Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  “You don’t need to feel any pressure as this is just my own wishful thinking. A kind woman like you is someone worthy for me, Long Chen, to guard with my life. But before I can pursue you, I have to properly cultivate and become a true expert. Only then will I have the qualifications to protect you. In order to get those qualifications, I’ll cultivate with all my might. It doesn’t matter whether you accept or decline me, I’ll still continue like this,” said Long Chen with resolve.

  Meng Qi’s face was completely red. Although she had previously come from a humble origin, ever since she had entered into a cultivation sect, everything had changed.

  This was the first time anyone had dared to confess so brazenly to her. Seeing Long Chen’s determined expression, her thoughts were in a wild tumble and she was unable to say anything.

  There’s hope, thought Long Chen in satisfaction as he looked at the bewildered Meng Qi. Right now, the most important thing was for Meng Qi to not feel any dislike toward him. That would already be considered a success and a small step forward. The next steps would be to continue stirring her emotions until he moved her core.

  Long Chen was about to continue when a terrifying aura exploded out.

  Meng Qi’s expression changed and she stepped forward, placing Long Chen behind her. She readied herself, prepared for anything. She waited for a moment as she assessed the situation before relaxing slightly.

  A huge wasp appeared in front of them. It was over fifteen meters long, and its body was covered in gaudy lines that would cause people’s scalps to turn numb.

  Long Chen was alarmed, as that was not only a second rank Magical Beast but an exceptionally violent Bloodrage Wasp.

  Even a third rank Magical Beast wouldn’t easily provoke it because even they would at least be gravely injured if pierced by its stinger.

  But after a brief moment of fear, a certain thought arose as he looked at Meng Qi’s beautiful back: You may be able to stand in front of me this time, but I will stand in front of you for a lifetime.

  That huge Bloodrage Wasp landed onto the ground, its terrifying cry still lingering in the air. Suddenly, a man jumped off its back.

  The man appeared to be in his twenties. He was tall and very proper, giving off a noble feeling. But arrogance was written all over his face, destroying his image.

  As soon as the man saw Meng Qi, his eyes lit up with an unconcealed adoration.

  “Junior apprentice-sister, master is very displeased that you haven’t returned in so long, so he sent me to bring you back.” At first, he was smiling brightly, but as soon as he saw Long Chen, he frowned and asked, “Who is this? Could it be…?”

  Coldness resurfaced in his eyes, but he once more concealed it.

  “Don’t be crazy. I’m just asking this young master some questions.” Meng Qi evidently wasn’t good at lying and panic flashed in her eyes.

  Turning to Long Chen, she said, “Young master, thank you for your help.”

  Her gaze towards Long Chen held many things, but before Long Chen could carefully see what those things were, Meng Qi had already gotten onto her steed and flown up.

  That man glanced at Long Chen and coldly snorted. With just a point of his finger, a transparent arrow appeared in front of him and shot towards Long Chen.

  Long Chen was still thinking about the look Meng Qi had given him. He hadn’t expected that man to suddenly attack him, so he was completely unable to dodge in time.

  That arrow had been condensed from Spiritual Strength and so was completely incorporeal. If ordinary people were to be struck by it, their spirit would immediately break and they would be reduced to a simpleton.

  Since he was no longer able to dodge due to his surprise, he could only hastily use his Spiritual Strength to block it. Although his Spiritual Strength was great, he had never cultivated any soul arts, so he had little chance of being able to block it.

  Suddenly, another arrow shot out and blocked the man’s attack. A powerful explosion blew Long Chen backs everal feet.

  “Senior apprentice-brother Xi, master would be quite displeased to learn that you attacked an ordinary mortal like this.”

  At some unknown time, another woman had appeared beside the two of them. This senior apprentice-brother Xi’s expression changed slightly, but he still laughed, “Junior apprentice-sister, you misunderstand me; I’m just testing him out a bit. How could I possibly really hurt him?”

  Long Chen’s expression was extremely ugly. With his Spiritual Strength, he could clearly tell that this bastard had intended to cripple him.

  But it wasn’t just that he had attacked him. The look he had given Meng Qi had also caused Long Chen to feel a burst of anger. Adding the attack on to that and Long Chen was now fuming with anger.

  “Young master, this is an inner disciple of our Wind Spirit Pavilion. His cultivation is very high, so you’ll have to work hard.”

  After she said that, she purposely winked at Long Chen.

  “Senior apprentice-brother Xi, let’s go.”

  Although she said this, she was clearly waiting for him to go with her.

  He glanced at Long Chen and indifferently laughed. Stepping onto the Bloodrage Wasp, the two of them departed.

  Long Chen couldn’t help but curse, “This damn crap-brother Xi, I won’t forget this!”

  After releasing his anger, Long Chen calmed down. No matter what, he had at least gained something from today. Although the marriage arrangement had been annulled, he had at the least given Meng Qi a good impression.

  The most important thing was that when Meng Qi had left, she had placed the marriage contract carefully within her robes and hadn’t immediately torn it apart. That had left him with a great deal of hope.

  But at the same time, it gave him a great sense of urgency. How many could withstand the charm of an outstanding woman like Meng Qi? Plus, there was that crap-brother Xi beside her. His hopes could be dashed at any moment.

  And even if he got rid of crap-brother Xi, more crap-brothers would also come... No matter what, he had to quickly raise his cultivation base.

  Although he had gained the alchemist guild’s emblem, the alchemist guild was a neutral power that didn’t participate in any fights. He would have to rely on himself for everything.

  His past few miserable years had raised his wariness. He suspected that someone was possibly using his mother and him to control his father.

  At this point in time, his father had refused to answer the royal family’s summons several times. Most likely, he already knew something was going on. The longer things stretched out, the less value the mother-son duo would have, and the greater danger they would be in.

  After returning home, Long Chen locked himself in his room and ordered that no one was to disturb him. He then took out the medical ingredients that he had stored in his spatial ring.

  Last time when he was at the alchemist guild, Yun Qi had given him a copper-gold cauldron which was a great aid to him. Cauldrons were an essential tool for alchemists, and there was a great deal of knowledge and technique involved with them.

  Long Chen’s old cauldron was complete trash and not only did it waste a great deal of heat, but it also used up a large amount of Long Chen’s Pill Flame.

  And in terms of quality, the greatest difference was that the old one couldn’t seal in the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. Spiritual qi would rush out while impurities would rush in; such a cauldron could not possibly produce any good pills.

  Cauldrons required a skilled artisan to forge, and as for Long Chen’s old cauldron, it had been made by an ordinary worker.

  But there was no way around it. A decent cauldron cost several hundred thousand gold coins, maybe even millions. There was no way for Long Chen to afford it.

  As for the cauldron Yun Qi had given Long Chen, it was a first tier medicinal cauldron. Only Pill Apprentices and other pill cultivators had the qualifications to use it.

  With this new cauldron, Long Chen was finally properly equipped.


  “I have to pick up the pace. Otherwise, even my future wife might leave me in the future.”

  Chapter 13 FengFu Initial Condensation

  With a muffled explosion, the pill furnace shook briefly before calming down. Nine plump medicinal pills lay quietly within.

  A dense, refreshing pill fragrance came from them. Long Chen smiled in satisfaction.

  He reached in and took out one of the medicinal pills. It was completely smooth and round with a faint luster, and there was even a layer of faint lines.

  “Although the pill lines are faint and its color isn’t at its peak which means that the pill has lost some spirituality, it is just barely at the middle grade pill level.”

  This was the first batch of middle grade medicinal pills that Long Chen had refined. The quality of a medicinal pill was dependent on the pill furnace, the Pill Flame, the Spiritual Strength, etc. Not a single one of them could be lacking.

  Long Chen’s current Spiritual Strength was definitely good enough, but the pill furnace was too weak. And as for the Pill Flame, well that was even worse.

  To use an average first tier pill furnace as well as the worst kind of Pill Flame to refine a middle grade medicinal pill… Well, in the entire pill refining world, perhaps only Long Chen who had fused with a Pill Sovereign’s soul could do such a thing.

  In just a short time, he had refined twenty batches of pills, creating over a hundred low grade FengFu Pills that were now quietly lying within his spatial ring.

  Long Chen had been quietly listening to what was happening outside his seclusion. Li Hao had been killed, so naturally, he wasn’t a threat anymore.

  The imperial capital had offered a reward for the capture of whoever had killed him, but the urgency surrounding this case had faded extremely quickly.

  Long Chen sneered; even if they were just putting on an act, they should have at least followed through. Did they think that Long Chen was an idiot?

  A noble heir had been killed just like that! To simply end the affair just like that, it was crazily bold and easy to see through.

  Although he knew this, Long Chen didn’t dare to take action now. Without a certain amount of strength, he had to wait to keep himself protected.

  His father was currently guarding the barbarian border and didn’t know anything about what was going on here. Furthermore, according to the rules of the imperial capital, all generals that were stationed outside were not allowed to have their families leave the imperial capital. To be honest, this was just to force them to follow orders.

  Long Chen knew nothing about what was going on with his father at this time. All he knew was what he had inferred so far. His father would not be coming back to his side.

  Their noble estate used to be extremely rowdy and busy. But as he grew up and his father continued to fight on the border, fewer and fewer people would come to visit. Eventually, their estate wouldn’t even have friends come over to celebrate the new year.

  Over the past few years, the Long household had continuously declined, its position within the imperial capital becoming lower and lower. Furthermore, Long Chen had become the target of all his fellow noble heirs.

  But not even the slightest news came from the Border Suppression Marquis. Long Chen couldn’t help but feel a bit resentful of his father, but he was always fiercely reprimanded by his mother whenever he brought it up.

  After his awakening a few days ago, Long Chen had finally realized that something was wrong. He had been thinking far too simply about the situation before.

  For his father to refuse multiple summonings, he naturally had to have his own reasons. It couldn’t be just because of the battle against the barbarian tribes.

  If he had refused just once or twice, that would have been one thing. But he had refused to answer his summons multiple times, causing many of the nobles in the imperial capital to feel dissatisfied with Long Tianxiao.

  There were also people who secretly spread rumors that he was plotting a rebellion, but no matter how wildly these rumors spread, no response came from Long Tianxiao.

  Three years ago, the royal family ceased to issue any further summons to him, but from then on, the days of the Long household became even worse.

  First, the Long family’s stipend was cut. No income came in any longer, immediately forcing them into poverty. Then, even the noble heirs started to bully Long Chen.

  Also, the last time Long Chen had been beaten, that old swindler had conned the Long family out of so much money. With that, Long Chen had finally realized that something was up.

  Someone was slowly forcing him and his mother into desperate straits. It was obviously to force Long Tianxiao to surrender, but as for what secrets were behind this, Long Chen had no idea.

  But what he was sure of was that there was at least one person in the shadows who was conspiring against his father, and he was definitely extremely powerful.

  “I can’t deal with that now. A hungry wolf will eventually reveal his fangs; what I need to do now is to increase my strength.”

  After giving Bao-er a few simple instructions, Long Chen immediately began his seclusion. The FengFu Star’s embryonic form had already been condensed, so what was next was simple. All he needed to do was to continuously feed it with medicinal energy.

  The FengFu Star on the bottom of Long Chen’s foot was continuously absorbing the FengFu Pills’ medicinal energy and was quickly growing larger.

  Under Long Chen’s crazy consumption of the pills, the originally small FengFu Star became several times larger over seven days. It was as if an entirely new space was forming on the bottom of Long Chen’s foot.

  After growing to the size of a longan fruit, it no longer continued to grow. Under the continual absorption of medicinal energy, countless faint lines had started to appear over the FengFu Star. The faint lines began to slowly revolve.

  BOOM!

  When the final middle grade FengFu Pill was absorbed, that originally completely silent FengFu Star finally trembled and started to wildly absorb the outside world’s spiritual energy.

  “Yes, I finally succeeded!”

  Long Chen roared as he felt his entire body become full of energy.

  “But right now it’s just the initial success. According to the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, each star requires ‘nine transformations’ to become perfect. My FengFu Star has only just reached an initial complete form, so if I were to describe it as how the outside world cultivates, it might not even be as far as reaching the first Heavenstage of Qi Condensation.”

  Letting out three punches into the air, the wind’s roar shook his eardrums as the wall wildly shook and nearly collapsed.

  He was able to release such a force without using any spiritual qi and relying solely on the strength of his physical body.

  Long Chen couldn’t help but go mad with joy. Although there were drawbacks, the main one being how slow training in it was, the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s strength was absolutely amazing!

  At only the first Heavenstage, the current him was already so much stronger than when he had crushed the stone grinder with just a single fist.

  “Hehe, if I can continue like this, I’ll definitely be able to take back my fiancée soon,” laughed Long Chen. Thinking about Meng Qi’s face, a burning desire lit up within him.

  Next time I see that damn crap-brother Xi, I’ll beat him up so badly he won’t know up from down.

  Suddenly, Long Chen clapped his head; after focusing on his seclusion so much, he had forgotten that today was the day to go to the Imperial College!

  Seeing that the day was already starting to brighten, he hastily put on a new set of clothes and rushed to the Imperial College. He had a bright smile along the entire journey.

  He had happily found out that his FengFu Star was able to store an extremely great deal of spiritual qi. When he refined pills in the future, he wouldn’t have to worry about his spiritual qi being insufficient anymore.

  Last time he had fought wi
th Li Hao, Long Chen had used Spirit of the Bull and had found it to be extremely powerful. He had defeated Li Hao in just one blow.

  But that one blow had consumed almost all of his spiritual qi. Now he wouldn’t have to worry about that anymore.

  Sensing how much spiritual qi was stored in his FengFu Star, he estimated that he had enough to use Spirit of the Bull dozens of times. This was the difference between the embryonic and initial FengFu Star!

  The greatest impact, however, was that with the increase of his cultivation base, his physical strength had also risen rapidly. Although he hadn’t tested it, it was definitely enough to intimidate his enemies.

  In the midst of his self-celebration, he arrived at the Imperial College. He once more became well-behaved as he walked through its gates and hurried over to the literature hall.

  As soon as he entered, the originally noisy literature hall became completely silent.

  Li Hao’s death was something many people had trouble accepting. All the noble heirs had personally gone and witnessed Long Chen’s single domineering fist. The noble heirs that had originally ridiculed Long Chen now couldn’t help being afraid.

  “Haha, brother Long!”

  Fatty Yu and the others all laughed and hastily came over to him.

  “Brother Long, you’re becoming more and more handsome.”

  “Brother Long, please sit.”

  “Brother Long, have some tea.”

  “Brother Long, I’ll give you a back massage.”

  Long Chen laughed and scolded, “No need for all this nonsense. But if you can get me some food, that would be good; I still haven’t eaten any breakfast.”

  Long Chen found a corner to sit at. Fatty Yu had already brought over the refreshments, and all the rest of them were completely fixed on Long Chen.

  He really was hungry at the moment, as for the past few days, he had basically only consumed pills to the point that he was sick of them now. He quickly devoured the refreshments.

  After eating for a short while, Shi Feng also arrived and waved at him.