Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6250 Comprehension

“That senior passed down her Sovereign flames and core runes without holding anything back. They’re fully branded into your body,” said Long Chen.

“Isn’t that a good thing?” asked Lei Yuner.

Although she didn’t know the full details, she had already guessed that the fallen lightning-attribute divine bird had left its legacy to her.

“If she passed down her way to you, in the future, it will be hard for you to ever surpass her,” Long Chen sighed.

That senior had entrusted its entire life’s legacy to Lei Yuner, essentially setting her cultivation path in stone. In other words, no matter how hard Lei Yuner worked or what opportunities came her way, it would be difficult for her to surpass that senior.

In this aspect, the lightning divine bird fell short compared to the Primal Chaos Vermilion Bird. The latter had left Cloud with room to grow on her own, ensuring its power wouldn’t cap Cloud’s future.

Lei Yuner simply smiled. “You’re worrying over nothing. Three hundred Sovereign flames was the limit I ever dreamed of reaching. Now, I have seven hundred. It’s probably unprecedented in my race’s history.”

Lei Yuner was extremely satisfied, and the feeling came from her inner heart. After all, condensing Sovereign flames was incredibly difficult. If she had been capable of condensing 260 to 270 Sovereign flames before this, then she would have had a chance of reaching three hundred flames on her own. However, she had only condensed a bit more than two hundred.

She was only so fervent about reaching three hundred because the faction that had annihilated her branch had a heavenly genius with three hundred Sovereign flames.

Now that she had seven hundred, she couldn’t even express her excitement.

Seeing Long Chen fret over her future moved her, but it also made her chuckle.

She declared, “Long Chen, I, Lei Yuner, will remember this favor. No matter if it’s to cross a mountain of blades or a sea of fire, I won’t hesitate. Just call me, and I will come.”

“You’re being too serious,” Long Chen smiled. “If you hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have obtained my nine star senior’s divine art.”

He had brought Lei Yuner along with good intentions, yet in the end, she had saved him. That devil had been terrifying. Without Lei Yuner’s ability to contain the lightning divine bird’s power, perhaps Long Chen would not have gained the divine art... perhaps he wouldn’t have even survived the encounter.𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

In his eyes, what Lei Yuner had obtained, she had earned herself. There was no need for her to thank him.

“Yuner, I’m going into seclusion to comprehend what that senior left me. We should part ways here,” said Long Chen.

“If you’re in seclusion, I’ll guard you!” Lei Yuner protested, not wanting to part ways yet.

“I’m working on a core technique, so I don’t need protection. The heaven region’s battlefield is brimming with opportunities. With your new strength and battle carriage, you should be gathering legacies and killing as many enemies as you can. You now have a responsibility to kill even more of the other-world experts. That way, we won’t be expelled once the scales heal,” said Long Chen.

Hearing this, Lei Yuner nodded. Long Chen was right—she was now one of the most powerful players here, and she had to do her part for the nine heavens.

Biting her lip, she boarded the battle carriage and left with her comrades.

Once she was gone, Long Chen changed locations, set up a concealing formation, and focused on comprehending what the senior had left him.

Inside his Dantian, countless star diagrams twisted and morphed—complex beyond imagination.

The nine star heir had told him this was the framework of the Astral Hegemon Body. The cultivation method couldn’t be passed down, so Long Chen would have to figure it out himself.

Watching the star diagrams transform, Long Chen thought of that giant nine star heir. His body was branded with starry runes, which were born from these transformations.

So the runes must be branded onto the body to unleash the stars’ full power? But my Astral Battle Armor has always been crude and in its most primitive form.

Watching the shifting patterns, Long Chen felt as if a great treasury had opened before him.

Thinking of Long Biluo’s assessment of him, Long Chen sneered. “If even the simplest Astral Battle Armor is this strong, how terrifying would the true Astral Hegemon Body be? That girl Long Biluo even claimed I was already using it? Hehe, how laughable.”

Once he trained in the true Astral Hegemon Body, he would give her a real fright.

Watching how the star diagrams transform, Long Chen suddenly realized that his old techniques—One Star, Star Fall; Two Stars, Flying Rainbow—were all child’s play.

They were mere manipulations of individual stars. On the other hand, this star diagram was an interconnected formation of countless stars. The gap was immeasurable.

“It’s a shame I had to pilfer even the basics. And now, they want me to comprehend the Astral Hegemon Body without guidance? That’s really making things hard on me,” Long Chen complained.

Long Chen watched the star diagrams’ transformations for half a day, but he was making no headway.

Long Chen wondered, “No... if that senior could give me the framework but not the method, there must be a reason. If it were truly impossible for me to comprehend, he wouldn’t have gone to such effort. I’m missing something!”

After suppressing his impatience, Long Chen stopped trying to comprehend the star diagrams and simply watched. He let the diagrams flow into him without force.

As Long Chen let go and relaxed, the star diagrams instantly became clear. Their transformations imprinted directly onto his soul.

“I see... each diagram is a circulation method for astral energy. What he wanted me to grasp wasn’t the image, but the rule of its flow. Once I understand the circulation, I can brand the diagram onto my body. It’s like turning myself into a weapon carved with formation runes!”

If he drew formation runes on himself, he would become a mobile grand formation. The possibilities stunned him. The runes could be etched into skin, meridians, bones, and even the soul.

No wonder that Divine Sovereign’s discarnate soul remained intact for countless years.

Long Chen also thought of that devil. Its flesh had long since decayed, but its bones were like steel. With just a single sliver of Divine Sovereign blood, it could produce apocalyptic power.

“It’s too early to start carving runes into my body. I can’t even maintain all six gates for long. I’ll have to wait until I reach the Sovereign Lord realm.”

Then he paused.

“No... that senior said my current strength isn’t inferior to the Astral Hegemon Body. That means I should be able to cultivate it now!”

The moment Long Chen looked at a spear-shaped diagram, his heart trembled.

“It’s you!”