Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  His attacks seemed to have their power stripped away when they landed on the divine phoenix. Long Chen sensed that probably less than one ten-thousandth of their power was actually striking the phoenix.

  This was divine power, a level that made man despair. Long Chen’s attacks were completely ineffective.

  Yet, the phoenix’s attacks were effective. Each of its strikes blew away Long Chen’s flesh, making him lose a huge amount of essence blood. Although the primal chaos space could heal him, it couldn’t replenish his essence blood that quickly. Long Chen felt like he was going to go insane.

  Long Chen tried to use his Yuan Spirit to launch a sneak attack. Unfortunately, as soon as his Yuan Spirit appeared, the divine phoenix turned its attention to it. A ray of light shot out of its eyes, striking his Yuan Spirit before he could pull it back. His Yuan Spirit almost crumbled, and he clutched his head in pain. He was almost torn in two by the phoenix’s claws.

  After that, he no longer dared to use his Yuan Spirit. After all, his control of his Yuan Spirit wasn’t perfect yet. If he failed again, he might really die.

  Long Chen was still struggling bitterly, stalling for time. He had no way to handle this divine phoenix as it had no weak points. Even Evilmoon had said that the only option was to exhaust all its energy.

  However, Long Chen quickly realized just how childish this thinking was. This divine phoenix’s power seemed to be limitless. Even if he had ten times the spiritual yuan, he wouldn’t be able to exhaust it.

  “Fuck, I’ll risk it. This is the only chance!”

  Long Chen sensed his remaining spiritual yuan and Spiritual Strength. A completely brazen and crazy thought appeared in his mind.

  Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit flew out once more. It instantly transformed to become thirty thousand meters tall, and it devoured the divine phoenix in one gulp.

  Chapter 1539 Power of a Mutated Divine Ability

  “You’re crazy!”

  Evilmoon let out a shocked cry. Long Chen had actually used his Yuan Spirit to swallow this divine lightning phoenix beast. All the phoenix had to do was explode, and his Yuan Spirit would be annihilated. This was no different than courting death.

  Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit had just swallowed the phoenix when it shrank back down and transformed into a ray of light that was devoured by Long Chen’s true body.

  It happened so quickly that the phoenix couldn’t even react before being swallowed into Long Chen’s stomach.

  An explosive sound came from it. Although Long Chen had his Yuan Spirit spit out the phoenix fast enough, it still received a heavy impact and almost crumbled. It instinctively returned to his mind-sea. The intense pain in his mind almost made him faint.

  “So he’s trying to use this move…” Evilmoon was completely shocked.

  The phoenix was now in Long Chen’s stomach. Since his stomach had been changed by the Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth divine ability, there was now a special space inside that could store a huge mountain. There was plenty of space for the phoenix.

  Long Chen was in such pain that he was clutching his head and couldn’t focus, but Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth automatically activated.

  108,000 runes began to shine, and divine light flowed out of them, binding the phoenix.

  However, the phoenix’s wings flapped violently, destroying the divine light. In comparison to the phoenix’s power, the power of Swallow the Heavens, Devour the earth was like a spiderweb. It was unable to bind this powerful existence.

  The phoenix let out a furious roar, and its lightning runes lit up. An aura of annihilation was released.

  “Not good!” Evilmoon let out a startled cry. The phoenix was about to explode. It wasn’t even going to give Long Chen a chance to spit it out.

  Just at this moment, the 108,000 runes lit up again, and streaks of divine light intertwined in the air, forming a net that bound the phoenix. Its power was ten times greater than before, preventing the explosion.

  Evilmoon was startled, and it saw that Long Chen had recovered from the pain and was forming hand seals. The power of his 108,000 stars was pouring into the runes, binding the phoenix. “So he still had this move left!”

  The divine light bound the phoenix tightly, but it continued to struggle. Long Chen’s body was constantly cracking, looking like it might crumble at any moment. The two of them were even as they tried to defeat the other.

  “Long Chen, don’t fight like this. Start extracting a portion of its energy and release it back into the outside world. Once its divine energy is stripped from its main body, it will immediately vanish. It will quickly weaken,” reminded Evilmoon.

  However, Long Chen acted like he didn’t hear Evilmoon. He continued to suppress the phoenix with all his power.

  “What the fuck, don’t tell me you’re really planning on devouring it…” With Evilmoon’s understanding of Long Chen, it seemed he really would do something as crazy as this.

  Long Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood, and the space between his eyebrows split open. His physical body had been pushed to its limit. This phoenix was too terrifying.

  “I refuse to believe I can’t suppress you!” roared Long Chen. Light exploded from his body, in particular his hands, feet, and head.

  His FengFu, Alioth, Life Fate, Enlightenment Palace, and Divine Gate Stars were unleashing all their power. His 108,000 stars, his qi seas, all his energy was gathered.

  The divine runes brightened once more, unleashing a blinding light that wrapped around the phoenix like a giant cocoon.

  The huge cocoon shook violently as the phoenix continued to struggle, but its struggling slowly weakened until it became still.

  “You… succeeded…” Evilmoon couldn’t believe that Long Chen had really sealed the divine lightning.

  Divine lightning possessed a divine nature, but Long Chen had actually used mortal energy to subdue it. That was simply against the law of the heavens. However, he had done it.

  “Come out and fight me again! I dare you to burn yourself again…”

  Long Chen raised his head and roared at the sky. His whole body was covered in blood, and he seemed insane. After shouting just a bit, he collapsed on the ground. He had gone far past his limit.

  When he woke up, pain wracked his body, and he felt like millions of hedgehogs were running around inside his head.

  “I, Evilmoon, have never admired anyone. But when it comes to craziness, Long Chen, you are the first existence I admire,” said Evilmoon.

  Long Chen bitterly smiled and shook his head. “It’s not that I want to be crazy but that I have no choice. You don’t know just how tough my path was. Based on my experience, I can’t give up any chance to increase my trump cards. Each trump card will affect whether or not I can survive next time. This time, I have to thank you. Without your Swallow the Heavens, Devour the Earth divine ability, I would have definitely died.”

  Long Chen was really grateful to Evilmoon. This time, his tribulation had been one of sure death. There should have been no way for him to survive. The heavens had been set on ending him here.

  There was no way his Yuan Spirit would have been able to defeat the divine lightning phoenix at the end. With his tribulation targeting his Yuan Spirit, he couldn’t win with it.

  “There’s no need to thank me. The divine abilities of the evil dragon race might be powerful, but they aren’t so powerful as to be able to devour divine lightning. This is because of your Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. I never expected my evil dragon race’s divine ability to undergo such a mutation. It seems the origins of your Nine Star Hegemon Body Art aren’t simple,” said Evilmoon.

  Normally, the only reason why a technique would ever change was because the user cultivated another technique that was much, much greater than the former. It was like a drop of freshwater landing in the sea. It would instantly transform because the difference in power was incredibly great.

  “Well, no matter how you put it, without your divine ability, I’d have
definitely died. Ah, whatever, I’ll just remember this favor.” Long Chen didn't waste any words. When it came to some things, remembering them in your heart was enough. Saying them with your mouth would make them meaningless.

  Long Chen slowly sat up. He felt like his whole skeleton was about to crumble. The intense pain was like needles stabbing every inch of him.

  “Why is it so painful? And the injuries still haven’t healed.” Long Chen looked at his bloody body. There were many places where his bones were exposed. It seemed his body’s natural regeneration had lost its effect.

  “Painful? You should be thankful. Your injuries have the leftover energy of the divine lightning on them. Your body is strengthening once more. However, your injuries will need some time to fully recover. The destructive will of divine lightning isn’t so easy to erase. But in any case, you managed to profit from your tribulation. Of course, the only reason you managed to profit is because you’re still alive,” said Evilmoon. This tribulation had been too dangerous.

  On the other hand, Long Chen was already used to it. He had brushed against the line between life and death countless times, and his will was incomparably strong. That made it so every time he brushed against death, he would be able to maintain a calm heart. The more people panicked in the face of death, the more they would make mistakes and die.

  Despite the pain wracking his body, he did his best to focus. He began circulating the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. His 108,000 stars activated, and the life energy of the primal chaos space slowly circulated.

  While resisting the divine phoenix, Long Chen had extracted all the primal chaos space’s life energy midway. Now he needed to hurry and recover. As the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art circulated, his injuries slowly healed. Although the speed wasn’t as fast as before, at the very least, it was reducing the pain.

  In order to seal the divine phoenix, his five stars had lost a great deal of energy. It could be said that his core energy had been gravely harmed this time.

  But when he looked at the cocoon with the divine phoenix inside, he felt that it had all been worth it.

  Lei Long had already summoned eight split bodies that were coiled around it. Right now, it was unable to absorb its energy. There was a fundamental difference between their energies.

  However, Lei Long was clever and didn't absorb it right now. It had its eight split bodies sense the divine lightning’s power, letting it transform the eight split bodies.

  It was like it had placed eight eggs in another creature’s nest. Once the incubation was complete, it would draw them back, and the eight of them would be infected by the aura of divine lightning. Then it would be able to slowly transform its own energy into the same divine lightning energy.

  Of course, this was an extremely slow process. It wasn’t as fast as devouring it directly. However, there was no other option.

  A day later, Long Chen had stopped the bleeding, and he wrapped his injuries. The power of the divine lightning inhibited his regeneration ability. He could only handle it like this.

  Compared to his external injuries, his internal injuries were worse off. His Yuan Spirit had almost crumbled in that last attack and was recovering with the help of his Spiritual Strength. However, his Spiritual Strength had also been damaged during the fight. With that being said, the injuries of the soul were the slowest to heal.

  Fortunately, he still had a few top grade giant pills from Pill Valley that could nourish the soul. He had recovered to the point that his spiritual injuries wouldn’t gravely affect his combat power.

  Tidying himself up, Long Chen took out a blood-colored jade plate. There was a single rune on it that looked like a drop of fresh blood.

  “It’s time to harvest the seed I planted back then. I should still have enough time.” Looking at the jade plate, Long Chen smiled.

  Chapter 1540 Slaughtering his Way Into the Corrupt Path

  Space shook. Long Chen’s figure appeared in a gloomy world. He looked around to appraise this world, smiling.

  “So the Corrupt path hides itself within minor worlds. Those strongholds in the outside world are just to deceive others. If it weren’t for Meng Qi’s Blood-Tracing Soul Jade, I really wouldn’t have been able to find them,” muttered Long Chen to himself as he looked at the jade plate in his hand.

  This Blood-Tracing Soul Jade was something Meng Qi had made for him. The blood it was tracing was not Meng Qi’s but Gui Yan’s.

  Back in the Spirit World, Gui Yan had used the lives of the spirit warriors against Long Chen, and Long Chen had acted like he was caught off-guard and unable to stop himself in time, resulting in his sword piercing Gui Yan’s head. Without Gui Yan being aware of it, Long Chen had extracted a drop of the latter’s purest essence blood.

  He had then given this essence blood to Meng Qi who then created the Blood-Tracing Soul Jade. This jade was extremely magical and could sense its target’s position from a great distance.

  Previously, Long Chen had used this jade to find Gui Yan’s sneak attack and sent the spirit warriors to lay down a trap, annihilating the sneak attackers and leaving only Gui Yan alive.

  In truth, Long Chen hadn’t had many plans for him at that time. He had simply felt having such a card up his sleeves might be useful in the future.

  Now, he had tracked Gui Yan to a place. However, he had ended up roaming around for a long time without being able to find him. In the end, he had asked Evilmoon what was going on.

  Only then had he learned that the Blood-Tracing Soul Jade had accurately tracked him. It was just that Gui Yan was not in this world but a minor world on a parallel plane to this place.

  Normally, if one wished to enter a minor world, it required knowing where the entrance to the minor world was. Long Chen didn’t have that patience, so he had Evilmoon directly cut through space and enter the minor world.

  He had heard that Life Star experts condensed their own astral spaces. As their cultivation bases grew, their astral space grew as well. Once it reached a certain realm, it could be used to create a minor world.

  Such a minor world could only remain hidden within the thousand major worlds. It was unable to merge with the cosmos. Otherwise, it would crumble from the pressure of the major worlds.

  To put it in a simpler way, the so-called minor worlds were like life rings attached to major worlds.

  What was different from life rings was that minor worlds were connected to the major world, and the major world’s laws would pervade the minor world. That was what allowed humans to live and cultivate inside.

  Now, Long Chen had charged into one of the Corrupt path’s secret minor worlds. Once he was inside, he could clearly sense a dark and cold aura present in the air.

  There was no sun, no moon, and no stars. The sky was dusky. It was unclear whether it was day or night. The place he was currently in was an unremarkable mountain village with just a few dozen families.

  He saw a few children playing around and people working on the farms. It was a peaceful scene that wasn’t much different from the outside world.

  The only difference was that at the center of the village was a stone statue. The statue was pitch-black and emitting an evil aura.

  These villagers all had to put down their farming tools and kowtow toward the statue whenever they passed it. He heard them pray to it devoutly.

  As Long Chen sped through the minor world, he saw more and more villages, and they were the same as the one he had seen before. They looked peaceful and worshipped the same statue. It wasn’t as dark and bloody as he had imagined.

  Long Chen followed the direction of the Blood-Tracing Soul Jade. Two huge mountains quickly appeared ahead, forming a natural gate. There was also a man-made gate at the bottom, with tens of thousands of people gathered there. It seemed that there was some kind of gathering.

  Long Chen hesitated. He decided to stealthily enter the crowd, flowing forward with them.

  When he reached the gate, he realized that a sect was accepting disciples. Ther
e were over ten Soul Transformation Corrupt experts staring coldly at the people before them.

  The majority of these people were young Xiantian realm disciples. All of them had expressions of despair, and some were even quivering.

  Suddenly, one of the disciples escaped from the crowd and flew away.

  One of the Soul Transformation experts snorted, and a withered claw flew out, catching that disciple and dragging him back.

  “Hmph, those who are disloyal to the Corrupt God will get a hundred years of having their soul refined as a punishment.”

  The Soul Transformation expert crushed that person’s body and extracted his soul from his head. Each person had a soul, but the strength of the soul varied by person.

  The Corrupt expert took out a lantern and tossed that person’s soul inside. A sound like a water drop landing on smoldering iron rang out.

  Following that sound, a terrified and pained spiritual fluctuation spread. Everyone felt the pain within that spiritual fluctuation and turned pale.

  “Remember, everything you have was bestowed to you by the Corrupt God, including your souls and bodies. When the Corrupt God needs you, you need to offer yourselves without hesitation. Furthermore, with the Corrupt God’s blessing, you won’t die. The death that you see is just a false appearance. Your physical bodies will die, but your souls will return to the embrace of the Corrupt God. You will enter reincarnation and reappear in this world. You will never die. But those disloyal to the Corrupt God will endure the pain of having their soul refined for a hundred years. Once the hundred years are over, their soul will dissipate and vanish forever. That is true death.” The Corrupt expert’s gaze was as sharp as a blade as it swept across these disciples.

  Long Chen sneered. This was a purely evil ideology. Even if their lives were bestowed to them by the Corrupt God, could a person’s life be taken just like that? Could a parent just randomly kill their children?