Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 1532 Swallow the Heavens Devour the Earth

chapter 1532 swallow the heavens devour the earth

translator: borntobe

“what are you thinking? don’t tell me you’re going to jump off a cliff?”

long chen stood on the precipice of a cliff, a bottomless pit below him. he was looking down absent-mindedly. evilmoon finally spoke.

long chen had been brought here by evilmoon to escape their encirclement. it had been over two hours, and long chen had simply been standing there like a stone statue. even evilmoon became curious.

“evilmoon, if i’m surrounded by powerful enemies again, don’t save me.” looking at the pit below him, long chen made his resolve.

“are you crazy? if i didn’t bring you away, you’d have definitely died,” said evilmoon. it didn’t know if long chen had gone crazy to say such a brainless thing.

long chen shook his head. “you don’t understand. right now, i’m growing too dependent on your power. i am losing confidence in myself, and that will affect my dao-heart. i want to become an expert, a true expert. i can’t depend on others. i can only rely on myself. with you present, my sense of danger will become slow, and fleeing as soon as i encounter experts will be a blow to my confidence.”

“is that a joke? those people were two major realms above you and had divine items. without me, what are you going to use to fight them?” demanded evilmoon.

“you wouldn’t understand. to sum it up, i am fated to be courting death all the time. if i don’t court death now, death will creep up on even faster in the future. ever since i started cultivating the nine star hegemon body art, my fate was practically set in stone. right now, i am a caterpillar, and if i want to become a butterfly, i have to endure the pain of the cocoon. during this time, no one can help, and if anyone does, it would just be harming me. if a caterpillar does not go through the struggle of the cocoon, it will never become a butterfly. if someone cuts the cocoon and lets the caterpillar out of it, without having gone through that struggle, it won’t know how to fly. in the end, the caterpillar will simply die, never able to spread its wings. i am the same, so starting today, i definitely won’t run. even if i am in desperate straits, don’t save me,” said long chen.

“it seems like there’s a bit of logic in your words, but if you die, you’ll lose everything. how will you become a butterfly then?” asked evilmoon.

“it’s because my goals are very big. if i am unable to even handle the danger before me, how will i face the even greater dangers in the future? after having fled these times, i can clearly sense the power of the nine star hegemon body art dropping. it’s also forming a kind of rejection to me,” said long chen with a grave expression. he truly sensed the nine star hegemon body art’s power weakening.

furthermore, he himself was growing indecisive. he no longer had his absolute confidence to face the whole world. he had to find that confidence again, and the first step was to cut off all paths of retreat and give up his dependence on evilmoon.

of course, he wouldn’t be so foolish as to not use its divine power. it was simply that he wouldn’t choose to run. either he fought to the death or killed his opponent. he had to maintain that sharpness to press forward regardless.

“fine, i suppose we can count as having fought shoulder to shoulder. i will respect your dignity,” said evilmoon.

“thank you. speaking of which, have you really not heard of the nine star hegemon body art?” asked long chen.

“no, i’ve never heard of it... but...” evilmoon seemed to be thinking.

“but what?” asked long chen hastily.

once empyreans reached soul transformation and fully condensed their yuan spirits, their yuan spirit would help them fight, allowing them to unleash magical arts while the main body fought. that was the most frightening aspect of soul transformation empyreans. in that fight, he had felt like he was fighting two people at once.

although on the surface it looked like lu qingfeng was weak as he had almost been killed, that was because he hadn’t had a divine item to protect himself.

if he had, he would have been able to block long chen’s full-strength attack, or even if he was injured, his yuan spirit would take the place of his main body to form hand seals and fight back. to defeat him would have been much more difficult.

most importantly, although he was an empyrean, lu qingfeng did not possess as frightening a background as sha guangyan, peng wansheng, or ye qingkuang.

after such a long time, the three of them should have already solidified their cultivation bases and condensed their yuan spirits. their power level would have completely transformed from the last time long chen fought them.

his own cultivation base was rising too slowly, and he could only rely on medicinal pills. although he had plenty of them, he digested them too slowly. he ended up crushing the few in his hands just to vent.

“long chen, are you not worried about your foundation growing unsteady if you eat medicinal pills like this?” asked evilmoon.

“that’s not something i have to worry about. even if i ate a giant vat of pills a day, i would be fine. it just takes me too long to digest them,” sighed long chen. this was the most irritating point of the nine star hegemon body art.

after reaching the tenth heavenstage, the amount of energy required to advance again was ridiculous. he was eating medicinal pills every day and was still not seeing much progress. he was as slow as a snail, but there was no way around it.

“long chen, i have a divine ability in my memories called swallow the heavens, devour the earth. it’s a secret art of my dark evil dragon race. do you want to learn it?” asked evilmoon.

“a divine ability called swallow the heavens, devour the earth? you’ll teach it to me?” long chen was surprised.

“yes. i feel like you aren’t bad. after considering it, i’ve decided i won’t mind teaching it to you. my dark evil dragon race relies on devouring other beasts to advance, and we’ll even devour members of our own race. that’s why we need a powerful devouring ability to digest the energy of our opponents. if you learned it, it would be greatly beneficial to your digestion of medicinal pills. however, this divine ability is unique to the dark evil dragon race. i can’t guarantee that you’re capable of using it,” said evilmoon.

“that’s fine. if i really can learn it, i will owe you a favor,” promised long chen.

“don’t need it. what am i supposed to do with a favor from you? with your ability to court death, no lives would be enough. i’m teaching you it for myself. on the off chance that you manage to live, my seal will be undone and i’ll regain my freedom,” said evilmoon.

“on the off chance? you have this little confidence in me?” long chen was speechless.

“i’m only confident in your ability to court death. as for your ability to stay alive, i have no confidence in that,” said evilmoon.

“fine, up to you. hurry and teach me this swallow the heavens, devour the earth divine ability,” said long chen expectantly.