Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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Those corpses hanging on the vines all possessed powerful auras. They were clearly Empyreans, but such figures hadn’t even managed to escape. From this fact, it could be seen just how powerful these tree demons were.
“It’s just a display of power.” Long Chen looked at the hundreds of corpses strewn across the ground.
If these tree demons really wanted to kill people, they should have hidden all this mess and launched a sneak attack. That would be easier. This appearance was clearly a warning.
“Let’s go.” Long Chen pulled Ye Lingshan over.
“Wait, don’t we need to investigate what’s going on?” said Ye Lingshan.
“Who has time to investigate? Just charge through. If they dare to block us, we’ll kill them,” said Long Chen indifferently.
When the two of them approached the gate, the vines instantly began to move like vipers woken from a nap. They glared at the two of them menacingly.
Long Chen ignored them, continuing forward. When he was just a few miles away, thousands of vines suddenly shot toward him like spears.
At the same time, the ground behind them suddenly burst apart, and vines came flying out to surround them.
“Hmph, a little tree demon also dares to be arrogant? Today, there is only death for you. If I were to personally fight, it would practically be bullying. Lingshan, you kill it!” Long Chen rolled up his sleeves and shouted.
“Stop joking! Can you take a look at the situation?!” raged Ye Lingshan. Originally, she had thought that Long Chen would be unleashing some kind of ultimate move to eliminate these vines, but he actually wanted her to fight instead.
Ye Lingshan unsheathed her sword, and her manifestation appeared behind her. There was an image vibrating within it, and the sound of a sword came from it. Ye Lingshan’s manifestation had also started to awaken.
When her sword came out of its sheath, Sword Qi cut through the void, falling upon the vines. Although blood-colored runes appeared on the vines, they were still severed.
As they were cut to pieces, a blood-like fluid splashed out of them. It was like they were bleeding.
One of the thorns on the vines stabbed into the ground, piercing straight through it like it was snow.
These vines weren’t just tough and sharp, but they were also shockingly heavy. It was no wonder those ordinary Empyreans were unable to survive.
“Nice.”
Long Chen cheered on the sidelines. Ye Lingshan was truly powerful. It was just that normally, she was a bit hesitant. When she fought, she would immediately become courageous, even a bit domineering. It was just like Qu Jianying’s style.
“Let’s charge our way through. Don’t get entangled by them,” reminded Long Chen.
These vines were just branches from the main body, and they came in a limitless tide. Hence, fighting them was meaningless. The most important thing was to reach the gate.
“If what’s inside is even more dangerous, wouldn’t we be throwing ourselves into the trap?” warned Ye Lingshan.
“Without entering the tiger’s den, how do you obtain tiger cubs? Let’s go, riches lie in danger,” called Long Chen.
Ye Lingshan pressed forward, her Sword Qi slaughtering the vines. Blood splashed everywhere, and the vines were unable to stop her. They quickly arrived in front of the gate.
Suddenly, vines thicker than a house burst forth from around the gate, forming a giant net around it and blocking the two of them.
Ye Lingshan’s face was cold. Her sword swung, and a sharp aura erupted. A dragon’s cry came from her sword.
Long Chen was startled. Ye Lingshan truly was powerful, and she hadn’t activated her divine item. Instead, she had used some unknown power to seemingly compress her energy before unleashing the attack, bringing forth destructive power.
The huge vines were blown apart. Long Chen and Ye Lingshan both shot through the opening, entering the gate. Once they entered, they felt their bodies lighten.
It was like they had entered a different world. The spiritual qi in the air was so dense that it almost became liquid. It actually had a buoyant effect on them.
They looked around. The huge vines didn’t attack any longer. The broken parts on the ground began to heal. Those severed vines regrew, and the bloodstains were absorbed by them again. Everything quickly returned to its original appearance as if nothing had happened.
The two of them immediately understood that these vines only attacked those on the outside. Once you passed, you wouldn’t be attacked any longer.
“Heroine Ye is mighty and domineering. Admirable.” Long Chen raised a thumb at Ye Lingshan.
Ye Lingshan glanced at him before ignoring him. She carefully examined the surroundings. There was a completely straight path before them.
At the end of their sight was a mountain range. Those mountains soared into the clouds. Mist revolved around them, making it so they couldn’t see them clearly.
Following the path, Long Chen suddenly saw something that made him pause. He bent down and picked up a withered branch. There was a mass of dead branches on the ground here.
Ye Lingshan said, “These branches look like they’re from a willow.”
“They’re willow branches. It seems Chu Yao has been here and fought. These branches are cut cleanly, and even the Undying Qi of the branches has been severed. Since they didn’t smash the branches, it means this person has condensed their power to a terrifying level. Whoever fought against Chu Yao didn’t waste the slightest bit of energy. Good, it’s been a long time since I’ve encountered the Bloodkill Hall’s experts. Let’s see what figures the Bloodkill Hall came up with this time.” Long Chen smiled coldly.
He was almost sure that the one to fight here was an assassin from the Bloodkill Hall. Only they could have such sharp attacks.
They continued onward. Long Chen wasn’t worried about Chu Yao’s safety, as there were no signs of intense battle on the ground. Chu Yao hadn’t fought that person for long. She had most likely rushed in deeper in search of treasures.
This also meant that the person hadn’t posed a fatal threat to Chu Yao, or she wouldn’t have pressed forward without doing anything about them.
Both of them quickly arrived at the mountain range, and a mountain blocked their path. The path was broken here. Long Chen stopped, summoning a pair of lightning wings. He directly flew up.
“The mountain peak has been carried away. There was probably some treasure on it.”
The two of them had just flown over the mountains when they saw that the top was missing a piece. Based on the marks, it had been excavated not long ago.
“Lingshan, I’m going to go find Chu Yao. Most of the treasures have been taken by others on this path. We should split up. I’ll find Chu Yao, and you search for treasures. Look for places others haven’t been,” said Long Chen.
Although he felt that Chu Yao shouldn’t be in any danger, he still wanted to go find her.
He didn’t want to waste any of Ye Lingshan’s time. She was the heir of the Martial Heaven Alliance and had to have powerful karmic luck. Her chances of finding some peerless treasure should be quite high.
As for his own luck, he didn’t think he had any chances of finding anything. Furthermore, he had to follow the path that Chu Yao had already taken, so they should split up.
“Alright, be careful.” Ye Lingshan nodded.
“You’re the heir to the Martial Heaven Alliance, so change your attitude of trying not to offend anything. Now you need to consider your actions from the viewpoint of the Martial Heaven Alliance. Whether or not they provoke you, if they are your enemies, you should eliminate them. If anyone wants to fight over treasures with you, then they are trying to hold you back, to weaken you, which is to weaken the Martial Heaven Alliance, stalling its development and throwing it into danger. If the Martial Heaven Alliance is endangered, the lives of billions of the Righteous path’s experts will be threatened, so anyone who dares to fight over treasures with you is an enemy of the Mart
ial Heaven Alliance. Killing them is not wrong, understood?” asked Long Chen. Ye Lingshan had been very righteous while being a loner. Long Chen needed her to be more domineering.
“I understand. If not for anything else, just to not disappoint my master, I would fight against the world.” Ye Lingshan nodded.
“Then that’s enough. Go, and good luck.”
Long Chen and Ye Lingshan split up. Long Chen rushed along a path, while Ye Lingshan hesitated before going another direction.
Long Chen quickly flew over the mountains. He didn’t sense any powerful Magical Beasts or treasures, but he did see that many of the mountains were gone.
They should have just been excavated, but he had no idea what was on them for them to be so valuable.
Flying through the air, Long Chen smiled. He could already sense Chu Yao’s aura. Having used the Wood Spirit Union with her, their Spiritual Strength was closely connected.
Furthermore, this place was different from the nest of the Blue Eye Peacock. There was no suppression of Spiritual Strength, so Long Chen could already get a general sense of Chu Yao’s direction. After a while, that feeling grew even clearer. The reason he smiled was because he sensed that Chu Yao had noticed him as well.
As expected, after crossing a few more mountains, he saw Chu Yao standing there at the peak of a mountain, looking like a beautiful fairy.
Chapter 1861 Meeting
Long Chen looked at the smiling and gentle Chu Yao. He spread his arms, embracing her.
“I missed you.”
“You should be saying you missed all of us. You can’t just miss me.” Chu Yao also tightly held Long Chen.
“I missed you all, but I missed you the most.” Long Chen smiled.
“Hmph, you’re most skilled at deceiving others. Right now, we should hurry and gather treasures. This area has medicinal fields on the outside and a fruit forest on the inside. There are countless precious kinds of fruit. I’ve already obtained seven of them. This trip to the Yin Yang World wasn’t wasted.” Chu Yao, pleased as she showed Long Chen her harvest.
“Damn, Silk Fig, Dark Night Crabapple, and Soul Nourishing Star Peach…”
Long Chen was greatly shocked. They were all priceless. Even if they were eaten directly without being refined into pills, their effects were amazing.
In particular, that Soul Nourishing Star Peach was top tier. It could constantly nourish the soul and raise the power of a person’s Spiritual Strength. It could also heal damage to the soul.
“Here, they’re all for you.” Chu Yao handed them all to Long Chen. These trees had yet to bloom let alone bear fruit.
However, Chu Yao knew Long Chen had a way to make them grow rapidly. It was just that she didn’t know of the existence of the primal chaos bead.
It wasn’t that Long Chen didn’t trust them, but he was afraid of infecting them with the karma of knowing this. In any case, they knew he had the ability, and that was enough. Long Chen immediately planted them in the primal chaos space.
“Where is Ruyan?” asked Long Chen.
“She went to drive off that irritating fellow. Some fellow from the Bloodkill Hall was here, so she had to hold him back while I searched for treasures,” said Chu Yao.
“Is he very powerful? Tell Ruyan that we can go help eliminate him,” said Long Chen. Hmph, he would cut this fellow who dared to bully his woman to pieces.
“No need.”
Suddenly, space shook, and the icy Liu Ruyan appeared before the two of them.
“That fellow finally lost patience and fucked off. We can look for treasures in peace.” Liu Ruyan looked at Long Chen, her face as icy as ever, still having not forgiven him for how he had suppressed her before.
“Was he very powerful?” asked Long Chen.
Chu Yao saw that Liu Ruyan ignored him, and to avoid any awkwardness, she immediately said, “That person was very powerful. Most powerful of all were his practically supernatural movement arts and his assassination arts. We had no way to beat him. The only thing we could do was attack him from all sides without leaving a single opening and defend against his assassination attempts. However, there was no way to defeat him like that, so Ruyan stayed behind to hold him back.”
Liu Ruyan supplemented, “He’s even stronger than we expected. In truth, he has yet to use fifty percent of his power. He couldn’t find any weakness he could take advantage of, so he didn’t go all-out. He finally lost his patience and decided that it wasn’t worth it.”
Long Chen nodded. Assassins relied on opportunity. They wanted the biggest gain for the smallest price. If they relied on power to win, then they wouldn’t be assassins.
It seemed that all the peak heavenly geniuses of the Martial Heaven Continent had gathered in the Yin Yang World this time. All the elites of the various powers had come.
True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, Di Feng, Ming Jie, the four Fate Princes, and even top experts of the Bloodkill Hall had all come. These were just people that he knew of. Who knew how many nameless figures had come who would emerge as a new force to be reckoned with?
The powers of the Martial Heaven Continent all had their own trump cards. They normally wouldn’t expose them for nothing, but this opening of the Yin Yang World was definitely very enticing, enough for those powers to show the trump cards that they had hidden.
“Long Chen, did you encounter any powerful experts?” asked Chu Yao.
“Yes, I ran into a few.”
Long Chen gave a simple narration of his encounters with True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, Ming Jie, and the others.
He also told her about what Heavenly Fate Island’s Luo Tianji had exposed to him so that she would be careful. At the same time, Long Chen was trying to raise the karmic retributions for Heavenly Fate Island.
Li Tianxuan had said that Heavenly Fate Island couldn’t calculate anything about him. If he told Chu Yao about the Fate Princes, logically, it should infect her with a bit of his own karma, increasing the difficulty and consequences of trying to calculate anything about her.
“Ruyan, you said you felt some kind of summons. Have you found it?” asked Long Chen.
“It’s because of that feeling that we’ve come here. However, upon reaching here, that feeling disappeared.” Liu Ruyan shook her head.
“Then let’s do it this way. We’ll advance side by side while searching. I’ll take the center, and you two take the sides. We should stay within a hundred miles of each other so we can provide assistance if someone finds any big fish. You understand, right?” said Long Chen with an evil smile.
“I understand.” Liu Ruyan was already flying off. Chu Yao couldn’t help smiling. Winking at Long Chen, she also flew off.
The three of them formed a line as they advanced. The direction was chosen by Chu Yao. When it came to picking anything random, Long Chen always had someone else do it.
“Damn, Chu Yao’s luck really is good. I’ve already found a Heavenly Dew Cherry. That’s a priceless treasure.”
He had found a little tree emitting a bright light. Mist revolved around it. There was a formation beneath the tree, but that formation was only used to absorb spiritual qi for it. It had no defensive power, so Long Chen directly cut off this part of the mountain and sent it to the primal chaos space. He didn’t damage the formation. The primal chaos space’s spiritual qi surged toward the tree, nourishing it.
In less than an incense stick’s worth of time, Long Chen found three precious trees just like it. Flowers were about to bloom inside his heart.
This was money. In the future, he wouldn’t just have plenty of fruit to eat, but he would also be overflowing with money. His business with Zheng Wenlong would be booming.
Naturally, he would have to sell the fruit to Zheng Wenlong, or Zheng Wenlong would be offended. In this world, as long as you had money, anything would be easy to do.
Looking at the trees growing in the primal chaos space, Long Chen sighed emotionally. The primal chaos bead was truly a cornucopia of wealth.
Suddenly, an explosive sound came from Long Chen’s left.
“We’ve caught a fish!” Long Chen was delighted and immediately shot over.
Wooden stakes flew through the air, forming layers of defense in front of Chu Yao. Before her was a ten-meter man wielding a giant hatchet.
It went without saying that just based on his size, he had to come from the Xuan Beasts. Most likely, upon seeing Chu Yao alone, he had directly launched an attack.
That Xuan Beast expert’s hatchet repeatedly smashed into Chu Yao’s wooden shield. Finally, the wooden shield broke.
The Xuan Beast expert charged through, attacking Chu Yao. His manifestation was at full power and had reached an initial awakening. He was definitely a powerful expert.
However, Chu Yao was also powerful. Each wooden shield she summoned required five blows from him to break. If it was in a one against one, that Xuan Beast expert would never be able to get close to her, and with her immense stores of spiritual yuan, she could exhaust three of him.
This Xuan Beast expert seemed to be very conceited, and he instantly activated his divine item, unleashing a powerful blow.
However, he had just started his attack when a scale-covered hand struck him silently in the face.
Without comprehending what had just happened, he was smashed into the ground, his face caving in.
It went without saying that the Xuan Beasts had powerful physical bodies. Long Chen had landed his slap perfectly, and this expert hadn’t even been circulating his spiritual yuan in defense, but his physical body was still able to endure it. If it was an ordinary human slapped with such power, they would definitely explode.
“Earthen Bramble Thorns!” The Xuan Beast expert was dazed from the slap, and during that moment, Chu Yao activated a powerful attack.
Dense thorns shot out of the ground, piercing the Xuan Beast expert. His body shook before becoming still.
Even if he wanted to move, he couldn’t. The thorns were growing within his body. In the end, his entire body became wooden.
This was the terrifying ability that Chu Yao had gained when her manifestation had started to awaken. Her wooden stakes could cause a person to transform into wood once they were struck, and they couldn’t escape.