Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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These people immediately formed a formation. A flame chain appeared in each one of their hands, and they tightly bound the Alldevil monster.
“Foolish human race, you’ll pay a price for your foolishness. No one can play tricks on my Alldevil race!”
The monster let out a furious roar, and its body shook. The runes on its body began to shine with a blinding light.
BOOM!
The chains binding it were blown apart. Those Life Star experts coughed up blood and flew back.
“Watch out!”
An expert cried out, but it was too late. The Alldevil monster’s mouth opened, and a huge sphere shot out.
BOOM! Anything in front of that sphere was blown to bits, whether it was a human or a building.
This was different from its previous whistle attack. That had been a wide-area attack that was easily blocked. But this sphere’s power was condensed, and it tore through the formation’s restrictions.
A huge line of destruction appeared in Pill Valley. The grand Pill Valley had been cut in two.
“Hurry and alert the Flame Divine Hall’s Elders to get the hell out of seclusion! We won’t be able to last much longer! Also, alert the valley master to come!” cried someone.
“Good, work hard. I look favorably upon you!”
More and more experts were rushing over, but they still weren’t able to stop the Alldevil monster. Long Chen immediately rushed off. He went straight toward the Thousand Treasure Pavilion.
Within Pill Valley, there were two important locations for medicinal ingredients. One was the Thousand Treasure Field, and the other was the Thousand Treasure Pavilion. The Thousand Treasure Field was a medicinal field, while the Thousand Treasure Pavilion was where those medicines were stored.
Some medicines would be sealed when they reached a certain age in Pill Valley. They could then be directly taken when an alchemist needed them.
The Thousand Treasure Pavilion was Pill Valley’s largest precious medicine storage house. Long Chen urgently needed to go there, because he was hoping to find the ingredients for the Divine Gate Star.
The world was constantly shaking, and terrifying explosions would occasionally erupt. Clearly, the Alldevil monster was too terrifying. Even this many experts with their supreme grand formation were unable to suppress it. With each passing moment, Pill Valley was being destroyed.
“Long San, what are you running around for? The alarm’s ringing! Hurry up and get to the underground shelter!”
Long Chen had only just arrived at the Thousand Treasure Pavilion when a Life Star Elder shouted at him. He was just an Elder of the outer circle and didn’t know the true plan, so he thought Long Chen really was on his side.
This Elder was part of the radical faction, and because of his post here, he couldn’t participate in the battle outside.
There was also another Elder present. After all, the Thousand Treasure Pavilion was an extremely important location and needed guards.
There were originally other disciples present, but after the alarm, those disciples had all fled to the shelter. After all, for those disciples, the slightest shockwave would kill them. They would only cause trouble, so they were sent away.
“Something major happened. The monster outside injured Protector Zhuo. His upper head was destroyed, and he urgently needs the Yin Yang Soul Replenishing Elixir and the Undying Lotus Heart Grass to protect his soul. I came to get him the medicines!” Long Chen acted extremely panicked and in a rush.
“Really? Hurry then!” Hearing that Elder Zhuo had been injured, he immediately moved to open the storage house for Long Chen.
“Hold it! Those two precious medicines are extremely high tier and require an order from the Grand Elders to obtain.” The other Elder stopped them. He was from the conservative faction and was inflexible.
“Fuck off!”
Long Chen furiously slapped him across the face. That Elder collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
Chapter 1376 Plundering Everything
“Long San, you…!”
The Elder was shocked. He had attacked a superior! He would be gravely punished.
“There’s no time to explain! To save Protector Zhuo, I, Long San, will take on all the responsibility for this,” promised Long Chen righteously.
The Elder praised, “Good, to care so deeply about relationship, it’s no wonder Protector Zhuo views you so highly and a Grand Elder would take you as their final apprentice. They both must view your moral character highly.”
Exactly, his moral character was truly impeccable. He even admired himself for this quality of his.
“Elder, help me open the door, quick!” urged Long Chen. The rumbling outside was growing more and more intense. The Alldevil monster was clearly in a bitter battle.
This was Pill Valley, a place with countless formations and experts. Although that monster was terrifying, Pill Valley wasn’t so worthless. He didn’t have a good opinion of the monster’s chances.
The stone gate slowly opened. The Elder said, “Those medicines are located-”
“I know where they are. Don’t worry about it!”
Long Chen rushed on through. After a large corridor, he saw a huge underground space.
This space was thousands of miles long and was brimming with shelves filled with jade bottles. These jade bottles were spatial storage items. Inside were matured medicinal ingredients.
Each shelf explained the name, tier, age, quality, and other information about the medicines stored in it. That made it convenient for disciples to take them out.
“Blazing Dragon Cauldron, get to work!”
He directly tossed the shelves into the primal chaos space, not even looking at what he was taking in. His goal was simply to take everything.
On his own, he was too slow. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron had its own space and could draw in objects.
There were far too many precious medicines here. Long Chen couldn’t even get them all. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron appeared, and it began to suck in the shelves. They shrank as they entered the cauldron, and it was even faster at gathering them than Long Chen.
In truth, these shelves had formations protecting them. Let alone taking a whole shelf, even taking ten different medicines would cause an alarm.
However, Long Chen was benefitting from the Alldevil monster. Its rampage had destroyed the formations protecting the Thousand Treasure Pavilion. That was why there was no alarm.
These medicines were split into different regions, and the ones below the ninth tier were so worthless that Long Chen didn’t even have time to get them.
The Thousand Treasure Pavilion was split into two areas. One was the place to store medicinal ingredients, and the other stored medicinal pills. After plundering the medicinal ingredients, he turned to the medicinal pills.
This region wasn’t very large. There were only a hundred shelves. Because pills were small, a single bottle could store over a thousand of them, and each shelf had tens of thousands of bottles on it. If these medicinal pills were taken out, they would form a mountain.
“There’s still something behind this door?” Just as Long Chen took all the shelves, he saw a stone door behind where they had been. It was protected by runes, but those runes were now dim.
Long Chen split the stone door with a fiery-red sword. Without a formation protecting it, this stone door was extremely weak in front of an Ancestral item.
Long Chen praised Qu Dajiang’s Ancestral item. It really wasn’t bad. After it had been suppressed by the Blazing Dragon Cauldron, he had placed a slave mark on it and could use it.
The stone door split apart, revealing a room inside. It wasn’t a very large room, but the walls were covered in small cases. These cases had runes revolving around them, and they twinkled like stars.
“This is the Star Condensing Pill Formation!” Long Chen was shocked. He looked up, and as expected, there was an image of a starry sky above. But this image was very dim. Clearly, it wasn’t working any
longer.
Long Chen opened one of the cases, and a small monkey shot out. Its body rapidly grew to become a three-meter furious golden monkey.
It immediately attacked Long Chen. When Long Chen met its punch with his own fist, he was knocked back half a step. He hadn’t expected it to be so powerful.
It had to be known that he had now reached the Jade Core realm, and ordinary Jade Core experts wouldn’t be able to even endure a single punch from him.
The monkey roared furiously and attacked once more. Long Chen snorted and used the power of his 108,000 stars. This time, his punch blew apart the monkey.
After a burst of golden light faded, it revealed a small medicinal pill rolling on the ground. Long Chen picked it up. “Tenth tier pill - Tyrannical Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill?”
His Pill Sovereign memories floated up. He could only recall how to refine this pill but not how to use it.
In the Eastern Wasteland, Long Chen had known very little about alchemy. He had learned that the alchemist ranks were Pill Apprentice, Pill Adept, Pill Master, Pill King, Pill Emperor, Pill Ancestor, Pill Venerate, Pill Saint, and Pill Sovereign. Pill Sovereign was supposed to correlate with the ninth tier. In other words, the peak was supposed to be the ninth rank.
However, after arriving in Pill Valley, he had learned that this knowledge had been nothing more than the sayings of the secular world. The truth was that no one dared to call themselves anything greater than a Pill Ancestor.
This related to the secrets of the Pill Dao. Nowadays, the alchemy ranks came to a stop at the Pill Ancestor level. No one dared to call themselves a Pill Saint, let alone a Pill Sovereign. It was like the alchemy path had been severed.
Within Pill Valley, he had found ancient texts that had mentioned the rank of Pill Sovereign. Those texts were very vague, but they seemed to be saying that Pill Sovereigns were on the same level as those great martial Sovereigns of the past.
However, there were no details. He had gone through all the ancient texts he could read, but hadn’t found anything else.
After learning the second volume of the Nirvana Scripture, many things that hadn’t been there before had appeared in Long Chen’s mind. However, right now, he couldn’t go through all of them.
He found that only when he advanced to a certain level would some pill formulas appear in his mind. And it just so happened that those new pill formulas would be the ones that he needed the most at the time.
Even he himself didn’t know how far the path of an alchemist could go. So seeing a tenth tier pill shocked him.
This was a tenth tier pill, and it had been nourished for who knew how many years under the formation. Its medicinal energy had reached a shocking level, and it had even given birth to a spirit that possessed great power.
“I’ve struck gold!”
Long Chen recovered from his shock and immediately took away all the cases on the wall. Now it was about time to go. If he took too long, that Elder would get suspicious.
He immediately ran out and then handed over two kinds of medicines. “I won’t make things hard on you. See, they are the two that I took.”
The Elder checked them and confirmed that they were the ones Long Chen had mentioned. They were medicines that could save someone whose soul was about to disperse.
“How could I not trust you? Hurry up and go save Protector Zhuo!”
Long Chen nodded. “Many thanks. Once Protector Zhuo heals, I will definitely tell him about your contribution. Goodbye!”
Long Chen left, and the Elder was delighted. If Protector Zhuo remembered him, he would be assigned to a much better spot than this place.
He didn’t know that he had just caused a huge calamity.
When Long Chen left the Thousand Treasure Pavilion, he sensed the spatial fluctuations were growing more and more intense. In the distance, terrifying runes were flying. There was a formation forming a barrier there now, and the space inside was completely chaotic, making it impossible to see what was going on.
He jumped to the top of a pavilion and looked around. He saw that several wide new ‘streets’ had appeared in Pill Valley.
Those were the masterpieces of the Alldevil monster. Now Pill Valley looked like the mane of a beautiful lion that had randomly had parts of its hair clipped away. It looked extremely ugly.
All of Pill Valley was empty now. The disciples were hiding, and even Soul Transformation experts were gone. In a battle of this level, only Life Star experts were qualified to participate.
“Let’s see if I can get some more profit.”
Long Chen truly wanted to see just who was stronger, Pill Valley or the Alldevil monster.
In any case, he was the only one to come out of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, and no one here knew what had happened. He wasn’t worried about being exposed.
He also found that while the pot ignored him, it would still come out to help him at a critical time. The Alldevil monster had almost killed him when it had unleashed its aura, and it was the pot that had come out to protect him. That meant the pot was actually loyal. That gave him quite a bit of confidence.
Most importantly, Long Chen wanted to know just what enmity the Alldevil monster had with Lord Brahma. It seemed to have been used by him. What kind of secret did this relate to?
He was also very curious about the Nirvana Scripture. Based on its name, it seemed to be a divine technique created by Lord Brahma. But why was it that when he saw his statue, he was so disgusted?
Long Chen slowly approached the battle. Immediately, astral winds buffeted him, almost blowing him away.
“Damn, it’s even stronger than I thought!”
Long Chen could only push his way forward slowly until he found a good place to watch. This seemed to be the base of a building. The building had been blown away, but there was still a stone pillar remaining to hide behind. The astral winds were like blades cutting his skin, causing him to clench his teeth in pain.
Once a burst of wind passed, Long Chen stealthily stuck out his head. He couldn’t help sucking in a cold gasp of air.
Chapter 1377 The Valley Master
Everything within three thousand miles had been destroyed. The grand and luxurious buildings had been turned to rubble.
Up in the air was a huge star whose light enveloped this space. That was Pill Valley’s grand formation. It had sealed the location of the battle to avoid the entirety of Pill Valley being destroyed.
Yet, this powerful formation still wasn’t enough to stop the Alldevil monster’s rampage. Bursts of energy still erupted out of its control, destroying the surroundings.
Through layers and layers of mist, Long Chen managed to see hundreds of figures in the air, all of them wielding chains. They were currently fighting all-out against the Alldevil monster.
The battle was incredibly intense. He saw dozens of Life Star experts that were illusory bodies. That meant their physical bodies had already been destroyed and they could only fight with their Yuan Spirits.
“They really are vicious,” muttered Long Chen inside. For dozens of Life Star experts to have been reduced to their Yuan Spirits, it seemed likely that quite a few people had already died.
However, Pill Valley’s power was truly shocking. No wonder it was said that no one dared to go against them. Just this number of Life Star experts was enough to dominate the continent.
“The eighteen divine guards of the Flame Divine Palace have arrived!”
Suddenly, eighteen figures appeared, and each of them emitted violent auras. Blazing flames surged out of them.
“Those are true experts!” Long Chen’s heart shook. These eighteen people were still Life Star experts, but their auras were much, much stronger than ordinary Life Star experts. They were true flame cultivators.
“You’re finally here!” The Elders sighed in relief.
The eighteen of them immediately surrounded the Alldevil monster while forming identical hand seals. Their energy formed a huge flame ring around it.
It was instantly suppressed. The berserk energy raging in the air finally stabilized.
“Why did it take you so long?! Were you planning on waiting until Pill Valley was annihilated?!” roared one of the Grand Elders.
“Sorry, we rushed over as soon as we received the alarm, but…” said one of the eighteen experts.
These eighteen experts still had to restrain themselves in front of the Grand Elders. In the end, alchemists were more important to Pill Valley than flame cultivators.
“Don’t make excuses. Hurry and seal this monster!” roared the Grand Elder. He then suddenly recalled something and hastily said, “Quick, go call back that person who went to alert the valley master! The valley master is still in seclusion. Hopefully, you’ll make it in time!”
These eighteen experts were most likely at the peak of the Life Star realm. Their combat power was probably on the same level as Boss Bao and the others, shocking Long Chen.
No wonder they were called the eighteen divine guards. However, what made him speechless was that these eighteen people seemed to behave like sheep in front of that Elder. What happened to their dignity? They should raise their blade and cut him as a warning! That made Long Chen feel disappointed.
“Did Lord Brahma not leave behind a single decent descendant? Since that’s the case, you can all die!”
The Alldevil monster let out a roar, and golden scales suddenly appeared on his body. A pillar of light soared into the sky, blowing apart the grand formation.
“Not good!” Everyone’s expressions changed. The eighteen divine guards formed hand seals, and a sea of runes appeared around them, pouring toward the flame rings.
Everyone else hastily unleashed their chains, binding the monster.
BOOM!
Blood Qi surged into the sky as the Alldevil monster entered a berserk state. A powerful qi wave blew back the experts surrounding him.
Those experts who only possessed Yuan Spirits were directly killed by this single attack.