Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Long Chen’s starry sea appeared behind him. His eight-color divine ring also reappeared. But by that point, countless Sword Dao runes had wrapped around Li Mingdao’s sword, making it grow into a massive blade, and it had already reached Long Chen.

From everyone’s viewpoint, Long Chen was clearly too slow in summoning his starry sea and divine ring. It was too late for him to use any divine ability.

However, in the blink of an eye, that massive sword came to a sudden stop right in front of Long Chen.

“What...?”

Everyone was dumbfounded by this sight.

Long Chen had a single finger raised. It was sparkling with starlight. The tip of the sword was completely unable to penetrate this finger. This void-piercing, law-severing sword was stopped just like that.

Stars swirled on top of Long Chen’s hand as if there were a miniature cosmos on top of it. It felt grand enough to cover the very heavens.

The sword trembled as Li Mingdao tried to force it through. He could not accept someone being capable of stopping his killer move with one finger.

“Is this it?”

Long Chen eyed Li Mingdao curiously.

“Your sword-intent is not concentrated, and your emotions are also severely impacting your technique. Do you really consider yourself a peerless sword cultivator? Well, to be fair... you really are peerlessly awful. You must be the weakest sword cultivator I’ve ever met in my life. Truly, no one can compare to you.”

As he said this, Long Chen flicked his finger. A beam of starlight shot out of his fingertip, piercing the entirety of the giant sword and making it collapse.

Both Li Mingdao and Miao Yin’s side were dumbfounded to see this.

Li Mingdao was a disciple of the Sword Pavilion of the Immortal Ascension Gate. Although he was not the Sword Pavilion’s strongest expert, he was definitely among the top five. None of Miao Yin’s subordinates were sword cultivators, but they didn’t need to be; even an ordinary mortal could tell this suffocating pressure was the result of his grasp of the Sword Dao. This had definitely been an incredibly powerful attack. Yet his sword had been blocked and then shattered by a single finger! It seemed that all of them had underestimated Long Chen.

The golden armored warrior on Miao Yin’s side was now quivering. His helmet was covering his entire face, so people couldn’t tell how pale he was, but his back was covered in cold sweat. Usually, when someone he wanted to capture refused to surrender peacefully, he took action himself and captured them without much ado. But if he had really tried to capture Long Chen, he would probably have lost his life. Without even realizing it, he had been just a single step from the gates of hell. Just thinking about it made him shiver.

The main reason he was in this position was his absolute loyalty towards Miao Yin. But other than being a bit arrogant, he was actually a very capable person. That was why he was in charge of the battleship. As for his own personal power... Although he was not terrible, there was still a large gap between him and true experts, and he was now starting to understand exactly how significant that gap was.

I definitely need to be more humble in the future. Even if Master cares about me, she might not be able to protect me, he thought inside.

Sword Dao runes flew through the sky and a silver longsword flew through the air, landing in Li Mingdao’s hand. When he grabbed the hilt, he was completely stunned. The blade was covered in cracks that ran all the way from guard to tip! Worse still, the item-spirit had been injured by Long Chen’s astral laws!

“You dare to damage my treasure?! You... you deserve a thousand deaths!!!” Li Mingdao’s face twisted in fury. This sword might only be a Divine Sovereign law item, but inside of it was a sword-spirit. This spirit was an incomparably precious existence. It was essentially an item-spirit of the Sword Dao rather than the spirit of the blade itself.

Li Mingdao’s status as a sword cultivator was actually entirely because of this sword-spirit. The sword-spirit would grow alongside him if he nourished it, all the way until he broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm. But now, it was injured, and as long as it was not healed, Li Mingdao’s cultivation was essentially frozen. If his level surpassed that of his sword-spirit, problems would appear in their fusion.

Just then, the void quivered, and two elders appeared by Li Mingdao’s side. Powerful Sovereign might locked down the surrounding space.

“Heavens, they were hiding two triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns!”

“Damn, Li Mingdao really wanted to capture us by force!”

“The Immortal Ascension Gate actually calls itself a righteous force of the human race! How shameless!”

Startled cries came from Miao Yin’s battleship, accompanied by shouts of righteous indignation. Then, some other people started cursing furiously. Anyone who wasn’t an idiot could instantly tell what Li Mingdao had been planning. Since he had mobilized two triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns, it meant that he was fully determined to take Miao Yin by force if she didn’t go with him willingly. But he certainly didn’t want them to go with him, and there was only one possible way to silence all of them.

“Young master, calm down. None of them will be able to get away!” one elder consoled Li Mingdao.

“Heaven-Sealing Sword Formation!”

The other elder waved his hand. Tens of thousands of people flew out with formation discs in their hands. The formation discs light up, and their divine light linked together to form a giant cage around this region. Instantly, the entire area was sealed. At the same time, every formation disc had a sword-shaped rune, and as those runes lit up, sharp swords were pointed at everyone inside the cage.

The formation was activated almost instantaneously. There was no chance for Long Chen or Miao Yin to do anything. The energy of heaven and earth gathered in crazy amounts; this formation was actually capable of absorbing the laws of heaven and earth for itself!

“Kill that bastard! I want his woman too!” Li Mingdao pointed at Long Chen and Zi Yan.

Zi Yan didn’t want to show her true face if not strictly needed, so she used law power to veil her face. But just the natural air she exuded made it clear that she was a great beauty.

Long Chen’s eyes instantly turned cold. “You really, really had to go ahead and do that. Well, fine. If you insist on touching the dragon’s reverse scale, don’t complain when you get eaten.”

Li Mingdao suddenly shivered. He didn’t even know why, but an alarming sense of impending death instantly enveloped him. Even the two triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns took a couple steps back. They couldn’t feel the slightest sense of safety at this distance.

Suddenly, starry clouds appeared beneath Long Chen’s feet. With a single step, he vanished.

At that instant, Li Mingdao screamed in terror. His soul was shaking, and his hair stood on end.

Those two elders’ expressions also completely changed. They had unleashed their domains the very moment they appeared, so how was it that Long Chen could still escape from their senses?

“Behind you!” the two of them roared in unison, drawing their swords. Two streaks of Sword Qi crossed behind them. Space twisted slightly, and their Sword Qi tore two giant tears into the void. The power of triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns could not be underestimated.

However, they felt no joy at this remarkable display of power. Startled cries rang out after they attacked. They hastily looked toward the source of the cries, only to see Long Chen clutching Li Mingdao’s throat and holding him up like a chicken.

“Save me!” begged Li Mingdao.

The two elders had just opened their mouths when blood exploded through the air.

Li Mingdao had just been turned into a cloud of blood and bits of flesh.