Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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Due to the distraction of speaking, the elder could only receive it head-on. As long as he blocked this one attack, the others would come to assist him.
Regretfully, Long Chen’s lightning blade immediately transformed into lightning runes on contact with the thin elder’s weapon, forming a net that bound him.
“It’s over for him.”
The spectators couldn’t help sighing. Long Chen had previously used this move to kill another Life Star expert. This was a scoundrel move with practically no solution.
As expected, no matter how that person struggled, he was still killed by the pot. However, the others were prepared this time. Just as that person was killed, several of them unleashed fierce attacks on Long Chen.
However, their goal of stopping Long Chen from killing the thin expert hadn’t worked out. Long Chen had struck first, killing him and then turning to block their attacks. But of course, that meant he was late to block, and so he was sent flying, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
“Quick, now! Kill him!” Seeing Long Chen coughing up blood and being covered in injuries, more and more experts joined in. Long Chen fell into a desperate situation in an instant.
Just as Long Chen was going all-out blocking their attacks, a sword appeared in his blind spot. At that moment, space froze.
“Hahaha, you’ve finally come!”
Long Chen laughed thunderously. Golden flames exploded out of his body.
Chapter 1484 Blasphemer of the Killing God?
Long Chen smiled coldly as flames exploded out of him. A figure materialized within the flames.
“Shameful thing, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!” As soon as that figure appeared, the sword that was mysteriously hanging in mid-air turned, abandoning its attack and suddenly stabbing into the air.
The sword pierced out right as Long Chen’s pot smashed down at it. Neither of their attacks was aimed at the other. Instead, they were simply aimed at the air. It was like they were randomly striking.
The figure holding the sword solidified. The sword strangely bent and then sprung back, allowing him to retreat.
Just as he retreated, the seemingly random swing of Long Chen’s pot blocked off his path. It seemed to be coincidentally smashing right where he was going.
The figure twisted in midair, using some unknown secret art to summon a barrier. Long Chen’s pot smashed into the barrier, causing it to quiver. In the end, the barrier exploded, but the pot’s power had been reduced to the point where the figure merely coughed up a mouthful of blood.
As he was exposed, his manifestation appeared along with him.
People cried out in shock, “Nine Flowers Manifest the Heavenly Daos. It’s a rank nine Celestial!”
"It’s an assassin from the Bloodkill Hall! Long Chen actually managed to find his tracks and stop his assassination?”
“Aren’t their rank nine Celestials violet-gold rank assassins? Isn’t it said that they never fail? But now he just did!”
“It seems Long Chen was long since prepared for him. Could it be that he has yet to release his full power?”
“You think you can leave after trying to assassinate me? It’s still daylight, so stop dreaming!” The assassin turned to leave, but at this moment, Long Chen’s lightning blade, which had long since been raised toward the sky, mercilessly slashed down. “Split the Heavens 4!”
With Long Chen’s current power, the fourth form of Split the Heavens could be unleashed instantaneously by him. And after fighting with the Bloodkill Hall assassins for so long, he had a certain level of understanding in their movement techniques. He had completely cut off his path of retreat.
The Bloodkill Hall assassin’s sword suddenly blossomed with light. It was an Ancestral item, and an extremely powerful one at that. Divine light appeared around it, blocking Long Chen’s attack.
“Die!” The Bloodkill Hall assassin’s sword shattered Long Chen’s lightning blade and then curved, striking at him like a venomous snake from a bizarre angle.
“A rank nine Soul Transformation Celestial is truly powerful. But if you want to kill me, then it’s still the same thing: stop dreaming.”
Long Chen’s pot grew, protecting him. With an explosive sound, the assassin’s sword left a long scar on the pot, and Long Chen was sent flying. The power a rank nine Celestial could unleash from an Ancestral item was even greater than these powerful Life Star experts.
“Attack, kill Long Chen!” For an assassin of the Bloodkill Hall to appear out of nowhere was surprising, but the Life Star experts didn’t let that stop them. Considering the Bloodkill Hall’s enmity with Long Chen, it wasn’t strange.
They attacked once more. They had been forcing Long Chen into desperate straits, and now that the assassin had joined in, killing Long Chen would be simple.
“His pot can’t last any longer! Quick!” A sharp-eyed expert saw the scar on the pot. All their previous efforts hadn’t managed to damage the pot at all, but the assassin damaged it instantly. If he continued attacking, the pot wouldn’t be able to last much longer.
“Hmph, idiots, you’ll pay the price for your idiocy! If you want my life, then come!” Long Chen shouted fearlessly, and he swung his pot even fiercer than before, his power exploding.
“He’s afraid! Everyone, kill this fiend together!”
BOOM!
Long Chen just sent a group of Life Star experts flying when the Bloodkill Hall’s assassin once more attacked. He timed it perfectly before Long Chen could summon any more power. As a result, Long Chen could only move the pot to block, and he was sent flying, another deep cut appearing on the pot.
“He’s running! Stop him!” cried an expert. Long Chen had summoned lightning wings and was starting to fly toward the center of the city.
“Long Chen, weren’t you so courageous just now? Weren’t you very domineering? But now you’re running like a stray dog! You’re just a piece of garbage!” roared a Life Star expert as he energetically chased.
For Long Chen to suddenly start running was surprising, but then they felt that it was simply natural. His display was already shocking enough. A Jade Core disciple was actually able to fight against powerful Life Star experts with Ancestral items for so long, and even managed to kill several of them. That was admirable.
“Long Chen, you traitor of your own sect, you irredeemable fiend, you won’t be able to get away!” The Life Star experts quickly caught up to him.
Long Chen was flying strangely, sometimes going left and then suddenly going right. Occasionally, he would fight a brief bout before flying away again.
Some people were startled to notice that as Long Chen rushed away, he had his eyes closed. They didn’t know what he was doing.
Long Chen flitted around the Eastern Xuan City, seeming like he was playing an energetic game of manhunt, and he was too fast for them to surround him again. Some of them directly gave up on chasing and instead formed a large formation around him to limit his area of movement.
“Hehe, I’ve found it.” Long Chen’s eyes suddenly shot open. They shone brightly as he stared at a large building ahead of him.
It was a large and tall building decorated in gold and jade. It was very grand, but when it was placed in a place of soaring skyscrapers like the Eastern Xuan City, it wasn’t eye-catching at all.
The experts chasing Long Chen saw him suddenly stop in front of this large building. They immediately launched a barrage of attacks. “Long Chen, face your death!”
Over ten Life Star experts had launched attacks with their Ancestral items. This kind of power was practically world-shaking, and it was all concentrated on Long Chen.
“Fuck, stop!” The Bloodkill Hall assassin suddenly let out a panicked cry.
It was too late. The Life Star experts’ attacks shot out. There were giant swords, flying spears, divine light, and rainbow strikes. They all combined together to form a domain of absolute death.
BOOM!
Their combined attack devoured Long
Chen. At the same time, it also struck the giant building behind him.
“NO!” The Bloodkill Hall assassin let out a furious roar. The giant building exploded, filling the sky with broken bits.
“This…”
“This is…”
“This statue is…”
When the dust settled, Long Chen had vanished. Instead, what they saw was a giant statue three thousand meters tall. It depicted a man wearing black robes and long hair falling naturally. He held two daggers in his hands.
His body was slightly bent, and his daggers were striking out in front of him. They flickered with a sharp light, looking like they might reap a person’s life at any time. He was the reaper of lives. Just looking at him made others feel pain in their souls. The air felt chilly, with an aura of death present.
“This is… the Killing God’s statue.” The spectators covered their mouths, staring in shock.
“Could this be the Bloodkill Hall’s stronghold in the Eastern Xuan City? It… was actually exposed.”
The Bloodkill Hall was a secret organization that didn’t accept outsiders. Even the missions for assassinations had to pass through their secret strongholds. All this time, no one had heard of them having a stronghold here.
It had to be known that the Bloodkill Hall only cared about money, not relations. Countless powers were filled with hatred for them, but the Bloodkill Hall was too mysterious, and no one knew where their lairs were. Most importantly, they were so powerful that no one was willing to provoke them.
If a stronghold of theirs were to be exposed, that stronghold would be doomed. The Bloodkill Hall had offended practically every sect in some way, and now that people knew there was a stronghold in the Eastern Xuan City, it was doomed.
The combination attack had destroyed the building, but the statue was still standing, not harmed at all. It was unknown how it had been built, especially in the middle of the Eastern Xuan City. It had to have taken an extremely long time to build in this location, so this had to be their stronghold in the Eastern Xuan City. There was no other reason to have something of this scale here otherwise.
Countless experts flew out of the building once it exploded. They all wore tight black robes. Cold killing intent burned in their eyes as they glared at the experts outside. They were all tightly clenching the swords on their backs, looking like they might slaughter all of them at any moment.
There were actually hundreds of people from the Bloodkill Hall, and all of them were extremely terrifying. The majority were Life Star experts, with a few Soul Transformation experts in between.
As for those with weaker cultivation bases, there wasn’t a single one. Some people stealthily looked at the ruins below and saw a mass of corpses. Clearly, the weaker ones had already died.
Now a mass of terrifying assassins had appeared, and the experts that had just attacked all retreated, terrified. They saw the killing intent in these assassins’ eyes. They looked like they might go insane.
“Blasphemers of the Killing God will die!” One of the Bloodkill Hall’s Life Star experts, who seemed to be the overseer of this place, glared at these experts that had brought calamity upon themselves.
“Will we really die? I want to try it out.”
Just at this moment, a lazy voice rang out, causing everyone to look up in shock.
Up on the shoulder of the Killing God’s statue was a man with a black saber on his shoulder and a mocking smile. He slashed that saber at the Killing God’s neck.
Chapter 1485 Cutting Off the Head
People had been too shocked to see the statue of the Killing God. They hadn’t expected that the Bloodkill Hall would have a secret stronghold right in the middle of the Eastern Xuan City.
They only noticed Long Chen once he spoke. Compared to the giant statue, he appeared incredibly miniscule. He was like an ant on its shoulder.
At this moment, a cold saber-image hacked toward the Killing God statue’s neck.
“He’s… insane!”
This action of Long Chen’s shocked people more than all the previous fighting. Even Life Star experts felt a chill.
“Long Chen, you dare?!” The Bloodkill Hall experts all roared crazily, but it was too late for them to stop him.
They were correct. Long Chen did dare. He didn’t hesitate at all. A large head flew into the air.
The flow of time seemed to pass slowly as people stared at the head flipping through the air.
The Bloodkill Hall’s experts were all pale. Their faces were twisted with hatred.
“Long Chen, ah, Long Chen. Your skill in provoking disaster is truly unrivaled.” In the distance, Zheng Wenlong was standing on the Huayun auction house’s top floor. He wasn’t too far from the Killing God’s statue, which allowed him to see what Long Chen was doing clearly. He bitterly smiled.
“This Long Chen really is attempting to defy the heavens. That one slash of his saber is going to make the Bloodkill Hall go insane,” said a white-robed elder beside Zheng Wenlong.
There were also a dozen more Life Star experts accompanying Zheng Wenlong. Their auras were reserved, making them look like ordinary people. But a sharp light was hidden in their eyes, like needles hidden in silk. They were all powerful figures.
They were Zheng Wenlong’s guards in charge of his safety. Zheng Wenlong had already been promoted to the highest level supervisor of the Huayun Sect in the Eastern Xuan Region. The Huayun Sect would naturally worry about his safety.
The leader of these people was the white-robed elder. He seemed to not possess any aura at all. It was difficult to even sense his presence. He continued, “I heard that Long Chen once destroyed one of the Bloodkill Hall’s strongholds in the Eastern Wasteland, causing them to send experts to assassinate him over and over. But now it’s different. This is Bloodkill Hall’s main stronghold in the Eastern Xuan Region, and that statue has their concentrated faith energy. Not only has Long Chen blasphemed their god, but he’s also destroyed a portion of their faith energy. Now he’s really provoked a disaster.”
Zheng Wenlong kneaded his temples. He felt a slight headache. “In my years of doing business, I’m able to get a general understanding of what people are thinking inside with just a look. But when it comes to this fellow, I’ve never been able to see through him. I can’t see what he’s thinking.”
“Do we need to secretly help long Chen leave here?” probed the white-robed elder after a moment’s thought.
Zheng Wenlong shook his head. “The sect master will not permit us to interfere in matters beyond our bounds. We’ll have to keep watching quietly.”
At this time, the head that Long Chen had cut off finally thudded to the ground.
Curiously, the statue, which had been incredibly tough before its head was cut off, now suddenly dimmed. The head splintered and crumbled to dust.
Following the head, cracks spread throughout the rest of the statue, and it crumbled. Thanks to its destruction, a divine pool was revealed below it.
“Damn, there’s actually a heaven and earth divine spring here too?” Long Chen’s eyes immediately turned green with greed. Without saying another word, he reached out a hand, and the divine spring surged toward him. He sucked it into the primal chaos space in an instant. There was even more energy in this one than the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect.
The Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had been one of the three great heavenly sects, while this was just the Eastern Xuan branch of the Bloodkill Hall. But it still possessed such an enormous heaven and earth divine spring.
“Long Chen, you’ve blasphemed our god and destroyed our stronghold. The Bloodkill Hall will not rest until you are dead!” roared a Life Star expert from the Bloodkill Hall. He charged at Long Chen with overflowing killing intent.
The rest of the Bloodkill Hall’s experts also attacked. Sword Qi filled the sky, piercing through the void. They sealed all the space around Long Chen.
“Good, it would be best if there was no rest until death. Not only did you attac
k me from the Eastern Wasteland all the way to the Central Plains, but you almost killed Chu Yao. Today, we’ll add this new enmity on top of our old enmity and settle it all together!”
Long Chen was just as infuriated as them. He thought of how Chu Yao would have died to the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins if it hadn’t been for Leng Yueyan.
Now they wanted to say that they wouldn’t rest until he was dead? He had long since felt that way toward them. Black light suddenly blossomed from Evilmoon, and he slashed it forward.
Evilmoon now looked like a blade of slaughter that had come from hell. This one slash caused heaven and earth to tremble. A three-thousand-meter saber-image shot out, and black light covered the sky. It revealed all the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins that were trying to sneak up on him.
“What terrifying killing intent!” People cried out. Because in that instant, their souls quivered with pain. That killing intent was enough to make them feel fear.
A black ripple spread through the air, killing many of the Bloodkill Hall’s assassins. They were unable to endure this attack.
The black saber-image killed hundreds of the Bloodkill Hall’s experts, leaving less than twenty behind. They had relied on their Ancestral items to survive, but that powerful attack was like an ice-cold bucket of water over their heads. Their anger and hatred were suppressed by fear.
Long Chen didn’t press the attack. Instead, he swung Evilmoon so that it rested on his shoulder.
One man and one saber, both overflowing with killing intent, both decked in black. The current Long Chen looked like a reaper of lives come from hell.
Everyone quivered as they stared at him. The experts who had previously attacked him all felt terrified.
Only now did they realize that Long Chen hadn’t used his real power against them. He had led them all around in order to search for the Bloodkill Hall’s stronghold.
As soon as this Bloodkill Hall assassin had appeared, Long Chen had felt something was wrong. His power was extremely strange, and it didn’t feel like his own power. It was more like he was borrowing some other kind of power. That was what had allowed him to injure the pot.