Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“Aunt Han, pull back all the disciples of the original devil race in the continent. I feel like Yu Xiaoyun’s plot this time is on a much larger scale. Perhaps his goal isn’t just the Martial Heaven Alliance. We should focus on safety first. As for the resource collection, I will think of something. I already have quite a few good things that you can use. There shouldn’t be any shortage of resources,” said Long Chen. He was unable to see through Yu Xiaoyun’s plot.
Yue Xihan nodded. “Then I’ll give the order right now. They can probably all be back in five to seven days.”
Long Chen immediately shook his head. “That’s no good. Any large scale movements would be too conspicuous. Who knows how many eyes Yu Xiaoyun has on the continent? We also don’t know if their actions are to startle us into action. Any large scale retreat would probably be falling right for his trap. We have to retreat without causing any noise at all.”
“Alright, then I’ll send some people to do it immediately.” Yue Xihan nodded.
In just a moment, two Elders walked in, but they came to a sudden stop when they saw Long Chen. The domineering aura being released from Long Chen made their hearts pound.
Yue Xihan passed down Long Chen’s orders. Once they were gone, Long Chen said, “Aunt Han, are there any movements on the Martial Heaven Continent lately?”
“The current Martial Heaven Alliance is extremely tense, like a taut bow…” Yue Xihan told him that after killing Huo Lieyun’s physical body and erasing their spiritual marks to escape Yu Xiaoyun’s hunt, the entire continent was shaken.
In the Yin Yang World, Long Chen had led the Dragonblood Legion and the Martial Heaven Alliance’s disciples to slay over two million of the greatest geniuses of the various powers. Then they had faced off against over thirty Netherpassage experts, and Long Chen had even slain the vice island master of Heavenly Fate Island.
Then there had been a confrontation at the gates of the Martial Heaven Alliance, throwing the continent into chaos. Even an enormous entity like the Martial Heaven Alliance had been forced to the extent that they had to expel Long Chen. Who else in the world could contend against those powers?
As for the matter of Pill Valley accusing Long Chen of colluding with the original devil race, no one actually believed it. This was the same old story of the boy who cried wolf. Pill Valley had tried using the same excuse to capture Long Chen multiple times now, but they had never brought out any real proof.
This time was the same as there was no proof. People were already numb to this action of Pill Valley. They even felt that Pill Valley couldn’t even come up with something new to be novel. They just used the same excuse over and over.
Even once he was hunted down by countless experts under the pretense of this excuse, Long Chen was still capable of slaying Huo Lieyun’s physical body and bringing his people away without the slightest harm.
The entire continent now had an arrest warrant out for Long Chen. His picture was pasted throughout the streets of every major city.
Apparently, Pill Valley was offering ten half-step divine items and ten billion spirit crystals as a reward to someone who offered up Long Chen’s location, and they would guarantee their safety.
“Ten half-step divine items and ten billion spirit crystals? Damn, I should just give myself up.” Long Chen jumped. Pill Valley was truly willing to pay up.
“Speaking of which, there’s something funny that happened recently. Your good brother, Mo Nian, apparently made quite a bit of money thanks to this matter.” Yue Xihan laughed.
“What?”
“In order to express their sincerity and provide more motivation, Pill Valley displayed the reward for others to see. Mo Nian disguised himself as you, and somehow in front of everyone, managed to take the divine items and spirit crystals before escaping on the Earth Splitting Divine Shuttle. Even a dozen Netherpassage experts were unable to stop him from leaving. I heard that two of them coughed up blood from fury.”
Yue Xihan felt a bit of admiration for Mo Nian. To be able to take something away from a dozen Netherpassage experts, the name of the Western Wretch was well-deserved.
“His disguise was apparently perfect. If it hadn’t been for the Earth Splitting Divine Shuttle, no one would have recognized him.”
“This fellow actually got rich just like that? Next time I see him, I’ll make him split the reward for using my name.” Long Chen also laughed. This fellow Mo Nian was truly talented.
Thinking about Mo Nian’s style, Long Chen could imagine the infuriating words he had tossed out at that time. That was why two experts would cough up blood.
“However, the current Martial Heaven Continent is mostly in turmoil. Everyone has to be on guard. The Corrupt path, ancient races, ancient family alliance, Xuan Beasts, and even the Bloodkill Hall are running rampant as a display of power. They’ll beat whoever they don’t like, saying that those people are part of your group, and they’ll even kill them. Most cultivators don’t even dare to go out anymore. As for Heavenly Fate Island, it is currently saying that the Martial Heaven Alliance’s destiny has come to an end to shake the hearts of the Righteous sects. More of them are siding with Pill Valley,” sighed Yue Xihan.
Long Chen nodded. “Yu Xiaoyun is ruthless and ambitious. When he acts furious and unable to control his emotions, it’s an act to trick us. No matter how things went, it was within the margin of error, allowing him to benefit the most. As for Heavenly Fate Island, it’s an extremely special existence on the continent. Some foolish people view them as gods, thinking that they really can read the future. How laughable. Just let them make noise for now. Once I’m fully recovered, I’ll definitely properly slap their faces.”
Long Chen had a disdainful smile on his face. Heavenly Fate Island had continuously gone against him, and they were a great threat. Although they couldn’t really read the future, they had some skills which had resulted in them almost costing him his life several times. Their debt to him had been accumulating for some time now.
Two days later, Long Chen came out of seclusion. His realm hadn’t fully stabilized yet, but he couldn’t keep waiting. The Dragonblood warriors were starting to come out of seclusion.
“Hahaha, I have a feeling like I’m completely unrivaled. I want a good opponent to test myself,” Gu Yang laughed. His confidence had grown after advancing to the Life Star realm.
“Then why don’t you go challenge boss?” asked Guo Ran with a chortle.
“If you always talk that way, you won’t have any friends.” Gu Yang deflated, shaking his head.
No matter how arrogant Gu Yang was, he wouldn’t dare to challenge Long Chen. Even if Long Chen was still in the Soul Transformation realm, Huo Lieyun hadn’t been a match for him.
Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, Yue Xiaoqian, Liu Ruyan, and Cloud had gathered. Tang Wan-er in particular was excited at this feeling of having her power grow so much.
“Boss, didn’t you say we should go directly for the first Heavenstage? Why have you called us out again so early?” asked Li Qi.
“Because there’s something that’s bothering me. Furthermore, directly charging to the first Heavenstage might leave behind a slight flaw. Since that’s the case, let’s slow down a bit. Everyone, come with me to search for Wilde. It just so happens that we can slay some powerful Magical Beasts as well. Those are useful to me,” said Long Chen.
The last time he was in the Skyscraping World, Wilde had charged into another world. He was supposed to eat until he was satisfied, but he actually ended up getting lost.
Even after all this time, there wasn’t any news of Wilde. Although Long Chen knew how powerful Wilde was, to say that Long Chen wasn’t the slightest bit worried about him would be a lie. Wilde’s head was too simple.
Everyone stood in front of a spatial channel, and it was fully stable unlike before.
Yue Xiaoqian explained, “Many of the Magical Beasts have been killed. Not only was it a good tempering for our warriors, but we also obtained quite a few reso
urces that we could trade with the Huayun Sect. Now, we’ve already begun searching through that world, gradually going deeper. We’re looking for any valuable ores or resources that we can gather. However, we’ve just started our exploration of that world, so we don’t dare to go too far. My mother told me that we have to be careful. If this world has some terrifying existence inside, disturbing it could bring calamity to the original devil race, so we must be careful. That’s also why we haven’t found Wilde yet.”
Long Chen led the Dragonblood Legion into the channel. The endless tide of Magical Beasts had vanished.
There were hundreds of Life Star experts guarding the other side of the channel. Seeing Yue Xiaoqian, they all bowed.
Seeing dozens of grand formations arranged on this side, Xia Chen said, “Establishing all of this must have cost quite a bit of money.”
“Yes. We hesitated a long while before building them all. It was a gamble to see if there were any valuable resources here. If we win, we’ll be rich, but if we lose, we’ll have lost years of income.” Yue Xiaoqian bitterly smiled.
“Don’t worry about it. I have plenty of money. My money is your money.” Long Chen smiled. With the primal chaos bead, he had a bottomless pit of money.
Suddenly, in the distance, the earth exploded. A group of disciples of the original devil race fled over, a large pack of giant figures right on their tails.
Chapter 1943 Strange Lake
“Not good, it’s a twelfth rank Magical Beast! Quick, activate the formation!” shouted a Life Star expert of the original devil race. When a powerful twelfth rank Magical Beasts appeared, the disciples would lead them here and kill them with the formations.
“No need. Using your formation will waste more spirit crystals than that Magical Beast is worth.” Xia Chen shook his head.
Guo Ran had summoned his golden armor. Transforming into a golden shooting star, he shot toward the Magical Beast
“A little twelfth rank Magical Beast also dares to get arrogant?”
Guo Ran unleashed a giant saber-image at the Magical Beast.
There were seven disciples of the original devil race fleeing. They were originally ten, but three of them had been slain by that Magical Beast.
The Magical Beast was a white rhinoceros, and it was like a galloping mountain. The ground rumbled and ruptured because of it.
Guo Ran’s saber ruthlessly slashed into its head. A powerful shockwave spread, and the rhinoceros was sent flipping through the air.
However, Guo Ran also suffered. He was knocked back into the distance.
The rhinoceros let out a furious roar. Its horn suddenly lit up, and a white light shot at Guo Ran.
“Guo Ran’s about to suffer.” Long Chen’s lips curled as he watched Guo Ran go all-out to block.
The white light passed straight through Guo Ran. A layer of white rock had covered him as he had been turned to stone. He was still in his defensive posture.
After landing this attack, the rhinoceros charged toward Guo Ran to smash him apart.
However, a flash of sword-light swept through its neck. Its head went flying, and blood soaked the earth.
Yue Zifeng slowly sheathed his sword. After advancing to the Life Star realm, his attacks were even sharper and faster. He could one-shot a twelfth rank Magical Beast.
Cracking sounds rang out. Guo Ran was still floating in the air as if he had been fixed there. His statue was shaking, and faint cracks spread along it. Eventually, the layer of stone on him blew apart.
“What happened?” asked Guo Ran in confusion.
“You don’t feel shame asking? That white rhinoceros was a Full Moon Stone Rhinoceros, and its divine ability is able to transform its enemies to stone. Even if you didn’t recognize it, how could you not sense those spatial fluctuations? You just took its petrification ray head-on. If you were alone, you would have been smashed apart,” scolded Long Chen.
“Sorry boss, I got a bit arrogant.” Guo Ran was ashamed. After advancing to the Life Star realm, he felt twelfth rank Magical Beasts to be beneath him, and he thought that he could crush it with pure power.
Although Long Chen usually didn’t bother with everyone’s fighting styles, he was very strict with their battle attitude. They could not get careless. That could be a fatal mistake, so Guo Ran hastily admitted his mistake.
Long Chen snorted and didn’t say anything else. Such a low level mistake was truly a bit infuriating, but he couldn’t criticize Guo Ran too harshly. He reached out and tossed the white rhinoceros’s corpse into the primal chaos space.
The black soil devoured the corpse, unleashing plentiful life energy that nourished the withered World Trees.
However, a single twelfth rank Magical Beast’s corpse wasn’t enough to cause too much of a change.
The seven disciples immediately thanked Long Chen and the others upon being saved. Yue Xiaoqian asked them how they had encountered a twelfth rank Magical Beast. It had to be known that it had been a long time since they had seen a twelfth rank Magical Beast in this region.
There had been twelfth rank Magical Beasts before, but they had been slain by the Elders of the formations. Now that twelfth rank Magical Beasts weren’t seen very often, the original devil race had begun spreading and exploring more of this world.
“Reporting to the sacred daughter, we met with a sudden attack twenty-one thousand miles southwest of the seventh transportation formation,” answered one of the disciples.
The original devil race had set this place as a base as they explored further. In the relatively safer places, they had established some small transportation formations. That saved them quite a bit of time.
Using the channel as the base, they searched further and further. This squad of disciples had been searching unknown territory beyond the seventh transportation formation.
“Let’s go take a look.”
Long Chen and the others stepped onto the transportation formation. However, it wasn’t a large formation, so it could only fit five hundred of them at once. They would have to go in batches.
The formation runes lit up, and Long Chen found himself standing atop a mountain. This transportation formation was situated in a mountain range.
Once they were there, Cloud transformed into her true form and brought them flying away.
As soon as Cloud started flying, they were unable to see anything clearly. Cloud was too fast, and their vision was unable to track anything. They could only use their divine sense.
Having advanced to the eleventh rank, Cloud had grown larger, and her body now emitted a primordial aura. This advancement had greatly increased her power.
Before this, she had only been able to refine a portion of the Blue Eye Peacock’s essence blood. The majority of it had been sealed and stored inside her body. After advancing, she had managed to refine and absorb that stored energy.
In the blink of an eye, Cloud appeared at the location that had been specified. Here there was a lake.
Cloud returned to human form. Yue Xiaoqian looked at the marks on the ground and said, “This is definitely where they encountered the Magical Beast.
“This lake’s fluctuations are a bit strange. Let’s go take a look,” said Long Chen. They had just approached the lake when the earth split open. A ferocious mouth flew up at them.
However, that mouth had just opened when Liu Ruyan waved her hand. Branches shot out, binding the mouth tight.
“What a big serpent!” exclaimed Guo Ran. This serpent had some strange bark-like patterns on its head. Half its body was still hidden in the ground.
“Get out here!” Liu Ruyan pulled and the earth shuddered. The ground split open, and a giant Magical Beast was pulled out.
“What is this thing?!”
Startled cries rang out. Originally they had thought that it was a serpent, but it was actually a giant tortoise with a snake-like head.
Suddenly, its shell lit up, and rays of divine light shot out like heavenly swords. Their hair stood on end.
Long Chen shot into action, smashing the giant shell with his fist. The shell was blown apart, and the rays of light crumbled.
This strange tortoise actually died from having its shell broken. Long Chen tossed it into the primal chaos space.
This tortoise wasn’t that far from where the white rhinoceros had been. For two twelfth rank Magical Beasts to be so close to each other was definitely not ordinary.
This made Long Chen think of the circular mountain range in the Yin Yang World where many Magical Beasts had gathered. Little Snow was currently being nourished in the egg at the center of that mountain range.
“This might be a land of treasures. Everyone, be careful. Guo Ran, you lead the way,” said Long Chen.
Guo Ran jumped, thinking that he was being punished. “Boss, I was wrong…”
“Stop messing around. You’re the one with the best luck, so if you lead, we should find the treasures faster,” interrupted Long Chen.
If Long Chen was the one leading the way, they would definitely run into trouble. Hearing that he was taking the lead because of his luck, Guo Ran immediately swaggered to the front.
Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, Guo Ran didn’t encounter any problems. They bypassed a twelfth rank Magical Beast and it didn’t attack them. It seemed to be slumbering.
Long Chen was speechless. The existence known as luck was truly difficult to explain, but Guo Ran was leading them through a peaceful path.
They quickly arrived at the edge of the lake. Yue Xiaoqian bent down and touched the water with her hand. After sensing it for a moment, she said, “This water really is strange. There are some fluctuations of divine energy. It’s very gentle and can be directly absorbed by the body. However, I don’t know why this is the case.”
Even the erudite Yue Xiaoqian wasn’t sure of what was going on. Long Chen scooped out a bit of the water and sniffed it. He then tasted it.
“This water contains a kind of mineral. If it is consumed over a long time, it can strengthen the bones and flesh. However, there are too many impurities, and it is not suitable for human bodies. It seems these twelfth rank Magical Beasts are here because of the water. Maybe the reason why they were able to advance to the twelfth rank is because of this water. So these surrounding Magical Beasts aren’t here to attack the Skyscraping World. They’re defending their own territories around this lake. What we should do is investigate this lake’s secrets. After all, this water is useless to us,” said Long Chen. He turned to Guo Ran.