Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Fuck, no way! I just started being a good person, and I’m getting hunted down for it? I was able to get around when it was just me, but as soon as I go with you, I end up like this!” cursed Mo Nian.
He thought about how free he had been by himself. Now that he was fighting for the Martial Heaven Alliance, the Martial Heaven Alliance actually couldn’t protect him.
Long Chen smiled. “Don’t be resentful. As my brother, if I don’t con you, who else am I going to con?”
“Ah, that’s true.” Hearing this, the curious thing was that Mo Nian actually smiled. “But there’s one thing I don’t understand. Why aren’t you angry?”
“Why would I be angry? I’m grateful for what I have. I’m a disciple of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Without the Xuantian Dao Sect, I wouldn’t have my current achievements. The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect is also my sect, and without the old man’s care, I might have long since died. Qu Jianying is the old man’s partner, and she cares so much about me she is willing to become enemies with the various powers of the world. In truth, although this war had been brewing for a long time thanks to certain people’s schemes, if it weren’t for me, senior Qu Jianying wouldn’t be forced into such a passive position. As men, if we dare to cause trouble, we have to accept the consequences. We can’t retreat from this, nor can we blame god or others-” said Long Chen righteously.
“Stop, stop! If you keep talking, I’ll look like a petty little person who forgets favors in comparison. I admit that you’re right, okay?” Mo Nian waved his hand in front of Long Chen. In terms of eloquence, he couldn’t compare to Long Chen. His conning ability was truly spectacular.
Suddenly, Cloud’s body turned. Everyone shook, almost falling.
“It’s as you said, Long Chen. There are experts trying to block us. I had Cloud avoid them,” said Meng Qi who was standing atop Cloud’s head, her expression grave.
“What level are they?” asked Mo Nian.
“I’m not sure. As soon as I sensed them, I had Cloud avoid them.”
“Without thinking about it, since they were sent to stop us, they have to be Netherpassage experts,” said Long Chen.
Suddenly, Cloud began turning rapidly through the air. Meng Qi’s expression changed.
“Not good. The path ahead has been fully blocked. There’s three people ahead, and we have to charge past one of them.”
“You pick one,” said Long Chen.
“Curious. How did they know where we’d run?” asked Mo Nian.
“You’re underestimating Heavenly Fate Island too much. For their island master to even personally come out, even if we have divine items protecting us, they should still be able to read some slight clues. If they didn’t have that little bit of power, Heavenly Fate Island wouldn’t have achieved their current position with just scams,” said Long Chen. “Zhiqiu, Mo Nian, Zifeng, come to the front. Prepare your attacks. Whether or not we can charge past is dependent on this strike.”
Although Chu Yao, Liu Ruyan, and the others were also very powerful, they weren’t sharp enough. If too many people attacked at once, the Heavenly Dao energy in the surrounding space would become sparse.
Long Chen and Yue Zifeng weren’t Empyreans, and just Ye Zhiqiu and Mo Nian were enough. Any more and it would affect their attack power.
“Cloud, slow down and prepare yourself.”
Long Chen took a deep breath. He raised his hand, and a black flame lotus began to condense in his hand. Following that, sacred chanting began to resound through the air.
The entire world felt like it had been ignited. Endless flame energy gathered into the flame lotus.
The flame lotus had nine petals, and each petal had a black sphere form at the top. As more flame energy was absorbed, runes began to light up along the petals, sending the flame energy to the spheres at the top of the petals.
A terrifying aura slowly rose, growing stronger and stronger. The flame lotus also grew until it was gigantic.
“World Annihilation Flame Lotus!”
Long Chen suddenly flung the flame lotus through the air.
Once he threw it out, Cloud sped up to follow it. The two of them charged through the air.
Sacred chanting continued to resound through the air, and the flame lotus only grew larger.
Just a moment later, they saw a giant net of twisting black and white energy. At the center of the net was an elder sitting in meditation.
He had actually used his life and death energy to lock this space down. There were also Netherpassage experts to his distant left and right to make sure that no one could get past.
When he sensed the flame lotus, the elder’s eyes popped open. With a snort, a blade appeared in his hand. Divine light flashed.
BOOM!
The nine black spheres on the top of the lotus exploded. A terrifying explosion erupted.
The elder’s arm shook. He was surprised that this flame lotus possessed such explosive power. He was actually knocked back a few steps, and the net behind him trembled.
At the same time, Long Chen, Ye Zhiqiu, Mo Nian, and Yue Zifeng attacked. Two rays of Sword Qi, a saber-image, and an arrow shot out.
“Not good!” This strike was perfectly timed with the flame lotus. Hence, the elder had no chance to recollect himself. His blade rumbled and divine runes flew out.
BOOM!
His hasty block didn’t even have half his true power. He was knocked back, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. It had to be known that this combined strike from Long Chen, Mo Nian, Ye Zhiqiu, and Yue Zifeng was something that even a Netherpassage expert couldn’t take lightly, let alone receive with just half their power.
However, a Netherpassage expert was still powerful. Although he had been injured, the net behind him didn’t break.
“Cloud!” shouted Long Chen.
Runes suddenly appeared in Cloud’s eyes. Two rays of light shot out, striking his net.
“Hmph, you think you can break my domain?! Keep dreaming!” The elder was shocked and enraged. To be injured by Soul Transformation disciples was an insult.
Although this injury was nothing to him, it still infuriated him. Seeing Cloud attack his net, which was a condensation of his life and death domain, he snorted. His blade slashed down.
However, unexpectedly, when Cloud’s attack landed, it formed a ripple that spread to form a giant black hole. Cloud’s body entered the ripple and then vanished.
The elder’s blade landed on thin air. His life and death domain was still present, but Long Chen and the others had already vanished.
“But… how is that possible?” The elder was dumbfounded. He suddenly thought of a kind of divine ability that the Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow possessed that could ignore spatial bindings: the Heaven Swallowing Voidbreaker.
However, the Heaven Swallowing Voidbreaker divine ability could only be used by descendants that possessed extremely pure bloodlines. Furthermore, they had to have advanced to the eleventh rank first. These two requirements were a must, and yet Cloud had done it at just the tenth rank.
“Damnit, they got away.”
At this moment, the two other Netherpassage experts rushed over. The plan had been for the three of them to cooperate. Together, Long Chen and the others stood no chance.
However, this flawless plan had actually met with failure. Looking at the direction Long Chen had gone, they didn’t know what to do.
“Do we chase?”
“That’s no good. The Cloud Chasing Heaven Swallowing Sparrow’s speed is number one in the world. Even the Golden Peng race has to concede defeat in that regard, so there’s no way we can catch up. Hurry and report what happened here. Have the higher-ups think of something,” said the injured Netherpassage expert. Sighing, he had no choice but to admit that he had been too careless.
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“Hahaha, success!” Mo Nian laughed. The others sighed, relaxing.
“Long Chen, what is it?” Meng Qi saw that Long Chen wasn’t smiling.
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p; “I keep feeling like something’s wrong.” Long Chen shook his head. Li Tianxuan had told him that no one could calculate anything about him. If others were with him, their fates were linked with his, so Heavenly Fate Island shouldn’t be able to calculate anything about Mo Nian or Ye Zhiqiu either. Therefore, they shouldn’t be able to track their location and direction so easily.
“Fuck, what is this?! Long Chen, you’ve all been expelled from the Martial Heaven Alliance!” Mo Nian suddenly took out a jade plate on his waist.
“Yes, I know. I discussed it with the Xuan Master before leaving. This is the only way to resolve the current crisis.” Long Chen nodded.
“What the fuck? Haven’t you become everyone’s target then?!” Mo Nian was speechless.
“I’m used to it. We would have left the Xuantian Dao Sect and the Martial Heaven Alliance sooner or later. Leaving now or later makes no difference,” said Long Chen. “Meng Qi, help me examine everyone spiritually. See if anyone left a spiritual mark on us.”
However, even after a couple of hours, Meng Qi shook her head. She hadn’t found anything odd, making Long Chen frown. This kind of result meant that they either weren’t tracking them this way, or whoever had done it was at such a supreme level that even Meng Qi’s Spiritual Strength was unable to expose them.
After hours of flight, Cloud had already crossed the Eastern Xuan Region and reached the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring. Cloud’s speed was truly amazing.
BOOM!
Suddenly, the seawater exploded. A giant sea demon charged out, trying to bite Cloud.
Chapter 1925 The Terrifying Azure Dragon Reverse Scale
It was actually a shocking twelfth rank sea demon. It had a pair of wings and suddenly flew out of the sea. This strange sea demon’s mouth was exceptionally large and filled with sharp teeth.
However, it had just flown out when Cloud opened its mouth, and a black light-sword pierced through its head. It was killed in one blow.
Cloud had refined the Blue Eye Peacock’s essence blood, and her divine abilities only grew stronger, to the point where she could one-shot a twelfth rank Magical Beast.
Of course, sea demons were not Magical Beasts. Sea demons without any special bloodline only had average power. Compared to twelfth rank Magical Beasts on the land, they were quite a bit weaker.
Long Chen waved his hand, collecting the sea demon’s corpse and tossing it into the black soil of the primal chaos space.
The corpse was rapidly consumed, and life energy spread throughout the primal chaos space. The Yin Yang Immortal Grass at the border between the black soil and the yellow soil finally showed some faint signs of recovery.
Right now, for him to use the seventh form of Split the Heavens required using the power of the Yin Yang Immortal Grass to bear the impact. The Yin Yang Immortal Grass had helped him out immensely during the previous battle.
It had withered in the last fight, and it only recovered the slightest bit from the corpse of a twelfth rank sea demon. There was still quite a distance before it was fully recovered.
“Not good. We’ve been surrounded.” Meng Qi’s expression suddenly changed.
“What happened?” asked Long Chen.
“Perhaps you’re right, and someone did mark us. There are experts gathering from every direction. There’s no way we can escape,” said Meng Qi. If there was no mark on them, then there was no way they could so accurately track their position.
There were over twenty Netherpassage experts that had formed an arc ahead of them, completely blocking their path. Wanting to avoid them, Meng Qi had then sensed over ten powerful auras blocking them off at the rear.
Every single one of their movements was clearly within the control of their opponents. Long Chen’s guess was correct, but unfortunately, Meng Qi’s power was limited, and she couldn’t find just what mark had been placed on them.
“Mo Nian, Zhiqiu, it’s going to be hard on you. Help me stall them.” Long Chen suddenly jumped into the sea.
Upon jumping into the sea, he immediately saw a Tiger Wing White Shark, a tenth rank sea demon.
His Spiritual Strength stretched out, and he instantly took control of it. He made it swallow him and then swim into the distance.
The Tiger Wing White Shark was extremely quick in the water. It quickly shot through the water, and not a moment too soon. The seawater behind him suddenly trembled intensely, and a wall of runes sealed that space.
Long Chen had managed to leave in time. Any later and he would have been trapped.
“Hurry, hurry!” Long Chen urged the Tiger Wing White Shark to swim at its highest speed. At the same time, he closed his eyes and tried to sense something.
As he shot through the water, the feeling he was trying to sense grew stronger. Very quickly, he saw ripples appear in the water before him. A giant dragon scale was floating at the depths of the sea.
The Tiger Wing White Shark didn’t dare to get anywhere near that scale. It struggled, actually fighting against Long Chen’s control. Its fear toward the dragon scale was making it break out of his control.
Long Chen released the Tiger Wing White Shark, and it immediately fled for its life. Long Chen could only swim over with his own power.
Once he got closer to the white scale, he felt its terror. This scale was like a sealed volcano. Once it erupted, it could destroy the world.
“Are you really planning on taking it? That’s a true dragon’s reverse scale. True dragons are supreme existences amongst the dragon race. Your chances of succeeding with your current power are less than a tenth, and if you fail, you will instantly be blown to bits,” said Evilmoon.
“There’s no other choice. You’re sealed by the Sovereign seal and can only use your power through me. Due to my cultivation base, you can’t unleash your full power. To save my brothers… this is the only way.”
Long Chen looked at the dragon scale that was just floating there motionlessly. Without hesitation, he reached out to touch it.
His clothes instantly blew apart, and an irresistible pressure crashed down on him. Cracks spread throughout his entire body, and he almost exploded.
“Long Chen, give up. This is just the first wave. There’s no way you can succeed!” shouted Evilmoon.
“No, I will succeed. There is no other way.”
Long Chen took a deep breath. With a glint of determination in his eyes, he placed his other hand on the dragon scale as well.
Long Chen’s flesh exploded. Other than his head, his entire body was nothing more than a skeleton.
“Long Chen…!” Evilmoon was shocked. This dragon scale was even more terrifying than it had expected. Based on this, Long Chen had no chance of subduing it.
Right now, Long Chen was just trying to form a connection with the dragon scale. He hadn’t even activated its will yet, but he was already on the verge of collapse.
To subdue a true dragon’s reverse scale required using your own will and fully releasing the true dragon’s will. Forcing things like this was simply suicide.
“Break!”
Long Chen roared, and the dragon scale suddenly began to blaze with light. A sacred dragon pressure erupted.
Cracks covered Long Chen’s skeleton. It looked like he would explode at any moment.
“It’s over. Long Chen’s definitely dead.” Evilmoon sighed. Just how was a Soul Transformation disciple supposed to endure this kind of power?
As the dragon pressure grew stronger, the seafloor cracked and the world shuddered.
“Just what dragon did this scale come from?! How can it be so terrifying?!” As the pressure grew greater, Evilmoon became increasingly shocked.
Azure dragons were what adult true dragons were called. As for green dragons, they were babies. The difference between the two was like a heavenly chasm.
The green dragon’s reverse scale fell off naturally, but the azure dragon reverse scale would only molt when the azure dragon went through its tribulation and ascended to a higher level.
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bsp; This dragon scale contained the dragon’s will to contend against the Heavenly Daos. It wouldn’t even submit to the Heavenly Daos, so what could possibly make it submit?
However, Long Chen refused to believe this reality, wanting to use his own will to suppress the azure dragon’s will.
The current Long Chen had no idea what was happening around him. In his mental world, heaven and earth were crumbling. A giant azure dragon coiled through collapsing space, while Long Chen was floating in the air, looking at it. He had to win.
The azure dragon in his mind let out a roar, and Long Chen’s felt like his soul was about to shatter. He knew he was on the verge of death.
“Submit!”
Long Chen also roared. He wasn’t aware of this, but at that moment, his skeleton had already shattered. He was left with just his head.
“Submit!”
“Submit!”
“Submit!”
In Long Chen’s mental realm, his roar resounded through the air. He was clashing with that supreme dragon might. As he roared, the stars in the sky of his mental world shook, as if each one was resonating with his words.
Suddenly, the dragon in his mind vanished. Long Chen’s head floated in front of the scale, his eyes closed.
The dragon scale slowly floated toward Long Chen’s head. Divine light flowed out of it, and the dragon scale actually began to crumble, with sand-like particles falling off of it and merged into Long Chen’s head. His skeleton slowly grew back out.
“It’s rebuilding his skeleton?” Evilmoon let out a startled cry. The azure dragon reverse scale was the most precious part of the azure dragon. For Long Chen to be using it to rebuild his skeleton, he would truly be transformed afterward.
Evilmoon didn’t know what had happened. The azure dragon reverse scale was simply disintegrating and merging into Long Chen’s body, rebuilding it. His new skeleton was white as jade and sparkled brightly. It possessed a terrifying pressure.
When his skeleton was fully rebuilt, the final grain of the dragon scale was used up. However, as the dragon scale vanished, it was replaced with a fist-sized drop of blood.