Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  After that first exchange, True Immortal Jiaoqi hadn’t attacked again. He was calmly watching.

  That attack just now had been to test Long Chen’s power. It could be said that they were relatively evenly matched in power, so neither one of them could suppress the other.

  True Immortal Jiaoqi was still angry with Xie Luo for not cooperating. Hence, he had given up that thought. He was now waiting for his opportunity to launch a fatal attack while Long Chen and Xie Luo fought. If he had a good opportunity, he wouldn’t mind killing Xie Luo as well.

  Although the Corrupt path and the Xuan Beasts didn’t interfere with each other’s businesses, there was an eternal competition between heavenly geniuses. Any threats had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

  Seeing True Immortal Jiaoqi just standing there and watching coldly, Long Chen naturally knew what he was thinking.

  This was helping him greatly. He was fighting intensely against Xie Luo, while his divine ring was forcibly absorbing heaven and earth’s energy to replenish his Spiritual Strength.

  Due to refining the dragon tooth and gathering the original true feather, Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength had been exhausted to the point of affecting his combat power.

  Now he was quietly recovering while fighting. With the divine ring, the spiritual yuan he was using up was being replenished as quickly as he used it.

  Their fight was an intense one. Shocking explosions, saber-images, and qi waves erupted over and over again.

  As their fight progressed, a few figures gradually appeared at the top of the nest. These were experts that had been exploring the nest. They hadn’t found anything of value, but they had been drawn over by the terrifying auras coming from the top.

  “True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, and Long Chen? Three monsters actually came across each other here!” exclaimed an Empyrean from the ancient family alliance.

  More and more experts appeared. When they saw the three of them, they all gasped.

  These experts were all on guard against each other as well. The ancient races stood to one side, the Corrupt path stood to another, while the Righteous path hid in a corner.

  They were in no mood to start a fight. They were all watching Long Chen and Xie Luo fight.

  “That Xie Luo is claimed to be the Corrupt path’s number one genius, the descendant of the Corrupt path’s leader, Xie Wentian. As for that monster of the Xuan Beasts, he’s the one who got fourth on the Devil Slaughter Rankings, True Immortal Jiaoqi. Long Chen’s definitely dead,” sneered an ancient race expert.

  The fact that Long Chen had slain Xiang Yunfei had infuriated the ancient races. They had publicly announced that they were splitting ties with the Martial Heaven Alliance and would no longer communicate with them. Although they hadn’t started a war, their attitude was clear.

  Seeing Xie Luo fighting Long Chen with True Immortal Jiaoqi watching like a tiger lying in wait, those enemies of Long Chen were delighted.

  As for the Righteous path’s experts, they had gathered. There were over a hundred of them, with only a small portion being Empyreans. The majority were rank nine Celestials.

  “What do we do? Should we send a distress signal? Otherwise, senior apprentice-brother will be in danger.” An Empyrean sent a message to these experts.

  “How would you send it? And to who?”

  That Empyrean was struck speechless. Who would he send this distress signal to? Who would come to help Long Chen? Who actually had the power to help him? That was Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi. In front of them, even other Empyreans were cannon fodder.

  “Fuck, whatever. If Long Chen does end up in danger, I’ll put my life on the line to help him escape. Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen is the only hope of the Righteous path rising. If he falls, the Righteous path will be doomed,” said a rank nine Celestial suddenly.

  The rank nine Celestial’s words moved all the people here. His cultivation base might be low, his combat power might be weak, but this heroism was moving.

  In the great era, all the various powers were soaring. The Corrupt path, the ancient races, the ancient family alliance, the Xuan Beasts, they were all giving birth to countless heavenly geniuses.

  Although the Righteous path was also home to the birth of many heavenly geniuses, in comparison to the others, their power was clearly lacking.

  In the Righteous path, Long Chen was the only one who could suppress all other heavenly geniuses, look down on all others in his generation, and be undefeated in the same realm no matter what monstrous geniuses he faced.

  In the eyes of many of the Righteous path’s disciples, Long Chen was an undefeatable legend.

  Although countless people were denouncing him in the world, it didn’t affect Long Chen’s particular charisma. Even as countless other heavenly geniuses were raised and monsters appeared, no one could shake him from his position as the number one figure of the Righteous path.

  Even some people who had never seen Long Chen before also made their determination to help him escape even if they had to die.

  “Brother, this courage of yours is admirable. If senior apprentice-brother Long Chen is in danger, you can count me in. Another person is another chance of escaping,” said an Empyrean.

  “Count me in too.”

  “Me too.”

  Over thirty experts made an agreement. As long as Long Chen was in mortal danger, they would work together.

  Even if they had to detonate their divine items, even if they had to detonate their own bodies, they would win Long Chen a chance to escape. He was the only hope of the Righteous path. They were willing to use their lives to protect this hope.

  The other Righteous experts were silent. However, a few looked at them disdainfully.

  Those were disciples of the sects that had betrayed the Martial Heaven Alliance. But even having left the Martial Heaven Alliance, they were still part of the Righteous path, so they were standing with everyone else.

  If only one or two people were speaking up for Long Chen, they would definitely pour cold water on them to dispel their passion.

  However, there were too many of them now, so they didn’t dare to provoke them. If they did, they might be killed. So they only sneered inside.

  As Long Chen fought Xie Luo, Xie Luo seemed to be repeatedly retreating, whether intentionally or not. It just so happened that Long Chen was being drawn further and further away from True Immortal Jiaoqi. Long Chen smiled coldly.

  It was just that he didn’t bother exposing Xie Luo. He continued fighting within a small area, not forcing his way through. He was focused on recovering his Spiritual Strength.

  “This is a battle of monsters? It doesn’t seem as crazy as I imagined it. What’s going on?” muttered some people inside.

  Although the battle looked intense, with each move being extremely sharp, such a battle didn’t seem to fit with Long Chen and Xie Luo’s level.

  True Immortal Jiaoqi was still watching coldly. He gripped his qilin halberd. He looked like a bird of prey focused on his prey.

  BOOM!

  Suddenly, Xie Luo’s blood-red saber unleashed a burst of light. Its power surged, forcing Long Chen back.

  “It’s now!” Xie Luo laughed. His Yuan Spirit appeared out of his head, forming hand seals. Blood Qi surged into the sky.

  The void exploded, and one figure after another appeared. They were corpses wearing ancient robes, surrounding Long Chen, an evil glint in their eyes. Their terrifying auras made people shiver.

  “Seal!”

  Xie Luo shouted. Light erupted out of the corpses’ eyes, weaving into a giant ball that trapped Long Chen.

  Chapter 1837 A Heaven-Shaking Saber

  One hundred and eight corpses had appeared at once, a white light shooting out of their eyes and wrapping around Long Chen like a giant cocoon.

  It happened so quickly that no one could react. Once Long Chen was caught in the cocoon, divine runes appeared on the corpses’ hands, and they pressed against the cocoon.

>   The blood-colored divine runes spread, covering the cocoon. They formed a million chains that fully sealed the cocoon.

  The cocoon had just appeared when it began to quiver. Clearly, Long Chen was fighting to break free inside.

  However, once those blood-colored chains covered the cocoon, it instantly became still.

  People were still shocked at the appearance of the corpses when the cocoon became still. There was no time for anyone to react.

  The Righteous experts were dumbfounded, especially those that had sworn to protect Long Chen. They had thought that Long Chen would only be defeated when True Immortal Jiaoqi joined in on the fight. Their cultivation bases weren’t high, but they were confident that striking when True Immortal Jiaoqi joined in was the best time to save Long Chen.

  However, True Immortal Jiaoqi hadn’t moved at all before Long Chen was simply sealed. There was no chance for them to interfere at all.

  “Release Long Chen, or I’ll cut off your head.”

  BOOM!

  Long Chen had just been sealed when a golden halberd pierced toward Xie Luo. True Immortal Jiaoqi was finally joining in.

  “You want Long Chen? Keep dreaming. Long Chen’s been sealed by my Corpse Spirit Seal Art. The corpse poison inside will quickly exhaust all his energy and make him a puppet. I will be his master, and his everything will belong to me,” sneered Xie Luo.

  While fighting, he had been secretly laying down a barrier within an area. This was one of his unique abilities, and he was confident that no one else would recognize what he was doing. When Long Chen entered that area, he would trigger the barrier.

  The barrier was not an attacking or defending barrier, but a controlling barrier. It would make a person lose consciousness for just a moment. No matter how strong Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength was, he would lose consciousness and have illusions invade his mind.

  This would only affect Long Chen for a blink of an eye, but that was enough to determine victory or defeat in a battle between experts.

  The instant Long Chen had lost consciousness, he had activated the Corpse Spirit Seal Art that he had been preparing. This trap had been ready for a while now, but every time he had drawn Long Chen over to that area, Long Chen had inadvertently avoided it. Now, he finally stepped into it and was sealed.

  Now that Xie Luo’s seal was complete, he no longer had to worry about Long Chen. He was sure no one could break out of his sealing art. At the very least, no one had ever broken out before.

  Xie Luo met True Immortal Jiaoqi’s halberd with his blood-red saber. A powerful qi wave surged out.

  Powerful astral winds buffeted the spectators. It felt like knives were cutting their faces. The intensity of this one exchange was greater than Long Chen’s fight with Xie Luo.

  “Could it be that Xie Luo wasn’t using his full power while fighting Long Chen? Only now is he using his real power?”

  Startled cries rang out. Long Chen was sealed now, and Xue Luo’s fight with True Immortal Jiaoqi far surpassed Xie Luo’s fight with Long Chen in terms of power and aura.

  “Hmph, Long Chen’s fame is all fake. The reason he could fight so long with Xie Luo is just because Xie Luo wanted to capture him alive. Otherwise, Long Chen wouldn’t even be able to receive ten moves,” sneered an ancient race expert.

  “Let alone ten moves, he probably wouldn’t even be able to take three moves. Hmph, the Righteous path’s number one expert was created through bragging it seems. He was just duping his own people. The Righteous path has no top experts.”

  Other experts added their own mocking voices as they looked at the Righteous path’s experts. If they weren’t intent on watching this battle between peak geniuses, they might have even surrounded those Righteous experts.

  “Xie Luo, I’ll ask you one more time! Are you really not going to hand over Long Chen?!” demanded True Immortal Jiaoqi.

  “What lands in my hands belongs to me. If you aren’t smart, I won’t mind adding you to my corpse collection as well!” sneered Xie Luo.

  “Then you can die. Drake power!”

  True Immortal Jiaoqi suddenly shouted, and the drake figure behind him grew explosively. The cry of a dragon could vaguely be heard. The golden light shining out of True Immortal Jiaoqi’s body condensed entirely into his qilin halberd.

  “You’re the one who will die.” Xie Luo laughed sinisterly. The blood-red figure of Xie Luo’s manifestation suddenly extended its arms into Xie Luo. A sea of blood-colored runes poured into his body.

  “Evil Spirit Possession!”

  Xie Luo’s body transformed, and he no longer looked like a desiccated corpse. He transformed into a normal-looking person.

  As their power grew explosively, the ground beneath their feet began to constantly crack. This incomparably sturdy nest was unable to bear their power.

  “Heavens, what kind of power is this?!” This nest was so tough that for them, a full-strength attack wouldn’t even be able to damage it. Now it was covered in cracks.

  “Now is the best time to save senior apprentice-brother Long Chen!”

  One of the Righteous experts suddenly charged into the battlefield heading for the cocoon, taking advantage of when the two of them were fighting to save Long Chen.

  Following him, over thirty experts shot over. The divine items in their hands began to shine brighter and brighter. They had made their preparations to detonate their divine items.

  Their actions startled everyone. They hadn’t thought that the Righteous path’s disciples, which had always been cowardly like mice and never been united, would risk their lives to save Long Chen.

  Xie Luo merely sneered disdainfully. This Corpse Spirit Sealing Art of his could not be broken through external power. Even he would need to undo the seal bit by bit.

  Even if the corpses guarding the cocoon couldn’t stop them, they wouldn’t be able to break the seal. In his view, they were sending themselves to their deaths. He ignored them and continued fighting True Immortal Jiaoqi. His fight with him was reaching a climax, and he couldn’t be careless.

  BOOM!

  Those Righteous experts had just gotten close to the cocoon when a black saber-image tore out of the cocoon. It pierced into the sky, tearing through the barrier around the nest.

  “What?!”

  That huge saber-image possessed horrifying power. It slashed down like a celestial blade.

  “Split the Heavens 7!”

  Following it was an explosive cry. The barrier around the nest exploded. The celestial blade slashed down at Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi mercilessly.

  True Immortal Jiaoqi and Xie Luo were both shocked, especially Xie Luo. He had never thought that Long Chen would be able to break his seal.

  The truth was that Long Chen had long since seen through Xie Luo’s intentions. He had intentionally let himself be sealed.

  His Spiritual Strength had fully recovered, allowing him to use his trump cards at their full potential. He didn’t fear this kind of sealing art.

  Just as the two of them reached a climax in their fight, Long Chen suddenly unleashed the forbidden seventh form of Split the Heavens.

  Back then, the old man had repeatedly warned him not to use the seventh form until he reached the Life Star realm. Otherwise, he would become a cripple.

  However, Long Chen was extremely confident in his meridians. He had decided to take this risk to see if he could eliminate the two of them.

  The void exploded. Fragments of it transformed into dust. That terrifying barrier appeared weak in front of the seventh form of Split the Heavens.

  Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi’s expressions changed. If they were struck by this saber, they would definitely die.

  Right now, their power was locked against each other. Whoever pulled back first would be struck and injured before the saber even arrived.

  “Pull back together!”

  Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi exchanged a look, and the light from their weapons erupted. Both of them hacked up
blood, their faces turning as pale as paper.

  Just now, they had severed their own energy. Pulling it back would take too long.

  Severing their own power like this was a kind of taboo. It was very harmful to the body, equivalent to attacking oneself.

  However, even as they coughed up blood, they didn’t hesitate. Their divine items blazed with divine light as they attacked Long Chen’s saber-image. At the same time, they retreated.

  In this scenario, they were unable to unleash even half their power. Who would foolishly stand there? They naturally chose to run.

  BOOM!

  Their attacks instantly shattered upon contact with the celestial saber. The two of them once more coughed up blood and tumbled into the distance.

  The leftover power of the celestial saber crashed down where the two of them had been. The nest was cut through as easily as tofu.

  Originally, the place that Long Chen was at was near the edge of the nest. Now his attack had cut the nest cleanly in two. A huge ditch appeared, and it went so deep it was impossible to see the bottom.

  Everyone was struck dumb. They stared in shock at Long Chen.

  Long Chen looked like a god who had just walked out of the cocoon. His wild and domineering aura made their hearts turn cold.

  Holding Evilmoon, he circulated thunderforce around his feet. He was about to shoot after the injured Xie Luo and True Immortal Jiaoqi when his expression changed.

  Lei Long appeared, swallowing those disciples who had been trying to save Long Chen but were now struck dumb.

  As for Long Chen himself, lightning wings appeared on his back. He shot away with Lei Long, vanishing from sight in an instant.

  Just as everyone was still confused as to why Long Chen was running, the nest exploded. Black qi suddenly surged out of the bottomless ditch Long Chen had made.

  “What is that?!”

  This black qi contained terrifying death energy. Large hands appeared, reaching out for them.

  Chapter 1838 Terrifying Black Hand

  “Run!”