Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  Long Chen no longer sensed any danger and began to descend deeper. Unexpectedly, this pool was many miles deep.

  When he reached the bottom, he saw there was a square protrusion a few meters wide. There was an ancient rune carved into it.

  That rune was unleashing divine light that shone directly on the center of the divine pool. That was where the Pill Fairy was cultivating.

  “As long as you slightly damage this rune, that girl will need even more time to control the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame,” said Evilmoon.

  Just a little bit. It wouldn’t cause much of a disturbance, but it could greatly reduce the Pill Fairy’s efficiency. However, Long Chen acted like he didn’t hear it. He walked into the light pillar, and that rune shook slightly.

  Long Chen suddenly looked back and saw a beautiful figure. That figure was illusory, but it was clearly a woman.

  Her eyes were familiar. They were crystal clear, containing serenity, kindness, and love.

  She was unmatched in every regard. Looking at Long Chen, her eyes were filled with tender emotions.

  “Why bother?” Her mouth opened, and while Long Chen didn’t hear any sound, he knew what she was saying.

  She was standing there right in front of him, but he couldn’t sense her existence. It was like they were separated by endless space and time.

  Without realizing it, tears had streaked down Long Chen’s face. Seeing this woman made him feel incomparable pain in his heart. That pain was like the twisting of a knife.

  He wanted to hold her and cry, but he knew that this woman didn’t exist in this world.

  “You are you, you are not you, but you were still drawn into the ten worlds’ calamity. Why bother?” The woman looked at Long Chen. There was pain in her eyes.

  “Because I will save you.” Words popped out of Long Chen’s mouth. Even he didn’t know why he would say such a thing.

  The woman seemed to hear his words and tears dripped down her face. Her mouth curled into a beautiful smile.

  “You are still so stubborn. Fine, even if we’re doomed to eternal damnation. I’ll accompany you.” The woman pressed a hand against Long Chen’s forehead.

  Long Chen’s head instantly became blank. He didn’t know how long it was before he woke up.

  He found that he was still within the pool, but many more things had appeared in his head.

  “The Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s sixth star’s pill formula!”

  Long Chen almost shouted. He had actually obtained the formula for the sixth star. In other words, he could start condensing the sixth star.

  Most importantly, many other things had appeared in his mind. Even he didn’t know what they all were.

  “Just who is she? Why would she appear in the Brahma Divine Palace? Just how is she connected to the Pill Sovereign memories?” Questions rang out in Long Chen’s mind. This woman had appeared in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region’s inheritance stele as well. At that time, he had been looking for the second volume of the Nirvana Scripture to wipe away a curse from the Corrupt path. He had only learned the location of the inheritance stele thanks to the Pill Fairy.

  At that time, the woman had said, “You are you, you are not you. You are one, you are not one.”

  He hadn’t understood back then, and now having encountered her again, he felt a bitter pain in his heart. That was something he had felt before. It was the same pain he had encountered when Ye Zhiqiu had died for him in the Jiuli secret realm.

  However, now his head started to grow muddled. What was the calamity of the ten worlds? Was it connected to the dark era?

  He gave himself a headache thinking about it, only to end up with even more garbled thoughts. The thing he didn’t comprehend was that he only encountered her within Pill Valley’s inheritance grounds which were related to Lord Brahma.

  “Evilmoon, how long was I unconscious for?” asked Long Chen.

  “It’s been a month,” said Evilmoon.

  “A month?!” Long Chen hastily looked up, only to see that the Pill Fairy was still quietly cultivating. He sighed with relief.

  At this time, he noticed that he didn’t even need to intentionally use the Nirvana Scripture. It was activating automatically to protect him from the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame.

  He would have to take a good look at what he had gained later. He swam up, and on the way, found that Huo Long was very obedient.

  He had told it to absorb half, and it really had absorbed half. The water level had dropped greatly. The Pill Fairy was surrounded by even more mist.

  Now the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame on the surface was no longer calm. It was roiling as its energy surged toward the Pill Fairy. Her control over it was clearly growing greater.

  “It seems it won’t be long before she is in control of the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame. At that time, an unrivaled divine daughter will come out. There might not be anyone who can stop her. Hopefully, there won’t come a day where we have to fight to the death.” Long Chen looked back at the Pill Fairy one final time before sighing and leaving.

  He knew that it was just a beautiful dream. But asking him to prepare ahead of time for his fight with the Pill Fairy by harming her wasn’t something he could do. That went against his principles.

  He quickly walked down the stairs, arriving on the first level. He looked back at the statue of Lord Brahma. Seeing his masterpiece, he nodded in satisfaction.

  He pushed open the gates once more. When he walked out, before he could even see what was outside, the void around him shook. A rod whistled toward him.

  “Long Chen, face your death!” The attacker was Xiong Tianba.

  BOOM!

  Long Chen snorted and swung Evilmoon. He was knocked back several steps, tumbling back into the gates. While he wasn’t attacked by the palace’s formation for this, it was still uncomfortable.

  Looking at Xiong Tianba, Long Chen’s pupils shrank. “You actually truly awakened your manifestation?”

  Xiong Tianba’s manifestation was active behind him. Mountains and forests were stretching far into the distance within it. Long Chen had seen Xiong Tianba’s manifestation before, but at that time, it had just been an image. It might have been lifelike, but it had still just been an image. Now, it was no image but its own true world.

  There was a halo of light around his manifestation, and Heavenly Dao energy was pouring toward him. It was like the entire world was blessing him with its energy. That meant he had truly awakened his manifestation.

  “Long Chen, I said that I would personally kill you. Now do you believe me?” Xiong Tianba pointed his rod at Long Chen, killing intent filling his eyes. Standing there, he appeared both arrogant and domineering.

  Chapter 2027 The Power of a Fully Awakened Manifestation

  As soon as Long Chen walked out of the palace, he met Xiong Tianba’s powerful attack. The sound startled the other experts awake. When they saw Xiong Tianba’s manifestations, their hearts shook.

  “How is that possible?!”

  Xiong Tianba’s manifestation had been crippled! How was it possible for him to truly awaken it?

  “It’s definitely something that Pill Valley did. Otherwise, there’s no way he could have fixed his manifestation,” guessed someone.

  From Xiong Tianba’s tone, there had been a few clues to this. It seemed that he had been very confident in fixing his manifestation here. Now that his manifestation was truly awakened, this guess was the likeliest possibility.

  “Now this’ll be a real fight between a tiger and dragon.”

  “Long Chen is an unrivaled monster, but he isn’t an Empyrean. Now that Xiong Tianba’s manifestation is truly awakened, it’s difficult to say who will win this battle.”

  More and more experts awoke from their meditative states, and they found that the surrounding Grand Dao energy had grown extremely sparse after being absorbed by so many people. But they had made great gains. They all felt like they had taken a step forward toward fully awakening the
ir manifestations. Although there was still a great distance to close, they were further along than when they had first arrived.

  Looking at the arrogant Xiong Tianba, Long Chen shook out his arm and kneaded his shoulder. “Who would have thought that you would also run into such dogshit luck. Looks like you’re slightly stronger than I expected.”

  “Long Chen, provoking me will only make your death worse,” sneered Xiong Tianba.

  “No, I have no intention of provoking you. I’m just saying what I think. Xiong Tianba, I said that after taking your money, I wouldn’t view you as my enemy. But you’ve made the foolish decision of throwing away that life-protecting talisman.”

  “Hahaha!” Xiong Tianba laughed wildly. Suddenly, his manifestation shook and the Heavenly Dao energy within it surged toward him. At the same time, his world energy was merging with his Heavenly Dao energy. It was clearly possible to see the Grand Dao energy of this world whirl around Xiong Tianba.

  “This is the true power of an awakened manifestation. It’s incredibly terrifying.”

  The experts watching were all amazed. They felt that their own manifestations were suppressed in the face of Xiong Tianba’s manifestation. They were unable to absorb more Heavenly Dao energy.

  It was like all the surrounding Heavenly Dao energy had been occupied by him. Most terrifying of all, they felt like the energy from their manifestations was leaking out and being consumed by Xiong Tianba’s manifestation.

  The only thing they could do was pull back their own manifestations. That was the only way they could cut off Xiong Tianba from their energy. However, in that way, they were unable to support themselves with Heavenly Dao energy.

  Wouldn’t this mean that in the future, they would face an absolute suppression from fully awakened Empyreans? If they couldn’t even keep up their manifestations, how were they supposed to fight them? The distance between them was immense.

  “Long Chen, I’ll let you see the power to rampage through the heavens!” shouted Xiong Tianba. His rod smashed toward Long Chen, and two glowing balls of light appeared within his manifestation, merging with his rod.

  “He’s resonating with the Dao!”

  This was the true power of an Empyrean, the power to merge the Heavenly Daos with the world energy within them.

  Facing Xiong Tianba with his fully awakened manifestation, Long Chen couldn’t be careless. He immediately summoned the Five Star Battle Armor.

  BOOM!

  Once more, Long Chen was knocked back by Xiong Tianba. The entire world shuddered from the impact.

  “What terrifying power!”

  “Xiong Tianba specializes in power. Before this, he had to be in contact with the ground to use his full power, but with his manifestation awakened, he can draw out the earth’s power from anywhere. Then by combining that power with his world energy, he really is unstoppable.”

  “He’s already familiar with controlling his world energy. Even if someone else awakens their manifestation today, they wouldn’t be able to fight like him. He might really be unrivaled now.”

  People could only sigh in the face of this power. They didn’t have a good impression of Xiong Tianba, but they had no choice but to admit that none of them was a match for him.

  “But look, Long Chen hasn’t used his top abilities yet. There will definitely be a good show to watch,” said someone.

  After fighting in front of countless people many times, most people were already familiar with Long Chen’s most eye-attracting abilities. He wouldn’t be defeated so easily.

  Long Chen patted some dust off of his clothes as he flew back into the sky. His expression was still calm. Only after cleaning himself did he say, “Not bad. So this is the power of an awakened manifestation. It’s truly strong. I haven’t gone all-out since I killed Ji Wuming during my tribulation, so I feel like my body’s getting rusty.” Long Chen stretched his arms and neck. “It seems I can finally go all-out today. Let me see just how great your so-called unrivaled power is. Azure Dragon Battle Armor!”

  A dragon cry rang out, and a will that looked down on all else soared. Long Chen suddenly roared as white scales covered his body. His roar resonated with the dragon cry, and the sound grew louder and louder until people’s ears were shaking. The experts of the ancient races and the Xuan Beasts were particularly shaken. Long Chen’s dragon might made them feel a powerful pressure.

  Covered in white scales, offset by his divine ring behind him, Long Chen appeared like a god of war yet also like a dragon. It was like even the heavens would have to lower themselves before him.

  Some of the women couldn’t help feeling attracted to his current appearance. He was handsome, wild, powerful, and domineering.

  With a casual swing of Evilmoon, a space-tearing sound rang out. Although it was just a casual swing, it made people’s hearts shake.

  No one made a sound. They simply stared in shock at Long Chen. He wasn’t an Empyrean and had relied on his own power to reach his current level.

  Perhaps the only one capable of such a thing was Long Chen. He did things that no one else could imagine. He didn’t have a powerful background, but through his own efforts, he had reached the peak of his generation. This was an irresistible attraction.

  “Although my power hasn’t really grown during this time, it fortunately hasn’t regressed. It should be enough for you,” said Long Chen, sensing his current power.

  The feeling of being filled with power was very satisfying. His 108,000 astral spaces were circulating, making his world energy resonate with his azure dragon energy. Although the two kinds of energy weren’t merging, they were assisting each other. They formed a cycle of power that filled Long Chen.

  “If an inferior human like you didn’t have the dogshit luck to obtain the azure dragon’s essence blood, you’d have long since died. Your current power isn’t the human race’s power. Your human race really has no sense of shame,” said Xiong Tianba. He couldn’t help feeling jealous.

  News of Long Chen possessing the green dragon essence blood had reached the Xuan Beasts a long time ago. But they hadn’t cared too much about it as it wasn’t worth offending the Martial Heaven Alliance over it.

  However, now it was the azure dragon essence blood, a heaven-defying treasure. The dragon might Long Chen was unleashing caused all those with any beast blood to go crazy. If they had obtained the azure dragon essence blood instead, then just by merging with the slightest bit of it, their bloodlines would have transformed and grown far stronger. They might even be able to awaken some of the true dragon’s divine abilities.

  However, it was too late now. Long Chen had already matured, and he wasn’t someone they could capture just because they wanted to.

  Long Chen couldn’t help smiling and shaking his head. “Xiong Tianba, it seems that you really are an idiot. What is the human race? What does it mean to be the most spiritual of all lifeforms? It means to comprehend all Daos and laws. Everything that exists within heaven and earth exists for me. There is nothing in this world that I cannot control. As long as I can control it, it is my power. Can a dumbass like you understand what I’m saying?”

  “Twisting words and spouting lies is the trademark of the human race. Today, I’ll kill you to show the world that the Xuan Beasts are the strongest in this world!” Xiong Tianba’s body suddenly grew explosively as he summoned his true body. His rod transformed into a heaven-splitting pillar that smashed toward Long Chen.

  Chapter 2028 Endless Sea of Swords

  When Xiong Tianba summoned his true body, he grew to become the size of a mountain, and his rod grew along with him.

  “Don’t think that your dragon pressure can subdue me. Having awakened my manifestation, heaven and earth support me! Some insignificant dragon pressure is nothing in front of me. You can die now!” Xiong Tianba’s rod caused the void to explode even before it reached its target. This was his power after being fully supported by the Heavenly Daos.

  “You want to kill me? You’ll never be a
ble to achieve that goal in your lifetime.” Long Chen was fearless. His blood was heating up. It had been a long time since he had encountered such immense power.

  Evilmoon transformed into a black crescent moon that crashed into Xiong Tianba’s rod. A huge ripple that flattened the surrounding mountains spread.

  The experts watching were still blown back despite being so far and activating their defenses. Some people even almost died from the impact.

  Evilmoon and the rod shook in the sky. These two powerful divine items were unleashing apocalyptic power. Earthen runes appeared on Xiong Tianba’s rod as he attempted to use brute power to suppress Long Chen.

  However, Evilmoon didn’t budge. It was like an immovable boulder. No matter how Xiong Tianba tried, he was unable to shake it. More qi waves surged out, like a tsunami destroying everything around.

  “This is your so-called unrivaled power? It seems it’s not as great as you made it out to be,” sneered Long Chen.

  Even having awakened his manifestation and merging his Heavenly Dao energy with his world energy, Xiong Tianba was unable to suppress Long Chen. In his bear form, Xiong Tianba’s expression wasn’t so easy to read, but it seemed to be shocked and angry.

  With a roar, Xiong Tianba actually began to ignite his essence blood, and a powerful force surged out. Long Chen and Xiong Tianba were both knocked back by each other’s power. Long Chen’s body shook, and a trace of blood flowed out of his mouth.

  With the sacrificial move of igniting his essence blood, Xiong Tianba’s power had suddenly doubled. That was a frightening move.

  “Long Chen, die!”

  Igniting his essence blood was self-mutilation, but the power he obtained with it was immense. The only drawback was that he couldn’t maintain this state for long. He needed to quickly finish this battle before he lost too much of his essence blood.

  “If an idiot like you is still living, how could I die?” Long Chen raised Evilmoon. A giant saber-image tore into the sky. “Split the Heavens 7!”