Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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What kind of garbage plan was this? As long as Long Chen wasn’t an idiot, he wouldn’t just jump right in after that blatant provocation. But he hadn’t said anything and had simply allowed Qi Yunao to continue with the plan.
That was because the current Qi Yunao was on the border of insanity. No one wanted to provoke a madman.
After seven days of no news from Long Chen, the vice palace master finally lost his patience.
“Isn’t it all because of your fake righteousness? If you had simply let me capture the people of the Eastern Wasteland’s branch Xuantian Dao Sect, Long Chen would be forced to appear!” Qi Yunao glared at the vice palace master resentfully.
As soon as he said this, everyone else’s expressions changed. Qi Yunao had truly gone insane. Whoever talked to him would be bitten like a mad dog.
The vice palace masters’ expression sank. Although flame cultivators were not on the same level as alchemists within Pill Valley, in the outside world, who would dare to be rude to Pill Valley? But seeing Qi Yunao’s scarlet eyes, he suppressed his fury.
The current Qi Yunao was the most terrifying. What was frightening wasn’t his cultivation base, but that craziness combined with his sharp fangs.
Qi Yunao only had himself left, and he had nothing to cause himself any misgivings. No one could guess what he would do.
Originally, Pill Valley hadn’t even been planning on following through with Qi Yunao’s plan or even acknowledging him. But he had managed to threaten them with some confidential information, forcing them to send someone to cooperate with him.
The vice palace master had been warned by the higher-ups not to provoke Qi Yunao, as he was a madman.
Still, he couldn’t help coldly saying, “That’s not in accordance with the rules. Don’t involve people who aren’t part of the problem. Or are you planning on getting attacked by everyone else?”
The Righteous path had the Righteous path’s rules. No matter how great the grievance, it was against the rules to involve a person’s family. If the Xuantian Dao Sect still existed and Qi Yunao wanted to use it to threaten Long Chen, well that was one thing.
However, the Xuantian Dao Sect was gone. The branch sect in the Eastern Wasteland had absolutely nothing to do with what had happened with Long Chen now.
Furthermore, the branch sect was so weak. It was completely unsuitable for Qi Yunao to go target them.
“What rules? Did Long Chen follow the rules when he destroyed my Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect? As I see it, Pill Valley is nothing more than a cowardly bully. Even when it came to the Xuantian Dao Sect, you didn’t dare to personally do anything, instead forcing us-” roared Qi Yunao.
“Arrogance!” The vice flame master became enraged. He shouted, “Qi Yunao, do you think you can act without a care now?! Do you believe that a single message from me is enough to guarantee that within three days, you will no longer exist in this world?!”
The vice palace master finally lost his patience and cut off Qi Yunao’s words. If he kept talking, he would expose Pill Valley’s secrets.
All the other Life Star experts nervously stood and retreated further away. The two of them were not people they could provoke.
“Nonsense! Isn’t the fact that my Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect declined to its current state also because of your Pill Valley!?” Qi Yunao also stood, pointing the Violet Gold Soul Devouring Staff at the vice flame master, his hair flying through the air like a furious lion.
The vice palace master took a deep breath and suppressed his rage. He coldly said, “Tell me, what do you want?”
“I don’t want anything special at all. Having lost the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, all I want is to kill that brat in the most painful way possible. I don’t care what I have to do. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, I wouldn’t mind if I could bring him down with me,” said Qi Yunao with a chilling killing intent.
The Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had been famed as one of the three great heavenly sects. However, now its divine pool had been destroyed. In just a few days, all their mines and businesses had been plundered by mysterious experts. Clearly, this was the result of the bad luck of the heavens. The Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect could no longer exist.
Not only that, but the Violet Gold Soul Devouring Staff, which had been used to maintain the sect’s karmic luck, had started to decline. It was like a large and healthy man was rapidly aging. It wouldn’t be long before the Violet Gold Soul Devouring Staff’s divine energy was completely exhausted. At that time, it would shatter. This was one of the laws of the Heavenly Daos, something not even divine items could resist.
This was also one reason Qi Yunao was so crazy. Once his divine item shattered, let alone getting revenge, he wouldn’t even be qualified to challenge Long Chen.
According to what the Violet Gold Soul Devouring Staff said, in one year, it would fall to the level of a quasi divine item, and in three years, it would lose all its divine essence and vanish from this world.
In other words, if Qi Yunao couldn’t kill Long Chen within a year, then it would be Long Chen killing him in the future. That was what both infuriated and terrified him, making him insane. His mind was on the verge of crumbling.
So he didn’t care about the methods. He just wanted Long Chen dead, but Pill Valley had blocked part of his plans, causing him to also hate Pill Valley.
“Do you think you could threaten Long Chen with this? The very next day after the battle in the Eastern Xuan City, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s branches in the Eastern Wasteland, Western Desert, Southern Sea, and Northern Source all disappeared. Their higher-ups and talented disciples have vanished, while the ordinary disciples were disbanded. They’ve long since protected them in anticipation. Do you think that you could be faster than the Bloodkill Hall?” sneered the vice palace master, clearly contemptuous of Qi Yunao’s brains.
Pill Valley was aware of everything within the continent. Such large movements couldn’t possibly escape them.
“Who did it?!” raged Qi Yunao.
“You want revenge? Alright, then I’ll tell you. It was done by the Huayun Sect. Go ahead, I wish you luck. If you succeed, every member of Pill Valley will arrange a celebration for you,” said the vice palace master disdainfully.
Hearing that it was done by the Huayun Sect, Qi Yunao gave up. No matter how crazy he was, he knew he couldn’t go against the Huayun Sect.
“Right now, the only ones with connections to Long Chen are the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect and the Wine God Palace. I wish you luck taking them hostage,” snorted the vice palace master.
Qi Yunao also snorted and sat back down. He suddenly shouted at the Seven Star Gate’s master, “Hurry up and investigate if there’s any news of Long Chen! If you can’t find him, I’ll destroy your Seven Star Gate!”
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Just as the entire Eastern Xuan Region was searching for Long Chen, a black-robed man with a black saber on his shoulder and a black bamboo hat arrived in front of the Eastern Xuan Region’s Pill Tower.
Chapter 1502 Those Who Block Me Will Die
Long Chen looked at the empty gates of the Pill Tower, and a cold smile appeared on his face. Last time, the gates had been packed with people coming and going. But this time, it appeared cold and lonely. The old glory of it had been reversed. Now there were just a few dispirited guards in front of it. They didn’t even notice Long Chen approaching from the distance.
Long Chen was in a particularly good mood today. That was because Zheng Wenlong had sent him news that had lifted a weight from his shoulders. That news was that the Xuantian Dao Sect was safe.
The Xuantian Tower had brought away the Xuantian Dao Sect, but due to some particular reasons, Li Tianxuan was stuck inside and couldn’t leave. However, he had used a secret art to transmit news to the Huayun Sect.
Although Long Chen had felt that the chances that the Xuantian Dao Sect had been destroyed weren’t that high, this news still allowed him to relax. As long as the Xuantian Dao Sect was fine,
everything was alright.
Hearing that the Xuantian Dao Sect was fine, Long Chen immediately had Zheng Wenlong contact the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, Wine God Palace, Heavenly Sword Gate, and the original devil race.
He couldn’t directly communicate with the original devil race as he didn’t know where their base was in the Eastern Xuan City. But he could pass information to them through their stronghold in the Grand Xia Ancient Nation.
Long Chen had them not make any moves temporarily. He had enough power to protect himself, and so they could just watch for now.
Although the Xuantian Dao Sect was fine, he knew that the fine ones were just the elite disciples. There had to have been terrible casualties amongst the outer sect disciples and commoners.
Against such a sudden attack, maintaining zero casualties was impossible. So even though the Xuantian Dao Sect was fine, his revenge didn’t stop.
This time, Long Chen would make sure all those people lying in wait, like stalking predators watching their prey, would never be a problem again one way or another. Those people had been watching the Xuantian Dao Sect the entire time, waiting for an opportunity.
Last time, the Xuantian Dao Sect had been reinforced by the Huayun Sect, Wine God Palace, Heavenly Sword Gate, and Heaven Splitting Battle Sect. That had intimidated their enemies.
Now, he found that it was useless. Intimidation was only temporarily effective. If he wanted to make them stop their predatory stalking, he had to kill. He had to kill until they were completely terrified and didn’t even dare to be his enemy. That was the only way he could be safe.
As for the Seven Star Gate’s provocation, Long Chen scoffed at it. He wasn’t stupid. Why would he jump into such an obvious trap?
Furthermore, through the information he had gathered on his own, he had learned that Qi Yunao had appeared and then vanished again. He guessed this matter to be ninety percent likely related to him.
He wasn’t afraid of Qi Yunao himself, but his Violet Gold Soul Devouring Staff was a half-step divine item. In Evilmoon’s current state, it couldn’t beat it.
Furthermore, the Seven Star Gate wasn’t very powerful. Its divine spring was limited and not worth the risk.
The greater the sect, the more divine spring they would have. And the opposite was true as well. The more a sect declined, the sparser their divine spring.
Although the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had been one of the three great heavenly sects, its divine spring had been less abundant than the eastern branch of the Bloodkill Hall.
Having plundered the divine springs of over fifty sects, the Divine Gate Star had finally reached its fully condensed state.
But although it had been fully condensed, it still wasn’t perfect. It had to go through the nine star transformations to be complete.
Long Chen had long since given up on consuming the Divine Gate Pills. Absorbing divine springs was millions of times more effective.
At the time when the Divine Gate Star was fully condensed, the FengFu, Alioth, Life Fate, and Enlightenment Palace Stars also entered a strange state, as if they were undergoing another transformation with the Divine Gate Star.
Now Long Chen was unable to see through the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art even more. He could only let it do as it pleased.
After learning of the Seven Star Gate’s provocation, Long Chen had gone into seclusion, and today, he came out, once more heading to the Eastern Xuan City.
After the last battle, many of the people within the Eastern Xuan City had fled far away. Although thanks to him, the commoners had escaped the tribulation, many people found that the Eastern Xuan Region was in chaos now. The Eastern Xuan City was no longer safe, so it was better to find a more secluded place to wait this period out.
Long Chen’s revenge was shaking the entire Eastern Xuan Region, and large battles were being fought every day. No one wanted to be caught up in a fight, as their lives were more important.
Now Long Chen entered the city easily just by wearing a wide, black bamboo hat. No one was investigating the transportation formations, because no one believed that Long Chen would come back to the Eastern Xuan City. The word on the streets was that Long Chen had hidden himself since he was being hunted by all the Eastern Xuan Region’s experts. There were also rumors that he had already been killed. In any case, there was a mass of contradictory information.
Long Chen slowly walked across the wide and empty street. Evilmoon was already on his shoulder as he walked toward the Pill Tower.
“Who’s there? This is the Pill Tower… Long… Long Chen?!” The few guards that were standing there suddenly saw the black saber on his shoulder and turned pale.
“I won’t make things hard on you. Everyone needs to eat, and you’re simply doing your job, so there's no need to lose your life over this. Leave. This place will be razed to the ground today.” Long Chen took off his hat, revealing his face. Having learned the Xuantian Dao Sect still existed, he had an excellent mood, so he said a few extra words.
These guards were all terrified. They all knew what he was about to do. “Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, that’s unacceptable. This is the Pill Tower. You can’t go back after this…”
“I reached that point a long time ago.”
BOOM!
Long Chen swung down Evilmoon, and the huge gates were blown apart. The guards fled for their lives, no longer daring to say anything else.
“Who dares to attack my Pill Tower?! Are you provoking Pill Valley?!” Furious roars began to ring out from within as experts flew out.
They had only just rushed out when they saw a black-robed man with a black saber on his shoulder slowly walk in through the dust. They all sucked in a cold gasp of air.
“Long Chen!”
Long Chen was recognizable by everyone now. Although the photographic jades had been broken by the heavenly tribulation, there were plenty of descriptions and pictures. These Pill Tower Elders all turned pale when they saw him, and there was one in particular who was terrified.
That person was their leader, the new Tower Master. Last time, when Long Chen had been caught by the three divine items, he had been the first to go assist and call for other experts to help.
Now seeing Long Chen come, he felt a chill run through his body. But he put on a tough act, shouting, “Long Chen, what do you think you’re doing? This is the Pill Tower, and if you dare to act wildly here, you’ll regret it!”
“What do you think I’m doing?” Long Chen returned the question with a cold smile.
Once again, he was walking step by step, slowly but at a steady pace. That appearance was just like when he had walked down the street of the Eastern Xuan City.
“Long Chen, I’d advise you not to misunderstand! Perhaps you were wrongly accused, but even if you were, you shouldn’t go too far! If you have any grievances, you can just tell us! I can record them and send them to Pill Valley, and the valley master himself will come to right any wrongs! But if you act willfully, you’ll be going further and further onto the evil path, and you won’t be able to come back! In truth, you-” advised the Tower Master as he slowly retreated.
“Shut up.” Long Chen frostily said, “Do you think I’m an idiot? Aren’t you the one clearest about whether or not I was wrongly accused? Now you have the face to spout such sanctimonious words at me? Could it be that Pill Valley doesn’t focus on refining pills, but on refining the thickness of your skin? Let me put it simply: I’ve come for revenge. It was your Pill Valley that first schemed to destroy my Xuantian Dao Sect and then summoned a pack of idiots to come and kill me. As I see it, you’ve been living too peacefully. Do you really think no one in this world dares to become enemies with Pill Valley?”
“You- what nonsense is that!? Slander!” shouted the Tower Master.
The originally empty and deadly silent Eastern Xuan City’s streets were now filled with experts. They were all watching and listening to their conversation.
“What is Long Chen doing?!”
All of them were shocked. When Long Chen went to get vengeance on those other sects, that was shocking enough but understandable. However, this was the Pill Tower, with Pill Valley behind it. That was an overlord existence within the Martial Heaven Continent. This was just insane.
“Looks like someone on your level isn’t qualified to touch those secrets. Then I won’t waste words with you.” Long Chen coldly smiled. In Li Tianxuan’s message that Zheng Wenlong had given him, Li Tianxuan had clearly told Long Chen that Pill Valley, the Corrupt path, the ancient races, the ancient family alliance, the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, and several other powerful existences had participated in the attack, and Long Chen had to be careful when it came to them.
However, looking at the expression of this new Tower Master, it seemed like he didn’t know about that matter, so Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to explain it.
“If you don’t want to die, then scram. If you want to reincarnate, come quickly. Today, those who block me will die!”
Long Chen raised Evilmoon. A huge black crescent fang appeared in the air, slashing toward the main tower of the Pill Tower.
Chapter 1503 Flipping the Pill Tower
A huge crescent fang slashed toward the Pill Tower’s main tower. That was the most sacred place of the Pill Tower.
“Long Chen, you dare?!” The Tower Master let out a furious roar.
BOOM! He was correct, Long Chen truly did dare. His attack cleanly blew apart the main tower.
The Pill Tower didn’t have much of a protective formation, nor did it need one. In all these years, no one had dared to run rampant within the Pill Tower.
So while the Pill Tower looked glorious, it wasn’t particularly defensively strong. The tower crumbled.
However, as the tower crumbled, two statues appeared in the air. They were the two gods that Pill Valley worshipped, Lord Brahma and Fallen Daynight.
The two stone statues were less than a hundred meters tall and were originally located at the highest level of the tower. But now that it was destroyed, they simply floated in the air, emitting divine light. They were completely untouched, truly like two gods looking down on heaven and earth. That kind of divine might was irresistible.