Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“This is my jade pendant and my token of trust. Only by using it can you get through the layer of blockades outside,” said the Pill Fairy.
Long Chen didn’t dare to believe this. He couldn’t understand why the Pill Fairy would help him. “Why…?”
Seeing his astonishment, the Pill Fairy smiled. “Are you very curious? In truth, I’m also very curious. I very much dislike the current Pill Valley with its raging schemes and internal fighting. But you are a good person who made me feel a warmth I’ve never felt before. I’ve already sent Duan Tianqiao’s ashes to the Eastern Wasteland, so this is the only thing I can do for you now. Take it!”
The Pill Fairy pressed the jade pendant into Long Chen’s hand. It was still warm, and the Pill Fairy’s scent still lingered on it. Long Chen wasn’t able to describe what exactly he was feeling in his heart at this moment.
He truly wished the Pill Fairy was a sharp and unkind woman like Dan Yanxue. He would be able to fight all-out against such a person, but the Pill Fairy wasn’t such a woman. Despite knowing he was her enemy, she was helping him leave. He didn’t know what to do.
“You’ll be caught up in my trouble if you do this. You’ll be seen as a criminal by Pill Valley,” said Long Chen.
“Even at this time, you’re thinking of me?” said the Pill Fairy softly.
“I don’t like owing favors. My life is full of trouble and misfortune, and if I one day caused a huge calamity and died, I won’t be able to repay you.” Long Chen bitterly smiled.
“I don’t need your favor. But I feel like you’re a good person I should help. For example, when you helped Wan Qing. Did you ever once think of getting anything from her? For a little girl, you would challenge Jiang Zijun to a life and death battle. Did you once think about the consequences? Now I’m the same. I feel like there are some things that I should do, so I’ll do them. Go. Even with my jade pendant, you won’t be able to escape that easily. Pill Valley’s power far surpasses your imagination.”
Seeing her pure eyes, Long Chen nodded. He felt great admiration for people like the Pill Fairy who were still pure-hearted and kind.
“I owe you a favor.”
Long Chen sighed and accepted the jade pendant. He bowed toward the Pill Fairy once and then left.
Seeing him go into the distance, sadness appeared in the Pill Fairy’s eyes. It was just as she had said. She was only able to help so much. She couldn’t guarantee that Long San would be able to live.
Long Chen rushed off, quickly reached the exit of Pill Valley. The two divine statues were standing there. One was Fallen Daynight, one was Lord Brahma.
“Fuck, why do I find you so hateful when I look at you?”
Long Chen looked around and saw that there was no one present. He suddenly shot toward one of the statues’ heads.
BOOM!
Long Chen punched the statue. But suddenly, a barrier appeared around it. They were actually protected by a formation, and Long Chen was blown back, coughing up blood. His arm almost broke.
“As expected. It seems that these two statues are very important to Pill Valley. I can’t break them, but I suppose crapping on their heads would be doable, right?” Long Chen had a sudden thought.
However, the statue was too tall. Long Chen wasn’t able to poop that high up.
“Fine, I’ll lower the difficulty!”
A stream of liquid fell on Fallen Daynight and Lord Brahma’s statues. Long Chen was extremely fair. He shared his wealth without being biased to either side.
After finishing this, Long Chen pulled up his pants and rushed off. This path was extremely long. He didn’t run into any guards on his way.
He quickly reached the end, and there were countless experts there. Runes covered the sky. They had long since set up a huge net. It was no wonder the higher-ups had only allowed the disciples to search within Pill Valley. They had already sealed the exit.
“Who’s there? Stop!”
As soon as Long Chen appeared, over ten Life Star experts went over to him.
“Your father!”
Long Chen’s reply was a flame sphere. The three-hundred-meter sphere shot out like a shooting star.
“He’s definitely Long San! Capture him!”
These experts immediately deduced that this person wearing the robes of an outer disciple had to be Long San.
Long Chen’s flame sphere exploded, and golden flames raged.
“Fuck, this is…”
“It’s the legendary Heaven Incinerating Flame!”
These experts had flame runes revolving around them, but even these flame runes were ignited by the Heaven Incinerating Flame. Startled cries rang out.
The Life Star experts were alright. After a moment of panic, they used their powerful Spiritual Strength and spiritual yuan to isolate the Heaven Incinerating Flame.
However, Soul Transformation experts were unable to do the same. They were simply burned to a crisp.
The thing that terrified them was that when they used their flame runes to resist, it was just like adding oil to the fire. The burning grew even more intense. But if they didn’t resist, they would simply be standing there as they were roasted.
The Life Star experts immediately helped the others. The flames were extinguished, but many were killed in just that moment. Their Yuan Spirits were incinerated along with their physical bodies.
“Where’d Long San go?!”
It took a long time for them to suppress the flames. Of the thousands of experts, only a few hundred remained. During the chaos, Long San had vanished.
“He activated the transportation formation!”
“Impossible! We closed the transportation formation a long time ago! Who activated it?!”
“Elder Lu has been killed! Long San definitely did an instantaneous soulsearch and learned how to activate the formation on his own.”
One of the Elders went over to a corpse that had been burned to a crisp. There was a hole on that corpse’s forehead.
“I heard this Long San’s soul was strange. It seems we underestimated him. Most unexpected of all is that he possesses the Heaven Incinerating Flame.”
“What should we do?”
“Just go report it and ask for reinforcements. Even if he got past us, there’s no need to worry. There’s still another gate past this formation!”
…
BOOM!
Long Chen smashed a huge cauldron into the transportation formation he exited.
There were thousands of experts surrounding this transportation formation, but Long Chen had appeared suddenly, and they reacted a bit slow, allowing Long Chen to destroy the transportation formation behind him.
This couldn’t be blamed on them. They were sure that the inside of Pill Valley was full of experts, and a single Divine Pill Hall disciple would be easy to capture.
The only reason so many of them were here was a display of power to enemies. Although they looked tense on the surface, they were randomly chatting spiritually.
As a result, when Long Chen appeared and destroyed the transportation formation, they were all dumbfounded.
Long Chen sighed in relief. He finally had a chance to breathe. Pill Valley was huge, and there was quite some distance between this transportation formation and the one at the exit.
“This person is Long San! Capture him!” shouted a Life Star expert. All the guards immediately attacked. A huge barrier enveloped all of them.
“Raging Flames Devour the Heavens!”
Long Chen formed hand seals, and this barrier became filled with golden flames.
Those people had only just started rushing over when they were enveloped by the flames, their bodies instantly igniting. Those experts let out mournful cries.
Four Life Star experts charged through the flames. To reciprocate, Long Chen slashed a sword, and its immense power forced them back.
“Damnit, this flame is…” Everyone’s expressions changed as they recognized this legendary flame.
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�Open the barrier! Let them get out of the region of these flames, or they’ll be killed!” roared a Soul Transformation expert. He himself was already starting to reach his limit.
“We can’t! If we open the barrier, Long San will get away!” The few Life Star experts were still able to endure. They didn’t care about the others.
They knew that as long as they could keep Long Chen here, Pill Valley’s reinforcements would quickly arrive. At that time, they would have contributed a great service.
Moreover, if they opened the barrier to save these people, Long San would get away, and they would have to bear the responsibility. So they didn’t care about these people any longer.
Several Life Star experts attacked Long Chen while resisting the Heaven Incinerating Flame. The best possible situation was for them to capture Long San themselves.
However, he had an Ancestral item, and adding on that they were all flame element cultivators and that Long Chen’s flame was the Heaven Incinerating Flame ranked third on the Earth Flame Ranking, they were unable to capture him.
“I can’t waste time with them.” Long Chen knew that the longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it would become. Just the Heaven Incinerating Flame was unable to menace Life Star experts.
BOOM!
Long Chen suddenly slashed his sword, forcing them back. A pot appeared in his hand, and he smashed it at the barrier.
Chapter 1380 Once More Going to the Heaven Devouring Forest
BOOM!
The transparent barrier was struck by the pot. Black spots of rust flew up, and a large hole appeared in the incredibly powerful barrier.
Long Chen immediately rushed through. There were four huge flying boats parked in the distance.
“Pill Valley really is kind; they even arranged a boat for me. I’m so emotional.”
Long Chen didn’t stand on courtesy. He directly pulled three of the flying boats into the primal chaos space and jumped onto the fourth one.
“Stay behind!” The Life Star experts were shocked that Long Chen had escaped the barrier. They immediately charged after him.
Flame runes circulated, forming a huge flame wall in front of him.
“It’s okay, I’m busy. I won’t be staying for dinner. How about the next time I’m free?”
Long Chen laughed and extended his arm. A huge golden flame dragon appeared in the sky.
The golden dragon immediately opened its mouth, and its dragon breath spurted toward the wall.
A huge hole appeared in the flame wall. Long Chen activated the flying boat and shot away, instantly vanishing.
“Damnit! We actually let him get away!”
The Life Star experts were enraged. They had definitely messed up. Despite all of them working together, they hadn’t been able to stop a single Jade Core brat. They would probably have to suffer severe punishment after this.
Suddenly, space trembled. Flying boats appeared one by one.
“This aura! It’s the Flame Divine Palace’s eighteen divine guards!” Those experts looked toward those flying boats with shock.
They had no idea what had happened in Pill Valley. But seeing Pill Valley mobilize the eighteen divine guards for a single Jade Core disciple shocked them.
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“Even at this life and death juncture, you still think of me and refuse to implicate me. Long San, you’re really such a person?” At some unknown time, the Pill Fairy had appeared in the surroundings. She looked questioningly at the sky, her eyes containing an emotion difficult to describe with words.
The jade pendant she had given Long Chen was a protective talisman, but Long San hadn’t used it. Instead, he had used his own power to kill his way out.
The Pill Fairy was grateful for this. But if this was learned by others, they might die from rage, especially those experts that had already been killed by Long Chen’s Heaven Incinerating Flame. They would probably die again from rage.
Could it be that just because he had power, he could be so willful? Wasn’t this just showing off?
Long Chen didn’t want to implicate the Pill Fairy, because the Pill Fairy was a good person. He would rather handle the danger himself.
Another reason was that he was someone who would definitely repay favors. The Pill Fairy’s actions had made it so no matter if he used or not, he would still owe her a favor.
However, if he used it, he would not only owe a favor, but he would have also implicated her. He wasn’t afraid of heaven or earth, but he was afraid of owing favors.
…
“They’ve caught up this quickly?!” Long Chen was shocked. Although he couldn’t see anything behind him, he could sense danger rapidly approaching.
Clenching his teeth, he instantly increased the speed of the flying boat to its peak. Normally, a flying boat needed to accelerate slowly to avoid damaging it.
However, Long Chen couldn’t bother caring about that right now. In any case, he had stolen it, so if it broke, he wouldn’t need to feel any pain.
The flying boat was like a meteor shooting through the air. But in an incense stick’s worth of time, over ten other flying boats had appeared, slowly getting closer.
“Fuck, they can actually increase the speed even more?!” Seeing the flames spurting out of their flying boats, Long Chen felt like he had been conned.
The truth was that these flying boats were all equipped with the ability to attack, defend, and accelerate. But they all required powerful flame energy to be inserted into certain installations.
Back in the Heaven Devouring Forest, Zhuo Tianxiang and the others had used one of those installations to scare away the tree demons.
“The Heaven Devouring Forest? Right, that’s a good spot!” Long Chen’s eyes suddenly brightened.
He hastily took out a map and was delighted. He was just about to reach the Heaven Devouring Forest.
“Long San, you won’t get away! Let yourself be captured peacefully, or you’ll be killed!”
There was still a thousand miles between them, but that person’s voice rang out very clearly. He had to possess a powerful cultivation base. He was most likely one of the eighteen divine guards.
“What a joke! Do you think Master Long San would surrender? Idiots from the radical faction, after using me, you want to get rid of me? You scammers, you’re shameless trash! You tricked me into killing the elite disciples of the Divine Shield Alliance in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, and then you told Dan Yanxue and Kan Dongze to kill me so no one would know! Did you think turning me into a vengeful ghost would allow you to live happily? Fuck your grand dreams, I’m not going to let you get away with it! Since you want me dead, I’ll make you pay a price!”
Although Long Chen’s voice wasn’t very loud, since he was the one at the front, his voice still reached the ones behind him.
Long Chen’s words immediately caused quite a few people’s expressions to change. One person roared, “Long San, don’t talk nonsense! After committing such crimes, randomly accusing others won’t let you escape!”
That person was precisely an Elder from the radical faction who possessed great authority. His position was only slightly lower than a Grand Elder, so he knew the real plan involving Long San.
There were hundreds of Life Star experts on these flying boats, and although the majority were flame cultivators from the Divine Flame Hall, there were also alchemists.
After all, the Thousand Treasure Pavilion had been pilfered, Zhuo Tianxiang had been slain, and the Alldevil monster’s essence blood and soul essence had been taken. Pill Valley had never suffered such an insult. If they didn’t capture Long San, they would become the laughingstocks of the cultivation world.
Thus, there were also experts from the conservative faction that were all infuriated upon hearing Long Chen’s words.
“Talking nonsense? Alright, then let me show you something. This is proof of how you baited me. I’ve kept it all this time. Did you really think I was an idiot? Since you wanted to kill me, and since I won�
��t be alive soon anyways, I’ll make your ugly faces public. People from the conservative faction, look properly! These photographic jades are for you! As for whether you can grab them or not, it’ll be up to your own skill.”
Long Chen tossed out hundreds of photographic jades behind him.
“Bastard!”
One of the Elders immediately extended a hand to unleash a powerful attack, but as a result, another Elder blocked him. “What? Do you have a guilty heart? You want to destroy evidence?”
The photographic jades were rapidly snatched up. Although the radical faction’s experts ‘accidentally’ broke a large portion of them, there were more than ten that landed in the hands of others, and five in the hands of the conservative faction.
An Elder activated the photographic jade, revealing a scene of Kan Dongze giving a list of people to Long San and telling him to kill them. He also mentioned the benefits he would obtain if he eliminated them all.
“Good, very good! I didn’t expect you to actually be so despicable!” The conservative faction’s people were enraged. A portion of the recording came from within the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, and there was no way it was fake.
There were scenes of Kan Dongze and Dan Yanxue. The chances of it being fake were essentially zero.
“Don’t bother with the veracity of these photographic jades for now. We have to handle Pill Valley’s matters first. As for whether or not it’s the truth, we can discuss it when we get back. Arguing about this doesn’t have any meaning right now! First capture Long San. We must take back what he stole. He has the treasures Pill Valley accumulated over tens of thousands of years! If we don’t capture him, none of us will be able to give an explanation.”
Seeing that both sides were about to start fighting, one of the divine guards hastily interrupted.
The conservative faction’s Elders were fine with this. As long as this proof remained in their hands, they weren’t worried about the radical faction getting away.
Furthermore, Long San had truly been vicious. He had plundered the Thousand Treasure Pavilion, including the secret treasure room. The Grand Elders had ordered them to capture him at any cost.
So they had mobilized the eighteen divine guards and hundreds of Life Star experts for a single Jade Core disciple. This kind of lineup was truly terrifying.