Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6269 Six Gates vs. Eight Stars

When eight colossal stars blazed into existence behind Aogu, despair swept across the battlefield. Their radiance was like the burning suns of another cosmos.

“How can he be so strong? What kind of monster is he?!” cried out a seven-hundred-flame divine sprout of the Shadow Devil Bat race.

This divine sprout was considered one of the strongest experts of the Shadow Devil Bat race. But compared to Aogu, the power he had once been proud of was laughably insignificant.

A hundred Sovereign flames burned on top of each colossal star behind Aogu. In other words, Aogu was an eight-hundred-flame divine sprout.

But unlike others, his Sovereign flames had fused with his astral energy, birthing a new kind of power—one that transcended common understanding.

“Perhaps... this is what it means to be unrivaled within the same realm,” Ming Yu whispered bitterly.

Ming Yu glanced at the divine statue behind her. Its light was dimming, its aura weakening. The Heavenly Bat Sovereigness was withdrawing her power as she reached the critical point of revival.

However, reviving a Sovereign required an unimaginable price. Soon, the Sovereigness would no longer be able to protect them at all. And yet, they had to shield her. If the divine statue was damaged, everything would be lost. There was only one chance at revival.

If this process was interrupted, the Heavenly Bat Sovereigness’s soul and will would fully dissipate. Her Sovereign Dao-Fruit would be left behind as a masterless treasure, free for anyone to seize and merge with.

If that fell into an outsider’s hands, the Shadow Devil Bat race would be finished.

But how could they protect it against a monster like Aogu? Even if every expert of their race burned their lives away, they still couldn’t stop him.

All of them looked toward Long Chen. His figure looked fragile and small before Aogu’s overwhelming might, but within that fragile figure lay all of their hope.

“Long Chen...” Ming Yu muttered, clenching her fists.

She wished she could go and help him. Even if she could intervene in a battle at this level, the other nine star heirs wouldn’t stand idly by. If she acted, she would only become a burden for Long Chen.

Meanwhile, Aogu stood clad in the Eight Star Battle Armor. His astral energy surged explosively, Sovereign flames raging around him like an infernal god’s mantle.

“Ignorant fool, in your next life, learn to recognize your weakness. An ant like you can never achieve this kind of power.”

BOOM!

Aogu pressed down with his foot ever so slightly, and the void itself tore apart. That tear was like a sharp sword shooting toward Long Chen.

“He ripped the void with just brute force?! What a monster!”

The Golden Wing Heavenly Devils turned ashen. They wanted to flee, but their leaders hadn’t spoken, and so they didn’t dare to do anything.

Exhaling slowly, Long Chen muttered, “Supreme Bone... today I’ll have to rely on you again.”

Though it was still damaged and mending, Long Chen had to push it to its limit again.

BOOM!

Just as the spatial tear reached him, a majestic aura erupted from Long Chen. Behind him, one astral gate after another burst open. Then, astral energy flooded out like a broken dam and poured into his body.

The Supreme Bone at the pit of Long Chen’s stomach quivered as it absorbed this flood of energy. The more astral energy it absorbed, the brighter it grew.

However, the cracks on the Supreme Bone also grew increasingly glaring under this light. But even though it was still recovering, it could endure the power unleashed by the six astral gates.

Seeing the six astral gates, all the nine star heirs were baffled, including Aogu. They had never seen such battle armor before.

“What is that?” “Is he really a member of our nine star line?”

When all six gates opened, the might of Long Chen’s stars was in no way inferior to Aogu’s manifestation.

Long Chen took a deep breath. When the star clouds appeared beneath his feet, he vanished.

“The Supreme Bone is still healing, so I have to end this battle quickly!”

BOOM!

The void around Aogu detonated. Vast ripples tore through heaven and earth, shaking the world apart. Even before the shockwave reached the observers, countless weaker members of the Golden Wing Heavenly Devil race had coughed up blood. The power bypassed the distance itself, striking them directly.

“Run!” shouted the red-haired man.

He was the first to realize something was wrong and immediately ordered the weaker members of his race to flee.

Just then, the void continued to explode. Two divine lights streaked across the air, colliding again and again. Astral ripples rolled outward as explosions of light blossomed like fireworks. They were too dazzling to look at directly.

Though their power was tightly concentrated, the impacts still resonated through space itself. The devil race’s experts couldn’t endure the pressure, and many were simply blown to bits.

By now, it was far too late to flee. The invisible impacts tore through the battlefield like an executioner’s blade. In an instant, nearly all of the five-hundred-flame devil divine sprouts were slaughtered.

Six-hundred-flame devil divine sprouts could hold on, but they were all terrified, their faces contorting in pain. Even they could not last long. They tried to form formations to resist, but these invisible impacts crushed their defenses easily.

As a result, they quickly chose to flee. If they didn’t do it now, they wouldn’t have a chance later.

However, the seven-hundred-flame devil divine sprouts remained. This battle was far too astonishing to miss. They focused on memorizing every single movement, hoping to study them later.

The six-hundred-flame devil divine sprouts, on the other hand, quickly retreated from the battlefield. However, none of them realized that strange vines lurked beneath the ground. Once they had run far enough and allowed themselves to relax, those vines silently struck.

“We’re alive. Damn, resisting those shockwaves ate up seventy percent of my core devil qi.”

“I almost used everything. Luckily, we ran when we—AH!”

Just as the last person collapsed to catch his breath, a thorn shot up from the ground and pierced through his body.

More thorns erupted, skewering the rest before they even understood what was happening. Their pitiful screams were cut short in an instant.

Because of the distance, the red-haired man and the other devil experts remained unaware that the fleeing group had been completely wiped out.

BOOM!

With one final explosive shockwave, the two clashing figures reappeared in view, each spitting out a mouthful of blood at the same time.