Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048

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

  According to Long Chen’s estimates, the Burst Bear he had killed before would probably not even be able to take a single blow from this KingKong Fury Ape.

  Just a random blow from it had tens of tons of force behind it. If Long Chen hadn’t advanced to Blood Condensation, then just relying on his physical body, he also wouldn’t have been able to beat it.

  Having fought on equal grounds for so long, now Long Chen was planning on not wasting any more time.

  “Breaking Wind Fist!” Wild gales unfurled and a faint layer of light appeared on Long Chen’s fist.

  His fist heavily smashed into the KingKong Fury Ape’s arm. With a muffled bang, the mountain-like KingKong Fury Ape was actually sent flying dozens of meters away, slamming into and breaking over ten huge trees behind it.

  As expected, his physical body had greatly improved after advancing to Blood Condensation. Even his control of Battle Skills had improved.

  The power of the Breaking Wind Fist was much greater than when he had been in the Qi Condensation realm. Adding on his physical strength, it was able to force back a second rank Magical Beast.

  Long Chen himself hadn’t expected to grow so much stronger after entering the Blood Condensation realm.

  The KingKong Fury Ape was on its last legs. It emitted a loud roar and angrily glared at him.

  It had been the overlord of this region for hundreds of years. This was the first time it had been provoked by a small human, and it was completely unable to accept this.

  BOOM!

  It smashed the land, and suddenly its black fur stood completely on end. A frightening aura came from it.

  Long Chen was startled, immediately sensing the change. He hadn’t expected that this Magical Beast actually had power hidden in reserve.

  It raised its fangs at Long Chen and stamped on the ground, immediately charging over like a meteorite.

  Long Chen suddenly felt an intense pressure. He didn’t dare be careless. His power exploded out and he once more used the Breaking Wind Fist.

  But this time Long Chen felt his body shake and he was sent flying when his fist smashed into the KingKong Fury Ape. He only managed to stabilize himself after being blown sixty meters away.

  “It was actually able to attack on the same level as a Tendon Transformation expert. As expected, the body of a Magical Beast truly is frightening.”

  Long Chen shook his slightly numb arm. That attack had been extraordinary just now. If he hadn’t advanced to Blood Condensation, there would have even been a chance his arm would have broken.

  Although that attack hadn’t been on the same level as Marquis Ying’s attacks, it was only one level weaker. It really was true that humans at the same level as Magical Beasts were not able to fight against them.

  Obviously, this KingKong Fury Ape had its own hidden trump cards. Only this was its strongest state.

  It roared angrily once more and charged at Long Chen. But before Long Chen even made a move, a ray of light suddenly shot past and struck it head-on.

  That ray of light had been extremely fast, and it had struck the KingKong Fury Ape before it could even react.

  But that light didn’t even manage to cut through its skin before being broken.

  Long Chen was slightly surprised. At some unknown time, Little Snow who had been hiding in the distance had come up and his mouth was currently open.

  “A wind blade?” Long Chen had heard before that third rank and higher Magical Beasts had their own inherited Battle Skills. So it was actually true.

  But the wind blade Little Snow had spat out had been pitifully weak. Of course, just how old was Little Snow? Little Snow hadn’t even truly reached the first rank yet, but was still able to launch long-distance attacks, which was shocking.

  Seeing that his attack hadn’t had any effect, Little Snow prepared to attack again. But suddenly he felt himself being sent flying.

  “Don’t make trouble.” Long Chen had thrown Little Snow further away. That little fellow must have thought he had been in danger and wanted to help.

  But Little Snow’s little bit of attack power couldn’t even tickle the KingKong Fury Ape. He was afraid Little Snow would be hurt, so he directly threw him somewhere safer.

  Looking at the KingKong Fury Ape charging at him, Long Chen coldly shouted, “Divine ring!”

  Suddenly a ring of light appeared behind Long Chen. It grew to a diameter of three hundred meters. The original cyclones could no longer be seen. The thirteen cyclones had merged into one, and looking from a distance, it appeared to be a rainbow.

  After the divine ring appeared, heaven and earth trembled slightly. The spiritual qi within an area of hundreds of miles flowed towards Long Chen, causing him to immediately feel invigorated, his whole body full of strength.

  Long Chen had realized that after his thirteen cyclones had merged together, the effect was just like when he used to inject some of his FengFu Star’s spiritual qi into his cyclones. However, now it was constant. Their efficiency had reached a terrifying level.

  At this point, the KingKong Fury Ape had already arrived in front of Long Chen. Without even thinking about it, Long Chen punched out.

  BANG! An explosion shook the sky as terrifying waves of qi radiated out. Long Chen’s long hair danced and his clothes fluttered. The divine ring behind him contrasted and complimented him, making him appear like a celestial emperor disdainfully looking down on the nine heavens.

  The KingKong Fury Ape’s terrifying attack was actually blocked by Long Chen completely. At this time, Long Chen felt an unprecedented strength within him.

  It appeared he had still underestimated this divine ring. The divine ring formed from the superimposition of thirteen cyclones caused his strength to explode by an enormous amount. It was so great that even he felt some disbelief.

  He didn’t have much understanding of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. It truly was a technique that was endlessly profound and would require continuous exploration. This combination of the thirteen cyclones was even more effective than when he had used his FengFu Star’s spiritual qi to empower his cyclones.

  Long Chen let out an earth-shaking roar. That enormous KingKong Fury Ape was shockingly, directly thrown into the air by him.

  His broadsword then arced through the air, releasing a sword-light that cut straight through its body, causing blood to fill the air.

  The two pieces of its corpse fell to the ground.

  “It really is worthy of being an Earth class Battle Skill. What a terrifying killing strength.”

  Even such a powerful being like the KingKong Fury Ape was cleanly cut in two by the Parting Wind Slash. It seemed he had been looking down on the technique.

  In reality, Long Chen was still unaware that not all Earth class Battle Skills could launch ranged attacks. On the contrary, most Battle Skills worked by being applied onto weapons.

  It was only by chance that the Three Style Parting Wind was a Battle Skill that used the body’s wind attribute energy to release Sword Qi that could be used for ranged attacks.

  Such Battle Skills were actually quite rare. It also required that the martial artist have wind attribute spiritual qi in order to train in it.

  It wasn’t like ordinary Earth class Battle Skills that were attributeless and only required spiritual qi to be injected into the weapon.

  Although such a technique was rare, it also had its own flaws. The main one was that those without wind attribute spiritual qi in their body were unable to use it.

  As for Long Chen, he was just a beginner to the cultivation world and didn’t know what this ‘attribute’ meant. Just a careless test had allowed him to successfully train in it, but he had no idea about why he could use it.

  If such a situation was known by Xia Changfeng, wouldn’t he be angered enough to die a second time?

  “Aowu!”

  Long Chen was interrupted from his thoughts by Little Snow running up to the KingKong Fury Ape’s corpse. He actually started to wildly tear at its
flesh.

  The KingKong Fury Ape’s physical body was extremely powerful and tough. Yet, Little Snow was still able to tear off a piece of its flesh for himself. But chewing it was extremely strenuous.

  Little Snow seemed to be similar to Wilde in that meat was the source of their strength and could allow them to get stronger. As soon as either of them saw meat, they had to eat it.

  Long Chen took out a knife and cut off a few pieces for Little Snow. But Little Snow ignored that, focusing completely on tearing the KingKong Fury ape’s thigh muscles.

  Long Chen helplessly cut a few strips of that part off.

  This corpse was to be offered to the forest divinity, but Long Chen presumed that a gentle woman like her wouldn’t be so stingy as to bicker about a bit of flesh.

  Little Snow had traveled hundreds of miles for him. Who knew just how much he had suffered? If he didn’t let that little fellow eat his fill, Long Chen would feel even more guilty.

  Once the little fellow had eaten his fill and his stomach was bulging out, he finally stopped and Long Chen tidied up the corpse, preparing to drag it along.

  That was because its corpse was too big and was unable to fit in the spatial ring. The other reason was that Long Chen wanted to keep the scent of its blood outside. He continued deeper into the depths of the forest.

  Chapter 92 World Binding Blood Sacrifice

  A six-meter-long Bright Colored Tiger fell to the ground with a seven-foot-long broadsword stabbed into its head.

  The broadsword was yanked out of its head, bringing with it a spray of blood.

  Long Chen wiped off some sweat. Looking at the several Magical Beast corpses behind him, he relaxed a great deal.

  Over the past two days, Long Chen had dragged along Magical Beast corpses behind him, and as he had expected, the scent of their blood had drawn over other beasts.

  Those beasts had exceptionally keen senses when it came to the scent of that blood. That scent meant a Magical Beast was injured. Magical Beasts were extremely ferocious, and oftentimes there would be intense battles over territory.

  Deep within this thick forest, being injured signified that death was near. Those beasts that wouldn’t dare provoke Magical Beasts in normal times would all leap at this chance.

  This tiger was already his eighth Magical Beast. Now there was a long string of Magical Beast corpses behind him.

  There were tigers, leopards, and even huge lizards. They were all neatly strung together firmly by beast tendons.

  Little Snow leisurely padded along by those corpses and would take frantic bites until he was completely full, then fall asleep. After a nap, he would immediately start eating again.

  This long train of Magical Beasts had become a luxurious carriage with a free buffet for him.

  Long Chen checked over his spoils. He currently had three second rank Magical Beasts and six peak first rank Magical Beasts. That should be enough to repay the forest god for her favor.

  A single second rank Magical Beast’s flesh definitely contained more energy than even ten first rank Magical Beasts. Long Chen’s spoils had long since exceeded the forest god’s demands.

  Long Chen remembered her benevolence and didn’t want to owe too much. Furthermore, when he had been resisting the heavenly punishment, it was the forest god who had helped him.

  He had actually been hoping to get a bit more, but even after walking for a whole extra day, there were no more Magical Beasts that came. There didn’t seem to be anymore second rank Magical Beasts in the vicinity.

  As for weaker first rank Magical Beasts, they were attracted by the blood, but they didn’t approach. Even a wounded second rank Magical Beast could easily kill them.

  So despite roaming around for a whole day, he no longer made any more harvests. He switched directions to go directly to the mountain peak of the forest god.

  When Long Chen arrived at that huge tree, the white-robed woman reappeared. But when she saw the long train of huge Magical Beast corpses behind him, she didn’t have too great of a reaction.

  “You’ve come.”

  “Yes, I’ve come to settle my debt,” smiled Long Chen.

  “The remuneration you brought has exceeded our initial pledge. That’s not exactly fair to you.”

  “In this world, there was never any real fairness. I’m just doing this to make myself feel better. I don’t like owing people,” said Long Chen.

  She nodded. “Then I’ll thank you. The flesh you’ve brought should be enough for me to fully activate the World Binding Blood Sacrifice and break out of this space back to the Spirit World.”

  That huge tree trembled slightly, and those huge corpses all disappeared in just a moment.

  “Ao!” Little Snow who was originally sleeping on those corpses was suddenly awoken. He couldn’t help but go into a wild panic when he saw all those corpses had disappeared. He wanted to get one last bite in, but he only bit down on empty air. He actually started roaring at the woman angrily.

  “Don’t make a fuss Little Snow.” Long Chen shouted laughingly at that little fellow to calm him down.

  “Haha, you think I stole your meat?” She laughed, “It’s true you need meat to grow stronger. But I can give you something much better than meat.”

  She waved her hand and a bright ray of light poured into Little Snow’s forehead. Shockingly, Little Snow began to slowly grow larger after being enveloped by that light.

  He actually grew from being just one meter long to being close to three meters long. Little Snow now almost reached Long Chen’s shoulders.

  Furthermore, Long Chen could sense a powerful aura that was only becoming stronger coming from Little Snow.

  “Second rank?!” The current aura coming from Little Snow was the aura of a second rank Magical Beast!

  “I took your meat, so I’ll give you the energy to mature so that we’re even.” The woman laughed and rubbed Little Snow’s head.

  That really startled Long Chen. Other than himself, Little Snow had never allowed anyone else to touch him. If Little Snow were to attack, that would definitely sour the situation.

  But Little Snow was unusually calm. He seemed to actually enjoy her rubbing. Afterwards he lay on the ground and took a nap.

  “I’ve completely awakened its spirit. That can count as me compensating it,” she said to Long Chen.

  “Doesn’t it seem like I owe you another favor now?” Long Chen couldn’t help but shake his head, smiling bitterly.

  He had thought he could completely repay his favors this time. But in the end, he owed another favor right now. However, that favor was definitely worth it.

  Little Snow was a third rank Magical Beast, a Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf. His battle strength was extremely great. Now that he had already advanced to the second rank, even if he couldn’t defeat a Tendon Transformation expert, he would still be able to fight against them for a while.

  Such a powerful companion could definitely provide a measure of safety for someone like him who was surrounded by danger.

  “You’re too gracious. My spirit race also doesn’t like owing favors. Originally, it probably would have taken me at least a couple of hundred years before being able to return to the Spirit World. But you’ve allowed me to return home much earlier. The one who should be saying thanks is me,” she politely said. “Now I’ll be beginning the World Binding Blood Sacrifice. You should back up a bit.”

  Hearing that, Long Chen hastily woke Little Snow up and rushed further away. With how solemn she was, he didn’t dare to be careless. At the same time, he was also extremely curious as to what that so-called World Binding Blood Sacrifice was.

  Rumble…

  Long Chen was several miles away when the rumbling began. He hastily turned to look back and jumped in shock.

  The huge tree which stretched several miles into the sky had suddenly begun to explosively grow. Its enormous treetop spread, piercing through the clouds and covering half the sky.

  The countless leaves completely hid
the mountain peak with countless symbols shining on top of them. Divine light overflowed from them and covered the sky.

  Long Chen watched with his mouth wide open. What kind of existence was this? Was it really a god? Did this world really have divinities?

  If it wasn’t a god, what else could cover up the entire sky, what else had an aura that was so ancient? In front of that intimidating aura, Long Chen felt as if he wasn’t even an ant, as if he was just a speck of dust.

  “It’s the forest god!” The village chief was also shocked, but the villagers recognized it to be the forest god.

  Looking at the scene, all those villagers knelt on the ground and prostrated themselves towards that direction.

  The forest god appeared in the sky above. She formed a strange hand seal.

  “Respected ancestors, please hear your people’s call. With blood as the guide, open a path home for your people - World Binding Blood Sacrifice!”

  Following her devout shout, an image made of blood appeared in the sky. By carefully looking at it, you could tell that that was the image of a leaf.

  Long Chen guessed that the blood was the essence blood of the Magical Beasts she had collected over the years. But he still didn’t truly comprehend why someone as amazingly powerful as her would use human hunters to collect that blood.

  With her terrifying cultivation base, no matter how strong the Magical Beast was, they would all be blown to bits just by a single breath. Was that will of resentment she had mentioned actually so terrifying?

  BOOM! Heaven and earth trembled, causing Long Chen to almost fall to the ground. Raising his head, he saw that the blood image in the sky had begun to twist.

  Following space’s slow warping, a huge gate fifty miles high formed. As soon as it fully formed, it began to slowly open.

  The instant that door opened, Long Chen saw the world within it. That was also a world of endless trees.

  But each huge tree was so tall as to prop up the heavens. There were also countless powerful beasts roaming within, each of them so large that they were comparable to mountains.

  A spiritual qi that was so dense it had almost turned solid also came out of that huge door.