Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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Countless willow branches came out of the World Tree. It was like the withered World Tree had given birth to new life. But those willow branches did not belong to the World Tree.
In just a moment, the World Tree was covered in willow branches. They shot toward Long Chen.
“Split the Heavens 4!” Long Chen slashed his sword, unleashing a huge sword-image. But shockingly, these willow branches were too strong, and only a small portion of them broke. The majority were completely unharmed.
These willow branches looked weak, but they were extremely tough. When his attack landed, those seemingly delicate leaves would lit up and repel a large portion of his power. It was like his slash landed on cotton and couldn’t cause any significant damage.
Suddenly, the willow leaves lit up. A murderous aura rose as a mass of leaves shot at Long Chen. The willow leaves looked weak and light, but they possessed a terrifying destructive power as they tore through space.
The willow leaves were like a sea that completely filled the world. Millions of sharp leaf blades were piercing toward him.
Long Chen was appalled. He hastily summoned the Green Dragon Battle Armor and slashed his sword down again.
BOOM!
An opening appeared in the sea of leaves, but Long Chen was only able to break the ones in front of him. The leaves surrounding him had already lacerated his body. They were so sharp that not even his dragon scales could block them. In some places, he was cut to the bone.
Long Chen charged through the opening he had created. Having disturbed that strange willow below him, he had fallen into desperate straits. It was truly a case of great joy being followed by a terrible tragedy.
Piercing his way out of the sea of leaves, he sucked in a cold gasp when he saw what was outside. Millions of willow branches had formed layers of nets around this region, completely trapping him.
“Raging Flames Devour the Heavens!”
Golden flames suddenly erupted from Long Chen, enveloping the willow branches, instantly igniting them. This world became a sea of golden flames.
The leaves were incinerated, but the branches were protected and blocked the Heaven Incinerating Flame.
BOOM!
Although they managed to resist the Heaven Incinerating Flame, their defensive power sharply dropped. Long Chen slashed open a large opening for himself.
Long Chen joyfully flew out. At the same time, he tossed out a flame sphere behind him. Without looking at the results, he fled.
The flame sphere exploded, enveloping this region of the Dark Forest.
Long Chen fled. He had instantly disturbed countless slumbering tree demons. He couldn’t bother sneaking around any longer, and he directly summoned Huo Long, charging his way through.
Those tree demons dodged his path, but Long Chen continuously tossed out flame spheres, spreading the flames.
The Dark Forest was a complete mess. The tree demons were panicked, and some were running around, igniting other tree demons.
Long Chen simply rushed away without looking back. That terrifying willow wasn’t chasing him at least.
That willow was too strange. He had never seen such a terrifying existence. Without the Heaven Incinerating Flame, he might have died. Thinking of that, he felt a burst of lingering fear. It seemed he had underestimated the Dark Forest.
Long Chen fled away. From the air, it looked like a flame dragon was spreading a sea of flames within a forest.
He quickly reached the end of the Dark Forest. After putting away Huo Long, lightning wings appeared on his back, and he shot away.
He had only just escaped when several terrifying auras rose within the depths of the Dark Forest. He had clearly disturbed the Dark Forest’s powerful existences, but he had already escaped.
As for the flames he had left behind, they incinerated a large mass of trees. Those powerful experts had to personally extinguish those flames, or they would spread until the entire Dark Forest was gone.
Long Chen continued fleeing for several hours. When he felt like he was far enough, he finally took a break.
“Those willow leaves are strange.” Long Chen’s injuries were currently bleeding a mix of blood and some black liquid. It wasn’t poison. It seemed more similar to a curse that was constantly worsening his injury, making it so he couldn’t heal.
He was covered in injuries, and he consumed two healing pills to temporarily suppress them. His 108,000 stars began to circulate to assist in the healing, forcing out that bizarre energy.
As the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art circulated, more and more of that black liquid was expelled. After two hours, the black liquid was gone, and his injuries began to automatically heal.
“What strange energy. If an ordinary person was struck by one willow leaf, they would probably lose their life.” Long Chen smacked his lips.
Ordinary Jade Core experts would be unable to expel this curse energy. This power was even more terrifying than poison.
During the battle, if a person couldn’t heal their injuries and had no time to expel this curse, it would gravely affect their combat power.
The thing that amazed him the most was that he hadn’t even seen the willow’s main body attack. It had only attacked him through the body of the World Tree.
If it had been the main body attacking, its power would have been even more terrifying. As for Long Chen’s own attacks, they were unable to cause any substantial damage to it. But why had it not chased after him? He couldn’t quite figure it out.
He looked inside the primal chaos space where hundreds of World Trees had started budding. But even after all this time, their shoots were only three meters tall. They weren’t even as tall as the original seeds.
They only had two small leaves, and their bodies were somewhat translucent, growing extremely slow. Right now, these soft shoots were too weak for him to split up into more trees.
“This really is too slow.”
Long Chen circulated the primal chaos space, urging on the growth of the World Trees. But he practically couldn’t see any change. Ordinary trees would grow several meters in just a few breaths’ time. But considering the size of the World Trees he had seen, he understood that having these soft shoots grow to such a size would definitely be a slow process.
“How regretful. I should have thrown in some tree demons to turn into life energy.” Whether it was the bodies of Magical Beasts or tree demons, once they were tossed into the black soil, they would transform into life energy that would be absorbed by the plants in the primal chaos space.
However, feeling regret was too late now. He definitely didn’t dare to go back to the Dark Forest. If he encountered that willow again, it’d be troublesome. But what would be even worse was encountering those terrifying existences he had sensed just now.
Other than this, his Heaven Incinerating Flame had been exposed. He would need to come up with some excuse to cover this up, or if he exposed that he was Long San, he would be done for.
After resting and feeling like he had recovered to his peak state, he looked around and went straight toward the Ancient Battlefield.
Chapter 1411 A Big Fish
The Ancient Battlefield. It was a very vague name. This was a place where supreme experts had once fought.
Back when the Spirit World was still allied with the Martial Heaven Continent, when devils had invaded the Spirit World and been about to annihilate the Spirit race with the intent of eliminating one of the Martial Heaven Continent’s helpers, a Sovereign of the human race had led an army of experts to provide assistance. An immense battle had been fought here.
The core of the battlefield was where the Sovereign had fought the devils. The laws of this region had been destroyed, causing spatial cracks to constantly appear for moments. Even after tens of thousands of years, the pressure of the Sovereign’s fighting remained.
Long Chen arrived at the edge of the battlefield where the space was constantly twisting. A powerful tearing force was present, capable of ripping steel
apart.
“This is the power of a Sovereign? The Sovereign Blood Seal was like this, and now this battlefield is the same. Just what kind of existence is a Sovereign?” wondered Long Chen as he sensed the intense fluctuations in space.
He slowly walked deeper into the battlefield. The spatial twisting grew worse. A few miles in, the space beside him suddenly tore apart, and it was like a huge mouth wanting to devour him.
If he didn’t react fast enough and instinctively dodge, he would have been drawn into the chaotic flow of space. No matter how strong he was, he’d still die from that.
His face turned pale. The danger had come so suddenly. To be killed by some random spatial tear would be too sullen of a death.
He continued walking deeper, advancing slowly like he was walking through cold water. The spatial fluctuations grew more intense.
Fortunately, after traveling for a while, he was able to tell that when a spatial tear was about to form, the surrounding space would turn static for a half a breath’s time. By keeping watch of that pattern, he managed to effectively avoid the spatial tears.
After several hours, he passed through this unsteady space. What he stepped into was a desolate battlefield filled with the stench of blood.
He knelt and looked at a bloodstained stone. The blood had already dried up, but its color was as bright as if it was fresh. It also still contained some pressure.
“Even after all this time, it still retains this pressure. Just how terrifying was the cultivation base of the owner of this blood?”
Crack.
Long Chen stepped on an old bone. It was three inches long. When he stepped on it, it didn’t break. Instead, a rock beside it broke from having the bone press down on it.
“Even a random bone possesses hardness comparable to King items.” Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked. This bone was very strange. There were many holes in it like it was porous, and it was practically weightless when he held it. It definitely wasn’t the bone of a normal human.
He quickly saw a skeleton. That skeleton was thirty meters long and broken. Its head and limbs had vanished. He took a look and saw that some places showed signs that they had been broken recently. Someone must have come and taken those pieces away.
“This is the outer region. The good stuff must have already been taken away. I should go deeper and see if I can dredge up anything useful.”
Long Chen no longer had much hope for his luck. But he was quite the expert at snatching other people’s treasures.
Continuing forward, he once more reached a place where space was unstable. A huge abyss appeared in front of him when he exited. When he flew over the abyss, he realized it was a giant footprint.
A single footprint was dozens of miles long and had broken the spatial laws around it. Even now, the spatial laws were broken as they tried to repair themselves.
After crossing the abyss, a scorching air came from ahead. He quickly saw a blazing river of lava.
The lava emitted fierce heat, and he saw dozens of figures roving over the lava.
Those figures were from the Corrupt path, the ancient races, and there were two people wearing the robes of the ancient families’ disciples.
Suddenly, one of the ancient race experts smashed a fist into the lava river. Its surface blew back, and within that opening was a fist-sized crystal. The ancient race expert snatched it.
“There are Divine Flame Crystals here?”
Long Chen was surprised. He hadn’t expected Divine Flame Crystals to appear here, but he wasn’t moved by them.
According to tier, these Divine Flame Crystals were just low grade. The amount of flame energy contained within them was very limited, and it wasn’t very pure.
He had obtained Divine Flame Crystals as large as human heads in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, and they were definitely top grade. Even if you were to give these low grade crystals to him, he wouldn’t want them.
But this wide, bottomless river of lava gave him an idea.
There were quite a few people fishing for Divine Flame Crystals here. Long Chen might not care about them, but they were extremely rare treasures to others.
The Divine Flame Crystals were hidden within the flow of lava. Fishing them out wasn’t difficult. The difficult part lay in finding them.
They had to send their divine sense into the lava to search for signs of the crystals, and that was very taxing to one’s Spiritual Strength. They couldn’t keep this up for too long.
One of the Corrupt experts smashed the lava river and smoothly took out another crystal.
However, just as he took the crystal, he suddenly noticed a golden figure within the lava. He didn’t see its complete body as it was covered by the lava.
“A treasure?”
The Corrupt expert was delighted, and without hesitation, he summoned his Heavenly Dao manifestation. He was a rank six Celestial, and a large hand reached into the lava.
Summoning his manifestation immediately drew everyone else’s attention. Just what was going on? Was he attempting to gather the crystals en masse?
The hand reached into the lava. It pulled out a fifty-meter golden flame dragon, startling everyone.
“What is that?”
The flame dragon acted like a fish that had been happily swimming before it had been fished out. It let out a furious roar, and golden flames filled the world.
“Heavens, it’s an Earth Flame Spirit Beast!”
“No, this flame can incinerate Heavenly Dao runes! It’s…”
“It has to be the legendary Heaven Incinerating Flame ranked third on the Earth Flame Rankings! Run!” A startled cry suddenly came from someone.
“Idiot, why would we run? This Earth Flame Spirit Beast is a priceless treasure, and it’s still in a young state. We should capture it!”
As soon as that person said it was the Heaven Incinerating Flame, several people’s eyes turned green with greed. That was a legendary existence, something that would make flame cultivators insane with desire.
Most importantly, this Earth Flame Spirit Beast had just been born, and its combat power wasn’t very high. They had a high chance of subduing it.
“Ahh!” Suddenly, a miserable scream rang out. The expert who had pulled out the flame dragon was suddenly enveloped by a wave of dragon breath. He was instantly set ablaze, even his Heavenly Dao runes burning. The more he resisted, the more he burned.
In just a few breaths, that rank six Celestial who had been at the mid Jade Core realm was incinerated. Even his soul was burned to nothing.
The others were all startled, as well as delighted. That Corrupt expert had used his own life to prove that this Earth Flame Spirit Beast was definitely the legendary Heaven Incinerating Flame. It was a priceless treasure.
The flame dragon was about to enter the lava river again when an expert launched an attack. A ray of light struck the flame dragon’s body.
This attack infuriated the flame dragon. It let out a heaven-shaking roar and attacked that person.
“Everyone, don’t be afraid! If we attack together, using long-distance attacks, it will be helpless! We just have to exhaust it. Earth Flame Spirit Beasts are dumb, and it won’t flee. Once we exhaust its energy, we’ll be able to capture it easily!” The ancient race expert who had attacked it flew into the air, dodging the flame dragon’s attack. He took out a bow.
Just as the flame dragon chased after the ancient race expert, a Corrupt expert launched a wave of Sword Qi. The flame dragon was struck and became infuriated. It switched targets to the Corrupt expert.
Seeing that the flame dragon was truly mindless, everyone relaxed slightly. They surrounded and attacked the flame dragon carefully. At the same time, they stealthily sent the call for reinforcements from their own respective parties.
They knew that they would at most be able to trap this Earth Flame Spirit Beast. It was impossible for them to subdue it.
The powers that had entered the Spirit World all had secret communication m
ethods so that they would be able to assist their own side if they found treasures or encountered powerful enemies.
All they had to do was keep this Earth Flame Spirit Beast here. As for which power would manage to send a real expert here first to subdue it, it would be up to luck.
Once the call for reinforcements went out, more and more experts began rushing over here.
As for Long Chen, he was hiding in the cliff beside the lava river. He watched them attack the flame dragon like they were putting on a monkey show.
That Earth Flame Spirit Beast was just one of Huo Long’s split bodies. Long Chen was using this split body as bait.
He had exposed the Heaven Incinerating Flame in order to get away from that terrifying willow. So he had to find a way to prove that he had obtained the Heaven Incinerating Flame himself, and that it had nothing to do with Long San. The chance to do so had now come.
In a bit, as long as he went out and subdued the flame dragon in front of everyone, he would be able to wield the Heaven Incinerating Flame openly.
Although there was some time difference, which would normally be a fatal flaw, he didn’t mind. That was because there was almost no concept of time within the Spirit World. And most importantly, the Dark Forest’s tree demons were truly wood-brained. It would be very difficult for them to prove anything. So this normally fatal flaw wasn’t even a flaw in the Dark Forest.
“Damn, so I really got a big fish?”
Long Chen was calmly watching the monkey show when he got a nice surprise. He saw a familiar figure rushing over.
Chapter 1412 Intense Competition
That person was Long Chen’s ‘old friend’, Gui Yan. When Gui Yan saw the flame dragon, his eyes turned green with greed.
In his last defeat to Long Chen, Gui Yan’s Ghost King had been destroyed. Although he had managed to use the lives of the spirit warriors to save his life, losing his Ghost King had caused his total power to drop by over fifty percent. He had been forced to become much more low key.
After his second defeat, he had rested for a bit before entering the Ancient Battlefield. He had only just entered a short time ago, and due to losing his Ghost King, he had been forced to travel carefully. As a result, he just so happened to be nearby when these Corrupt experts sent the call for reinforcements, and he immediately rushed over.