Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 4121: Where the Crux Lies

chapter 4121: where the crux lies

when long chen layered the two triangles on top of each other with the violet tower star at the center of the six stars, long chen felt his blood qi go out of control. it felt like some other power was pulling at them, causing long chen to enter a state of self-detonation.

“detonate the seven star diagram!” shouted the dragon expert.

detonate the seven star diagram? wouldn’t he still die then? but long chen had no time to think about it. after forming hand seals, the seven star diagram behind him exploded.

boom!

the impact caused the entire linglong world to become covered in cracks. as for long chen, he gasped for breath, looking pale with fear lingering in his eyes. it was the linglong world that had saved him just now.

the linglong world had transferred the burden of the detonation of the seven star diagram into heaven and earth. otherwise, the detonation would have blasted him to bits.

long chen had once more failed. furthermore, he was unable to find the reason. if it weren’t for the linglong world’s aid, he would be dead now.

“how can this be?!” demanded long chen angrily. this shouldn’t be happening.

“cool your head. i think i might understand,” said the dragon expert.

“understand what?”

after repeated failures, long chen was out of energy. so, he simply sat on the ground, his head buzzing.

“the nine star hegemon body art revolves around using astral energy to temper the body, creating a powerful physical body from the outside and inside. but your current physical body is too powerful and has started to reject astral energy. perhaps...” the dragon expert suddenly paused.

“perhaps i have to choose one of the two? i have to abandon either the dragon soul body forging art or the nine star hegemon body art?” asked long chen.

the dragon expert was silent for a long time before sighing. “long chen, this time, it truly is my fault. i’m sorry. i...”

“you were using me to test if the dragon soul body forging art could beat the nine star hegemon body art,” said long chen slowly.

however, what was different was that the seven stars now appeared on top of their corresponding colors.

“blood, qi, bone, spirit, soul, will, mind...”

as long chen murmured, the strange dragon marks that long chen had condensed when cultivating the dragon soul body forging art appeared and flowed toward the seven stars.

when the runes touched the stars, the stars quivered, rejecting them. however, it clearly wasn’t as strong as before.

the dragon expert was amazed to see this. immediately, it understood what kind of path long chen was trying to walk.

thousands of stars appeared behind long chen; those were a projection of the starry sea in long chen’s dantian. at this moment, violet qi poured out of them and enveloped the seven stars.

as the violet qi flowed into the seven stars, those dragon runes slowly merged into them as well.

upon seeing this scene, long chen almost jumped up and cheered. he had finally succeeded.

however, he didn’t dare to move. he simply continued to circulate the starry sea’s violet qi, bringing the dragon runes into the stars. when he sensed that the dragon runes had been absorbed by the stars, he sighed with relief.

it seemed that it truly was as the dragon expert said. the dragon soul body forging art was a level inferior to the nine star hegemon body art. otherwise, when the two merged, there should have been a change as it attempted to wrestle control over the stars. but instead, the dragon runes were simply absorbed by the stars.

the dragon soul body forging art was already so terrifying, but the nine star hegemon body art was on an even higher level? that made long chen feel immense confidence. with such an unrivaled cultivation technique, who would he need to fear?

as more time passed, more of the dragon runes were absorbed by the stars. however, when fifty percent of the runes were absorbed, no matter what long chen did, the stars were unable to absorb more dragon runes. they were full.

long chen was startled by this. after taking a deep breath, he activated the starry river of the sky art, causing the stars in the sky to tremble. he attempted to use the power of the countless stars to continue, but his effort was in vain. his own stars could no longer absorb any more runes.

“one begets two, two begets three. the dragon soul body forging art is one, and the nine star hegemon body art is one. in order to fully merge them, i still need something important. what is it?” murmured long chen to himself.

after thinking for a while, both long chen and the dragon expert cried out at the same time.

“long aotian!”