Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Yi Nuo had been mentally prepared, but the moment the medicinal pill entered her stomach, she felt as if a sun had exploded inside her body. The terrifying force of the blast almost ripped her apart, while her instincts screamed death in every language.

Her flesh was torn to shreds, and her bones shattered. Her meridians twisted violently. Pain and despair washed over her, but she still clenched her teeth and refused to make a sound.

Long Chen felt a bit of admiration for her. She was still able to preserve her pride while in the face of death. Furthermore, she did not question whether or not he was trying to kill her with this pill. He could tell that she was truly loyal to him.

Of course, if she were a human, she would have known that Long Chen had no reason to kill her. But as a Golden Wing Heaven Devil, she didn’t use her brain that way. She acted on instinct.

“Endure it. You don’t need to worry, I won’t let you die. Your body is still far from reaching its limit; you can still go on!” said Long Chen.

His words were like the voice of a life-giving god, and Yi Nuo felt an intense desire to live. The medicinal pill’s energy continued to erupt, and cracks appeared over her skin. Her devil blood slowly oozed out.

“Your body has essentially reached its limit. I will now draw the medicinal energy to your Supreme Bone. The stimulation of death will cause a resonance with it and force it to awaken. You’ll have to act quickly. If too much time passes, the medicinal pill’s energy will start to dissipate!”

Long Chen gently placed a hand on Yi Nuo’s back, and she suddenly shivered. That berserk medicinal energy was instantly suppressed and stopped wrecking havoc on her body.

She was truly on the verge of collapse now, and she was relying entirely on her powerful willpower to endure. All her attention was focused on her Supreme Bone.

As Long Chen anticipated, the threat of death forced the Supreme Bone to take the initiative to commune with Yi Nuo. The immense medicinal energy of the pill gathered around it. After a while, Yi Nuo finally managed to reach an initial level of control over her Supreme Bone, and she began to use it to absorb the energy.

As the Supreme Bone radiated multicolored light, countless devil runes appeared on it. The devil runes quickly started moving, spreading both upward and downward, from her skull all the way down to her tailbone. The pill’s medicinal energy linked all her vertebrae together, and every single one emitted a tremendous, devilish might.

There was still a great deal of energy left, but now that her Supreme Bone had awoken, this energy no longer posed a fatal threat to her. She had reached her limit for now, but the remaining energy could be sealed inside her body so that she could slowly absorb it in the future.

Suddenly, a pair of golden wings spread from her back. Devil qi gushed out of them, and then, another pair of wings appeared beneath them! These new wings were still young and immature; although they were golden, they were still translucent. Yet the most difficult part had been accomplished!

With that, Yi Nuo couldn’t hold on any longer and collapsed, falling unconscious before she even hit the floor.

“Even after undergoing the baptism of the primal chaos space, this medicinal pill still contained the destructive will of two clashing world laws. It’s a good thing that Yi Nuo was strong enough, or at least half of this pill’s energy would have been wasted!” concluded Long Chen.

Although he had discovered the two world laws competing with each other when he refined this pill, he hadn’t expected that their wills would remain even after he threw the pill into the primal chaos space. Their destructive wills caused the medicinal energy to become extremely violent once it was consumed. If someone happened to consume one such pill that hadn’t undergone the primal chaos space’s baptism, it would probably kill them instantly. ℴℴ𝘮

“It seems that I must refine another pill to help control this pill’s power. Otherwise, Uncle Fu wouldn’t be able to consume it!”

Long Chen sighed. Although Uncle Fu was powerful, he was quite old and didn’t have Yi Nuo’s vitality. It would be difficult for him to recover from any hidden injuries. But things had to proceed, no matter what. The Earth Barbarian race needed a strong leader; otherwise, others would definitely seek to eliminate them. That was why Long Chen needed Uncle Fu to get stronger.

Yi Nuo was rather pitiable. She didn’t think anything about why Long Chen had given her this pill. If she knew that Long Chen had used her as a lab rat, only the heavens knew just how she would thank him once she woke up.

Long Chen checked her body and discovered that she was truly living up to expectations. In just this little bit of time it had taken him to figure out some things, the damage to her body had entirely stopped and she had already started recovering.

Long Chen silently left the room and went to another secluded place. After a bit of testing, he refined another furnace of pills. He picked out the best one and gave it to Uncle Fu along with a second pill. He told him to first consume the supplementary pill, and then take the second one the next day.

Once he was done, he checked on the area that the academy had given the Earth Barbarian race. It was quite spacious and beautiful. They had been provided everything they needed to survive.

This kind of treatment made the Earth Barbarians feel overwhelmed. They had been ready to suffer all kinds of humiliation and insults, so the academy’s welcome left them at a loss. They weren’t skilled with words and they had no idea how to thank Long Chen and the academy, so all they could do was engrave this unprecedented kindness into their hearts.

Once he returned from the Earth Barbarian race’s territory, Long Chen saw Zhao Hongfei bustling about. Zhao Hongfei immediately rushed towards him.

“Dean Long Chen, there are all kinds of rumors spreading outside. They saw that the High Firmament Academy is publicly accepting outsider devils, and that we’re betraying the nine heavens. They want us to hand them over, or else...”

Zhao Hongfei had basically taken over for Long Chen in his absence. Thanks to that, he was always busy dealing with administrative work. Long Chen had always been the willful kind, and Zhao Hongfei had suffered quite a bit because of it, but this was on a whole new level. When Long Chen openly brought outsider devils to the academy, he felt like his head was going to explode.

Long Chen smirked. “Or else they will join forces and attack the academy?”

“That was the general meaning, yes. Should we discuss this with the sweeping elder?” asked Zhao Hongfei.

Zhao Hongfei was truly under immense pressure. The truth was that he was hoping that the sweeping elder could control Long Chen. After all, how could Long Chen not discuss this with anyone before doing something so big?

“No need. I suppose the head academy has already learned of this, considering how fast the news is spreading,” said Long Chen.

“Then what should we do?” asked Zhao Hongfei hastily.

“There’s no need for us to do anything. We can just sit back and watch what happens. Ah, you should send word to the Huayun Trading Company. I want a list of the people making the most noise about this!”

“Is that for... getting back at them?” asked Zhao Hongfei in confusion.

Long Chen smiled saintly. “Vice Dean Hongfei, if you throw a rock into a cage full of dogs, which dog will bark the loudest?”

“The one you hit—oh. You mean...”

“I mean the nine heavens have been in chaos since long ago. What’s a little more chaos?” Long Chen shrugged. If the king was in check, the simplest way to get out of it was to flip the board.

The news that Long Chen had brought the Earth Barbarians into the first academy spread throughout the nine heavens and ten lands. Countless voices criticizing his actions formed a massive tsunami that was now headed towards him...

...just as he wanted.