Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Long Chen followed the old man’s instructions. His spiritual yuan was still calm as using one’s will to activate an acupuncture point was very difficult. Before this, he would connect all the corresponding acupuncture points at once. And now, not only did he need to do it one by one, but he also had to make sure not to touch his spiritual yuan.

  Activating Split the Heavens had almost become a reflex. As soon as he activated the first acupuncture point, his spiritual yuan wanted to rush forward. However, his control was still great enough that he only had to struggle for a moment to suppress that spiritual yuan.

  The instant he activated his first acupuncture point, Long Chen looked into the sky, surprised. There was nothing there, but he felt something there connected to his mind. It was like his senses had extended outside his body.

  “Little fellow, you’ve actually found your spiritual eye,” exclaimed the old man.

  “What is this?” asked Long Chen.

  “Foolish brat, the Xuantian Dao Sect has its myriad techniques revolving around the Dao, while the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect has its endless magical arts. However, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect only has the Battle God Sacred Canon and the nine forms of Split the Heavens. Do you know why despite only having these two things, we were the leader of the three great heavenly sects?”

  “I really don’t.” Long Chen shook his head. He didn’t know that much about the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect or its past. He had never asked either.

  “You’ve already broken the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect’s divine spring, removing them from this world. But you should know that back in the day, their name was enough to shake the Martial Heaven Continent. As for the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, we were even above them. Although I wouldn’t dare to say that we were the rulers of the continent, there was definitely no one who dared to provoke us. Then we declined because the upper half of the divine tablet was lost, causing us to lose the inheritance of the nine forms of Split the Heavens. Before you went into Devil Spirit Mountain, our strongest technique was the sixth form of Split the Heavens. However, even the sixth form is incredibly powerful, far more so than the fifth form. The thing that you’re sensing right now, it is a complementing place to your acupuncture points. It is like another eye that allows you to see everything around you clearly. Now, continue activating the next eight acupuncture points.”

  Long Chen nodded and continued according to his previous experience. Activating the second acupuncture point was even easier than activating the first.

  The feeling he had up above him increased. From there, he was able to see himself clearly. The angle was completely different.

  He continued, activating the first nine acupuncture points. These were the acupuncture points required for the first form of Split the Heavens. However, now that he was activating them with the technique of the sixth form, something was different about them.

  He felt like there were nine eyes in the sky, giving him nine angles to survey the world. This was an extremely strange state.

  “This way, when I fight, I’ll be able to track my enemies easier and find openings to attack!” exclaimed Long Chen.

  When fighting, he usually relied on his divine sense to keep an eye on his surroundings. However, in an intense fight, the powerful fluctuations harshly limited his divine sense, making his senses dull.

  Now, he would be able to see everything around him clearly. When he fought powerful enemies in the future, he would be able to fight even more freely.

  “Correct. The first nine acupuncture points correspond to your sight. You can use the spiritual eye to keep watch on your surroundings. Furthermore, there are no limits. You’ll be able to see through bewildering formations. Even in an illusion formation, even if your eyes are blinded, your spiritual eye won’t be. You’ll be able to see through what’s false,” said the old man proudly.

  The sixth form of Split the Heavens was where Split the Heavens showed its true worth. If it weren’t for it, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect might have been destroyed long ago.

  The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect didn’t have any magical arts. If they encountered a spiritual attack or were lost in an illusion formation, they would be doomed. It was the sixth form of Split the Heavens that made up for that deficiency. The sixth form had reached an even higher realm.

  The thing that shocked the old man was how quickly Long Chen had opened his spiritual eye. Boss Bao and the others had spent three months training in the sixth form before sensing the location of their spiritual eye.

  However, back then, they had also been at the Soul Transformation realm, which made it exceptionally difficult to train in the sixth form. That was why their progress had been so slow.

  By the time they were capable of using their spiritual eye to examine their surroundings, it had been over a year since they had started training in the sixth form. As for Long Chen, he had not only instantly opened his spiritual eye, but he also managed to make use of it without any instruction.

  That shocked the old man. Now he really wanted to know how terrifying Long Chen’s talent was.

  “Continue to the next acupuncture point,” said the old man.

  Long Chen continued. When he activated the tenth acupuncture point, he paused slightly.

  “This acupuncture point relates to the sense of hearing?”

  “Correct. Continue. There’s no need to stop. I want to see how many acupuncture points you can activate at once,” said the old man.

  Activating the acupuncture points like this would require a great deal of soul energy. Once Long Chen reached his limit, the old man would be forced to help Long Chen. All of his fifty-four acupuncture points had to be fully activated this time.

  By activating them the first time, it would give the user experience and reduce the exhaustion for the next time. Then they would be able to unleash the sixth form.

  The eighteenth acupuncture point… the twenty-seventh acupuncture point… the thirty-sixth acupuncture point… Long Chen activated them all without finding it taxing at all.

  He found that the first nine acupuncture points corresponded to sight, while the next nine corresponded to hearing. Then the next nine corresponded to smell. In that instant, he had felt an absolute clarity toward his surroundings.

  When he activated the thirty-sixth acupuncture point and a wave of scents assaulted him, his throat became itchy. He had an urge to puke. It was like he was tasting the air, the soil, the grass, and even the insects in the grass.

  The old man was once more shocked. He hadn’t expected Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength to be so powerful.

  Long Chen continued. On the forty-fifth acupuncture point, he found that it corresponded to the sense of touch. He felt all his pores opening. It was like everything around him was touching him. The breathing of the fresh grass, the swirl of the wind, and even the movements of the insects in the soil were sensed.

  “Good. Before training in the sixth form, one must first cultivate six kinds of senses. The first five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. As long as these five senses are awakened, then any illusion art will be useless against you. Try to see if you can open the final sense. Don’t hesitate. I’m here if you need me,” said the old man.

  Seeing Long Chen’s unnatural expression after activating all these senses, the old man thought that Long Chen had almost reached his limit. He didn’t know this was from being disgusted.

  However, after reaching the fifth sense, Long Chen didn’t taste as much of what he didn’t want to, and he continued.

  His Spiritual Strength was practically limitless, and he activated fifty-four acupuncture points in one go. The instant he activated the fifty-fourth acupuncture point, the space around him shook. Long Chen felt like he had become the ruler of this space. Within this domain, everything was within his control.

  Just as he was delighted, the old man whacked his staff at Long Chen’s waist. It was quick, sudden, and at such close range. There was simply no time
to dodge.

  However, just as it was about to touch his waist, a hand moved as quick as lightning, catching it.

  Chapter 1588 The Sixth Sense, Sixth Root, Sixth Will

  “Hahaha, as expected of the sprout I look favorably upon!” laughed the old man.

  Long Chen looked at his own right hand with a strange expression. The old man’s attack had truly been sudden. It hadn’t contained any killing intent and had been launched at such close range. There was no way for anyone to react to that.

  According to reason, he shouldn’t be able to do anything. A person’s reaction speed was limited.

  Long Chen also hadn’t reacted at all. He didn’t even know what had happened before his right hand caught the old man’s staff.

  “This… is a kind of instinct?” asked Long Chen.

  “Yes, you can put it that way, but that’s not entirely correct. An instinctual reaction would normally require sensing danger. However, I had no intent to kill you, so it wasn’t instinct. This is a kind of mental state of the sixth form of Split the Heavens. As long as you are in this state, no illusion or technique will be able to bewilder you. Little brat, you really are a monster. You learned this ability right at the start, while those brats are still unable to control this power. Hmph, when I get back, I’ll have to give them a proper beating. They aren’t even a match for a child,” said the old man.

  Through this experiment, the old man had confirmed that Long Chen was truly in control of this mental state. Long Chen had given him a nice surprise.

  In truth, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s Battle God Sacred Canon focused more on power, not Spiritual Strength. However, Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength was not inferior to his physical body.

  He had condensed one billion and eighty million primordial runes to form his Yuan Spirit. That had caused his Spiritual Strength to also transform, although even Long Chen wasn’t completely aware of that.

  The fact that he could cultivate the sixth form of Split the Heavens so easily was undeniably related to his powerful Yuan Spirit.

  Seeing Long Chen’s lost and excited expression, the old man smiled. “The sixth form is different from the fifth form. You’ll no longer need to randomly hack at your opponents. Instead, it will gradually merge into your fighting technique. Now that the sixth form’s acupuncture points have been activated, you’ve opened your six senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and will. They correspond to the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and will. The rest is easy to understand, but the will is inexplicable. This will can be described as the spiritual perception, the consciousness, the divine sense, etc. However, those are all both right and wrong. This kind of ability can only be experienced. It sounds complicated, but it’s easy to put into practice. With your six senses merged, you will enter a special state. Now you don’t need to fear assassination attempts or group battles. Even the Bloodkill Hall, ever since ancient times, wouldn’t dare to assassinate our Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s disciples. That’s because the sixth form of Split the Heavens completely counters their assassination arts. Not only that, but even illusion arts will be useless. There are countless illusion arts; however, they all involve affecting the mind through the six senses. With the six senses merged with your body, illusion arts won’t be able to find an opening to affect you. This is also the reason why the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect could cultivate just the Battle God Sacred Canon and Split the Heavens, and still dominate the land. Each of the latter forms of Split the Heavens is more terrifying than the last.”

  Long Chen was shocked. Perhaps in the entire Martial Heaven Continent, only the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect would have nothing but one cultivation technique and one Battle Skill. However, they had still dominated this continent once.

  The Xuantian Dao Sect had all-encompassing magical arts that could manifest the indescribable Dao. However, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s one technique was enough to match it. This could be taken as a contrary path, to go from complicated to simple.

  Just the sixth form was already so powerful. Then what about the seventh, eighth, and ninth forms? Just how strong were they?

  “Maintain this state and carefully experience all your senses. This is very important. The sixth form of Split the Heavens can be split into the aura and the attack. You can use them separately. Now you are in the state of the aura, which is also called the sixth sense, the sixth root, the sixth will. There are many ways to call it. Just this aura is enough to benefit you for a lifetime. It can be used on its own, and once you’re more experienced, you can use it without this strange posture. However, the actual attack requires you to use this posture. Otherwise, you might lose your life,” warned the old man.

  “I understand.” Long Chen nodded. Although he had yet to actually go through with the attack, he found that only this posture allowed him to create an unimpeded flow through his fifty-four acupuncture points.

  If this posture was slightly off, the path would be hindered or blocked. There were only two possibilities if that happened. One was, if his power was unable to go through fully, it would cause his attack to lose most of its power. However, the worst case was that he used too much power, and having it be blocked would cause his meridians to explode, along with the rest of him. It was no wonder the old man was so grave about this.

  “Alright, there’s not much time yet. Remember this state and take this.” The old man took out the Heaven Splitting Blade.

  The Heaven Splitting Blade was also called the Heaven Splitting Divine Blade. There were countless legends about it, but those stories were so ancient that many things had been lost.

  While holding the Heaven Splitting Divine Blade, Long Chen heard the old man say, “Through your aura, activate the six senses. Draw in the energy of heaven and earth into the first acupuncture point. Remember not to draw too much energy to it. The energy has to go through fifty-four acupuncture points, and each time it goes through one, its power will double. If you use up too much energy at the start and don’t have enough at the end, it will also cause it to lose effect. You’ll just end up injuring yourself. However much energy you draw out of the world is how much energy you should use from your qi sea. Merge the two energies together to form a new kind of power.”

  Long Chen hadn’t expected the sixth form of Split the Heavens to be so complicated. He had to increase his energy with each acupuncture point. That required very precise control.

  “Don’t be afraid. Estimate the energy in your qi sea. Even if you fail, it’s fine. The Heaven Splitting Blade will protect you…” said the old man.

  “Long Chen, don’t move. Fully open your power to me. I will help you guide it. All you need to do is remember the process.”

  Suddenly, a spiritual message came from the Heaven Splitting Blade. Its item-spirit was actually speaking to him.

  “Alright. Thank you for your troubles, senior. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have any assurance.” Long Chen nodded.

  “Divine ring!”

  A five-colored divine ring appeared, shaking the sky. Within the red, orange, yellow, green, and azure divine ring was a five-point star. When it manifested, a powerful pressure shook the entire Heaven Splitting Battle Sect.

  “Heavens, big brother Long Chen’s divine ring has appeared!”

  The disciples that had just been chased away ran back, looking at the sky in excitement. Although they had seen images of Long Chen fighting heavenly geniuses, it wasn’t as shocking as personally seeing them. They could now feel that will that looked down arrogantly upon the nine heavens.

  “FengFu Star!”

  “Alioth Star!”

  “Life Fate Star!”

  “Enlightenment Palace Star!”

  “Divine Gate Star!”

  The five points of the star in his divine ring lit up one by one. Each point had a star shining brightly now. The world shuddered uneasily in the face of this power.

  “Fortunately, they’re high up in the air. If they were standing on the ground, the He
aven Splitting Battle Sect would be wrecked. This brat’s really a monster.” The Seventh Boss was gobsmacked. They had arrived at the end of the battle last time and hadn’t seen Long Chen really fighting.

  Meanwhile, the old man’s eyes were shining as he stared at Long Chen without blinking. Long Chen’s current power even gave him a sense of pressure.

  Long Chen raised the Heaven Splitting Blade. This wasn’t his own action but the guidance of the Heaven Splitting Blade.

  All Long Chen needed to do was unleash all his power, and the Heaven Splitting Blade would direct him, helping him activate all of his acupuncture points. There was no need for Long Chen to calculate anything.

  Long Chen had his eyes closed as he sensed the merger of the outer world’s energy with his own. This was his first time feeling the energy of the Heavenly Daos.

  However, this was different from Celestials. Celestials had Heavenly Dao energy given to them, while Long Chen had to force the heavens to give him this energy.

  Under the pressure of the divine ring, the Heavenly Dao energy had no way to resist as it was forcibly taken and merged into his acupuncture points.

  As Long Chen’s spiritual yuan merged with the Heaven Dao energy, it was like they ignited. It was also like a volcano whose lid was removed.

  Rumbling sounds came from Long Chen’s body. In the end, the sound was like divine thunder, shaking heaven and earth.

  Boss Bao and the others stared in shock. They were able to unleash the sixth form of Split the Heavens, but they had never caused such a phenomenon.

  The Heaven Splitting Blade shone like a sun as all his acupuncture points were activated. However, just as everyone thought that Long Chen was about to slash it down, that light dimmed. The terrifying fluctuations also faded.

  “Ah? Why isn’t he unleashing it?

  “Exactly. Isn’t holding it uncomfortable?”

  The disciples were all disappointed. They had wanted to see how powerful Long Chen’s attack would be. However, this lightning storm had contained only thunder.