Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

The Purgatory Eyes activated. Long Chen’s aura instantly became cold and sinister. He was like an emotionless devil god from the deepest pits of hell.

“Stop!”

Zi Yan shouted, preventing everyone from attacking the Nether Emperor. She was the first to realize that something was off. Long Chen’s aura fluctuations were now on the same wavelength as the Nether Emperor’s. If they were to attack the Nether Emperor now, it would injure Long Chen’s soul. Although she wasn’t sure what Long Chen was doing, she knew that he had temporarily suppressed the Nether Emperor.

As for Long Chen himself, his soul seemed to enter a spiritual channel. At the very end of the channel, he saw a palace filled with countless experts with terrifying auras. These powerful experts were all kneeling towards one person, and that person held a plate with a bloody head on it.

When he saw that head, Long Chen was outraged. He recognized that head—it was one of Wu Tian’s capable generals!

“Who dares to spy on Us!?”[1]

An icy snort exploded in Long Chen’s mind like lightning.

Long Chen spat out a mouthful of blood. A terrifying spiritual attack made him feel like his head would explode.

A furious roar rang out in his mind. “How brazen! So you were the one controlling Our essence clone!”

Long Chen immediately deactivated the Purgatory Eyes and severed the soul connection. That was because he sensed an even more terrifying spiritual attack coming.

“Attack!” Long Chen immediately shouted.

Zi Yan and the others all attacked without a moment’s hesitation. They had already accumulated their energy while he had locked down the Nether Emperor. A torrent of powerful attacks rained down on the Nether Emperor’s body. Having just escaped the lock of the Purgatory Eyes, he wasn’t prepared, and his body was blown apart.

“Long Chen, are you alright?! Your eyes...!” Zi Yan hastily rushed to Long Chen’s side. Black blood was gushing out of his eyes.

Shen Qingxue and the others were all alarmed. From their viewpoint, Long Chen and the Nether Emperor had just stared at each other for a brief moment when he suffered such a frightening wound.

Long Chen waved them off, telling them not to worry. He exited the Seven Treasure Space and consumed a healing pill, focusing on recovering. The others didn’t dare to interrupt him.

There’s no mistake, that was big brother Wu Tian’s number one general. Has he already declared war on the Nether Emperor?

Long Chen felt uneasy. He hadn’t expected this. He had just been thinking that he might be able to take control of this clone, but instead, he had inadvertently ended up spying on the original body. In other words, what he had seen just now was the Nether Emperor.

He truly hadn’t expected the Nether Emperor to be so frightening. If he hadn’t severed their connection fast enough, he might have died.

He’s at least as strong as the Dark Master!

Thinking back to what had happened, Long Chen shivered. Within the Seven Treasure Space, people could suffer injuries and even die without actually being affected. However, the Nether Emperor’s attack had been able to ignore the laws of the Seven Treasure Space and injure Long Chen’s soul.

No wonder the clone is able to form a connection back to the true body. So it’s an essence clone.

One clear gain of this misadventure was that Long Chen had finally learned a secret of this clone. An essence clone was no ordinary clone; it was made by severing a portion of one’s life essence and pouring it into a medium capable of withstanding it. If the clone died, this essence would not dissipate, but instead follow the flow of karma and return to the true body.

Anyone capable of controlling karma at this level, and anyone who dared to use essence clones like this, had to be at the very top of this world. For one, without control over karma, making an essence clone was simply courting death. If the clone died, losing a portion of one’s life would make it impossible to reach one’s full potential.

No wonder this clone has been constantly trying to construct a throne. It seems it wants to use the power of reincarnation to escape the Seven Treasure Space and return to the true body! And big brother Wu Tian’s number one general was killed... That head had the aura of a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign, and a strong one at that. And even that kind of person ended up beheaded... I wonder how big brother Wu Tian is right now. Ugh, but the immortal world is also in chaos... I need to settle my affairs here quickly. I must take a trip to the Netherworld.

Long Chen was now very worried about this big brother of his. Sadly, with his power, even if he went to the Netherworld, he wouldn’t be able to help Wu Tian much.

Just as he woke up from his meditation, one of the Full Moon Sect’s disciples suddenly ran over with a report. “Senior Long Chen, there are emissaries outside the divine capital seeking an audience with you!”

“Emissaries?”

Long Chen and Zi Yan exchanged a curious look. It seemed that there was no time to rest. He and the others returned to the divine capital.

The higher-ups of the Full Moon Sect had gathered in the palace. Only Li Yixuan was absent, because she was busy refining the Heavenly Dao Pill.

One of the elders respectfully gave Long Chen a card. “Senior Long Chen, they call themselves the emissaries of the Bloodfiend Divine Kingdom! This is their visiting card!”

Long Chen glanced at it. It was an ordinary card that didn’t say anything important. It didn’t state their purpose, and even seemed to give off an arrogant tone.

“What is the Bloodfiend Divine Kingdom? How come I’ve never heard of them?” asked Xin Yu curiously.

The others also looked at each other, seeing each other’s confusion. None of them had heard this name before.

“They were an evil nation back in the primal chaos era, known for using their citizens as weapons. They used the cruelest methods imaginable to survive and grow. After the primal chaos war, they vanished without a trace. They never appeared again, and everyone assumed that they were destroyed. I didn’t think that they actually survived,” explained Long Chen.

He had read about the Bloodfiend Divine Kingdom in an ancient text at the academy, but what he had just explained was actually everything that was written. The scroll hadn’t gone into any kind of detail about them apart from this brief mention.

“Let them in. I want to see what they’re up to,” said Long Chen.

The Elder hesitated. “Senior Long Chen, there is a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign amongst them. If we let him in...”

The Full Moon Sect’s formation was still not complete. While the barrier functioned well enough against external threats, it was not effective against attacks from the inside. If they let a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign walk in and they started fighting, the divine capital would be turned into ruins.

Not letting him in would make it seem as if they didn’t have any confidence. But letting him in was a major threat.

“Don’t worry, he can’t cause any waves. Let them in!” said Long Chen.

It wasn’t long before dozens of figures walked inside. They wore strange robes, and Bloodfiend Qi radiated from them.

“What a strong baleful aura...”

Zi Yan narrowed her eyes when they walked in. The first impression they gave her was very discomforting.

1. This is the royal plural. We will be using it when the Nether Emperor refers to himself. ☜