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Although she knew that the original devil race had a connection to the nine star heirs, she wasn’t qualified to know those secrets. So she couldn’t comprehend what Long Chen was currently doing.
As the Dragonblood warriors attacked, the clouds grew thicker, and it was like a Magical Beast had been provoked. Heavenly might crashed down from the sky.
Suddenly, blinding lightning flashed amongst the originally dark clouds. It was like a sea of lightning falling from the sky, and it enveloped the Dragonblood Legion.
Within that sea of lightning, the roaring of lightning beasts could be heard.
“Lightning beasts have already appeared in the first wave?!”
The first wave of the tribulation was the weakest and was usually to leave room for people to get used to the lightning.
The strength of the rest of the tribulation could be seen by the first wave. Normally, lightning beasts would only appear at the end.
“Kill!”
The Dragonblood warriors raised their divine items, slaughtering these lightning beasts. The lightning beasts transformed into lightning runes that were absorbed by the Dragonblood warriors.
As they absorbed the lightning, their Dantians began to change. They shrank, and the energy of their Yuan Spirit and Spiritual Strength was absorbed by their Dantians, gradually condensing into a small dot.
That small dot was the embryonic Life Star Bead. As it grew larger, it would become the true Life Star Bead, and then it would fracture into two.
For most cultivators, all they needed to do was take out the Life Star Bead of their past so that they could continue with their Life Star Bead of the future. That would create its own astral space, and they would have advanced to the Life Star realm.
However, Long Chen wanted everyone to merge their Life Star Beads that would fracture them back into one, combining their past and future.
That required a huge amount of tribulation lightning energy, as well as Yuan Spirit energy and Spiritual Strength. Now they didn’t need to worry about the amount of lightning tribulation energy. They crazily absorbed it.
Long Chen was also immersed in the lightning. Lei Long was floating behind him, but it only devoured any fellows that attacked it. Lightning on this level was no longer able to interest it.
Long Chen didn’t attack the tribulation clouds. He was waiting for everyone to absorb enough energy.
He looked at Yue Xiaoqian in the crowd and saw that there were more lightning beasts attacking her. That meant that she really was rejected by the world, and so she was receiving special treatment.
More and more lightning beasts appeared, and they grew larger and more powerful. However, the Dragonblood warriors were still able to easily handle them.
Cloud had taken human form and was also fighting alongside everyone else. She was using a sword and was able to kill the lightning beasts easily, but her movements were stiff. She clearly wasn’t too used to her human form.
However, if she wanted a greater comprehension of the Heavenly Daos, she had to get used to it. It would be greatly beneficial.
That was because humans were the most spiritual of lifeforms. Although the Xuan Beasts possessed terrifying bodies, they weren’t as close to the Heavenly Daos, and those closest to the Heavenly Daos had the highest chances of ascension. So the experts of the Xuan Beasts all had to get used to human forms.
As for the human race, they also had flaws and were extremely envious of the Xuan Beasts’ powerful bodies, thinking them to be the strongest.
However, if the Xuan Beasts really were the strongest, why would they choose to take human form. So foolish people really had different brains than normal people. They were simply incapable of communicating.
Two hours later, the lighting beasts were so powerful that they were comparable to twelfth rank Magical Beasts. The Dragonblood Legion was starting to find it taxing.
However, it wasn’t that they weren’t strong enough to fight them, but that they were distracted by having to condense their Life Star Beads at the same time.
“Lei Long, help them out. I’ll let you have some good food in a bit.”
Long Chen waved his hand, and Lei Long roared. A giant lightning sphere shot out.
Chapter 1937 Merged Life Star Bead
Lei Long roared, unleashing an attack. A giant lightning sphere shot out of its mouth and then exploded in the air. It transformed into lightning swords that slew the lightning beasts.
These lightning beasts were nothing to Lei Long. Because they came from the same source, the divine lightning that Lei Long had absorbed made its thunderforce far stronger than these lightning beasts.
In a competition of power against power, Lei Long was like a tempered blade, while these lightning beasts were like cabbages. There was a qualitative difference between the two of them.
The Dragonblood warriors might be having some trouble with these lightning beasts, but they were easy to handle for Lei Long.
The Dragonblood warriors were delighted by this help. They focused the majority of their attention on merging their two Life Star Beads. Being distracted was troublesome, and this help lifted quite a bit of pressure off of them, so they could now focus on their Life Star Beads.
Lei Long once more roared, and a giant arc of lightning shot out, forming a wave that slaughtered the lightning beasts. They were instantly shattered into lightning runes. That was a shocking sight.
The original devil race’s disciples were stunned by the lightning dragon that Long Chen had summoned. The method that the Dragonblood Legion used to undergo tribulation was shocking.
“It seems my worries were for nothing,” said Yue Xihan.
“You can’t be too sure of that. Long Chen is daring, but when the blood gets to his head, he might not think of certain details. Being careful is still best,” said one of the Elders.
Time passed bit by bit. A willow image appeared amongst the Dragonblood Legion for a moment, but then it vanished.
Liu Ruyan had been using her human form to undergo this tribulation, but for some reason, she had suddenly manifested her true body for a moment before withdrawing it.
“This genius of the Undying Willow race has broken through,” said Yue Xihan, looking at Liu Ruyan.
“The Undying Willow is a very strong race. I didn’t expect them to actually appear on the Martial Heaven Continent and join the Dragonblood Legion,” said one of the Elders.
“This is Long Chen’s charisma. He’s able to make his followers follow him unto death. Their devotion is so great that it even looks a bit foolish, but this is the human heart. He is willing to risk his life for others, so others will risk their lives for him. That’s why the Dragonblood Legion’s power, unity, and fearlessness have resounded throughout the Martial Heaven Continent. Even his enemies have no choice but to admit that the Dragonblood Legion is the continent’s number one legion. The only inexplicable thing is the legend about the nine star heirs. They are supposed to be aloof, lonely figures who go against the world on their own. If Long Chen didn’t possess the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, I’d suspect that he wasn’t a nine star heir,” said Yue Xihan. Long Chen’s existence didn’t quite match the records written by her race.
Rumbling rang out and the world suddenly became multicolored.
“It’s the five-colored tribulation lightning!” exclaimed an Elder.
“Troublesome. The Dragonblood Legion has yet to fully merge their two Life Star Beads,” said a worried Elder.
“It’s still fine. Long Chen’s expression is still calm. He probably came prepared,” said Yue Xihan.
The five-colored tribulation lightning crashed down like a flood. One after another giant lightning beasts came down, each larger than a mountain. They charged out of the five-colored lightning and at the Dragonblood Legion.
These lightning beasts condensed of five-colored lightning were incredibly powerful. Just their roars caused people’s souls to shake.
They possessed immense heavenly migh
t, which was the will of the Heavenly Daos, making it so others wouldn’t even dare to resist. Even the Netherpassage experts were feeling fear now. This kind of terrifying heavenly tribulation was something that they didn’t want to touch.
They had originally come to prepare a grand formation that could unite their force, so that if something unexpected happened to Long Chen and the others, they could transport them back to the Skyscraping World. That way, the lightning tribulation of the Martial Heaven Continent would vanish. This was a way of tricking the heavens.
However, if they wanted to do this, they would have to wait until the Dragonblood warriors finished merging their Life Star Beads, or they would never be able to advance to Life Star.
The Dragonblood warriors were at a critical moment, but now this five-colored lightning came crashing down on them. That had surpassed the limits of what the original devil race could possibly control. If they tried to interfere, their lives would be in danger.
The only thing that gave them the slightest bit of comfort was that Long Chen wasn’t panicking at all as he was immersed in the five-colored lightning. He allowed it to wash over him, drinking it in. As for the Dragonblood warriors, they actually didn’t show any fear in the face of this heavenly might. They were completely focused on merging their Life Star Beads.
This heavenly might didn’t give them much pressure. They had been going against this kind of heavenly might since they had known Long Chen, and they already possessed a certain resistance to it. This allowed the Dragonblood warriors to continuously maintain their calm.
Lei Long suddenly roared, transforming into a giant. Shockingly, this giant was an image of Long Chen.
“This is…” The original devil race’s experts’ pupils shrank.
This lightning giant version of Long Chen stabbed a spear through the air, tearing through the void. A five-colored lightning beast was instantly pierced through.
However, the lightning spear didn’t stop at all. It continued, killing all the lightning beasts in its path.
“Nice, Lei Long.” Long Chen smiled. Lei Long had a lightning spear in hand and giant lightning wings on its back. That was Long Chen’s peak combat state.
In the lightning field, Long Chen had made Lei Long learn the Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings and the Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear, as well as told it to teach him once it mastered those techniques.
In truth, Lei Long was able to display these lightning paragon arts on its own. However, without Long Chen’s cooperation, it couldn’t connect to the lightning field, causing their power to sharply drop.
However, now Lei Long was using the power of divine lightning against these five-colored lightning beasts. These five-colored lightning beasts were fundamentally unable to block it.
Just as Long Chen was praising Lei Long, a small flame dragon flew around Long Chen’s neck and rubbed Long Chen’s cheek.
“Haha, you’re also amazing. You’re both amazing.” Long Chen rubbed Huo Long with his hand, comforting this jealous little fellow.
Huo Long was also powerful, but Long Chen only had alchemy arts in his Pill Sovereign memories. His flame control arts were all for refining pills, not fighting with flames.
He had to admit that when it came to fighting with flames, he was slightly inferior to Huo Lieyun. It seemed that he would need to learn more flame arts in the future. After all, the heir of a Pill Sovereign couldn’t be lacking such skills.
Huo Long was like a spoiled child curling around Long Chen’s neck to show its own existence.
Long Chen comforted Huo Long as he watched Lei Long fight. The giant that Lei Long had transformed into was slaughtering the five-colored lightning beasts. They were transforming into runes that the Dragonblood Legion was absorbing.
“Boss is mighty, Lei Long is domineering!”
The Dragonblood warriors cheered. The five-colored lightning runes were many times purer than the previous runes. They could now focus on absorbing the energy of this lightning to merge their two Life Star Beads. The five-colored lightning runes were rapidly speeding up this process.
“That lightning dragon actually possesses divine power. It’s inconceivable,” said Yue Xihan, looking at the lightning giant.
Perhaps others weren’t able to sense it, but she was clearly able to sense a divine attribute to it. Although it was very weak, she couldn’t be wrong.
“Hahaha… I’m the first!” Gu Yang let out a heaven-shaking roar. He hadn’t managed to win any face against the Devil Blood Pool, but now he was first to break through. He had to take back his first place spot. After all, he was the Dragonblood Legion’s first captain.
“You’re second.” Liu Ruyan glanced indifferently at Gu Yang.
“I… fuck!”
Only then did Gu Yang notice that Liu Ruyan had completed her advancement. Her hands were now on Chu Yao’s back, and she was helping her merge her Life Star Beads.
“If big sister Meng Qi didn’t lend a portion of her Spiritual Strength to you, let alone being first, you might not even be able to merge them.” Liu Ruyan shook her head.
Gu Yang’s Spiritual Strength was extremely weak, and although it had grown stronger upon reaching the Soul Transformation realm and condensing a Yuan Spirit, he was still at the bottom of the Dragonblood Legion. He was even worse than Guo Ran.
It was Meng Qi who lent her Spiritual Strength to Gu Yang so that he would have enough Spiritual Strength to merge his two Life Star Beads.
“Cough, if you always talk like this, you won’t have any friends in the future.” Gu Yang’s face was a bit red as he awkwardly rubbed his head. Liu Ruyan really wasn’t giving him any face.
Liu Ruyan didn’t pay him any more attention and focused on helping Chu Yao. Other than Chu Yao, Liu Ruyan didn’t like talking to others. Everyone was already used to it.
“Well, I can’t help anyone, so I’ll go kill those lightning beasts.” Feeling like he had lost face, Gu Yang hastily found an excuse to get out of this awkward position.
Lei Long was easily slaying the lightning beasts, however, when Gu Yang joined in, he had some difficulty. Even going all out, it took over ten blows to kill one.
“What the, how are they so strong?” Gu Yang was startled. Without the power of divine lightning, he had no innate advantage over these lightning beasts.
Following Gu Yang, Meng Qi also finished the merger. Although she had lent some of her Spiritual Strength, she had so much that she was able to finish very quickly.
Following which, Yue Zifeng, Yue Xiaoqian, Tang Wan-er, and the others also finished and joined the battle.
“Boss, I feel like I…” Guo Ran sent a message to Long Chen. He clearly couldn’t last much longer.
“Stop finding excuses. If you need someone else to help you, your previous display at the Devil Blood Pool would be a lie,” replied Long Chen.
“Alright, I’ll persevere.”
Thinking of how glorious he had been at that time, he couldn’t get himself exposed now. Clenching his teeth, Guo Ran continued with the merger of his Life Star Beads.
More and more Dragonblood warriors managed to finish and join the battle. Hence, Yue Xihan and the others felt a weight fall from their minds. At this time, the Dragonblood warriors were absorbing the energy of the five-colored lightning to expand their astral spaces and make them stronger. This was the best time to condense strong astral spaces.
However, Long Chen’s next words astonished them.
“Everyone, stop absorbing the tribulation lightning’s energy, and definitely don’t condense your astral space yet. Wait for everyone to finish the merger. Then we’ll proceed with the next step!”
Chapter 1938 Divine Lightning Energy
After merging the Life Star Beads, the astral space would naturally appear. This astral space could be likened to an embryonic minor world.
Condensing an astral space also indicated that you had advanced to the Life Star realm. At this time, they needed to absorb as much thunderfor
ce to strengthen their astral spaces. The more thunderforce they could absorb, the larger their astral spaces, and the more world energy they could produce in the future.
Moreover, the five-colored lightning was an extremely powerful tribulation. This kind of lightning was something that not even every Netherpassage expert faced.
This kind of powerful lightning would cause one’s astral space to become much larger. It was several times more effective than regular lightning.
It would usually only appear in a Netherpassage expert’s tribulation. It was very rarely seen in the Life Star realm.
The original devil race’s experts had come to the conclusion that Long Chen had ordered the attacks against the heavenly tribulation specifically for this five-colored lightning. Just as they were feeling praise for his foresight, Long Chen’s shout left them dumbfounded. He actually didn’t want people to absorb this five-colored lightning?
“Boss, I really can’t do it. Please lend me some Spiritual Strength. I feel like my head is going to split open. Look, big sister Meng Qi helped Gu Yang, so how can you let me lose face?” pleaded Guo Ran.
Long Chen was speechless. Although Guo Ran’s Spiritual Strength wasn’t special, it wasn’t so terrible. He definitely had the power to pass on his own. However, his willpower was too weak. He felt like he was out of energy, when in truth, he had at least forty percent of his Spiritual Strength that was still untapped.
His laziness resulted in him not excavating his own potential. However, Guo Ran had never been a person with great willpower. Or perhaps it should be said that his willpower was never used on cultivation.
Helplessly, Long Chen stealthily gave Guo Ran a bit of Spiritual Strength. He even had to make it so that the others couldn’t sense it.
In the whole Dragonblood Legion, less than a hundred people had yet to finish their merger. They were all in the final stages though, so Long Chen had no choice but to help Guo Ran.
Guo Ran’s body suddenly lit up, and his aura changed. That was a sign of finishing the merger. After the merger was complete, he seemed to become another person, no longer looking as pitiful as before. Looking at the warriors that had yet to finish, he called out, “Brothers, are you alright? To wait for you, I suppressed myself as much as I could, but I couldn’t hold it any longer. Work hard. Success is just a little bit away. Remember, we’re the strongest warriors of the Martial Heaven Continent, and nothing can stop us…”
