Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  As for the distant spectators, those belonging to Pill Valley’s side were watching closely, but they didn’t go over. Long Chen might be exhausted, but that wasn’t an attack that they could receive either.

  However, as long as Long Chen unleashed this attack, he would be exhausted, and their chance would come. Perhaps the glory of killing Long Chen would fall into their lap.

  Other than that, there was also the jealousy aspect. Even if they were on the same side, since Di Feng and the others had awakened their manifestations, these people didn’t mind seeing them dead along with Long Chen.

  So even though Di Feng, Xie Luo, and the others were in crisis, these experts simply acted dumbfounded as if they were too shocked to do anything.

  Di Feng and the others were enraged by that. If these people took action now, they would be able to interrupt Long Chen’s attack. It wouldn’t even take that many of them, but not one of them moved.

  Just as Di Feng and the others were about to use everything they could do to survive, a white light shot toward Long Chen’s back.

  In that instant, Long Chen felt like he had been dropped into an iceberg. A sensation of death filled his heart.

  Long Chen didn’t even have a chance to look back. The World Annihilation Flame Lotus that had only been half charged out slammed behind him, while he dodged to the side.

  The flame lotus was cleanly split in two by the white light. It didn’t explode. Instead, it was simply like a flower that had been sliced by a knife.

  As for Long Chen, he was struck in the shoulder by that white light. A scorching pain came from there, and flame energy poured through his body, wanting to incinerate him.

  That was all he needed to know who had come. The flame energy was absorbed by Huo Long. Turning around, Long Chen saw the person that he had expected, the Pill Fairy Yu Qingxuan.

  The Brahma Divine Palace had actually vanished, and Yu Qingxuan floated in the sky, holding a white sword in her hand.

  That sword was condensed of flame energy, yet it gave off an icy feeling. However, now it was different from when Long Chen had first seen it. Now, there were watery fluctuations surging within it.

  Seeing Yu Qingxuan, Di Feng and the others were overjoyed. As for Pill Valley’s disciples, they loudly cheered for their divine daughter.

  Yu Qingxuan’s expression was icy, and it was like she didn’t even recognize Long Chen. Without any hesitation, another slash of her sword came for Long Chen.

  This sword filled the air with mist that looked very beautiful, but Long Chen knew that this wasn't water. It was the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame.

  Long Chen hadn’t expected Yu Qingxuan to awaken so quickly. As she was in control of the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame, there was nowhere for him to run.

  The most difficult thing for Long Chen to bear was that this Yu Qingxuan was no longer the old Yu Qingxuan that he had known. She had become a completely different person.

  Yu Qingxuan’s sword rumbled, and arcs of flames came from it. It seemed that her control over the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame was not yet perfect. Despite that, even during normal times, Long Chen would have to go all-out to defend against such an attack, and in his current state, this was fatal.

  A cyan brick suddenly appeared in Long Chen’s hand. He slammed it forward. He had no choice but to take out the Heaven Flipping Seal.

  BOOM!

  Water vapor filled the air, but when that vapor touched the ground, it burned everything away, creating a bottomless hole.

  As for the Heaven Flipping seal, it had been scorched red. Intense heat waves spread in every direction.

  However, at the very least, the Heaven Flipping Seal had managed to block this terrifying attack. Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked. Even at such a time, Long Chen still had a terrifying trump card.

  Those experts who had been waiting for Long Chen to unleash his flame lotus before attacking felt cold sweat cover their bodies. If it hadn’t been for the Pill Fairy, they might have been flattened by this brick.

  The Pill Fairy was also startled. After forming seals with her left hand, a water spirit phoenix appeared in the sky. It was condensed from the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame. It then opened its mouth to swallow the Heaven Flipping Seal.

  Just as its mouth closed over it, the Heaven Flipping Seal vanished. Not only that, but Long Chen had also disappeared.

  “He ran!”

  Only then did people react. They looked in every direction, but Long Chen’s figure had vanished.

  For a moment, people could only look at each other in dismay. Thirteen peak heavenly geniuses with awakened manifestations had actually been defeated by Long Chen. He had even killed two, and then in his exhausted and injured state, managed to survive the divine daughter’s attacks.

  With Long Chen having escaped, the Pill Fairy jumped onto the phoenix and with a flap of its wings, she vanished from sight.

  The path that she had gone was clear though, because the ground had turned black from the intense heat, and a burning smell filled the air. Space also twisted wildly.

  At this time, the other experts ran over to Di Feng and the others. They immediately put on loyal and subservient appearances, but Di Feng and the others still had ugly expressions. They knew what these people had been thinking, but in their current state, they were too weak. Hence, despite knowing that this was an act, they had to act like they didn’t know.

  They looked in the direction where the Pill Fairy had gone and sighed. Originally, they had thought that after awakening their manifestations, they would at least be able to stand at the peak of the cultivation world.

  However, upon reaching the summit they had yearned to reach, they found that Long Chen was still standing above them. Even thirteen of them hadn’t been able to defeat him. Thinking of how they had sworn that Long Chen wouldn’t live to leave the Brahma secret realm, they felt like they might die of embarrassment.

  At that time, Long Chen had also made a promise. He had said that if he didn’t kill Lu Zichuan today, he would cripple his own cultivation base. In the end, Long Chen had done it, proving that he never made empty promises.

  On the other hand, it was like they had slapped their own faces. Long Chen was so high above them that it made them feel despair. They even felt an urge to give up on cultivation. Being in the same generation as such a figure was horrible.

  Xie Luo in particular was dejected, and his eyes were blank. He had lost once more. This time, he couldn’t even count as a main character. He had fully fallen to cannon-fodder level.

  “In this world, there is a kind of despair called encountering Long Chen.” One of the ancient family alliance’s disciples shook his head with a bitter smile. “I, Yan Qingshan, am retreating from the cultivation world. I’ll leave for seclusion in the mountains. Friends, take care of yourselves.”

  That ancient family alliance disciple was one of the thirteen who had awakened their manifestations. He now bowed to everyone. That was his goodbye to them, as well as a symbolic goodbye to the cultivation world. However, after he was done, it was like a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

  He walked away. Seeing his departing figure, for some reason, the others felt uncomfortable.

  “There is no right or wrong on the cultivation path. The struggle on the Martial Dao is a fight, but having Long Chen in the same generation can be called a good thing, or it can be called a bad thing. It just depended on your viewpoint. Some people are fated not to be the main characters of the world. When they forcibly jump onto the stage, their conclusions are always sad. But I like to think of what senior apprentice-brother Long Chen once said: cultivation is not to fight, it is to protect. So even having experienced his power today, it’s not some blow to me. Come, let’s go,” said a neutral expert lightly.

  “Hmph, Long Chen can’t possibly escape. The Brahma secret realm has only one exit. Running now only means that he gets to live for a few more days. Once everyone leaves the Brahma secret re
alm and Pill Valley closes it, he’ll be automatically transported out of it. Then he’ll still die.” The speaker belonged to Pill Valley. Although they hadn’t managed to kill Long Chen here, he was confident that Long Chen’s death was only a matter of time. Having run now, Long Chen was definitely hiding somewhere and healing.

  He was actually very angry that so many people had been won over by Long Chen’s power. Even though he was an Empyrean with an awakened manifestation, he didn’t dare to curse so many people. Most importantly, he was too injured to mess around. If he ended up provoking these people, he might die.

  The battle was over. The Brahma Divine Palace was gone, and the Grand Dao energy had been absorbed. They had no reason to stay here. Following the path that the Pill Fairy had left behind, they began to walk toward the exit.

  However, in their hearts, even if Long Chen died to Pill Valley, the impression he had left them with would never be surpassed.

  Even if he was killed by the Pill Fairy, that was only because of Pill Valley’s power. Long Chen had relied only on himself to reach his current level. Such a person was worthy of respect.

  …

  Long Chen’s lightning wings flapped rapidly as he pushed the Celestial Lightning Body Blink as hard as he could. The only thing he could do right now was run.

  The Pill Fairy was no longer the old Pill Fairy. She didn’t have the slightest emotions toward him, and all of her attacks had been killer attacks. If he faced her in his current state, death would be the only thing awaiting him.

  “What are you planning on doing?” Evilmoon suddenly sensed something wrong. Long Chen had actually reached the exit to the Brahma secret realm.

  “Killing my way out.”

  Long Chen took a deep breath. An unprecedented determination appeared in his eyes. Today, whether he would live or die would be decided now.

  Chapter 2035 Clash of Divine Energy

  “Are you crazy? In your current state, isn’t going to Pill Valley just going to death?!” shouted Evilmoon.

  Long Chen was injured and weary. His combat power was less than twenty percent of his peak. If he didn’t first recuperate, charging out like this was suicide.

  “This is my only chance to get out. If the Pill Fairy catches up, I might never be able to leave,” said Long Chen gravely.

  “You deserve it. I told you to kill her at the time but you refused. I told you to ruin her inheritance but you refused. Why are you acting like some good person now? The path of cultivation is a cruel one where the winner lives and the loser dies. Doing something like this only makes you a fool. Regretting it now is useless,” cursed Evilmoon.

  Long Chen shook his head. “I never regret my actions. She helped me out before, and I owe her. By not ruining her inheritance in the Brahma Divine Palace, it can count as repaying her.”

  “That’s like taking off your pants to fart. As I see it, you’re just a love-struck fool who can’t attack a pretty girl. Sooner or later, you’ll die to that girl’s hands,” said Evilmoon.

  Long Chen didn’t retort. Perhaps Evilmoon was correct, but Long Chen understood himself. He couldn’t do something that betrayed his principles.

  Even if it was a random stranger, if they didn’t take the initiative to provoke him, he wouldn’t kill them just because they might be a threat to him.

  That was even more true when it came to the Pill Fairy. Although he knew that it wasn’t smart, if he had to do it again, he would still make the same choice. That was because he was Long Chen.

  “That girl isn’t just in control of a bit of the Inverse Dao Water Spirit Flame’s power. She also has divine energy coming from the divine inheritance statue. She is a true divine daughter. Even if you were in your peak state, you probably wouldn’t be a match for her. You should hide until you’re at least fifty percent recovered. If you try charging out then, if I ignite all my divine energy, we should have a slight chance of breaking their grand formation,” said Evilmoon.

  “How confident are you?” asked Long Chen.

  “If you were in your peak state, we’d have at least a sixty percent chance of charging out. If you recovered to fifty percent power, then we’d have to rely on luck, but we should have a ten percent chance. As for your current state? Our odds of escaping are less than one percent. Relying on my own power, there’s no way I can break through Pill Valley’s grand formation. As for the Heaven Flipping Seal, just blocking that attack used up most of its energy. It can’t do the same again,” said Evilmoon.

  The Pill Fairy’s attack had been truly terrifying. It had actually turned the Heaven Flipping Seal’s body red. If it was any other divine item, it would have melted.

  “Alright, then I’m prepared. I’m even more confident than before,” said Long Chen with a smile. He hadn’t expected Evilmoon would ignite its divine energy.

  As Long Chen flew through the air, his divine ring was active behind him, absorbing as much energy as he could to recover some energy.

  He quickly managed to see the channel in front of him. However, as he got close, he suddenly sensed mysterious energy within the air that was trying to secretly extract his essence blood.

  “What?”

  Long Chen was startled by this. If he didn’t cultivate the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art which made him extremely sensitive to external power, he wouldn’t have been able to sense this stealthy energy.

  It was very faint. It tried to absorb his essence blood like it was naturally evaporating. It was also very hidden.

  Long Chen shut his pores, blocking that force. With his defenses up, that mysterious energy slowly vanished like it had never existed.

  “Curious. This wasn’t here when I came in.” Long Chen frowned. However, he had no further time to think about it. He charged into the channel.

  He came flying out through the other side, appearing within Pill Valley’s plaza. As soon as he appeared, Pill Valley’s grand formation rumbled, emitting an alarm.

  “Long Chen, we’ve been waiting for you for a long time!”

  Elder Tianqi and tens of thousands of Pill Valley’s experts had long since filled the plaza. They all formed hand seals.

  Pillars of light descended from the sky, forming a giant cage around Long Chen.

  It was a square cage with each pillar being several meters thick and covered in divine runes. They had clearly been prepared.

  Ever since Long Chen had entered the Brahma secret realm, Pill Valley had entered its highest emergency state. Practically, all of Pill Valley’s experts had been gathered.

  Last time, while it could be said that Elder Tianqi hadn’t caught Long Chen, it could also be said that he had let Long Chen in to pressure the other disciples to enter the core region and join Pill Valley’s side.

  However, that plan had been ruined. As soon as Long Chen had entered the Brahma secret realm, he had begun demanding a fee to get past him, saying that it was payment for temporary safety from him.

  Then he had opened the core region to the disciples for free.

  Most terrifying of all, he had cut down the divine pillars and taken the Brahma Divine Palace’s stone statues, even entering the palace itself.

  That made Elder Tianqi start to panic. His plans had been completely coiled by Long Chen’s unorthodox actions. If he then allowed Long Chen to escape after all that? Even cutting off his own head wouldn’t be enough to give an explanation to Yu Xiaoyun who was in seclusion.

  This prison formed of divine energy was immediately summoned as soon as Long Chen appeared. As it descended from the sky, Long Chen suddenly took out a giant pillar. This was one of the giant pillars that Long Chen had cut down in front of the Brahma Divine Palace.

  Using all his power, Long Chen slammed the pillar into the prison.

  Upon seeing that pillar, Elder Tianqi’s expression completely changed, but he didn’t have time to react. A powerful explosion erupted as soon as the divine pillar collided with the prison. The prison transformed into motes of divine light, while Long Chen’s
pillar also crumbled. As a result, Long Chen’s whole body became bloody from the impact, and he flew back.

  The destruction of the prison shocked all of Pill Valley’s experts. This prison was something even a fourth step Netherpassage expert wouldn’t be able to break in an instant.

  To capture Long Chen, Pill Valley had used their strongest move. However, they quickly realized that the energy within the prison and the pillar came from the same source, and so this clash resulted in them both crumbling.

  This wasn’t Long Chen’s power. He was simply taking advantage of the nature of the pillar and prison. In the air, they suddenly saw that Long Chen had taken out another pillar, smashing it at the formation above him.

  “Layered Divine Formation, Divine Light Shines!” Following Elder Tianqi’s shout, all of Pill Valley’s Elders’ status tablets lit up, and the barrier shook. Countless divine runes condensed in front of Long Chen, forming a total of eighteen layers, each stronger than the last.

  It went without saying that Elder Tianqi’s adaptability was quite great. He instantly shifted to a tougher but more flexible formation. Otherwise, considering that the energy came from the same source, the formation might really be broken.

  Long Chen’s pillar smashed into the barriers. They exploded one by one. But after breaking the thirteenth barrier, the pillar suddenly exploded.

  Long Chen let out a furious roar and took out another pillar. However, he found that he was already out of energy. He couldn’t even hold the pillar, and it directly fell to the ground.

  The pillar smashed into the plaza down below, and some of Pill Valley’s disciples were smashed to death without even being able to scream.

  “Damnit, I’m out of power. Evilmoon, it’s all on you!” shouted Long Chen.

  Evilmoon appeared, black qi circulating around it, but the tip of its blade actually began to shine with a silver light. It was like the slightest spot of light in an otherwise rusty black saber.

  Evilmoon’s tip tore through the barriers. It tore through four of them, but on the final barrier, it was unable to pierce through any further.