Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

“I thought you came to save me!” Long Chen shouted.

His joy and relief vanished the instant he saw Mo Nian’s miserable condition.

Mo Nian’s flickering aura made it obvious he had just clawed his way through a brutal battle. He was already running on fumes.

Beside him stood Xie Wanyi. Like Long Biluo, she carried the aura of a primal chaos divine item. The golden bell in her manifestation was still flashing, but her aura was much weaker than Long Biluo’s. She couldn’t maintain her battle state for much longer.

Mo Nian grimaced. “I found a pure Yin land filled with monsters—tens of millions of them sealed in eggs. All of them had slave marks and were peak Sovereign Lords. They just need a bit of energy to break through into the Divine Sovereign realm. I also found a spatial channel in that place, one that leads straight to the nine heavens. I’m guessing someone wants to use those monsters to invade the nine heavens. Without the heaven region battlefield’s restrictions, they’ll break through the moment they arrive in the nine heavens. Hence, I destroyed the channel, but before I could figure out how to handle the monsters... the Brahma line’s people showed up—”

Before Mo Nian could finish, countless three-meter-tall, horned humanoids surged over the horizon.

All of them were bulky and covered in runes. Black qi seeped from their skin, carrying the stench of decay.

“Dark energy...” Long Chen muttered, his heart trembling when he saw them.

These monsters were indeed peak Sovereign Lords and had already reached the point of breaking through. Once the limits of the heaven region’s battlefield were lifted, they would instantly advance.

Their auras were overwhelming. Long Chen estimated that any one of them could easily slaughter a half-step Sovereign Lord. Even ten half-step Sovereign Lords armed with legacy Divine Sovereign weapons could barely defeat one of these monsters.

They moved like an elite army. The wave of them halted before the Dragonblood Legion, forming neat ranks.

As they paused, more figures arrived behind them. Long Chen spotted a group of experts wearing Brahma line robes.

There were only tens of thousands of them, but many terrifying experts surrounded them.

Their arrival shifted the entire battlefield’s atmosphere. The sky was suddenly packed with experts once more—far more than anyone had imagined. At this sight, even the Dragonblood warriors sucked in cold gasps of air.

Everyone had assumed most of the heaven region battlefield’s experts had gathered here. Yet somehow, even more powerhouses had arrived.

“Long Chen, this battlefield was a trap from the start,” Mo Nian said. “There are definitely secrets hidden in that place, but I couldn’t uncover them before I was found. Thankfully, the violet blood race’s warriors came to help me, or I’d be buried in that hellhole. I burned through all of my trump cards to stall, thinking you’d come save us if I made enough noise. Unfortunately, when you didn’t show up... I knew you were in trouble too. I had to give up that place’s secrets and rush here. In any case, we have to deal with these dark devil creatures; they can’t be allowed to enter the nine heavens.”

Mo Nian’s gaze crossed the battlefield, landing on the Heaven Earth Cauldron, the Heavenly Devil Zither, and Long Biluo’s Jiuli Tower manifestation. His mouth twisted bitterly. It seemed that the two of them really were brothers. Somehow, Long Chen’s situation was even worse than his.

Two of the actual primal chaos divine items had appeared near Long Chen. That was definitely a death sentence.

“Fan Ji.”

Long Chen immediately recognized the leader of the Brahma line’s faction. Fan Ji was the divine son he had clashed with not long ago.

Beside Fan Ji stood a gloomy-faced man. He was only skin and bones, almost like a skeleton wrapped in skin. However, his Blood Qi was as vast as the sea. This incomprehensible phenomenon gave people an exceedingly dangerous feeling.

Behind the Brahma line marched countless cultivators from the nine heavens—humans, demons, devil race. It was a vast and varied army.

Furthermore, this group was not lacking powerful experts. Numerous half-step Sovereign Lords brimming with pressure stood in their ranks.

In particular, one of them was wrapped in lightning runes. His face was concealed, yet he was standing beside Fan Ji as an equal. Someone able to stand at Fan Ji’s side could only be a monster.

Beside them came an even stranger contingent: a large group of outsider lifeforms. One towering giant nearly three hundred meters tall stood out, drawing Long Chen’s attention.

He carried a golden staff topped with an enormous devil skull. Black whirlpools spun in its eye sockets like hungry voids.

“That big one is an idiot, but his power is monstrous,” Mo Nian muttered through clenched teeth. “He’s the Dark line’s chief. That bone staff of his is absurd. I couldn’t damage it at all, and it released divine abilities nonstop. Behind him are the outsider devils. They destroyed my entire corpse puppet army... though I did kill quite a few of them in return.”

He pointed at the skeletal man beside Fan Ji. “You know Fan Ji already, so I won’t say anything more. The skeleton is Ye Xun from the Fallen Daynight’s line. That damned furnace in his hands almost sealed me alive.”

That furnace was naturally the Daynight Furnace—the exclusive weapon of Fallen Daynight’s faction. It was similar to the Brahma line’s Brahma Divine Diagram.

“The one covered in lightning runes didn’t participate in the fighting, but I assume his status is extraordinary. That’s all I know. You’re smarter than me, so figure out how the hell we get out of this.”

Mo Nian simply leaned back, leaving the impossible to Long Chen.

There was nothing else he could do. He and Xie Wanyi had been trapped under relentless assault for too long. To break free, they had burned through every last trump card.

Fan Ji and the experts from his side were visibly stunned by the scene before them. They had not expected another massive battle unfolding simultaneously with theirs. Though fewer people fought here, the presence of two of the ten great primal chaos divine items overshadowed everything.

“Senior Heaven Earth Cauldron, may I know what you wish of us?” Fan Ji asked, bowing slightly to the Heaven Earth Cauldron.

Even a divine son didn’t dare to be rude in front of a primal chaos divine item.

As for the Heavenly Devil Zither, Fan Ji had long heard of its corruption. In his mind, it was no match for the Heaven Earth Cauldron.

“Kill them all! I want only Long Chen alive!” the Heaven Earth Cauldron barked without ceremony.

Fan Ji and the others instantly grasped the general situation here. Fan Ji’s expression twisted into a cruel smile, while he turned toward Long Chen.