Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Long Chen’s astral energy erupted, and a giant hand covered the sky. The next moment, however, he was shocked to see that his astral hand was unable to stop the three medicinal pills!

His astral energy was now so powerful that even without summoning the Golden Virtue Lotus, he could slap half-step Heavenly Sovereigns to death like flies. Yet even so, these three pills that had barely formed had already acquired sentience and accumulated enough power to tear straight through his astral hand, flying away in three different directions as if they’d made plans beforehand!

BOOM!

“Stop right there!” roared Long Chen, and the ten-leaf golden lotus appeared behind him. Quick as lightning, he caught up to one of them and grabbed it. His hand shuddered violently. Terrifying Grand Dao power ripped open his skin; blood gushed out, but he didn’t let go. He immediately tossed it into the primal chaos space.

BOOM!

Somewhere in the distance, Cang Lu had just swung the Bloodfiend Halberd at another pill. With an explosive sound, Cang Lu was blown back, but the pill was also forced back, giving Long Chen enough time to catch up, grab it, and send it straight to the primal chaos space.

The third pill had already escaped the range of the heavenly tribulation. As a result, multiple half-step Heavenly Sovereigns from among the outsider devils tried to grab it, only to be directly blown apart. In front of this pill, they put up about as much resistance as a piece of paper in front of a sharp knife.

Just as it blew through their enclosure and absorbed their blood mist, the pill cracked open and a terrifying aura rose. Long Chen saw it transform into a winged lifeform with a long tail. Runes swirled on top of its wings, and the outsider devils in its path were blown apart.

Long Chen’s pupils shrank. This pill was on a higher level than anything he had ever created and beyond anything he had expected. It had sentience the moment it was born, and now that it absorbed this devil blood, it directly transformed.

In other words, this pill had completed its evolution into a pill spirit, and right now, it could be likened to Huo Linger and Lei Linger in that it was a spiritual body of sorts.

The difference between it and Lei Linger and Huo Linger was that the latter had been born of and constantly nourished by heaven and earth, while the pill was artificial and limited by the ingredients that had gone into it. Even if it somehow started cultivating, it would be next to impossible for it to break through this limitation. Moreover, although this pill’s aura was outright terrifying, that was because it contained the Grand Dao essence of a Heavenly Sovereign. Once this essence was used up, it would collapse.

The moment it absorbed this outsider devil blood, it went berserk and began to slaughter them. Long Chen was watching it kill the outsider devils in order to gain a better understanding of it when his heart suddenly clenched.

Starlight flashed beneath his feet, wrapping around all the Earth Barbarians here. He then took a step forward, vanishing from the battlefield.

Just as he left, a white bone claw tore out of the void, heading for the pill spirit.

The pill spirit was merrily butchering the outsider devils, but the moment the bone claw appeared, it instantly froze. Upon contact with the claw, it put up no resistance whatsoever; it merely shivered slightly and then its devilish form disappeared, and it returned into the form of a pill.

A few moments later, an astonished voice rang out through the void. “This pill... It can help someone break through a Grand Dao bottleneck! Damn it, it can’t be used by anyone from our side...”

The delight that could be initially felt from the voice instantly turned into fury. “An alchemist from the nine heavens has entered our devil world! Mobilize all our forces, find them at all costs!”

...

Long Chen used the Star Cloud Steps seven times. Even with his current power, using it this many times to carry this many people left him as pale as paper.

“Lord Long Chen, are you alright?!” Uncle Fu rushed over along with the rest of the Earth Barbarians. They didn’t know why Long Chen would suddenly flee with them.

Long Chen waved his hand, showing that he was fine. He had rushed off in such a panic because he had sensed the aura of a Heavenly Sovereign!

It was actually a good thing that one pill had escaped. It had drawn the attention of that Heavenly Sovereign, buying them time to escape. Otherwise, he might have been able to escape, but the Earth Barbarian race would not have been so lucky.

Abandoning these people who were so loyal to him was naturally impossible for Long Chen. Cold sweat dripped down his back when he thought of the consequences.

Even though he had reached the tenth Heavenstage, a Heavenly Sovereign gave him even more of a sense of deathly pressure than before.

It seemed that before, he hadn’t even been able to sense how powerful a Heavenly Sovereign was. Now that his power had grown, he was able to more accurately sense the threat that they posed to him. Thinking of how he had naively thought of challenging a Heavenly Sovereign, he felt an urge to slap himself to death.

Although they had escaped this danger, Long Chen still felt immense pressure. This whole territory belonged to the outsider devils, and they had to leave. Thus, even though he was incredibly wary, he still forced himself to spread his divine sense and examine their surroundings.

When he did so, he was delighted to discover that the outsider Grand Dao was not as strong here. In other words, his haphazard teleportations had somehow led him away from the core of their territory. Furthermore, there was a very powerful force somewhere up ahead.

There were countless experts gathered there. They seemed to be up to something. After observing them for a few moments, he found out that they were, indeed, up to something—specifically, they were about to launch an attack on the nine heavens!

Among these outsider devils, he sensed a good dozen of powerful auras that belonged to peak half-step Heavenly Sovereigns. These people were definitely different from the outsider devils he had encountered at the core of this region; their cultivation was certainly not in name only. Despite also being half-step Heavenly Sovereigns, the ones at the core were basically trash compared to the ones here. They might even be a bit stronger than the human race’s half-step Heavenly Sovereigns. Due to this, Long Chen refrained from probing too much, in fear of being discovered.

Curious. Are they really intentionally raising such garbage half-step Heavenly Sovereigns? What is their goal? Long Chen couldn’t figure it out.

He ordered everyone to rest. Half a day later, when he had just recovered, that massive army finally set out, like a massive dragon flying through the air.

If they’re really attacking the nine heavens, we can just follow them there.

Long Chen thought about wiping out the nearest tribe of outsider devils, but he was worried about the greater army sensing it, so he gave up that thought. Instead, he simply led the Earth Barbarians away, trailing behind the army at a safe distance.

Three days later, he finally sensed a familiar aura. Indeed, they had reached the nine heavens!

“Enemy attack! It’s the outsider devils!”

Long Chen heard a shout coming from the distance. Warning horns rang out.

“Kill them!”

The outsider devils’ generals rang the attack drums. A horde of outsider devils charged forward...