Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Who is this person? Can you say?” asked Long Chen.
Yue Xiaoqian merely shook her head.
Long Chen nodded. Many things were forbidden. But looking at this mural, it seemed the original devil race’s divine mark had been bestowed to them by this person.
He examined the person. The nine stars revolving around them threw the laws of heaven and earth into chaos. They were so powerful that they could penetrate the cosmos. It was as if all things had to bow down before them.
Although it was just a mural and the leftover artistic will was from the original devil race’s experts, Long Chen still felt that compared to the entire cosmos, he was an incredibly insignificant speck of dust. The two of them were in different dimensions, and it was impossible to compare their power.
“Is this the realm that is obtained when all nine stars are activated?” Long Chen sighed. Without seeing the real thing, he couldn’t learn anything. The nine stars were too brilliant.
This was just a mural. Hence, Long Chen only felt a slight feeling but was unable to understand anything from it.
“The divine seal, the Devil character, was awarded to us by a supreme existence. It is an immense honor, as well as an immense responsibility. After countless years of fighting against the devil race, our divine seal has a great suppressive effect against them. That’s why I could help you suppress those Empyrean Winged Blood Devils. However, I’m too weak, and using my divine seal on such a scale exhausts all my energy. I can only keep it up for a short moment. If it had been my mom instead, then with just her divine seal, she could have annihilated all those Empyrean Winged Blood Devils in an instant.”
Yue Xiaoqian smiled proudly when she spoke of her mother. Clearly, she worshipped her mother.
“But then, why didn’t anyone use their divine seals against the Magical Beasts just now? Did you not permit them to use it for training purposes?” asked Long Chen.
Yue Xiaoqian shook her head. “No. Magical Beasts are not part of the devil race. Their bloodlines are completely different, so Magical Beasts are not suppressed by our divine seal. Let’s keep going. The Ten Thousand Devil Blood Pool is up ahead.”
The two of them walked down a twisting stone path that wound around the mountains. In a region where nine mountains formed a circle, there was a blood-colored pool.
This pool was as flat as a mirror, and there wasn’t the slightest ripple on it. However, Long Chen felt an immense amount of energy within it.
“This is the Ten Thousand Devil Blood Pool. It is where our original devil race trains. Do you want to try it?” Yue Xiaoqian smiled.
“How do I try it?” asked Long Chen.
“This pool was created using the essence blood of ten thousand devils. Through the formation inside, it can duplicate a person. That person will have the exact same combat power, techniques, and cultivation base as you. In other words, you will be fighting yourself. It’s a very tough trial. It took me three tries to pass it, but it can really stimulate a person’s potential,” said Yue Xiaoqian.
Long Chen shook his head. “Then nevermind. I already went through such a trial in the Immemorial Path. It’s useless for me.”
In the Immemorial Path, he had ended up in a mysterious underground trial. It was extremely terrifying. That trial had created a version of himself that was just slightly stronger than him in every single way. However, the formation in the trial was unable to duplicate the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. In the end, he defeated it and met the Eastern Wasteland Bell.
This blood pool was similar to that trial, but there was no danger of dying here. It really was a good place to train. If he could bring the Dragonblood warriors to try this, he thought it would be very beneficial.
Yue Xiaoqian didn’t force him to try it. Although she had been looking forward to seeing that kind of immense battle, it wasn’t that important.
They passed the blood pool and could see a giant altar ahead of them. Here, countless divine runes were circulating all over the place, making them feel like they were at the bottom of a sea.
“This is the Skyscraping Divine Altar, the most sacred place for our original devil race. It is what maintains the Skyscraping World’s karmic luck, similar to the divine pools in the sects of the Martial Heaven Continent.”
Long Chen nodded. It seemed that this place was the core of the original devil race. It was no wonder there were so many battle scars outside. Those people’s goal had been to destroy this divine altar.
Back in the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, Long Chen had destroyed their ancestral statue and their divine pool, causing them to decline. Now, there was no longer a Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect in this world, and there would never be one again.
If he hadn’t destroyed their ancestral statue or divine pool, then with their foundation and considering that a great era had descended, they would have ended up becoming a behemoth. However, with their divine pool destroyed, their karmic luck had run out. Even their divine item was implicated.
Although karmic luck sounded illusory and without substance, it existed. If the original devil race’s divine altar was destroyed, the original devil race would also fade away.
Yue Xiaoqian and Long Chen walked onto the altar. Divine light flowed here, wrapping around the two of them. They felt like they were being immersed in sunlight. All their pores opened, and they felt relaxed enough to sleep.
“I can sense you again.”
Just as Long Chen was feeling relaxed, that ancient and familiar voice rang out in his head.
“So what if you can feel it? You can’t even hear me, and I don’t understand what you’re saying.” Long Chen brushed off this irritating voice.
“It doesn’t matter if you can’t understand me. All you need to know is that if you continue like this, you and every person beside you will die to others. Furthermore, their deaths will be very miserable,” responded the voice.
“You… you can hear me?!”
“Don’t talk about such meaningless things. Long Chen, although our connection has been sporadic, we have been paying close attention to you from the start. You are too weak. Or perhaps I should say that you are too soft. Even now, you aren’t cultivating according to the will of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. Geniuses are solitary figures. Only mediocre people group together. Do you still not understand the meaning of the Hegemon Body?” asked that voice rebukingly.
“Perhaps I really don’t know what the true meaning of the Hegemon Body is. But I am clear about my own goals. If a person abandons the ones they love in order to get stronger, they will lose their future motivation and path. What’s the point of being a hegemon if you’ve lost your path?”
Long Chen had already stopped caring about this voice. He had lost his initial curiosity a long time ago. In fact, he even felt a bit of disgust toward it. Each time, it only told him to hurry up but never cared about his feelings.
Each day, he was fighting on the border of death, and he was under enough pressure. However, this voice kept urging him on, not giving him any useful information.
“Perhaps. I am not qualified to criticize the great heir of the nine stars. However, I have a responsibility to warn you. Your time is running out. Your enemies have passed through the wall of reincarnation, and they are searching for you through all kinds of tiny traces. Once they find you, you and the people beside you, and perhaps everyone on that star, will be annihilated. They will not permit any heir of the nine stars to exist within the ten planar worlds,” sighed the voice.
Long Chen calmly considered this information for a moment. “Tell me, who am I?”
“You are you.”
“Then why have I been thrown into this chaotic vortex?”
“Because you are the chosen son of fate. You have no way out. You can only get stronger or die. Furthermore, your life and death relates to the entire ten planar worlds, to the continuation of millions of stars. As the heir of the nine stars, you have this heavy burden. You-Buzz.
Just as t
he voice was still speaking, Long Chen felt a burst of pain in his head. An unfamiliar voice stabbed into his soul like a needle.
“Hehe, I’ve finally found a nine star heir. Just wait for your death.”
The voice’s demonic laughter made Long Chen’s blood turn ice-cold. At the same time, he felt this person leaving behind a mark in his mind-sea.
BOOM!
However, the mark had just formed when a cyan light and a black saber-light exploded. Evilmoon and the Heaven Flipping Seal worked together to destroy the mark.
Long Chen’s body shook. When he opened his eyes, the voices in his head had vanished. His face was a bit pale, but there was a sharp light in his eyes.
Chapter 1729 Ninth Heavenstage of Soul Transformation
“How dangerous. That person was able to reach you from a whole other world, discarding any spatial restrictions to leave a spiritual mark.”
Evilmoon’s voice contained a trace of shock. It had immediately sensed something wrong and worked together with the Heaven Flipping Seal to erase the spiritual mark, but this had still made it jump.
“Long Chen, what is it?” asked Yue Xiaoqian. Long Chen should have been bathing in this place’s blessing. This place was greatly beneficial to the soul.
The environment here was similar to the blessing of the Life God Tree in the Spirit World. However, Long Chen had just closed his eyes for a moment before being startled awake, startling Yue Xiaoqian.
“It’s nothing.”
Long Chen told Yue Xiaoqian not to worry, but inside, he was shocked and enraged. He was now certain he had been drawn into a terrifying vortex.
Clearly, some terrifying expert had managed to eavesdrop on his conversation with that mysterious voice. That expert was also able to leave a mark on his soul from a different world. This kind of technique was something he had never heard of.
Long Chen had no idea who those people were, or what they wanted. That made him feel uneasy, as well as angry.
“Don’t worry, although that fellow is so powerful that they are beyond our imagination, the Heaven Flipping Seal and I destroyed their spiritual mark instantly, so they won’t be able to pinpoint your location. However, you also can’t be careless. That person was able to leave a spiritual mark on you from an endless distance away, without you even being able to resist. They won’t be able to lock onto any of the stars, but they’ll be able to narrow it down to one area. It’s just that we have no idea how narrow that area is. Either way, you are really pressed for time,” said Evilmoon gravely.
“How strong do you feel that person is?” asked Long Chen.
“I can’t tell. Perhaps only Sovereigns would be able to block them though,” said Evilmoon after a moment’s pause. It couldn’t be sure.
Long Chen shook his head. Sovereigns were legendary existences on the Martial Heaven Continent. Only five had ever appeared in history.
Just how powerful had Evilmoon been back then? Despite that, it hadn’t been able to even receive a single blow from Sovereign Yun Shang and had been forged into a divine weapon.
Furthermore, Evilmoon said that Sovereigns would only be able to resist, not win. That level of power was enough to cause despair.
When the mark on Long Chen’s soul was destroyed, he also lost his connection to the mysterious voice. Long Chen guessed that the voice had sensed that it was being watched by someone else, which was how that terrifying expert had found him in the first place.
Now that Long Chen had been noticed, that voice probably wouldn’t contact him again for fear of implicating him.
“Long Chen, that voice is correct. Although I don’t understand your cultivation technique, I can sense that you are suppressing it. Like this, you are cultivating in the opposite direction the cultivation technique is trying to go, and you naturally won’t be able to cultivate as fast. You need to fully release yourself,” said Evilmoon.
“I know. I know the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art better than you, and I know that I’m suppressing it, which is why my cultivation speed is slower. However, you can’t feel just how domineering this technique is. It far surpasses your imagination. If I unleashed it, it would control me, not the other way around. Sooner or later, I would be its slave. I can be domineering, but I have to maintain my rationality. I can kill, but I have to maintain my bottom line. I can be arrogant, but I can’t go too far. Even being domineering has to have a limit. If I overdo it, I won’t just harm my enemies, but I will also harm my friends and family. My cultivation path will become one where I love only myself, where I only care about myself. That kind of domineeringness is the opposite of my will. The Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s domineering will is one that demands I be the only strong person in this world, that everyone else should kneel down before me, regardless of friend or foe. I can be domineering to my enemies but not my friends. So I need to suppress the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s influence on me,” said Long Chen helplessly.
Currently, he was walking on a tightrope. He had to cultivate carefully. He knew how terrifying the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was. If he cultivated according to its will, he would be unstoppable.
However, it was too domineering, to the point that even the master would become a slave to it. Long Chen didn’t want to be a combat maniac who forgot about everything else. Then he would lose everything that he loved.
No matter how strong a person was, if they didn’t have even one person that they cared about, they would just be a terrifying monster. They couldn’t be called a real human.
“Your human race’s emotions are really troublesome. In any case, I don’t understand them. However, what you’re saying seems to have some sense to it.” Evilmoon didn’t quite understand the emotions Long Chen was talking about, but it acknowledged his logic.
After being together for so long, Evilmoon had gone from first snorting derisively at the people Long Chen tried to protect, to feeling something it had never felt before. That feeling was trust.
Experts were solitary figures. Long Chen’s way of doing things was against this world’s normal way. However, the Dragonblood warriors all followed him with unwavering trust. He had united the hearts of over ten thousand people, allowing them to unleash endless power. That had shocked Evilmoon.
The dark evil dragon race relied on devouring all lifeforms to get stronger. They not only had to be on guard against other races, but they also had to be wary against their fellow dragons, even their fathers, mothers, brothers. They all had to be on guard against each other.
Since they devoured other races to get stronger, including other powerful enemies, they became strong very quickly. It was precisely because Evilmoon had grown so strong that its confidence had overinflated, and it had decided to challenge a Sovereign.
The reason why Evilmoon was in its current state was precisely due to its wild arrogance that had swallowed its rationality. If it had been like Long Chen, it wouldn’t have ended up like this.
So even Evilmoon had to acknowledge Long Chen’s words. A person couldn’t be too arrogant, or it would be all too easy for sudden calamity to befall them.
“What you said has given me a clue about another way I can try to cultivate.” Long Chen turned toward Yue Xiaoqian and said, “Xiaoqian, can I stay here and cultivate for a few days?”
“Of course. But why cultivate here? This place is designed to cleanse the heart and soul. It puts you in a fetus-like state, so how can you cultivate like that?” asked Yue Xiaoqian.
This fetus-like state was similar to a deep sleep. In that state, you wouldn’t be able to form your own thoughts, let alone cultivate.
“I have my own plans. I want to use the spiritual blessing of this place to resist the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s influence on me.”
During this time, Long Chen hadn’t been eating medicinal pills to increase his cultivation base not because he hadn’t had time, but because as his cultivation base grew, the power of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art also grew, and its influence over him increased.r />
Right now, the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s influence had reached a grave level. Sometimes, the tiniest provocation would make Long Chen feel an urge to kill.
In fact, he even felt a desire to slaughter anyone who went against him, a will to dominate the world alone.
That was a frightening desire. If a person was so conceited that they couldn’t even see themselves clearly, they would become completely lost. That was the greatest danger.
In Long Chen’s eyes, those who were devoured by their own power were all idiots.
He had encountered many such idiots who thought themselves to be unrivaled, people who thought that the world should bow toward them, people who thought that anyone who went against them was blaspheming them, they both should and would be killed without feeling the slightest feeling of responsibility or guilt.
It was precisely because he didn’t want to become such a person that Long Chen was resisting the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s influence. If he allowed his cultivation base to rise too quickly, he would be unable to suppress it.
However, this place was blessed by the original devil race. It could strengthen his suppression of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
Yue Xiaoqian didn’t ask too many questions since Long Chen was confident. She stood outside to guard him.
With Yue Xiaoqian outside, Long Chen took a deep breath. His divine ring appeared behind him, and five stars lit up in his eyes. Ripples began to spread through the air.
“As expected, with the hegemon will suppressed by the blessing here, I can increase my cultivation base.” Long Chen nodded. This was the best method to increase his cultivation base right now.
He sat down and opened his mouth. The medicinal pills in the primal chaos space began to pour into his mouth like a river.
These medicinal pills were the result of Huo Long refining day and night. There were giant mountains of them in the primal chaos space.
Before this, he hadn’t dared to increase his cultivation base too quickly, but now he had no more worries. He activated the devouring ability that Evilmoon had taught him.