Chapter 6276 New Idea
Long Chen was about to move when he heard a voice from the primal chaos space. He then smacked his forehead.
“Zhi Zhi!” he shouted. “Mo Nian, bring out that red furry. I have some questions for him.”
“Aiya, I forgot!” Mo Nian exclaimed.
He hastily opened his coffin, but the red-haired man was already dead. His aura was gone.
Looking embarrassed, Mo Nian said, “This coffin is something I excavated from an ancient tomb. It was a trap, and I almost died inside, so I’ve been using it as a weapon ever since. There are killing formations carved inside the coffin. But I thought that with his power, he would be able to survive for a while.”
Unfortunately, the red-haired man had exhausted himself in this battle, repeatedly summoning devil heroic spirits, activating a possession technique, and then detonating the discarnate souls of Divine Sovereigns.
By the time he tried to flee, he didn’t have much energy left. Trapped inside the coffin, his desperate attempts to escape only burned away the last of his strength.
On top of that, he was still carrying the hidden wound from Ming Yu’s strike—an attack that rotted him from the inside. Without treatment, he was doomed.
At this sight, Long Chen was speechless. The red-haired fellow’s death was quite sullen, even a bit comical. But it was fine—his corpse was of use to Zhi Zhi.
Zhi Zhi had devoured many outer-world devils before, though it had yet to refine their blood soul energy. To help Long Chen, it had even burned its core energy to unleash the black mist formation that trapped three peak experts. That act had left it severely weakened.
Now that the battle was over, it wanted to recuperate and absorb the energy of those that it had devoured.
Now, it wanted to recuperate by refining what it had consumed. But even so, its hunger was fixed on the red-haired man. His Spiritual Strength was special, exactly what it craved.
Seeing Long Chen and Mo Nian about to forget, Zhi Zhi had no choice but to remind him.
Long Chen tossed the red-haired man into the primal chaos space, and Zhi Zhi devoured him. Its power surged again, making it an increasingly irreplaceable part of Long Chen’s arsenal.
With this meal, and the stockpile of energy it had already accumulated, Zhi Zhi would need to enter a long slumber to refine it all.
“Let’s go. I’ve confirmed our location on the map. I’ll protect you so you can recover on the way,” said Mo Nian after carefully confirming their position.
He then jumped onto a coffin.
Long Chen stared at the coffin covered in countless runes. Although he had no superstitions when it came to coffins, using it as a flying tool was... rather weird.
“Don’t underestimate this coffin! The runes carved onto it are incredibly powerful. It’s capable of both offense and defense, comparable to a Divine Sovereign magical item. Most important of all... it once housed a Sovereigness!” Mo Nian said as he waggled his eyebrows at Long Chen.
Long Chen shivered. Had this fellow spent so long underground that even his tastes had become twisted?
Climbing up, Long Chen muttered, “Have you been alone too long? Do corpses look cute to you now?”
“Beauty doesn’t fade with death—it transcends it. That’s a realm you haven’t touched yet, youngster. You still need to study,” Mo Nian chuckled.
The coffin’s runes lit up, and it tore through the void, bringing the two of them along with it. While it exuded a powerful Sovereign might, it was flying very steadily, without any spatial fluctuations.
Long Chen stopped bothering with Mo Nian’s nonsense. Sitting cross-legged, he focused on recovery.
“It’s been hard on you,” he muttered.
His gaze fell to his Supreme Bone, which was covered in cracks. It had saved his life twice now—once when it absorbed the Starry River God Extinguishing Spear’s rune, and again in the battle against Aogu. But each time, the damage worsened.
For now, Long Chen had to completely rest. His body and soul were both gravely wounded.
Aogu’s power had exceeded his expectations. Long Chen had initially judged him to be no mortal threat. But once Aogu summoned the Star Battle Armor, the defense and astral energy boost shocked Long Chen.
If Long Chen had not activated his Supreme Bone, then the one to lose today would have been him.
Yet, he had also gained much. The Star Battle Armor opened a door to a new path. He saw limitless possibilities beyond it.
“The growth of my physical body is still too slow. I can’t open the seventh gate yet. If I could, even without the Supreme Bone, I could have fought evenly against the Star Battle Armor,” Long Chen sighed.
Unfortunately, the giant nine star heir senior had been unable to pass down any other techniques to Long Chen, and Long Chen also needed to comprehend the Astral Hegemon Body himself.
It’s a pity I don’t have Sovereign flames. If I did, perhaps I could already open the seventh gate. Long Chen thought as he recuperated, his mind drifting toward his future path.
His current rate of improvement was simply too slow. With eight-hundred-flame divine sprouts already appearing, who knew how long before a nine-hundred-flame divine sprout emerged? Once someone possessed nine hundred and ninety-nine Sovereign flames, they could condense true Sovereign qi, skip the Divine Emperor realm entirely, and ascend directly to Sovereign Lord. At that point, Long Chen would truly be in danger.
Even without someone like Aogu, just an expert of the red-haired man’s caliber would be able to crush him if they reached Sovereign Lord.
Long Chen suddenly thought of Long Biluo. Although she was loathsome, she was incredibly talented. Once she found her own legacy, she would definitely soar.
A sense of crisis pressed down on Long Chen. The Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was indeed peerless, but its cultivation speed was painfully slow. Especially at this critical juncture, he lacked any true advantage.
Long Chen believed that normal nine star heirs possessed different cultivation methods. Back then, he had thought of capturing a few of them alive and forcing them to hand over their cultivation methods.
However, he quickly tossed aside that idea, as his pride would not permit such a thing. Furthermore, even that giant nine star heir had only passed down the Astral Hegemon Body to him and nothing else. There had to be a reason behind it.
“For now, there’s no way to increase the rate of improvement of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. I should think of a way of upgrading my violet blood, Supreme Blood, and dragon blood. With three bloodlines nourishing the Supreme Bone, it will recover quickly. And if I can condense Sovereign flames through any of them....”
From the beginning, Long Chen had thought to condense Sovereign flames himself. Yet, even after scouring ancient tombs and questioning the seniors of Sovereign Mountain, he found no way to do so.
All records pointed to Sovereign flames being tied to karmic luck, that elusive and mysterious force. Karmic luck itself was said to be linked to the even more enigmatic Grand Dao qi.
But what was Grand Dao qi? Even after poring over countless scriptures, he had never found a true explanation. The most he uncovered was a vague principle: cultivate the Dao, and at the end, one would learn whether they had cultivated a true Dao or a false Dao.
However, what that truly meant remained a mystery.
Long Chen grew antsy. On top of everything, he still had to comprehend the Astral Hegemon Body. The Star Battle Armor’s might had shaken him deeply, and he wanted to master it as well. With his talent, he believed it wouldn’t be difficult—if he had the time.
But time was the one thing he lacked most. If someone became a Sovereign Lord before he advanced, he would be done for.
A day and night passed. His injuries had recovered over seventy percent, and he was just about to begin using his Spiritual Strength to nourish the cracked Supreme Bone when a thunderous sound reverberated across the land.
Dragon roars!
“Let’s go take a look!”