Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  “Are you trying to get me to be a free fighter for you?”

  The silver drake was no fool. It immediately understood Long Chen’s intentions.

  “How is it free? I’m giving you such good divine lightning. It’s just payment after the purchase.”

  “Hmph, what a joke. Everything you’ve said is nonsense. You’re trying to con me into being your fighter. I didn’t expect a youngster like you to have such guts,” sneered the silver drake.

  “It has nothing to do with guts. You’ve seen Lei Long’s power. Although its current power isn’t as great as yours, you’ve been alive for countless years, while Lei Long has only existed for a few years. It’s just a child now, yet it possesses such power. Let me put it to you this way. When I undergo tribulation, there really is as much divine lightning as you want. The amount of divine lightning will only be limited by how big your stomach is. This is a decision that will decide your fate. Opportunities must be grasped. That divine lightning will be the foundation from which your entire life changes, it’s your chance to break out of the cocoon…”

  Long Chen was in the midst of trying to sway the silver drake when Lei Long suddenly opened its mouth and shot out a foot-wide lightning sphere at it.

  That made Long Chen jump in horror. He thought that Lei Long had just attacked. However, he then quickly understood what Lei Long was doing. It was proving itself to the silver drake.

  The silver drake devoured the lightning sphere. As a result, a twinkle appeared in its eyes as it was stunned.

  “How is it? Lei Long’s power still isn’t pure enough, but after my next tribulation, just imagine what it will be like with ten or even a hundred times the divine lightning energy.” Long Chen raised his eyebrows several times seducingly.

  “That… that’s still unacceptable. I won’t be someone else’s fighter.” The silver drake was extremely moved, but it had its own dignity. It was the master of the Morning Dao Lightning Field. How could it possibly be willing to become someone else’s fighter?

  “How could a powerful existence like you be called out to fight for nothing? Just tell your subordinates to fight and it’ll be more than enough,” said Long Chen, not forgetting to flatter the silver drake.

  “Alright then. But you can’t go too far. Don’t constantly call my subordinates out to fight for you,” warned the silver drake.

  “Of course. I’m not the kind of person to get caught in all kinds of little trouble,” said Long Chen with a strange smile.

  Yes, when he caused trouble, it was never small.

  As long as the silver drake agreed, everything else would be easy. If its little brothers were suddenly losing, wouldn’t it come help anyway? Hehe, thinking of how he had gained such a powerful helper, Long Chen almost shouted in joy.

  “Fine, go brand the paragon art divine rune. As for the details, you can ask my nine generals.”

  The silver drake’s figure vanished into the lightning sea. Clearly, that was its territory.

  When the silver drake vanished, leaving Long Chen with the nine drakes, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

  “Come, don’t just stare. We’ll be one family in the future, so no need to mind about such minor things.”

  Long Chen flicked his fingers, and nine pearls of lightning shot toward the nine drakes. This lightning energy was far less than what Lei Long had given the silver drake.

  However, the drakes were delighted and immediately devoured them. The hostility in their eyes faded. Long Chen had already come to an agreement with their boss, and they didn’t have any bad opinion about it. Long Chen had already given them a taste of the benefits.

  “Many thanks.” The drakes transformed into three-hundred-meter forms.

  “No need to thank me. It’s just my greeting gift to you all. In the future, there will definitely be larger gifts. As long as you follow me, I guarantee to get you thunderforce dozens and even hundreds of times purer than this. You’ll get more than you can even eat,” promised Long Chen.

  “Really?”

  “Of course. Your boss-”

  “That’s the Great Dragon King.”

  “Haha, your Great Dragon King also won’t be able to eat all of it. You’ll all get more than your fill. Well, even explaining it wouldn’t mean anything. You’ll know in the future. Following me is definitely your wisest decision. Ah, that’s right, I’m Long Chen, so you can call me brother Long. I definitely won’t forget you when the time comes.” Long Chen patted his chest confidently.

  Long Chen was delighted. Each of these drakes was about as strong as he was. When combined, who could compete with him?

  “Brother Long, I’m Dragon One. There are nine of us. You probably can’t differentiate us, so just call a number when you need us,” said one of the lightning drakes.

  Clearly, they had been won over by Long Chen. Furthermore, considering that Long Chen had come to an agreement with their Great Dragon King, the two of them were essentially two figures on the same level. They naturally became respectful.

  “Brother Long, don’t you want to absorb that paragon art rune? We’ll teach you how to do it,” said one of the drakes courteously.

  Chapter 1799 Obtaining the Paragon Art

  Accompanied by the nine drakes, Long Chen slowly approached the core of the hourglass. It was where the hourglass was at its thinnest, its center.

  Through Dragon One’s introduction, Long Chen learned that this Morning Dao Lightning Field was its own minor world.

  It was the result of a supreme expert separating part of a major world, leaving only the purest thunderforce inside.

  However, no energy could exist on its own, including thunderforce.

  Thunderforce itself was also split into different kinds. The greatest attribute that differentiated them was actually Yin and Yang. This was something that Long Chen had never encountered before.

  He had always thought that lightning was the most supreme Yang existence in the world. He had never heard of lightning also being Yin.

  Amongst the Yin and Yang lightnings, there were over ten thousand different kinds of thunderforce, each one with its own specialties.

  The lightning sources of the hourglass were one Yin and one Yang. The two energies were constantly mixing. This place was the root of this minor world.

  Long Chen couldn’t help being shocked. Just what kind of existence had been capable of creating such a world?

  From Dragon One, he learned that they had been living for hundreds of thousands of years. They had had eight masters before, and after the last master died, they gained their full freedom. No one else had come to the Morning Dao Lightning Field.

  They had been peacefully living here, but unfortunately, their cultivation bases had already reached their limits. They couldn’t grow any stronger. It seemed that this world’s laws were restricting them.

  When Long Chen asked who the master of this world had been, they shook their heads. The master of this world was the master of the paragon art, but this world had no master now. They had a contractual rune in their heads that connected them to the paragon art rune. Even the silver lightning drake had that contractual rune and was under its effects.

  After the contract had been dispelled, the effect of those contractual runes had faded, allowing them to grow stronger beyond the contract.

  Hearing all this, Long Chen cursed inside. How unlucky had he been? It was only in his generation that these lightning drakes had become so wild.

  Originally, the reason why he had dared to challenge the lightning paragon art was because he had some confidence in Lei Long. Compared to other experts on the same level as him, he would definitely have an advantage.

  However, when he got here, he found that these drakes were no longer restricted by the contractual runes and had grown far stronger than they had been meant to be. The difficulty had multiplied by many times from when the last people had attempted to inherit this paragon art.

  That silver drake in particular was somethin
g that Long Chen estimated not even Netherpassage experts would necessarily be a match for. How was he, a Soul Transformation expert, supposed to subdue it?

  “Brother Long, there are three parts to this paragon art rune. The gate part refers to the gate of the Morning Dao Lightning Field. As long as you place your spiritual seal on it, you can control it. When you return to your world, you can open the channel to the Morning Dao Lightning Field,” said Dragon One.

  So this was the essence of a paragon art. Long Chen thought of how Xiang Yunfei had also connected himself to another world with his paragon art.

  “This is the Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings and the Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear. Both of them are for use in combat and extremely powerful. However, controlling them is very difficult,” said Dragon One.

  “Many thanks. I’ll try it.”

  Long Chen reached out and pressed his palm against the paragon art rune. The thunderforce inside his body circulated.

  Rumbling rang out, and the entire Morning Dao Lightning Field shook. The gate image lit up.

  Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit suddenly came out of his head. It was forming hand seals. That wasn’t something that he was controlling. It was the paragon art rune that was transmitting information to him, and he was simply following it.

  As he formed hand seals, a giant gate appeared behind him. The gate grew larger and larger, and lightning runes flowed around it. It was both sacred and wild.

  “How is the gate so big?! This is just your first time!” exclaimed Dragon One.

  According to reason, the first time someone opened this spatial gate, it would be very small and unstable. It would be unusable. But Long Chen had summoned such a giant gate on his first try.

  What the drakes didn’t know was that this spatial gate’s scale was based on the strength of the user’s Yuan Spirit.

  When Xiang Yunfei had used his paragon art, it had taken him a long time to activate it. However, as Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit was far stronger, his activation time was much shorter.

  Opening this gate wasn’t very difficult. As long as his Yuan Spirit still had energy, it would be easy.

  The void cracked. The huge gate began to slowly open.

  “Brother Long! You can’t open the gate here!” shouted the drakes.

  “Why not?”

  “This gate connects to the Morning Dao Lightning Field. We’re already here. Opening this gate will break the laws here. You can only open this gate in your world,” explained Dragon One.

  “These hand seals are what connects you to the Morning Dao Lightning Field. Try reversing the hand seals, and you’ll find that your gate will allow us to come out to your world,” explained another drake.

  Long Chen nodded. This paragon art was really interesting, but it wasn’t too difficult. It was easy to control.

  Dragon One seemed to see what he was thinking and said, “Opening the gate isn’t difficult. The difficult part is the speed at which you can open it and the scale. My guess is the reason you can activate it so quickly is due to the divine lightning and your Yuan Spirit. The previous humans found it much harder to open this gate. Another reason it was more difficult was because at that time, the gate was connected to our contractual runes, and we would naturally resist as we wouldn’t want a weak master. Many humans died like that because their Yuan Spirits were unable to suppress us. But now our contractual runes have faded, so it’s naturally easier to just open the gate. You should try the Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings and the Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear. Those are the true attacking paragon arts. Cultivating them is very difficult.”

  “Then what do I do?” asked Long Chen.

  “Merge your Yuan Spirit with the paragon art rune. Your Yuan Spirit should enter a special space where you can comprehend how to use the paragon arts. It will take you time to fully understand their profundities,” said Dragon One.

  “How much time does it take?”

  “Quite a bit. If you’re fast, two to three years. If you’re slow, five or six years. That bit of time is nothing to us, but we know it’s longer to humans,” said Dragon One.

  These nine drakes were all very intelligent. They had followed multiple generations of human masters along with their silver drake king. They had some understanding of humans.

  “That’s too long. I can’t wait that long.” Long Chen shook his head. No matter how strong the paragon art was, he couldn’t use two years on it. “I have another method.”

  Long Chen pressed his hand against the paragon art rune, and the lightning dragon mark on his arm lit up. Lei Long flowed down his arm and into the rune.

  “Hahaha, I really am a genius!” laughed Long Chen, extremely pleased with himself.

  “You… you’re having your lightning beast learn the paragon art?” The drakes were stunned.

  “Yup. It’s an innate lightning spirit, so cultivating lightning arts is easy for it. For it to learn it is the same as me learning it, so won’t that be much simpler?” Long Chen smiled brightly.

  “Are you not afraid of it one day growing stronger than you and betraying you? It might even kill you,” said Dragon One.

  “Betray me? No, that’s absolutely impossible. There will be no betrayal between us. It won’t betray me, and I won’t betray it. When your king wanted to devour it, to tell the truth, I wouldn’t allow it even if I died here. Lei Long can die for me, and I can die for it. It’s not a lightning beast, and it’s not a tool. It’s a comrade I can trust with my life,” said Long Chen.

  The nine drakes didn’t say anything, but there were large waves in their hearts. They were tools created by experts, and they were born to be used. In fact, this entire Morning Dao Lightning Field existed to be used.

  The successive generations of masters they had had also only viewed them as tools, so they naturally disliked the human race. However, they couldn’t help feeling that Long Chen was different.

  Suddenly, space trembled, and light came from the paragon art rune. Long Chen’s expression changed as he received a message from Lei Long.

  Within the rune was a terrifying divine pressure that Lei Long couldn’t resist. Long Chen hastily pressed his hands against the rune, and his Yuan Spirit charged into it.

  Within the lightning sea, the silver drake slowly opened its eyes and watched as Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit left his body, leaving behind an empty body. It muttered to himself.

  “Either he’s a genius, or he’s a remarkably alike idiot.”

  With his Yuan Spirit gone, any of those lightning drakes could kill his physical body without the slightest effort. Then they could kill his Yuan Spirit as well.

  What they didn’t know was that Long Chen had the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art and its sharp senses toward malice. He had the confidence to do something like this. Moreover, these drakes had no reason to kill him.

  He also did this on purpose to show the drakes that he trusted them. Would they still not help him upon seeing this trust?

  Three days later, the paragon art rune suddenly dimmed. Long Chen’s eyes opened, and there was lightning in his eyes.

  “Hahahaha, the paragon art is mine!” laughed Long Chen.

  Chapter 1800 Every Person Has a Different Fate

  Long Chen laughed with confidence and delight.

  “Brother Long, have… have you really learned to control the paragon art so quickly?”

  The nine drakes were astounded. They had been standing guard here the whole time.

  “Hehe, Lei Long has already finished learning it. For my Yuan Spirit to learn it as well will still take some time, but everyone, thank you.” Long Chen cupped his fists.

  Lei Long was a manifestation of lightning. For it to learn a lightning art was simple.

  Once it learned it, with their spirits connected, Long Chen would also be able to learn it quickly.

  The best part though was that when cultivating within the rune, Lei Long had absorbed a huge amount of thunderforce from it.

  Lei Long’s qualit
y didn’t necessarily change, but now it had practically a limitless reserve of energy.

  Long Chen knew that this energy was left for those inheriting this paragon art. Only when you possessed enough thunderforce could you unleash this art.

  “You’re going to leave now?” The silver drake also appeared.

  “Yes. I still have many things to do in the outside world. Don’t worry, I remember our agreement. I always keep my promises.” Long Chen nodded.

  “Alright. We’ve never really trusted a human, so hopefully you won’t disappoint us,” said the silver drake.

  “Time will tell.”

  Long Chen nodded. After forming new hand seals, faint lightning runes appeared flowing around his fingers, and a thirty-meter gate appeared in front of him. It was much smaller than the giant gate he had made at the beginning.

  However, this time, there were no intense fluctuations when the lightning gate appeared.

  “Everyone, we’ll quickly see each other again.”

  Long Chen cupped his fists and then stepped through the lightning gate. As soon as he entered, the gate closed and vanished.

  The scene in front of Long Chen changed. He had reappeared in that sinister passage filled with the air of death. However, the elder that had guided him had already vanished.

  That elder had been an ancient heroic expert. It had used up its last bit of energy and had now fully vanished.

  It had been nothing more than the slightest discarnate soul of an expert from the ancient era. Their entire existence was supported by the faith energy of their descendants.

  If the sacrifices offered to them weren’t enough or the faith energy wasn’t pure enough, they would dissipate sooner or later.

  That made Long Chen sigh inside. Both good people and bad people had things that they wanted to protect in their lives. Despite already being dead, this spirit had still been protecting his descendants.