Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Just as this dark energy surged and terrifying Grand Dao power seemed like it would crush Long Chen, the golden lotus behind Long Chen blazed with light. The golden light transformed into sharp swords that pierced the black mist and shattered this Grand Dao power.

Watching the black mist dissipate, Long Chen shook his head. It’s a good thing that the Golden Virtue Lotus gained a great deal of energy from the battle in the North Sea Silver Fox race. Otherwise, this curse energy really would have been troublesome to deal with....

Within that dark energy was a trace of a terrifying will. The sheer power of this will guaranteed that even Cang Lu couldn’t absorb the dark energy.

“Yan Xu and the Dark Master have formed an alliance? The nine heavens really are in danger!” Long Chen couldn’t help sighing.

As the golden light penetrated the mist and purified it of its will, Huo Linger and Cang Lu began to devour the mist. Huo Linger was absorbing the Yan Xu Flame’s power, while the rest was left for Cang Lu.

A merger between dark energy and the Yan Xu Flame. It truly is powerful. It exhausted so much of the Golden Virtue Lotus’s power. It looked like the tenth leaf was about to appear, but now there’s no chance. Oh well...

It was unfortunate, but even if he had the chance to redo everything, he would do the same thing. After all, without letting that woman use her trump cards, he wouldn’t have learned who was behind the Cult of Mara. Then he wouldn’t know that Yan Xu had betrayed the nine heavens and even joined forces with the Dark Master, and neither would he know about the so-called Samsara Curse and the Yan Xu Dao-seeds. This information was definitely worth the investment.

As for the others with this kind of Dao-seed, Long Chen wasn’t worried. Miao Yin and Zi Yan would likely encounter them, but with their power, they could definitely suppress experts on this level. Furthermore, the moment they sensed the danger, they would immediately strike to kill. They wouldn’t act like he had and let their enemies use all their power.

After all, Long Chen was by himself, and he only had himself to take care of. Meanwhile, Zi Yan and Miao Yin were leading massive armies. To avoid casualties, they would definitely suppress their curiosity and act in everyone’s best interest by killing the enemies immediately. There was no way they would let them use this Samsara Curse.

It wasn’t long before Huo Linger and Cang Lu finished absorbing the black mist. At the same time, Long Chen sensed Evilmoon’s split blades calling. He had no time to rest. He immediately used the Star Cloud Steps and vanished.

...

“Have you heard? The dean of the High Firmament Academy’s first academy, the one called the number one figure of the human race’s junior generation, is sweeping through the Cult of Mara’s branches. Over twenty have already been destroyed.”

“I hear they split into three groups and they’re leaving no survivors wherever they go.”

“What about the headquarters of the Cult of Mara? Why haven’t they responded to this sudden attack? Do they not want to reinforce the branches they spent so much effort building up?”

“Reinforcements? They don’t even know how strong the other side is, so how can they send reinforcements? They might just be throwing their lives away. If the Cult of Mara had the slightest brains, they should have immediately ordered the branches to retreat back to their headquarters.”

News of the attack on the Cult of Mara was spreading like wildfire. While everyone was shocked, they were also guessing what the Cult of Mara would do in response.

The High Firmament Academy had truly stopped being low-key, and they had decided to show off their might by initiating a war of extermination against a supreme overlord. Everyone was shocked by this. Countless factions sent out spies to watch the known headquarters of the Cult of Mara; at the same time, many slumbering monsters that had been hidden away for countless years awakened.

No one knew why these two behemoths would decide to fight each other to the death at such a dangerous time. Wars of such scale were almost unheard of to begin with, so why now of all times? Although news of what had happened with the North Sea Silver Fox race had already spread, all that had been said were a few hateful words. People didn’t feel that it was realistic for such a thing to result in such a war. There had to be some deeper reasons behind this.

If they knew that the cause of all this really was one person’s loathsome mouth, how would they feel?

If people knew that, when Long Chen made his declaration of war, he didn’t even know that the person he was targeting was from the Cult of Mara, what kind of expression would they make?

...

Buzz.

There was an ancient city nestled within a large mountain range. Countless towering pavilions reached the clouds. They were flashing with light, and the space between them was twisting, forming a massive vortex. Countless figures were flying out of the vortex. Quite a few of them were covered in blood, and all of them looked terrified.

Looks like I was right; the Cult of Mara has ordered its branches to retreat. But the order was clearly delayed. It seems the big shots aren’t that sharp. By the time they woke up, they lost who-knows-how-many lives they could’ve saved, thought someone hidden in the darkness.

He had previously guessed that if the Cult of Mara was smart, they would put aside the identity of the attacker and the reason they were being attacked, and instead prioritize withdrawing all their troops. He had expected an immediate response, but clearly, the higher-ups had been holding a rather lengthy meeting, and only sent out the order once they reached a consensus.

This giant spatial transportation formation had tens of millions of experts flying out of it. But screams of despair also rang out from the other side before certain sections were cut off. Clearly, someone had interrupted their spatial transportation, and the screams made it obvious that whoever was on the other side would not see tomorrow’s sun.

The vortex continued to flash chaotically. Countless people were flying out of it, and it was outright pandemonium. They were bloodied, lost, and panicking.

One elder was covered in blood, and half his body was gone. He roared venomously at the vortex behind him, “Damn you, Long Chen! If you have the guts, just try coming to our headquarters!”

Just as he finished speaking, and just as the spatial gate he had come through was about to close, a small flame lotus suddenly flew out of it.

“AH!”

Countless people screamed when they saw that lotus.

BOOM!

The fist-sized flame lotus blew apart right in the middle of the chaos, and multicolored flames devoured the refugees. The majority of them were simply ordinary disciples who didn’t know what was happening; they were instantly turned to ash. Tens of millions were incinerated, and only a few thousand survived.

“That’s... a Heavenly Flame’s power!”

“It’s more than one Heavenly Flame!”

“I thought I heard chanting when it exploded. It sounded like... the Nirvana Scripture...”

Everyone watching was stunned. No one had expected that tiny little flame lotus to contain such terrifying power. Even the half-step Heavenly Sovereigns were left charred and looking like dried up corpses whose hatred was the only thing allowing them to still stand in the sky.

Just then, terrifying auras began to rise from the Cult of Mara’s headquarters.

“What the hell, were you planning to wait until everyone was dead to come out?! What were you doing?!”

Sensing those terrifying auras, the people watching were speechless. Even in the middle of such a crisis, they were in the mood to stay in seclusion? What were those people thinking?

“High Firmament Academy, the Cult of Mara will not rest until you are dead!” A furious roar rang out.

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you rest even if you want to!” said a calm voice in response.

The black-robed Long Chen appeared right in front of the city gates.