Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

“Senior, what’s going on? When did that fellow get smart?” asked Long Chen.

The green parrot flew off, leaving Long Chen baffled where he was. Last time, the green parrot had been rather dumb and easy to con. How did it suddenly become smart now?

“That’s because your luck isn’t good. This fellow’s intelligence fluctuates, so perhaps you encountered it just as its intellect was at its highest,” replied the Earth Cauldron.

“There’s such a thing?” Long Chen was speechless. “This fellow is strong now. If I could have conned it into helping me, obtaining the Emperor reverse scale would be much easier.”

“Unfortunately, that’s not possible. It has sensed its own opportunity in this world. There’s no way it would sacrifice its time to assist you,” the Earth Cauldron explained.

“Fine, then I can only depend on myself.”

Back then, Long Chen had probed the Earth Cauldron for the green parrot’s origins, but it had gone silent. Since he wasn’t getting answers, he decided not to dwell on it.

As the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest continued onward, the Emperor reverse scale’s aura grew increasingly intense. Dragon blood power was being unleashed crazily.

“What a waste!” muttered in frustration.

The Emperor reverse scale was unleashing this immense energy to weaken the seal, yet he was powerless to stop it. The seal itself was forged from the Dragon Sovereign’s core energy—a priceless force that was now being squandered.

Regrettably, Long Chen’s power was limited, and he could only watch as this energy was wasted.

Although this energy was beneficial to the Dragonblood warriors, their absorption capacity was minuscule in comparison to the vast ocean of power being released.

The Dragonblood warriors, Hidden Dragon warriors, and Wind God Sea Pavilion’s disciples were diligently cultivating, absorbing as much of this energy as they could while comprehending the divine runes embedded within it.

Long Chen checked on Li Qi, who had already condensed three core veins. Unlike before, he had skipped the process of forming nine regular Heaven veins and instead directly condensed core veins, saving quite a bit of time.

These three core veins manifested as dragons with crystalline scales and ferocious eyes, exuding an astonishing aura.

Li Qi’s dragon soul was an ancient mutated dragon that possessed a bloodthirsty character.

Back when the dragon souls had competed, it had triumphed over the other earth-elemental dragon souls, giving it the first pick of hosts.

However, it hadn’t been particularly fond of Li Qi’s temperament. It had only chosen him because of his immense power and willpower.

Now that Li Qi had absorbed Xue Yingfeng’s Heavenly Dao Fruit and gained his mutated earth element energy, this dragon soul instantly reached a high level of fusion with Li Qi’s new power. It was freely fusing with him, causing his heaven veins to also possess its ferocity. ȑÂNȱＢËⱾ

The once-stable earth affinity surrounding Li Qi had vanished, replaced by an air of decisive, sharp-edged killing intent—a will to slay demons and execute devils.

As they drew closer to the Emperor reverse scale, the energy within the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest intensified. As a result, Li Qi’s growth accelerated at a shocking pace.

Next, Long Chen turned his attention to Tang Wan-er and was stunned to see that she had already condensed an eleventh core vein.

The emergence of this core vein made her aura even heavier. Even her wind-element fluctuations became difficult to perceive, yet beneath that veil lay boundless power.

Long Chen could sense that this new core vein had triggered a massive transformation in her.

“Boss!”

Just then, Song Mingyuan came out of seclusion, his eyes gleaming like stars. His aura surged like an unending tide, and waves of powerful energy flowed with every breath he took.

“Haha! It looks like you’ve undergone a complete transformation,” Long Chen said, pleasantly surprised.

Thanks to Li Qi’s support, Song Mingyuan had condensed nine core veins, all at the great circle stage. His control over his Heaven veins had reached extraordinary heights.

Long Chen had also reached that realm, so he knew that Song Mingyuan was only missing the final step. All he needed to do was merge all nine veins into one to reach the Human Emperor realm.

“It’s all thanks to Boss and Li Qi’s support,” said Song Mingyuan excitedly.

Now fully fused with his dragon soul, he had finally grasped the true essence of the earth. It was as if a whole new world had opened up before him.

Song Mingyuan was now at the peak of nine veins and no longer needed to cultivate. He just needed to get accustomed to his new power.

After Song Mingyuan woke up, Wilde fell asleep. But unlike before, he wasn’t conserving energy—he was digesting it. His stomach held an unfathomable amount of power, and sleep was the best way for him to refine it.

Suddenly, explosive sounds rang out from ahead, and a mobile fortress flew by the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, almost crashing into it.

Although they narrowly avoided a crash, the protective divine light surrounding both constructs scraped against each other. The Ten Thousand Dragon Nest barely trembled, but the mobile fortress violently shuddered, nearly flipping over.

“Bastards, are you blind?!”

Cursing rang out from that fortress, and a chilling devil aura came out with it. This fortress was clearly holding an army of the devil race.

“Who do you think you’re talking to?!” shouted Long Chen.

Seeing that it was the devil race, Long Chen immediately got angry.

The Ten Thousand Dragon Nest suddenly descended upon the fortress at full speed.

The devil race’s fortress had been moving rapidly, but due to the twisted nature of space in this region, controlling its trajectory was difficult. That was why it had nearly collided with them in the first place.

Just as the devil experts inside managed to stabilize their fortress, the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest crashed into it like a meteor.

BOOM!

The mobile fortress, significantly smaller in size, was like an egg smashing against a rock. In an instant, it was obliterated into countless fragments, exploding into bits.