Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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During his advancements to the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Heavenstages, the curse had made it so he couldn’t use his spiritual yuan to nourish his body. Now he was making up for it.
A huge amount of energy poured throughout Long Chen’s body, causing the space around him to shake.
The ground splintered and cracks spread into the distance. That pulse of energy lasted for just a few seconds before stopping.
Long Chen looked at his hand. He muttered to himself, “I can only use ten percent of my power? But that’s enough to handle trash I suppose.”
Although the curse had been removed, and his physical body had powered up, he was still only able to use a tenth of the power of his immortal platforms. If he used any more, his body would break down.
“Bastard, don’t think you can scam me! Die!”
Jiang Zijun was infuriated at hearing Long Chen call him trash. He charged forward.
A flame-wrapped fist directly blew apart Jiang Zijun’s spear and continued to strike him in the chest.
Jiang Zijun still had his Raging Flame Armor, but this time, Long Chen’s punch left a hole in his chest. Jiang Zijun vomited blood and flew back.
Chapter 1363 The Terrifying Qu Dajiang
A long ditch appeared in the solid ground. Jiang Zijun hacked up blood as he lay atop a large rock that was now riddled with cracks.
Fortunately, he had Pill Valley’s secret technique, the Raging Flame Armor. If it had been an ordinary flame defense, then considering how weak an alchemist’s body was, he’d definitely have died.
Long Chen continued to go after him, launching another punch. Heaven and earth shook as he advanced.
“Lord Brahma Shield!”
Jiang Zijun formed hand seals, and his flame runes blazed with blinding light, turning into flame chains that wove together, forming a large shield. Chanting filled the air, and flame energy poured into the shield. It was sacred and divine.
Long Chen’s fist landed atop the shield. Flame runes blew back, and ripples appeared in the air. When those ripples reached the ground, the ground crumbled.
However, Long Chen was unable to break the shield. Jiang Zijun gained some breathing room, and he once more attacked Long Chen, stabbing a spear at his heart.
Long Chen kicked the spear and borrowed the power to fly back. A burning pain came from his foot.
“This bastard’s Earth Flame is too powerful. Huo Long isn’t strong enough to resist it.” Long Chen knew that the difference in the power of their flames was too great.
“Long San, I know you’re powerful at close-range combat. But I won’t give you a chance to get close. You’re just trash.”
Jiang Zijun held a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand. The nine flowers behind him revolved. Flame energy raged as his Heavenly Dao runes merged with his flame runes.
“Die!”
Jiang Zijun thrust his spear forward. A sea of flames followed his spear, crashing over Long Chen.
“Scarlet Blaze Shield!” Long Chen also summoned a shield, but his technique was instantly broken by the spear. The intense flames devoured him.
Long Chen conjured flame armor to protect himself. He then broke the flame spear with a punch, while he activated his boots to charge forward at Jiang Zijun.
“Idiot, I won’t let you get close.” Jiang Zijun sneered. He retreated, spreading his flame domain. Everything within a hundred miles was covered in his flames.
Long Chen’s expression was grave as he charged through this flame sea. Jiang Zijun’s flames were too powerful. He had to expend a great deal of spiritual yuan just to resist the flame domain.
The difference in their flames was so great that he was expending hundreds of times the energy Jiang Zijun was. Even with his huge amount of spiritual yuan, Long Chen wouldn’t necessarily be able to exhaust him. After all, Jiang Zijun was a Jade Core expert.
Furthermore, an alchemist had a much vaster amount of spiritual yuan than normal cultivators, so Long Chen had no assurance of being able to exhaust him. Seeing Jiang Zijun retreating and occasionally launching attacks to keep him back, it was clear he had seen through Long Chen’s weak point.
“Since that’s the case, then let’s go all-out.”
Long Chen suddenly extended a hand. A sphere condensed in his hand, and chanting filled the air. The sphere rapidly grew larger.
Just as Long Chen summoned this sphere, Jiang Zijun was shocked to find that when Long Chen used the Nirvana Scripture, not only was heaven and earth’s flame energy drawn toward him, but even his own flames were being sucked away.
“Star Fall!”
The sphere in his hand had grown to three hundred meters almost instantly. It shot toward Jiang Zijun.
This terrifying move was summoned so quickly that it even surprised Long Chen. He was experiencing just how powerful the second volume of the Nirvana Scripture was. When he used it, all the flame energy in the world became his. Here in Jiang Zijun’s flame domain, he even benefited from his flame energy.
“Lord Brahma Shield!”
The shield in Jiang Zijun’s hand rapidly grew. It was like a huge mountain blocking Star Fall.
BOOM!
Flame energy exploded and ripples spread. Seeing this, Long Chen’s expression changed, and he hastily summoned the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and hid himself inside it.
Those ripples struck the runic barrier the Blazing Dragon Cauldron had summoned around it, and it was instantly sent flying like a shooting star.
The Blazing Dragon Cauldron pierced straight through a mountain and rolled a great distance. Long Chen crawled out and vomited.
What he vomited wasn’t blood, but vomit. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron had protected him, but in that instant, he had been spun dozens of times, so he was dizzy.
The feeling of the world spinning around him faded after a breath. He picked up the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and rushed back to the battlefield.
“He actually got away.” Long Chen didn’t see any sign of Jiang Zijun upon returning to the battlefield.
The power of that explosion just now had been too terrifying. According to reason, Star Fall shouldn’t have possessed that much power. After all, he had used it very quickly.
The main problem was that Star Fall had collided with Jiang Zijun’s flame energy. It was like a spear clashing against a spear. Energies from the same source attacking each other immediately caused an explosion.
Long Chen searched all around but didn’t find a trace of Jiang Zijun. When he looked in the primal chaos space, he didn’t see a rank nine Heavenly Dao Fruit on the tree. That meant he had escaped.
He supposed that Jiang Zijun was pretty tough to be able to survive such an explosion. Even Long Chen would have been blown to bits without the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and in his current state of not being able to fully use his spiritual yuan.
If even Long Chen couldn’t handle it, then an alchemist would be annihilated without question. However, Jiang Zijun had managed to escape.
“It seems that bastard has quite a few trump cards.”
Long Chen sighed, but his expression suddenly changed. Lightning wings appeared on his back, and he rushed off.
“Hahaha, Long San, there’s no need to run. Not a single person has managed to get away when I want them dead.”
A huge figure appeared in the sky. His laughter was like thunder. It was the Flame Divine Palace’s Qu Dajiang.
Qu Dajiang’s eyes were shining coldly like two sharp blades. Two huge flame wings flapped on his back, bringing him rapidly closer.
Long Chen’s scalp turned numb. Qu Dajiang possessed boundless power. He was like a crazy beast raging with killing intent.
“Long San, you killed my brother Qu Chunsheng. Hand over your life!”
Qu Dajiang’s wings suddenly stopped moving. He vanished from his original location and appeared in front of Long Chen, a hand reaching for his throat.
“You think you’re qualified to take my life?”
&nbs
p; Although Long Chen had felt Qu Dajiang’s hostility from the start, he hadn’t expected this large man to be Qu Chunsheng’s brother. Qu Chunsheng had been a little pretty boy, and the two of them looked completely different. It seemed their father had quite a bit of skill.
Long Chen snorted and smashed a fist at Qu Dajiang’s hand.
BOOM! Long Chen was actually blown back, his wrist almost broken.
“Hmph, you have a bit of power, but it’s not enough in front of me.” Qu Dajiang shot after him. It was like he had teleported, and he arrived in front of Long Chen instantly, smashing a fist at him.
BOOM!
What greeted him wasn’t Long Chen’s fist, but a cauldron. An immense power caused his body to tremble, and he was knocked back a few hundred meters. Flame runes flew through the air as the cauldron was also sent flying.
“An Ancestral item?” Qu Dajiang was surprised. But the cauldron had already flown into the distance. He snorted and didn’t chase it. Instead, he charged at a distant figure. “You won’t get away!”
Qu Dajiang’s wings once more appeared and he caught up to Long Chen quickly. He smashed his fist at him.
However, what caused his expression to change was that this figure instantly exploded.
“Bastard, you think you can slip away?!” Qu Dajiang’s expression was unsightly now. He had been duped. This figure had been nothing more than something formed of flame energy. Long San had definitely escaped with the cauldron.
“AHH!” Qu Dajiang roared and shot off in the direction the cauldron had gone. In an incense stick’s worth of time, he finally saw a figure rapidly rushing away. It was Long Chen.
“You won’t get away! I’ll make you pay a price for fooling me. I’ll let you know what it means to live a life worse than death!” roared Qu Dajiang as he got closer and closer.
Long Chen was extremely vexed. After beating a jackal, a tiger suddenly came after him.
Qu Dajiang was no alchemist. He was a true flame cultivator and a rank nine Jade Core Celestial. All of that, combined with his extremely powerful physical body, made him a real expert.
Right now, Long Chen was just at the peak of Foundation Forging, and he couldn’t even use his full power. As he didn’t have the ability to fight Qu Dajiang, he could only run.
Unfortunately, Qu Dajiang was even faster than him. Seeing him get closer, Long Chen prepared to take out the pot.
Although Long Chen couldn’t unleash the power of the pot, its hardness was definitely unmatched. Using it in a sudden attack wouldn’t necessarily allow him to defeat Qu Dajiang, but if he could catch him off guard, he might be able to use it to escape.
Nevertheless, once he used it, his identity as Long San would be over. This pot was far too easily recognized.
Just as Long Chen was preparing to take this risk, a message came from Huo Long that delighted him.
Chapter 1364 Divine Flame Crystals
Qu Dajiang’s wings flapped as he chased after Long Chen, getting closer and closer. Just as he was on the verge of locking onto him, a flame dragon appeared in front of him.
The flame dragon appeared extremely suddenly and devoured Qu Dajiang before he could react.
He was about to circulate his flame energy to resist this powerful Earth Flame Spirit Beast when it suddenly self-destructed, blowing him away.
Qu Dajiang appeared with nine flowers behind him. The self-destruction of the flame dragon hadn’t harmed him at all.
However, he now had a cold and sinister expression. With a snort, he continued chasing after Long Chen. This was the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, and the senses of flame cultivators were a hundred times sharper here than in the outside world.
“Fuck, the difference is too great.” Long Chen cursed inside when he saw Qu Dajiang still chasing. Just now, one of Huo Long’s split bodies had been close by, and Huo Long had sent it to block Qu Dajiang, even sacrificing it to stop him. But Qu Dajiang was completely fine.
Long Chen realized just how bad the situation was. Flame cultivators were true experts, and their power was far, far greater than alchemists. Moreover, Qu Dajiang wasn’t just a flame cultivator, he was a rank nine Jade Core Celestial.
Qu Dajiang was getting closer. His wings clearly had some sort of special energy within them, or there was no way he could be so fast.
Clenching his teeth, Long Chen suddenly spun around, smashing the Blazing Dragon Cauldron at Qu Dajiang.
“Hmph, nothing more than a death struggle,” sneered Qu Dajiang. He let out a single punch, not even bothering to summon his manifestation. In his eyes, Long San wasn’t worth him wasting the effort.
“Is that so?” Long Chen smiled coldly. His sleeves suddenly exploded, and blood dripped down his arm. A fierce, violent power smashed into Qu Dajiang.
Qu Dajiang was shocked. He sensed Long San’s power had at least doubled from his previous peak.
Qu Dajiang’s wrist broke and he shot back like a shooting star hundreds of miles away.
Long Chen was covered in blood after this attack. He immediately turned and fled. Just now, he had used thirty percent of the power of his immortal platforms, but his body had been unable to bear it.
Just this one attack allowed Long Chen to see the difference. Even taking such a risk had only broken Qu Dajiang’s wrist. It was barely an injury to a Celestial.
Furthermore, Qu Dajiang hadn’t even been using his manifestation, let alone his trump cards. Long Chen wasn’t his match.
“Hahaha, interesting. At just the Foundation Forging realm, you already have such power. This will make the hunt more fun.” Qu Dajiang laughed. That laughter was hair raising. It was like he was playing a game of cat and mouse, and he continued chasing Long Chen.
Long Chen’s expression sank. The situation was extremely unfavorable for him. If this continued, he really might be killed. The feeling of having power but not being able to use it was truly irritating.
However, he also knew that even if he could use his full power, his chances of victory would still be extremely low. To fight a rank nine Celestial across realms was essentially impossible.
Long Chen was constantly looking around as he fled. His eyes suddenly brightened, and he immediately changed directions.
“Long San, I’ll chase you until you know despair. There’s no place for you to go, neither the heavens nor hell!” Qu Dajiang was still getting closer. He laughed sinisterly. He delighted in seeing the expressions of despair and unwillingness on the people he killed right before their deaths.
He had barely finished speaking when Long Chen suddenly hurled himself at a large mountain. He pierced a hole into it.
At the same time, a flame sphere exploded from ahead. That was something Long Chen had thrown right before.
After the flame sphere exploded, the ground split open, and lava spurted into the air. A huge golden phoenix flew out of the lava.
The first thing the phoenix saw was Qu Dajiang rushing in its direction. It let out a heaven-shaking cry and shot at him.
Qu Dajiang had been flabbergasted by Long Chen’s sudden actions, but when he saw this golden phoenix, he immediately turned pale.
“Heaven Incinerating Flame?!”
Qu Dajiang couldn’t bother with Long Chen. He immediately turned and ran.
However, the infuriated phoenix refused to let him off. It thought that Qu Dajiang had intentionally provoked it, and it chased him.
Qu Dajiang was infuriated at being schemed against by Long San. It had clearly been Long San’s attack, but somehow the blame had fallen on him.
He wanted to say that Long San was right there, but an Earth Flame Spirit Beast’s intelligence was limited. There was no way it would understand him.
As an extremely powerful flame cultivator, he naturally knew what this golden phoenix was. And since he knew what it was, he also knew he had to run.
A man and a bird flew into the distance as quick as lightning. Only then did Long Chen come out of his hole. He carried out a head-sized cr
ystal.
The crystal was fiery red and emitted a bewitching light. Long Chen had a delighted expression.
“This is a Divine Flame Crystal, something that contains the purest flame energy of the world! I didn’t expect to find such a treasure here.”
Long Chen hesitated for a moment. Looking in the direction Qu Dajiang had fled, he prayed inside that he could last for a bit longer.
Then Long Chen dove into the lava the golden phoenix had flown out of. Wrapping himself in flame energy, he swam down.
Dozens of meters below, he found another Divine Flame Crystal. He delightedly extracted it.
This Divine Flame Crystal was extremely miraculous. Despite containing an immense amount of flame energy, it didn’t release any heat and was lustrous like a gem. The terrifying energy within it didn’t leak out at all.
Continuing to swim down, he gathered over ten of these crystals. His smile threatened to break his mouth.
The deeper he went, the more Divine Flame Crystals he found. By the time he had reached a depth of three thousand meters, he had obtained over three hundred of them.
Huo Long was indescribably excited. It was wrapped around a Divine Flame Crystal in the primal chaos space, absorbing its energy.
The amount of energy inside it was too terrifying, and without any experience, Huo Long lost control, and a three thousand mile stretch of huge trees was incinerated.
Huo Long was horrified, thinking it had caused a huge calamity. Long Chen comforted it. Right now, the Iron Spruce Oaks in the primal chaos space were almost useless to him. Incinerating a few was no problem.
Long Chen had Huo Long focus on absorbing the Divine Flame Crystal’s energy while he continued gathering more. He needed to gather as many as possible before the golden phoenix returned.
As he dug, he suddenly noticed that in an even deeper place, there was a huge cave opening. When he went down there, he gasped.
This cave, which was thousands of meters wide, was lined completely in Divine Flame Crystals. There was no way to estimate how many of them there were.
“I’m rich!!!”
A roar erupted in Long Chen’s heart. Just a single Divine Flame Crystal was enough to cause countless alchemists to go crazy in the outside world. Then what about this many?