Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

One blood-colored rune after another appeared on Long Chen’s fingertip. They transformed into clumps of fire before entering his rapidly growing dragon blood veins.

This was the method the Dragon Sovereign had taught Long Chen. It was also the result of crazy thinking. Long Chen wasn’t a member of the dragon race. His physical body was much smaller than theirs, especially considering that some of them were many thousands of miles long.

The amount of dragon blood in his body was limited. Even if he blew up his own body trying, he wouldn’t be able to contain that many bloodline runes of the dragon race. The dragon race’s divine abilities were unleashed throughout their life.

A simple divine ability usually required hundreds of runes to activate. A higher level one might take tens of thousands. As for the kind of peerless divine abilities that Long Chen wanted to cultivate, they would require even more, too many to count.

Long Chen’s physical body was incapable of holding that much. Thus, his workaround was to use his dragon veins instead, branding these dragon blood runes onto his dragon veins. That way, he could still unleash the dragon race’s divine abilities.

However, there was an extremely strict requirement to do so. Long Chen had to truly and fully comprehend the essence of those runes in order to do this.

The difficulty of this could be considered heaven-defying. Even the Dragon Sovereign was prepared for a long wait to achieve this level. It wanted Long Chen to grasp only the most basic runes so he could start with the simplest divine abilities.

However, Long Chen’s comprehension ability astonished it. The rate at which he branded these dragon blood runes onto his dragon veins was much greater than even the pureblooded heavenly geniuses of the sovereign dragon race.

His sixth dragon vein continuously grew, and the scales were like scales. As the number of runes increased, his dragon vein began to rumble.

“Fool, slow down! You’re condensing them too fast! The dragon vein cannot endure it!” The primal chaos Dragon Sovereign scolded Long Chen.

“How can you call me a fool? I’m going according to the pace you set. You gave me the runes, so I’m branding those runes?” said Long Chen, aggrieved.

“You… so you learned how to talk back, huh?”

“Disciple doesn’t dare.” Long Chen was speechless. What could he say?

The primal chaos Dragon Sovereign also seemed a bit embarrassed. This truly couldn’t be blamed on Long Chen. It had tossed him a pile of runes, thinking that Long Chen would be stumped by them for a long time. If he encountered any runes that he couldn’t comprehend, it could help him a bit.

However, it hadn’t expected Long Chen to be able to comprehend them so fast that he was too fast. Its voice softened slightly. “The sixth dragon vein is strong, but it can’t endure this many runes. There’s no rush. The reason I waited until you condensed six dragon veins to brand these runes is because this is the minimum strength for them to withstand the dragon blood runes. The next dragon vein will be able to endure more. Once all the runes are branded, they will spread out to different dragon veins, and none of them will be any weaker or stronger than the others.”

Long Chen nodded. He had been rushing just now, treating each dragon blood rune as a treasure. This time, his battle against Hou Tianwu, Xue Yingfeng, Xiang Tu, and the others had left him extremely irritated.

This chance to get so much stronger instantly made him go as fast as possible. Of course he was absorbing as much as he could. It had to be known that each rune represented an increase in power.

It wasn’t long before the sixth dragon vein was fully condensed. At this time, the first five dragon veins coiled around it.

Just as the Dragon Sovereign said, all six of the dragon veins gradually split up all the dragon blood runes.

The sixth dragon vein was instantly relieved by the pressure after these runes were taken away. seemingly still getting used to these runes.

With the sixth dragon vein condensed, Long Chen directly started the seventh dragon vein. The primal chaos Dragon Sovereign seemed to have an endless number of runes for Long Chen. He was constantly condensing more and more of them.

Time passed rapidly as Long Chen condensed these runes. It was a cycle of condensing these bloodline runes, completing the dragon veins, and then having that bloodline power returning to his body.

This dull process lasted a full month. Even Long Chen felt like he was going crazy by this point.

Long Chen didn’t even know how many bloodline runes he had condensed. Although his dragon blood power was continuously circulating during this time, his Spiritual Strength was heavily taxed.

Once the ninth dragon vein appeared behind Long Chen, he felt endless dragon blood power surging within his body. At this moment, Long Chen felt like everything was worth it.

“I’m finally in the great circle, hahaha!” Long Chen laughed excitedly. He felt full of power. He was itching to find a powerful expert to fight against.

“The full circle? Are you sure?” asked the Dragon Sovereign lightly.

“What do you mean?” asked a baffled Long Chen.

“If you were only inheriting the ordinary divine abilities of the sovereign dragon race, this would be the full circle. But you are inheriting my legacy. Just like your Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, nine is not the full circle.”

“Are you saying that I’ll have thirteen dragon veins?!” exclaimed Long Chen. “But I feel like my dragon veins are already fully satisfied, and it’s impossible to condense more!”

“The reason you condensed these dragon veins so quickly is thanks to the Emperor reverse scale. To put it frankly, this chance was given to you by the Emperor reverse scale. Remember, this was given to you. “What’s next is for you to take for yourself,” said the primal chaos Dragon Sovereign, its voice heavy and profound.

Long Chen looked into the depths of the spatial channel. Ripples continued to come from there, causing him to feel like he could hear a powerful heartbeat. He also sensed a suffocating pressure.

He realized the moment he had chosen to use the Emperor reverse scale’s power to condense his dragon veins. Everything had already been set in stone.

He wanted the Emperor reverse scale, as only with it could his dragon veins reach the true great circle.

As for the Emperor reverse scale, it also wanted Long Chen. Perhaps it was because he had the primal chaos Dragon Sovereign say. That was what it wanted more than anything.

Now, Long Chen no longer had any other option. Only he or the Emperor reverse scale could exist in this world.

“Do you feel it?”

“I feel it. That is an extremely sinister, evil, cruel will.” Long Chen nodded.

“In truth, it is my heart-devil,” said the Dragon Sovereign heavily.

“What?”