Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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The old Xuan Master nodded. Long Chen’s style of doing things was related to his experiences. The two of them simply continued watching.
Pill Valley’s elder was so infuriated that he was about to explode. In all his years, he had encountered many tough negotiators, but he had never encountered someone as unreasonable as Long Chen.
This was clearly fallacious reasoning. It was as ridiculous as a chicken birthing an egg which birthed a chicken which birthed an egg which birthed a chicken. If this wasn’t extortion, then what was?
The elder didn’t say anything to Long Chen. Long Chen’s attitude was clear. He was a completely unreasonable person, and nothing the elder said would be useful against him.
After half an incense stick’s worth of silence, he finally said, “Since this was done by Pill Valley’s traitors, Pill Valley will pay the debt. We will pay for the commoners according to how you specified.”
Within the Xuantian Tower, the old Xuan Master was startled. They really had accepted.
However, Li Tianxuan wasn’t surprised. Pill Valley had no choice but to suffer this time. After all, the entire continent was watching them. Even if they were cheated, they had to endure it.
At the very least, enduring meant that they could maintain Pill Valley’s dignity and reputation. This was a pain that they had to go through; otherwise, it would be even worse when their reputation hit rock bottom.
“Alright, then once this compensation arrives, this matter between Pill Valley and the Xuantian Dao Sect will be over,” said Long Chen.
“Pill Valley will send you the money within three days.” After saying that, the elder left with his people without ever looking back.
Once they left, Guo Ran asked, “Boss, is our conflict with Pill Valley resolved now?”
“Tch, resolved my ass. Remember, lives cannot be bought with money. The only reason why I bothered speaking with them was to first get some interest on their debt to us. We’ll hack them down later. Didn’t I say that the Xuantian Dao Sect’s matter ends here? However, that doesn’t represent that my personal enmity ends here. We’ll still kill who we should kill in the future, understood?” asked Long Chen.
“Boss, you really are evil,” praised Guo Ran.
Chapter 1584 Once More Encountering Troubles
Long Chen shook his head. “This isn’t evil. Pill Valley is also thinking like this. They only lowered their heads this time to win their reputation back, and I refuse to believe that they don’t understand what I said. They’re already scheming on how to bring us down. Our enmity with Pill Valley has been completely set in stone. If Pill Valley has a chance, they won’t hesitate to destroy the Xuantian Dao Sect. And if I have a chance, I definitely won’t let them off easy. Don’t get taken in by appearances. The Xuantian Dao Sect looks like it’s rising, but in terms of foundation, it cannot compare to Pill Valley. It might look like we got a large sum from Pill Valley, but to their sales of medicinal pills over tens of thousands of years, it’s nothing. Medicinal pills are the most profitable business. They’ve held monopolies for so many years. No one knows how much wealth they’ve accumulated. Of course, Pill Valley won’t just let that money rot away. They definitely have the ability to transform that wealth into terrifying power. The most powerful existence in this world is money. Why is it that Pill Valley can act so tyrannical to everyone except the Huayun Sect? Because the Huayun Sect has money. The Xuantian Dao Sect doesn’t have a matching wealth for its sudden rise. There are many newcomers that the sect has to raise now, and that’s all money. Furthermore, the sect must be rebuilt. With the great era coming, it must be rebuilt as fast as possible. That all requires an ocean’s worth of resources. So don’t get confused by our victory now. As soon as someone loses their sense of crisis, the real crisis comes.”
Everyone’s hearts shook. After the battle in the Grand Han, Long Chen’s name had shaken the very heavens, and the Dragonblood Legion’s name had rocked the world. They truly had felt very satisfied with that unrivaled state.
Only now did they realize that it was too early to be happy. Things were far from as simple as they seemed.
“Everyone, go into seclusion. Guo Ran, you stay behind.”
Once everyone had left, Guo Ran laughed mischievously. “Boss, are you giving this little brother some special treatment?”
This little fellow was craftier than a monkey. Long Chen was speechless as Guo Ran had guessed right.
“Yes. This time, I gained some new Heavenly Dao Fruits. However, it’s a bit different from what I imagined.”
Long Chen brought Guo Ran somewhere private and took out a Heavenly Dao Fruit.
This Heavenly Dao Fruit was different from before. Before, a Heavenly Dao Fruit had one to nine marks depending on the rank of the Celestial.
However, this one had no marks. It was translucent, and the inside was a mass of primal chaos.
This time, he had gained sixteen of these Heavenly Dao Fruits. Amongst them included Hu Xiaolin and Jin Mingwei’s whose manifestations had reached a state of initial awakening. However, Long Chen found that all of them were the same. The energy fluctuations were also identical.
There was no way to ascertain which ones came from Hu Xiaolin or Jin Mingwei. Long Chen guessed that the Heavenly Dao Tree only absorbed their Heavenly Dao energy, but not their manifestation. Their actual manifestation returned to the heavens.
“Eat one as a test.” Long Chen handed a Heavenly Dao Fruit over.
“Boss, you really treat me well!” Guo Ran was grateful. He knew that in the Dragonblood Legion, he was the only one to obtain this Heavenly Dao Fruit.
“Yup. Eat it.”
Guo Ran devoured it in three gulps. As the Heavenly Dao Fruit entered his stomach, Guo Ran’s expression changed. He suddenly found that his Heavenly Dao energy was evaporating out of his control. It was actually dissipating.
“Boss!” cried Guo Ran.
Long Chen’s expression was also serious. As expected, the Heavenly Dao energy of Empyreans was marked by the Heavenly Daos. Unless someone was approved by the Heavenly Daos, there was no way to absorb it.
Not only could Guo Ran not absorb it, but his rank nine Celestial status was also being stripped away.
It was like someone was caught cheating during a test. Not only were their cheating tools taken away, but even their current accomplishments were eliminated.
“Summon your armor and see if you can lock it in,” said Long Chen.
Guo Ran hastily summoned his armor, covering his entire body. Countless runes lit up.
“Boss, it’s no good!” cried Guo Ran. He was unable to lock in his dissipating energy. Like using a bamboo basket to hold water, there was no way to make it work by just trying harder.
Long Chen placed a hand on his back. “Don’t move. Let me see if I can help you control it.”
Long Chen sent his spiritual yuan throughout Guo Ran’s body, forming a barrier to lock the energy in.
However, no matter how he tried to stop it, he was unable to stop the Heavenly Dao energy from escaping. A person had too many acupuncture points.
If Long Chen used his full power, he could forcibly suppress that energy. He felt like there was an eighty percent chance of success in suppressing it.
However, that would cause Guo Ran’s body to explode instantly. Even Gu Yang would be unable to bear that impact.
Long Chen pulled back his hand, and Guo Ran felt like he was a deflating balloon. All his Heavenly Dao energy escaped.
“Boss, what happened?” asked Guo Ran.
“It’s fine. It’s just that your Heavenly Dao energy disappeared and you’re no longer a Celestial,” said Long Chen.
“Ah? How is that fine?!” Guo Ran jumped. If he didn’t have Heavenly Dao energy, he would basically be crippled.
“Don’t worry, the reason I chose you to test is because you have your armor. I wanted to see if that could lock it in. Since it can’t, it means this wouldn’t work for anyone else either. This experimen
t is a failure,” said Long Chen helplessly.
“What the fuck, so you were just using me as a guinea pig?! Why was I so grateful?” Guo Ran had a desire to cry tearless tears.
“Don’t worry. Someone had to test it. Since directly consuming it is no good, I’ll come up with some medicinal formulas to refine the Heavenly Dao Fruit into Heavenly Dao Pills. Go and distribute these rank nine Heavenly Dao Fruits. The entire Dragonblood Legion will be full of rank nine Celestials.” Long Chen handed a spatial ring to Guo Ran.
The spatial ring was packed with just enough rank nine Heavenly Dao Fruits to transform each rank seven and rank eight Celestial in the Dragonblood Legion into a rank nine Celestial.
Their gains during the last battle were truly great. The Dragonblood Legion’s power was about to rise once more.
The only thing that depressed Long Chen was that the experiment had failed, resulting in him wasting a possible Empyrean appearing in the Dragonblood Legion.
However, fortunately he had used Guo Ran as an experiment first. Otherwise, if he had distributed them at the start, they would all be wasted.
Long Chen first ran over to Li Tianxuan to see the situation with the formation. The cost of the formation Xia Chen had sent was absolutely terrifying.
“If Pill Valley pays in full, then adding on our current wealth, we can finish about eighty percent of the formation. As for the remaining twenty percent, we can think of something in the future. In any case, building such a huge formation will require a long time,” said Li Tianxuan.
“How long would it take to reconstruct the Xuantian Dao Sect?” asked Long Chen.
“About a hundred years,” said Li Tianxuan.
“A hundred years? That’s way too long!” Long Chen almost jumped.
“A hundred years is already very fast. You should know that when the Xuantian Dao Sect was first built, it took eight hundred years. By the time the formations and buildings were fully built, it had been a thousand years. If you want to complete it faster, it’ll take even more manpower and resources. We don’t have the money,” said Li Tianxuan. It was just as Long Chen said: the Xuantian Dao Sect didn’t have enough money as a foundation.
The main reason was due to the long period of decline. Even though they had revived, their pockets were still empty, and it took a long time to accumulate wealth. Wealth was even more important to a sect’s foundation than geniuses.
“Even so, it’s too long. We can’t wait that long.” Long Chen shook his head.
“I understand. With the great era coming, heavenly geniuses are sprouting up, and countless hibernating sects are awakening. This is an era where countless flowers bloom and strive to outshine the others. However, it’s also the most dangerous era. The slightest carelessness will cause one to be washed out of the era. Unfortunately, we can only do it this way. Just because you want to build it faster doesn’t mean that we can,” said Li Tianxuan helplessly.
“I understand why we can’t, and you understand why we must. But it’s still no good. This formation relates to the Xuantian Dao Sect’s life and death. It has to be constructed in as short of a time as possible,” said Long Chen decisively.
Although he had the support of the Wine God Palace and the Xuantian Dao Sect, and even Qu Jianying had warned others that she would protect Long Chen, he could not entrust the lives of his brothers and himself in the hands of others. That wouldn’t give any sense of safety.
The formation that Xia Chen had sent over had been studied by Li Tianxuan. It was a formation that had vanished from the earth, and it was extremely powerful. If they could construct this formation, then the Xuantian Dao Sect would have established a confident foothold even within the great era.
That was why this formation was a must for Long Chen. It had to be built as fast as possible.
A hundred years was too long. Who knew what would happen in a hundred years? What if someone attacked in the middle of the construction and ruined everything?
“Then how long do you want?” asked Li Tianxuan.
“One to two years,” said Long Chen.
Li Tianxuan and the old Xuan Master sucked in a cold gasp of air. Li Tianxuan said, “Ignoring whether or not that’s physically possible, even if it is, the cost of building it that quickly will be ten times greater than the original estimation,” said Li Tianxuan.
Constructing the Xuantian Dao Sect wasn’t just building houses. The formation had many runes that needed to be nourished for a long time. To have them mature in a short time would require more resources, more wealth. The cost was staggering.
“That’s fine. Xuan Master, you can get started with planning and building the foundation. I’ll think of something for the rest.”
Long Chen left the Xuantian Tower under the shocked gazes of Li Tianxuan and the old Xuan Master. He told the Dragonblood warriors to focus on their cultivation, and he left the Xuantian Dao Sect alone, going directly to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect.
He didn’t dare to tarry. With the old man’s temper, who knew whether or not he would directly charge the Netherpassage realm in his fury? Without fully preparing, his odds of failure were too high.
Chapter 1585 Explosive Temper
“Aiya, who kicked me in the butt?!”
“Fuck off, who grabbed my pants?!”
Bang, bang, bang…
“Aiya, my eyes!”
When Long Chen arrived at the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, a group of dozens of disciples were brawling at the gate. All of their faces were bruised, and as their fists met flesh, they seemed to get quite a kick out of it.
No matter how many people were present, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect was always like this. They were very lively.
“Wait a sec, big brother Long Chen has come- aiya!”
A disciple suddenly saw Long Chen and cried out, only to have another disciple knock him down.
“Do you think we’re idiots? You’ve tried that move three hundred times now!” sneered the puncher, continuing to fight.
The disciples didn’t get distracted and continued fighting like it was a joy, leaving Long Chen speechless.
“Hey, can you help me out and get out the way so I can go?” asked Long Chen, but no one acknowledged him.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s divine ring appeared, and a powerful surge of power blew away the disciples. They tumbled back like calabashes.
“Big brother Long Chen really came!”
The disciples crawled up wretchedly, looking at Long Chen with surprise.
“Big brother Long Chen, come teach us how to get stronger!” One of those disciples ran over worshipfully.
“You’re already very strong… Can you wipe off your snot first?” Long Chen couldn’t bear to talk to a disciple whose face was covered in blood, sweat, snot, and tears.
“Big brother Long Chen, we all saw how heroic you were in the Grand Han. Can you teach us how to do the same? We want to get stronger too!” cried a disciple. He was already a Sea Expansion expert, which was already quite talented for his age. His eyes blazed with passion as he stared at Long Chen.
“No problem. I’ll think of some special medicinal pills that should change your constitutions.” Seeing these disciples looking at him like a god, Long Chen could only come up with a vague reply.
Those disciples went wild with joy, as if a single word from Long Chen would be able to transform them into peerless experts.
That couldn’t be blamed on them. The legend of the Dragonblood Legion had shaken the continent. None of them had been that talented, but by following Long Chen, their cultivation bases had advanced by leaps and bounds. They weren’t one bit inferior to the core disciples that other sects had raised with their full power. That was thanks to Long Chen.
Long Chen hastily ran up the mountain after saying a few words to them. Hearing that Long Chen had come, the bosses came out as well.
“I want to see the old man,” said Long Chen.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea. I just ca
me from his house. He said that he’s attacking the Netherpassage realm today and to not disturb him,” said Boss Bao.
“This quickly?” Long Chen was startled, hastily saying, “Hurry up and interrupt him before he starts his attempt. I came precisely for this.”
Boss Bao was stunned, but seeing Long Chen’s panic, he pulled Long Chen and the other bosses to the top of the mountain.
At the peak of the mountain was the old man. The Heaven Splitting Blade was revolving around his head, enveloping him in divine light. He was currently sitting with his eyes closed.
“Senior, please permit disciple to interrupt the old man’s cultivation. Disciple has something very important to report.” Long Chen knew that the Heaven Splitting Blade was currently protecting the old man. If Long Chen wanted to disturb him, he would need the Heaven Splitting Blade’s approval.
The Heaven Splitting Blade actually did retract its divine light. The old man slowly opened his eyes.
“Fuck, I just told you not to disturb me! You- oh, brat, what are you doing here?” The old man was irritated at being disturbed, but his fury calmed down when he saw Long Chen.
Boss Bao and the others sighed with relief. After returning from the Grand Han, the old man’s temper had grown more explosive. If Long Chen wasn’t present now, they would definitely have to face a beating.
“Boss Bao, you guys go rest. I need to speak to the old man alone.” Long Chen cast a glance at Boss Bao and the others.
Inside, Boss Bao and the others gave him a thumbs-up, feeling like Long Chen was handling this for them so that they wouldn’t have to face the old man’s rage.
The seven of them left without hesitation. Long Chen turned to the old man. “I suppose I made it in time. I came to give you something.”
Long Chen handed over a jade case. This was the jade case Qu Jianying had given Long Chen to pass to the old man.
The jade box contained some of her experiences when advancing to the Netherpassage realm. It was precisely what the old man needed. It could increase his chances of advancing.