Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Hmph, you don’t even know what kind of nest this is, nor do you know what that ancient pool behind you is. I guarantee that if you were to touch the water in that pool, this marrow cleansing pool would immediately crumble. You wouldn’t obtain anything,” said Meng Qi confidently.
The pool that she spoke of was at the core of this large space. There were eight entrances to this area. In other words, of the thousands of channels here, only eight led here. The pool itself was almost dried up. Only at the center was there a three-meter-deep and thirty-meter-long pool of water.
There was some kind of almost gelatin-like fluid within the water, and it contained the aura of primal chaos. It was definitely a treasure.
Meng Qi and True Immortal Jiaoqi had noticed this place at the same time. This had naturally resulted in a bitter fight between the two of them.
Regretfully, with her spiritual attacks having zero effect, Meng Qi was at an absolute disadvantage. She was forced into desperate straits by True Immortal Jiaoqi.
When Meng Qi said that this was a marrow cleansing pool, True Immortal Jiaoqi’s pupils narrowed slightly. Meng Qi was a Beast Tamer and knew even more than him when it came to Magical Beasts and Xuan Beasts.
“Hmph, don’t think you can trick me!” True Immortal Jiaoqi suddenly sneered. He extended a hand, and his palm became covered by drake scales. A giant palm-image filled this space, smashing toward Meng Qi.
This was a powerful divine item, and in front of it, even Cloud seemed miniscule. The power behind this one palm caused the entire nest to shake.
BOOM!
Cloud opened its mouth. A black thread of light shot out like a divine sword, but it shattered upon contact with that palm.
“You might be from the Heaven Swallowing race, but your bloodline is impure. You’re unable to unleash the full power of your divine abilities! Accept your fates!”
True Immortal Jiaoqi smiled coldly. The Heaven Swallowing race’s divine abilities were frightening, but Cloud’s bloodline was too impure to unleash their full potential. The difference between his bloodline power and hers was like the difference between heaven and earth.
Just as the giant palm was about to capture Meng Qi and Cloud, a streak of lightning appeared in front of them. A giant golden dragon tooth stabbed into the giant palm.
Chapter 1831 Your Head’s Not Very Good
Golden light erupted as the dragon tooth stabbed into the huge palm. It instantly pierced through and continued toward True Immortal Jiaoqi.
The sudden change made his expression change. The dragon tooth was as sharp as a sword, and an evil aura came from it that made his hair stand on end.
BANG!
Golden light illuminated this space. It was as if everything had been turned golden.
Golden scales had appeared on top of True Immortal Jiaoqi’s fist. It was unknown what divine ability he had used, however, some of those golden scales had cracked, and a bit of blood leaked out. He was slightly injured.
True Immortal Jiaoqi shook his hand. He stared at a black-robed figure that slowly revealed itself as the golden light faded. He was carrying a very strange golden bone sword.
“Long Chen?” True Immortal Jiaoqi smiled cruelly. “I didn’t expect you to send yourself straight to me. Good, very good.”
Long Chen coldly stared at True Immortal Jiaoqi, but in truth, he was filled with shock. True Immortal Jiaoqi was truly powerful. Those golden scales emitted immense pressure, and their aura was very similar to Long Chen’s dragon scales when he activated the Green Dragon Battle Armor. Moreover, the golden scales were even stronger since True Immortal Jiaoqi was able to receive the dragon tooth barehanded.
That meant True Immortal Jiaoqi didn’t just possess great defense but also shocking power. It was no wonder Qi Fengxue had repeatedly advised Long Chen not to come here.
“I also feel like it’s very good. We can save time and fight to the death here.”
Long Chen’s divine ring appeared, and dragon scales covered his body as he directly summoned the Green Dragon Battle Armor.
The dragon tooth unleashed a wave of golden light as he slashed it at True Immortal Jiaoqi.
“When it comes to power, you aren’t even close to my match.”
True Immortal Jiaoqi sneered as golden scales covered his entire body. His ten-meter body looked like it was made of gold. After that, he directly smashed his fist at the dragon tooth.
BOOM!
His giant fist was like a huge mountain. A massive qi wave erupted, knocking Long Chen back.
It took him five steps to stabilize himself after being knocked back. However, True Immortal Jiaoqi was still standing in his original location. He wasn’t affected in the slightest.
“Power is the forte of the Xuan Beasts. You humans are ants in front of us. Do you know how laughable you are in front of me?” sneered True Immortal Jiaoqi. He suddenly shot forward. All the scales on his body lit up as the power of his Blood Qi erupted. He unleashed a raging punch, one even more terrifying than his last punch.
Long Chen slashed the dragon tooth three times, unleashing three waves of golden light.
“Insignificant. Long Chen, you aren’t fit to be my opponent.”
True Immortal Jiaoqi ignored Long Chen’s attacks. His fist continued onward.
Three explosive sounds rang out. Long Chen’s attacks all exploded when they struck True Immortal Jiaoqi’s fist. Golden light drowned this space.
“How disappointing. Long Chen, if this is all you have, you’ve really let me down.”
True Immortal Jiaoqi suddenly switched to his other fist. Although his punch had broken Long Chen’s attacks, those attacks had exhausted thirty percent of its power. That wasn’t enough to pose a fatal danger to Long Chen.
He thought that since Long Chen didn’t dare to directly receive his punch, he was trying to weaken it first before receiving it.
Did Long Chen not realize that he had another fist? Weakening his attack like this might be skillful, but it was a joke. He had heard that Long Chen was brave, but now he felt him to be a rabbit.
“True Immortal Jiaoqi, you shouldn’t always only look at the surface, otherwise, you’ll suffer sooner or later. Your power is alright, but your head’s not very good.”
Countless rays of light suddenly shot out of the dragon tooth, slashing at True Immortal Jiaoqi. At the same time, Long Chen retreated, refusing to face him head-on.
“You’re trying to provoke me? How childish.” True Immortal Jiaoqi was unstoppable with just his two fists. All of Long Chen’s attacks were smashed apart.
Just as he was smashing apart the golden rays, he suddenly realized something was off. Everything around him was drowned out by golden light. He couldn’t see past it.
“Damnit!” True Immortal Jiaoqi suddenly had a thought. He turned back, and as expected, he saw Meng Qi within the marrow cleansing pool. By that time, the strange fluid within it had already vanished.
True Immortal Jiaoqi let out a furious howl. He realized that Long Chen’s attacks had just been to draw his attention away so that Meng Qi could take the treasure. He had actually fallen for it.
He had just shifted his attention to attack Meng Qi when the space behind him shook. A sensation of mortal danger rose in his heart, and he hastily looked back.
He saw Long Chen holding a cyan brick and smashing it toward him. It quickly transformed to become gigantic.
“What?!” True Immortal Jiaoqi didn’t have time to react after having his attention focused on Meng Qi. All he could do was raise his arms above his head to block it.
As a result, the Heaven Flipping Seal smashed into him directly. True Immortal Jiaoqi shot off like a shooting star, smashing into the ground.
The ground was made of the bones of terrifying Magical Beasts, so it was incredibly tough. As a result, True Immortal Jiaoqi didn’t even leave a mark on the ground before he bounced and flew even further, tumbling through the air.
This impact caused the injury t
hat Long Chen had given him to worsen. His fury immediately soared. He had actually been schemed against by Long Chen, and he had fallen for it. Moreover, Meng Qi had taken the treasure in this space.
He now thought back to what Long Chen had just said: True Immortal Jiaoqi, you shouldn’t always look only at the surface, otherwise, you’ll suffer sooner or later. Your power is alright, but your head’s not very good.
He almost went crazy with rage. He crawled to his feet with a furious roar, looking all around. After that, he coughed up a mouthful of blood when he noticed that Long Chen, Meng Qi, and Cloud had already vanished. This room was empty.
“You bastard Long Chen, pray you don’t fall into my hands!”
True Immortal Jiaoqi’s furious roar shook the room. All of a sudden, his Spiritual Strength surged out through the eight passageways leading to this world.
He quickly managed to locate Long Chen and Meng Qi standing on Cloud’s back. They were rapidly flying away.
The instant his divine sense found them, Meng Qi flung out an arm. A spiritual arrow shot out.
Bang!
The spiritual arrow exploded through the channel. Countless soul runes appeared and charged into True Immortal Jiaoqi’s mind-sea.
“Fuck!” True Immortal Jiaoqi clutched his head. He had no idea what magical art Meng Qi had used, but those soul runes had managed to follow his Spiritual Strength back to his mind-sea.
The Xuan Beasts did not specialize in Spiritual Strength, so his Spiritual Strength was weak. If it weren’t for the protection of his ancestral soul, which had helped him block Meng Qi’s spiritual attacks, Meng Qi and Cloud together would have managed to crush him.
However, in his fury, he had sent his own Spiritual Strength out, allowing Meng Qi to strike back at him.
True Immortal Jiaoqi smashed the ground in his anger. Killing intent surged in his eyes. The Spiritual Strength he had sent out had been separated from him. It was equivalent to having his soul torn apart.
However, there had been no way around this. If he had allowed Meng Qi’s attack to fully invade his mind-sea, he would have been powerless to do anything. His ancestral soul would only be able to slowly suppress her power, which would just waste his time. He was forced to sever the Spiritual Strength he had sent out.
He shot into motion, chasing after them.
Long Chen and Meng Qi stood on Cloud’s back. Cloud had shrunk to just thirty meters, allowing her to nimbly fly through this cave system.
Unfortunately, there were too many twists and turns. Cloud was unable to use her full speed like that.
Long Chen had his hands pressed against the back of Meng Qi’s head. He was giving his Spiritual Strength to her.
Meng Qi’s own divine sense was rapidly spreading throughout the cave system. Her spiritual arts were practically divine. She was ten times faster than him at this, and her precise control allowed her to brush her divine sense past some experts without them even noticing.
With the support of Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength, Meng Qi quickly scanned the nest. She immediately found another large room like the one that they had been in. It was directly above that room.
The two of them weren’t that far apart physically, but the winding channels meant that it would take a while to reach it.
“It’s him!”
She had just noticed the second room when she also noticed a figure wrapped in a sinister and bloody air.
When her divine sense reached him, that person suddenly raised his head, revealing a face like a desiccated corpse. He opened his mouth, and a blood arrow shot out at Meng Qi’s Spiritual Strength.
Bang!
Meng Qi reacted quickly. Her Spiritual Strength quickly retreated, curling away from that person’s attack.
That blood arrow ended up striking the bone wall. A web of blood strands appeared on the wall and rapidly spread in every direction.
“What terrifying curse energy!” exclaimed Meng Qi.
“It seems he’s the Corrupt path’s supreme expert, Xie Luo,” said Long Chen somewhat gravely. This man was definitely an extremely terrifying existence.
Chapter 1832 King of the Corrupt Path
This Xie Luo gave Long Chen a feeling of great danger. That feeling was even greater than what he felt from True Immortal Jiaoqi.
“No wonder Qi Fengxue said that Xie Luo’s power should be even greater than Leng Yueyan’s. He’s definitely powerful.”
Xie Luo was surrounded by an evil air like a fiend from hell. The curse power he had just released gave Meng Qi goosebumps.
“I encountered this person before. He unleashed an evil technique, killing a large mass of experts. Back then, only myself and an expert from the Xuan Beasts managed to escape. I had my Spiritual Strength and Cloud’s speed, allowing me to escape. But that Xuan Beast expert was struck by Xie Luo’s bone needle. He then used his brute power to charge back into the misty region,” said Meng Qi.
The evil spiritual art that Xie Luo had used back then had paralyzed people’s souls. Although Meng Qi didn’t fear any soul art, Xie Luo’s soul energy contained a terrifying curse energy that she couldn’t touch. Hence, she had been forced to run. She hadn’t expected him to have directly charged into the second level.
“He’s very crafty. He probably noticed True Immortal Jiaoqi on the first level, so he gave up on the first level to get the second level’s treasure. Now what?” asked Meng Qi.
Their smartest decision would be to retreat now. Just True Immortal Jiaoqi was so powerful. If this terrifying overlord of the Corrupt path was added into the mix, Meng Qi and Long Chen would be pincered between them.
“Naturally we have to fight over the treasures. Who cares who they are? Even if they were Yama Kings, they wouldn’t be able to snatch away my treasures.” Long Chen started pulling Meng Qi forward, but he suddenly stopped. “This is no good. We won’t get there in time.”
Long Chen had stopped because he found that with Xie Luo’s head start, if they continued down this channel, Xie Luo would definitely get the treasure first.
“Both of you get back. Cloud, protect Meng Qi.”
Long Chen suddenly unleashed his divine ring, and his Spiritual Strength burst forth. One of the dragon teeth appeared in his hands, and this time, it actually let out a majestic dragon roar. It unleashed a giant pillar of light that stabbed into the wall.
This time, Long Chen was unleashing the full power of the dragon tooth. The sturdy wall was pierced through, revealing another channel.
Buzz.
Suddenly, another dragon roar came from the dragon tooth. It actually slashed toward Long Chen.
“I just knew you would rebel.” Long Chen sneered and circulated his Spiritual Strength. The slave seal on it lit up, suppressing it.
However, now that the dragon tooth’s power had been fully activated, the will within it had also been woken. It was fighting intensely against the slave seal, and the suppression was taking effect very slowly.
“Let me help.” Meng Qi formed hand seals, and her Spiritual Strength merged with Long Chen’s. She was the true soul cultivator, and with her skill, the two of them instantly sealed the dragon tooth.
Long Chen put away the dragon tooth. Inside, he was quite stunned. No wonder Evilmoon had said that the metal devouring evil dragons’ teeth were their most precious treasures.
This one attack proved that Evilmoon was correct. The dragon teeth were incredibly powerful.
In order to maintain their full divine nature, Long Chen had no choice but to slowly grind away the will within the teeth. He couldn’t use the primal chaos space to completely suppress it. If he did, then a portion of its divine nature would be erased as well. They would be dead objects. Their power would sharply drop.
Although right now he couldn’t use their full power, they could still unleash their maximum power if he was careful.
“Long Chen, you open a path. I’ll help you to fully refine this dragon tooth.” Meng Qi suddenly wrapped her arms around
Long Chen. Her Spiritual Strength flowed into his mind-sea.
Their Spiritual Strengths merged together. She was sacrificing a large amount of her Spiritual Strength to help Long Chen quickly refine the dragon tooth.
She had personally seen how powerful this dragon tooth was. If she could help Long Chen fully refine it, Long Chen would be in command of an absolutely amazing divine item.
Originally, Long Chen had wanted her not to sacrifice so much Spiritual Strength. Although she was a soul cultivator, this was still a huge amount of energy to her. But when he thought about it, there would be an immense battle soon. For him to obtain a good weapon for it was too important.
Cloud brought them flying forward. After half an incense stick’s worth of time, Meng Qi sighed and released Long Chen. Her face was slightly pale and covered in sweat. She was exhausted, but she smiled.
In just that short time, she had used up a full seventy percent of her Spiritual Strength, while Long Chen had also used up forty percent of his.
Any more Spiritual Strength and Meng Qi’s power would have been gravely affected, so she had been forced to draw on some of Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength.
With her precise control, the dragon tooth’s will had been fully erased. Now there was no chance of it rebelling when he used it. It would listen to Long Chen’s orders.
However, while it had reached the point that it was subservient, to reach the point where it would fully cooperate with Long Chen to unleash the greatest possible power would take much longer. He would need to slowly nourish its item-spirit. Only then could he unleash the dragon tooth’s full potential.
At this time, Cloud arrived in a large palace. This palace made Meng Qi let out a startled cry.
At the center of this palace was a giant stone mountain. There were beautiful feathers ‘growing’ out of the stone mountain.
Each feather was thirty meters long with a gorgeous blue color. There was a spirituality within the blue light that made the feathers look dream-like.
Although Long Chen didn’t recognize what these feathers were, he knew that each of them was an absolute treasure. These feathers were emitting the terrifying aura of twelfth rank Magical Beasts. Hence, their owner had definitely reached the twelfth rank.