Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k

  “The thunderforce inside here is too weak. Come out and try it.”

  A ray of light shot out of Long Chen’s head, and a giant figure appeared before him.

  Chapter 1537 Divine Lightning

  Long Chen summoned his Yuan Spirit outside his body. The calm rain of lightning on the outside instantly became fierce and chaotic, attacking his Yuan Spirit.

  An endless torrent of five-colored lightning crashed against Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit. It focused on the Yuan Spirit so much that it no longer cared much about Long Chen’s true body.

  Long Chen looked at his Yuan Spirit, while his Yuan Spirit looked at him. The feeling was very strange. They were both Long Chen. It was like looking in a mirror, but there was also a different kind of feeling as well.

  Long Chen slowly closed his eyes, focusing on entering the view of his Yuan Spirit. Controlling his Yuan Spirit, he launched a powerful punch that shook the sky.

  “Your Yuan Spirit is shockingly powerful. There are both gains and losses I suppose. Even if your physical body died, your Yuan Spirit would still possess great power,” said Evilmoon.

  Long Chen nodded. As the lightning attacked his Yuan Spirit, his 108,000 Yuan Spirit primordial runes absorbed their energy.

  They were like pieces of ore, while the thunderforce was purifying them. Every single one of them was becoming purer and stronger.

  BOOM!

  Suddenly, one huge figure after another flew out of the endless darkness. They all pounced on his Yuan Spirit.

  These were five-colored lightning beasts. Long Chen was already familiar with them. He had Lei Long come out to protect him while he focused on using his Yuan Spirit to slay these lightning beasts.

  His Yuan spirit was a giant right now, and each punch of his blew apart a wave of the lightning beasts.

  “How powerful!” Long Chen was shocked that just the power of his Yuan Spirit would possess such destructive force.

  It had to be known that before he had condensed a Yuan Spirit, his Spiritual Strength was not able to condense physical attacks. The only thing he could attack with it was other people’s souls. But now, he was unleashing physical attacks with it, and it felt the same as when he fought with his physical body.

  “Split the Heavens 1!”

  Using his hand as a blade, Long Chen blew apart the lightning beasts. He was also able to use Battle Skills like this.

  “Fool, why are you wasting your precious soul energy? Your tribulation has only just started. Are you trying to kill yourself?” cursed Evilmoon. “Your Yuan Spirit is exhausting the soul energy in your mind-sea. Once that’s exhausted, you’re done for. The lightning tribulation of the Soul Transformation realm is targeting your Yuan Spirit, and the strongest attacks come at the end. If you use up all your energy by then, you’ll definitely die.”

  Long Chen’s heart shivered, and he recalled how his Yuan Spirit was different from his main body. When his main body fought, it focused on the qi and essence of him.

  The Yuan Spirit used energy from the qi, essence, and soul, but the proportions were different. The qi and essence were only ten percent, while the remaining ninety percent of the energy came from the soul.

  That ten percent of qi and essence was what allowed the Yuan Spirit to unleash the true body’s magical arts and Battle Skills.

  After testing that one attack and receiving Evilmoon’s warning, Long Chen didn’t continue wasting his Spiritual Strength. He simply used his Yuan Spirit to attack normally.

  Lei Long was protecting his true body, while it had also summoned hundreds of split bodies to devour the lightning runes in the air. These runes came from the lightning beasts and were the best nourishment for it.

  As his Yuan Spirit fought against the lightning beasts, he found that it was growing smaller, and more and more condensed. Its power was also increasing.

  However, he was still cautious. He didn’t unleash any special techniques that wasted energy. He just smashed the lightning beasts with brute strength.

  Unlike last time, he didn’t dare to strike the tribulation clouds. He just continued according to the pace of the tribulation. That would save him the most energy.

  After having gone through heavenly tribulation so many times, he had already figured out some of their rules. The main one was that despite how badly the tribulation wanted to kill him, its power was still limited. Furthermore, it had to go through a certain step-by-step procedure.

  The lightning was growing stronger, but its power was still well within the limits of Long Chen’s power. As long as he exhausted all of its energy, the tribulation would end.

  In the past, Long Chen had been too fiery and had constantly provoked the tribulation, quickening its pace. That was very dangerous. It left him without time to breathe or recover.

  This time, he was obediently following the tribulation’s tempo. It grew stronger bit by bit, and as Long Chen handled it, he also recovered all his energy, keeping himself in his peak condition.

  Since he wasn’t provoking the tribulation, it was much ‘gentler’. After four hours, the lightning beasts faded, and human lightning figures appeared.

  Each of them held weapons as they attacked Long Chen. There was practically an endless tide of them, and they instantly enveloped Long Chen.

  The fists of Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit danced. What delighted Long Chen was that his Yuan Spirit was now extremely solid. The attacks of the human-shaped lightning couldn't even injure it, although it would cause his physical body and soul to feel pain.

  After all, his Yuan Spirit and his soul were intricately linked. However, most of his focus was now on his Yuan Spirit. With Lei Long protecting his main body, he didn’t need to worry about it.

  The human-shaped lightning was extremely powerful, but his Yuan Spirit grew stronger and stronger as it fought them. It was now fifteen meters tall, and each of its punches could blow them up.

  The human-shaped lightning also grew stronger and more berserk. Clearly, the lightning tribulation was also reaching a berserk state. The most difficult part was coming.

  Long Chen continued to fight stably. He did his best to maintain an equilibrium between the amount of energy he used and the amount of energy he recovered.

  The lightning incarnations grew more numerous and distinct. Their faces and robes became clearer.

  There were men and women, young and old. Their robes were strange and ancient. Their power caused the world to shake with each wave of their hands.

  Long Chen knew that these were the Ancient Heroic Spirits, peerless experts who had also gone against the heavens and been exterminated under the lightning tribulation. Their techniques had all been imprinted on the heavens.

  Finally, Long Chen could no longer just fight with brute power. These Ancient Heroic Spirits possessed both power and combat experience. They were no longer just charging at him. They were true experts.

  Although their moves were still stiff and inflexible, they were incredibly refined. Their magical arts were extremely powerful, and there were many of them.

  “Whirlwind Slash!” A lightning blade appeared in the hands of Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit. He spun and a shockwave came from his lightning blade, slaughtering the Ancient Heroic Spirits.

  He was no longer able to fight without any Battle Skills or magical arts. When their attacks landed on his Yuan Spirit, they wouldn’t cause any injuries, but they would cause a sharp pain in his true body’s soul.

  As he cut down the Ancient Heroic Spirits, their numbers began to dwindle.

  “Watch out. The divine lightning is brewing,” said Evilmoon.

  Suddenly, the remaining Ancient Heroic Spirits vanished. Following that, this space shuddered violently. It felt like the weight of the world was on Long Chen’s shoulders.

  The heavenly might focused on Long Chen. It was like a giant executioner was looking at its next target.

  In front of that heavenly might, anyone would feel miniscule. They would feel like there was no point in res
isting. In front of the heavenly might, man could only submit.

  “Idiot, do you think I would submit to you?”

  Long Chen sneered and stood straight. Raising his head, he looked into the endless darkness. There was a small ball of light brewing within the center of it. A white rune was currently growing.

  That rune suddenly shook, and a ray of white light shot at Long Chen.

  Long Chen felt space lock around him. Time was severed. There was no time to react at all before the white light struck his Yuan Spirit.

  BOOM!

  His Yuan Spirit shuddered violently. It almost crumbled from this one attack.

  “AHH!” Long Chen clutched his head and screamed. He felt like a million needles were stabbing his head, aggravating every inch of his nerves. That pain was irresistible.

  “You have to hold on! This kind of divine lightning will only strike three times. As long as you can last that long, it’ll end.” Evilmoon’s voice also contained some urgency now. It had also gone through divine tribulation, so it understood its rules.

  The white rune suddenly grew ten times larger. Like a strange star, it hung in the dark sky.

  Then another ray of white light struck at Long Chen. Once again, there was no chance at all for Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit to resist or dodge.

  Long Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood, and his Yuan Spirit shrank until it was less than five feet tall. It was even smaller than his true body. The white rune grew larger once more. The world rumbled as a destructive air condensed. The scent of death was everywhere.

  Just as the light was about to shoot out once more, Long Chen suddenly raised his lightning blade and slashed it, unleashing his Spiritual Strength.

  The tribulation’s attacks came too suddenly for him to wait for it. He had to attack first. If he still didn’t do anything to block the third attack, he’d definitely die.

  The lightning blade struck the white rune. The lightning blade exploded, and blinding lightning filled the darkness.

  “Haha, success-!” Evilmoon was delighted. It was surprised that Long Chen could grasp the timing of the divine lightning and strike it at the perfect time.

  Before it could finish celebrating, the rune in the sky grew larger and brighter once more. The divine pressure increased. This world seemed to have become hell as a destructive will filled every inch of the land.

  “How… how is this possible?!” cried Evilmoon.

  Chapter 1538 Sure Death Tribulation, Divine Lightning Beast

  That rune grew larger and brighter until it was blinding within the darkness.

  It was like a giant star was expanding until it was about to explode. Its fierce light was like sharp blades piercing this space, and the divine pressure present would make any person feel despair.

  Within this world of darkness, there was nothing except for that apocalyptic light. The only thing here was death and destruction.

  “It really didn’t give you a chance of survival at all…” muttered Evilmoon.

  Long Chen was panting for breath as he held his head. The fierce pain in it made him unable to think straight at the moment.

  Only after a few breaths’ time did he feel like he could think again. Waving his hand, he pulled his Yuan Spirit into his mind-sea.

  In that final attack, he had used his Spiritual Strength to unleash the fifth form of Split the Heavens. In truth, the timing of his attack had been very lucky. If it had been too fast, it wouldn’t have blocked the divine lightning’s attack. If it had been too slow, he would have been struck first. Either way, he would have been doomed.

  Although he had managed to destroy the majority of the divine lightning’s power with that attack, his Yuan Spirit had still taken a large blow. It had rapidly shrunk on contact with the divine lightning, becoming only a foot tall.

  It was even more condensed and powerful now, but Long Chen had used up far too much Spiritual Strength with that attack. He couldn’t unleash it a second time.

  The main thing was that he wasn’t able to perfectly control his Yuan Spirit at this point. At least eighty percent of his energy had been wasted during that attack.

  After all, a Yuan Spirit was not the true body or a clone. As it was an entirely separate entity, passing energy back and forth resulted in a portion of it being wasted. Long Chen felt regret for all the Spiritual Strength that had been wasted.

  As he put away his Yuan Spirit, Lei Long roared. Just now, when Long Chen had attacked the divine lightning, it had carefully captured a few of the divine lightning’s runes.

  However, those divine runes were too tough, and no matter how it tried, it couldn’t subdue them. It was like a mortal had swallowed chunks of iron. There was no way for it to digest them.

  “Lei Long, give up. You can’t digest that, so don’t waste the effort. Lend your power to me,” said Long Chen as he looked at the giant rune hanging in the air.

  Only then did Lei Long unwillingly spit out the divine lightning runes it had swallowed and fly back to Long Chen’s arm.

  Those divine runes slowly faded back into heaven and earth, vanishing without a trace.

  Divine lightning was different from tribulation lightning. It contained a divine element to it. After receiving three of its attacks, Long Chen had some understanding of it. It was because of that understanding that he was feeling uneasy.

  The divine light in the sky suddenly came to a stop. The huge rune hung in the sky like a sun.

  Cracks began to appear on the rune, and Long Chen’s nerves tensed. He summoned a powerful lightning blade to his hands and poured Lei Long’s energy into it. Whether he lived or died would depend on this.

  The cracks on the rune spread. It was like a seal was breaking, and the energy from the other side was coming out. He had no idea what kind of existence was trying to break out of its seal.

  BOOM!

  The giant rune exploded. A white light streaked toward Long Chen.

  “It’s here!”

  Long Chen’s heart shook. The attack he had been brewing this whole time was launched, and the lightning blade sliced through space.

  This attack he had been brewing this entire time slashed heavily onto the white light. An explosive sound rang out, and a blinding light made it so Long Chen couldn’t see what happened.

  BOOM!

  His lightning blade exploded, and he was sent flying back. His blood and flesh splattered all over the place.

  Long Chen was shocked. In that single exchange, his physical body had been stripped of a whole layer of skin and flesh. Blood covered his entire body now.

  “The power of divine lightning is probably something only my Yuan Spirit can resist. No matter how strong a physical body is, as long as it is mortal, it can’t resist it.” Long Chen’s heart sank. The thing that had made him uneasy had finally occurred.

  This divine lightning possessed a strange kind of energy that only his Yuan Spirit was barely capable of resisting. However, right now, his Spiritual Strength was exhausted. If he let his Yuan Spirit block it again, it would be destroyed, and he would die with it.

  He could only use his physical body to block it. But this power couldn’t be blocked by physical power. There was no way to resolve this situation.

  Having no other choice, he waved his hand, and another lightning blade appeared. The only reason his body hadn’t been completely destroyed was because of Lei Long. Since Lei Long also came from tribulation lightning, although it was different from divine lightning, it was able to isolate a portion of its power.

  Lightning filled the sky, and Long Chen finally saw what had attacked him. It was an eight-winged divine lightning beast with a long tail.

  It looked like a divine phoenix. It was completely white, and its eyes were cold as it stared at Long Chen. Lightning runes were flashing in its eyes.

  It was holy and sacred like a perfect divine bird. But Long Chen only sensed death from it. Its eyes contained a merciless will of destruction. It existed to destroy.

  It
spread its wings, and rain of white feathers shot at Long Chen. At the same time, it fell from the sky, its claws reaching toward him. Those claws looked powerful enough to tear heaven and earth apart.

  Wielding a lightning sphere in his left hand and a lightning blade in his right, he tossed the sphere into the air while he slashed the blade out. His blade met the phoenix’s claw.

  Once more, his skin and flesh that had just recovered were blown away. This time, both of his arms broke. The phoenix’s power was even greater than the beginning.

  In front of this divine lightning, Long Chen didn’t have any ability to fight back. He had plenty of power and energy left, but none of it was useful against it. He was like a herculean who didn’t know how to swim and was tossed into a sea to drown.

  Its divine nature was too terrifying. This kind of energy wasn’t something mere mortals could comprehend. It was something on the same level of existence as gods. Its attacks had clearly been as light as a feather, but they contained power that could destroy the very world.

  “Evilmoon, what do I have to do to subdue this damn bird?”

  After being repeatedly injured, Long Chen was relying entirely on the primal chaos space’s healing to get by. But this was not a solution. Sooner or later, the primal chaos space would run out of life energy, and he would be dead.

  “I don’t have any solutions. This heavenly tribulation won’t stop until it uses up all its energy. Do you not see the black holes in the places it destroyed? Those are the eyes of the heavens. If I came out to help you, I would immediately be seen. At that time, your tribulation would become my tribulation. In my current condition, there’s no way I could pass, and you would be destroyed in an instant. There’s nothing I can do,” said Evilmoon helplessly.

  Even Evilmoon had no tricks. As for the Heaven Flipping Seal, although it wanted to help him, it was completely held back by Evilmoon. If it tried to help, it would only make Long Chen die faster.

  Long Chen continued to fight. Split the Heavens. Star Fall. The Nirvana Scripture. Raging Flame Prison. Double Dragon Destruction. All his moves were used, but they were unable to do anything to this divine phoenix.