Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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He carefully jumped onto its head. This giant centipede’s body was hollow. It was just a husk.
Originally, he had still possessed some hope, but when he opened its head, he felt disappointed. Its poison sack had been taken, while its crystal core was ruined as well. It was like something had sucked it dry.
Although it was said that a twelfth rank Magical Beasts’ body was comparable to a divine item, that would only be true while their divine runes were intact. With their crystal core withered, those divine runes would fade away. This corpse was also worthless.
Although its teeth and outer shell might possess some value, Long Chen didn’t care too much about that. It was possible to refine it into some weapons or armor, but their power would be lower than that of divine items. Hence, he tossed it into the primal chaos space’s black soil.
Long Chen continued forward. Everything in front of him was pitch black, and he couldn’t see the end. He was starting to get a bad feeling.
These two Magical Beasts had died in a bizarre way. It made him feel like this cave was too dangerous.
However, since he had already come here, he was unwilling to leave without getting to the bottom of the cave.
He didn’t dare to spread his Spiritual Strength to investigate what was going on here. He didn’t want to disturb whatever was inside.
Having completely suppressed his aura and his Spiritual Strength, he carefully advanced.
The cave was extremely deep. Miles later, he found another corpse and this time of a python. Its flesh had also vanished, leaving behind only its skeleton. There was still nothing valuable on its body.
Putting away its corpse, Long Chen continued onward. This time, he didn’t encounter a Magical Beast’s corpse. If this cave hadn’t been just one straight path, he would have thought that he had taken a wrong turn somewhere.
He spent the better part of the day creeping forward carefully. Finally, he saw a faint glimmer of light in the distance. His guard rose as he slowly walked over.
After a few more turns, he arrived at a large and spacious area. When he poked his head in to look around, a chill went through his body.
Chapter 1813 Fighting the Metal Devouring Evil Dragon
This large space was filled with skeletons. Long Chen looked and saw at least over thirty corpses, all belonging to twelfth rank Magical Beasts.
Just seeing a single skeleton of a twelfth rank Magical Beast was already shocking enough, but seeing so many gathered together was another matter entirely.
Long Chen suppressed his wildly beating heart, doing his best to stay calm. He crept forward and saw that this was a giant underground space. There were skeletons everywhere. In front of them was a giant stone pillar. There was a giant dragon skeleton coiled around it.
This dragon skeleton looked like it had been made of gold. Divine light was still shining from it, illuminating this underground world.
This golden skeleton was definitely a true member of the dragon race, not a drake. It had two horns on its head to distinguish it.
“This should be the metal devouring evil dragon. It actually reached the Death realm. It seems it forcibly broke through, and its longevity ran out, causing it to die here,” said Evilmoon.
The human race’s Netherpassage realm had corresponding levels amongst twelfth rank Magical Beasts. There were four steps, stabilizing one’s power upon entering the Netherpassage realm, the Life realm, the Death realm, and the Samsara realm. The first step was essentially not even a realm. It didn’t require comprehension, just some time.
It was the latter three realms that were very difficult to cultivate. Each of them was a threshold that could result in death.
Originally, Evilmoon had thought that this metal devouring evil dragon had only reached the Life realm, but unexpectedly, it had entered the Death realm.
However, it had exhausted its life energy while in the Death realm, not possessing the ability to transform death into life. It had died, but its skeleton was perfectly preserved.
“Evilmoon, I don’t think it’s so simple. Based on my years of experience with bad luck, I smell something fishy,” said Long Chen cautiously.
“It really is strange. Its skeleton is still perfect, and its divine runes are still shining. That means its crystal core is still intact. Furthermore, look below its neck. Its reverse scale is still present and thrumming with dragon blood. That’s what drew us over,” said Evilmoon.
Long Chen looked at where Evilmoon was pointing and noticed a golden scale floating in front of the skeleton’s chest. Because its entire body was golden, that scale was covered up by the golden light. He hadn’t noticed it at first.
“Most importantly, these skeletons are too bizarre. So many Magical Beasts died here. I feel like this is a-”
Suddenly, the cave rumbled, and Long Chen felt something moving behind him. Looking back, he jumped.
At some unknown time, the path behind him had vanished. He was stuck here.
When Long Chen turned back, he saw that there was now a path behind the metal devouring evil dragon. That path was precisely the one he had entered from. He had no idea what had happened, but he had been moved into a death trap without realizing it. If he wanted to get out, he would need to get past the metal devouring evil dragon and the mountain of skeletons.
Just at this moment, the giant dragon skeleton on the stone pillar began to move. Its dragon head slowly turned toward Long Chen, and its mouth let out a booming voice. “I really didn’t expect to smell such a familiar scent. Hahaha, amazing. If I can devour you, I should have enough life energy to rise from the dead and step into the Samsara realm.”
The metal devouring evil dragon’s voice rang through the air. It was speaking the human language.
Long Chen came to a sudden comprehension. “So you were playing dead, using your essence blood to draw these Magical Beasts over and then killing them for their life energy.”
“Wrong. Hmph, the metal devouring evil dragon race disdains feigning death. I simply failed while attempting to break through to Samsara. My life energy was lacking, and even when I sacrificed my physical body, I was still unable to transform death into life. But then a few idiots began bumbling over here, attracted to my essence blood. Did they think they could take it? Even after failing my breakthrough, killing them was easy. But after absorbing their essence blood, I found that the life energy within them could allow me to attempt to break through again if I accumulated enough of it. Human race brat, you’re very good in particular. You actually have true dragon essence blood on you, and it’s so pure. Just who are you?” The metal devouring evil dragon’s large eye cavities began to twinkle with a cold light.
“Who am I? If you want to know who I am, stand firm! I am the seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-ninth generation heir to the divine dragon race! My name is Long Chen, ancestor to all dragons-”
BOM!
The metal devouring evil dragon’s eye suddenly unleashed a ray of divine light. This underground world shook intensely, and Long Chen’s mind-sea quivered as an unmatched power invaded it. It was a golden sword that was trying to destroy his mind-sea.
However, it had just appeared when the Divine Gate Star activated. A ray of light shattered the golden sword.
“Fuck, can you at least let me finish speaking?!” shouted Long Chen.
“To dare insult my dragon race, you have some guts.” The metal devouring evil dragon clearly wouldn’t fall for Long Chen’s lies. It opened its mouth, and a wave of golden light spread.
Long Chen’s soul immediately felt like it was about to break. It was like millions of needles were stabbing into his head.
A sea of Spiritual Strength was crashing down on his mind-sea. However, with his Divine Gate Star, that terrifying Spiritual Strength was unable to land a critical blow.
“No wonder those Magical Beasts were killed without being able to struggle. Your spiritual attacks are really vicious,” said Long Chen.
“It’s
not just a spiritual attack. The dragon might made them unable to resist at all. However, it is useless against you. That’s enough. Stop probing and kill it.” Evilmoon didn’t even wait for Long Chen. Its black marks lit up, and an evil air filled this space. It was sucking Long Chen’s spiritual yuan away.
“Split the Heavens 6!”
Long Chen launched his strongest attack. Evilmoon rumbled, and it was like a bolt of black lightning crashing down on the waist of the metal devouring evil dragon’s skeleton.
Its skeleton was cleanly cut in two. The metal devouring evil dragon roared furiously, “This is the aura of the dark evil dragon! You… you, a member of the grand dark evil dragons, have actually been refined into a weapon by humans!”
Evilmoon didn’t reply. Its two dragon marks lit up, and killing intent soared as it attacked again.
BOOM!
This time, its slash landed on the metal devouring evil dragon’s head. It was a heaven-shaking collision that caused Long Chen’s hands to split open and bleed. Evilmoon itself went flying out of his grip.
“Dark evil dragon, don’t you claim to be the emperor of the evil dragons? What happened to your dignity? What happened to your integrity? You’re an insult to the evil dragon race!”
The metal devouring evil dragon was infuriated. Although it only had half its body now, its sharp claws extended. Its claws looked like four golden hooks slamming toward Long Chen.
Lightning flashed. Long Chen used the Celestial Lightning Body Blink to dodge this attack.
As a result, its sharp claw landed against the wall, and this incredibly tough wall was cut through like it was tofu.
Its sharp claws began to fly through the air as quick as lightning, Long Chen repeatedly dodged. Each time, those claws nearly struck him. It was incredibly dangerous as he weaved through the air.
Just as it was crazily attacking Long Chen, Evilmoon suddenly slashed onto its neck, landing right on a joint. Its head came crashing down.
Even once its head fell to the ground, its skeleton, which had now been split into three portions, suddenly began to move. All three segments reconnected.
“Long Chen, splash some of your essence blood onto its bones. Don’t let it merge!” shouted Evilmoon as it attacked again, sending the head flying.
Long Chen didn’t tarry. He flashed toward its neck and spat out a mouthful of blood. It landed on the bone.
Long Chen was surprised to find that when his essence blood landed on its bones, its original golden color rapidly transformed into a white color.
His essence blood contained true dragon essence blood. That was an essence blood that suppressed all other dragons, including their dragon bloodlines.
The metal devouring evil dragon still had a bit of its essence blood in its skeleton, but when it encountered true dragon essence blood, it was instantly suppressed. It wasn’t even able to unleash its divine abilities.
Long Chen repeatedly flashed through the air, spitting out blood on the segments of the metal devouring evil dragon’s skeleton. It was no longer able to reconnect its body.
“Bastards, you can all die!”
The metal devouring evil dragon’s body seemed to have been sealed, leaving behind only its head. At this moment, it opened its mouth, and seventy-two sharp golden teeth stabbed toward Evilmoon like seventy-two swords.
BOOM!
Evilmoon was sent flying by one of the teeth. The metal devouring evil dragon’s teeth were its toughest weapon. Evilmoon was actually unable to block them.
With Evilmoon sent flying, another one of those teeth pierced toward Long Chen. It was fast, and there was nowhere for him to run.
Chapter 1814 Golden Dragon Teeth
“Little Heaven!”
Long Chen shouted, and the Heaven Flipping Seal appeared before him. It transformed into a giant divine seal that slammed forward.
BOOM!
The entire underground world shuddered. The Heaven Flipping Seal was sent flying by the seventy-two golden dragon teeth, smashing into Long Chen’s body.
Long Chen coughed up blood. He felt like his entire body was about to collapse.
These dragon teeth were all incredibly tough. Each one was as heavy as a star. If it hadn’t been for the Heaven Flipping Seal, he’d have definitely died.
Long Chen fled. He definitely couldn’t allow himself to be struck by this attack again.
Just at this moment, Evilmoon stabbed down from the air, inserting itself into the metal devouring evil dragon’s head and nailing it into the ground.
“Long Chen, get over here! Use a dragon blood seal!” shouted Evilmoon.
Long Chen immediately appeared beside Evilmoon, and a blood-colored rune appeared on his forehead. This was the seal used to control Magical Beasts. He didn’t quite know what Evilmoon was planning.
Evilmoon absorbed the blood-colored rune and sent it into the metal devouring evil dragon’s head.
“Bastard, my metal devouring evil dragon race never submits to others!”
“Idiot, who wants you to submit?”
Black qi suddenly burst out of Evilmoon. The golden head was quickly infected by that black qi. Cracks covered it.
Finally, the metal devouring evil dragon’s skull shattered, and a giant crystal core appeared. Long Chen’s blood-colored seal was on top of it.
“I’ll absorb its soul essence, and that will conveniently help you subdue these dragon teeth. Those are true treasures. Focus! Using the crystal core as a foundation, try to control the dragon teeth,” said Evilmoon.
Black qi continued to flow out of Evilmoon. It enveloped the golden crystal core, causing it to start turning black as well.
The roaring of the metal devouring evil dragon could still be heard coming from the crystal core, but it was unable to stop the invasion of the black qi. Its roaring gradually grew quieter.
Just at this moment, the seventy-two golden dragon teeth in the air shuddered. A small blood-colored rune appeared on each of them.
There was no need for Evilmoon to remind him. Long Chen formed hand seals, and his Spiritual Strength was fully activated. It poured into the crystal core, and the blood-colored runes on the seventy-two golden dragon teeth grew brighter and larger. In the end, every dragon tooth was completely covered in the blood-colored runes.
After fully covering the dragon teeth, the blood-colored runes shrank until they left behind a small mark at the bottom of each tooth.
“Success!” Long Chen laughed. He waved his hand, and the seventy-two dragon teeth began to revolve around his body like seventy-two sharp swords. “Hahaha, finally!” These dragon teeth were just like Xiang Yunfei’s bone spears. However, the dragon teeth were far stronger.
“These dragon teeth will be your weapons, so count yourself lucky. If you hadn’t possessed dragon blood, there would have been no way for you to subdue them. But then, calling you lucky is a bit much. Your luck really is garbage. I ended up underestimating the metal devouring evil dragon. If I hadn’t been hiding my aura from the start, a sudden sneak attack from it would have resulted in us being buried here,” said Evilmoon with some apprehension.
It had been too dangerous. If Evilmoon hadn’t severed the metal devouring evil dragon’s body at the start, causing it to lose a large portion of its combat power, they might have died.
If it hadn’t been cut apart, the complete metal devouring evil dragon’s power would have definitely been even greater. It wasn’t claimed to be unrivaled in close combat for nothing.
“Don’t blame everything on my luck. Wasn’t it all because of your own mistake of judgment? Hehe, however, I won’t blame you. As long as the results are good, it’s fine,” laughed Long Chen.
He gripped one of the dragon teeth, and it shrank and grew according to his will. It was as cold as ice, a bone-chilling cold. Most importantly, its weight was absolutely shocking. They were even heavier than Evilmoon. Holding them with one hand was a bit too much.
“No wonder even the Heaven Flipping Sea
l with its immense defensive power was unable to block them,” muttered Long Chen.
The Heaven Flipping Seal was a defensive divine item, and since its item-spirit was free to grow and unleash its power, it wasn’t limited by Long Chen’s cultivation base. It could be said to be his strongest defensive tool. However, even it almost failed today. Long Chen had almost been killed.
“The metal devouring evil dragon’s strongest point is its ability to gnaw on precious ores and grow stronger from their essence. That’s why their teeth are natural treasures, and they stay with them for a lifetime. Since this metal devouring evil dragon has reached the Death realm, its teeth are definitely much stronger than most half-step divine items. However, without the crystal core, using them will require a great deal of Yuan Spirit energy. Fortunately, your Yuan Spirit is extremely powerful and capable of using them. You should take some time to nourish them with your soul and erase their vigilance toward you. They still have some remnants of their old master’s will, but wiping that out shouldn’t be difficult with your abilities,” said Evilmoon.
Long Chen nodded. He lovingly touched these golden dragon teeth for a while longer before putting them into his spiritual space.
Once there, he used his Spiritual Strength to erase the lingering will of the metal devouring evil dragon. After he was finished with that, he would nourish it, making the teeth feel better toward him.
Other than the dragon teeth, he was also excited to have obtained an evil dragon’s reverse scale. There was a large amount of evil dragon essence blood within it, and it contained all the energy it had been accumulating to attempt its breakthrough to the Samsara realm. Now it had benefited Long Chen. The essence blood inside this reverse scale was enough for all the Dragonblood warriors to use it. Hehe, once they refined the evil dragon essence blood, they would be true Dragonblood warriors.
“You’ve taken the dragon teeth and reverse scale already, but don’t forget the skeletons around. Of course, the metal devouring evil dragon has sucked away the power of their flesh and crystal cores, so you’ll only be able to use them as fertilizer. Before you start tidying up the battlefield, first absorb the metal devouring evil dragon’s skeleton into your primal chaos space. I want to absorb its dragon marrow. Hehe, just wait, Long Chen. I’m going into seclusion, and after I’m done absorbing the dragon marrow, I’ll show you my true power!” laughed Evilmoon excitedly.