Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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Now he was terrified as he looked at Long Chen. His body quivered as he prepared to block, but he knew that this block would be useless.
“Earthen Borders!”
In the distance, Sha Guangyan had landed on the ground at some unknown time and stabbed his broadsword into the earth.
Huge earthen swords soared out of the ground, shooting at Long Chen.
“Split the Heavens 4!” A huge saber-image slashed through these earthen swords.
The swords exploded, but just as the saber-image was about to reach Ye Qingkuang, the ground split open, and a large hand slammed out.
The hand exploded, while the saber-image created a bottomless ditch in the ground. Ye Qingkuang had vanished.
“You want to beat us one by one? Too bad, we won’t let you.” Sha Guangyan sneered in the distance. Ye Qingkuang was by his side. He had used some sort of secret art to summon two defensive moves at once and save Ye Qingkuang.
“Many thanks.” Ye Qingkuang had long since lost his original arrogance. If it hadn’t been for Peng Wansheng and Sha Guangyan’s interference, this world would no longer have a Ye Qingkuang in it.
As an Empyrean, he had never imagined a day where he would be killed by someone. But today, he had almost died. Thinking about it gave him chills.
Long Chen rested Evilmoon on his shoulder and looked at them with a cold smile. Under the endless torrent of lightning, his expression was still calm. “If I can’t beat you one by one, I don’t mind beating you all together.”
Long Chen had long since gotten used to the heaven-defying karmic luck of heavenly geniuses. Killing them was truly difficult. Their luck was always so good.
Yet, he trusted that you couldn’t survive off luck. If he couldn’t kill his opponent, he couldn’t blame their luck. He could only blame himself for not being strong enough. If he was strong enough to kill them in one blow, then no matter how great their luck was, it would still be nonsense.
“Ye Qingkuang, focus on healing. Long Chen’s difficult to handle, and we’ll need to work together. Furthermore, we have to kill him before the tribulation reaches its strongest state. Otherwise, who knows what will happen,” said Sha Guangyan.
Right now, Ye Qingkuang was the only one that could compete with Long Chen in terms of power. Without him, there was no chance of them killing Long Chen.
Sha Guangyan’s voice now contained some worry. He found that the lightning was growing stronger and stronger. The five-colored lightning was difficult to endure, and if it continued growing stronger, it would gravely affect their fighting power. What made them feel the most helpless was that their Heavenly Dao runes were ineffective against this five-colored lightning.
Long Chen simply stood there with no intention to attack again. Ye Qingkuang was quickly healing. Having lost the chance to kill him, Long Chen wouldn’t be given another chance. After all, they were peak experts, and they wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.
The four of them simply stared at each other. The people watching felt like a boulder was crushing their hearts. This battle was absolutely terrifying, so terrifying that they almost couldn’t believe that what they were witnessing was reality.
As more time passed, the lightning transformed into huge spheres that fell from the sky and exploded like bombs.
Each sphere was three hundred meters wide and was like a raindrop, but they created huge pits in the ground.
“Attack!” Suddenly, Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang attacked at the same time. It seemed they wanted to settle victory or defeat right here and now.
Chapter 1495 Lightning Covers the Land
Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang had summoned all the power they had at their disposal. They couldn’t hold back at all.
Light flowed around their divine items as they attacked once more. They were intent on killing Long Chen in one breath.
Long Chen let out a furious roar, and green light soared from his scales. Wielding his saber with both hands, he charged out at the three of them.
The collisions of divine items caused the world to alternate between light and dark. As they crazily fought, the torrent of lightning exploded around them.
The people in the distance could only vaguely see four figures within the lightning. That terrifying pressure had completely twisted space and made it seem like what they were seeing was illusory.
No one dared to even blink an eye. They were afraid of missing even an instant of this scene. In this kind of terrifying barrage, one of them could die at any moment.
“Long Chen’s too terrifying. If Empyreans are monsters, then Long Chen is a monster amongst monsters. He’s not at a disadvantage even one against three,” praised the white-robed elder beside Zheng Wenlong.
“Be careful. If you say the wrong thing, you might lose your life,” warned Zheng Wenlong.
The white-robed elder’s expression changed slightly. He had actually forgotten that saying the wrong thing within the domain of this tribulation could be sensed by the Heavenly Daos and invoke karma. Ye Qingkuang’s master was a good example of that.
The white-robed elder shut his mouth. He didn’t even dare to send spiritual messages and simply watched.
As for weaker experts, they couldn’t even speak under this terrifying pressure. The huge Eastern Xuan City was silent.
The four of them were crazily fighting in the lightning. Sha Guangyan and Peng Wansheng’s hearts shook. As they fought, Ye Qingkuang was growing stronger. This five-colored tribulation lightning was tempering him rapidly. He had already gained the aura of a Soul Transformation expert.
His aura was still chaotic and fluctuating, but his power was now soaring. Although he couldn’t match Long Chen, he could still manage to block him with their help.
Long Chen’s heavy attacks were all blocked by him. It was only because of Ye Qingkuang that the other two could fight against Long Chen. They thanked their luck that they had saved Ye Qingkuang back then, or without him, they wouldn’t have been able to survive.
Five-colored lightning surrounded Long Chen. It had formed a set of armor around him, preventing him from being injured by the torrent of lightning falling from the sky.
As for Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang, they were forced to divert a part of their energy to resist the lightning.
As a result, both sides ended up having their advantages and disadvantages. They fought for a full two hours without determining a victor.
“Damnit, how can he have so much spiritual yuan?! He clearly isn’t absorbing energy from heaven and earth to replenish it!” Sha Guangyan ground his teeth.
It wasn’t just Sha Guangyan who was confused by this. Considering there were three Empyreans with their manifestations in full bloom, all the energy of heaven and earth was sucked dry by them. Long Chen couldn’t absorb energy to replenish his spiritual yuan.
His divine ring was active, but it was focused on resisting the suppression of their three manifestations. It wasn’t absorbing any energy from the world. According to reason, Long Chen’s spiritual yuan should have run dry an hour ago.
Even the three of them who were absorbing all the energy in the air were using more energy than they were replenishing. They didn’t even have half their spiritual yuan left.
BOOM!
Just as the three of them were growing anxious about this, an explosive sound came from the sky. They saw that the cross-shaped crack Long Chen had cut into the sky had exploded due to some energy. It had formed a huge hole in the sky.
Countless five-colored figures began to descend from the sky. They were terrifying lightning beasts. There were drakes, phoenixes, wolves, insects, tigers, leopards, essentially anything that existed.
Flying ones, swimming ones, running ones, they were all present. Some of these were beasts that no one had ever seen or even heard of.
Each of these lightning beasts was as large as a mountain. They charged toward the four of them.
Sha Guangyan was th
e first to be struck. He was sent flying by Long Chen into the mouth of a lightning python.
“Break!” A roar came from within the lightning python’s mouth, and its head exploded. Sha Guangyan flew out.
However, his face was a bit pale with fright. When he had been devoured, he had entered a strange space with endless lightning chains coming to bind him. If he hadn’t had a divine item to break those lightning chains, he might have been bound.
This lightning python was just one of the millions of lightning beasts that had appeared. He had almost died to just one. This five-colored lightning was truly worthy of being the legendary annihilation lightning.
They were Empyreans, and every time they underwent tribulation, the heavens would pamper them. The heavens would send down powerful but gentle lightning to expel the impurities in their bodies and make sure their advancement was as perfect as possible.
To them, heavenly tribulation was like a gentle mother. But today, it had become an evil stepmother who wanted them dead. The four of them had no choice but to focus on blocking these lightning beasts.
In truth, the majority of the lightning beasts were charging toward Long Chen. That proved that the main target of the five-colored lightning was still Long Chen.
When the endless lightning beasts appeared, over a thousand five-colored dragons also appeared around Long Chen, fighting crazily against them.
“How… how is that possible?!” Zi Yan was filled with shock. How could the lightning beasts start fighting against each other?
In the next instant, she realized that these dragons were not the beasts of the lightning tribulation, but Long Chen’s thunderforce.
Long Chen had had Lei Long absorb the five-colored lightning from the start. It had silently sent its split bodies throughout the lightning tribulation, absorbing it. Having already transformed to become five-colored as well, its split bodies were like fish in water. No one had noticed them.
When Long Chen had been fighting against them, he hadn’t used any thunderforce. He had merely kept Lei Long’s main body with him to absorb any tribulation lightning that attacked him.
Lei Long was truly gluttonous. It had summoned eighteen hundred split bodies in one go. That was its limit. Eighteen hundred split bodies had been greedily devouring the five-colored lightning tribulation this entire time.
When the time came and they merged together, Lei Long would grow to a terrifying level.
However, right now, they had yet to merge again. Its split bodies might not be extremely powerful individually, but they had completely transformed to become the same as this five-colored lightning.
The tribulation lightning beasts ended up viewing them as coming from the same source, and so they didn’t attack Lei Long. They only charged at Long Chen.
Fortunately, Lei Long didn’t view them as coming from the same source. It viewed them purely as fat pieces of meat, and it crazily devoured them.
These huge lightning beasts were incredibly fierce, but they didn’t possess minds. They didn’t know how to fight against themselves and simply continued charging at Long Chen without attacking Lei Long.
As a result, Lei Long devoured them without any misgivings. The lightning essence it was devouring was the best meat to it.
Eighteen hundred dragons were pouncing on the lightning beasts in the sky while protecting Long Chen.
But even like this, there were too many of the lightning beasts. Many of them still got past the lightning dragons to attack Long Chen.
Long Chen slashed his saber at those. His saber was flickering with five-colored lightning as well. This was the power of Lei Long’s true body.
If Long Chen was using his own power against the lightning beasts, it wouldn't be this effective, and it would take more spiritual yuan. But with Lei Long’s assistance, killing these lightning beasts was much easier. He killed one with each slash of his saber.
When he killed the lightning beasts, they transformed into lightning runes and were absorbed by Lei Long’s true body that was still within Long Chen. Its growth rate was even faster than the split bodies, as the split bodies still required a great deal of effort to devour the lightning beasts of the tribulation. After all, each of those lightning beasts was just as large as them.
However, Long Chen could destroy them with a simple swing of his saber, and that efficiency allowed Lei Long’s true body to grow much faster.
Long Chen was handling his lightning beasts without much effort, but on the other side, Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang’s expressions were growing unsightly.
Each time they attacked one of the lightning beasts, they needed to use a huge amount of energy. But worst of all, when the lightning beasts exploded, the exploding lightning would harm their bodies. Even their souls would feel a prickling pain, making them almost cough up blood.
The three of them were Soul Transformation experts who had already started condensing their Yuan Spirits. If they were still in the Jade Core realm, their souls might not be able to bear the impact of this lightning.
Seeing Long Chen’s expression was so calm as he killed the lightning beasts without the slightest pain, they felt like they might go insane.
Although the majority of the lightning beasts were charging toward Long Chen, around thirty percent of them were still attacking the trio Empyreans. This thirty percent was horrifying, and the three of them were battered and exhausted.
After two hours, Sha Guangyan was the first to start wildly coughing up blood.
After four hours, Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang were covered in blood. Having been injured multiple times, their combat power was starting to fall.
After six hours, the three of them had reached their limit. They had entered a deathbed struggle.
As for Long Chen, he was also covered in blood amongst these endless lightning beasts. There were just too many of them, and he was starting to run out of breath.
The people in the distance were watching with rapt attention. They knew the end was coming.
Suddenly, the lightning tribulation clouds in the sky began to rumble. They slowly gathered together, eventually forming five different-colored clouds right above Long Chen’s head.
“This is… the real five-colored lightning tribulation.” People stared in shock at the five clouds above Long Chen.
Chapter 1496 A World-Destroying Blow
The five clouds revolved rapidly around each other. Lightning surged within like raging waves.
The five clouds were like five petals of a flower, with the center right above Long Chen.
“What the fuck, this is no normal five-colored lightning. This is five-colored world-destroying tribulation lightning! Long Chen, what did you do to anger the heavens so much?!” Even Dragonbone Evilmoon was shocked.
“How am I supposed to now?! These damn heavens just find me displeasing and do everything possible to kill me,” said Long Chen hatefully.
Suddenly, the world trembled. The lightning beasts exploded into runes and vanished.
In that instant, a pillar of light shot out from the five tribulation clouds and enveloped long Chen. He felt endless heavenly might lock him down. The surrounding space was frozen, and he couldn’t move.
As for the distant Sha Guangyan, Peng Wansheng, and Ye Qingkuang, they were exhausted and about to collapse. They despaired. The pillar of light also affected them, making it so they couldn’t flee.
However, at that instant, the three of them were blown away by a strange force. That force was hard, making them cough up blood and feel like their bones would collapse. But they were delighted.
“Hahahaha! Long Chen, in the end, you still lose! Your own trap killed you- pfft!” Ye Qingkuang laughed wildly while also coughing up blood.
The lightning tribulation had ended up letting them off. Now it was locked onto just Long Chen. That meant that this five-colored lightning still did show some concern for Empyreans.
Even before, seventy percent of the ligh
tning beasts had been targeting Long Chen, with only thirty percent attacking the three of them. That showed how great the karmic luck of Empyreans was. Even heavenly tribulation looked after them.
Now as the lightning tribulation prepared for its final blow, it actually sent them out. The three of them had escaped death and were filled with both joy at life and joy at Long Chen’s misfortune.
“Don’t worry, Long Chen. Once you die, I’ll immediately go to the Spirit World and let the rest of the Dragonblood Legion join you! As for those beauties of yours, hehe, I’ll properly look after them!” laughed Sha Guangyan as he wiped off the blood from his mouth.
Endless destructive will was gathering within the five clouds. That was the will of the Heavenly Daos. If the heavens wanted someone dead, that person would have no choice but to die. This was the power of the heavens.
“Will Long Chen really die? If he dies, that means he’s not my destined devil star. If he isn’t my destined devil star, wouldn’t that be a huge joke?” Zi Yan looked at the distant Long Chen who couldn’t move under the light of the five tribulation clouds. A pained expression appeared in her eyes.
The current Long Chen was unable to move, but he had no intention of submitting. He was standing tall, glaring furiously at the tribulation clouds.
In this situation, no one could save him. No human could surpass the heavens, but Long Chen was trying anyway.
The beautiful woman didn’t say anything as she watched. If Long Chen really died to this lightning tribulation, it would truly be a huge joke.
She trusted that the divination spoken by the Illusive Music Immortal Palace’s ancestor was correct. But she couldn’t imagine how Long Chen would survive this terrifying tribulation.
This was a tribulation with no chance of survival. Nothing could save him, not even a divine item.
“Long Chen, you can’t die. You’re my greatest investment. Grand Wealth God, please protect my client.” Zheng Wenlong had almost despaired, but he clung onto the slightest shred of hope.