Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  As Guo Ran shamelessly cheered on the warriors that had yet to finish, Long Chen sighed inside. However, very quickly, the final Dragonblood warrior finished the merger

  “Xiaoqian, attack the tribulation clouds,” said Long Chen.

  “Me?” Yue Xiaoqian jumped in shock. She was from the original devil race, and the Heavenly Daos of the Martial Heaven Continent rejected her. She was already getting special attention from this tribulation. If she attacked it, the consequences were unimaginable.

  “That’s right. Go ahead, I’m here if you need me,” said Long Chen with a smile.

  Yue Xiaoqian suddenly thought of when she had undergone tribulation in the Immemorial Path. Back then, because of four mysterious experts interfering, she had almost died during her tribulation. She had barely passed, and in his fury, Long Chen had attacked the lightning tribulation, enraging the heavens and even forcing those four mysterious experts to flee.

  At that time, the heavens had chained Long Chen and bound him, however, he had torn apart the very fabric of the heavens. That was the moment Yue Xiaoqian’s heart was completely won by Long Chen.

  Seeing his smile, Yue Xiaoqian also smiled. As long as Long Chen was present, there was nothing to fear.

  Her devil seal appeared on her forehead. After that, a ray of Sword Qi shot out at the heavens, accompanied by the specific energy of the original devil race.

  The tribulation clouds were torn apart by Yue Xiaoqian’s attack. After seeing that, the expressions of Yue Xihan and the rest of the original devil race completely changed.

  The original devil race’s experts were different from the Dragonblood warriors. They were rejected by the Heavenly Daos.

  As expected, the heavens went calm for a moment, and the five-colored lightning slowly faded away. The tribulation clouds began to quietly brew. In the end, giant black lotus flower clouds began to bloom, forming dense layers in the sky. At the center of each lotus was flickering lightning.

  A terrifying pressure grew. Yue Xihan and the others let out startled cries.

  “Divine lightning!”

  The lightning contained in these lotus flowers actually contained divine pressure. Even Netherpassage experts felt fear.

  This wasn’t a matter of having the guts to face it as this was a spiritual suppression. Divine lightning was for ascending experts. In front of this divine might, it was impossible not to feel fear.

  “The sacred daughter….”

  The Netherpassage experts turned pale white. Yue Xiaoqian was the hope of the original devil race. If she died, what would happen?

  At this time, Yue Xihan calmed down surprisingly. The fate of the original devil race was already intricately linked to Long Chen. Thinking of how smoothly things had gone until now, she felt it was a bit laughable to be so worried. She had already made her choice. She would leave everything to Long Chen.

  Suddenly, the lotus flowers exploded, and lightning rained down like sharp swords.

  The Dragonblood warriors’ bodies were blown apart, their flesh becoming a mangled mess. Even the Dragon Blood Battle Armor was unable to block this. Each drop of lightning was like a bomb.

  Lei Long returned to its dragon form, wanting to devour this lightning. This was something that it really wanted.

  “Lei Long, go eat to the side. Leave the middle to the others!” called out Long Chen. Although Lei Long didn’t like it, it went to the edges to devour the leftover lightning. The center was for the Dragonblood Legion.

  “Don’t worry, now isn’t the time for your meal. Let others eat first,” comforted Long Chen. To everyone else, he shouted, “This lightning contains divine energy, so protect your heads. Use it to nourish your astral spaces.”

  Each drop of divine lightning was like a bomb, causing their flesh to explode. If it was someone else, a single drop would be enough to kill them.

  Despite how much physical damage the lightning was doing, it would always transform into incomparably pure lightning energy after striking their bodies. Even without having to do anything, their bodies’ astral spaces would automatically absorb it.

  If they actually focused on absorbing it, then the energy of this divine lightning would surge toward them like a flood, filling their astral spaces and making them grow.

  “One meter.”

  “Three meters…”

  “Ten meters…”

  The astral spaces were like tiny worlds, while they were the masters of those worlds. They could clearly sense some kind of energy form a connection with them from this world.

  As their astral spaces grew, that energy grew stronger. Although they were still unable to use that energy, they could sense that they were rapidly growing stronger. The larger their astral spaces, the stronger they grew.

  “I want to get stronger!”

  Gu Yang suddenly roared and spread his arms as if to embrace this world. He allowed the torrent of lightning to fall on him as he crazily absorbed the divine lightning.

  “Be careful!” Long Chen suddenly shouted and flicked a finger. A lightning arrow shot out, knocking aside a drop of the divine lightning that was about to strike Gu Yang’s head. “Fool, make sure to protect your vitals. Otherwise, you might die!”

  Due to his excitement, Gu Yang had forgotten just how dangerous this divine lightning was. If this divine lightning shattered his skull, it might cause his Yuan Spirit to dissipate.

  “My bad, boss.” Gu Yang blushed and properly protected his head.

  The majority of the Dragonblood warriors were able to endure this torrent of lightning. However, the healing experts were in a miserable state. They were wood cultivators, and despite also possessing the Dragon Blood Battle Armor, their physical bodies were too weak. Each drop blasted bloody holes in their bodies. If three drops landed at the same time, they would be in danger of dying.

  They were carefully blocking with their wooden staves, doing their best to make sure the lightning landed on them one drop at a time. Fortunately, their recovery abilities were amazing.

  “Guo Ran, are you trying to get your armor destroyed?” shouted Long Chen at Guo Ran, who had tried stealthily putting on his armor.

  Feeling like he was at his limit, he had summoned his armor to cheat, but as a result, two large holes appeared in his armor in an instant.

  “But…”

  “What buts? As long as I’m present, you won’t die, so hurry up and absorb the lightning!” ordered Long Chen.

  Guo Ran felt helpless. Not even his armor could save him now. Each drop of the lightning was covering him in blood, breaking his bones. However, he actually acted tough and didn’t make a sound.

  His previous attempt at showing off had ended up going so well that he wanted to prove to everyone that he had only been acting cowardly before. If he became weak now, it would indicate that he was actually cowardly, not acting.

  Time passed slowly. Long Chen stood in the sky. If anyone was in danger, he would immediately go save them.

  Long Chen didn’t mind the lightning that struck his body. It was barely an itch. After being rebuilt by the azure dragon essence blood, Long Chen’s body had reached an unimaginable level.

  Finally, after two hours had passed, the healing warriors were no longer able to endure. Coughing up blood, they had reached their limit.

  Chapter 1939 Treating Friends to a Feast

  Long Chen suddenly flew over to the healing warriors. A lightning spear appeared in his hand, and with a wave, he blew apart the lighting rain, turning it into lightning mist.

  “Boss!”

  “I’ll block the lightning rain for you, so absorb as much of the lightning mist as you can. This relates to your foundation in the future,” said Long Chen.

  A person’s astral space could continuously grow during this tribulation. But once the lightning tribulation vanished, their astral spaces would solidify.

  Their future advancements would increase the sizes of their astral spaces based on the size after the tribulation. Based on norma
l cultivation standards, each Heavenstage of the Life Star realm would increase the size of the astral space by thirty percent.

  If a person’s astral space was thirty miles wide after breaking through, it would be almost forty after advancing to the first Heavenstage. At the second Heavenstage, it would once more grow by thirty percent.

  That was why the initial size of the astral space would decide how large it could grow in the future. This would greatly affect their power. This was their chance to get as strong as possible.

  “Don’t worry, I’ll protect you!” Guo Ran immediately came over, saying that he was helping when he was trying to escape his predicament.

  Long Chen couldn’t be bothered anymore with this shameless fellow. What was to be feared was not someone who was willing to throw their life away, but someone who was shameless. Guo Ran was already unrivaled in that regard.

  Using the physical body to endure the lightning tribulation was a way to temper the will. As for using divine lightning, just how rare was that opportunity? But Guo Ran didn’t cherish it in the slightest. However, Long Chen supposed that everyone had their own path.

  “If anyone else is unable to endure it, you can come over,” announced Long Chen. He needed to help the healing warriors right now and could no longer be looking after them.

  Fortunately, not everyone was like Guo Ran. They knew that this was an opportunity, a stroke of good fortune, a chance to get stronger.

  This opportunity was something that Long Chen had created for them. From the Eastern Wasteland, Long Chen had started training them, and the effects of the heavenly tribulation could not be neglected. They cherished this opportunity.

  They clenched their teeth and bitterly endured. They absorbed the divine lightning and used it to cleanse their bodies of impurities.

  Seeing the Dragonblood warriors enduring through this divine lightning, one of the original devil race’s experts sighed, “Who knows how difficult it was for the Dragonblood Legion to become the number one legion of the Martial Heaven Continent? They had to have experienced something like this more than once. Their accomplishments are no coincidence. These children are truly ruthless.”

  “Being ruthless to oneself is better than being consumed by others. If you want to live with dignity, you have to pay more than others,” said Yue Xihan.

  “I wonder how large the astral space of the sacred daughter will become?”

  “There’s no way to say. However, being expanded by divine lightning will definitely make it larger than ours.” Yue Xihan smiled. Yue Xiaoqian was her daughter and her pride, as well as the hope of the original devil race.

  Yue Xiaoqian was standing at the front, enduring the most divine lightning. She was covered in blood, but there was a determined light in her eyes. Yue Xihan smiled proudly as well as sorrowfully. If this was a peaceful world, Yue Xiaoqian would still be an innocent child living a carefree life.

  However, this world was not peaceful. The original devil race in particular was in a very precarious position. They might be destroyed at any moment. When Yue Xiaoqian was young, she was very obedient and worked hard on her cultivation.

  Behind her growth and maturity was the fact that she had taken up a heavy burden at a young age. Yue Xihan felt sorry for her.

  Eventually, the tribulation clouds began to shudder and Yue Xihan sighed with relief. That indicated that the tribulation was coming to an end.

  “Xiaoqian, attack the tribulation again,” said Long Chen.

  Yue Xiaoqian didn’t hesitate. A streak of Sword Qi tore through the sky.

  Suddenly, the clouds tore open, and a giant thunderbolt crashed down from that tear at Yue Xiaoqian.

  Yue Xiaoqian’s hair stood on end as a sensation of death enveloped her.

  BOOM!

  A lightning spear struck the giant thunderbolt, filling the air with blinding light.

  Long Chen now held a lightning spear, and after shattering the thunderbolt, lightning runes fell amongst the Dragonblood warriors. The Dragonblood warriors were delighted to find that these lightning runes were ten times larger than the previous ones and many times purer.

  “Boss, this is amazing!” Absorbing these lightning runes, they felt their astral spaces rapidly growing. They practically doubled in size.

  Their delight dumbfounded Yue Xihan and the others. Were they actually forcing the heavenly tribulation to stay behind? They had never seen such brazenness.

  The void continued to tear apart, and the lightning transformed into giant spears that pierced down upon the Dragonblood Legion.

  Long Chen stood in the air, with a lightning spear and lightning wings, breaking apart the rain of lightning.

  “The azure dragon power is truly amazing. It was worth risking my life for it.” Long Chen was experiencing the immense power of the azure dragon. The same paragon arts were now even more terrifying with it.

  All of Lei Long’s energy was concentrated within the spear and wings. As Lei Long absorbed more thunderforce, its power also grew.

  The Dragonblood warriors down below were crazy with joy as they absorbed the lightning runes. This was a completely safe, quick, and painless way of getting stronger.

  “Being with boss is a fucking blessing.” Gu Yang felt like he might cry from joy. The feeling of his strength rapidly growing like this was amazing.

  Their astral spaces were growing rapidly as they absorbed the lightning runes. The most excited one was Yue Xiaoqian. There had been a shadow left in her heart from almost dying during her tribulation in the Immemorial Path. However, she had now attacked the lightning tribulation repeatedly and didn’t need to fear it.

  This was another reason why Long Chen had made her attack the tribulation. It was for her to overcome this heart-devil.

  The lightning spears raining down from the sky were like the fury of the heavens, causing the world to shake. However, Long Chen had his own lightning spear that blocked all of them.

  Suddenly, one of the healing warriors coughed up a mouthful of blood. Cracks appeared all over her body in a horrifying fashion. She herself was also startled, not knowing what was going on.

  “You’ve reached your limit. Go rest, and don’t absorb any more thunderforce,” warned Long Chen.

  In the end, people had limits, and she had reached hers. In the next incense stick’s worth of time, more and more Dragonblood warriors reached their limit. Some who still wanted to absorb more were shouted away by Long Chen.

  A limit was a limit. Any more and their bodies would explode.

  More and more Dragonblood warriors were forced to retreat. In the end, only the strongest experts were left.

  Meng Qi reached her limit first amongst the top experts. That was already a miracle. As a Beast Tamer, she hadn’t expected to be able to last this long.

  Others also reached their limit right after her. The one to last the longest was Liu Ruyan, but she also reached a limit. This tribulation had been a stunning success.

  The fury of the heavens was gradually fading. However, just at that moment, Long Chen suddenly soared into the clouds.

  “Break!”

  Long Chen replaced his lightning spear with Evilmoon. A pitch-black saber-image tore through heaven and earth. The giant tribulation clouds were split in two.

  “Damnable heavens, how do you like it?!” sneered Long Chen.

  “Has he gone mad?!” Yue Xihan covered her mouth.

  BOOM!

  The tribulation clouds suddenly merged back fiercely. Booming noises rang out as if the world was roaring.

  Suddenly, giant lightning beasts began flying out of the tribulation clouds. They were of various forms, but were all lifelike. Their power caused the world to shake as if the world couldn’t contain their power.

  Long Chen formed hand seals, and Lei Long appeared behind him. However, suddenly Long Chen became startled as he noticed that Lei Long didn’t want to cooperate with him.

  “Lei Long, stop making a fuss. You can’t eat that much anyway,”
said Long Chen. Surprisingly, Lei Long didn’t want to open the spatial channel. It wanted to consume these lightning beasts itself.

  Ignoring whether or not it could even absorb that much, that the tribulation was reaching its end. It would quickly dissipate, so it didn’t have time to devour them.

  Although it was unwilling, Lei Long was very obedient. Its body spun through the air, forming a spatial channel.

  Giant lightning drakes came flying out of that channel. Upon seeing the powerful lightning beasts of the tribulation, their eyes turned red.

  “Don’t say that I’m not loyal. Today, I’ll treat you to a feast,” laughed Long Chen.

  Chapter 1940 Advancing in the Ancestral Land

  “Brother Long, I knew that you wouldn’t forget us.”

  Those lightning drakes excitedly pounced upon the tribulation beasts. They were the lightning drakes of the lightning field, and the strongest existences below the silver drake king. Back when Long Chen had come to an agreement with the drake king, they had even helped him gain the paragon art.

  They had also helped him out immensely in the Yin Yang World. It just so happened that Long Chen could now repay them with this tribulation.

  These tribulation beasts contained divine lightning within them. That was the most precious type of energy to these lightning drakes. They crazily devoured them.

  Although these tribulation beasts were very powerful, they lacked intelligence. They only charged at Long Chen because Long Chen’s attack just now had provoked the wrath of the heavens, causing the will of the tribulation to turn on him. These tribulation beasts only had one thought, and that was to kill Long Chen.

  They ignored the lightning drakes until the lightning drakes had already coiled around them. By then, they would just be devoured easily.