Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  However, Long Chen only exchanged maps with disciples from the Righteous path, and he first gave them his map.

  When those disciples saw a map dozens or even over a hundred times greater than their own, they were too ashamed to hide anything. They gave him what they had mapped.

  Eventually, Long Chen learned some news of the Dragonblood Legion from one of the disciples. That person had been in a mountain range and witnessed the Dragonblood Legion fighting a Magical Beast. He said that they had slain that Magical Beast and obtained its young.

  Quite a few experts had tried to interfere and snatch their gains, but those experts had been slain by the Dragonblood warriors. After that, this disciple left.

  Long Chen was delighted to hear this news. He had the Silver Wing Horned Eagle quicken its pace in that direction.

  When they arrived, they saw that a fierce battle had been fought here. There were still bloodstains on the ground. Based on the fluctuations, that blood belonged to a twelfth rank Magical Beast.

  There was also a nest on the top of the mountain, which was empty.

  “It’s the nest of a Blood Pattern Lion Vulture,” said Meng Qi quickly upon examining the surroundings. As a Beast Tamer, she could tell the master of the nest.

  “Let’s go. They’re that way.”

  Long Chen could easily distinguish the Dragonblood warriors’ auras, especially those who had come with him from the Eastern Wastelands. He found which direction they had gone.

  “I’ll put away the Silver Wing Horned Eagle. The slave mark is quite a burden at first, and its soul is damaged. It needs to rest.” Meng Qi’s Spiritual Strength wrapped around the Silver Wing Horned Eagle. Its giant body faded.

  Long Chen gave Meng Qi a pile of medicinal pills. Some were Spirit Awakening Pills and soul nourishing pills, and there were all kinds of medicinal pills beneficial to Magical Beasts.

  This Silver Wing Horned Eagle was currently being controlled through brute power. If it could become a loyal follower, it would be even better. So they had to give it some benefits to make it feel that its new life was better than before, and by a great deal at that.

  The two of them quickly flew in the direction the Dragonblood Legion had gone. Long Chen was pulling Meng Qi along as lightning covered their bodies. Their speed wasn’t lower than the Silver Wing Horned Eagle at all. After rushing for a day, they heard the sound of fighting coming from a distant mountain valley. They also felt a terrifying aura.

  They immediately rushed over. A powerful qi wave blew apart the mountain they had just passed.

  Long Chen waved his hand, blocking the qi wave and astral winds. Within the valley, there was a man floating in the air, holding a black broadsword. Endless Death Qi swirled around him, and a pair of black wings was within the manifestation behind him.

  From the distance, this person looked like a winged fiend, and black qi revolved around him like thousands of coiling black dragons. This person’s aura was no weaker than Xie Luo’s.

  That man was looking down on over twelve thousand Dragonblood warriors on the ground of the valley.

  The Dragonblood warriors were all shining. Runes revolved around their weapons, and there seemed to be faint threads connecting all their weapons into one entity.

  Guo Ran was in his golden armor, his sabers pointed toward the man. Long Chen saw that Guo Ran’s sabers were already damaged.

  Guo Ran’s sabers were only peak Ancestral items. The only reason he was able to face that man’s divine item was because he was borrowing the power of all the Dragonblood warriors. Otherwise, his saber would have long since exploded.

  Behind Guo Ran were Gu Yang, Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, and Xia Chen. They stared gravely at the person before Guo Ran. Xia Chen was forming hand seals, prepared to attack at any moment.

  “I’ve long since heard the Dragonblood Legion’s name. I thought you were only capable of crushing the weaklings of the Righteous path, but you actually do have some skill. Even so, you’re just a group of trash. No matter how you gather the power of ants through a formation, ants will still be ants. Even all their power combined cannot defeat a dragon. Today, I, Ming Jie, will personally annihilate you so that the Righteous path’s stories about the world’s number one legion being the bane of the Corrupt path can end.”

  Hearing that person’s name, Guo Ran and the others’ expressions changed. They had also slain some Corrupt experts and learned the names of the Three Great Corrupt Kings from them.

  They had been so unlucky as to encounter such a terrifying existence. In their previous clash, they had almost been unable to hold on.

  Ming Jie smiled coldly and raised his broadsword. Black qi revolved around it, condensing into a giant black curtain in the sky.

  The black curtain spread, turning the entire world dark. This darkness contained only death.

  “The previous attack was just fifty percent of my power. Now I’ll show you what absolute power is. In front of this power, the Righteous path can only kneel and beg for mercy. Death will be your only option.”

  As Ming Jie’s voice resounded through the air, the world seemed to become hell on earth. The entire Dragonblood Legion was locked down by that terrifying broadsword.

  “Fuck, we might not be able to receive this attack. Even if we can, we’ll have to pay a price,” said Xia Chen darkly.

  Ming Jie’s power was too great. Worst of all, his manifestation sucked away all the Heavenly Dao energy in the surroundings. Other than the few Empyreans, the others who were only rank nine Celestials felt isolated from their Heavenly Dao energy.

  Without that power, they could only rely on their spiritual yuan to activate their armor and weapons, and that meant their ability to share energy was weakened.

  “This… it seems to be a legendary paragon art, or there wouldn’t be such a phenomenon.” Guo Ran was also gloomy. There was no way to resist such power.

  Just as Xia Chen said, if they could manage to block it, at least half the Dragonblood warriors would be slain. They couldn’t receive it, but there was also no way for them to run.

  “Death is your fate, but you don’t need to be afraid. You won’t be alone. I’ll quickly send Long Chen to hell with you.” Meng Jie sneered. His broadsword grew larger until it became a giant crescent moon.

  “Does it feel good to brag so much?”

  Just as Guo Ran and the others were wondering how to face this attack, a lazy and indifferent voice rang out, delighting them. They all looked in the direction of that voice.

  A bolt of lightning pierced through the air, shattering the black curtain. Light illuminated the world once more, and a figure appeared within the endless lightning.

  “Boss!” Guo Ran and all the warriors of the Dragonblood Legion cheered at once.

  Chapter 1848 A Confrontation of Paragon Arts

  Wild lightning covered Long Chen, and a pillar of light pierced the sky. The black curtain that had enveloped this world was forcibly torn apart.

  Following Long Chen’s arrival, more and more lightning appeared. Millions of lightning dragons roared through the air.

  More and more of the black curtain crumbled, and more lightning manifested. The world was torn into two halves, one side filled with lightning and the other with darkness. Long Chen was like a lightning god standing above all Daos.

  “Last time, I didn’t get a chance to go all-out against Xie Luo. This time, I’ll see just how much power the Three Great Corrupt Kings have to dare be so arrogant in front of my Dragonblood Legion.”

  A lightning spear slowly condensed in Long Chen’s hands. It was no ordinary lightning spear this time, as it was condensed of countless lightning dragons.

  As more lightning dragons merged into it, its aura grew more and more powerful. Rumbling rang out that shook the world.

  Suddenly, the lightning vanished. All of it had been sucked into the lightning spear, and the world became quiet, deathly quiet.

  Ming Jie narrowed his eyes. The current Long Chen with his ligh
tning spear looked like the Grim Reaper with his sickle. Even the heavens didn’t dare to release a sound.

  Most shocking of all, Mie Jie’s sword, which had been connected to another world’s power to unleash a paragon art, was actually slower than Long Chen. Long Chen was also using a paragon art, but he had completed it almost instantly.

  Ming Jie’s broadsword suddenly shook. He had finally gathered enough energy and then slashed his sword at Long Chen.

  “Underworld King Life Reaping Slash!”

  The black qi filling the world suddenly vanished, absorbed by his sword in an instant. The huge black crescent moon slashed down at Long Chen.

  Guo Ran and the others were shocked at the sight of this attack. It was even more terrifying than what they had imagined. With most of their Heavenly Dao energy stripped away, only a few of them would have survived this attack.

  In the face of this powerful attack, Long Chen’s battle intent blazed.

  “Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear!”

  Long Chen’s spear left his hand. It flew out like a bolt of lightning.

  The spear instantly grew explosively, becoming a battle god’s spear, causing the void around it to shatter. Each of its millions of runes erupted like a volcano.

  BOOM!

  The lightning spear crashed into the black crescent moon. The space around them twisted wildly as though the entire world would collapse. Fragments of the void danced. Spacetime was destroyed. It was like thousands of years passed in an instant.

  Guo Ran and the others were in their strongest defensive state but still felt their heads buzzing from the shockwaves. Their heads became blank and unable to think.

  The huge shockwaves caused the heavens to collapse, the earth to be torn apart, and the mountains to flatten.

  This was a clash of paragon arts. A clash between paragon arts was a clash between worlds.

  When Guo Ran and the others recovered, they saw that everything around them was black. They thought that they had died.

  However, they quickly realized that they were wrong. They began popping up from underground.

  BOOM!

  As soon as they came up and saw the light again, everything turned black again.

  Up in the sky, Long Chen had slashed Evilmoon into Ming Jie’s black broadsword, unleashing a sky full of black mist.

  “What the fuck?!” Guo Ran had just popped out of the ground when he was sent flying by the astral winds of their fight. He tumbled back.

  Even covered in his armor, although he didn’t get injured, the rapid spinning made him almost vomit.

  With Evilmoon in his hand, Long Chen attacked time and time again, each slash sharper than the last. His divine ring was present, and five stars revolved in his eyes. He wasn’t holding back.

  Ming Jie was forced to retreat as he blocked Long Chen’s attacks. Each of Long Chen’s attacks was as heavy as a star. That power had long since surpassed the limit of a human. Ming Jie’s arms were shaking, and he almost lost hold of his sword.

  Ming Jie was shocked by Long Chen’s power. He was even stronger than the stories.

  Just now, in the clash of their paragon arts, despite him starting earlier, Long Chen had completed storing up energy first. His cast time was much quicker, but its power was not one whit lower. They were actually evenly matched. Both of them had coughed up three large mouthfuls of blood, with an unknown number of bones broken.

  However, Meng Jie had a secret art that made his injuries heal in the blink of an eye. He had been about to attack Long Chen while Long Chen was healing, but he found that Long Chen looked fine and was the one to attack him.

  The black wings in Ming Jie’s manifestation were constantly quivering, wrapping him in black qi.

  “So that’s the case. Your aura is very similar to the Netherworld. As for those wings, they contain the scent of hell. Is your family related to the Netherworld’s jailors?” asked Long Chen lightly as he continued to attack.

  Meng Jie couldn’t help being shocked. His cultivation technique truly required the qi of the Netherworld. When he had advanced to the Soul Transformation realm, he had started borrowing the Netherworld’s qi to cultivate, and that pair of wings in his manifestation was called the Grasp of Hell.

  Although he only knew its name, none of his family’s experts had told him their origin. For Long Chen to suddenly say it, how could he not be shocked?

  “Nonsense. Don’t think a single paragon art will allow you to compete against me. You’re far too lacking!” Ming Jie’s manifestation suddenly unleashed a burst of power.

  Long Chen was forced back several steps, while Ming Jie also took advantage of this to retreat. Holding his black sword at a slanted angle, nine bone-like runes on it slowly lit up.

  However, just at that moment, Ming Jie’s expression changed. An invisible wind blade had silently appeared behind him.

  It suddenly quickened, slashing toward him. Ming Jie’s divine sense swept out and found that at some point, the Dragonblood Legion had gathered together. Standing at the front was Tang Wan-er. Everyone’s energy was pouring toward her, and this wind blade was her masterpiece.

  The wind blade spun rapidly, slicing through space. The current Tang Wan-er had already started awakening her manifestation, and her control over wind energy had reached a terrifying level. Adding on the Dragonblood warriors’ assistance, Ming Jie would definitely be heavily injured if he was struck.

  BOOM!

  Without thinking about it, Ming Jie swung his sword at the wind blade. The wind blade exploded, but he felt a strange suction force appear from its explosion, causing his body to become sluggish.

  At that moment, Evilmoon unleashed a giant black saber-image that slashed down. Long Chen’s lazy voice rang out. “Idiot, our goal isn’t to fight you, but to kill you.”

  “Bastard!” raged Ming Jie. He hastily pulled on his broadsword to block.

  BOOM!

  Although he blocked it, his block was too hasty. As a result, his arms were broken, and he was sent flying. He tasted something sweet as he almost vomited blood. Inside, he was infuriated. Hence, Sword Qi condensed within his sword as he prepared to unleash an attack at Tang Wan-er and the others.

  However, his body had just stabilized when one beautiful feather after another shot toward him like sharp swords.

  Each of these feathers contained a sharp aura. With nine hundred and ninety-nine of them shooting at once, Ming Jie’s expression changed. Light erupted from his sword as he slashed it repeatedly, forming a layered net that blocked Meng Qi’s attack.

  The feathers crashed into the net, unleashing huge ripples in space.

  Ming Jie’s expression changed. Those feathers were extremely tough, and when they landed on his net, they didn’t break. At most, he only managed to repel them.

  Just at that moment, the divine light of those feathers vanished. Replacing it, a single silver ray of light pierced toward him.

  “What?!” Ming Jie was stunned, not even having sensed this attack before. There was no time to dodge.

  BOOM!

  The silver ray of light landed squarely on Ming Jie’s body. His body instantly exploded.

  “Hahaha, so the Corrupt path’s Three Kings are only at this level! Who asked you to show off?” laughed Guo Ran.

  His laughter had yet to end when the ground exploded, and a figure charged out of the earth, slashing a black sword at Guo Ran.

  “What?!”

  Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events. That sword had already reached Guo Ran.

  This surprising figure was precisely the Ming Jie whose body had just exploded from the silver light attack. He had once more appeared, choosing to attack Guo Ran.

  Just as Guo Ran was about to be slain by Ming Jie’s sword, a black saber slashed toward Ming Jie from a strange angle.

  Chapter 1849 Bizarre Technique

  Ming Jie’s sudden appearance was completely unexpected. However, Long Chen seemed to have already seen through this mov
e of his and activated the Celestial Lightning Body Blink.

  Originally, he was unable to confirm where Ming Jie was after his body had exploded. His thought was that he would attack Meng Qi, but unexpectedly, Guo Ran was truly good at provoking other people’s ire and had turned himself into Ming Jie’s target.

  To block Ming Jie’s attack was too late. Long Chen could only strike Ming Jie from behind, forcing him to receive this attack if he wanted to kill Guo Ran.

  However, Long Chen was a bit worried. Ming Jie’s movement art was too bizarre. Just now, he had clearly been struck by the Silver Wing Horned Eagle’s attack, but the instant his body exploded, it was like he had shed his skin.

  Perhaps what had exploded was a substitute, while his true body had appeared underground and attacked Guo Ran.

  If Meng Jie could use this movement art a second time, then Guo Ran would definitely be doomed. He would choose to strike Guo Ran while receiving Long Chen’s attack and then slip away.

  Fortunately, at that critical moment, Ming Jie chose to block Long Chen’s attack. He was sent flying.

  It was unknown if Ming Jie’s slippery technique wasn’t ready to be used again, or whether it came with a price that he felt wasn’t worth Guo Ran’s life.

  Having brushed right past death, Guo Ran was covered in sweat. Just now, he had really thought he was about to die.

  “Hmph, you were lucky this time. Next time, I definitely won’t be as careless. I will definitely cut off your head, Long Chen!” Ming Jie was flying back from Long Chen’s attack. Before Meng Qi and the Silver Wing Horned Eagle could attack again, he formed hand seals, summoning a black gate behind him. He stepped into it, vanishing from their sight.

  All the Dragonblood warriors were shocked by his power. He practically had an undying body. Having such an existence target them was definitely not good.

  Long Chen went to the hole in the ground. That was where Ming Jie had come out of. Pushing aside the dirt, he noticed something a few hundred meters into the ground. He took out two wooden strips. Between the two wooden strips was a small black object, about as long as a chopstick. It looked like an awl, and at the end of it was a little person forming a hand seal.