Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 1676 Celestial Lightning Body Blink

chapter 1676 celestial lightning body blink

translator: borntobe

long chen had a truly brazen thought. when he had subdued the black illusion dragon flame, he had thought of a certain diagram.nôv(el)b\\jnn

that was a diagram he had almost forgotten about. back in the eastern wasteland, he had entered the immemorial path and obtained the diagram. he had asked the eastern wasteland bell, but it had refused to tell him too many details, saying that his cultivation base was too low. it merely said it was a kind of essence of one of the four major elements.

afterward, the eastern wasteland bell had repaid long chen for his help and disappeared. the matter of the diagram was left forgotten and unsettled.

however, when he had worked together with the pill fairy to subdue the black illusion dragon flame, he happened to glimpse a diagram on the ceiling of the underground palace. that diagram was somewhat similar to the diagram from the immemorial path.

regretfully, he hadn’t had time to record it at that time. shen bijun had come, and then the palace had exploded.

however, it had served as a reminder. he was now a soul transformation expert and no longer the same rookie as back then. if the eastern wasteland bell refused to tell him, he could try to see if he could understand it himself.

long chen found himself a private room. however, before entering seclusion, he moved the divine lightning he had swallowed during his tribulation into the primal chaos space.

lei long had never managed to fully refine this divine lightning. however, after being suppressed for so long, the destructive will of the divine lightning had been erased, leaving behind its pure energy for lei long to absorb.

once the lightning was moved, his stomach was free to digest an ocean’s worth of medicinal pills. huo long was busy refining the black illusion dragon flame’s berserk energy, but long chen asked it to first help him refine some soul transformation pills. to raise his cultivation base, he would need a huge amount of medicinal pills.

suddenly, long chen thought of the jade tablet he had obtained in the jade lake sacred land around the time he had killed wang shan. he had yet to investigate it.

“celestial lightning body blink? it’s actually a lightning attribute movement art.”

long chen was stunned. what was recorded in the jade tablet was an extremely ancient lightning movement art. by summoning the power of heavenly lightning to form a lightning domain, you could freely blink anywhere inside with just a thought. there were basically no spatial or temporal limits.

“damn, i’ve actually obtained a similar movement art as the human-shaped lightning right before the devil abyss erupts?” back when the xuantian dao sect’s infernal devil abyss had erupted, long chen had summoned his heavenly tribulation to block the tide.

in the end, there was a certain human-shaped lightning that had appeared. its speed had been incredible, and it was only thanks to a reminder from li tianxuan that he had managed to defeat it.

this movement art recorded in the jade tablet might be a different method, but it had the same result. by filling the space around him with thunderforce, he would arrange spiritual runes that could each be used as a tiny lightning transportation formation. in truth, this kind of ability wasn’t speed-based. it depended on using a kind of spatial law.

boom!

the flame rune in his hand exploded, and its immense power made his hand shake.

“this is...” long chen was startled. he had just used the slightest trace of flame energy, but its explosive power had been so immense. “the eastern wasteland bell said that it was the will of one of the four major elements. it seems it’s the fire element. fire. fire can burn down the heavens and the earth. it is berserk and merciless. energy gathers within and then explodes outward. when condensed, it can refine the sky and the land, when scattered it can destroy stars. between the two is a cycle of energy. gather energy to one point, and when the energy reaches its peak, release it in an instant to exterminate all life...”

long chen seemed to be sleep-talking as he faced this enlightenment. the flame rune once again condensed in his hand, but this time he was prepared and examined it closely.

he found that when this rune was condensed, it formed a strange cycle. without him needing to do anything, it seemed to possess its own life, absorbing energy from the air. eight streams of energy gathered toward the central point. there were several bright spots at the center like the pistils of a flower, absorbing that energy. a portion of the energy then flowed down and out toward the edges once more, as if this one rune was its own flame world, a cycle of energy in constant motion.

the first time he had summoned it, his energy hadn’t been stable enough, causing it to lose its balance and explode. this time, he found the trick and maintained its stability. he carefully observed its motion.

“so, as soon as its form is born, it will naturally absorb flame energy to strengthen itself. just what level of magical art is this? or is it even a magical art?” long chen suddenly found that even without him pouring in any energy, the rune simply floated in the sky and continued to grow larger and stronger.

it was no wonder the eastern wasteland bell had only told him that it represented one of the four major elements. without a high enough realm, there was simply no way a person could understand it.

even long chen could only tell that the things he was saying were true. he didn’t know the why or the how of it. even at the soul transformation realm, with his immense control over other magical arts, he couldn’t fully comprehend this rune.

“it seems to just be a profound law, not a magical art. however, it’s even more precious than a hundred or even a thousand magical arts. as long as i can understand it, i will know how to circulate my flame energy in the best possible manner.”

long chen smiled. so this rune was even better than a magical art. if a magical art was like a precious medicinal ingredient, then this divine rune was the fertile soil from which amazing medicines could be grown. if he properly used this soil, it would benefit him endlessly.

“i should try to see if i can make my own magical art.” long chen suddenly had a thought.

he carefully examined the flame rune in his hand. looking at the way it circulated, he poured in eight streams of flame energy. the rune instantly transformed, taking on the shape of an eight-petaled lotus flower.

boom!

however, as soon as this lotus flower appeared, it exploded. long chen’s smile grew brighter. “no, i was wrong. perhaps this rune is the embryonic form of a magical art. maybe, i really can make a magical art that belongs solely to myself with it.”

long chen took a deep breath and concentrated. he began experimenting with the divine rune, testing what shape he could turn it into.