Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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The neutral disciple that had warned Long Chen ignored the other disciples’ gazes. He said, “We were conned. The so-called opportunities and chances were all left to their own people. Those who arrived at this place earliest were locked onto the divine light and have its power focused on them. As for others who arrived later, the divine light mostly ignores us. This was all a con,” said that disciple hatefully.
“Yes, it was a trap. We almost fell for it, but thankfully you let us in without that oath,” said another disciple.
There were hundreds of experts who walked forward to Long Chen now to explain what had happened.
These people had arrived late. Even though they were enveloped by the divine light, it didn’t acknowledge them. The formation’s Grand Dao energy was given to those that had arrived first.
The ones who had arrived first were Pill Valley’s loyal supporters. They were receiving this special treatment. In other words, even for neutral experts that had decided to use the barrier breaking beads and swear loyalty to Pill Valley, they wouldn’t be getting as good of treatment as the original supporters. The true benefits weren’t for them.
That was why these disciples directly came to report what had happened to Long Chen. They longed for Long Chen to destroy this place as well. If they couldn’t obtain any benefits, then no one should obtain anything either.
Long Chen looked at the disciples seated within the divine light. Those disciples’ expressions instantly changed. They began gathering energy, preparing for a fight.
Long Chen indifferently said, “Don’t worry, the money you paid means I won’t attack you. It’s the same for them.” Long Chen pointed to Di Feng and the others who were on the stone pillars. “However, I should warn you that even if you manage to awaken your manifestation, you should think carefully about whether or not you really want to be my enemy. If you raise your weapon against me, that money will no longer protect you.”
Those experts’ hearts shook. It seemed that Long Chen didn’t care about them in the slightest. In fact, he didn’t even care about Di Feng, Xie Luo, Xiong Tianba, and the others.
To the disciple that warned him, Long Chen said, “Many thanks for your warning. But there’s something I want inside, so I’m going in.”
Long Chen directly walked closer to the divine pillars. They looked to be arranged in a haphazard manner, but Long Chen’s intuition told him that it was a gate.
Seeing Long Chen enter, that disciple wanted to warn him to be careful. Some people had been drawn over to the divine pillars before, but they had been annihilated by the divine light without the slightest ability to resist.
As expected, as soon as Long Chen got close, a ray of divine light descended from the sky, crashing down on Long Chen mercilessly.
However, with a swing of Evilmoon, the light shattered. Long Chen was forced back a couple of steps.
“How ferocious!” The disciples watching were stunned by this sight.
The world shook intensely as Long Chen shattered the divine light. Scintillating golden light gathered, and a majestic palace slowly revealed itself before their eyes.
This palace was absolutely giant and soared high into the sky. Every brick and tile sparkled with divine light. Everyone stared in shock at it.
Once the palace appeared, the position of the divine pillars also changed. They actually formed two orderly rows leading to the palace.
As for the experts meditating atop the pillars, they were startled awake by this. They also stared in shock at the palace.
“So this is the Brahma secret realm’s greatest inheritance land!”
“What do those words mean? Why do they seem so powerful?”
Everyone stared in shock at the palace. Three golden words shone brightly on the palace. Those words caused their souls to shake.
They were not immortal characters. No one recognized them.
“Brahma Divine Palace?”
However, while Long Chen didn’t recognize them, these words came popping out of his mouth instinctively. Killing intent appeared in his eyes.
Di Feng and the others who were on the stone pillars didn’t dare to move. They were enveloped by overwhelming divine pressure from the palace.
Long Chen walked forward toward the palace. As soon as he entered the range of the divine pillars, they all lit up at once, and one hundred and eight divine swords pierced toward Long Chen.
The distant experts all jumped in horror. Despite their distance, they could sense the terrifying power of those divine swords.
“You broken Brahma shrine, I’m giving you face by deigning to enter, but you dare to stop me?”
For some reason, Long Chen’s fury soared. With a cold snort, he charged forward, attacking those divine swords.
“Stop, stop! It hurts! They’re entirely condensed of divine energy!” shouted Evilmoon. But in Long Chen’s fury, he didn’t hear. His divine ring suddenly appeared behind him.
The world shook intensely. The divine pressure coming from the palace was forced back as a domineering will expanded.
“You dare to stop me? Be destroyed!”
Long Chen actually forced his way in front of one of the divine pillars and attacked it.
“Bastard, stop!”
The ancient race expert on top of it shouted, but his shout didn’t stop Long Chen. Evilmoon slashed into the divine pillar.
That giant pillar tumbled to the ground. As for the whirlpool above the ancient race expert’s head, it vanished.
The ancient race expert was furious, but the distant spectators smiled. When that whirlpool vanished, they sensed the surrounding Grand Dao energy grow denser. Clearly, without him absorbing it, they could absorb more.
Due to the appearance of the Brahma Divine Palace, countless experts were drawn over. They saw a piercing light coming from here, and they flew quickly.
Seeing Long Chen, one of those disciples excitedly shouted, “Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, you can do it! Destroy this place too!”
These disciples were now clear on Pill Valley’s con, and they were infuriated. The more trouble Long Chen caused, the happier they were.
However, while they were happy, the experts on top of the divine pillars turned green. Long Chen was now charging toward another pillar.
Chapter 2021 Continuing His Reign of Destruction
“Long Chen, stop!”
Those experts atop the divine pillars roared at Long Chen. Their practically cheating method of absorbing the Grand Dao energy was being disrupted.
Long Chen ignored them, cutting down the divine pillars one by one. Every time a pillar fell, a whirlpool would cease, and the Grand Dao energy in the air would grow denser.
The experts rushing over were so excited that they shouted. This mad bout of Long Chen’s was benefiting them.
“Long Chen, I’ll go all-out against you!” One of the Xuan Beasts suddenly roared, transforming into an azure roc that attacked Long Chen.
“Scram!”
Long Chen shouted, slashing Evilmoon. The Xuan Beast’s sharp claws were severed, and he tumbled back, screaming.
“Long Chen, don’t go too far! We already paid the price for safety. Why would you attack us? You’re going against your own word,” shouted Di Feng.
“You want to play word games with me? What does cutting down Pill Valley’s pillars have to do with you? Do they belong to you? Why don’t you ask all the people around whether or not cutting down these pillars counts as attacking you?” sneered Long Chen.
“Nope, it doesn’t count, definitely not!”
Those experts shouted collectively. What kind of joke was that? The more Long Chen destroyed those divine pillars, the more fairly the Grand Dao energy would be spread to them.
Even the people from the ancient races, the Xuan Beasts, and the ancient family alliance stood beside Long Chen. Or perhaps more accurately they were standing on the side of what benefited them the most.
“I’m going to enter the Brahma Divine Pal
ace, but these pillars are blocking my way, so naturally I have to cut them down. If you try to stop me, you’ll be my enemy, so we can face each other with blades!”
Long Chen once more swung Evilmoon, cutting down the divine pillars one by one, and making the experts on top of them furious.
They wanted to attack Long Chen, but that was limited to those who were still on the pillars. Those who had lost the pillars had lost their reason to attack. The people on the pillars were hesitating about whether or not they should fight when Long Chen cut down their pillars, not giving them a chance to ponder.
“Long Chen, you bastard, it hurts!” Evilmoon roared. The impact of each strike against these divine pillars was endured by it.
“Just endure it. It wasn’t easy to make up such an excuse. We can’t give it up.”
Long Chen continued to attack. Actually, each attack brought with it a backlash that caused his hand to bleed, but he gritted his teeth and endured it.
When the final pillar was cut down, the Grand Dao energy had reached an unprecedented density. All the disciples unleashed their manifestations, quickly absorbing that energy.
“Long Chen, just wait!” Within the crowd, Leng Wufeng glared at Long Chen. He had been disturbed at a critical moment. He had felt that he was just the slightest bit off from fully awakening his manifestation.
It wasn’t just Leng Wufeng. The others who had been on the pillars weren’t looking at Long Chen in a friendly manner either.
Amongst those experts, Long Chen also saw the dual sword wielding Lu Zichuan. It seemed that he had long since joined Pill Valley, or he wouldn’t be standing there.
As for Di Feng, Xie Luo, Yan Wei, and the others, there was even less to be said. They had long since wanted to tear Long Chen to pieces.
“Fine, I admit that I like seeing you so irritated without being able to do anything to me,” chortled Long Chen.
He knew that these people wouldn’t attack, at least not right now. They had all reached critical moments, being only one step from fully awakening their manifestations. As long as they weren’t fools, they would endure.
Long Chen was about to leave when Evilmoon’s furious roar rang out in his head. “Hurry and gather those pillars! Those are my compensation!”
Long Chen was startled, but he didn’t ask any questions. He waved his hand, sucking the divine pillars into the primal chaos space.
Di Feng and the others had yet to recover from their fury when they saw Long Chen taking the pillars.
“What are you looking at me for? Did those pillars belong to you? What does taking Pill Valley’s things have to do with you?” Long Chen didn’t give them a chance to say anything. He directly flew toward the palace.
Evilmoon vanished from his hand, reappearing in the primal chaos space and stabbing into the stone pillar. The pillar reacted by lighting up, trying to force Evilmoon away, but it immediately dimmed back down. Evilmoon was surrounded by black qi, and its two dragon marks lit up. It began absorbing the energy of the divine pillar.
“Evilmoon, since those are useful to you, it wasn’t a waste for me to spend so much effort helping you cut them down,” said Long Chen.
“Shut up. I was the one who noticed that I could absorb a portion of the divine energy inside the pillars,” said Evilmoon disdainfully.
Cutting down these divine pillars had caused it to yelp in pain. It didn’t have a physical body, but as an item-spirit, it could still feel pain. Only after enduring that pain did it suddenly realize that it could absorb a portion of the energy within the divine pillars.
That portion was perhaps just ten percent. The other ninety percent wasn’t absorbable. Expelling that useless portion of energy was troublesome, but it was worth it for the remaining ten percent.
“Little Heaven, come and absorb it as well. I’ll teach you how to do it.” Evilmoon actually called out to the Heaven Flipping Brick, teaching it how to absorb the energy. Little Heaven was actually quite afraid of Evilmoon, but Evilmoon was sharing this energy with it.
Long Chen would not use the Heaven Flipping Seal unless he had no other choice right now. Each time he used it, it would use up all its energy, and then it would have to slowly accumulate energy again. He normally only used it as a life-preserving talisman.
The shocking thing was that even after not using it for so long, the Heaven Flipping Seal’s power was still rising. It seemed that it could continue accumulating energy forever. Long Chen never managed to get a grasp of where its limit was.
With Evilmoon’s instructions, it began absorbing the divine pillar’s energy with it. However, amongst those teachings were a few curses about how stupid it was. However, the Heaven Flipping Seal was used to it. Although Evilmoon was fierce, at least it shared the good stuff with it.
Evilmoon and the Heaven Flipping Seal focused on absorbing the energy of the divine pillars. As for Long Chen, he was now close to the palace. However, there seemed to be some spatial law that kept him far away from it. He was still flying through the air.
Di Feng and the others felt an urge to charge toward the palace as well. After all, that was clearly where the apex inheritance of the Brahma secret realm lay.
“Should we go?” wondered one person.
However, Di Feng shook his head, “That ultimate inheritance definitely can’t belong to us. We can’t go.”
Any idiot would know that a true inheritance like this couldn’t be left for an outsider. Since Pill Valley dared to let them absorb the Grand Dao energy here, that meant that they weren’t afraid of them noticing this palace.
“Long Chen is surely courting death. Only the divine daughter Yu Qingxuan is qualified to enter this palace. Even the valley master himself couldn’t enter. If Long Chen really enters, he will be eaten alive by the palace,” said one of Pill Valley’s experts.
This expert’s combat power wasn’t especially high, but his alchemy arts were amazing, so he was greatly valued by Pill Valley. There weren’t many people on Pill Valley’s side that had actually been qualified to come here. It was unknown if it was because Pill Valley was so generous that they were leaving more opportunities to their allies, or whether they simply didn’t have the talented people to send.
When Long Chen approached the first stair leading up to the palace, two giant stone statues sprang to life. They were three thousand meter monsters, and when they opened their mouths, runes shot out, transforming into runic swords that slashed towards Long Chen.
Despite doing his best to dodge, one of those swords pierced right through his shoulder, causing blood to spray.
“Hahaha, do you see? That was just a warning. If Long Chen dares to force his way through, he’ll definitely die,” said that disciple from Pill Valley.
“Hopefully, he doesn’t. Long Chen has to die by my hands,” said Xiong Tianba.
“Hmph, you’ve already lost to him and aren’t qualified to fight him again. Long Chen’s head is fated to belong to me, Leng Wufeng,” sneered Leng Wufeng.
Xiong Tianba’s expression sank, but before he could speak, Long Chen had charged back onto the stair, and this time, he managed to avoid the runic swords and smash into the runic gate of the palace.
The runic gate had not been visible before. Only once Long Chen got close did it reveal itself. Long Chen smashed into it and was blown back, as well as struck by a dozen of the runic swords.
Long Chen let out a shout and took out a rod, smashing one of the stone monsters. However, it merely shuddered for a moment and then blew Long Chen back.
The void shook intensely, and the whole runic formation grew sluggish for a moment. Even the runic swords vanished.
“There is a way!”
Long Chen smiled, and the power of the azure dragon circulated within him. He smashed one of the stone monsters once more.
Chapter 2022 The Primal Chaos Bead’s Power
Long Chen noticed that when the stone statues were fighting themselves, the runic swords would vanish. The beasts were clearly b
ound by a formation. As long as he destroyed one of the beasts, it would break the formation.
Long Chen repeatedly smashed one of the stone monsters. Normally, in the secular world, households with status would have two stone lions guarding them. But these two stone monsters had the bodies of lions, the wings of falcons, plus a horn and a tail each. Long Chen didn’t recognize what they were.
Long Chen struck the statue harder and harder. The entire palace was shuddering. Those experts that had entered a meditative state were startled awake, unable to stay in that state with this disturbance.
All those experts stared in shock. Had Long Chen gotten addicted to destroying things? Did he also want to destroy the Brahma Divine Palace?
BOOM!
Divine light exploded, and some kind of fragments flew through the air.
Those fragments were the rod that Long Chen had been using. It had exploded.
“Not good!”
Some of the fragments of that divine item flew toward them, piercing their bodies. One of the Corrupt experts was rather unlucky and was cut in two. Fortunately, it didn’t hit his head, or he’d have died.
Long Chen was crazy. Even his divine item couldn’t keep up with him, but Long Chen didn’t mind. That divine item had belonged to Man Batian, so he didn’t care about it.
These stone statues were extremely tough. Even the explosion of a divine item hadn’t harmed them. However, the one that Long Chen had been beating was damaged. Its divine runes had been broken, even though its actual body was still intact.
With its formation destroyed, its attacks came to a pause. Long Chen reached out to grab it.
“It’s so heavy!” Long Chen was shocked. Having seen that the monster’s feet were able to leave the ground, he knew that it wasn’t one with the stairs. But he actually wasn’t able to pick it up.