldn’t make the Earth Flame Spirit Beast feel endangered. Instead, it would feel very comfortable. Then it wouldn’t resist so fiercely.
As the rank eight Celestial poured in his Spirit Blood, the Earth Flame Spirit Beast’s struggling weakened. Chains of Spirit Blood spread like a net, wrapping over the Earth Flame Spirit Beast in multiple layers. Now it looked like it had fallen into a slumber.
“Hahaha, success!”
The rank eight Celestial was pale and exhausted, but he was ecstatic.
He only had time for one cheer of success before a flame spear suddenly pierced through his head from behind, destroying his body and soul.
Long Chen was hidden and watching, and he had long since noticed a figure stealthily approaching. With the three of them focused on the Earth Flame Spirit Beast, they hadn’t sensed this danger. As a result, when their nerves relaxed after sealing the Earth Flame Spirit Beast, the rank eight Celestial was slain.
“Who’s there?!” The other two disciples were shocked. They hadn’t been expecting a sudden sneak attack. Furthermore, their opponent had killed one of them mercilessly.
“This Earth Flame Spirit Beast belongs to me, Master Long San! You two ants aren’t worth killing. Scram!”
The sneak attackers suddenly took off his mask, revealing Long San. Those two disciples were horrified.
“Go back and report to that idiot Jiang Zijun that he should wash his neck. I’ll be taking his head soon.” That Long San sneered at the two of them disdainfully.
The distant Long Chen stared in shock. But he quickly realized that this was an attempt to frame him. It seemed that they had been given orders to kill other disciples while impersonating him. In any case, when the time came, all those people’s deaths would b
e pushed onto him.
Those two disciples were terrified. Suddenly, one of them took out a sphere.
That Long San immediately stabbed his flame spear forward, destroying his arm. The sphere landed in Long San’s hand, and he sneered, “You want to summon reinforcements? Truly courting death! Since you want to die, I’ll help you out!”
That Long San suddenly let go of his spear. Flames soared into the sky, and a sea of runes appeared behind him. He was also a rank eight Celestial.
Those disciples looked at each other in dismay. Clenching their teeth, they shot off in different directions.
“Hmph, crafty,” snorted Long San. He didn’t chase. Instead, he walked toward the sealed Earth Flame Spirit Beast.
The Earth Flame Spirit Beast was bound in layers of flame chains that were like a cocoon. There were multiple layers of blood-colored runes amongst them.
Seeing it, Long San smiled. This was quite a large side benefit.
Long San had just reached out to pull it into his spiritual space when it vanished.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of Long San.
“Long San!?”
Long Chen looked at this incomparably shocked fellow. He sneered, “Your disguise isn’t bad. So, tell me, what do you think you’re doing?”
Chapter 1360 Heaven Incinerating Flame
“Long San, hand over the Earth Flame Spirit Beast! That’s my battle spoil!” The other Long San quickly recovered from his shock.
“You still haven’t answered me. Why are you pretending to be me?” asked Long Chen indifferently.
“This is my mission. I’m helping you draw away your enemies. If you’re not grateful, then fine, but don’t you think taking my battle spoils is going overboard?!”
The crafty light behind his feigned anger was unable to escape Long Chen. He suddenly sighed and smiled. “So that’s what it was. Sorry, I misjudged you. Here, take the Earth Flame Spirit Beast. As an apology, please take this insignificant little gift as well.”
Long Chen tossed a certain thing at this person. That person was still on guard, but he immediately turned pale upon seeing what it was.
What Long Chen had tossed out was a tiny flame dragon. When it came flying out of his arm, it was just a foot long. But a terrifying pressure came from it.
“Bastard, you dare to scheme against me?!” That person hastily formed hand seals, summoning ten flame walls in front of him as he retreated.
However, it didn’t have any use. Huo Long devoured the flame walls in one gulp. It then lunged forward and swallowed him as well.
As soon as he entered Huo Long’s stomach, he was incinerated into nothing. He didn’t even have the power to struggle.
Huo Long returned to Long Chen’s arm. He smiled. “So I was right. These people never had any intentions of letting me live to come out of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.”
Huo Long had devoured that person along with his soul. As Long Chen was connected with Huo Long, checking his memories as he died like this was easy.
Dan Yanxue had ordered several powerful disciples of the Divine Spear Alliance to disguise themselves as Long San and slaughter the Divine Shield Alliance’s core. Then they would blame Long San.
They truly were vicious. They had raised his power in order to prove that he had the power to kill those people.
So whether they were killed by him or not, the blame would fall on him. This plot wasn’t bad.
Long Chen thought about it for a moment. He found that the situation was growing more and more unfavorable for him. He had to think of something, or even if he could leave the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, he would be executed in Pill Valley.
“Fuck, I can only take it step by step. I don’t have the time to scheme against them. But this thing might be useful.”
Long Chen picked up the sphere the disciple had dropped. No longer tarrying, he began rushing off to the spot the Pill Fairy had marked. This time, he didn’t summon Huo Long.
Huo Long was busy digesting the energy of the sealed Earth Flame Spirit Beast. It was extremely beneficial to it.
As it digested its energy, Long Chen rushed onward. On the way, he encountered several Earth Flame Spirit Beasts that weren’t very powerful. They were all treated as snacks for Huo Long.
In three days, he finally left the lava swamp. A huge mountain range had appeared, with the mountains stretched far into the distance.
The curious thing was that there was mud on this ground. It wasn’t charred, and the rocks were like crystalline jade. It was like this place wasn’t affected by the flames.
For some unknown reason, when he stepped onto this landmass, Long Chen felt a familiar and intimate feeling.
Continuing onward, Long Chen suddenly sensed danger and hastily retreated. The ground split apart and a golden phoenix bird flew out. It opened its mouth, spurting a wave of flames at Long Chen.
Long Chen’s hair stood on end. These golden flames gave him a feeling of mortal danger. He would definitely be turned into roast pork if struck.
Long Chen summoned Huo Long to block it, but shockingly, Huo Long let out a heaven-shaking roar as it was incinerated by the golden flames.
“Flames can catch fire?”
Long Chen was shocked. That golden flame possessed the power to incinerate anything. Could it be the existence ranked third on the Earth Flame Ranking, the Heaven Incinerating Flame?
It was said that the Heaven Incinerating Flame was capable of burning anything. Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, all the five elements could be ignited. It was the only flame that was not suppressed by water, and all flame cultivators longed to obtain it.
Flame cultivators were incredibly powerful. They had stamina and power, but they also had a fatal weakness. That was water element cultivators.
Water cultivators were the bane of flame cultivators. In the same realm, they would definitely be defeated. In fact, water cultivators might even defeat flame cultivators across realms.
That was why flame cultivators would normally have other cultivators by their side, to guard against water cultivators.
However, there were always exceptions. This Heaven Incinerating Flame could burn anything and was not afraid of water energy. It was an unrivaled flame.
Yet, the Heaven Incinerating Flame was said to exist only in legend. At the very least, Long Chen had never heard of the Heaven Incinerating Flame appearing in the world. He hadn’t expected to run into it in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
Huo Long roared and charged at the Heaven Incinerating Flame, which had taken the form of a legendary golden phoenix.
Its body was only three hundred meters long, but it possessed overwhelming power. It charged forward, blowing a hole in Huo Long.
This injury continued to burn even after it passed. The Heaven Incinerating Flame was too terrifying. Wherever it went, it would ignite anything.
In just a few breaths’ time, Huo Long’s aura dropped by a great deal. It wasn’t a match for the Heaven Incinerating Flame. The difference between the two sides was too immense.
The thing that shocked Long Chen the most was that the phoenix was still so small, meaning it clearly had only been born not long ago. It hadn’t fully matured, but still possessed such power.
Long Chen formed hand seals and activated the Nirvana Scripture. “Heaven Earth Prison!”
The Heaven Earth Prison instantly enveloped the golden phoenix. But it was actually being incinerated, and his Spiritual Strength rapidly dropped.
At this rate, his Spiritual Strength wouldn’t even last an incense stick’s worth of time.
“No good. There’s no way to subdue this fellow. Huo Long, we’re leaving!” shouted Long Chen. He called Huo Long back into his body, and only then did the golden flames stop burning it. Huo Long’s power had dropped by more than half in just this moment.
The phoenix let out a cry and shot at Long Chen.
“Do you really think your Master Long is afraid of you?!” Long Chen was enraged.
Seeing Huo Long in such a miserable state aggrieved him. A cauldron appeared in the air, and Long Chen smashed it into the phoenix.
BOOM!
The golden phoenix was smashed away, but Long Chen’s arms received a backlash, and his hands began to bleed.
“Fuck!” Long Chen was enraged. This injury wasn’t from the phoenix, but the result of him using his own power, which he was no longer able to control.
He had so much power but was unable to use it. He was immensely irritated.
The phoenix seemed to also be enraged by Long Chen, and it once more shot at him.
“Damnit, I refuse to believe I can’t subdue you! Be refined!”
Long Chen roared furiously, and the Blazing Dragon Cauldron opened and grew larger. The phoenix was captured within.
“Seal!” Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength poured into the Blazing Dragon Cauldron as he controlled it to refine the phoenix.
However, Long Chen was shocked to find that this Ancestral cauldron was becoming red, and then dark red as it became burning hot.
The item-spirit’s cry rang out in Long Chen’s mind. It was unable to block the phoenix’s power. If this continued, its core runes would be incinerated.
“Why is it like this?” Long Chen sighed helplessly. Even an Ancestral item was unable to refine the phoenix. Although it still wasn’t fully healed, it hadn’t even managed to last a few breaths.
Sensing its urgency, Long Chen had no choice but to open its lid and allow the golden phoenix to fly out.
As soon as it was released, it became berserk. The sky began to burn, and space began to twist and collapse. It was like the apocalypse.
“Fuck! Fine, I’m afraid of you, okay?! I can’t provoke you, but can it be that I can’t even run?” Long Chen immediately turned and fled.
The phoenix was infuriated and refused to let him off. It charged after him like a shooting star, and its speed was even greater than his own.
“What the fuck is this luck?!”
Long Chen spat on the ground viciously. He had managed to encounter a legendary existence, and yet he was unable to beat it, and now he couldn’t even run from it.